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After its sixth week the Garners Steak House union recognition strike testifies yet again to the inability of union bureaucrats to win even the most elementary rights for their members.

Officials of the two million strong TGWU prefer to see low paid workers remain unorganA strike committee is needed to extend and strengthen the strike.

And the Garners TGWU branch must demand Region 1 Committee act to: impose full blacking on supplies, suppliers and maintenance; implement a Regional levy to finance the strike; call mass pickets on Saturdays.

AUEW members in the next month will face a choice between the right-winger, Duffy, and the Broad Left candidate, Bob Wright, in the union's presidential In the current sell-out the national wage claim principled alternative to the right wing Confed. betrayal has emerged from Wright.

From the dropping of the original claim of £70 minimum rate for skilled workers (a 7.9% rise) and the 35-hour week, to the call for an overtime ban and a two-day protest strike centred on the implementation of a reduced claim-the Broad Left reveal in practice their lack of principled differences with the right wing.

The current secret discussions between the AUEW right wing and Chapple in the EETPU are a blatant move to consolidate and entrench through bureaucratic manoeuvre in order to destroy every democratic procedure in the union, and to prevent any challenge to their position.

In order to retain their base in the rank and file the Broad Left cannot openly go over completely to the right wing.

This is why Wright enters the election standing in defence of the amalgamation with TASS (which the Broad Left helped to hinder for five years) and opposed to negotiations with the EETPU.

This is why Socialist Press argues for critical support for Wright. The amalgamation with the right wing EETPU would remove even the most elementary conditions necessary for the struggle to oust the union bureaucracy.

We stand for the exposure of Wright in office, to take workers beyond the Broad Left in practice and to revolutionary THIS LEFT WING FASCISTS IN? I CALL THEM!

WE MUST WHEEL OUT THE ARGUMENT THAT THE WORKING CLASS IS IN RETREAT... into the meeting which voted to sell out the firemen's strike.

General Secretary Len Murray, he said, had been strongly opposed to even debating the FBU's resolution and Parry was put under heavy pressure to withdraw it and avoid a vote being taken.

Grovelling

Predictably, John Deason, one of two Socialist Workers Party speakers (who had seemingly been agreed beforehand as every other speaker was a Communist Party supporter) fully supported the conclusion that the working class was to blame.

He saw the solution in decent and honest unity' between the LCDTU and the Right to Work Campaign.

Despite this grovelling it was a Right to Work supporter who threw the conference organisers into disarray and confusion by demanding the platform take a position on the victimisation of the Cowley BLMC workers by the TGWU.

Tommy Gorman, a delegate from British Leyland's Albion Motors Shop Stewards Committee, spoke strongly against the witch-hunt of Alan Thornett and called on conference to condemn the attacks on elected union representatives.

"Fairly big"

Following several hastily convened discussions chairman Kevin Halpin-hi mself a victim of the anti-er ımmunTRENDY BLOODY LEFTIES. an end to the selling of jobs in industry.

It would have been more enlightening if Barr had told the truth about how he and fellow Stalinist Jimmy Airlie had spearheaded the attack on shipbuilders' jobs through tearing up job-protecting movement of labour agreements.

The previous day's Morning Star had carried glowing compliments to the effect that "fratricidal and divisive demarcation disputes have been virtually ended" and hailing the "sophisticated" and "politically and industrially responsible" class collaboration which now reigns on Clydeside.

Fitting comment No Communist Partybacked conference would be complete without a contribution from Jack Dromey, Secretary of Brent Trades Council and, along with Council President Tom Durkin, a major political influence in the Grunwick strike.

The fact that both of them referred to that 18 month long struggle as though it were now dead and buried is a fitting comment on their treacherous role in containing the strike within the limits imposed by APEX and the TUC.

It was also a timely warning for the speaker from Garners Steak Houses, whose strike for the same basic union rights has too many similarities for comfort WELL HAVE TO OUTWIT THEM WITH THE OLD LIAISON COMMITTEE ROUTINE AGAIN! NOBODY DOES THAT LIKE THE L. C.D.T.U./ OF M.P'S SHOULD PERSUADE THEM;AND