Build general strike against Taft-Hartley
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declared in advance that he would not object if Carter invoked Taft-Hartley injunctions.
He announced that his long familiarity with the mine workers had convinced him that the union's internal troubles required strong government measures-and that if he were President, he would already have seized the mines!
The United Auto Workers President, Douglas Fraser, agreed with Meany that "a government takeover for a brief period would be acceptable"
And the AFL-CIO ExecuIf defeat in lin‹ will bı The fight against such treacherous leaders must centre on the struggle for general strike action by the organised working class alongside the miners, to defeat Taft-Hartley.
These laws, part of the battery of legislation that impedes the independent struggle of US workers, are an attack on the whole working class.
Solidarity the law helps Carter the miners, then next fo similar treatment rai airline and postal next year.
While the fight for supporting strike action must be taken up with urgency, this does not lessen the need for immediate solidarity action-in particular the blacking of non-union coal by transport and other unions, and the raising of financial and physical support for the hard-pressed miners who face the danger of Federal military intervention if they continue their highly effective picketing operations.
Miners should take the initiative in calling on the thousands of trade unionists in every area who have shown hold for such a party.
At the same time mined must step up the fight withi their own union for the ous ing of Miller and thos bargaining council member that endorsed the bosses' no strike contract, and replac them with leaders prepared t call on the whole America labour movement to suppor their struggle again capitalist state repression.
In this the urgent questio is the construction of Trotskyist leadership with the UMW dedicated to deve oping the complete politici independence of the workin class, fighting for the form ation of a Labour Party on socialist programme.
This is a vital part of th fight for a workers' govert ment in the USA which w nationalise the major indu tries without compensatio and under committees workers management
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