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Every major trade union in Britain is urging its members to support the TUC's Day of Action on 14 May - except one, Electricians' leader, Frank Chapple, is waging a campaign against it.
The press has fallen over itself to praise Chapple's stand. The Daily Express and The Sun cannot believe their good luck. 'Day of Shame', shouts the Express. 'Misery Murray's Day of Woe' wails The Sun.
Using Frank point that trade union action is THERE will be no trains running on 14 May; there will be no newspapers; the docks, factories, offices and shops schools will hospitals and fire stations will be staffed for emergencies government nationalised and the Daily Express, Union. intention Chapple's have a half day; lead trom the steel industry, the Daily Mail railways, which today are so concerned about they Partamentary democracy. sup- Tories. ported the steel barons in attempting to sabotage the decisions taken in Parliament. The ruling class can ignore Parliament, the working class can'Lenin' Murray, as the Express has branded him, has no but anything more than a polite protest to put pressure on the push discontent into the sate channels of the ballot box and away from the explosive power of strikes and demonstrations.
consistent and strong the TUC, would mean a tinder box was lighted.
old, the core or tne labour move the miners, the are waiting for just that lead so can really take on the The right-wing press's campaign has one very powerful weapon on its side and that weapon is the British Labour Party. Not only is its opposition in the House of Commons lacking in real fighting spirit, record in office 1974-79 leaves trade unionists without a clear socialist alternative to the Tories' policies. MPs would campaign up and down the country for workers to come out on 14 May, as the first step to preparing a general strike movement would show the Tories that they can't get away with walking over the the sick, the JUU1 and those that produce the wealth in Britain.
But the present Labour leaders keep quiet. They leave the door open for the attacks on the trade unions. In opposition the Labour Party fears trade union action going too far on the road to challenging the authority of the governWhen Labour IS charge and running the country completely forget their commitment to socialism and pursue capitalist policies.
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