leader to pretend that he or she has no politics. The deal that Smith was prepared to sign showed this. He thought the fight was just for money (with holidays and a shorter working week thrown in as extras). He has no line on the organisation of the building trade. The reason for this is simple. The fight to organise the building trade in the workers interest is the fight aguinst the "free marker" (Lo. capitalist) system. The opening up of new sites depends on the profits that a firm like Wimpey is going to make; not on the need for new homes, hospitals and schools. The organisation of the industry is for profit. To fight to get the trade organised in the workers' interests is to fight gainst the whole profits system.
CHARTER Charter has ducked during the strike. As a basic instrument to organise the rank-and-file, new editions of the Charter should have been available all during the course of the strike. The shortage of both leadership and information is criminal. A big step forward could have been made by Charter, oy organising meetings througnout the country around the Charter demands, Instead we see what the C.P.-dominated leadership of Charter really intended it to be: a ginger group on the bureaucracy of UCATT and the T&G. AGAIN POLITICS It is the politics of Charter which are at fault. Changing the faces of the E.C. is not going to change the life of the building The only thing that will affect them is a struggle on the key question. that affects them, the casual nature of the industry. Capitalism organises the industry in its interests, Charter's role should be to take up the fight to organise tue industry in the building workers interests.