But the CP's strategy to keep faith with the interests of workers on paper. while fellow travelling with the betrayals or Jones, scanion and murray in prac tice, met with a small snag. The decisive debate on incomes policy took place not within their carefully elaborated set-piece debate on. Wednesday, but in Tuesday's debate on unemployment.
ine programme wan drew te combined fury of the 'Big Three' bureaucracies TGWU, AUEW, and GMWU - was not the CP's class-collaborationist pleas for reflation, increased investment and import controls. It was the militant line for class action proposed by Stirling Trades Council, whose resolution called for: a 35-hour week and longer holidays with no loss of pay; no redundancies without open tne books, natonansation witout compensation; stop the cuts, programme to restore cuts; sliding scale of wages and state benefits; and no incomes policy, or any other policies 'which are aimed at making working people pay for the crisis in the capitalist system.
It was to this programme that both the right, led by Jack Jones, and the Cr sicading Igures in the Num and AUEW-TASS had to address themselves. The wrangling among CP delegates as to whether to support, oppose or abstain on the Stirling resolution was soon resoreu. nowever aer me broposing speech by Corrie McCord, a two delegate rom suring trades Counci MAY DAY GREETINGS ISLINGTON TRADES COUNCIL extends May Day greetings to all sections of the labour movement.
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TRADES COUNCIL sends fraternal May Day greetings to the labour movement. without compensation, he informed Congress, is not in line with the common sense tninking or responsible aclegates. The demands were completely unrealistic.
So much for Jones's great campaign for the 35-hour week. One day after Jones declares this crusade for Europe, his response to the oniy resolution which proposes its adoption is a witchnunung specon and 2oz votes denvered against!
entirely in line with his approach to the TGWU delegation itself. Chris Baur of the Financial Times accurately reported: 'In a three-hour session with his 25firmly instructed to vote down any resolutions which might jeopardise the TUC's quest for an agreement with the It was common knowledge that Jones's approach was, as the Daily Record put it, 'dictatorial". Most 'Left' talker McGahey may smile, but it's Jones supporter Alex Donnet of the GMWU (right) who has reason to laugh after hammering the left with the block vote the Stirling resolution starts to give a true picture. It received almost a third of a million votes and easily achieved a majority of the conference outside Major unions voting for it included NALGO, NUPE, NUM, AUEW/TASS,