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T.U. LEADERS BACK OFF AS TROOPS GO IN

Red Weekly No. 94, 27 March 1975 · pp. 1-3 of the scan · 637 words

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The iron heel of the social contract - centre pages forward to get the campaign off the ground as soon as possible, and fighting for an emergency TUC to trade union movesent into the DELETEC It also means organising local united conferences of the catire labour movement to launch in every against the Common Market.

moving we can tum Wilson's night mare into a reality. And the sort of united workers movement that can smash the plans of the British und European cupitalists can also get implementing the socicht alternative to the capitalist Compon Marker. AT THE COMMAND of the scats of the Labour Government and Glasgow Corporation, hundreds of troops set to work on Monday 17 March to break the Glasgow dustcart drivers' strike After making their token comm ents about health hazards, the Commanding Ofücers soon made clear the real purpose of their visit; they intended to use the Corporation's incinerators, thus breaking the strike of the Corporation's electric Two titings made this decision possible: the retreat of the drivers Jeaders in face of the troop threat, insisting that they would not join the electricians in their approaches to the troops on the picket lines; and the scabby collaboration of the right wing General and Municipal P'orker Union. who secwed the agreement of the bintien's stewards to work with the troops But desp ite the threats and denunciations of the bureaucracy, GhiwO labourwalked out in solidarity On Weduesday morning, when the army finally dipped its toes in the murky waters it had stirred up, it found that other workers had no intention of letting the troops' strike breaking go unbindcred. At the main incineral or at Dawsholm, Maryhill, clectricians" pickets formed a human barrier acroes the gates, stopped every army lorry, and insisted on talking to the soldiers. And as solidarity delegations of stewards arrived from the massive Rolls Koyce plant at Hillington and trom Furrow's shipyard, a longer and longer queue of arity Torries bilt up.

Top unny bras could see that every hour that they used the ineincrators brought them closer to "another Saltley", when 10,00D engineers joined the miners in clos ing down the Birmingham coal depot during the 1972 miners strike. A perfect opportunity to organise a Saltley came on that same evening aben the Glasgow Trades Council met But as last week's Red Weekly had already argued, unless the bamhast of the trade union bureaucrats about 'sympathy crystallised into direct action" and "the legend of Red Clydeside was turned into action, it would be so much empey wind. The latter proved to be the case. Faced with a fast developing movement to clinch victory for the electricians and drivers and kick the army out, they placed themselves at the head of the movement in order to disorganise it and divert It into inaction Only two weeks before, the Trades Council bosses had hriled cheir historic links with the Corporation on the occasion of their first meeting in the City Chamber. Now they defended their cosy links with the con upt Labour Corporation by trying to stop the development of a mase movement to get the troops out and win the strikes.

At the emergency Trades Council meeting the Secretary. Jolen Reidford, announced a demonstration on Friday (Cant.on page Gl.

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