'WE'LL CRIPPLE YOU.' That message for the seamen did not come from the lips of the shipowners or from the right-wing Labour Government. It came from Len Murray, leader of the trade union movement in this country.
Murray, Jones and Scanlon forced the leaders of the NUS to break the mandate of their members by threatening strike-breaking. Every class-conscious worker should now regard Murray and the ex-lefts Scanlon and Jones as blacklegs.
Their pledges for an tree preparing early for the sellThe TUC lea that is one lesson which militants out neth from them. The campaign to oppose all fage controls and fight for a wages policy which includes automatic compensation for inflation must start now.
Support for the seamen's cause is now vital to prevent the rank and file of the National Union of Seamen from being demobilised as a result of the vacillations of their leadership. Resolutions expressing solidarity should be sent to local NUS branches. The campaign has vital political significance.
Opposing the seamen means accepting that working people pay for the crisis. Support for the seamen is part and parcel of rejecting wage cuts, unemployment and the run-down of social services.
It means the start of a fight for alternative policies and alternative leaders to those who disgrace the traditions of the working class by acting as policemen for the bosses. It's time to start the mutiny.
SEAMEN
SOCIP CONTRA
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