THE conference They expected one-day general strike delegates, report.
Delegates at the Trades formulate Council meeting heard little about mass action. It seemed that anything the Communis Party did not agree with fron the conference was simply tiled in the waste paper basket. And anything that called for mass action was blocked.
"The Conference calls upon the Trades Council to set up a Council of Action composed trude unions, political workers, manily that never was. That's what delegates to the Liverpool Trades Council were saying after their meeting last Thursday, 20 April.
hear about action unemployment following the 9 April conference attended by over 500 delegates, which called for a on Merseyside.
PHILLIPS and AL. WALKER, both Trades Council policies and ordinute the struggle against the economic genocide of the Quite clear and direct for who voted for it, So SUSPIC what did the Trades executive who opposed this, plan to do?
They called a meeting on 14 April 0l sponsored the conference the Building Workers Union, the Confederation building to Unions, the National Union of Socialist Challenge delegates, and the others on This meething then declaned itself a Council of and. procoded to call for a VIV day of action, not a stoppage.
"A one day generul stoppage of all industry, services, shops. ele. throughout the counts on 9 May.
LOBBY Instead leadership on calling TOT SIDELOCES Council support this buck, and left it up to each workplace and ution branch to decide. who Ir is noc guing to use the day for a miss demorana Liverpool and visits to other of Ship The dispute was over Trades Counci perspective " political parlies..
strike action.
Full support Action march The Right to Work march a march of employed unemployed people the union organise!
Merseyside to they passed the in the supporting the march. in Richi sins ark Right 1o Trades Council has instead organised a lobby of the Stalinists and their like ...why don't you?
will be very difficult to win support for the unemployed, a Right to Work Liverpool the bureaucracy. London to be held in late May.
The execulive claimed that the conference did not support but instead had decided to suppor and which Trades Council would attempts John Desson. secrelaty or the Right to Work Carpaign unfottunately made a tactical ettor at the conferenee by not sticking by the dates for action original resolution This gave the executive the excuse ID support to the ситразця.
This sort of manoeuvring i by GO called a Trade makes the formation of a left arca caucus on the Trades Council a major priority. In practice the campaign, CP'salliances with made union Council opposition, is pressing officials means backing down ahead with it march which from any real action to fight The trade union bureaucric do pot want strike action lest the Labou Party in the Council election Fergusan.
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