DIRTY DOZEN | IMGpapers 1976

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A 'social concordat'. This is the phrase being used to describe the new deal being negotiated by the Labour government and the TUC.

The background to the talks is strikingly obvious. * The Ford workers, then the lorry drivers, smashed the 5 per cent policy. * Low workers are showing they have the power to do the same. * Labour's election chances with its present policies have almost reached Photo: JOHN STURROCI point.

And yet, 12 trade leaders have chosen this time to raise the white flag.

These published a document entitled 'The Better Way'. In it they suggest that there should be a Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report Photo: ANDREW WIARD [Report)

incomes paid public sector FRANK ROY workers)

TOM Yanising WOrKers union dozen' have Grantham They try to pretend that this policy would 'voluntary' but then go on to suggest that it be policed by a new Prices and Incomes Board and the TUC.

Who signed this document? The names are:

LORD ALLEN (shopworkers) JACK BODDY (farmworkers)

CHAPPLE TONY DUFFY (engineers)

GRANTHAM (clerical JACKSON LEIF MILLS (bank staff) BILL SIRS (steelworkers) KEN THOMAS (civil servants) SID WEIGHELL (NUR) TONY CHRISTOPHER (Inland Revenue staff) GEOFFREY DRAIN (NALGO)

Some of the 'dirty dozen' (from right, clockwise): Lord Allen, Tom Jackson, Tony pheighell, Geoffrey Drain, Soy Frank Chapple, Bill Thomas, Terry Duffy.

LOCOZ CHE: CC 010U6 be (elec- adopted, (postal Any placed and Labour Party.

little fear They would ChristoKen The danger is that a majority of the TUC General Council will now follow these gentlemen's example - that the talks now taking place at Downing Street will result in a series o attacks on the right to strike, the right to picket, and the right to fight against low pay.

But whatever policies are whatever the talks produce, the General Council of the TUC has no right to go back on conference decisions.

'concordat' must be the labour movement, organised through recall conferences of the TUC Let the workers decide. One prophecy can be made of contradiction. decide in favour of the dirty dozen.

Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report]