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STOP TEEL JOBS DEFEND JOBS UNIONS Reg Race MP reports on the Tories' plans to push the Tebbit bill through Parliament THE TEBBIT Employment Bill is still in committee in the House of Commons. It is being opposed line by line by the Opposition; it is likely that the Government will put • down a guillotine motion to time-table the Bill within the next 2 or 3 weeks.

This will be debated on the floor of the House of Commons and no doubt the government will use its majority to get a guillotine motion through. So when the Committee on the Bill recommences deliberations it will be forced to conclude named debates by certain times on specified days. Committee will be forced to put any outstanding amendments - even though they have not been debated - to the vote out of that time. The Committee will then move on to further amendments.

In this way the government is certain to get the Bill through its Committee stage by the end of April at the latest. The Bill will come back to the House of Commons report stage, at which the Opposition will move further amendments seeking to remove crucial parts of the Bill.

The House of Commons will then move to debate the Bill for the last time, its Third Reading.

The Bill will then go to the Lords and the same procedure will take place all over again, although the government will not be able to use guillotine measures in the Lords to get the Bill through.

Because of the government's majority, it is certain that the Bill will become law by the summer. The only thing that can stop the Bill proceeding is a combination of Parliamentary and extra-Parliamentary

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Tebbit can be defeated - if the unions break with the Tories and rally their forces for strike action: This statement plan of action, and will be presented the Trade Union Democracy conference 1982: Norman Tebbit tries the salami tactic As we prepare for a new strikes, beginning with the 1972: strites force i ories to free five jailed pickets round of struggle which can third reading of the Bill.

Thatcher, we need to be ent at the April 5 lobby o! 4. The bureaucracy's submission to Tebbit They played that role from the mid'20s to the mid '50s, and then lost the ability to do so as real power shifted to the rank and file on the shop floor. Now the Tories aim to help shift it back again, and to compel the union bureaucrats to play the role once played by Arthur Deakin, Ernest Bevin, Will Lawther and others, notorious in the history of our movement.

The union leaders are KALE BOAR on April 3.

UP-OF DOCKS ADARDS WANTED UN!:

UT argues the case for resistance to the Tories. Section 10 summarises the by Socialist Organiser supporters to the hope that, maybe, two years from now, perhaps a Labour government will be voted in which may undo some of the Tory damage.

Or the movement will fight back here and now, recognising no Tory or ruling class right to meddle with the trade unions, to cut into the standards which the working class has won in decades of activity, or to destroy whole working class communities through closure policies. It will refuse to keep within the normal channels of official politics. It will resist the Tories' attacks by every means necessary• culminate in the defeat of • To support a conting

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