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restricting admittance to District Committees who can and we will be sending you Your postal order is returned herewith Chairperson Kevin Halpin: 'a selective conference' 3) "Affiliated unions shall observe Congress arity and the spreading of strikes: but the funda- Socialists of course support inter-union solidThe "8-point plan" to be put to a conference of policy and not seek or accept public funds for union mental problem in achieving this is to win the solidinion Executives at Wembley Conference Centre on arity of union officials for the struggles conducted April 5 contains no call for action of any descrip- funds scheme." -The TUC is deliberately vague about what reason to believe this would be greater after Tebbit's would happen to a right wing union which did 1) "Affiliated unions should affirm their commit- accept funds - as appears to be the case now with 5) Empowering the General Council, on receipt ment to conduct a campaign among their own members to highlight the dangers in the Employ. the actors' union Equity. Will they be expelled from of a request from a union faced by legal action, to:

leaders raise not a voice in defiance of the traditional support of the union in difficulties, including, if -In other words a few circular letters to branches methods of workers' democracy - shows of hands at necessary, calling for industrial action against the and perhaps a few leaflets: even badges, posters and mass meetings - in opposition to the Tory strategy of balloting individual members by post - in the ii) to provide financial assistance to a union pate in secret ballots on union membership agree. 2) "'Affiliated unions shall not hold or partic!- 4) A call for "closer working between Unions" in result of damaging actions " mancial problems as a -But will affiliated unions press a determined should be to coordinate and concert negotiations becomes law! This is not so much a fight against relates to unions under attack after Tebbit's Bill in the traditional way in defiance of the Tebbit plan? unionisation drive and fight to establish closed shops Tebbit and Prior to render 'secondary' strikes, -This poses as a challenge to the moves by Tebbit but dishing out aspirins for the wounded The TUC formula amounts in fact to an abandon- picketing and blacking illegal: but all of the evidence ment of the fight to establish 100% trade union of recent "close working between Unions" has been of General Secretaries ganging up against the rank And no proposals are spelled out for the defence of and file workforce to sell-out struggles on pay, jobs existing closed shops against Tebbit's plan for imposPHOTC isolation of their own homes.

and industrial action.

and conditions.

Brother Huxford, our Conference.

March We welcome your enquity about Yours fraternally, Kevin Halpin, Chairman Bill becomes law than it is now. after the fight has been lost.

6) Financial assistance for unions faced with legal action for pursuing existing TUC Disputes Principles and Procedures. -Once again conceding that Tebbit's Bill will be demanding that the TUC call now to defeat the Tebbit Bill. the Tory anti-union offensive.

strike action against Tebbit.

ing on April 3.

legal profession pocketing fat fees.

- || Dalli knife for use against the shop floor.

Fund.

inaction.

against Thatcher! membership agreement or arrangement.

8) A financial levy of 10p per memiYet this bankrupt package of surrende?

Harry

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Socialist Organiser, Thursday 1 April 1982 Page 3

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seating and called a very selective Conference. The hall has limited sections of the Trade Union Movement. We are concentrating