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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-12-08Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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Get SOCIALIST ORGANISER each week delivered to Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N8. Printed by East End Offset, the existence of capital.
90 years ago a prominent judge, Lord Lindley, commented "You cannot make a strike effective without doing more than is lawful" • That very obviously is the position today. And from the point of view of the trade unionist, any law which says that you are acting illegally if you attend another workplace to help workers in dispute there or that you cannot have a closed shop unless you get an 80% mainritu of the workera involver is law which, if it works, will destroy trade unionism.
It is law which those who believe in trade unionism simply have to break.
And again, that is nothing new. Trade unions came into being outside of and in defiance of the laws made by governments elected according to the system operating then. If that was imperfect democracy, so is our system today - the system which elerted the Toriee with a vote of less than one-third of •hoa ITGWU 'Women By Marry appeal to
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