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They argued that any support could make the TUC an accessory to the NGA's contempt of court. Murray was also concerned that even a mild statement of support could be used by the NGA and that the struggle could snowball and take the TUC "down the path to a And so the TUC rejected, not only effective struggle against the Tories, but even a paper declaration of support for a union fighting for its life. on the Dimbleby papers would middle of the last century. face disciplinary action if they returned to work.
The union, Bob Norris said, was 'distancing' itself from the strikers, who were now completely free agents. It was claiming back the dispute benefit paid demoralisation. lo the chapel in advance.
The chapel itself, at the Richmond and Twickenham Times, lessons of Black Wednesday. is standing firm. The NUJ has good legal advance that it will win in the Lords. Nonetheless the union has reversed its initial principled stand. It has taken the first step into the labyrinthine legal web.
cessions on the political levy.
The lesson drawn in union Appeasement was the order of offices up and down the country the day. It must be made to will be: 'We must obey the law, work. and so must our members'. The In the autumn the post office response of many of those mem- engineers' executive asked bers will be weary disgust and Murray for advice. What would the TUC do if they ignored the If this is not to happen, then injunction awarded to Mercury we urgently need to examine the to stop their boycott on this private-enterprise telecommunications firm being linked in to of union facilities.
And in the courts, the writs involving Shell workers, Mercury, the NUJ, SOGAT, and the NGA.
Legacy
Heath's defeats by the dockers in 1972 and the miners in 1974 gave control of the Tory Party to the Thatcherites. But they also left a legacy of fear of
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