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This puts some of the most powerful sections of movement directly on collision course with the Tory The right wing Nottinghamshire area executive of the NUM has called its members away from the picket lines, but NUM national president Arthur Scargill has said he will never submit to the laws.

This could be a crucial battle. If the whole labour movement rallies important a defeat for Thatcher's Tories as the miners' and dockers' The TUC and the Labour Party, at every level, must give full support to the miners and to defiance of the Tory laws By Eric Wilbad dePickets in Yorkshire I think that has to some extent changed because of government policy over GCHQ.

So I hope not only the miners will respond positively but the whole movement have got to do everything possible. That means if the miners call upon other unions to come up with positive action, then they should be prepared to do it.

Eric Heffer was talking to John Bloxam 170 March 15 1984 25p Claimants and strikers 10p THE TUC General Council meets on Monday 19th to decide on its attitude to 'tripartite bodies' - joint committees with the bosses and the Tories.

It looks as if their angry words after the GCHQ affair will end in a wimper rather than a bang.

The TUC has decided to boycott the National Econamia Navelanment Council but the TUC employment committee on March 12 recommended staying in the JOHN HARRIS conciliation service ACAS and the Manpower Services Commission.

LiLa Several unions are still. attendino the industru enh. groups of the NEDC, though the GMBU and others, are boycotting them.

And the TUC is not even discussing withdrawal from its talks with the government over new anti-union laws.

Plenty of union leaders have all sorts of other links with the capitalist class -lucrative jobs on the side.

For example, according to the latest reference books, Geoffrey Drain (ex-NALGO) is a director of the Bank of England. Clive Jenkins of ASTMS is a member of the National Research Development Corporation and the British Overseas Trade Board Gavin Laird of the AUEW is on the BNOC Board, as well as the Industrial Development Advisory Board.

Roy Grantham of APEX a director of Henley Management College.

The trade unions need ti fight the Tories, not plead with them. And you can't fight the fundamentals of Tory policy seriously if you're chatting with them about the details the next day.

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