In fact, whatever the technicalities f the social contract, its essence is to old back wages in order to increase rofits. That is why, however Slater und the NUS executive try to dodge the SSUC. everyone else in the recognises that the strike would be a blow against the very heart of the That reality has already begun to ntrude into the thinking of the NUS eadership. When the ballot came out port' for the seamen. Afterwards Bro. es to say what they thought.
The seamen's cause if the cause of every person. enemies are our cuencs.
The anger of rank-and-file seamen at me uG s oeravar oor menr cause was already being expressed as we went to press. A motion for unofficial strike action until the report of the TUC party on their claim rejectea oy onty one vote at a mas: meeting of seamen Tayside and Firth of Forth ports in arity!
such as an 'independent enquiry"
such action. 1966, and incomes policy.
of lenge the already being repeated. scanlicl!
Their ana incomes poncy they threaten to do ten years later.
1966 needs to be remembered.
that bit of history be learnt.
1. An Independent Inquiry? from all the pendent inquiry' into grevanices inquiries are.
Faced with the need to confront the social contract, however, the NUS -unable to get a compromise formula from the TUC and the Government postponed the strike for a further fifteen days, giving the state and the shipowners valuable time to prepare themselves to withstand the effect of to prepare a strike - even while the action was still on, no national strike committee had been set up.
The only 'political motivation' of these men is their attempt to avoid confronting the truth - that their members' standard of living cannot be defended by the social contract.
RICH PALSER BENEFITS!