It's about time that the trade onlicials -came OUT died behind their desks to give a lead' Trades Council Secretary. meeting of 500 shop stewards voted for a local general strike on 30 March he increasino ander in ne nun about the o uve eise and the bite of the eaucrats had to take some action.
Davie bains, regiond sectelary and General the people above thei Workers Union was a prime mover interests, declined. They took the Transnort in the call for a complete one-day stoppage. In the past Cairns willing to glibly might equate the fight for socialism with outside of working hours 'blood on the streets'. Last wed nesday, a different Cairns appear The socialist rhetoric p This daring ventures was nis can to chanergo the bourgeoisie. -01 course forgot to say if he had a strategy Soe SELL OUTS However, despite this new mili- SANC Cairns and other local bureaucrats proved content to follow in the well-worn to Jones has shown in the managed the meeting so well that the Social the Government, a united fight to Contract was not even mentoned. never mind attacked.
• one-day stoppage decided County Council claims its oppos by the meeting will be an important step in taking the struggle of notice has been given the working class forward in Hul!
essential y action to pressurise the Demands such as opening the books. sliding scale or wages redundancies. tor ware mcreases redundancies - which could be d basis for an effective fightback remained printed sentences on the leaflets distributed by revolutionary mutants al the meeung The main demand which came ment forward to deal with the crisis was MaKe bureaucrats to a T. It allows them Hull to play on the isolation of the Hull workers trom the rest or me labou movement. They are -30 e present the city's problems as the people of Hull against everyone Even the local CBI were asked local bur- to help the stoppage! But these gentlemen slightly embarrassed at having to put the interests o opportunity nowever. to sueets that the cemonsuario! profitably take place bured LIMITED Although Cairns And one bureaucrats in the TGWU increasingly forced to some steps in the fightback, these wil remain umned inese tedders are not interested in a serious fight against unemployment and because would require an all-out struggle against CUTS the socia contact The refusal or ine so-cared leaders to mount an effective fight needs to be hammered home past, the further down the blind control fighting for local concession from save jobs and cuts is needed In the meantime. as the Labour ton to unemplovmen anu buts another round of cuts meanine another 700 jobs lost on Humber side. As the working class of Hull and begin to flex their wake up muscle meet must be piedare!
, and to put the interests of the entire workers' movement ahead of their narrow party stunts. united socialist opposition s the oniv rea socialist manas te De lanen ranks or me nur labour move / Halle (Hull MG)