be strike national attention. It is still about all those things But it is also about much more. I shoul Shirley Williams, the Govern ent"s Education Minister and cader of the Labour right, posed the alternatives this way. In a speech last Friday she explained that when she attended the picker it was "wholly orderly and peaceShe continued; 'But I do deplore the intervention of the far right and far left who have no has done no good to the cause my nion is fighting for.
The ridiculousness of Williams's claim that the mass picketIng and mass action has •done ppearance on the picket line hich brought national promi sence to the strike and sent Government ministers scurrying around trying to.get some setCONTRACT Jut it ls the general poin Villiams is trying to make that aporderly tactics the seme nd orderly' tactics -tactics of talks, compromise and don't struggle" which produced the Social Contract, and with it a cut in real wager and rising unemployment. proaches same attitude ll was Callaghan who advised APEX leader Ros Grantham to limit the number of THERES C CAPELICHE and Employment Minister Booth In particular, who offered concason after concession to Crun wick boss George Ward.
The final, pathetic cringin Sunday night.
Booth offered Ward yet a further When Ward that he would not be bound by any such finding, and that matter what happened be would strikers, optimistic:
Booth considers it 'optimistic because at least Ward had to talk. And that, for Bootb, for Williams and for Grantham is a big victory.
Their whole political philos aphy is that the employing class working class have common interests, and provided sople art reasonable and s orted out. The mass picket wa en hy Grantham not as a wa of winning the dispute, but as way of pressurising Ward to be the picket threatenod to from his control GramLam BEtempted to limit it.
lut the Grunwick strike com mittee have rejected their lead er's advice. They bave rejected the use of arm bands and call for maximum picketing. The policy of the strike committee is a living example of the alternative way of Labour and trade union Jeadership.
The strikers rely bot on talks, Balding as sonia an compromises, means of forcing Ward to 'compromise'. but Winning the SiTELe. agreed They rely on the working class Grunwick is aboul is Class confrontation on the picket HAIL become the major tion it has. The Tories and the fa surprising. The workers" movemens once given unflinching support to thi strike committee. surprising. And the Labour Government and the arrators mediators lorrai "peaceful and orderly" end.
That also is not surprising !
HE HAST CO mORE D "leadership' of the mass working class organ INCAR UREILOCAN defeat independent actions by Lhe working class not as a Por They such struggles are a forelaste of as a way political ques it asain and again. trade union tract.
Isations have done be it at British Heathrow, Ford or know that The "Fiver for Socialist Challenge" appeal in last week's issue wbat is to come in the growin Fight against wage controls, cut same time sanction the Specia The stakes are bigh Two alternatives are being offered in the workers movement. One is class collaboration. On chat side are the Labour Graotham and the leadersbip of The other it class struggle policie which won at Saltley, which defeated the Industrial Reladons Act and " In Place of Surife'.
The same defeat for the ruling claas and victory for the work er's movement cun huppen at ALL OUT 11 JULY FOR GRUNWICH