White Paper | Socialist Action 1983

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for a split of the Tuc bet- called ween 'an open minded progressive group ready to talk to the Alliance the government as well as an old naNnOnedA SOCRASZEII which revolves around LalOu DUlLES.

Steel stated the Alliance was ready to talk to either the old TUC or a 1CW group VIUEICSSLYC both. He an- VlU!

a meeting with the TUC to Norman Willis but would Iso De naDoy lo meet Wil the LUEW EETPU, or the Notts breakaway. Liberals Steel announced that he would be speaking at a fringe meeting of Liberal trade unionists to be held at this year's TUC congress.

But these recent and open initiatives are just the CulLILALl a long term orientation towards the right wing of the TUC the Allance. The policies of realism' aill the ALLIVELICS of 'Mainstream' are not just confined to the economic field. They are inseparable from a new relationship in politics to the Labour party and to the Alliance.

Right from its beginning the SDP sought to take Ho me the EETPU lodestep - as wef as those of the Conservative Unionists (the two being almost identical on the question anti-union laws). February 1982 the SDP launched a three The SDP also rapidly began to tailor its policies a vocal specific targetted unions. The December 1982 SDP 'White r'aper anti-union laws contained one significant difterence conpared to the September Green Paper of the same year namely that allowed unions to con. tinue to appoint general John Torode soa clallco. in The Guardian explained the shift as being due to lne raci tnat 'tne oDr nas set its sights NALGO and NALGO is wedded to the appontments system.

By September 1983 Shirley Williams claim al the SDP ference that unions, two million workers, had responded in one form o Oorward by pre SDP tot forward SDP trade union 'reform'. The unions were reported bj une rararar tmeo mn clude the AUEW NALGO, NUT, Nationa of choolmasters and Union Women Teachers, the Bakers United Transport Communication Managers ASOCAGO Amalgamated Textile Workers First Division Association Line June 1983 however which saw the Alance for the first time getting open political support from sectoes of trade winlon the vulcauclacy. Publicity was given to the call of the Salesman tor vote.