WHEN NEIL Kinnock and Roy Hattersley were elected leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party it was called the 'dream ticket'. It has taken only three months for the dream nightmare.
The NGA dispute is simple to understand. It is over the basic right of a trade union to exist -the very issue on Labour Party was created in the first place. Yet Neil Kinnock, Roy Hattersley, Len Murray and the entire right wing leadership of the labour movement have actively sabotaged this elementary struggle.
It is true the NGA-made a disastrous error in calling off the mass picket. Moreover it was a tactic doomed from the start, to go for a one day strike in a situation where only an all out indefinite stoppage could win.
But that is not where the main responsibility for the defeat lies. The root of the disaster lies in the of Murray, Basnett and the right wing of the TUC General Council. It was the same with the ASLEF dispute and the healthworkers. Everything the TUC leadership touches turns to dross.
The last few weeks should have dispelled any illusion that the trade union movement can live with the Tebbit laws. The ruling class and the Tory government know full well that to make become a which the Duffy, profitable be Someone who isn't going to fight Tebbit's laws FIGH TERRIT'S LAW How they Votes at the TUC Employment Committee: For the NGA:
Moss Evans (TGWU) Walter Greendale (TGWU) Ken Gill (TASS)
Alan Sapper (ACTT) John Morton (Musicians) Clive Jenkins (ASTMS) Muriel Turner (ASTMS) Joe Wade (NGÀ)
Lil Stevens (NUPE) Against the NGA:
Ken Baker (GMBATU) Pat Turner (GMBATU Tony Christopher (IRSF) Ada Maddocks (NALGO) Roy Grantham (APEX Eric Hammond (EEPTU) Gerry Russell (AUEW)