ACTiON their links to the Labour Party. He argued, 'I think life.' Addressing a centenary the future as we did in the past.' 'a coalition of ideas' terests'.
Hattersley specifically argued that his own trade union, the ASTMS, would dissafiliate VULC the decline of the trade unions Howevel general phenomenon based on the decline or ine manual working class and the effect of the Tebbit Bill.
What makes this Hattersley speech even more extraordinary that comes on ine eve or lne Introduction of the round of Tebbit/King laws into parliament. This is a when the entire Labour Party would have been expected to put its maximum energies NICO campaigning maintain trade union attilation to the Labour Party. Instead Hatterslev's speech WeLs 'BRITAIN'S AMBITIOUS youth training scheme 'The He argued the Labour Party must become more and less a 'coalition of ineagerly picked up by the Financial Times cast doubts on basic Labourtrade union links.
Writing. on the front page under the heading influence 'Hattersley says will bulls decline' John Lloyd, the paper's industrial editor, noted "The unions are themselves beginning to grappic will these pressures influential have privately come to many of the same conclusions as Mr Hattersley'.
This line is similar to the policy already outlined by Frank Chapple others following the General. Chapple, writing in The Times on 17 June, weakening of the links between the trade unions and the Labour Party.
Chapple explicity linkthis call for Labour-trade union relations with support for urgng trade unionists to vot Liberal, and not in a number ot constituencies Chapple argued, If we had not been so completely tied to this we could have cra our members to vote SDP. or Liberal if they had a Crafte of winning. Over and over again our loyalty to Labour let the Tories in on June 9.
John Lloyd, the author the article on Hatterley's speech is notable for having written a two page review in the Statesman defending Len Murray's position on the scheme, being interested in NGA dispute What Roy Hattersley's speech shows is just how up the Labour Party the influence of positions rethink Labour-trade union links, and for 'non political trade unionism, has gone Roy Hattersley's formal position is undoubtedly that trade unions should vote ir of affilia But his there analysis ob: But his entire analysis viously reflects the TaC that no really effective campaign on Labour Party affiliation is going to come trom the trade union or • right. Their analysis rules it out. pay With the real character of the YTS scheme coming out more and more into the open, and with an obvious boycott of it by large numbers of young people, there is a big opening for the TUC and Labour Party to reverse their previous policy come out against the YTS, and destrov this cheap labour scheme.
Birmingham unionists will be meeting on 14 January to discuss the Scheme.
The conference, callTrades Birmingham Council, will Mened by Clare Short The open to all Registration fee f1.
Assembly Rooms Digbeth Civic Hal 9.30am-1.15pm
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In a little reported speech last weekend Roy Hat- tersley outlined major thinking of the Labour Party right wing on the future of the trade unions and on
that the trade unions themselves are going to be a diminishing force in British political and industrial
Society Hattersley claimed that, cy" of the (Labour) Party on the trade unions is something on which I do not believe we can rely in