Defend the TGWU | Socialist Action 1983

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IN THE WAKE of the miners' defeat, the ruling dustries. orchestrated campaign against the Transport and General Workers Union centred on the charge of 'ballot rigging'.

The discrepanicies involved are minute: 630,541 votes were cast. The actual charges involve three brancne. winnere severei hundred votes between them only two or three votes of which proved to rasult of this, the TOWU result of this, has expelled two officials Trom no CinG OTrICe course does not satisfy the Tory press n bob ggæ cc creeched the Daily Mo posing its own campaign ér e new ooo cs croa ing pressure'. The more I doubt your reality.

I suspect that you are little more than the ¿paranoid product of my profound depression."

Possibly.. sedate Sunday Țimes was satisfied with innuendo: 'although there is yet evidence centrally LRalocu CalDos DYu ft to rig the ballo Was lli DO SOROu. back-handed defence.

generation suffiient charges and innuen do to give cover for LIC colnis maler vetine lao tot and demanding a They would hope in the rank ACTION After all, there are many things to justify depression which might cause nervous breakdown. right candidate George The Ialell between them original election was only 45,000 votes.

Because of the role the TGWU played within the miners because did not tulv MO Duse IL miners, it is vulnerable tr such a campaign But campaign • a declaration that it would not tolerate the interference of the courts InILU an aftiliated union -wo Motionh on oip.

Motions support branches TGWU and other trades unions would be a good I am sure that many a strong man very mention of The T.U.C. preparation puch a stance by the TUC The fact that the campaign has been atuncned Lord Chapple, previously dictatoria General Secretary of the electricians' unull. the lie to the Tories campaign. Chapple came to prominence as a renegade member of the Communist providing the evidence for the CP's ballot rigging in the electri cians' union in the mid50s From then on, any dissent in the union has been ruthlessly stamped upon by Chapple his hand probably make •teel rather been expugned from the union and militants exOCICU Worse, the union has •ys cillal cal conspired with the bosses to victimise militant workers.

In recent years, despite a growing challenge to this complete autocracy, the EEPTU pionceres sweetheart deals with the bosses priding itself conciualng 'no agreements and foisting them onto the membership with an iron fist.

There are big stakes in this Tory challenge to Ron Todd. . If George Wright is installed will weigh heavily in the offensive to shift the axis of the labour movement to the right.

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Socialist Action 5 April 1985

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