International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

From Bad to Worse

The Week Vol. 4, No. 17, 4 November 1965 · p. 3 of the scan · 178 words

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It must be difficult for many people to believe that the evidence put before Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers! Associations by Sir James Dunnett was the work of a Ministry under a Labour Government. We seem to have turned the full cycle: the Labour Party which was created by the trade unions to give them political protection now spawns forth schemes for tying the unions up legally, The idea of "making procedure agreements for the settlement of disputes legally enforceable" was the property of the extreme right wing of the Tory Party and Edward Martell until recently. We are told that the Ministry advises against legal action against unofficial strikers not on principle, but,because it wouldn't work} What/the people who voted against the emerzency resolution on trade union legislation think now? Surely the time has come for all sections of the trade union movement to tell the Government that enough is enough, and that the present disastrous course must be reversed. Every union branch should call on its union leaders to make this absolutely clear,

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