CONFERENCE CAN PLAN BOYCOTT ACTIONS

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year inis saturday delegations Chilean working class. Over 300 delegates have aiready registered for the Chile Solidarity Campaign trade union conference Eighteen national unions are now sponsoring the conference, and many more are sending delegations. Support has come particularly from NALGO (27 branches), the AUEW (18 branches), and ASTMS (11 branches), as well as from several TASS divisional councils and TGWU district committees. Twentythree trades councils are so far sending Such wide-ranging and significant support irom tne organised workers movement means that the conference will be in a good position to plan the extension of concrete solidarity with the Such solidarity is certainly needed. The junta's repression is still increasing: directly, by the arrest, torture, and jailing without trial of thousands of opponents of the regime; and indirectly, as a result of economic policies which have more than halved real wages while putting 20 per cent of the population out of work.

Blockade

Foremost of the tasks facing the conference will be the need to develop the economic blockade of the Chilean regime. sovcoLs or bruIs ImDOrs rom Chile-particularly copper, nitrates, fruit and wine-and the halting of supplies of goods to Chile-especiallymachinery and vehicles-must be actively encouraged. Decisions like that of the National Union of Seamen to call for a boycott of British ships sale to or tom anne must Do taken up by the whole solidarity campaign, to ensure that they are not aborted as a result of right-wing manoeuvres.

Such working class actions will also be the key to torone me cabour govern ment to break its collaboration with the junta. The Wilson leadership persisted in sending the warships to Pinochet, while not batting an eyelid at the junta's non-payment of Chile's debts. At the United Nations the Labour Government was quite happy to go along with a resoViolatons ormuman raus rae occur cathe junta had made considerable progress N.1.

FUND DRIVE If the conference sets about seriously planning a campaign of boycott actions to break this collaboration, then it will represent a big step forward for the solidarity movement.

Anna Larkin