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OFFICIAL ACTION Alan Abrahems (glasses) of the Defence Committee with Ken O'Shsa and fellow defendant John Liywarch st NO GUIDE Inon and Dennis Warren (oth jailed) on demo lalt year a whole yoar, even in the face of several unalficial onoday stoppages To wagte that they will respond madily now is to indulge in day-dreaming. Thus the machine, need for official action only makes the urgency of big unoflicail initiatives euen grotter. A labhy woold anly have seat power if' it were hacked up by massive unofficil action spreeding across the country. That h anather lesson of the Pentowille experience that the Morecver the CP and its spokesmen have not heen clear on the objectives of the lobby, Nowbere neither in the Morning Star, nor Charter, nor anywhere eise-have they spelled out the sort of action the Exceutives should take. Before the lobby, the only body to make a clear call for a national building facts of life. workers" strike was the Birmingham UCA TT Shop Stewards Committer, and that call was not initialed by the CP (although local CP militants did support it).
This is not for want of influcoos. Hundrods of tesolutions have been passed calling-on the Executives to call for national industrial action', to Icad a militant campaign', to 'organise a continuing campaign', and; To croun them all, to win TUC leadership of the national campaign". Not a singe one mentious a nationnl building strike, The aim of the lobby was TALIT JEET MOUCSL LU LEUT SM GEEES BOETEOLE by the T'eG and UCATT to the TUC, without which the TUC will not evon discuss the maticr Lou Lewis was right to point out that 'we must win the official trade union movement; we won it at the tume of Pentomille, we can win it apaiil". What he Torent to mention, however, was that the TUC did Photo: Petir Harrap (Repord)*
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