*When is the Labour Government going to release Dennis Warren and Eric Tomlinson?' wrote Alan Tattam, London Regional Organiser of UCATT, the building workers union. in the Communist Party's paper the Morning Star on Friday 4 April. He then answered his own question: *The evidence is only after massive industrial action."
But the evidence" is that little action will be forthconting from Tved up to its promise thit it would then organise a stoppage? wrote: "The conference organised last weekend by the Liaison Com mittee for the Defence of Trade Unions decided if the TUC did not call the stoppage and day of action on May 1 then the liaison committee would.
SILENCE
Since then the Liaison Cosmitfee has bean silent. Its leaders have not even Issued a statement since the TUE meeting saying they are still in favour of strike action on May Day. And if they are, serious prsparation has been conspicuously absent. No mass ineelings in factories or local arcas have been called. No lesilets have heen publisbed and distributed explaining why such astrike is necessary Meanwhile the Labour Government s attacks on picketing go on. The strike at the Eldon Square site In Newcastle b now four months oid and the ten pickeis arrested in late January and formally commitled to Crown Court have still not been told the date set for the trial.
The Communist Party, which has been signilicantly silent about this the Communist Party in the wake of the TUCS decision to leave on the table the resolution from the Trans port and General Workers Union Executive calling for a one-day general strike to free the Shrewsbury Two.
Nothing can now he done by the TUC before its next General Council meeting at the end of April, In reporting the TUC decision the Morning Star (27/3/75) Labbies of the TUC have not produced the desired affect. So why has the LCDTU not new attack on pickets, in a strike which the local T&GWU and UCATT bureascrucies have done all in their power to smash, have instead been busy denouncing the slander that they have round up the North Wales Shrewsbury Defence Committee. This body has morped into the No Lional Shrewsbury Coordinating Committee which is holding a national conference on Saturday 19. Appl Ouite what initiatives this com mittee has 'co-ordinated" to date remains a mystery, hut delegates must fight for it to take up the delence of the Eldon Square pickets as well as fighting for strike action to free the Shrewsbury Two.
At the tank and file level pome steps have been takea Stewards at the Shell Stanlow site at Fflesmere Port are recommending strike action to 350 construction workers on 1 May to demand the release of the jailed pickets. The fact that this action is being taken even at this late stape, and despile the demoralisation caused hy the pointless protest campaign of the Comaunist Party leadership and the bureaucracy. by the trade union burcaucracy to build action against the use of trong and in support of the strikers. The Scottish Labour Parly conference ut one of the most aussraceful vot