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TUC Has Bus
Strike

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LONDON a — Record rainfalls deluged Britain Soha

all th as the

storm which played over London and the southwest of | me

England on the eal night of the Trade Union Congress
was t

imum of information seems to be
the rule.
fo it ne- ‘up of sundry Gslapatcy

n for their unions.
‘Sel Idom are there more than

convention. I ie Jupiter of pemmetorms setting p:
of the country afloat like Noah’s Ark.

before the Releetes | call for the

pedines & ee eeu rred.
at the T 1 Con-| trade union movement in this

country.

“Nin inety Years
No convention I have ever at-
tended was carried off with the

and only once did I hear
i ee aise Gita Map
“crackpot”. All speakers, apart
oro officials, use the one micro-
one mounted atop a platform
in nfs of the hall “where the
can see and hear them

the ways and problem:

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TOM O‘CONNOR, (right) sarly) pioneer of the labour movement in Briti

Go lumbia tell me
Association,

ward Sullivai

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, Education Director, Hospital pao
nts in ‘fobour's sti when,

ruggle “away back

Giant Among Men

without strain. Delegates seemed
t :

unions but with the U.S. ae

‘0 pay close attention
so that seldom did the chairman
have to cal a order.

ETU could be broken, they al
nee lost their last union strong-
hold in Britain.
Another touchy matter which

tructur:
some extent Mise thy
due to

from their locals or
eae, ie from their union as
whole. They speak therefore

ondon bus strike

In
ail RG ‘sltonsn to TUC eco-

nomic p
Teaneae rt Workers
London pas pos ucla to

themselves,
Deanehens pat for their
They must
official Baleea

unions.

huge

Ny pce! year ines struck

seco a n convention ¢ a caucus.

ot ‘s/o (sa. 19) a week iner

city bus men, weet Geiwal

really be called a row, was over

n. Cousins
hi

the seating of an alternate dele- Court award if the others weep
gate from the onimuniet The Lo:
Electrical Trades Union. A duly-|don Transport Executive zeriaadl
elected delegate; she asi on The busmen struck,

mn, wae TU| LTE is a nationalized industry
executive eps Bul Bae a Cone so that the strike was indinaete
munist.

Communist secretary of the TU
who ibe with the Party over
the bi
c

Election Rigged

r the break he was de-
prived of his union post at the
next, ect tion wee ‘was ieee

again: nist
union leadarstn nestected to fis
the delegate ale and this ne-
cessitated aa

he ee was Saeed on the
convention floor and ruled out of

and its policy of wage restraint.
athe TUC General Council sup-
rted the strike in principle but
et aiken reluctant to call
upon the full power of the trade
union. eet over the bus
strike Rei Yet the strike, it

perl controls over prices and
rot
he strike failed. Cousins him-
posi

en-
eral Council by taking the mike

Sons

matter for the
most certainly ioe er me a
Tuc General Council . meeting.

y pse.
Nevertheless the defeat rankles.

The public failed to support oa

so t] ae BO TUC wag

oan the EIU for its corry
practices just as the AFL a
as dealt not only with Commie

policy re-affi this Con
gress, seems a gi had some of
the ground cut from under it

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