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ROAD TRANSPORT UNIONS FIGHT INCOMES PLANS
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rr HE TGWU's determination to ignore the Prices and Incomes Board if the Government legislates for compulsory wages restraint will not have come as a surprise to anyone. writes John Darker.
Mr. Frank Cousins' weekend message to his members is bluntly phrased with its insistence that "unions cannot be agents or instruments of Government—we are not a body that can be told by the State where our responsibilities start or end".
The TUC, whose alternative voluntary wage vetting machinery has not been fully extended, is preferable to any legislative "long stop", Mr. Cousins believes; but his warning that the TGWU would withdraw its support for the TUC's voluntary scheme if it does not "produce results" will not commend itself to all members of that august body.
Mr. George Woodcock passed some shrewd comments on the problem of recalcitrants at the recent conference of trade union executive committees when by a majority of more than 6i-rn. support was given to a trade union system for dealing with incomes policy problems.
"I do not think the incomes policy goes up the spout because somebody gets away with a little be, said Mr. Woodcock. "Of course, if a lot of people did it, the whole policy would be gone. But if there is anybody in this country who can deal with recalcitrants it is us.
"We offer the best prospect there is in this democracy of dealing with people who do not conform. They might be dealt with either by their own executive, if they are up against their own union policy, or by the TUC if it is the executive that is calling a strike."
Mr. John Lowry, president of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union, in his address to the Inverness conference of the Union on Wednesday, urged that the TUC could not possibly deal with the 600 or so major wage claims submitted annually.
His union did not vote for the TUC's voluntary incomes policy "but were certainly not going to vote against it for that would have suggested we were in favour of the Government's plans to intervene in wage negotiations. And we are a million miles away from being in favour of that".