Aidan Crawley, Tory MP for Derbyshire West and notorious for his hostility to the Labour movement, (he was once a Labour member), supported a clause in the Tory Contracts of Empkqment Bill whose object, he said, was +o make employers or employees liable to prosecution if they bboke or induced others to break a contract. His proposal would “strengthen trads unions by providing them with the moral support for what the ETU has just done with Mr. Doyle." This clause, was defeated in the Commons standing Committee, Perhaps the best comment came from the Minister of Labour, Mr. Hare, who said it was “problematical, to put it moderately," whether Mr, Crawleys provision would improve industrial relations,
Ths Mayor of Willesden has voiced 2 ogll for local organisations to lobby MP's against the rail closures next Wednesday at 7.15+Deme All local organisations have been asked to co-operate in this protest on April 10th.