It is shocking that the T.U,C. are asking the seamen to capitulate. Their policy is a strike-breaking one, At a time when the seamen are locked in battle with a case which is unanswerable ,these men, who are supposed to be representatives of the interests of the trade union movement as a whole,
attack the men who are to the forefront fighting for the whole of the movement. Unfortunately things have not stopped there, Leaders of certain unions - the 1,G,\!.U. notably - which oppose the incomes policy have fhiled the seamen when the letter asked for a boycott of British ships, This is not only wrong it is profoundly mistaken, These very same unions are bound themselves to come into conflict with the Government in the coming months, If the seamen lose ,these unions will face an immeasurably harder task, Zven if the seamen win these unions will find it very diffucult to appeal for help in their struggle. On another front, a number of M.P.s, who consider themselves left-wingers, have seen fit to attack the seamen for not accepting the Pearson Report. They too are both very wrong and foolish, If they are sincere in their desire to build up an, alternative left wing to Mr. Wilson's team they should see the seamen end other militant trade unionists as theirallies, Instead they have played into Mr. Wilson's hands by facilitating his salami tactics.