Wage Freeze: the Struggle Begins

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The lobby of Parliament on Tuesday was a great success: thousands of trade unionists from all over Britain came down to London to impress upon their M.P.s the necessity of fighting the wage freeze and anti-trade union legislation, This activity is to be followed by a lobby of the trade union executives on March 2nd and a demonstration and mass meeting on March 12, We shall do all in our power to publicise these two events, This activity must be seen as both a continuing one and one that escalates, To leave matters at the level of lobby after lobby, or demonstration after demonstration, will only lead to the same kind of frustration as has beset the anti-Vietnam war movement, The movement must set itself specific tasks which can be achieved and which will really matter, The slogan of organising to oust those Labour M.P.s who refuse to fight the wage freeze must be . made quite specific,