As a transport system especially is enormous bottleneck. Onlong-term plan to transport along socially productive lines can sort out the mess.
Instead Labour as well as Tory governments over the years have consistently The $ 1S Ot Simply in terms of accidents, the disaster at Kings Cross is dwarfed by the terrible toll of deaths on the roads old THE four-to-one ballot vote in favour of merg ing TASS and ASTMS represents a victory for the left. It is an impor tant decision which strengthens the unions in general, and the left in particular, in an area of the economy which is expanding.
The right wing of the labour movement opposed the merger. Nonetheless, some initial position by Hammond and the EETPU, they failed to campaign openly reckoning that result was a foregone conclusion.
The political enemies of labour, the Tories and the Social Democrats were equally unsuccessfu The promised Tory-SDI campaign against merger never got off the ground.
TASS members voted approximately five-to-one favour of joining with ASTMS, ASTMS bers voted approximately three-to-one for the same proposition. lumout in the ballots was 30 per cent said to be largest-ever for a merger VOLe Broken down union, the figures were as op the follows: Tass members — 51,809 in favour (83.1 pe cent) (16.9 members favour (74.1 per cent) and 20,113 against (25.9 cent). Overall, the 'yes' vote in both unions amounted to mem- 78.1 per cent (109,466) and 21.0 per cent voted "no.
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the Finance Gill and Clive Jenkins will continue as joint general by secretaries.
The MANUFACTURI executives agains beer cent 57,657 ASTMS in per third The new union will b Scienc Ken national victory.
E a VIVINCE will meet together for the first time January. This will become the MSF's nev jointee to come 700,000 • memMSF becomes the biggest trade union after the transport workers and the engineering workers. Whatever disagreements exist with the leadership of TASS or the ASTMS will be the strongest left union both in the TUC and in the Labour Party