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Part of Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 January 1976.

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Photo of Mr Jonathan Aitken Mr Jonathan Aitken , Thanet East 12:00, 21 January 1976

Of course it was a dispute between the NUJ and the management, but there was a great deal of tension between the IOJ and the NUJ in that situation, and to suggest that there is the hope of peaceful coexistence between the two is wrong. For that reason, some protection for this coexistence should be written into the charter. There should be a basic right in the charter for journalists not to be excluded or expelled from trade unions.

The terms of the amendment are quite unexceptionable, and it is a matter of shame and embarrassment that the Labour Party should be opposing them. If Labour Members oppose them it is because the Labour Party has become the Jack Jones puppet show in which the voting strings are being pulled by the trade union bosses—