The Price of TUC Leadership (1961) is a serious criticism of the TUC by the General Secretary of another large trade union. It contends, among other things, that the TUC bore responsibility for Labour’s defeat in the 1959 General Election, and for the decline in the influence and effectiveness of the trade union movement. It also criticises the leadership and its public relations, and covers the part played by the union in the de-nationalization of the steel industry.
1. TUC: A Minority Movement 2. TUC: Its Public Relations 3. TUC: Its Relations with Congress 4. TUC: Its Relations with the Membership 5. Architects of Defeat 6. Discrediting the Nationalization 7. Conditioning the Electors 8. An Unprecedented Pledge 9. 1952 Margate Congress 10. TUC Leadership Ignores 1952 Congress Mandate 11. 1953 Isle of Man Congress 12. 1954 Brighton Congress 13. Labour Sustains its Second General Election Defeat 14. 1956 Brighton Congress 15. 1957 Blackpool Congress 16. 1958 Bournemouth Congress 17. 1959 Blackpool Congress 18. The Big Six 19. The Blackpool Inquest 20. Can TUC Leadership Change or be Changed? 21. Shop Stewards
Biography
Bryn Roberts
