Workers Press no. 16

BANKERS HAIL strike official

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MOTOR INDUSTRY ROUND-UP

Stay out and beat _strikers urged Stokes London's television

STANDARD - TRIUMPH'S

by Hunt's Cress, Liverpool, car strikers-'Stay out and beat body workers have decided Stokes!' But there ribald continue their strike, to as the manage- management let- comments despite ment's letter was read out.

con- ter threatening The men are striking for tinues, the company will be forced reconsider its a f4 l0s. increase in bonus to for policy of expanding Liver- pay, average earnings pool production facilities'.

lay-offs. and do not in- tend to go back until they Cheers greeted tele- get it. sent to the meeting Mersey stewards fight penal clauses

PORT'S

Vauxhall stewards have reacted

ELLESMERE

quickly to Thursday's decision by the Luton district com- of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and mittee Foundryworkers to press for an early signing of the com- pany's 'penal clause' pay deal.

After travelling from Merseyside overnight, they distri- workers at Luton and Dunstable yester- buted leafilets to condemning the proposed agreement.

dayt appears that the union leaders have not been slow off the mark either. to Mr Arthur Sjojren, the Luton district According secretary, the committee's decision to accept the deal was immediately endorsed by the engineering union's executive.

Also enthusiastic about the decision, of course, was the company. *a useful Vauxhall spokesman described the vote as deal being step towards the possibility of the package presented to the Department of Employment and Produc- tivity'. Parity conference at Coventry SHOP STEWARDS from a and those of workers at number of big motor tac- Coventry's Rootes plants.

tories meet in Coventry No reference is, of course, to- morrow to discuss the fight made by these stewards to productivity of lower-paid carworkers the conces- for parity sions sold by the Coventry ot earnines witn stewards in return for these those in Midlands plants.

pay-rates. The conference has been Such comparisons called by Ford motor com- highly dangerous. pany stewards and will be Equally dangerous is the addressed by convenors line taken. on parity from Coventry's Rootes and Royce 1aCacies. seanet püi bur vy Rolis jeint shop stewards Transport this month, which calls te* Mess and General Werkers en- Ford wages to reflect 'the gineering tride group secre- productivity contribution will also speak. tary, Ford workers have Invitations have made. gone out Parity must be fought for to stewards at all big the four car combines. as part of a united struggle The official parity claim against the employers' at- September 5 Ford's at the tempts to increase preduc- meeting of tivity at the car worker's September the national eat peep. out this committee, and much us map struggle at the All Trades play has been made-parti- Unions Alliance's motor in- cularly by Communist dustry conference in Bir- Party stewards-with com- November 8. parisons between Dagen- mingham on ham and Halewood wages (Details page tour.)

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THE Czechoslovak parlia- electio ment gave approval on Wed- nesday evening to a two- of the year postponement now January 1, 1972. country's general elections, This move ensures that par- were due to take which liament will continue to be din Statists electe riK1964.

place this year. dominated by in 1964. Husak and the Kremlin no Dominated election doubt tear that an The earliest possible date is today will lead to new demon- workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League 1У 19/0

NUMBER 16 • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1969

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

As more pits close As attack on wages grows Make miners NATIONAL Coal Board top brass were meeting

WILSON

yesterday in London to discuss the demands of A demonstration as Gis arrive home from Vietnam anti-war struggle is intensifying, it is being •strikers in Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales and Cumber- Now the taken up by black arm-banded soldiers al the front and land for shorter hours and higher pay.

by more and more workers at home.

As more collieries join the strike it takes on the

HE HEARTNER

of a nation

UNTIL ALL TE GIE

BY THE EDITOR

wide stoppage.

ARE BROUCT HOME

AS THE TRADE unions are being forced more and Yorkshire the entire coalfield was more into a collision course with the government hail were joined on Thurs over wages, speed-up and the threat of unemploy- ment, the bankers cannot conceal their joy over PIls mine Thursday head Kent Wilson's policy. Speaking at the Lord 5 spreading banquet 30 million in U.S Mavor s souti Thursday night according I ne auaralan 'Moratorium' Leslie O'Brien, Governor of the Bank of England French 'used language of almost Workers march miners un preceaentea entnustasin in support of the govern- to strike too ment poncy on exorls. against war w nat is the Banker Wilson's export dence policies? WEDNESDAY'S 'Vietnam Moratorium' conal- brought millions onto the streets and campuses of the United States in opposition to the im- perialist war of aggression in Vietnam.

posit he satating to pa. West Germany Nazi 'killed White House admit that at least Pain 400.000 Jews' Christian Democrats 'Britain's ition. had not beel ty in the Washington area so crease figures with Do sliving in crisis FURTHER signs of ten- sort, est Germany, on soldiers, abut money sion have become visible all, ands arm inside

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has I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for Stalin arche very impor importan workers ted u were able dismiss The Name Newsletter • as elections i their minds with the Com munist Party. AddresS rations of hostits politic they representat if the per Coloral heraken top a compen and me a potion are in e & to eat Noel Ring, from holding elections now.

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workers press INAORPOBATING THE NEWSLETIER O PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY O NUMBER 16 O SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1969 BANKERS HAIL strike official

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER C

MOTOR INDUSTRY ROUND-UP

'Stay out and beat Stokes'—strikers urged

STANDARD - TRIUMPH'S

by London's television Hunt's Cress, Liverpool, car strikers-'Stay out and beat Stokes!' body workers have decided ribald continue their strike, But there were to comments as the manage- despite a management let- "if it ment's letter was read out.

ter threatening con- The men are striking for tinues, the company will be its a f4 l0s. reconsider increase in bonus forced forcey of expending for Liver- average earnings pay, pool production facilities'.

and do not in- ay-offs . tend to go back until they Cheers greeted tele- get it. the meeting gram sent to Mersey stewards fight penal clauses ELLESMERE PORT'S Vauxhall stewards have reacted by the Luton district com- quickly to Thursday's decision of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and mittee Foundryworkers to press for an early signing of the com- pany's 'penal clause' pay deal. Merseyside overnight, they distri- After travelling from workers at Luton and Dunstable yester- buted leafillets to proposed agreement. day condemning the that the union leaders have not been slow It appears off the mark either. to Mr Arthur Sjojren, the Luton district According secretary, the committee's decision to accept the deal was union's executive. immediately endorsed by the engineering Also enthusiastic about the decision, of course, was the company. Vauxhall spokesman described the vote as a useful package step towards the possibility of the deal being presented to the Department of Employment and Produc- tivity'. Parity conference at Coventry SHOP STEWARDS from a and those of workers at Coventry's Rootes plants.

motor fac- number of big No reference is, of course, tories meet in Coventry to- morrow to discuss the fight made by these stewards to productivity of lower-paid carworkers the Cones. sions sold by the Coventry for parity of earnings with those in Midlands plants.

stewards in return for these pay-rates. The conference has been Such comparisons are called by Ford motor com- highly dangerous. pany stewards and will be Equally dangerous is the addressed by convenors line taken parity, in on from Coyentry's Bootes and Rolis Rovor laPories. jeint shop stewards Transport Moss Erans, this month, which calls t Workers and General Ford wages to reflect 'the gineering tride group secre- contribution productivity tary, will also speak. workers we Ford have made. Invitations have gone out Parity must be fought for to stewards at all the big four car combines. as part of a united struggle parity claim at- The official against the employers' tempts to increase produc- went in to Ford's at the 25 tivity at the car worker's September meeting of the national joint negotiat- expense. Help us map All Trades committee, and much out this ing struggle at the play has been madeparti- Unions Alliance's motor in- cularly by Communist dustry conference in Bir- Party stewards-with com- mingham on November 8. between Dagen- parisons (Details page four.) ham and Halewood wages

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parlia- THE Czechoslovak electio ment gave approval on Wed- nesday evening to a two- year postponement of the now January 1, 1972. country's general elections, This move ensures that par- were due to take which liament will continue to Stalinists electe pro-Krem.

dominated by the place this year. lin in 1964. Husak and the Kremlin no Dominated doubt fear that an election The earliest possible date is today will lead to new demon- The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League 1У 19/0 PRICE 6d As more pits close As attack on wages grows Make miners NATIONAL Coal Board top brass were meeting

WILSON

yesterday in London to discuss the demands of A demonstration as GIs arrive home from Vietnam Now the anti-war struggle is intensifying, it is being • strikers in Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales and Cumber- taken up by black arm-banded soldiers at the front and land for shorter hours and higher pay.

Dy more ana more workers al dome As more collieries join the strike it takes on the

SEUR BITE

proportions of a nation-

AT ALTE CU

BY THE EDITOR

wide stoppare.

ARE BROUCT ME

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more into a collision course with the government wole in scoland. at pokennet and Monkton. hall were joined on Thurs- over wages, speed-up and the threat of unemploy.

day by miners from eight other pits. ment, the bankers cannot conceal their joy over Kent pithead Wilson's policy. speaking at the Lord 30 million in U.S. banquet Mayor's The Guardian', 'Moratorium Lesile U brien, Governor of the Bank of England French use language or almost Workers march miners unprecedente• entnusiasm in supoort or une covern- to strike too ment volcy on exporls. against war Wnat is tie reason ol kanker O'brien's cont.

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dence in Wilson's export miners in wastern policies? WEDNESDAY'S 'Vietnam Moratorium' On the brought millions onto the streets and campuses • Cong nat of the United States in opposition to the im- Cutterrand's perialist war of aggression in Vietriam.

eed yesterday e improved t he ralles were so vast According to a P.A Nazi killed and widespread that even a West Germany report he said: White House official had to more admit that at least 30 mil- Pain page sibe nationalizati s.

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MICTORY to vettcoNg I would like to subscribe to workers rress tol think articles Name elections in their minds with Address strations had its politica where thes really stand you are saying it every day.

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nternational competition sharpens IT SHOULD be no sur- prise that British- Leyland, which this week told shop stewards in Oxford of major cut- backs in production, is to be first off the mark with sackings and short- time working. As the winter progresses, British capitalism's attack must in- carworkers on creasingly take this form.

The slackening home demand and sharpening international competition which now faces the entire motor industry are felt with particular sharp- ness by this £410 million giant, whose 1968 merger made it the country's biggest car producer. With Tuesday's announce- ment to the Oxford stewards all the lines of Leyland's par- ticular strategy have become clear. Besides introducing unem- ployment and short-time, the combine is to close many of its smaller plants, slash produc- tion costs and engage in a ruthless marketing war. Alongside this deter- mined preparations for British capitalism's entry into the European Economic Commun- ity. To back his general up Lord Stokes has strategy, launched a two-pronged attack against those who work in his factories. He aims to completely re- organize production by means of a £200 million programme.

But this means that the rela-.

tionship between exploiter and exploited must be completely changed throughout the com- bine. To oversee this task, Stokes has appointed reputedly high-powered, but as yet un- named executive to take charge of a new 'manpower planning unit. His express instruction is to get rid of the piece-work system of payment and replace it with Measured-Day Work.

bedevelcoment LARGE chunk of the A £200 million is to be spent on expanding and re- organizing Leyland's Morris Motors plant at Cowley, Oxford. £70 million is to be spent at Cowley on / to double output capacity with no increas The first of a series of article on the Motor Industry By our industrial correspondent

DAVID MAUDE

New assembly lines are be- ing built on the south side of the existing Morris works. A new system of overhead con- veyors will link Morris's to a much greater extent than at present with the Pressed-Steel Fisher body plant, on the op- posite side of the Oxford by- pass. The total cost of the opera- tion will be some £70 million.

As one steward commented last week, when we passed the new development: 'The company has no inten- tion of opening that plant on piece-work. So they calculate they've got 18 months or so to break down our resistance and introduce Measured-Day Work' When completed, the new will have complex an output capacity of 10,000 cars a week -double the present figure.

But Leyland has no plans to expand its present labour force. It aims to achieve the in- crease entirely by expenditure on new plant. Phase one of the develop- ment plan is scheduled for completion at the end of next year. This comprises the re- development of 'A' building, modification, the conveyor building of a new paint shop and the re-arrangement of press shop facilities. Mechanization and auto- mation of processes will be stepped up. Already, bodies for the Maxi vehicle are produced by new €2,500,000 computer - aided equipment which cuts down both production costs and times. Pressed-Steel Fisher is also producing most of its car roof sections under automated con- trol. New assembly techniques are also cutting down the amount of labour required.

Maxi bodies are now assembled by the 'gate line' prefabrication- and-conveyor-loading method, first developed by General Motors, which enables the whole process to be carried out on the moving track. If successfully completed, these technical developments will of course bring enormous pressure to bear on the piece- . work system. Leyland's wage bill would be enormous. So, by the time the first cars rolling off the new come assembly lines—the model will be replacement for the a Morris Minor, at present dubbed the ADO 28-Stokes wants to have completed the changeover to a fixed-payment, high-flexibility scheme. Another part of the com- bine's strategy here is to farm production out to factories in which workers are paid less than Leyland employees. For example, arrangements at Cowley on new assembly lines and conveyor syst with no increase in the labour force.

BRiTISH

LEYLAND

Leyland's drive for the Common Market will mean new attacks on car workers, warns senior steward Bob Frye Morris workers al a recent mass mccums • £200 million on re-organization - The relationship between exploiter and exploited must be changed throughout the combine. • f70 million development at Cowley - Output capa- city doubled with no increase in the labour force.

Manpower planning unit - Express instructions to get rid of piecework. unemployment - 'The Short time and major • weapons during the winter months.

• Common Market drive- 'New attacks on wages and conditions. supplied from have already been • made tor

ADO

engines to be pro- Ferkins. r ererooroun wnere of 2,500 a duced at turner s, rate Measured - Dav - Work-tvoe Wolver- agreement was recently intro- where hampton, week lower 4o d But short-time and unem- engineering Diovment Wiltel There are also reports that montos are clearly gone be engines for some BMC lorries the company's major weapons.

EN days Leyland T acO. made its first move to collect the pound of flesh the signed away by trade leaders during last unlon year's engineering package deal negotiations. demanding the imple- It is mentalion acallist une susun …toolroom al Lons- bridge, birmingham. deal's job-evaluation clauses.

The union headers - trom both the General Welders. That the and said that Provisions musl slalu only the price was al issue.

the interesting v enouen. d conveyor systems at the south end of the factory, seen above. Leyland plans Austin toolroom has tor alone time been the stamping-ground ward Bob Fryer, seen above addressing of the Communist Party's Dick Etheridge. What is his reply to this challenge ? The Communist Party, of course, was one of the main defenders of Scanlon's leader- ship during the engineering negotiations and led many workers into the trap of be- lieving the 'strings' he agreed harmless - that 'any were . worth his salt could steward get round them'. For a time, of course, this appeared to be true. It ap- peared that workers were get- ting the money without the 'strings'. In reality, however, the em- ployers merely biding were their time until they got the conditions under which they could fight for the 'strings' to be implemented. Fortunately, the answer to the Austin reference does not rest with Mr Etheridge alone.

It is a serious and urgent question for the whole com- bine. 8 Canteen workers at the Morris workmates over cutbacks whir Saturday, October 18, 1969 'We've got to stop people walking out arbitrarily when they've got a grievance', stressed Lord Stokes during an interview on BBC-1's 'Chief Executive' series on June 19 this year. Until contracts between unions and management were made legally enforceable, he said, 'I don't think we'll solve our problems'. land is tooling up for an all- round struggle. If it is to achieve its aim of bringing a new car on to the market six months, it every must break the resistance of a ViciOus its workers. system

NDER

piecework, U wages depend largely for tarone strength on the negotiating of workers and their stew- ards vis-a-vis the manage- ment and its ratefiexers.

Strong trade union organ- EANWHILE, as Trans- ization at shop-floor level can and port General command a high price for the Workers' Union senior shop job. Measured-Day. steward Bob Fryer told me Work is de- signed to break down this last week, Leyland is making organization. a big drive for Europe. Its rates of pay are fixed and Deliveries of body pressings it is the management who de- and underframes for two cide how to pile on, split up or Oxford's Renault saloons from a worker's job reorganize SO Pressed-Steel plant began. fill up his time with as under a £5 million-a-year deal effort from the start of his by Stokes, in signed Septem- shift to the final bell. ber. The combine also has agree- As one Oxford steward put it last week : ments to supply components to Sweden's Saab and Spain's *The management could come Pergasso companies. along and say "we're increasing the production on this job". Mr George Turnbull, who The steward would have no manages the company's Austin- say except about how Morris division, is said to be many men were needed to do the job *a great believer in overseas - his strength would de- investment'. be stroyed! In line with this, Leyland has already built up assembly Put simply, this is the reason plants in Belgium and Italy.

why the car bosses want the changeover why At the same time, there are and car- workers must fight it. reports that some axle produc- tion for the new ADO 28 has No carworker, of course, been contracted to firms out- believes that piece-work is side Britain. perfect. It is not the system Like manufac. many car that the Oxford workers want turers, Leyland is believed to defend, but their right to to favour an increasing standard- organize. of ization car components As one Oxford sub-assembly the whole international across worker told me recently : spectrum. Later this year, in moves 'You can only earn money will clearly be that direction if you're full production, on strengthened when Oxford's but we've only reached our full

BMC

service division opens The schedule twice this year.

will new department which of company tries to use this, European course, to make piece-work as include car parts among the wide range it will unpopular as possible and supply. place Measured-Day Work in a favourable light.' Senior steward Bob Fryer the No. 2 steward on put it this way: Maxi asembly line, Tom Mac- "The company's preparations Market nicholas, confirmed that his for the Common will inevitably mean new attacks on members had had less than four They'll full weeks this year. But wages and conditions. Measured-Day Work, said, their efforts he have to speed up *a vicious system, which to bring us into line.

WAC

will have to be fought'. We're in for a hard winter.

To share of That's why we've got to fight increase 1ts home car sales and compete in back firmly on issue every now? Ley- the international market, out in solidarity last week with 6,000 rs at the Morris Motors plant, Cowley, r cutbacks which threatened the new Maxi line.

Saturday, October 18, 1969

MOSCOW

RIAL

OBVIOUSLY one can assume that British troops are sent to Ulster to prop up British capital, that the decision to send them there, whereas they were not sent to Rhodesia for instance, de- pended on these interests.

Though it ought to be pointed out that rival capital- ist interests will have different wishes in the matter and that pressure both on Wilson and on Heath will be coming from more than one capitalist direc- tion. But you do no service to the argument by the overly crude way you put it. Far from the sin of the British troops being the building of the barricades, there has been working-class resistance to the fact that the are removing barri- troops cades. Whether the unevenness of capitalist development in Ire- land is the product of or cause of the religious strife is not now important, the facts are, that there is an abnormally high percentage of unemployed among the Catholics and that the Catholics are for the most part proletarian; (only in ghetto areas can the Catholic petty bourgeois survive) while the leadership of the Protest- ant masses is firmly in the hands of the small-business elements. Mussolini modelled his fas- cist movement, his state ideal, blackshirts, and the on Carson's proto-fascist move- with such groups as the ment, Shankill Defence Committee being a political expression of blackshirts who have lost their organized party-Paisley is an obvious opportunist, but he too serves to give a theoretical background to the extreme B- Specials. Therefore it is a false use of the class issue to expect the Catholics, as an oppressed minority, who, despite their clericalism, are forced by their position--as are the American • North Negroes—to accept the leader- ship of their proletarian activ- ists to link with the arms Protestants who are firmly in the hands of a fascistic and petty - bourgeois movement, even if that movement appears (and to some extent is) frag- mented. You describe as middle class natter, IS on the and un- doubtedly, IS so behaves, but unless you are going to say Trotsky also a middle- was class adventurer, it would be as well to accept that there is a distinction between a bour- geois democracy and a fascist tyranny, if only that a socialist should be looking from below, and from below one sees that workers' organizations can ex- ist in the one and not the other. Insofar as the B-Specials have in the past - and un- doubtedly if they can will in the future - killed many op- ponents (1 have B- seen Specials at work, and have met who, having been people beaten up and robbed, were unwise enough to complain to the orthodox police and had it all happen again); a B-Special regime means an end of all hope for Catholic workers; while the big-capitalist 'mod- erate Unionists' and the Brit- ish troops to maintain them, will compromise with fascist elements as Brüning compro- mised with Hitler, but are nevertheless different. L. Otter LIKE all the opponents of Marxism, Mr Otter begins on the question of Northern Ire- land by writing off the Irish working class. Instead of starting from the fact that the Ulster crisis is part of the crisis of British imperialism, he attempts to show that the B-Specials are a fascist formation, and have been since Carson. Of course, if the B-Specials are fascist, there is no hope for the working class, since the Specials are a vital part of the state machine in Ulster, which therefore itself must be fascist. If anything is overly crude, it is this. The B-Specials are certainly a reactionary force, and they draw their strength from religious divisions fos- tered by imperialism. But this does not alter the revolutionary character of the Northern Ireland, crisis in nor does it mean that the So- cialist Labour League cannot distinguish between bour- geois democracy and fascism.

It simply means that Mr Otter sees no hope for the working class playing a de- cisive role in Ulster. This can mean only one thing—we should now sup- port the army as it guns down Protestant workers. This position is calculated to divide the working class 10.00 a.m., Repondez S'il Vous Plait. 10.30-11.00, Wie Bitte? 11.55, Weather. 12 noon, Casey Jones. 12.25 p.m., Laurel and 12.45, Grandstand. 5.15, Hardy. Star Trek. 6.05, News, Weather. 6.15, Simon Dee. 6.45, Dixon Of Dock Green.

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WORKERSES

Bosses still press Devlin Phase Two London councils Crucial stage in hire scab 'dustmen' docks pay talks By our incustrial reportel LONDON borough coun- cils are hiring more and ШОгС ContraCLUs A CRUCIAL and dangerous stage for dockers in attempts to break the dust- By David its men's strike-now in both London and Liverpool has been reached in fourth week in some areas.

Maude pay and productivity negotiations between their Contractors have worked Dono. covent varden employers and union officials.

une west ena ana tons ol rotting vegetable. have been removed from Porto- In Liverpool yesterday, bello market.

B.B.C. UNION

union negotiators again re- Who ordered the work, said sumed talks on an interim settlement

CONTINUES

Ior the ports dockers—a settle- "This 10,500 measure. The marker coming a serious health. ment designed to pave the

GUERRILLA

Devlin for way 'Bluebottles' modernization' schemes

ASK JOHN DAVIS

STRIKES

lic Napiones Lon of Pub second phase.

WAS HE WILL NOT

London They are to report back

MEET THE AEF

to stewaras on Monaay. On hursdav. a nve-a-side

SHOP. STEWARDS

enclosed docks

HALF CRAFISMENS

SKILl teks of intensive ne

PRODUC

THE PROFIS

Pay a conten me ad

GET

But mat net. extro El a week." In London council senten on 15 having re with those ins turned to work. take fumeeting here victimation. Ting Thursday Offer stopped work inadequate were cancelica. Nation Rhys fell that if say Leeds presure for dustmen members anger Jack Gale labour would

FIVE

HUNDRED

Leeas Miners comment on pit custmen out strIke Wednesdav. since decided mass meeting Thursday reject advice strike th Despiter senside epiloy from officials to re- their miners

YORKSHER

employers turn to work. volved in the growing strike Paisley told real ine srike, tenants not pay more than the isins (Be Ptey Col- worker ud have to bea • work. * We should be poing nee study schemes oppose Emers and pered herr minimme of nes increase. rent He Many ве от пос в іс. Та В rise dissatis- fic as of tike the more chanice 8 thay Nothin P branches before thing i been dory brashes should® major Workers' Press reporter strike shoned so work should work decisions. Colliery, McCabe (Brodsworth COUNCIL house lenalls Police protect raisie, unanimously Differentials passee a resolution callne 5. of des them at the for the resignation of the Paisley B.S.R. scabs Provost of meeting held in the town being paid out hall on Tuesday night. were caled POLICE clashed with strikers outside the BSR Ltd.

council hours issue factory in East Kilbride, Scotland, where hundreds of • Coll halt to the retreat workers have been on strike for union recognition over petition. several weeks. From M. Shaw coins were erim award of fered an in Stones and Drivers thrown carrying presente L Nationalize and The picket line ho return for t0 per on cordoned off the fac- strengthened cently tollowing the Collery Henderson (Bentley police engines from trial factoried.

enants increase in productivity.

cent sonnertner * e become tod hoosets allege. WeEk Union chiefs retreat on woman ting people of Pal incomes and equal pay withe station Adjourned nuisance. Illusions IT IS two weeks since the Drafting of Bv an inoustra corresponden White already The cose or mae Labour rarly sh in donedera- i as conned the sa backbone of the and six since meeting conterence or sulted * Rents has argin troma sed.

the I broke sislatien and. celerates at Brighton Trade Union Congress in Wain. Last week he pres varying rate dave alo packea their bags and left hese these for milions Portsmouth. the trade nake a small donation t Got ared nave Miners No confidence union leaders aone lll lnal the sun ed the east to her Brighton line tha time about the 01g thefter thermanies at Bright aid | principle questions Wilch

SHOOK

ented before the end ot both gatherings- slightest o represents 20,00 women and Free access of the these proposals. B Of is Prime Minis frighton, but fust over sidi art of thecussion or rede in them a ores are being used maintain free st for scab. •dede whether the wor employer in Break the whom! righ Burning questions alien by Being before the Sadione are only the a no on entered in al ramle. chiefs would compri secretary. traitors speak courts spread the strike the claims un reply to Mrs. ment of Employment and Pro- support. Saturday, October 18, 1969 Workers' Press correspondent ONE HUNDRED slag processors at Margam Abbey Steelworks, Port Talbot, have been on strike for a week in support of a demand for a wages increase. The strike decision was taken at a mass meeting last Friday. The men, members of BISAKTA, working for Margam Slag, a subsidiary of the Steel Company of Wales, are demanding an all-round f3 increase without strings. Would give them parity With Those doing

A.T.U.A.

similar work in the plant.

About 18 months ago the meetings union accented a mangement fore- nronosa which WaS 'Green Book' • to the productivity deal. became a attempt bonus, while the rest had next Speaker: Frank Willis Young Socialists candidate to nolnine For examole a man loading in the parliamentary gets fs while the driver gets by-election no bonus at all. The men are expected work excessive overtime at a low rate. Thursday, October 23 8 p.m.

HIT BACK

Pinehurst Common Room They hit back by imposing restriction By Rex Henry limiting the working day to 10 Wednesday, October 29 8 p.m.

WORKERS

FROM

the retaliated by Swindon Town Hall High- Camden Town and poachine nree creaser. OnLO bury Rank Precision Indus- the steel Company of Wales stall, where there is no union

LIVERPOOL

Trec -wo went onan in- organization. definite strike on Wednes- These men and began 'Unemployment the day night-lobbied com- previously restricted

BISAKTA

lessons of GEC-English the pany shareholders a stone's throw from London's May- Electric' and strike was fair Thursdav morning Sunday, October 19 called. Inside the meeting, £50,000- So far they have been told 7.30 p.m. Engieday Joe Davis company that the demand can only challenged Lecture Hal stewards on Wis be met it toev accept refusal to set- ner cent manning reduction. tle demands. This has been rejected. Margam The strike of the combin secretary of the the Slag workers is only part of a combine committee.

DONCASTER

struggles told the workers Press one-day throughout the Port "Atter a series 'Miners in Struggle and , the two tactories de- steelworks. cided to come out in support the Workers' Press of our wages claim and against

COMING OUT

Tuesday, October 21, 8 p.m. destroying In snite or the treachery o making industry for which we the officials of most unions Bayhorse Hotel, Bentley work. signing the 'Green Book We put in a claim for £5 larger and larger

CASTLEFORD

pav. four themselves a week increase weeks' annual holidav Wednesday, October 22 3/*-hour week. As an interım international 8 p.m. want £2, settlement WA the die the extra week's holiday and Ship Inn asements speca-up the in hours.' ine work. break union An overtime strength and slash the labour

ASTMS

LEICESTER

torce members the two Wages battle, unemploy- plants Hiccus night. Wednesday ment and Workers' Press' All work normally done by AEF members has been black- Thursday, October 23, ed. If there is no sneedu set.

demonstrate 8 p.m. tlement, the other unions could well join the strike Queens Hotel Rutland Street Closure fears The 200 strikers fear that

NOTTINGHAM

parliament two remaining "The Workers Press and the fight low against workers wages, productivity deals

ONR

tory al camber well ÁEF Louis Hol- and redundancy' convenor land explained that ast Thursday, October 23, ofter made ov the kank man- agement involved the 8 p.m. duction time-and-motion study. Peoples Hall in The baste ed te, aur at the Heathcote Street aavanced in a column on the rate parliament bullding expense canital exchange hey were demariding mor All meant to allow are state cohanic for ume ana-motion men in. and rehabilitation centrac Debdon. Essex the hates in andal abled.

and Spastics 'normal' lactory, machine shop Trades Unions optics ernests usually treated as objects. workers stopped work over the introduction time-and- 'Red motion menanagement their press was demands, millions of other workers and coperner back down and i peasants conference Motor All cat, ca conference components and

FROM PAGE ONE

of the immensely strong US delivery working class. character of the United States workers It this class rallies. was that are invited For the first time ever oloneered the great 11n- workers chilled Were none oe groups inarched to a behind their trade union ban- employers motor workers' ners. not Dro- with the strike. but testers'. as contingents conference Today t stand of their cass verge even That is why it would be bigge Digbeth Civic Hall, fatal to dismiss mistale Digbeth the 'moratorium' "Say just another, if bigger, of Birmingham fight against , by the nome. WIl Saturday November 8 demand a break from the two very nature capitaruction otine US Lab the the 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. repelled canitailst nartiec how- middle-class Write for credentials to : DrOteSt party based on the mass trade feelings ever genuine the unions. cinnarters or cuch movement.

Under 21 Strawherm their may have. TroM the leaders the four Blackbird Leys, At last the fight of the US Labour Alliance Oxford. class against unem- more Conference fee: 5s. a person militant break-away union from the

AFL-CIO)

group officially backed the 'mora.

CORRECTION

that The article 15,000 hull ednes- moratorium

BACKING

Wednes- re lolous. Democratic haht Republican and day's Workers' Press stated Workers from the igures that dockers were motor. reflects certain chemical those struck solidarity TransDort an el the political immatur with the Gustries were to the tore in forces being the railles fact, nto the struggle for first Thev. like their conscripted were on strike on the brothers in Vietnam who "heroicap issue of separate 100 mobilty has al beginnings posed the war the wares an e the same must case with second phase of Devlin. Thei the backing and mass movements. popular blacked al Priestman's have equally and given financial sup- But a vallel worr son for the preponderance working class port to the Britain the strikers. ectahlichment landers in the Decisive blows net us oth tear ist morm ever here growing fe this move- both and and break strengther our struggles news 186a through the barrier of middle ano give tremendous heart to has united all tnose nahting Rritish and Press t, London, predominant imperialism throughout it reflects a fear the world.