MCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY NUMBER TEN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1969 From Brighton comes Callaghan visits Ulster A TORY tightens up CHARTER its grip FOR SCABS

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welcome the daily VAUXHALL joint shop stewards' committee, Ellesmere Port, passed the following , resolution at its meeting on Tuesday night: "This committee welcomes the intreduction of the thanks it for the factual reports of struggle in our plants' MR ROBERT CARR, Mrs Barbara Castle's Tory 'shadow, has followed up Heath's demand for the legal breaking up of the dustmen's strike with an eight-point charter for blacklegs in every industry.

His proposals, presented to the Conservative Party conference at Brighton on Wednesday afternoon, will form the basis of Tory industrial relations legislation if the party is returned at the next general election.

The Tories, Carr said, -would:

Protect • A worker's right join a union • Strikers acting constitutionally as opposed to those who go on unofficial strike Require @Tareer emplovers to pit workers engageticht written statement rights and obligations • Compliance with a statutory period of notice-possibly 60 days—for terminating or changing agreements on either side • Workers at all levels in companies above a certain size to elect representatives to works councils • Directors of all companies above a certain size to make available to workers the same information as is given to shareholders • That shop stewards are given all information relating to employment before public statements are made Set up • New machinery for resolying inter-union disputes It would be difficult for the Tories to be more explicit.

On the one hand, a thin veil of phrases-reminiscent of de Gaulle's 'participation' -about works' councils, treating workers like shareholders, informing them employment changes in advance.

On the other, iron determination to tie the unions in legal Gordian knots and smash the resistance of the working class.

In legislative terms, the Tory scab's charter would presumably hand the big employers all the weapons they have been screaming for:

Statutory powers against the closed shop; changes in Trade Disputes Actmaking strikers liable to civil action damages-and alterations in the law of conBIGGEST SITE SHUTS DOWN THAMESMEAN ALL TRADES ATUA meeting LUTON 'Support Ellesmere PortThrow out scabs' charter' Friday, October 10, 8 p.m.

The Cock Park Square PICKETS surround the Thamesmead site at Abbeywood, near Woolwich, where 2,000 workers are on strike against labour-only sub-contracting.

The strike, now involy- ' 3. ing nine unions, began on Monday afternoon.

The heating and ventilatHe so Ulster's working class.

As during Callaghan's previous visit, these discussions come at a crucial stage in the army's task of re-asserting imperialist rule ing union was expected to make the strike official yesterday—other unions are expected to follow suit.

The three-year-old Thamesmead site is one of Europe's biggest building developments and there could be work there for another 20 years.

split This is correct. Wheeler's 'allies' certainly cannot hope to support themselves. over the six counties.

They culminate a week in which barricades have been dismantled all over Northern Ireland.

The Catholic 'leadership' in Londonderry's Bogside and Belfast's Falls Road areas has resented the removal of the armcades as a gesture or confidence in the troops.

Such a policy can only strengthen the hand of the Unionists and their friends in the Wilson government.

'SUCCESSFUL'

Belfast's Catholic 'Citizens Defence Committee' took this action, it said, because the army had successfully handled the troubles of last weekend • presumably a reference to its brutal attack on Protestant demonstrators near the City's Albert Bridge.

Meanwhile, the barbed-wire military 'peace' line still strikes through the heart of Belfast's central working-class area.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Catholic 'leaders' agreed to the use of military police Big support for Maxi workers PRODUCTION at Morris Motors, Cowley, came to a total halt on Wednesday afternoon when thousands of workers walked out in opposition to the company's threat to put 1,500 Maxi assembly workers on short time.

Lines will not start up again until this morning.

on Wednesday morning, the joint shop stewards' committee overwhelmingly decided to support whatever action the Maxi circuit decided to take. When the Maxi workers voted not to return to their jobs until this morning, the rest of the factory walked out in sympathy.

It was the third walk-out in a week.

Commented one steward on The strike is completely solid: there's been a massive response from the membership. Thousands of workers attended this afternoon's meetings.' Forced to agree British-Leyland has been forced to agree to an informal meeting with senior stewards at York today.

Stewards are demanding that the reduction of 300 cars a week in the Maxi's production programme be dealt with, not by short time for 1,500 workers, but by a labour pool of 200 on a guaranteed minimum wage of 10s. Id. an hour. SATURDAY'S PRESS For the first time in English More documents struggle against Stalinism inside the USSR Alexis Kosterin's letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU and Piotr Yakir's oration at the funeral of Alexis Kosterin.

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tract to provide for legally-binding pay and procedure agreements.

Legal regulation of the relations between unions would, no doubt. also require registration of union rules on the lines proposed by the Confederation of British Industries.

Speaking on Wednesday evening, Enoch Powell supplied the teeth for the jaws of Carr's trap, injustice and oppression', , he claimed, were being practised under cover of the present trade union law.

The Tories were 'supremely right' in proposing to restrict