Workers continue to reject offer Fate of Ford pay strike decided today

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April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG back LP THE POST OFFICE Engineering Union has agreed to take one hour off in the TUC's May Day protest.

The union's national executive has instructed its 285 branches to take part in a one-hour stoppage and has asked branches to make their own arrangements for implementing this decision.

A spokesman said the union had also agreed to make a donation of £5,000 to Labour funds.

'It believes that in the long term the best way to change the present unfair economic policies is to work for the return of a Labour government,' the spokes. man said.

The union has 120,000 members, mostly employed on taining and installing the telephone network. Student leaders want to take the TUC road to Heath THE CONSCIOUS retreat from leadership by the new Stalinist-led NUS executive produced a marathon eight-hour debate here yesterday on Tory education plans from which politics was all but excluded.

A resolution on the government's White Paper on education limited itself to 'condemning, opposing and challenging the proposals for massive cuts and savings in the system.

Conference approved the union's own counter-plan for the improvement and expansion of all aspects of education.

The executive pledged to campaign against the White Paper and to enlist the widest possible support to 'force the governgets the right Grandchildren (right) wave Union Jacks at the Queen Mother John Garnett (leit) of the industrial Soclety looks on proudl! 13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SOCIALISTS BLACKPOOL APRIL 14/15 1973 CORPORATISM received the Royal Assent yesterday when the Queen Mother opened the new headquarters of the Industrial Society, off Pall Mall.

The Queen Mother unveiled a glass plaque at the Peter Runge House and said that if men and women could be more personally involved in what they are doing, more efficient and profitable FROM IAN YEAT ment' to reverse its decisions.

The tone of the campaign was set by the remark that it would prove impossible 'to get round the Tory government by mouthing revolutionary slogans'.

Stalinist speakers pushed the line that students must unite to force the Tory government to expand education and concentrated all their fire on the technical inadequacies of the system.

The near-apolitical mood generated by these tactics went so far that a floor speaker who called for a ban on politics and politicians received the loudest applause of the day.

The hallmark of the campaign on the White Paper, on union autonomy and on grants emerged unmistakably yesterday as negotiation. royal assent companies would result as well as greater satisfaction from a job well done 100 guests waited job well done. in little rooms above the building tor up • to two hours for Her Royal Highness to walk past them and nod.

They included Derek Gladwin of the General and Municipal Workers' Union.

The Stalinists and their supporters plainly intend to try to solve student problems by talks with local authorities and the government.

An amendment narrowly approved on Wednesday night giving the executive power to negotiate with the Tories without prior conference approval was a significant reversal of previous policy.

Of equal significance, an emergency executive resolution calling for the grants protest to be stepped up stipulated that while rents strikes should continue, they should not do so if there was the prospect of legal action being taken by university or college authorities.

Since several colleges have already initiated legal action, to recover rent arrears and others Though reflecting all the confusion union chiefs and their 'left' and Stali these have overwhelmingly rejected £2.40 offer.

Last night it was the turn of the Halewood, Liverpool, assembly and transmission plants to make up their minds about Ford's latest version of the Tories' Phase Two formula.

The church was also on hand and the Reverend Simon Phipps, Bishop of Horsham, blessed the building and the work that the Industrial Society does 'in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

With God, the royal fai nily, and the G&MWU on their side, the Industrial Society can't go far wrong. are expected to follow suit, if it is approved, the executive's call would amount to calling off that aspect of the campaign.

In the resolution and throughout yesterday's debate new emphasis was laid on action by individual unions to win their claims.

The perspective of indefinite simultaneous union-wide action against the Tories to win better education, free student unions and higher grants by forcing them out of office was ignored. CORRECTION:

In Thursday's Workers Press it was stated that an IS amendment condemning the executive for their handling of the autonomy campaign was carried. In fact, it was narrowly defeated by 313,639 votes to 259,431. Proposer IS member Mike Hill did, however, win election as a member of the executive committee.

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Calls made at meetings fight aga crea ted by the nist hangers-on, company's On Wednesday, Halewood's body stamping plant voted at a chaotic mass meeting to accept the offer. But workers stressed yesterday that the real issue at the meeting was disillusionment with the kind of leadership they have been getting so far.

In Dagenham, body-plant workers backed up the decision of Tuesday's 20,000-strong, wholesite meeting to reject the offer by voting two to one to reject.

Most departments are calling for a work to rule and overtime ban to be maintained and moves for a secret ballot, massively boosted by the capitalist Press, are said to be 'encouraged by the Leyland trucks back WORKERS at British-Leyland's truck and bus factories in Lancashire decided yesterday to return to work on Monday. Men at five factories in Leyland and Chorley have been on strike since Tuesday morning.

After a 50-50 vote on a show of hands at a mass meeting, works convenor Mr Len Brindle exercised his vote in favour of the return.

meeting was unanifavour of postponing until Monday-as a The men were told that the Leyland management had "dug their heels in' and were Insisting that all the 8,500 men should return, including engine assembly workers involved in a sectional wages claim.

Mr Brindle said negotiations would continue and he stipulated a time limit of two weeks for them to reach common ground on a new wage deal.

When challenged about a secret-ballot petition they were organizing, a group of engineplant workers claimed to have management permission.

calling for a said to have been a wall by a ne-test worker calling ballot, Peter Bradley, ¡iven big publicity by But his claim that 2,000 to 3,000 men could not get in to Tuesday's meeting, which incidentally was conducted under the aegis of the Ford management, are described as 'utter rubbish' by eye-witnesses.

were expected to be last night's Halewood for the union leaders playing with the Ford claim and lead a real nst the Tory pay laws.