CYCLE FACTORY IS 'NEAR STRIKE' Civil OVER MAY DAY WOMEN Docks fight against 'casuals' in trouble

WORKERS at Raleigh's Nottingham cycle tactory are near certain to strike if two women who worked on May Day continue to defy their union.

Mrs Betty Holbourne (42) and Mrs Dorothy Harrison (50) have defied all requests either to accept a fine from

their union, the National Society of Metal Mechanics, or to hand over their £4 May Day pay to charity.

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knock down section is also refusing to co-operate with the union.

Workers in the 50-strong service department have already withheld their labour for three days after returning on May 2 to find that the two women had ignored the union's strike call.

Yesterday union and company representatives at the 6,000strong factory were meeting the women to see if they would

change their minds.

Union district secretary Mr Jack Hallam said: 'What these two women are doing is completely wrong. THE DECISION of the Transport Workers' Union docks trade group to creasing use of 'casual' , supplementary industry has already run into trouble.

Shop stewards at Liverpool, one of the key ports backWing the recent decision, have to 250 'supplementaries' by powerful Ocean Transport and Trading group.

The firm, Liverpool Maritime Terminals, had yesterday still not decided exactly how many men it will seek clearance to recruit. But it is expected the final figure will be between 150 and 200.

When LMT take on these men, it will bring the ratio of supplementaries to permanentregistered dockers nationally to just over 7 per cent.

This is a serious threat to dockers' hard-won job security and solidarity, and a big lever for speed-up, since 'supplemenNEWSPAPERS FROM THE centre PAPEKBACKS CENIKE 'In my who failed Day want advantages iccepted a firm France, and forc met at other interest'.

'When people oin the union they make a state ement agreeing to the rules. Our executive has the authority to call a strike and they called a one-day strike on May Day. All my members knew about this.

If you join an organization you have to stand by the rules. f you don't like them, there are procedures for changing them.

opinion those people to come out on May all the benefits from and none of the disand General fight the inlabour in the the recruitment of up connected with the OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT taries, unlike their permanent colleagues, can be fired at a week's notice.

The Liverpool stewards say, in defence of their decision to accept supplementaries, that they were caught between two fires: the increasing loss of trade from the port because of labour shortage and the refusal of the Tory government to allow recruitment of permanents.

And they have pledged to make sure that the jobs of those men taken onto the supplementary register will soon be made permanent.

They will face powerful opposition here, however.

Maurice Macmillan, Secretary of State for Employment, John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, Steam Ship Owners' and the influential Association have all come down heavily in favour of this new growth of casualism', and against any increase in the permanent register. Three charged with IRA THREE MEN from Northern Ireland arrested during border security checks around Dundalk at the weekend appeared before the Dublin Special Criminal Court yesterday charged with membership of the IRA.

They were James Savage, of John Martin Gardens, Newry, Henry Fagan of High Street, Newry, and Michael Brannigan, in conference chiefs from Belgium, Holland, Scotland Yard es in southern England Eastbourne yesterday to drug smuggling and matters of common After entry into the EEC, police chiefs thought it more than ever necessary to • establish good communications and methods of exchanging police Representatives of Interpol were also attending the conference to help to improve liaison and distribution of intelligence reports. The conference ends today.

'One of the women re:ently got £100 compensation which she would never have done without the union and both had rises higher than the men as a result of our campaign on equal pay.

'We are faced with a situation where we have done all we can. There is nothing more we can do. If they don't reach agreement with us, we are

heading for a blow up.' Mr Hallam added: The company has brought this on its own head. The factory should have been closed on May Day as we suggested.' Heffer... saw stewards.

In fact, it has now emerged, that Eric Heffer, 'left' MP for Walton, attended the crucial meeting of the stewards' executive before the decision to accept supplementaries at LMT was taken.

He told the meeting that he had seen • Peyton, and that his line remained the same as in a speech on March 28 which 'greatly welcomed' the increased use of the supplementary register.

Heffer's attendance the meeting has given rise to a strong suspicion on the docks that some leading stewards were already committed to accepting supplementaries, since they knew the alternative was a fight with the declared policy of the Tory government.

membership of Tulloyvallen, N Hamilton.

They were refused bail and remanded in custody until May 22 when a trial date will be fixed.

arlier, three men who were refused bail on Monday on a charge of possessing five tons of explosives, were allowed bail of £3,000 each. CONFERENCE

Servants DAVID MAUDE

FRESH EVIDENCE of the way TUC cowardice provides the Tories with weapons to attack the working class emerged yesterday. ith the 'Daily Mirror' and the 'Daily Express' led their front pages with news that the civil servants' union, the Civil and Public Services Association, may refuse to pay out pension and social security increases from October 1 until its own pay demands are settled.

'Civil servants ban bonus for needy, whined the 'Mirror'. *Pensioners at ransom', screamed the 'Express'.

In proposing this action, which was carried by 356 votes to 348, Merseyside delegate Bill Callard made clear that the civil servants have been forced into taking it. said of preparatory work for implementing the increases on October l:

If this work is allowed to ahead there will be nothing left to fight with if we do not get a favourable decision from the Pay Board to cur current pay research unit claim.' The fact is that the civil servants have been forced into this action and to go to the Pay Board by the refusal of the TUC to back their first-ever industrial action over pay. hen their leaders asked the TUC Finance ane General Purposes Committee, including 'lefts' Hugh Scanlon and Jack tions in their support, they for "co-ordinated acwere turned away empty-handed. le committee used the failure of some right-wing civil service union leaders to call their members out to renege on the promise of the March special Congress that there would be 'co-ordinated action' support unions WRO asked for help in fighting the Tories, whose laws originally provoked the civil servants' action, have been handed another propaganda veapon to whip up the middle class against the unions. › say this in no way implies any critičism of the CPSA conference decision. Every trade unionist will back the civil servants' pay fight to the hilt.

It the headlines spell out the fact that the TUC leaders, who refuse workers aid but rush to clandestine meetings with the arch-enemy of the working class, Heath, are now a positive danger to the labour movement, They must be removed and replaced by those who will fight.

• See letter p.10.

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