RIGHT-WING DOMINATES CONGRESS OF EUROPE Feather boost for corporatist Europe

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All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting What next after miners' ballot The fight against the Tory government CASTLEFORD Thursday May 17, 8 Sagar Street Room Speaker: G. Healy (S national secretary) Belfast yard workers 'determined BOILERMAKERS' officials and shop stewards in Belfast have accepted an invitation from their leader Danny McGarvey to attend a Newcastle summit on Wednesday aimed at settling the Harland & Wolff shipyard dispute.

But the stewards have warned that the 2,500 steel trades workers are as determined as ever to win their fight for bonus payments promised in 1971.

The dispute began in February when the boilermakers banned overtime and withdrew cooperation from a productivity and retraining scheme.

Management retaliated by sacking the steelworkers, and the yard, which employs 10,000 workers, is now facing closure.

The boilermakers' national executive has called a special conference on Wednesday of the Belfast district committee, fulltime officials and shop stewards.

Sandy Scott, steelworkers' convenor, said he welcomed this approach. It indicated that the executive was willing to take the opinions of the men into consideration.

'If the executive is prepared to re-think or come up with any new suggestions, we will consider it,' he said. Row over Mersey 'casuals' A MEETING of 2,000 Liverpool dockers ended in uproar yesterday after stewards declared a motion accepting the introduction of 500 supplementary dockers into the port had been carried. Supporters of the Communist Party and others tried to frighten dockers into believing that if the supplementaries were not taken on, the whole port could close within 16 months. 'I AM glad to be here, TUC general secretary Mr Victor Feather told the Congla here, TUC general secretary Mr Victor gress of E = at London's Guildhall at the weekend. Seated on either side Irop right-wing MP Mr Duncan Sandys-son-in-law of Congress co-founder Sir Winston Churchill, and Labour right-winger Mr Roy Jenkins. FEATHER... Sowing seeds of as ever' TEPHEN JOHNS BELFAST 'But we are determined hold out for our just rewards.

When asked about the political implications of the demands which management says are in direct conflict with the Tories' Phase Two pay policy, Mr Scott said people could put whatever interpretation they liked on their actions.

So far McGarvey has failed to back his Belfast members and has demanded a return to work.

The dispute is now threatening the finishing trades and general workers in the yard.

Lay-offs of these sections have so far been avoided by a special working committee which is trying student of Hosand & Harland & Wolff would be a major crisis for Belfast and for the Protestant working class, whose relative prosperity depends on the So far the government taken a tough line refusing intervene in the dispute.

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with the working class. has turned down a further demand from the boilermakers for parity with English steel trades workers who earn between £6 and £8 a week more than men at Harland & Wolff.

Anger has also been raised over a decision by the Belfast Social Security office not to pay the sacked men unemployment benefit. They have accepted management's claim that the men were dismissed for industrial misconduct.

This has led to an outcry from politicians like the Rev lan Paisley who depend on Protestant working-class votes.

But so far the Loyalist Association of Workers, which has a strong following in the yards has refused to comment directly on the dispute. Fife coalface worked at extreme RECOVERY operations were still going ahe ad yesterday for the bodies of the last two of the five miners killed in the Seafield colliery, Kirkcaldy, East Fife.

Five men died and four more has were injured when part of the coal face roof collapsed last Thursday.

The 1 in 1.5 gradient of the coalface at Seafield is one of the steepest coal faces in Britain and is the National Coal Board's extreme safety limit for working with mechanical equipment.

Traditionally most of Britain's coal has been mined from flatbed or slightly inclined seams. But as these seams have been worked out, "gradient' mining In the corporatist-style audience were delegates from the right-wing European Movement, right-wing MPs like Monday Club member Mr Julian Amery, Liberal Mr Peter Hain, Stalinist Giorgio Amendola, a member of the Italian Communist Party central committee, and representatives from Feather concluded: 'I wish your conference well. I look forward to your conclusions. I hope we will sow a seed or two which will bear fruit in years to come.' He went on: 'And I give you this assurance, that we in the trade unions share your purposes so long as they are built on social equity and progress, so long as your Europe 'The safeguards which the TUC have called for have not been obtained. It is against this background that the TUC has declared its opposition to entry which is, moreover, taking place withSo who gave Feather a mandate to appear at the Guildhall? For that matter, who gave him a mandate to accept the presidency of the EuroThe Common Market is a counter-revolutionary conspiracy aimed at uniting and strengthening the European bourgeoisie against the working Feather knows that no government in Europe is bringing about "social equity and progress'. On the contrary social democracy is breaking up and the capitalists are preparing for a showdown Not only did he appear at the Guildhall in the company of some of the most reactionary told the TUC STATEMENT is outward looking and free. But on January 1 a TUC statement on entry into the Common Market said:

out the assent of the electorate.' political forces in the Common Market, but he also called for social democracy to link hands with them in a new "big Europe'.

Relations between nations, said Feather, were similar to those between trade unions and employers. Problems could be solved through *traditional methods of compromise, conciliation and agreement.

He went on: Those few western European governments who by their actions deny our purposes, transgress our common ethic, should pay particular attention to our discussions, for they have much to learn from them. If they do not learn, trade unionists will reject their association with us.

*Those who have power and authority, or even influence, within the structure of society on both sides of the line which divides us need the illumination and the inspiration which comes out of such discussions. And has become increasingly important, particularly at Seafield, Scotland's largest pit. One of the main safetyis the blems in gradient mining extreme difficulty of standing upright on a steeply inclined slope.

A mining engineer told the 'Observer': 'Your body is under stress of gravity the whole time. Miners working a flatbed seam don't have this energy problem.

•With the gradient mining, there is always the possibility of an error of judgement in handling machinery...

"The other main safety Mutual Interests their peoples need freedom speak and act as reason and conscience demand.' Shortly after Feather ended his plea for a new big family of Europe, Tory leader Edward Heath warned that the Common Market was a vehicle for serving the mutual interests of its members.

In the new language of trade war, he added that Britain's entry must inevitably involve a redefinition of relationships between western Europe, North America and Japan.

Welsh TUC set up TWO HUNDRED Welsh trade union representatives meeting in Aberystwyth, mid-Wales, at the weekend reaffirmed decision taken in February to set up a Welsh Congress of Trade Unions despite original opposition from the British TUC.

It will come into operation on January 1, 1974, with headquarter offices in Cardiff.

Mr George Wright, regional secretary-designate of T&GWU, who has been appointed secretary pro tem, said:

'Providing we can now secure agreement on minor points with other trade union bodies in Wales, we can say that we have created the most effective, …coordinating trade union machine in the history of Wales.

•We intend to exercise a great measure of vigilance and to agitate to prevent any further damage to the Welsh economy.' He told the conference it was not the intention to act as separatists to the British TUC.

'It is a nation and a country with a separate culture, separate language and separate problems,' he said.

The longest debate at the threehour conference was on the name of the Congress. A request had been made by the British TUC not to use the name Congress.

An amendment to call the movement Wales TUC' was defeated.

safety limit blem is the danger that if is a fall, rock will slide down along the coalface on to other men working there' The Dysart Main D22 section of the colliery, 1,600 ft below the Firth of Forth was only opened three weeks ago.

At the time of the accident a team of 22 miners was operating two mechanical shearers—one at each end of the 550 ft-long face. The accident occurred when a 195 ft stretch of roof collapsed, crushing some miners and I trapping others beneath buckled roof