Feather sets date for Phase Three talks

and gagged to the Tories, Britain's biggest monopolies are preparing all-out war on trade øed over the weekend when it hecame clear that the most powerful industrial company in the Imperial Chemical Industries, is fighting a desperaté hehind the crenec hattle aaainct uninnization | sonnel chiefs at ICI's Runcorn-based Mond division, climaxed a week in which the powerful Confederation of British Industry told the Tories publicly that there must be no return to free collective-bargaining. film day 1 lodgr trial NT A WHILE VICIUK rEAIHEK and Harold Wilson seek to hand the working class bound union rights. New evidence of the monopolies' strategy emerArra yAlA ATTA SHITA THATA AlTIMATA 1E YEARTI 40,000 staff The 'leak' of an anti-union memo, written by perAnd it came four days after a leading official of the Engineers Employers Federation unmaninad .. 2 :_A. bosses' outfit in its own field, waste HUALLAGAI called for a 'relentless' speedup drive.

Yet TUC secretary Feather chose Saturday, the day of the ICI revelations, to announce that his next formal visit to Heath will be in just over a week's time, on June 13.

Meanwhile over the weekend, Labour Party right-wingers were backing Wilson's anti-nationalization stand. Nationalization without compensation under workers' control is the only way to deal with a firm like ICI.

This means demands for emergency recalled conferences of the TUC and the Labour Party, to stop the betrayals, must urgently be pressed throughout the length and breadth of the movement. It makes even more vital the fight to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary ICI, the £1,750m company which dominates the market in many basic raw materials, artificial fibres, explosives and nonferrous metals, had long been known for its hard-line policies towards the unions.

Recently criticized for the below poverty line wages it paid black workers in South Africa, the company is engaged in a massive speed-up and rationalization programme in Britain.

At the end of March its deputy chairman, Michael Clapham, who is also CBI president, blamed the working class for inflation and called on companies ductivity of each individual worker. Clapham has just been knighted by the Tories.

The corporatist spirit of Mond-Turnerism, which the company sponsored in the 1930s, still lives in the ICI boardroom. The company has beaten off a number of attempts to organize its white-collar workers.

The situation has become Film union taken to industrial court ACTT, the television and technicians' union, will torefuse to answer a complaint ed with the National IndusRelations Court. writ has been issued against union's general council and est ATTACK 'old ind ade nertry, ion, UNIONS rate its perThere an extremely wellvelleven sharper, however, with the approach of an application in the National Industrial Relations Court for bargaining rights. This will be heard on July 16.

Currently a number of staff groups are being balloted about their views on unionization, and the company is trying to maintain an attitude of 'public neutrality' at least until these are over.

But the secret memorandum, sent out to heads of departments from Runcorn, makes clear that ICI is in fact bitterly hostile to unionization and that it is campaigning determinedly against it.

Dated May 1, and signed by D. R. Hamer and A. G. Tait, the memorandum talks about unions as outside bodies whose 'own external objectives may not always be consistent with particular company or staff interests'.

'The company would like to influence staff opinion-to the extent that this is legitimately possible-so that the impending ballots of the supervisory and scientific and technical staff common interest groups reject the some of its leading officers by 13 commercial televi sion companies.

It was drawn • ир by Lord Goodman's legal firm, Goodman Derrick, and alleges a number of 'unfair industrial practices' n and president of the CBl, was 'or talks with Heath. There should lining under Phase Three of the t the weekend Clapham received Campbell Adamson, CBI director respective union claims for collective bargaining arrangements.?

Instead, the memorandum makes clear, ICI wants its staff represented through a corporatiststyle staff committee system.

In their secret talks with the Tories the TUC leaders signalled complete surrender to the corporatist plans of Heath and their willingness to collaborate in forc. ing up the rate of exploitation of the working class, as demanded by Clapham.

Far from satisfying the rapacious appetite of government and employers, however, each morsel of betrayal serves only to make them want the whole cake.

The EEF's call for more speedup came from Edward Marsh, who, as director of advisory services, is in constant contact with employers at factory level. His call for a 'relentless' productivity Industrial Relations • The union is at present blacking all films and processing by the Central Office of Information, the government propaganda gency, over a Tory plan to push brough staff cuts there. speed-up drive all following the start destine Tory-TUC March 18.

Yet even the fact that are now out in the open not embarrass the craven General Council.

In fact the openness of the betrayal on which they are engaged only seems to make the trade union and Labour leaders more arrogant in their attitude to the working class.

When he promised the Tories last Thursday that the General Council will do a deal whatever next September's TUC thinks, Feather did so in the most contemptuous terms possible.

'We shall make the chicken stretch its neck,' he said. He was speaking of the working class.

And in his attempt to knife growing movement for nationalization of ruthless giants like ICI, Wilson blatantly challenged the right of workers to determine any policies of the Labour Party at all. be broken off now brought to All talks with the Tories must leadership must be account at a further recalled Congress and the strength of the unions must be mobilized to make the Tory government resign.

Harold Wilson must be expelled from the Labour Party executive for going completely against conference and NEC policy.

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