Phase Three and the Industrial Relations Act A DIRTY DEAL IS UNDER WAY

A MAJOR campaign is under way to try and trick the working class into accepting the state control of wages under Phase Three in return for 'amendments' to the Industrial Relations Act.

The proposal is a fraud. The pay laws strip trade unions of the last vestiges of independence and are an even greater attack than the Act. Free negotiation for wages is the most fundamental of all basic democratic rights. Without it there is no real trade unionism.

To conceal this fraud, a huge smokescreen is being built up by government, Press and TUC bureaucrats to pretend that valuable concessions are being offered to the trade unions over these 'amendments'.

Yesterday's 'Morning Star' led its front page with: "Secret moves toward amending the Industrial Relations Act have been started by the government.' "The Times' followed suit with: 'Government aims to placate unions over the industry Act.' Neither in its lead article nor in an editorial on the subject did the Communist Party's paper say that the point of these 'amendments' is to provide a cover for the TUC leaders to do a Phase Three deal with the government.

The Stalinist paper didn't utter a single warning that the government-TUC talks, which begin again at Downing Street next Wednesday, aim to make the state control of wages a permanent thing and in doing so make the corporate state a reality.

The 'Star' reported coyly: "Clearly the Tories have taken heart from pronouncements by some union leaders which suggested that they would countenance the Act if it was changed.' They are referring to Hugh Scanlon, engineers' president, and leading 'left' in the TUC, but refuse to name him. • In his speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery in March, Scanlon said: £100,000 PARTY BUILDING 'Two amendments to the Industrial Relations Act could offer a way forward for co-operation WE HAVE a struggle on with the Tory government.' our hands if we are to comThe co-operation was that discussed at the infamous secret plete the first £50,000 by talks that were going on between next Monday June 11. Heath and the TUC leaders; wage Yesterday's post brought controls in return for Act "amendments'. in £74 which brings the The 'Star' won't name Scanlon total to £48,501.59. or pass comment on his role This leaves us with less because the Stalinists are part than £1,500 to raise. Please of the conspiracy to hoodwink the working class. comrades, have one more The Communist Party is de- whip round so that we liberately covering up for Scanlon complete in good order. o prevent his exposure as a 'left'-talker who is in practice leading the trade union • moveTrade figures show £360m deficit for the first quarter ment into the corporatist trap being prepared by the right wing and the Tories.

Not once have they taken up OFFICIAL trade figures for the Scanlon on his Press Gallery first quarter of 1973 show a speech, his participation in the £360m deficit on visible trade secret talks, or his and Jack partially offset by an estimated BACK surplus on invisibles such as insurance and s leaving an ove gap of £190m.

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Party Building Fund 86a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG Shipping of £170m, rall foreign trade conservative estian £800m deficit THE CHRYSLER strike at Coventry hardened yesterday, with workers strengthening their picket lines and the company threatening to cut off investChrysler's threat, which came in a statement from managing director and chief executive Gilbert Hunt, was that no investment would be recommended or approved until workers had shown they would keep to procedure and not strike.

The divisional organizer of the engineers' union, Frank threats Chater, looked like causing a Chater. complained that the for Britain in 1973 deflation even more Alongside the slow new industrial inves the sharp fall in announced earlier this hardens after elow: A strengthened picket. Full and make inevitable. growth of ment and ¡tail trade week, the Chrysler strike company threat PICKET LINES phoniness 'boom' is than ever the last throw of talist syst prolonged shutdown. 'The men are so embittered they won't even talk to us. let alone return to work, ; he said.

A 200-strong picket line at the Ryton factory, where 4,500 workers are on strike, stopped supervisors and clerical staff going in. supplies of body panels for Ryton and Chrysler's other Coventry factory, at Stoke, may be stopped by a 24-hour picket at the Coventry railhead.

Workers say the main issue in the dispute is now whether management have the right to lay them off arbitrarily and at will.

of the much-vaunted more clearly revealed desperate as nothing inflationary more than the crisis-ridden capiPress,