Big business steps up its offensive against workers' rights BOSSES PROVOKE DEFLATION FIGHT

EMPLOYERS are setting out deliberately to provoke workers into strike to create a suitable climate deflationary measures the Tory government will shortly into by be forced into by the economic crisis.

Such measures will undoubtedly follow on the heels United States decision to deflate, which cannot be long layed in view of the record 25 per cent a year inflation.

the combined effects of US deflation and the raising of the price of UK exports to America because of the fall in the value of the dollar vill hit British industry harc One-fifth of all exports go t the United States.

With the artificial consumer boom also running out of steam at home and the relentless inflation making profitable trading more and more hazardous, the ruling class has decided to take the offensive against the CAS! trade unions before it is put 1106 on the defensive. SUPLEMENAR Big business chiefs know that ULL when they finally have to put an GRAN d to the liatonary SOON t of fear of causing an enc ous credit crisis-in additi NOW!y o undermining the share valueshey will have to face a ver angry working class.

The rapid spread of closures short-time working as are eatened will inevitably to a spate of occupations and factory takeovers in a period when, or the ever-snarpening trade war, the employers will in fact be looking for greater speed-up. arang the die milegen With the ending of the "boom', man of any use to the employers. Young Socialist Student Society members lobbied a special National own in the trade war with coun. grants conference at the weekend.

like to announce permanent closure centres. then they will be better and move out of Britain altooff not producing at all. gether to cheap-labour, policeAn all-out offensive against the state countries. Car plants at a standstill CAR PRODUCTION at Cowley, Oxford, and Ryton, Coventry will be kept at a standstill today by the hardline policies adopted by management in two disputes.

At Cowley, plant attendants who are fighting to be upgraded as craftsmen have rejected British - Leyland's offer of an unspecified increase, above the semi-skilled rate they are now de- receiving, at the time of next year's pay review.

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Pli 4 NOW KICK THE TO everyone at Ryton' to the latest attacks on their 'appalling record'. But there is a general offensive by the employers, as noted by Chrysler AUEW convenor Ken Walton: 'Even our officials tell us there's a tightening-up by employers in the area as a whole. I don't think you would be far out if you were to say there's a concerted attack by the employers in the Coventry district.' At Cowley, too, management appears to be making little effort to settle the 80 attendants' dispute which has laid off 12,000. All these issues of the speed-up and the attack on trade union rights will be taken up at the mass anti-Tory rally on July 1 at Belle Vue, Manchester, organized by the All Trades Unions Alliance. Thousands of trade unionists will attend this rally to debate the way forward for the working class. cided not to meet again until Friday. The management's failure to improve its previous offer means that 12,000 Cowley workers will remain laid off for another week at least.

The 4,500 strikers at Chrysler's Ryton factory, who are fighting arbitrary lay-ofis, have extended their picketing activities.

Besides Ryton and the Gosford Green rail depot, they are now picketing the company's second Coventry factory, at Stoke, to prevent goods being transported out.

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Export Packing services, at Banbury, is being picketed to stop Chrysler goods, as are storage facilities used by Chrysler at Rolls - Royce, Ansty.

Shop stewards say they have a formula on which there could be a return to work, but there are doubts as to whether Chrysler will accept their terms.

government is believed to have asked the Commission on Industrial Relations to investigate the €100,000 BUILDING FUND BY FIRST post Saturday we had received £122.70. Slough £3; Harrow £7; Cambridge £30; Reading £1; Newcastle £2; Exeter £20; Hackney £18.50; Holloway £14; Dagenham £9.85; Vauxhall motors, Ellesmere Port £6; Young Socialists Students Society meeting £6.35; J. R. £5. Our total now stands at £48,728.98 and money is still coming in. Will we do it? Rush everything you can to us immediately and make sure that we do. We need another £1,271.02 by tomorrow to complete our first £50,000. We must do it!

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ENOCH POWELL'S apparent support for Labour MP Michael tics in the 70s last night was rooT BBC Radio 4's 'Poliseen by some Sunday papers as a bombshell aimed at Heath and an implicit gesture of support for Labour. This is dangerous thinking. Powell is an inveterate enemy of Labour and socialism. • READ tomorrow's Workers Press for a comment on the latest manoeuvres of this rightwing Tory.