Another Labourite joins Powell

MR PETER SHORE, a member of the Labour shadow cabinet, yesterday came out in support of Enoch Powell's views on the Common Market.

Shore applauded Powell for putting his country before his party in his Common Market speech a week ago.

It was inconceivable that Mr Powell or any politician should have received such a massive rebuke for saying that in the last resort and on an important matter 'he would put the interests of his own country before that of the Common darker.

Shore becomes the third senior figure in the Labour and trade union movement who has been fraternizing with Powell's reactionary views in the past week.

Last Friday Hugh ScanIon, president of the Amalgamated Union of EnSome of the determined Perkins workers, now locked out. THREE YOUNG Irishmen were cleared yesterday of being at an unlawful meeting for drilling or training in the use of arms. gineering Workers, the same platform Powell on a BBC programme.

One of their went like this:

'What a nice are, Hugh.' 'Before you say that, inoch, remember were or record.

On Sunday night Powell was chatting about contemporary politics with Labour's leading 'left', Michael Foot. It was another cosy occasion.

Reporting 'The " Times' day:

'On this subject of parliamentary sovereignty, Mr Foot, the standard bearer of the left, and Mr Powell, the champion of the right, were in complete harmony. On a number of issues the Shore welcomes Market 'stand' shared radio exchanges chap you the debate, said on Montwo men seemed of like mind.' Powell and the reactionary wing supporting him — this extends from the Monday Club to the National Front - is the spoken enemy of the working class.

Powell is on record as saying: 'I am the virus that kills socialism.' These friendly tête a têtes between Powell and Labour leaders can only confuse workers about who and what Powell represents.

They must cease at once and Foot, Scanlon and Shore must be called upon to denounce Powellism and all its anti-working class concepts.

Speaking to the 1972 Industry Group in London, Shore said that the Marketeers would like to believe the whole issue of pal LIKE CHRYSLER, Perkins Engines haven't a leg to stand on according to the tenets of conciliation, compromise and 'getting round the table'.

In fact Perkins' decision to lock out its 5,700 workers for banning overtime has even astounded sections of the local, capitalist Press.

As Reg Briers, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' convenor, says: 'All we've been doing work our standard, 40-hour week, which is all we're committed to : do under our agreements with the company. Yet they're operating as if there's compulsory overtime. 'Leaving aside for the moment the reasons we decided to ban overtime, how can they possibly justify putting us all out of work for choosing not to do something we never agreed to?' The Perkins workers banned overtime 1l weeks ago, in support of a demand for arity ol earnings with Massey-Fergusor workers in Coventry, who are now part of the same Canadianowned group.

Work at the Peterborough factory, which makes diesel engines for export, and for MasseyFerguson at Coventry and Kilmarnock, is no less arduous than at Coventry.

Probably it is harder, since Perkins' workers are on Measured-Day Work while at Massey's where piecework still operates, men have the opportunity to regulate their effort.

At Coventry, however, earnings range between £54 a week for craftsmen and £37.10 for labourers against Peterborough's £32 to £25 range (a semi-skilled Massey-Ferguson worker, at £48 a week, gets £19 more than his opposite number Perkins).

Despite this gap, which .. was further increased by a €2.47 pay deal at Massey's this week, the Perkins workers actually modified their original demands considerably after only a short period of the overtime ban.

In a bid to engage the company in serious negotiations they asked merely for 'a commitment in principle on a move towards parity', recognizing that immediate implementation was restricted by the Tory pay laws and that the final aim could take years to achieve.

Yet even this moderate mand, backed by the moderate tactic of an over ban, has met with militant tility and total lockout.

Neither Reg Briers nor his Perkins workers locked out Ready for long parity fight mwit, finht SLER, Perkins 't a leg to stand o the tenets of deItratime hosBritain and Europe was dead and buried.

They had made inaccurate and distorted assertions about Labour's policy, trying to give the impression there was no serious threat to the European commitment in Labour's policy programme.

"They are wrong,' he said. It will not do to pretend that the Labour Party is not determined to destroy this Treaty of Accession and to reassert the rightful democratic power of the British people.

'Certainly, a Labour government will make a serious effort to obtain those major alterations that our continued membership of the EEl require.

But the strong possibility is - and everyone knows it — that renegotiation will fail' Peter Shore . . 'principles party' FROM DAVID MAUDE IN PETERBOROUGH deputy convenor, Jeff Cain, believes that this is directly linked to the atmosphere surrounding the Tory pay laws.

But Reg Briers points out: 'There's only been one stoppage here since the company came to Peterborough in 1946. We've discussed wages every year with a minimum of trouble.. But this year things are different; the company's decided to make a fight of it.' Jeft Cain • added: 'We don't class ourselves as a militant group of workers here, but we now obviously have to be prepared for a long fight.

"This has been deliberately built up by the company to force us to accept their f2 offer and break the campaign for parity.

'We can prove this. The company have been saying they can't operate on a Monday because of the effects of the overtime ban by the services department, yet when services banned overtime three months ago over lack of canteen facilities at the weekends the plant ran seven days a 'We offered the same arrangements this time, but they didn't GER YOUR BOOKSTLER ODICALSEAN NEWSPAPERS ROMET 2B_CHARLOȚTE STREET OADIde Micraday to_Statmciemy want to know.' want to know.

Perkins' anr Perkins' announcement just over a week ago, that the Peter- over a week agr borough factories would be shut haranch fartorie down until further notice unless the men toed the line, was at first regarded by some workers as a blufi.

But as they left their jobs for what could be the last time for a long while on Wednesday, they were set for struggle.

Said Jim Ryder, a £25-a-week labourer: It's about time the air was cleared here. This company seem to think they can act like little dictators; it's now up to us to show them they can't.

'We've been treated like "turnip toppers" too long-because this used to be an agricultural area doesn't mean they can go on paying agricultural wages. What we want is a clear indication that we're going to get our rights.

I'm not very strong on politics, but the way it looks to me this is definitely part of what's happening all over the country now.

•But employers like this are going to get more than they bargain for. No one here believes what they say in the Press about "shoddy work" being to blame at Chrysler's, and no one's going to believe we're responsible for the shutdown here.' LỎNDON, MIl