Break-in at Poulson files office DANGER OF SPLIT AT CHRYSLER

ment had not collaborated in the use of hired thugs responsible for the incidents on Monday night.

The shop stewards said they had deliberately separated the early-morning raid at Stoke from the dispute at Ryton. cers at Stoke were harassed pickets at Stoke were by staff cars persistently attempting to break their lines.

Three were run down and one 20-year-old worker is in hospital with injuries to his back and head.

News broke in Coventry yesterday that Dunstable security guard Mr Terry Walker-Spiers was too ill to operate on after having his pelvis and legs broken by scabs who drove three lorries from Stoke to the truck plant on Monday night.

Three other lorries were found abandoned in a field near Ryton.

Some 520 workers at Hills Precision, a Chrysler subsidiary, were threatening to strike yesterday after management insisted they work materials brought into the plant lorry which smashed through picket lines.

Half the labour force has been laid off.

It is in the face of this unprecedented determination to force Chrysler workers to their knees that the Stoke stewards yesterday recommended no further action.

Said one picket: 'Chrysler are trying to split us and weaken us. They've done it before with one shift against another. They've launched an all-out attack on the trade union, but instead of standing up to them the stewards go n there and concentrate on th ne issue of what happened the millwright.

1 mass meeting at Linwood, Scotland, yesterday also voted for a recommendation against immediate strike action.

Combine shop stewards are determined to go on with their policy of blacking all materials to and from Ryton and forcing Chrysler to lay off the majority of its 29,000 UK workers on full pay.

As the Ryton strike committee met yesterday, pickets said they had stabbed in the back and would not be satisfied with anything less than the complete shut-down of Stoke.

Overnight the pickets were strengthened and workers' used to barricade all entrances to the plant.

After incidents on Monday, staff workers have been banned from taking their cars onto the premises.

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St. Georges Rd/ Northfield Rd Chrysler (Stoke plant BASILDON rsday June 21, 8 Aid Centre (small Great Oaks DUNSTABLE Sunday, June 24, 10.30 The United Services ( lub High Street South Yesterday's mass meeting of workers from Chrysler's Perkins battle goes on - convenor THE PERKINS dispute-in which 5,700 workers are locked out—goes on unless the company gives a pledge of pay parity with parent company Massey Ferguson, deputy works convenor Mr Jeff Cain said yesterday.

The Peterborough company suspended production last Wednesday after 12 weeks of indusJUNE FUN D £506.87—ONLY 12 DAYS TO GO WHAT ARE we going to do? We still need £1,243.13 by the end of June and for the first time, since the day Workers Press began three years ago, it looks like we might not do it.

We know that you, our readers, have never let us down. But it is more urgent than ever that Workers Press is kept right Stalinists let Scanlon talk with the Tories FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE EXECUTIVE council member of the engineers' union, Reg Birch, challenged continued talks between the union chiefs and the Tory government at the union's national conference here yesterday.

Communist Party and left' delegates backed a composite motion calling for withdrawal from dealing with the government on any prices and incomes policy, but gave Hugh Scanlon, Frelimo m • evasive about his FRELIMO vice-President Marcelino Dos Santos said in London yesterday that the Mozambique guerrilla war against the Portuguese was gaining in strength, but the biggest obstacle now was the support given by the western powers to Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia.

Santos sa Portucolonialists mainly trial action cut production by • Con KIns chairman and managing director Sir Monty Prichard offered to set up a committee with union officials to discuss the question of parity once government pay restrictions were lifted.

But Mr Cain said: 'We have been told by our national offi#IIII out in front every day. Issues such as Chrysler and Perkins are forcing thousands of workers into action to defend their basic rights. daily paper to explain the enormous economic crisis that lies behind these struggles and in this way to prepare the working the union's President, the backing he needs for continuing the talks. (See What we think page 2.)

Len Brindle, convenor of the British-Leyland bus and truck factories in Lancashire, said it was "ludicrous' to suggest that Scanlon should not attend the further talks.

But he said that there should be 'no deal' with any government which seeks to take away the democratic right of the worker to determine what price his labour will be.

Brian King, the delegate from Hull, said in moving • the main resolution that there should be about acting as agents for international capitalist interests in southern Africa and Portugal's links with NATO and the 600year alliance with Britain, just celebrated in London by the British ruling class, helped to maintain the reactionary regime.

But Dos Santos evaded a question about the kind of people he was appealing to for support in Britain, such as the Labour Party leaders, who percials that this does not alter the position one iota. The company is merely rewording earlier statements.

'Our position is still quite clear. We want a commitment of call off our industrial action,, to • See Chrysler-Perkins link-up page 3. class for the battle ahead.

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June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG no shabby compromise in which the union leaders would have to restrict their members' struggles. (ei caRed for total confrontegate called tion, with ther with the government.

Birch told the 69 delegates: 'If they [the Tories] set themselves against this machinery of the working class ... if they are saying to us that we are criminals, Coventry should put them into we should not speak to them at He added that there should be no debate with the government and no commitments.

Birch himself, however, mit some Labour MPs to act as paid representatives of Portuguese interests in parliament, and the Communist Party, which justifies Kremlin foreign policy of treaties with Portugal and other reactionary regimes.

The Frelimo leader merely said that the differences with friends should be sorted out by discussion, whereas the differences with enemies had to be settled by weapons. eve of next Monday's resumed hearing into the bankrupt empire of Mr John Poulson.

spokesman for R. C. Moorhouse and Company, the solicitors instructing Mr Muir Hunter, QC, said: 'Nothing significant been taken from the files. I'm not prepared to comment further.' Asked if documents might have been photocopied, the spokesman added: 'Nothing has happened. I am not prepared to say anything more?

Mr W. D. Simpson, a partner in the firm, said later:

'There has been a break-in but it has been a minor affair. As far as I am concerned this incident has nothing to do with the files and nothing to do with the bankruptcy!

Literally hundreds of files on the Poulson case are kept Moorhouse's office in East Parade. Many were collected from Poulson's former office in Pontefract as early as January this year and their contents have not yet been made public.

The Poulson case took curious turn this week when Scotland Yard issued a special statement which stated: 'We will not be in a position to submit anything to the Director of Public Prosecutions for at least a year?

This completely contradicts the statement made by Sir Peter Rawlinson, the Attorney-General, in parliament last week.

Rawlinson told Liberal MP John Pardoe that the preliminary report of the fraud sauad would 'soon' be with the DPP. If it was found to be justified, he said, proceedings would begin within a few months.

But on Monday Scotland Yard made Rawlinson's statement nonsensical when it said:

'The first stage will purely be a precis of what has happened up to now. Investigations have not been completed by a long way. Certainly the first stage could not be used as a basis for prosecuting anybody.

At best, this means that Rawlinson and Home Secretary Robert Carr have been misleading parliament.

The departure of the former Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, the involvement of Andrew Cunningham, who is a member of the Labour Party's NEC, and dozens of Labourites in the north-east, the banning of the 'World in Action' film and yesterday's surprise break-in adds to the stench surrounding this busy trying to persuade striking British-Leyland plant attendants at Cowley to accept the management's terms to end their strike. EARLIER the national committee came down narrowly in favour of the principle of nationalizing the major industries without Although delegates unanimously instructed the union executive to insist that the principles be embodied in the Labour Party's election programme and manifesto they were clearly divided on the issue of compensation.

The amendment which inserted the no-compensation policy into the successful motion obtained a majority of only five—37 votes While taking no open • stand either way on this point, foundry section secretary Bill Simpson, this year's Labour Party chairman, urged the conterence not to adopt 'far out' policies.

The conference went on to call specifically for the full nationalization by the next Labour government of the banks, insurance companies; drugs industry, oil and the land.