Trafalgar House mentioned in bribes case

VICTOR MATTHEWS, managing director of the multi-million pound conglomerate, Trafalgar House, was mentioned during yesterday's evidence in the Leeds Crown Court corruption case.

Anthony Flannery, former director of a construction company, who is accused of I1 corruption charges, was explaining payments made to him by an architect.

The offences are alleged to have been committed between 1968 and 1970 when Flannery belonged to the management team of the northern division of Carlton Contractors Limited of Epsom, Surrey.

Carlton is a subsidiary of the Trafalgar House group, chaired by Nigel Broackes and managed Flannery has denied Chrysler 'insult'

Ryton men

certain to reject offer FROM IAN YEATS IN COVENTRY A MASS meeting of the 4,500 strikers at Chrysler's Ryton plant today is virtually certain to kick out management's latest proposals for an end to the stoppage.

After over 16 hours non-stop tripartite talks at Coventry Council House on Wednesday, Ryton strike committee leader Mr Joe Molloy told Workers give an inch, insulted us. They didn't give an inch.' And T&GWU district secretary Mr Bill Lapworth said: 'We've got to the situation where we find it completely impossible to negotiate with the people we are talking to.' Ryton strike committee met for two hour at the T&GWU Coventry headquarters yesterday.

'After yesterday's talks our attitude is very, very hard. We shall recommend to our members most strongly that we go on with the fight, Ryton deputy T&GWU convenor Mr Liam Byrne said.

He added: 'We are prepared to fight for a long time. We don't intend to bow down to Convenors, trade union officials and management were locked in discussion from 10 a.m. Wednesday morning until 3 a.m. on Thursday with union officials anxiously exploring every possibility for a settlement.

But at the end of the MDW picket WORKERS demonstrated outside the Rolls-Royce headquarters in London yesterday over a dispute about Measured-Day Work at a new north London tactory.

The company have locked out 24 men, recently transferred from the : Willesden plant, for refusing to accept new pay scales.

The men want to continue their old piecework rates, and the main body of workers still at Willesden are backing them. An employers' formula to give the new MDW rates a trial period has been rejected by the combined shop stewards. WORDS MUST BECOME DEEDS AFTER CONFERENCE

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Front to control the stated this week:

'I have admired Edward Heath for his courageous stand on the Industrial Relations Bill - - we should introuce something similar the pay laws is the worsening economic crisis capitalism which, if it is resolved accepted money from John Brown, and Partners, Newcastle architects, for showing favour in granting them work.

He admitted received cheques cotalling $950 through Maurice Byrne, former Mayor of Pontefract, who is also facing corruption charges.

But this was for services for Lloyd as a practical building consultant.

In yesterday's testimony Flannery admitted that one cheque he received was for 'Byrne came to my house and handed my ex -wife this £500 in his wife's na me. cheque and suggested we should buy something nice house, explaining that the money had come from Mr Lloyd, Flannery said.

I think Byrne explained he thought it would heip my inThe Chrysler management team during the 17-hour talks Coventry Council House. after six divisions for separate talks, Chrysler's were demanding:

About 350 men would not receive pay for 90 minutes they were off the clock for alleged shoddy work three weeks ago and the position would be reviewed after a three months' good he havestigation. into the An investigation allegation of shoddy work would not begin until the strikers returned to work. • The unions should in future refrain from 'damaging stoppages' and honour disputes procedure.

company's proposals should be put to a mass meeting of the men.

Chrysler's UK managing director-designate Canadian Mr Donald Lander stressed as the talks began that there was no substantial change in the company's position.

Half an hour before the Council House talks ended in total breakdown, Lander was phoned by his chief negotiator Mr Peter Griffiths, but he refused to intervene.

Warning that the company was now in head-on conflict with the trade unions, Mr Lapworth told reporters Chrysler's position had not budged since their secret talks with convenors a week ago. DETECTIVES investigating the picket-busting operation at the Chrysler engine plant have interviewed officials of an east London firm. within the framework of capital1sm, will mean unprecedented political and economic disaster for the working class. Unless the Tory government is forced out, the pay laws will continue, and worse will follow.

For this reason, Workers Press now calls on trade unionists to let the battle begin in earnest to end the collaboration with capitalism.

Let the Transport come tax position to make cheque out to my ex-wife' The prosecutor: 'Byrne was not merely a conduit pipe from Lloyd, but he decided how you got the money, whether in two cheques or whether it was to you or your wife?' Flannery: 'Yes' Flannery said Mr Victor Matthews, head of Trafalgar House, valued his services with a salary of £5,250 in 1969, £500 a year expenses, a Rover 2000 car and 0,250 shares in Iratalgar House Investments.

He also had a pension which guaranteed him three-quarters of his earhings on retirement.

*Mr Matthews valued my services at £800 or £850 a month. This was my appreciation of my value also, he said.

The prosecutor: 'How is that germaine? Does that make this €500 chicken feed?' Perkins follow suit PERKINS nanagement yesterday refused to meet union, officials for new talks on a return to work formula at its Peterborough diesel engine plants.

A leading official of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Bob Wright, attacked the Tory government and its pay • ATUA MEETINGS Motor Industry COVENTRY MONDAY JUNE 25 7.30 p.m.

Gostord Park Hotel

St. Georges Rd/ Northfield Rd Chrysler (Stoke) plant DUNSTABLE sunday, June 24, 10.30 a.M The United Services Club High Street South Workers' Union at its conference next month consolidate the AUEW move and instruct Jack Jones to follow Scanlon out of the Downing Street talks.

We are proud of the role we have played in fighting for the policy of mobilizing the trade unions to fight the Tory governthe TUC leaders acquiescing collaboration with the Tories, as the 'Morning Star' has done.

Flannery: 'It represents about three weeks of my services!' Flannery said he did not mention to his head office that he was receiving money from Mr Lloyd because I didn't think it was their business' Not the business or roe coonpany paying you the thick end of £10,000 a year to give your time to them?

"They got value for money, Flannery replied.

Mr Justice Waller intervened: •Would Mr Matthews have valued your services as he did had he known you had this €500 from Mr Lloyd?' Flannery: 'I can't answer that. Matthews has always had his own outside interests as well as working for a company so I was only following his example' HEARING CONTINUES.

"Challenge' to unions From David Maude Peterborough laws, which, he said, were encouraging employers to 'challenge' the unions.

After shop stewards had rejected the 'sloppy' wording of a formula arived at in talks on Wednesday, Perkins declared that no useful purpose would be served by a further meeting.

Ted Scott, regional AUEW officer, revealed that the decision to turn down new talks had been taken in consultation with local Perkins management and Terry James, industrial relations director of the Massey Ferguson parent company.

Perkins' 5,700 workers, locked out a week ago for refusing to lift an overtime ban, reacted angrily.

"This means we go all the way,' said Wilf Gibson, a shop steward, after hearing the company's decision.

'This isn't just The revolutionary role o nore powerful influence than reformist tail-ending of 'Morning Star'.

We confidently call on trade union movement to help US make events by turning Belle Vue rally on July 1 an enormous demonstratio i of anti-Tory feeling and the start of the campaign to bring government down.

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Party Building Fund 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. ing. You've got the government's wage policy and they're telling all employers like this to stand firm.' The Perkins workers banned overtime 12 weeks ago because they wanted a firm commitment towards parity with Massey Ferguson workers at Coventry.

As Bob Wright said yesterday, the wages of skilled craftsmen in the Peterborough toolrooms are £19 behind those of their opposite numbers in Coventry.

On the assembly lines the differential is between £10 and £18, he said.

But after Wednesday's talks with union officials the company would only agree to: • Examine the parity claim.

La joint sub committee • Set up involving national officials of both the union and the company. • Compare wage levels across Massey Ferguson's British plants 'to assist future wage bargaining.

The statement did commit both parties to finding a solution but, as the stewards told Wright, this means nothing.

After hearing that the company had rejected new talks, he said:

'We are faced at this time with perhaps an over-confidence of employers, encouraged by the government's legislation, who feel strong enough to make challenges they would not have made perhaps six months ago.' Every gate of the company's four Peterborough factories is blockaded by pickets determined to remain at their posts until Sir Monty Prichard and the Perkins board climb down. • Prichard, the group's chairman, was expected to return from Poland last night after amicable discussions with the Polish government about the rationalization of the country's diesel engine industry.