Triumph right wing press for Measured-Day Work
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Differing views of bloody return voted by a small majority to recommend a new wages structure to replace the present piece. work rates.
The new system would be made up of 90 per cent guaranteed flat rate payment and 10 per cent bonus, which would fluctuate according to production output.
This would give production workers estimated weekly vage of £49.52, as against preCONFUSED REPORTS are about the bloody gun-battles to welcome former president day.
Reuter correspondent Ricardo Ritter who was on the scene of the shooting reported the Peronist guards as saying the snipers were "Trotskyists of the People's Revolutionary Army' (ERP).
Diana Page, a UPI correspondent, said a young Peronist guard had told her: It was the Montoneros who tried to break through our security ring. We fired into the air, but they shot at us.' The Montoneros are a proPeronist urban guerrilla group, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE MEETING BLACKBURN "The Peel Hotel' (Town Centre)
Monday June 25, 8 p.m. (Please note date change)
'Bulld the Revolutionary Party' Register d as a newspaper at the Post Office, Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, sW4 7UG. Printed Plough Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. 01-622 7029. sent piecework earnings of between £46 and £49 a week.
the new pay deal is expected Triumph's 8,000 workers as soon as Pay Board approval has been granted.
Many stewards and workers are wondering how both Jim Griffin, the AUEW district president and convenor at the Canley Works, and Tom Healy, the AUEW district vice-president and convenor at the Radford Wa recon Trendation can briously cam be party part of British-Leyland's declared Measured-Day Work still emerging from Argentina which erupted at the mass rally General Juan Peron on Wednesthough they have in the past collaborated with the ERP are supporters of Pabloite revisionism.
Still other reports say that the shootings may have been the work of right-wing Peronists who have their own reasons for spoiling the carnival atmosphere of the General's return.
According to 'Le Monde' the shooting was caused by differences within the (Peronist) Justicialist Movement. 'From the early morning', the paper said, fights between young militants and trade unionists broke out along the fringes of the aerodrome.
'The two antagonistic groups were fighting for control of the demonstration: it was, in the words of their incompatible slogans: "The socialist fatherland" versus "The Peronist fatherland":
According to 'Le Monde' correspondent Philippe Labreveux, the bloodshed 'shows the deep divisions in the Justicialist MoveWhat is certain is that far from ushering in an era of social peace, the election of Dr Hector Campora and the return of his patron, General Peron, have opened up the rifts in the Peronist movement which has for nearly 18 years been dreaming of Peron's come-back. policy, when both the AUEW National Committee, of which Griffin is a member, and the Coventry district committee are opposed to moves towards MDW.
The Coventry district committee sent out the following circular after its meeting on Tuesday, June 20, 1972:
'This DC instructs all convenors and shop stewards not to negotiate productivity deals or agreements under any circumstances and to oppose any moves towards Measured-Day Work with all possible vigour in accordance with • the national policy of our union.' 170- DM. LOHNAUSGLEiCH JIm Gritfin ••• going al union policy.
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