UNIONS REVOLT AGAINST PHASE = THREE TALKS BOLSROYCE

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE TWO MORE union chiefs may be instructed within the next fortnight to pull out of the Phase Three talks with the Tory government.

This distinct possibility loomed yesterday • as the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, representing 3 million workers, voted overwhelmingly for an end to the talks.

The two who could follow engineers president Hugh Scanlon, already forbidden to go to Downing Street are: • Jack Jones, leader of the country's largest union, the Transport and General Workers' Union. • David Basnett, general secretary the General and Municipal Workers' Union,

If all three were removed by their unions from the TUC's talks team, it would be reduced to a right-wing rump of three: Victor Feather, Sir Sidney Greene of the National Union of Railwaymen and Alf Allen, the shopworkers' leader.

At Eastbourne yesterday delegates voted by 1,347,593 votes to 523,900 - a majority of 823,643—to 'press the TUC not to participate in any discussions with the government on any form of wage freeze.

Unions in favour of ending talks with the Tories were: all four sections of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers— engineers, construction, foundrymen and technical and supervisory staffs; the General and Municipal Workers' Union; the white-collar union ASTMS and the Sheetmetal Workers' Union.

Those who wanted to pursue talks with Heath and the CBI were: the electricians' union, the boilermakers, woodworkers and metal mechanics.

The T&GWU abstained. But even if its full affiliated weight had been cast against the motion, it would still have been carried.

The CSEU's decision must make it more difficult for Jones to win support for continued participation in the talks at his annual conference in Il days' time. He faces no less than seven anti-talks motions on the agenda.

The surprise vote against the talks came from the third largest union, the G&MWU.

Basnett was party to the delegation's decision in yesterday's vote and delegates were saying that it was now questionable whether he could take part in further parleying with Heath.

The G&MWU's position will be clarified at an executive meeting next Tuesday.

The CSEU has no power to bind unions to its policy, but its decisions nevertheless carry considerable weight in the union movement.

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THE BIGGEST and most open discussion ever organized in defence of basic democratic rights will be held at Belle Vue, Manchester, on Sunday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The All Trades Unions Alliance has called this conference in order that trade unionists from all over Britain can come together to discuss the way forward for the working class in face of the growing dangers from inflation and the anti-union legislation of the Tory government.

Only on the basis of wellworked-out policies can the labour and trade union movement unite to restore the right to free negotiation for wages and to organize in trade unions independently of the dictates of the police and the courts.

The central question that must be dealt with is how to fight the Tory government and how to fight the collaborationist trade union leaders who are trying to do a deal with the Tories at the expense of the working class.

To debate these questions fully, the ATUA has hired the largest arena in the north west. Belle Vue has seating capacity for 5,000.

Shop stewards committees all over the country have been electing delegations to go from other places response tion from the ATUA.

Two special trains are going from London direct to Belle Vue station, ind another from Southampton and the West Country. Coaches will be travelling from other towns throughout Britain. Trade unionists making their own way to the rally will be welcome.

To facilitate discussion, special sound equipment has been installed in the arena, with different speaking points.

£100,000 BUILDING FUND YESTERDAY'S post raised £13.50 — Cambridge £2, Edinburgh £1, Greenock £2.50, Leicester £8. Let's see if we can speed up the pace. Our total now stands at £51,797.16. Let's press on towards our £100,000 by October 31.

Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 86a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG Every section of the auditorium will have its own microphone.

As a curtain raiser, a film will be shown in colour of the great Pageant of labour history performed by hundreds of workers and professional actors at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 11. Some highly sophisticated machinery will enable the film to be projected simultaneously on two screens so as to overcome the problems viewing in a circular arena.

After several hours discussion, the rally will end with a specially written satirical cabaret Tom Kempinks, Performed by Redgrave, Corin Kika Markham, Matthew Robertson, Mike Cronin, Vanessa Redgrave, Tom Marshall, and Victor Brox of Music Force, who wrote and played much of the music for the Pageant.

The cabaret, written and produced by Roger Smith, Tom Kempinski, and the rest of the company, will take a humorous look at some of the difficulties the Tory government and the ruling class have been running into recently.

Belle Vue will mark a decisive stage in the campaign to transform the Socialist Labour League into the Revolutionary Party through building a new leadership in the labour and trade union movement, to put an end