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St Helens, Thursday DOUBTS were expressed ers at Pilkington's St ¡lass works today about esday's government inquiry into their dispute.

Its chairman, Professor Wood, has asked anyone wishing to give evidence to contact the Department of Employment and Productivity or simply to attend the inquiry's hearings.

This move will strengthen the strikers' suspicions that

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This rise would work out at an average of 10s a worker a week. Together with the El interim rise won recently, the price of tele-control would average 30s a week.

Some weeks ago, workers at the factory who received back-pay found paper slips in their pay-packets headed 'Acton site efficiency agreeThough senior stewards Fazakerley works in Liverpool workers there have reiterated their continued opposition and have backed maintenance workers who were disciplined for refusing to install or connect up the apparatus.

It is clear that a section of the Acton factory leadership is preparing a complete capitulation on the management's demands.

Stewards and workers must be clear about the issues involved.

If CAV workers do wage a concerted fight to win their factory claim, the danof tele-control will be enormously increased.

All talk of a 'trial basis' per cent trade union recognition.

One strike committee member told the meeting:

If you back this strike to the bitter end we will win!' Support The meeting also passed a resolution to send support to the Pilkington glass strikers.

The 300 strikers were inspired to take action against their low wages and poor conditions by the example of the successful 21-week strike at the nearby Centrax factory.

The strike committee at 1,500 engineers at Dunlop's Birmingham factory yesterday voted to continue their twoweek-old strike in support of their demand for a f6 incréase with no strings. determination has been strengthened by the management's insistence on tying an offer of £3 to £3 10s to 100 'voluntary redundanciés'.

The decision to stay out came after the plant's ABF convenor Mr Norman Mills reported that the union's executive would be considering making the strike official.

The stoppage has caused the laying off of 4,000 workers at the factory which Europe's largest tyre plant.

Combining English empiricism with more than a little imagination, John Draw in Saigon had concluded that since the headquarters had never been actually seen, it must therefore be 'underground'.

The dreadful alternativethat in fact it exised only in the minds of war-hungry Pentagon officials-simply could not be contemplated.

This same report spoke with great authority of the existence of 'seven-storey caverns' and 'two underground hospitals containing 1,200 beds'. No more, no less.

Like the headquarters itself, Rothschild have publicly broken off all negotiations for a new injection of money, without which IOS will certainly collapse.

Far from gaining any new backers, King (or his representatives) were locked in battle in London with the chief underwriters of last September's IOS share issue at the timé when Cornfeld went public.

These included the 'blue chip' names in European and American finance — Drexel Harriman and Ripley and Samuel Barney of New York, Hill Samuel and Guiness Mahon of London and Banque Rothschild of Paris and Pierson Heldring Pierson of Amsterdam.

Not liked The original idea was that King should make available a $40 million credit for IOS for three years.

But this is not to the liking of the leading banks. No doubt concerned with King's intimate ties with Cornfeld's empire and similar interests in the mutual trust field, they are not prepared to see the Denver financier remain in control.

Nerves have not been steadied by the delayed publication of IOS's 1969 accounts.

Promised for the beginning of May, they will now not be ready until the end of the month.