Vauxhall's, Luton OFFICIALS STOP UNITED STAND AGAINST DEAL

abstentions on sanctions BY A VOTE of 222 to Workers' Press reporter 26 the House of Commons has decided to continue its economic sanctions against the Rhodesia's Smith regime.

The voting figures, however, say little about the rapid development of class forces that is now taking place.

Since the first discussion between Wilson and Smith, the white Rhodesian minority has proceeded to build up its organs of repression against the Rhodesian working class.

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Enoch Powell and Patrick Wall were among the 26 MPs who voted against the sanctions.

No worker should be fooled by these phoney abstentions or the 'disapproving' remarks of the Tories concerning Smith's constitution.

The recent Tory Party conference shows that nearly half the Tories are openly for Powell and the vast majority voted for policies which mean vicious attacks on the working class and its trade unions.

While the Wilson government does the dirty work for the Tories at this stage, occasionally emitting a feeble squeak about the rights of man, the Tories prepare to clasp Smith to their bosoms.

The working class, now on the move against the attacks of the Labour government and the employers, must demand the arming of the Rhodesian workers to overthrow the Smith regime.

This is an essential part of the preparation to smash the employers' plans and to rout the Tories for good. NEW JUNIOR MINISTERS SINK THE NEWLY appointed members of the Labour government are quickly ridding themselves of their radical pasts.

Nine of the Labour back benchers promoted a week ago have withdrawn their names from 46 motions tabled for the coming session.

They do not wish to be embarrassed by them in their new jobs.

The nine have been active in signing motions critical out of their mass meeting at a local cinema at mid-day last Friday.

Most of the comments were unprintable as they told waiting members of other unions how their officials had prevented them voting down the company's latest productivity proposals. One of the milder descriptions was 'they're just a waste of time'.

Inside the meeting, National Union of Vehicle Builders' (NUVB) convenor Peter Ashworth claimed that the deal had been watered down since members threw it out four months previously.

But the version he read to the meeting did not include the all-important 'exchange of letters' appendix : drafted at York 12 days ago.

This stated that the notorious June 'penal clauses' would be replaced by letters between district union officers and plant personnel managers agreeing that the unions would discourage unofficial disputes while recognizing management's right to take 'such remedial action as the situation warrants in the case of employees who violate the undertaking'.

During the brief period allowed for discussion, the platform denied workers the use of a microphone to address the 1,000-strong meetThey turned a blind eye to men demanding a vote on the deal and a deaf ear to the continual shouts of 'Back Ellesmere Portl'.

As more and more workers insisted that a vote be taken, Ashworth declared that there was complete chaos in the meeting and 'I for one won't accept a decision taken here this morning'.

Confusion

Then the chairman suddenly announced his resignation and district secretary Jim Thomas took over.

In the confusion, his question as to whether the meeting wanted a ballot was taken by many workers to mean did they want a vote.

After a rather ragged vote in favour, Thomas that the meeting was closed.

Earlier, a 12-man contingent of Ellesmere Port stewards had lobbied those entering the meeting and received big support for their call for a united stand against the company's proposals.

But the officials denied them the right to enter the meeting themselves. "LEFT' PASTS

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of the government or urging action on various issues.

Dr John Dunwoody, new parliamentary secretary at the Department of Health and Social Security, withdrew his name from a critical motion on health service charges.

Mr Evan Luard, now with a job at the Foreign Office, has severed his connections with motions concerning inEllesmere Port stewards lobby NUVB members entering the Odeon lema, Luton, last Friday ra meeting which ended in confusion.

IMPERIALIST penetration of East Europe has now reached a dangerous new stage.

McKinsey, the top-line US management consultants firm, currently advising the Bank of England and the BBC, has now moved into Yugoslavia.

Last month a team of McKinsey consultants visited Sarajevo, where it advised the Energionvest. plant management, the largest manufacturers of electrical equipment in the country. ternational action over the Nigerian civil war and negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.

The others withdrawing their names are Ben Whitaker, Miss Joan Lestor, Albert Murray, Ivor Richard, Terence Boston, James Hamilton and Ray Dobson.

Having voted for Wilson's anti-working class policies for five years, these MPs probably not find it hard to withdraw their minor criticisms. MORE PAY FOR LOWER ER*