WIDEST possible support from trade union- THE possible support from trade ists is now required to take the recognition st

LONDON delegates, representing the 12,500 men in the port's enclosed docks—which include the militant Royal group-have now accepted proposals from the employers for changing working practices in line with Phase Two of the Devlin scheme. As we warned on Saturday, it is time to now reauired to take the recognition strike at BSR, East Kilbride, through to success.

After ten weeks the strikers remain solid. But 'blacklegs' are still helping the company to maintain some production, though at a quarter of the normal speed.

ham plant, meanwhile, believed to be still working normally.

o get dockers to company's shipments really the very least that can Union of Railwaymen is now urgent.

Boyd, an engineering union executive councilman, has said he believes most of the factory's output goes through Liverpool and Grangemounth docks.

England's satement hat on der no circumstances will the company ever recognise company closed a Londonderry plant after a similar dispute.

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The company has refused to discuss the strike either cats, the Depare unt of mployment and Productivity or ter Mars Judith Cabinet MinisStrikers however, are rightly sceptical of Wilson's laim to support the principle for which they are fighting fund and Mrs Hart's tremely useful' discussions with the Lanarkshire Chiel Constable also raise doubts.

Pickets have twice recently clashed with the police, whom Wilson supposedly 'controls', over their protection of scabs leaving the facThe lessons of the 1967 Roberts Arundel recognition strike at Stockport must be learned here.

Strengthened by the Labour government's anti-working class policies, many 'Left' MP Joan Lestor will be responsible for the nursery school expansion scheme. Mr Gerry Fowler is the new Minister of State at the DES and is expected to be put in charge of higher education.

It is here that strict economies will be made by the government.

Sixth-form education is twice as costly as normal secondary Higher education is three times as costly.

A likely form of economy is being pioneered at Barnstaple with the 'unusually enthusiastic' support of Education Minister Mr Short.

Here all post-16 education in the area is now confined to North Devon Technical College.

On a national scale such a scheme would mean unemployment for hundreds of highly-qualified specialist sixth-form teachers.

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They would join the 1,600 teachers reported unemployed by the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education.

It would deprive comprehensive schools of expensive specialist teachers and transform them into transit camps for the dole queues.

They would teach only the basic 'three Rs' This is the future for teachers under British capitalism rocked by economic crisis.

If the Labour government thinks it can use the Tory 'Black Paper' as a smokescreen behind which it carries out its own attacks on teachers and pupils it is mistaken.

Wilson is holding open . the door for the 'Black Paper' An uncompromising struggle by the teachers against Wilson's education cuts, against the Prices and Incomes Act is the only way forward to defeat the 'Black Paper' Tories. employers are determined to go all the way against trade stick out against the most militant picket.

Only the widest possible action by the labour movement in support of the East Kilbride strikers can bring their final victory.

Conference fee: 5s. a person Tear gas in Nigr NIGERIAN police fired tear gas into a crowd of striking bank employees in Lagos on Monday. in class-collaboration THE TUC and the CBI are to collaborate closely over the coming months in what is described as la major assault on industrial relations problems, following a weekend meeting between top representatives of both organizations.

An employers' representative stressed after the meeting that the talks had been 'far more successful than had been expected', while a CBI statement went so far as to describe them as a breakthrough in employer - union co - operation at national level'.

The two organizations are to hold further talks on a five point plan which centres around the following questions:

• The need to define the scope of bargaining • Disputes procedure and external intervention against strikers • Problems in multi-plant companies • 'Training' of shop stewards and managers "Improvement' of bargaining machinery and trade union organization.

It is clear from the CBI's jubilation at the outcome of the talks that the TUC has aken a turther big step along the road of class-collaboraLittle help Both sides, it is reported, took the view that they could expect little further help from the government improving industrial relations' and it was up to employers and unions to make a fresh attempt to 'tackle the problem'.

The TUC-government June agreement to drive strikers back to work is rapidly becoming a dead letter as the present wave of 'unofficial' strikes-dustmen, miners, car workers-proves less and less amenable to "intervention' from on high.

In this situation, the trade union leaders are getting together with the employers to find new ways of ensuring 'industrial peace'—a peace of course at the expense of the There can be no industrial peace while wages are held down and while the employers are going ahead with Measured-Day Work, 'modernization' and plans for increased productivity.

correspondent TUC leaders are more and more becoming the open accomplices of the employers in their plans to step up exploitation and attack wages.

One other point to note is the composition of the TUC delegation at the talks.

Alongside such rightwingers as the NUR's Sidney Greene and the G&MWU's Sir Frederick Hayday was none other than Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union secretary.

Mr Jones is not known to have opposed the programme agreed at the talks and is said to be eager to put his own suggestions for 'reforming' procedure agreements in front of the CBI in the course of further talks.

composer sent to prison camp THE celebrated composer and opponent of the Greek military regime, Mikis Theodorakis, has been moved to a new detention place.

Previously confined in the mountain village of Zatouna in central Peloponesos, Theodorakis has now been transferred by the regime to the exile camp at Oropos prison; 30 miles north of Athens.

Well-known for his leftwing views Theodorakis has succeeded in smuggling out music and songs attacking the regime.

Because of his outspoken opposition to the regime, all his music has been banned.

In one celebrated case this led to the regime banning a performance of a play by the Greek classical writer Aristophanes because its incidennificance.

The delegation is headed by Husak, first secretary of the Czech Party, President Sroboda, Prime Minister Cernik and Strougal, regional leader of the The Czech spokesman said:

It is expected that at the end our delegation will sign a new document of fundamental political significance * with Soviet authorities.' He described the document as 'possibly the most significant since the signing of the Moscow protocol last year'.

PRESSURE

The 'Moscow Protocol' was the document signed by Dubcek and other leaders following the Kremlin invasion of Czechoslovakia August last year.

By a forelgn correspondent Its exact contents are still a secret, but reports leaked out included a demand 5° from the purge of 'liberals' from press radio, government and Party posts and the reimposition of censorship on all the media.

This new 'agreement', imposed on the country's government at the points of half a million gunclosely will tie Husak even HOTC to the Kremlin, whatever assurances he may give to the working class that there will be no return to the dark days of the Novotny regime.

It does not lie in his hands.

The rulers of Czechoslovakia live not in Prague, but in Moscow, where the swing back to the methods of Stalin is becoming pronoun ced everyday.

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