Workers Press no. 194

workers press

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 194

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1970

Tory govt versus dockers The first big wages clash

DELEGATES

representing 47,000 registered

DOCKERS

dockworkers issued the first maior industrial

BY JOHN SPENCER

challenge to the new Tory government when

COMMENT

they unanimously decided at a London meeting Ex - Minister yesterday to give 14 days' notice of strike action when their present national wage agreement quits expires on June 29. Fianna Fail Transport and General Ulster premier Workers' national docks

BY A

officer Timothy O'Leary

CORRESPONDENT

after the told reporters for 'security' meeting that he had been instructed exhausi nterests of unty. PrOLCHUIC talks here "That meeting tod atter a means at this five-hour m moment that unless there the is a new offer, it is the

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

on Erine Minister Lynchacks end of the road. We have

NORTHERN IRELAND

Major decided to do it in premier properly-organized fashion.

James Chichester-Clark is to visit London whethern carrare Juring the next fortnight for talks with the swas acros the user borde new Tory government. DO KEE Test quite In particular, he will теме веси be seeing Home Secret- driven." the does implore he to pace a ary Reginald Maudling,

SPEAK UP COLLAN & MATTHEWS

tougher attitude under a Tory decisior wno look over respon ease tin base pay from sibility for propping up une lotally ascreated About the Polish government scabbing of the Eire cement strike.

Tory-Unionist Stormont • Ministerse have saidonalization is stopped; he POLISH cement regime the being racing a major and blar clash. James Callaghan at the Imported Where do Matthew: of 750 Wor ley stand on scabbing by end of last week. which is snot Press: you stand? and st They will undoubtedly discu Challenge tightenin i by the acted or scan the Est aced socialist in Britain.

•We're givin remains completely silent.

away with * ber of areas. More and more Com ake fal decision nig Party members and The British A Certain that the Tories established tha Supporte more or admit that you support i.

Aberdeer & nation recline or the doe ever in the province. tians the only "reform' that ense of unregistered labour an expect i mber Piecework rates in ok it queston told demand, Clerical workers Tories warm up have been dealt with long ago.

troops a Dockers stressed 5-year plan at No. 10 end union yesterday. cking NO DECISION on whether ent. We want HQ strike there is to be an autumi likely to be discussed. Budget announced fol- Coper and handing charges • desi Labour was lowing yesterday's 45-minute Shichester-Clark con- nouse-warming meetine ol THE 250 non-salaried staff at the AEF's the new Tory Cabinet. peckham Litself headquarters return to work today after 14 days of eramins large in papes Ministe strike action. in the counti Mated Thered t universis damn ultan three

I A WORKERS PRES

that onl re orted t they organize or 4745 0,000 axendi taking Scanlon the owest paid books' is and Administrative Corriers "Zorba' But checking the ikely to 80 on until the firsit posal was acc and SadAT recommen talks of 'refo "develo committe had i July tements for ment' and five-year plans, partiament an tily assembled set the o romise trth

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man rows

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE ANNOUNCES

over

IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING

Deadline health negotiations nich the their Monday June 29, are "The working class egotiation: check At mediate backdrea 8 p.m. beached on can defeat the GREEK composer Mikis he impl Theodorakis arrived new pleted job-evaluation exercise

CAXTON HALL

London vesterday for ar Tory government' Hall concert on Tune 28 - but only after ( nr. St James Park tube )

CIGAR RISE

an argument with Heath- row Airport health officials.

Theodo of Zorb the creek Speaker: G. HEALY Chairman: M. BANDA an he are on a i SLL national secretary Editor Workers Press E130 for women.

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

COUSINS

PRESENTS

stewards meet

LAST

COMMUNITY

RELATIONS

REPORT?

BY DAVID MAUDE

SHOP STEWARDS at British-Leyland's car and commercial vehicle plants met yesterday to dis- cuss new labour relations proposals from the combine's top management.

Many stewards fear that Militiestillilistentifis moves made by the com- £1000 June the last week pany during could add up to a three- Appeal Fund pronged attack on jobs, wages and conditions. now at Two aspects of the car giant's thinking were out- £601 16s 5d lined to leaders the Confederation of Ship-

THERE IS

NO building and Engineering

TOOM

comp aceney. testeroat's Dost Unions on Monday. only broughi Drawing attention to British- Leyland's million after drop COmInE verY prohits the first half of the

STALL.

AlKI Dasl We Current unan honed that past the post Clal year. recenty aobolnted we wond Pat time this labour relations but have obviously LOWrV claimed that responsible for some problems. had beer £8-£10 million the tal! insider for a moment the Tory of is back and the ourly-paid must • rally the Working WOTKeLS al lace class to fight back by agement represencauves, union step towards oncias ame stewards.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

period party

PAY LEVELS

over

REPORTER

ahead will help Warning that Leyland could no longer afford increases always *THERE will be isolated

PAY

of the level instances of unthinking We need E398 35 seems expected Lowry antagonism,' Mr Frank matter we have six days to get it.

laimed rises had Post your donations at once

COSL

of Cousins, chairman it some f12.5 Community Rela- the Me nobee that the union Workers Press would not now v press cams Appeal Fund tions Commission, told they did the gnpon i en dustrial am High Street, 186a Cla reporters yesterday. London, SW4. Addressing a the pre In the background lies last CRC's report tot 1969-1970, the weeks comome statemen ou General

T.U.C.

LOL

secretary general vy nie Leyland retused Transport Workers' Union stated that chiefs the alecto of the Tore clea victory redundancy tions was an open question.

get to difficult answer been nion whether DrouuCuon manua workers, Mid- know? attitude better or one

SHOD

stewards at lands plant claim that detailed been placed targets amounting It depended on how the Tories cent overall have Tories by local manage- dealt with their 'intolerant before them group'.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

As was

UNPRECEDENTED

Ten man concerned we would have to

CORRESPONDENT

Midlands 'wait and see. steward told the Workers Press that

TRADE UNIONS

had The report itself is the usual labour-cut this order mixture-lass Economic crisis a time wher been afraid of never conflict would not drowned change, but out phrases and have it imposed on them, gooding' intentions. the company's anacover said outgoing Confedera- 'Progress' There is a widespread tear tion of Shipbuilding and that the cuts are to be borne Engineering Unions' pre- almost exclusively day- ' is encouraging that despite workers- normally known sident Percy Hanley yes- there has been real progress non-production terday morning. har- low arus ane mergaoonruness. 'We have shown ourselves evens: (para most deprived Morris complex, of course.

capable of meeting anv chal- areas.' (para. has been amongst dayworker lenge serace. The con- cnat une company has claimed in opening the CSEU's proposed lory attack on drive to intro- the Isle of Man conference. social services duce the hated Measured-Day slashing monsing antonen Work and job-evaluation: sys In London, however, Trades chiefs ictos pubile. expenditure without success. course not mentioned. Seather But a labour cut, combinec and continues to 'getting- Hitcase

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meeting Tory Em day allernoon will Productiviti ployment and Minister Koben canr Tory 1nC11ST1121 Carr which will responsible for implementing for Tory aid challenges but threatens to take them back to 1906! INCHE JOHARI, Minister be Tory policy!! course it is not exactiv Already talks the first commerce ane noustry in tie the vorter seeme in SAFE manne UnOn have met Carr. ani communist Malevian government of Tunku Raman, the Vorster regime For over a year now, they with large-scale military equip- has expressed hopes that will troops maintain ment. in hi Ultra - right - wing dictator- and official statement ships House in the Far East are also of Monday, cue

TOT

sale • ust. m case Tories that they had promised and all on reduced government ine DrOCesSIOn 10 - spending. Elec. to reverse me decision or the cluded Muller, the S Africar Wilson government to with- Les tricians and draw troops from the Far Foreign Minister, Cannon, the Secretary East: General's "Ale •Malaysia that rentin of the scent Sach Douglas-Home. Heath will keep word and continued The date Is Engineers Foundryworkers' Hugh Scan- S Attican Embassy. Malaysia and

DIESCHCE

throughout the Far East will 10m.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 194

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1970

Tory govt versus dockers The first big wages clash DELEGATES representing 47,000 registered

DOCKERS

dockworkers issued the first major industrial

BY JOHN SPENCER

challenge to the new Tory government when

COMMENT

they unanimously decided at a London meeting Ex - Minister yesterday to give 14 days' notice of strike action when their present national wage agreement quits expires on June 29. Fianna Fai Transport and General Ulster premier Workers' national docks

BY A

officer Timothy O'Leary

CORRESPONDENT

told reporters after OF VIN BOLAND, ex-Ministe for 'security' meeting that he had been mistructed exnausu interests of unity. procedure, talks here "That means

THIS

moment cnat unless unere is a new offer, it is the

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

enu or une rodo. vve nave decided to do

NORTHERN

premier Major

IRELAND

re saste properly-organized fashion.

the sacking James Chichester-Clark is to visit London sympathy of these the i were later whether cacare. Juring the next fortnight for talks with the arrested Minist happy we are new Tory government. guns across the

DUNDEE DOCKER

Forres n barucuar. newil be seeing Home Secret-

SPEAK UP GOLLAN & MATTHEWS

ary Reginala Maudling: who took over respon- tourer attitude under a Tory sibilly for propping up totally discredited s attende er that the About the Polish government scabbing of the Eire cement strike.

his bottom e facing a one a mar •or-unionist stormont Labour's regime from Where do Linday ames canagnan at une end of last week. vou Stand? indoubted ightening Challenge Pala role to roar Ho rates When the basic gonnape hallenge Heath will face government see expected to lea avay wit it with anyone. love a heal decisio paper of *Bar Tooe The British Army ed that Certain that the Tories : commit docks option aza that Party secretary Irish workers can ex пос оціа deter increase demand, of occupying Tories warm up Clerical workers troops. Dockers 5-year plan at No. 10 end union intention grandiloquen new Elster ports ve-year plan, the NO DECISION on whether HQ strike is handled by is also there is to be an autumr Stern to par Budget was announced hot aper and handling lowing yesterday's 45-minute overnment 'house-warming' meeting of THE 250 non-salaried staff at the AEF's Peckham the new ory cabinet headquarters return to work today after 14 days of une everd Ministershe Exchedu strike action. at thry found The stoppage was

YA WORKERS PRES

control, demand for ports? president Hugh Scanlon the lowe natinea!, "Zorba' worker But omicials of the call This Administrative amended e for and tove-ye and SOGAT in mens committee had re the o action July 2 alternative suggesti man rows

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that their which has

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE ANNOUNCES

over beginning to come in.

IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING

health Deadline "The working class Monday June 29, check 8 p.m. can defeat the GREEk composer Ilkis heodorakis arrived based yesterday for an

CAXTON HALL

leted job-evaluation exercis London Tory government' Albert Hal concert Tune 28 — but only after ( nr. St James Park tube )

CIGAR RISE

an argument with Heath row Airport health officials.

Theodo ok Zorba the Greek Speaker: G. HEALY Chairman: M. BANDA SLL national secretary Editor Workers Press when he arrived €130 for women.

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

COUSINS

British-Leyland

PRESENTS

stewards meet

LAST

COMMUNITY

RELATIONS

REPORT?

BY DAVID MAUDE

SHOP STEWARDS at British-Leyland's car and commercial vehicle plants met yesterday to dis- cuss new labour relations proposals from the combine's top management.

Many stewards fear that moves made by the com- £1000 June pany during the last week could add up to a three- Appeal Fund pronged attack on jobs, wages and conditions. now at Two aspects of the car giant's thinking were out- £601 16s 5d lined to leaders of the Confederation of Ship-

THERE

NO for building and Engineering room Yesterday' Unions on Monday. 2112530 brawine altention to british- Levland's £18.2 drop millon aller XU00 profits during the s lệ like t of half of the current finan- hrst cial would e ahis® labour relations di STRI ES month, ime Lou claimed that obviously ha-10 for some problems. fall. million ELatide Cae y anes Press moment the proposed the Dans ur situat government joint labour relations back council overine has a vitat Job to do Tue ComDany s noumr-ocu We

HUSU

rally Ine worKi? workers and made uo ot man- clas: fight by agement representatives, union b% step fot arde officials and stewards. revolu-

BY A WORKERS PRESS•

PAY LEVELS

over the period ulularypdrLy

REPORTER

alcal. Warning that Leyland could will help sure Jo ger in 'THERE will be isolated

PAY

always level that n There little time to uUlC• Is instances of unthinking seems to We need £398 3s Td and capellcu JUsC• of antagonism, Mr Frank naller coulrse

LOWIY

we lave six days 1o sel lle that rises had claimed |

COST

Post your donations at once of Cousins, chairman Il some t1z.) milllon. to: He hoved that the unions the Community Rela- would not now py is destrial w orkers rress 186a Colen, S% Sire, tions Commission, told reporters yesterday. ompan, of tht o resegu thces o resist them regardles Adressing a press of the rence on the occasion the pub. the background lies last ication of the was icsul 1969-1970, weck s comome sitemen on 101 ine

T.U.C.

ODD.

general secrerarv OI se W ille Leviano retused Tansor itenera national level to comment vorrers' Union statec th: chiefs the numbers it wants then a fects of the Tory elec- rid through tion add dat ay tions was an open question.

'get to 'It described been CiTCHT TO answer til e tere os the whether pr ucu on manuai workers. know? shap attitude or Ste WaTes one Уu0- not, he said anas plant claim tat derarled amounting to 5 per targets It depended on how the Tories cent overall have been placed Tories dealt with their 'intolerant before them by local manage- group.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

As fair as revaumar'on was

UNPRECEDENTED

concerned we would have to

CORRESPONDENT

Midlands told 'wait and see'. sleward the Press that Workers TRADE UNIONS had The report itself is the usual labour-cut Tinis order Economic afraid of suixture.

ONSUS

Conne a tume when nar never been are going up--was 'un anal Class COniC cucon Is but would not phoanes and a weter of dos out precedented', change, arowned with thy han core is be no usad have it imposed on them, gooding' intentions. the company's said outgoing Confedera- *alere ns a widespread fear intentions'. 'Progress' tion of Shipbuilding and that the cuts are to be borne Engineering Unions' pre- It is encouraging that, despite ailese exclusively DV cav- environmental lifficultie sident Percy Hanley yes- worKers normalv known there has been real p indirect', not 'non-production terday morning. mamua warkerd At Leyland's Oxford Austin- 'We have shown ourselves Morris complex, om ple, od acune, is areas. (para. M.ost deprve of • Vcal ill has enimed in opening tite SUS The proposed Tary attack on company its intro- the social UlUYC Isle of Man conterence. the hated Measured-Day housing through aney Cre evet Vita Trades public and iob-evaluation sus- expenditure Union tems. so lar wirnout success.

course not mentioned. Su an inere prod. Sidnev and ureene If the

CRC

to continues with an increase produc- reamner arenced

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meeting to-Know-vou vester. day afternoon with Tory Em- and Productivity Minister Robert Carr Malaysian regime asks milti be inda cal responsible for implementting, for Tory aid challenges only une Inlous. out areaens to taki nem ack o a be Tora do calis INCHE JOHAR, Minister of Ot colrse it is not eractu Commerce and Industry the first time union leaders anti-communist Malaysian the orster reTime ins Aric have met Carr. Raman, a year now, they ba end resti m meyment members ex rese r with large-scale military be Torese collp•

LIOUDS

Icll. Productivity Vua •ron- winecator. dilu onuluucc official statement ships of the House ll an In the rar rast are aso Iot funca ad Mondav same ONarl Teminded une «ule Tor the TaVO1. Commons — just in case. Tories that ther and all on reduced government procession has had oromised Sute to reverse the decision of the spending. Feather, the cucedi tricians and Wilson government with- Dr Muller, Plumbers' une anca callsked draw troops the Foreign Minister, has Transport East: Secelare courtesy Foreign Alen Malaysia Scientific, Tech- that Heath will keep Douglas-Home. and DUalIs that continued The date is being arranged DILLId Office and roundryworkers' Hugh Scan- presence inanaysa Ine t'orell Torousnou une rar cast wıll • Alrican omDassy. 101.

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FRIDAY THE 19TH—

the day of the election results. On the M4 the lanes thick with are Rolls-Royces and Bent- leys. The sun gleams on the polished coach work. The year is 1970. This week I'm not doing a theatre column, but the mainstreet of Ascot suggests qualities associated Cellail with an Ivor Novello musical.

We are oft to the watch classes upper at play pae of their whạt has been always ma or cultual preoccupalions. norse racine. They and strut and slarati, • snulle ana surrue along une toppers sıdewalks in grey grey frock coats, the women in floppy hats. There are 'no parking' signs everywhere. police i ne snirtsleeves wave on the lower-ciass minis, but appear to pay no attention Rolls-Royces that park will and release their aristo- cratic cargoes There is a baby elephant in and the street who anners lallalils wave announcing that the end 1s at nana. A procession of coach and fours clatter out of the Royal enclosure. There may be the resignation deed Wilson as already con- LaDOul government. ceded deleat, but such trivla allowed to interfere real business of the monarch, on the cute talent TurI. 50s turn- Inside, past the the plebs on the for

SLICS (OS

of the course we other siae enter wonderland. queue is a long une aole way away Ior the inmates, the 730 shilor the car bal ime. arrears, or the production only track here is springy and green Inis is the social and cul- high point of capitalism, tural squandering their ill-gotten gains on horse Dack. A private matter And it's exclusive too. The notice i all description Forbidde with exceDu Cannel lea omcia baages speus out in no uncertain terms that une cavi- talist class at play is a private public consumption police are there to All Lit ensure this privacy. The lawns stretch belore us.

paddock, the horses urces. clip around, supporting hefty bums, over the DIcu announces une odds, like left may not have been able to prices a vicar in a black lor shouted me last stock brokers of the turf, and tell the hat studies a form cara, in fizz and spill Labour and Tory, there is some point miles away over champs te blue and that could see the no such confusion at Ascot.

no awnings marked horses were off. rrom marcute well get you your Pare to orry he deal Ivyal cucuse, wnites mysteriously (snaue Was and the worry not cranine. watting in the black face in sight) a voice survice shoute cou louder. Cull air. willing champagne rasps mentator Wildl We've really got a cause to Surely they must all break hut tor the it seemed an experi celebrate'. Into song rom i sad like nor act of faith by the stands a mili- Over i ns ls some brief strikes film set I'm watching, directed tary Drass Dalla thundered by Asquith ! 'Spread a little moment ten horses our view and ll Was elec- inte rignt of tne The jockeys mount in the over. tronic scoreboard, the election paddock. In the koyal enclosure the!

chalked up Like little gnomes some of left their seats and went There is an air of minues. trudged their • way wistfully. the them,' woman jubilation. says d yet again back the paddock the to And Ils over relief, sates a ather wah froey next batch flock says strapping horsey they nordes

VIEW

stand. lacers. shading her face from the sun. The band struck up again wollan. Not being, I admit, a racing me somen at ite bookin At one entrance to the royal somewhat, bookies enclosure there was a notice Some political groups on the .

Toppers and frock coats at Ascots.

- - I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

LEAGUE,

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name A Gotess which said, 'Members of the iron stand only. I took this to mean either some obscure aristocratic sect else a reference the to or sexual prowess of the inmates.

I looked at the old top- hatted dodderers with a new kind of amazement. It's mar- vellous what science will do these days for an ailing pros- state. Privilege preserved, the old customs continue. Though not quite. Among the sagging faces brigade, the buck-teeth there is coarser stock under- some of the toppers. neath The hats are set slightly at an angle, and the shoulders are thickly padded, and the more gypsy curls spring out around the ears. The heavy mob are here mingling with the élite, the

WORKERS PRESS

millionaires of scrap metal and the motor trade. 'Go on me son, go on me beauty,' shouts, he a voice from the back streets in top hat and tails. All the operators are here, the jump-up merchants, the property wheelers and dealers, the con-men, the scrap mer- chants, the gangsters, as much part and parcel of the capital- ist system as the bankers and the count. It's villainy that unites them, graft, corruption, their hands in other people's pockets.

The charade proceeds through the warm June after- noon. More champagne, more losses, more wine. The heat and drink start to take their effect. The benches are littered with the snoring rich. In the bars the barmaids run off their feet are getting irritable. A row breaks out 'ser- between customer and vant' about mustard. 'You get it yourself, she says. 'Who do you think you're talking to,' he says. talking to you, she I'm says. You get it yourself.'

Rage He stomps off defeated, but her rage hasn't subsided.

'Who does he think he is?'

she says and then, with fervour and passion, 'Shitbags!' My sentiments entirely. But I've had enough of their revels.

They may have something to celebrate. Like the flutter on the stock exchange that morn- ing the confidence may have flowed a little. has-beens, But these are jokes, idiots, fossils, weak be- wildered men, clutching on to the last vestiges of their privi- leges, nostalgic for the old and they'd love them days, back With the Tories in power maybe they are entertaining illusions. Maybe they think they can take on the British working class, because they'll have to survive. But that's a race where the favourites are on the other side of the stand. Whether Ladbrokes are lay- ing odds on that I wouldn't like to say. Wednesday, June 24, 1970

BBC 1

REGIONAL

mother. 12.25-12.55 Wei thier. 91. 10.45-11.00 a.m Watch with 1.30 1.00-1.25 Disc dawn. News and weather. nava leevan CHAN S02 30na Satay or cere 440 Jackanow 455 The maaic puzzle. 5.20 Tom Wimhledon 1970 5.50 NEWS and weather.

WIMBLEDON 1970.

THE DOCTORS

MISCION IMPOSSIRI E. 'The Helr Annarent'.

Show 8.50 NEWS and weather. 9.10

FROST

OVER AMERICA. David Frost talks to Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor about their work and their life together.

Midst Sea'. Story of 10.00

HE WHO DARES.

of an Empty Ine nennle who survived against ali odds 10 20 11.05 CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870. A celebration.

11.30

WEATHER.

HARLECH:

REGIONAL BBC

1. 800 F All regions as BBC 1 except: Midlands to ay, k East, 6.00-6.152 Seem HTV West colour channel 61 as above Northern 423-4:25 Scene west. 6.01-6.35 Scene En kentines and weather around six, weather. West: 6.00-6.15 HTV Wales colour channel 41 as above sorindi .00 6 3 Reporing Scotiand, iN.43'Yydd. 12.15 Weather.

black and whit,

BBC 2

11.00-11.20 a.m. Play school pets day. 4.30-6.20 p.m. Wimbledon 1970.

7.30 NEWS and weather. 8.00 MAN ALIVE. 'Adopting a Problem'. There are long queues of yo Pose 4020 omen and tucker adopters in Britain Davles Collection'. 8.50 'The

CANVAS.

neluding police five. SHOW OF THE WEEK. Mantovani and his concert orchestra.

0 10| 44 00/

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THA

The lawn Tennis Championshibs 'CRY OF NUKUMANU. Documentary about a tiny island in the 10.40 NEWS and weather. 11.20

11.95 LINS.UP.

House, 425 Marinee.

ITV

1970 World Cup. 4.17 Tingha and Fucker clar. 4030 Crosroads, 4h 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Anything you can do. 5.20 5.50 Ne

MONTY AND

KENNETH.

Modlyn and Kenneth Robinson.

Who Liked Lions'. 6 an

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'The Mar ÷ ••

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8.00 'The Steal-Drivina Man'. CALLAN. «Amos Green Must Live'.

SCOTTISH:

seraduate 10.00

NEWS.

NEAREST AND DEAREST.

1 0 20 PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING from the Fairfield Halls, Croydon.

fi. 00 Late call 103 two ondor 1100 Maurice le Rue v Judo Al Haves and Tibor Szakacs v Black 43 London. 35 0 Grampian new 11.45 FOR PEACE. Leonard Parkin talks to 12.00 Midnight Brigadier Michael Harbottle who was with the United Nations.

forces in Cyprus.

Wednesday, June 24, 1970

MEASURED - DAY

WORK is a system of payment in which the worker must attain a fixed predetermined level of performance, defined by work-study, in order to qualify for a fixed rate of pay. It is the fixed-rate system of payment most suited to production-line processes and the system which the em- ployers want in place of piece-work. Payment is usually a fixed amount over and above the basic rate. For example, a worker earning his reaching certain target levels of work. These levels would be set according to time-and-motion

DIVORCED

A fundamental difference be- tween this system and piece-work is that, where workers in a suc- cessful PBR scheme are working at above-average levels of pay and can attain in payments excess of 'standard'), under MDW they are always below 'standard' and constantly striving even to reach a normal payment. With this system he would not get extra money even if he did go over the top. As we can see, MDW is totally divorced from The output. actions and energy expended at standard performance may pro- duce one item or a thousand, or, in conjunction with new machinery, they may produce 10,000 items. As far as the boss is concerned this has no connec- tion with the worker, who simply gets paid according to an action- time formula. MDW is now the most fav- oured system with the govern- ment and the employers. Revised piece-work and work- new studied types of incentive bonus scheme are seen merely as stages towards the eventual introduction of MDW.

ARGUMENTS

Trade union leaders are playing along with this by digging out all the old arguments against piece- work and bonus schemes, and by claiming that the introduction of Measured-Day Work is simply a "time-rate' reversion to superior system. The advantages claimed for Measured-Day Work over con- ventional Payment - by - Results are given in the PIB systems report 65. Some examples are: • an increased flexibility in the deployment of the labour force because the risk to individuals of a fall in earn- in work ing from changes assignments is reduced 'In. • two cases cited the maintenance of perform ance records enabled the fore- man to exert pressure on low performers, and there were provisions for the dismissal of workers who continuously per- formed below expectations.

WORKERS PRESS

THE

CRISIS IN

FACTORIES

BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

6 Measured day work and other systems of "Produc- tivity' payment where

MDW

the hole *re time. However asured Day not appea core, in so tar as rat ou , of argument vision and the threat super far as it i trol waiven maintain things of the and the it, MDW is within cannot be argued ystem ma design seems pees -groups to see foremen formers sure an The Know the i which regotiation out Sim tale out the ederate which has led Fordi at a he eds of itle with very little operating an e industry Under Moy. this is no longer • ive hood the case. be the experience nty certainly post of the front-piecer in waget reate an and the

REVIEW

selves.

LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE

MAN PE

usually abased under Jobclassification on ar review es which thể carot with the stick.

replaces Some of those who retuse to MDW in the car industry DW is the form of payment which has le ord and Vauxhall to wage packets £10 to £1.

than plants in the motor industry like British Leyland who are still operating the piecework system. A worker at Vauxhalls' told the Workers Press : 'The standard-time system has got to a stage now nee vou are not even a maclic, you lo a woune uo nervous wreck. we coulan co anv faster'.

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dismissal The the bri also expia threats into operation explains that put into agains this exact she him in question was using a example given and PMTS •redeterminea motion -time ne walte system ased Measured-Da I Work with will PIE's report will stow from more The thetrol ever the lab mataren management Rootes clear that show the • татот this deal as a system rOle given long-term strict control of the work force an MTM system the per- level is to formance fault mamazement than those of other methods. An strong pressure

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each ance rating the sad to be peen esponsibility for ensuring tha be are maindi ned lies wie seeps performance contracted tight Sakers Pres rea United concept Kingdom floor supervision. daywork performance. can see from these As wel We are not pointing this out xamples, there is nothing volun in order to prove that one system tary about MDW. A worker car a machine; is better tham another but merel take home his basic rate you're wound-up nervous to show how methods are conditioned solely by the require- wreck any couldn't faster.' level of payments ase to te Once these industrial miscondie d ments employels lished, what made, etc. Measurer that is one sets number separate plan' 'premium operated by a large electrical en gineerine proud. The most powerful indictment of und inster Alt Trades Uni be made is to b Alliance directly attack

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Trade sales handing bank bal beyond the economic ances to is last mended melon in placing Let us never the is have dropped by Tory victory, must not escape three days earlier, its complacent that the Not only that. The treacherous role they were sison a miny So, if the on slip under a nor to as mite as known surrealist moder thange reath- ment even more vigorously than bout nad I got back ready Labo to be pressured and argued with. ed No ente too man pressure And nobody can governments parties behind Cess, rid co the Communic i made to spire the trade effort candidates suffered.' 'Morning Star', Friday, June 19.)

party The Communist Party of Grea which created attempts succeeded, nave average was way behind et us tate note however Th week, they got an average of 655 Stalinists rang up well over votes times 1963, Clements and was much higher than the rest of the crowd have hard as his public rependent People 5 The seame were as relevant to the eléction hand, other eyes the workers as ant significantly crank in the country. lass than

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Co-op strikers i picket 10 head office

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRASPONDENI

MASS

picket Co - operative insurance Society (CIS) agents, who strike for a £3-a- week travel allowance, is planned for today outside Society's Manchester The head office. WHILE SOVIET and Israeli represent I be meeting as Dundreds meeting as hundred engaged in talks in Washington with the 7,500 aments InvOLVed

THOU SOUT

are Department this week, the rulers of se expected to take part in the demonstration. states are holding a 'summit' in Tripoli The agents' the Union Shop, The aims of all these discussions are the same: Worker has re. and the

CIS

to find a way to impose a settlement on the Middle hutted claim that the dispute could East which of the Arab will halt the advance revolution. ine Cis, the union says, 1s U Thant, UN secretary-general, told reporters that he learned in Moscow last week of 'new elements reference. that could narrow the differences on the Middle East' between US Soviet the and governments. last the tew dave Israeli papers have reported Ms ip to say she Mrs Golda STUDENTS at Belgrade University began negotiate basis states, hunger strike on Monday in support of Bosnian Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 coal miners. 1,000 miners at the Kakanj pit had Nasser has declared he is stopped work when they found their wages had nrenared for a cease-hre on such terms. been cut by 20 per cent. The delayed decision by

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the State anartment When they tried to send about the sale of fighters to a delegation

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Israel means of 60 to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, increase their anerage of 67 present police made them get off af Secretary a week. as wel William Rogers is expected the train. recuction Working to make a statement on this hours to klaiweek The solidarity between question later this week. ot hearing this news. the only the • - Srael students decided they wond students and workers is very and US-Soviet have tale go on hunger strike, demand- imnortant made some progress. ing that the Yugoslav Federal 1968, Belgrade students government make demonstrated against the Lever are given right-wing tendencies which enough able dominated Tito's policies.

eat meat a week adershise the nihitaSy wiet once he tonite leaders leaders aid vear denounced the move. They, also Nasser also declared that ment Yugoslav stud- continue thair to control Egyptian policy "Trotskyist' hunger strike until the public the same time 'Stalinist'. Reper of indices than the indicate about the Meane hite, ir The Coal n the bureaucrats strike followed strike month hostility to the work. were demanding a 5o-per-cent Croatia. and miners In class.

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Tuly Orange Orde wasn't declared Cabinet •We have frequently this Trades lecided todav. atternoon' iterated that we Wive General Union Conoresc interfered and not Sir Sidney Caname. the intertare Croone se ha loft vectorinuc "Aline of the Arch catac Department Printer Robert are 'Wo have an ambition to with assume power. Our constant Tory «There were commit- slogan guns should be asked directed at We have observed ciner sets Everyone must slogan either Victor observe genera secretart that He added a warning tha claiminair there esther. deal the which rocked hod hapn hantina could comms prund an the desire.

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Wednesday, June 24, 1970 Guerrillas 'Zorba' Talks in Washington & Tripoli

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advance in it the a he onl U.S.-Soviet pressure • Home Office official said later: Thailand Mr Theodorakis has ber lowed in as a visito The prison for danger to public Lon Nol's family for Mid-East deal by has wite and hdren flees Phnom Penh When released,

THE

PRO-US regime in Thailand Is now har since dact an opera- guerrilla endangered by growing activity, according Prime Minister to its Thanom Homes drop Kittikachorn.

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

Alter his meeting with ACCORDING to the Ministry and military government Saigon He said that 'should leaders Jast ambodia Friday, Kittikachorn stated pared lit during other SE than on Monday that he would 1969 Workers' Alliance continue to give military months assistance to the besieged gur1970 ta is 136,264 of lancing on the Lon Nol regime in Phnom as against 142,966 for the same Penh. period last year. first inkin recities in NE Thailand. thei annual Tottering The whole Cambodian congress and PREMIER CONGRES DE LAL' iANCE OUVRIFRE territorial

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Asked i" day of hi

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the Workers' Alliance, which is closely

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danger divisa lent in th connected with the French section of the International Committee the Fourth International, held its first acording, bombe kompong annual conference in Paris.

been in Vietnam frontier.) CĞT, breakdown of e in FEN, 1, 50,18 follows are as Pessimistic

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Lon Nol obviously wipt ofessi Rakosi faces Ulster Massacre in Mrs Gandhi i his

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Spanish greets murder Unionisk of his own Ulster mly behind the Rev Yat More Lucas Heath Sahara who accusation lay-offs betrayal or User victory

BY A WORKERS PRESS

class at the same

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THE WIDOW of Laszlo Raik.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FURTHER

onponents work … once neac or ine Lucas Hungarian Communist Party, and executed in 1949 HASSAN II, reactionary king

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ai the contesterday alter a irame-up trial, nas put down a legal charge of murder against Rakosi, who ruled Hungary until

MRS

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GANDHI,

Chichester-Clark asting factories is domed fom the star: socialist following massacre the revolution of Peded Mer name Rakosi, More demonstrators there last week.

workers Smokescreen

COUSINS

crowd 650 walked ou when than ten 'My extra f9-a-week broke down.

Tories and the Unionist since 1956

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assuming the attempt Pound back Minister. once

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n the six counties will be further strengthened level a French-domin-

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