Lucas-CAV combine B'ham strikers fight on

'Co-operation' urged by Feather TUC backs down before Tory threat 'OUR approach to co-operation with this government is no different to any other government' Trades Union Congress general secretary Victor Feather told poliey-makers for 3,000,000 enIt was a speech which brought the headlong retreat of the top trade union brass before the Tories, already highlighted by the Workers Press, into pin-sharp focus.

barrage against the Tories. U.S. 'peace' plan threat to Arab In a little under 1,500 words, Feather's address to the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions' Isle of Man conference exposed to the working class the dangers behind the union leaders' 'left'-sounding AS EXPECTED, the US Secretary of State, 'Consultation with a gorernment, ran Feather's first William Rogers. vesterday announced his plan major policy statement since Acath's eluctoral vininijs la a for a cease-fire' in the It's not only our right, but Under the cover of a bid also our duty to continue to for peace, imperialism is press practical, relevant and trying to impose a settlement which will maintain Difference Israel as a base against the Arab revolution, while Argument about how much difference it made to have a allowing the Arab rulers Conservative government or a to appear 'militant' enough to hold the Arab masses in check.

The decision to send Phantom and Skyhawk jets to Israel-taken some time ago -has still not been made public. While the request for 125 But to claim that the Con- planes is not being granted in gress was 'knocking its head full, the State Department has decided to make good Israeli establishment thinking, losses as they occur. Was counsel Rogers' proposals were expected to call for a tem•What must be made clear porary cease-fire while UN is that if governments want mediator Dr Jarring arranges negotiations. These will be based on an Israeli declaration of intention to pull out of Each of the TUSC Feathal areas occupied in 1967.

Role told delegates, laid out 'what we think is a fair basis for a Discounting the expected declarations of both Arab and Heading his shopping-list of Israeli rulers that the proposals are loaded against them, we can see clearly the the role of the various imperialist agencies in attempting to force the deal through.

Meeting this week in Tripoli at the Libya independence celebrations, the rulers of the Arab states indulged in a mass money, there's a good place to of belligerent anti-Zionist statements.

All of them declared their there must devotion to the cause of the liberation of Palestine from give hand-outs to the wealthy imperialist occupation and their admiration for the problem of family poverty and guerrillas.

Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan And, apparently still un- leader, spokę of his belief in satisfied with the amount of Arab socialism, which, pie he had already floted explained, not derived skywards, Feather went on from Leninist, Marxist, Trotskyite doctrines. THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE ANNOUNCES DAVID MAUDE revolution ... Neither the East nor the West can influence us. We befriend those who befriend us and are hostile to those who are hostile to us ... The United States must not think we will establish strong relations with it so long as it shakes with one hand and HOGG HARNESSED AGAIN THE RT HON Quintin McGarel Hogg is no more.

Wearing his dad's clobber, the Tory bell-ringer for St Marylebone shuffled off this mortal coil and returned to the cold embrace of the Upper House via the WoolBY MARTIN ZARKOP Not a new experience for our latest Lord High Chancellor.

First relegated to the Museum of Antiquities in 1950 on the death of his father— the Ist Viscount Hailsham —reincarnation in the form of Hogg took place in 1963 following the successful exhuming of Sir Alec.

However, this divine intervention was not sufficient to prevent the Tory defeat Now he is back in harness, peering away in the interests of law and order, and leaving his former constituents to choose their TORY. Home Secretary Reginald Maudling parliamentary rep for the fifth time in seven years. N Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday of It was a simple ceremony,' on a 'fact-finding' tour, the Home Office said "The Times, 'full gentle historical yesterday. O history repeats itseli first as Marx once said— He will be examining the state of the army of occupaas tragedy, then as farce. tion sent into Ulster by his HA St James Park Chairman: M.

Editor Worke SUBMARINI •OCEAN MAIN W)- Tiri:"% Pickets out against SE London sackings PICKETS were outside the recently taken over by the by the company that any Erith, SE London, factory Standard Telephone Com- sackings or closures would of Submarine Cables yes- pany. take place. terday, where 400 men Atra mass meeting on The proposed sackings have been on strike since Monday, the workers voted at Submarine Cables follow the end of last week. unanimously to stay out a spate of closures in SE The strikers are fighting until redundancy notices London which have driven proposals to sack 280 of issued to women workers up the number of workers the 1,000 workers in the at the plant are withdrawn. unemployed in the area. company's Erith and The notices were handed Five unions are involved Greenwich factories.

Submarine Cables was officers after earlier denials are to meet today.

Maudling to visit Ulster next week BY A POLITICAL REPORTER is to visit next week announced Labour predecessor James Callaghan.

The Tory government has already decided to raise the strength of the occupation force by 3,000 to a total of 11,000 before the Orange Order parades on July 12, which are expected to lead to widespread disorders.

Maudling, who plans • to make his visit as informal as possible, will meet N Ireland premier James ChichesterClark, the commander of British forces and Stormont. MPs.

He has said he wishes all shades of. opinion, but it is not yet know whether he will have talks with Rev Ian Paisley's Protestant Unionists.

Maudling's haste in visiting the North of Ireland is an index of the Tories' interest in preserving the ChichesterClark Unionist regime.

It will undoubtedly prove the starting Point for increased repression in the six occupied counties.

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WORKS WEENWICH SE 10 out by gate - security in the strike. The strikers Confed. opposes THE Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions conference at Douglas, Isle of Man, yesterday declared its firm opposition to Britain entering the Common Market.

The representatives of 25 DIE CASTERS and plastics workers from Birmingham's Sparkhill Joseph Lucas plant yesterday continued their 17-day, two-round strike for a £9 increase in pay. entry unions voted in favour of a resolution moved by Clive Jenkins of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs which attacked the Treaty of Rome for its *injurious social, economic and political effects'.

They meet today against a background of growing anxiety amongst the big four' car giants— Ford, British - Leyland, Chrysler and Vauxhall--about their stocks of key electrical components.

Lucas's 6,500 laid-off workers may be joined by several thousand carworkers if the management refuses to up its f2 5s-a-week offer.

The men returned to work on the advice of union officials at the beginning of last week as verseas after a ten-day stoppage, but walked out four days later on being offered less than one-third of what they asked for.

Union pleas for a return have this time been rejected.

HARD LINE

Lucas appears to be taking a similar hard line, combined with a sol sell for productivity dealing, against a pay claim submitted by stewards at the Acton site of its CAV subsidiary.

SIL AND YOUNG SOCIALISTS Summer Camp, 186a Clapham High St, SW4. gives arms to Israel to strike us in Palestine with the other ..• "The hand which is extended to us must be cleansed of the blood of the people of Vietnam and Indo-China who are fighting for their freedom.' Yesterday it was announced in Moscow that Nasser is to visit the Soviet Union in the next two weeks. This follows the visit last week by U Thant, United Nations secretary-general.

The UN, which presided over the birth of the state of Israel in 1947,. will play a major part in the diplomatic manoeuvring now entering new stage.

attempt the big powers to impose a settlement which includes acceptance Zionist occupation of Palesthrows sharp relief all the political weaknesses of the Arab guerrilla leaders.

Class struggle

At the same time, the struggle against Zionism as the agent of imperialism develops increasingly into class struggle against the Arab landlords and capitalists.

But the guerrilla groups largely rely on support from the Arab government and from Moscow.

While they also indulge in declarations of their 'revolutionary, 'Marxist - Leninist' beliefs, even the most left wing of them are fundamentally aimed at putting pressure on imperialism.

This is the reason for the emphasis of some of them an terrorist attacks on targets like airlines and supermarkets.

In one of his many recent interviews, Habash, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said:

To more a an are lan more of an effect killing 100 of them in-battle; it attracts more attention.

'And when we set fire to a store in London, those flames are worth the burning down of two kibbutzim.

'Because we force people to ask what is going on and so they get to know tragic situation • It is right for Europe America to be warned that there will be no peace for them until there is justice for Palestine.' Not influenced But the present decision of the imperialists and their agents cannot be influenced by a few acts of sabotage.

Only the mobilization of the Arab workers and peasants in alliance with the workers of Israel and of the western countries can defeat imperialism.

To achieve this, a Marxist leadership and a socialist programme is necessary.

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Yet all this was addressed to a party whose slogan, Feather told trade unionists in Mitcham just ten days ago, should be "a writ in every pay-packet" •.. that's what their industrial relations policy adds up to'!!

Omitted

Reference to the TUC General Council's statement on the election-boosted by yesterday's Stalinist 'Morning Star' ás 'notice ... that they will continue to fight any attempts to pass laws about collective bargaining' — was completely omitted.

The reason for this is not difficult to see.

Like Transport and General Workers' general secretary Jack Jones, who suddenly discovered that 'even Tory trade unionists would join the rest in battling legal sanctions' Feather is hoping to construct a bridge to the Tory leaders and their financial experts.

"They are the people whose policy we have got to change, he said yesterday.

It was for this reason that Feather, the words of yesterday's Financial Times' Council to issue a moderatelyphrased statement on the election' and for this reason that the Council's 'lefts'-including_ Jones and Amalgamatéd Engineers' and Foundryworkers' president Hugh Scanlon-accepted his advice.

This is a warning to the whole trade union moveEveryone recognizes that the TUC must necessarily négotiate with governments on issues affecting the wages and conditions of trade union members.

But this must in no sense become class - collaboration with a ruling-class government committed, as Feather correctly pointed out at Mitcham, to transtorming the inions into its policemer against the working class.

But that was before the election of a Tory government. Now he is climbing down as fast as he can. struck for the right to have alternate Saturdays off.

At the same time mail van drivers in the provinces struck tor regrading and a £2 10sa-week pay increase.

Although Air France pilots have called off their two-day strike-due to start on Saturday—air traffic over France will be paralysed by a strike for two days from Sunday by air traffic controllers, in support of their demand that air transport be reorganized.

Navigation officers are to operate a work-to-rule for three days starting tomorrow, while Air France ground employees stage a two-hour warning strike today on their claim for a new agreement.

Reorganization

And in the French state arsenals over 90 per cent of workers are out on a strike, involving 6,000, which started on Wednesday against government proposals for reorganization and to allow private business in.

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