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think ALL THE archaic pomp and pageantry surrounding yesterday's opening of Parliament was a fitting presentation for the reactionary and anti-working-class nature of the Tory governBrict plagiles of the gramme pelined in the Moscow demands Arab concessions to Israel RUSSIAN representative on thet four-power Middle East talks, Jakob Malik, is rumoured to have presented a Soviet proposal which makes big concessions to the Zionists. The Russian leaders are BY JOHN CRAWFORD calling for the Arab states to récognize the right of the Israeli state to exist 'within secure and recognized boundaries.' This is to be . granited before an Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied in 1967.

This is the Kremlin response to the US "peace plan outlined by Secretary of State Rogers.

Reported

These reports are in line with the plan referred to in Nouvel Observateur' and reported in Workers Press earlier this week.

They confirm that the US plan was formulated on the basis of the expected Moscow collaboration in pressurizing Nasser into selling out the Palestine liberation Nasser's talks in Moscow are continuing as part of this project.

Several of the Arab zuerrilla leaders make militant statements about the 'THE KEY to this dispute is the unity of the workers', said AEF shopsteward Harry Stevens (above standing), chairman of yesterday's mass meetintroducing his General Election manifesto just over a month ago, all the 'old friends' are there including anti-union laws, the strengthening of 'law and order' and legislation against immigrant workers.

session, expected to lasit until speech a! 'framework law in which improved indus trial relations can ‚develop'improved, that is, for the em.

fight against Zionism until victory, but without saying clearly where they stand on the present talks.

An Al-Fatah broadcast sory cooling off periods from Cairo this week threatened to resume fighting in Jordan if King Hussein does not denounce the US plan.

'There will never peaceful conditions in Jordan as long as talks continue about this country supporting peaceful solutions to the Middle-East conflict,' the statement said.

No declaration But, although the guerrillas have forced Hussein to appoint a new govern- promised legislation on em. ment under Rifai, which is more influenced by AlFatah, Hussein has still not made a public declaration on the American proposals.

In any case, the main issue is not what Hussein says in public, but what Nasser and the Soviet bureaucracy are doing in cerch-hu private. st ertions for int demonstra. tions. shape up between labour and capital, would only pay out the wages at 3 p.m., four hours after the meeting.

A delegation was sent to attion the demand immediate payment. As Mr Heath said in In the coming parliamentary be introduded a he pull authors of yesterday's A SUGGESTION by the strike committee at May and Bakers, made Dagenham, to take over the chemical factory and lock out non-union labour was taken up enthusiastically by the 1,800 strikers (a section of whom are seen above) at their football stadium meeting yesterday.

Measures are also threa reject new 15 p.c. offer The meeting decisively rejected the firm's latest offerthe last of three: of a 15 per cent increase with frings.

According to the strike committee following the General Election results an 1lt per cent offer was reduced to the original 10 per cent ofier.

S Shields CS gas used only by the army THE TYPE of CS gas which affected several people ir Tuesday night's explosion in a S Shields public hous (reported in Workers Press resterday) is strictly con trolled by all the armed services. SHOP STEWARDS at British-Leyland's Morris Motors plant in Oxford are angrily denying allegations contained in a leaflet issued this week by the revisionist International Socialism' group that in one section of the factory the company has 'gone one step nearer Measured-Day Work'.

"This is a complete fabrication'. , senior Transport and General Workers' steward Bob Fryer told the 'Anyone who thinks that the "E" block paint-shop agreement is Measured-Day Work, Not know sat MW is does.

'Since May 18, the IS leaflet alleged, 'the men thére have been working under an agreement that binds them not to make any wage claims for the next year.' Stewards say that is completely false.

More serious, however, are the group's claims that :

"The management offered a rate of 17s ld an hour. But they could have given more: they offered "G" block paint shọp 18s ld an hour at the drop of a hat when their first offer was turned down, - An ther string attached to the 17s ld offer was an increase in the speed of the line from 23 jobs an hour to 25.:

First of all, stewards point out, there can be no comA squad from the army special investigation branch men and S Shields police are working on the theory that the culprits were servicemen who stole at least one canister of six capsules that took 1l firemen and a squad of policemen over four hours to control.

A member of Catterick Camp's (Yorkshire) bomb disposal squad took away one unused capsule found by firemen on Wednesday.

- over parison between the 'G' block agreement and that arrived at for 'E' block workers.

The 'G' block agreement, while containing extremely favourable conditions and rates of between 18s ld and 18s 9d an hour, relates to work on a 'dying model'-the Morris Oxford.

The 'E' block agréement, as senior steward Fryer pointed out as part of a detailed history in the May issue of Oxford's T&GWU 5|55 (Morris Motors) branch magazine, was concluded for work on a continuing model and under very difficult conditions.

After attempts by the management last year to reduce piecework prices and down the labour force in 'E' lock, the factory was shut lown for a period because o a dispute in another section. -ENOVATIONS During the shut-down the company completed technical innovations which éliminated some operations and cut down manning requirements on others.

Senior stewards then convéned a meeting at which company representatives dropped an earlier proposal that rates agreed could only be changed by annual review and agreed to normal piecework negotiations in the event of changes in opération.

While increasing their previous money offer, however, they agreed to retain surplus labour only on condition that under existing circumstances the unions forwent the right to rénegotiate pay for increases of one-and-three-quarter jobs per hour.

But normal negotiation rights were retained for increases above this figure.

This was eventually acliberal the end-product

appears in the divine form of a 'mature adult'. But to the capitalist class the end product is Jabout. This labour can be quantified and categorized, indeed there are whole ciVil service departments devoted to the assessment of the various categories and quantities of labour available and required.

But the NUT leaders cansimple-minded philanthropists. continue their They know that productivity proposals will be put before them by the management side of Burnham.

They read 'The Times' educational supplement.

They, all of them, have a pretty good idea of what these proposals are likely to be from a series of articles that appeared in the supplement in February this year.

These articles pared with the most exhaustive set of salary satistics, provided by the Department of Education and Science (DES).

Why have the union leaders not seen fit to draw the attention of the teachers to the discussions raging in the DES about productivity? 'not applicable Productivity is To say that the point.

If the employers could show -as they surely intend to that productivity is applicable, will the union leaders collaborate in implementing productivity proposals?

Writing three-part series on teachers' salaries in 'The Times' educational supplement on February 20 this year, Professor Maurice Peston said:

'Some people think that economic factors do not matter in education. They approach the question of teachers' salaries in terms of what teachers deserve either because. of their intrinsic merits or by comparison with others. My view is that economic forces do work in educa'At the present time education 1s a highly labour-intensive activity. It is al characteristic of economic growth that manpower gets dearer relative to other productive inputs and that any activity using a disproportionate amount of manpower will become expensive compared with activities in general. The other two articles in the TYPE OF TEACHER QUALIFIED ASSISTANT TEACHER Minimum Maximum 'Maximum after 11 years' Graded Post 2 Head of Department C Deputy Head: Group 5 RADUATE ASSISTANT Minimum Maximum Graded Post 2 Head of Department C eputy Head: Group 5 OOD HONOURS GRADI Minimum Maximum Graded Post 2 Head of Department C Deputy Head: Group 5 HEAD TEACHERS Group S All salaries, above the maxim calculated on the basis of the maximum of the basic scale.

series are along the same lines.

More recently, on May 1, the educational supplement published a leading article by E. J. I. Brennan of the Cambridge Institute of Education entitled 'Why not Productivity Deals?' He is less subtle and does, not go in for economic justification. He asks:

'Does it really make sense •.. for teachers to be stuck with the incubus of 12 weeks annual holiday and the theoretical seven-hour day?' He proposes that in return for 'truly professional salary scales' teachers might agree to the extension of the working day, shorter holidays.

Brennan's views are certainly not confined to the corridors of the Cambridge Institute.

Mr Britton may well cry... 'the management have not yet The producer becomes merPRESENT SALARY £1,720 £1,942 {2,192 £2,027 £2,430 21,085 21,825 £2,047 £2,297 £2,132 {2,535 £1,210 £1,950 £2,172 £2,422 £2,257 {2,660 im of the basic scale, are teacher having reached the Certain of the elements of leaders is to open the way to SALARY CLAIM 21,250 £2,200 22,300 £2,600 £2,900 £3,187 £4,019 £1,345 £2,300 £2,600 £2,900 £3,187 £4,019 $1,440 £2,425 £2,725 E3,025 £3,312 £4,144 £3,486 {4,596 £5,496 defeat and disillusionment.

The present demand must be won in full it teachers are not to face further attacks under conditions where a united struggle would be very difficult.

'But the issues raised by the pay claim and the cuts in the education system are questions which concern government and local authority finance at a time when finance is dictated by • the banks and the needs of industrial monopolies preparing for recession.

"The struggle for wages and for anew leadership for teachers is inseparably bound up with the fight for a socialist solution for the crisis, based on a policy of the nationalization of the banks and private industry. It is the fight for socialist policies and leadership that teachers will find allies in all other sections of the working class.' In so far as the more basic development does not take place, then the other development 'tends rather to preserve and maintain' the old mode of production as its precondition. This is precisely the role of the 'barbarous' form of state developed out of the necessity of public works and all that went with them in the floodvalleys to ensure the continuation of agriculture. cepted by the senior stewards in order to save the 40 jobs that would otherwise have been eliminated.

"The main point about this agreement, says Fryer, is that all the advantages of the piecework system remain and the piecework system remains fully intact.

'Effort is based on the piecework prices. Operators still receive the piecework national award.

"The right to negotiate normally under piecework in the event of changes remains. The agreements are subject to the piecework agreement. All merit, ex-office and condition payments remain the same.' What, then, is behind IS's lying distortion ?

For some time, this motley, middle-class revisionist grouplet has been maintaining that those in the trade union movement who stand out in uncompromising opposition to productivity schemes such as Measured-Day Work will 'isolate' themselvés from workers it believes will be attracted to them by the siren of higher initial payments.

'Oppose productivity .. but not negatively,' they say.

CONCLUSION

The only conclusion that can be drawn from the leaflet its members issued in Oxford this week is that the group is seeking to 'prove' its own opportunist case by attempting to undermine the shop stewards who have unequivocally, and successfully, résisted all attempts to force the hatred doctrine of productivity dealing down the throats of the workers they represent.

Few more despicable forms of • political adventuring can be imagined.

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