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sharply highlighted at the Liverpool meeting.

Opposing the call for their withdrawal, Stalinist William Moore, Hunts Standard - Triumph Cross plant, said:

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stewards meeting, mentioned, one steward objected to the discussion being trade union business because thesed ps were not being used out a productivity Another retorted that "they are being used fol We Salli class which henefits fron A Poductivit deals. me bee added, supporting resolution, troop: eyes On docks Deputy Jenkins IN WHAT is seen as a victory for the Parliamentary Labour Party right wing, former Chancellor Mr Roy Jenkins, was yesterday elected: Labour Party deputy leader.

He fills the vacancy left by General Election casualty Mr George Brown.

Jenkins secured 13s votes, Mr Michael Foot 67 votes and Mr Fred Peart 48.

Railmen

drop E.E.G.

opposition RAILWAYMEN in conference in Inverness yesterday rejected y 51-25 a proposal to oppose Common Market entry by the Tory government.

Greek Colonels pleased with Bulgarian Stalinists IN THE same week that Greek Foreign Minister Pipinellis proudly announced the signing in Sofia-the Bulgarian capital-of trade and industrial agreements, the Greek Communist Party underground radio station, 'Voice of Truth', bitterly denounced the conditions of Greek political prisoners.

On the same day an Athens military tribunal started hearing the cases of 25 people charged with violating Law Eleven of these defendants are KKE (illegal Greek CP) members.

Commenting on the clinched deal, Pipinellis said:

"The signing of the relevant protocols, based on the principle of continuing co-operation for mutual benefit and with mutual respect and good neighbourliness within the framework of international law, goes beyond co-operation in the economic and technical field.

'This co-operation lays the foundations for peaceful coexistence [emphasis addedl between the two neighbour countries—in addition to their CONTAINER LOADING AT LIVERPOOL: Without nationalization, say dockers, 'developments like this mean the scrap heap for us"

'Peace' plea as Lucasstrikeends STRIKERS from Birmingham's Formans Rd Joseph Lucas plant returned to work yesterday afternoon with a f4 'compromise' settlement of their four-week pay dispute.

All 650 workers in- BY A WORKERS PRESS volved accepted the offer on the recommendation of their shop stewards and union The strikers had been demanding a £9 increase and changes in their bonus The new deal, which embraces 22,000 workers indiplomatic obligations — in pub by each side on a realisted and productive basis.

'Little man is FORMER CHAIRMAN of the Northern Economic Development Council T. Dan Smith was charged in Lambeth magistrates court yesterday under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act. Charged with him was the former mayor of Battersea, Sidney Frederick Sporle.

charge ALL EYES in the trade union movément will be on today's meeting of Transport and General Workers' delegates—representing, 47,000 regis"tered dockers-at their union's London headquarters.

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cluding the strikers, aimed at settling all production-line pay claims at Birmingham's 11 Lucas factories.

'We would hope this will mean a long period of peace in the Lucas organization,' commented General and Municipal Workers' national officer Ken. Baker.

• Why there will not be "peace', see page four story.

Like Tuesday's National Union of Mineworkers' conference decision on strike backing for a 33$per-cent pay claim and the demands of militant railwaymen for a £20 minimum, the dockers' fight for an increase in their £ll Is 8d basic rate is both a climax of the wages struggle sparked by the rocketing cost of living and a test case for the fight in the unions against the Tories.

Rank-and-ile pressure for this battle to be quickly Joined is, as the resolution below shows, building up rapidly throughout the trade union movement.

Workers in all three of the industries mentioned have now T&GWU 5/55 (Morris Motors) branch, Oxford, has unanimously supported the

were being educated to fight British workers and would be used on this side of the Irish Sea in the future.

The correctness of our position on the troops received an indirect confirmation yesterday but from an opposite direction. "The Times' reported • the resolution | passed by London telephonists at the Faraday House exchange calling on UPW members to ban postal deliveries and phone calls to the Army in Ulster.

The article stated that the 100-strong UPW branch is a 'group of extreme left wingers' and its author's belief that the Socialist Labour League has members there.

In an attempt to initiate a witch-hunt the report suggests that the resolution "pushed through "packed" meeting'.

We reject smear with the contempt it deserves.

The London 1 telephonists' action the best traditions of international working-class solidarity. It was the same spirit that was manifested by the British working class during the great Dublin lock-out It is a tradition that must be evoked and emulated all over Britain and Ireland today if the Tory-Unionist conspiracy against the Ulster working class is to be smashed.

The suppression of the Lontelephonists the UPW executive will only serve to assist the imperialarmy in its brutal suppression of Catholic and Protestant workers alike. It is on a par with the cancellation of the Belfast May Day demonstration by the Ulster trade union bureaucrats - an action which gravely imperilled the unity of Ulster working class and encouraged the aggression of the army and the provocations of the Paisleyites le call on all postal workers to demand of UPW secretary Mr Tom Jackson and of the Stalinists on the UPW executive that they immediately rescind this reactionary decision and give full support to the struggle against British imperialism in Ireland.

ithdraw the troops now!

collaboration with the army of occupation! SUBSCRIBE NOW for LAXC SIEF Lucas workers leave one of the Birmingham factories.