'Out two weeks for nothing'

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the Tories and their press docks leaders retreat as their opportunity The 'Daily Mail', for cranbic screamed across Tron page yesteraay that strike madness puts car giant in Alongside attack on one che oil Group docks shop stewards, Vauxhall Motors the news that hac los 'Solution' above), firmly repeated yesterday's Workers Press headline: "The fight has just begun'.

The philosophy of the trade T&GWU steward George a secretary Mr Tone. Cox told the Workers Press afterwards:

I personally am very disappointed with the whole "The fact that we shall conthing. Jack Jones at Liverpool showed his clenched fist total stoppage does not mean and said he'll fight and he that we shall lessen our we tope fill note a jong received tremendous support.

But now he's somersaulted on us.' strike ('Morning Star', Amntlan nadd. "T stewara sala: 1 didn't really want to see a He was supported in this return to work. We've been attitude not only by the out for two weeks, like we Trades Union Congress but by have in the past, and we have theused consisten Py to demand got nothing?

The shop stewards comthat the wages struggle be mittee, after reporting back from the docks delegates conference to a mass meeting, When a resolution to this recommended the return for Monday.

The big danger now facing the Southampton men is the talk by some stewards of 'getting the best out-of the Unions challenge BUA liquidation threat This did not happen because offered the olive branch to UNION chiefs have chal- disregarded the managelenged British United Air- ments threat to liquidate up its Liaison Committee after ways over their threat to the airline' the 1967 strike, was, and is liquidate the airline if the Their statement shattered completely dedicated to the dispute over pay parity with earlier optimism that the peaceful and 'evolutionary" state airline workers was meeting would succeed in not settled by midnight last averting within In practice this means not a struggle to replace the bureau- They announced that a mass meeting due to take The dispute is over a pay cracy with socialist leadership, but an adaptation to bureauplace yesterday will be held claim by unions representing tonight. BUA employees for parity "The shop stewards have with BOAC employees. BY THE EDITOR London meetings could stem retreat MASS meetings at London's main docks this morning will be considering delegates' recommendations to return to work on the basis of the Pearson inquiry terms.

And, as thousands of dockers digest the fact of the huge official retreat carried through by the Transport and General Union leadership, many. are adamantly opposed to going back on the present terms.

'Let's wait and see what happens tomorrow, was the reaction of many dockers yesterday. They hope that a lead will be forthcoming to continue the strike in conjunction with Liverpool and other ports.

Others, particularly older dockers on the Riverside wharves where Phase Two of is are in open me the Devlin operaton the BUA deadline.

SAY MERSEY DOCKERS 'IT'S FANTASTIC commented Liverpool T&GWU rank-and-filer Tony Legg, as dockers queued for strike pay outside their union's city headquarters yesterday.

he real fight meeting' yesterday morning less dissatisfied with the Pearson recommendations.

As they see it, it doesn't affect them anyway.

The great majority of dockers, however, are deeply hostile to the Pearson deal.

One docker at the Victoria Dock said:

'We've got nothing out of it. I don't think Jones should have called it off. But now no one can tell what will happen. It all depends on tomorrow's meeting' 'Unless we make it unofficial we will be back on £ll ls 8d whenever the employers want it lika that, annthan wal, sdiu duumer docker.

I think Jack Jones should have accepted this present offer-I don't think it could have been changed without a long strike — but he should also have cancelled all negotiations on Phase Two of Devlin. ' Stem retreat Though there is undoubtedly confusion on the docks after the Jones-PearsonTonge agreement, this must not be allowed to obscure the vital need to stem the retreat and continue the fight against the Tories and the employers for the f20 basic wage.

'We came out for £20 basic, Pearson doesn't give us a penny, so we go back after two weeks for nothing. We should stay out.

This was the feeling of many dockers here following the delegate conference's 51-31 decision to end the two-week-old strike.

Many Merseyside stewards - including, it is believed, Communist Party members-think differently.

two-hour stewards' • Seek a meeting with the employers to clarify local application of the Pearson proposals, and • Defer a mass meeting called for today until tomorrow morning.

• MEETING 'No recommendations will be decided until we have a further stewards' meeting tomorrow said the port's morning' chairman Jim Symes after yesterday's meeting.

'What we have done is accept the decision of the delegates conference—-which we voted against-not the Pearson recommendation', he_claimed.

'Modernization discussions will continue as before.' Howeyer, many rank-and-file union members and some stewards were disgusted by what they described as 'just a delaying tactic'.

I've lost all faith in Jack Jones-he's just a paper tiger now, commented one left-wing steward.

I can tell you a lot of stewards - including Party men-want to go back, , another steward told the Hostility to the T&GWU leadership was echoed by rank-and-filer Danny Hoowood:

Jones wanted to retreat right from the beginning. He said we wouldn't go back without an increase on the basic, so we shouldn't go back. How does Jones reckon we've got anything? He's gone back on his own statements' Another T&GWU member, BillTurner, told I'm not in favour of going back. Nobody will go back in Liverpool but we'll have to bring..; the other ports out as well' And many dockers feared Nasser man MAHMOUD RIAD, Egyptian Foreign Minister, lett Cairo yesterday for a tour of E European capitals. Beginning with Sofia, he will visit Bulgaria and Hungary, as well as Turkey.

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session on Wednesday night to decided emergency place all strikers under miliary discipline efusal to work would thei have been treated as mutiny, nd court martials would cer 1970 DOCK STRIKE

As docker Kevin Hayes put it:

"The package deal raises the whole question of redundancy -I'm extremely dubious about it. I don't believe all this talk 1 really thought we would till be out.' SUBSCRIBE employers on jobs and conditions in the near future.

While the Report and Accounts published this week shows a £30,079,000 profit on total services in the April 1September 30 1969 period, the employers continue to emphasize the £9.4 million loss in the postal section.

It insists that the telecommunications section (profit that they would go ahead. Devlin didn't come in on the 29th but the T&GWU didn't reimpose the ban. Why?

'We should have a complete ban. That means all OCL containers and feeder vessels.

'No one more than me would like to see a 100 per cent unofficial strike on Monday, but we should reserve our strength for the fight against Phase Two.' Such conceptions are dangerous.

If the dockers are defeated now, the struggle against Phase Two will be weakened as the employers and the Tories well know.

That was precisely the purpose of the Pearson Report. that the London £20 holiday-pay settlement would, in fact, threaten their own local arrangements of £24 a This was denied by T&GWU district secretary Lew Lloyd who claimed that this was 'a silly question'-despite the fact that many of his members were asking it— and said that "local agreements will remain the same'.

But the bitterness remains and many dockers-despite Lloyd's appeal yesterday to their 'good sense'—will be pressing at tomorrow's meeting for the strike to continue unofficially.