WEDNESDAY'S retreat by docks Phase Two modernization plans.

the first six months year It links this with the rise :

working days lost hroug sunKes- -according the Department of Employmen 2068,000 Productivity the first from months 5,008,000 first months Its conclusion: public is Robert care e tact Minister Rohart for and ductivity, stronger mandate for his eforms The word 'reforms' in this context refers or to the Tom programme shackling provisions, the sadie unions restrictrik able contracts and the whole stewards, enforce.

gamut or anti-working cac Heath hin Lane to Northumber garden tould be preparing asked we found a bette settle differ ences and dispute than the costly and wastetul form lave been enduring this la Jones' he nonetreat docks fortnight on the docks?

being turned against struggles the coming period. The faced tit manufacturers with falling rates -and in many cases enormous losses- -round thi Wore are •etermined workers "harder derivingr less recoin wages dock employers thes are tightening productivity workers and hope with care aid of unemployment and the treachery the trade union leaders, to break car workers' resistance to their That is the vital importance •laus.

for all worters dockers' €20 basic wage and against hich Devlin lan- struggle not yet over solte the i Union chiefs' agreemeni the sponsored Pearson-Paynter proposals.

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awards damages totalling £485.528 were swarded in the High yesterday to deformed child. ren' and their parents.

Under settlement, the children and Darent are receiving trom the Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd, which marketed the under licence Britain, cent TRIAL DATE SET THE TRIAL of Mr Haughey, the former rish Republic Finance Minister, and three others on charges of illegally conspiring to import arms into the state will start on September 22 in Dublin.

With the militant Merseyside and London dockers still to meet, the Pearson question is certainly not resolved for the Tories. But the spectre of Devlin will hovers oyer their decision.

This is the harsh logic of compromise which cannot be disguised by any amount of bureaucratic rhetoric or effaced by rank-and-file threats to leave the 'White' T&GWU and join the 'Blue' NAS&D.

Dockers must not allow their frustration and hatred of the full-time officials-and there is plenty of both in dockland now-to get the better of them.

This is no time for histrionics, but for serious and objective analysis and judgement on the history of Wednesday's compromise and its implications for all dockers.

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was legislation. The Tories treated it as a political dispute from the start.

Not 1922 Committee called on the vhole ruling class to prepar enough' prepared to pared he was mo booking, e troops. cry as the delegates on the othei Tilbury hand, haunted by the spectre of 1926, did nothing to warn the dockers about the prosEvolved bitter clashes with TILBURY DOCKERS voted for a return to work yesterday agencies. after report-back delegate union bureaucrac was sucTo shouts of 'not enough' and reminders from the floor on the day of the strike call: that the implementation of Devlin was central to Lord centrate on an effective and Pearson's proposals, Transport and General Workers' divisional chairman Harry Battie told the meeting: with Devlin Phase Two, issue July 10) * Confusion over the meaning of Pearson was very much in evidence.

T&GWU shop steward Les Tite said:

'I think Jones was correct and I accept the democratic decision of the delegate con- integrated into a campaign to ference. force the Tories to resign.

'It was a compromise. This will set Phase Two back and effect was moved in the Liverit will have to be renegotiated on the basis of the f20. Stalinists demonstrativele However, if they took an- opposed it. other vote on it, I don't think it would be accepted.' T&GWU steward P. Davies told Workers Press:

It stinks. They're dangling a carrot in front of the men in the form of overtime.

'It's just a few crumbs in compromise from taking place order to get through Devlin Phase Two' 'Blue' union steward Harry the CP, which had already Sage reiterated that the main fight was against Devlin. the union leaders by winding 'If men are out of work, that's not modernization;' he said 'We had a container ban here for nearly 18 months road to socialism. until it was lifted two months ago when the assurance was given that Devlin Phase Two would not be implemented on June 29.

"Then the employers said delegates on with an even ver the Devlin Heath in his address to the • take on the dockers, and The trade union leaders an pects of the strike or even to prepare for a long drawn-our attle which would have in.

the capitalist state and its WHILE voting to return to work, many Southampton dockers, (like those seen

PAGE TWO AN ITEM in Workers Press recently described how big business in America was encouraging the development of black capitalism ('When Black is Bountiful, IN TWO PARTS Friday, July 31, 1970 Black 'Panther' Nationalists demonstrate against imprisonment of one of their leaders.

£39.5 million) must be looked at separately.

Many Post Office workers are convinced that this division is a preparation for de-nationalization of the more profitable sections.

This is a process, begun by the Labour government with their reorganization of the Post Office from a Department of State to a public chang in the hope press it wil interests of the workers. is Adaptation too bureaucracy That is why the CP today tainly have followed.

Despite this threat, the vote to return to work was very Franco's fascist regime is fighting for its very existence against the biggest workers' offensive Spain since the of the 19361939 Civil War.

Following the shooting of three striking building workers in Granada last week, fascist police raided a secret Madrid meeting of the illegal trade union organization, the workers commissions', arrested about 100 militants.

Workers demonstrating their solidarity Granada strikers attacked by police yesterday in Pamplona, in the northern province of Navarra.

Several arrests were made.

This demonstration by Pamplona workers is highly significant in the politically backward Navarra region provided Franco with one of his fe: areas support during the early stages of the Civil And while Franco's jails once again begin to fill workers, the Soviet bureaucracy comes to his aid with its usual adroit sense of timing.

The Soviet Deputy Minister for Coal attended the recent International Mining Congress held in Madrid, and while he Asturias mines in the Norah is visited This Stalinist bureaucrat simply following the trail blazed earlier this year by the Polish government, which, after breaking January strike of Asturian miners by exporting coal to Franco, sent mining technicians and productivity experts into the mines to help Franco restore production place the mines on a profitable footing.

Now it seems the Polish bureaucracy cannot cope with the task on its own, for, according to the journal 'El Economista':

"The Soviet Union has agreed with HUNOSA to collaborate on the solution of problems. of modernization and mechanization of the coal mines .

Shortly after this deal was concluded came the Granada shootings, followed by the Czech government's opening of diplomatic relations with the Franco regime.

This chain of events has a consistent pattern.

The more the Spanish working class fights to throw off its fascist oppressors, the more the E European Stalinists come to Franco's aid with political and economic assistance.