'Misguided', Feather claims, but Unemployment is Tory policy

government's 'misguided and dangerous course of action' on wages, the Trades Union Congress THE joint shop stewards' committee at Rolls-Royce's Coventry factories yesterday rejected a proposal for action in support of the company's 1,000 staff and technical workers who have been locked out since July 14.

Although some of the stewards reportedly were in favour of taking action, the majority of the 150-man committee tlırew out a proposal for actively supporting the DATA pickets and blacking design material.

'Moral' support will continue.

DATA members were told of the decision at a meeting in the Coventry precinct after 700-strong demonstration through the town.

SUPPORT CALL

' Strike committee leaders told pickets to 'stop all vehicles' entering the factory and stated that they would proceed to issue a leaflet calling on the manual workers for support.

Still no date

for London docks YESTERDAY'S meeting of the London enclosed docks modernization committee was unable to fix the date for the implementation of Phase Two of the Devlin pay and productivity scheme-contrary to what had been anticipated. ployers aspect, which an emspokesman refused to disclose, was said to have remained in dispute and this had prevented the two sides agreeing on a date.

SHORT NOTICE The committee may réconvene at short notice to make a final decision.

The employers said that they favoured implementing phase two on September 21.

hazard This paralysis holds the greatest dangers for a working class threatened not just with wage-freezing and rising prices, but also mass unemployment.

It is. essential, for example, that the whole trade union movement be prepared and mobilized in solidarity with workers in nationalized industries and local government who are threatened with being sorted out for a 'showdown' by the Tory government.

Instead of this preparation he General Council complain: that such an attack would 'jeopardize the formation of a climate of co-operation ... and produce a reaction which vould exacerbate the overal situation'.

They added: 'This kind of levelopment also weakens the onfidence of workpeople ir conciliation and arbitration procedures.' On the eve of the greatest battles, with the jobs of over the tuc TUC leaders, apparently workers at stake, unanimously, plead with the faiven tit members in 'conciliation and arbitration'! 'Straight talk Next week, Prime Minister Heath meets Feather and Confederatisn of British representatives of the sad that pored a havine said that these will 'straight talks'.

Heath and his advisers will have at the front of their considerations a whole number of serious economic warnings: the pound is weaker than at any time since a year ago; output figures in all the Feather and the TUC leaders confine themselves to asking Heath to reflate the economy to offset this situation.

This proposal does nothing to get near the real problems, as the employers well know. They have to prepare a major attack on the working class.

Jnemployment, far from being seen by them as problem, is an arm of their anti-working class policy. + No secret For the capitalists, it is the insatiable appetite of the working class to maintain and improve its standard of life that stands at the centre of The government has made no secret that if need be there should be a • 'showdown' with a section of workers in the public sector-miners, railwaymen, manual workers in local government arg all in the firing lineover wages.

The car manufacturers efully complain that by All Trades Unions Alliance Conference yesterday the GKN-Sankey components strike had cost them some £15 million.

Chrysler reported they had lost sales of 12,000 Avengers and 3,500 cars from their Linwood plant because of strikes since April.

Overseas manufacturers, they said, were 'having a golden summer at our expense'. - Lord Stokes of BritishLeyland complained on the BBC yesterday that his company was losing 'millions of pounds a day' This is intimately tied up with international developments.

British motor firms need to sell in world markets, and to keep competitive they want to keep wage-costs down. But LATIN AMERICA 'TUPAMAROS' guerrillas in Uruguay, now negotiating with the Brazilian dictatorship for the release of political prisoners in exchange for the Brazilian consul and the US official kidnapped in Montevideo (capital of Uruguay) several weeks ago, have carried out a raid to provide themselves with additional funds.

Taking advantage of the police rule imposed by the Pacheco regime throughout Uruguay, five guerrillas dressed as policemen and armed with sub-machine guns entered a large store in central Montevideo explaining they had come to arrest an employee suspected of being a "Tupamaros' member.

)nce insid Pulled oft less than a quarter of a mile from the presidential palace and the police headquarters, the raic lemonstrates that the Uru guayan guerrillas are easily surviving the government attempts at repression.

PITCHED BATTLE In Santiago, capital of CHILE, where right-wing army officers are still threatening a coup during the run-up to September's presidential elections, police attacked striking health workers in a four-hour pitched battle on Monday, and finally succeeded in "dispersing' them with massive quantities of gas.

The regime of ChristianDemocratic President Frey, once regarded as a model of 'liberalism' in S America, is now, at the urging of the most reactionary political forces, using police and troops against the working class on the slightest pretexts.

In ARGENTINA, President Levingston, put in office by the military coup which removed Ongania, has turned down even the modest claims made on behalf of the working class by the official trade union leaders.

Negotiators for the General Confederation Shell steward sacked PERCEFUlL pickeTsi of the sacked Burmah Oil pickets marching at the head of Monday's 6,000-strong BY A CORRESPONDENT (CGT) asked for small increases and the right to negotiate independently with employers (all wage settlements in Argentina must be negotiated through the state).

The government refused to allow collective bargaining and announced a wage rise of 7 per cent-smaller than the rise in the cost of living, which has been almost 9 per cent in the first seven months of this year.

Levingston also warned the trade union leaders: •All strikes are illegal.' WHILE Israeli opinion has welcomed many of Senator Fulbright's proposals for a US-Israeli treaty Moscow's Tass press agency has declared its support for his statement-but omitting all reference to the treaty.

Moscow presents Fulbright's plan as if it only called for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories.

The Soviet leaders are clearly opening the way for a settlement which allows the Zionists to keep control of Palestine.

Moscow Radio has also welcomed the resumption of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran which took place last week. The Iraqi news agency, on the polot Merseyside demonstration.

Guerrillas

on march in Philippines GUERRILLA struggles in the Philippines against the pro-US regime of President Marcos have increased sharply in recent weeks.

Led by the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippinés, they have recorded big victories against government forces at …Tarlac, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Bulacan, Bataan and Pangasinan.

Guerrilla - controlled zone: have now been established ir central Luzon in the countryside areas.

tents are reduced and land. lords evicted in villages under guerrilla control.

The growth of the movement is yet another threat to US imperialist domination of SE Asia, already strained to its military capacity by the struggles of workers péasants in Indo-China.

BY A CORRESPONDENT other hand, reminds the Egyptians that they broke off relations with the Shah's regime when it recognized Israel.

'Break off'

'Perhaps the Cairo rulers have discorered that the reason prompting them to break off relations with Iran no longer exists because they are now prepared to recognize Israel themselves, say the Iraqis.

In Amman, further warnings have been issued by guerrilla organizations of the danger that a Palestinian government could be set up in Jordan-where refugees would be permanently settled.

This would then be used to stop all further action to liberate Palestine from Zionist occupation.

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ess Ltd. (TU), reet, London, the strike offensive is making this impossible Meanwhile the world trade war hots up Biggest export market for cars is of … course the United States. When US soya-bean exporters found themselves threatened europear Common „Market tax this summer, the US Administration promptv let it be known that a tax Yo khe Ush cars imported inThe 'Financial Times' Washington correspondent noted: story here is anct in the present protectionist climate retaliation is a real business just a phantasmal notion. It nroves.

needed, that threats protective retaliation are perfectly real. nition of the it the trade war nu- 'Such ammunition is live' Here is a startling confirmation Workers "Press has said and warned against.

employers are driven by the world crisis; their only wav out is to concentrate each country turning against their own working class to increase exploitation and profit brought out with shanks, Times. in Wednes- brutal honesty by Michael day's Business News' under the title: 'Something's got to give'.

Shanks recognizes the basic problem at home:

. the comparative living standards of the British people vis-a-vis other countries have declined sharply in recent *Those of us who b began concerned our economic stagnation ten vears ago foresaw that this situation would arice that the British worker would MOt accent that his livins shar his others' higher standards should rise more than and nressure TOT wages, though self-defeating, would be hard to resist.

It is against this background manual workers on wages that the talks local authorities reach deadlock, even though only a living basic wage of £16 10s is being demanded.

Feather and the TUC have no alternative to offer in this crisis.

All talk of 'stimulating the economy' is a smokescreen. It is the fundamental question of the employers' need to break the organization, the will to fight and the hard-won living standards of the working class that is at stake.

The only answer to the employers and the Tories, the only way of ensuring the right to work and the defence of living standards, is a programme of struggle towards the nationalization of the main industries, without compensation and under workers' The precondition of this, and it is urgent, is that the trade union leaders and the TUC break all collaboration with the government.

What is required is independent action by the labour movement to challenge the employers for control of the factories and to force the Tory government to resign. AN 'OPEN LETTER' by Soviet oppositionist Alex-