P.I.B. fears airport militancy HARD ON the heels of Monday night's strike

Incomes Board's latest report on airport worke! pay.

The report talks a great deal about establishing common machinery and grading systems for all Britain's 3,928 ground staff —within two or three But its main aim is clearly to clamp workmeasurement, methodstudy and flexibility of labour onto them much more firmly than ever before.

Airport workers should not be fooled into thinking the report is going to solve the problem that forced Monday's strike at Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen-the wide disparity, recognized by the PIB, between pay and conditions at the country's 35 different airports.

The Board was disturbed by the fact that pay-rates and job-definitions differed widely between the three main groups of airports. said the Board, should be cracked down on through the establishment of the unified procedure.

The PIB was pleased with the improvements in manning standards, flexibility of labour and changed patterns of work which had resulted from recent pay and productivity settlements, but it insisted that better results could be obtained.

An expert advisory unit should be set up, it recommends, to push through the new grade structures, the increased use of method-study and the elimination of unnecessary overtime working. IN THE aftermath of the Deutsche-mark revaluation a fierce battle has developed inside the Common Market on the questions of agricultural policies and farm prices.

Under present arrangements, German farm prices should fall by the full 8.5 per cent of the revaluation. five members on the extent to which the EEC should compensate German farmers for these losses.

Co-operation threat Professor Karl Schiller, German economics minister, threatened that unless Community funds were used to offset a substantial portion of