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hunger strike 'Le that Giemilitant noises Appealing made by TUC na prejudice delegatesat Police agents and provocation Brighton this insisted rest mar Refuting funne these charges, all col If anything Tory, hopes Pats Mutualit cordin will have been strengthPened by the Brighton Mau to protest against repressive chatter. Geishind that Only vague dangers were parent apport only a sing extreme glimpsed by delegates beneath the surface of the dying 102nd Congress when they discussed yesterday productivity deals, the ComEvery mon Market and the government's threats to freeze wages in the nationalized political There was an 'air of uninci reality, as one commentator noted in a London evening newspaper earlier this week, about this Congress; unreality born of crisis, not complacency-the complacency, or • iftinand paralysis, forming part of the crisis. Dans political With their noses pressed hard against Tory determinaAlthed th on centin organiza tion to make workers pay for the deepening capitalist crisis with speed-up and hard-line including resistance to wage-claims, policed by rising unemployment and anti-union laws, most union leaders-'lefts' included - have produced little This is a situation no socialist more than a flurry of words. Mapped course Freefore d persecure ere wil But Congress's right wing chiefly through Victor Feather's speeches — has one Terations as mapped out its course carefully and clearly (his Common Then bar aid the hote Market speech is reported on this page).

Perhaps his most significant statements came in Monday's introduction to the TUC structure and development debate and Tuesday's industrial relations lead-in.

Alongside his 'one man's strike can be another man's lay-off' and his call for an 'intelligent and sparing' use of strikes, went an exposition of the General Council's 'radical' and 'far-reaching' proposal for a network of industrial committees.

Steel and construction are already covered by such bodies and transport, local government, engineering and the Croydon health service are next in line.

These committees, Feather sackings explained, 'would look at recruitment, inter-union relationships, collective bargaining and wages structures .•: Croy win fire taft at th If they wanted to take on the work of wage negotiation utical and General Instru there would be nothing to over the taken strict action stop them.

'Services' Associd Strengthening of the TUC'S productivity disputes settlemen were ment and other services is to go on at the same time. to leave the Leading-in on industrial relations the following day, Feather praised the 'real progress • • • steady, painstaking work in a wide range of fields' from that had followed from the June 1969 *Programme for Action'.

He called on the Tories to Problems loom for Devlin switch WITH THE introduction of Devlin Phase Two only a week away, a manning dispute has broken out on London's Royal docks.

The men claim unloading procedures worked by the Port of London Authority break past practices and threaten the livelihood of portworkers employed by private stevedoring firms.

Trouble flared at Royal Albert Dock No. 4 shed and led to a complete dock walkout on Wednesday when PLA gangs were used for quay-side unloading.

Normal practice is for men employed by private firms -in this case Tom Wallis, a closed-dock employer - to work both on ship and quayside when unloading.

NEW ARRANGEMENTS Employers and the PLA have told dock stewards that the new loading arrangements are connected with ships moving in from the Surrey docks, London, which is to be closed by the end of the year.

Contracting firms transferring from Surrey are bringing. methods of work operated the choice of three towns where he can settle : Ryazan and Kaluga, both 120 miles from Moscow, and Tula.

February 1966 to ence years hard labour for statinist critical of the regime.

His early release may have been due to a widespread campaign by fellow writers and leaders of the Soviet oposition.

and his fellow defendant selves courageously, refusing Sinyavsky conducted themto confess to anti-Sovietism.

Court reply

When accused of this the prosecutor, Daniel plied:

I've always thought, I continue to think, that books were not anti-So

Taking part in the discussion as a member of drop their 'Fair Deal at Work' legislation proposals and stressed: orderly meshods of solving ne problems that arise in industry We will do a great deal toco-operate with any government in any fair and honest effort to get the economy onto an even keel.

'We know there are economic problems. We have said so, and we have not changed our tune about the solutions to these economic problems, even though there has been a change of government.' Accepting that increased production and output were the only way in the long run in which we can improve our living standards he went on to attack 'antediluvian wage systems hundreds of thousands of piece rates sometimes operatng in one factory'.

Unions as well as employer: wanted to "clean up' wage struce wane toid.

want to get sensible and rational wage structures in industry Tailored Feather had this to say There have tailored solutions to the requirements of every industry, maybe each firm. That what is happening in motor cars.

"The unions and the employers there have set up the motor industry council to help improve collective bargaining arrangements, and where necessary to intervene in particular disputes to try and get acceptable settlements This is exactly the sort of action which will pay off Linking this with the TUC's 'guidelines' for union rulebooks, Feather went on again to stress its role in productivity bargaining: 'part of the build-up of more activity by unions themselves-the signing of more than 3,000 productivity bargains in the last three years, appointment of union productivity officers, the development of training of branch officers, stewards and full-time officials'.

Feather rounded this of had stressing that the 'a continuing part to play that Tories.

Not a single union leader has come out in the last four days against this line thought.

While the right prepares the full with ano ly Tories, •the tacitly accepts Tory rule—as hard as they do not push too Congress was sidelights fact _that Perhaps one of the most Labour leader Harold Wilson was not invited to speakthough in attendance.

As one leading engineering official told me:

It seems they would be embarrassed by having him speak here; the sooner we make it absolutely clear we want a Labour governmentand we're opposed to a Tory one-the better.

If there is one lesson to be learned from Brighton this week, it is this: every and-file trade unionist every area must • he prefight now to scotch their so-called a betrayal of 1926 'I do not equate individuals with the social system as such, or the government with the state, or a certain period with thẻ Soviet epoch as a whole.' Many other victims of Stalinist 'justice' still languish in the Kremlin'S Tabe so-cated mental homed especially created for political dissidents.

The campaign for their release, and the restoration of full rights to Daniel, must go on.