Soviet govt. calls for Mid-East talks

THE SOVIET government said on Friday that it favoured the resumption of four-power talks on the Middle East and blamed the Israeli government for its blocking of any settlement A spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry claimed :

"The intentions of the Israeli leaders lie not in the direction of peace, but of further complications in the area.' The statement invited representatives of the USA, France and Britain to join with the Soviet government in making new moves to 'speedily contribute to the elimination of the consequences of Israeli aggression'.

This extremely mild tone is hardly likely to intimidate the Israeli Zionists, who, if anything, are thinking in terms of new acts of aggression.

B.P. site

men demand fight SUPPORT is building up for the 500 boilermakers sacked from the f65 million B-P refinery site at Grangemouth on the Clyde.:

The boilermakers have been promised backing by their union's Clyde district committee, which decided at last Saturday's meeting to meet all boilermen's shop stewards on Thursday.

Members in the Grangemouth area-at Simon Carves; EJS, Boness; Motherwell Bridge and Tarmac, Alloahave already. begun to support the strike.

Last Thursday 200 of the sacked men picketed the site

union proposals affecting the Incient operation of the con he trade union representatives manufacturing and other performance, markel demands and future prospects'.

NEGOTIATIONS It is within this framework that the management hopes to place 'negotiations on matters affecting wages and conditions of employment' :

'Future benefits in wages and conditions of service consequent upon efficiency improvements and the company's profitability will be negotiated annually at the Location Joint Representative . Councils on plant-wide basis beginning at the expiration of the current productivity agreements.' "There will be established within each company location employing more than 500 emtalks on registere The committee last week blacked all cargo of employers believed to be using nondock labour.

This dispute has been sharpened by the week-old strike of 450 dockers against the closure of Hay's wharves between London and Tower bridges, which is due at the end of the month. gates, creating traffic confuSIon for over a mile.

They then marched to the Grangemouth Town Hall to picket an Electrical Trades Union meeting, but officials were warned and hastily transferred their meeting to Edinburgh.

The electrical, plumbing and constructional engineering unions have been asked by the site contractors to do the boilermakers' work.

All of them signed the productivity agreement drafted a year ago for interchangeability of jobs in the event of labour shortages.

The boilermakers are determined to force their union's executive to wage a fight on this issue.

non1 labour Hays has opened warehouse operations away from the docks and is believed to be employing non-dock labour.

The No. 1 group committee will meet again this week to consider further action in support of the Hay's men if the talks between the union and the Department of Employment and Productivity are not satisfactory.