US war threat in the Middle East

THE WAR DANGER in the Middle East is harshly underlined by the United States decision to pull out of the four-power deputy ambassador talks at the IN.

Sheffield dally on Pilkington blacking BACKING for the sacked Pilkington glassworkers at S1 Helens and Pontypool has come from Sheffield's AmalFoundryworkers No. 2 branci Engineering and and from the joint shop stewards' committee at the city's Daniel Doncaster engineering plant.

The No. 2 branch is calling on the AEF executive council district committee and all affiliated organizations to support the victimized men.

It demands that the union's executive call on the Trades Union Congress to implement a nationwide 'black' on Pilkington glass until they are reinstated.

The Doncaster stewards have supported a similar resolution and donated £10 to the Pilkington rank-and-file committee's fighting fund.

But the Communist Partydominated Sheffield AEF district committee, after receiving a previous resolution from the city's No. 2 branch, has contemptuously requested clarification on what is meant by "blacking': does this mean factory "blacking' or a call on members not to buy Pilkington glass?

The branch has replied by expressing concern that 'in a serious attack on the working class by the employers and the Tory government on the right to strike and the right to job, 250 victimized, sacked and blacklisted WOrkers at St Helens and Pontyhave not received the support of the dis Support Pilkington workers DEMONSTRATE Mondav October 1 fonday October Assemble 10.30 a.m.

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hated tatorship not its strength talism ment is tack entury, trade ade unions are bound to provoke most won decide use This move is part of a concerted drive to force a confrontation with the Soviet Union, and, in particular, to force the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from the Suez Canal zone.

Nixon feels confident that he can do in Suez what Kennedy was able to do in Cuba in 1962.

According to one source it seems that US pressure has already forced the USSR to call off its attempts to build BOMB a submarine base in Cuba.

The tendency towards imperialist war and confrontation HAPPY! in the Middle East is linked snowing o outreaks in thee FRENCH ex-president General de Gaulle, in a new volume of his memoirs published toPreparation along these Has do Won copen day, said US president Kennedy told him the United States would use nuclear weapons rather than let the Soviet Union conquer Europe.

The book, which covers the years 1958-1962 also reveals that after the 1956 Suez invasion, France helped Israel termina ton in the face of the start a plant near Beersheba * Meteran an up in to manufacture plutonium.

Atomic bombs could one day have been produced at Feels strong this plant, he adds. De Gaulle says he stopped this aid, , to gether with the system which gave the Israelis access to all echelons of the French general when he staff. on the to ee bure thrace.

That is the United siles near the Suez Canal.

United States no Leap in factory deaths and accidents REPORTED accidents at work rose by 3.2 per cent last year to a new record figure of 322,390 according to Her Majesty's Inspector of Factories yesterday.

Fatalities also increased by 24 to 649. Deaths connected with transport and construction almost doubled to 35.

Faced with these shock figures the Inspectorate has decided to conduct research into factories and areas that show low and high ratios of injuries and deaths.

Top of table Top of the injury table again were Yorkshire and Humberside which include the towns of Sheffield, Rotherham and Wakefield, where 71 employees per thousand were injured last year.

Excluding mining, which is not covered by the Inspectorate of Factories, the most dangerous work last year was that connected with coke ovens and the manufacture of tuel, where 115.5 employees per thousand sustained injury.

TORY CONFERENCE

No going back on union law THERE WOULD be no going back on the Tory anti-union proposals, Employment Minister Robert Carr told the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool yesterday afternoon.

- His proposed Industrial Relations Bill he said, 'is not a Bill against anybody except those who act unfairly and irresponsibly in our society. 'As far as the trade unions are concerned, its purpose, and I am sure its effect, will be to strengthen constitutional trade union authority, while at the same time making the trade unions more accountable and more responsible both to their own members and the community as a whole.' Underlining the corporatist character of his Bill, and appealing to the union bureaucracy, he added: "The trouble as a whole is nois LNE to have no knowledge of the causes t gating and Earlier, t Carr had attacked areas must be a source of relatiens in sate of important anger to workers who run the rowing risks of maiming an sectors of British industry eath in Britain's factorie: inspector to do o oday, such as the moto The law would be increasto the effect of caused by productivity deas influential creating and Measured-Day Work. which manProtest or mean professor fidence and mutual benefit, he said. • See page 4 for education danger of accidents. debate day. To hep this bie paigns to workinolitical strengt trial and Trade unions against Tor your donations imStreet, "They think they're running things in there, but they're not,' commented one G&MWU member concerning County Hall scab labour still working the West Ham, London, sewage pumping station yesterday (seen above). 'All you want is a few hours heavy rain and they'll really see what our work's like. Sometimes you have to clear the screens of muck with your bare hands. I can see them doing that.' SIXTY THOUSAND council workers are expected to be involved in the four council unions' 'rolling strike' campaign for a 55s pay increase and improvements in fringe benefits by the end of this week.

In a bid to hold the line against councils breaking ranks and settling locally, Alderman Frank Marshall, chairman of the Association of Municipal Corporations said in Leeds yesterday that such settlements were 'short-sighted' both from the men's and councils' point of view.

His statement - that "if everyone had to negotiate in his own backyard the small RDC's and UDC's employees would get a very depressed wage indeed'-is not only a declaration that the councils, backed by the Tory government, are going to stand firm, but a warning to rank-and-file workers against any piecemeal settlement of their claim by union leaders.

The councilmen's rank-and-file leaders must stick to their determination not to return until the full claim is granted in all its aspects.

TWO SUPPORT In fact only two of the 30 Labour - controlled borough councils in England and Wales have so far registered support for the workers' claim.

According to Party spokesmen at Transport House yesterday, Labour leaders -despite last week's Blackpool resolution declaring 'full support for the efforts of trade unions to secure higher wages' — do not intend issue 'either instructions or advice' to Labour majorities to settle.

Neither was any statement of overall policy 'in the pipeline' from party secretary Sir Harry Nicholas.

Sixteen local authorities mostly small Labour-controlled towns or urban district councils, but including a Tory council at Péterborough -have either passed resolutions supporting the 55s claim, are anxious to start paying now or have wired the employers national leaders for a change of attitude, the National Union of Public Employees , said

doubt also interprets Egyptian pleas for a further exof the Suez ceasefire as a sign of weakness. conciliatory move from bureaucracy bourgeois-nationallsi friends serves strengthen sitaristic drive, imperialism's The more the Soviet leaders retreat. the more brazen Americans and their Zionist allies become.

On alert The Sixth Fleet has been concentrated in une editer. ranean and Washington has made it clear that Us trooD: are on the alert ready to the Middle moments nouce.

The United States is maintaining nuclear weapons the colonels' Greece, a regime with which the Kremlin has the cordial trading and diplomatic relations.

All these preparations can be turned against the Soviet Union well as against the Middle East revolution.

Nixon intends to police the Middle East, with or without The charges against the collaboration of the Soviet them arise out of an bureaucracy. occupation of the city's If he cannot get what he wants through the Rogersfurther education offices Kosygin plan, he will prepare for war to get it.

About 90 students were The Soviet Stalinists' involved in the action — a counter-revolutionary treachprotest against the siting of ery has played a key part in the new Birmingham Poly- opening up this exceptionally technic at Perry Barr, dangerous situation several miles from the The question of imperialist war remains in the backThe students see this an an extension of the 'binary' ground of all the diplomatic system of privilege in manoeuvres taking place in the Middle East.

Further education stu- peace comprise ene dents at the Polytechnic would be separated from or anywhere else in the world. and have fewer facilities than those at the university.

High Court injunctions were later served against 75 emergency general meeting tiodiscuss seeing a Helens Helens demonstration on October 12 is being circulated by the Young Socialists Student To defeat the anti-union laws Society and has already it is necessary to defeat the gained over 100 signatures. Tory government, to force to resign government based on socialist policy.

Unlike the Communist Party an• the trace union etts The maintained price serves as a general minimum to the price received by producers, and is enforced by government support. purchases.

Despite very high food costs (including dairy produce) milk called for. farmers get only about francs (under 5s) an hour for their work.

Widespread claims The increased cost of living is also reflected in widespread wage claims in French dustry.

Workers electric in this district . tramways in LILLE (NW France) struck on Tuesday for the fourth time in as many weeks for pay increases and shorter hours. unions.' The two factories of Socapex (a subsidiary of ThomsonHouston manufacturing elecstrike since the end of September CLUSES (Savoy) and SURESNES for a 6 per cent increase in real wages.

Many of the 43,000 workers of the state aerospace industry SNIAS staged short strikes on Tuesday in support of their demands improved pay and conditions national contract.

And postmen in PARIS and several other cities held a solid strike on Monday on their pay claims.

Unions split

In negotiations on railwaymen's pay, the unions have split, with the CP-led CGT refusing to accept the agreement reached between management and the other unions.

The CGT is calling for a 2.6 per cent increase in real wages, almost double the employers' offer.

And the national lorrydrivers' union leadership has announced 'massive action soon' following the breakdown of pay negotiations.

AT LIEGE, in Belgium, 11,000 workers in the state arms factory started an indefinite strike on Monday against threatened reorganization which would involve hundreds of sackings.

They aré also demanding pay increases and earlier retirement ages.