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Central 'pivot' is essential Make union leaders Tories DAVID MAUDE NO TRADE UNIONIST worth the name can accept the campaign detailed by the Trades Union Congress Finance and General Purposes 'inner-cabinet' yesterday as even half-way adequate to defeat the Tories' anti-union legislation plans.

Employers at national Cambridge level and in every area of the country are on the offensive.

Senate They are encouraged by the still-rising trend of unemployment, the government's promise of rich pickings from the nationalized indust. ries and the treacherous hesitation of the union leaders.

They are slavering in barelyconcealable anticipation for today's announcement from Tory Chancellor Anthony Barber of swingeing cuts in social-service expenditure and hiving-off of lucrative State activities.

And as last week's Confederation of British Industry industrial trends survey timated, they are preparingin every boardroom-for the bitter struggles know their own anti-working-class preparations will provoke.

Yet yesterday's meeting of one of the supposedly most powerful bodies in Britain's ten-million-strong organized labour movement tamely offers up i campaign of local demonstrations. conferences. mass meetings and publicit! stretching routinehs into next year.

TUC general secretar! Mr. Victor Feather. said yesterdas that the purpose of the campaign will be *to make public opinion aware of what is being proposed and inform the trade union movement of the implications of the legislation'. ABOUT 500 Cambridge Uni- out to the students involved Tomorron, the full TUC versity students picketed in the anti-Greek junta Cieneral Cruncil will fix yesterday's meeting of the demonstration at the Garden the date for a special Congress Senate governing body in pro- House Hotel earlier this year. sometime in 'January, February test at the delay in reform of five-student delegation For March' as general secrethe disciplinary system. met Senate representatives in the afternoon to discuss the tary Victor Feather put it on October 15. The students are demanding demands and will report back Four vital weeks have alabolition of the proctors, to a further mass picket next ready clapsed since Employoverhaul of the disciplinary Monday: ment Minister Robert Carr code, 50 per cent representa- A sit-in, which had been published his Industrial Retion on the Senate Council anticipated if the Senate did lations Bill proposals. and the Senate's condemna- not grant the students And in the ten days since tion of the sentences meted demands, did not lake place.

the TUC General Council decided to oppose what it sales clash: described the government's "misconceived and doctrinaire' legislation, it has, Congress House said yesterday .. published a special edition of its information broadsheet "Labour'.

Several hundred thousand on £10 bail copies would be produced.

Feather said yesterday:

The TUC was approaching this campaign rather like a ONLY SIX of the 65 demon- The remaining 40 defenGeneral Election only fought strators due to appear at Bow dants, who appeared yestermer four or five months, he St court on charges arising out day. were remanded on £10 added. of Sunday's demonstration in bail until next month. No such inactivity has London against arms for S One was remanded in cusgripped the Tory leaders and Africa had their cases dealt tody because, the court was their advisers. with yesterday. told, he had a return ticket Troops have been sent into to Ireland. Tower Hamlets to break the One, accused of obstruction, Earlier proceedings were councilmen's strike. Fleet St was fined £15. Three others interrupted by the shouting of has been busy advocating a on similar charges were fined slogans from the public gallery hard line against what it con£5 each. Two charged with and one girl was removed strues as a weakening of the INCORPORATING IE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, 1970 • NUMBER | 286 PRICE 6d.

Rank-and-file committee leader Terry Wilson speaking at yesterday's Victoria insulting behaviour were fined along with two youths from £5 and fl. the dock. Park meeting. .. 5 - dama STRIKE INQUIRY OPENS TODAY THE INQUIRY into the counmeets unions and employers to decide on procedure.

Union leaders' high • hopes in the inquiry were probably behind yesterday's decision not to step up the strike in SCOTLAND until the inquiry report is known.

In LEICESTER dustmen are facing widespread scabbing by private contractors—including two fleets of lorries allegedly owned by Tory councillors.

Pickets are moving

strength around the tips which are being kept open by police.

Mr John Jordan, one of the city's dustmen, commented to NUJ 'WEIGHS' LEADERS of Britain's 22,000 journalists yesterday supported the Trades Union Congress in its opposition to the government's proposed legislation on industrial relations.

'The proposals,' said a statement from the NUJ executive, would interfere with the voluntary process of collective bargaining beplosers unions and emBut it claimed that some aspects of Tory Employment Minister Robert Carr's consultative document went some way towards overdue reform. while these were outweighted by the basic defects in the government's approach to the role of the union in a free societ!.

And it complained that 'the timetable set by the government is such that it frustrates effective consultation both on the policy and the detail of the proposed measures'.

Economies at arity action by Swindon engineers last Friday:

"The way forward is to unite many different workers in struggle. The dustmen are in the forefront of Tory attack.

'It will be the engineers or miners next. We must try to win support of the engineering workers in this town and have it out with the trade union leaders who won't fight.

The major entertainment centre Fairfield Halls will be closed tomorrow morning as all CROYDON'S council workers march through the main shopping centre to a mass meeting.

Croydon's school caretakers who staged their second one-day strike yesterday were 'Standstill' answer to SERVICES in Tower Hamlets are almost certain to continue at a complete and indefinite stand. still in answer to the council's use of troops to This, it was stated at a mass meeting of Tower Hamlets' council workers, would be a warning to all other authorities who might be thinking of following the example of this Labour-controlled authority. meeting later to decide whether to make their stoppage indefinite.

SHEFFIELD Universit Young Socialists Student Society is calling a Union General Meeting to condemn the attempt by students taking part in the rag last Wednesday to man the Reading sewage works. • Pickets did not hesitate to prevent the students performing the stunt.

The Sheffield YSSS is calling for all rag proceeds to be put in the council workers' strike fund.

Four hundred dustmen and 200 other workers in LIVERPOOL council's cleansing department begin an indefinite strike today.

use of troops bYA WORKERS PRESS REPORTEr clear rubbish in the borough.

Union speakers at yesterday's meeting were criticized because they did not call an immediate total -stoppage aíter Saturday morning's military intervention when the troops cleared refuse from London's Petticoat Lane.

'But I am 100 per cent certain that by tomorrow all of you will be called out on official strike', Brian Connolly. Transport and General Workers' Union district organizer told the meeting in Victoria Park, Bethnal Green.

He said that a proposal to this effect was going to be union offcials last night. put to meeting of London 'DISGRACE' Terry Wilson, secretary o the London strike committee organized yesterday's unofficial stoppage union help, said it was a 'comlete disgrace' that a near 100-per-cent Labour council would be first to call in troops under a Tory government.

I would like to say tha omorrow whether I'n called out on official strike or not I will not be going to work she mine to chers from that challenge and call n LOBBY council is Tory councils will do. workers or led es neilors Town Hall last night Essex bus walk-out unexpectedly I faces MDT shop stewards from Leyland's Pressed-Steel Fisher body plant at Cowley, Oxford, to reject new Measured-Day Work pay proposals put forward by the management.

A leading steward from Leyland's nearby Morris Motors assembly plant, Tory government October £1,250 Appeal Fund now at 2792 2s 8d FOUR DAYS to go and we readers. This is not a panic need £457 17s 4d — approx!- appeal, it is the plain truth. mately £115 a day. The time for hesitation is All of us are anxiously over. This is the message loud hoping that our readers are and clear which emerges from going to pull it off. It is a big the reactionary policies of the assignment and the responsi- Tory government. bility is great. There is not a moment to Put briefly, if we fail, then lose. Post your donations at the six-day paper begins with once to: a dangerous deficit, and we have no reserves to meet such Workers Press Appeal a contingency. 186a Clapham High We are in the hands of our London, SW4. for today's wages talks.

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Individual area councils may vote to take independent strike action.

But the national executive is unlikely to endorse action farm prices until after meeting Lord Robens and other NCB memThe national executive was to meet after today's talks with the board.

Scotland's 40 collieries could all be out of action

miners' pay struggle and tondin the commise states Measured-Day Work threats have again reared their head but refuse to support strike in the car industry.

Preparation to mobilize the united strength sage line by line!

Britain's 10,000,000 trade Every right ever won in unionists to defeat: this struggle by the working-class offensive on all fronts is movement-from the National now the urgent question of Health Service, through the the hour. nationalized coal steel The one-day national stop- industries to basic trade union page proposed for December practices such as picketing8 is a step in this direction-- is now under attack. but it is by no means enough. The CBI's industrial relaPivot? 'It had been evident for Action of this kind will un- ciples of complete freedom of doubtedly mobilize trade union action for any combination of militants in relatively large workers no longer operated in numbers, but what is to be its the best interests of individual central pivot ? workers, of trade unions, inMerely to welcome the dustry or the nation.' TUC's publicity campaign and These well-heeled gentleDress for the special Congress man think Carr'e menancod Rill to be brought forward - as did the conference of the so-called Institute for Workers' Control at the weekend—is to let the union leaders off the hook.

Instead, they must be forced to fight!

Brazilian 'dies' during arrest BRAZILIAN police spokesmen have claimed that Joaquim Camara Ferreira 'died of a heart attack' while being arrested in Sao Paolo last week.

Ferreira, who was unarmed, was believed to have organized the kidnapping of US Ambassador Burke Elbrick in September last year.

Brazilian police chief Fleury; facing trial in Sao Paolo for organizing the right-wing terrorist organization "Death Squad, responsible for the murder and torturing large number of left-wingers, has refused to answer questions put by the investigating lawyers.

And in Porto-Alegre. in Rio-Grande-del-Sul province, 120 people are to trial shortly for "subversive activities'.

The prosecution alleges that large quantities of arms and ammunition were found in their possession.

CONFERENCES COVENTRY: Keith's Club, Cox Street, 3.30 p.m. NEWCASTLE: Royal Turk's Head Hotel, Grey Street, SHEFFIELD: Crooksmoor Vestry Hall, Crooksmoor 2.30 p.m. GLASGOW: Partick Burgh Lesser Hall, near Merkland underground, 7.30 p.m. LONDON: Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton. 7.00 p.m.

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