Incomes Board's report on BOAC A.W.O.L. case highlights army difficulties

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Small wonder that Captain Laurie Taylor Balpa chairman, described the report as 'provocative and evasive'.

Refuse training He said that pilots would continue to refuse to train for flying the jumbo jets until pay and conditions had been agreed.

The PIB also criticizes the pay agreement reached after the six-day strike by BOAC pilots in April.

Under the agreement pilots earn a bonus for each fiying hour over 55 a month.

BOAC had hoped that this productivity deal would allow it to cut its number of pilots by 13 per cent.

But it now appears that two dozen extra pilots will be needed instead.

Sour comments The PIB comments sourly that the deal did not come within the current productivity, prices and incomes policy.

For the deal had not brought big productivity increases in return for a few extra coppers in the workers' wage packets.

The PIB's report goes on to say that relations between BOAC and the pilots are 'such that we do not consider a solution possible without help from outside'.

BOAC pilots should take this as a warning that the government is determined to intervene in their pay negotiations to secure the productivity increases outlined in the PIB's report. A 24-YEAR-OLD British soldier, Corporal Roger Phillips, told an Ulster court martial this week that he went absent without leave for four days because he did not wish to open fire on unarmed people.

Corporal Phillips, of the Queen's Regiment, pleaded Guilty to being absent from his barracks at Holywood near Belfast from October 3 to October 7.

In a statement read to the court, Phillips said:

'I could not in all honesty as a soldier open fire on or be responsible for opening fire on unarmed people.

'My absence was an act which I hoped would allow me to be posted from a situation which I did wish to be involved in, Rot Second case This is the second case in recent weeks of young British soldiers being court martialled in Northern Ireland for disobeying orders.

It highlights the difficulty of the British army in maintaining its repressive role in Ulster. THE RIFT within the ruling Indian Congress party deepened on Tuesday when Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi removed one of her leading right-wing opponents, Dr Ram Subhag Singh, from her cabinet. :

Recent peasant ' and workers' struggles have greatly alarmed the Indian capitalist class, and Mrs Gandhi's differences with the right wing of the Congress Party, led by Morarji

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