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Wha A small trade surplus, but Inflation crisis BRITAIN'S TRADE SURPLUS of £27 million this October will do little or nothing to dissuade world money controllers from abandoning their suspicions about the health of British economy. Their scepticism about Heath's inability to control inflation without severe deflation will remain intact..

Mr Emile van Lennep, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development secretary general, has declared that conventional taxation and monetary policies can no longer hold down the rate of inflation which has leaped from 2.5 per cent per annum in the period 1960-1965 to 5 and 5} per cent in 1969-1970. This applies not only to Britain, but to all the major industrial countries of the West and Japan. right. lay's 'Times': than in the past." period in 1969 worsens Behind this escalating rate of inflation lies the massive upsurge of the working class, a factor which has bewildered and stunned every economic analyst on the 'left' and the It is in every sting. at has THE Board of Trade, antie anthony exposure of been further aggravatec the US nouneing. a £27 • million visible trade surplus for last month, said that the figures only paize d thed in emon. were still affected by the after effects of the July dock strike.

The Board said: 'Arrears of imports are probably small and less than the remaining backlog of exports'. built into the terms, plus the September's £8 million threat now visible trade surplus folharbingers overinge steers are Slowed the huge £228 million creases in the United Stat wing down of labo August deficit, itself preRather the contrary. ceded by a run of deficit figures broken only by the July surplus brought about by the dock strike.

Writing on Germany—until went be big the med "The rate of increase o ourly wage rates in German in the last year has been United Kingdeha than By in the autumn they stood some 17 per cent higher than the same INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1970 NUMBER 304 PRICE 6d. if necessary.

'If we can smash the Tories' wages policy nationally I am damned sure we can smash the policy of this Tory council here,' Tony Sweeney, a member of the strike committee, told the dustmen and sweepers. General Dave Ryland, Municipal for and Workers' Union, told the men that though the unions so far backed them, there was not much point in staying out and losing more money..

But he was stopped in mid-speech by Len Miller, a Chelsea dustman, who said their local strike was one of principle.

'We came out eight weeks ago and this is a fight to the death. I will stay out until Easter if necessary. Let's stick it out and show this council that we are men and have got to be treatea like men, he said.

He called for and received unanimous support for continuing the strike.

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The council, which has offered £10 bonus payment, claims there is no great blacklog of refuse to clear in their area—a claim that can readily be proved false;

even the briefest investigation of the Chelsea streets will reveal mounds of soaking rubbish on every corner and doorstep.

The authority will pay if fought. It was this same council that spent thousands of pounds of tax-payers' money on employing private contractors at inflated rates council workers stinge the strike.

Hull and NW backing for December 8 SHOP stewards at Girling's ta be broadened into & fisht Gandan. lamloser TApu Drake астогу, bromborough, Cheshire, have voted unanimously for strike action against the anti-union laws on December 8.

The committee supported the strike call of the Liverpool Trades Councit as the first step to bring down the Tory government.

HULL TRADE unionists voted unanimously at a 100strong meeting called by the Trades Council to work for the December 8 one-day strike agains the Tory anti-union Bill.

Mr Jim Duffy, convenor of the Priestman's plant, which was strikebound for 13 weeks earlier this year, said that the campaign had ISRAELI Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir Jordan are conducting secret negotiations, it by the New York magazine "lime'.

Together with Israeli * Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, the two leaders attacked the Palestinian guerrillas as 'a nuisance to both countries' and agreed on a common strategy of fighting them.

Economic collaboration was also agreed between the two regimes. And, accord. ing to "Time', "broader peace negotiations with representatives of other Arab states can be expected to follow.

When the talks were debated in the Israeli parliament last week, all mention of them was erased from the records and press references were censored.

CRISIS

Behind the talks is the growing crisis in both the Arab states and Israel, and the joint pressure of US imperialism and the Soviet bureaucracy for a MiddleEast deal at the expense of the Palestinians.

The regimes of Egypt, Libya and Sudan have just joined forces to co-ordinate eir approach to the Zior ts, while Saturday's mil tary coup in Syria also marks a turn towards a Amman, Nov. 16 - An official Jordanian spokesman denied report in the American 'Time' magazine today that King Hussein had held secret border meetings with Israeli officials.

The spokesman described the report as 'completely unfounded and part of a Zionist campaign aimed at creating dissension'.

their workers peasants more than either Zionism or imperialism.

They seek a deal with oth, precisely to free theil lands for action against the masses at home.

This is seen most clearly the case in Jordan, but it applies to every Arab regime from Algeria to Iraq.

Meir and Dayan are also aced with a growing econc nic and political crisi IO DrINg dOWN eury government and this demanded a general strike.

"Those of you that don't like this might as well get out now because you will live with this government, he said.

REFUSED

But the chairman refused to accept a resolution calling on trade union leaders to begin a real mobilization of the working class against the Tory government.

Few leading officials at the meeting mentioned the TUC's role except to criticize its 'slowness'.

Only a railwaymen's union member (docks section) Tory government Meir and in talks 'Leaders' urge pit return BY LITANT MINERS t' leaders yesterday Rolls polishers strike TURBINE-BLADE polishers at three Midlands Rolls-Royce plants began an indefinite strike yesterday against proposed new • Measured-Day Work pay structure.

Members of the National Society of Metal Mechanics, the men claim that the scheme would give them lower status and lose them between £5 and £7 a week.

Lay-offs are anticipated at the plants affected - Derby shire shid aka Nestrel m.

Mountsorrel Leicestershire.

Proposals to implement a similar scheme at the crisis-ridden company's Coventry plants were blocked at York Friday when NSMM officials failed to attend discussions.

More bread up 1d ANOTHER major breadbaking company yesterday announced a penny rise on large and small loaves. • British Bakeries Lt Rank bread subsidiary of Hovis McDougall said the new price would operate from November 30.

The new British Bakeries' prices — in line with Allied Bakeries-will be ls lld for a large white wrapped, and Is 10d for a large unwrapped. Is Id for small wrapped and Is unwrapped.

strike condemned the treachery of Feather and Wilson.

These men he said agreed with the Tories on the need to curb capitalist inflation by halting wages.

East Hull's Labour MP John Prescot attacked the Bill.

But he avoided all personal responsibility for lighting the Tories by declaring parliament to be a worthless talk-shop and that the rank-and-file had to take the lead.

Many were critical of militant-sounding speeches from officials who had not lifted a finger against the Labourites' anti-union bill and now wanted to restrict the anti-Tory opposition to the smallest protests. A WORKERS PRESS COh. ESPONDENT were being urged by to return to work.

In Scotland the retreat was led by miners' president Michael McGahey, a Communist Party member, who said that he anticipated normal working on the coalfield by Wednesday.

The Scottish miners' delegates' decision to call off the strike was taken in view of last week's refusal by the national executive to cancel the ballot on pay ofter, and the 'obvious signs' of a break up of the strike in other areas, said McGahey.

'We always warned that there would be unofficial action, but at the same time we were not prepared to isolate the Scottish miners and have unnecessary sacrifices, added McGahey, who must know that the only way to break out of isolation is to campaign for the stoppage on other fields and destroy the grip of the right wing in the union.

CANCELLED

In S Wales, where Communist Party members are also in leading positions, the area executive appeared to have cancelled plans to go out to miners in Nottingham and Yorkshire to rally • them round the men in the S Wales pits.

Large numbers of miners are still fighting on. • In Wales the strike remained almost total yesterday and in Yorkshire all the pits in the militant Doncaster area were idle.

But in Durham the big Westoe pit voted to return against the recommendations of the lodge committee and in Kent all the coalfield's 3,500 miners were back at work.

ALLIANCE

The course of the miners' strike proves that no degree of militancy alone will be able to destroy the alliance of the right and 'left' sections in the National Union Mineworkers' leadership.

The miners need a new general staff that will battle to the end and face all the political consequences involved in such a fight.

Panthers for Vietnam?

S VIETNAM'S National Liberation Front has told the Black Panther Party it is willing to accept an offer of volunteers to fight the US forces in Vietnam.

December 8 was 'not a strike against the government at this stage ... that has to come later'.

Phil Ballard, who was last year expelled from the National Union of Seamen for his part in distributing anti-junta leaflets in Greece, is quoted as saying that 'penal clauses had been included in the Merchant Shipping Act because the union had not organized strongly enough against them'. 'The Labour movement must on Carr's proposals, mistake In fact, Ballard made quite a different point.

Both the TUC and the Labour Party, he said, had expressed sympathy with the seamen's requests for help in eradicating the penal clauses in the new legislation-but nothing had been done.

The 1966 seamen's strike could have been won 'but the TUC didn't provide the leadership', he said. 'Learn by our example. The TUC are not going to be able to provide the leadership this time - it must come from the rank and file Even the speech of TUC Youth Award winner Janet Harkness, a member of the SOGAT Division ехесиtive, was cut down to political size.

The 'Star' failed to report her loudly applauded remarks, that:

can't see the Joneses and the Scanions and the Dalys on this platform, giving the message on your behalf. No, no - they are not there at "When you come out on December 8 you are going to come out unofficially, because your leaders have not given the right to strike officially. It's up to you to demand it from them!' It would be difficult to find a more concise argument for the campaign waged by union leaders fight the Tories with all-out official action.

But the 'Star' is forced to chop and slash its reporters' copy because it is hell-bent on keeping opposition to the government's legislation plans down to manageable, Feather-style, protest proportions.

The Communist Party's 'counter - confrontation', in other words, is not only a sham - it is a dangerous fraud as well.

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rights, he said.

'This is why the fight for our re-instatement is central to the campaign to defeat the Tory legislation on unions, housing and social services.

'At St Helens we were just the first to feel the lash,' John Potter told a meeting of 200 London trade unionists on Sunday Part of the 200-strong audience at Sunday's Pilkington conference But we have pledged ourselves to fight it out at St Helens, and fight it out until we win!' The story of the Pilkington struggle brought forward a great response from engineers, council workers and other workers in the audience.

They all spoke of their own battles and proved the truth of John Potter's words when he said Pilkington's sackings were only the start of a general campaign to destroy the power of the working class.

John Potter closed the meeting by thanking ATUA members and sympathizers who contributed to the fine collection of over £61.

'We now need money every week. Our members who are sacked are now losing their earnings-related dole benefit.

'Christmas is coming on and