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What we think AS THE ANTI-UNION Bill day draws nearer, the retreat of the TUC is changing from a canter If the Tories are experiencing any difficulty in cornering their quarry now, it is certainly not due to the vigour of its resistance, but because of the wretched and ignominious trail with mountains of literature, petitions and regional conferences in London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham and probably Manchester and Southampton.

couraged by the retreat of the National Union of Mineworkers' leaders and determined to short circuit the electricity supply workers' wage claim, are advancing with visors positioned and lances lowered on a half-suspectpassing their legislation unimpeded because they see the triviality and irrelevance of the TUC's opposition exemplified by its lament that anti-union laws are based on Jones-will join right wingers Lord Cooper and Sir Sidney Greene as TUC representatives on the liaison committee with the Shadow Cabinet and trade union group of MPs, Parliamentary Labour Party and the incredible speed of its flight. The IUC has no intention of fighting the Its leaders hope instead to cover their In the meanwhile the Tories, vastly enConfident The Tories at present are confident of It is precisely because the TUC, the CP and the 'lefts' shy away from the political consequences of this struggle that the Tories can crow that they will not be pushed around by the unions as the Labour • THE 'LEFTS'-Hugh Scanlon and Jack They are telling workers Beer up 2d ALLIED Breweries, Britain's second largest brewers, are to raise the price of draught 'Double Diamond' and draught and bottled 'Skol' lager by 2d They are evading the politi- a pint from Monday. Several other draught mild beers-mainly sold in the NE —Will also be increased by 2d. The price increases affect public-bar prices.

• THE STALINISTS seduCostly housing RENTS of council houses will undoubtedly rise so astronomically that soon only rich This is also the policy of people will be able to live in them, Frank Allaun, Labour MP for Salford East, claims in an architectural magazine this week.

Because of the government's cuts in council house subsidies rent would soar and the result would be a serious deAny worker who has read cline in council house buildthe contents of Carr's 'con- ing, he says. sultative' document will see its extremely sinister politiHe will see clearly the OVER 2,000 plane-makers gave a lead to workers in SW London yesterday when they voted to strike against the government's anti-union laws on December 8.

The strike will close the large Hawker Siddeley Aviation plant at Kingston which makes the bodies for the Harrier vertical take-off jet.

This is the first factory in the Kingston area to declare for strike action on December 8 and others may follow.

Already the Kingston district committee of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers' Union has called for stoppages on the day.

"Take stand'

Speaking at an open air mass meeting which voted almost unanimously for the stoppage, chairman of the works committee, Bert Deller, told Hawker workers: Big business unpleasant measures' PRESSURE for emergency Tory action to hold down wages is rapidly being notched up. A warning that the employers do not have suffi- BY A WORKERS PRESS cient time to wait in the hope that 'the combination of rising costs, difficult ployment will break the markets and high unem- inflationary cycle' is made Alaln Geismar of Guerin's own imagination.

This is how 'L'Humanité' and French Stalinism prepare to fight the mounting repression.

By their criminal failure to organize the slightest protest against the legal witch-hunt they are opening the door for major attacks on the trade unions and on the rights of all workers, CP members included.

Free Alain Geismar now. Send telegrams and letters to French Embassy, 1l Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8.

PLANEMAKERS SHOW THE WAY CORRESPONDENT by the December issue of the influential business magazine 'Management Today'.

'HOW MUCH?'

'The question', says sharply-worded editorial, "is how much time and how much unemployment.' Criticizing Tory leader Edward Heath's resistance to a statutory wage freeze, it says that 'the situation confronting British industry and government is now extremely serious.

'Plainly inflation on this scale cannot be broken without a combination of unpleasant measures.' The magazine's call comes hard on the heels of a warning from the powerful Charterhouse financial, industrial and banking group that the Tories, may be forced into a pay 'freeze.

'WON'T WORK'

Government reliance on monetary policy rather thar statutory intervention against wages, said the group's quarterly business forecast, 'will not work quickly enough.

Although employers have resisted strikes in support of claims in some instances, offers have been made well in excess of 10 per cent.' £1,250 Nov Appeal Fund:

'We must take a stand and say that this Bill must be fought outright by every trade unionist in the country. The Tories are taking our hard won freedom from us. If this Bill goes through no shop steward will be • bold enough to do his job properly for fear of fines or eventual imprisonment.' One young production worker called upon the TUC