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Train Either MDW deal i lease General Strike call LIKE BANQUO'S Macbeth the demand or a eneral strik called by the 'UC to force the lowes i tes " Stalinists and the continues to haunt 'Morning Star'.

This is certainly revealed by Mr literary stileshe Stalinist the contortions able sin of the Novemher Conference which the Stalinists and the "Star' were shame.

lessly trying to conceal from Amongst other unsavour une workarcass that Norman evealed that Atkinson, nad been mntensery neckied minority' kellio force the hat there was a 'vociferon speed-up.

general strike ories to resign anis demand. oHS• appointment, had not been good for answered. (If Mr Hiles was unable is belief Trotsk montes jobless whiches act Certainly 0 trying. concerned some might thrower work.

"Star's so caled Dietine manpower changers that when 12,000 Reason A care the preso a o trying in Mot artici ory gove wate esistance at Cowley.

They remain thet to the Socialise Labor It can and will be pushed rather strength.

or the dole?

SHOP STEWARDS at British-Leyland's Cowley car-assembly plant believe the company's call for urgent talks about manpower changes to be a ploy in its campaign for Measured-Day Work There appear to be Tories appoint receiver for uddenly became Mersey docks BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT A SMALL executive committee comprising dock employers, major port users and a trade union inteerst in industria official is to preside over a thoroughgoing three rationalization of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

month's press before Speed-up interlaced with unemployment will now become the Tory whip for every Mersey portworker.

This was confirmed in the House of Commons late yesterday afternoon by Transport Minister John Peyton after three hours of discussion with MD&HB representatives D. 4., POrt users. (See photo 'Some of the main users of the port, with whom I have held discussions, confirmed at a meeting this • morning that they could not help with bridging finance', Peyton told MPs.

He announced that a receiver had been appointed 'to protect the financial interests of the government and other secured creditors'.

Aid to the £35 million Seaforth container and bulkcargo site now under construction would continue, he said.

It is now almost certain, that the South end of Liverpool's seven miles of dockland will be wound up and sold off to private enterprise.

Walton 'left' Labour MP Eric Heffer's response to this threat to thousands of jobs was merely that the government 'was starting the wrong way round' and 'abdicating its responsibility' in appointing a receiver.

Peyton's angry retort to another questioner that he did nationalization or it, pard as doing anything approaching a helpful solution', however, is the best possible argument for Heffer and his political friends now seriously beginning the work of forcing the Tory government to resign. Monday Club raises communist bogev FEARS that not even military repression is going to be sufficient to hold back the N Ireland working class were voiced yesterday by right-wing Tories of the Monday Club.

Obviously worried that religious divisions and military force cannot contain the working class, they attempt to find ways of exploiting its crisis of leadership.

In a pamphlet, 'Ireland Our Cuba', three Club members attempt to use an antiAnother inflation TELEPHONE, radio and telegram services at London's warning by US Post Office Tower were brought to a standstill yesterday when 3,000 engineers and PRESIDENT Nixon's economic advisors are preparing technicians walked out after to issue a second warning on inflation this week amid lunch. mounting crisis for the US Administration's efforts to They marched to Hyde Park Corner in protest against overcome the problem. government plans to hive off the more profitable parts of The real possibility of a US the Post Office service to recession is reflected in inprivate enterprise. creasingly panicky White House statements as the Death warrants economy fails to respond to Nixon's relaxation of the Government departments monetary squeeze. are now drawing up the death This week's report is exwarrants of nationalized sec- pected to come out strongly tions, posing the questions: gainst the wages struggle of 'Are all the activities car- JS workers, who have wrung ried out by the state indus- huge rises out of top monomonth concerns over recent tries necessary; could some of them be better performed by someone else, and it not are the state noards carrying them out as efficiently as possible?' Crises.

Threatened sections in the It had little effect anc Post Office include telex and October': consumer price telephone installation services ent showed a hefty 0.6 per and computer and data transmission.

will and The Tory plans, first ad- attack pre-election publication 'Dial Enterprise', construction wage settleare now under discussion as ments. part of a full-scale Whitehall examination of nationalized Election campaign industries with a view to seléctive denationalization. With unemployment running at 5.6 per cent, Nixon has Hands off een trying without success t evive the economy somewha o part of the run-up to th Workers from Post Office factories and about 300 dele- presidential electior gates from all over the coun- Reduction in the bank rate try joined yesterday's march- during the summer has led to eTs, who shouted, 'Chataway continuing out!', "Tories out!' and 'Hands off the Post Officel economy, From the Hyde Park meeting, marchers went to West- This undoubtedly reflects minster to lobby their MPs. growing uneasiness about the economy's future in top apitalist circles.

The classic Keynesian solution of reducing interest rates, des obtain has had one it easier Instead the opposite has happened. A number of imcommunist bogey against pomant business firms are the Civil Rights movement. believed to be on the edge of • The authors claim that bankruptcy — several Wall St the men now behind the broking firms among them. Civil Rights movement 'are The loss of confidence is only interested in these directly related to the very principles as a means to an large wage rises won recently end-communism'.

Concessions must be made to Irish Nationalists would and and the Unionist Party urged to remove injustices firm to win support from Roman Catholics, they say. were dashed by the settlement This must be taken even which gave wage increases of to the extent of alienating Orange extremists. THE ONE-DAY strike against the Tory anti-union proposals has, in spite of the limitations placed on it by its organizers, received a tremendous response from large sections of the working class.

Some of the latest estimates have predicted over a million workers to strike on the day.

This will include 47,000 workers at Ford plants throughout Britain, whose stewards decided to back the strike over the weekend. Workers at British-Leyland plants are also being urged to stop work.

More than 10,000 dockers at Liverpool, together with tugmen and watermen from London docks also decided to join the strike which has been opposed throughout by the TUC and the Labour Party.

At Saturday's Liverpool mass meeting of dockers, Transport and General Workers' Union port steward Dennis Kelly was applauded when he said that the Tories could not be left in office for five years and must be brought down.

As already reported in yesterday's Workers Press, the expected magnitude of action and immense display of force on December 8, has prompted a witch-hunt in almost all the capitalist papers.

Disturbed by the fact that the strike is unofficial, yesterday's 'Daily Mail' comment column reported this as a 'sinister trend' which 'threatened the whole of our democratie system'.

PAPER TERRIFIED terrified at the prospect of December 8 being part of 'a dangerous trend towards political strikes, the '"Mail' points out the Post Office workers' strike as another symptom of this development. But it knows who its allies are and whom it can rely on.

'Mr Victor Feather and the TUC are within their democratic rights in speaking out against the Bill. So is the opposition..

This right does not seem to exist as far as workers on the shop floor are concerned.

Their action, continues the editorial, 'is to be condemned the strongest terms. It could be the first step on the slippery slope to a shop-floor dictatorship . . . workers are STANT XIAS BAZAARS Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS Saturday December 12 Corn Exchange Leeds DOORS OPEN AT 11

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trying to use the strike weapon to try to sabotage the plans of a democratically-elected government'.

Despite similar attacks and witch-hunts, two mass meetings on Sunday at Sheffield city hall endorsed the call for strike action.

A meeting of Laycock's enginering plant workers decided to bring all the factory's 1,900 men out on the day.

Many other Sheffield factories have already pledged to do so, including British Steel Corporation plant Shardlows Davy and United, and Batchelors.

REVERSE DECISION Batchelors are still out on strike over the sacking of their convenor three weeks ago.

Another meeting of 300 Sheffield trade unionists, called by the Trades and Labour Council, passed a resolution appealing to the TUC to reverse its decision not to support December 8.

Oxford Trades Council is supporting the December 8 stoppage.

Together with the • local district of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, it plans to put out 20,000 leaflets in the area backing the call.

Nuneaton central branch of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers have called on, their district committee to demand a general strike in opposition to the laws and to force the Tory government to resign.

The branch also agreed to send a delegation to December 9 All Trades Unions Allianc conference on the 'Charter Basic Rights'.

Southampton branch of the Amalgamated Society of Boiler makers has adopted the following résolution:

'This branch calls upon all organizations that represent the working class to take all action necessary to prevent the proposed legislation of the Tory government against the unions. health service, etc. from becoming law.

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'As a first step to this ob. jective we call for a one-day general strike on December 8, follow until victory strikes to with future general resolution has been endorsed by the ASB Southampton district committee.

Boilermakers at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyards voted yesterday to join the December 8 stoppage.

Engineers, electricians and plumbers, ioiners and sheet. metalworkers have already decided to strike, which means that the yards are almost certain to come to a complete I standstill.

League's " demands and policy and the serious dissension in Stalinist ranks over the CPs attitude to the Tory government.

In the same issue the 'Star' is forced to report that 'pressure was coming from Merseyside for a one-day general strike on january 12, for a campaign to bring down the Tory government, for a Labour government with a socalist programme. "The Lancashire and Cheshire • Federation of Trades Councils had called a conference to discuss these aims.? This is the answer of the working class to the 'peaceful co-existence' - "peaceful parliamentary Files ansit his traud of and Stalinist distorters.

It is one more reason to make December 8 the first step towards forcing the TUC to call a general strike until the Tory government resigns. It is also an additional incentive to build the All Trades Unions Alliance to campaign for the Charter of Basic Rights and make the annual conference December 19 a tremendous success. The Town Hall it Helens, Lanes. about 15s an hour, cost-of-living escalator clauses and a number of important fringe benefits.

Growing lobby

The settlement at the biggest US monopoly concern has struck fear. into the rest of the American employing class.

That is why there is a growing lobby for some form of incomes policy, a direct government attack on the workers' wages offensive.

Heath's urgency in pushing for anti-union laws in Britain is linked to fear of the effects if the American economy goes into recession. Nixon, too, is preparing the way for much more authoritarian right-wing rule in the US with systematic purge of the administration to root out liberals, anc replace them with rightwingers.

Latest victim, following the dismissal of Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, is Charles Yost, US United Nations delegate, who has been ignominiously pushed out of his job to make way for a. Nixon nominee.