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began in 1936.

Following the outbreak of Valencia, not to slam out Franco's 'Fifth Column', but to hunt down and murder revolutionary workers. The POUM leader Andres Nin was only one of many antiStalinists who died at the ands ( Stalin's terror quad And ie CP wiss Union, this Sta comrades as ol turing, cuting the finest of Lenin's done-in icly thal rile Trotskyists For 20 years and more, you party slandered Trotskyisi as a secret ally of Franco Franco regime against. the Now you are for unity wit The same question must b put with even more force t the veteran Stalinist leader To i Book They Shall Not Saints regime. She co member call s She fat net pote made to Carillo has made a small beexecution chambers in Bar Tell the truth about the thor sands Are to face GPU Sofia. government.

Their policies have become the main immediate danger to the working class and its future.

aders!° clear seur thcs The most and the 'lefts' like Scanlon and fear the mas: workers' movement.

all their power to sing refer to see it pusi threat to themselves.

the Labour Shadow Cabinet decision to recommend the power workers return to work pending the decision of a court of inquiry.

Always telling thẹ working class not to use its industrial strength for political ends, Wilson and Castle now use their political position to break a strike.

These leaders know full well that the Tories want to defeat the power workers on the way to imposing their reactionary anti-union laws, the first step to the corporate state.

hey know the Tories a reparing emergency power Sanctity At the same time Scanlon elected to presidency of the engineering union on a 'left' ticket, opposes - with the T&GWU's Jones - an interim claim going from the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. He is taking his stand on the sanctity of agreements concluded two years ago. All these leaders are now an absolutely dangerous liability and must be brought to book by the working-class movement: Barbara Castle tos lead any It is possible for fight whatsoever in parliament on the Industrial Relations Bill when Employment Minister Carr can make a laughing-stock of her on the wages question by quoting her own efforts to introduce a 4ł-per-cent limit on wage rises.

And everybody knows that her 'In Place of Strife' retary Transport and Workers' Union executive whose secretary is Tack Jones, last Sunday instructed its Members to ignore the December strike call.

Scanlon of the AEF announced that so far as he was concerned the anti-union Bill was as good as back from fighting the Tory As MDW talks shop floor asks Is B-Leyland planning a lock-out? LOCK-OUT rumours and redundancy threats both lie in the background of today's unionmanagement talks on British-Leyland's plan for Measured-Day Work in its Cowley assemblv plant.

All the indications are that the company has now reached crisis point in its campaign to force Ford-style pay and conditions on workers at the Oxford suburb's Morris Motors factory.

This means both that management will go to desperate lengths to press home attack and that these moves can be successfully defeated.

In a special issue of the factory's Transport and General Workers' 5/55 'Branch News', senior stewards warn that last last 5,000 redundancies ment redundancies across Leyland's Austin-Morris division is 'the biggest scare campaign in the history of the motor industry'.

Stampeding

They suggest that the announcement was aimed at stampeding union officials into selling piecework and accepting MDW at today's York conference on the company's proposals.

Such tactics are 'predictable and need not cause confusion', the stewards add.

Rumours are now circulating the Cowley shop floor that the company may demand individual acceptance of MDW before allowing workers to clock on next Monday.

Workers are already highly suspicious of the company's intentions.

As the 5/55 branch magazine points out, company chairman Lord Stokes admitted in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph' on November 15 that 'in making our budgets we assumed that our plants would be underutilized by a factor of 20 per cent . • to allow for losses of production through labour disputes and any inefficiencies of our own'.

Stewards suggest this means that 'the company has deliberately created losses — 1.e., unofficial short time-in order to avoid the effect on the Stock Exchange of official short time' They thus pour scorn on Leyland's attempts to use strikes 'to "prove" the insecurity of piecework'.

Yesterday another question was being asked at Cowley.

If there is a failure to agree in today's York negotiations, does the company intend to declare a lock-out at Cowley until their MDW scheme is accepted?

Jail without trial row in Eire THERE were acrimonious scenes in the Dail (Irish parliament) again yesterday as Labour members challenged the Speaker's refusal to allow a debate on premier Lynch's internmentwithout-trial proposals.

The Irish government has taken emergency powers, including the power to suspend This move is explicitly habeas corpus, without directed against the left-wing slightest reference to parlia- Republican group Saor Eire, ment. which . government spokesmen

University

course on union law A NEW extramural course is to be started at Warwick University to deal with the main features and implications of the Industrial Relations Bill.

Local industrialists and trade unionists are expected to be among those to enrol on the ten-week course.

Lectures will be given by Professor Hugh Clegg, a leading authority on industrial relations, and Mr S. D. Anderman, lecturer in law.

efy Nixon country and picket-lines stood outside the stations in the early morning.

The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC), the largest of the four rail unions called the strike after rejecting a 13.5 per cent pay offer made by a White House review board.

Other unions have refused to cross BRAC picket lines. Administration officials warned yesterday that legal action would be taken if the strike continued. claim is a terrorist conspiracy.

They have brought forward not a shred of evidence to back these charges.

The dictatorial powers taken by the green Tory regime in Dublin are closely linked with Heath's preparations to abolish workers' rights in Britain.

Collaborate

The two governments maintain extremely close relations, and their secret services collaborate in hounding militants.

The case of Frank Keane, a Saor Eire member now held in Brixton jail awaiting extradition to Dublin on a murder charge, is only one of a number of instances of this collaboration.

Yesterday in the Dail, Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien, a Labour MP, was suspended by the Speaker after demanding a debate on the emergency powers.

Three Labour MPs, including the Party leader, were suspended after heated scenes in the chamber on Wednesday.

Jack Lynch, the premier, has said that he will allow a debate on the internment issue, provided the rest of the government's legislation programme, including the Prices and Incomes Bill, is allowed through parliament before This is a sharp warning to British workers about Tory government's intentions. CHILDRL' MILK! More than 100 women and children lobbied Tory Chancellor Barber's residence in Downing Street yesterday in protest against cuts in school milk, increases in school meals prices and the government's proposal to charge entrance fees to ENGINEERS at Bushing Co, Team Valley, Gateshead, met a district official of their union yesterday over their refusal to work with five men who did not take part in Tuesday's one-day strike against the Tories' anti-union Bill.

The 175 workers at this Reyrolle Parson subsidiary were one of the few NE factories out on December 8.

On Wednesday they carried out a previous decision to strike and refuse to work with anyone who had not joined them.

Shop stewards proposed that the five men-the most highly-paid in the factory— be fined a day's pay, but the strikers objected that this could be quickly recovered by overtime.

The day shift refused to return to the factory after a meeting on • Wednesday and the night shift staged a sit-in.

In Birmingham, 60 workers were dismissed on Wednesday for taking part in Tuesday's strike.

These represented almost the entire workforce of the sheet metal fabricating company of Silas Hyde and some had been employed there for over 30 years.

One of the men said that they were locked out on Wednesday and handed a dismissal notice for breach of contract.

The men's action was recognized yesterday by the two unions involved—the AEF and the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Coppersmiths.

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