B-Leyland postpones MDW clash

IN FIVE DAYS tim Sheffield; Glasgow postman realize that it is not the electricity workers who are rationing the electricity. It IS sold to the area boards who then decide on the cuts that are to be made.' A worker said: It is just mad. The workers at Preston have been doing what they should do this week. It has been thrown at the public that are going down to work and doing nothing. This is all wrong.

"The public are being riled It deliberatel allowed to go He added: "The whole industry is being run on overtime. The slightest absence of a very few workers, sick or otherwise. makes the situation impossible.

At Preston power station we work seven days or nights stretch-not four as me weekend in three off and most people do-have may have Christmas or the New tor years end.' Cowardly British CP silence on Solzhenitsyn A MESSAGE to last week's Nobel Prize-giving ceremony from Soviet writer Alexan- BY ROBERT BLACK der Solzhenitsyn once more calls for solidarity with the victims of Stalinist repressions: slandering Lenin's old com"May we, at this groaning board, not forget the political prisoners who are today on hunger strike for the restitution of their limited rights, which have been completely trampled underfoot? and his henchman 'comrade What a splendid contrast Beria'. to the miserable silence of Communist Party leaders in Britain like Gollan, Ramelson and Matthews.

Although faced with the Rank and file hostile to TUC daily threat of arrest, Solz- silence. TUC London Regional Conference.

Congress secretary. Victor ference against any way die good deal 1UU as at the as well as tot ters a Tuc strategy overall loud teacher ause Not swayed Former CEU secretary also spoke said.

Edna SOGAT strike call, the Soap nor offer of bargains persuade said.

*Victor Feather organizer meeting.

'Felt sick' 'Before December members out.!. union was agains *I certainly don't fancy going henitsyn continues to campaign publicly for the release of his comrades.

In the comfort and security of their King St and 'Morning Star' offices, Gollan and Matthews say nothing.

Having made their feeble ittle protest against the trial of writers Daniel and Sinyavsky in 1966, Stalin's yes-men are once more turning a blind eye to the mounting repressions of intellectuals in the Soviet Union.

Yugoslavia publish Khrushchev memoirs BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT THE YUGOSLAV publishing house Otokar Kersovani announced from Rijeka last week that they are to publish Khrushchev's memoirs.

They have previously published a number of works banned in the Soviet Union and the other countries of E Europe, including Pasternak's 'Doctor Zhivago' and several novels by Solzhenitsyn.

Extracts from Khrushchev's memoirs have already appeared in the Yugoslay press, accompanied by doubts about their authenticity. ABOVE: TUC general secretary Victor Feather speaking at Saturday's London regional conference. Listening is General and Municipal Workers' president Lord Cooper. BELOW: Some of the old age pensioners who listened to Feather and to stars of stage, screen and Westminster at a Labour Party rally. (See What we think) MINI i 2F BUDGET 'PER WEEK This is nothing new for CP secretary Gollan.

As secretary of the Young Communist League, he pubapplauded Stalin's frame-up trials of the 1930s, rades as fascist agents.

And while Solzhenitsyn slaved in an arctic 'labour camp', Gollan returned from the 1952 Congress of the Soviet Communist Party to sing the praises of Stalin Now, as then, Gollan and company side with Solzhenitsyn's oppressors.

That is the meaning of this opportunist's cowardly BRITISH-LEYLAND'S p Day Work on its Cowle! before the end of the year Shop stewards from Cowley's Morris assembly plant yesterday endorsed a report-back from union officials which blocks the company for at least a month from taking unilateral action to implement its speed-up scheme.

National - level talks on Leyland's proposals were method iou SALL for the press baron and the trade union bureaucrat.

A forewarning of what is to come is clearly revealed by the continued exclusion of our industrial correspondent David Maude from the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group which maintains an exclusive relationship with key government departments.

By excluding him and shutting off the Workers Press from important government news sources, the journalists and officials involved are only helping to strengthen the dictatorial hand of the adjourned until January at York on Friday.

In the interim, the combine's detailed proposals are to be submitted to senior stewards at Cowley within the next few days and discussed with them over the next four weeks.

Union officers are believed to have taken exception at York to the combine's failure to table detailed proposals in advance and insisted that they could not negotiate under these conditions.

It is understood that Leyland was forced reluctantly to accept this position after pressure from the Engineering Employers' Federation.

The EEF may well have feared that precipitate action by the company at Cowley would poison the atmosphere at its January 13 talks with union leaders about their national procedure agreement. THE Association of Scientific,