Arafat attacked arms

union must be full membership with no prohibitions reBut when Mr Anthony garding the holding of office.

'I believe that the obstructions to our re-employment Walter Alldritt, came from the top of the union from Lord Cooper himself. Now it is the duty of the tiate for re-employment of TUC and Victor Feather to remain faithful to his end of there were 'problems of re- the bargain and approach the union and ask them to fight for our re-employment, he Mr Casson told Workers said.

Approach Jack Jones of the Transport nd General Workers' Union had also promised to make an individual approach to Lord Cooper to acquaint him with Done nothing the plight of the St Helens 'But since then the union has done nothing and doesn't appear to want to do anyAlldritt, he said, had handed him a number of membership the men to re-join the union through their appropriate The union, however, has BOAC - BY PETER READ by the Tory government.

THAT Spirits are high among the victimized glass workers and they were boosted yesterday with the news that the Hull dockers were still blacking the glass and have stopped the port on this issue.

Nevertheless the Pilkington's men still face a hard Christmas and New Year.

All of the rank-and-file committee applied for jobs at the new Fiddlers Ferry power station at the Wirral and all were refused jobs by the Central Electricity Generatins Board for no specific reason Yet the Board continues to advertise vacancies at the station.

One rank-and-fle member ang Pilkington's posing as i building contractor asking for Thomson is nothing if not quick off the mark.

His departure from the United States followed within hours of Trade Minister Michael Noble's announcement that the state firm's lucrative Nigerian and Ghanaian routes are to be handed over to private enterprise.

Thẹ government has made it clear this is only a first instalment. More routes-possibly including some of BEA's European services-may soon be similarly pirated.

For all the shouting from the Labour benches against the milking of state airlines, their opposition is a miserable fraud.

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Reassured that no real opposition will come from this quarter, the Tories are moving swiftly.

AFTER seeing Posts Minister Chrstopher Chataway, BBC executives are now sure the first 20 BBC local radios are to be closed to clear the way for private interests to step in for their pound of flesh. SIMILAR drastic moves have been anticipated for some time in steel.

Yesterday British Steel Corporation chairman Lord Melchett had talks with the government on its plans to inject private capital into the ASSISTANCE THE Tory drive to restore profitability. at costs illustrated by the state's assistance to the Rio Tinto Zinc company.

Rio Tinto hopes to open up an area in N Wales-including Snowdonia National Park-for mineral exploitation.

Yet the Ministry inspector opening an inquiry on Tuesday refused to widen the inquiry's scope to include the major effects of exploitation and restricted it to the question of tiny test borings alone!

A local councillor comAll Trades Unions Alliance THE CHARTER OF BASIC RIGHTS The right to a job, to strike and organize, to retain gains made, to fair prices, to welfare benefits and to decent housing.

Defend and maintain these rights in a fight BIRMINGHAM Sat. December For delegates' or visitors' credentials to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 T THE untenability of any agreement between the Palestinian guerrillas and Jordan's counter - revolutionary monarchy was once again con-i firmed yesterday.

The Jordanian Popular Army-a state-formed militia —attacked Yassir Arafat's car while the Palestinian leader was visting N Jordan Jordanian premier es-Tell.

With Arafat and Tell was Bahi Ladgham, president of the Higher Arab Committee charge implementing agreements between the commandos Jordanian government.

Arafat's life saved, paradoxically, by troop intervention Jordanian Royal Army which places high premium Arafat's loyal collaboration.

AGREED

• The attack came on the same day that the Royal government and the Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to collect arms of both organizations and re-deploy members in various districts in Amman and other towns.

A special order of the Jordanian premier, who is also military governor general, bars the carrying or possession of weapons inside towns, villages and populated areas from December 20 unless special permits are obtained.

Anyone defying the ban 'will be considered an outlaw. a rebel or an enemy agent.' REVEALS This order, combined with the attack Arafat's car, reveals the PLO central committee's political bankruptcy.

It is more concerned about disarming commandos' militant left wing it is about fighting Hussein and his Zionist backers.

Since the set-back of September 1970 the Arafat group has tried desperately to reach modus vivendi Hussein regime while looking to the United Nations so-called non-aligned powers achieve a diplomatic settlement to the Palestine question.

The UN, however, has no intention treading imperialist interests Mid-East or of upsetting the balance of forces which exis at present.

So far it has confined itse• to a platitudinous protest i: the form of an Arab-sponsored resolution calling on Israel t.

violating the Arat population's human rights in territories occupied by Zionists Second Annual Conference force the Tories to resign.

Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth 10.30. am send e Hi Styvechale, Coventry.

information on a number of sacked glass workers.

He claims he was told that the men were good workers, but on no account should be allowed to work with other Pit job Rank - and - file committee member George Bibby applied for a job at Parkside colliery where he worked as a miner in 1968 before he started at the glass factories.

He was told that there has been such a great response to the Coal Board campaign to attract labour into the industry that there were no vacancies.

But again the Coal Board continue to advertise for men at Parkside and especially for ex-miners like Mr Bibby.

Other approaches to Ford, Vauxhall and StandardTriumph on Merseyside have been turned down by respective managements.

The men are still determined to fight on for the right to work and the right to strike, but after Christmas they lose their earnings-reBOAC lated social security and, as George Bibby told me in St Helens this week, 'it's hard to be patient when you have no money and a family to-keep'.

All workers must come to the aid of the victimized glass workers and follow the example of the Hull dockers.

This is not a plea for sympathy for an isolated group of workers in the North. As Gerry Caughey, chairman of the rank-and-file committee, told the Workers Press:

Campaign 'More workers will face our plight under this government. St Helens will become the whole of Britain if a great campaign to stop all employers destroying the basic rights of workers is not launched.

I have to fight against a feeling of self-pity each day; we must realize clearly what the Tories want and how they will get it, and there can be no greater example than what has happened to us all at St Helens.

Donations and news of support for the rank and file should be sent to Pilkington's Rank and File, 19 Greenfield Rd, St Helens, Lancashire.

protests from their course of destroying the nationalized industries and taking away the hard won rights of the working class. but line on an i Ruse and enormous ma chink sick I threatens Kers and taken one bring Wat sis. I think one should maoe clear should that That eventually in industries worker should take over then contro this tim they originally new leadership in the unions mented: 'Rio Tinto isn't here for its health. .. It is nonsense to consider this (the test boring) in isolation from future development.

EVERY day brings fresh confirmation that the Tories cannot be driven back by A UNION officer yesterday warned that the airport staffs' work-to-rule will be intensified if the employers' 4t-percent offer is not improved John Cousins, national secretary of the Transport and General Workers' aviation section, referred to the offer as 'silly'.

The unions, representing 42,000 British airport and airline workers, are demanding a 7-per-cent cost-of-living rise plus an additional increase.

As the work-to-rule and This is why the trade union leaders must be forced to make January 12 the beginning of a General Strike to force the Tories to resign.

The nationalized industries and the rights of its workers can be defended in no other way!

r 'silly' ousins overtime ban entered its third day, British European Airways announced that they were limiting exports to priority cargoes - such as perishables and medical equipment -as a backlog of freight began building up in the cargo centré.

The airline has also called a 12-hour halt on imports and the post office has held up all mail, due to be delivered abroad by BEA.

Caledonian - BUA passenger flights were delayed by an average of an hour.