Working to rule over pay Firemen might walk out

in ope i struggle Polish police and CLASHES between Polish workers and the police and armed forces of the Polish kill ered, ordered to shoot to troops have been government spread on Thursday night to the town of Slupsk, 80 miles from kill, and tanks are re- Gdansk. ported to have mown ade explosions echoed through the streets after down women and young demonstrators had shouted: 'We want food! children in Szczecin We want food!'. was aut ophby call Polish (Stettin).

authorities, Danish reporter This major Baltic port Jacob Anderson said he flared into battle as soon as reports filtered through from Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot, women in a 'reign of terror'. where, according to official monstrators 'with a brutalstatements, 20 people died. The dock area of Szczecin ity at least as great as that used by the Nazi militia in BRITAIN'S 27,000 firemen began an indefinite 'emergency calls only' pay protest yesterday following employers' refusal to up their 5.5 per cent pay offer.

And London firemen's police beating up leaders warned that there might soon be walk-outs if The police attacked de- the employers' attitude is not changed.

The Fire Brigades Union originally claimed parity with According to Anderson, low they are asking onl or 50s. Present firemen's rat is in the region of £27 10s for a 56-hour week.

Police and steel-helmeted Union • leaders claim the Government has already inter ened to stiffen the emplovers determination. 21s OFFER Anderson expresses the The employers were willing to concede 10 per cent, they claim, but Tory stepped in and insisted that a two-hour reduction in the •. The police made no The orignal sio parity cam Heavy weather for MDW talks at B-Leyland MEASURED-DAY WORK talks at BritishLeyland's Morris car-assembly plant at Cowley have run into heavy weather.

Knowing it will have to over the Leyland combine as a whole are likely to be small -comparing badly with 19681969's £40 million figure.

Final proposals for MDW Hence Leyland's desire to Spin the blame on strikes and rush through MDW speed-up.

The desperation of the combine's rush, however, proves its weakness; its plans must, can and will be They prove to have a far defeated.

No decision FRANCO'S fascist cabinet Stewards say that the York met yesterday, but there was still no news of the verdicts in the Burgos trial of 16 Basque nationalists, whose.

Talks on the proposals- court-martial ended ten days ago. The prosecution has demanded six death sentences and a total of 724 years imprisonment for the accused.

Next month's financial reMARCH Small profits They will probably show TUMUKROW Austin-Morris is believed to But the union chiefs have chopped off three-quarters of the original f10 parity demand.

However, many of the firemen, especially in London, favour an all-out fight for the démand.

Len Whiteman, London 'E' area committee chairman, said yesterday the feeling was such the men would walk out if necessary.

'The government is already cracking the whip over us,' he tion ' Government's interven- said. 'The men are angry at E Greenwich firemen assured would be 'pretty ruthless' on banning all duties except emergency calls, but expressed fears of a witch-hunt:

STAINED 'The Tories will try to stain our character,' one said. 'Look at the power workers-they'll try to do the same to us?

Firemen are refusing to do stand-by duties in other stations, and will not ride on tenders with non-union members.

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