London, Manchester and North-East teachers may strike GROWING SUPPORT FOR EXTENDED NATIONAL ACTION

correspondent THE DEEP-SEA section of the port of Dublin remains closed as the 15 port pilots continue their ten-day old strike.

A thousand dockers, memGeneral there Unlon, and bers of the Marine, truck in solidarity following he berthing of the ship, Irish Spruce, without a pilot.

The pilots had called for the blacking of any large ship arriving at the port without a pilot aboard.

Picket

The dockers are maintaining a picket of the docks and warehouses in the deep • sea section.

pay rise because of increased work through more shipping movements.

They have already turned down • a Dublin Port and Docks Board offer of a £3 10sa-week rise based on handling an average of ten ships a New Oxford cuts rumoured Car chief calls for legislation branch, one of the largest in the country, has said that they are also angry at the committee's statement that it may not be able to meet representatives of the teachers for another month. BRITAIN'S pressure for Meanwhile, they face continuing attacks the employers on their own account. And are indications that more are on the way.

Last week it was Lord Stokes, whose maiden speech in the House of Lords attacked 'piratical pay claims ... quite unrelated to productivity and efficiency'.

This week it was the turn of Mr Douglas Richards, facturers who rose at the Scottish Motor Show's opening banquet to slam:

"The march towards anarchy in industry-all industry, but worst of all in our industryin 1969. • a tragedy without one possible glimmer of sanit! ittaching to it.

Lord Stokes Apparently it is not eough for these gentlemen that the Labour leaders echo their statements like ventriloquist's dummies as Mrs Barbara Castle immediately did for Lord Stokes last week. They want action.

Neither are they satisfied that the trade union leaders are already doing everything in their power to force through productivity agreements against the wishes of those who will have to operate them.

Stokes demanded 'a concentrated effort by management, unions and the government working together.

Unless some solution to the unrest we are experiencing is found-and found quickly, Richards followed up, 'legislation must be the only way of beginning to put the situation right.' (Our emphasis.) motor bosses are stepping up their the Labour leaders to crack down on Members of both teaching unions-the NUT and the National Association of Schoolmasters—walked out of Corby's Lodge Park Secondary.

After a joint meeting of the three unions at the school, The request from three Labour MPs that Mrs Castle launch an investigation into car industry pay, reported in last Friday's Workers Press, could well provide a cover for just such an attack.

Although all 16,000 Vauxhall workers at Luton, Dunstable and Ellesmere Port are back at work after what has been, for some, a two-month lay-off, the conflict over the company's proposed productivity deal continues.

Several shop stewards and rank-and-file workers have been suspended in the last fortnight-with, it is alleged, the complicity of union ofhcials—as a result of a disciplinary memorandum issued to supervisory staff (reported in the Workers Press, November '' Having lost production worth some £23 million over the last eight weeks, the company clearly intends to force through ratification of the agreement regardless of workers' opposition.

In Oxford, shop stewards recently forced major concessions from British-Leyland in relation to a threat of redundancies and short-time working.

But there are now strong rumours that the company. is soon to proceed with further cuts on its Maxi production lines.

The figure being mentioned in both body and assembly plants is 50 per cent.

If true, this would mean a new threat to jobs and wages.

None of these attacks will be fought by the trade union leaders.

For all their 'left' talk, they have played Vauxhall's what is perhaps an even more treacherous role over the last two months than they did even at Ford earlier this year.

Steamroller

Local and national union officials have tried simply to steamroller the clear opposition of big sections of workers at all three plants to the company's proposals.

Any concessions made over short-time in Oxford or the Standard-Triumph strike in Liverpool were not won by union officials.

They were forced by organized shop stewards.

On one point we agree with Mr Richards, however.

There certainly is 'anarchy **.. without a glimmer of School section carried the following resolution on Monday night:

"This NUT school branch calls upon the executive to organize an unlimited national strike until the interim pay award of £135 sanity attaching to it' in industry.

But this is the creation of the capitalist class itself.

It will be ended when this class is cleared out and its industries nationalized under the control of those who work in them.

The only perspective for a successful struggle in this direction by carworkers is that laid out at last Saturday's All Trades Unions Alliance's motor industry conference (reported in Tuesday's Workers Press).

As one British-Leyland steward told that conference:

"We stand for a fighting policy. Join us-and fight with all teachers to follow their example.' This resolution was supported by all staff at the school, including non-union members.

Overwhelmingly carried was another resolution voting no Douzlas Richards stop down the Burnham Committee's f50 offer as 'derisory'.

Several young teachers at the Association meeting spoke the disillusionment that had resulted from measures such as the Inner London Teachers Association's half-day strike.

A leading Communist Party NUT member opposed the resolution, however, saying that teachers were not ready for strike action.

A Mr Silverman, of the revisionist 'Militant' group, supported the resolution, while at the same time sympathising with the 'genuine doubts' of the Communist Party member.

SPEARHEAD

The lower-paid young teachers are clearly going to the spearhead for strike action to enforce their pay claim inside the NU1.

Leaders of both unions are thoroughly frightened of this confident section.

Teachers must join the All Trades Unions Alliance and unite with the struggles of other workers to break through the rotted shell of the government's incomes legislation and fight for socialist policies.

WEST BERLIN police believe that the ticking object found wrapped in a coat at the Jewish Community Centre was a home-made time bomb.

On Sunday the Centre had commemorated the 31st anniversary of the Nazi anti-Jewish pogrom, the "Crystal Night', in which synagogues and property belonging Jews was destroyed all over Germany by Nazi gangsters.

The incident co-incides with the discovery, also last Sunday, of anti-Semitic slogans on a memorial to victims of Japan talks next month AGREEMENT was reached in Cairo on Tuesday to hold an Arab summit meeting in Morocco next month.

The decision was taken by foreign and defence ministers from 13 Arab states meeting in the Egyptian capital to discuss new moves against Israel.

Despite the opposition of the Saudi Arabian delegate, who pressed for negotiations with Israel, the meeting ruled ut any possibility of a peace ul solution to the Middle East crisis.

Most of the resolutions adopted by the delegates were kept secret, but one report Kenya election date AFTER arresting the leaders banned opposition party, the Kenya People's Union, President Kenyatta has announced that Kenya's general election will be held • on December 6 this year.

Telephones

in S. African merger IT WAS announced on Monday that Standard Telephones and Cables (South Africa) have bought South Africa's largest electrical wholesale organization, the Johannesburg-based Millers Standards is a subsidiary of the US giant, the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.

This is the most recent of a flood of mergers and takeovers in the electrical and electronics industry.

A warning By our foreign correspondent spoke of 'the inevitable battle with Israel'.

Militant

The militant stance adopted by the majority of the Arab leaders at the five-day Cairo meeting contrasts with the statement by Sunday's "renewed efforts' by 'peace- 'Pravda', which called for loving forces' to work towards 'political' — non-military - solution to the Middle-East crisis.

It is clear that the Kremlin is honouring its secret agreement with US imperialism to restrain the Arab people in their fight against Zionism.

At the moment, their 'advice' is falling on deaf ears.

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