Ford men inquiry into union official

A LEADING Transport and General Workers' official may face criticism from his union on the eve of a major pay battle as a result of moves by workers at Ford's Dagenham plant.

Two T&GWU branches representing Ford workers are calling for an inquiry into the conduct of a recent dispute involving 45 craneslingers.

Criticism

Particular criticism is made of the union's national secretary, Moss Evans.

Proposed by the union's 1/1107 branch and endorsed by 1/667, the call will probably be considered by the Region 1 T&GWU automotive committee within the next week.

If this committee feels there is a case to answer, the complaint is expected to go forward to the union's national automotive group meeting on January 22.

This would be exactly a week before Ford's scheduled reply to their workers' £35 million claim Twenty-year-old 'Keep Left' faces greatest 'KEEP LEFT' the Young Socialists' official, 16-page, monthly newspaper holds its Annual General Meeting at the East India Hall in London today at the beginning of its 20th year of publication.

1971 not only marks 20 years for 'Keep Left', but it also means the greatest task in the paper's history-to mobilize the thousands of young workers, students, immigrant youth and school leavers into the Young Socialists to lead the fight to force the hated Tory government to resign and • replace it with a Labour one pledged to socialist policies.

With a circulation of 21,000 each month and selling at only 6d a copy it is the most widely-read socialist youth paper in the country: _ The paper's Annual General Meeting-held at the beginning of every year—is attended By an industrial corresponden for parity of earnings with higher-paid carworkers the Midlands.

In submitting this claim, Evans warned the company recently that 'our members' unrest has already made itself felt this year (1970)...

Don't dodge

'But that was nothing compared with what it could be, and will be, if you continue to dodge the parity issue."

Rises of up to £15 a week are called for in this claim.

-The Dagenham branches' complaint against Evans is connected with his actions when the crane-slingers were threatened with dismissal during strike action over a 6d-an-hour grading demand. by Young Socialist members, readers and supporters from all over the country.

The paper took a big leap forward at the beginning of 1970 when, on the basis of the annual meeting's unanimous vote in favour, the paper increased its size from 12 to 16 pages.

'Keep Left's' expansion is based, above all else, on a political struggle within the labour movement for Marxist principles against the treacherous reformist and Stalinist leaderships and against all forms of revisionism.

In the last 12 months it has appeared in four-colour printing with articles contributed by the editorial board, readers and YS members.

Its increased attractiveness and !. political content played Barbarous punishment S AFRICA is considering legal castration as a penalty for sex crimes. in This barbarous punishment Adolf Hitler, is actually being represented as a liberalizing measure because at present crimes like rape are capital offences and the death penalty is frequently used.

Out of 95 legal and psychiatric bodies consulted by a government commission set up to examine S Africa's 1916 Mental Health Act, 93 said they would favour introduction of castration.

S Africa has the highest rate of executions in the world, and in 1968-1969 there were 166 people condemned to death and 84 executed.

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The June issue of the paper called on all youth to vote for a Labour government to keep the Tories out.

An immediate campaign was launched to force the new Tory government to resign as soon as it was elected. A special second edition of the cover for this issue was printed three days after the election containing the YS National Committee statement pledging itself to 'mobilize the working-class youth and immigrant workers to defeat the Tory government'.

The paper will play a leading role in preparation for the Alexandra Palace rally on February 14 which will be a rallying call for the working class to bring down the Tory government and fight for the defence of basic rights through a Labour government committed to socialist policies.

PAGE Saturday, January 2, 1971