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ground for the Industrial Relations Bill with all its clauses against this sort of action, he said.

Hull stewards to whom members of the St Helens' committee spoke by telephone yesterday stressed their disgust with T&GWU regional secretary David Shenton's statement that the ban was 'absolutely ridiculous, had been condemned by his union.

I understand they intend to oppose moves force through the consignment and fight for a reaffirmation of the "black'.

"This'd put the ball firmly at the feet of the dockers in Liverpool and London,' commented Gerry Caughey.

'Are the "blacked at Hul allow glass to be transferred to another port?' A Pilkington's spokesman confirmed yesterday that shipment of St Helens glass was due at Hull tomorrow morning, and that the com bany will consider transferrins its cargoes to another port.

Two re-routed Two have already been rerouted.

Rank-and-File Committee attempts were being madea id Potter said get the matter raised on the national committee of docks stewards at its next meeting.

HEATH ON FIRST LEG TORY premier Heath left London's Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon for Cyprus on the first stage of his journey to Singapore for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference later this month.

He will also visit Pakistan, India and Malaysia before arriving in Singapore on January 13.

The main issue at the Conference will be the Tory proposal to sell arms to the S African Vorster regime.

POST OFFICE union secretary Tom Jackson yesterday demanded an answer to the union's 15-per-cent pay claim on behalf of 205,000 postal To answer this, it is worth Powell's 'Sunday Express' remarks flation and government spending.

'There is no soft option,' he wrote, if the shock of ceasing to inflate causes bankruptcies and unemployment, that is how it has to be. The idea of slowing down so smoothly that nobody notices is a pipedréam . . .

'The day has to come when faced with higher prices the government says: I won't play; I won't pay; I shall cut down".

'And people will scream: "You're cutting health; you're cutting education ; you're punishing the old; you're running down the public services." Just so-that is why no government has done it yet, but where there is will, there's and honest money is to hope be had at no other price.' These arguments are now finding an increasing audience among Tories and in the City.

People in these circles have been jolted by the effects of the sharp increase in monetary supply to an annual rate of 17 per cent during the three months prior to the June election.

This was allowed by a Bank of England scared by talk of possible bankruptcies due to Vatican improve diocese.

The paper quoted a Papal source as saying that change meant that the Vatican intended to 'normalize' the legal position of the Polish Catholic church — now very much in favour with the hardline Stalinist Gierek regimein these territories. repeating about inwith Britain, Riad said his recent talks in London with Sir Alec Douglas Home had been fruitful, constructive and satisfactory.

Britain, he said, had shown readiness to see that the Security Council resolution was implemented and that peace was restored with justice [sic].

The new Egyptian government is shifting sharply to the right and trying hard to conciliate world imperialism, especially Britain and the United States.

Riad announced, _for example, that an Egyptian delegation has already visited London to make final plans for compensation payments to British firms and individuals whose properties in Egypt were sequestered after the Suez invasion in 1956.

Restoration

This is in line with internal moves to restore property to capitalists whose goods and factories were nationalized.

Another indication of the rightward swing of Egypt's government came when Riad answered questions about his government's attitude to British arms for S Africa.

The Egyptian government preferred to work through the Organization of African Unity on this question, he said, implying that Egypt would make no independent criticism of the Tories' racialist gun-running. great alarm around these issues by amines is nastial lar brand of demagogy middle class who, damaged by i mation most seriously mutually is fusives or al the But his others now incubating Treasury committees deep in the bowels of Whitehall.

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