DESTROY THE BILL BY 15,000 circle

Barber HQ THOUSANDS of striking workers surrounded the Tory Party's dock. land headquarters in Liverpool yesterday demanding the resignation of the Heath government.

This was the crescendo of a massive 15,000-strong demonstration against the government wid its anti-union laws.

'Heath out, Tories out, young docker led the deafening chant as ie crowd shoo! their fists outside the Conservative James St premises near the city's Pierhead.

Only Liverpool Trades Council stewards prevented a violent incident and ushered the banner-waving demonstrators away from the buildings.

Hatred

This kind of explosive hatred against Toryism was typical of yesterday's march on which striking dockers, engineers, print workers, building workers and a large contingent of women workers came together for yet another massive protest against the Bill on Merseyside.

The concensus from all the delegates was unanimous — protest had gone far enough, now the lUC had to organize a political campaign to get rid of the Tories and replace them with a socialist government.

The half-mile column walked to Liverpool Pierhead where a motion demanding the TUC organize a General Strike to ALL TRADES MEETINGS Miners and the Charter of Basic FOR Ship in Speaker: E Ship Inn.

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Force the Tories to resign!

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FRANCO'S regime showed an open rift yesterday when the fascist dictator sacked Lt-Gen Fernando Cifuentes from his post as commander of the Granada Divisional Military Region.

FIRE COMPROMISE'

DELEGATES representing Britain's 30,000 firemen yesterday accepted an interim 5₺ per cent pay increase and two-hour cut in the working week pending an independent inquiry into their 10-per-cent claim.

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Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, Women from the Liverpool area make their opposition clear to the anti-union Bill on a march to the Pier ¡FORCING THE TORIES TO RESIGN make the government résign and o link this with a campaign to return a Labour government was unanimously passed.

Again Merseyside workers have proved that they are prepared to fight a political battle to defeat the Tories.

President of Liverpool Trades Council,, Eddie Loyden, told the Workers Press:

*Again Liverpool has proved that the working class will respond to a campaign make the government resign. Now only the leadership lacking and this for all socialists must be the central issue.

'Only by bringing the government down can we defeat ' Head (see another picture of the Liverpool march on page three). Preparing to set off on their march these Luton workers have La plain message for the Heath government. A 20,000-STRONG lun ing "Tories out! He Coventry's central she hour yesterday.

Trades council and Communist Party member Eddie McCluskey said from the platform he believed the passing of the Bill would be the Tory government's downfall.

This was immediately opposed by shouts of 'Get Bill Tories out to stop the Union officials estimated that 50,000 had stopped work in the area.

Chrysler hit

At Chrysler UK's Ryton plant 3,500 workers stopped for the full day and night shift and most other factories stopped in the morning to march to the central precinct.

Few returned for the afternoon shift. N° AR THE TOR WITH THE big SIX car and engineering factories in Luton Use stri pleas.

Production at the city's major car plants came to a halt as British-Leyland workers were joined by council vorkers, power men, Journalists and students to march 3,000-strong through Oxford's busy centre.

Hundreds of banners and placards proclaimed workers' implacable hostility to the Tory anti-union Bill and the chant 'Heath out' was Bray slomy to a mas mei 2e.

Didcot power station worker Tom Riley told Workers Press:

'All the main contractors at Didcot are out today and there's a large contingent of us down here.

NO ALTERNATIVE 'As I see it, the TUC has no alternative but to call us out on a General Strike. We'll have to force the Tories out.' ny of the Oxford de nonitors came from the siant lish-Leyland combine: faces, all of which came to a standstill yesterday.

marchers SEVERAL hundred workers marched through Grantham -Oxford call This was emphasized again and again.

Ken Ridley - shop steward from recently-unionized Morris Garages (St. Aldate's) - told us:

'It won't end here. We've got no argument against our employer, but the Tories are not going to change their minds.

"There must be a general withdrawal of labour all over the country. I think the TUC is sitting on the fence.' Tremendous applause greeted a General Strike call from draughtsmen's vice president Mike Cooley.

"This is the most odious said.

'When the lads at BritishLeyland stand up and fight Measured-Day Work that will be an "unfair practice".

CHEAP

"The employers will be getting off cheap, being able to sack militants at £4,000 each.

'If the working class of this country stood up and used their strength, then the Bill, ne employers and the govern• nent could be smashed NO LAWS "The TUC General Council will have to be compelled to organize a General Strike against this Bill. If the TUC is not prepared to act, then the great general unions must do so.' NO MOOD Following this call to action the meeting was in no mood for Transport and General Workers' Union official Moss Evans' verbose plea for more Shouts of 'General Strike' continued as the chairman wound up on the same note.

The demonstrators then marched back to their starting point before dispersing to get ready for an afternoon motor cavalcade through the city streets.

Bob Fryer, T&GWU Morris Motors senior steward, pointed the way forward.

'Only a General Strike can defeat this Bill and this is what we must push for.

If the TUC won't fight, then the main trade unions must call special conferences and take plenary powers for such action.

'We must now build up the momentum from today towards this end.'