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WAGES must be held down to restrain allow increases Brunty in as the Treasury says dence to the Wilberforce inquiry InTO the power WOrKelS pay A wages clamp-down, according to une government, is the only way avoid economic catastrophe with falling profits and growing unemployment.

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escalation alation in the levies PRODUCTION lines at Britsettlements. ish-Leyland's AEC bus factory at Southall were silent until contribution noon yesterday as workers protested against working with of inflation.' 250 men who stayed behind So the on January 12 while the rest of the 3,000-strong factory walked out against the Tory anti-union Bill.

already an national level which would clamp-down. THE LAW has never allowed British people to of abject have • country of their own, Tory right-winger Enoch Powell claimed last night. own eviSpeaking just nine miles from the Irish Republic, in Londonderry, N Ireland, Powell followed this fanretreat. tastic assertion by remarkWing that: and his "To this day the citizens of a Republic owning not case merits' even • the fictitious comthough munity of the Commonwealth are declared to be indistinguishable from ourreference.

selves ... • PAGE "They are POST OFFIC out on strike day. This was which met yesterday.

Executive members who had toured the country for two weeks reported that members in every area are ready and willing to fight for their pay demand.

UPW general secretary Tom Jackson stated that the decision had been taken with 'the maximum regret, but that it was impossible for them to accept a 5 per cent wage-cut in relation to the rest Immediately after addressed a letter to Employment Minister Robert Carr, requesting that his conciliation officers intervene to bring the Post Office to talks.

that there would be no question of calling the strike off just on the starting of talks; there would have to be an offer worth looking at.

lowing the EC meeting, Jackson said that he did not consider the dispute to be with the government but with the employer, for a legitimate wage claim.

poses such a thing is said, it flies in the face of reality.

movement to come strike can be won.

from the start that he is in battle with the Tory governthe union will have to be used against this enemy.

glimpse of the Tory government's ruthlessness in the sacking of Lord Hall last month. They know what to expect.

workers take on the Tory government, they are fighting on behalf of the whole working class. The Tories want to strengthen their attack on the whole working class.

working-class movement.

E workers will be from next Wednesthe unanimous deciunion's executive, 'Unique' race talk meeting, Jackson Jackson stressed, however, • At a press conference folFor whatever tactical purThe Post Office workers have now entered a decisive fight, and it will be necessary for the whole labour behind them against the Tories. In that way the Every UPW member knows The maximum strength of Post Office workers got a When the Post Office win this fight in order to To defeat the Tories will require the mobilization of all the resources of the rest of the world and its peoples are non-Irish, or, in another way, foreign.

Humbug

The British had been "humbugging' themselves by treating these 'foreigners' as British citizens even though they 'resolved their national identity' a long time ago.

To make matters worse the 1962 immigration laws were never applied to the Irish Republic. Heath Nyerere warning PRIME MINISTER Edward Heath warned Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting in Singapore yesterday not to allow their unity to be 'fragmented by misunderstanding'.

This was an obvious reference to his S African arms policy.

The Commonwealth was not a court of appeal with the right to sit in final judgement on the policies and actions of its members, he said.

'These are assumptions which lie behind British membership of the Commonwealth, he emphasized.

WELL-WORN

He returned to the wellworn Tory theme of the Soviet ships 'in small, but growing strength' in the Indian Ocean.

President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania had already warned the British government earlier yesterday that it would be responsible for any 'damage' to the Commonwealth if Heath went ahead with arms sales.

FEELINGS

'If anyone fails to understand the depth of Africa's feelings on this matter, then Powell Gazing mistily into a national future when 'we proceed to the historic step of declaring who we are and what we are' ', Powell pronounced the people of the United Kingdom 'distinct and unique'.

This type of talk leaves little doubt about who or what Powell is.

With a nationalist mysticism evoking potent memories of right-wing dictatorships in Europe, Powell is playing on jingo prejudices to reinforce Tory reaction. BY A POLITICAL REPORTER New "Terriers' would not be used in strikes DEFENCE SPOKESMEN that the revitalized Territ play a role in states of eme Commenting on the government's plans to expand the TAVR by 10,500 men, Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that the force's role was primarily to maintain a secure home base for regular forces operating in Europe.

'The TAVR can only be called out by the government when warlike operations are in progress, said the spokesman.

The TAVR is at present 50,000 strong and the expansion will provide for 20 new headquarter company - strength sub - units scattered throughout the country with an infantry role.

This is a new lease of life for the TAVR which emerged out of the old Territorial Army after the Labour administration cut the TA's government support and reduced the squadrons to cadres.

TAVR organizers say that the latest developments will Postmen's secretary Tom Jacks I to r) Herbert Edmondson, Jen who are featured in UPW pay gency caused by strikes.

Ministry

denial attract many of the old TA yeomanry back into the new The North of England and Scotland is to have a new armoured car regiment which will have a commitment to NATO.

Its headquarters will be based on Tyneside where it was revealed under the Labour government that CS riot gas was being stockpiled at South Shields.

Response

The deputy secretary of the TAVR Association for the North of England, Colonel Ballmain, said that he expected a great response to the new armoured division.

'The forces' home role will be primarily one of training, but we envisage that they will play a supporting role in NATO and help the British Army of the Rhine,' he said.

He could not say what possible connection they would have with states of emergency at home.

Discretion

"This is a question entirely at the discretion of the government. They must decide whether to use the TAVR in states of emergency,' said Colonel Ballmain.

The armoured regiment will be based at Tynemouth and have a detachment at Hebburn.

The NE headquarters for the new infantry units will be at Bishop Auckland and in addition a special Air Service strike force will be based at Prudhoe on Newcastle's outskirts.

TAVR personnel are paid a £60 liability bounty each year and in addition they receive army pay for time spent in training. Shall we take a collection for Albert Edmondson? and reserve army chiefs denied yesterday rial and Army Volunteer Reserve would Jarrow marcher urges 'Come to Alexandra Palace' A NORTH EAST engineering worker who took part in the 1936 Jarrow hunger march has issued a call for workers to make the February 14 anti-Tory rally a giant success.

Telling why he voted with 5,000 other Reyrolle workers on January 12 to support the Young Socialists rally, 52 year-old labourer Alex Robinson says: 'Don't let the 1930s happen again.' Workers who remember the means test do not want the same again for the youth and their children, Alex insists.

Married with a family and still living in Jarrow, he attaches particular importance -'as one who has known poverty and marched in the Jarrow crusade'— to the All Trades Unions Alliance's Charter of Basic Rights which will be discussed at the Alexandra Palace rally.

Remember

He explains: 'I remember 39 years ago when I was forced to a dole school when I was 14.

'When I was 18 I was forced to a dole camp for the unemployed for three months. We were paid 4s a week felling trees.

'The first suit most men ever saw in those days was a uniform. when the war came.

Get rid of 'Let's get rid of this Tory government or we will be forced back again.

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Name Address The Morris stewards' campaign of principled opposition 'Don't look back. Let's look to MDW was also having its forward and see to it that it effect, however. doesn't happen again.' Last Friday's failure of For all these reasons, Alex MDW talks between union says, I would like to see a leaders and company chiefs at massive delegation from my York found not only most factory to the YS anti-Tory rally on February 14' GOVT TORY PALACE MAKE RALLY MASS London SW4.

Treasury evidence submitted to the Wilberforce Court of Inquiry into the power workers' dispute means: no possible increase in the 10 per cent offer to power workers; no more than 8 per cent to postal workers; then we are in line to cut the claims of all sections of workers.

So only the most resolute leadership, prepared to go to the end to defeat the government, and to call for support from • the whole labour movement, can win this strike.

Decisive

The postal workers want to fight. Policy and leadership are decisive.

With prices rocketing and decimalization only weeks away, the Tories are determined to cut real wages. Postmen are target number one. They are fighting on behalf of the whole working class.

There can be no calling off of the strike at any stage for arbitration or courts of inquiry.

The power workers were caught with that trick.

Instrument

Every postal worker knows that the Wilberforce court of inquiry, inflicted by union leaders, is being used as instrument of Tory policy. Even the TUC will not collaborate. So it can only be an all-out fight till the full claim is won. telecommunications or transport.

We know from the council workers' strike that this will be tried. The TUC and every union must declare now that they will not tolerate any use of troops.

Committees

In every town in Britain, trade unionists should immediately organize, through their union branches, factory committees, union district committees, and Trades Councils, for solidarity with the strikers.

Local committees of solidarity should be set up in this way, to prevent scabbing, to organize financial support for the strikers and their families, and to protect them from the attacks and provocations which arose during the powerworkers' work-to-rule.

The postmen's claim can be won, by the mobilization of the whole working-class movement.

The postmen's fight is the fight of every worker.

It is a fight against the Tory government and its attacks.

• Full support and solidarity for the postal workers on strike!

MDW The TUC is now called upon to support the postal workers by every possible means. The financial resources of the TUC must be put at the full disposal of the postal workers, because their fight is the fight of every trade unionist.

Solidarity

Members of every union must press their executives to give full financial support and to prepare solidarity action.

Every union must instruct its members to do nothing that touches on the work of the strikers.

The Parliamentary Labour Party must come out clearly in support of the postal workers and oppose in every possible way every measure proposed by the Tories against the strikers.

The unions must, from the very first day, actively oppose every attempt to organize scabbing in the postal services, Morris pieceworkers prepared for battle, but the previously far less militant PSF workers as well.

A mass body-plant meeting on Thursday unanimously decided to oppose MDW and to financially support the 160 ADO 28 workers directly affected, should Leyland attempt to shut them out.

Morris stewards stress that North side pieceworkers there will have to take similar steps to protect the 50 South side workers who—to their credit —refused to accept MDW and have been returned by the atta hey f They also warn against the company to the factory's unattached labour pool.

policy of verbal opposition to MDW pursued by the local union officials.

NO PROPOSALS While correctly recommending refusal to accept MDW to Thursday's mass meetings, these men made no specific proposals for fighting the company's action and sent the men back into the factory.

This could allow the company to proceed with its attempts to table MDW proposals for the whole of both the body and assembly plants at Oxford, exposing all sections of workers to serious dangers.

Determined to jump the gun in Leyland's favour, one national daily yesterday ascribed it a 'moral victory' at Oxford.

Proving this judgement