PARITY CLAIM

TALKS on the Vauxhall pay dispute open Brighton today. The talks arise from an invitation by leaders of the unions involved-who are now at the Labour Party conference-to the management.

EDITORIAL Publish and be damned with the Tories IE decision. by Rupert Murdoch, the latest press baron to arrive in Fleet Street, to publish the Christine Keeler story has raised a verbal storm of protest amongst the mighty.

rd Thomson of Fleet and his editor in chief Dennis Hamilton of 'The Times', together with Hugh Cudlipp chairman of the powerful IPC group, have roundly 'condemned raking up old scandals.

Lord Devlin, well-known to dockers for his infamous report, heartily agreed and threw his legal weight behind the press barons. What is it all about? Can it be that our Fleet Street mandarins are in principle opposed and scandal, sensationalism Nothing of the sort. When it came to the Pergamon Press story the 'Sunday Times' did its very best to make it the sensation of the year. Sunday after Sunday Hugh Cudlipp's 'People' publishes the tit-bits of scandal and gossip concerning the goings on amongst all types of hitherto unknown people. Then why not Rupert All Vauxhall and Bedford assembly in Britain ground to a halt on Tuesday. At the Luton and Dunstable, Bedfordshire, factories producion stopped at the end of Tuesday's day-shift.

At Luton 3,500 men were laid off on Tuesday and just over 1,000 at Dunstable. More layoffs were expected to follow. 11,500 workers force 0'27, total re bour laid off.

Mersey Vauxhall workers are to meet today to decide on action.

Big test

trade union leaders "penal Here is a big test for the 1 he Vauxhall clause' proposal must reji *Ful ot hand.

The wage rises proposed are nowhere near parity with the Midlands, even were the Draconian penal clauses acceptable-which they certainly are not.

Any weakening in the unions' opposition to the deal threatens the solid stand of the entire campaign for parity.

No repeat There must be no repetition of last January's Ford experience at Vauxhalls.

Vauxhall workers are clearly determined not to have the deal at any price.

The union leaders must be held to their stated opposition to , the deal and no phoney compromises accepted.

Fight still ahead for GEC-AEI THE next steps in the fight against GEC-English Electric's plans for 3,000 redundancies on Merseyside rest squarely in the hands of workers in the area, whatever union leaders may decide after next Monday's meeting of the national joint consultative committee.

Little reliance can be placed on last week's talk from trade union members of the committee of 'unwavering resistance' to Weinstock's plans.

ULSTER to troops By our Belfast correspondent DESPITE the Reverend lan Paisley's call for a di stration of 100,000, only 1,000 right-wing Prote turned up to lobby Stormont, the Northern I: parliament, on Tuesday. stoned by a crowd of youth as they arrived on Monday to reinforce the troops already Army vehicles were pelted as they drove troops from Aldergrove airport to billets in Belfast.

This indicates the growing feeling of Irish workers against the British troops and foreshadows the bigger clashes which must inevitably follow.

At £2,070,000 the profits are up £300,000 on last year. Shareholders will get an interim dividend of 7} per cent —2 to 2t per cent up on last year.

To sweeten the merger even more, the directors expect profits for the full year to reach almost f7 million. LABOUR PARTY ANNUAL GUNFERENCE Top Rank come: hostile Part of the crowd seen continually outside ference on the I,.igkton son frout waiting emerge. Why Wilson played it down Political Correspondent WILSON, with a deviousness worthy of a Houdini, once again extricated himself from the tight corner which Mrs. Castle's statement on the activation of Part Two of the Prices and Incomes Act placed him in.

When Mrs Castle announced on Monday that the four-month halt on pay claims would be retained there was immediate and angry reaction from the trade union delegations.

It seemed as if the 68th Labour Party Conference was going to erupt. Then on Tuesday Wilson's 50-minute speech completely evaded the question of Part Two.

Leaving the delegates mystihed as to his position on the nost important issue facin conterence, he then trotter off to see Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones, who are opposed to Mrs. Castle's statement.

Second time

This, was the second time he had seen them in two days.

What was discussed has not been disclosed, but delegates did not have long to wait before the tension was broken and the so-called unity of the conference was once more restored. Gromyko meets Rogers for SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met US secretary of State William Rogers at the United Nations building in New York on Tuesday.

It was their third meeting in less than two weeks, the subject once more being the Diplomatic observers at the United Nations believe that AILEEN JENNINGS, Editor of 'Keep Left, brings the Young Socialists' greetings to the pages Workers' Press.

Middle East talks the Soviet and United States governments are working towards what is termed Middle East 'package deal' which will be presented to both Israeli and Arab governments.

This latest meeting between Gromyko and Rogers follows Israeli Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir's visit to Washington.

As we reported yesterday, she asked for large-scale US financial and military aid to continue the war against the Arab people.

As Trotsky pointed out over 40 years ago, American imperialism on occasions pursues its own interests under. the guise of offering a fair deal' for those oppressed by rival imperialist powers.

Strategy

This was the strategy of Eisenhower and Dulles at the time of the Anglo-French invasion of the Suez canal zone YOUNG SOCIALISTS GREET DAILY THE Young Socialists are especially proud to greet the first daily Trotskyist paper in the world, the Workers' Press.

Five years ago our movement was expelled from the Labour Party because we advocated and fought for socialist policies against Wilson and right-wing. leadership-policies which have made the Workers' Press possible today.

In the past hve years Ys members have worked consistantly in the workers' movement to help achieve this daily paper.

To this end our campaigns in 1956, and it may well be the basis of its latest round of talks with Gromyko.

Even as Gromyko and Rogers discussed, Al Fatah commandos launched what they claimed was their "biggest attack' against Israeli positions in the Jordan Valley.

Whatever the terms of the so-called 'package deal', the struggle to liberate the Arab people from Zionist oppression will continue.

The right of the Arabs to national unity and self-determination are not negotiable. and demonstrations have been called to mobilize the maximum support in the labour and trade union movement for a fight against the Labour government's betrayals and against its apologists in the British Communist Party and amongst the Our aim has been to mobilize the greatest possible movement amongst the youth and indeed the response has been tremendous.

Especially in the past year haue beer ers and students been out night after night collecting for the £25,000 fund for the Workers' Press.

The Young Socialists always thought that the Trotskyist newspaper worth fighting for.

We are part of a generation which has not known the purges of the Stalin era in the 1930s or the devastating betrayals of the social-democratic bureaucracy in the labour movement in the period before the Second World War.

Therefore we recognize the great advantage of a daily paper which answers the lies perpetrated by the falsifiers of history and which acts as educator in the lessons of the history of the workers' moveand in Marxist theory.

As the inheritors of the revolutionary tradition of Engels, Lenin and Trotsky the Young Socialists will carry forward the fight for the Workers' Press to Prepare the working class society and the establishment of socialism.

In a statement read by Mrs Eirene White on . the Castle question the conference was informed that the Minister was stating government policy but not committing the national executive to Part With this face-saving gesture Wilson managed to avert a repetition of the split which tore : the cabinet and the National Executive apart on the question of the anti-union laws in the summer-and incidentally abandoned Mrs Castle in mid-air.

Not respect It would be naive to think that Wilson has repudiated Castle out of any love for the trade unions or respect for the Labour Party conference decisions.

As an opportunist politician Wilson has one eye on the 1970 election and the other on Europe.

Even Jack Jones, • general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, who welcomed the statement, was forced to comment that he still regretted Mrs Castle's remarks because they pre-empted the TUC-government negotiations.

No intention Wilson has no intention of giving up the wage freezeonly of playing it down while dramatizing and exaggerating the prospects of a mark revaluation, entry into Europe and a trade surplus in 19691970.

To some starry-eyed delegates in the skating-rink at Brighton this might seem exciting.

Let them remember that the last time Wilson made this sort of statement was in 1966-1967 — just before devaluation!

Similar statements failed to save the jobs of 5,000 AEI Woolwich workers last year.

The Merseyside joint action joint stop stewards committes on Tuesday that in event of the company not withdrawing their proposals by Monday's meeting further action including use of the strike weapon be organized.

The basic question remains the fight for a leadership amongst GEC-English Electric workers which can carry their struggle through • to victory.

Car sales

drop BRITISH motor manufacturers made fewer cars in August because of production losses through strikes, according to figures from the Ministry of Technology. Output for the home market was also down.

But after seasonal adjustments, output figures for the June-August period showed an improvement over the preceding 3 months.

In the June-August period average car output for the home market went up over the previous 3 months by 15 per cent, and export production rose by 10 percent.

Average production of commercial vehicles for home markets rose by 8 per cent and exports by !l per cent, the Ministry claims. of Priestman's We urge all readers and supporters of Workers' Press to make this paper a great paper.

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