A new Tory What are

AY 301 blind as BARGAINING days are over — the trade unions will not win a single concession from Tories intent on ruthless, open class warfare. day by Heath: first wage demands attacks General ing employers to slim their labour force. Strike whisky at poo consumed at 10 Door St cannot obscure the decisive change which call mass unemployment and destroy living atten dards, planning to then build up their profit rates on the backs of a broken and demoral'UTRA-LEFTS' really ized working class.

Party mastial manor the role of the Bert Ramelson told London School of Economics students yesterday. Commons, Heath said:

He revived this Stalinist attack League's He said the League had never been able to get any response to its demands in the working class.

By contrast, the Communist Party's policy was to 'reflect what was possible' in the movement, he said.

Tory voters

There were ten million trade unionists, but at least a third of them must have voted Tory. So was wrong to call for a General Strike to force the government to resign.

What was needed was 'national industrial action •..of general strike dimensions' to force the Tories to withdraw the Industrial Relations Bill.

This might create a political crisis and lead to the Tories' resignation, but 'I do not believe we are revolutionary atuation, Monday before g0. i on e Ramelson said.

Gymnastics

Ramelson is forced to undertake these verbal gymnastics precisely because of the very widespread response inside the trade TUC chief Victor Feather's denand for 5 per cent economi rowth was dismissed on Thurs must be drastically reduced. These demands; said Heath, were 'causthis Tory government is spelling out.

Prices Speaking on the same day in the House of with George McCormack, convenor of Hillington, arriving for yesterday's

Rail offer

now 9p.c.

UNION LEADERS representing the country's 280,000 railmen yesterday continued pay talks with the British Railways Board.

The management was understood to have told them that it was prepared to marginally improve the offer to 9 per cent, if unions agreed among themselves how the increase should be distributed.

There have been numerous demands from union branches, however, for strike action to win the full claim of between 13 and 25 percent pay rises.

capacite trade union bureauand David Watson (right) delegates from Kllbride meeting. SHOP FLOOR workers at Rolls-Royce, E Kilbride, voted yesterday to fight redundancies at the Scottish plant by strike action.

This is the first sign of BY STEPHEN JOHNS militant iction by RollsRoyce workers in Britain, But the form of action they who until now have ap- would take had not yet been peared to passively accept the first wave of sackings prise one shop fioor and announced by the Official one staff representative from Receiver on Monday.

At an 8 a.m. mass meeting and both the Derby and the 1,500 E Kilbride hourly- Barnoldswick factories will be paid workers voted to with- invited to send delegates. draw their labour at the end The committee will hold of their shift at 4.27 yester- its first meeting at Blackpool day afternoon if the company in two weeks time after delecontinued its compulsory sack- gates have reported the results ing policy. of today's meeting to men in

Dole

Over 120 E Kilbride) shop sackings THIS QUESTION faces all workers as t capitalist press and all parties in the House with strike Commons continue the outraged outcry again the killing of three soldiers on the outskirts East Kilbride decision to perpetuate the rule of the Tory Unionist government based on a divided working class, high unemployment, low wages and bad housing.

the working class from securing even the most basic of democratic rights.

expect casualties among their forces—no army of occupation can expect otherwise.

ary of State for the Armi during a debate on army estimates in the Commons on Thursday night, said that it vas regrettable but unavoidable in the present situation in N Ireland that some innocent people might have to suffer.

civilians in Belfast.

will not hesitate to fire when shot at or attacked by petrol bombers, but they will not be indiscriminate in their firing.' for the army and another for the working class?

part in the debate.

of the N Irish community disliked the Scottish Regiments.

Scottish soldiers are Rangers supporters, he said.

NOT DISCERNING army have never been noted for their ability to discern in advance the eventuality that situations of this sort might arise.

it was common policy to use Hindu troops, the Gurkhas, to fight Muslim rebels on the NW frontier.

decided. said a spokesman. The committee woud com.

Regiment. all the Rolls-Royce plants fighteagainst the Tory government Man troops seat.

Delacourt-Smitl Belfast on Wednesday night.

Troops are in N Ireland asks Sarah Hannigan They are there to prevent In this situation they must £1,250 March vr Gilmour under-Secre-