Carr sees TUC losing grip_ Mass movement Can you spare worries a minute Tories Henry?

every stands a nervi foreman.

That is the most charitable thing that can be said about Employment Minister Robert Carr's diatribe against the unions.

peated his Sunday erdesation.

i-misrepse:anfation.of.the Bill, said on a. BBC radio. programme:

I am not frightened by this opposition, but believe a campaign been going on. distortion has Exploiting the inherent weaknesses of the Trades Union Congress and its refusal to draw any political conclusions from the defeats in the docks, mines and power stations, as well as the growing army of unemploved, Tories have been calculating cn a swift and decisive victory against the unions. First blow But the first workers' blow to Tory hopes was struck on March 1 by the engineers.

Then came the long drawn-out post strike.

The prospect of a total shutdown on March 18 has got them really worried. This situation has already created divisions within the Cabinet.

Now that the working class has begun to flex its muscles and defy its traditional leadership, the Tories are nervous because their TUC friends, who have loyally served them in the past, cannot any longer dam up the growing volume of working-cläss discontent and militancy.

It is one thing to stand up to wage claims, but it is a totally different thing to enforce a dictatorial law against an undefeated and potentially revolutionary working class.

So Mr Carr belched forth his venom on Sunday:

'I do not understand how the TUC, which is usually both cautious and responsible, can lend its name first to advertisements and now to a leaflet which is to be put through the doors of millions of homes in this country.' This is indeed difficult for Mr Carr who has done SO much to sustain the image of the TUC as a responsible body, whose job, as he once pointed nut is to protest and after protesting to accept the law.

Opposition

Said Mr Carr: 'It was difficult to believe that many of the Bill's critics had ever read it'.

What the ex-director of Securicor did not realize is that if more people had the opportunity and time to read this Bonapartist charter, the volume of opposition would not be less, but assuredly and considerably more.

'Some of them,' continued Mr Carr, 'must be suffering from hallucinations.' This remark, however, was not addressed to the workers • PAGI FOUR COL. 6 arrogant IS, rich idler Greek trial opens THE TRIAL began in Athens yesterday of four Greeks accused of plotting the armed overthrow of the military junta.

They are journalist Alexandros Zografos, 44, Panayotis Miliotis, a 54-year-old clerk— both active in the anti-Nazi Greek resistance during the last war-Xenofon Papanikolaou, a 54-year-old mechanic, and Paul Tsountos, 23, a clerk.

Khan goes East AS PAKISTAN President something that has already Yahya Khan flew into taken place-the secession Dacca yesterday for crisis of E Bengal from the talks with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Bengali nationalist leader repeated earlier calls for E Pakistan to defy central government rule.

Rahman told E Pakistan's 70 million Bengalis to prepare to resist any force, adding 'the spirit of freedom in Bangl Desh (E Bengal) cannot be extinguished.

Same headline.

Dacca newspapers all carried the same headline'No Time Left'. It was not even clear yesterday whether Rahman would even meet Khan in Dacca, or how long the military regime's President would be staying in E Bengal.

Political commentators feel Khan's visit is a last desperate attempt to prevent Minister there and a general VARTED SWEET УN AuTOMOBiLE WORKERS: WORKER: - USA SUPPORT FoRD U. K.

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Rolls' sackings REDUNDANT Rolls-Royce workers at Derby yesterday visited the first of the special Department of Employment centres opened in the town to cope with the 2,000 workers who have lost their jobs at Derby plants. ranima's tractann Tarinet comes westell willo Rahman's Awami League received an overwhelming mandate at Pakistan's first general election last November for Bengali autonomy, winning all 160 seats allotted to E Pakistan in the 313- member National Assembly.

The secession of E Bengal from Pakistan will create enormous problems for the Khan regime, as the country's eastern wing contributes 80 per cent of the government's taxes.

United struggle

Bengali independence now demands _a united struggle with the workers and peasants of W Bengal, who have again returned a left-wing majority against Mrs Gandhi's Congress Party in the Indian General and State elections. from Ford by the police, but he would certainly have heard their chants echoing, up the famous street. Later one of his aides' cars gathered a 'Parity now!' sticker as it swept past. NATIONACI PARITY Vastia AMA BRiAG Brtish- Leyland BAGE Today, union leaders will ask Aviation Minister Mr Fredrick Corfield and RollsRoyce Receiyer Mr Rupert Nicholson to withdraw redundancy notices to 4,300 Rolls' workers.

The men-executive members of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers -want the notices to be shelved until negotiations have been completed.

They will also make further demand thit Rolls' disastrous RB211 engine project should be saved.

Today's' discussions arise from a meeting in York last week when leaders Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions failed Sons parner, that con's partner, would, at least, But Mr Graham said he would try to arrange a meeting with the receiver and company chiets.

Mr John Boyd, AUEW executive councilman, said the unions were annoyed that the receiver had acted 'unilateralls without consulting the unions They wanted to see the Ministers because they felt the portant to nee decision making. A FEW MINUTES of your time, sir. This plea went out to Henry Ford Il yesterday from Jack Jones, leader of Britain's biggest union.

FOR FORD BoRD Now cally Pas?

In a letter to the car king, the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, which organizes roughly half of the Ford strikers, said that he would cancel any commitment to meet Mr Ford.

Jones said that the unions were genuinely interested in an early settlement of their £15 parity claim.

In à passage which Jones could hardly mean to be serious, he told the car chief that he should explain to Mr Heath the 'difficulties' the legal situation' in the United States has caused the Ford company and others.

'How much better would be, wrote Jones, voluntary comprehensive agreements could be concluded.' The gimmickry of this approach is too obvious for words.

Ford went to lunch with Heath yesterday mainly to hear the Tory Prime Minister tell him that the labour situation in Britain, that gives the car chief SO much pain, would soon be cleared by the Industrial Relations Bill.

IN TOUCH Jack Jones is also in correspondence with Mr Heath. He has suggested that the Prime Minister meets Leonard Woodcock president of the United Auto Workers of America for talks on the Ford In contrast with these antics, workers from Ford plants lobbied Downing St yesterda and met the top oss with the chant: 'We're not bluffing either, Henry! alize Ford's Parity! We want NationWhile the car chief was inside No. 10 eating with Heath and his top three lieutenants in the Tory union - smashing team, Martin Finan, a Dagenham worker, said he resented these men discussing his livelihood.

"The profits we make for Ford go directly to finance the Vietnam war,' he said.

'I think Henry was hoping Date hast adult te go Parity is still question Eddie Dix, a body-plant worker at Dagenham, said Centenary of IN THURSDAY'S It holds for today.

£1,250 March stands at WE HAVE 16 days to the end of the month to raise the final total. After a good start we must not drop back.

The Tories certainly are not retreating. Price Increases of all major food ¡tems are rocketing up. Unemployment Is growing at an alarming rate. * The government not only encourages these attacks, but at the same time prepares legislation reminiscent of the 'corporate state.

The Workers Press calls on PUBLIC MEETINGS Lessons of the post workers' strike Tuesday March 16, 8 p.m. 'The Old Plough, Kilburn Lane, W.10 (near Harrow Rd)

Wednesday March 17, 8 p.m.

Unitarian Church Hall, Effra Rd, SW2 (opposite Lambeth Town Hall)

Speaker at both meetings:

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