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A NEW MEASURED DAY WORK threat took shape in discussions between company representatives, union officials and senior shop stewards at one of Britain's most militant car factories this week. ip us make this the best bazaar ever held ! p us raise the money for our daily paper— Dayworkers at Morris Motors, Oxford, are to be offered greater security of employment against layoffs.

But, in return, BritishLeyland proposes a package deal comprising greater efficiency of working to pay for wage increases already achieved this year, the absorption of present incentive schemes into a new wage structure and an annual review of wages based on job-evaluation and work-measurement.

This amounts to a declaration of war on all the existing conditions in the factory.

Though forced by a series of struggles over short-time unnhina and launfe at tha wuiNg anu lay"vus • al Lo factory to like tread Proceed with catat the moment British Leyland is clearly eing forced by sharpening car-market competition to prepare the ground for a major battle against Concessions A strike by Morris's production-control workers last week impelled the company to consider major concessions on the question of lay-offs.

But now it wants to use this issue as the wedge for its Measured-Day Work proposals.

Greater security of employment can be guaranteed, it is understood to have told stewards, but only it incentive pay is reduced in proportion to the fall-off in output when piece-workers are laid off.

If this principle is accepted, the company will then feel safe to start negotiations on its further proposals.

These would establish workstudy as the determinant of the numbers of workers employed on different jobs and tie annual reviews of wages to proven increases in efficiency over the preceding 12 months.

It is believed that Leyland hopes to phase in its new wage structure starting at the end of January next year.

First step The first step would be a broad work-study assessment of the numbers of workers required to carry out the company's current complement of work.

Leyland would then agree to maintain workers for 80 per cent of their usual hours in all conditions • . • except if production is disrupted anywhere in the factory.

Ford workers meet this weekend to discuss their claim for parity with Midlands carYoung Socialists Canning Town Public Hall doors open 12 noon Can you sew? knit? paint? make something for our Bazaar? give something towards our bazaar? Have you a tin of grocery? jumble?

THE WORKERS' PRESS The latest British-Leyland offer is a direct Measured-Day Wank, utack, The Oxford cas: workers have shown their militancy in defending pay and working conditions in meetings like the one above in April this year on the day-wage question.

workers (see column three).

But British-Leyland workers should not forget Lord Stokes' reverse 'parity claim'.

As British-Leyland stewards have consistently warned, every step towards Measured-Day Work is one step closer to Ford workingconditions and a Ford wagepacket!

While the present attack is being launched by Leyland against dayworkers, it will not be long in coming against piece-workers as well.

This is an issue for the whole factory.

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LONDON'S 'Evening • News' and 'Evening Standard' are to • cost 6d.—an increase of Id.-irom next Monday.

A spokesman for the 'News' said that spiralling costs during the year had forced the increase.

Ford men face big parity fight FORD WORKERS meet in Dagenham tomorrow to discuss their claim for parity of earnings with the higher-paid Midlands car plants.

Together with equal pay for Ford's 1,800 women workers, parity has been the main demand inside the company's plants since workers returned to work on March 18 this year after striking against proposed 'penal clauses'.

Now the time is rapidly approaching when words must be translated into deeds.

Next Friday (November 28), the company is to give the trade union side of its National Joint Negotiating Committee its reply to both demands.

Everyone knows that these are not going to be conceded without a bitter struggle.

Parity alone would mean to do no more than look at the union case on this question, has stated it will only pay comparable local rates.

To reap the full benefits of its new £18 million development at Dagenham (due to operate next year), every opportunity must be taken by the company to break down the militancy of those areas where strong shop-floor organization has been built up since Container firm may pull out By our Industrial reporter THE OCL-ACT container consortium is seriously considering pulling out of the £5 million container terminal at Tilbury following London dockers' rejection of proposals for the implementation of Lord Devlin's docks 'modernization', it was announced yesterday.

Since it was completed last March, the consortium has not been able to use its berth because of the ban imposed by the Transport and General Workers' Union's No 1 docks group committee.

exhauste patience is getting • a spokesman said yesterday.

OCL - ACT invested €2,500,000 in the Tilbury terminal. the 1962 rout of shop stewards.

Ford's may well see a fight over parity as such an opportunity.

At the Coventry parity conference in mid-October some Ford workers, who decided to strike on January 18 if the claim is not met, gave their officials three months to win a f10 rise.

DAVID Film studio jobs in danger MGM, the US film company, is virtually certain to close its Borehamwood film studios which employ about The expected , closure part of a drastic cutback in ment reshufle in the usage meetings CANTERBURY 'Trade unions and the Labour government' Monday, November 24, The Dolphin it Radigunds RAMSATE "The next stage in t miners' struggle' Tuesday, November Newington Estate BIRMINGHAM Teachers' meeting Fight the attacks on Thursday, November 27 The wellington orner of Bromsgrove Street and Bristol Road police r report involved in the mutiny are mixed.

Right-wing elements want firmer action against the strikers, but others object to being used as an anti-working-class militia.

Interference

They claim that Wednes day's fighting need never have Flood of American atrocities THE US Defence Department has still refused to comment on the flood of reports concerning the massacres in Vietnam.

Nearly all American newspapers have featured eye-witness accounts of US atrocities and the impact of the news is already making itself felt amongst those who, until now, have supported Nixon's Vietnam policy—the 'silent majority.

Many leading capitalist politicians are already demanding a full inquiry into all the allegations — no doubt to take the steam out of the anti-war campaign and pin the responsibility on military, and not government officials In a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee, MADAME Nguyen Thi Binh, leader of the Vietcong's delegation at the Paris peace talks, has said that the US war crimes in South Vietnam brought to light recently 'are only a few among thousands of crimes perpetrated by the US and its puppet administration every day and every hour'.

She said that the atrocities had helped to turn the American people themselves against the war.

The deepening demoralization and hostility to the war of the US troops is certainly one of the pressures making it impossible for the Nixon government to suppress the growing stream of accounts of the massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US forces.

Senator Charles Goodell of New York wrote:

'Such barbarous treatment of Vietnamese civilians can totally destroy any credibility the United States can claim to to the US public, the name of the army and government will have to be cleared and a few scapegoats punished.

This is the type of politician that has been trying to head off the anti-war movement in the United States. ôver the last year or so.

With the feeling against the war and the barbaric deeds of the US army mounting almost hourly, these iberal fakers are finding it harder and harder to control the campaign to withdraw all US troops from Vietnam now.