Vauxhall Motors THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER
By David Maude
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MORE than 3,000 London lightermen and to-one ballot amongst lugmen stagea a lour• members of the National hour unofficial token Union of Vehicle Builders suike yesterday In pro- at Vauxhall's Ellesmere test against the alleged Port plant, most car proUSt non-ersicicu duction and assembly labour granary workers employed by GM's barges. British subsidiary have Thames was halted during All towing oi crait on to been manoeuvred into the morning. accepting-or at least not dockers were still able actively resisting-a. new pay and productivity deal.
deal is designed to tighten he screws on Vauxhall 3-year-old Measured-Da Work system.
This underlies much of hostility on the rounds the beforeal Transferred mpre containerizon, dockenn fear, and this would pave the to be transtered away from corea base item one the esterday strike took plea away sections or buryan Christmas, of course. 'Licking lips' 1.00 dosers struck yesteryesterday.
Dock, 236 walked Ca da iday during a cranedriver spute, returned to wor Rolls Royce walk out of it see a way to strike for £2-10s.
ALL PRODUCTION at fou of Rolls Royce's Scottist action involving 6,000 No details out. me waited until yester Strike action the Hamilton a result of this strike. With last Friday's twoThere are other indications that the tightening-up may soon be extended to skilled areas.
Boards have been put up around the plant recording work to be done by setters Camden council to raise rents Everyone knows that this IN A WEEK'S time (Tuesday, December 2) the Housing Committee of the Tory Camden Council is expected to approve rent rises for three-quarters of the borough's council tenants.
The increases average By a Workers Press 7s. бd., up to a maximum correspondent of 10s. a week.
A Camden United Tenants' Association spokesman interrupted the council meeting last Wednesday (November 19) to read a statement from the "There'll be a lull in arr public gallery calling on all tenants for a rent strike.
He urged Camden tenants • follow the lead of the Eas nd tenants who have resiste paying Greater London Council rent increases for the last year.
Two-thirds interest Backed up by chants of 'no Nobody wants the deal, penny on the rents'. he said ommented an NUVB sten 'As two-thirds of our rent arred of the woe Bikes. already goes in interest this money should not be paid'.
Labour councillors gave no response when called on to fight the increases and call a At the same council meeting plans were announced to put council houses into private ownership.
Vith the present big inter st charges this would be crippling attack on tenants.
Many would not be able to afford to buy houses, which in any case have been paid for in rents over the years.
Barnet tenants also face rent increases.
The council is proposing two 10s.-a-week increases next year; one to come into force in April and the other in October.
New talks to save British capitalism from irekocatly tied to the foreign policy of US imperialism. implementati the pre recently as February 1968 Wilson in his Washingterms strategir ton speech made it unequivocally clear how grateful (and indebted) he was to the US monopolists.
On the eve of his next visit to Washington it would be instructive to recall his infamous words which expressed full support for ex-president Johnson's 'San Antonio formula':
I am frequently urged • to dissociate the British government from American action, and in particular to call for the and these are regularly photographed by the company to record progress.
The fight against the deal will rapidly involve not just one or two sections, but the whole factory.
JERUSALEM Annexation permanent —says Israeli premier IN A recorded interview for US television, Israeli Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir stated :
No Jordanian flag will ever fly over Jerusalem again, and there are some territories which for our security we can never give back?
Meir attacked Nasser, who was 'the key and at the same time the villain' in the search for a 'solution' to the Middle-East crisis.
'Other Arab countries dare not seek peace without the consent of Nasser and there are no signs that Mr Nasser wants peace.' The 'peace' that the Zionists VISIT unconditional ending of all the bombing. Mr President I have said it a hundred times in my own country, in western Europe, in the Kremlin-if I felt that by so doing I could ensure that this war would end one day earlier, or would ensure that peace, when achieved, was one degree more durable, one degree more just, I would do what I am urged. I have not.' (Our emphasis.)
Despite this display of servility before his paymaster, Johnson was forced to abandon the bombing of North Vietnam only a few months after Wilson's speech!
Unlike the revisionist critics of Wilson, we do not ask not do we expect him to dissociate British Labour from Nixon's policies.
This is a false and dangerous policy.
On the contrary we say it is time for Labour to dissociate itself from Wilson, Brown, Callaghan and company.
We are not ruled by murderers-only by their The cynicism of Brown is matched only by the monumental hypocrisy of Michael Foot and the so-called lefts who seek to make Brown a scapegoat for the unspeakable Wilson.
Any fool can disown Brown. That is the least important part of our task.
Brown feels encouraged to say what he does only because the Wilson leadership gives him the licence to do so, and —above all-because Wilson and Brown see eye-to-eye on the Vietnam war and their INDISPENSIBLE in forcing Vauxhall's pay and productivity proposals down the throats of workers at Luton, Dunstable and Ellesmere Port has been the offer the Arab people, it should be remembered, cludes the annexation of not only Jerusalem, but other large tracts of territory that Meir claims to essential for Israel's 'security.
REAL FACE
Despite all the talk in diplomatic circles about a Middle-East 'package deal', the real face of Zionism and its imperialist backers is brought out in this interview.
There can be no peace between the Arab revolution and Zionism.
special relation to Washington.
Brown insults the workers —but the Labour 'lefts' betray them.
There must be no compromise with Wilson.
The whole working class movement must rally against the symbolic visit of Wilson to the US.
There will be no peace in Vietnam until every US soldier and airman is withdrawn.
The greatest contribution we can make both to the anti-war movement in the US and the embattled toilers of Vietnam is to break completely from and resolutely oppose the treacherous leadership of Wilson and his gang.
Readers of the Workers Press, Young Socialists, members of the Socialist Labour League. Into action. At once.
Organize local meetings and demonstrations. Pour the resolutions into Downing Street.
All Out Sunday, January 11.
Demonstrate Hyde Park, 2.30 p.m.
Withdraw US troops NOW!
Victory to the NLF!
Throw Wilson and Brown out!
Stop. the Washington visit!
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