Twin threat to engineers

we Vietnam "THERE Vietnam. "choice of evils" in There is a choice between aggressor and support doubt whose side shes This, •Morning Star' December h, 1969).

Yes indeed-there doubt in the minds of millions that 'Side imperilaism, neak sine none Ne have already quotec earlier issues also lute determination Wilson-massacres or no massacres, atrocities or ties-to SUDDOr the The ena as well as his concealed contempt for all those who pleac bout in to minds, or in is Wilson's for tha There doubt cardily and borate lon however leaders, Star and editorial tured one- -about is disseminated writers of the that there 1s debt awo-faced is alicat of theison and a imperialism. + that as why the contermied oria having wininal in the First half , then Vilso oes on to call pressure on the Criminals friend to exert more pressure on the criminal to end the 'Last night's debate should be followed by renewed of pressure to force to These know, polit all weirs that change their policy (Sic AT YORK 'MUCH NEEDED and long overdue reforms in our negotiating habit', as Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers president Hugh Scanlon described them in April, may well be further delayed when union leaders meet the engineering employers in York next Tuesday.

Jones below and Scanlon right must be kept to the position on piece-work as stated in 'Engineering Voice.

Every indication points to deadlock quickly being reached when the joint Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions-Engineering Employers' Federation working party once more gets together to discuss changes in the industry's 47-yearold disputes procedure.

Big dangers, nevertheless, face all engineering workers as a result of these talks. . The much-criticised York, procedure was one of the main issues left outstanding by last year's engineering negotiations.

As the Socialist Labour League has always insisted, the 1968 engineering package deal marked important retreat on the part of the engineering unions' leaders.

Instead of using the strength of their united and confident memberships action • to force a favourable settlement, they accepted what was considered by many members as an inadequate wage offer with dangerous 'strings'.

Encouraged by the retreat, the employers then moved in on two more fronts.

Under the 1922 York Agreement, shop-floor disoutes are supposed to be nandled through progressive negotiations at departmental, plant and district level before reference to Central Conference at York.

Higher

On the retirement of Will 'Failure to agree' at any stage leads to the dispute being referred to a higher stage.

A 'failure to agree' at York means that the matter is referred back to the unions Police 'inquiry' as protest grows SERGEANT Daniel Groth, the Chicago BY JOHN SPENCER police officer who led the raid on Decem.

er 4 in which two leaders of the Black Panthers were shot dead and four others seriously wounded, denied yesterday that the two men had been deliberately gunned down in their slum apartment.

Widespread allegations that the police shot Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in cold blood have led Chicago police chief James Conlisk to set up an 'investigation' into the killings. you. dark. BLACK no bites tire in wire all the 14 plain-clothes killers who poured a hail of bullets into the Panthers' flat.

The Chicago killings, which bring to 28 the number of Panthers murdered by police in the past 18 months, are part of a concerted campaign against black militants over the country.

Cook County state attorney, Edward Hanrahan, whose office supplied the police squad which carried out the killings, described the allegationalism. 'an orgy of sensaNotorious Cook County is the notorious Democratic fiefdom ruled by supporters of Chicago's reactionary Mayor Daley. Agnale, is a fervent advocate anyone who stands out against US imperialism.

6,000 people turned out for funeral of the two Panther leaders on WednesdaYiberal Negro leader Ralph Abernathy told the crowd at the funeral:

"The nation that conquered Nazi Germany is following the same brutal course as the Nazis' Many leading US liberals ncluding nine Negro congress ers'ro e all along covered up for the reactionary Athens' regime.

This the Stalinists will not time and again in the struggle do, as we have seen proved in the unions and the factories for a socialist alternative to the right-wing leadership.

The most recent, and starkest, example of Stalinist protection of Wilson is the Communist Party's insistence that he should go to Washington to meet the leader of US imperialism.

Response

The response in the working class to our campaign against Wilson's visit to Washington proves that similar class solidarity can be established with the people of Greece.

Both the right wing and the Stalinists fear the mobilization of the working class on these principled international questions.

This is why Wilson and the Soviet bureaucracy are today united in their support for the Greek regime, whatever protests the 'Morning Star' makes to the contrary. Fred Hamptoe, Hack Panther shot down by Chicago cops. STOP WILSON'S WASHINGTON FOR THE DEFEAT OF US IMPERIALISM IN VIETNAM DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY JAN. 11 MARCH: via Oxford Trafalgar Square pa: MEETING: Lyceum B:

tightens more screws 'TRADE UNIONS', stresses a new efficiency and productivity guide published by the Prices and Incomes Board yesterday afternoon, 'can greatly assist the management to introduce acceptable productivity changes, particularly where these involve substantial changes in working methods' As Mrs Barbara Castle prepared to meet a storm over her new 'wage-freeze' plans, the guide described how to tighten the screws provided by her White Paper.

The Board is now demanding that agreements should spell out the need for constantly rising levels of efficiency; that reliable yardsticks for measuring such increases be devised; that output costs should be shown to be reduced; that pay should only be improved when productivity increases are proven and that any increases that are granted should not be too high.

Unions, it says, must expand and strengthen their productivity advisory services and 'look to their methods of communication between head office and the places where members work'.

We have been warned! Street, Regent Street, it Downing Street. illroom, near Aldwych, Auspices Young Socialists at public meetings the film of the first issue being prepared printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' Briefly TUC REJECTS BILL: Mrs Barbara Castle's "frightener' for trade unionists who refused to accept her proposals 'Prices and Incomes 1969'—rejected by the TUC General Council yesterday afternoon-was free-for-all which will force up. prices, endanger the balance of payments or threaten jobs'. 'Some of us', says the White Paper, 'must accept a smaller increase our incomes over the years in order that these who are worse off can have more. the only hope of the low-paid lies in a add up to disaster', warns a Royal Society report The Report discusses the teacher shortages the science subjects Because of the small anc decreasing number of students with 'A'-level science or maths who enter teacher training, the colleges will not be able to meet the needs of the immediate future.

GREET LIVERPOOL Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m. Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant SHEFFIELD Sunday December 21, 7.30 p.m.

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trial questions and left-wing Daly but the political stances on political matters. economic situation.

A few vears agn. for ex- It is now no longer a auesample, he visited North Viet- 4 A ANTr nam, inquiring into American war crimes.

'Ready-made'

He thus became the darling of all the anti-Marxist 'left' groups who preferred basing their hopes on ready-made leaders like Daly to the scientific building of a revolutionary leadership in the working class.

His actions during the strike have left these people hurt and bewildered.

For example, 'Black Dwarf' of November 26 carries a cry from the heart: What is Lawrence Daly doing?

'Lawrence Daly's actions during the recent mining strike appear to be totally indefensible. Siding with the NCB and the capitalist state agains the strike actions of his men, he played an anti-socialist and counter-revolutionary role.

'From a union leader with a long record of militancy and internationalism, his action was horrific.

can he or anyon else explain these changes?' theses channest can explain Pa What has changed is men, have protested at the treatment Nixon is giving the Panthers.

Seven leading Panthers are on • trial in Chicago charged with conspiring to incite a riot during the Democratic Party convention there last year.

Demonstrations outside the convention were brutally suppressed by a massive force of police, who used tear gas and clubs liberally on the demonstrators.

Panther chairman Bobby Seale was originally a defendant in this trial.

He was denied the lawyer of his choice, bound and gagged in the courtroom and eventually sentenced to four years' imprisonment for 'contempt of court' Despite Wednesday's farcical intervention by Labour MP Mrs Anne Kerr, the