Cadeby miners firm DUSTMEN'S STRIKE SPREADS

be decisive for the outcome of the strike.

On Monday, the strikers are to lobby the Yorkshire area council of the National Union of Mineworkers at the Barnson of the National Power:

shift) for all trained Some of the strikers expect that the National Coal Board will attempt to stop the strike from spreading by offering the week's bonus to some men and get them to return to work.

This attempt to split the unity of the strike must be decisively rejected.

A strike committee statement issued earlier this week pointed out that the BIG DROP rate evelopment neut wher third-day wage structure comes into operation, these nen will have a substantia drop is waty also that crafts.

Nationaork Power der \greement will suffer a sub tantial reduction in wage Coated if these plans arette be defeated.

HOME CAR SALES DROP REGISTRATION of new car the year show a 17 per cen same period last year.

This was revealed in figures released on • Wednesday by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, who also showed that over the same period registration of foreign cars was 6 per cent up compared with last year. THE TWELVE-DAY-OLD London dustmen's strike spread to another two boroughs on Thursday as more council workers took up the fight for a f20 weekly wage.

More than 3,000 dustmen in 17 of the 32 London boroughs are now on strike after the City of Westminster and Croydon council depots decided to join.

The dispute is estimated to affect almost four million people.

Despite the clearance of one large heap of rubbish, refuse is piling up all over the rest of London-though coun cils are busily issuing plastic sacks for the overflow from the dustbins.

For The dustmen's determination to win their claim shows no sign of slackening. As one dustman, chairman of a local Transport and General Workers' Union branch, said : 'Our fight is not just for us. It's for all low-paid workers'.

This meant, he said, fighting against Wilson's prices and Here is the crux of the fight. For Mrs. Barbara Castle's Department of Employment and Productivity nas already been asked to intervene in the dispute.

Dustmen should remember s in the first six months of t drop compared with the Workers' Press reporter of cars during September was at its hird lowest point this year and used cars at its second lowest level.

Increasing pressure The car bosses are increasng their pressure on the gov rnment for an easing of th credit restrictions on car buying.

A depressed home marketproduction will fall below the million mark for the first time since 1963—has sent costs rising and hit exports.

But Chancellor Roy Jenkins, returning from the International Monetary Fund annual meeting, made it clear at the Labour Party conference that even with the £450 millions payments surplus he now hopes for, there can be no relaxation of the squeeze. Birmingham Socialist Society excludes S.L.L. students THE Birmingham university Socialist Society on Wednesday passed a resolution excluding members of the Socialist Labour League from their meetings.

The exclusion was moved when Young Socialist Student Society members proposed a discussion on the role of students in the fight against the Labour governPressed to state whether the ban would also apply to Tories, a Socialist Society committee member replied that they had always found it possible to work with Tories as individuals. the experience of the Lambeth rises were bion, the chuncils productivity terms were also accepted with consequent speed-up and the threat of loss of jobs.

Excuse

The DEP's intervention may to get similar terms in use well be used as an other London boroughs— terms which would give the predominantly Tory councils the go-ahead to rationalize collections at the dustmen's expense.

The dramatic spread of the strike is another indication of the growing militancy of low-paid workers, who are faced with rapid cost-of-living rises.

Many dustmen take the job because it offers security, though the wages are low.

But as one dustman pointed out :

I take home £14 a week including bonuses. In the new Hackney flats the rents are £5 to f6 a week and we just cannot afford them on our wages. €14 any more, to get by on No deals The dustmen's strike must be fought through on a political basis of opposition to Wilson's wages policy if it is to be won.

There must be no phoney productivity deals accepted by the leadership in return for wage rises.

strike called for London airport THE 200 Transport and General Workers' Union shot stewards from London' Heathrow airport have decided to call out the 10,000 T&GWU members at the airport on a one-day strike next The men are disputing the granting by the British Airports Authority of a contract for ground handling services to Canadian _company, General Aviation Services.

They tear that the introduction of the new company will lead to redundancies.

BOAC stewardesses, who are also T&GWU members, have already threatened to strike at the end of the month against overworking.

In other words it is possible to collaborate with CAR UNEM Vauxhall deal Workers' Press reporter THE Executive of the Merseyside Vauxhall shop stewards committee at its meeting on Wednesday decided to call a mass meeting within the next few days.

The meeting is to be held after the Brighton talks with management and union leaders and after the situation with regard to dole has been clarified.

Only a handful of workers were left in the Liverpool factory on Thursday after heavy lay-ofis.

At a recent meeting of Liverpool National Union of Vehicle Builders (NUVB) members - 3,000 of which have been laid off-one member moved that they accept the present wage deal and fight next year.

Overwhelming

This was overwhelmingly defeated.

Only a handful voted for it. NUVB stewards allege that the company asked their members to man presses-doing the work of men from the press shop who are in dispute.

The firm now denies this.

The stewards declare that there is complete solidarity between the NUVB and the Amalgamated Upion of Engineering and Foundry workers, with feelings growing against the management as they have been 'exposed for what they are', in the way they have laid off workers.

Defeats

"The press try to make out we were defeated, said Alan Baker the convenor.

'But remember this was the first all-out strike proposition in six years. We weren't defeated when 50 per cent were ready for a go, and knew it was going to be long.

"The work-to-rule was operated to the full.' the class enemy, but not with those who are fighting on policies in the interests of the working class.

PLOYMENT is claimed, would make it of the most modern car tories in Europe.

Why should the workers suffer?' say the stewards.

Should not a portion of this investment be used to alleviate hardship now being inflicted on the workpeople as a result of circumstances entirely connected with the capitalist system ?

If British-Leyland • persists in its challenge, a very bitter struggle lies ahead. countries continued to de-