STOP WILSON'S VISIT TO NIXON Glasgow boilermakers say: Mobilize labour movement

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MAR 17 1971 esolution, couched in crude old-war language, condones the genocidal acts by US troops in Vietnam. Left: Two children scamper out of the way of GI search party. GLASGOW boilermakers have called for action by the labour movement to stop Wilson's January visit to Washington.

Their resolution is to be sent to the Glasgow Trades Council and the executive committee of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers and calls on them 'to demand that the United States withdraw its troops from Vietnam immediately.

'It condemns the Labour government's shameful support for American policy in Vietnam and supports the greatest possible mobilization of the labour and trade union movement to stop Wilson's visit to America in January, 1970?

LIVERPOOL Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers' shop stewards have demanded the cancellation of the visit.

At their quarterly meeting on Wednesday night, the following resolution was carried by a large majority:

"This shop stewards' quarterly condemns the slaughter of innocent men, women, children and babies by the US Army in Vietnam. It considers that enormous damage has been done to the British labour movement by the continued support of the Labour government for the US government and its war in Vietnam.

Coming visit of Wilson to Washington is a symbolic gesture to Nixon pledging the continued co-operation of the British government despite the world-wide horror and anger at the American atrocities.

'We, therefore, demand that Wilson's visit to Washington be cancelled' Building deal drive THE Birkenhead branch of the Constructional Engineering Union has unanimously endorsed the stop Wilson's visit.

ON WEDNESDAY'S London building workers' demonstration, 33 marchers signed the Workers Press petition demanding that Wilson's visit to Washington should not take place.

Communist Party executive member Lew Lewis refused to sign.

SEVEN members of the Hackney No. 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers • have signed the petition.

SWINDON AEF shop stewards' quarterly meeting passed a resolution demanding that Wilson should not go to Washington. This will be submitted to the union's district committee.

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BID TO SPLIT TEACHERS: The National Association of Schoolmasters said yesterday that an attempt was being made to split its alliance with the National Union of Teachers in the fight for the £135 interim pay increase.

The association's general secretary Mr T. A. Casey said in an official statement that the management had suggested an independent inquiry into the claim-something advocated by the NAS, but resisted by the NUT.

The suggested inquiry 'ought not to be used às a bargaining ploy in Burnham', he said.

He added that recent discussions between the two unions had 'strengthened the power of militant teachers and has brought the whole profession to a new realization of how badly paid it is'.

IRISH UNION ACTS: The 150,000 strong Irish Transport and General Workers' Union has said that it will 'use every lawful means possible' to stop the proposed _ Springboks' rugby tour in Ireland next month.

General secretary Mr Michael Mullen said in Dublin that thousands of trade unionists planned to take part in the Anti-Apartheid movement's demonstration.

UNEMPLOYMENT UP: Figures published by the Department of Employment and Productivity show unemployment to have risen since last month.

The total unemployed on December 8 was 573,299—an increase of 1,394 on the November figure.

The fall in the number of those temporarily unemployed unemployed school leavers masked over the increase in the number of wholly unemployed, which rose by 14,304 between the two months.

PARIS TALKS: North Vietnam's chief negotiator at the Paris talks, Mr Xuan Thuy, yesterday maintained his boycott because he said President Nixon had 'downgraded' the conference.

The North Vietnamese delegation has said that the week-long boycott was caused •Vietnamization emphasis on of the war and by his not appointing a successor to the former leader of the US delegation Mr Henry Cabot Lodge.