T.U.C. 'guidelines' next week NEW DANGERS AHEAD TRADE mal

IN CAVE DAVIS TIME the TIl Conomal Connail io due to circularize mem lines on union rules a thi TUC be unio nd proce ALL GRADE SIONS ANITANCES CONFERT branches call for Ford to resign annian THE MILITANT Linby, Notts, branch of the National Union of Mineworkers has appealed to the Nottinghamshire area council of the union for support in a vote of no confidence in Sir Sidney Ford, national president of the NUM.

The branch, which has 1,325 members, is supported in its call by the Thoresby branch, with 1,675 members.

Both Ford and the union's general secretary, Lawrence Daly, have been under strong pressure from a number of important branches and areas to resign from the leadership of the union.

Opposed strike

Both opposed the recent Earlier this month, the powerful Yorkshire area NUM council voted 44-35 in favour of the resignation of Ford and Daly.

These tactics can only fritter away the teachers' undoubted willingness to fight.

The teachers also face the efforts of the Labour government to implement the new 4t per cent norm.

In line For the Burnham committee's derisory offer to meet only a half of the teachers' claim is firmly in line with the government's incomes policy.

This makes it very clear that only the fight for an all-out national strike, which will inevitably be opposed by the present NUT leadership, can win the teachers' claim in full. BY DAVID ALL TRADES TY SEVE DEFEAT ANTI-UNTON LAWS NIGERIA — assimilidinhante Dictatorial anti-strike decree DECREES ANNOUNCED this week by government commissioner Chief Enahoro give the Nigerian government sweeping dictatorial powers to hit out at strikers and trade unionists.

Existing anti-trade union laws having failed to stop the wave of strikes against the rising cost of living caused chiefly by the longdrawn-out and bloody struggle against Biafra Enahoro's measures do away at one stroke with any trade union rights the Nigerian workers still have.

Backed chiefly by the Labour government of Harold Wilson and Michael Stewart, who supply it with arms and advisers for the oil war against Biafra, the Nigerian government shows signs of having learned from Wilson's experience with anti-union laws.

The cost of living rose 10 per cent between May 1968 and May 1969, and is still rising steeply.

Strike struggles

Workers in many sections -Western State civil servants, Central Bank workers, workers at Singer Sewing Machines, merchant navy officers, postal employees-have been drawn into strike struggles over the last few months.

The Nigerian government clearly aims to wring the last drop of surplus value out of the working class to pay for the war — a war which is bringing huge profits to the Nigerian employers and the foreign firms with Nigerian interests.

Central Bank governor Dr Clement Isong foreshadowed the new measures only. a few weeks ago, when he warned of 'the beginnings of a dangerous inflation' caused by wage increases.

This could, he claimed, affect the country's ability to wage the war.

Five years The new decree states that it is an offence punishable by up to five years' imprisonment to 'threaten, organize, encourage, or do an act pre- paratory to' a strike or lockout during 1970.

The last phrase, according • DE to a commentator in the review 'West Africa', 'could mean simply talking about a possible dispute'.

All disputes will in future be 'settled' by an Industrial Arbitration Tribunal appointed by the commissioner.

U.S. troops cheer anti-war dancer THE ANNUAL Bob Hope Christmas show for US troops in Vietnam produced an entirely unrehearsed anti-war demonstration by the 10,000 men stationed at Cu Chi. The biggest cheer of the show came when dancer Teresa Graves, the black star of Rowan and Martin's 'Laugh-In' gave the sign of the US anti-war movement-one more proof that even the front-line troops are turning against talks EGYPTIAN president Gamel Nasser and MajorGeneral Jaafar El-Nimeiry, chairman of Sudan's ruling revolutionary council, arrived in Tripoli on Thursday for talks with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Earlier, the Egyptian and Sudanese leaders spent two hours in Algiers in talks with Algerian president Boumedienne.

The present round of talks is an attempt to resolve differences which arose at the recent Arab summit meeting in Rabat. THE NATIONAL executive of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs has been asked by its No. 12 (Scottish) Divisional Council to endorse the campaign to stop Wilson's visit to Washington.

The divisional council has unanimously endorsed motion already reported in the Workers Press-submitted ty the union' Edinburgs branch-which condemns the Labour government's support for the Vietnam war and urges the whole labour movement to demand that the visit does not take place.

A similar resolution has been carried by Oxford's 5/55 branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

60 students at the London Film School - including one Communist Party memberhave signed the Workers Press petition demanding cancellation of the visit.

At Laing's, Old Kent Road, building site, the petition was signed by a number of workers including T&GWU steward Bro. Richards and Chief Federation steward Bro. Fairclough (Brixton No. Woodworkers' branch), Communist Party member.

Stalinist Monty Johnstone has refused sign the petition demanding that Wilson's visit to Nixon be stopped.

He said that there was 'some chance' of Wilson bringing pressure to bear on Nixon.

Vietnam

losses still Amount FIGHTING continued throughout the Vietnam 'Christmas truce'.

The US command recorded casualties in 58 clashes compared with 47 for the same period last year.

The heaviest fighting was near the US base at Da Nang. Last week's casualty figures of 66 brought US losses since January 1, 1961 to 39,893 killed and 261,969 wounded.

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Briefly

POWER STRIKE MONDAY: Workers in at least 67 power stations are expected to begin an overtime ban - on Monday in protest against the 10 per cent pay. settlement agreed by their union's leaders last month.

Militants plan to follow the ban with a one-week strike, starting on January 5.

They have been threatened with both union discipline and legal action if they go ahead with this plan.

ISRAELI XMAS RAID: Israeli planes attacked targets on the Egyptian-held bank of the Suez canal on Thursday, a military spokesman announced in Tel Aviv. The attack, which lasted eight and a half hours, was said to be the longest of its kind since June 1967.

'NO COMPENSATION' — LIBYA: The Libyan government has refused to pay compensation to the United States the permanent structures which will be left behind when the evacuation of the Wheelus airbase is completed in June 1970.

Captain Abdel Jaloud, chief Libyan negotiator at the talks with the US on the evacuation of the giant base, stated on Thursday that Libya had demanded the permanent installations be kept intact to offset the benefit the US had derived in the past.

ORPHAN TOLD QUIT BRITAIN': A Ghanaian orphan boy who came to Britain for a grammar school education has been ordered back by the Home Officebecause his parents don't live in this country.

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