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By Stephen Johns

Workers Press no. 650, 31 December 1971 · scan page 5

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speakers. Discuss ! ideas for the expan paper LIVERPOOL Monday January 8 pm Swan Hotel, London Rd Speaker:

Alex Mitchell GLASGOW Monday January 1 7.30 pm Room 1 Partick Burgh Lesser Hall Merkland St Tube speaker:

ONE CF g tool manutacturers, Stanley Works (Great Britain) Ltd, in Sheffield, is putting workers on short-time from today. Workers will go on a four-day week • at the company's Woodside plant, a company spokesman said. depressed state of Present He blamed the trade. The firm was going through the worst business phase it had known, he added.

Government figures issued at the beginning of this month showed net new orders for machine tools for the first nine months of this year were 33 per cent down on the same period last year. in negotiating with local agement at Bristol.

The workers struck on November 1 demanding a £5 cost-of-living increase, basing their claim on a clause in the factory deal agreed last year.

Nearly 6,000 hourly-paid workers at Rolls-Royce factories in Scotland are to ban overtime from tomorrow.

The move, which could hinder production at the need Tear al fous, hollowsk. * Lockbreakdown in talks between shop stewards and management on a new pay and conditions deal.

CHINESE Foreign Ministry has expressed its 'utmost indignation' in a somewhat belated statement about the US bombing raids on N Vietnam. On the same day, however, the New China News Agency Op also announced the visit President Nixon's advance party, including press officer Ronald Ziegler. The party is in Peking to make final arrangements for Nixon's visit in February.

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