Car stewards back miners and national pay claim

What we think Rhodesia can split the Tories IX ARRESTING ex-premis Garheld Todd daughter Judy and shooting BAS and positio Smithoda — premier Knodesla Erm Because he blamed T from notorious Rhodesian SHOP STEWARDS representing 200,000 car workers yesterday demanded that union chiefs halt their retreat on pay and disputes procedure.

The British-Leyland combine stewards' executive insisted that the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions reinstate its national pay claim— backing it with industrial action if again refused by the employers.

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A recommendation of full moral and financial support for the striking miners was also carried; weekly collections in many of the group's factories are expected to result.

On pay, the meeting unanimously deplored the decisions of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and the CSEU to London, SW4 7UG. IN BIRMINGHAM 'ithdraw their claim for basic rate increases of up to £6 following the employers' £1.50 offer.

Committee secretary Eddie McGarry said after the meeting that the feeling was that the gap in earnings between different plants would be increased by local Factories where trade union organization was strongest would be encouraged to 'better themselves at the expense of the others'. Todd arrests embarrass Pearce inquiry FORMER Rhodesian and his daughter Judit day after being snat ranch on Tuesday nigt Their arrest was part of a wave of repression across the country, in which the Smith regime sent troops and police against strikers in the African. township of Monomapată near Gwèlo.

One young African died and several were injured as police and troops moved into the townships to suppress demonstrations against the Tories' settlement with the Smith regime.

African workers in Gwelo began a General Strike on Sunday as the British commission headed by Lord Pearce prepared to visit the The strike forced the commission to cancel its trip.

Umtali, 150 miles Salisbury, two members of the commission were told in no uncertain terms that the deal was not on.

They spent more than an hour explaining the terms to 500 Africans, who voted unanimously to reject them. when the commissioners put The crowd roared 'No, No', the terms.

The revolutionary upsurge against Smith and his white supremacist minority is proving a serious embarrassment for the Pearce commission, sent out to Rhodesia to rubber-stamp the deal with Smith under the guise of an impartial probe into its acceptability.

They have urgently requested Smith explain why the Todds were arrested.

They expressed 'deep concern' that the Rhodesian government had felt it necessary to make the arrests the commission had a duty to satisfy itself that normal political activities were being permitted.

The military suppression of peaceful demonstrations presumably counts as 'normal political activity since Lord Pearce and his colleagues have not seen fit to protest about this.

To add to the Smith dictatorship's difficulties, his co-thinkers in $ Africa are themselves facing a mass movement by the African working class.

The strike of Ovambos in Namibia (SW Africa) is still in progress despite talks yesterday between the S African government and the Ovamboland councist ose UNEMPLOYMENT figures released today are expected to show that there are now more than a million people without jobs. Last month the figure was 966,802. On the basis of average increases for this time of the year, today's total could be about 1.2 million.

The committee individual attacked talks with Leyland following their decision to tear up the 50-year-old York procedure agreement.

These had been started without reference to the combine's shop stewards, the committee said.

It demanded an urgent meeting with union leaders Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon on the subject.

The meeting re-affirmed its opposition to MeasuredDay Work.

CORRESPONDENT premier Garfield Todi h were in prison yester hed from • their family areas back YS campaign MOUNTING support for the Young Socialists 'Right-to-Work' campaign has come in from Tyneside one of the highest unemployment areas in the country.

South Shields Trades Council has given its unanimous support and pledged full financial and organizational support as well as all the facilities needed for the march.

The Council has sent an appeal to all the labour and trade union organizations in the area to give support and organize a welcome for the marchers.

At Reyrolles Parsons in Hebburn, workers in the turning shop unanimously supported the campaign and have introduced a 10p levy to help financially.

They will also campaign at today's shop stewards' meeting for the rest of the factory to do likewise.

Hebburn No 2 branch of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers are sending financial support and are asking the Tyne district committee to give support.

I'he Sunderland Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association section of the AUEW has unanimously supported the march and pledged financial assistance. has also