Arliculate, energetic minority-Carrington Too silent a majority Threatens society

BY OUR OWN REPORTER LORD Carrington, has urged the 'silent m ajority not to become too silent.

Speaking at the 336th Cutlers' Feast in Sheffield, Carrington said if the silent majority became too silent, too indifferent and too tolerant of intolerance, 'we may find ourselves in considerable trouble.

'We must not throw away by indifference, or ignorance or laziness the fabric of society which has made this country internally peacetus stable and above all others He went on: "There seems to be growing up not just in this country but in the western world, a dissatisfaction among a small and growing, articulate and energetic section of the community,, which does not find. in our society the way of life which appeals to them.

"Some of them wish to overthrow the present institutions of the country by violence.

"The whole lesson of democratic government was that 'to govern in an orderly society meant acceptance by the minority of the wishes of the majority.

*If the minority challenge law and order by pursuing their opinions in an unlawful way, the Omes- Faulkner: Textile pay claim lodged A CLAIM is to be lodged for a £3-a-week pay rise for 35,000 textile-finishing workers. The claim will be put forward by the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers at a meeting with the British Textile Employers' Association on April 14. The union wants a rise of 12ł per cent and 20 per cent respectively on men's and women's average earnings. system we have built up over the centuries cannot hope to survive.

"The forces of law and order which we have in the shape of the police are not equipped to deal with mass disobedience or mass flouting of the law, said Lord Carrington.

'A society which has no discipline, no standards, no morals cannot be prosperous or useful or ultimately continue to exist, he warned Before joining Heath's Cabinet, Carrington was a leading merchant banker and former British High Commissioner in Australia. Workers leaving the Omes-Faulkner plant at Colnbrook, Slough, in Buckinghamshire PRINCIPLED STAND AGAINST REDUNDANCY LED TO SACK SIXTY-SIX men made redundant at Omes-Faulkner's Colnbrook, Slough, factory have been told by Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW) officials nothing can be done about it.

Sacked AUEW convenor and branch secretary Frank Tomany (41) told me:

'The AUEW Slough district committee and the shop stewards' committee at the factory say the majority of the men whose jobs are safe will not risk them • by fighting the management's decision.' At the end of February the 439 men on the shop floor were told 100 men were to be sacked because of a sharp fall in profits.

Said Mr Tomany: "They weren't making an absolute loss, but profits were slipping.

In 1971 the group - Pratt Engineering Corporation -grossed £500,000 pre-tax profits and paid out an 18-per-cent dividend to shareholders, compared with 9 per cent the year before.

'I think they did it by making men redundant - 800 or 1,000 men were sacked from the group's nine UK factories in 1971.

Trouble flared at Colnbrook after the AUEW district committee enforced the no overtime decision taken at the union's 'Within a week they announced 66 redundancies from all parts of the factory,' said Mr Tomany. "They are due to take effect on March 24.

'The idea of not working any overtime is to force employers to take on unemployed men,' he added.

Twice before Mr Tomany has stopped redundancies occurring by insisting on work-sharing and short-time working.

He told me: I have tried to take the principled stand in this Sixth dextrosi death ONE of the two surviving patients , who had bt n given suspect . dextrose fron a contaminated batch has died in Devonport hospital, it was disclosed yesterday:

Mr William Major, the Plymouth Coroner, opr ned an inquest on the 45-year-c Id man.

Five other patients at the hospital died earlier after dextrose drip-feeding.

AUEW convenor Frank Tomany factory that every worker has the right to work five days.

Now my name is on the redunlancy list.' The factory maintenance shop, where Mr Tomany works, has been the hub of trade union London bus accept 8p c pay offer BY OUR OWN REPORTER LONDON busmen's delegates yesterday accepted an 8 per cent pay offer, giving increases of They voted 61 to 7 a deal which will £2.5m to London annual wages bill.

The rises of £1.85 for drivers and conductors, and £2 for one-man operators - 15p above the previously rejected offer - date from April 8, 12 months after the last settlement.

The 23,000 busmen wanted a 15-per-cent rise.

The increase will give drivers a new basic rate of £25.85, conductors £25, and one-man operators £28.

militancy and significantly under the redundancy plan it is to be dismantled.

Last Tuesday the 62 men in the shop staged •a sit-down strike, even though only 15 of their members had been axed.

They subsequently struck outside the gates until Thursday morning.

Said Mr Tomany: 'Then I had to tell the lads it was either go back through the gates or face the sack' He said: "The shop stewards' committee which. includes three Communist Party members initially backed the strike, but reversed their decision on the grounds that the men inside the factory were afraid management would close it altogether if the men put up a fight.

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