RAIL PAY: DEADLOCK AFTER MEETING MINISTER

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SW4 7UG. THERE WAS no sign of a break in the rail pay talks deadlock last night after an afternoon of talks with Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan.

NUR chief Sir Sidney Greene said that although arbitration had been suggested to them, they were in no position to accept it.

Macmillan left to consult with rail board chiefs at their Marylebone headquarters.

After the meeting, ASLEF yland's Austin-Morris body plant ut at 11.30 a.m. yesterday after for the fourth time this week.

The men - 1,200 workers on the factory's Maxi and Marina production lines — clocked on as usual, but made clear to management that work restrictions they have been operating for the last month would continuc.

After section meetings, the 20 home to be followed today unless Leyland decides on a complete lockout.

A total of 2,350 workers on the two lines' day and night shifts are involved in the battle for a pay increase of C10 a week, guaranteed earnings during shutoufs and other improvements in line with the engineering union's national pay claim. offer of £2.20 on days and Es on They have turned down nights. Stewards say this is pot in answer to their claim and breaches their February 1971 agreement with the company.

The national engineering claim is also the issue at Leyland's nearby BMC Service division, where an all-out strike is threatened if the company fails to come up with a satisfactory offer. • A strike for the full claim was due to start rn April 5. But this was postponed when the company asked for further discussions. Now stewards feel they have waited long enough.

IT WILL be cloudy with a little ornerwise much ot Wales and England, except the NW, will have a dry day with sunny periods.

N, W and central Scotland, N Ireland and NW England will have occasional showers anc be mainly dras . ₺ scotland wil It will be rather warm in central and S England and also in E Scotland. Elsewhere temperatures will be about normal. Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Some rain at times. Mainly becoming rather warm in the and W. secretary Ray B uckton commented: "The gap between us is not wide, not as : wide as it would be if we got what we wanted.

But the money does seem to be there to pay us the extra we're asking for.

Earlier the miners' executive passed a unanimous resolution pledging to give the railwaymen 'any help they asked for'.

President Joe Gormley said: hon movement or the rode union brought our dispute to an end sooner rather than later.

'If the whole movement rallies round the railwaymen the same could happen now.' Gormley said it was Revisionist studentswont samp lister fight Tories sit ins andidamonstrations in support of student-union LEADERS of the National Union of Students yester- day defeated a bid to commit the union to strikes, autonomy.

Delegates from Southampton and Aston (Birmingham) universities wanted a programme of no collaboration with vice-chancellors and principals, the involvement of school-student unions and the lobbying of trade unions for support. • But the conference acçepted he executive's soft-line policy or national and local 'days o action The defeat followed the equivocation of revisionist students on calls for the removal of the Tory government in the campaign against its attack on union financing.

Members of the International Socialists and International Marxist Group opposed a Southampton amendment stating that students should link their campaign on Tory educational policy to other campaigns to force the Tory government to resign.

They did this on the basis that it was the 'state' and not the Tory government thar was the spent mom teared Liaison Committee Defence of Student Unions, John McGill from Kent University, told the conference:

*I oppose this amendment because it indicates that the defeat Tory government will mean the defeat capitalism Matter having opposed tne central issue or the amend. ment. McGill went on to call delegates to support the Southampton Having Conscious V anacon sistently conference call a fight asalnsu the the committee attempting to provide itself with a left cover of opposition to the executive.

the past three days, the revisionist - dominated Liaison Committee provide the left exer to be.

As the delegate from Edinburgh pointed out:

Committee has singularly failed at a grass roots evel to offer any sustained cam paign on a clear line on unio autonomy."

There have been continuous to the rail unions to say other unions could help.

Also yesterday the Tory cabinet's emergency committee met to discuss whether they could apply a 60-day cooling-off period to the threatened national work-to-rule on the railways under the terms of the Industrial Relations Act.

The eleventh-hour talks between leaders of the three rail unions and Macmillan, the new Employment Secretary, were held at the Department's St James's Square headquarters yesterday.

Meanwhile the unofficial workto-rule already under way by 'loco drivers on the S and E regions was intensified.

But the drivers' leaders, Ray Buckton of the Associated criticisms of an executive sell out in the autonomy campaign.

National secretary Mike Terry agreed that a 'number of criticisms have been made of this executive'.

President Digby Jacks, however, made it clear that he did not hold with any criticism:

'The arguments that have been out against this executive have been vacuous and non-political. They are nothing more than empty rhetoric.' • Human block on River Don machines PLANS to prevent the movement of machinery from the British Steel Corporation's River Don, Sheffield, works are to be put to a mass meeting today.

If agreed, workers will surround machines whenever personnel from Firth Brown Ltd, the private-enterprise company which is taking over the BSC's dropforge operations, try to shift anySteelworkers' shop stewards hope in this way to force the BSC's hand on their demands for smelting-shop facilities to be continued at River Don.

They also want improvements in the corporation's pay offer for new system three-shift working.

A second proposal to be put to today's meeting is that the 'work-on' of a small number of workers made redundant by the BSC should be ended in a fortnight.

Socialist Labour League and Young MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION Sunday May 7 Up.m. Embankment, MARCH: via Trafalgar Square, Piccadil Street, Tottenham Court Road, E MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hall. WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO WO MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, told his London Transport underground members not to take part in the unofficial action while negotiations were continuing.

Before entering the talks with Macmillan Buckton said: 'I am hopeful this meeting with the Minister will allow us to be able to negotiate this matter to a successful conclusion so that we do not have to enforce the threatened action on Monday.' In the House of Commons yesterday Prime Minister Edward Heath, said the board's fer was 'very generous'.

The three rail unions-ASLEF, the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association-are due to start an official national work-torule on April 16 unless British Rail steps up its offer. The unions are demanding a 16-percent pay rise.

Biggest bomb ONE of the biggest bombing campaigns since the announcement of direct rule was mounted in Ulster yesterday.

In Castlederg, Co Tyrone, car bomb wrecked shops in i the town centre injuring two policemeR....

Windows were blown out over a radius of 50 yards and clothes and other goods littered the street.

Two electricity pylons were blown up near Crissmaglen, Co Armagh, and a hijacked milk van believed to be loaded with a bomb blocked the main road.

A woman died and her husband was wounded after an explosion in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.

Dozens of anonymous warnings of bombs were telephoned to shops and offices throughout the Province.

In Belfast • whole blocks of buildings were empticd and the city centre was crowded with evacuated workers who were immediately threatened with a wave of car bomb scares.

Fourteen buses at the city bus station off Royal Avenue, the main shopping street, were damaged by an explosion. No one was hurt.

In Newry four gunmen shot a security guard in the knee before bombing the local council offices. Two other bombs were reached by bomb disposal experts before they exploded.

ROYAL GROUP dockers in London" yesterday gave ünanimous support to the Liverpool dockers who are "blacking' container lorries operated by three haulage firms.

Shop stewards in London told 1,000 Royal group men that because of the fight to prevent surplus dockers being returned to the unattached pool, they were not prepared to have unregistered labour handling Leading Stevedores, CarUnes.

steward Bernie Steers said a closer watch would be kept on cargoes in London.

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