Rouse the trade unions Against Wilson's Washington visit

RIILDING SITE storacte worst fears about thé pay-and-productivity settlement signed by their union leaders were confirmed this week whenfor the first time-they were issued with copies of the full terms.

Mrs Barbara Castle, however, is •apparently not satisfied that the groundwork it lays down for full Measured-Day Work scheme in the industry is sufficiently watertight.

She is to meet the building employers and union leaders on Tuesday to discuss the deal.

There have already been suggestions that the government delay its implementation -the agreement is scheduled to come into force on February 2-until the Prices and Incomes Board can report.

But this seems unlikely.

What will probably happen is that she will demand assurances from both sides that those sections which specify cast-iron links between higher pay and proven increases in productivity are tempered into steel.

Stringent The deal—which we will analyse more fully next week —lays down a stringent set of general principles • for local productivity deals which insist on such links and allow for work study to see they are maintained.

Measured-Day Work is the obvious intention behind these carefully-drafted principles It is worth reproducing these in full:

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strike AMBULANCEMEN in southeast Essex will work to rule from Monday unless their pay rise of last September is increased. A Basildon meeting yesterday voted to follow with a one-day token strike if the 30s a week is not raised to £2 10s.

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The conference accepted an executive amendment supporting the government's scheme 'in broad principle', but pressing for the state to bear a higher proportion of the scheme's cost.

The special conference to discuss the strike referendum was called by the demand of more than 50 NALGO branches who want action to force changes in the plan.

BARROW-BOYS WIN RIGHTS: Liverpool barrowboys yesterday won their fight against a clause in a Corporation parliamentary bill which they feared could stop them working in a number of suburban areas.

The result of a referendum held in the city which was announced yesterday showed a majority of the 5,000 people who voted were against the

Most of them regard the story in "The Guardian' on Thursday, which gave 'details' of the rumoured offer, as an inspired leak designed to divide the men and weaken the fight for pany'S labour relations direc Lectured After lecturing the union All these men are below the rank of captain.

Not a single one of the higher officers involved in the massacre, let alone the top - echelon commanders who suppressed all news of the outrage for 18 months, have been brought to book.

And, of course, no proceedings are contemplated against the real instigators of the My Lai massacre and the whole policy of, genocide in Vietnam.

These people are safe in the White House, the Pentagon and the company board rooms while the miserable scapegoats who carried out their orders are forced to bear all the responsibility.

A real investigation of My Lai and of all the other US war crimes in Vietnam, would begin in the White House and end in Wall Street. SPEAKING on BBC's 'Panorama' on Monday, T&GWU leader Jack Jones envisaged the continuation of this monopoly capitalist system allowing for better local negotiating procedures which would allow for greater productivity bargaining at the place of work.

Working men and women, Is this not virtually identical to the Wilson government's proposals contained in the withdrawn 'In Place of Strife' White Paper?

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