Mersey clerks review six- week strike

CLERKS in the sixth week of their official pay strike at English Electric's Liverpool plant meet this morning to review the situation.

The 450 clerks are asking for a £6-aweek rise. There has been no increase in the company's offer of between £1.50 and £1.75.

Two weeks ago they received dismissal notices, but they returned them to the personnel manager.

On Monday they held a joint meeting with some of the laid-off 3,500 production workers. , The meeting called for a inquiry into the affairs of Weinstock's GEC empire and meeting of combine shop stew:

Said AUEW convenor Peter 'Many of us feel that Weinstock never re-open this plant again.' McCann: Shot by 'death squad'? AN OFFICIAL Royal stabulary dossier on the murder of Official IRA man Joseph McCann has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in London.

On Saturday, April 15, McCann was shot dead by a roving platoon of paratroopers as he walked through the Markets area of Belfast. : It is understood an undercover Special Branch man brought the paratroopers to the area where he had been keeping McCann under observation. " But instead of overpowering McCann and arresting him, the paratroops opened fire with automatic weapons. • McCann was unarmed when he was killed. The RUC decision to send the papers to the DPP indicates that some sections of the police are unhappy about being-so closely linked with the openly murderous policies of séctions of the army. •It will be remembered that the Tory" Cabinet especially drafted the paratroopers to Londonderry McCann: unarmed on January 30—Bloody Sunday— to open fire on civilians.

The McCann killing also strengthens the opinion troopers have formed a deatsquad'—a group of soldiers who are trained to carry out assassinations.

This was a technique developed by the British army in its counter-insurgency campaigns in Kenya, Cyprus and Malaya.

The man who guides the operations of the paratroopers in Ulster is. Brig Frank Kitson. Kitson gave the orders for the paratroops to be used on Bloody Sunday after receiving a message direct from the Cabinet security committee.

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Martin: might Harbin of Marathon to settle Clydebank by Friday?

FROM STEPHEN J TALKS Shipbuilders American who wants Clydebank pected English Electric clerks PILKINGTON'S has employed the first of militants sacked by glass firm in August 1 when they struck demand the right to union representatives their choosing.

But another 70 men o ganized around the Pilkington rank-and-file committee remain sacked to this day and blacklisted throughout the NW.

On Monday Jim Boylan returned to the fibre glass lant Kavenhead. for the last 20 months he has hac to keep his wife and children on social security.

The August 1970 strike followed the bitter sevenweek Pilkington dispute which hit St Helens in between shop at Upper Clyde Upper and an businessman to buy the ink yard are ex- yard are at the end of the the of They depend on whether Wayne Harbin, chairman of Marathon Manufacturing, gets government cash to help him develop Clydebank to build oil rigs.

Yesterday Harbin had a second meeting with. officials of the Department of Industry and Trade to discuss the govEE-AY ARN/, Pilkington's take back first of rank and filers reernment's detail. FROM PHILIP WADE April. The firm sacked 500 men during the August struggles.

Many of the 500 wert back as new starters, but the militants were kept out. san a campan t0 detend them through the length and breadth of Britain and the tråde union movement. "They exposed the role played by. TUC secretary Victor Feather and Lord Cooper, head of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, in allowing the victimizations to proceed.

Said rank-and-file committee member Brian Gavin yesterday:

CKERS rbin (I) with new Minister for In dustrial Development, Christopher Chataway financial aid If enough money is offered, Harbin said he would like to go to Scotland to make his announcement on Friday.

In talks he has already had with unions and shop stewards he has been pressing for a fouryear no strike contract.

Unions have indicated that this would not be a problem if a wage agreement with a cost-of-living clause can be negotiated. •If there is a deal with Marathon, the other company which wants to take over parts of UCS -Govan Shipbuilders-can begin production in the Govan, 'There has definitely been pressure put on Pilkington trom the shop floo through the G&MWI branches. A lot of men began to realize there wasn't any real leadership inside the factories and wanted the men back who were inside there betore, *It has been a con mual fight to get us back and now it's spreading to two more Pilkington factories. There's no doubt Jim's reemployment is a victory. He was a lad publicly engaged in the campaign speaking up and down the country. 'Although it's a breakthrough there's a long way to go yet however. The cave al go ur on ani we ve all got our Jobs Dack, said Brian.

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If Marathon and Govan Shipbuilders come onto the Clyde there is likely to be a labour force of 6,300, compared with the 8,500 employed when the company went into liquidation