LL-OUT WAR on the docks hotted up yesterday as por workers throughout the e country decided to introduce Changing jobs will be necessary

advice of their general secretary, Jack Jones.

At Tilbury yesterday a 1,000strong meeting at the dock gates decided unanimously to introduce a black against non-registered container firms.

Dock shop stewards chairman David Morris said: 'We would like to make clear to all employers, if one registered man is victimized in any way for supporting this policy, stewards will come the defence of that man with all the force that the national shop stewards' committee can muster!' leaflet handed out at the meeting told dockers: 'As every dock worker is aware, the attacks on our traditional work has reached a serious situation in the ports of Great Britain, particularly in London.

'The use of unregistered labour in and around our ports is the biggest threat to our very existence. The shop stewards believe that total war must be declared On the unregistered companies if we are to keep our jobs.

Shop steward Ben Chataway told the dockers that a meeting of the national shop stewards committee on April 8 in Liverpool had agreed that dockers throughout Britain would take whatever action they could to help each other in the struggle against unregistered companies. From Preston, Philip Wade reports:

Preston dockers yesterday voted to black a container firm which uses non-registered labour on dockland.

Over 280 men also voted to strike on May Day in protest at the £55,000 fine imposed on the Transport and General Workers' Union.

'This is part of the national struggle to reclaim our jobs, convenor Norman Wright told the meeting.

Preston dockers say the firm, Containerway Road Ferries, were spotted On Friday unloading their container on the docks.

Dockers cheered when Phil O'Hagan, chairman of the shop stewards' committee, moved that their firm stay blacked until the work in their compound was done by registered dock labour.

•We can't win this whole thing at Preston. It has to be a national fight for our jobs, O'Hagan told the men.

HULL dockers yesterday decided to black two container transport firms from Monday. The two firms are M. A. T. Transport Limited and Panelpine (Northern) Limited, which handle hundreds of containers every week. AUEW before Court Maurice Macmillan ... trained for EMPLOYMENT Secretary Maurice Macmillan said yesterday more and more people were going to have to face the need to change their jobs—not once, but possibly several timesduring their working life.

In his first major public speech since taking over Carr's job, Macmillan stressed the importance of the Tory scheme for retraining workers.

•We can only achieve the success we are looking for in Europe if we have an adequately and effectively trained labour force, he told a conference of Institute of Personnel Management in London.

Macmillan did not say whether the great retraining scheme by the Tory government applied to him as well.

Macmillan, of course, was on Industrial Relations.

The Court referred the union recognition dispute at Parsons to the CIR on February 29.

Since then, members of the AUEW. Technical and Supervisory Section were said in court to have blacked the work of UKAPE members who resigned from or refused to join the union.

Yesterday afternoon was the first time a union has set foot in the Court directly. Tom Jackson, •Union of Post Office Workers' general secretary,. observed the proceedings for what he described as induction training'. • TUC chief Victor Feather dashed N on Thursday night to investigate the Parsons on the spot. trained to do one job-become a high priest in the Tory Party and maintaining capitalism which his father, Harold Macmillan, did in the 1950s.

Macmillan Junior was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the Sussex Yeomanry and took over the family's lucrative business, Macmillan Publishers..

From this position of extreme class privilege Macmillan told delegates at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, yesterday:

'If job changes are to be brought about without unnecessary-and unacceptable-hardship to individuals, training and retraining must be freely available for those who need it.

"The government is determined to discharge its responsibility?

It sounds ominously like the work camps.

IT WIlL be rather stormy in many areas, with frequent showers and some bright intervals in the W, and more continuous periods of rain in the E.

The showers are likely to turn to snow over Nand W hills, with some hail and thunder in W districts. It will be rather cold in all areas.

Outlook' for Sunday and Monday: Generally showery and rather cold, with longer periods of rain in the N and E, some bright intervals in the S and W.

NEWS DESK 01-720 2000 CIRCULATION 01-622 7029 Regis ered as a newspaper at the Posi Office Published by Workers Press. 186a Clapham High Street. London.

SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough, Press •Ltd. (TU). 180b Clapham 1 High Street, London.

SW4 7UG.