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THE UNEMPLOYED The Social Security Swindle "The Social Security Swindle' by Bernard Franks. A useful handbook in the SLL pocket library series on state restrictions on social security. 5p.

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Seamen register 'to survive' OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT SEAMEN'S leaders yesterday• executive's decision to register Relations Act.

Voting at the NUS annual conference in Folkestone, where executive members and full-time officials voting together can outnumber rank-and-file delegates, was 63-12 in favour of registration.

The decision also means that the conference has approved the executive's decision to apply jointly with the employers for an approved closed shop.

This application-sent by the Industrial Relations Court for investigation by the CIR-led to the union's suspension from the TUC.

NUS general secretary Bill Hogarth, who on Thursday attacked the miners for going to 'the level of the gutter' in their strike, denied they had registered as a service to the shipowners.

'It was a question of survival, he said.

'We could not afford the spectacular collapse of this union as the price of a philosophic or ideological gesture in defiance of •Deregistration would have been just that.' school SCHOOLCHILDREN from two West London comprehensives yesterday defied education authorities for the second day and came out on strike.

Pupils from Rutherford and Sarah Siddons comprehensives refused to go back to their classrooms after lunch. They are protesting against the compulsory wearing of uniforms and what they consider to be a harsh system of administration in the school.

School authorities failed to keep them in the school compound in spite of padlocked gates and marshalling by prefects. A total of 300 pupils are involved in the protest. THE 'DAILY MAIL, the Rothermere-owned newspaper which claims to be 'on top of the news, featured a front-page 'scoop' yesterday.

Across the front page appeared this banner headline: 'EXCLUSIVE: As the row grows over Ministry sex spies the "Mail" reveals how they work SNOOPERS' HANDBOOK The 'Mail's' smug claims are entirely misplaced. Workers Press published the documents in a series entitled "The Social Security Swindle' by Bernard Franks in November last year.

The story says "Today the "Daily Mail" reveals in detail the extent of these spying methods outlined in a secret manual.' Co-operation is 'complete betrayal' WEST HAM Trades Council, London, has carried a resolution demanding that the TUC Finance and General Purposes committee carry out the decisions of non-co-operation with the Industrial Relations Act passed at Congress in September last year.

The council resolved that the action of the TUC committee in allowing unions 'to go to the National Industrial Relations Court was 'a complete betrayal of the trade union movement'.

The resolution called the TUC to institute an immediate campaign in the labour and trade union movement to remove the Tories from office.

The motion originally came from the electricians' branch at Tower Hamlets. The West Ham trade unionists passed the resolution with one abstention and one against. Bootlegging records 'obnoxious'-Goodman A PRIVATE member's Bill outlawing 'bootleg' recordings has been given an unopposed second reading in the House of Lords.

The Bill's sponsor is Lord Goodman who claimed that the practice of 'bootlegging' records was 'obnoxious'.

Moving the second reading of the Performers' Protection Bill, he said it increased the maximum fine for illegal recordings from £50 to f400 and also introduced a penalty of imprisonment to a maximum of two years.

Goodman said: 'A number of enterprising gentry are pursuing the profitable course of manufacturing what are known as bootleg records. The method they use is to take recordings from radio performances, teleWe published it six months ago With breathtaking modesty the reporter, Douglas Thompson, interviewed two Labour MPs, Stanley Clinton Davis of Hackney and Miss Joan Lestor of Eton and Slough.

Davis said: "The "Daily Mail" is doing a great service to the public by publishing this code. I have never seen it and neither have many of my colleagues who are equally concerned' Miss Lestor, another 'left, said: 'The "Daily Mail" is doing a marvellous service by Mersey blacking operated The nearly-completed Seaforth container black on handling containers.

MERSEYSIDE dockers yesterday ignored their union leaders' official plea for normal working during their 28-day strike notice.

At the £50m Seaforth container terminal, men continued to ban the handling of newlyarrived containers.

They have been refusing to deal with any fresh loads since Wednesday, when a shop stewards' meeting extended 'blacking' action in support of the right to stuff and strip containers. ..Behind - the - scenes talks between stewards and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, which owns the terminal, were held on Thursday. The terminal vision performances or film reproductions.' He said these recordings were then put on the market at 'highly competitive prices.

Goodman and his supporters are presenting the Bill as an act of defence of performers and their rights. On the other hand, the Bill will also protect the huge profits of the big recording companies.

Goodman chairman of British Lion, the Newspaper Societv and The Observer. In his private capacity as a lawyer he advises Granada Television, headed by Lord Sidney Bernstein.

His other contacts in the entertainment industry include Bernard Delfont, head of EMI, Sir Lew Grade of Associated Television, and Nat Cohen of Anglo-Amalgamated. revealing go on?

When Workers Press revealed the details of these documents six months ago no Labour MP raised the subject in the House of Commons with a view to getting the iniquitous document published.

If Davis and Lestor are so anxious to read the full inside story, they are invited to read "The Social Security Swindle', a Socialist Labour League pocket booklet No 3.

DAVID is due to come into operation officially next Wednesday.

But the talks appear to have broken down on the very issue which is at the centre of the national strike row.

The dockers yesterday maintained their black on the three firms who took the Transport and General Workers' Union to the Industrial Court.

And at a mass meeting in the Liverpool boxing stadium tomorrow, they are expected to give massive backing to both the national strike call and the stewards' decision to extend the black.

Reports will also be given from yesterday's London meeting of the national port shop stewards' committee.

Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan yesterday morning saw representatives of the National Dock Labour Board for 30 minutes in his room at the Commons.

It was the third in a series of meetings Macmillan is having with everyone concerned with docks operation - with special emphasis on the dispute over containerization and its effects on employment. He is also expected to see representatives of the road hauliers.

Macmillan • later reported Cabinet meeting. Jarrow jobs protest PADDY SCULLION (73) of Jarrow-on-Tyne, one of the leaders of the 1936 Jarrow march, will march again to Downing St next Wednesday.

In 1936 Mr Scullion, then a councillor, walked to London all the way. 'SIR John [Donaldson, chairman of the National Industrial Relations Court] has confounded the critics and shown that the law, even in the workaday world of industrial relations, can have a human and understanding face. Sir John leaned over backwards dockers' outlook, understood the These are the dynamic thoughts of Keith Mason, industrial editor of the 'Sun'. Mr Mason, because of his great knowledge and sympathy of the trade union movement, writes a regular column for the AUEW 'Journal'. THE SETTING up of an advisory committee on night assemblies, to be headed by 26-year-old Cambridge graduate Dennis Stevenson, was announced in the Commons by the Minister for Local Government and Development Graham Page yesterday.

It was the intention of the Environment Secretary Peter Walker to appoint the committee whether or not the Night Assemblies Bill, which would control the holding of all-night assemblies, became law.

extended ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS SLOUGH: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Slough Community Centre, Farnam Rd. Speakers, Frank Tomany, ex-convenor Omes Faulkner. Brian Bailey, AUEW (in a personal capacity). The Industrial Relations Recall the TUC Expel the traitors Make the Tories resign SW LONDON: Tuesday Mr ly 9, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor E aths, Clapham Manor St, SW4.

N KENT: Tuesday May Rd, Dart® SOGAT House, Essex ford.

DAGENHAM: Tuesday May p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Ave, Barking.

CROYDON: Thursday May 1 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe LUTON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. St John's Ambulance Hall, Lea Rd.

N LONDON: Thuraday May 11, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane).

SE LONDON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, New Cross Rd (opp New Cross station).

next week he plans to made ind next week ne plans to ride ln Pullman train with about 50 North East civil leaders who, in their regalia, will march from Kings Cross to Downing st.

The object-the same as in 1936—to draw attention to growing unemployment in their area.

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