Work iogether and we'll make it together

WOOS UNIONS The Working Together Campaign, backed by a number of right-wing employers, is finding advertising space in no lesser journal than 'Record', the newspaper of the Transport and General Workers' Union. : The campaign has taken a halfpage advertisement in this month's issue urging workers to get together with the employers so that 'we'll make it together'.

A similar advertisement for the campaign appeared in a recent issue of 'Tribune'. Many of the main people behind the campaign are very reactionary.

The chief publicity men are Geoffrey Tucket, former Tory press officer, and Sir Trevor liaison man Lloyd Hughes No 10 Downing Hughes, Wilson's press St. Industrialists supporting the organization are Sir John Reiss of Assoc ated Portland Cement, Frank Ta vlor, chairman of Taylor Woodrow , Sir Joseph Kagan of Gannex, Sir Nathony Bowlby, former GKN director, and Michael Ivens of Aims of It is Iven's association with campaign which provides overt political flavour.

Aims of Industry is an avowedly right-wing group which fights against nationalization and shop-floor militants.

At the launching press conference at the Savoy Hotel on April 10, Ivens confidently predicted: I believe we are going to get some really good, brisk, trade union leaders on the committee fairly soon' The fact that the campaign's advertisement appears • prominently in the 'Record' does not mean Jack Jones is necessarily lining up for membership.

In fact, above the advertisement, the union's assistant general secretary, Harry Urwin, contributes 'disclaimer' campaign.

Urwin is quoted as saying the campaign is 'making a nonsense of the very complicated business of industrial relations, and the motives of those financing the campaign are highly questionable'.

Urwin admits that backing for the campaign is coming from big firms who gave record amounts to the Tory Party to help them win the last election and impose the Industrial Relations Act.

But all these admirable points still don't explain why the 'Record' chose to publish the campaign's nauseating publicity material-and probably charged the appropriate advertising rates, too.

The Working Together' people. Left to right: Sir John Relss, Sir Joseph Kagan, Sir Anthony Bowlby, Frank Kagan, Taylor, Michael Ivens. Below: Geoffrey Tucker and Sir Trevor Lloyd Hughes The Tories' 'fair rents' Bill could increase the miseries of multi-occupation of accommodation.

This. is the view of Dr Carl Burns, Islington's director of Public Health in North London. Dr Burns has expressed his fears in a report on how the Bill will affect the private sector.

Dr Burns pointed out that the main demand for multioccupied accommodation came from 'members of the community who would otherwise be unable to afford any accommodation at all.' He said: 'Into this situation the new Act will introduce a general increase in rent which irrespective of rebates is likely to put the greatest pressure on Transport Minister John those people seeking multi-let accommodation because of their financial resources.' Dr Burns believes controlled tenants could suffer because with the prospect of the Bill becoming law in the summer, there is no incentive for landlords to carry out improvements to obtain a higher rent.

At present a landlord wanting to increase a controlled rent has to carry out improvements. But under clause 35 of the Bill, properties will become decontrolled automatically at a certain date.

Dr Burns said: 'This therefore means that if an owner of a controlled property wishes a higher rent, but does not wish to carry out improvements, he may be content to under chaise 35 qualifying date