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Action

SOUTH LONDON: Tuesday June 6, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, ' Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

WEST LONDON: Tuesday June 6, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale Road, Kings Cross. NORTH LONDON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane).

CROYDON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. 'The Anchor' (corner of Souhbridge Road and South End).

LUTON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Brigade Hall, Lea Road. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opposite New Cross Station).

SOUTHALL: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Parkway Rooms (Rent Office), Racecourse Estate, Northolt. Employers' proposals unlikely to avert dock strike DOCKS UNION leaders will tomorrow give their reply to the port employers' insidious proposals for settling the present jobs row in the ports.

Neither party to the meeting of the industry's National Joint Council believes the are sufficient proposals dici to avert the dock strike due to start at the end of this With the industrial court maintaining its pressure on the. union chiefs, some employers say cynically that Jack Jones, the Transport and General Workers' Union secretary, needs the strike to. whip his shop stewarcs in line.

What are being preGLASGOW: Tuesday June 6, Burgh Hall.

EAST LONDON: Tuesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'Aberfeldy'. Aberfeldy St, E14. 'Fight the Tories' AYLESHAM: Thursday June 1, 8 p.m. The Legion (Old Working Men's Club), Burgess Road. 'Fight the Tories' rent Bill'.

COALVILLE: Thursday June 1, Organize Councils of Action: p.m. Miners' Welfare.

ACTON: Monday June 5, Co-op Hall, High Road. he Tories' rent Bill'.

NORTH KENT: Tuesday June 6, 8 p.m. SOGAT House, 25 Essex Rd, Dartford. 'Engineers' pay claim:

DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 6, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Ave, Barking. 'Industrial Relations Act'.

Correspondent pared are negotiating positions on which the NJC would hope to end the strike after this object has been achieved.

alical. warned about are two-tiere with which some union officials want to replace the present means of registering dock labour, as laid down under the 1947 dock labour scheme.

It appears that the plans now under discussion involve the establishment of working party between port authorities, shipowners and stevedoring companies to examine ways of introducing new work into the docks.

A second proposal 'Fight that men are encouraged leave the industry, while remaining registered as dockers and able to return there if sacked.

The proposals were arrived at in secret consultations between Jones and leading port and ship employers.

Regular readers of course, know that Jones is very experienced at using these channels of communication.

It is obvious, however, that any settlement on these lines would at best simply temporarily transfer the problem of unemployment on the docks to other sectors of industry.

Even with the fullest assistance of Communist Party stewards in selling such proposals 'in the interests of unity, it is unlikely that they would carry much weight with an increasingly militant rank and file.

If the strike does take place, however, it may not supported dockers in the private ports of Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich.

Union officials are believed to be encouraging the idea that men there have a special relationship with their employers, most of whose profits come from the container trade.

Heavy picketing from both London and Liverpool would be certain if such a split did occur in the dockers' ranks.