You're not on', roar dockers

We're not trapeze artists' say construction men C. A. PARSONS and Co Ltd has suspended 117 men on à power station site at Drax, near Selby, Yorkshire.

The dispute will delay the completion of the first turbine at the £130m power station.

Men who work for Parsons on the site have been demanding increased safety measures. Shop steward Brian Bottomley said:

'If the men were prepared as they have been in the past to swing around like circus trapeze artists, the firm was bound to get more work done.

'But we have had Court's deadline black expires.

Court president Sir John Donaldson has already indicated that he will deal very severely with the union and its members if they ignore his instructions.

Huli dockers yesterday lifted the blacking on the cargo ship 'City of London', which had been idle in the dock since last Friday.

Half of the ship's cargo had been discharged when the dockers stopped work. They said the ship had been sent to Hull because of an overtime ban in the London docks.

The 'misunderstanding' was settled yesterday when the owners maintained that the 'City of London' was a regular trader with Hull and all her cargo was to be discharged there. Suspects' rights trampled by POLICE deliberately ignoring right of sus.

pects to see a solictor while under interrogation, accord.

ing to an article in the 'Criminal Law Review'.

survey of 137 people who had appealed after conviction at assize or quarter session was carried out by Michael Zander, Reader in Law at the London School of Economics. It revealed that 74 per cent of those who had asked to see a solicitor had been refused.

Une respondent said: 'I did the police. They raid; "Who is your solicitor?" said: "I haven't got increase for nearly two years and we don't think the money we are letury. now is worth risking The men recently put in a claim for an extra £5 a week and in reply were offered only £1.50. They then introduced a work to rule.

When an ultimatum from the company to resume normal working expired on Tuesday, the II7 men were suspended.

A spokesman for Parsons commented: 'This dispute affects not only ourselves but other contractors and we are following the same line as other employers.' Dockers pour out of the One." They said: "Well, you an't contact one, can you?" • Another claimed the police said he was at liberty to contact his own solicitor if he wished. 'But I was not allowed to leave the room I was in, which had no telephone.' In a third case, the suspect said:

"They refused me. I persisted.

I did not get to see a solicitor until four days after I was arrested' The disclosures coincide with the mounting Tory chorus for stiffer penalties against offerders and for the reform of police procedure including the abolition of the caution.

Auden spurns POET W. H. Auden denied in a letter to "The Times' yesterday that he is interested in succeeding Cecil Day-Lewis as poet laureate.

I was amazed and distressed', he wrote, 'to read •.. that my New York agent is reputed to have conjectured that I would not mind becoming a British citizen again if, thereby, I could become Poet Laureate'. • The British born poet, who is now an American citizen, went on to say: 'Even if I coveted the post, which I don't, to do such a thing for such a motive I should regard as contemptible'.

BOOKS ALL TRAD ALLIANCE Support the dockers and railwaymen. Build Councils of Action AYLESHAM: Thursday June 1, 8 p.m. The Legion (Old Working Men's Club), Burgess Road. 'Fight the Tories' rent Bill'.

BIRKENHEAD: Sunday June 4, 7 p.m. Royal Castle Hotel (opp. Cammell Laird's).

ACTON: Monday June 5, the Tories rent BRoad. 'Fight NÓRTH 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.

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. Moscow Trials Anth:

Paperback, 62}p MAX SHACHTMAN:

Behind The Moscow Paperback 75p Stalinism in Britain Conliniam In Duidoin n.... 1n1 ґареграск 21.12÷-CIoI LEON TROTSKY :

Death Agony of Capitalism (The Transitional Programm Pamphlet 5p Class Nature of the Soviet S Pamphlet 20p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p The Theory and Practice of Revisionism Pamphlet 15p Postage 10p per book, 3p per pamphlet. Order from :

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG.

ESEUNIIONS MEETINGS GLASGOW: Tuesday June 6, 7.30 p.m. Room 1, Partick Burgh Hall.

NORTH LONDON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane).

CROYDON: Thursday June 8, В p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road.

LUTON: Thursday June : 8, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Brigade Hall, Lea Road.

SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Deptiord Engineers' Club (opposite New Cross Station).

SOUTHALL: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Parkway Rooms (Rent Office), Racecourse Estate, Northolt.

PRESTON: Thursday June 8, 8.30 p.m. Railway and commercial Hotel (nr rail stn), Butler St.

COALVILLE: Thursday June 8, 8 p.m. Miners' Welfare.

'Organize Councils of Action'.

4 Warkara Prasa Thuradon lesna