FRIENDOF HEATHIN DOCKS TALKS WITH JONES

Police on 'serious weeks ago, wrote in his final report to the Home Secretary: I feel bound to comment on this unwelcome trend.' He said, however, he must emphasize the small number of officers involved, particularly as a 'false impression might be projected by the disproportionate publicity each case attracted'.

Sir John blamed the increase in crime among police officers on the influence of society.

Police officers, he said, were drawn from the community in which they lived and worked and they, were going to reflect the characteristics of current society.

Standards at large had declined the last ten years, and it was YESTERDAY Jack General Workers' Un on sat ton, chairman of the Port / work out a Utopian 'peacı national dock strike.

Even the Tory press is finding it difficult to conceal a note of cynicism in describing the talks. "The Times' yesterday said the joint authoritative committee was being referred to as 'Jack' It is this body which Jones and his national docks secretary, Tim O'Leary, "sold' docks delegates meeting last Thursday on the eve of the start of the ducks strike.

On the basis of this 'highpowered committee, the strike was postponed until June 16.

As the talks begin it is timely to examine the form of Lord Aldington, the man who is co-chairman of 'Jack' with Jones.

Aldington is a powerful member of the ruling class in Britain. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1939.

At the end of the war he entered • parliament as Tory MP for Blackpool North.

He was parliamentary secretary, Ministry of Supply, from 1951 to 1954 and Minister of State at the Board of Trade from 1954 to 1957. He was knighted in 1957, by Harold Macmillan and made a peer in 1962.

While at the Board of Trade he struck up a close friendship with another ambitious Tory of his generation-Edward Heath.

Aldington's business interests are powerful and financially rewarding. He is chairman of National and Grindlays Bank Ltd, which has extensive interests in Africa.

The bank's t ›ranch in Uganda has recently ber en through a considerable crisis.

Ex-President Obote announced 18 months ago that the governcharges' says new report inevitable that police officers together with other public servants were tempted to fall in line with that decline.

During 1971, he said, 3,165 complaints from the public were made against the police -- 344 fewer than in 1970 and the lowest figure since 1968.

Making a case for tighter bail restrictions, Sir John reported that 2,094 people were arrested for indictable offences committed while on bail. In 780 of those cases defendants had been released on bail despite objections by the police.

By and large, we detect only a third of the crimes committed, so it would perhaps be fair to assume that at least twice as

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own with Lord Ald London Authority formula' avert ment was going to take a 50-percent stake in foreign businesses. His first attack was on National and Grindlays, and the government equity was arranged.

Within a few months of the finalization of the semi-nationalization Obote was deposed by a military dictatorship headed by British-trained General Idi Amin.

One of Amin's first decisions was to restore full ownership to the bank. It is certain that Lord Aldington and his board thoroughly welcomed Amin's statesmanlike decision.

Aldington is also deputy chairman of the giant AEI-GEC monopoly, which has carried out the most vicious rationalization policies; at least 35,000 jobs have been axed throughout the combine in the past five years.

His final chairmanship is with the Sun-Alliance-London group of insurance companies which controls assets and funds worth tens of millions of pounds.

In mid-1971 Aldington took over as chairman of the PLA in place of Viscount Simon.

In his first annual report, published a month ago Aldington revealed the ruthless policies he do prepared is prepared to pursue on the He said the previous management had forecast 1,200 jobs would be axed this year. This was now out of date, he said. The figure would be 2,000.

He then went on to threaten the dockers, telling them they had to accept this wilful destruction of their livelihoods.

He said there was a 'fear that the PLA might price itself out of the market, or might, as a result of bad industrial relations, prove unreliable'.

He then went on to forecast even tougher productivity on the London docks: "The return on capital of about 4 per cent is many again as the number set out commit crimes when on bail and get away with it,' he said.

In 1971, he went on, there was a 13.4-per-cent increase in frauds to 20,625 cases and forgery and coining rose by 7.3 per cent to 4,680 oftences.

Of 42,973 persons under 21 who were arrested in 1971, 29,952 or 69.7 per cent were operating in gangs and 7,324 of those were associating with adults.

A total of 7,314 were in gangs whose members were all less than 15 years old.

He noted that more drugs were now available. Little heroin came from Marseilles, but Chinese heroin was increasingly available. clearly much too low, and my colleagues and I, with the full support of the management, intent upon increasing it.' Is Jones seriously suggesting that this man Aldington is going to provide the slightest basis for protecting jobs on the docks?

Or is it that Jones is afraid of the implication of a docks strike, of challenging the Industrial Relations Act, of taking on the Tory government?

The reverse side of Jones' collaboration with people like Aldington, George Tonge of the national 1o1nt employers and Maurice Macmillan, is the determination of shop stewards and rank-and-file dockers to continue "blacking' container firms and to lobby the next docks Lord Aldington delegates' meeting demand a strike.

FOOTNOTE: The PLA announced yesterday that the Swedish Svea Line has transferred its London service from Victoria dock, in the Royal group, to the container terminal at Tilbury.

PLA docks manager William Caunter welcomed the line's decision, and said it reflected 'the growing awareness of Tilbury's container handling and flexibility.

The PLA yesterday formally moved to its new headquarters in the World Trade Centre. This follows the controversial decision to sell its historic premises in Trinity Square.