THREAT TO YARD TORY BACKED' SAY UNION MEN

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS In Barrow A WARNING that an Upper develop in the shipbuilding Furness was issued yesterday.

The threat of a possible instalment permanent closure of the progress' mammoth Vickers shipyard, this threat yesterday. which employs half the came on day four of a firm are provoking this conflict town, pay dispute which has with government backing. brought Barrow to a virtual standstill.

A spokesman for the firm said the question of the yards closure now "loomed large'.

He said: In November, our chief warned the people of Barrow that an Upper Clyde situation could develop if excessive wage claims were presented.

"This is a simple matter of financial prudence. The dispute is preventing the payment of Kent students fight canteen redundancies KENT university action committee is today organizing a public rally in the town in support of its campaign against proposals to reorganize college catering services.

The students occupied the university's Cornwallis building at Canterbury ten days ago in protest against redundancy threats to 98 kitchen staff and a 10-per-cent rise in residence and meal charges.

University authorities proposed the redundancies and increases after being told by the University Grants Committee that the situation where the services were losing £100,000 a year must stop. College catering. they said, must balance its books without being subsidized by grants.

On Wednesday, the authorities warned the 2,300-strong student body of 'serious consequences' if catering facilities were disrupted again.

The authorities allege violent picketing' by students forced them to close down the catering services over a week ago. Students deny the allegations.

A university spokesman has warned that 'disrupters' would be liable to the full disciplinary procedures of the university.

In their statement, the authorities also announce that they are recalling the 300 canteen staff sent home on full pay atter the incident.

Drafted by the vice-chancellor and Masters of all four university colleges, the statement says conditions for the return were agreed at a meeting between college committees, the students' union, catering staff unions and the Association of University Teachers.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETING Support the dockers and railwaymen. Build Councils Action WILLESDEN: Monday Jui e 12, 8 p.m. St Michael's Hall cnI Hillside and Knatchbull Rds, NW10.

Clyde situation could town of Barrow-inon work But the union struck back Boilermakers' leader Bob Proudfoot said: I believe the "They want to promote crisis so they can get their hands on some of the government money for shipbuilding.' The dispute is over a claim by 1,200 boilermakers for a £3.75 wage increase-without strings.

Trouble has. been brewing at the yard since the New Year, when the firm offered their 8,500 manual workers a rise of £1.75. The boilermakers rejected this and went on strike after a management provocation nine weeks ago.

Vickers—the warship builders -have a near monopoly of employment in Barrow.

The dispute has caused unemployment in the town to rocket from 3.4 to 30 per cent. This will increase next week when 500 staff still working in the complex will be gradually laid off. Where's Frank? FRANK SINATRA has left his suite at the Savoy Hotel, The Strand, and nobody appears to know where he has gone. Law authorities in the United States are awaiting to serve Sinatra with a subpoena ordering him to appear before the House of Representatives committee on crime.

le committee wants to know about Sinatra's role as vice-president of Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts as part of an investigation into alleged criminal influence on sports and horse-racing. Sinatra was the first major public figure to be invited to the US Embassy when Ambass ador Walter Annenburg took over in 1970.

In his home town of Philadelphia Annenburg owns a string of DOES HAVE TAKEN UR JOBS! INLAND container depot workers yesterday blamed transport union leader Jack Jones for taking no action to save their jobs. About 30 of them demonstrated in pro test outside the Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters in London yesterday.

Their firm - London East (ICD) Ltd, Chobham Farm—is laying off 30 of them this week and another 30 next Friday.

The lay-offs follow intensive picketing : by London dockers. Since May 1 few lorries have reached the depot.

The dock pickets said loading and unloading of tainers carried out inside newspapers, parti racing and tippin;

•Mó' Annenburg are close friends.

By our industrial MOVES by the non-TUC Telecommunications Staff Association for recognition in the Post Office will come to a head with hearings at the National Industrial Relations Court in the next two weeks.

On Wednesday the court is to start hearing appeals by the Post Office against two industrial tribunal decisions involving five TSA members over their right to take part in union activities.

The following Tuesday the TSA's application for bargaining rights for its Post Office members will come before the NIRC for a preliminary hearing.

The dates were fixed yesterday when the court heard an application by the Post Office for the transfer from an industrial tribunal to the court of a claim by P. F. D. Orchard, a TSA representative in the Isle of Wight.

Christopher Bathurst, for the Post Office, said Orchard's claim was one of about 70 by TSA members in various parts of the country, all concerned with their rights to carry on trade union activities in their own time on Post Office premises.

At present the Post Office does not recognize the TSA-all negotiations are conducted with the Union of Post Office Orchard complained that the Post Office was guilty of an unfair industrial practice by stopping him carrying out union activities permitted by the Industrial Relations Act.

Bathurst said industrial tribunals had decided that TSA members were entitled to carry Plokating T&GWU headquarters yesterday, Container men blame that con:ularly horsepublications.

and Sinatra Post Office union TENU STEWAR union for split with dockers depot should be done by tered dockers.

Now the depot men — all T&GWU members-say the firm has told them they will eventually be sacked. The company is applying for a licence to employ registered dock labour instead.

Shop stewards were trying to meet Jack Jones and other union oflicials to try and find a compromise.

I blame, Jack Jones for all this, depot picket Jim Lovett told me yesterday. 'We don't want a war with the dockers. They've all got the same problem as us. I sympathize with any man out of work.

'But Jones has made no attempt to sort this all out; he's just let it drift. We are all members of the same union so we deserve equal treatment.' goes to court on union activities in the Post Office outside working hours.

Those cases, and the others pending, all involved the same issue of principle, and the Post Office wanted all the pending cases suspended until the court had ruled on the law.

Orchard, who represented himself, said it was three months since he applied to the industrial tribunal and his case had still not been heard. Discrimination against him continued.

R. S. Urquhart, solicitor for the UPW, whose general secreBOOKS LONDON CD. LTD All of the pickets said a compromise solution had to be found.

Most of the men had worked at the depot, which has the biggest single shed container complex in Europe, since it opened threeand-a-half years ago.

Added Jim Lovett: 'Surely it would be better to register us and also give some of the dockers' jobs. In that way we'd all win. We don't want a split, bubs We're got to fight for our Other pickets also blamed the T&GWU leadership for allowing the situation to develop to crisis point.

Action committee member Dave Ayris said: "The union is not doing its job, and we all pay our contributions to it. We want they have goy to save kir jobst tary, Tom jackson, was at the hearing, said that although the pending cases were being brought by individuals they were all part of a deliberate TSA policy.

After discussion, it was agreed that none of the pending claims should be transferred to the NIRC, but the court's chairman, Sir John Brightman, said it was highly desirable that none of the pending cases should be heard by the tribunals until the court had decided the appeals against the previous decisions.

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