EMERGENCY POWERS MEAN RULE BY DECREE TROOPS THREAT AGAINST DOCKERS

STATE of declared from the Tories power onto the docks settlement of the strike early next The sweeping emergency powers were seized by the government on the pretext that there is a shortage of animal feed. But its more obvious role is to pile pressure on docks delegates to accept the terms of the port employers in the rejigged JonesAldington report.

After shop stewards put their case to the committee on Wednesday night, T&GWU general secretary Jack Jones said he expected to be in a position to recall the docks delegates 'before very long'.

Jones and national docks secretary, Tim O'Leary, were summoned to the Department of Employment yesterday and told in advance of the emergency proclamation. Said oke 30-minute einin form them that the state of emergency would be declared today and the reasons for it'.

The state of emergency declared by the Heath government is the fourth since it took office in June i970, and the second as a result of a docks strike. A government spokesman indicated yesterday that all three services-army, navy and air force—would be mobilized in the fight against the dockers.

Heath yesterday officiated at the passing out parade of Sandhurst cadets at the Royal Military Academy near Camberley, Surrey. He took the opportunity to give a boost to the army prestige by saying that Northern Ireland provided 'the best illustration' of the task of the army officer.

'Operations like those on Monday [taking the no-go areas] have been carried out with skill, he said.

When the Commons met yesterday, the new Home Secretary, Mr_ Robert Carr, stood at the bar of the House and was summoned by the Speaker, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, to come to the table. Holding up emergency was midnight giving to move troops if there is no national docks the proclamation, Carr said: 'Messages from the Queen signed by Her Majesty's own hand.' He then handed it to Selwyn Lloyd who read it to the hushed House: 'If it appears to Her Majesty events occur or are about to occur of such a nature calculated to interfere with the supply and distribution of tood, water, fuel or the means of locomotion to deprive the community or a substantial proportion of the community of the essentials of life, the Queen may by proclamation declare a state of emergency. The Queen has deemed it proper by proclamation... to declare a state of emergency exists.' A debate on the Queen's message will be held next Tuesday, the day before parliament goes into its long, summer recess. During the lengthy adjournment the Tories will govern by decree through the Privy Council.

The Queen signed the proclamation in the presence of four Tory Privy Councillors aboard the royal yacht 'Britannia' lying off the Isle of Islay on the West of Scotland.

The final decision was reached at a meeting of ministers at No. 10 Downing Street on Wednesday night—while Jones was with his co-chairman Lord Aldington and Victor Feather of the TUC was counter-signing a document on phoney arbitration procedures with the head of big business, Mr W. O. Campbell Adamson of the CBI.

Those present at the emergency Cabinet were Home Secretary and author of the Industrial Relations Act, Robert Carr, Paymaster_ General Lord Eccles, Housing Minister Julian Amery and Overseas Development Minister Richard Wood.

Whitehall officials yesterday dropped the pretence that the emergency solely a precautionary measure. The solidarity of the strike has bitten hard and quickly not only on imports, but also on exporțs which British industrialists are desperate to fulfil if they are to retain any competitiveness in the trade war.

But behind thedeclaration is a blatant attempt to intimidate docks delegates to end the strike. The Tories are now applying a vicious pincer action on the dockers' leaders—-the olive branch is a treacherous rephrasing of the discredited JonesAldington report, the mailed fist is the Dockers that the national state of began cheering and dancing out docks delegates had thrown out strike. By rephrasing the report emergency, the Torles are hoping threat of troops moving into dockland and strike-breaking airlifts by the RAF.

In this situation the continued reliance of the entire trade union and Labour leadership on the Jones-Aldington inquiry is criminal.

No amount of promises from port authorities, stevedoring firms or containerdepot owners can solve the jobs crisis in the ports. The number of container jobs dockers can hope to win is at the most generous estimate 1,000.

The aim of the interim report-rightly rejected by last week's docks delegate conference was to slash the 41,000-strong register of dockers by means of improved severance-pay terms.

No trade unionist can assist this policy in a situation where 900,000 workers are already out of work nationally.

Vic Turner, chairman of the London docks stewards, says that the promises in the report must be turned into 'copperbottomed guarantees'.

But the nature of the committee was amply demonstrated when the demand of the national stewards' committee for representation on it was turned down. To imply that it can come anywhere near the dockers' demands is to give it : Transport House on Juty 27 on hearing : Jones-Aldington report and called for a i threatening the use of troops under a get the strike called off. credence it very definitely should not have.

The state of emergency is a declaration that the Tories are prepared for a fight to the finish with the dockers.

Heath and his Ministers know that what is implied by the dockers' demands is nationalization of the entire industry under workers' control, and they are determined that if Jones cannot end the strike through his committee, they will do it by force.

That is why the urgent recall of the T&GWU biennial delegate conference to plan the defeat of the Tories is so vital.

the T&GWU ence.

Recall the TUC.

Forward to the General Strike.

Force the Tories out.

• Return a Labour government pledged to repealing the Industrial Relations Act and nationalizing the docks, road transport, banks and basic industry under workers' control and without compensaPress, Friday August