DOCKERS SAY TO JONES

MITCHELL Docks delegates are to meet in London tomorrow to vote on the rehashed Jones-Aldington proposals. Yesterday dockers throughout Britain made clear they will not accept the At mass meetings at every major port the dockers decided to extend picketing; some indicated they would stay out even if the recalled docks delegates' conference voted to return.

At Tilbury, Frank Shilling, a member of the shop stewards' committee, told a mass meeting: 'It does not look like we are going to get the safeguards we want.' He described the new document being prepared by Jones-Aldington as nothing more than a 'rehash'.

The same theme was echoed at the container port in Preston where Phil O'Hagan, chairman of the shop stewards, told Workers Press that there was no point in going back without jobs guarantees.

'If they vote to go back, we'll be out again. I think the men are more determined than ever', he said.

Bernie Steer, secretary of the London port stewards and one of the Pentonville Five, told a meeting at the Royal group of docks in London: 'Don't take anything that will be a sell-out.' But despite the undoubted spirit of the dockers they face enormous dangers.

Yesterday Robert Carr, the Lord President and Home Secretary, and three other government Ministers flew to Balmoral Castle for a meeting of the Privy Council with the Queen.

And yesterday the RAF stepped up its strike-breaking actideal. vities in Scotland by flying petrol and flour to Tiree in the ern Isles.

Meanwhile the capitalist press is pouring pressure on Jack Jones to recall his delegates to call off The ultra-Conservative 'Financial Times' said in its editorial yesterday:

'With the stoppage now in its third week and : with the JonesAldington committee having gone as far as it can at this stage in trying to secure jobs for dockers, there appears to be a strong case for recalling the dockers' policy-making conference to see how much change there has been in attitudes since the national strike was called by 38 to 28 votes with 18 abstentions.' The paper goes on to confirm in the bluntest terms that some container firms flatly refuse to hire dockers.

Working hand in glove with the big employers of the Road Haulage Association, the Tories are determined to smash the dockers.

One of the dangers to emerge from yesterday's mass meetings was that few, if any, dockers raised the question of calling for solidarity action from the rest of the trade union movement.

It is dangerous nonsense for the dockers to see their fight as a sectional issue.

They must demand the immediate recall of the biennial conference of their union, Britain's largest, to draw up a policy of nationalization of the docks and road transport industry. Such a demand will necessarily demand the removal of the Tories and the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. • DEATH TORY LAW MEANS TAXE YERS AL HE REPEAL NOW 2 Coventry trade unionists on the march yesterday Coventry strikes to COVENTRY was brought to a standstill yesterday after 100,000 workers staged a one-day strike against the Tory anti-union law. All major car factories except Triumph were halted and commuters made their own way to work after bus crews stayed away from city depots.

The day of protest was called by 500 stewards of the Transport and General Workers' Union but the strike was also backed by Coventry's 34,000 members of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.

Despite attempts to limit slogans to 'Axe the Act', 1,000 trade unionists marched through the city centre yesterday chanting 'Heath out'.

Workers on the march said many had stayed away because they felt a one-day protest was inadequate and they called for solidarity with the dockers in their fight against the employers and the government.

Triumph shop steward Jerry Mulhearn said that although many workers had not joined the demonstration, response to the strike call had been 100 per cent.

Criticizing the T&GWU leadership he told me: 'The policy of opposing the Industrial Relations Act because of the £55,000 fine is sectarian. It is futile to believe AXE THE ACT defeat Act that this one-day strike will make even a pin-prick in the Tory armour. The only way to stop this Act is to demand a General Strike and a Labour government.' Midland Red worker Bob Innes lashed the T&GWU leaders for recall of the union, an immediate Is biennial conference to fight the Act and back the dockers.

Chrysler T&GWU steward P. Sheehan added that if the dockers were beaten, hundreds of firms would be seeking compensation through the Act against the T&GWU.

Standard worker Robert Rowan said the union should have refused to pay the £55,000 fine and if necessary the leaders gone to jail while the whole of the working class was mobilized to destroy not only the Act but the Tory government.

Earlier at a mass meeting aï the city's shopping precinct T&GWU Midland regional chairman Arthur Davies said: 'Feeling is increasing in relation to this diabolical Act. Although people have not turned up in their thousands today you can rest assured that the city has been virtually crippled by the action AUGUST FUND LONG WAY TO GO!

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August Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. we have taken.' After the meeting Mir Davies told me: 'It may come to a national strike but at this time we feel demonstraiions of this kind will build up the support necessary to get this Act repealed.' Regional secretary Brian Mathers told the meeting: 'Britain was the cradle of the trade union movement. We were the first trade unionists and we are not going to stand by and watch this government destroy the movement we have built up.

'Any Act of parliament which depends for its existence on massive fines and putting people in jail cannot succeed and that is why we say it must be repealed now' Confederation chairman Fred Palmer added: 'We hope people will back the campaign we have started preferably for a general election but secondly for the repeal of the Act.' Winding up the meering, metal mechants' district secretary Charlie McCartney was cheered when he said: "The trade union movement demands the immediate repeal of the anti-union laws and an end to any form of collaboration with the Act.'