REJECT JONES TRAP DON'T SPLIT

JACK JONES will launch I strike today and isolate the major ports.

Yesterday dockers on picket lines throughout the country, who have been facing days of police brutality and provocation, condemned the manoeuvre.

On Humberside—scene of the most violent clashes - dockers charged Transport and General Workers' Union secretary Jones with stampeding' the delegates into calling off the strike.

They pointed out that their representatives had been denied the opportunity of discussing the new proposals with the rank and file-as they did with the ginal Jones-Aldington report.

Jones's haste is a clue to the real role of today's meeting.

The T&GWU Icaders well know that the 18 delegates from unregistered ports who abstained last time are almost certain to rejoin the right-wing block and give Jones the majority he néeds.

It is also clear that the so-called new concessions won from the employers will not satisfy the majority of registered men who work in London, Liverpool and Hull.

Hull stewards have already declared that they will not lift their action until all the ports are registered and London dockers are insisting on the exclusive right to work in container bases.

The plan will be to use the delegates from over-represented, non-militant and unregistered ports to isolate the militant majority.

This will create the most favourable conditions for employers to divert cargo. More important, it will open the way for the Tories to use their emergency powers — a move that will be accompanied by the predictable press witch-hunt against the unofficial strikers.

This is Jones' desperate ploy to prevent another open clash between the dockers and the government - one that would clearly spark off another chain is bid to split the dockers' to split the r most militant men in the militant me!

reaction towards a General Strike.

What is the basis treachery?

The 'new deal' from offers nothing at all.

On existing evidence it appears container bases will be allowed to go on employing nonregistered labour and avoid the proposed levy at the ports.

This is a further erosion of the National Dock Labour Scheme. If Jones really wants to safeguard the right of dockers and depot workers why not insist all the bases are registered and treated exactly as port employers.

The answer is simple employers would not tolerate this.

The Scheme is a basis of the dockers' militancy since it deprives the employers • of the right to force dockers out of the industry. They want to smash the Scheme, not extend it, and Jones is co-operating.

The same trick is being played over the issue of the unregistered ports.

We are told Felixstowe will not need to be brought into the Scheme because wages and conditions there are as good as in the registered ports.

In other words the employers want to get formal sanction from the union to operate with unregistered labour - and Jones is offering just this.

The dockers' rights and conditons cannot be defended by this kind of horse-trading.

Concessions over jobs at container bases and even unregistered ports will not stop employers cutting back the dock labour There are an estimated 2,000 jobs available in the depots—if this figure were doubled it would be less than half the 10,000 men employers say will be surplus within the next two years.

Even this estimate must be considered conservative-if trade was wholly containerized a total dock labour force of less than 8,000 Mersey builders march Some • of the 8,000 Mersey building workers who marched—with dockers-through Liverpool (story page 12) 10,000, compared with the present 40,000, would be needed.

A handful of jobs in the container bases cannot solve this problem.

The only answer to this massive offensive on jobs is nationalization under workers' control without compensation.

If employers are allowed once more to maintain their march forward it would mean the end of the docking industry.

As Vic Turner, one of the Pentonville Five, told London dockers on Monday: one more deal and the docks might as well be concreted in.

In his statement after meeting Aldington on Monday, Jones exposed the two choices facing the dock workers. Asians: Amin won't TORY Minister Geoffrey Rippon had two hours of talks with General Idi Amin yesterday but the Uganda president said afterwards he still stood firm on his 90-day deadline for the expulsion of 50,000 After the meeting, Amin told reporters: 'My decision still stands on the 90 days and I have explained it to the Minister.' Rippon flew back to London COKER TRANSPORT GEVERAL. WORKERS ANO UNION REGION NO He said: 'The methods to be adopted will etectively deal with the "cowboys" in the container business and will move back much of this type of work into the docks.

'There will be a combined and concentrated effort by the authorities to get work back. This is the best alternative to legislation to secure demands. secure the dockers' But the latest proposals are as useless as the first ones. They will not stop unemployment amongst the dock labour force. So legislation is the only way dockers can secure their rights.

But this would mean a fight to force the Tories to resign. Then dockers could advance their programme of nationalizalast night to r eport to Edward Heath. Before he left he said: "The policy is a matter for the government of Uganda and the President has outlined that policy.

'The British government accepts that it has a legal duty and moral responsibility towards those Asians who hold United ingdom passports.' He said he ad agreed with Amin to set un a working relationship to deal with matters practically'.

Meanwhile in neighbouring tion of the port transport and shipping industry under workers Today's meeting should reject this latest treacherous deal and keep the strike official.

• Throw out the deal, the strike must go on.

• Recall the biennial delegate conference of the T&GWU.

• All unions should mobilize with the dockers and the building workers to force the Tories out.

Elect a Labour government with a programme of nationalization under workers' control, without compensation.

• An immediate 35-hour week on the docks and the registration of all container depots and ports.

buage Kenya, President Kenyatta has warned the country's Asian community that severe punishment will be meted out to anyone sheltering Ugandan Asians escaping across the border.

Amin has declared that all Asians who cannot prove Ugandan citizenship must be out of the country by November 7. He has warned that extreme measures — i.e. a pogrom, will be taken against any Asians found in Uganda after that date.