Govan deal thrown out again Clyde rejection a defeat for

Wing committee. The two leading Stalinists, James Airlie and Sammy Barr, used every possible means of persuasion and pleading to get the cision to reject the deal. ing of the boilermakers.

the industry' of all on the Tory government. There is a danger that more useless protest will only sap the strength of militants and cause demoralization.

The coming year will be the most decisive in the history of the working class movement in Britain. The opportunities are enormous. The Tories could be defeated, removed from power, never to return.

This requires a mobilization of the working class on the issues that concern it most-rents, houses, jobs and basic rights. None of the problems workers face can be solved without a mass political mobilizaThis is, first and foremost, a task for the TUC and the trade-union moveThe mobilization to bring the Tories down must start from the Congress. This would create a condition where the working class could force the Labour leaders to carry through a socialist programme or make way for those that will. men to change their minds.

After the first vote on Thursday, Barr departed from past practice and made a statement condemning the de'On this occasion, he said, I must make my position clear. In some way this dangerous decision must be overturned before tomorrow's signing, even if it means having a recall meeting in the mornThe present decision can have a disastrous effect not only on their jobs and those of their colleagues in the yards, but on the livelihoods of several thousand men whose jobs depend on The argument could have come from the most reactionary employer or Tory. But Barr got Lal Put Asians in army barracks-Alderman LABOUR councillors in Birmingham have added their voice to the uproar at the 'influx' into Britain of Asians expelled from Uganda.

They are to urge the Tory government to spread the Asians throughout the country and not to concentrate them in any particular city areas.

The city's General Purposes Committee comprising both Tories and Labourites met on Thursday and passed a special resolution urging the government and the Resettlement Board to bear in mind the already high proportion of immigrants already present in Birmingham and other cities.

Deputy Mayor, Alderman victor Turnton, said that a sudden influx' of a large number of immigrants could be the 'straw that breaks the camel's back.

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his meeting and was soundly defeated once more-this time by a larger majority.

The decision to accept the deal was unanimous on the shop stewards' co-ordinating committee. Yesterday was the first time the rank and file has rejected their call for more compromise with the capitalists who are taking over on the upper Clyde.

The boilermakers stood firm for the right to set a date for wage negotiations despite massive pressure from the press and TV, a mixture of threats and persuasion from the union officials and pleas from Stalinists like Barr.

Many boilermakers recognize this episode as a trial of strength with the new Govan Shipbuilders' management who were to JAGUAR strikers in Coventry are to be called to a mass meeting next Tuesday, union officials and strike committee members decided yesterday. But it is unlikely that the arbitration and conciliation service, which came into being yesterday, will be called into the ten-week piecework dispute. Works convenor Mick Richards told Workers Press no one was interested in the service at the moment.

BUILDING strike action committee leaders in Wigan are calling for a conference of their opposite numbers throughout the North-west region next Friday. The central demand of the conference, which will be held in Wigan itself, will be for the calling of an all-out national strike by the building union leaders.

Office. 186а Clapham_ High Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High SW4 hu Street, London, been built up over years in this city could at one go,' he said.

He suggested that old military barracks which at present were to "rack and ruin• soing. made available to house the Chairman of Birmingham's Housing Committée, Cllr George Canning, said that the city could not stand any large number of It would be foolish me to offer any hope housing in this city, said.

ASIANS arriving at Heathrow airport yesterday stated that they had been closely searched before leaving Uganda.

Women complained that jewellery had been taken from them.

AT A special Leicester city Thursday night go for The meeting of council on to discuss take over the yard ber 1l.

The men felt that if they lost this battle the management would gain the whip hand during the key months ahead.

Specifically many men want the fl an hour earned by craftsmen working for Marathon Manufacturing at the Clydebank yard further down the River Clyde.

They point to the tact that Marathon negotiated its pay rates before it set up in business.

Yesterday was the third time the boilermakers have met and rejected the Govan Shipbuilders' deal.

The argument over the threat to jobs put forward by Barr is, to say the least, curiously out ot character. He and his Stalinist friends, James Reia ana James Airlie, have traded jobs with Marathon and Govan Shipbuilders for months. work-in devised the exausting strategy. prevented any interruption . in the liquidator's task of winding up UCS and finishing the ships and gave the Stalinists time to start discussions with the Tory government and various buyers for the yards.

In this demoralizing interlude over 2,000 men left the yards— at the peak of the work-in there were only 390 men taking part. The proportion of work-in men to men made redundant has now slumped to 14 per cent.

The so-called victory on the Clyde, amounts to 700 guaranteed jobs at Clydebank out of an original 3,080 at the time of liquidation last June. At the Govan, Scotstoun and Linthouse divisions, Govan Shipbuilders hope to employ about 4,000 this compares with the 5,369 last June.

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01-622 7029 NEWS DESK 01-720 2000 plans for the settlement of Asians, Colin Jordan, leader of the extreme right-wing British Movement stood up in the public gallery and showered councillors below with leaflets while shouting slogans against immigration. "The people of this country don't want pressured immigration. It's ridiculous to be sitting here talking about coping with them. You should be talking about ways of stopping them coming here' Most of his remarks were lost in the uproar which followed, with many of the councillors shouting back at Jordan.

Ironically after the interruption the Labour-majority council overwhelmingly passed a resolution advising the government that the housing, social security, health and education services of the city were already stretched to capa-