Naval dockyard strikes are spreading

'We've got the Common Market coming up and our rents go up £l on October 2. I'm not going back until we get the full claim. We've not been out 12 weeks for nothing.

'This leadership's been left in for too long and it wants a complete clear-out, a complete change. We have to stick it out, it can't get worse. If the builders go down now, they will never get up again.' At one stage, when the lobby appeared to be getting out of control I saw a Chief Inspector signal to four Special Branch men to join the police outside the talks.

The CSEU executive agreed to discuss a new agreement with the Engineering Employers' Federation ai a meeting next month or in early November. Service said this was likely to follow the pattern of the agreement recently reached with British-Leyland to replace the 50year-old York deal. Part of the mass picket mc ed at Deptford, south-east don, yesterday INDUSTRIAL workers throughout Scottish dockyard naval establishments are due to go on strike today in support of their pay claim.

And men from the Deptford, south east London naval storage base, on strike since Tuesday, are today picketing men at the government's Chatham, • Kent, naval depot to persuade them to take strike action as well.

In Scotland, the 4,000 men at the Rosyth yard have been out or a month in protest against the government's insulting £1.50 reply to their claim for a 16per-cent increase.

Last Monday over 90 shop stewards representing government workers throughout the country unanimously decided to escalate this strike against the government's offer.

SOVIET LEADERS snubbed a high-level S Communist Party delegation which recently the USSR to plead for an intensification of national solidarity in the face of increasing The delegation, including three members of the Spanish CP Central Committee, was shunted round provincial party organizations in Moscow, Leningrad and Siberia.

The Central Committee members who spent three weeks in the USSR were Javier Ramirez, Federico Melchor and J. Izcaray. In the latest edition of the Party's paper 'Mundo Obrero', Izcaray's report on the trip reveals the Moscow Stalinists' priorities:

'The level of exchanges that took place is indicative of the attention given to our delegation. We had talks with the regional committees of FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT Spanish visited interfascist repression. Brezhnev (I) deals with Kissinger (г) but refuses to meet Spanish CP delegation signed