BSC denies S Africa move

SEPTEMBER

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HULL dockers plan to extend the blacking, of container firms on the Humber during the next few days. One of the locally blacked firms, MAT, Transport, had been taken off the list, but one or two additions to it would be made. Bomb kills Israeli official Police mount bomb blast.

AN ISRAELI Embassy official was killed by à booby-trap parcel bomb in. London yesterday. Another, his successor, was injured.

The incident drew from Labour leader Harold Wilson repetition of his recent call for 'real toughies' to deal with the Palestinian guerrilla operations such as that at the Munich Olympics.

He said: 'The disgraceful and shocking event in London this morning added to those which recently took place in Munich gives additional urgency to the proposals that I made recently for international machinery for swiftly established, action to be counter terrorist Registered as a newspaper at 'the Post da captain Hish Workers Press, 186a Street, London, SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. Lord Melchett: Overstated A critical return in Birmingham, but Liverpool builders refuse to go back FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT A MASS meeting of over 8,000 Mersey. side building workers yesterday overwhelmingly rejected an action committee recommendation to return to work, proposed by Stalinist chairman Billy Israell PRESS REPORTER A Labour Party spokesman yesterday told Workers Press that Wilson had made no statement about last week's terror bombing of refugee camps in Syria and he Lebanon by Israeli planes, in which, according to the Palestine Liberation Organization, 300 people died.

WEATHER IT WILL be mostly cloudy with isolated showers in south-east England and East Anglia.

Wales, Northern Ireland, east and south Scotland, also the remainder of England will be mainly dry with • sunny spells. West and north Scotland will be mostly cloudy with rain spreading. from the west during the day.

Temperatures will be near nornal, except in south-east England and East Anglia, where it will be rather cold. LORD MELCHETT, chairman of the British Steel Corporation, has said reports of a multi-mililon pound steelworks venture in South Africa are 'overstated'.

He has told former Labour cabinet minister Judith Hart that the corporation had 'absolutely no commitment in the project.

But the multi-millionaire Lord Melchett, who heads the • Tory-controlled corporation, did not deny discussions relating to a potentially valuable ore field had taken place in South Africa. In fact the South African Iron delays.

A lengthy cluded talks wi £30 claim, was and file. Stalinists create UCS split obsolete facilities at the torn down and replaced.

At lunchtime yesterday shipyard workers said they would await developments, but there are widespread fears on two counts.

FIRST, that once the 1,000 men go out of the gates the same men may not be re-employed. AND SECONDLY, once the yard is dismantled, there is no guarantee new facilities will ever be built.

Angry shop stewards told Clydebank convenor Reid at Monday's meeting they would rather drag heavy lorries across the gates and occupy the yard once and for all than be put out in the road.

It is understood the Stalinists intend to propose to Marathon that two- and even three-shift working is adopted to avoid redundancies.

Marathon UK chief James Fox refused to comment yesterday, but the company said from the The meeting at the Pier Head, Liverpool, followed a march through the city centre which caused widespread traffic and Steel Industrial Corporation confirmed recently that negotiations have commenced • between BSC and West Germany's Thyssen and Kloeckner groups.

A BSC team has already visited the site of the proposed export harbour at Saldanha on the western seaboard.

Despite Melchett's guarded denial of the whole scheme, the project is intimately linked with BSC's perspective of savaging British steelmaking plant and jobs and producing abroad in countries like South Africa, where workers are paid slavelabour wages. recommendation, which inth local employers for the full shouted down by the rank The action committee will now try and arrange another mass • meeting in the Boxing Stadium on Thursday.

BIRMINGHAM building workers yesterday voted to return to work by next Monday following a 2,500-strong march through the city centre.

But they also passed a resolution calling for the resignation of the union leadership.

Ken Barlow, UCATI regional organizer, who spoke for 45 minutes, said the regional council and the regional action committee of shop stewards were recommending a return.

Soclalist Labour League LECTURES THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAR given by (SLL national Liverpool Historical materlalism tod‹ Tuesday September 26 AEU HOUSE Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30 outset they would not be able to burden their payroll with men for whom there would be no jobs for at least 18 months.

The men already on the payroll are being used for demolition work.

Reid is also near certain to plead with the liquidator to allow the carriers to be finished at Clydebank, but with work at Govan in short supply the prospects are dim.

This exposes the treachery of the Stalinists' policy, which split the UCs workforce by signing separate deais with Govan Shipbuilders and Marathon.

Many Govan workers believe the Clydebank stewards stole a march by obtaining £l an hour from Marathon and signed their own death warrants by agreeing to accept redundancy pay.

They also feel that their own company may not see mid-decade and they expect a run-down at the two other UCS yards-Linthouse and Scotstoun.

The employers have Trade war threat US PRESIDENT Nixon is likely to open next week's International Monetary Fund meeting with a threat of intensified trade war il Europe, Japan and Canada do not 'help America'.

Dr Pierre Rinfret, economic adviser to Nixon's election campaign, said today:

"The United States is prepared to launch a trade war • United States is studying in detail what would happen to its economy and the economies of the Common Market, Japan and Canada if it launched a far-reaching and brutal trade war.

'We are considering, Rinfret said, 'a 150 per cent border tax on cars, textiles and steel. Europe is kidding itself. This is not an election gambit; this is a fundamental posture' further deepen this split by granting a general £3 wage increase, which under the singlerate clause of their agreement will mean f4 to some workers. They hope by this means to ensure that few men will be anxious to rock the Govan boat.

As Archibald Gilchrist, chief executive at Govan Shipbuilders Ltd, observed after Monday's mass meeting which accepted the wage deal:

'There is no doubt that a substantial amount of sympathy was shown by the workpeople in these yards with the difficulties the company will be facing with getting off the ground at a time when the market is so low?

Reid and Airlie drummed these same arguments into their men from the beginning as a means of heading off any real fight against unemployment and bulldozing them into accepting derisory agreements with the two new companies.

Now, at chickens are roost. Clydebank, coming home