Sharp reaction to CAV closure

LUCAS WORKERS at Liverpool reacted sharply to the combine's threat against 1,000 jobs at the city's CAV vehicle. pump factory at Fazakerly.

At both CAV and the nearby Lucas Industrial Equipment factory, Workers Press was told that workers completely rejected the closure plans and would fight them to a finish.

Keith Wright, toolroom steward, CAV, said: "I don't accept redundancies or closure. I'm convinced we can get another product. We can keep it open. Cond Diesel of Barcelona is making Kremlin chokes French CP magazine Françaises' presided over by the writer Louis Aragon is to cease publication next Tuesday because of falling circulaThe daily paper 'L'Humanité' is also in serious difficulty and the party's central committee has appealed to the membership to act immediately to prevent a reduction in its size which would otherwise be necessary.

The chief reason cited by Aragon for the winding up of 'Les Lettres Françaises' is the fact that it is now not sold 'in a number of overseas markets for extremely diverse reasons which there is no need to enlarge on here'.

For several years the magazine has not been on sale in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and other East European countries because of Aragon's liberal criticisms of the Warsaw. Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Though the Kremlin has choked his journal, it awarded exactly the same pump at because of cheap labour.' had a strike last year which wages from Lucas Industrial Equipment convenor Ray Reynolds, speaking in a personal capacity, said: I say that whatever action the members in CAV take to preserve jobs, I will endeavour to support them. The shut down is disastrous for this area. No one should have the right and the power to affect the livelihood of 1,000 people in this way.' Members in CAV will not win own. They require the support sections of workers.' Alf Irwin, a setter in Lucas Industria quipment: First and foremost CAV hav Turner to quit as dock shop steward BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT VIC TURNER, one of the five dockers jailed by the National Industrial Relations Court, has said he wishes to resign as a Transport and General Workers' Union shop steward. As chairman of the London port stewards' committee, Turner played a leading role in the recent national docks strike and its ending in London.

His reasons for wanting to resign are to be put to a joint meeting of T&GWU and National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers' delegates. But he says that amongst these is disillusionment with the line the T&GWU is taking. Daily paper also in crisis Aragon the Order of the October Revolution for his 75th birthday on Tuesday. The award is the subject of a full-page feature in Tuesday's 'L'Humanité'.

Aragon's magazine was founded • as a clandestine newspaper under the German occupation. It played a major part in the mobilization of French intellectuals around the Communist Party in the years after the war.

Aragon's pliable backbone and his fulsome praise of Stalin won him a place on the French CP Central Committee which he still holds. Moscow rewarded him with an honorary doctorate of Moscow University and the Lenin University and the Lenin Prize for services to peace between the peoples.

In recent years, however, in order to maintain any credibility among his French readership, Aragon has been forced to publish a certain amount of criticism of Soviet literary policy and the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The loss of 'Les Lettres Françaises' will be a serious blow half the price (Cond Diesel raised workers' a week.) their other Precisely what this means is not immediately clear.

There has been considerable criticism of the leadership of Turner and London stewards' secretary Bernie Steer during the latter stages of the docks strike. Neither has spoken at recent mass meetings at the Royals.

Last week, a major row blew up among Turner : Position beforı stewards at the Royals over the picketing of Midland • Cold Storage, the Hackney depot owned by the Vestey family, where dockers are fighting for jobs.

told by one tendency that if T&GWU secretary Jack Jones could prove there was a basis for negotiation with the Vestey's, there might be grounds for calling the to the French Stalinists who are also in difficulties with the rest ''Humanitepress, On Tuesday published the text of a resolution to be submitted by the Central Committee to the Party's 20th congress in December.

According to the resolution, the Party's daily 'must face up to difficulties so serious that we will not succeed in resolving them unless every communist has this burnt onto his consciousness'.

It adds that: • For "L'Humanité" the continuing fall in circulation which has been going on for some years is worsening a situation which is already dangerous,, more especially "['Humanité-Dimanche", Sale"

Sunday magazine edition) is falling as well.' This means that the Sunday edition will no longer be able as it did in the past to make up the deficit on sales of the daily. The resolution adds: 'The financial difficulties are such that our newspaper will shortly have to cuts its numbers of pages unless got to decide themselves. I think they should occupy. We should then support them, even if it means we follow the same oi acton. some workers here will say we will be our jobs by taking action, but we will be jeopardizing our jobs if we don't. Our jobs like their jobs can be moved somewhere else.' Joe Harrison, shop steward, said: 'If they are prepared to sit-in at CAV we should suport them.

'The Lucas combine is trying to make bigger profits. What's viable for them is what gives profit. The employing class is a greedy class. The working class is not a greedy standards, Class—it just wants decent Lucas Industrial Worker Viney Kennedy, said: 'People should realize that 1,000 picket off. immediately published this important development in the thinking of the tendency in quesOther stewards - including some of those who have spoken at Royals meetings late-angrily repudiated the idea that it is their committee's intention to end the picket. the ten is reversed, this wil reduce its impact and make further ds into its circula.

Fill in the form below SECRETARY, SOCIALI 186A CLAPHAM HIGH S Name Address would like information abou THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE men and women are being sacked merely because of profit. Surely in this day and age a person's livelihood is more important than profit margins.' Peter King, also from Lucas Industrial, said: 'It is a national problem, not just a Lucas one. In support of our brothers and sisters in CAV we should call on the whole trade union movement to bring down the government.' Bob Stanton said: 'It is a disgrace. The sooner we get a good Labour governmen1 she bettee set a good Labour government the better.

Brian Stoneley said: 'I want to do something but what can we do?' Bob Stanton answered: 'What could save CAV is for the Lucas combine to unite and say to Lucas: "You're not closing any factories down. If you do everybody will stop"!' and send to NATION ST • LABOUR LEAGI T, LONDON, SW4 7UG.