Miners and powerworkers fear for their claims

Lawrence Daly, National Union of Mineworkers' general secretary, has already clashed with NUM president Joe Gormley over their £5.50 to £7 demand.

Daly says the union will be standing hirm despite Tory limit Gormley insists the claim is subject to negotiations.

Frank Chapple, who, as secretary-president of the Electrical and Plumbing Trades Union is chief negotiator for the powermen, says the Heath plan is unacceptable.

But Chapple and his negotiating team have already reduced their expected claim for a £5.50 increase on minimum rates--with proportionately more for semi-skilled and skilled workers—to a claim for £5.50 across the board.

This is not to say the union would not have very severe difficulties selling open Registered is a newspaperkers e High BOD Claph m Hih Stree1, d. (TU), High Street, London, SW4 7UG. capitulation to the Tories' paycurb plans to their members.

On Saturday, the National Union of Teachers' executive voted to continue pressing its claim for rises of between £5 and £8 a week. A serious fight for these demands would clearly breach both the Tory £2 limit and the tentative £3.38 suggestion of the TUC.

Reg Bottini, leader of the farmworkers' union NUAAW, said in South Wales on Saturday that it would be 'utterly unjust' if the Agricultural Wages Board tried to implement the £2 limit against his members.

(The board meets on October 30 to decide its award to the farmworkers. The union is claiming £25 for a 40-hour week. Present pay is £16.20 for 42 But neither the teachers' nor farmworkers' leaders have opposed the principle of state regulation of wages, which is the essence of the Heath plan.

And with their phoney agreement with shopkeepers to peg prices so long as the unions do the same for wages, the Tories are keeping up their propaganda bid to whip up the middle class against the unions.

They can continue to do this only so long as the union leaders continue their treacherous crawling and refuse to expose and break off the fraud of talks.

On every occasion when the working class has challenged the Tory government on pay, it has won substantial increases. The only exception was the Post Office workers whose determination and militancy were tossed away by the TUC.

What the union leaders are doing is selling out to the Tories from a position of strength. • Hugh Scanlon, president_ of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, said in Hull on Saturday that management and unions need not always be at'each other's throats.

He said at an Institute of Work Study seminar that he was convinced of resolving the conflict between management and labour, but there was a degree of tolerance in Britain which did not exist in most countries he visited.

The tolerance existed when it came to choosing parliament, electing local authorities or trade union officials. But the moment one entered the factory door one became a cipher—an attitude that was a recipe for disaster. Way for all unionists