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We've reached £173.42 WE MUST have a huge effort now to bring our Fund right up. The decision by the Torles to legislate against ai wage Increases is the true face of the Tory government today. More and more control is in the hands of the state. Every right of the working class is being taken away.

But tens of thousands of workers everywhere facing continuous rent increases and cost-of-living rises must be thrown Into huge struggles against the government and the state.

The role of revolutionary leadership Is decisive. Only lead to thousands of trade unionists in this political situation.

A great effort must be made therefore for our November Fund. Use every opportunity you can to collect as much as possible this month. Make sure we raise our £1,750 target in good time. Post every donation Immediately to:

Appeal Fund 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 70G NATIONAL wurn Published yesterday, the report contains a wealth of statistics about 140 undertakings which lie outside the National Dock Labour Scheme.

It finds that they control some 20 per cent of traffic as compared with 15 percent in 1966. Of the total container and rollthrough Britain's ports, it sans oulains burls. says non-Scheme ports handle 37.5 per cent. Their share of BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY BASQUE demonstrators stood outside the French tourist office in Piccadilly, London, yesterday protesting against the Pompidou government.

ETA is campaigning against French government complicity in the Spanish fascists' repression. There is close collaboration between the two police forces following a series of exchange visits.

OPTICIANS Clement Clarke yesterday announced an increased interim dividend-St per cent compared with 44 per cent in 1971—shortly after the Stock Exchange opened. The company had decided a month or two back' to increase the dividend. 'We are hoping it would be allowed,' a director said. A SYSTEM of fraud involving food supplies appeared to have been rife in the Royal Navy, it was suggested in Winchester yesterday. Patrick Back QC was speaking on behalf of a naval officer who had pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to eight charges of conspiracy to defraud. 95 people have been charged.

legistered as a newspaper at the Post 186a Office. Clapham SW4 7UG reer, London, Published by Vorkers Press, Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. annual report, Garnett strongly hinted about the Society's influence with the Tory government. Three examples emerged: • The code of practice of the Industrial Relations Act which is 'in many ways a distillation of the Society's teaching and some of our sug• The initiative during the jailing of the five London dockers when the Society suggested the sparing use of the Industrial Relations Act. • The policy of the government to adopt the propaganda line in not blaming the trade unions for the country's econobest be achieved by summoning the silent majority into the service of the nation. This is the corporatist philosophy behind the wages Garnett announced that Derek Gladwin, a full-time official of the giant General and Municipal Workers' Union, council are Lawrence Daly of the National Union of Mineworkers and Mr E. O. Faulkner, chairman of Lloyds Bank and chairman of the London Clearing Banks. • For a full feature article on the Society see the centre pages of today's THE TORY pay legislation was welcomed yesterday by right-wing_trade union leader Jack Peel of the bleachers' and dyers' union.

He described it as a 'shaky but necessary holding operation,' when he spoke in Bradford. 'We would be wise not to spend our time clobbering each other,' Peel added.