Heath snubs unions over pay THOUSANDS DEFY ANTI- UNION LAW

ment is coming. This became absolutely yesterday. As the strike movement against the Edward Heath issued a blunt directive on pay.

The directive became public shortly before talks between the Newspaper Publishers' Association and the print unions failed to avert the engineers' stoppage which will close down Fleet Street on Monday.

It came in a letter from Heath to Lord Cooper, right-wing general " secretary of the General and Municipal Workers' Union.

The letter was read to meeting of the national BUILD REVOL GLASGOW SUNDAY DECEMBEF Woodside Halls St George's Cross Speakers :

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CELEBRATE 3RD ANNIVERSA OF WORKERS PRESS UTI (SL BARRIE (YS national TY chairman ion Comal apacity.) joint council for the gas industry, called to consider pay-and-hours claim on behalf of 46,000 It drew a response from the Despite the politics of its recipient, there was not a word of conciliation in Heath's message.

He told Cooper: Until such time as the government is able to announce guidelines, negotiations, whether in the public or private sectors, should not be carried to the point of :NEW:

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PETER SMITH (Rover shop steward. In pers onal capacity.) CORIN REDGRA VE (Equity. in a personal capa Industrial Correspondent governcertain fine on Tory premier offers of improved other areas. eration.' In other words, as the SPAPE Confederation of British and Stevenage. Industry told its employer members recently: Don't furious union even talk about pay. And keep your mouths shut until we say otherwise.

With the legal onslaught unions - NGA, NATSOPA, on the unions proceeding apace, this is a deliberate but not the AUEW. Slap • in the face for the union leaders.

It marks a major worsening in the relations between the unions and the Tory government.

Heath has stripped away situation.' the mask of 'fair play' from his laws on pay and industtial relations and revealed that the most basic rights that wasn't suggested.' of the working class-the right to fight for a decent living wage, and the right to organize-are the objects of the Tory attack. said: "The strike's on.' It cannot be an accident that the premier chose to make his arrogant intervention at a time when the Task the AUEW.' deadline for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers to pay £55,000 to the industrial court he created had only a few hours to run.

The time has come for the building of a mass movement to force this government to resign.

Those who say the National Industrial Relations Court or the paycontrol law can be defeated without a movement on this issue, without politics, NPA chalrman Lord Goodman... Not very optimistic are exposed as liars to and of papers printing. deceivers of the working class.

Heath's letter and the fine on • the AUEW must be the twin spurs of united UNION OFFICIALS may tomorrow press leaders Unions. action by the whole of the the ten-week-old CAV occupation• on Merseyside trade union movement lift restrictions on supplies to Lucas Indust behind the political demand Equipment. All 350 LIE workers, whose fact‹ for the removal of the occupies the same site as CAV, have been laid Tories from office. for some weeks. and Stockport.