TUC MUST END TALKS WITH TORIES-RECALL CONGRESS PERMANENT PAY LAW UNVEILED

STEPHEN PREMIER for a permanent system of state Tory plan control of wages when he meets trade union new talks on the economy today. leaders for The proposals will include a strict limit on The proposals will include a strict limit the level of pay after the expected end of level of pay after the end the 'freeze' on April 28. 'freeze' on April 28.

Wages will be controlled by law with no guarantee of a return to a voluntary system. The plan Will have statutory backing with penalties against unions and workers who challenge it.

The proposals-dubbed as phase two of the anti-inflation campaign—mark the most serious step towards the corporate state so far. They will formalize, in law, the edicts issued by the Prime Minister banning free wage negotiation.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said yesterday that the last attempt at a voluntary policy had failed when the tripartite talks collapsed last November. He pointed out that the government now had a responsibility to halt inflation.

"The thinking is quite advanced. But obviously nothing will be finalized until we see what the different bodies have to say, he said.

Senior ministers met with the Prime Minister vesterday to discuss the plan • before seeing representatives of the retail trade over prices. On Friday the government will put its proposals to the Confederation of British But today's meeting with a 13-man TUC delegation, we said in 1972 Special pull-out pages In today's Workers Press we include an eight-page pull-out supplement of editorials and political statements we published in 1972. This is a selective series of articles on the major issues which confronted the workers' movement in Britain and internationally: Vietnam, the Middle East, Nixon's re-election, Ireland, The Common Market, UCS and Stalinism, inflation, the dockers' strike, prices.

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unveil led by general Victor Feather is the most important.

On the surface the meeting has been arranged to hear TUC protests over the law banning wage increases and Heath's decision not to allow wage negotiations.

But government officials said yesterday that the discussion would quickly 'broaden' out to cover the phase two proposals.

A TUC spokesman admitted that the delegation was prepared to hear the Heath 'We will see what happens, he said. 'They [the delegation] will have to decide whether it is worth negotiating. Before you talk you have to have sómething to talk about.' These moves represent the opening stages of a new round of class-collaboration.

On the agenda this time is the legal abolition of all the traditional methods of negotiation and conciliation between employers, the government and the unions.

In its place the Tories hope to erect an executive machine, directly under the control of the state to enforce its will on the working class.

If they succeed it will be the most significant step towards the corporate state so far.

But the government faces enormous obstacles in its path.

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COULL NEXT BOC marchers threaten sit-in BRITISH OXYGEN workers in Edmonton, north London, will occupy their plant if the company tries to carry out a closure plan over the next two years.

About 750 workers at their welding factory yesterday staged a half day strike and demonstrated through the area against BOC. They were joined by workers from Sparklets, Tottenham, who are also threatened with sackings.

The giant monopoly wants to take the £7m government grant and move to new premises in Skelmersdale, the new town near Liverpool. It would employ only 450 workers -almost half the number at Edmonton.

Elton Griffiths, Transport and General Workers' Union convenor, told Workers Press yesterday: 'We are fighting for all BOC workers because it will be their turn next.' Michael O'Rourke, deputy convenor of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, pledged support for occupying the plant if the crunch comes.

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