TORY PREMIER Edward Heath will today present a the new state pay laws or we'll do it

DAY FOR THE TUC That is why today's talks at No 10 Downing Street are not really to 'discuss' anything. Everyone knows that the legal machinery to control wages is now a foregone conclusion.

These laws will criminal courts. Any workers who defy 'norms' will be open With this corporatist-style legislation only weeks away from the statute books, it is the most monumental treachery for the TUC to be seen grovelling at the doorway of No. 10 today.

With TUC general secretary Victor Feather will be the 'lefts' Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones, whose unions, the two largest in the country, have been savaged by the Tories' Industrial Relations Act.

At yesterday's meeting of the TUC economic committee, an abortive attempt was made to get the renewed talks with Heath called off. But the motion was defeated by nine votes to three, with Richard Reporter struck outside inquiry A WORKERS PRESS reporter was yesterday assaulted by two London docks shop stewards at the regional office of the Transport and General Workers' Union in Green Lanes, north London. A The incident took place outside a union inquiry Into the conduct of five dockers at a mass lobby of the T&GWU's national headquarters, Transport House, on August 16 last year.

Both the stewards involved • are supporters of 'The Dockworker', the self-styled 'rank-and-ille' paper Dockers picket EASIN launched with the assistance of the 'International Socialist group.

David Maude, our industrial correspondent, was struck and spat upon after attacks had been made by these stewards on the policies pursued by Vorkers Press in support of the dockers and thell The incident ended when restrained by other dockers of the inquiry. One of apologized for his actions.

We wish to make clear men who appeared before we have enjoyed the most c In any way concerned in ye: Briginshaw of minority vote.

After the meeting Feather told the Press that it was 'evident the government is still keeping its options open'., He used this slavish excuse to justify the TUC's reasons for continuing to talk with Heath. be backed by the But Feather's statement is patently union or section of the state-regulated false. The Tories aren't juggling different to unlimited fines or policies-—they have a carefully-prepared plan which went into operation during the time-wasting tripartite talks. From Phase One, came Phase Two and Heath even has further 'Phases' up his sleeve for state control over wages.

If Heath has his way, wage-bargaining as we know it will be completely abolished. The trade unions will be drawn into the state machinery to apply wage fraidelines" which the ruling class will Yesterday's country-wide militancy in the ranks of the show, however, that Heath siderable fight on his hands. The normally docile civil servants went the march in London, Manchester, claiming up the two stewards were participating in a picket the two subsequently that none of the five the inquiry-with whom ordial of relations—-was terday's incident.

pres irate NATSOPA leading upsurge of civil service has a conYork and Scotland in the first major industrial action that can be remembered in this sector.

Bill Kendall, general secretary of the 200,000-strong Civil and Public Services Association, said: 'We are developing national industrial action for the first time in our history and I think we can be proud of that.' The enthusiastic meeting at Central Hall, Westminster, showed its willingness to endorse strike action if the Tories refused their wage demands. The meeting also voiced criticism of Feather and the TUC leaders for their "submissive attitude'. (See story and picture, p. I2.)

Apart from the civil servants, many other sections of professional, manual and industrial workers are rapidly approaching a showdown with the government over wages.

West End actors have been forced to take a pay cut, gasworkers are demanding industrial action next week, miners want an answer from the Coal Board in a • fortnight, carworkers are finish their ballot on industrial action on January 15.

In spite of the cringing retreats of the TUC leadership, the real opportunity exists for a massive industrial campaign to force the Tories out of office.

In its place must be elected a Labour government pledged to socialist policies and of all anti-union laws. • BRITAIN's miners yesterday submitted their claim for rises of up to f7 a week to the National Coal Board.

Civil servants

ABOUT 500 civil servants working at the British Museum yesterAREN protest meeting outside the British Museum yesterday