A BIG PAY CLASH NEAR

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And every the pay stakes faces a further drop in livin year.

OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT WHITE PAPER setting out Phase the state control over wages will be d at a presidential-style Press conthis evening. It spells an end of colbargaining in British industry.

1he two documents are completely at each other. The Tories' White Paper has ing of vicious legal sanctions-fines and ment for unions or sections of workers the state 'norms' on wages.

patterns to make up their wages. owned company extracted far more value from each worker than any other car firm.

But under Heath's new laws the Ford claim is not only out of the question, it's illegal. And with the hysterical backing of the capitalist Press, the Tories want to brand these carworkers with The same treatment can be expected by British-Leyland workers at Oxford, whose claim for increases of up to f7 has already been greeted with alarm by Fleet The Tories are preparing for a stand-up fight with the workers in the motor industry.

They recognize that in order to impose their wage-cutting plans, they must take on a powerful section of the working class, isolate them and defeat them.

Their aim is to intimidate the 4 million other trade unionists with pay claims or settlements which set them on a collision course with the Tories. But they will fail.

Nothing solved Yesterday's decision by the gasworkers' leaders to call off industrial action from midnight solves nothing (see p. 3).

The 47,000 workers in the industry want at least £3-to bring them in line with the electricity-supply deal signed last November. The most the British Gas Corporation will be allowed to offer is half that.

Every other union with a claim in needs at least twice the Tories' provocative £1plus-4-per-cent 'guideline' even to keep their members ahead of price increases over the last year.

trade unionist in knows he or she 20 to 30 per ‹ ent standards as Evans's n to Ford's the existing REGINALD MAUDLING ... Former Home Secretary upset by offshore fund questions The Ford workers' plight typical.

Their claim — submitted by Moss Evans of the Transport and General Workers' Union last month-calls not only for more pay, shorter hours and an extra week's holiday, but also for higher shift premiums, lay-off pay and pensions.

According to the government's Phase Two guidelines, the maximum Ford will be allowed to offer is a straight £2 to £3 a Yet detailed submissic Ford's proves proves, by the time pay deal runs out at the end of March the real gross earnings of the average worker in the company will be no more than they were in April 1970.

Robbed of benefits increases will have robbed him of the benefit of two pay deals.

And while his take-home pay will have risen 4j per cent in hree years, this is only due to ix changes in the last two budgets.

This is the situation facing every worker. It proves that the clash is inevitable, and that the union leaders must be forced to break off their treacherous talks with the Tories.

All workers in the pay struggle must be brought together behind the political campaign to force the Tories out of office. The TUC must be recalled to mobilize this campaign. Its old leaders who will not fight must be removed.

Today's White Paper must be the signal for the building and extending of Councils of Action in each area to lead and develop this fight. of mine,' said Maudling.

But the girl went on: "Didn't the friendship begin with a mutual interest in Mr Hoffman's offshore islands fund?' By this time Maudling was rattled said sharply: 'Absolute nonsense. Must you play these silly "Private Eye"—Paul Foot games?' After replying to another question on the Real Estate Fund of America of which Maudling was the first president (Hoffman, an American financier, and founder of the fund is now in prison serving two years for mortgage fraud) the ex-Cabinet Minister said: 'British parliament is more free of corruption than any other parliament in the world' Maudling was also Home Secretary at the time of the expulsion of Rudi Dutschke and the Derry massacre.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Sir Peter Rawlinson has decided there is insufficient evidence to charge anyone with theft of a copy of 'The Railway Policy Review' from offices of Department of the Environment.

After consultation with the Director of Public Prosecutions, he decided that 'although there is evidence that the copy of the document was stolen', there was insufficient evidence to charge any person.

'The Attorney-General has also decided that proceedings under the Official Secrets Acts would not be justified,' said a statement from Law Officer's Department.