EEC means sugar and bacon up

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LAWRENCE DALY, the miners' leader, said yesterday union chiefs would meet the National Coal Board next Wednesday or Thursday. "Then it is probable that there will be a ballot among the members to decide on what action is to be taken, Daly said. "This is the start of the national rejection of the Phase Two plans. It is not just a problem for the mineworkers.' Daly was speaking at Heathrow Airport before flying to Brussels to attend the European Coal and Steel Consultative Committee meeting-the first attended by a British delegation. Daly and miners' president Joe Gormley went to the meeting despite the union's overwhelming and bitter opposition to the Common Market.

D ALL DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS DEFEND TRAD BACON and sugar will cost at least 3p a lb m sharp increases are a direct result of Common ment worked out in Brussels Britain has been bacon producers and sugar refiners.

STEEL " MEAL DEMAND TO WORK CAV sit-in keeps ACCESS to the Lucas combine's factory site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, must be controlled by the CAV Fazakerley occupation committee, sit-in strikers insisted at the factory yesterday.

An afternoon mass meeting rejected the committee's recommendation that a pass system which has been in operation for the last 12 weeks be abandoned.

The strikers voted to maintain control both of the site's boiler house and canteen facilities, and of the gates through which all supplies, transport and personnel must enter or leave.

But the meeting stressed that it was in no way denying laidoff workers at Lucas Industrial Equipment, which shares the Fazakerley site with CAV, the right to return to work.

This was the management's responsibility, sit-in strikers pointed out. Last week's mass meeting had agreed to allow the free movement of supplies on and off the site. It had been Lucas who refused to accept the pass Lucas had also refused to accept that the CAV occupation committee control the workers chiefly responsible for operating the on-site services.

On Wednesday the occupation committee had drawn up its recommendation that LIE workers and staff be allowed through the gates without passes, THE VIETNAM ceasefire was likely to lead to the go-ahead for an American supersonic airliner, Mr Edward Bishop, an Opposition aviation spokesman, told a Commons Standing Committee yesterday. MPs were considering the Concorde Aircraft Bill which increases the limit on loans or guarantees which the government may provide to £25m. The Bill also provides to raise this limit by order to £350m. The committee stage of the Bill was concluded.

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The Tory Food and Agriculture Minister, Mr Joseph Godber, attended the Council of Common Market Ministers' meeting which decided to drop the £65 a ton curing subsidy for bacon and the £25m subsidy on sugar.

Godber also agreed to abolish by next January the £2.5m in subsidies paid to Northern Ireland's egg producers.

It will be recalled that Godber masterminded the recent threeman investigation into beef The price raisers are the Tories and the profiteers who back them in big business.

Two weeks ago Godber was shedding tears about the rise in beet prices. Two days ago he travelled to Brussels to supervise deliberate increases in bacon and sugar prices.

Weekend shoppers are in for another round of hefty price increases. At the livestock markets this week prices have been sharply up. These rises will be passed onto the housewife with the main burden 'luxury' cuts like sirloin and topside. but the combine management wanted even further concessions.

These have now been refused.

The occupation committee's attempted retreat on the passes issue followed a Tuesday night meeting with leaders of the Liverpool Trades Council.

In December the trades council pledged to call a meeting of stewards throughout the area early in the New Year to support the CAV fight against closure, but on Tuesday there was evidence of considerable backsliding by the council's executive.

Several key members executive were absent. Those Socialist Labour League Yorksi FORCE THE TORY GOVERNMENT TO RESI BUILD THE REVOLUTIONA SUNDAY JANUARY Great Northern Hotel, Wellington Street (near LEEDS Speakers :

. HEALY (SLL National Secretan AUL WHETSTONE (Young Socialists In personal capacity:

GEORGE LUBY (U.P.W.)

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.) ore in the shops from July. The Market entry. Under an agreeforced to abolish subsidies for Argentine topside will be about 60p a lb, while Scottish will be around 75p a lb with the equivalent rump prices at 70p and 95p. New : Zealand lamb chops will be as high as 50p and shoulders will range from 20p to 25p alb.

Mr Len Moss, a spokesman for the National Federation of Meat Traders, told shoppers yesterday that the best they could do was 'shop around'.

VAVASSEUR Financial Group has made a £17m takeover bid for John Bentley's Barclay Securities, which controls Shepperton film studios. The bid values Barclay Securities at around £17m and each Barclay share at 87p. The shares in the asset-stripping company rose slightly on news of the bid. who were present refused to accept a resolution that they call the stewards' meeting immediately.

Any decision on this was postponed until after an engineers' union district committee meeting on Wednesday night.

The trades council leaders will meet again next Tuesday.

The engineers' district committee, CAV workers were told yesterday, has endorsed the occupation committee's decision on Wednesday morning to maintain control of the on-site services.

But it also endorsed the dropping of the pass system and there is a danger that union officials will continue to press for this to be done.

FILM: THREE YEARS OF WORKERS PRESS