Govt. depot to close

AS part of the government's economy measures Royal Naval Depot in Cantyne, Glasgow, is to close on December 16. The closure involves the future jobs of 105 men, many of whom have long service.

Alternative jobs have been offered if workers transfer to either Coventry or to Faslane, the later being more than 30 miles outside of Glasgow.

Other jobs have been advertised but none are within reasonable travelling distance from the men's homes.

The matter has been raised with the Glasgow District mittee of the AEU but it is doubtful if this body has given stood on their head at the ter. the matter much attention nothing has been heard by the If what Wilson said is true workers. about the danger of millions of Rebuffed by their unions the unemployed, surely this is not workers at the depot visited the all argument for continuing to MP for Shettleston, Mr. Galpern. operate capitalism, but one which He referred the matter to the unions.

Shop stewards interviewed by Overthrow The Newsletter told of their disgust for the way the Wilson If all this system has to offer government had attacked the (and it is) is massive unemploy- working class. ment together with the threat of a Third World War, then must NI it not be obvious that the halli seem of hung ma on unemployment, why not nationalize all the basic industries immediately commence? Is it not the capitalist UNTIL RECENTLY, Ramsay England. You say that _ wage freezing is necessary in order to MacDonald would have been rated the most despicable political traitor suffered by the British labour movement. Perhaps he now has a rival for that position. olleagues will tell you that capi It is most fitting that when if it in the sock isnin the centenary of his birth is celebrated at a lunch at the House of Commons on October 12, one of the speakers will be man Cardinal the Vatican This well-known successor and disciple, Harold Wilson.

And you Mr. Cousins, the ma CLIMAX implied at the TUC that the Many workers will also wish to unions should be prepared to remember MacDonald. gives to the Tud wage bargaining climax of his career of treachery came, of course, in 1931, when he joined with the Tories to form a "National' government, whose first iob was to cut the unemployment benefit. work On the demand of the bankers, the standard rate paid to a man went down from 17s to 15s 3d a week. Even more memorable was the tightening of the regu-