NEVES Times bosses bet on Tory return

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Gambling on the imminent return of a Tory Government, the management of Times Newspapers have announced plans to launch a loss-making weekly edition of the Times for international circulation.

Such a desperate stepoffering a circulation of only around 30,000 copies (hardly that of a smallish local paperl'at huge expense-must be seen as purely transitional to further steps in management strategy to break the resistance of Fleet Street unions and force home major attacks on jobs and conditions.

The Daily Mail last week quoted a senior Thomson Organisation spokesman in Canada as saying:

"We now have to examine closely our remaining options, which must include printing the paper elsewhere, selling it and the other titles, or backing down to the union demands."

"Since this is a matter of principle for the whole of Fleet Street, we ... can hardly back down.

The same spokesman went on to air schemes involving printing The Times in Germany and France and distributing it in Britain through non-union Such a step would require the aid of a Tory governmentbut would be an immensely risky operation in view of the prospect of mass resistance by the unions as a whole, and the problems it would cause with the Nud members who make up the editorial staff.

Meanwhile the NATSOPA clerical chapel has correctly called for, picketing the Times building to forestall the partial relaunch.

This has been opposed by NGA president Les Dixon, on the grounds that it would disrupt the Guardian (printed on Times presses). • Yet Dixon, is at the same time appealing to European unions to black the paper he will not picket in Britain!

So far management have been able to call nearly alt the shots, aided by total confusion among union leaders.

Times workers must respond to the danger signs now flashing and decide now to occupy the building, demanding full rein-, statement of the entire workforce and the restoration of agreements torn ment.

Times Newspapers accounts must be opened up to elected trade union committees and the fight taken up to force the firm's nationalisation, without compensation under workers' management.

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