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OUR WORST WEEK YET! Only £12 has come in for our Special Fund in the last seven days. We are still, therefore, struggling to reach the half-way stage in the £2,500 The Oxford Summer Fair this coming weekend and the London Fair the following weekend should give our fund a big boost, but we still depend on our readers and supporters All donations should be sent to: Socialist Press Fund, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR Oxford tote winners: 24.5.79, 11-22 036, 195; 1.6.79, 6-24.

Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist Printed by Anvil Printers Ltd., London. Registered basis for the struggle to reconstruct the Trotskyist Fourth International.

The main presentations will include: Political Economy; Dialectical Materialism; the International Committee: the USFI; the OCI; and the development of the WSL as an International Tendency.

Write for the agenda of the school plus the practical details. Accomodation will be provided with meals at low cost.

Details from WSL, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 1HR FUN fund with only four weeks to go.

to help us reach the target on time.

British Leyland's controversial new grading structure due to be introduced into their car plants by 1 November this year has run into problems.

The scheme, which endorsed by the national officers of all unions in BL and is enthusiastically supported by the leaders of the shop stewards combine, is designed _ to facilitate a centralised wage bargaining' structure completely controlled by the full time officials.

Management sneaked the new grading structure through a secret ballot last year as part of a package of so-called "bargaining reforms" which they attached to last November's annual wage review.

Now the 100,000 workers involved, covering 34 plants, are beginning to realise the implications of the management proposals.

At the end of last year a structure was set up by the national officials to introduce the new grading.

A central job evaluation committee was formed, mainly composed of people supporting the scheme, and job evaluation exercises were initiated in the various plants under the control of plant committees.

League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London as a newspaper at the Post Office.

At the same time a so-called "grading panel" slotted 60 main job titles into 5 grades which they termed "bench mark jobs".

These "bench marks" although theoretically subject to the process of the job evaluation exercise, have been regarded by management as non-negotiable.

They are very controversial. Production workers, for example, who comprise two-thirds of the labour force and who in many plants are currently in grade one, go down into grade three.

Storemen, storekeepers and fork lift drivers go down to grade 4.

BL's plan has been to this in by bribery.

They have outlined a so-called "parity" scheme by which they would pay new rates of pay (presented as part of last November's review) when two conditions were met.

The first is that manageContinued on page 11

SUMMER FETE

Saturday July 7 from 12 to 4 p.m.

Cowley Community Cowley, Oxford Cakes * Plants * Game Bargains * Fortune teller * Refreshments Organised by the Oxford Area Workers Socialist League force" designed to move in and secure oilfields in the Middie East.

No solution There is no planned solution possible to the worldwide crisis of capitalism, which is in essence an anarchic, unplannable system that functions solely on the basis of private profit.

The international working class must look not to the Tokyo summit or 'any other such charade for answers to their material problems-but look instead to the struggle for the building of revolutionary parties to lead the world struggle for socialism.

Summer Fayre Warden Street (Near Chalk Farm Tube)

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Saturday 14 July Lyndhurst Hall

Jumble, Games, Food Prizes, Plants and mor Organised by London