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bribery is not used in ing foreign contracts, and if lush fund' exists, why does Byland throw its books open dependent examination? ade unionists, now under threats that Leyland boss el Edwardes is planning D sackings, must put an • all forms of secrecy and B-talk. ву must elect trade union MAN AT THE TOP Edwardes committees which will fight for access to the full accounts of Leyland, and all available information on its relationship with dealers and component suppliers.

-This information will soon show whether these documents are genuine or not. And it will also show the need for the nationalisation of the motor industry as a whole as part of a planned socialist economy.

While doubts linger over these "leaked' documents, Oxford CID have (not surprisingly) failed to come up with any clues on the theft of trade union and personal files from Cowley steward Alan Thornett early last month.

BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS — O'FISHALL

Little opposition

That Grantham has managed to regain control over the strike committee is clear. Strike committee bulletins are now published under APEX letterheads and the committee's offices are littered with APEX pamphlets titled APEX Looks After You designed to be handed out to the scabs.

Picketing is now taking place only in the mornings. Little opposition has been shown by the strikers against the path to final betrayal being opened up by APEX.

The WSL, unlike almost every left group, reasserts that this strike is not over. It can and must be won:

To do that a sharp break must first be made from the bureaucracy, and the strikers must turn back to calls for direct action from workers who supply the scab firm with its essential services.

... NO SIR, WE COULDN'T GET THEM TO DROP THEIR PAY DEMANDS→ STUBBORN BASTARDS! ...SURE! "CLASS SOUIDARITY" IS THE BEST LINE TO PUT THIS ONE OVER. T while 10,000 British Rail jobs have been axed over the last two years, made a 'left' speech last week.

In a carefully-timed curtain raiser to a planned sellout of the union's 63% pay claim fixed at last summer's conference, General Secretary Sidney Weighell demanded British Rail fill an astonishing 9,000 vacant posts.

In the meantime, announced Weighell, the NUR's cringing cooperation on money-saving measures will be ended.

British Rail management will scarcely be shaking in tA HA! WHO'S GOING TO TELL THEM THEY'RE SACKED?

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their shoes as a result of Weighell's threats. They claim that changed working practices, agreed by union bureaucrats, have actually abolished a large number of the 'vacancies' he wants filled.

Weighell has no intention of mobilising action to preserve or reopen these jobs. Rather he is aiming to use further agreed job cuts as a bargaining • counter in an effort to push British Rail to concede pay increases in excess of 10%.

NUR members in freight handling have already seen whole sections of road haulPRESS * London NW5 1HR age drivers receive rises above the 10% limit, and are pressing for similar treatment.

But if Weighell's strategy continues unimpeded many NUR members will be receiving their cards rather than a limit-busting pay increase.

Railwaymen must insist that vacant jobs are filled.

But this is linked to rejecting all forms of productivity dealing, and insistence that the full pay claim is backed up by all-out action.

Only when basic pay rates are adequate to ensure decent living standards will the fight to end rest-day and overtime working reach full strength.

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