Statement issued by the LPF Executive on January 20th NHE Labour Peace Fellowship Executive, having discussed the present position of military aircraft orders, urges the Government: 1. To run down and end the TSR-2 contracts. The estimated expenditure of £750 millions on the lowflying nuclear bomber is something that Britain cannot afford. 2. To decide against substituting American planes for the TSR-2. 3. To devote the saving in money, manpower, material and research to re-equipping Britain’s industry, carrying out the social reforms pledged in Labour’s election programme and to aiding the underdeveloped countries. 4. To provide other work for the aircraft workers concerned in the manufacture of civil aircraft, machine tools or computers, or by granting Government research and development contracts for non-aircraft products. 5. To maintain all the workers affected by redundancy during the switch from Defence to nonmilitary work by paying them their average rates of pay.
Ron Huzzard
An Engineers’
‘VOICE’ EDUNDANCIES in the Aircraft
sector of the engineering industry; the chaining of wages by long-term agreements; the powerful amalgamation of the employers’ organisations; the fact that only 5% of the 2,500,000 workers in the engineering industry participates in Union activities—all these and many other problems have created pressure for a Voice of the Engineers. This will be one more in the chain of Voice papers which already includes Voice of the Unions, Ford Workers’ Voice, Aviation Voice, Steelworkers’ Voice, Dockers’ Vote, etc. Plans to launch the new paper wil be discussed at a meeting to be held on Sunday, 28th February, at 11 a.m. in the Wheatsheaf Hotel, High St., off Market St., Manchester. Further details can be obtained from Voice of the Unions, 71 New Kings Road, London, S.W.6.
W. J. Loft, Secretary of Woolwich Arsenal Joint Shop Stewards’ Committee