Civil Servants to Take "extreme" Action?

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from a special correspondent ES Sa ete aeteeeues | AULLUD Confidential circulars have been sent to several hundred officials of the 60,000-strong Institution of Professions] Civil Servants asking them if they would support "extreme" action if present pay negotiations broke down. Announcing this on October 16th, Mr. William McCall, the Institution's general secretary, said a campaign against the Government's pay freeze would not be mounted: 1. If negotiations for pay rises were successful. Claims had been outstanding for professional engineers and technical grades since the beginning of 1965, and negotiations were nearly completed when the Government announced the freeze in July: , 2. If the independence and ‘authority of the Civil Sérvice Arbitration Tribunal remained unimpaired by Government policy, Mr. McCall said that replies to the confidential circulars were still being annlysed. On the possibllity of extreme action being taken, he Commented: "We hope we won't get to that point. It would be a serious embarrassment to the Government and would severely affect the wor of some departments. We are prepared to co-operate in this difficult situation, and we will do so to the extent other people do. What we are obviously concerned about is the possibility of not being affected now, but from the beginning of 1965." It is clear that wless Mr. Wilson climbs down on the drastic application of the freeze to civil servants he is going to have big trouble on his hands,