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THE GUARDIAN Saturday January 2 1971 Port warns 'holiday gover' dockers Traffic head resigns over bus cuts nan works, but nevertheless only 200 out of 2,600 workers tinned up. It is unlikely there will be any immediate trouble from the Liverpool absenteeism, although 200 cars were lost in the Coventry factory where 2.590 were absent. At Ford, at Halewoot, the problem was solved by giving the men a holiday after they agreed to work an extra slift in lieu. Vauxhall also was able tn maintain Droducticn with a By our Correspondent A traffic superintendent has resigned from his job over bus service cuts imposed by the Selnec Passen ger xxanspon auuuhu. Raymond Edwards, aged 51, traffic superintendent An estimated ome million man-hours were lojped off the national eftort yesterday by the hangover holiday," -though the picture was confuse! by action in Midlands as a protest against the Government's proposed reforms in industrial relations.

PORTS In the Worth were brought almost to standstill. At some, ineludrne; Teesside and Tyne docks, the day-off was official; but elsewhere dockers were nmcm criticised for taking matters into their own hands for yet another year. About 14,000 stayed at home in sharp contrast to the position in London, -where the new payments system, which virtually rules out the possibility of making up lost by overtime, cut the number of absentees to less than 2 pel cent At Liverpool, only 306 cut of 10,000 dockers Te-ported for duty, and 73 ships stood As this followed a mass walkout uwuik for Bury and Ramsbottom, said yesterday: "Tne oraers tpine down, but the avenues of communication in the reverse direction are completely blocked. "The latest mcident, and it. nra Tuhinh fnrceri mv resignation, was the instruction -i.

nnncnltntlnn W1U1UUL JJliW Midlands car workers demonstrating against the Industrial Relations Bill in Birmingham yesterday. similar scheme. Imperceptible The British Leylaad plant at Longbridge, shut completely after half the night shift and three-fifths of the day shift failed to report for work. About 1.5 millions worth of vehicles were lost, and another 500,000 worth went by the board at the Rover pLaatim Solihull. The Lucas electrical components factory also closed for the day.

The City of London, -which is affected by the closure off many businesses abroad on Ifew Year's Day, also took a day out and business sagged to almost imperceptible levels. TRANSPORT: British Bail in Manchester had no trouble to speak of," and in. Liverpool, where there were only a few early morning latecomers, the story was the same. People had to wait longer for buses, however, especially during the morning. The By our Labour Staff A spokesman for the port said that the situation was the same last year.

The problem had been building up over 20 years. Even if all the dockers had turned up however, there would have been less to do because of absenteeism in the road haulage industry. In Hull, where only a few key men arrived for duty out of a labour force of 2,500, work stopped on 41 ships. The Hull dockers were obeying a recommendation from their shop stewards committee that they should take an unofficial holiday. The problem in Hull, as in some- other North-east ports, seemed to result from the influence of Scottish dockers, who have an official New Year's Day holiday.

A spokesman said that some weekend work had, however, been done on Thursday. In Manchester, where high absenteeism had been anticipated, the port's offices were manned onry by a skeleton staff. About only 100 men, out of some 1.500, reported for duty in spite of the Monday holiday. COAL All the National Coal Board's areas were officially given a free day except South Wales, hut more than half the Welsh miners felt there were better ways of passing the day than down the pits. In the North-east where a handful of collieries operated while 71 were on holiday, a Coal Board spokesman said this was the first time that the whole coalfield had been given what was, to all intents and purposes, a general holiday.

This was not so much the result of absenteeism in the past, but more the spreading of influence from Scottish workers. INDUSTRIES badly affected included some of the North-west engineering factories. A spokesman for Standard-Triumph said there was no question of an official holiday in the Liverpool on Thursday afternoon, as dockers prepared lor New ttNto an1 nFRfMal holi day on Monday, the port has been fun operaiiun iui uhjjt two and a half days this week. Reminder The new chairman of the Mersey Docks and Karbour Marples boys put the other Board. Mr John.

CucfcneS, repri manding docfeers, reminded them of the port's) financial diffi 650M scheme for London Transport By JUDY HILLMAN, Planning Correspondent London Transport hopes to of the money will have to come Northern Line and new buses, ipcitd 650 millions on better from Government and GLC Apart from the xmjoar Tube and bus services over the grants." additions to the UndergrouricH, next 20 years if it gets the The Government recently the 275 millions modernisation necessary grants from the Gov- refused to make any grant for would include replacement eminent and Greater London the Piccadilly Line extension to lifts by escalators at the Strana, Council. Heathrow Airport London, Russell Square, Goodge Street, This may seem a vast sum, although the verbal go-ahead Earls Court, ana Kennington but it wouU be only about one was given. Much more vital, improved line interchange at third of the total proposed by however, will be the position Holborn Bank, ana new the GLC for the roads. about the Fleet Line, estimated stations at the Elephant anl olans are Given in a New to cost about 90 millions, and Castle, Finsbury Park, liver-Year rneLacf to staff from on which so much of the revital- pool Street, South Kensington, Kn Sir Richard Nation of South-east London and Gloucester Road The las ftrinRourowertyo depends. involve the constructs give London Transport an excit- The plana for the 1980s new noteis.

in future," he says. include an extension of the Sir Richard also says recruit- culties and said ttat the nona withdraw mree Duses iium peak services for the purpose of supposedly saving 15,000. "To withdraw three more buses would inevitably cause hardship to the travelling public and a consequent loss of revenue which would reduce or eliminate the saving. Abolition "As inflation is likely to continue, the ultimate effect of cutting services as a means of economising is inevitably the abolition of public transport. I am convinced that uniess there is a radical restructuring of the traffic administration I can see no future for myself in the public transport industry and no future for the Mr Edwards, who was Bury Corporation traffic superintendent before Selnec took over 11 municipal undertakings in South-east Lancashire and North-east Cheshire, said there has been "harassment, oppression, and frustration" in the job.

Last night he said that he was due to leave his job on January 14. He added: If nothing comes up in the meantime, I shall sign on at toe employment exchange." He has spent 24 years in public transport work. Af the and security holdeis. many of whom were smallholders with life savings at stake, were port Authority reported 232 view fewer Duses, ana uvaij absenteeism In the merning. Choffialrf tflW W2S Said suffering a "The port is Sgftting for its to be an almost 190 per cent life," he said.

"Enca day it is idle the Docks Board loses cm nnn in revenue. Does service, only la Biases oui oi son were not beine operated. In Staffordshire, a transport absenteeism in these circums company wnicn naa mreawjueu to dismiss any man who failed tn turn nn rnnrffl Oitlv one tances make sease-x im oiuy is it totally irrespwnsible. but 1- atrl absentee. It annoumced that it II.

XO in the worker harming the would pay tne men a special bonus. future prospects of leuow 3)urlng the next 20 years we Bauenoo ijine xo rewuiam aim mg ot sian nas hhikuvcu, have nlans for Investing up to a link that will make it possible sumably a result in part from ocn worKers." tn rravnl from Wimbledon in a new oersonal bonus scheme. B50 millions In London Trans millions for new the soutn-west to Hamauu in a year ago mere was a it yi port 125 and control ine norxn-easi. cent snonage uua uhvch buses. Garages systems.

250 millions for new The Brixton streicn or ine ib per cem or craiuutwo. Victoria Line is due for com- these figures are down to 8 aiLd railways or extensions of exist- 7... i roi t-i 1 in nar nnnt TaannnTWfi J. PTA, the director-general, Mr Tony Harrison, said there was imnrnve commUnica ma ones, ana sxo muuons tor jjicuuu hmi viii j.u updating and improving the investment this year also m- although some areas, partieu- -iresont Underground system, eludes large sums on new roll- larly in the North and Wert, 'iticse are large sums and much ing stock for the much criticised have a heavy list of vacancies, a uwwu i- tions within the undertaking. Mystery of a lost wife Chess has 'hangover' Thorpe on arms obstinacy By PETER HIIXMOBE An advertising agency with a former Tory Minister as chairman has been selected by the TUC to help to oppose the Industrial Relations BilL The London agency, Boase Wassimi Pollitt, whose chairman is Mr Ernest Marples, will devise a press campaign costing 75,000 explaining the 'XUC's abjections to the Bill.

The former Transport Minister, Mr Marples, said yesterday that he agreed with "most of the Governments policy" on industrial relations but it was important that the TUC's case was put in the best possible way. "With a neat touch of the advertising soft sell, he said 2ie hoped he would never be accused of being someone who never listened to reason. Convert if my boys," he said, "can find any flaws in my -party's policy then good luck to them anyway they will be able to put the TUC's case better than the TUC can." A TUC spokesman said he hoped the agency was so good it might even convert Mr Marples. He hoped it would not be long before Mr Marples knew the unions' arguments made sense. He said the TUC would be dealing only with the creative people iin the agency and Mr Marples was not one of them.

air mainly because of the Job but also because Mrs Bradley was born there and neither she nor Mr Bradley had ties in (be North. Mr Bradley said he had asked the Ministry of Social Security if it would let them stay in a small hotel for the weekend so they could stay together. "But they won't pay for that," fie said. I know it's not easy but we just seem to be passed from person to person." They had had enough money when tliy came to London to last them until he received his first pay packet but everything wnt wrong." Continued from page 1 who worked at the hostel and was away for weekend. They could stay only for the night.

Yesterday he and Kathleen went to meet Mrs Bradley, but they were late, and when they arrived she was not there. Major Scott said she had not been back to the hostel during the day. Mr Bradley said his wife was in a very emotional state," because she had been parted from him and Kathleen, and because a fourth child died only 12 weeks ago. The family decided to come to London the Prime Minister decides to sell arms to South Africa, it will be crass stupidity born of stubbornness," the Liberal leader, Mr Jeremy Thorpe, said in a New Year message to Liberals yesterday. It will show that Mr Heath's fatal weakness will be to mistake stubbornness for strength.

For it is stubbornness itself which is one of the worst manifestations of weakness," he said. The arms issue was one of two on which the Government should be closely judged in 1971. The second was its success in tackling the rising cost of living. We shall never control the cost of living until our growth rate outstrips our rate of inflation," he said. Wages must be linked to productivity through plant bargaining, profit-sharing schemes, guaranteed minimum earnings, and co-ownership schemes giving a vested interest in industrial pace.

Stolen pills By LEONARD HARDEN In contrast to the dour and prolonged struggles of the previous round, yesterday's play in tbo Hastings chess tournament had. a distinct whiff of a new yeax Iiangover with none of the Ave games being taken to an adjournment Weatrovic's run of wins came lo aa abrupt halt when Mark-land beat him in a Sicilian defence of only 18 moves. A bizarre opening move brought the "Yugoslav's queen to an exposed square where it was threatened and harassed by Mainland's pieces. Markland forced the win of a bishop and Meatrovic resigned is a hopeless position. Koene had the black pieces gainst Hort and their quiet 24-move draw In a much-analysed variation of the Nlrneo-Indian was another English success.

Th scores: Mcstrovlc 3, Hort, Krogius, and Uhlmann 2 Gligorlc, Markland, and PortUch 2, Keene 1J, Byrne and Wade 1. In the challengers' tournament B. Eley leads with 3 points. mI.A Minaniul urifn pep pills in a raid on a THE LATEST satellite view of the earth's cloud cover (shown In white) recei-ved at Ambassador CoUege satellite station yesterday, shows Britain with a little snow and cloud superimposed. The white over N.

Spain is mainly sno-w iritli a little cloud superimposed. Stoke-on-Trent. Thev said the -value ot ine puis considerable On the black Raiders take 2,700 Five men wearing s-tocltUis masks escaped with wages, yesterday after rlppLns out the telephone at the Boao-bank Weaving Company's wages office in Flax Street, off Criem-lin Road, Belfast. Clerical staff were making up wage packets when four imei burst into the office, branilifcea guns, and forced them to lies on the floor. One of the raiders scooped the money into a holdall, and the four drove oS with the fifth man in a car.

Street for pedestrians The Department of the EiivlrOiimoiiL has approved an experimental order, making Stonegate, one of York's most historic streets, the city's first pedestrian way for a six-month trial from January 10. All vehicles except emergency, services, wedding and funeral cars, and furniture vans will be banned from the street for all except 5 hours each day. market. with some or sleet Cold, rain Around Driterita Reports for 24 hours ended 6 p.m. yesterday nun.

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Cent. Moray Firth, Calthnou. N.S. Scotland, Orknav, lhattandi Ilatlirr iloudy. a llttlo ruin nr iteot at tlmm with mow on hlllft.

amid brluht wind W. to NW light: (roiiEMTniture near jwrmjU, maximum 3C. Hlf.l. Outlook! Scattered ahowera In ttie N. and otherwik mainly dry.

a little lew cold. SIA PASSAGIS a. north Saa. Strait of Dover, ngllih Cnanael (). St GacrtVa Chaitneli Vvlnd light or moderate: light bowera: vial-bllltT soad: a aJfelit.

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