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Barker OF EARLS BARTON SHOEMAKERS 38369 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1978 Printed in MANCHESTER and LONDON The Daily Telegraph A cordial welcome from Mrs Thatcher for Mr Heath when he took his seat on the platform at the Conservative party conference at Brighton yesterday. Seated between them was Lord Carrington, call for a return to work since the company had now agreed to bargain outside the five per cent, thereby removing the ori- Pay pressure on Ford increases By RUPERT MORRIS, Industrial Staff PRESSURE on the Ford Motor Company to make a substantial pay offer to its 57,000 workers increased yesterday as shop stewards from Dagenham led about 300 marchers through London in a protest against the five per cent pay policy. Mr Ron Todd, chief union negotiator at Ford, said yesterday: "I can't see the trade union side making a recommendation to return to work until we are on the verge of a deal we can accept. "We don't have our men FORD FACE on strings. We can't tell them to go back on the basis that the company is now prepared BLACKOUT to bargain freely; they will want to know what is in the bargain." AT SHOW Ford expressed disappointment yesterday that the union By JOHN LANGLEY negotiators had felt unable to Motoring Correspondent ginal reason for the strike.

Reports denied The company denied reports Communist Morning European operations were news newspaper that its almost at a standstill because of a shortage of parts from Britain. The Morning Star suggested this might have been the reason for Ford's decision to abandon its adherence Government pay policy after only two weeks. A Ford spokesman said most spare parts made in Britain were also available on the Continent, and the main plants' stocks would enable them to last months without further supplies. But he said 700 them had been laid off at Transit factory in Genk, Belgium, and 300 at the Antwerp tractor plant. Ford unions and management meet in London tomorrow for further talks, when the first offer outside the five per cent will be made.

The strike, which is 13 working days old, is costing the company production of cars worth £10 million a day at showroom prices. PUNK' GROUP STORM OFF TV SESSION A "punk group, the Stranglers, stormed off stage during a television recording, late last the night. concert From at the the start of University 7 of Surrey in Guildford, they had shouted antistudent slogans. The lead guitarist, Hugh Cornwell, threw a microphone and stand across the stage shouting: 66 We don't like playing to an elitist audience." Then the bass guitarist, Jean Jacques Burnel, threw himself across the drum kit smashing it. At this point the whole group ran off the stage.

The BBC producer, Mr Michael Appleton, said: "It has been a waste of time." He said he might transmit some of the recording, but only to ridicule the group. GOVERNMENT QUITS The Belgian Government resigned yesterday in a dispute over a pact dividing the country up into three linguistic regions. Mr Tindemans, Prime Minister, saw King Baudouin to hand in the Government's resignation. The King asked the Government to carry on a caretaker INDEX TO OTHER PAGES Home News 2, 3, 4, 11 Foreign News 4 Arts Notices 8 Court Social 00 Woman's Page 9 Leader 10 I SON Manufacturers of Europe's widest range of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. HEATH PAY PLEA CUTS LITTLE ICE Conference backs Thatcher policy By DAVID HARRIS, Political Correspondent THE policy differences between Mrs Thatcher and Mr Heath looked as wide as ever yesterday after the former Prime Minister had tried in vain to soften the strong line now emerging from the Conservative leadership against a formal incomes policy.

Although Mr Heath's appearance at the Conservative conference at Brighton brought none of the personal tensions of some past visits, he was distinctly out of step with the Shadow Cabinet on the central issue of how a Conservative government would approach the pay question. He was given a warm but not ecstatic welcome by nearly 4,000 delegates who were in the hall for the main debate of the week. Perhaps, significantly, he was not accorded a general standing ovation- -some groups of party workers did stand and applaud him, but their lead was not taken up by the whole RHODESIA POLICY HECKLED By NICHOLAS COMFORT THE last shreds ot a bipartisan policy on Rhodesia were torn asunder yesterday in a bitter Conservative party conference debate during which Mr John Davies, Shadow Foreign Secretary, failed to pledge himself to, lift sanctions or to demand the admission to Britain of Mr Ian Smith. Rattled, and at times sounding close to tears, Mr Davies was subjected to a steady stream of barracking and insults as he condemned the Labour Government, and insisted that he had always personally supported the internal settlement. But, although he formally renounced a bipartisan policy which had been under strain since Mr Smith announced the settlement last March, he failed to satisfy much of his audience.

When the chairman, Sir Herbert Redfearn; called for thanks to Mr Davies, his voice was drowned by jeering from the floor. Mr Davies, who appeared to have difficulty delivering his speech as Mrs Thatcher and was immediately afterother sTory leaders looked on, wards to have been unwell. Medical treatment He later issued that he had been austatement medical treatment for, some weeks. was returning London and would take no further part in the conference. He said he had "asked the National Union to release him 99 so that he could have further medical consultations.

Mr Richardul Luce, take his MP place for Shore- today in the conference debate on foreign affairs. The conference was debating a resolution tabled by the party's National Union which condemned Labour's failure to use the internal settlement as a basis for establishing democracy in Rhodesia, attacked its 66 support for those who use terrorist tactics for despotic ends" and called on the Government to work constructively with all parties. It did not, however, mention sanctions, nor did it deal with the Government's refusal to admit Mr Smith. Sir Herbert. chairman of the National Union, was bitterly heckled when he refused to call amendments on these subjects.

Dr Owen accused The resolution, moved by Mr Ray Whitney, MP for Wycombe and a former Foreign Office Africa expert, was carried overwhelmingly. But a substantial number of delegates made clear their feeling that the motion was irrelevant. The call for sanctions to be lifted came from Sir Charles Pickthorn of Wells, who reminded the conference they dealing with "babies being strangled in barbed wire and not their own standard of living. Backing his call. Miss Patricia Hodgson (Hornsey) accused Dr Owen, the Foreign Secretary, of showing 99 contempt for Black Africans by Continued on Back Col.

5 Union acts to end 'patient vetting' row By DAVID LOSHAK, Health Services Correspondent UNION officials acted last night to end the controversy over claims that they were 66 vetting" patients for operations at a INFLATION KEY TO PAY POLICY By BLAKE BAKER Industrial Correspondent DRIVE to contain A inflation through as yet unspecified measures to control prices will be made by Trades Union Congress leaders in the continuing talks with the Government agreed at 10, Downing Street late on Tuesday night. But at the same time. as members of the TUC economic committee and Mr Len Murray, general secretary, made clear yesterday, the unions budge from their insistennot a return to free collective" bargaining. What remained unclear was how far wages settlements might eventually be moderated if prices are kept down. Some influential TUC leaders are thinking on the lines that prosperous firms, like Ford, now involved in an official strike by 57,000 manual workers, which afford pay rise above the original five per cent ceiling, should not be allowed to pass the costs on in higher prices.

Whether this should be done through Price Commission or prevented by punitive taxation measures has not been thought out. Cash limits Nor has the effect on higher unemployment if firms which are not SO prosperous are faced with pay claims which they cannot afford without economies. Nor again, has the situation of the public sector, whether services or trading nationalised industries. But in their efforts to restore a semblance of unity with the Labour Government before the General Election, what appeared clear after the TU economic committee meeting is in effect some leaders. are thinking of selective.

financial controls, onposing equally selective, unfair, Government sanctions. Once again, the Labour movement appeared to be moving towards Tory philosophies of limiting the availability extra cash, which in Continued on Back Col. 7 CALLAGHAN SET FOR CHINESE VISIT Mr Callaghan may become the first Labour Prime Minister to visit China. Yesterday he agreed to visit the Republicand invited Chairman Hua to come to Britain. The invitation to Mr Callaghan was extended by Huang Hua, Chinese Foreign Minster, during talks at Downing Street.

The Prime Minister accepted, but said he could not give a date. However, he added that he hoped Chairman Hua would be able to visit Britain soon. According to officials, Mr Callaghan said that Britain looked forward to enhancing her relations with China in the fields of trade, education and cultural exchanges as well as exchanges between Ministers. Picture-P4. The Daily Telegraph We apologise to our readers for the absence of certain regular features from today's issue.

This is because of a continuing industrial dispute in our London office. AID IS READY FOR REFUGEES who could act as servants. No split up By MARY ELLEN SYNON THE 346 Vietnamese refugees rescued by British seamen in the South China Sea will arrive at Stansted Airport from Taiwan early Sunday morning on board two chartered airplanes. They will be taken to emergency accommodation: at the Kensington Student Centre, London, where the Red Cross are to set up first aid station and the WRVS will distribute clothing, the British Council for Aid to Refugees said yesterday. A spokesman for BCAR said numerous inquiries had been received from people seeking Vietnamese babies for adoption or wanting to employ refugees as domestic servants.

general secretary Nora Morley Fletcher, said there would be no babies for adoption as all the refugees appeared in family single young and women groups, ps, and there, were no If someone is willing to offer employment to a whole family in a home, we would certainly consider such aD offer," she said. 66 But there is no question of splitting up families," Mrs Morley-Fletcher said. A call was made for volunteers experienced in dealing with refugees, especially interpreters and doctors. The refugees will stay on board the rescue ship, the Glasgow-registered Wellpark, in Taiwan, until they are taken to the airplanes on Saturday, BCAR said they are stood to have only the clothes they are wearing, and the Red Cross will have blankets on hand at Stansted Airport to provide warmth until the refugees receive new clothes at the Kensington centre. Thousands are waiting-P4 HOTTEST DAY IN OCTOBER FOR 9 YEARS Yesterday was the hottest October day since 1969 and the hottest day this year since Aug.

19. Manchester Weather Centre recorded a maximum of 74F (23C) and seven hours of sunshine. The Indian summer, a spokesman said, was expected to last for "a day or two yet." Some areas of, the North, however, including Blackpool and Fleetwood, were hit by thundery showers. NAVY EXERCISE The Japanese Navy, increasingly concerned about a buildup of the Soviet Pacific fleet, has started large-scale manoeuvres designed to test its ability to guard the archipelago's coasts. Today's Weather (Midnight Forecast) GENERAL SITUATION: Ridge of High pressure will build across UK from anticyclone over Cen Europe.

LONDON, MIDLANDS, CEN ENGLAND: Dry, early mist or fog, sunny periods. Winds SE, light. Max temps 25C (77F). CEN ENGLAND: Dry, early mist or fog, sunny periods. Winds SE, light.

24C (75F), WALES, NW ENGLAND, LAKE DIST: Scattered showers possible later, early mist or fog, sunny periods, Winds light. 22C (72F). ISLE OF MAN: Scattered showers possible later, bright or sunny periods. Winds light. (64F).

NE ENGLAND: Dry, early mist or fog, bright sunny periods. Winds to SW, light. 20C (68F). NORTH SEA, STRAITS OF DOVER, ENGLISH CHANNEL (E), GEORGE'S CHANNEL, IRISH SEA: Slight. OUTLOOK: Mostly dry with some sunshine.

Weather Reports- -P14 hospital in Birmingham. The controversy began at the 200-bed Woodlands had to get the consent of a urgent operations, because they controlled the use of sterilising equipment needed for surgery. One surgeon warned that there was a danger of clinical decisions being made by nonmedical staff. Last night, the committee controlling the industrial action by hospital engineers in the West Midlands met health officials and reinstated the use of the sterilising equipment on a full-time basis. 'Essential cases' Earlier reports said surgeons had to submit a list of essential cases to a health administrator who had to ask the unions' action committee to switch on the equipment.

But Mr Bob Moseley, general administrator the South Birmingham Health District, said there had been no question of patient lists being made available to anyone. It had been the consultants' decision whether an operation should go ahead and in every case the equipment had been made available in the operating theatre. He said last night's agreement meant emergency operations could be carried out without any reference to the committee. The action committee, said to have been vetting surgeons' lists, consisted of 12 officials of Mr Clive Jenkins's ASTMS. Another of the five unions involved in the dispute, Nalgo, yesterday denied that its action was endangering any patients.

Met requirement Mr. Ray Harris, officer, Nalgo's said assis- his tant organising members had discussed responsibly with hospital managers the level of service required to handle all emergency admissions, and had met this requirement to the best of their ability. My members have not set themselves up as medical arbiters, determining who should be admitted to hospital who not." he stated. These decisions of the are consul- solely the responsibility tants and doctor." dispute, involving 3,500 works supervisors and engineers, has reduced more than 50 hospitals throughout the country to taking accident and emergency cases only. with a claim that surgeons Royal Orthopaedic Hospital 12-man union committee for GUNMEN MURDER PROFESSOR Far Left extremists yesterday shot and killed a top criminologist at point blank range as they continued audience-either when he arrived or after he had spoken.

He was greeted with respect. But the warmth and the standing ovation were reserved for the entry on the platform a few Conference Reports. and PictureEditorial Comment-P10 minutes later of Mrs Thatcher, the undisputed leader, who shook hands with Mr Heath. In his speech from the rostrum, Mr Heath stuck to his views on incomes policyand no one in the hall thought less of him for remaining consistent in his stand, although the tide of party opinion has clearly swept behind the ThatcherJoseph rejection of a rigid policy. pay, differences of approach were made clear but not flaunted in the speech by Heath and in the platform reply by Sir Geoffrey Howe, Shadow Chancellor.

Dispute ignored An uncontroversial motion calling for a reduction in taxation as the main means of increasing industrial production was passed without dissent. But the motion, in the manner of Tory conferences, ignored the dispute inside the party. But by their reception of the two speeches, the constituency representatives made it clear that they backed the approach of the leadership, as presented by Sir Geoffrey, than Mr Heath's hankering for some form of incomes policy. For once, Sir Geoffrey had a conference success and a genuine standing ovation. There is no to dog.

matise about monetary policy, and there is also a part to play for incomes policy in the economy let us not dogmatise about that either," said Mr Heath. Time and again he emphasised that there was no simple, no single solution." There was a vast public sector and the Government was bound to be involved in that. We know that full and well, and we know that the private sector cannot be entirely dissociated from what happens in the massive public sector for for which the Government are responsible," he added. If we learn from experience. surely let us learn that." 'Grieve, don't gloat' Earlier, Mr Heath had gone out of his way to warn party not to rejoice in the Government's current problems over the Ford dispute and the rejection of the five per cent limit by the Labour conference last week.

"Now we hear that the Government's pay policy has broken down," he said. "I suggest to you that it is not yet clear to what extent it has broken down. "But if it has broken down, there is nothing here for gloating, nothing for joy. We should grieve for our country." Sir Geoffrey, praising Continued on Back Col. 6 66 their civil war against the state.

It was the second urban guerrilla murder in two days and the 18th in Italy this year, including the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Sgr. Aldo Moro, by the Red Brigades. gunman aided by another man and a woman shot Prof. Alfredo Paolella, 50, in the head, stomach and legs as he went to his garage to collect his car yesterday, police said. Soon afterwards, an unidentified telephone caller told the newspaper Il Mattino: "This is the Front It is us who have done away with Paolella, collaborator of the state and torturer of political prisoners." Front Line' is a violent farleft group linked closely with the Red Brigades, who claimed responsibility for killing a top Italian civil servant, Sgr.

Girolamo Tartaglione, 65, in Rome on Tuesday. Sgr Tartaglione, DirectorGeneral for Penal Affairs in the Justice Ministry, was a close friend of Prof. Paolella and both were experts in penal research and prison reform. A colleague said yesterday: Paolella and Tartaglione were always fighting to make the prisons more humane." The murders of two criminologists on consecutive days indicate there could links between the Red Brigades in Rome and the Front Line in FIORD is facing a total blackout of its stand at the Motor Show opening at the NEC, Birmingham, next Friday unless pay dispute is quickly settled: The strike at Fords had already interrupted preparation of show cars; however, the management managed to get some other cars onto their stand but stewards at the show complained that they cars had been brought in scab labour. At the Motor Show Press conference in London terday Sir Barrie Heath, President of the Society of Manufacturers and Traders, which organises the show.

revealed that he had made a personal appeal to the Ford management to remove the cars from the stand 66 to take the heat out" of what appeared to nasty situation blowing up. Under cover The cars have now been pushed to the back of the hall under covers. Despite this setback, Sir Barrie described the show as 66 a mind It represents massive investment and reflects the confidence of the world's motor industry in its he said. There were more than 720 exhibitors, compared with about 400 exhibitors at previous Earls Court shows and there still. a list of companies which would have liked to have participated had there been more space.

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