BL's bid to vet workers' private lives (continued)

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ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, 28 Middle Lane, London N8. and printed"! fist no Olived if Registered as a newspaper at the CipO. Signed :

Opposition Sadat is afraid of a resurgence of the Moslem Right. There is a long tradition of such activity in Egypt, and recent developments in Iran have boosted it again.

Recently the Moslem fundamentalists have been among the sharpest critics of Sadat's pro-Israeli, pro-Western policy.

While the June/July riois were in themselves not very important, Sadat's response underlines the insecurity of his rule and the widespread opposition to the Camp David sell-out and Sadat's ruinous economic policy.

ANDREW HORNUNG CLOSED:

In 1980 St. Mary's Hospital Crsui Department dealt with more than 38000 people • on average more than HARROW ROAL THE assassination of Ayatollah Ali Ghobbusa, Iran's Prosecutor General, only a few days after the killing of the President and prime minister, testifies to the degree of disintegration in the country.

The ruling Moslem fundamentalists are rapidly losing their grip; their own bodyguards are infiltrated, the Pasdaran (the pro. Khomeiny militias) are deserting, the economic situation hovers on the brink of collapse, and the opposition grows more unified.

The new prime minister, Ayatollah Kani, who almost certainly retains links with the circle around Mendi Bazargan, the first prime minister after the fall of the Shah, will try to use these links to create a new ruling consensus and to divide the opposition.

The most likely beneficiaries of the present situation must be the army and the bigger capitalists. Social disintegration and elements of civil war combine to make the situation favourable for their intervention.

This week, a group of militants opposed to the regime in Iran - mainly PMOI supporters — briefly occupied the Iranian embassy in London.

They were later arrested. It is important that any move to deport them be resisted. ed deputy convenor by secret ballot of the workers in the plant. Each time BL has refused to recognise the results of the ballot.

Last year, BL personnel director Geoffrey Armstrong gave an undertaking at national conference that BL would recognise Thornett should he be elected in December 1981, providing they had not been able to establish a legitimate case against him in the meanwhile.

He gave an undertaking that complaints would be dealt with as they arose, and no dossier would be compiled.

Now, a dossier has been compiled -and issues brought in which create dangerous precedents for the trade union movement.

BL are quoting as a major part of their case two incidents which happened outside of working hours and are therefore nothing whatever agree was registered.

The issue will now be the subject of a national conference.

Making the activities of employees outside of working hours subject matter for the BL disciplinary procedure is a very serious development indeed, particularly since BL is the pace-setter for wide sections of the employers.

BL and their South African chairman now want to control the private lives of their employces in Britain as they are able to do successfully in plants in India and in the South African apartheid The management of the Cowley Assembly Plant want in po back to the days when the plant was run by Billy Morris who had workers in the office for displaying Labour Party posters in their windows, or sacked them for joining a union.

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