Workers Press no. 216

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OCT 29 1970

workers press of the The daily organ Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 216 • FRIDAY JULY 24, 1970 PRICE 6d. New As Hull bosses arrogance grows What repression think Jones by Don't be Pompidou complacent govt. IN PREVIOUS editorials we

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

THE FRENCH government, reply- left-wing une organizations banned in 1968, has angers reluseu lo mil tne dan on tour ol In relation to another three those associated with the International Com.

mas the crisis intensifies and mittee of the Fourth International, the So as theck dissolving decree tnem been annulled. The organizations which remain under the ban are the Revolutionary Com- dockers daGWU divisional chairman Harry Battie speaking to Tilbury Krivine, the Alain dockers yesterday. July E1000 Fund internadona si commun- ist Party (PI) of Pierre Tilbury men rises to Frank, Voix Ouvrière and the Marxist-Leninist Com- £467 17s 2d munist rarty. refuse to The caled si orderle against the force move cargoes ANGER AMONG Hull dockers at transport the ban douse decision to keep Be home are dry in 800 union leader Jack Jones' recommendation to must s right-wing

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ratorshit unload perishable cargoes has been fuelled by He do end on the DESPITE the decision of the Transport and attack the publication of a letter from dock employers mitt This General Workers' leadership commends to Tory Employ: dockers to move perishable food cargoes, a mass united action bot. by every section meeting of TILBURY dockers yesterday voted the raful Minister ment to handle only essential medical supplies.

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a background of ide Robert Carr. The seasoning Whịch Ulster marches banned should treat with great The letter, which calls trusten suspicion for a showdown with R.U.C. back the dockers on questions of discipline and pay, be surprised to hear this.

was sent to Carr early *Dockers who have in July, before the start in Bogside of the strike. person could continuously steppea up N IRELAND'S government yesterday announced a ban on all parades until January 31, 1971, the only exceptions being the Remembrance Day parades on Sunday, government November 8, themselves strictly Orange affairs.

Loader hia vas to have the docket s The letter among t beli on August 12, the star s reveais lau • te beause Royal group London dockers collected their strike pay yesterday.

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HOOVER

OCT 29 1970

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 216 •

FRIDAY JULY 24, 1970

PRICE 6d. New As Hull bosses arrogance grows W hard repression 18:0: think Jones by Don't be Pompidou complacent govt.

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

Jack durinations course THE FRENCH government, reply.

leci ing to appeals by the left-wing what fund inaudient, We hake organizations banned in 1968, has angers fraudulently refused to lift the ban on four of In relation to another three.

those associated with the International Com- mittee of the Fourth International. the dissolving decree been annulled. The organizations which remain under the ban ale the kevolutionary com- Capacity of the munist Youth (JCR), led dockers T&GWU divisional chairkers yesterday.

de speaking to Tilbur the Alair Krivine July E1000 Fund Internationalist Commun- Tilbury men Ist party (rul) or Pierre Frank, Voix Ouvrière and rises to tne Marxist-Leninist Com- £467 17s 2d munist Party. refuse to The the Council . State, And must be bed. H must be speedier and concerne move cargoes

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AMONG Hull dockers at transport dou's decision to kee union leader Jack Jones' recommendation to

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BY MARTIN ZARROP

DESPITE the decision of the Transport and move. he publication of a letter from dock employers General recommending Workers' leadership every section dockers to move perishable food cargoes, a mass on ted money. to Tory Employ meeting of TILBURY dockers yesterday voted Street, Minister ment to handle only essential medical supplies.

A. M. Robert Carr.

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chairman divisional Harry 1,000-strons

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Ulster marches banned dressed The letter, which calls the outside for a 'showdown' with union headquarters, there R.U.C. back readers were angry question on the Ene dockers on queston of discipline and pay, movement contalners Be surposed to dear this.

from the docks. Was send careder divisional in July, before the start who have in Bogside cargo or lne surike. one mass meet- was issued Bat was To de emer deal wan c. expect: our emphasis. would have N IRELAND'S government yesterday announced a ban during the strike. Battie insisted that on all parades until January 31, 1971, the only exceptions Hull dockers had already y 15 containers being Remembrance Sunday, pay parades a served to sten ther November 8, themselves strictly Orange affairs.

reported 50. Lon • bJ PoThese Feeling high have reveals that ( Assor monint as res Royal group London dockers collected their strike pay yesterday.

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THE FAMILY

Mr Thomas O'Shea, a Southampton docker and his wife outside their pre-war council flat. 'I've been the dock 34 years. Look at what I have got to show-| can't even una cal says Mr O'Shea. 'We have been after the £20 basic for donkey's . Even vears.. with this new deal which gives us £37 10s, the employers can cut us down to our basic—£11 1s 8d if there is a world slump in trade.'

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BOB GLASS

:: convenor at Engineering campany, and a dele makers' Soc :1. conference fo Workers Press I THINK there are two reasons why Labour lost the election.

First, those workers who were selfish and showed a lack of feeling for their fellow men by voting Tory. Secondly, I think that had the Labour government given some sort of leadership by im- plementing true socialist poli- cies, then they would not have lost the election. * The abstentions in the elec- tions showed a lack of faith in the Labour Party: At the General Election the majority of people only supported the Labour Party because they were opposed to the return of the Tories, not because they supported Wilson. We are not defeated. • fight I am confident we can this government. We are look- ing forward to the revision of the deals due in the Tyne ship- yards. I thought it was in the bag. I voted Labour, but it looks as if a lot of other people stayed at home. PEOPLE went and voted but felt that they didn't really have a choice-the general attitude was "Tory or Labour, what's the difference'. It is obvious to the politi- cally conscious workers that there is a difference, but many housewives, for instance, did not see it, particularly in view of steep price increases under the Labour government. There- fore they did not vote for the Party in power because of this. Women see things happening which they oppose and there- fore vote against it. Also the Tories carried out vote-catching policy of offering the 'liberal' Tory line of Ted Heath, or the policies of Powell. What the Tory Party con- sists of now is a policy to 'Save the Argylls', "Save Pro- testantism', 'Bring back hang- ing' and 'Attack the trade unions'. But in relation to the trade unions, what the Tories pro- pose is very little different to what Barbara Castle proposed.

On the question of trade union laws, opposition to the Labour government came from the rank and file, not from the leadership of the trade unions.

At first, workers did not convenor at the Middle Docks y. and a delegate to the Boiler- onference for 1970, told the If the Tories attempted to bring in any anti-union laws, we would strike. I think the issues on the docks will set the precedent for the struggle against the Tory government and will determine, in a way, the future facing the trade unions. If in the course of the dock strike the Tories try to man the docks with troops, we will have to consider the best of supporting the method dockers, including strike ac- tion. If a Labour government was returned after the Tory govern- ment is forced to resign, I would like to see the Wilson leadership replaced by one in- on pursuing socialist tent policies. I would say, however, that if the Labour Party cannot break from the bankers and "Gnomes of Zurich', then the working class will be forced to seek an alternative. MRS CATHERINE BURNS, assemt N London factory and a member o I THOUGHT it was in the bag.

I voted Labour, but it looks as if a lot of other people stayed at home. One of the main troubles was the prices and They wages policy-there was no prices policy, it only ever touched wages. But the Tories are not going to do anything for us, they only look after the rich. There is this legislation against strikes that they want to bring in, but every worker knows that this is their only weapon against the employers. If the Tories do do any- thing about the taxes it will be only the working class that witl suffer. I see already that Powel HUGH HILL, a Paisley, Scotland, the Workers Press believe the Labour government would follow such policies, but when they realized what was happening they revolted against it. Now we see the hypocrisy of union leaders who state 'If they ask us into the ring we will fight'. It was the Labour gov- ernment which opened door to the Tory trade union reform bill. It is necessary for the work- ing class to take on the Tories, but to prepare the army before going into battle. In my factory, for instance, we are at present shackled by •existing agreements. When are termin- these agreements ated that is the time to move, but the preparation must begin now. In • Paisley there is tremen- dous opposition to the rents and increases among rates tenants, but it is impossible to deal with this issue as a local one. All that can be done locally is to organize mass protests, but that is not enough. It is necessary to defeat the Stalin ist view that the movemen against rents is confined to protest. What is required is a leader- ship prepared to carry the fight right through to force the Tories to resign. I think the issues on the docks will set the precedent for the struggle against the Tory government. JRNS, assembler at Gestetner's d a member of the AEF, told us: they suggesting that are people pay for hospital beds when they are sick as though going to a hotel. they were They might put up the money charged on prescriptions, teeth and spectacles. • I work they have Where been talking about equal pay for women, but nothing has been done about it. There is not enough consultation with the shop floor in the unions.

I am in favour of ballots on the shop floor. But I do think that racialism had a lot to do with the result of the election. I know where I work a lot of the girls said that they agreed with what Powell says on the question.

ey: Scotland, textile worker told It is necessary for the working class to take on the Tories, but to prepare the army before going into battle.

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JIMMYJOHNS, ON assistant sec the Glasgow and district amalgar Union of Pist Office Workers,: sonal capacity, told the Workers P THE IMMEDIATE danger facing Post Office workers as a result of the return of the Tories can be seen in the re- fusal of the Tory leaders to give the assurance sought by the Post Office Engineering Union as to the de-nationaliza- tion of the telephone service.

Indeed the only commercial venture that the Post Office has been allowed to undertake as a public corporation is the Datapost, a courier type of service with guarantees of de- livery not enjoyed by the general public and with in- dividual contracts of doubtful profitability. The decision of the Tories not to increase postal charges for six months means that in order to recoup the money in- volved in the last all-round pay increase negotiated by the UPW, the Post Office will be forced to increase the spate and intensity of staffing re- visions and the introduction of the management data system.

The union has been involved in running courses at Sussex University on MDS—a particu- larly repugnant form of time- measurement-for its general officers, EC members and dis- trict organizers. Under MDS each hour is divided into ten units of six minutes. Supervisors at various con- FRANK FROST a member of th and the National Union of Seame district Maritime Board for S Shie the NUS annual conference for S I THINK Labour lost the elec- tion because they didn't carry out socialist policies. If they had carried these out-nation- alization of the docks, car in- dustry, and shipping—the mass would of the working class have been behind them. Pressure on the government is all right as long as it is not pious pressure. The only way pressure on so- you can put called scoialist MPs and trade- union-sponsored MPs like Labour's Gordon Bagier of Sunderland South, who is sponsored by the NUR, would be for the union to withdraw all funds, etc., that they put up to back him. I think every pressure should be put, including strikes, to force this Tory government to resign, to be followed by a Labour government based on a socialist starting programme from the needs of the working and not those of the class banks and big business. Seamen should support the strould all other workers as nected with the ports. On the incidents involving Polish coal, I think all ship- ments should have been stopped. While I recognize the need for socialist countries to have trade with capitalist countries, in this case all ship- should have been ments topped by the Polish govern nent to express their solidarit with the striking miners. Following up our pre election interview series —'Unions and Labour'— on what trade unionists from different areas of the country saw as the issues in the General Election, Workers Press reporters have been out in several working-class areas of Britain this week seeking views on the reasons for Labour's election defeat and on the fight against the Tories. This is the third of a weekly discussion series to which we hope members of the labour movement in every area of the country will contribute. assistant secretary (indoors) of trict amalgamated branch of the e Workers, speaking in a per.

the Workers Press : trol points then record the movement of staff. In this way, despite assurances to the con- trary, all the so-called non- productive time, including toilet time and casual reliefs, is divorced from actual work- ing times. Proposed staffing cuts are then based on the findings so arrived at. Despite the co-operation of in all manner of the union productivity deals, a major shock awaits the leadership in the negotiations of the next wage increase. Relations between the pre- vious Minister and the union leadership were so cordial that Stonehouse could advise them in advance of the final wage negotiation that the Labour cabinet had authorized an in- crease of up to £2. Conse- quently they had little difficulty in securing the offer. Heath's new young Minister of Posts and Telecommuni- cations will be offering no hand-outs however, and the full industrial strength of the UPW will have to be brought to bear in the pending claim.

As soon as he has completed imposing policy Tory on broadcasting, Chataway Mr shall, with a will, set about putting the unions in their places and may even be pre- ferred as a potential union- basher by the Tory press to the colourless Robert Carr.

nember of the Communist Parly ion of Seamen, a member of the ard for S Shields and delegate to erence for S Shields. Seamen should support the struggles of the dockers, as should all other workers connected with the ports.

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Strom i nurmono ENOCH Powell has his ad - mirers and supporters-there's no denying that. Some him out folow backwardness, confusion and frustration; and some bonds NIZe common interest. Common equals interest class interest, and span frontiers oceans. So it does nat come as discover

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one Enoch Powel's greatest 2omiters Powell none other US Senator Than Strom Thurmond This senator from South Nixon. At the Republican con- remark into the Congressional Carolina renowned venton in loo. ne was insuru- record: in procuring acuronary. mental nomina- "une mance anti-trade-union tien richly rewarded for his Party will rest natriot. lAnderchin demagogue-has sent a richly rewarded the shoulders of Enoch and work. to MP from He is reputed to have chosen Thurmond sees the links that inviting him Spiro bind visit the Nixon's vice-

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rowed manner, United states. presidential candidate. cleariv. ina. similar Thurmond has reached new Thurmond his own workers of Britain and America with iCeS political heights (depths?) Powel and quotes from recognize their common since the election of Richard has inserted this enemies Chavez

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man extee won the fond embrace press is clutch at straws.' calculating in its choice won Recent activities of certain of revolutionaries and saints of Robert Kennedy and other Treasury representing Cohn- notables for agents, his effotts. the Treasury Bendit, Luther King- He has had to work hard to Department, bear Inis axiom out thev al received the treatment.

Keen members in ine It anpears these Timen have has been necessary to appeal to The A menon Dress making 'routine' checks ounce backwardness heen crooming another man tor the of They live bee and superstition. post house rebel: Cesar of been particularly Chavez, head Two grape years ago he went on a interested in those card-holders pickers' union. 25-day hunger strike to remind we have vorce c on The strike of California his followers of the non-violent hut their interests grape pickers been fought nature of the struggle. has are broad enough to include finished fast anyone who borrower receiving communion alongside over a merio or ave veas.

militant' pub neen «mage to finally force union recognition Senator Kennedy. ucauons as well. on the vineyard owners Chavez said at one juncture was brought to the in the strike: majority attention of the American pub- pickers Mexican-Ameri- If are strike means the primarilv Catholic semi- blood Cars. one grower would remind uterate and ordinarily on the grower's son or one worker or verge of starvation. Lenin. with his one worker's son, then it isn't reacers noW solved worth it.' usual tarsightedness. Chavez. instead ot hanting problem when for united class action against It is not difficult to imagine this particular used the British Museum grape owners turned the with glee that sort Reading Room. He used a false of into liberal remark is greeted by the cause Halle celebre. LOUs nineerine ano posses Spiro Agnew • VICE President Spiro which symbolize the naner nromised to tended to print only good news leaving characteristics of Spiro T. that A anew recentiu thanaht ha had made it with one of the news- out all the bad that competes he admired. for -Indo-China our attention- small hand The the 'New balonev to those who oppose Wal SunKes. tumbling share prices and so you and your responsibilities.

The big hand Agnew was given the paper's on. says peace and most sought-after spot on the Uplifted Spiro T. sent a tele- love to mankind. op of the editorial page for a gram of congratulations to the Agnew replied that he found special article. aspiring editors the watch anG closer However clever' (surprise, surprise?) and Inspection Untortunate v another niece showed some of the old pique cut across this that his children would enjoy of had He showing through. message of encouragement.

wearing it. The heading e read Topics The whole story of the paper But then vulgar commercial- Spiro Tiding in dividing country ism invaded This comtontable relationship of mutual respect.

• THE US vice president had hottom of the last At the carried away Vr Dougheny's frm turne column the discerning eye read called the out to he in the smallest of italics 'Spiro Time Company' and the watch the Spiro Agnew watch'. Vice-President of Agnew is The watch • Do inerty by is nor is mass production. the United States'. a Dr Hale Dougherty Agnew's attorney has Yes? runs a small watch manufac- been forced to issue a state. MR

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horizons athanah tha har Turers. ment that The Doctor wrote to Mr tor's 'droll produat' is in the were hrichtened the other dau heard news the Agnew: best traditions whan ha launching of a rather different 'I respect your talent and humour, mass production kind of abilities and all above your another newspaper. question altogether honesty' and went The glad tidings concerned on and is a violation of the right the forthcoming production of nlain that the watch of privacy under US law. was in.

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

DESPITE AN official news clamp down, more details about Tuesday's fighting between strik- ing building workers and Spanish police have leaked out of Granada. Granada's striking building The three workers shot workers now in the front are were given a rapid burial.

rank of the fight against fascism, and Families of only of Spanish British two follow the murdered strikers trade unionists must were the example of Southampton's allowed to attend the funeral dockers giving their for fear of a political demon- possible struggle every sup- stration against the fascist regime-the third was buried port. secretly without being iden- Malaysian tified. police surrounded Armed the cemetery. students

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ABOUT 100 Malaysian univer- The fighting involved at demonstrated 3,000 sity students least workers, during outside the British High Com- which I1 workers, apart from mission in Kuala Lumpur those shot dead, were hit by yesterday against Tory plans police bullets. to supply arms to S Africa.

Forty other injured workers feared seeking medical treat- ment lest they arrested were Dockers a for having taken part in the demonstration. Despite constant patrols by hundreds armed security of

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through the Granada ponce trade as well as several ship- working-class districts, the to avoid workers remain firm in their ping companies demand for a daily 27s wage Hull and indeed instead their present Like all of Spain's workers, That the dock Granada's are involved in the and the Hull employers struggle for free trade unions employers are not speaking run by stooges loyal for themselves alone-view to nOl Franco and the employers. the advent of Devlin on the docks. Whatever cost

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by military if it involves member of the Labour and crippling the balance of pay- Industrial Correspondents' and ments throwing Group. thousands of workers onto The Group has access to the dole. important facilities for indus- work trial journalists' as copies of government Bills, White Papers and but January it voted against an application for membership from industrial pondent David Maude. The 'Morning Star', which AT THE July meeting of the received an advance of copy the CIR report, has a member Brent (London) Teachers' the Group who voted Association number In Communist Party teachers David Maude's appli- cation. discussing voted against an We call on all trade union- emergency resolution which ists to submit resolutions to called for the defeat of the their union branches, trades councils Tory government. and shop stewards behind this committees demanding that The thinking Workers Press be admitted to attempt to consciously prevent Group and all from fighting for an the is given teachers provide the bankrupt facilities necessary to alternative to news affecting workers' National Union of Teachers' every- day lives. leadership is clearly spelt out in the July issue of the Com- Party journal 'Educa- munist

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tion Today and Tomorrow'.

In editorial reviewing an 1970 the situation after the and E Eng- London area, SE Mr Ian Gunn conference, Midlands: Cloudy land, praised teachers specifically Moderate with rain at times. for separating education from SW winds. Near normal. Max. politics: 20C (68F). "The profession is already NW Central southern, and it armed, almost instinctively, England. central northern would seem at first sight, with Cloudy, Midlands: with rain the realization that until one becoming brighter at times, is in a position to administer West. SW from Moderate the coup de grace, one does light, winds, becoming west- not take on all the forces of Near normal. Max. 20C erly. the enemy on all fronts at the (68F). same time' teachers insting Paises Here Gunn the Cloudy with rain, -the grow- coastal fog. Becoming brighter ing awareness among teachers from West, with showers and of the fight ahead-in order SW sunny intervals. Moderate to avoid the fight for Marxism Near winds, veering NW. against the empirical method 18C (64F). normal. Max. that severs the facts (of edu- England: NE Occasional cation) from the class struggle.

showers. Sunny intervals. Light or moderate winds, veer- Axe spending ing West. Rather cool. Max. Teachers are being attacked 17C (63F). Glasgow N Ireland: on all fronts. area, will axe The Tories social Occasional showers. Sunny service and educational spend- intervals. Light SW winds, Rather ing. In education thev made veering NW. cool. before the elec- Max. 15C (59F). it clear long tion that they will gear every Outlook for Saturday and aspect closely Sunday: Unsettled, with rain to the more needs of capital- at times or showers, and tem- -attempts to peratures rather below normal introduce productivity methods, a rationalized pay generally.

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maintained that terms in ports individual | were for individual matter negotiation unaffected by a rise in the basic rate. Tonge, on the other hand,

INQUIRY

has throughout made Dev- lin the centre of his case against a basic rate rise on

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the docks.

THE COURT

of inquiry docks dispute into the ended in London yesterda!

and chairman Lord Pearson findings as promised the quickly as possible. leader Transport UnIOn Jack Jones had earlier re- emphasized that the union demanding 'pro- was not piecework rata increases in rates' if the basic rate was raised. Both he and employers' leader George Tonge Resisterede Published ished ape Wor ters the the importance of stressed

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Press, 186a Clapham High Street, the rapid introduction of London, Two of the Devlin Plough Press (TU). Phase sereet, London, 80b Clanhar modernization scheme on Jones the docks — though

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A SERIES OF WORKERS PRESS INTERVIEWS

THE DOCKER AND HIS FAMILY

I've been on the dock 34 years. Look at what I've got to 50 show -1 can't even run a car... MR

THOMAS O'SHEA

has Southampton worked the on water-front for 34 years.

What has he got to show for this lifetime of killing labour—-he lives with his wife in a small flat in a gloomy and council block dowr TUn orc wal car he has no all y tenements, expensive luxuries. hernia. I'm one of your affluent dockers,' he says I'm one of your affluent dockers', says Mr Thomas O'Shea, seen above with his wite in their pre-war southampion tenement Lal.

with a wry smil 20e have beer deer the Meek. Pickets dot one e €20 'Systematic French once Southampton i a cold hip be pro shouldaniz touch Southamptor perishables, left torture' in bent under the Tory threa Control! otherero nome

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threats 'THE ORGANS charged with maintaining the gives the co the banhoman there is ho communation tions is existing order' in brazi now use torture as o systemic and scientifically developed practise, will fight to a finish s and the tok on: says a report issued by the International Com- icacersup activitre should be a mass mission of Jurists yesterday.

The report is based or

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documents smuggled out Stalinists head off of jails and concentration Thine ization. This isc Prevait and hit he day. containerization camps and details given by exchanged prisonels class gets ready for trade lins teachers' fight last month for the kid- orantatons Becomes a it German

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BYA WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

prevent the miserable ent. poss son at there se the months Suffocation Commissio in her Pee, atie cut in duedin squeeze submerging Guan int behind Women teachers ction positio cannol Broke one prices sharpenins success of teachers efforts to condary schoo Egha che on the Wite Paper on i ori nottae shei are to mean to ge? relative strength or Intensily of avoid. on an mann particular issue, as must Huer hang 'Where tried Employers than prom the shi ate is really responsie natives paderein to d Tilbury will support Smithield me many modernizatier

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it victor well wil be sere plet but I will to be so in the read enchisiasm of the teachers tot justifies and ac- member Ron Friday July 24, 1970 miles done with It. 1 familie the prices defer his holiday working people

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On the same pore is a straint.

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