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For one-day general strike against anti-union laws Bus union retreats on national The Tory pay talks No and or be en decided to yesterday from present nationa offensive cat ho add thim even gains speed have the touris dia re a 2d estra by crew's Bris pay conductors THERE has certainly been nothing like it since 1926. In almost every important industrial area • Cher the con thousands of striking workers are now engaged in battle with the employers and the Tory government. New stage 'Centralized MDW strategy' Each strike has been carefully and thought- behind Cowley strike in Mid- fuller provolicy let fully provoked East B-Leyland is rise, whilst Crisis warned: Hands

EGYPT

Suez for The t one the Laboure cat podies: extend the off piecework! ceasenre witn Israel months another sain ye say for a city sand when the PRODUCTION worth El million a week will Behind the wall of silence Egyptian National continue to be lost at British-Leyland's Morris Motors plant at Cowley, Oxford, unless the vacant presence company gives written assurances that it will stop trying to break existing piecework agree- employers ments. are busy hotting it order to hear cle here es Yesterday, m

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nd their porters down. Maxi and Austin 3-litre line On the job won is bed breach established practice for she strike Above all, manning a new line Prosinith lerien vides that labour he plant ve attack from line phasing Italian reforms £10 million loss Metalworkers' The 4-hour strike

METALWORKERS

four-hoer Italy saike yesterday iperating defian But it is no joke nd health agreem of its new Anot notes Social- then by surprise through a Democratic Lished can carpet, deliveries Christian Demoratic te all prin apted ses te- 1, the or we join blows ik and the the back tested ven No settlement meanest of e te greatest The revolution in Jordar Support Pilkington workers its reformist leadership.

can Be achieved No preparation

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League 269

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1970

VAN:

Councilmen warn A CALL for sympathetic strike action if the Tories use troops to break the council workers' strike was made at a mass meeting of local government manual workers in London yesterday. Menrom debors. all over the citi cheered Terry Wilson, secretary of the strike co-orainating committee who salol the Tories had deliberately provoked the stoppage. Industrial Re-

BY A POLITICAL

unions as well, said

CORRESPONDENT

Wordays -etter service payments Lambeth council workers lobbyini yeste dayater London Council at County and liar men from Pompidou Walk oth Ben sti meeting at Tower Hill flies to orner rank Bolivian Moscow Cords. ins to discuss the emergency generai Pompidou pres into Moscoes to the Soviet Union. takes He is outside. over gesture of solidarity This il the rater ought services security and Franco- standstill

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Vrench ca pitalists have Adjourn move te ith alarmel OF FIVE hospitals visited by a team of A THREE-MAN military junta win, idea. er of the dicori signed between - rebel ' Miran cons investigators, not one had satisfactory rooms milar deals themselvesotiate for seriously injured casualties.

no discuss the cin city's strikers. im on cou 1 the ny Hall of the ta weekend officers ntinued refusal to re Micial findings announced. It is imam ond-Claca Sb- union leaders fear if tical cot armeriencinictorior adi a has snah, ment will be ina void birem frontatio the Monday man D° THE LAND COMMISSIUN, set up by the Labour lieve it was unrepresenta- government to secure and tor new development ana 'All-out?' officers s residering and to put some curds on speculation, collected a meagre £21 million under the betterment levy in 1969-1970.

esteries on, the hospitals and file * striders In some of them Chile copper banged since the turn cent sy, Ignored officials During seems almost useless insuc workers want useles But Miranda have ignored this appears 51p.c. rise But a total of 9.245 acres stin the lisht of this report right ·41,610,000

BY A WORKERS PRESS

i are keed as mont back on the National Health made March this year Workers

CORRESPONDENT

itat services to the- premises uney Some Countis cave 8,000 strikers at Observatory amataped not ter mot in space a 45 that fidge percent. ent rise in pay THE Soviet Union launched

PUBLIC MEETING

rachuted it bac rejected 45 percent. ter it completed its ted esterday They struck 3a vertical he eat is

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Poplar Civic Hall, Bow Road rebels surrender 7.30 p.m. Adm 2s

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For one day general strike against anti-union laws Bus union retreats on national The Tory pay talks offensive evepany-by-company at local gains speed THERE has certainly been nothing like it since 1926. In almost every important industrial area thousands of striking workers are now engaged Monday ductors in battle with the employers and the Tory trainee conductors as observers government. New stage Each strike has been 'Centralized MDW strategy' carefully and thought- behind Cowley strike in Mid- fully provoked government policy-let East B-Leyland is rise, whilst

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reezing wages. crisis warned: Hands Behind ahe

EGYPT

scenes its readine nounced s Sira for three exasefire" off piecework! eastner ne if the labourite cal we say "for a very good present expires on Novem PRODUCTION worth fl million a week will Behind continue to be lost at British-Leyland's Morris Motors plant at Cowley, Oxford, unless the In the element of surprise.

company gives written assurances that it will stop trying to break existing piecework agree- Mories

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order to wear their member

CORRESPONDENT

down. Maxi 3-litre On the job and Austil woen it became clear that th biw lid practice for massed at shop: all piece from the line" phasing

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It, 15 strikers meet Italian reforms £10 million loss •Metalworkers' which cost aims has no 4-hour strike to con four- Morris 1000 in defiance bye Cons he woren class can hat couse hussen nodel. uprise th shed hich Chian Demote Peer wellia mel del off the 1,000 or so 1100, 1300 riven feated. movement is trade enion memest Support Pilkington workers its reformist leadership.

No preparation

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a few weeks a at te withou the Of course they knew it was Monday October 12 Assemble 10.30 a.m.

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Sympathetic action il troops are called in Councilmen warn A CALL for sympathetic strike action if the Tories use troops to break the council workers' strike was made at a mass meeting o local government manual workers in London yesterday Men from depots. all over the city cheered Terry Wilson, secretary of the strike co-ordinating committee, who said provoked the lories nad delberately the stoppage. tions Bill Teed and his strikebreakers ar lations eakers tough with us government

BY A POLITICAL

bring out other Mr Wilson

CORRESPONDENT

vane me one only until all ou Bart meervice payments pa more Lambeth council workers lobbyiali yest Greater London Council at County Pompidou a Lam eth, on token sonke vy al worl nee ing at tower Hiken loined th flies to Bolivian Report slams Moscow here Greater general "discuss ther conditions in munchtime ladies, County Ha takes demonstrating hospitals three sowed leade to over London. Count ai

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Adjourn move OF FIVE hospitals visited by a team of header Rosio Miranda Bas Good investigators, not one had satisfactory rooms minority over for seriously injured casualties.

the chrys Little buying by leaders weekend findimenediately publish its Land Commission Chairman of the team b announced Served that ad-Cl Information Minister Carlos goes on the Labour mont will be unavoida boyer.

THE LAND COMMISSION, set up by which followed a government to secure land for new development and 'All-out!' to put some curbs on speculation, collected a meagre opposing the president. £21 million under the betterment levy in 1969-1970.

a Ted in ine Commiscons Chile copper down. to Christmas 1970 comersed Ignored workers want Soarzed seems almost useless have i red das apar such techniques 51p.c. rise

BY A WORKERS PRESS

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1 Comy . premises under Ovando. some councis cave In. Observatory y could not offer more in space and fringe benets ise in pay THE Soviet Union into sack to al The workers want a 51 per

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riots which

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working class could and would IN CONSIDERING the fight these systems. recently published book In fact, Cliff's book is in , 'The Employers' Offen- difficult to ways most many sive-Productivity Deals It of take is morass and How to Fight Them' muddled thinking, misinforma- tion and lack of knowledge of by T. Cliff of the Inter- the subject, which sets the national Socialists we stage for the most dangerous should also refer to the ideas which can lead sections of the working class to defeat.

book published by Cliff To take up every point in and Colin Barker in 1966 the book would require a book 'Incomes Policy for this purpose alone. and Legislation Shop The most important aspect Stewards. of both books is the political method, which is characterized The two books are indivis.

abject pandering by the most to backwardness in sections able when considering the of the working class. political method of the Inter- the Cliff In introduction national Socialism group, and makes provision for those who the dangers they represent in are not prepared make of the subject, the struggles of the working proper study and who take things up in a productivity class against dangerous sectional way which deals. is the mainspring of backward- ness. He says: It might be thought that 'Not many people will want this mainly student group is to read the book right through not worth considering in at one go, so it may be useful relation to the struggles of to have a short summary of it.'

the workers' movement. He then goes on to say that he has provided an index so Certainly it is largely a stu- that they can pick out their dent movement. Of its mem- This pandering particular bit. bers, 57 per cent are students goes right to the end of the lecturers, 28.5 per cent book where the final item workers, and 14.5 white-collar 'politics' is tacked, apologetic- per cent manual workers. ally. the last page and to on half of the book. We say that the fight against

DANGEROUS

productivity deals and related systems is a principled ques-

IDEAS

not just question of tion, a tactics. While this represents The IS group sells this prin- the tendency weakness in ciple, their betrayal covering itself it does not make the with all sorts of left noises- ideas less important or danger- militancy, workers' control, ous as the case may be and in mutuality etc. dealing with these books at They have a whole history length make some we no of this, which has taken the those who sup- apologies to form of of the idealization port this argument. 'pure' (i.e. non political Nor do we make any con- of worker, and the worship cessions to those who say that shop stewards irrespective of this amounts to a factional, their politics or principles.

irrelevant debate because the numbers involved are small in relation to the working class itself.

ANTI-POLITICS,

Questions of policy and

SYNDICALISM

principle are often thrashed out in this way by tendencies The shop stewards' move- in the working-class movement was built on the ment wages which in terms of numbers and of struggle, many its seem secondary to those who highest leaders become the view things in a fixed quantita- of its features anti- point tive way. politics, syndicalism and In fact ideas fought out be- sectionalism. tween tendencies in this way Because of this development, decisive the become in predominatly during the boom struggles of the class. It Is period, the stewards' shop with this in mind that we take often becomes movement issue with the ideas of the fetter on working-class Cliff group. development. Although Cliff sets When a struggle is taken up out to make thorough-going by Marxists to break workers examination of productivity from these backward concep.

agreements, he leaves out, or tions, of boom-time groups barely mentions some of their shop stewards, conditioned by the money spinning days of the most dangerous aspects, e.g MTM; methods study; O & M, 1950s and early 1960s before the most dangerous features of the state entered the wages of the Equal Pay Bill, which could arena, become a bulwark old reactionary ideas and lead to legalized job evalua- the tion; work-studied fight against political concep- incentive bonus and, tions of struggle, schemes, most even at of all from workers face important time when struggles which are undeniably working-class standpoint, the Bedaux fight against the political. This is not in any System of the 1930s which way to detract from the decisive role proved conclusively that the

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played by many shop stewards in important struggles but we must see the weaknesses as well as the strengths of the movement. Since the great working- class weakness is that it has politics turned away from during the boom period, and since the main task is to oppose this weakness by taking politics and principles into the trade unions and the working class, such an adap- tation to those sections of the working class hostile to politics is the most dangerous method of all. It is the complete opposite to the policies of the Socialist Labour League and the All Trades Unions Alliance which set out precisely to change this backwardness by a struggle for politics and consciousness and to build a new leadership in the unions. no account in Cliff takes either book of the weaknesses of the shop stewards' move- and the way forward is ment seen in terms of a syndicalist stewards' link up of shop committees into a national shop stewards' organization.

The second aspect of Cliff's method is that he sets out in the book to hide his politics.

Nowhere does he say that he starts politically from the a state capitalist country, that capitalism rules the world over and the working class has made no gains historically in terms of taking power, and therefore socialism is a very long way off.

'EMPLOYERS'S

OFFENSIVE'

This 'theory' leads to a posi- tion which says that since capitalism has a very long future ahead of it, the 'em- ployers' offensive, which he correctly speaks of, is not a part of the death agony of the system, but the growing pains of evolutionary change as capitalism adapts to new con- ditions. Cliff does not mention the real reason for the employers' offensive — the crisis of the system. The 'reasons' he puts forward are as follows: Firstly, 'as individual invest- ments have grown enormously ... the risks involved in the act of investment have also in- creased because of the pace technological change is greater today than ever before', and 'penalties for investment in the wrong place, or at the wrong time are also much greater.'

Secondly, 'the threat of obsolescence (machinery, etc., becoming out of date) has radically increased during the present technological revolu- tion'. Thirdly, the pressure of international competition is greater than ever, and has been made sharper still by the lowering of the systematic barriers to international trade since the early 1950s, notably inside the European Common Market and the European Free Trade Association'. BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

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the employers CaRrack, Breat Logland offensive "A concie and thorough Cilff's book : A morass of muddled thinking, and lack misinformation knowledge of the subject Also. 'Another factor making it vital for the employers to increase the predictability of their costs is the increasing tendency for profit margins to decline.' These causes are given the same in each book, just as if five years had not elapsed be- tween them. Nothing has been learned at all from one of the five-year most important periods in the history of capi- talism. The latest book, except- details, ing a few technical

CLIFF

could have been written five years ago. According to Cliff and the IS these things are not inevit- able symptoms of capitalism's final crisis, of its total bank- ruptcy and decay, but simply a product of changes and un- with its even development structure. An example of this outlook is found in an article in the IS paper 'Socialist Worker' of January 4, 1969, in which 1968 events were reviewed. Accord- why ing to its author, Richard Kuper: "The strength of the system is revealed most of all on the national economic level in

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Britain. The confrontations be- tween the government and the labour movement which many expected have not materialized.'

And he goes on to explain: "The underlying situation for British capitalism is slowly improving though it still faces huge obstacles. In particuler the poverty of technological education is likely to lead to shortages of

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In the previous month, the same paper, on December 14, 1968, had remarked about "The Times' call for a coalition gov- ernment that would get to grips with industrial anarchy and student revolt: 'Socialists can be excused if they feel surprised at these outbursts. In almost every area of British capitalism, the alarmist talk seems to have no relevance to reality! The article went on to show how: *Both profitability and in.

productivity it is now better equipped to compete with its main competitors abroad.'

The fundamental conclusion is then reached by Cliff that since capitalism has not exhausted its contribution to the development of mankind's productive forces, it can still provide a high-wage, high- efficiency economy that a new stage of 'state capitalism' will emerge which will take the system forward a whole new historical stage. So here is the fundamental on productivity. Since capi- talism is simply passing through a few 'problems' ir the transition to this stage, ccord- why make productivity a principle? It just becomes a matter of putting forward a few demands which will protect workers against the worst aspects of Wednesday, October 7, 1970 the Coventrv Blue Book. how raised To TOlS wage differentials lead to con- pressure eventually run will tinually increasing wages as right through the establish- sections 'leap frog' other. call Cliff goes on. le says (on page 43 & 44 support the any contencon doubt that the Caving torce that Pok is the mv in the oint.

behind wage drift is the pay- ment the Coventry Blue Book ment be results system.' of four Coventry Motor Firms operat He then quotes the follow- ing from the Blue Book: Ins cne piecework system and "Piecework svstems a Motor Company which does courage wage driftin simple not belong to the Engineering terms because of the apparent and has wage structure (probably rate г'ога). Non-federated May 1957 6/6d 8/4‡d 7/1‡d 7/87d 8/8d December 1965 13/77d 1957/1965 6/27d 6/37d 4/11g0 1 Olal 4yta Due to Natonal incre. 44950 1970 Wage Drift 3/-d 4/5d 4/5łd 3/2d «Comparison of stilled nroduction workers earnings 957-96 at our motor manufacturing firms in Coventry and a non-federated firm) Quite a good case in favour of piecework! Constrast with thic the objectively impossibility attack chapter against fixing a piece rate and manage- PBR systems turning a blind eye ment such particularly piecework in the early stages, in order to systems many workers nave the job the ground, get been able to push up wages which later on, mie ibe do which becomes very considerably, there is no doubt

PBR

systems remain tne same. rurtnermore and a divisive the looseness so imbodied acts innuence workers. (MY as a catalyst to other indivi. emphasis duals or groups on older jobs Herehens es to cons mor seek a similar increase differentials earnings earnings potential, and as the doing workers similar jobs, earnings or the deceworkers 1n cuoung a noeral economist anc lenmal goes up in the estab.

and a 'factory worker' in order lishment or there is to discredit PBR pressure from the time workers for their rates to be • Continued next Wednesday

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Wednesday, October 7, 1970 WITH EVERY turn in the Middle - East situation the pro-Zionist propaganda chorus gets louder. 'Don't blame the Israeli leaders for basing their policies on US aid, say all kinds of ' progressives ' including "They "Tribune'-ites. cannot survive any other way! A terrible warning of where this logic leads is to be found in the story of another Middle- Eastern people. The tribe known as the Assyrians — they claim to be descendants of the ancient rulers of Chaldea-are Nestor- ian Christians. They used to live in the Hakari mountains in the region of Turkey bor- dering Russia and Persia.

In 1915, Tsarist and British agents persuaded them that they could be restored to for- mer glories in an independent state if they fought against the Turks. So, after centuries of peace Turkish and Kurdish with neighbours, the Assyrians declared war on the Sultan of Turkey. After the Russian Revolu- tion, they were left without Russian backing and fled into Iraq. When the Arab national- ist revolt began in 1920, the

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British enlisted these hardy mountaineers to help crush it.

Organized by Iraqi feudal and religious leaders, Bedouin and Kurdish bands started murdering and looting the Assyrians — with the British authorities looking on. Then, in 1922, the Assyrians were again involved in fighting the British, this time against a Turkish invasion of Iraq. By the time the British 'mandate' over Iraq I was due to end in 1930, leaving a pup- pet king in control, the Assyr- ians were hated by Arab, Ku.d and Turk, and the British had no more use for them. Plans were discussed to re- settle them in various parts of Nearly 10,000 the world. eventually went to N Syria, but money promised by Britain malaria and France to drain swamps was never raised. Diseased and leaderless---the Catholicus, head of the Nes- torian Church, was forced to live in the US-the Assyrians were left to starve. The rem- nant is now scattered through- out the Middle East. The Zionists, who _put the misery of European Jewry at disposal of imperialism, pretend to find a solution to the Jewish problem. In fact, they wall off the

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oppositionist views. countries. Jumbo boeir their only hope tha fir revolutionary of the Arab workers The prepares for late Lionism the Jews is that of the Assy- rians, but on a larger scale Workes Pres notebook

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and another if joini makins li Roard, haman of the Satery MRS GANDHI'S government resettled in so-called "safety fighters, engaged in failurese y - hailed by Stalinists and a sillilar suruggie • operate hands en result others as 'progressive' — is now in its thira year oi a Accoraine to of the investiga- Vietnam-style operation patese to stop the pop sation into have re-enterec went Kept secret against a rebellion of Mizo passes to mixing with there population area recently. Pratt act wers, had had are e engine manu tribesmen. Delhi claims that the re settled Mizos sores men recon- are now over a quarter their way of life. iled to nent ov last wee: - eno of a million been saying Meanwhile, 60 350-passenge from uprooted their homes flying same seorld. We villagers the borders Assam ietnamese bon with Pakistan and Burma, and

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ONSPIRACY TRIAL—

er and Others EEMAN JNR. as BOBBY SEALE, Black Panther leader.

bureaucracy's first blows against undercover agents took the stand an opposition which emerged at to give incriminating evidence, the beginning of the 1960s among most of it obviously falsified. Soviet an influential section of about the defendant's intentions writers and intellectuals.

organizing the demonstration in outside the Democratic conven- Through the trial, the bureau- tion, demonstratior which- crats hoped to make clear film newsreel the pro- they oppositionists that faced showed - was gramme brutally for their persecution rigorous put down by police and national views and for their writings. The guardsmen. technique of the the tradition the Moscow Five of the defendants- -and 1930s, Trials of the was the their two lawyers-received long which prison sentences for contempt of creation of an amalgam, in the systematic distortion of facts, court even before they were writings and evidence is used to sentenced on the charges before frame the defendants and at the the court. and discredit same time to try Judge Hoffman, with obsessive them in the most slanderous way.

vindictiveness had noted down every insult to his vanity and his obtuse sense decorum of court and proceeded to dole out

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sen- according to a tariff of tences

TRIAL

his own devising. One is struck by the many similarities between the Chicago A similar technique was used trial and the Moscow case.

Chicago trial, in the where the defendants were charged both men were on eight trial with conspiracy to cause riot because their views and aims at the Democratic National Con- were regarded as hostile to the vention in 1968. ruling establishment: in the case of the Chicago defendants to the The judge, Julius Hoffman, has US imperialist system and its become internationally infamous war in Vietnam and in Daniel and for conduct of the trial, his Sinyavsky's trial Soviet to the which, unlike the Moscow pro- bureaucracy and its police system held in the full glare cess, was of repression. of publicity. From the Hoffman start, set out railroad the eight by to

DISTORTED

denying the basic them most

EVIDENCE

constitutional rights. aBobby Seale, whose own Bobby whose own denied the right to be In both cases crudely fabric- not only represented by the lawyer of ated and distorted evidence, his choice, but allowed including the evidence of police was not to speak in his own defence.

was used to try and informers, blacken the defendants in court.

After repeated attempts to de- mand his rights, Seale was bound And in both the trial turned Kafkaesque night- and gagged in his chair - as into a kind of defendants can legally be bound for the defendants, whose mara and gagged in America-and his most basic democratic and

CON-

muffled shouts of protest through stitutional rights were denied. the gag were finally only silenced The dramatizations of these when Hoffman sentenced him to four trials made exceptionally good years' for imprisonment television: crisp, precise, dramatic of contempt court. and accurate. Anyone who wanted to see There is room for much more what capitalist justice really of this kind of programme, which means was shown a glimpse of adds dimension the it in the recreation of this trial.

a new of frame-up and legal exposure A whole of FBI succession railroading.

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Cheap automation is here

THE PRICE-CUTTING

war racking the integrated now circuit and semi-conductor markets-two basic compon- ents of all data processing equipment-has led to a dras- tic reduction computer 1n prices in particular, in aner machine computer-controlled tools. Cheaper automation systems are rapidly becoming available to many industries and medium - sized firms which could not have even con- sidered such equipment two years ago. A report from the National Machine Tool exhibition in Chicago, USA, indicates that most companies exhibiting there will be showing com- puter-controlled manufactur- ing systems. One manager has com- mented: It is just not worth company taking stand there unless it has a computer to show'. Senior T&GWU steward Bob Fryer sp Systems which can throw 80 and 90 per cent of work are

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labour force out of now moving out of the 'luxury' out returning to shops from becoming available stage to which they came. on a universal basis. Employers all are at Leyland wanted to cheapen interested in the possible uses

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28 volume production of such making equipment out the by isolating existing work easier for the working Morris 1000 labour force as class. the nucleus for the new line Their only concern is more at a fixed initial rate of pay production, more profits and £7 week below the some utilizing it to help create mass highest shop average. unemployment. The Both and rank- market for these stewards and-file immediately machines seems to be very workers large and $100 saw this as a ploy in Leyland's million sales are forecast for this year.

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bright, chairman of the Senate when he questioned from daving nudear eased ones relation secre censored fre he ra Greece and Turkey. Septe, residant Secretary of -yond directly. Implications Asked whether 'there woul inducestions Senior T&GWU steward Bob Fryer speaking to yesterday's strike meeting at Cowley, Oxford.

e grave political implicatio countries Some local soil ons indicate reve ation rework system the Di rather tellson why, Cén- shipessive colonelinstalled dictator- councils cave dave an arene inest following yester- Cordial treacherous react relations with the Greek colonels. in on pay The againSt hands back hand ces when the new shop aver- MANY local councils are caving in to their xample of the workers' demands - though the threat of troop ter-revolutionary role E world assuris means nothing; intervention still hangs over the nine-day-old mented senior steward yesterday mounings ittering.

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second time nied yesterday earlier reports that they had asous the Ministrocat 1, and from wor LOCa Government for troops Pressed two sewage works. " Ministry e on all & fully info Hous sp kesman yet. Me have noi have our needs specifically asked hops as yet. was un corporatione Inable Radio ops A Nation at Cal - ohe maic back wrote to " negotiators Food stops 'strikers iron ore CDC Pety the weekend.

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beatese area cresta • ensure unal trade unio in order to steal to the stoppage. mAt Devizes, Wilesh iend use.

public interest. deal as part 3f a prodict pity Guerrillas ment. threaten poses the prores or potica power. Burmese to Promoke a General Corporate state Anarchist's death dictatorship want to chain op steward as ionis to ano • dictatorshit state as co is rate proposed anti- meaninegistate near the No borde Dr Ley's Nazi Labour FORS so the peril regione protesting agains stalks parliament law will: bill when it becomes death of an Kyukok, Kutkai window las ondon Council said yesterday Alliance With a des Burma capital, Rango strength 'strial and adopred that during interrogation he braction Deep-water port unise Party Than Tun on Industrial Com in. un basis- would slash jobs people to attend or produce confessertankers and would undoubtedly mea heater the to star. GiuseDDe Pinel of dockers' jobs all alon that smittle debille

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sa termal here New trial port carriers near Me Seria slow moving -evidence showed could not England sent and dock Intensive British Produces ty to open is ian on likely to • over crater or 30000- Wednesday, October 7, 1970 New stage in Mid-East

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and detaining and raping insulting our people in areas controlled by the with immense popular prestige - just when the The revolution cannot stand idly while Arab rulers could least by these sham- ful and afford to lose him. ugly crimes are committed, it said. Unfinished A sign of the guerrillas' strength Al continuing 1S Fatah leader Yassir Arafat's The revolutionary civil forthright denunciation of between the war Pales- Hussein. and tinian guerrillas the Bedouin barbarians of King Shook hands Hussein remains unfinished business and must find Only, a week agd, Arafat powerful response from the shaking hands oppressed peoples of Egypt was with Hussein and the rest of the Arab in Cairo over world. ceasefire agreement aimed implicitly at the revolu- tionary wing of the Pales- barbarity not broken • tinian movement. the crushed or Now he is denouncing the King as having placed him- Reports Jordan from self 'in the same position as the S Vietnamese leaders in areas in in Saigon' North the that the Arafat suggested that Hussein's army received not in driving supplies from Israel during the fighting. Trucks had been seen Jordan from Cussing into long way Israel, he said, and his position. forces had captured grenades with Hebrew from insignia. but there is 'We do not know what little sign full-scale was in the trucks,' he told a guerrilla Yugoslav 'but we reporter, In the Army suppose America could not quickly make up the Jor- nearly Palestinian danian Army losses and an prisoners in camps furnish aidsiven to Israel to order was A few of seen from Amman Leading on but they Jerash, an city members North of which is the Pales- split from side and Irbid. The Palestine Italian Revolution Command yesterday accused Jordanian troops of looting Party and raping, and said com- mandos would have to take "severe measures' whatever they deemed necessary. THE Venice regional com- spokesman, mittee of the Italian Com- quoted the Fatah guer- munist Party has split down rilla office said the 'stooge the middle for over support is authority' in Jordan the 'Manifesto' - the group repeatedly violating the left - wing organization of peace agreement. critics formed by several lead- Its forces are looting and ing Communist parliamentar- ians expelled a year ago. Eight committee members, including regional secretary Granziera, Pietro signed public document supporting the 'Manifesto' position. Four then resigned from the Party and wère immedi- ately formally expelled. The of the others, posItion including Granziera, who has been removed as secretary, is being considered. The Venice split follows the resignation last week of 13 regional committee members Bergamo. in There have been earlier splits in other cities, including Naples, Rome and Bologna.

In Venice, and in the pre- vious cases, the leading mem- bers have rank-and-file back- ing. Budget strike

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Trade Union Congress has called a 15- minute general strike for today as a protest gesture against the budget provisions of the country's coali- conservative tion, parliament presented to Monday. on Spending power is to be cut by €100 million, with stiff increases on tobacco, and drink, petrol electricity, while company taxes are to be cut by over a tenth. Spanish port strike bound TWO THOUSAND dockers in Barcelona paralysed the port with walk-out Monday a on suspension of 12 against the comrades victimized for par- and the window from which ticipating go-slow in as said to have 'jumped'.

support of wage claims. are demanding The dockers daily hist's death 23 misinor minimum wage 36-hour week, together with improvements in working conditions. Management subsequently agreed to lift the suspensions, but did over not way wages and conditions. Help the Young Socialists make their

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