Workers Press no. 292

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1970 •

NUMBER 292

PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What N Ireland More 'hit the young and old' we Army New Tory think Bristol students' march looking backs councilmen Union leaders for mass BRISIUL students turned out in force yesterday to must back march 1,500-strong through the city in support arrest, the coune workers and the university manua stars councilmen See story page 4 strike. cuts on exCl or the he him ve *SHOOT first id parley later' and This is again borne out by out his is the meaning mass arrest esterday's strik n and Bristol. of the Brit a army's 'get-tough' policy in Ulster as spelt out by its commanders. the way ceo bath the council No The army in N Ireland is for the first time facing 'organized terror- ism' Major-General Tony Farrar- Bone 7razs,o0 Hockley, land forces commander, Workers', the claimed yesterday. Mair pete Sound actin too mandin s pay bose THE TORY GOVERNMENT has decided to The British ur best meet are deprive the working class of every concession situation,

VE SUPORT THE STRIKE

Yet only 65,000 By our polltical corresoonden ene thee, so What Pa and reform won by it in the post-war period - and they mean to do it soon.

in Aden, Cyprus and throughout he colonia alleged expa countries. Austerity of a kind The army, before seen object being thom Coal Board £3 resisted Britain will be the arise in result of cuts which the Chancellor intends would face the risk of being shot.

37,000 shake pit atter the introduce in three between

OMINOUS

swift stages this and early week santa perhaps spring. leaders' grip life and limb. rongest sections settlements with nilatera surl Illusions backed 374 • counci the ho ties Some

ICE CREAM

then we wil ce and tne situa in Scamp Budget.

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDEN I

Both Spumeon inquiry tand cothes Tories deter- A SHOCKED National Coal Board yesterday đn Mic From to chi had to face the sobering fact that neither ment policy national nor local union leaders can hold back

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

the miners' defiant response to its halfway-house SCAMP inquir tell the government that the pay offer.

DIRECTIONS

Even conduct orches be: i

WOI-

ling and construc tion projects. Th disandes of mies Pales cerned with Coathed rons

POOR

let-wing Labour MP told Subsidies go men's struggle. one conces of the aste

PRINCE!

council strikers in London From he ork he 1000000 yesterday. na Tooting toman t 640 or the full 5 demanda Engineers This would also to their own en $ 191.,274 leaders of Britains. Unfortunately ailwaymen

DEATH

she honda haverda Hill.

DANCE

Scamp inauty oyment Tar the Sectied

HALL NOT

Tottenham MP Norman Atkinson speaks to yesterday's Tower Hill meeting.

it tells the government this heard of il Panto pay Busmen and with and

DECLARED

the intervention, dockers join did not set a retur

SAFE-

Soton demo to work. creeps up Fire chief wage of f18 has been A NEW minimum ST LAURENT'S fire • chief Pears a Mr Thomas agreed for actors in summer which The metid was imens march strai attended season and tour or season work. Some 1,500 state to 2,000 actors are affected by the new deal London. rhich Kille which will be reviewed in six months' time.

youngsters early on Headers the Toile Sunda! -had not been authorized sufficient publicity. contingent wit by his department Gilbert have little to fear from one ador

CORRESPONDENT

ewards • localize quarter. ssociationnage th diverting the atter workers" Association and 8 4350. salaries or both rehearsal counci Producing Managers. the public never went throug ional implication:

• PAGE FOUR COL. 9

sides or 100 •oficia university stu in these cate- Surprise stoppage boosts greements took par meeting through the city union leader's commitmen slogans 'Concern' • reviou

• PAGE FOUR COL. 8

campaign against Tory laws exed scale of pay for man No retreat on 55s'

DUSTMEN

Five hundred workers trom

CORRESPONDENT

minimum

FINED

making clag, to do, to it Birmingham's SU Carburettor OXFORD council workers are to send a telegram to Jack Jones, the plant yesterday boosted head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, demanding

TWO DUSTMEN

place some of the amuse • or a national one take any action corded to Deserday a stee that there be no retreat on the 55s claim.

day strike against the Tory outside bbish alarmed by the 12 and 13 mes government's i anti-union legis- in this to ray out on stike until let demands are met protest in hail. i do% rat win sore Equity spokesman lation plans with a surprise said: down a statutory wa Lown hall, dustmen toe tee token stoppage ay They will be men decided noir or negato rom meeting ment legislat proposed govern 1ney will joins * and

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1970 • NUMBER 292 PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE N Ireland What More 'hit the young and old' we Army New Tory think Bristol students' march looking backs councilmen Union leaders for mass BRISTOL students turned out in force yesterday to must back march 1,>00-strong through the city in support the council workers' and the university manual staff's arrest councilmen strike see story page 4 cuts on exci or the laste strugle SHOOT first id parley later' and The is as in mass arrests his is the meaning of the Brit n army's 'get-tough' policy in Ulster as spelt out by its Bullo Tegore on the page.

commanders. re damni the way The army in N Ireland is for the of botl WOreaders first time facing 'organized terror- mobilize this support. ism' Major-General Tony Farrar- Roughly 770,000 members o Hockley, land forces commander, claimed yesterday. Municipal Worke reporters: ents in holi THE TORY GOVERNMENT has decided to "The British Army are some of the nicest fringe deprive the working class of every concession

VE SPORT THE STRIKE!

vicio them and be professional with it: and reform won by it in the post-war period - Ulster is to be subjected to the same vicious and they mean to do it soon.

repression *Pine coama A den alleged financial insolvency.

What Austerity of a kind never seen before in Coal Board f3 resisted Britain will be the result of cuts which with be it Chancellor intends the the action unti 37,000 shake pit introduce in three published between swift

OMINOUS

morrow. blazes this week and early weakened the sidere spring. Zi leaders' grip sending ectipes back strength Ibere is no back will Bayback twill go unilateral settlements Illusions SUrI

TEAS

Spong remen, which has

ICE CREAM

and the situa in Scamp used trooks will go home buager.

BYLA WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENI

irm against the clair inquiry that Tories clashe A SHOCKED National Coal Board yesterday And sived the her of hish NCt e ad- had to face the sobering fact that neither Kers who could su ent poncy

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

national nor local union leaders can hold back by heir fellow. •a civillan the miners' defiant response to its halfway-house inquiry Home buildinge pay offer. tell the government that the

DIRECTIONS

Oier to local authorty wor tion projects. both d kers is not good enough,

POOR

left-wing Labour directions Subsidies go terday

PRINCE!

mornin aldecided council LOndOn In the context of the 21,500 Yorkshire and yesterday. affect but for one fumes der already 3 of mass arrests in the subsidies. down a Welsh mine very near ruture Just over one-third rong labour 191, for acations, almost double ti

DEATH

waa single hint of sym- classe the meeting at Tower ost mor xpected The council workers illusions

DANCE

the Euros arment tax and to sc the Selective done

HALL NOT

Tottenham MP Norman Atkinson speaks to yesterday's Tower Hill meeting.

it tells the government this?

as well- othe Panto pay invited Busmen and

DECLARED

At for Tend support • Cool dockers join

SAFE-

Soton demo creeps up to work.

SOUTHAMPTON

Then mery e from th Fire chief A NEW minimum wage of £18 has been there is at present, he said.

fident LAURENT'S fire chief agreed for actors in pantomime, workers and aid yesterday Cind by that season and tour or season work. Some 1,500 1 Sept opening dance hal swept to 2,000 actors are affected by the new deal killed was strongl which will be reviewed in six months' time.

suported by other sections of Sunday youngsters early received workers. sufficient publicity. —naa not been authorizeu made beteem the large contingent

CORRESPONDENT

by his department Equity Association and tendency focalize. re dins Gilbert Commandant the atten the coincithe salaries vor both openin never went through Producing Managers. Stration. overw nelming of their claim and Сарто. my then ment videsments in footstools request Lambeth sa striker Surprise stoppage boosts which shouted const the squeak impotently. won commission examined it. through the city the slogans 'Concern' remain out

• PAGE FOUR COL. 8

worker had won it. campaign against Tory laws nust be forced to fight! of pay for many 'No retreat on 55s' agreements for rehearsal

DUSTMEN

jeorge - Brown FIVE hundred workers from

CORRESPÔNDENT

workma cling to do, to the umenting on the reaso from on salaries present

FINED

birmingham's su Carburetton OXFORD council workers are to send a telegram to Jack Jones, week for local plant yesterday boosted the oristors in Workers. head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, demanding Lined oar Did set

DUSTMEN

опе- campaign for a national to Tie minimum is that there be no retreat on the ›s claim surike agalast 101) union government's anti-union legis- Paters see combine, was idle as à neithey lation with a surprise spokesmai token stoppage. said to have lec Bly ish-nesled in hisucess- came amid астер рі, неж town hall but were ment legislatproposed govern.

started of 150: 23222 *They are afraid that, i the e infe paper homes These included repertod psychedelic women membe Transport the rubbish at the Same heatres fo on this en and ice shows

• PAGE FOUR COL. &

PAGE FOUR COL. 8

factory will go back

PAGE TWO

THERE are three roads to the dole in Scotland.

DATELINE:

for You may work combine which launches drive and an economy

THE SECOND PART OF PART FOUR OF A REGULAR

decides that its Scottish

MONDAY SERIES: PART ONE APPEARED IN

branch must go.

YESTERDAY'S WORKERS PRESS.

Or a firm faced with strike action decide that a protracted dispute just isn't worth the money and shut-up rather than pay shop increase. Many are olner workers sacked in the pro- deal like the British- Leviano workers Toined after accepting a job- This from the apart unemployment due the decline in the two basic dustries coalmining and shipbuilding. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, for example, ploved it. vuv a vear acoNow 7,500 work there. Higher that emp the an intensification Strachen 1 nis de lost see dis n She® Royal his Factory Oronance Glasgow, allege time for bac keeping. Since then and girl wile ana ve lived on nanonal assistance vity deal at the faed ry. This wa- 'They introduced come in three OUt there menton redundancies. It meant moving men around anas sacked for Then one day bad time keep- sacked been late ing. true l nac days, had hap UnIC "ed betes and hadorothe was, think. surplus labour- men having without redundancy fees. 'So I signed on the dole. M benefit was classed industrial misconduct. Benefit down and the kiddie the wife

STEPHEN

jobs at all

SCOTLAND'S JOBLESS ROLL-CALL, MAY TO NOVEM

holiday relief in torY go there and I say, Hillbank works—Tay Textiles, Dundee "Any They say, vacancies. "No M. parker Co. Great britain Lo. Giasoow It's short and sweet. Foster Wheelers John Brown Boller Works, Clydebank 'At exchange Burrough Office Equipment, Strathleven the Kentrew queueing Sterne Co. Glasgow outside the Upper Shipbullders, aoor. i takes about nal annou Clydebank and Govan more ine conter Ltd, Uddington Ranco britisn Leyland barngate soon my benent will go dowr rioreclass Lid (rukinton,. Glascow based Decause my Jast weeks earnings. 1 nave only until Christmas to go on doul this rate now. workers will fight-what choice When the Prestcold group (it have they? close sternes against the redundancies.

ana snip-yard in me area move. they re we need Labor pay aying people off: the ware lact district committee 'But there AEF refused Th to ch There on a the dispute. ° cares and sterne workers returned divisions ted the Most 460 are only get worse. The Tories are ir and But of the on the dole. unity is the only answer.'

nd thev want to create mor unemployment to get their anti- Official union bill through. The atones gineers Sternes.

refrigeration unions won't fight with strike he leadership they have redundancies the moment, but without a fight. Willy McCann was a steward at sternes ana is a member or the Clyde AEF one of the few work- He e Been ne Chris! ohe says seCh. mas present, •Prestcold took two pears and expansion. 'We suggested the naive pro- ducts that 'We Secretary etic cht said be nothing for industry In ulasgow the told him 2o moment. desperate him especially the skilled g is bad labour rela its bad tions record. had this we did dia septem labo round the factories they all gave us moral sup- port and a lot of money came Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL 'The

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The firm didn't argue, they

Y TO NOVEMBER 1970

closed the plant down and got out of Scotland. 57 redundant What had frightened them in 170 redundant the particular was approaches 500 redundant stewards like Tom made to 450 redundant groups of other workers in Eng- 455 redundant land. 1,200 redundant 400 redundant More 550 redundant 500 redundant unemployment. for a miracle-that Sternes will Tom spent four weeks on the keep open. dole then was taken at training school. "The whole of Scotland is in a big crisis. In the engineering field There he is learning to be Heath's advice firms are taking capstan setter, but he is not opti- shutting down of get- when they mistic about the chances don't make profits. job when he leaves. ting a 'We strike in April went on 'There is only one way to beat in to the firm's response solid all this, to unite in one announcement that they were not front and get behind the labour They negotiating. were closing movement and kick these Tories the place. right out of office. "The union officials met—we're 'If we don't there are going in the Municipal Workers--they black ahead very times wouldn't see the strike commit- in Scotland. What happened in tee at all but they eventually did the 1930s will happen again in pay us some money-f12 hard- the 1970s if there is no change.'

ship pay. Together with his workmates I think what scared the man- Turner Newall at asbestos agement was our approaches to Tom works at Clydebank, We other workers in Turners. Temple strike in down came out on Widnes where for April abolition of bonus they have their biggest factory working and a higher basic rate.

and met the stewards there.

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Chemically we are more than a compound of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, whose current market price Is no shillings, more than a tew yet we are capable of the rarest mental ingenuity, phy- by BRIAN MOORE sical dexterity. touch. taste. coverings, fe learn, sight, sound, hearing, love, skin. to actually dead tissue. joy, pain and anguish. For So much we take for granted, wealth of clear, exciting among W yeen fearful, of." information That shape of the experience that we look dispairingly in the mirror, getting balder and Yet beautiful though the body Tatter precise, intricate, complicated growing, mechanism it does not exist in dying. biological some aestneuc vacuum process, from the point It inhabits a world, is part of Cody intestigates the wor 1 ne and subject to the laws of nature, invest enternal the workings, defines itself inteowhere by a struggle development with nature to wrest an existence a livelihood, a future from dramatical v illustrated than in a his low panning shot from the new- more precisely, the forn of the gr akes at this narticular historic fun anet it is thes centre of this that raises it Is this senility, the life span of man i catalogue or biological twilight of old age, gives nformation. them children, mam from every yea an example to survive on mere v and women reveal because thev no longer pro- • with st nod, cuctive and cannot work. I+ io thic cuctem that lutider the sweat the underdeveloped countries embarrassment, many their natural picion and caution. exhausted, cut and l wages, with poverty Slaves mamnutriaon. the film what we are reminder that this remarkable we must end. is woere capitalst sociery begins.

From the whole, very is to show ss, die dive thisrelentles. and dietres, e muscle, the brest, the egan organs, maims bodies, them heaped average together consumed deforms them, them. hrutalizes amount down throame over a period works them true and denies theiT that expression pollutes into journey that of a fiction thriller. the average consumption of at Indian over the same period throws l that numping and gurglins system The Indian diet does not even into the lost is going uncerneall the wan to them he as plain.

"Than succeed in communicating, thi were in Vietna tell them why who so. ruling so those who He's demoralized. "Do vou succeed?' difficult, really and depressin sea your be in: 'because the reasons are alway about changing.' Other sasskers, saring d hat the ference Probleme which th Metali ms sacre, saying Park Chanto Park Hotel had to discuss was that the youth of America-despite years of militarist and chauvinist Thev were nhotogranhic. make sure relevision and programmes, i Army's "image'.) colonel %, which discuss the I baskets in which to improve Canno He n todered ordinary Soldier need They spoke th the Ameri ordinary of the court f of sow to military, gaining lubs scand communicate with youth'. agreed ent more glossgenerotos seemed themally, eti Air Foille alonel One wouldn't have thought th to Finally, armv touna it almcult to com of aircraft or slick movies about conterence: marines, would not do the the as they sas Sergeants Wayne usually have difficu lty in making least did, know, The youth who themselves heard. renorted are drafted don't have any cholce An Army informatic Isten DeD trouble was the the Of course, Ame real problem Vi and that most mein ters their armed facing American oat ione way to they can't forces not tha: generation being communicate; but that what they occupy an eighth of the floor space. It is this system that produces physical inequalities. Even the growing foetus sheltered in the womb does not escape its laws, The for, as the film reminds us, womb undernourished of an mother is like a small slum'.

What the film insists is on the totality of life, the totality of society in all its contradictory and uneven nature. It allows no that the escape, asserts un- pleasant cannot be wished away, but is an integral part of our system. Over painful pictures of the bewildered faces of the mentally retarded, brain damaged, their movements slow commentary obsessive, desperate, the reminds us: "They are here, they are here. They will not go away'.

We learn also that as we pre- pare to launch to Mars, almost nothing is known about the workings of the brain. Battersby understands his sub- ject matter dialectically.

Formalists who look for some linear exposition will be confused or unsettled by the structure of the film, for he proceeds from contradiction to contradiction, uniting the opposites, positive and negative, saying this is the whole, this is the conflict.

* At moments he is not entirely successful, at times I feel that he is over lengthy in his exposition.

The natural climax of the film for me comes at the end of the birth sequence, which is one of the most genuinely miraculous pieces of film I have ever seen, which contains in a simple, human and eloquent way, all the somewhat turgid and overblown, evangelical content of the final commentary. But then we are dealing here with personal tastes and prefer- ences. These are minor criticisms of a work that demonstrates a considerable achievement and I wouldn't hesitate to say that it represents a breakthrough, above all, in method. It is a materialist film and a dialectical film.

It insists with reverence and love the enormous possibilities of earth and our courageously defines all that threatens and holds us back. It insists on a unity of whose contradiction opposites must be fought out. It insists on the whole, on the varied, on the richness of the possibility of life and how it is confined and restricted by the barbarous system that enslaves it and threatens its existence.

It says this is how it is.

To liberate mankind from the barbarities, inequalities and deprivations is the task of the future. Only when this is done can man inherit the earth and • his body. :

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.. This relentless process, the drive for profit, that maims bodies, scars them, deforms them, brutalizes them and denies them their true expression

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Reactionary campaign has one purpose Nixon laws aimed at working class New fragmentation VOTERS all over the United States go to the polls today to elect their Congressmen after one of the most viciously bombs in Vietnam

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

reactionary campaigns ever staged by president Nixon's Republican Party. US IMPERIALISM'S arsenal of which are shot out when the Nixon has been whipping up Vietnam bomb hits the ground. weapons lll 'law-and-order' agitation cludes a bomb designed to kill against The photo shows Phan Quoc, Letters and maim the largest possible the left, using the San Clemente a 19-year-old fisherman IrOn number civilians incident when his car was stoned Vinh An, with one of the bolts 'All the way for f5 North. by students and unemployed lodged (in the X-ray photo- has steel bolts packed explosive graph) next to his spine.

round the on vener excuse His main aim in the election secur the wage rise' that he can put Cough mush Gen. Grigorenko's public order He wants vastly increase mond do ver the her is condition worse From a surface worker at Yorkshire's he working class, Glasshoughton colliery: ine pracuce or concilalo angus come more followed dem notice of tories s fance of profets mid wattse and PROMINENT SOVIET oppositionist General Pyotr Grigorenko, is to force the resteith. Col Part of the print from solitary under confinement in a "psychiatric' prison-hospital at offer, regara "radical-liberals. Chernyakovsk near the Soviet border with Poland.

in debt S and Coal "Garbage' his health is Students discuss Thing the Col Bad average man, whos negotiations imed ea Belleville, Illinois, has thi a disputes varsity rights ladder. down in manpower. ovd Hinchellie.

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passively 1 he Dangers in fight conduct reste dr the Prices and themes AcT, in a war see one as li on redundancy wants a 'strong appli A mee canis ustic No IS AS ANY Onesia! anst the stewards those resolutionainst om visiting General Grigor- wants widely spread enko. complete withdrawal No toilet a This el alto and by poe soch preceded State crime Grigor tiny is detained cich- ordered Y steeral Ni-enforcement n clash with the lucas be blind They gencies State Vo he wanted oi Severes case n Finally, • the vote for a kent his is a State 1o a nationa campaigny ding crimed th that the baht the spo Czechoslovak indicated the token action both the which stopped litancy

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memberst said after- he Tar- wards: stewards

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Democrats remair against a Poetess But Ma ve HAVe and is uni sinsi dog's Support Pilkington to stskerkers and their fight. resigned Defeat the proposed Tory antl-union laws Landerway in as riche throne

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8

Wants laws balesh the threat CovENTRy: Keith's Club. Cox Street. 3.30 o.m.

n the next NEWCASTLE: Roval Turk's Head Hotel, Grey Street, 3 p.m in the work 5.30 p.mLD: Crooksmoor Vestry Hall, Crooksmoor Road, he can turn agai Bristol students' march avold ons.ot fight all union cat and many backs councilmen

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15

grow i Burg Lesser Hall, near Merkland Street THE BRISTOL students' march (see photo page one), called by the University Students' Union Council, was LONDON: Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, 7.00 p.m.

joined by Polytechnic students and university porters, and the Nixor Speakers will be from the Pilkington Rank and File Committee clearners and kitchen staff who are striking in support of a 55s claim parallel to the councilmen's.

Palace Gardens

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London, W.8. Robert announced Socery ever tal not Carl Kalmyk celebration 'forgets'

LATE NEWS

yester be intro- ted the 50rh stalinists Lone om certain (See page one story) sary of concorate nationalties ha one in chine shrthis Germans ma Therefore vashe

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were struck eyes. establish politica than

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Bodies

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panct are to picker armiey se met sintio Pitch se to discuss tute pane Barnsley OYSSS speaker stressed panel this morning, mmon eat who have been only

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We undertake in criticism Wound it when the Kalmykilitate allowing the un coins a dear section i Which it was at il be ship wor later, trickle secretary come out in support. families began Lucas workel Tuesday, November 3, 1970

W EUROPE

POLISH and W German Foreign Ministers are to meet in Warsaw today to discuss a treaty between the two countries which would involve W German recognition of Poland's western frontier.

The Oder - Neisse line, established after

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the war, has never been recognized by W

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Germany, which clings to the fiction that the

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frontiers of Germany mache decorations caught fire are the same as in 1937 within seconds. authorities themselves Fire A Bonn-Warsaw treaty refused the to comment on would go far to removing allegations that of the some major obstacles in Europe to a locked emergency exits were detente between the Stalinists and that door handles had and Common Market the been removed from others to capitalists. stop eate crashes gettingt in.

Four-power talks the on said only that future of Berlin are also in special which commission progress and there are strong opened its investigations rumours that the Soviet Union Sunday into the disaster would be make may preparing to be able to give a clear reply.

W Berlin in concessions over But the only surviving man- order to speed agreement.

of the dance hall, M. ager Gilbert Bas, insisted that the

DISQUIET

exists were not locked and the These developments have barman said they opened as led to disquiet in the E Ger- soon as the fire broke out.

Bas, man Stalinist leadership.

M. who was gues- Veteran Stalinist Walter tioned by police all day Sun- Ulbricht recently stated day. told that reporters: the four powers should "The emergency exits were fine themselves to putting into not blocked because the bar- the Potsdam practice agree- man was able to escape by one of them with five people.'

ment. Bas, three 'There can be no other pan- M. of one men German interests of the great who ran the dance-hall, added powers, he said. yesterday: 'At 1.45 I was Ulbricht is sticking to his behind the bar outside the building when original demand that any I noticed that the alert signal settlement of the German question involve was alight. must full recognition of the sovereignty I thought it was a quarrel.

of E Germany. I went round the building to- He appears the afraid that the wards entrance when heard cries of "Fire" and saw Russians will reach an agree- with the people running out with their ment capitalist powers behind his back. clothes on fire. I jumped into The Soviet with W the car to give the alert.'

treaty Germany, Moscow signed in Death roll in the disaster during August, is in abeyance rose to 143 yesterday when a reached man died from until agreement is burns in Lyons hospital. over Berlin. Doctors were fighting to life

RELATIONS

save the of another seriously injured man. The Soviet bureaucracy So far only 81 bodies have hopes that the agreement will been identified. open up much closer trading relations with the big German monopolists and aid the Stalinist regime to overcome Soton demo some of its pressing economic difficulties. 'Normalization' in Europe is

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'Give us 55s now, the now requirement inter- for the Stalinist bureaucrand spersed with "Tories out'.

'Kick which The slogan the growing more out Tories' worried at the drew applause from more militant struggles of the European onlookers as the marchers through the made their way working class. town the Civic Centre The ultimate purpose of all to where a council meeting was these agreements is to find a taking place. way of jointly policing Europe Mayoress refused to between Stalinist The the and capitalist rulers. appear. But the crowd would not disperse on the instructions of Shaken union leaders who tried to urge people into the public gallery. This was greeted with

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shouts of 'Bring her out here, we are the public gallery.

cellor Barber's cuts, tempered by Trade and Industry Min- Davies' ister speed-up. threats Tory cuts and determined to take no from nonsense the union leaders.

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In the S WALES coalfield, 14,761 were on strike and dustmen yesterday at 22 out of 52 pits must reject the -12 in the worthless opposition of right- W Wales anthra- Labourites cite area and ten in E Wales. wing and UTOn Other collieries are expected chiefs and campaign actively in the unions to to join after pithead meetings make their today and tomorrow. leaders fight the anti-union It laws and the cuts by a mas- is now virtually certain that tomorrow's recalled dele- sive one-day general stoppage conference at Porthcawl called by the TUC. дате We will be forced endorse urge all delegates to to November 14 confer- coalfield strike from the next Monday. ence of the Liaison Com-

YORKSHIRE,

mittee for the In 1,500 Defence of Trade Unions to fight for miners at Kellington colliery of NCB's -one the highly- such a policy and make mechanized December the stepping great hopes— • stone 20,000 already on joined the towards one-day unofficial strike at 21 pits.

general strike of the whole trade Pickets are now expected to union movement - and a militant campaign in try and spread the strike out the unions the militant Doncaster- make panel in which it is at leaders fight. We present concentrated. appeal to all trade All but two of the six strik- unionists combine this SCOTLAND had ing pits in campaign against the Tories resumed work by yesterday in with massive demonstrations last Wednesday's and token strikes in support response to delegate-conference decision.

of the dustmen. Two pits- Disarm the Tory axemen by -employing 640 miners remained forcing the Tories to resign! stopped, and others are now expected after hearing to re-join them the news from Yorkshire and S Wales. 400 to ortations lose signal back from deportation to their homelands. box jobs But it is clear that they have not been by any means fully 'rehabilitated' even now. The anniversary cele- MORE THAN 400 railwaymen brations, which make no may loose their jobs in Scot- mention of these and persecu- land the North as tions, signify the continua- result of the resignalling of the Carlisle to Glasgow line.

tion of Stalinist policies in £5.100.000 contract was the USSR. Grigorenko, who has heroically defended the signed in yesterday slasgor Crimean Tartars another nder which 9 of the signal nationality persecuted who boxes will be scrapped by 1974 still deprived of are the and the line controlled by right their return to three at Glasgow, Motherwell homeland is in solitary and Carlisle. confinement in a 'hospital' The re-organization is part prison. of a £55 million Crewe The Stalinist bureaucracy Glasgow electrification scheme remains deeply compromised announced by British Rail in by Stalin's crimes. February.