Workers Press no. 312

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1970 • NUMBER 312

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE General strike to fight £25 fines What we think Force the union Robens, the mines leaders to and the AS THE ANTI-UNION Bill day

PLANE-

draws nearer, the retreat of the act TUC is changing from a canter

MAKERS

BOARD chief Lord into a furious gallop. - he dated If the Tories are experiencing any

SHOW

ing book when s difficulty in cornering their quarry now, government measures to it is certainly not due to the paunching

THE WAY

of its resistance, because of the hut Britain. he claimed. laced a incredible speed of its flight.

The IUC has no intention of fighting the achievest vak. Hungary anti-union laws. hope instead to ' the goe neele wants it seize nettle very, and mated by the treat of the Nation Unem Mineworkershe fre work people no worn alass lowered on a vi spee- are advanci *This would make their assembly. Confident restraint the in- they coelt the picke passing Tories legistress moden den see the and political dogma union Rela- and is precisely because the TUC, she CP too Bill bites Robens' anti-union attack went pro by the unions as the Labour It should be fixed about the the man the -Hugh Scanlon and Jacl ad back better get Sidney ciene в го аї сшскіу No med bee To is con • Parry and they to Bi than the Kin:

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Beer up 2d Big business

OVER

2,000 plane-makers save to lond Britain's Voted to e of draught Evasion demands speake he Is adie broken by Sine cal and are evading the politi s are allowing

LENE

beer 'unpleasant working prices. Costly housing measures' will fall ste and play dead, like Roused ouncil houses will protest activity is able to live in a leaders. i a did PRESSURE for emergency Tory action Take stand' hold down wages is rapidly being notched up mS ising which voted the em walling that e of the house to wait in

A WORKCHO PH

RRESPOND

that to and the conspiracy. markesing and tigh flationary ned the road Any worker who has reac silent nary sinter politi i Managemen e ing, he says.

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magazine day'. Maximum jail for Geismar and their allies becom red indussral actions A MAN prisonent and Menace his political views Seations tre the deceitful lie Alain Geismar dron dis Totestrial Mila Gaulist The tot h ben and trends saint of Guerin's own i TUC'S Com- bated into a pay taxe. fight the mounting pare to ded against eti they ca The situation is so desper- Stalinist doe sections failure

'WON'T WORK'

Theirze monorary policy Father thar the the i This Breast OP the misers in all ed. rest sake iny upon Metal artice is shot til ot 65423 while issued for December i raches of it res in exces of t0 per cent truggle in the face of th only the feve id workings

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. London postmen meeting at St Martin-le-Grand yesterday.

E1,250 Nov Appeal Fund: LIGHTNING strikes will disrupt postal services stands at today as postmen and sorting-office staff give their answer to what they see as a political move £861 3s 11d by the governmeni in firing GPO chief Lord Hall.

These will be a con- WE HAVE five tinuation of the unofficial nave loit to raise E389 I6s Id. Every effor that stoppages swept must now made to fund through the capital and provinces yesterday as an ahead with their anti-union laws convinces anti-Tory mood spread

DEARESU

action is no rapidly among Post Office enoura to stop chemi Only struggle workers. a political Press which Workers can defea alone is waging, Mass meetings were held in this government and drive it back. is vital today today and the Give • Haliulia. support tive Post much as Office Workers indicated that towards the November fund the stonnaged wOuld Post your donations today to approval, though they their yorkers Press would not be official. Appeal Pund I86a Clapham High Street, Jock Cowan, Paddington London, SW4. 1 UPW branch John laylor, UPy NO. secretary. lity hranah conratar cald that stonnaged WOnG occur at the big Paddington sorting office both during last night and today. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS *We will stop work at times

GIANT XMASBAZAAR

that will the de- partment the most.' he. said. Office workers the Saturday November 28 sacking deliberate Tory policy by Plashet School Lord Hall was at least will- Plashet Grove for to dias the board im across-the-board in extra East Ham crea holiday.

HOSTILE

Post workers claim he was hostile to moves the government to hive off Post celet able operations private enterprise These may include the de lationalization of the lucrative National Data •Processin the offered servICe Visit Aladdin PO to private firms 'We feel that the sacking of and his Lord Hill be detrimental especially the industry re- be Magic Lamp since who will- naced Du in line with the nhilosophv of this onvernment he in fav of the run-down of the Post Office, said Mr Cowan. City of London, al- inte 3.000 most nostmen

SITUCK

for 90 minutes. branch secretary, sad that thy

UPW

took everything industry work efficiently.

Second Annual Mr Taylor Conference In? an attempt by ernment intertere Discuss "The dep. alt implications

THE CHARTER OF

is part are verv plan to hive off the profitable nationa ized dustry, together with the Giro

BASIC RIGHTS

telecommunications sec. ors to the private sector.

"They want someone who The right to a job, to strike and the going work under direction of this Tory govern- organize, to retain gains made, ment, he added. to fair prices, to welfare benefits

SUSPICIOUS

and to decent housing. district Another London hey viewed t ce msae that viewed the with Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to great suspicion. force the Tories to resign.

Tories watched the The Lord Hall and

BIRMINGHAM

progress would be decided that he issue and sott on the wages ton cott when comes Sat. December 19 dealing with with industriate? tions, Ahout 200 anoineers at the Digbeth Civic Hall, Post Office tower in stopped work for hole today attend a meet- nour Digbeth 10.30. am of dis- 'an gust' over the sacking PO switchboard operators in For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s and Mans- Derby, Nottingham to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, short token staged Styvechale, Coventry. strikes. but kent 999 service going.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1970 • NUMBER 312

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE we AS THE ANTI-UNION Bill day

PLANE-

draws nearer, the retreat of the TUC is changing from a canter

MAKERS

into a furious gallop.

BOARD

Lord Sps book If the Tories are experiencing any

SHOW

difficulty in cornering their quarry now it is certainly not due to the vigour

THE WAY

illegal. or lis resistance our because or unt incredible speed of its flight.

T-union Cahas no intention of fighting the Rumany anti-union would with who breat official strike. ing working class. ing Confident sesad of the they coell disperse them The Tories passing Rohan intend with his we the better and Sir Sidney get committee Mrs, paramontary Labor Mr Cabinet bens Innies Con Party Party s national executive.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

more royal- minister 1h kin that Beer up 2d and not co-operate ALond largest brevers, are to this reason eason for nis attack : largest Evasion braren by ich Ber many, bod in the NE opposed and put creases afteci class. cultivate Nie ust Costly housing em in a te nomical that son protest activity is organized.

PRESSURE for emergency Tory action to action shot en hold down wages is rapidly being notched up san architectural this cause of the government's

BY AOPRESPONDENT

Thing obens Best or l

PRESS

rebutt the idea of a combinations ommunist conspiracy. Bert Deller cold Hawker terkers: inflationa cycle the aners rell cig, her sacou the Duential

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Magazine Management To. tal implicationinister polit Class rindam workIng

'HOW MUCH?

Stalinism for Geismar much leader of 42 months tigers as om Menace 3 British concessions co prisonmen tha elementar right to ex Some conception his political views yesterday' on this atirkers Couns 55020 Stalinism's canis the deceitful a natural Pea- Alain veisma Fini *shocking C's com dis- f Guerin's and inanity placency light the mounting repression te that some sections esper Stalinist - dominated

'WON'T WORK'

crime tailer organize The an is tor mobilize Tore vorking class to bring them inservent The first busines not battle employers have force issued for December Tary enemy. Inters sin gon the face of the

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dens, London, W8. in excess of 10 per cent.

was passcu. The daily paper that leads the PRICE 6d. London postmen meeting at St Martin-le-Grand yesterday.

£1,250 Nov Appeal Fund: LIGHTNING strikes will disrupt postal services stands at staff give today as postmen and sorting-office their answer to what they see as a political move £861 3s 11d by the government in firing GPO chief Lord Hall.

These will be a raise 1180 1a a Every for tinuation of the unofficial days left to raise £389 165 stoppages that swept com- time. through the capital and the veterination provinces yesterday as an press ahead Win anti-Tory mood spread their and union ans consincer protest action is not rapidly among Post Office enough to sop them. Only struggle, workers. Workers alone defeat waging, meetings were held in Mass drive it many London SorUne back. corsice Turner walk-OUTS aner is a day today and the national execu- Give it Union Sunport tive • Workers Indicated Phat the Post much can as you Office fund. Guards the Naramha Post your donations today to: their though they apoluval, would not be official Street, Paddington Cowan

UPW

ranch John Taylor, UPW london, SW4. that City branch secretary stoppages the Paddington big

OCCUR

sorting office night and today. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS are will stop

GIANT XMASBAZAAR

wask ate mes embarrass the that. will said. partment the most, he see the Post Once Saturday November 28 packiy as ane tory ot delherate govern- Plashet School ment. Lord Hall was at least will- Plashet Grove ino to discuse the UPW claim for across-the-board in- •a £3 and extra East Ham holiday.

HOSTILE

Post Office workers a co claim he was hostile to moves the government hive off profitable aspects Office

POSU

operallons private enterorise. These may include the de- the lucrative nationalization National Data Processing com the nuter service onered Visit Aladdin PO to private hrms. whit be dearinentat "We feel that the sacking and his Hill LOrG the Industry. especially since Magic Lamp placed by a Tory who will- line with the philosophy favour government- Post the run-down

IL NOON

Office' said Mr Cowan City of London, In the postmen struck most for 90 minutes.

UPW

Taylor, sacking man who has everything make the wOrk efficiently. industry Second Annual neakina at a mass meen postal workers Mr Taylor said that the sack.

ing of Lord Hall was 'clearly Conference Te in gor an attempt by interfere ernment Post Office. working Lne Discuss "The political implications part

THE CHARTER OF

are very deep. off the profitable plan to hive nations the namonanzed

BASIC RIGHTS

with the Gird dustry, together ford to the private sector.

telecommunications sec. who The right to a job, to strike and "They want someone work In cer the direction of this Tory govern- organize, to retain gains made.

ment; he added. to fair prices, to welfare benefits

SUSPICIOUS

and to decent housing. London district Another Bob Clay, said that orkalizer. with Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to viewed move They force the Tories to resign.

areat susDICIon. 'The Tories watched Lord Hall and

BIRMINGHAM

nrogres wonde tod soft on the wages soft when comes Sat. December 19 dealing with rela- tions.' said. 200 engineers at the Digbeth Civic Hall, London Post tower work for half StoDDed hour today to attend a meet- Digbeth 10.30. am ing as 'an expression ot dis- gust' over the sacking. For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s DO cwitchhoard enerators in Derby, Nottingham and Mans- to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, feld short token strikes, kept 999 service Styvechale, Coventry. but Cole.

PAGE TWO

PART TWO

OF A SERIES

/ Assimilation by. plants

ILLUSTRATION

SHOWING

CARBON CYCLE

LIFE'S

building Towards as the central noon, perature rises and the humidity is material the element decreases, the rate of fall levels carbon dioxide with 611T carbon. concentration below the daily average. The basic molecules of life- photosynthesis At sunset, sugars, carbohydrates, fats and ceases and the plants take in proteins contain a carbon and give carbon oxygen out this the dioxide. At stage con- 'chassis' to which are attached exceed 400 Centraton parts other chemical components.

per million near the ground.

Individual carbon atoms circu- This high value is party due to the of the from gas late from dead to living matter decomposing organic maatter in and back again in what biolo- the soil and partly the to gists call the carbon cycle.

tendency of air to stagnate near the ground at night. The main such cycle starts with the gas carbon dioxide in

«BY A

air, which is incorporated into living matter and then passes

SCIENCE

back into air. Some of the

CORRESPONDENT

carbon is trapped in the form of rotting wood, dead animals etc., which may eventually yield fur- ther quantities of the gas or be The earth's forests contain converted into peat, coal or oil thousand between 400 and 500 over a period of millions of years.

of million tons roughly two-thirds of the amount In living material, carbon com- present as carbon dioxide in the converted pounds are air. and from them are formed the small frac- other life-molecules. However. only tion of the immense of mass carbon at or near the surface rapid Indiscriminate of the earth is in circula- the The bulk tion in biosphere. consumption consists of deposits such as chalk and with limestone, together organic fossil deposits such as oil shale, coal and petroleum.

grasp the effects In order to Over the the last century of man's indiscriminate consump- burning of fossil fuel has released tion of fossil fuels on his environ- large quantities of carbon dioxide let us look closely at the ment, into the atmosphere. Currently carbon-dioxide cycle plants in 5.000 and 6,000 and green vegetation. between mil- lion tons of fossil carbon a year the gas Green plants are relased. into sugars through photosyn- thesis: takes place conversior when sunlight falls on leaves.

Carbon dioxide Different plants incorporate different of carbon content amounts dioxide. In tropical rain forest. Within the past 100 years the where vegetation is lush and fast- dioxide of carbon content growing, much kilo- Tha

TWO

290 has risen from of carbon may be "fixed' atmosnhere grams parts per million 320 parts, every year by each square metre fifth and than of this more of forest vegetation. increase has occurred in the last and The Arctic tundra near- decade. barren desert where regions, Only about a third of the gas growing plants are sparse, may released fuels from fossil has cent of that only use per Ana the air. Most of the amount. two-thirds has prob- remaining The amount of the gas which ably dissolved in the sea, and with the sea- of it may have is taken in varies some increased son and the time of day, too.

land the total amount of vege- If the of carbon- amount Since 1850, of dioxide in the atmosphere is many areas for various have been cleared mancured in a farest forest the ground, The heights above agricultural purposes. pat- marked changes occur in a 24- of carbon dioxide produc- Tern tion and consumption has there- hour period. fore altered dramaticalry under The night-time carbon dioxide the impact of changed agricul- is about 320 parts concentration tural techniques. However, Der million. when the photosvnthesis leads to Fossil fuels importani sun rises, aro a rapid fall in the carbon dioxide the chemical and materials in pharmaceutical industries and are level as the gas is converted to burned for energy. sugars. would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address Carbon Dioxide in atmosphere Soil respiration Plant respiration Animal respiration for nimals 1999N0) Dead organisms ecompositio Root respiration Alternative sources of energy, Excessive use of fertilizers can hydraulic or nuclear also exhaust essential soil min- such as used only when erals like and phos- power, are polassium dictated by the profit motive. phates. The Nevertheless, in capitalist agri- indiscriminate change from forest to field has produced culture profits come first in the huge imbalances the short-term in carbon whatever long- cycle and the drive for greatest term dangers. yield crops from the smallest in a scientific magazine stated: article has disrupted area also basic processes involving the element 'At present it is economically sounder [more profitable] for the farmer to keep adding indus- Chemical trial fertilizers to his corps.'

compounds The price of this can be the death of human beings and areas of land rendered unfit for culti- vation. Over three-quarters of:. the What is required is a planned atmosphere is nitrogen, but it agricultural system which the can only be used by plants and production of food is carried out animals as part of chemical com- with the use new fertilizers OT In pounds, nature, nitrogen and a careful ecological balance from the air is fixed by small maintained. This, of course, bacteria in small plants.

presupposes food production for use and not for profit. But it can now be 'fixed' by artificial means well- -mainly Since 1950 produce fertilizer. Insecticide this has increased fourfold.

It now equath arrestial thie

DDT

fixed was terrestial before artificial nitrogen fixation began. Another danger of the indis- Before the manu- use of modern chemis- facture of fertilizers criminate synthetic try and its products in the amount of nitrogen removed agricul- from tu the inseticide DDY. exemplified the case the bal- atmosphere was anced by the amount returned by organisms that convert of Relatively small amounts 'fixed' nitrogen to the

DDT

in food can, it is thought, gas form. cause tumours. But huge amounts of DDT have been used almost indis- Fixation criminately since the war without taking into account possible effects on the balance of nature processes Yet it is possible control to insect pests in many other ways, particularly by introducing Now scientists are not sure animals that on them. live In that processes that return nitro- this way a new valance can De gen to the air can keep pace made and sustained. / with the fixation processes.

Naturally, the capitalist giant It is known, that however. chemical monopolies would not nitrogen washed CONDOnes find the alternatives as profitable from the soil into streams and as the use of pesticides.

rivers kill fish bv Call of the oxygen These examples underline the normally present in the water.

breakdown of empiricism as progressive scientific approach in Water affected in this way is the epoch of imperialist decay.

also a danger to human babies and some water supplies already The continuation of the bit-by- contain dangerous amounts.

bit approach in the interests of Help the Young Socialists make their a great success If you are able to sew, knit, paint and can make goods for our bazaars. If you can give us jumble, gifts, tins of grocery. Please contact Young Socialists Bazaars, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

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WORKERS PRESS

BY N. MAKANDA

THE

VISIT OF Dr Michael Ramsey, Britain's Anglican arch- must have posed him with several prob- lems.

CLASS S

ARCHBISHOP

RAMSEY

profit now spells disaster.

The problem' 'pollution inseparably Tenn slumps unemploy- The ecological crisis cannot be resolved in a bit-by-bit fashion any more than capitalism can be reformed to in the of the working class. All by the anti- attempts pollution experts to avoid these central questions lead to ,failure and, in fact, provide the the necessary to salety-valve so continuation of imperialist rule.

• To be continued.

BBC 1

9.38 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 12.30 p.m. Representing the union. 1.00- 1.25 1.30 Watch Swin glec: with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and 2.05-2.25 Schools. 4.55 weather. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory. Blue Peter. 5.20 Scooby-doo, where are you? 5.44 Magic round- about. 5.50 News, weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE. London. 6.45

THE DOCTORS.

7.05

TOP OF THE POPS.

7.45 BACHELOR FATHER. 'Time To Go Home'.

8.15

THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW.

THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

9.00 PLAY FOR TODAY. 'A Distant 9.20 Thunder'. By Maurice Edelman, MP. A boy's hero worship of his father is threatened.

10.10

24 HOURS.

10.55

THE SHADOW OF PROGRESS.

IMPROVING YOUR PLAYGROUP.

11.20 11.45 Weather.

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D.m. KNOW HOW. 7.00 7.30 NEWSROOM and weather. FIRST ELEVEN. 'The Fighting Temeraire' by J. M. W. Turner.

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THE MONEY PROGRAMME.

8.15 9.00 LOOK STRANGER. 'The Valley of Animals'.

9.20

THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW.

10.05 NEWS ON 2 and weather. 10.10 WORLD CINEMA TRIPLE BILL. 'The Magnificent Ambersons'.

Orson Welles's second feature film with Joseph Cotten, Agnes Anne Baxter and Dolores Costello. An insufferable Moorehead, aristocrat refuses to allow his family to break with tradition.

ITV

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6.02 TODAY.

6.35 LAUREL AND HARDY.

6.40 PEYTON PLACE.

QUEENIE'S CASTLE. 'Just Good Friends'.

7.10 7.40 THURSDAY FILM. 'Crack In the World'. With Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore and Alexander Knox. After a nuclear bomb below the earth's scientist detonates| miles surface an ever widening in the earth's crust threatens global destruction.

THIS WEEK.

9.30

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11.00 THE AVENGERS. 'Dead Man's Treasure'.

THINKERS. Tielhard 12.00 midnight

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WESTWARD.

Aus Honeybun. 11.30 for 11.35 Deather. 10 20 Wallace. place home midnight Weather. How, for example, could he justify his church's 'criticisms' of apartheid when it has, at the same time, a vast vested interest in it? Another problem was how to explain away to the African and coloured clergy in the Anglican church why they

VORSTER

CLASS STRUGGLES IN

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11.00-2.55 London. 3.40 3.50 Horoscops Forest 3.52 Women Dateline. today. 4.15 London. ran- 5.15 6.00 Dateline. gers. London. 6.30 High living Deborah 7.00 Film: "Separate Tables'. Kerr, With Rita Hay Bur Lancaster denies.

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3.49 3.52 Women today. 4.10 Car- News. Telendon. Same News, 4.50 toon. 4.20 Floris. 5.15 London. weather. 6.10 Win a word with Lesley 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Comedy: Blair. 'The Lavender Hill Mob'. With Alec Guinness. mild and meek bank employee hatches an ingenious scheme to steal £1,000,000 in gold bars. 8.30 On the buses. 9.00 Queenie's 9.30 London. 11.00 Ev. 11.30 astle. • kind of living. Thursday, November 26, 1970 were paid less than the 'white' clergy; why the 'finest' pulpits were closed to them; why the Anglican church owned and controlled separate properties for 'white' and 'black' congre- gations; and why it owned and ran racially-segregated schools throughout S Africa. Ramsey could not deny that all this was true, and has been true ever since the Anglican church took a leading role in creating for non-Europeans a of inferior, racially- system segregated education-and for Europeans a training to be masters. He could not deny that the Anglican diocese in S Africa has, at the top, wealthy exclu- all 'white' schools for sive 'white' boys and girls, with all- 'white' chapels in all-'white' , and, at the areas bottom, inferior, segregated, often tribally-divided schools and churches for Africans and coloureds only, situated in the African coloured segre- and gated areas and in the Bantus- tans, which Ramsey visited.

•Nor was all this forced on the Anglican church by law.

Anglican apartheid in S Africa, in church and state- as well as in the choice of sites where the Anglican chiefs built their respective 'white' and non-'white' schools and churches - was, from the beginning, not a voluntary or statutory choice. This with church was, Rhodes and other imperialists, a major architect of apartheid, especially in education. The state merely legalized later what the Anglican church had done beforehand. The Anglicans then used convenient this law as justify their apart- excuse to heid. The church's view of the present regime is that they both have a common agree- ment-the 'fight against com- munism' - and on this basis they can have mutually under- standable disagreements. Vorster can say that the arms intended for S British Africa are needed for the *fight against communism', while Ramsey that says British arms would, in effect, drive the non-Europeans into the arms of the communists.

Anti-Communism becomes the basis of agreement between the Anglican church and the S African regime. This is understandable since capital in S Africa is predom- inantly British and imperialist have been interests safe- guarded and upheld by an apartheid system. But then apartheid, in turn, is the basis on which Ramsey and Vorster agree to differ.

The Anglican church, together with British Liberals and the Labour Party, is part of the Anti-Apartheid Com- mittee in London. Anglican leaders are main speakers and comperes at Trafalgar Square rallies.

For decades the Anglican Nation Congress and S Afri- Communist Party has can worked in this way with Anglican and Liberal elements in S Africa. Now they do the same in Britain. The 'anti-apartheid' ANC and Stalinists have Ram- sey's men as their leaders and on their platforms. But these are men representing an apart- heid and anti-communist organization, as Ramsey's visit has once more brought out into the open. It would be logical for the 'anti-apartheid' organization to have Vorster as their chief patron. Then the Popular Front would be complete and angels of unity could rejoice.

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At this week's conference of the National Union of Students, the band was high- Queen Elizabeth col- London's lighted by a number of lege- said: questions under discussion: 'Students have no power on their own. affiliation the Trades to 'They only rely on the can Union Congress, grants, support of the workers to defend academic freedom and the their position as it is. planned expulsion of Rudi Kent University president Tony Chandler and •president • of •the Dutschke from Britain. Union 'there; said he Student thought the affiliation "obviously Extreme reaction is lining up the biggest step forward students against the students," 'just as it is have taken'. lining the working up 20ancl In fact there are two sides to class, and preparing the ground- this move. work for policing the universities.

More and more students feel Like the US Nixon Adminis. the need to fight in the closest tration, Heath's Tory government possible unity with the working- has its reactionary backers yap- class movement. away for stricter student control. But the reformist leaders of the

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the Stalinists. And this role became clearer Legislation even when the conference Canne proposed Indus- dicence the Copies of the. document were trial Relations Bill circulated the

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more than just protest. This preparation behind the 'Liberalism', said Chandler, 'is scenes for eventual anti-student inadequate. legislation Tories has bv the "This isn't the time for liberal forced many students to think fight for We have to pressures. beyond the the revolutionary overthrow of actions of 1968 and 1969.

capitalism.' ers Press spoke to a number of But conference narrowly sup- students about the discussion ported Stalinist-proposed which had taken place the motion backing the December 8 conference. call for a protest strike against Commenting on the conference the Tory anti-union laws decision to affiliate to the TUC, the leaving action entirely at Dai Stephens-an observer from whim of local NUS bureaucrats.

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Although the conference took and decisive Serious dangers are posed important steps towards fighting the Tories there take such to of account the lessons of May-June 1968 in was criticism of the union leader- belief France: where the students took ship and that was the initial political lead inadequate for the struggles only to find themselves deliberately ahead. cut Dai Stephens' opinion was that off froth the working class by Stalinists then "some of the real issues have ceeded to synically betray them who been brought out, but there was both. a lot of wrangling over liberal Seeing the fight the against pare for the attacks of the Tor- "This isn't the Cox document within the same the battle to defeat government. the anti-union laws, Dai Stephens 'The NUS sees its 'We must fight the role as commented: making statements on education, lot together.' but divorces it from other social issues.' Appeal Some students regarded the of wage- quesuon accepted the h, a delegate from principle by In Hill Educa- executive as a diversion from Gipsy the fight for higher grants.

declared: tion, Commented John Shorter of 'Professor Cox's document* Isleworth: Declaration of A cademic Free- 'A lot of students could be dom-is, in fact, an infringement and of student rights.' worse off after tax insur- ance" The fact that German student fight against the

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screen for such treachery.

*Personally I think the NUS The most urgent task in the should conduct a campaign universities remains the building this issue,' she said. of a Marxist revolutionary leader- Kent University delegate ship through the Young Socialist Chandler, Societies who tabled an emer- Student fight Dutschke, alongside the working class to reso union ON said: force the Tories to resign.

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the b, c • panerts. An esu- Yet the nepr for dental traat ment and health education is £4 mas h edol adora to mate ol niener Dy Grim prospects ent op i la great that we small Couil lose anv workers even The reduced volume of treat- ment will large nie AVera tax cuts 'Mr give 'e patient's more will have to have to 12,000 NH$ -ss ta ile his pay packet, hut the only Budget has put the cost of living have lives treat a population of up by tz a week. - bor ie ant 55 million people eMeral Dental unci, one B DA Many dental snowed (nat muon sumer rrom gum alsease many sociologists have and increase here wilt be about 300 dental spoken students qualifying this year and move of the NHS that weigh up the pros and cons waros more payments against a 'cheap' their prospects are arim will occur. extraction. Genera practice contract. he Socialist Medical Associ and the Cue nosoltais are rul school milk tion se an increase calis for omnlete v fr school in calcium (at the time of Large® unice should deficiency ricencec establ There will already dentists in ministry De paid tor out ot general taxa.

children Rickets fewer poorer commun the increase posts. non. ad ded le and to it will be Michael Silver ties There also be a contrac- will wel-deve obed (chalky) teeth Socialist Medical Association tion in the chularen neea a oin 10112 SUPPLy Dental Group tries. The laboratories that make ady ana rarery ao tney set any Mrs Cleaver barred Wes Kathleen lica eur ed e ck Eldridge ea er Frank fo rend rt on the moverent's Earlier enter wher allowed Orly airport arrived where her Algiers. exle vo Cernan, Mi nit try refused

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Major battle due with government ALL THE lines are quickly being drawn for a major battle over the demand by 125,000 electricity-supply workers for a £5-a-week pay rise. Tory leader Edward Heath and his senior Bread van Ministers are reported to be busy i assuring their strike may back-bench lobby fodder that this time the halt Scots government is going to hold firm. If the Electricity bakeries Coun- 35s, they say, cil's offer is then 35s it will be. Rank-and-file power wor- THREE major bakeries in the kers have other ideas. Glasgow and W Scotland area Meetings will be taking face this weekend closure place stations at most following strike by 1,000 areas of the country within delivery workers for a f4 wage the next few days to decide increase. what action to take follow- All three bakeries. owned ing their leaders' ré- union by the Rank, Spiller and jection of the offer. Weston groups, will close on - E85 Some stations Friday because transport borough and Ferrybridge unions are stopping supplies in Yorkshire, 'for instance of essential material and oil are already working to rule for baking ovens. Group bakeries in Kirkaldy in protest against it. Dundee and will also

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affected. About bait 5,000c bakers Four thousand Yorkshire may of the be because Thornhill, Skelton men at decision. Grange, Wakefield, Drax, The strike is now approach- Thorpe Marsh, Blackburn third has ing its week Meadows and Ferrybridge been made official by the two 'A' and 'B' stations will be unions involved, Trans- asked to join them. General Workers' port and Such action could lead to Union and the Scottish Com- complete shut - downs by mercial Motormens' Union. Christmas if successful, Shop stewards from the station delegates claim. will Motormen's be union To fan the flames, many travelling to Edinburgh and power workers feel their into Fife to spread the strike. official claim is too low: Members of the Scottish they want f10. Union of Bakers and Allied "The Tories have been Workers have responded to working up for some time' appeals from the two transport to their pledge of a vic- and unions have refused to in electricity big-three tory supply, load the vans worker Battersea • power bakeries. told Workers Bert Price The f4 claim would boost "Char- Press 's yesterday (see the van drivers' basic wage Basic Rights' inter- £20, but employers ter to say they will not improve on their view, opposite). He confident they latest offer be- would be beaten back. tween 44s 6d and 49s 6d.

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represent Britain in talks on 'co-ordination of foreign policy in certain fields' in

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Brussels 2. on December Rippon said they were now Foreign Minister Soviet 'extremely impor- considering Andrei Gromyko made a sur- tant and difficult question' of prise visit to Berlin the British contribution to talks with E German Stalinist community finances: 'crucial to leader Walter Ulbricht vester- the present negotiations'.

the official news dav. agency ADN reported.

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Gromyko's second It was An official strike of drivers visit here within four weeks. said

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the talks were halted many Glasgow fish and also attended by Prime Minis- meat lorries yesterday. Willi Stoph, ter Politbureau The strike, involving mem- Honecker. Scottish Commer. member Erich bers of the Foreign Minister Otto Motormen's Winzer cial Union. is Politbureau mileage and candidate over payments. Hermann Axen. member The talks, which ADN said

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(See page one) had taken place in a warm A spokesman PO Engin- for the and friendlv atmosphere, eering Union said exchanged covered questions 'of European Wolverhampton. Birmingham and security and of mutual in- London had staged *100-Der- cent walk-out terest! Reoistered a

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newspaDer • ho Post Office Puhliched Workers Tory Common Market nego- Press, 1864. ndon, s. Street, Geoffrey Rippon told tiator Printed Plouch Prace 14d (TIT) Commons yesterday that the 180b Clapham High Street, London, the Foreign Secretary would A power worker speaks & I COULD go along with this charter all the way.

Having said that, I want to comment particularly on point No 2, the democratic right to strike. If anybody proof wants evidence how really or necessary this is, they've only got to look at my own industry and they can see quite clearly what happens when this right is taken away. I consider every working man should have the right to strike--the right to put a price on his labour-in where a capitalist system the principle is to get as much as they can out of the worker for as little as possible. He should have that right just as a businessman has the right to price his goods.

It would seem that this Tory Bill will give the Tories the right to do what they like while the working man is held down by law. We are already in the position where our trade union leaders can go to prison if they call us out strike. on If it's such a great thing to take this right away, why is it that we power workers have some of the worst conditions and work for some of the worst wages paid? In this industry we don't get the right to a even cooling-off period. At one time this was a highly-paid industry, but like our brothers in the mining industry we've dropped right down the wages ladder. Now I earn about £19 a week after stoppages and have to work weekends, bank holidays and nights to get it. And turbine driver is one of the top operational grades. Of course, we get pre- mium payments for working weekends. But I don't con- sider these part of my wage, and I'd be on the poverty line without them.

Our industry has been nationalized since 1948 and I agree with the Charter demand for nationalization,

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*that stis Bill must a be that this must fought outright by every trade unionist in the country.

The Tories are taking our FLQ girl says police beat her A MAN and woman said to be members of the Quebec Liberation Front have been convicted of of contempt court in Montreal because they refused to give evidence to the inquest into the death of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. The woman, Lise Rose, aged 25, screamed before she was dragged from the courtroom that she had been , stripped naked and beaten during in- terrogation by police. The man, Clement Roy, 22, refused testify on grounds that his story could result in other people being charged. Both were imprisoned until December 1, when the inquest hearing reopens. Lise Rose is the sister of kidnap suspects Paul and Jacques Rose, both of whom are being sought by police.

Lise Rose and Clement Roy were both arrested-together with several dozen other people - under the War Measures Act put into oper- by "liberal' premier ation Pierre Trudeau after the kid- napping of Laporte and British trade commissioner James Cross. The Act gives police sweep- ing powers of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without trial. The two prisoners are likely to be tried eventually,_how- ever, and face five to 15-year jail sentences for advocating the unlawful or promoting acts, aims, principles or prac- tices of the FLQ-a left-wing Quebec separatist organiza- the kid- tion outlawed since nappings. Royalists attack guerrillas ROYALIST army units drove Palestinian commandos from a post near the N Jordan town of Jarash yesterday.

Military police set up by the Central Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organ- ization under last months agreement between Hussein and Arafat first asked them to leave the post. When the commandos re- regular army units fused, opened fire. There were no casualties.

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ANTI-STRIKE laws are nothing new 35s reply to their claim, all overtime power plants throughout for workers in the power industry. The working Public Utilities Act makes it an offence Britain will be halted. for them to withdraw their labour.

Vernon (Bert) Price works as a turbine If you work in a power station, a gas driver at Battersea Power Station in London. He is chairman of the Nine works or a water works vour oniv lea Elms branch of the Transport and sanction against the employer is an over- ume ban or a work-to-rule.

General workers unon and anucipate: a fierce struggle to win the £5 claim.

Power station workers are getting ready for an official overtime ban and As he says: "The Board as usual will work-to-rule as negotiations for their have received instructions to bear in mind government policy? f5 pay claim climax in talks between union chiefs and the "Charter Manascucul Here, he comments on December 2. of Basic Rights' and underlines graphic- ally what anti-strike laws and produc- One week later, if the Central Elec- tricity Council persists with its derisory tivity deals mean for power workers: bert rrice though not the present kind ". And am penny produc that to think 1970 is net one pee this taki ade as estimated that the aren Years amount ot Wer ardue consumer call has been cut by abo ers na: the to the coral tiertery Sked the bet ma 11 ti Since 1964, Roberts Lays, sort what since 1964, the ee however, fell by MEMBERS of the 'Green Berets', the notorious m involved in last Saturday's abortive attempt to re of-war from a camp in N Vietnam.

This was revealed by Notts official at LSE US Defence Secretary Melvin Laira in nis testi- the Senate mony t Foreign Relations Com- he this Bill goes no mittee on Tuesday night. imprisonment? worker called upon the Tuc TERRY WHELAN, Nottinghamshire area agent for the thing: • bring the Tory governmen National Union of Mineworkers, defended the Stalinists Under role in the miners' strike to a student audience this December ust he week. in and here t New Zealand A the caned here! bers defended the farmers for National Ex- small Laird's dos sub intentende Britain Gene secretary da cen withs hoots, times December 8. AGRICULTURAL workers are Pay strike New Yearings The m No cameras Lacker + the manasemes dinot exposed during the cameras outs or baldings.

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sentence 7.30 p.m. defence of The fight for workers' for arms rights the own Hall salesman Phoney protest over Davis trial ere all that the Jobs cut on Swiss Seven recently in The roch Salinice and is which con take the cal. operating an the had not acted out of are.

for not edin 5 ecualong the reacherous assance Party Bether ontar 0d00 more advanced ship ermanently at 15 Geismar's jailers. • See page three. Thursday, November 26, 1970

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EMPLOYERS' organizations in Britain and W Europe have wasted no time in their cam- paign to block the passing of protectionist legislation in the United States.

In a statement released Elderly eat today addressed to Presid- ent Nixon, the heads of less meat Common Market and European Free Trade Area

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forcing prices are elderly people living alone in industrial federations 'ex- N London to eat less meat press their serious concern and fish, according to a study published yesterday. at the content of foreign The by a leading trade legislation now under London found geriatrician that a section 60 elderly consideration by the people living in Islington cut United States Congress'. down their consumption of meat and fish between the Signed for the Confedera- 1962 years and 1969. tion of British Industry by President John Partridge, Its the letter warns: 'If access to the United market States should be blocked tor increasingly wide of goods, range balance of payments consider- amongst others will eventually force our govern- ments to react to restrictive United States policies'

EARLY DAYS

These are early days yet for development of such a Many US exporters have much to lose by a European 'backlash' against restrictions notorious murder squad, were on Common Market and EFTA exports into the USA. tempt to rescue US prisoners- Southern Republican Party leaders also hope to win votes

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opponents by coming out for the protection of the region's textile industry, treatment' of captured guer- currently rillas in the South. hard-pressed by Japanese rivals. It was only a few months In this context, the pro- ago that the world learned of the barbaric 'tiger cages' tection campaign forms part of Nixon's 'southern strategy'.

maintained by Laird's allies in Saigon for NLF prisoners.

Despite its tough language, Another specialist in 'in- the letter is obviously intended European backing to telligence', Vice - President to give the anti-protectionist lobby in Spiro T. Agnew, has already Congress. called for new attempts free US prisoners in the more pressing problem North. facing the Nixon Administra- He told reporters on tion is the unchecked growth Tuesday that although of inflation, which saw a rise 'these rescues risky, during October of 0.6 per cent think we can't afford to in retail prices, the sharpest give up on our PoWs. monthly increase for half a We've got to continue to year. extricate them whenever we can'.

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Laird has been more cautious, 'we Tuesday's figures commenting ex- are considering other action' pected to spark off a renewed to the release of campaign by leading econom- secure prisoners. ists and government advisers for an incomes policy. Support Unchanged for a US 'wage freeze - either official or Nixon's decision to launch 'voluntary' - has been ex- such an adventure is proof former pressed recently by that his Vietnam policy Federal Reserve Board chair- remains unchanged. McChesney man Martin and US imperialism will his successor Arthur Burns.

not be talked or pursuaded out These basic economic prob of Indo-China; it will have lems, made even more acute be driven vost by the by the wages offensive inside combined blows lie behind the the trade unions, Vietnamese people and the the protectionist debate in the international labour move- US and today's statement by ment. the European employers.

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