Workers Press no. 328

The daily paper workers press that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1970 • NUMBER 328 PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE No need for hospital power cuts-union official What Class-war logic Tory anti-strike Power chiefs we think retreat- 'The Times' Tories plot exposed and advance Brian Mr Ted Ward, secretary Behan

TORY

GOVERNMENT insistence that the the No. I district of the oint industrial council giving de 'national interest' must be taken into account in tails of the power at a power industry Court of Inquiry underlines Cuts press conterence yesterday.

their determination to press home the advantage HOSPITALS need never have been cut off in the Tory lynch union leaders have given them.

LEADINu tae mab aan the power mer power dispute, a leading union representative ine unions proposal to

BY JOHN SPENCER

said in London yesterday.

eno une work-to-rule and side. Ole core at me us letters overtime dan in return ror Ted Ward, secretary was a of the No 1 district Chapple's major retreat. joint industrial council for supply, gave the lie right-wing lory press call 'act of Engineering Union's paign against power workers when action taken Yete ee times i campaign ter hurried Whitehal accused management of witch-hun faith' now notorious Tak cartoon.

to break the strike. 'completely frustrating' Something was missing which distribution workers' These leaders alcon leaders eftorts to ensure that 11 Tories

BY A POLITICAL REPORTER

power supplies to hos- aake up alashan old people's pitals and Tory gov. UNION LEADERS called off the power industry Sovernmen homes continued. work-to-rule yesterday 'as an act of faith to the at tend sustained press inu he majo been nation'. Pilling a Brian, the tones even, theirnsistence government suitex Beiversi the miner sand benan s lett the no in The times can

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Feather name—corporatism. Cambodia: Fierce Council workers won a sub "reluctantly Behan ast, lv * so cated agreed to the praises attack nd the Socialist Labour stations would be ement has deliber- this capitulation Now was sador that th CAMBODIAN Liberation Forces, sace bandrown on the ately chosen fighting virtual a demand sur ormal who now hold the capital Phnom country Penh in a ring of steel, are continu- secretar power tionaers Nots American and Czech-backed their odds kistin ouncil must d the Tory hard sad and tying, Ted the Electricity nemy ories army.

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

three-hour need after

FANCY

In short a plebiscitary dicta only bear ve back is more than a wethe village for that the national pe orship. no contact with top leaderaitulation "Strikes', writes Behan, 'are the

THAT!

their he load outcome they are work- déntial palace. cat later la the society. Waate for him for some men under Road blocked last Express launched Lon Nol's puppet regis eight days ato agai *Add to this the mischievous Bank lage even near the some get States workers rall in station it, hut! the leath arriving for yesterday

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capital, appears to have been successful. • To spany is es defeat Lon Nol's troops have had Scottish with smoked slavo people and sec. Heath claims UnassIS Airports power men. teachers stand was radicalismen supported All Trades make big work-to-rule Batchelor's Holy primed yesterday ar pay claim strike may will 'snowball' Unions Alliance 2222 be extended AIRLINE-staffs' leaders were confident yester- maya Asse are bein schoolmasters' Second Annual day that most airport operations would grind to a halt within a week as a result or ten pay wage rates he Conference reitas sheield food factory work-to-rule. remains silent thanked and action Discuss irit which they have £1,250 Dec. § Britain. luring the work-to-rule

THE CHARTER OF

should claim p1,350-22,050 for ported the Cabinets artist Appeal Fund chograduate sin ate Seward

BASIC RIGHTS

what he lowest and nation at the dispute stands at se disputhe line. The right to a job, to strike and Closer with Earth's workout maintenance E317 4S 40 the sovere t of Terry Devey. organize, to retain gains made. power Demand Bulgarian miles of space to fair prices, to welfare benefits 60000 Le and to decent housing. Lito aig spread by representllig Greek ties rejected ease from January Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to force the Tories to resign.

decessors Venus-s and 6. general livin

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bint of Which Bachelor. provarent in Sat. December 19 to drive £16 million in the red must Digbeth Civic Hall, VW sales up Digbeth 10.30. am maplus or pan anone are co. regime in Anes has obvi • hamed the end i For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s argument of a Social con Press see or for hen ti had so firm's te sets of the are docks to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, snares aise dropped in ers by the stalin beetles, b ncludin Burlead, Shelfield minster olyvechale, coventry he end of last week.

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workers press Tory anti-strike What we think 'The limes and Brian Behan as been to hime

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This and Be al a Lamour leaders predicable refusal powel lor break the strike was not enough Somethin con mied wore DarkruGer • Brotes Callaghan the Sussex University: Behan's letter ence intered promin cried one torship. a plebiscitary dicta- rites Behan White for or the Cinist foin its refor- Pa situation (sco disturb To Behan, rade Hea It is very clear, is it not?

'tapitical crimes of the Not no the innie britain, confuse types with he heory and policy. programme The stri- Trotsisinst Andicated by what heletely The en alter writes* cal con The argument

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1970 • NUMBER 328 PRICE 6d. ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Class-war logic Mr Ted Want ore yod TORY GOVERNMENT insistence that the 'national interest' must be taken into account in industrial council giving ac tails of the power cuts at a a power industry court of inguiry underlines press conference yesterday.

their determination to press home the advantage HOSPITALS need never have been cut off in the union leaders have given them.

power dispute, a leading union representative ne unions oroposal to

BY JOHN SPENCER

end the work-to-rule and said in London yesterday.

"There overtime dan in retum tor Quite correntside. Ted Ward, secretary inquiry court was a 1 district of the No major retreat. sponse work one alr joint industrial council for supply, gave the lie prospect to the ' Tory press cam- defeat a single union chief has against from the Engineering Union's balall

DOWCI

workers when he phewitch-hunt when after buried polion cher against accused management of the action 'completely frustrating notorious Jak cartoon. distribution

WULACID

efforts to ensure that

BY A POLITICAL REPORTER

at the power supplies to hos- and gov. pitals and old people's UNION LEADERS called off the power industry homes continued. the ser the the gior work-to-rule yesterday 'as an act of faith to the After one of the most viru black-out, ed neve been solutely Despite their opposition to the management against CRi sankey imposed by government's ten ter workers hed no control nen resume which fully on Davies said see through has the reverse effect.

SUPPORT

Feather that these were praises Members in These support so-called deliber- • snice is true of whe capitulation CAMBODIAN Liberation Forces, sten of cerate a who now hold the capital Phnom erat secs tary v Coor sather move- Penh in a ring of steel, are continu- thrown on the offensive against Lon ing their Nationa ments de tele- of their menders worl Nol's American and Czech-backed and ben. Ted ally.

FOREIGN CONRESPONDENT

The Tories know that the WStr

FANCY

power workers the national nola the opinion quite o rentac a the the village for last Thursday. Capitulation is that more

THAT!

black-c he bad, the road to bate s- the blocking • battle ut created

'ANY

about Mt Onassisi So be ar around Road blocked but last rould also take into trunded on Tony o reit mendous wea Express under severe military pressure, launched record. Somes 23,000 the All workers ome must rally to cartoon showine Inion's continued recognitio night at Ciar

PAGE FOUR COL. 9

Heath africh mer yesterday's es at the shippit an aters i labelled saces, appears to have been The Czech Stalinists are re- ported Lon Nol's troops have had - complete Scottish salmon Heath claims Onassis an Airports teachers stand was supported Hysteria make big work-to-rule Batchelor's Taly Crimed yesterday what • T to lia up in die cing pay claim whip and pointed out, will snowball' strike may letters, telegran be extended the lowest pai against ne demanded 5y AIRLINE-staffs' leaders were confident yester- casin schoolmase so the Second Annual day that most airport operations would grind to six-week-old a halt within a week as a result of their pay ehelors Shete a Food factory Conference association a cellor work-to-rule. * by 46 e on the ine last sib blackmail were involveals of the hate anion justifying render Discuss claim £1,250 Dec. airport Trades" cut preca lions and fog. politically,

THE CHARTER OF

erence met in sheted yes 101, 350-E2,050" notey had tech Appeal Fund of the representalive

BASIC RIGHTS

possible stands al claim i stone the a The right to a job, to strike and Closer rendezvous today with E317 4s 4d About anitenance moe than 25 milo 'Deves organize, to retain gains made Than Demand Bulgarian to fair prices, to welfare benefits these er unde fight Viread by the Big and to decent housing. vehicle, Luno hod 1, continue Lie being $932 Is a sly Deed ale Greek ties Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to from workers will Know electricity supply force the Tories to resign.

THE

Sports the vests sol

BIRMINGHAM

in general living the Standards. Sam. En Mini® from Sat. December 19 £16 million in the red papers to drive an are is expected, fol ack the expected, fol- VW sales up Digbeth Civic Hall, of the Bat de- for SALES of Volkswagen 85 Digbeth 10.30. am 1 br Eye surplus alread out. endolell ten points For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s had so m cord on cork e strike commi in Both proses by the sain ase dropped in nears lead. to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, the ecs of the July dock.

Burbath, shes d minster Styvechale, Coventry. ine end of last weeketles, by strike. price. ist bureaucialy.

The British workers movement

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its THE BRITISH working the working class, against forms of thinking, struggle class is now preparing for which must bring out the real content and historical implica- the most decisive period tions of the present crisis.

of struggle in its long The organic connection between present struggles of class history. history must be established amongst the most advanced and The great depth of the class-conscious section of work- ers. world and crisis facing The of history has to study British capitalism means that be forged into a weapon to the employing class can only hope to cling onto power by preparing the most ruthless struggle against the working class. This will involve an break up the attempt to organizations which it has over decades of built up crack many of the theoretical and struggle. practical that questions nOW demand solution. But crisis, which has this developed particularly since the And understanding of the con- of the Tory government tinual fight for Marxism must be election resolved within the instilled into the present genera- cannot be framework of capitalism. tion of workers. The struggle against unemploy- For it is from this history that ment, speed-up and redundancies the Socialist Labour League all the and defence of derives its theory, strategy and demand the preparation by the tactics. working class to take power. Capitalism can be overthrown Great changes, economic only if the revolutionary move- changes in the relationship of the ment can bring the lessons of the for Marxism classes, always prepare great historical fight for in changes in thinking. Faced bear, living with Britain to real problems the the completely tasks which it and new Way, onl class will English working in- creasingly be forced to make a forward gigantic leap con- battle and into sciousness go armed with its history. But, although driven into bit- of sections ter struggles, workers will enter the fight the still clinging as a last resort to old conceptions many their and forms of organization.

the role And of the reform- Stalinists and ists, revisionists is to try and see that the working class remain burdened with these historically redundant forms of thinking. Stages There nothing automatic about this development In con- be sciousness. will have to fought for tenaciously by the revolutionary party at each stage.

While requiring deter- great mination and sacrifice, this struggle will also demand great patience. For there be can no leaping over stages in the devel- A queue of unemployed outside a Labour of the working-class's opment consciousness. the working class face. The first of stage this new The task of tracing this con- turn is offensive. -from the time of Marx's tinuity- But while this is the form, the Engel's in the and struggles implications of this fight are pro- from the British working class foundly political: do not only 1840s onwards- -involves a break direct confronta- they involve a which from the insularity has tion with Tory government dominated the English long now committed to a showdown working class. with the unions and the working class, but the very existence of Marxism, But this fight for the unions as independent organs international reflecting the of working-class struggle.

of the working class, is struggle not a national question. It is for these reasons that the revolutionary movement is now This theoretical conception has posed with great theoretical practical significance profound challenge and responsibility.

For at a period when tt the prepara- when what is merely at issue is not revolution tion whether Trotskyism will be able fuses ever more closely with the attract big support from the European revolution. youth and older layers the in working class- -the period since have Middle-class revisionists May-June 1968 France in • has declared Marxism or, always shown growing interest more strictly, Bolshevism as Marxism. 'alien' and 'out something quite of character' with the English Britain will be no exception. working class. The of Workers growth the Press is an indication of this.

all What unites revisionists- of the International The essential Marxist task Pabloites is "state the Marxist Group, capi- not just winning of support for Socialism International its programme the working talist' in group as well as the New Left— class, but the training of cadres is their hatred and fear of the in theory. Leninist Party. implacable This involves an replace it truggle asainst the limitations of They have sought to I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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So the struggle for Marxism, in Britain right from the 1840s, has been centred on the struggle tside a Labour Exchange in the 1920s.

against opportunism, against all those in the working class and who wanted middle class to base themselves on the most privileged and conservative layers. And the same internationalist struggle was certainly at the centre of the preparations for the Russian Revolution. Lenin and his followers were able to defeat Menshevism (opportunism) in their own movement only because they sought to establish its inter- national nature and its connec- with the development of tion the imperialist stage of capital- ism. It was because they recognized understood Menshevism as and an international tendency that the Bolsheviks overcame it in those, including struggle; all Kautsky, who did not start from this position ended up either by joining this tendency or cravenly • adapting to it. The struggle against opportun- ism has gone along with a con- stant struggle against 'practical- ism' and a general aversion to theory and ideas. Marxism can only be developed in the continual fight against the narrowness and parochialism which • has dominated large sec- tions of the British working class. Lenin warned that the Com- munist Party of Great Britain- 1920—would develop

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Leaders of the Communist Party shortly after Its foundation in 1920. that it was boilermakers, carpenters, build- only the extent ing trade workers. able to fight successfully against the opportunism and syndicalism this Limited though move- tended predominate in

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ment was compared with the size the English working class. and of Chartism, Marx scope In a negative sense Lenin's recognized its importance and turned his full attention towards warnings were absolutely con- firmed. it. The bulk of his Stalinism took hold of the is of the first the General Council the First British Party perhaps more easily Commun- International (established in other than it did 1864) came from these forces. ist Party in the 1920s because the and practice of a privil- 'theory' Marxists have made never the Soviet ered bureaucracy in of fetish of the "backwardness' Union found a ready response the English working class. They the which to opportunism have always tried to understand infected many of the cadres, like it as the product of definite his- Gallagher, Murphy and Bell who torical forces. which has always been relative and not an absolute barrier to the develop- ment of Marxism. Again this is a vital lesson for The the present struggles. revo. called lutionary party is now on intervene in all workers limited they struggles, however seem from a formal point of view. Patience If the working class is merely looked at in a formal way, and there is not a relentless struggle extract all the theoretical from development, every conc however small, then there can be no development of Marxism.

Because both Marx and Engels recognized the great power of the trade union movement in the English working class they were prepared to struggle With great and patience with complete determination against the oppor- the lead- tunist elements among | the skilled workers who ers of were beginning to unionize in the 1850s. establish the came together to British ( ommunist Party. This not only played a vital part in the struggle against the But if Marx, Engels and Lenin Inter- First in the Antonate were acutely aware of the weak- but it also prepared national, nesses and limitations of the struggles for the great which British working class, they were the working class to

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ware of certainly equally well aware hundreds of thousands its its great strength and potential against these same opportunist leaders with the growth power. of un- skilled the trade unionism None of the leading Marxists 1880s. stood aside from even the slight- est and limited develop- and So the fight of Marx ment in the working class Engels the conservatism against trade of the English union land. After the defeat of Chartism ers in the 1860s was a theoretical in 1848, for example, Marx and of the anticipation fight the Engels sought to understand the of the 1880s in working class real lessons of this movement, which Engels was able to play a its achievements and its limita- decisive role. tinne In the early stages of a move- Reaction the theory ment, interest in its is inevitably confined to relatively Those like Ernest Jones and small But nimhere pre- George Julian Harney, who had in such periods that the cisely the grasping struggle to develop and enrich Come протост то Chartism, Marxism, no matter how difficult, revolutionary nature of were unable to survive the period no matter amongst how few of reaction which inevitably fol- vital theoreti- workers, that the lowed the movement's collapse.

cal base is laid for the expan- sion of the movement during the It was only the insistence upon the upturn class struggle a fight for theory in the difficult which brings hundreds of thou- years of reaction following 1848 sands and later millions onto the that prepared for the way political arena for the first time.

and of the renewal expansion revolutionary movement once the It is only in this theoretical class struggle began to revive sense that we can speak about towards the end of the 1850s.

the movement's continuity, which is not primarily an organiza- This revival, coinciding mid Vic- tional question. the opening the boom, took the form of a If it is conceived as such, then torian struggle for trade unionism it readily leads to the conclusion amongst the most highly-skilled that the continuity has been decisively broken sections of workers - engineers.

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His output includes 'Bridge on the River Kwai', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Doctor Zhivago' and now 'Ryan's Daughter', showing at the Empire, Leicester Square.

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His last three films, as the current extensive publicity in- forms us, have won an 'in- credible 20 Academy Awards'.

Zhivago has earned at this worked with him on every stage £30 million. picture since, How has this developed • and collaboration In an industry which has has the work progressed? created more myths out of the 'Lawrence' script In the of Seven simple appropriation cash drew heavily on une E. than any other, Lean is almost of Wisdom, T. Pillars a myth in himself. Lawrence's own acount of the Arab struggle for independence.

In the words of the trade It is the highly subjective 'he can write his own ticket', who remained view of a man because his or, more simply, an enigmatic and contradictory films have grossed So much of the British representative money and he is subsequently ruling class. so much in demand, the finan- ciers allow him a 'freedom' that few other film-makers have Deepen and production money for one project that would be sufficient film itself tried The to to finance least 12 other deepen an understanding of the medium-sized budget films.

but could offer little man, It is interesting therefore to than crude psycho- this "freedom' analytical: approach see how ex-' ,to. the presses itself in his work.

subject.. the sado- It focused on Spectre masochistic aspects of -his. character, seeing the historical To commercial recognize conflict he was involved in as freedom is to understand the something 'little more than knife edge that it rests on, for kind of backdrop, expres- again in the words of the trade, sion of his own neurosis.

'you are only as good as your It that references 1S true made which means that the kind of last picture, were 'freedom' is always haunted by carve-up of Arabia perpetrated the spectre commercial by the British, but attention of failure. the film was elsewhere. If the last picture dies at I am not saying that the film the box office, the next one is centre was wrong to

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harder to finance. Some people Lawrence, or that the man's don't work for inner neurotic tensions are not years atter- wards. of importance. But in distort- Orson Welles, for ing the historical conflict they example, after the 'failure' of the 'Mag- distorted also the man. set cent a betures for could not Lawrence was therefore cast 'heoric' mould and the set up a picture several in the style of the film reflected that years. This is the inescapable con- interpretation. Hence the long, tradiction that all film-makers shimmering entrances on horse- 'free' back, the magnificent panorama work under, however fact 'freer' they are. In the of the desert, the almost mys- tical meditations of Lawrence they are the sharper is the contradiction and the when deliberating over battle, more the spectre hangs over them. the choice of music, in a word They of their the 'epic' treatment of the are prisoners 'freedom'. subject. own opted for this Lean's But having hrst giant commer- 'Bridge over however, there cial success was interpretation the River Kwai, followed after disjuncture be- was no real The an interval of several years by tween style and content. 'Lawrence of Arabia', film had its internal complete- In this distorted one. last film Robert Bolt wrote the ness though a Lean Three films later we see in screenplay and has

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directed is subordinated to style. For example the local policeman— the film is set in a small West Coast Irish village just after the! Easter uprising, though that, like the mountains, is merely another backdrop — is established as a definite charac- ter in the community, one who : with the English fraternizes soldiers, and one who has the contempt of the unemployed villagers. Indifference Yet when he is shot by a rebel commandant from Dublin and his body thrown down a mine, no one, not the army, nor the villagers ever mention or are aware of his disappear- ance. Obviously a whole sequence was cut out of the film and lies on some editor's floor. But the point is that this demonstrates an absolute and unforgiveable indifference to content. Because the style Why? predominates. Better a long view of the the exigencies of than sea story. Again locations are chosen not for their appropriateness but for their visual effect.

igarette advertising on new year, the tobacco nt that any drop in sales The new legislation will cer- tainly not be popular with the TV networks. The tobacco industry allocated $225 million (£93 million) for TV this year —about three-quarters of its total advertising budget.

As a result of the ban, tobacco companies are ex- pected to divert most of this money to other media, while some plan to cut their adver- tising costs. TV commercials However, for pipe tobacco and cigars permitted and will still be there will undoubtedly be in- creased spending on these.

Fears have also been ex- that evasion of the pressed ban may take place by the simple method of giving new lines of pipe tobacco or cigars the names of popular brands of cigarettes. Evasion This has worked very well in Britain for the makers of the 'Embassy' brands, a fact which will not have escaped the attention of their counterparts. The US surgeon-general's re- port on the link between cigar- ette smoking and lung cancer was published in 1964. In Britain, TV advertising was banned in 1965 and yet sales have increased by 2.7 per cent per year since then.

In Italy, Switzerland and France even bigger increases have been recorded. So the US weed merchants are optimistic. They know that whatever gestures the Admin- istration may make, there is no likelihood of a complete ban on advertising. With the massive financial at their disposal, resources they are therefore in a position

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God knows why the priest should find Ryan's daughter on the sea shore, or what he's doing there in the first place. It's the effect that counts.

The Irish rebellion is yet "spectacular' another back- ground which affords some superimposed action. The list is long and there is no sense continuing it, but this film reveals only too clearly the insuperable contradictions within the present system of film-making and its actual dis- torting and imprisoning elect on creative work itself. freedom For the illusory forces the maker to return to a trięd form and prohibits any creative development. This is the work of fear, of a slave. The £8 million budget is strapped across Lean's back.

From this flows the shallow- ness of the work, the penny..

characterization, the predict- ability of the situations.

It's a work of decadence without vigour or passion, a glossy package with dead meat inside. What price 'freedom'? completely to swamp any poorly - financed | and half- hearted attempts that are made to counter their flood of propa- ganda. Next year they hope to sur- pass their 1967 record sales of 528 million cigarettes - an average of 24 packets of 20 per person per week ! THE CURING of inherited disease through genetic en- gineering was the subject matter of a recent Washing- ton conference.. The conference was the first in a planned series to gain as much knowledge and provide as many safeguards as possible before the advent of the prac- tice of genetic medicine, which may become a practical alter- human transplant native to surgery. Inherent in the achievement of genetic control disease is the ability to manipulate genes and to eliminate the development of diseases which can lead to serious organ failure. Such diseases affect one quarter of the human race. shops conference's six work to define attempted more sharply the number of genetic diseases (1,500 have been identified), the extent of Michael (JOHN MILL: confetti. Below: The Rosy (SARAH MI WHILE THE world is sub- jected to interminable reports of the sufferings of diplomat James Cross and his family, the conditions of Quebec workers which gave rise to the much-publicised activities of the French separatists are quietly but firmly swept to one side. their in world prevalence populations, the current rate of knowledge about the dis- eases, and what can be done under existing programmes, to improve research and treat- ment. Dr Arthur G. Steinberg, con- ference co-chairman and Pro- fessor of Human Genetics at University in Case Western Ohio, said that the scientific community agreed that the world is at the dawn of prac- tical breakthroughs in this area because of the great basic research performed in the past decade in elucidating the genetic code, and more re- cently isolating individual genes and synthesizing a gene arti- ficially. Lay leaders and scientists alike, he said, 'will devote their attention to the anticipa- tion of possible problems stem- ming from the application of research and development in genetic medicine'

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Rosy (SARAH MILES) and Charles Shaughnessy

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Lung diseases are most com- mon in the industrialized city of Montreal, and . report the admits that low incomes and poor housing are 'factors'.

Quebec also has a high in- cidence of tuberculosis, cancer and heart disease. striking One of the most statistics in the 570-page re- from port is that the death TR in the province is more than double that of neighbour- Large-scale unemployment is Ontario, nearly six per 1ng compounded with deteriorating thousand. living standards and worsen- areas of The rural Quebec ing health conditions. turn out to be more unhealthy A recent report, prepared by than urban due to lack ones, Commission a Royal for the of up-to-date medical equip- Quebec Health Ministry, shows poorly-planned and ment that the province's workers are patient facilities. less healthy and can expect to The report has run into some have shorter lives than other because all the criticism not Canadians. figures completely are up to but it has given rise to The infant mortality rate is date, the province demands for a major overhaul also higher 1n parts of Canada than in other of many health services. deaths Europe 25 per Premier Trudeau's reply has or

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1,000. been to ban the and to The report blames pollution give notice to Quebec workers and inadequate hospital facili- how capitalism intends to deal ties for the high incidence of with their for the struggle some illnesses. most elementary rights.

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Make ATUA conference counter offensive against WITH FOUR days to go to the Birmingham conference of Tory laws the All Trades Unions Alliance called to discuss and amend the Alliance's Draft Charter of Basic Rights, the Tory gov- ernment nas come out lor open war on the working class.

ENDORSEMENT for the Charter also comes from The government's atti- British Aircraft Corporation shop steward Charles tude to the power workers' dispute shows that Heath Bixley. A representative of AEF members at BAC's and his Cabinet want to Weybridge plant, he says: abolish all compromise and uniforms • FA lorce a complete surrender can't going from the union leaders. tink is in 80 ounts e under thre or bie should, you going up in the shops ever Bao back to the go anor s I think Toth they come die with which is sa co in the or time we bee need later and they re to and then put prices up 19 at Birming- fere a to us land it lifference to Springboard I be then in boarding and the mi * they t are even going to Stop the Bill to all trade o keep the dius. PAUL COPPER is a young toolroom worker at she Charter conference. the Amalgamated Engineers and A member of the Four engineers roundryworkers, ne told workers Press: of day wens • I agree it all rank-and-file paricular that va fes fries nee better wives buy vil not after them 'talks. How sharehink the Terie should price anything to Kor opinions tol Our, with blazes and scree first possible opportunity.

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i But i have homes mat ind under this goy rame redundanta Decor Dealing with GARY PAYNE, who is AEF convenor at the Powder 'wildcats' His Topy Couplings plant in Leeds, had this to say: MR Kenneth Corley, chairman once ana l0r all. I THINK this Charter of managing Joseph lucas (industres). Ltd, told shareholders at the LARRY CONNOLLY is a senior night-shift steward that it at the Lucas dynamo and starter plant in Birmingham.

annual mechno was upsetting grieving The stewards' committee of which he is a member find Lucas affected by strikes concerned with every a spect was one of the first organizations to call on the TUC handful of only a the fact that to organize a General Strike to defeat the Tory anti- Ivolvald their 80.00V workers, acung union laws. against the advice of their I agree with every point been unit is the wildcats, the guer Cha Point on on wages inters es nighwaymend demands we should be seat sh no sit deal producavily acals. It has been proved by the down a

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in strike science' sinister and reactionare mel extreme y FRENCH President fears A 'social conscience' can only Georges Pompidou

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trad protectionism wards sto theses to find a solu- Ta arcast aisins that the and restrictions Whether You Duce is In the Unitea states. a laked dict tone safety standards. sent the avera not he organia. e or their capital classes for on tra con that she devel e yesterday in support of oping within it. referendums dola cott Basque trial Donuca Referee whole exam reside it in France Book the laten war an sit-in sealed

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orking-clas and finally would lea aowdowns to econome POLICE have sealed all roads leading to the Montserrat Abbey near Barcelona, where about

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300 Catalan artists and intellectuals are nolding stressinge a sit-in against the 16 Basque nationalists' trial grettalisa classes of both in Burgos. demonstrators, who in- world-fam Saturdas rico rel on a ay-to leave th nomic problems that face court emphasized that it would Steadfast Croice appeals by Basquer the Pope has steadfastis

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eaders in the last three yet still guerrillas intert the satonal economy s propolatic Court's main enemies feed to combat inflation Economy show she co that then orde of the KING HUSSEIN of Jordan flies to Bonn today to meet W German this dispute in' the pursuit of Chancellor Willy Brandt at the end of three days of talks in Paris with President Pompidou and his Ministers.

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