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BY JOHN SPENCER

waiting in the freezing cells of Burgos jail to has face Franco's fascist firing squads.

not throughout Europe The six who their not commuted changed ale -st recently they press face death well die at dawn today. Loulist

BY ROBERT BLACK

BASQUE and Spanish exiles in Britain maintained a vigil outside SPAIN is still ruled by terrible the Spanish embassy in protest Belgrave Square vesterdav after some of coice gene wirem srayed att night in the cold to protest the Burgos verdict.

that butchered tes way to hink trainerad attempted They were joined by power over the bodies of members of the Socialist stration side the countless ana League, Maoist nour were peasants in the civil war regime's mon- and the demonstratio organizations of 1936-1939. by iself mantarian union cities. sites Communist Party. frauds trial are a worth while on 5 military car besi ran of nd his comrades magazines will the called Ave thrmum ly, dedicated himseli a make Seath ghtest dent on Spanish preservation of capitalist eterhaps he Burgos trial is n expressed in Mum um's copes ust the concern parce of the system or Harland and Wolff all righ the end work out

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Euried beneath or outline plans: Deal of barbarism nam and all over the world OECD warns agreed at UCS I supersed the burperson.

on wages use preside sad is ot A REPORT released yesterday the From our industrial correspondent inverte - To: a ha Court and exaren eguivalent in the net A UNION delegation from Harland and Wolff, Belfast's debt-beset shipyard, heard management CONDEMNED to death twice-for allegedly A an Plane or hind

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plans for the future of the yard yesterday.

executing political-police chief Manzanas and

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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Larella Dolloll row, llory an indepenN Spain. pending to estate Celebrate were handed down both single death sentences and 50-year prison terms. Marxist of them said they were and marched silently along 20 years of the year. antons in san See- i announcement about 1 is expected fron next tao wovernment in 'Mirror' house socialisi youth poper ica, the sorces sand Salo- Deal agreement:

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on wages Nixo Vietnam US president • karuki releasea yestera Co-operation CONDEMNED to death twice-for allegedly executing political-police chief Manzanas and Countries highlighted Jails crammed for 'banditry' with the Basque revolutionary colonels' Greece movement ETA-are (top row, 1 to r) Javier year of s ing increasing in tempo. A rade, co, Joaquin Gorostidi and Eduardo Uriart ose Dorronsor Mario political prisoners Francisco and

BY PETER READ

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BY ROBERT BLACK

BASQUE and Spanish exiles in Britain maintained a vigil outside SPAIN is still ruled by the Spanish embassy in Belgrave Square yesterday after some of stayed ait might In the told to provest the Baigos verdier.

that butchered to way ro They were joined power over the bodies of

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Special film shot during the request would royal of New Zealand, tour actually be crowned and wrapped and Canada all Australia was mock ermine robe by tied together with HM doing the scantily-clad girls. links from the front room in the invariably sob un- She would customary way. controllably in big close-ups and you would sit and wonder if this She'd met what they do to the winner, what the hell is happening to the losers? She spoke of all the interesting people she'd over the The memory of this show was Commonwealth and she soft-sold brought back by watching the the with conspicuous restraint re-appearance of our own Queen notion of the Commonwealth of after a short absence on Christ- Nations. mas day. No mention of the nasty eco- Unlike the traditional show nomic or political realities.

when Her Majesty simply sat in Instead we watched chats that the and broadcast her palace message this one had credits at she and the Duke had with film cameramen Canada, that the end to and Eskimoes in or sound recording, producer's Princess Anne or the Prince of to 'THEY say she wants to appear i in with mhim motot picture: grapns are being taken; that she tries to pick up his conversations with other people her tape 4 recorder and often steps in hold- ing a microphone; and that she tends to follow him into private meetings-including one press conference. The lady referred to in this 'Sunday Express' 19-

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the informality struck But this viewer simply as inanity and the new modern monarchs and their children came across to me not as new models, but as very obviously re-conditioned old ones.

The producer was, of course, Richard Cawston, head of docu- mentary programmes at the BBC -the same fellow who produced the hour-long Royal Family film yet again this week (repeated who helped to man and also equipment which kept the BBC on the air during the technicians' • strike a year ago. No accident of course that it should be such a chap who is recruited for the job as TV public relations man to the Royals. be called a political groupie,' (Nouthie The object of her attentions is none other than Mr Edward Heath, and Tory Central Office is very worried about it.

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Wednesday, December 30, 1970

INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

PLANS HAVE been laid by the Fleet Street press barons for a thorough- going attack on wages and conditions throughout their paper-and - ink empire. Behind the 'Daily Mail' redundancy-pay dispute forced seven days ago lies a strategy to enforce spirit and letter of the Tory Industrial Relations Bill at every news desk and in every machine room.

It must be combated. But union leaders repre- editorial and both senting production staffs have left their members in a danger- ously weak position. In fact they have in some instances even aided preparation of the employers battle plans.

'Daily Mail', Issues in the 'Daily Sketch' and London 'Even- News' journalists' dispute ing Rothermeres with Lord Asso- ciated Newspapers-Harmsworth Publications group, however, are clear and unmistakéable. 'Liability' Harmsworth is unwilling to continue a current house agree- ment beyond January 14 because redundancy clauses 'might commit the company to a liability which it would not be able to fulfil. Formally expiring tomorrow, the present agreement guarantees four weeks' pay for each year of The Tory anti-union Bill would and outlaw the shop In service. closer this ground for iust the kind of speederp, ration- pave With 'Mail' still reeling the from an f824,000 loss in its last alization redundancy the financial year and the circulation- newspaper chiefs need to prop 'Sketch' losing eating up about their ailing profits. £250,000 every 12 months, jour- nalists understandably fear staff Fleet St is the powerhouse of the Tory propaganda campaign cutbacks could be implemented before new terms are negotiated.

against the unions. But December 8 and the 'Even- So they are insisting the agree- ing Standard' printworkers' ac- ment stands until a fresh one is tion over the Jak cartoon aimed concluded. against the power strikers demon- What is alt ste stake here is the strated that it has another face, fúture and it is this which current house currently exercising the préss lords.

agreements in the industry.

In insisting that any new house Closed shop agreement must be subject to the terms of the proposed but much- criticized pay settlement between

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•Newspaper Many of these have allowed the the the and establishment of relatively favour- Publishers' Association, Harms- worth is no doubt just the herald able wages and conditions through closed- of further attacks of the sullis shop trade union organization.

kind. THE DEEPENING crisis of Stalinism in E Europe and the USSR is now expressing itself every day in pronouncements leadership on the one hand and by government and Com- the working class and the munity on the other broke down munist Party leaders. was and replaced unilateral quently Desperate to overcome the often taken in a very decisions hostility of the workers, the circle.' The same article went on: Polish Gierek regime is cynic- "The shocking in the events ally trying to evade all three coastal towns, (Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot) and Szczecin, responsibility for the recent Elblag Slupsk and were riots. dramatic of that consequence they faced our nation with fact: Despite its support for all the gravest danger.' major policy decisions of the The frankness of the admis- previous government the new is demogogically sions not surprising - every group blaming the crisis on the ousted Pole must know by now exactly what did in these happen areas. Gomulka leadership. More significant is 'hooligans' being the reluc- References to of the new leadership behind the strikes and demon- tance the already bitterly strations have now been dropped provoke press and radio. roused working class of the Polish trom with accusations of Baltic towns For example, the Warsaw daily 'hooliganism' and 'anti-socialism' commented 'Zycie Warszawy' after Gomulka's removal: Weakness the last few days 'In our country has found itself in a deep and isolation reason for this crisis. The which the immediate causes OI were the recent economic deci- The Gierek leadership's weak- ness and social isolation forces it much sions [price rises], was -namely the fact that to speak in this way, while at the deeper- the cementing links with dialogue between the Party same time A new ATUA pamphlet 6d

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But by allowing the inclusion in this proposed agreement of a clause guaranteeing the employers an 18-month freeze on house pay negotiations, the National Union of Journalists' leadership has struck a blow against its own side. Opposition And its equivocal position on the Industrial Relations Bill—it accepted that some parts were good, while coming out in verbal opposition to the package as whole-has further weakened its members' position. Both journalists and print- workers face similar leadership problems in what must be their united struggle against the em- ployers' attack. With jobs already in question in the Thomson organization, reactionary forces in the church, the army and the countryside for future use against the working class. This strategy is extended on an international plane by Gierek's pledge to Gomulka's continue policy of 'detente' with W Ger- man imperialism. But, Gierek is able to offer the working class very little either in terms of socialist democracy or improved material conditions.

Apart from vague promises of a 'dialogue' between the bureau- cracy and the workers-and this from a regime which claims to be ruling in the name of the working class—all the major con- cessions are being made to the political right - the Catholic Church, the small traders, the artisans and the rich peasantry.

Official Soviet reactions to the Polish crisis have contrasted sharply with the pronounce- ments of the Gierek regime-and for very good reason. While Gierek is forced into demagogy under immense Gomulka pressure of an aroused working the Kremlin is class, compelled to play down the scale of the clashes, as well as distort their origin, for fear of provoking dis- cussion inside the USSR on the • over its western crisis just frontier. broadcasts for home Soviet consumption have scarcely made any reference to Poland, while foreign language programmes have slandered the movement in vintage Stalinist fashion.

Referring to the murder of workers in the Baltic ports, one broadcast to Asia said:

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writing is also appearing on the wall at Beaverbrook Newspapérs. Top Beaverbrook executives have recently been taking sound- ings in London, Manchester and Glasgow about their plans for staff reductions, conversion of existing buildings and introduc- tion of new plant. A forward planning group has drawn up a five-year, £ll million plant to re-equip, rationalize and integrate the company's operations in a bid to overcome present heavy losses. Output It has become cléar that the front-line target here will be existing agreements with the print unions, which Beaverbrook re- gards as hampering its output.

The company claims that its present London agreements allow anti-social "It those was criminal elements, and not the protests of workers that were who vigorously rebuffed. Those looted and set fire to buildings and those who fired from around the corner received the treatment they deserved' This 'treatment' included, as eye-witnesses have confirmed, the crushing of women and children under tanks! Another broadcast, after accusing the Chinese leadership using the same terms to describe the Polish crisis as employed various those "imperialist propaganda agencies', concludes: "The Polish workers have quickly restored order and stopped the hooligans' criminal Even the "Voice of activities. America", the mouthpiece of US imperialism, has to admit that normal life has been restored in Poland.' Deeply divided There are, it seems, agencies and agencies! The tremors of the Polish clashes have certainly made them- selves felt in the leadership of the Czech Communist Party which is deeply divided over how to resolve its own political and economic crises. already The 'hard-liners', pressing Husak for firmer action the remnants of the against for stiffer Dubcek group and the factories, discipline in are obviously using the Polish crisis to strengthen their case still further. In his speech to the recent session of the Czech CP Central Committee, ultra-Stalinist Bilak said: It is not popular to refer to Stalin today, but one statement a sympathetic chords storkes chord: old merits bow deeply, for new mistakes a slap with a stick" on the back • I regard this statement as very fitting for our conditions' In this same speech, Bilak had made an explicit attack on Trot- skyism, saying: 'Anyone who proclaims him- self as more left wing than the Party cannot but end on Maoist and Trotskyist positions. Such is the logic of the struggle and such logic of the development is the of life:' maximum running speed of a only 38,000 an hour on modern presses capable of 50,000.

Net output per press per hour of a 16-page "Daily Express, it says, is as low as 17,200 copies in one office. In another office, 'Sunday Ex- press' output is claimed to have near the 11,900-an-hour fallen mark. Speed-up, flexibility of opera- tion and redundancies are the standard response of employers facing such problems. So far they have réceived con- from union siderable assistance leaders. In a Scottish agreement signed in May this year, print unions accepted the principle of a one- third manning reduction in return for a pay incréase of the same order for those who remained in work. Another speaker at the same meeting—Milos Jakes-took up this theme, weaving around it the old Stalinist anti-Semitic smear of a Zionist-Trotskyist-imperialist plot: 'Facts prove that events in Czechoslovakia in 1968 were neither accidental nor an isolated instance but, on the contrary, were connected with the long- term ideological diversion which was penetrating the socialist countries. 'Besides the direct influence of imperialism and bourgeois propa- ganda this took place revisionist orientations, including Trotskyite and radical groupings the social-democratic right wing, the Zionist movement and clerical circles.' This typically crude attempt to link together Zionism and Trot- recalls the frame-up trial skyism 1952, when Rudolf of Slansky and 13 other Czech Party leaders (no fewer than 1l of whom were Jews) were convicted of spying for imperialism and acting as a Trotskyist-Zionist fifth column within Czechoslovakia. It also has greater significance today in the light of the renewed anti-Semitic campaign in the

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just been which has initiated with the Leningrad trial.

These are not the crises of individual Stalinist leaderships and regimes, though they each face certain, peculiar, national problems. Such statements by too Party and state leaders are the dis- torted, and sometimes even of profound obscene, reflection tensions and conflicts within the entire bureaucracy, as it attempts to gather its forces for a massive clash with the working class.

The first victims singled out are always the weakest and most isolated - intellectuals, Jews and But Poland national minorities. shows that the working class can explode into battle far quicker bureaucracy thought than the possible. Here is the great lesson of the Polish events. It is now the working class, and not just sites, writers, courageous groups that is lining up for battle against Stalinism. With revolutionary leadership, through the they can carry political revolution against the bureaucracy and begin to estab lish genuine workers' democracy throughout E Europe and the

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

plans to dismantle the AN ATTACK on Tory National Health Service has come from the secretary Dental Association. of the 12,000-strong British still to today Mr Jack Peacock said were going on Monday that if the The centst. government were to take Last Lost ment dentistry out of the NHS

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million. This 'it would be a tragedy, covered will 1z milton treatments compared classic of example 1958, said spoiling the ship for Peacock. British Medical Associa- ha'porth of tar' said tion spokesmar He said that the BDA was made from approach had been worried about the profession's anv omcia source to test trel is views changes about intent the destruction Health Service. of the NS'. the BMA sup- He said that ported the No an . Demand fell leal of thought would have tr •For applied those people who have any lived all their under the reaching changes were made 22-year-old

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way he said. There growing un- ahead of the US ease in the medical profession 'In 1948 in this country, 11 Tory proposals over the under ser had of the . slash the NHS and the impact cent peoole A two-year deal reduced man on health standards. lost •all their teeth. Today this figure has been cut to 4.6 per cent.' 'Daily Doctors' fees and 'Sunday Mail' plant in return Mr Peacock stated that when charges were introduced E50 for a 4 a hour week, as com sareer minimum The government will soon be the 1950s £l for •full, but early ared an existing basic of treatment and a 35 to £40 maximum it is already known that denta treatment will cost up tor centurec —demand fell by 30 per cent in the next from next April and Productivity three to fees doctors It had been shown that even favoured. 'Isn't this what sae productivity all about?' Society

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halteopportunist retreats must Such Defence of jobs, conditions and trade union organization is essen- wages struggle and tiali to the thé hrst nrerequisite of the hoht against the lory anti-union bians.

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Gas men 'Chairman' Birch in Peking the preme Minister

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formed is meters in angered by Christmas tie Peking awarded terred o Chat "otical Maoist Party. served for Mao Himsel pay'ceiling' Topple Hashemite throne call UCS New Mid-East UNION LEADERS representing the gas in- movement emerges Decimal dustry's 60,000 manual workers today return to the negotiating table to reopen talks on their

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claim for a substantial pay increase.

AS PRESSURES increase for the resumption of another round of 'peace' talks in the Middle he unions ear let East, a new Jordanian resistance movement has rejected the Gas Coun- say Whether the nos of 1,51 emerged. The movement, calling

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10 per cent, but are to have to be itself 'The Free Jordanian now nara up against Movement', issued a state- the government's de- ment calling for mass hold Terminanon Allowance against the state industry pay rises support yesterday. below this ceiling. authorities. Bazooka the side min the Croydon *The treacherous and lackey gas workers • he drape do an ele expressed their vesterday i ring one nice o th- anger at being singled out Ior such treatment.

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Miners and the Brice Charter of Basic cabinet unani mously decided on Rights 80 ender bridal arise alk additiona national, revolutional inte 62,500,000. present s cease-fire expires Board iberation and indepondonce: holt separate ten made to по separate with m Jordan. 22E credit bets sor present

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to Wo steward press yesterday Franco has not changed The price of gas in Scotland crease was a ise mines. Workers in other areas

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next m BeT. And then it will withdraw, 1 od people' one to pre-six-day-war boundariesecure and agree hand. i Spr so of 1963, after thing business. takes a sea toes ines centeres to make senseirtiest Anwar a manoeuvre Grimau third extension of can mained a leg i the cease fire. purifier was shot.

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stained miams ther untold EGYPTIAN President Anwar Sadat has ordered the setting up of mobilizing special courts made up of a socialist - clas 2s per poster panel of judges able to return property Taken the stubble. 30s for 20 over from employers in the last ten years.

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demand NO 58r.000 reputed theoretical brain Britain's gas manual oI Labour s rarllament• holdeng ny offer today de was particularly acted 'Progressive' wards forete time ary 'left', has come out the Wilberforce report ® Rese belie an, Later, after arguing for lavour or awaraing progressiv a a no called to sec power workers a 16 per President Nasser. for the figure of wage increase Better offer has ben stead of the 30 per cent Than the in friends in the USA. 30s a and carefully with the

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and, press conference. to one of its aedad. and thee union and ti Nikolai Patolicher and ster ith Soviet government. became a ful to the country tre new wee yor trade stee ments re forced by 25,000 in bused noreased astra business in Ea thinking" in damagely from attacks from A securite aro terent rise and work up. since te change in the Polish Wednesday, December 30, 1970 Assassin •

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make the slightest condemna- tion of the barefaced treachery of the Kremlin and and its E European subordinates. Franco is not an archaic survivor of epoch, a past but a terrible warning to the world working class of the fate in store if imperial- Ism and bureaucracy are not defeated. The British labour and trade union leaders are in a similar position. Not a single union chief has raised the question of work- ing-class solidarity action In The reactions of Birch's with the Burgos 16. Maoist rivals in Britain should prove both interest- Boycott ing and amusing. French and Italian dockers have boycotted Spanish ship- ping. Transport and General Wor- kers' Union chief Jack Jones during fought in Spain the But he has yet to civil war. his docker call on members the dockers to emulate of

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France and Italy. Labour Party léaders hope Is ld to ls 3d an hour plus for official government a further Is-an-hour bonus if protest to Franco. certain minimum tonnages are Shadow Foreign Secretary achieved, comes after a strike Denis Healey petitioned his Tory in October where boilermakers Sir Alec counter-part demanded a straight 3s 9d Douglas-Home yesterday in increase in their basic rate.

the hope that he would inter- cede. But the Tory government is Rates entirely in sympathy with Basic rates under the Franco. new Tories agreement, at 13s and It was the of 14s 6d are still 2s Britain Chamberlain below the under 16s basic who helped Hitler demanded in and October. Mussolini strangle the Span- ish working class and install Throughout the year union Franco in his Madrid palace.

leaders have been weakening The Tory government sup- the resistance of the yard's Franco. 8,000 ports by repeating the They know that the only employers' threats of total alternative to fascism in Spain closure. workers' revolution. is Massive redundancies of The best assistance British over 3,000 were, for example, workers render the wor- can accepted during 1970 by kers Spain is to of fight to leaders without a fight. force this Tory government to This resign. latest settlement is Protests to Home are worse similar to the one recently than useless. rejected by workers at Yar- Toryism already striding row's naval yard on the Clyde.

is There along the road to the enslave- a strike notice is due of the British working to expire on January 15, but class. Its class sympathies are there are to be talks before with the 'gallant that date. Christian gentlemen' of fascist Spain.

International working-class solidarity with the victims of fascist terror means: • Union chiefs must call for

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security forces a boycott of Spanish trade have arrested number of • Demand the Kremlin breaks the country's leading person- relations with Franco alities in connection with last fascism. month's Portuguese-backed in- • Fight to force Franco's the African friends in Britain, the Tory republic. government, to resign. Liaison Committee drags feet as OPPOSITION to any further strike action against anti-union is now being legislation mounted in earnest by the right-wing union leaders. help It may the Tories, claims a policy statement from the General and Muni- ment, this would largely cipal Workers. remove pay negotiations from done Little being to the orbit of shop stewards and counter such activities by the place them in the hands of a 'left' and Stalinist hierarchy of joint committees.

protesters bonus against the government's Existing schemes Industrial Relations Bill.

would be replaced by a type of With only three weeks to go Measured-Day Work. before the planned January Sacked glassworkers from stoppage and three days before the monopoly's St Helens and a possible Midlands-based pro- Pontypool plants have recently strike, so-called test G&MWU's ap- attributed the for Liaison Committee the parent reluctance to fight for Defence of Trade Unions is their reinstatement to fear visibly dragging its feet.

would spearhead that they Yet lies what behind the concerted opposition to this

G&MWU

approach is accept- scheme. ance of the Bill's essence and Tories will a hope that the negotiate alternatives more Who will acceptable to the trade union bureaucracy. 'Opinion' sponsor Main aim of the campaign against the government's In- Len dustrial Relations Bill must be to inform public opinion 'which the Wincott? at moment has little understanding of the implications of the Conserva- proposals', the says

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Communist IS Party G&MWU executive. going to help one of its old This can best be done by Len Wincott, return members, Trades Union fully supporting from the Soviet Union to cele- Congress activities. brate the 40th anniversary of Strikes could result in the the Royal Navy mutiny Tories calling a snap election Invergordon? and increased gaining an Wincott, who led the the union's majority, argue famous revolt against forces leaders. pay cuts imposed by the Mac- In other words, if workers Donald National Government, and do keep really quiet is now a Soviet citizen, and nothing the TUC's to upset requires sponsor here to do-nothing policy 'the justice secure a visa. of our case' will shine through None of his relatives in . and work a change of heart Britain has so far come for- by the government, ward to sponsor him. presumably! The reluctance of CP The statement goes further: leaders to speak up for him is understandable. For Len Win- Positive cott, like millions of Soviet 'If our campaign is to be citizens, went through the successful, it says, 'we must living hell of Stalin's slave also put forward in a positive camps as an alleged 'enemy of manner how the trade union the people'. movement thinks British in- At least Wincott came out dustrial relations ought to be alive. tackled Thousands of political exiles "The attention, energy and and refugees from Nazi Ger- resources of both management Franco Spain and other many, and unions should be devoted, anti-Communist in regimes the Donovan Commission Europe were simply as butchered argued, improving collec- in the cellers of Stalin's secret to tive bargaining both plant police. and industry level.' They knew too much about of the the betrayals of Stalinism.

An example way

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chiefs think indus- British Labour should cer- tainly take up the case of Len trial relations ought to be tackled the pay-and- Wincott. is He should be made welcome productivity deal it wants its members in the Pilkington in Britain, even though his glass monopoly to accept.

stay might prove an embarrass- Formulated after lengthy! ment Communist Party to deliberations manage- with leaders.