Workers Press no. 346

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 1971 • NUMBER 346 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £1,250 Jan Fund Stands at E95 5s y record a of the •ore as unt of mone govern- Tanuary, Wil sive ens Post immediately all your Workers Press Appeal 186a Clapham High Sondon, sw4. Pilkington's send consignment to Hull

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENI

MID-EAST

ENOCH POWELL made further demands on the

CRISIS

government last night to slash public expen-

-RIAD

diture and cut money supply.

WORKING-CLASS solidarity on trial will go tomorrow with the arrival at Hull dock gates With crude nationalism and pas- of a test-case consignment from the Pilkington sionate belief in free enterprise, glass monopoly. his demand for economies in public

BY DAVID MAUDS

Helens-based The spending has now become the third company has threatened to big plank in the Powellite cam- divert all future shipments paign. if Hull ports to other And the aim, as he revealed in his dockers uphold their pre "Sunday Express' article this week, is to sent policy and declare the create unemployment and some bank- shipment back. ruptcy as a basis for attacking the vorkers leaders sacked Helens plan will be anxiously Speaking to Young. Conservatives in hi Wolverhampton g of Hull port the econom debates! quickened to a point was causing alarm. The back weir moose tor being been the dog that didnt bank her said acked defending the right to money supply Prepare ground Potter Caughey the head. out so fa n its author's own word, "neutral' Committee senter stigment. sinister futures that were at sake.

it tne Repeat this sort of Foreign Minister Mohammed Riad at yesterday's conference Wells sunday Express remarks reputir ation and government spendin members el the si seban

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

were it so sort of on her di their dis EGYPT is ready for a 'package deal' Middle Stalinism is East peace settlement negotiated through the Nations, with the United States, responsible nobody notices is a pipe Britain and the Soviet Union playing a major part and if necessary guaranteeing the deal.

for Devey faced wily highto omes her

HEATH ON

The main obstacle was i won't pay; I shall cut

BY A NESPONDENTS

crae's continued Paline Bressia on the

FIRST LEG

usal to accept the 1967 United Nations Security MR T. DEVEY, an However, this ex- Council resolution on of Shef- israeli demande leading member mented Gerry nice do so the lidale bast, spon field Communist Party, is after peace settlement sored by britain used as now being June Egyp- the war, port? whipping boy by the Party tian Foreign Minister vinced inadeal leadership. terday okestar Mohammed kiad tola a The Palestinian organiza- London press conference mong Tories enginee erence win be the Tory pont yesterday. sulted about, ted he sane ference coming off a strike ment Pa caries to do tren peri posal no sell regime. a ith- drawal from acupied of satories the sant Amal geeted in of th to the fond Two re-routed Riad's reply on this ques roTted have already been re- gineering and Foundryworkers York sm: if he do Entand slared by take of executive anses payment. behalt St: 205,38Y possible bankruptcies due in condense don ore tin postal workers

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POLISH - VATICAN

diocese, ore tons The Party must Vatican in the Middle membersip of the Geel Drivers refusing to make

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in these territories. Culls • auuck nd Free

FOREIGN

ANGELA DAVIS,

Black militant, told a court on Tuesday: 'This is a political frame-up'. Appearing before California, San Katael, court to face charges of murder, kidnapping and she told consolal y Judge Wilson: charges innocent otall Attack clared is has consistest de moved dering that in the local trial

MISS

favis can Magee. Chained Angela her Canc chauvinist, class justice. Sales up, down pon in 1986. 95. slashed from combines red to Cowley lactories. ipplies halted deliveries were sent home dependent compani The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d (27p) No more 'protests'! Force Tories to resign!

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

FURTHER Stalinist bid to discredit the Socialist Labour League's consistent campaign for General Strike action to force the Tories to resign came yesterday from Communist Party industrial organizer Bert Ramelson.

In a new pamphlet en- titled 'Carr's Bill and how Dangers to kill it', Ramelson says that if enough pressure is in pay the [TUC] exerted on General Council to make • standstill it threaten a General Strike and begin action prepara- at Bathgate tions to make that threat credible, the government By an industrial correspondent be forced back can to Industrial down on its SERIOUS warnings for Relations Bill. trade unionists are con- Nowhere does Ramelson the question of forcing raise tained in the six-month Tories to resign. the With January 12 only five pay standstill agreed at days Ramelson's call away, relentless mounting British-Leyland's Bathgate for in ac- campaign culminating factory, W Lothian. tions of General Strike dimensions'-the coy formula CP-led arrived the at by For delaying £3 a week Committee Liaison for. De- Bathgate pay claim, 4,500 Trade Unions-is fence of workers are guaranteed a five- a prescription for more and day working Week widespread protest action.

chance to restore bonus earn- ings after recent cuts.

'THREATS'

The factory, which produces The Socialist Labour League trucks and tractors, has been insists that the Tories will not on short time for several but months. be shifted by threats, mobilization of Leyland management only by the the working class through its believes the Bathgate agree- replace the ment is a reaction to the com- organization to 5,000 Tories with a Labour govern- pany's plans sackings in its Austin-Morris to socialist ment committed policies. division. Ramelson and his political On top of this, 550 Bath- were sacked co-thinkers - already deeply gate men last October. compromised by the notorious Devey -have The lesson is clear. affair- done no- challenge seriously thing to the TUC's pro- 12. Heavy blows gramme for January Liaison committee chairman Kevin Halpin in this writes While workers confront the Monthly month's 'Labour wages strikes, government in that December 8 was *only the Tories and the employers the forerunner of many fur- unemployment to deal but has no CeTe ther actions . . heavy blows from militancy proposals to carry the cam- the rear. paign further and does not It is therefore surprise no refer to January 12. that Heath premier was The Socialist Labour League reported to have left for his has supported every proposal Far East tour convinced that for action Tuesday, and next his stand the against power to fight for the will continue workers' pay claim marks the widest possible strike on that start of a slow-down in wage day, while insisting that this demands. is only a preparation to force Leyland chairman Lord the union leaders to swing the Stokes commented on the organized working class into Bathgate deal: action against the Tory gov-

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scientific

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BY

CLASS STRUGGLES IN

AFRICA

N. MAKANDA

DOWN

AFRICA HAS no sym- pathy with the outcry from Israel and the West

PRAISO

sentences in the over

USSR

Zionist against would-be skyjackers. The sympathizers are restricted 'white' to the African allies and the Afri- can agents of Israel. Liberation movements with anti-Soviet Zionists sympathy because they opposed tha hirct are counter. revolutionaries such. the enemies of Atmcan liberation.

Christmas likely involved in the Soviet trials most were Zionists. Israel reported those 'Long Live Israel having cried after the verdicts. This is the cry of oppression.

defeat colonization Egypt, Curia the Tenanon

ISRAELI REVOLUTIONARY ACTION COMMITTEE

Israeli imneralism It has nothing in common with f would like information about either in those Countries deformed result their encirclement by imperialism.

"Communist' hypocritical Cemency social Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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WORKERS PRE

THE CASE of the con- taminated tuna which hit the headlines over the Christmas period has pre- dictably sunk once more into oblivion. For a few weeks millions of people became aware that pollution is not just a prob- lem experienced by those who live in smoky cities, but that industrial waste products from factories thousands of miles away could render toxic food consumed in Britain. 'Common good' Perhaps the greatest shock to many of those who read the headlines was the realization that contaminated food was be- ing sold by the ton despite the vast bureaucratic apparatus of the capitalist state supposedly watching over the 'common good'. Yet both in America and Britain, the mercury contamin- ation caught the authorities Indeed, completely unawares. according to the 'New Scientist' triggered the investigation that the crisis started as a joke!

At the beginning of last December, Professor Bruce Mc- Duffie of the State University of New York at Binghamton took time off from investigating the mercury content of fish from the Susuchana 1 River and - at the suggestion of his students and wife - examined some tinned tuna. Serious turn 'But what started out as a joke soon took a serious turn when they discovered a mercury con- tent of over 0.5 parts per million in a can taken from the kitchen Mozambique and throughout the and French and Asia. in > th the insep the perialism is as against apartheid. Indeed, in S interests a formi finan It of those anti-Arab frontier 'kib- butzi Hab Hatzair "Zionist- SO cia. Africa. Th ch mu th as ZV fascis Th 'injus trampling upon bo die Th territ the in hills, but Israel as well. In the territory the people carry Africans in S are bo ml and hounded ancient dwelling areas. pla ce Isra And whose historically illegitimate

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shelf of the professor's home.'

('New Scientist', December 24, 1970.) Such a level of contamination is actionable in the US and both the Federal Drug Administration and the New York State author- ities have the power to confiscate food containing 0.5 ppm or more of mercury. Yet it is clear that there had been no official check for con- tamination, particularly of tuna, which is extremely popular with Americans. The FDA then proceeded to test canned tuna and confirmed McDuffie's results. Some samples showed a contamination level of 1.12 ppm. Nearly one million cans of tuna were withdrawn from cir- culation and destroyed. However, Professor McDuffie and his students went on to examine other of fish, types available to the public in large quantities. They soon discovered that some swordfish steaks notched up a mercury level of 1.3 ppm and the FDA was informed.

Once again the FDA analyses confirmed McDuffie's results.

Consternation Of course, this sudden spate of embarrassing revelations caused some consternation in govern- ment circles and the FDA soon announced that everything was under There was no control. danger, you see, provided you didn't eat too much tuna!

Such naive conclusions are not peculiar to the US. In Sweden, a 1 ppm level is considered safe, provided fish not eaten more than once a week. Despite the fact that 5,000 tons of mercury a year, out of annual world production of an 9,000 tons, finds its way into the oceans, there is relatively little cash spent on relevant research and no internationally accepted occupation and existence is recog- nized by the Kremlin. The state with whom, for the sake imperialist managing investments reopened canal in shipping, cotton and oil, the Arab governments are being dragged around yet another Jarring Round Table. The talks will centre on the demarcation of frontiers of an unjust, non-viable state which has, in the eyes of the liberation movement, no right to exist.

It was not stalinism, but the existence of the USSR as workers' state, which, in 1956, largely saved and still, today, largely saves Egypt and other Arab from destructive states absorption into Israel. But it is Stalinism and not the existence of the USSR as a workers' state which helps US, British and French imperialism to maintain the continued 'right of Israel to exist'— a racist, im- perialist occupying and State tyrannizing the Arab oppressed.

Lackey This is the contradiction be- tween Stalinism and the USSR as a workers' state, in the real con- text of Africa and the Middle East. The aim of the present outcry against the Soviet trials Zionists is to identify and con- fuse these two opposites, with the effect of turning the workers in the imperialist countries and in the semi-colonies not against Stalinism, but against the USSR, China and other workers' states.

And since these states are objective bastions of the world anti-imperialist struggle, the line marking off Stalinism from the workers' states has to be drawn all the more firmly and deeply the more the imperialists and their social democratic and 'Communist Party' lackeys try to blur it.

Y ISRAELI POLICE IN TEL AVIV

danger levels. tection Agency. Firms will have to apply for pollution chemical and allowing continued dis- are permits and the wide- charge of waste and will have to agricultural prove that their effluent does not chemicals. significantly lower water quality.

The Whether of large such measures can of be entorced is doubtful. Many can cause damage the companies would to nervous rather serous fine from time to time than senility their profits death. cut into by taking brirature anti-pollution measures. when the content of Even under the permit system, it is clear that there is little the blood reaches level of about one thousandth of government would be prepared to per litre (1 and the safe do against a company threaten- ing closure because of the detri- mental effect of such measures on profit In Britain, the attitude of the Tory government - despite the new Environment Minister- appears line with its overall In and it estimated that political philosophy. the limit can be reached by consuming metal daily- taminated even astounded to a zuu can of who had containing 0.5 ppm removed fish from their shelves of the McDuffie's were not and of mercury as high Japan, between 1953 poisoning suffered serious fish injury con- Safety taminated by waste containing the Minister Agriculture The fish came from Minamata of and Fisheries James Prior noted that Bay and subsequent investigations the levels-between 0.1 and 0.7 revealed mercury levels of up to 50 • were within the times safety the accepted danger 'some level! limits set other coun- tries, including Sweden, and that More recently in Sweden there there was no reason why the been have cases of housewife should buy it. mercury

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poisoning from eating fish from In freshwater lakes heavily any the argument polluted Case. continues, by paper we eat only one-tenth and pulp mills. as much tuna as the Americans. Such pollution-although un- derstandably heavy in the vicinity certain industrial plants- neither loses lethal powers nor remains localized. Quite the contrary. The mercury decomposes into the extremely persistent and deadly methyl mercury and finds its way into the food chain via the tuna—a deep-sea inhabitant - and other marine life. Investigations have shown that far from areas of major industry mercury pollution can reach high levels. Sharks Apparently levels of 1 ppm are common among tunas and sharks in the Indian Ocean. It is clear even on the present evidence that only the tip of the iceberg has been revealed.

The extent of food contamin- ation is plainly more widespread than governments would like to admit and manufacturers would care to have revealed. the toxic In the US, tuna have appears to jolted the administration into introducing certain safety measures little a earlier than planned. On December 23, Nixon signed an executive order requiring private industry meet certain standards which will be down by the Environmental Pro- tV

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(West) colour West. S.l5 London. 0.00 Report 3.16-6.5 Sport West. above Thursday January 7, 1971 However, Prior, omits three important points. Firstly, the Swedish govern- ment supplements its suggested danger level with a suggested upper level for total daily tuna consumption. Secondly, although average tuna consumption is one-tenth of an American's intake, what hap- pens to a Briton who eats above the average? It seems he must pay dearly for balancing out the abstainers, among which the Prior family numbers! Finally, tuna is not the only food which is contaminated.

Other fish, for example, usually contain small of amounts mercury. Satisfied A 'safe' tuna intake supple- mented by other contaminated foods could add up to a danger- ous overall mercury level.

All of this does not give much confidence in Prior's assurance that intensive monitoring' in future of all possible sources of methyl mercury in all foods will add up to much. Satisfied with the Tory de- cision, the supermarkets are now relying on short memories. Said one spokesman: 'Consumers may be affected by the scare for a while, but whether it will be a lasting effect remains to be seen.'

One Labour MP- was even heard to say that he could not under- stand why the Tories had not withdrawn tuna from the shops, unless it regarded profits from sales as more important than human life'. He could be right! HTV (Wales) colour channel 41, HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white ser- vice as above except 5.14-5.45 Dibyn- dobyn. 5.56-6.15 Y Dydd.

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WORKERS PRESS

Thursday January 7, 1971 Glerek and Moczar voting with party leaders In parliament

POLAND

MOCZAR

GIEREK

and the crisis of Stalinism Continued from yesterday GOMULKA'S was a reform movement within the

THE FALL OF

bureaucracy. It had this in common with Khrushchev in the USSR and the Dubcek liberals' of Czecho-

BURNT IN

slovakia in 1968.

PRAGUE, 1968

That is why, after a few

GOMULKA

days of hostility, the Soviet accepted burcaucialy change-over in Poland and later came to be Gomulka's fervent supporter against his rivals on the Party Central By Robert Black Committee (the group led by General Moczar of the self styled 'Partisans'). a backward indusmal • every workin class rey. revolt against the Oblems ve annesent-starved class. hared the same fate a year later.

its the Polist, WaG Student se series in to Stalinist eks before clashes sit only dian are 90 i Solution of Polant Baltic ports began. ma chi sma clashes of March 1. Баля ві nd Mozar fighting to oust the nbehind she Wesinin chron and lemongtration shat the 'st the on looks and not motivated Suppression easily citint revolutionary of workers strategy. students ready nary, anti-working-class

ARMOURED CARS PATROL THE STREETS OF SZCZECIN DECEMBER 1970

at in State died hards in the Polish were "believed, bout all Gradually i manal congres or count Jewish Utopia chakas seizene o after the student and C held Russian Revolution of 1917).

leader let a his own con- Bureaucracy UO-8230' Shady_ characters Catholic body, ackward sectors of th abroad. contacts won Pay were dental here. 'However, it is necessary to strongly as l 1969, acc socialism not Asturian Gierek agains an one fro with the e able to work closel Exes it in Break the Sukanco to hit, even Students crushed Yet the replied renoling every Isolated ists and owes at the end be the ne to pressive Pronggy, than is preacessor.

reluctant omic prob notrol or the iza date, it has loyally

CRUSHED

REVOLUTION,

HUNGARY,

1956

POZNAN

UPRISING,

JUNE 1956

This is where the British trade unionist finds common cause his brothers in Poland. with Why? Both are fighting to defénd what has already been gained. In the case of the British worker, he is fighting to defend his trade union rights, won over more than a century of battles against the employing class and its state.

Everything else that he has won-decent living and working conditions, the right to a job has been based on the power of his trade unions. In the last analysis, this is all a British worker can truly call his own. But the Polish workers are also fighting to defend some- thing. And it is every bit as important as the right to strike and belong to a trade union.

The Polish working class knows' that whatever crimes may have been created by the Stalinists since 1945, the aboli- tion of big business control of the banks, the industries and the land was an enormous step forward. Neither in 1956 nor in the recent strikes did any group of workers demand the restoration of capitalism in Poland. The struggle is not against the economic system, but against the bureaucracy and its refusal to allow the working class to estab- lish its trade unions free from the control of the state, its own political parties, newspapers and other facilities which are neces- sary for the all-round develop- ment of the workers' movement.

In other words, the Polish workers are fighting to win the very rights the Tories are plan- ning to take away from the working class in Britain!

And the bond between the two struggles goes even deeper than this. Unlike our Polish brothers, the British working class still lives in a capitalist society. And while the banks and the industrial magnates continue to own and control the economy of this country, they will plan and in fact be compelled attempt the destruction of the working-class movement. They have no other way out.

So, as the Charter of Basic Rights adopted by Trades Unions Alliance confér- ence on December explains, working-class these rights will never be safe until the Tory threat is destroyed once and for all by the nation- alization of the banks and the the economic bed- monopolies, rock of Toryism. The British working class will therefore have to carry through what Poland, even if bureau- cratically, has already accom- plished-the expropriation of the capitalist class. So here again the problems; conquests and struggles of the Polish and British workers intertwine. Not a single step for- in ward can be taken either country without the most deter- mined fight against the false leaders of the working class.

In Poland, the Party leaders pose as communists while they break strikes for rranco and collaborate with the most reactionary clerical and anti- Semitic forces at home. Constant danger Unless this bureaucracy is overthrown and genuine work- ers' democracy installed, there is a constant danger that capital- ism will seek to establish a stranglehold on the economy by working through the most extreme right-wing eléments of the regime. And in Britain, unless the TUC bureaucracy is forced out into the open, either to fight the Tories or be exposed, every right the working class has ever won will be jeopardized.

above This all, in means, both countries, a fight the to death against counter-revolu- tionary Stalinism. The Polish working class need no convincing on that score.

And in Britain, where, because of boom, the post-war - CP leaders have been able to hide behind many illusions of the class, the sharp turn in the political situation since the return of the Tories has opened many workers' eyes to the real nature of British Stalinism.

Here again, the two struggles supplement other. each When the Gdansk workers took on Gomulka's tanks with almost their bare hands, they drove yet another nail into the coffin of British Stalinism, whose 'Morn- Star' was compelled to déscribe the crushing of women and children by tanks as a 'discussion' between the working class and the bureaucracy.

Every blow struck against the bureaucracy in Poland, the rest of E Europe and the USSR is also a blow against the leaders of the British CP, whose ability and determination to push their line counter-revolutionary has always been based on the stability of the regimes in the Soviet world. Underlying these common political tasks is the organic necessity for the revolution which began in Russia in 1917 and spread — bureaucratically- into E Europe, to break through into the most advanced countries of the capitalist world ABOUT 7,000 young workers have been thrown out of work by the capitalist crisis in Ceylon and recently there has been a wave of strikes in the private industries and planta- tions. Two militant trade union- ists have been shot dead by the police. While the revisionist Lanka Sama Samaja Party and Stalin- ist Communist Party have accepted positions in the coali- tion cabinet, Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike's government is using brutal repressive measures to hide the causes of the strike wave. But young workers in private industries are taking the struggle to a new and higher stage.

Not succeeded The government knows this and has started mobilizing, it has recognizing that not succeeded in holding back the struggles of the working class.

While the Stalinists" Demo- ex- Trotskyists Social crats collaborate with the capi- talists and the imperialists, try- ing to lead young workers into a strait-jacket, the Revolutionary

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It is the immense economic, political military and pressure which imperialism exerts on the USSR, China and E Europe which is, in the last analysis, responsible for the bureaucratic distortions and repressions in these countries. The overthrow of capitalism in Britain and W Europe is there- fore pre-condition for the a genuine socialist building of society in Poland and the rest of the Soviet bloc countries.

This is a fundamental axiom of Marxism. The construction of socialism requires the utilization of the international division of labour, based upon democratic planning under the control of the working class. This is the goal for which the Polish work- ing class is struggling. It is ours too. So every step forward we take in the struggle to build the mass revolutionary party in this coun- the British section of Trot- sky's Fourth international, will immense aid the embattled Polish working class.

leadership, equipsed theoretield Above they need to take on and defeat the forces of counter-revolutionary Stalin- ism. Only that was lacking in 1956 and again in 1970. 1971 must see even greater strides towards this goal - the defeat of the Stalinist bureau- cracy in the East, and the over- of imperialist rule in the throw West. Only on this basis can we go forward to our common goal Socialist United States of of a Europe.

THURSDAY'S

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youth Communist Youth is attempting to build á mass Trotskyist youth movement. To defeat the government': bid to deprive the working clas: of concessions, social benefic:. and living. 'standards won over decades, the Communist Youth have undertaken a sharp, uncom- promising, struggle for Marxist theory. Unity When the revisionist and reformist leaders try to maintain divisions among students, unem- ployed youth and workers, the Revolutionary Communist Youth fight to lead a joint struggle by workers and the radical youth against the capitalist system.

Because the Trotskyist youth have been able to provide a clear perspective within these militant they have struggles, been able to build some strong cadres. They have raised the circula- tion and enlarged the size of their youth paper. They have fought_alongside the Revolutionary Communist League to build the weekly paper and to establish it among workers. During December and January the Revolutionary Communist Youth organized six federation meetings in most of the prin- cipal towns and industrial areas.

They preparing are for the national conference in March 1971.

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for By Gary Gurmeet - NCCL call money education of teachers at the present might be achieved. by AN ALL-OUT fight against rate and thus to pre-empt a cutting the number of Tory lorincoming very large share teachers entering the pro- ol ine lolal Immigration Bill has been resources available for im- Min- fession, Education urged on its 80 or so sup the Margaret ister Mrs provine operational by porters in parliament standards of the school'.

Thatcher suggested yes- National Council for Civil Liberties. terday. Addressing an education contain all conference in Buxton, she questionable said was present a no which

BY MARIIN ZAKHOR

whether, in the second half BRITAIN'S tobacco barons have so far citize of this decade, it will be may become right to continue the output maintained a discreet silence over the latest medical report on smoking.

Bill, says the Counci They have declined to sovere the existast the to comment on make of the repreed inthe structure. wealth evidence Printed • Bitte ar Seat belts brought together in the Royal College of for US Physicians' 'Smoking Health Now', trucks and and which places the res-

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of british ponsibility for 34,500 buses exchanging As on the top • proposals, as the lne nigh wage deaths year ce the cancer-smoking li canet conti note i Britain on smoking. s discovere While silence prevails on Office economic papers manuractorie Iront. cost inflation Tory Health Minister Sir nein osedn is quoted as Spring crisis favour regarding the RCP report dulnorilalve connim- ation on the health risks evidence. of smoking... These are As oke are dat meas the massive risks which no one can Bremoments afford to ignore'. Balance of parments cis. in resen more money e tobacco iSits are in and wwat mall shise healanger Beans Bankrupies, The y Latters means bankruptcies'; milite worldorkers through. Increase unemployment on Warnings Sales present Wages Britain hale dim prote last the bacco companies e can ie yesertising their wares m in und his boat aside the moun- tomer brush our pres would be ee will nom cong on they 70,000 are employed castrating and other tob do this centrate predictions New YE busines

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eft can be made fror Come to in Leningrad Vulf Zalmanson, brother Alexandra Palace! danger. To do of one of the ll alleged Force the Pensive without delay. 'hi-jackers' sentenced be- the propriation Tories to resign! fore Christmas, appeared certainly before convincing cas court martial serious. yesterday for his alleged part in the attempt.

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the managements policies.

195. the Sue invasion in by the points of the stal 'I hope this is the beginning ommon sense are sanity wil Restoration and Commenst do with to out of this chairma mess of inflation. Said atter the tre On table Bathgate demand the company out a crisis its mess in March Po be Implemented on June 1.

Policy combine mave have decided spokes * yand workers musconor against the anti-union Bill.

plan to carry on the half-hearted measures taken by the Labour government in introducing com- prehensive education.

CONSOLIDATE

It would be a boon, she said, if all the education Acts on the book could be con- statute solidated. This would undoubtedly strengthen the class structure of the education system and provide security for public schools.

Increases in the student-staff ratio, further cuts in government spending (especially on com- prehensive schools) and attacks on "welfare' provisions (like free milk and meals) are presumably the Tory way to get 'better value for money'.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

AIRPORT stewards went to Transport House, Lon- don, on Tuesday night (above) to see John Cousins, national organizer of the Transport and General Workers' Union, for talks on the airport pay work-to-rule. On the same night 400 dele- gates met at Heathrow air- are port and decided that if no from progress is made at a meeting with employers tomorrow collective bargaining will be abandoned. 'We are holding out an olive branch. If nothing hap- pens on Friday a complete ban on overtime will be in- stituted. There will be indus- trial chaos; warned Mr Cousins. a The men are believed to be claiming 7 per cent and have been offered 4t per cent by BOAC and BEA. en- Italian seamen strike for new contract

ITALIAN

seamen yesterday continued a programme strikes aimed at delaying the departure ships from Italian ports by 24 or 48 the hours. The strikes were called by Italy's three big trade union confederations following a breakdown in negotiations with employers for a new national work contract and are due to last until January 12. They affect privately-owned ships and those of the big Finmare shipping group.

TORY MP

. John Boyd-Car- penter said in Durban yester- day that demonstrations by anti-apartheid groups against the sale of arms to S Africa would not affect the British they government's decision. Boyd-Carpenter, MP for Kingston-on-Thames, is on a two-week trip to S Africa as a guest of the S Africa Foun- dation. He said: 'We allow demonstrations in Britain be- cause this is the normal right of the individual. But it is very unlikely they will achieve any purpose at all.' Thursday January 7, 1971

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

DESPERATE for funds to boost Poland's lag ing economy, the new Gierek leadership is negotiating a massive loan from three Japanese firms. A spokesman for the three — Mitsui, Itoh and Nichimen — said

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Union of Teachers' executive yesterday the loan was for the gave support to London head- purchase of plant mak- mistress Mrs Phyllis Clarkson who refused to take 16 child- ethylene, micro- 1ng at her school because it ren motors and nylon. was overcrowded. The deal was originally con- She also refused to transfer cluded last June under the children to a nearby Method- old Gomulka leadership, when ist church hall because of in- £41m was loaned to Poland adequate toilets, and because at a 6.5 per cent interest rate.

the children would have to cross a busy main road.

NEW LOAN

Now the new regime has applied for a new loan total- ling £205m, more than four times the amount originally agreed on. The recently-signed Polish- W German treaty also pro- vides for far-reaching trade, economic and technical links between the two countries.

CASHING IN

Washington officials have already considered cashing in Poland's on economic prob- lems by offering a trade deal with its new rulers. The Kremlin, already bur- dened by its own economic problems, simply cannot afford to bail Gierek out. Hence his turn towards imperialism. Glass 'black'

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eral and Municipal Workers, the union's Liverpool district office 'something had done unprecedented in the G&MWU constitution'. Referred back It had referred the appli- cations back to its St Helens branches, one of which had already passed buck back the union's district committee. The works committee at Pilkington's Triplex plant, however, had voted 17 to 3 in favour men's Thailand admission. Asked whether the company would reinstate the sacked plea for if

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men the re- admitted them, the company yesterday made clear that urgent aid there would be a further hurdle. 'We would consider them on merit, a spokesman told THAILAND'S Premier Field- Workers Press. Marshal Kittikachorn will ask Mervyn Laird to speed up 'Suitability' delivery of military aid when US the Defence Secretary Their applications would be arrives in Bangkok today en considered light in the route for Saigon. whether there were vacancies, and whether they The Field-Marshal were con- told re- sidered suitable for any there yesterday that porters he were. Once the Pilkington again, glassworkers' fight becomes a

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key factor in the ever trade struggle against the anti-union laws.

agreement between the anti- If the communist Thai regime and union leaders cannot back of the the Soviet Union has been win the jobs signed in Bangkok. sacked men, their promises of a fight against the Industrial Relations Bill proved are worthless. would be spacific loy asking for the rapid despatch Postal helicopters and weapons. His anxiety obviously reflects the growing crisis pile-up regime, which has been hit hard by guerrilla victories in recent months.

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than half a million No collapse and parcels letters piled up at Sydney's main postal clear- There are at present 37,000 New ing centre South as US in Thailand, Wales postal workers met to most of them airmen. discuss whether to continue Nixon can ill afford a col- with their strike for higher lapse on this front, bearing in wages. mind the desperate plight of The federal executive of the his Workers' puppet regime in Cam- Postal Union has bodia. directed the workers to lift all bans on mail and withdraw their threat of snowballing strikes. 5s 2d minimum The union's general secret- Mr George Slater, ary, said talks on the branch's ben are observers here believe rank.

nd-file union members mas (5s 2d) an hour. lefy the union directive Elements of Marxism Lecture by G. Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League Actra t. 8 bi. Chrsday, January 7: (Opposite Actor 'entral Stn.) 8 p.m.