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What we think New treachery afoot in Ulster SOMETHING treacherous you'll think that Cure end his to be London later this Evou might lie bind dime, he toid the were • Wee in Belfas to proceec If Mr s. He just wants one tent Ir is this type of man 'Before has ole who led struggles and manded Currie comes out of the Nowan 2o0 pearle have killed, of the strugsle. Beer lorry blast in Belfast dells neat one bonew planted in a beer lorry parked res sled at the went nearly Over

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 4, 1972

ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Chou En-lai Numelry with Cnou en-lai and mao ise-tune in peking

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has plumbed new depths of Stalinist treachery with its anni- versary message to the Sudanese military regime.

President Chou En-lai telegram sent hasary o oh the attempt to identify with hacking for the Pakistar imperialism murderous counter- independence from Britain *Vig taik from the Macists dldusyple. deep fraternal friendship' now exists perween enina neiry's action and the sudan. trayal. sicrator x cula Jaafar • mitish Com supported by uni cins sinste and powers. Madisss mintary counter made answer for Mao's crimes. His forces are still scour- the cor As fares rise by 50-100 per cent comupet und-o rigid stat disipline the working class. Maoist Nus dinn least for sn na cing isting big defeats any camb deg mes in Lao. President communes ilere i Pekiny THOUSANDS of workers were nist-killers •angered and surprised yesterday aner one tiler or come to find temselves paying up to 100 per cent more for London bus Chinese are not the and underground journeys.

gime. Bitterness spilled over into arguments Last month the Rumaniae at tube stations between passengers and staff over London Transport's increased Sudan at fares which came into effect on Sunday.

ambassadorial level. Un the buses te mınımum tare nas Kumania recently signec increased Sc plandi cee been trade shorter. unson de satins. stages made urs r. PeDOw: Turat ll walk nowi have Pay t Delegate fares

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Order part moro for NUM's Jo COAL BOARD chiefs will today meet leaders thete heads as Tel.: 01-622 7029 of the National Union of Mineworkers to I his discuss the national pits strike due to start at midnight on Saturday. Explosion This surprise move came ater a coal in- case dustry Society lunch in London's plush woman Park Hotel yesterday, al which union president 'harassed' Joe Gormley claimed that every member -claim his executive wanted to avoid a strike. A WOMAN lecturer acquit- He toldi assembled yesterudy DUlD including dionitaries charges had been a victim National a aeplorable chairman Derek Ezra: poltical persecution. ner if Me don't want a strike detence counse said. believed tor sed bis national nember been tapped and that she was ust five days to go beadre 280, is supposed she feared would continue.

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Pere the Gifford tor coord ciad Miss Later stres. iso reve the destructi 'without tament lace interviews Yorkshire Today's sala the harassment was disch red, he sald. members in Yorkshire and with •The to the stan a UNDER THE guise of wholesale nationalization Brits oisty today a Tours- Pakistan President Zulfiqar Bhutto has All moved to plug the holes in his economy caused by wealthy families taking their money out of the uniones nationat potey the country. Though l described the Contre post-abe harn takeover of 20 firms as the th command and control of the stressea unere would De no he waried 30 oft the turiner natonanzation thes He has fale dy platic est Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

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What we think New treachery afoot in Ulster Maudl same dovi "ment witholk urial eeds- meat, of course, is Notice army's Heath government may to on the 'eforms' offer leadership on a righters Beer lorry blast in Belfast armed stolen last gear 0339,386 ot mealtogeth000 there renls 1,000 over xplosions.

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Education sing i the a ding at the see never in homes without basic ment months behind. average workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 4, 1972 • NUMBER 653 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'Deep fraternal friendship' says Chou En-lai with Chou En-lal and Mao Tse-tung In Peking.

Numelry Mao greets Sudanese butchers

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has plumbed new depths of Stalinist treachery with its anni- versary message to the Sudanese military regime.

President Chou En-lai sent a rusome leerran to Khartoum on the jotn backing, Pakistan anniversary of the mean! independence from Britain unionists and Egypt. He said mery is fraternal friendship' fought exists between China counter - revolutionary be and the Sudan. ressing these a opponents ot hactatorexec unionists Numeiry's * in 10 naviet for Mas As fares rise by 50-100 per cent tate discipline Angry scenes at Maoist Numeiry opens workers and * indo peasants rently in iS puppe tube regimes in Laos nd Cambodia month si mine messen out tir THOUSANDS of workers were angered and surprised yesterday to find themselves paying up to 100 per cent more for London bus and underground journeys.

Bitterness spilled over into arguments at tube stations between passengers and stal over condon lansports increased ambassadorial trian at fares which came into effect on Sunday.

On the buses the minimum tare has ree-yea recent p been increased from 24p to 3p and the protoc fare stages made shorter.

Schoolchildrer and trade have to full the rush hours union fare during Delegate Pand sent grankies this been in- friendally those who visit week to have most resident The i ng, Said pensioner Mrs Than spatched the goes steps. Claln: "It's die Lun Tunne• the ncrease: cent and U-calcu ehit this hear. are absolutely ridicu workers Press year say told a different story efforts port tor Moose of orker cultura is Vist Finished hit Richt-to-Work lunch having just Sudan is opposite imp: nation and sub People rising their so hat 100 Docker's Voice, tuate on t was tht way he p "The board the cared more 1 eattorial printed engineeri public i cem cession posing subsidize maple. difference ases old

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chief Ezra (!) Order COAL BOARD chiefs will today meet leaders bowed I8l.• Vloke luks of the National Union of Mineworkers to discuss the national pits strike due to start at midnight on Saturday. Explosion surprise move came after a Coal In- 9 S::3S1 case dustry Society lunch in London's plush n volt woman Park Hotel yesterday, at union president which 'harassed' Joe Gormley claimed that every member -claim his executive wanted to avoid a strike. A WOMAN lecturer a boomb He told assembled dignitaries charecs • rie im Incale deplorable Ivanonal Coal DOara case cnalrman verek aza: political persecution', detence counsel said. elieved infer teled one hand sude epe an an ear which she teared varat contin ve.

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evidence. fered only t1.90-hi2, lates Lord Miss placea withou iso for commd mest fingerprints. Yorkshire The sald he moio teatre vast ful najoressure elsewhere ansament Gor rey s argu- Workers Fin Mold, N Nales, ment miners strikes u way for UNDER THE guise of wholesale nationalization notices Thurs- Pakistan President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto moved to plug the holes in his economy caused for the Labou wealthy families taking their money out of the incons nationat perg or Hugh reint behind the veceupation the country. Though he described the e country must be harn. țakenver of %| țrmę c țoe command and control of the end the restrati of betiner people confidence. further 'nationalization'. taken er are arom andi stel e actue amde already pla et Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

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Workers Press, Tuesday January 4, 1972 Workers Press interviews has been Bernadette Press autention Devlin's political role in N Ireland since her election in MP for Mid-Ulster reforms in N Ireland has achieved.

Part one: The Civil Rights Movement ' Our role should never have been submerged into it' SH: WHAT reforms do you think the Civil Rights mated a ment Movement achieved? my made and or the des 1 and this hit it achieved an expected fronte just a ss 1964-1965 had reformist manner of comicia tone her and sink an Communis ear in pread. Tre one Repube as and anhe

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of an end to discrimination in housing, and one vole, an end to the Special Powers Act.

But they came to be tied up with sectarianism. For example, it is popularly believed that Catholics do not have But the demand for one man, the vote. It was the non-property owners and one vote was a class issue.

the non-householders who did not have a vote. On the question of real reform, the only thing that Was achieved was the Downing St agreement and if you go through the points there is absolutely nothing in it.

The Agreement said 'OK we'll have voted for everyone, but in the meantime we will have no elections'. The issue of the fair electoral boundaries is still unsettled. We had the disarming of the force for a police We had the disbanding of the B-Special police brief period. very and the creation of an Ulster Defence Regiment, which is worse.

This was the Labour government's doing. They decided that there would be a time when soldiers would have to be put into N Ireland, but that they could not stay there for ever. A native imperialist army would have to be created, like in most colonial Specials and this could not be the organized in local states, battalions by local forces.

All these things were sold as reforms by the St agreement But all you got from the Downing was certain amount of respectability for the middle classes. In fact it's called Magna Carta middle classes militant and dis- the by contented workers in N Ireland now.

The Civil Rights Movement had never specified what reforms of the police they wanted because they had never specified what fact, the the role of the police in society ought to be, what, in present society was, and therefore what any change or reform was.

For time the civil rights leaders tried to pass quite some You got Gerry Fitt on the television giving them off as reforms. ungrateful. They them a guarded welcome lest they appeared never came out. We were accused of being wreckers and splitters said 'No good, because every time a reform was announced we we don't want it'. Fitt, Hume and Currie always with a guarded came out Young to welcome. For example, when Sir Arthur sent was control the police, there was the idea that because he was a nice English liberal gentleman the police force were going to become pacifist gentlemen and maintain their proper function in society. But did get the awakening of discontent among what you Despite this reformist movement, you got more and the masses. more people on the streets-solely the Catholic working class- The struggle. civil rights being radicalized by involvement Many demands did not satisfy them any more. were more full employment and state-owned industries under interested in question of fair housing.

in the public ownership than they were achieved anything, it's been the awakening So if we have But I don't think honestly we've of the masses of the people. done a great deal in educating these people as to the real reason And this is the why you've got a of their discontent. reason situation at the moment of Provisionals and Officials [IRA] and as you have individuals and everybody tearing many groups theories, decide whether not off looking for new trying to the border is an issue. You don't just have the basic understanding should have should have brought out, which the movement articulated, and to a large extent it was our fault that it didn't.

SH: DO YOU not think that this perspective of Catholic working class 'reforms' led the into could not be trap because these reforms achieved, except within the framework of the struggle to develop a socialist programme for the building of a revolutionary party which would unite both Protestant Catholic workers for the and taking of power? I THINK it certainly did. I don't think it led the Catholic BD: Because they broke out of the reformist working class into a trap.

nature of the Civil Rights Movement.

But because of the nature of the movement and of its demands it effectively shut the door on the Protestant working class.

Once, shortly after I was elected, I addressed a major rally in Strabane- i Sarah and myselt decided to -which is a town in my Hamonn consutuency. make a stand of principle.

Both and we'd worked the speeches beforehand. of us spoke out Both of us spoke on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and change fact could not isolate the need for in that The you N Ireland from the demand for the right to work, for socialism. The basic message was that on this side of socialism there would be no reforms. We were bodily pitched off the platform by the people standing around. In fact many of my own SuT experienced movement. But on that march experienced the one WreCking of the things that convinced me we had to take stand. alongside recognized the chap marching me. him but I couldn't place him.

'Who's that fellow?' and McCann told was the local This fellow out of their houses, pitching out non-rent payers and just evicting members of the working class.

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Name Address Gerry Fltt With use Chat he has Minto, as tates use could understand, wad understand, was was into, not involved with people who couldn't pay rents to Rachmanist landlords. How do you march through the town, shouting to members 'Come and join us, you know Fred here? of the working class, had and had been Anyone who seen that march evicted from their house would have said, 'Right. That's not for me' To be fair, when we eventually realized that this was the situation, attempts were made to break out. One of my arguments with People's Democracy, which has done some good work, is that it has tried to plod on.

At that time there was a basis for clarifying the demands in the PD after we had intervened in the election on a basically socialist programme. Following the election the differences were again and we fell the stages sunk into theory and were carried away by the masses.

That's the truth of the situation. You got people like Michael Farrel, who for years had plodded along with a small socialist group, suddenly speaking to thousands and thousands of people.

They were not exactly given what they wanted to hear, but what wanted to we say was tailored to be least offensive to the people who had to listen to it.

And it just didn't work. on it, I think it is time to say Looking back there is no substitute, even if it means we lose the masses.

We have to back, start again on a clear class line and plough on. So if John Hume got then we are making more 6,000, we got ten, I think progress with ten. It was not that the Civil Rights Movement was wrong. It to happen. our role was submerged into it. We should have always been Your demand doesn-t thar enoug, is impossible inside the symm: We would reformists, not have been popular, but we would have been nearer building a revolutionary party than we are at the moment.

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AS THE prospect of war over Bangla Desh drew nearer, the sectarian absten- tionism of 'Red Mole' grew more desperate. 'With the petty bourgeoisie,' remarked neither would Trotsky, 'bewilderment, especially in the face of great events, is an inescapable obstruct tni invading indiar and, so to speak, congenital condition' (In Defence of Marxism', p. 115.)

'Bewilderment', in the case of Tariq Ali is organically tied to his desire not to alienate the W Pakistan bourgeois-liberal opposition. That is why in 1968 and 1969 he opportunistically supported the concept of Pakistan as a political entity -and why in 1971, he opposes in the most sectarian manner the popular interven- Sophistry tion of the Indian army in Bengal.

(What, we might ask, will Ali do if the Irish Free State

BY MICHAEL BANDA

Army intervenes on the side of the Provisionals in Ulster?)

ra ve un a tree war series examine ue wan uptcy of revisionist policies on Bangla Dest tolsehe great ts likely iable use at perialism Snared in Russian emphasi 1971- Indeper Their anti-communism, one w of course struggles, not she colonia be les cannot i S. iat Marxists Pessimism prised at their bankrupt state- carolution stop red bese Marxists Now dared Pakistani lied ment. the late Nasser so-called Snared Israel me to sendst troop mination of s Asia. • Soian reflects, Union has No ritual erful dominating ective of is de polic History • are a la Desi petty- Depen- eas! hand the Every colonial struggle is seen the statement ben United Secretariat pose state meant cary nate l reactionary this bourgeoisle Arming Marxists sented in than Peastaand an 'WT! and cannot C revolu

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Workers Press, Tuesday Ja by Philip Wade ATTACKS on the social services by the Tory government have cost some 10 million workers about £155m only 18 months. Measures like the abolition of free school milk and the ending of free welfare milk have cut the wages of workers earning between £1,000 and £2,000 by an estimated £15 a year. And the numher of nersons in Doverty in Drilal ncluding unemployed, pensioners and over 10 1970. Chas risen Tories came to power Behind then June y and For despie air tor desi sick and the to find the resukes, do the mean borrowing monev trom iriends the dignity rest. Or, as we have seen, it might the social omal itill follow you and from securily into your added the effect the period, effectively a wage- W. tor oldnam how, for example, free school the abolition trom lasi

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for the over-sevens and the dental have brought in E66m for the increase - Another piece 01 Tora legislation, the Nationg increases in pensions and industrial in The aboliti and abolition benents tol me tirst thress three industrial injury benells aim under the Costal Sectory At May thes Britain's Social Security Minister Sir Keith Joseph heart. The Tory propaganda ma hine has been propaganda machine this dramatic picture. working overtime on and vuaralan . million are Sir Keith Joseph: no cuts for him stated the fl increase would eaten away by unristmas have only restored any universal stringent six-monthly means test ensures that little entire working mess than ole red 53 the same time by the *abus only meation at miserable 7 per cent Tory gov- mean ernment, far below the increase in the cost right the health further planed and a veritable army of spies will A right theirs, horns paid for it of every single cut made in the lout services and the welfare state.

with reterence to the article on the reaty ot London (1913). Atter the Balkans (Workers Press, partition in 1941, it was incorpor- 28, Albania (of which December 29 and 30) it must атео be pointed out that Kosovo-Meto- rightfully but restored to region' of Yugoslavia in 1945 hiia is an 'autonomous Yugoslavia. great most fertile The malority of one the population 963,988 are regions in the Balkans. Kosovo- Albanian Moslems annexalon This region has been the subject Metohija has been a major cause of the distrust be- of dispute for a long time.

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Star Czech HEARD about the latest birth- methods from "Czecho- control slovakia? It's all done by astro- logy, with a claimed 98 per cent effectiveness. The system relies on the posi- tion of the sun and moon at the woman's birth predict the to fertile periods during her life.

An individual reading, called a cosmogram, includes vital in- formation to guard against mis- incidence of mal- carriages, the formed babies and other problems of pregnancy. The beauty of the method is, of course, that since no drugs are used, there can be no pos- sible side effects. Except preg- nancy. There is no truth in the rumour that babies born as result of reliance on this method greeted birth with the are at words •Welcome to the 12th century'. Up, up and away WRITING in the medical maga- zine 'AMA Update', in Dallas, Dr David G. Hubbard reported the results of tests he had made on some 40 people imprisoned for attempting to hi-jack aircraft.

according to Dr It seems, Hubbard, that the typical Ameri- can hi-jacker is a man with little or no sex life, has fantasies con- cerning space and motion and and has a childhood his- gravity, tather to a mother who was a of fleeing from violent religious nut. If the hi-jacker had any sex experience at all, it was probably because the woman took the initiative. Few hi-jackers are motivated by strong political convictions, said Hubbard, and called their flight to another country replication childhood of their strategy of fleeing to the protec- tion of one parent from a hostile one'. Numerous other theories have been advanced as to the mental state of hi-jackers--like because of unsatisfactory sex lives they attracted by the phallic are shapes of the aircraft-which led one worker at Chicago's O'Hare airport to opine: 'If you ask me ome of these guys just want t teal planes The company Nixon keeps "TIME' magazine's 'Man of the Year' is Richard Nixon, who is commended for his services to peace and humanity. Is it too cynical of us to point facing Nixon in winning the Time a carpany award. Two-times winner was that great humanitarian Joseph Stalin.

winner in 1938 was dom other th Adoll Hitler!

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PAGE FOUR Workers Press, Tuesday January 4, 1972 THE MOOD of miners in the Castleford area of the York- They've been sold shire coalfield is determined, but wary.

out twice in the last two years and they know very well that the right-wing/Stalinist leadership of the National Unior no stomach for a fight against the of Mineworkers has government. The Workers Press call for large strike committees in every pit is seen here as an essential step to stop a sell-out.

Direct links with members of other unions and no reliance on the soft words of their national leaders is also uppermost in the minds of these militants.

They know that the sell-out of the postmen's strike last year is typical of the reformist trade union leaders' stance in the face of the Tories—-and they also know that the Tories are determined this time.

The total lack of by the NUM preparation leaders, nationally and locally, is a danger sign that has not gone from well-known unnoticed. The comments printed the AIl Trades Unions militant miners and members of the Alliance in the Castleford area, are typical of the views whose will be other in the area, opinions many

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PETER BAI. DERSON

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leaders are 'sub- about stantial offer, but not about winning the full claim. They

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are implying that they are Glasshulighton back down going to even Colliery before we theygo into b intro think try to intro- duce productivity deal during the strike to try to break it.

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feeling round here is that the If they accept a deal like leaders will go for a deal. that, it will lead to more This is the biggest one since closures, more pit un- General the Strike, and employment and sub- we've got to remember how of sequent lowering our sold the miners were out standard of living, not then. Also both the last rise. The right wing of the two strikes - in 1970 and this, but union wants 1971-could have been won.

believe that the Tories want It wasn't just the right wing don't think the Torres want smash outright. that sold that out, it was the left and especially the deal; they'li duce only intro- Communist Party in Scot- deal if they think land and S Wales, as well as they can't win. up here. After last year's strike We'll have to get every the government started The union behind us. import coal. That just shows miners have chance on we were on the verge of their own. The miners stuck But it also shows winning. it out for nine months on that the government started their own in 1926, and got then make preparations for taking us on. beat. We are not going to let that happen to us again.

A lot of miners know that the government doesn't We must have no produc- want to avoid a clash this tivity deals, arbitration no We time. need support and по independent in- other from the unions- We know what quiries. and it's no good leaving it happened to the Post Office to the officials of the Trans- They workers last year. Workers' port and General said wouldn't they accept Union. to make sure no arbitration, but most of the coal is moving. We need the officials let themselves be backing of power-stations persuaded to accept an and the yards because the inquiry and the went men government will try to use back to work penny labour to move off better after bitter the coal. strike. What is important to We've got watch stress is that the leadership to our making preparations right wing for the same sort no The for this strike. only thing. They are openly favour of: productivity 1n deals and bonuses. Productivity deals mean differentials from pit to pit.

They set man against man and area against area. Under Tory gov- both Labour and

NCB

the used this to split the both 'left' and And right NUM leaders have collabor- ated the

NCB.

This with mustn't happen but again, It will if we don't stop it. Miners must fight in the mass meetings against any We are raising the sell-out. demand for strike commit- The tees at every pit. branch officials are trying to fob this off. But whether able to they'll be do it is Wheldale colllery worker Brian another question. Record THE TIDE of bankruptcies among small shopkeepers and builders reached record proportions in 1971. At 1,416, receiving orders in the High Court which deals Frank Stansil, City living in SE chartered with bankrupts accountant who England, specializes in bankruptcy and were 30 per cent up on the 1970 total of 1,103.

liquidation work The fall-off in new building He said: "The collapse of effects Rolls-Royce and mirrors the other large slump on trade and incomes.

groups undoubtedly influenced last year's figures.' Small shopkeepers have Though City businessmen been besieged both by worsen- and for ing trading conditions are looking an improve- pressure from the giant super- ment in 1972, statistics over the decade show market monopolies. past a re- morseless upward trend. factor in A major last year's figures was the chain In 1969 there were 913, in reaction set up by the crashes 1964, 678. Seven years earlier of big companies, according the number was down at 463.

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CIRCULATION

01-622 7028 RAILMEN throughout Britain, fearful of increasing redun- dancies among workshop staff, refusing to keep the were wagons moving yesterday. The men's protest, which began at midnight last night, from ultimatum stems an issued by the National Union wa RailWoarden The the rail- board. ways union threatened that if British Rail did not stop farming out needing wagons repair to private enterprise, railwaymen would refuse to move them.

ACTION

Se NOW

AX THE

information we've had from the

NEC

benefits is what we're entitled to. But we've had plans from them, no nothing organized, no demonstrations been arranged. Glasshoughton branch is having mass weekend, but meeting next we've had no initiative from tered under the Industrial the leadership at all. Relations Act, they will try for postponement in effect, 60-day accepting 'cooling-off' period. We've

SID HINCHCLIFFE

already had that, in with the work-t, inpractice, Glasshoughton Colliery It's safe to say that the rank and file are determined to go ahead with the strike.

But it's political strike. THE LEADERS will try for It's purely political- -against The productivity deal. the government's 7 per cent right wing will use the 13-8 So fight norm. it's to majority they got to meet the force government to Board, to try to the get resign and replace it with deal of that think Labour government they'll try to get post- pledged to socialist policies.

ponement. This could be the crunch.

Although we're not regis- ry worker Brian Lavery at a lobby of NUM headquarters In 1970

BRIEFLY...

• MILITARY

aircraft work quay-side shed clerks and Aircraft Corpora- supervisors, also came out in at British Lancashire fac- tion's three support. standstill tories came to yesterday. About 3,750

• PIECEWORK

strikers at workers in eight unions were the Lucas combine's Fazaker- a threat- staging the first of ley, Liverpool, industrial equip- series of one-day light- ened ment factory are expected to strikes in support of ning continue their seven-week 12-per-cent claim. compa-cy is offering a produc- struggle when they meet again Thursday. 150-strong on The deal tivity which claims strike, which has incorporates 'a substantial pay considerable support from increase'. Aircraft affected engineers'-union members in are the Anglo-French Jaguar, of the the area, is in defence Provost and Strikemaster of 'mutuality' - no principle fighters Canberra and management changes in pay bombers. The factories also or working conditions without for Concorde's make parts union agreement. engine casings. • COMPLAINT against Lord

TRANSPORT

Snowdon by photographer Ray •

BRITISH

Bellisario, who takes informal Docks Board white-collar staff Southampton yesterday of royalty, is to be pictures at the National The reconsidered by went on strike over pay. Union Transport Salaried Staffs' of Journalists. Bellisario (38), has appealed Association called the strike the union's finding of 300 because the docks against that Snowdon board headquarters have not blame because Bellisario approved a pay and produc- WaN scheme refused the tivity negotiated for press passes to Members Badminton horse trials. more than year. of other unions, including firm • LEEDS engineering part of the Guest, of Oddy's-

WEATHER

Keen and is to throwingt close the end March employees

GKN

recently out of work. the closedown WALES and S England will of announced be mainly and cloudy of in dry one its major plants Cwmbran in Wales. The GKN with mist or fog patches night Tory Party and morning. company gave the Scotland and N England its largest single donation will be cloudy with some rain £30,000 the last before mainly in the E, General Election. or drizzle, and bright periods in with

CAR PRODUCTION

the W. November was down by 6 per N Ireland will be cloudy same period in but mostly dry. cent the •on of sht frosts rather cold, with 1970, the Department frosts in the but Trade said yesterday. The night there will be normal average production rate in the near temperatures in the N. four ending November weeks Outlook for Wednesday and 27 36,350 cars a week. Little general Commercial vehicle produc- Thursday: change but becoming milder tion, at 9,300 a week, was 18 the W freshening cent down. Losses caused in with southerly winds. by industrial disputes were higher than in Nov- probably ember 1970. But the car pro- duction rate for the 47 weeks November 27 to was per 1970 with cent up on an average of 33,250 cars a week.

vehicle The commercial rate of 8,850 a week was less than 1 per cent higher. : RADES «s NO 1926

SELL-OUT

Angry outside the scenes

NUM

headquarters when the execulive called off the 1970 strike. We've got to get the sup- port of the engineers and dockers. We've got to stop the coal-both overseas and inland. I wouldn't be surprised if the Polish Stalinists tried to send coal here, like they did to Spain during the Spanish miners' strike. An- other thing, the government will try to use private con- tractors to move the coal.

We'll have to use mass pıckets to stop that because if we lose it's a set-back for the entire working class.

It's not enough just to have a ban from the top on moving coal. We've got to make sure they can't move it. The branch and union officials know they're in for a fight, but they're trying to restrict it to' a trade union level, instead of a political fight against the Tories.

The overtime ban, in my opinion, was not entirely aimed at the Coal Board. The leaders know some men lost from £10 to £15 a week during the overtime ban and they hope that will weaken they will them SO that accept a few bob. They'll try to come up with some We have got to stop week.

possibly this week. and then we've got to unite with other workers like the and railway engineers workers to make sure we win. Now for weekend jailing MAGISTRATES in London are proposing Saturday after- noon jailing as a means of dealing with young offenders.

This is the main recom- mendation of a working party of magistrates which reported to Home Secretary Reginald Maudling yesterday. chairman, group's The Michael Wofff, said in a separate letter that Saturday afternoon jailing centres should be set up in every large city and town through- out the country. The centres, an alternative to full prison custody, are operating now in London and Manchester for two hours on Saturday afternoons for 17- to 21-year-old youths. The working party recom- mends greater of the use centres by courts for anti- social offences, especially breaches of the peace, some traffic offences and failure to pay fines. If this extension of the senior attendance system success, then it proves a might well further ex- tended to deal with offenders over the age of 21, and that could open up entirely new opportunities for the treat- ment of offenders outside prison, Wolff said.

LORD HEREFORD,

the premier viscount of England, has been badly affected by ris- ing prices. He has been forced to sell his 2,000 acre estate near Leominster, Hereford- shire, for £600,000 all because of mounting costs. Included in the sale-to an undisclosed buyer-is his 100-room man- sion with its 30 bedrooms and bathrooms. The ten new owner is due to take over on June 30.

BRIAN LAVERY

Wheldale Colliery are aware of the poli against the Tory mente also are aware of the exe make a strike mo Bird sin i not and a bit movements and joint acco make sure non-unionists Workers remember month. Th

JOHN BURKHILL

Wheldale Collery not pers 'Patients' to repeat hunger strike TWO OPPOSITIONISTS in Leningrad's special psychi- atric clinic will repeat the 80-day hunger strike they staged last spring in protest against their imprisonment las Madimi Vik toritainbers Vladimi be manded allowed consult lawyers and take their

DUT

The no authorities have taken action. The two men slammed the "shameful

BY DAVID MAUDE

oracuice dissidents Drisoning political pitals end nsvchiatric hos FIRST STEPS towards cutting out 1,500 over- and conducting tenned change people's seas telegraphists' jobs will be taken by the tortures political convictions. Post Office during the next two months.

strike ended The hunger Now Tito atter promises that their cases By March 1, the corpora- would he taken to conrt and tion to split at the hospital wants conditions London's Electra House improved. turns on overseas cable exchange Fo demonstrated philo gest into self-contained manage- who demonstratec ment units along lines pro- August 25. Sanare Con Serbs against the Soviet invasion of nosed bu a secret Depart.

Czechoslovakia. ment of Employment report.

He was sentenced for lying

HARD

ON heels the the inventions denigrating the against 1a, tra Croatia, and diagnosed wac In upsurse total labour force schizophrenic. been the exchange will not be O1 Ine Serbians arrested Have Belgrade for and printine There no details of opposed bv union leaders.

are nauonallst leal- Borisov's identity becausi The Union of Post Office letsi there are two nrisoners executive week seized the same name at the hospital.

hundreds of leafiets when they Conditions are renorted to arracter the nrecident ot the Serbian Chamber of Lawyers division is the thin end of the have grown worse after three Slobadan Subotic. men. including former we the service or 1973 of the leaflets called Soviet army captain, attempted the service by 1973, Serb 'to to escape last September. Chlets want telegrannists to turn to their nation, deprived accent 1t. And the authorities attitiol toughened after the abuse Ol Is mill psychiatric the

THREAT

USSR

tian a conference The raids form part of Pre- international Computerization esti- general clamp sident to s Mexico cown on senaratists Meanwhile a Zagreh town Costacles were aso nut in the of lawyers attempt nationally; committee meeting has said year now, the that the failed to appreciate that the strength of 'counter-revo- has Known claim have Inmates they lutionary nationalist forces' out of 4.000 iobs were under by orderlies been drugs threat injections which en Its policy, however cause mental not physical suffering. demand so percent on aget CuLs. of Communists, Thros pital have former prisoners adopted another, the savins pancreases offere with alance tor its remainine members.

01 give evidence at une uta were class oooonents. At Electra House, the tele- Vladi- Moscov The of bricials Suspected or oDDositionist broughout Croatia graphists have been asked to mir bukovsky. woo has civer separate off subdivision and the most detailed account so canaratict activitles ane sum- deal agree far of conditions there. mathias in newshaners broad working out wha Wille and other claim tor the government and party omicac Other nronosas organizations continues. Right to Work Committees ing blacket co-operation corporation is demand-

SHEFFIELD

With management "to make such Vadnesday, January! • Changes in he ronzzn .30 p.m nearly the carvice and the caniny YS premises, Portobell they think necessary for the (Nr Jessop Hospital) efficiency and profitability of the service'. over-run

HUDDERSFIELD

naications also evict that the Post Office's aim in nego- , January 6

THE

THE KELON

Thursdao pan finținne vl ho to actobich o bets was intone danger i pay system close to Measured- Chens in Day Work in the exchange.

Zetland Hotel being overrun namese troops, a government said. in Vientiane yesterday workers press destroyed entire amme tion esman unition dump entire

READERS' MEETINGS

enti hese as 82 miles NE Nador Vientiane, been Meet Editorial Board intensive bombardment since speakers. Discuss your Fridav and is believed to me the liberate o foreis drive he the liheration torces' Hone or the render paper quarters of

COVENTRY

To ma se is me meancy. Meo Agency. unday January the nael Hote olehill R were Speaker: Alex Mitchell WaS heli- snokesman ca10 only

LEICESTER

contere could get in and out with any catato Wednesda p. anuary 12 nones so the N Vietnamace gunners were most accurate.

he said. Cheng's ammunition which went dum. which Speaker: only

NEWCASTLE

Stri.) and thatamblupsam ursday January also come under heavy rocket

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MEETINGS

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DONCASTER:

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