Workers Press no. 656

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PRIDAY JANUARY I. 1912

NUMBER bob THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Miners under Tory fire What January Fund The real starts-E142.40 we think Bukovsky: A savage issues in anet Tories sentence against sure we expand the pit strike circulation- Havinporters campaigne

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tHE Allis Chalmers sit-in at Mold, N Wales Welsh Dafydd nationalist His 'crime was that herbaric yvigiey nas pleaded witn une

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

Tories to keep the factory KGB secret He told Peter i minefories Thomas, Welsh Secretary, tha cuted ins THE COAL STRIKE is on. Twenty-five years SIXTEENTH in the closure panned tor nex month was contrary to Tory nationalization, again after miners are once the KGB. at the hands • said it should be policy. called upon to wage the fight of their lives to as of line He is li suspendea penaig an moun According ton the prosecution and if a private buver could Soviet no protect their living standards from the threat of not be found the government a greates low wages and unemployment.

bad for duplicati In 1926 they were in the front line against the coal- owners and the Baldwin Tory government. sitical system sca Today, they are in the for ent of u Stalinist bureau- Under the Natonal Coal Boardits on the which rightly regard pothe the enemy rema chane same have changed, bun to prin Now, as in 1926, the out guaran perso decisive for well decisie fas whole It's the Tories amassed conditions hundreds of fees we're taking on- capitalism will Sts. S Wales miners hiychia rico hospital. the pioners not therefore i not trade becausespitals From IAN YEATS in S Wales say or Dad and ye. I DON'T think there is a man who wants this strike, but the Tories have forced us to act and infamous he unions. we are pa pared to go on until the lights go out?

miners' Britannia • for demonstrating e Gant mood quiet, almost determination rio the minera lit reluctall pitneaas inrougnout s vyales vesteraav as ine news broke immediate General Election that the Nationa Loa. Board's latest offer had beer overwhelmingly rejected. our shoulder We've complied wit not broken Labour and conte the fist to wages spirit Comr tary of pukowiky deTai is the certain road to _ has if posten 27,000 day. Nationalization and of wal cent of these have their Nate in this side the ghit Stat. Yesterday, the Moonsh bosses follow in the to Be No hope of stopping reporters excluded from the strike *thest THERE WAS no hope of avoldine a miners strike.

said NUM president Gormley yesterday after he and secretary Lawrence Daly had met TUC chief Victor Feather. separate the Door sashis he USR Stainism he dispute, micrens is ntention sup- Don Cannit, immadate Lodge handie coa the 1930M0com Anions • Place

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pisked by Workers' ossibility of t applyint i pledged to en Industria plane with aide unions ma cheap de mised us support Chimers, this 13 thế only meier in the anger to at for their children. The daily paper that leads the Tory government Three leading shop stewards at the now-occupied Fisher-Bendix Encouraging plant (left to right): Stan Ely, Tom Staples and Joe Beyga stand among une macomer miev are rousume to move.

say Plessey

FISHER-BENDIX OCCUPATION

occupiers oldest sin, Alexandra the sit-in them remain for Eddie McLafferty steward Jack Green 1o the visited Allis Chalmers workers occupying WnO ale vesterdav. spokesman

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the Plessey workers said yester- day that the spirit of the men was still high. 'The and Moid lads give us tremendous encoulase fight until we Michi usuce. Sala. Plessev workerc took over the eates their Tactory firm formally closed when the FROM DAVID MAUDE in Kirkby them an September 3. FISHER-BENDIX workers occupying their beyond factory on Merseyside have 'gone Prices still protesting against unemployment, they said yesterday. going up 'We are doing some- On Wednesday thing about it; setting an nion not WORKERS' wages ar cent a the Amalgamated workers Union example other Workers' about neineerina will have to follow!

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because PICt committer threw ItS weight the occu- hening pation demanding official price increases from the union's been steadily. increasing since national executive. the Tories came to power in The committee also de- Karkoy Industrial estate. une 90. outside Liverpool. cided to demon stration soon in suppor of than per cent 1971, typified the thev And according to the food price he kendix worker mond there vesterdav Grocer. the Yacterday worrare hega The settler down mazazille rise organize their battle against compare. from 7.74 per cent registered he closure of the big wash ing machine making plant in 1970 the And mazzine 'The boss and this govern- determination a long that the fairy chapa nice ment have thrown down the food prices in the last month

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gauntlet and it up: stressed Tom piples Today shop stewards will 011972. of 1971 is likely to into the first quarter ask a mass meetina do tri Bendix It predicts, treasurer he struggle out to othe however, stewards' fighting fund. Indi factories all over the will tend to level •We rice rise: Mr Stanles added. off ater this vea decided on a strike inside Jack on rall freet since the factory instead of out- yesterday ricen ni That's the difference with a the 'Grocer' index started comman. between our stand and on the livernoo 1968. leaders Among the rises listed for "While he spoke, docks. workers last are: Donations can be sent to: year butter were arriving for the second cent; fresh per Tom Staples, Det of the day's tour six-nour cent; cheese 38 percent; fresh Fighting Fund treasurer, Shit. some Truit st per cenr trach vege men running to avoid being 42 Kennelwood Avenue, tables 19 cent: canned ner and powdered milk per Northwood, cent and fresh milk 10 per threat of tes to make Kirkby. the emoloyment. Tories, Mr Staples went one WOrTV "This is the way to begin the fight to get shot of th The occupation began on Wednesday the after represent- alves parent Thorn Electrical Industries retucer to withdraw notice redundancies anuary 28: thev made clea actory ntended to close the ompletely by the Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

May. Starting as a spontaneous shop-floor movement. take-over action was unani-

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

hacker noth manual and staf workers at dnesday afternoon. mass meeting on Saturday January 8, 2.30 p.m.

We not put. members in where thev nlined or even dismissed for retusing to carry out man East India Hall, East India Dock Rd, London E14 agement instructions, chairman tho factory's 230 workers Young Socialists National Speaking Contest me vesterday morning. we clear maat management that

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we con with action of curred the the mania niang Special Evening Attraction 7.30 p.m. -10.45 p.m.

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considerab intelligence and moral standards. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRidAY JANUARY 7, 1972 ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITICE OF IRE SOCIALISI LABOUR LEAGUE January Fund starts-£142.40 arker Press man 10 back against Vorkers Press A preal Fun London, SW4 7UG.

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THE COAL STRIKE is on. Twenty-five years the national reader me Torise Harry nationalization, again miners are after once Beach to d called upon to wage the fight of their lives to cos and Tom protect their living standards trom the threat of middle aim un, right. low wages and unemployment.

In 1926 they were in the front line against the coal- owners and the Baldwin Tory government. Tory govern National Coal Boardets on the the enemy remains ane samb Now, as he mine sh stile com coole of the working class.

or th It's the Tories the bowels of the earth capitali will asts, profit anted with blood S Wales miners therefore small that the раве гол From IAN YEATS in S Wales 'I DON'T think there is a man who wants this ions Act to destroy strike, but the Tories have forced us to act and Britannia Lodge treasure Harry Gant the almost reluctant determination pitheads throughout S Wales yesterday as the news broke there Lial Board's latest offer had been and overwhelmingly rejected. !

boots to kickd now. year This is the certain road to defeat. 27,000 majority locked hers Nationalization But behind metingout, athe valleys Every kt the that ment of these have their per it leps bosses foo No hope of stop the miners avoiding whole. said NUM president Jo Gormley yesterday after ne ana secretary Lawrence executive d Dav had met luc chiet Victor reather. ontrol in the mine The present NCB a section of al sup- stituted b Don Cannit, irmadale Lodec the bottom to fficials from made upinista living wasocial industrial working ti about the possibility or e to mate the Tory government Security. about Sixteenth for pime. Labour Relations Act., possible to make ends meet.

be yesterdarest two-hour Plum hang up orage cheaper Youd think about for their children. A joint statement issued

JUARY 7, 1972 •

NUMBER 656

AT THE

Allis Chalmers sit-in at Mold, N Wales, Welsh nationalist Dafydd Wigley has pleaded with the Tories to keep the factory open. He has told Peter Thomas, Welsh Secretary, that the ciosure planned for next month was contrary to Tory policy. He said it should be suspended pending an inquiry and if a private buyer could not be found the government should take over production.

t there have forgotten the last time ces to soldiers went into the valleys.

And if it happens again, miners, 'the whole say the thing will go up' Everyone realizes the miners are in the front line against Tory wage policy and the against the Industrial Rela- tions Act. But there is no dragging of feet. 'I don't think they will use the Act,' said Canniff. "They haven't got the jails to hold us all and they can't take money because we haven't got any' of stopping strike afterwards said the TUC chief had not been asked to intervene in the dispute.

Later the Department of Employment invited both sides talks separate today. But the D of E says it has no intention at this moment of intervening in the dispute.

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JAPAN will obtain its own atomic wéapons if Nixon moves closer to China, says columnist Jack Anderson in more sensational revelations from top-secret US security documents. His latest scoop broke yesterday, President as Nixon was meeting Japanese premier Eisaku for Sato pre-Peking talks in the The daily paper that leads the Three lencing chon crewards ot the now olMed HiSher-kendS Encouraging plant (left to right): Stan Ely, Tom Staples and Joe Beyga stand among the machinery they are refusing to move.

say Plessey

FISHER-BENDIX OCCUPATION

occupiers old st sin, Alexandria the sit-in remains firm Eddie McLafferty conven.or and chon steward lack (reer visited the Allis Chalmers workers who are occupying their plant in Mold, N Wale spokesman the Plesses said workers yester- day that the spirit of the men still high Wak the The OCCubanons lads Livernoni and Mold give us tremendous encourage.

ment. We will fight until we justice' he said. get justic workers took over facto when formally closed FROM DAVID MAUDE in Kirkby them on September 3. FISHER-BENDIX workers occupying their factory on Merseyside have 'gone beyond Prices still protesting against unemployment, they said yesterday. going up 'We are doing some- thing about it; setting an evening, On the Amalgamated Union other workers are being exambe Engineering Workers' dist- will have to follow' DeT cent a weight behind veal because of the • In crease the The words are those of in the cost of living. And the pation--demanding Tom Hornhy an engineers rate of price increases union inchestor at the 1.000.

been steadily increasing since hacking TrOm union's strong on thee T1978 came to power in fontame: nationalexecutive Kirkby industrial estate, "he committee co de. i prices rose by more outside Liverpool. Food call a demon than they De) typified the cent ANd according to mood there yesterday food nrice began workers in cer the shifting completed radiators The 'Grocer' compares MiCe from and heaters outside stores into the ing machine making plant.

mann nant further demonstratino their magazine The boss and this govern long datarmination + 09 fight. ot 1931 15 in ty ment nave tarowa down un last month picked Today shop stewards will we ve to continue it uni atracced Tom Stanles ask a mass meeting to turn into the first quarter of 1972'.

rewards fighting undeman struggle out treasurer Rendix It predicts. that will tend to level factories over the nrICA PICAC Staples added: off later this year * overall, 27 country. decided inside Jack Spriggs food prices have convenor the factory risen rocer index started in kicked of vesterday the since difference That's the 1988. side. campaign +71ci+ to hetween our stand and a leaders on the docks. work.in. Among the rises listed for While he cooke workerc Donations can be sent to: last vear are. hutter were arriving for the second Tom Staples, cent; cheese 38 per cen 43 per nar pant. frach fah 12 me rins to set line, four six-hour occupation Fighting Fund treasurer, fruit 32 per cent; fresh vege. tables 42 Kennelwood Avenue, powdered cent and fresh milk 10 ber "The more workers unite Northwood, to make this kind of Kirkby. res. cent. nance to the threat of un.

employment, the more WA worry the The occupation began on Wednesday, af atter renrecent. stinóc of parent firm. Thorn Electrical Industries refused to withdraw notice intended t dose ear completely Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

bv the Tactoru end of Mau chantang mavement the take-over action was unani-

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

backed by both manual staff workers meeting on Wednesday afternoon Saturday January 8, 2.30 p.m.

our could not Dut memherd nosition whare thay could ha disci.

plined or even dismissed for refusing to carry out man- East India Hall, East India Dock Rd, London E14 instructions, Tim factory's 230 star the workers Young Socialists National Speaking Contest me vesterdav morning. "So WA made can y

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mangement that wa •con- curred action of Tuith tho the manual unions.' Special Evening Attraction

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US Round-up Release of Hoffa economic It's another deal astrology by Philip wade

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Hoffa President corresponden by Nixon last week shows the fear the US ruling class has 1950s a Class 19rosshout th ECONOMICS editor of 'The of the working class and on confi- Jay, recently finally succeed seen whe imes. reter hand the two neity trade dence it has in the returned tomes of the Austro-American ando wher Hoffa union bureaucracy. one-aird served about the economist loseon schumpeter i me arsen lease moonie class, called Business Cycles' and One was that he had no reireshed nis memory about reedo directly Russian unions; s little known freezing and unemployment.

economist of the lylus called Prun to prison. het big ines N. D. Kondratieff. expectin bitter o care ot that Kondratiet | t National Guard waves of about 60 years dura upward move Former Teamsters' leader James Hoffa being released tempts to seth out the strike attempts from prison. in the beer, of co, She stret.

by the present IBT leadership.

Tie will undoubedly erective ens his weak. serious. building of a new leadership a the situation But in non- political For as a has seeme in or the Fam scious decision to break from qualms in 293194 he Team • collaboras ° Hoffa's leadership in removing the the hight eith the Lians now stepping intonior Hotinued resened our and tailed him.

militants now which followed The Teamsters Chosen By Ta mes Hotd painte smalace He recevied his real training Teamsters A blow to workers' 'Deeper forces' unemployther things rights with the mothers of children under s!

will have to take up jobs deeper more 10b tra force been operating full well e will be no said the • statement Kondratieff by Philip Wade sig. legislation The direction Weare stormin millior after upturn in the

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registration as a condition war inched views are akin receiving any wellart "class gets Perhaps Jay does not know that hand-outs from the govern- e AFDeguired ment. • In to the extreme right in ningt siy stee Results of a broken Cycles strike differs fundamentally from Dy Alex Mitchell theoretical confusion. THE STATE of New Jersey entered Essex has opened a campaign of rotsky conceded. 'Entire when a rain. vengeance evocas political against development ber of cycles is characterized by were of the Newark Relative of Nowark teacher who was Jalled last week for 1970 strike.

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Moroscops 3.25 Momen of New Jersey Labour. Economist Keynes (right) at Bretto sharply delineated booms and weak, short-lived crises. As a result we have a sharply rising of the movement basic curve of capitalist development. There obtain epochs of stagnation when this curve, while passing through partial cyclical oscillations, re- 'mains approximately the on same level for decades. And finally, during certain historical periods, the basic curve, while always through passing as cyclical oscillations, dips. down- ward as a whole, signalizing the decline of productive forces.'

He says of Kondratieff's long wave theory: 'According to this symmetric- ally-stylized construction, major economic cycle consists of some five minor cycles, and fur- thermore half of them have the character of a boom, while the other half is that of crisis, with transitional necessary stages. Formal 'The statistical determinations of major cycles compiled by Kon- dratieff should be subjected to careful and not overcrédulous verification [N.B. Mr Jay] both in respect to individual countries as well as to the world market as a whole. It is already_possible to refute advance Professor Kondratieff's attempt to invest epochs labelled by him as major cycles with the self-same "rigidly lawful rhythm" that observ- is able in minor cycles; it is an obviously false generalization from a formal analogy. 'The periodical recurrence of minor cycles is conditioned by the internal dynamics of capital- ist forces, and manifests itself always and everywhere once the market comes into existence.

'As regards the large segments of the capitalist curves of devel- (50 which Pro- opment years) fessor Kondratieff incautiously proposes to designate also as cycles, their character and dura- ITV 10.35 p.m. 'The Marty Feldman Come today. 4.10 Julia. 4.40 Hatty town.

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tion is determined not by the internal interplay of capitalist forces, but by those external conditions through whose chan- nel capitalist development flows.

Trotsky goes on to make a plea for an enrichment of the theory of historical materialism far more cious than the extremely dubies conquests with speculative juggling the of the concepts and terms materialist method which has, un- der the pens of some of our Marxists, transplanted the method of formalism into the domain of the materialist dialectic; which has led to reducing the task to rendering definitions and classi- fications more precise and to splitting empty abstractions into four equally empty parts • No way out As Jay is a friend and sup- porter of capitalism, he would like it to overcome its problems.

in his But there is a sting article. Speaking of the Group of Ten and the compromises meeting with which it concluded, he ends by saying: If they enable the United States fully to correct its $10,000 payments deficit, then, but only then, would Kondratieff be likely to prove stronger than Keynes.'

Get the point? World capital- ism has depended upon the dol- lar outflow and if it dries up. it is in for trouble. Poor Jay: there is really no way out of the con- tradictions of capitalism.

FOOTNOTE :

For some reason best known to himself, Jay insists on calling Kondratieff Kondratiev) (or Konratieff without 'd' the throughout his article. The fate of the Russian economist is un- certain, but he certainly perished sometime during Stalin's purges in the 1930s. Feldman Comedy Machine' London. 6.25 Peyton place. 7.00 10.30 Open night. 11.00 Marty Feldman.

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12.25 Epilogue. ss, Friday January 7, 1972

PAGE THREE

When Boothby met Hitler

THIS INCREDIBLE

item "The Guardian' appeared in at the weekend: In an interview with Robert McKenzie on Radio 4, Lord Boothby said he had talked with the Führer for two hours in Berlin before the war. He had first shocked Hitler's private secretary, Hanfstaengel, when in Hitler's response to upraised right arm and shout of 'Hitler'-'the hock and brandy came to my rescue and I clicked my heels together and put up my right and shouted arm "Boothby" '. Hitler had asked him suddenly: 'What would you have done if we had beaten you in the last war and driven a corridor be- tween England and Scotland?'

'And I said-I thought it was time to lighten the conversation a little-"You forget, Herr Hitler, I'm Scottish - we should have been absolutely delighted."

'And there was not a flicker of smile on his face. He brought a his fist down on the table with a crash and said: "So...I had no idea the hatred between the two peoples was so great." I that is the reason believe why Edinburgh was never bombed during the war.' Boothby is a Tory former minister and was parliamentary private secretary to Churchill. He belonged to the notorious Cliveden set which SO was passionately for appeasement with Hitler. He is now president of the Anglo-Israel Association. For a number of years Boothby was a close friend of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie. The Krays are serving now 30-year sentences in Parkhurst prison. Not so mysterious A MYSTERY surrounds the fate of Guatemalan multi-millionaire Roberto Alejos, whose financial contributions aided the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Alejos' estate in Retaluleu was used as a training centre for the US-backed invasion force sent to Cuba by John F. Kennedy in 1961. He vanished in August, and the disappearance was laid at the door of the Revolutionary Armed

(FAR),

left-wing Forces guerrilla group. FAR has always denied any part in the former presidential candidate's vanishing act.

This did not stop the legends accumulating around Alejos' fate.

The guerrillas were rumoured to have released him just after Christmas without any ransom or exchange being involved.

Other versions of the story claimed that the wealthy land- owner had been tried and sentenced to death by an FAR revolutionary tribunal. Still another account said the death penalty had been com- muted in exchange for $200,000 ransom payment. None of these reports turned to be accurate, out and the millionaire's whereabouts are still unknown. In fact, there is no proof that he really was kid- napped and the Guatemalan press, on government instruc- tions, has tried to draw a curtain of silence over the affair.

This may not be unconnected with the fact that his dis- appearance followed the bank- ruptcy of a major bank in which he held a large interest.

Out of control THE CENTRAL Committee of the CPSU has come the to belated conclusion that there is not sufficient workers' participa- tion in management. It calls on managers to draw. workers into closer consultation in order to get big increases in production and productivity. With typical contempt for the facts, the 'Morning Star' (Wed- nesday, December 29) head- lined this as 'Soviet move to- wards control by workers'. It is nothie economic reform', The which had greatly strengthened the powers of plant managers, is not working out as expected. It has simply encouraged high-handed- and ness arbitrary decision- making which creates opposition from the rank and file. The Central Committee wants something done about this-but it is not proposing workers' con- trol, only a more effective gear- ing of the workers to the produc- tion plans by what is called 'participation'. What the French Communist Party, for example, supports in opposition to work- ers' control.

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Festival of Light moves N

THE FESTIVAL

border to Glasgow George's Sai Square, 2,000 middle- speakerslasere, si Donald tail ef he Cherch Andre Colin Sinclair from i Murde Tom Stratany de UnMusid 1 Haz sinead or the ones was Bishop Herron of gow Free rotated ultan to leake rsion and commercialisn Pay Board holds back aerospace wages y a workers pres orresponden decision ' has ordered a reduc ion the increases in peac reducan as his slans for space- ntators see the which aer space decision Worker

NEWS DESK

01-720 2000

CIRCULATION

01-622 7029 гера вов С. 4.50-4.55 10.4, onen the 192.9 Never *Six. 10.0062iSe Ha Pable His Stre ree 1: Londo s Press, Friday January 7, 1972

ALAN

d SieVE Link Steve Hague and oleve dre menders une Lasulelora Socialists Young oranco Yorkshire. Alan i(19), Glass- fitter colliery and a mem National Unior 'We'll be the Was it right to call out the Mineworkers organizis picketing', he says. 'We'll need apprentices this time? supervises pickets stop of coal except naturally. well! Dan on overtle lice to brothers and moreocal decided to pull or e old pensioners, hospitals Bee pull decided We've got with ana so on. out them. aborenuce. coal from sulke ano las sent a only way *Things seem to be going all Lilt tion to the backing of We want the right told • 2! moment', he win. Area counci demanoe load the orner unions. u necessary.

called out least got older strike. But-like The principle Is -Alan thinks the unior decision's right,' mulery rent, but tae • trouble 1s be Alan. It's better readersalo needs warcuine. can u about a lul We've got to make sure ther leaders. NEC line of leaving it ur ine dondu canty delay don't wangle a out on a real want a want anast to eace on to declae wuelacr Tories. They'll look for a dea apprentice: the come our to get out of it' not. we whole nave a

STEVE

out all over aiso We've have works at Glasshoughton

LINK

(o). apprentice solidarity with the other men. electrician at apprentice Steve Ack- involved Featherstone. fight leave 'surface-hours' year can t he 1970" the strike, hasn't been He's ned wilnout us. strike before. Glasshoughtor sure Alan sees tne alson com- because unt will mittee developing InTO aporenuces were nol Canta wucluel

LIC

strike committee. out then. be brousni our al Acklon.

A LECTURER in social studies at the Poly- Mess because was the victim of deplorable political technic of N London, Miss Pauline Conroy, this series articles Miss Conror tells was acquitted this week on charges of con- Workers Press repo her arrest, confinement spiring to cause explosions. She was awarded disturbing and eventual release. costs of £150. Lord Gifford said his client, PAULINE Conroy had just fin- ished feeding her four-month-old baby. It was 7.45 in the morning on November 23 last year. She began preparing a Conroy read and what she they cup of coffee when there her was a knock at the front the stairway to her base- of door, her flat ment flat, mushed. open the Notting Hill, W London. door and began ransacking she confronted by a plainclothes opening it the police officer. Is Mr Sirros had posters ponce taken there?' he asked. lifted floor (Michael search

THON

the walls. Sirros is the warrant hoards turned over he Miss Tawyer. When she attempted phone Contov's rerusea To Cormac baby's cot and even carried lacksor out a minute examination of Soledad o Dick uo uni telepHone a Teddy bear. search chopped her officer polic doors with his arn explaining that indows locked and Their chief pre-occupation guarded. awdy. seemed to what Miss clothes The leader lip Mould tingent, Det Insp then that Miss announced conroy was being taken a ponce station ree refused inhabit Correctiv that she hostel rents been arrested charged with But when became that Miss Could could oke her Where the his, take nearb

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

each day. for BRITISH RAIL is planning to more than double however, It so happens. lives that a rents at its hostels where train drivers and other lawyer same block of flats woere railway workers stay overnight.

the crecte situated. arriva at the babv minders Miss Conroy At was able attract his attention don, Then followed a shouting workers, 200 lali row which Region rail board say the past The hostels also refused the name Will housed weekly charce £5.25 the Jong-alstance officers £2.50 increase

TONE

manned Lordon- babies mothers other to their ho the the hoste Will nave , drove back standing around close. the pro In a state vinces the next day. considerable shock, Similar increases are the Conroy was grabbed by the Country s with faster But services. hostels in Reading and Ilford DOllCe nauled Doally for this kind rail unions out to tne car declined. accommodation Region the police arove ner W. Freeman Now Albany police station welfare many explains the position thus: semi-permanent hostels. If they basis consee uence rent tinancial Talways daverse

ICLUSCU

mosition. it nas been acciaca the they would W that the

COWIL.

London housing longer able to meet tae costs OnTe Of Commont host involves market to bay exorollall icula which inves to private andoras yesterday 218,000 C deficit approximately treeman denied per annum. that the decision to raise tic If the men agree to it the hostel charges was connected economy new pacemen orve from ex-Labour would Richard Marsh, 'ebruary ZI residents Pauline Conroy any arithmetic that MOSTer

OUT

was will regarding than massive mse where she met Commander cover the dercit. open to drunkl to get the the will net have ine increase DOnU of the residents 'X' of the Special Region approximately response mander the Board Ine increase Inen Others move is can leere make their decision, quesuons blackmail. said. Basically abo people • a bout knew. wanted know my views. political 'Was an anarchist?' thing 1

WEATHER

that sort of They also asked By way,

E ENGLAND

willnave mis pass book which will dear or fog at first books cases the day, followed typewriter, mY car with variable which £360 weatner cloud. •rawn out or tae bank "No •T would either The Midlands, NW England Sav comment" or "I'm not going •wes are scouana- -aDarl to answer that question Bond Sportscene. with variable cloud and some bioningt to a toshour ques sunshine. SW Bond Wales, Ireland, to land mostly cloudy, Delleve that 1 was not telling with a little in places. rain He said, unle be charged Will rate. cola are TO

OUT

e sewinere conspiracy cause temperatures will be near or explosions January between a little below normal. 1968 and August 1971 with Jake Prescott and others" Saturday and 'It was the first scent or Sunday: Mostly cloudy with of bombs Prescott times but few like you're anythind, that later the intervals in out your mind"! ratures rising to near TOMORROW: Pauline Con- remaining rather cold in the 'week of hell in Holloway. 'From what I've heard, uney re urvine to get unem oul, though single men wont get an Like the benent during the strike.

Steve knows crunch will come should try the unions, bae rail way mhe wesluch. can

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Wille the Call get move SlOCKs ana strongly backed Yahya

PRESIDENT NIXON

Codi Khan in the Indo-Pakistan war last month and i nougr inexperienced industrial action and relatively ordered economic aid to India to be cut. This new to the is shown clearly in the reports of the Washington what Special Action Group of the National Security Five years father Council leaked to the press by columnist Jack badly was Anderson. was клоскес over

CUD

colliery.

ACKION

Hall The papers cover three days of meetings attended the

INOW

conned to a fitter and getting suriace as by the Chiefs of Staff, the Director of the Central substantially lower earnings.

the President's Intelligence Agency, Dr Kissinger, Assistant for National Security Affairs, and other top omicials. invited Anderson has Senate Foreign Committee chairman Senator Fulbright to use the documents as the basis for an investigation of SE Asian Doncy. which securit eak. must involye top-level officials, placed dozens documents Anderson's hands. The source now being investigated by the FBI. "t te sources were loen- ned. cave Anderson. it would embarrass administration would would story. docu- Photocopies the ments which Anderson the Washingtor Post' showed that the originals stationer staff Chief or Warren Inter secretary natonal security, stamped sensitive' Wait and bottom TV intervie claimed in classified ew, being information several high Nixon sources wild beneve InaL Davis trial already une coverment doesn t nave une rent to ne. He documents show costs $300,000 says Nixon considered sending aid ighter planes to Pakistan AMERICAN imperialism Among the more expen- Nothing was said sive items are €100,000 to soaring expense about scullly. order to convict Angela remoael courtroom ilassalies and tramed security Khan's" but forces. murder charge. trial Her devices incucing cosed. Kissinger that sala attendon Cali- circuit cameras and should be called to tne plignt metal detectors. fornia Biharis (non-Bengalis tne £300,000 has special cell In anach. already spent on 101 A detailed examination was measures for the Anse a

SIS

made of the militarv situation so-called trial provided

COSTI

more than €30,000. which follows the slaying

IVIT

Disco. assistant secretary Indian Officials say her trial is or Detence te t _The Judge and care would turn over the up orners expected aST military entort to the Mukti nine months. Bahini once the Pakistan army i mean a would have disarmed. had neeni Bangla Desh be considered. Westmoreland, Gen • William Vietnam discussed the order battle Pakistan and the Indian position 'not advantageous'. The papers show that Dr directe show Kissinger henceforth we should Coolness. be treated at too high a level'.

ITALY'S

shaky coalition Liberal sport was sent- Sisco argued that as there during election had government Witn no President Giovanni tion collapse if it cannot resolve war, the Indians had finally right to declare its internal differences blockade only after ballots the failed. rakistal within the next two weeks.

and a diplomatic pro- The parties Ludsl eight-year-old alliance verniel know that LeSI was oraered tney Callot preDared. walen togetner some acree- Kissinger also raised the ment. under the impact of the Ine anenment will walsiers an election necessarv. With mercan milltar. coulomer. world economic crisis and the they worsening position of Italian less than a year away vom ordar ano saudl Araol want to hang on to office rakistan. suggested Chief responsibility for the Pakistanis made that it the The Republicans, who stand MSI's successes lies with the emergency requests for arms, the T190t wing Ine Communist might wish ine President •coalton, nave threatenec honour them- President join the opposition when ise defeateded to let the Paks parliament reopens on January defeated'. 18, unless the government ties wages The leaks show that there and tried to fritter away opposition Nixon's workers But they highest level. Mullancy a series of futile guerrilla reveal that The Stalinists mean are pressing themselves realize its objective. Colomone ship ror ware Cal - who has ucates or a pace m a new coaluon to be bunt on the Dubication further undermines the credibility ruins of the nresent line-ln.

ived Italian premiers since the Their treacherous reformist the Nixon administration and Wal. policy pongers for paris workers.

shows bankruptcy Colombo's Christian Demo- whole policy in Asia. crats are also moving to the right tolowing The electoral successes the neo-fascist Social Movement - Referendum move Italian Sicily. Their fear the class far more than

ITALIAN

Socialist Party Socialists decide may Giacomo Mancini secrelary use me ureat anyway Colombo's in jerking the interview the hone the Socialists Democrats into Week V espresso Christian opposeu supporting vesterday that satisfactory unemployment not have a

YY 1L1

answer divorce law. record levels and the working pressing Socialist the referendum been tabled Class divorcê cadust afford to publicize its in senate an Party question of pre left-wing pendent cannot mature elections. sympathy with capitalism.

Romagnoli Carettoni. Italian General The party's executive was The valnoncs nave Election is due meeting Wednesday in the spring mobilized mass support and attitude 01 1713. out i ne docialists overcome most le a hurdles aimed leave vane covernmen une lacing reterencum nembers specifically abro- ensuing Chain reaction Bat, 1 tb, the present, Decem- nottical events wold nrob divorce ably leave President brud with little alternative but to The Liberal Party, which is premature General not a member cam- one, Is carer to laKe the lace the oalition will collapse for Socialists. wants this, but the paign une movIne lach ot a target. • wnole coalton to une ront.

partics

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

SURPRISE TACTICS by the National Libera- tion Front fighters in Indo-China have caught the Laotian government forces and their US backers completely off guard.

Usually the liberation fighters have not got into the base's ammunition dump full swing until February out of and put action its or March when the dry airfield, halting the inward season is well under way.

flow of supplies. But this year they have There are noW some liberation forces pushed puppet forces off 8.000 rees and around the 2OV. the Plain of Jars and now ernment sources threaten strategic the tiane have that admitted Meo guerrilla army base Long Cheng is seriously in danger of being overrun. at Long Cheng in N Laos. Military observers believe Government military that the offensive began Vientiane believe sources in much earlier than usual the fighting round the base with Long Cheng as the -headquarters of the guer- main objective. rilla army commanded by The war in Laos since Gen Vang Pao could 1965 has followed an almost develop the few predictable in next pattern regu- weeks into the bloodiest lated by the At monsoons. battle ever foughi in Laos.

start of the the year, the beginning the dry. Capture of base, the season, the NLF push west- which is maintained by the ward. US Central Intelligence Once the rainy season Agency (CIA) would be about June, blow to US sets in, major involve- govern- forces ment then reverse ment in. Laos and weaken the push and recover lost the American position just ground. as President Nixon prepares informed for his historic According to visit to sources, the early NLF drive China. and caught Americans the collapse The of Gen Laotians by surprise. Vang Pao's would army Three divisions swept also be a major blow to the across the strategic Plain morale of the Laotian gov- Tars from the eastern side, would forces ernment and (overrunning government vastly limit the effectiveness forces had who expected of the Meo guerrilla force the annual push to come which for years has success- from the Nand S). fully hindered liberation the time, the At same fighters in N Laos.

NLF

began annual their Since the all-out artillery push $ Laes, Bolining in gaining of tientiane, bombardment the base, control the NE 82 miles highland plateau. began last Friday Gen Vang But this action was seen Pao has been forced to re- by military observers in Laos deploy nearly all his troops diversionary as partly number estimated to aimed move at pinning defensive about 10,000- -to down as many government positions outside the base.

troops possible as to An bombard- accurate prevent them being flown N completely destroyed ment to help Long Cheng. Reassuring troops THE PRESENCE of Ameri- in Europe tends, notwith- can troops in Germany is re- standing what they may say, the Russians assuring to to give them [the Russians] a Republican Senator claims sense of reassurance that they Jacob K. Javits. will not have to face a super- nationalistic Germany Speaking in Bonn he said that in the 310,000 mien in Europe wing right. in tha upset men balance pe power. 'that Union has an with almost troops even workers press

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BRACKNELL :

Tuesday Tory government January I1, 7.30 p.m. 'Red Discuss Lion' High St. Return a Labour govern- ATUA Manifésto. ment pledged to restore full and reveal all employment BEXLEYHEATH: Tuesday laws against the unions! January 11, 8 p.m. "The Upton', Crook Log. Trade DONCASTER: Sunday unions and basic rights. January 9, 7 p.m. Wood. Hotel, Great North lands DAGENHAM: Wednesday Rd, Woodlands. The miners' January 12. 8 p.m. Room strike and the Tory govern- il, East Ham Town Hall ment. The struggle for socialism

OXFORD.

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January Civic January Centre. Support the miners. campaign.