Workers Press no. 72

workers press As morale of U.S. troops gets lower Heavy fighting ahead in Vietnam

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HEAVY FIGHTING broke out yesterday in many parts of Vietnam as the National Liberation Front troops stepped up their preparation for the 1970 spring offensive against the demoralized US and South Vietnamese forces. US troops were forced What to fight six major engage- ments during the day in we areas ranging from North- carried by US think ern Quang Nam province morale is lower than ever and many of the troops to Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon. Opposition Tanks and armoured US troop carriers of the Open opposition to Nixon's Americal Division the division war Doncy was expressee Christmas Drotest My Lai massacre were Sagon and in the televisior ninned down bitter protests THERE is a fundamental six-hour battle in the foot- soldiers last Sunday. difference between hills of Quang Tin The failure prov- ot the Paris campaign to 'Stop Wilson been talke nac ince. 40 miles south of going to Washington' and Danang. of many .US troops previous protests over the now realize the

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helicoptess cor dowe Vietnam war Vietna for cons continue Date bringing earl s during The Workers Press and the Young have Wilson's Washington visit since anuary concentrated mainly upon 1.448 comes crucial stage in Vietnar he within factories The NLF launched over- acopelalci necds and trade every ounce cam sanh tay. whereas the hoeral pro- can muster to conunue mos addressed have Cam tectorc penocidal • camnaler near Dalat. a hill station themselves mainly the Vietnamese workers and peasants. ine central neniands and tne students and the middle coasta ev of Phanet. massive cemonstration class. u uo lista suostm Isulege Contrary to what the ideal- the NIf's fensive eve of Daring raid ist protesters may like to will be a powerful combined blow against US imperialism believe. there is a con- and its British supporters.

siderable body of workers These follow the Tuesday US Marines Wn O Intortunate t were couldn't care less and in killed and 63 wounded wher

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some cases support the stormed a nat. US imperialists near talion headouarters crude were the anti - communist highest US losses in a single time these same At the same workers are greatly Hand-to-hand fighting perturbed over the rising the hattie nravented the cost of living, the reduced Americans from using dive purchasing power of wages bombers helicopter

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role of Wilson's govern- over tantral Hishlands proposals for a new Our campaign has deliber- engineering industry The commend ately sought to connect she boly worried about procedure agreement is these vital issues with the lion Pron National expected to be reached Vietnam war, and we have Liberation forces. position, during meetings of the had to fight every inch of are either militarily from Confederation of Ship. the way in order to do of the standpoint morale this. building and Engineer- to withstand another series It has, however, been an of battles ing Unions at York to- on the scale of extremely worthwhile the 1968 Tet offensive. day. Struggle because import- After November's Mora- ant sections of workers Mr Hugh Scanlon, pres- have been politically con- United states and the reve- ident of the Amalgamated vinced about the inter. Engineers and Foundry- national implications of workers, will report that Vietnam. the employers' For this reason also, our demands campaign is not are not acceptable to his

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cerned with press pub- union and—if he keeps to licity and so-called con- previous statements-will Voroshilov frontation with the police.

recommend that the Con- For us Vietnam is a vital federation pulls out of the international issue which AN OFFICIAL decree pub- requires, above all else, a 47-year-old York existing serious conflict with the ished in Moscow on tuesda that the citv and announced "oreement backwardness of the district of and the Engineering English working class Mi have been reamed en The Em- the "left' have been renamed Tust Federation herance ployers' this of the leading Stalin- leaders unions of some week circularized union oppose the war does not executives with a re-state- at all mean that their rank ment of its views on one same •tha Lugansk This has to be position. of their main stumbling- named Voroshilor 1935. fought for. Stalin's orders in blocks--the vexed principle do, the defence Unee they Khrush of 'status quo'. of the Vietnamese Revo- chay's raventione at the 20tr lution become in- Communist Party Congress in The AEF and the Trans- will name was Workers' port and General separable from the fight back to the original Lugansk Union have so far against stuck ruling case in Endled heparce fost to their demand that Vorachiny one of talin c henchmen, played they, after all, together ancact arise over when disputes leading part in organizing the with their puppet Wilson, changes of any kind made Red Army purges on the eve are the main allies of US bv managements. the nosi- tion should revert to normal imperialism.

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NUMBER 72 • THURSDAY, JANUARY

National Liberation Front forces have begun to step up their activities in preparation for the Spring offensive which had so much success during Tet in 1968.

UNEMPLOYMENT HITS

THE WORSENING economic crisis in the US is beginning to bite deep into the car industry there, bringing un- employment and the prospects of a big offensive by the employers against workers' conditions.

Thousands of cars are lying unsold because of the higher taxes and prices brought about by Nixon's 'controlled reces- sion'. three' Two the *big companies have been to announced forced further cutbacks in production this month. Chrysler has said that all of its 37,000 assembly workers will be laid off for week during the next fortnight.

General Motors, as well as shutting half of its factories for two days later this month.

*lay off to indefinitelv' 3,800 workers.

BY DAVID MAUDE

Both firms earlier shut most of their factories over the Christmas New Year's while talks with the unions and holiday weeks. go ahead. It has already been This has been rejected by estimated that production the employers. in the first quarter of 1970 will be 10 per lower than Main pressure cent in the same quarter last year.

The This fall, main pressure on the coming after the disastrous decrease union leaders continuing in aste stunne 1969, mis shop-floor the resistance to

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Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and 11 the Young Socialists' official 1970 marks the 19th year of newspaper. Selling at 4d for 16 three-colour pages and with a circulation of 20,000, it is the foremost youth paper in the labour movement today.

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East India Hall, East India Dock Road London, E.14 Young Socialist National Speaking Contest Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League r, JANUARY 8, 1970 PRICE 6d. THE EXECUTIVE council of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers-four of whose members have already signed the workers rress petition-has been asked by the union's Swin- don astrel committee to omciany endorse the campaign to stop Wilson's visit to Washington.

The visit is seen endorsement of US imperial- ism's genocidal war in Viet- After a hard political battle,

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workers press As morale of U.S. troops gets lower Heavy fighting ahead in Vietnam

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 72

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970

• parts of Vietnam as the Nation yesterday in many HEAVY FIGHTING broke out Liberation Front troops stepped up their preparation tor the 1970 spring offensive against the demoralized US and Vietnamese forces. US troops were forced What

BY JOHN SPENCER

to fight six major engage- ments during the day in we areas ranging from North- У 1 % тора think ern Quang Nam province lay Ninh, northwest appear to be near to mutiny.

Successful of Saigon. Opposition Tanks and armoured

LOOD

carriers or ine campaign Americal the Christmas massacre - were protes, and a bitter _ spidests last Sunday.

THERE

fundamental six-hour battle in the foot- bet hills of Quang Tou proot The fails as been is campaign 'Stop caine to Wo singtowi ince, 40 Danang. alie US of many Pcs process over lat NLr tarte, bringer The Press and the Vietnam for year paration cose get in 196 tne Young Wilson's Washin socialists nave 1, 1961, to 1,448. concentrate mainiv upon activ the Nixon within tactories launched and trade rock the US aired

UNEMPLOYMENT HITS

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U.S. CAR INDUSTRY

students and the middle coastal city of Phan Thiet.

demoit on the to bile desp lave the car industry there, brigain Scottish socialist Contrary " to what the ideal- Daring raid betrotesters is die into une car industry there bringing un employment and the prospects of a big offensive by the and its British supporte employers against workers' conditions.

siderable body of workers follow the Told Senduse of she higher unortunately couldn't care less anc illed and 63

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some cases suDDOrt ine imperialists anti - communist cruce Procedure talks basis. same time these At the same workers are greatly perturbed over the at breaking cost of living, purchasing on of Wilson's govern- CRISIS POINT over point well as proposals for industry new Our has deliber- campaigl engineering The US command is ately sought • to connect procedure agreement is

BY DAVID MAUDE

nese vilal Issues witn une expected to be reached vietnam war, and we have while talks with the unions not of mo during meetings of the nac to noot everv inch of go ahead. the way in order to do Confederation of Ship. the eis laye been rejected by the Best ate of 1970° this building and Engineer- It has, however, been ar ing Unions at York to- extremely worthwhile Main pressure comes tie at day. November's Mora Atter Ton readers is continu tonited Sta onstrations in the Mr Hugh Scanlon, pres- in the Autumn of 196P, wit politically con- shop-floor resistance ations of the brutal mass- ident of the Amalgamated inter.

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Engineers and Foundry- national implications Town renamed workers, will report that For also, the employers' demands

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salticals Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and Il For us Vietnam is a vital recommend that the Con- international issue which federation pulls out of the socialists' olici existing 47-year-old York • Poses paderth and wit conflict with the labour agreement. English working The Engineering Em- Just because the "left ployers' Federation this

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of position. their main stumbling- tought tor. blocks-the vexed principle Once do, the defence Tv s revelations at he 20h- of 'status quo. The AEF and Trans- the Saturday, January 10 2.30 p.m. General Workers' poll all East India Hall, East India Dock Road sassin England heale Anion nave so stuck last to tnel demana tna London, 2.14 after all, wnen alsputes arise over with their puppet Wilson cnanges or any kino made are the main allies of US by managements, the posi Young Socialist National Speaking Contest

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tion should revert to normal imperialism. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

Y, JANUARY 8, 1970

PRICE 6d. THE EXECUTIVE council of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers-lour of whose members have already signed the Workers Press petition-has been asked by the union's Swin.

don district committee to officially endorse the campaign to stop Wilson's visit to Washington.

The visit is seen as an ism's genocidal war in Viet- nam. After a indo political mitte • approved the months that the plant- to sented. short une. Trades Council m droposed Siniday, against worke ture • to discuss the planned Endorsed motion closure asking permission this we del mate presinuat le Board 1g that they ar mother three ther LAW REPORT to DPP: A Director chied anno Visit privilegen Mr Harold Guodservativel fares rise Ve taken s INSANDS Of malles outside papriament Cities from 6d)—announced after Friday's Workers

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THE MAIN AIM of automation and speed-up in offices for the cap- italist employer, as yes- terday's article em- phasized, is inevitably to throw workers out of their jobs. Some idea of the im- mediate reductions in staff possible were given by the Ministry of Labour public- ation 'Computers in Offices', published in 1965. The report estimated that the number of jobs taken over by installation of auto- matic data processing (ADP) systems with computers up to January 1, 1964, was 51,000 (managers and super- visors 700. clerks 33,300, non-ADP operators 14,600, typists 2,400). The same report puts the number of jobs created by ADP and computers at 18,500 (of which 3,090 were program- mers and 13,325 were ADP machine operators.) In many cases, because of the shortage of labour the jobs eliminated were unfilled vacancies and in other. cases the expansion of business that followed enabled other jobs to be found within the organiz- ation-but outside the sphere of the computer system. The report sees the new systems as doing no more than helping towards the filling of situations vacant. Future expansion of business, it concludes, will continue to mean plenty of jobs available.

These conclusions, often quoted by management con- sultants to prove that no danger of unemployment exists, can be faulted on a number of counts: By the report's own admission, the surplus workers were found jobs only in the non-computerized offices, very large at the time of the report, but a section that dwindles rapidly as more and more computers are in- stalled. When 90 to 100 per cent of office work is com- puterized, where do the workers go then? Forecasts of future de- velopments by the 'experts' are nearly always made in a purely quantitative way; that is, by assuming that existing machines will be the same in ten years time, but that there will be more of them. But so long as money is laid out for research, improvements in quality will constantly occur and in fact the present of 'third generation' range computers make those exist- ing at the time of this report completely obsolete. In many cases existing used computers are only glorified adding- • as machines and run at nothing like full capacity, i.e. displace nowhere near the number of staff that maximum use would allow. Some computer firms are now devising courses to teach managements how to run equipment at full their capacity. No account is taken of the use of O and M and iwork-study systems in offices 'which, if successful, would cut •back the number of workers ? (note the PIB's 15 to 60 per cent quoted earlier). From the rapid develop- ment of computers that has taken place, it might be thought that computer pro- gramming and associated work at least offer a chance of long-- job security. Various term sources emphasize the shortage of staff in this direction and 'careers' enthuse over avail- able in this field. In fact, more and more com- being puter research is towards eliminating directed the skilled programmer alto- gether. new 'software' With the technology, it is only necessary to type out a job specification in ordinary language, on a machine which itself changes the material to a form that the computer can use. research is Also, further being data conducted into machines which respond to spoken instructions. On this basis, the skilled a tem- programmer is only porary product of the develop- of data - treatment ment systems. The conclusion that all problems will be solved •y continuing expansion of in- ustry is, at the very least, 'ishful but much › of the real situation. In the United States con- wally falling production, 's and stock market prices 1 businessmen and econ- ists to predict the inevit- ity of recession. In Europe, mpts to develop the Com- 1 Market prepare the way further attacks on the rking class.. The major build-up of food rpluses (sugar, fruit, dairy| THE SECOND part of BERNARI dealing with the planned re-org which could make thousands o in a very short time. Today he de of work-study. products, wheat, coarse grain) in Europe, North America and Australia deepens the crisis, while within the past year a tendency towards over-produc- tion and many consequent accusations of 'dumping' have occured transformers, over paper, fishing tackle, files for metalwork, rasps, filleted fish, machines, synthetic washing fibres, plastics, tea and shoes.

Even for the computer pro- ducers recent warnings have been sounded that many firms coming newly into computer making, by cutting the corners, could lead to 'surplus capacity' in the industry. Far from the problems being solved by 'unlimited and con- tinuous expansion' , the pros- pect for capitalism is inevitable world-wide recession and economic crisis. Virtually all tasks, whether manual non-manual, are capable to some extent of The introduction of computers in offices, s being measured .. the real issue therefore, in relation to non-manual workers, is not whether work be can measured, but what technique of measurement is appropriate for the particular job'

(PIB

report No. 123). Work-study exists in two basic parts; motion-study and time-study. Motion - study examines every movement made and method used to see if it can be simplified, shortened or eliminated altogether. This aims at (a) saving time by cutting out 'ineffective' motion.

(b) streamlining a job to prepare for timing. Whereas at factory level the time and the motion methods are introduced jointly, in the office the motion-study is introduced first and in fact it is exactly that Organization and Methods system which we have already described. In other words, the appear- ance of O and M consultants in an office is the first stage of BERNARD FRANKS' article anned re-organization of offices thousands of clerks redundant Today he deals with the impact in the introduction of time-and motion methods into the work being undertaken. The main aim of time-study is to institute the actual pro- cess of speeding-up the worker.

Stopwatches are used to find for all the present times operations, then new, faster times are devised by eliminat- ing ineffective all so-called time, idle time and excessive rest. What is left is called the standard time for the job.

The main timing techinques used in office work are: Activity sampling In this system a stopwatch is not used. Instead, a note is made of what the worker is doing at periodic intervals throughout the day. From these 'samples', so it is claimed, a picture can be built up of what amount of time the worker spends on each task. iters in offices, says a report published in 1965, has t Ordinary time-study In this system a worker is timed with a stopwatch while a specific job; only doing directly connected movements with that job are timed. Mis- takes, rest or 'abnormal' move- ments are left out. In this way, each action is timed separately and these separate movements are known as elements of work. For example, if out of 50 samples a clerk is noted down as doing nothing in ten, walk- ing in 20 and writing in 20, work-study department the would deduce that she spends 40 per cent of the day work- ing, 40 per cent "transporting' and 20 per cent idle. At the same time, the obser- ver writes down the 'rate' at which he considers the differ- ent elements are being carried out (tast, slow, etc.). Following this, the elements are rated and then strung to- gether, an extra fixed allow- is added for rest con- ance tingencies and this is the final

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time for the job. The work-study people do not record the workers' rest periods because they are not interested in how much rest the operator actually needs.

They have their own lists of "scientifically' worked-out tables of how much rest should be allowed in any par- ticular type of work. A man bending down to pick up a heavy box and put- ting it on a table for example, might be timed in the follow- ing way: Operation Bend down ... ... Grasp box Lift ... Put down on table ... ... Total During this operation the worker may have hesitated for a second to note the best way to grasp the box and rested for two seconds when the operation was complete. These three seconds would not be recorded, so this task would be timed as eight instead of seconds the ll seconds it really took. d in 1965, has taken over 51,000 office jobs.

Next, the elements are rated.

In the bend-down movement the one second stands because in the opinion of the observer the worker moved at standard speed. However in grasping the box he was apparently too slow, rating only 90 out of a 100.

He should have taken one- tenth less time, i.e. nine-tenths of a second, for this movement.

Similarly in the lift move- ment he should have taken only 4.5 seconds. His put-down 'normal' time was fast time would be 1.1 seconds. So total time for the job after rating, called the "basic time", is 1 + 0.9 + 4.5 + 1.1 seconds = 7.5 seconds. Allowing 10 per cent for contingencies and rest, the final standard time for the operation is made out to be 8.25 seconds, or a saving of 2.75 seconds on the actual time (11 seconds) to do the job. The equivalent for the entire day would be two hours saving on an eight- hour day.

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Pre-determined motion- time Under this system, no times are taken. The worker simply watched at work and every motion is noted. The work-study people then put down a time for each action which they take from a standard manual of times for movements. When added up these give the final time for the job. The PMTS most commonly • Time Rate per cent 1 second 100 1 second 90 5 seconds 90 1 second 110 8 seconds used Methods - Time is Measurement (MTM). This was devised in the USA. The standard times were made up after a frame-by- frame examination of films of workers carrying out different actions. The times in the manual motions, cover body motions and various twist and cranking movements of the arm, hand and fingers. A variation of this system specially devised for office work is called Master Clerical Data (MCD). Group capacity assessment As work in offices is closely inter-related and workers act as a team, a group instead of individual be may examined. Also, instead of work elements, the actual work pro- cesses are timed as a unit, e.g.

type and dispatch a letter and file a copy. The new standard times are the times in which the group must carry out the various operations. This system was devised in the USA in 1958 and is usually introduced in three phases. It is significant that the specialist 'Work- magazine Study' outlines step six of phase one of this system thus: 'Any surplus labour is handled by a predetermined policy, e.g.

natural wastage, transfer or immediate dismissal.' Variations of these four systems may appear under different titles and it is becom- ing increasingly popular to name work-study systems after the firm that is attempting to introduce them, so as to imply that they are 'personalized' to fit the needs of the workers involved. The reason why so many work-study systems exist is simple. As soon as one system is exposed as a fraud by some section of workers, the consul- tants promptly cook up an- other one which, they claim, leaves out all the 'unpleasant' parts of the previous method.

For example, PMTS is being pushed to the fore as a system avoids the 'degrading' which use of the stopwatch and which cuts out the 'non- scientific' method of rating by opinion. Along with the systems out- lined are introduced a variety of flexibility and interchange- proposals aimed ability at breaking conventional down demarcation between jobs (typist, filing clerk, telephone operator etc.) and requiring instead that all workers do any work as instructed by manage- ment. Already job-evaluation is being tried out in some offices industrial associated with plants. This system puts all workers concerned into a num- ber of pay grades and requires that they do any work within their grade. Also, the enormous outlay on computer systems make it imperative for the employers to run them for at least 20 hours a day. For this reason shift-work is being increasingly demanded by managements. All office staffs can be sure that the ultimate aim of all these systems will be the introduction of Measured-Day Work into the office. This system, over which major struggles are occuring throughout industry, demands a tremendously high level of working tied to a fixed wage reflecting neither output nor cost of living. The government and the employers are relying on a combination of the outlined strengthen the measures to employers' ability to impose a new strict working discipline.

While any shortage of staff exists, employers can do little to enforce faster working, but with • the rapid drop in the Far from the economy expanding and pr Board report suggests, the car industry, lik and stockpiling. number of unfilled posts-as as in the number of well workers employed-the man- agements hope to move into a much stronger position.

As one computer expert explains: 'In commercial and industrial life, the major significance of the computer system is that it permits effective control to be by regained management' ('Computers and the Changing World, by John Hargreaves, senior member of IBM's com- puter staff). At the same time as differ- ences between office and fac- tory work are breaking down -the references to modern clerical work as being 'non- manual' are rapidly becoming meaningless - capitalism attempts to drive a wedge between the two sections of workers. Clerks are referred to as non-productive and "indirect' workers by consultants and that managements, implying they do no real work as com- Thursday, January 8, 1970

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cal. Laste Haven Saint. 8.00 Marcus The MD Chal- 9.00 London. University News 11.47 lenge. 11.30 For Me To Live. Farly Sentand Crossroads. The Forest 4.05 5.20 London. Rangers London. 6.00 7.05 Feature Haven. Anglia Newsroom 6.35 High Living. 4.3u 4.35 Wind In Willows. The 4.50 Film: 'King Richard and the Crusaders Skippy. 5.20 London. About with Rex Harrison Virginia Mayo nd' Laurence Arena. Crossroads. Sande 11.00 Moonlight' with Dirk Bogarde Goring. 9.00 Lon joker's Wild don 11.00 Living 11. 30 Parkin's Patch. 11.58 Reflection. Captain 4.17

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11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

Dorothy Tutin as 'Anne 6.30 The Machines. Boleyne' 7.30 News and Weather. 10.40 News Summary and 8.00 Call My Bluff. Weather. 8.30 The Money Programme. 10.45 Line-Up. 9.10 The Six Wives of Henry 'Personal Choice' inter-

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view. as a Prices and Incomes over-production pared with the production-line backed up solidly by members while clerks of Com- the the perators and supporters hemselves are encouraged to munist Party who have fought to keep all discussion of poli- factory hands, dockers, see etc., as people relegated to a tics, i.e. the Labour govern lower level of work by their ment's trade attacks, out of generally inferior branches and have union slanders actively worked to All hush up against any section of workers members prepared union to explain the real nature of anti- are based entirely on a policy of divide and rule and must be strike legislation and the in- firmly stamped on by the rest.

comes policy. The real enemy is the capi- Clerical workers have the joint task of fighting for 100- talist class, which aims to save per-cent trade unionism and of itself at all costs, whether by ridding the union leaderships waging vicious and savage war against the people of Viet- of renegades the replacing nam or by attacking the wages, them instead with socialists conditions and jobs of the dedicated to the defence of the European and working working class. class. But no amount of defensive At the time, many action alone can stop the came and effects leaders of clerical trade unions closures, sackings have a long history of sell-out of recession. of their members and collusion Only by expropriating the the bosses, reflected capitalist class and ridding the at the moment in support for the world of the profit motive can Labour government's incomes the working class ensure policy and productivity bar- better life on the basis of mod- ern scientific and technological gaining. In this they have been achievements.

Thursday, January 8, 1970 SIMPLE and cheap the hydrogen route to bomb may be a lot nearer than is generally realized.

The the prob- answer lem of triggering off nuclear without fusion using may • be to atomic explosion use a laser beam to produce the necessary high energy.

This is the conclusion of a recent coloquum neid in Basle by Natural Re- the Research sources Develop- ment Centre. Work carried out since this meeune seems to connrm Inal there are now oniv technical obstacles overcome and the will be resolved he future. Previously, the possibility of aser-triggered bomb was many scientists dismissed hv because of the enormous tem- needed set off a thermo-nuclear explosion. the French

LUWCYCL

Weapons Research Establish- ment has recent v obtained a succession of tiny explosions with what generally powerful laser bear garded most Consternation The implications these A surgeon uses a laser ophthalmoscope to 'spot-weld' a detached retina.

developments causing some consternation in the corridors the road to the Previously, H-bomb was one and expen- site and theretore harrec to triggered would require explosive charge, barauvery simole ano cheat laser. bus associatec electronic and heavy circuitry, water. Even the smallest and be abe to est of nations might make a bomb of this SOrt.

BY MARTIN ZARROP

beams. TOrM radiacon urst demonstrated in compared 1400. can light beams with power dens- The first laser took the form Since then number ities many millions of a ruby crystal other crystals have been used found n lasers and the technique has two mirrors. When this crystal was illu- been extended to lasers using short, perhaps the minated intense a cas or haula. right word to of white light. a red use. because but sts between them _ the various produce types can Today lasers a so light beam ot enormous power laser nroduce and started to bounce and beams of widely differing char- beams the infrared hack ultra-violet domains which forth between the mirrors in- acteristics; some suitable for not visible to naked strength time field eye. ticular applica- par first laser did, however, through the ruby. Liot is, and some foi others. produce visible, the ruby for rea beam was bar- example. and the from laser's Hame laser- -Standine transoarent to brocuce Liont AmD incation this mirror emerged the in- tense short ant nuses thai tense parallel shaft red makes useful to the sumulated Emission of Radi.

ation been generally light that was the first laser has The intense light pulses from MUSICIANS and 'If he's a member of the In- The sharpness of the situa- actors- corporated Musi- tion not normally associated society racing musicians-bar- wages and conditions ticular v the vounger ones- either with militant action or looking cians which means nothing as can Indicated with particularly strong trade impact of as wages. conditione briety at the are concerned. won't union organization - today which the For basic little face threats to their jobs and pay-lates bigher than th musician. things? wages verv similar to those these concert. musicians are Soloists, course, threatening many other sec- emnloved in nutting their ckillc usuallv in a different categorv into a form which can be used tions of workers. against them. and it's absurd to think we're Two recent skirmishes spot- dard rite for & that bistrakh. lighted this situation Fou T'song and others have to standard morning and-afternoon record.

before we'll accompany The first- -and most imnort- ant- the 30,000-strong -WaS Ine session scals car Union's Musicians' produce a recora which mat against the BBC's original later mean the loss of a job.

Pralde sing in the '70s' was unlikely, Fred Clay- Capitalism in crisis can no ton thougat. that the union sacking of some 300 accommodate musicians would be taking a harder line than it can miners. dockers. out of 500 staff musicians and on this + the of issue as busmen or any other section the elimination of seven of the result b membership's of workers. regional grave fears for their jobs and Cornoration's orchestrac va Broadcasting Same methods in the wark ' he told us. 'is a separate 70c' Chamber issue' phordist Mr Philip Ledger.

harpsi- non-union which This second dispute. By a Workers Press tue same management con has still not been settled mar sultancy urm-yekinsev an cl correspondent hiow Henriary when the orchestra is booked employers to prepare for a arias with Mir reiger. record recital of Bach per cent redundancy on the Here the RRO. were cimniu in order to sara of musicians Orning Star, assis at Mass- Saturday's Blown up The r save money Morning While ight it ians' Union general members and many secretary officials of the union they ight it and—I hop feel that Francis Marry essentia v ac- the dif preposione no its reap we won use cay. cented this situation. proportion When 1 Distinguishing between 'the "I hope", it nevertheless in- mean we really "talkies" inevitable

BBC

has in mind. It what the anxiety ceve onment. a result of scien.

the and the threat could be thev' trv and tine advance many musicians about that posed by security of their ions do a "pirate" -not in the same form as the "pirate" acto the BBC Cor Francis claimed that Like the actors- negotiating radio did. of course, me adment of the a certain eat cent the union but you never know. percentage realists union amond productions-the 'Needle-time' that nothing could be done. at would signed musicians 'We'd need least in a canitalist cometv to job the BBC. prevent them being thrown on guarantees rom signed and in force that they Whether they will get the scrapheap'. them no sirene incans and Unemployment other In not more words, is all right as long *scient ae an interuiaw with the Workers Press, freelance trum the BiBc that the result of peter Fred Clayton- Muscling leading course

BBC

needs advance' of money, but they're not going and Musicians - actors in the must reiect Francis's world of area- ger It al ou expense explained some of the back- trv this. then in a

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"inevitahie deve onment' ground. unemploved tew vears time voll're killini if thau Southwark Cathedral beat back the growing the proteccion here woul incident'. he said, 'was simply openings so fewer hreat to their iobs and he fawar a case where an orchestra was would come in. and fight asked to play "d have been another nal sands enter- would non-union another nail the ing determined member, refused to in the coffin of fight for the music bro- 1011 revolutionary trade 'It would be well worth his fession if it had gone through unionist and revolutionarv while to ioin change. in its original form.

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a suitable laser will pass through the outer transparent regions of the eye, the cornea, the lens, etc. without causing damage. They can then be used to 'spot weld' back into place a retina that has become de- tached. No anaesthetic need be used because each weld can be com- pleted in a few thousandths of a second. No heat is produced: the welding is completed and the laser switched off again, long before any movement of the eye can take place. What are the unique char- acteristics of laser light that makes it much more useful -and possibly more deadly- than light from conventional sources? First of all there is its ex- treme directionality. The light output from a laser is transmitted in a beam which is many millions of times more the concentrated than beam from the best searchlight.

A laser beam directed from the earth to the moon, for example, will illuminate an area only two miles in dia- meter on the lunar surface.

Power density Secondly there is the extra- ordinary density of the power within the beam. This is a result of the 'synchronized' nature of the process by which the light is generated. Light energy is always gen- erated in small 'packets'. Each packet is produced by a single atom in the generating material and the packets of light from the millions of atoms add to- gether to give the total output.

In conventional light sources, the individual atoms produce their packets of energy with random timing. In a laser each atom is its stimulated to produce packet by the packets of light from the other atoms. It is because the emissions A laser beam can be focused to a spot, sn It can selectively destroy smaller parts a: of the corpuscle.

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are 'synchronized' that lasers have such an enormous power output. These properties make the laser ideal for accurate range- finding and surveying. The Apollo-11 astronauts erected a mirror on the moon to reflect back a laser beam transmitted from earth. This enables the distance of the earth from the moon to be measured to within an accur- acy of a few feet. The synchronized nature of the laser's light means that the laser produces light on a single wave length in the same way as a radio transmitter produces radio waves. Because of this, a laser beam can be used to carry infor- mation-speech, vision, con- trol signals, etc.—in the same way as a radio transmission; but because the wavelength of light is far shorter than that of radio waves, far more in- formation can be carried.

Many millions of television channels could be carried on a laser beam, but unfortun- ately laser light is very little better than ordinary light in penetrating mist and fog.

Future laser beam com- munication links will, there- fore, have to be carried in tubes designed to bend the beam round corners and over the curvature of the earth.

The atmospheric obstacle also rules out the misuse of the laser (at least in its present form) as a 'death ray' tor military purposes. The ability to produce three dimensional photographs probably the most impressive result of the laser's properties, since such photographs possess quite unusual features. No special glasses are re- quired and two effects not found in conventional 3-D photographs are present. Seeing behind An observer can, by moving his position, look around objects in the foreground of the picture to see what is be- hind them, in exactly the same when viewing the way • aS original scene. an observer has Moreover, to refocus his eyes to look at distant objects after looking at those in the foreground of the photograph! In conventional photo- graphy, all the expanding light each waves reflected from point in the object are con- centrated back into a point in the plane of the photographic film by means of a lens. In laser photography-called holography-laser light is used without a lens and, in effect, the light waves are 'frozen' in the emulsion on the photo- graphic plate. plate is then When the illuminated by laser light, the light waves are 'unfrozen' and start travelling again towards the eye of the observer. The viewer, therefore, can- not differentiate between the reconstructed image and the real object. The uses of lasers for com- munications and holography are refinements which bring us some distance from the mere ability of these beams to focus massive doses of energy onto small areas. They have been used, with some success, in cutting, weld- ing and drilling metal and other materials. In the case of hard rock, a preliminary 'softening-up' with about five seconds from a car- bon dioxide gas laser, causes damage and reduces severe considerably the wear on tun- nelling machinery. Man has, in the laser, found a source of radiation with and qualities so unusual unique that many years of intensive work will be needed before all its potential uses have been fully explored.

In the early 1960s, the laser was called 'a solution in search of a problem' The early 1970s may reveal it as the means for cheap thermo-nuclear oblivion - an urgent problem for mankind in search of a revolutionary solution. sed to a spot, smaller than a red corpuscle.

smaller parts as well as the whole Workers dig for diamonds for the bene of 99 per cent of workers and peasants IN AREAS like South Africa imperialist invest- ment is direct, through giant financial houses, mainly centred in Lon- don. In other parts of Africa, as in West and East Africa, in addition to direct invest- ment, imperialist investment takes the outward form of 'aid'. This is both through private capital and by the imperialist states which act as channels and collecting agents for the great private investors. 'Aid' comes also through international financial agencies of world capitalism, such as the World Bank and United Nations 'development' organ- izations. The various forms of aid go mainly to 'newly independent' states, such as Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, etc. A small frac- tion consists of non-refundable grants, while the bulk com- prises loans. Generosity The grants themselves are invariably meant for world public opinion, to show how generous the imperialists are.

In reality, they are ancillary to great loan and direct invest- ment projects. The aid, in all known cases in Africa, has aided not the 'beneficiary', but the donor.

The receiver has usually slowly gone bankrupt. An example of this is Ghana.

When the leader of the Ghanaian Dr government, in London on Busia, was October 23, 1969, he stated that no less than 13 per cent of the export revenue of Ghana went to service debts. usual, of As course, he blamed the debt on the ex- travagance of Nkrumah's gov- ernment, which, in fact, was merely laying what is called the 'infra-structure' for semi- colonial investments by Britain, the USA and company in 'independent' Ghana. Crippled When this government had done its job, it was removed by a timely 'coup' in the inter- ests of imperialism, which wanted a monopoly of Ghana, without the presence Russian technicians and ad- visers. The debt that Busia was talking about is the debt due to British and US 'aid'. The repayment of the inter- est gradually caught up with the capital repayments until the total of both crippled the budget. The consequence of receiving aid, according to Busia him- self, has been that the national income was rising by less than the increase in population.

ds for the benefit of foreign imperialism. Foreign ca] rs and peasants in Ghana.

The nominal national income per head in Ghana has, said Busia, been rising by only 1 per cent, while population was rising by 2.5 per cent. The 'liberals' of Britain, of course, are quick to demand birth-control as a solution in an attempt to hide the 1 per cent figure by focusing atten- tion on the 2.5 per cent figure.

'Over-population' is simply a of 'under- distorted reflection production', which is typical of the semi-colonies which im- perialism under-develops by its entire policy of industrial star- vation and of primary produc- tion for the export of raw- material crops. Reserves The hue-and-cry of the Malthusians about over-popu- lation and birth-control re- mains one of the propaganda of the South African govern- ments for the past 50 years, in blaming the African peasants for 'over-stocking' the soil with cattle and using this as a pretext to cull the cattle.

What they are really doing, in fact, is to use the question of cattle in order to drive the in the peasants reserves (labour-reservoirs) out on to the British and other foreign- owned mines as cheap labour.

At the same time they hide the root cause of 'over-stock- ing', namely that it is not an absolute but a relative factor and that it is caused by land- lessness. The conquests, land-robber- ies and consequent subjection of the African peasants are pushed into the background by the propaganda of 'over-stock- ing'. The victims are blamed for the crimes of their oppressors and are further exploited as cheap labour as a result of this propaganda. It is the same with the propaganda about 'over-popu- lation' and the birth-control 'remedy'. The Busia government's 'remedy' is not to raise the national income, which is im- possible without the uncom- pensated expropriation of im- perialist investors in Ghana, but to conduct a deportation battle against 'non-Ghanaians'.

There are two million of these people in Ghana, con- of the stituting a quarter population. Hounded These "foreigners' are being hounded and persecuted in an attempt to 'solve' the 'over- population problem which im- perialist aid helped to aggra- vate by reducing the national income. The deportation campaign is part of the divide-and-rule game of imperialism, with Busia doing the job on the spot. Those being driven out by force and at all times of the

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lism. Foreign capital dominates the lives day and night are other land- less, homeless African WOr- kers, whom the imperialists who control the economy of Ghana do not require at the moment for the labour-needs.

They provide a convenient scapegoat for Busia to get out of his domestic problems.

The real "foreigners', the British, American, West Ger- Western in- man and other 'ad- businessmen, vestors, visers', 'experts' 'teachers'— they are not 'foreigners'.

They are not driven out of Ghana. They remain, with the vast properties they guard and serve. Such is a typical 'independ- ent' African state today.

The real 'foreigners' are the representatives of the foreign- ers whom the people of Ghana never see in person: the mighty who own the financial ones and raw material companies which dominate the lives not only of the cocoa-producing peasants, but of 99 per cent of the workers and peasants of Ghana. Absentee They are far away, mainly in the City of London. They are what one may call the absentee imperialists.

And they cannot be driven out of Ghana unless their in- vestments are seized and their trading interests taken over, without compensation. If anyone expects a Busia to do this, he is slightly mistaken.

For Busia could draw only one conclusion from his description of present-day Ghana. He did not condemn im- perialism for his stated fact that 600,000 out of the 2.4 million workers — that is 25 per cent - were unemployed today, in a country where even to be employed still means chronic starvation. Nor did he show that the imperialism of 'British de- mocracy' was responsible for dictatorships in semi- the where imperialism colonies, could not 'afford the luxury of democracy'. He merely declared that 'to rule democratically ... was a difficult problem for an elected government'. Subordination And then Busia, the leader of post-Nkrumah Ghana, de- clared the subordination of and, indeed, of all Ghana, independent African states, to imperialism: 'He therefore,' reported the 'Daily Telegraph' of October 24, 1969, 'pinned his hopes to western sympathy for a democratic regime in Africa.'

As if even a Busia believed that 'Western aid', for which he was clearly pleading, ever had anything in common with or to do with democracy in Africa or anywhere else!

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THE 'ECONOMIC MIRACLE' of Italian capitalism has been based on the ability of many employers to deprive workers of any control over their method and pace of work. So they are able, whilst conceding wage rises in the past which have allowed workers in industry to improve their standard of living, to squeeze more and more surplus value from each worker by use of the stop-watch and speed-up of the process of production.

This report from our The wave of strikes in correspondent in Italy is a the manufacturing plants of warning to all British the north were in many workers. It describes, in the directed cases to gaining words of Fiat workers, the new techniques of speed-up control by 'squad delegates', used by the Italian directly 'responsible to the employers under the pres- men who elect them, over sure of cut-throat Common the conditions and pace of Market competition. work, and protection from It also reveals that the trade the stop-watch. union leaders have retreated under this pres- The conditions in the Fiat sure in the 'same way as car plant at Mirafiore, Turin, we have seen in Britain are typical of those in many over recent years. the large manufacturing plants of the north. There is no doubt that if They provide a of and when the British wallins what Measured-Day Work employers move into the holds in Common Market, they will store for workers in Britain if control the over be driven to emulate and of work is sold even surpass the methods organization for a temporary increase in described in the interview.

wages. Measured-Day Work is part of the international Fiat Mirafiore employs drive of big business for 56,000 men assem- more profits out of less bly, body pressing and final workers. Our fight against it assembly. must also be international.

This is understood by the Strike wave workers of Fiat, who look to us in Britain for a lead in the fight. They can In the period before the signing of already see that our fight the new national is a common one, demand- labour contract in December of ing revolutionary socialist it was swept by a wave stoppages—-for an increase in leadership. So must we. the basic wage and for con- trol over the of organization work- -which carried over In- to the massive working-class Stop Wilson's demonstrations in Turin and the whole of Italy against bad housing visit to Nixon at extortionate rents. Buzzardi and Salvatore other squad delegates of No.

23 (engine)

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shop gave an ex- New Netherhall of the of the Parks and planation use stop-watch on piece-work of which the following Among them were members is of

CAWU,

AEF, CEU,

the summary. NUM and T&GWU. Management controls

FIVE T&GWU

bus drivers both the type and the and conductors have signed of work for quantity each London's the petition at worker. Only in solidarity Merton bus garage. with his fellow-workers can anyone change these—other- ELEVEN South London UPW wise he is sacked. have also endorsed members the campaign. Each worker is obliged to produce the maximum piece-

THIRTY NUT&GW

work This is calculated members quota. Suppose —many of them Greek workers as follows: four doing the exiled as a result of the mili- workers are same The time-keeper dictatorship in Greece- operation. tary will time each one on the job, have put their signatures to He say ten will then the campaign at North take the of those London clothing factory. times for each worker. FORTY trade unionists from Then he makes assess- Girling's, Bromborough, have of how 'efficient' the ment signed the following state- worker is. ment : At the most a worker can 'We express our anger and be judged as 100 per disgust at the atrocities com- cent efficient, but in fact every- mitted by the American one is judged as less efficient troops in Vietnam. than that- -in the eyes of the 'We demand the withdrawal management all workers are of all American troops now. lazy. We will fight in our trade Suppose the time unions to compel the average covert® for worker is 100 seconds ment to break with American judged 80 Vietnam and cancel and he is cent policy in "adjusted efficient. Then the visit of Wilson to Wash- his time" 80 seconds. But this ington. is 'We demand the removal is not all. from the leadership of the Wilson labour movement of Faster and Brown and all leaders who support the American govern- If several in brutal and workers ment their are on the iob- and this against the Viet- same vicious war always -then the namese people. almost SO- "standard time" for the job Among the 40 are AEF con-

AEF

is taken as the least adjusted A. Ogle, deputy venor ETU senior time. convenor J. Burns, steward P. Shaw and 11 other Management here works on stewards. the principle that all must the produce as much as YCLers sign fastest. At this point might you SEVEN out of eight members consider that I am being attending a recent meeting of ploited enough. But no. Leeds Young Communist League signed the petition.

Fiat considers that there is Other recent Leeds signa- not only the laziness of par- the tories include members of the ticular workers, but also NUT and a branch committee laziness of workers in general.

member of the T&GWU, who It therefore takes the position is also a delegate to the local that for a man at work there are 80 minutes in each hour.

trades council.

GREET

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at a public meeting See the film of the first issue being prepared and printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' Sunday January 25, 2-30 p.m.

Town Hall, High Street

ACTON

Speakers:

SHEILA TORRANCE

(National Secretary of the Young Socialists)

MIKE BANDA

(Editor of Workers Press)

G. HEALY

(National Secretary of Socialist Labour League) new nanonai contract followi ¿ per cent rise. but they knc standard accordin per cent of that. Work slow is to their i should ba 8) Than it tue toreman Presence allowing al 10 the olncial unions-com Socialist strand creases in the basic wage.

toon ever Production loss The deletes orize would strikellon hours not rinsay for two Since Fiat cuts its costorag Within ne factory cret or stopping a tod production. tion in basic pay management wi back 'The dele implemented the end oreme m void seducing the workin week to hours Alge We muse neht for piece-worl change

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Morita tract following strikes like that above has given Fiat workers a t they know that the company will use every possible speed-up method to win this back. system so that, without loss in Turin the PSIUP is to the of pay, we get paid for work left leadership. of the Party We above a minimum, and are not opposed to the of the Communist compelled to complete the policy Party to enter the government maximum. with the Christian Democrats, Workers' but it unlikely the Com- is Party leaders will be munist able to do this in the near control future. We are very interested in During the struggles around the shop stewards' movement the national many and in what is happening in workers understood the need the working-class movement for and socialism workers' England. control. Will the shop stewards' I support the PSIUP,* but movement be able to form a revolutionary socialist move- * Workers' Party of Socialist ment? Will there be laws in Unity, most left of Italy's England to make un- Socialist parties. official strikes illegal?

UNEMPLOYMENT HITS

U.S. CAR INDUSTRY

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The US must car bosses have turned an angry eye on greatly increase the pressure this. the US car workers. They have been looking to In the third quarter of 1969 their massive investments in Chrysler's profits fell Europe to to tide them over cents a share against 63 cents domestic problems. share a year earlier, while But the combativity of the Ford's earnings the same European working class has comparison had fallen 25 by torn this hope to shreds—- per cent. Chrysler's failure at Rootes KVAn sales of foreign cars to extract any profits at all in the US have risen sharply being an outstanding case.

over the The growing tension in past years the cause of the increasing prices US car industry, expressed by of home-built cars. the tumbling profits, is forc- By last year one in nine of ing the American companies the 9,600,000 offensive new cars step up the in bought were imported. their European plants:

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employers' productivity de- mands. Interference on the employ- ers' with 'status quả' terms they last year conceded to the call into wouldn question employers' demands on 'status the principle of mutual agree- quo' with regard to dismissals ment piece-work prices South Wales. in which is still written into Further, the TUC 'guide- national agreements in the lines' on strikes and shop industry. stewards-against which none Several recent strikes, Confederation par- of the "lefts' ticularly in the and have car car so far come out-will components sector, have been concede a big proportion of sparked by attempts to break demands employers' mutuality. the back door if they are ap- Engineers cannot afford to proved by member unions. relax their vigilance against all very It is well for moves by the union leaders Scanlon to warn against the which would undermine this Tories' plans to make pro- important principle. cedure legally agreements While insisting 'status on binding if they are returned quo' in of dismissal, cases power at the next general changes in working practices election. and methods of payment, it is known The defence that some Confedera- only real against the Tory threat to the tion leaders are privately in favour of changes which unions is a linked fight against would undermine mutuality in both the engineering em- piece-work agreements. ployers' demands, the threat of legislation and the TUC's At the we same : time have previously pointed 'back-door' proposals. out,

WEATHER

London

SE. NW

and England, Channel Islands: area, Northern England, Cloudy with snow or sleet at central East and West Midlands, Glas- first, turning to rain. Maxi- gow area and Northern Ire- mum temperatures 8C (46F).

land: Freezing mist and fog in many places at first. Becoming Outlook for Friday and Satur- Generally cloudy with snow at times. day : cloudy with rain, sleet or snow in northern Maximum temperatures IC but less cold in the (34F). districts, Central Southern and SW south with rain or showers.

Thursday, January 8, 1970 'Pravda'

WEST GERMANY

Sharpens Public service attack on China unions to call By a foregn correspondent This work sharpened aty week snarpenta strike poll allack Culta With Pravaa article accusing thi Mao leadershin of acting in collusion with United States imperialism. «By our foreign correspondent Asturian miners THE WEST GERMAN Union for the Public Services, Transport and Traffic will poll all of dety Franco its million members on January 21 to decide on selective strike action if the Brandt coalition Int o,000 strikers at the government does not meet its wage claim.

Hunosa coalmine in Spanish Asturias coalfield workers are Claiming a joined by • 4,000 of their workers. mark minimum in-

C.G.T.

the monthly in crcase 2a joi its ware.

STARTS

Talks with threatens tne covern whole Spanise oroke down neral Franco's new

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lore coristmas When rejected union leaders per ofter of an 8 crease.

CAMPAIGN

awardedlie have Pravda article implies

ON DEAL

unofficial Be prepared By a foreign correspondent paid workers. on this is tantamount to WORKERS in the national- was opposed wage claim the dispute ars very badiy Clearly Transit strike se being strikestan. cess urban in the coun- hipbuilding and the meer engineering U.S. recession Town renamed 'in honour' of hangs query Voroshilov over Moonshots

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DETE

REPORTS from this week's lunar science con- ference in Houston indicate that little headway has been made in unravelling the mysteries of the moon. Charges. HE By our science correspondent vened to discuss the re The conference was con- reical justification sis made it clear that they enaming had had insufficient time to sults of analysing the complete their work pounds of lunar material brought back to earth by Apollo-11 astronauts CGT leader Seguy last July and to give wod preliminary report on the 73 pounds of rocks from numerous workers. take outin, potion in thi Apollo-12. Little gold dustrial disperesum has no victory Soviet Most investigators from leader- Analysis riceve ain the the Hille countrie. Lilal aluablem, Oth birthday last month. obtainea samples ror analy ested the verate it regard The CGT operation of the agreement.

Demagogic trick Despite Paris exile meo mili 19 an 20,000 and sounds t produced really and he moon rocks or trike other not call Shuttles Saigon

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'pro-govt' rally aims

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