Brown quits Courtaulds in 'slave labour' rov

man, Lord Kearton, over the condition of African workers in South Africa.

The £400m textile group has holdings in the lic where workers are paid starvation wages. George Brown . . night away aboard her maiden voyage. wages and conditions on Courtauld's farms were published in Britain, Kearton, a Labour peer, sent two senior tarms by the University of Natal squalor, poverty, dirt and ill-health at the Beaumont Wattle lavatories were infested with maggots and rat droppings, there was no furniture or beds in the houses, and the compound paid holidays or rations, were provided by the company to most of the workers who earned —according to the wages comon mission-as little as £10 a month.

their staple diet consisted of meal porridge and pumpkin leaves. ..: the direct result of this poor diet was that many of the children on the farm had "pot bellies, thin arms, glazed eyes-the traditional signs of the company's productivity director, on a £5,000 a year retainer, visited the South African holdthat, despite minor reservations, the conditions 'for Courtauld's' Transport and General Workers Union, was apparently displeased with the revelations in House of Lords on March 22 he said that a number of British companies were operating standards far higher than might be otherwise obtained if they were Mr Alastair Hetherington, the he has done no service to anyone 'No'. noilist When articles about the executives to investigate.

A report on Courtauld's timber found 'appalling conditions' Estate.

Five members of the found conditions at were 'disgraceful and below subsistence level.

'The houses were filthy, the itself was a sea of mud.

'No sick pay, maternity leave, MALNUTRITION According to the workers, malnutrition":

It is understood that Brown, ings recently.

He reported to the company employees were favourable.

Brown, a former Foreign 'The Guardian'.

During exchanges 1n the not there.

Finally he asked Lady Tweedsmuir, Minister of State at the Foreign Office:

•Would the Minister say to by the articles he has written?' The Tory Minister replied:

OCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE PUBLIC MEETINGS Liverpool Transform the SLL int e Revolutionary Par TUESDAY, APRIL 10 Mona Hotel James Street Liverpool 1 The econom world capita Manchester WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Angel pub, Chapel Stree repubuniversity Beaumont wages far that "Conditions favourable' he claims African workers transported wagon.

Brown came when the two executives reported that 'The Guardian' article was substantially Brown had paid at least two visits to the apartheid state at the expense of the company to 'Bring Cuba into OAS A NUMBER of Latin American countries are expected to back a bid by Peru to readmit Cuba to the Organization of American States, from which it was expelled in 1962.

Castro's regime has won respectability in the eyes of an increasing number of governments in the area who are no longer operating the dipiomatic and economic boycott imposed on Cuba under United States pressure in 1964.

The Argentine President-elect Hector Campora, is pledged to re-establish relations with Cuba in the wake of Peru, Mexico, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE MEETING Merthyr Tydfil Build the revolutionary Join e Socialist League Defend basic der Make the Tories resig the Tories TUESDAY APRIL 10 7.30 p.m.

Caedraw School Caedraw Merthyr Tydfil Speaker: G. Healy SLL national secretary)

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, 7UG. Printed Plough ham High Street.

Newsdesk: 01-720 01-622 7029. Brown led the campaign to resume the sale of arms to South news of it leaked to the Press Chile and the West Indian tries.

The OAS General Assembly is meeting in Washington and US influence will be used to maintain the boycott.

A number of governments restive at US dominance, but do little more than utter a verbal protests.

They depend upon Washington for arms and military support against social revolution and are no more than the guarantors for the predatory activities of the big US corporations which control the economic life of Latin America.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES The revolutionary and the history British working Merthyr Tydfil Caedraw School Merthyr Tydfil Sundays April 8 and Lectures given by The Unions and class in Britaln.

The Revolutionary Pas British working class future.

The Transformation of READING Trotsky, Where is Going? Problems British Revolution.

Perspectives for Transforming the SLL into a Revolutionary Marxist Analysis can few class t of the -and its the SLL Britain At the General Election in 1970 he was resoundingly thrashed by