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NUMBER 11 • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1969

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• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 11 • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1969

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PRICE 6d. Dustmen firm

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THE SIX-WEEK-OLD UNOFFICIAL

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NEARLY ALL PRODUCTION WAS HALTED TODAY AFTER HOST OF

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PLANT AT COWLEY (OXFORD) WAS

CLOSED DOWN UNTIL TOMORROW

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AND JOBS FIGHT

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ALEXIS KOSTERIN joined the Bolshevik Party in 1916. He was deported for 17 years to the gold mines of Kolyma. He died on November 16, 1968, three weeks after writing this letter. 'settle' the question of Appeal by Alexis Kosterin to test my expulsion. to the Politbureau of the justic my hypo- This confirmed Central Committee of the Party thesis that only the fact that jobs Communist Party of the I sent the letters was con- survei sidered and not the questions USSR. Copies to : Their raised in those letters. Their possil The editorial committee of content-the real problems the m has not been examined. •Pravda' for publication; The label 'anti-Party' was series The local committee of the wantonly attached to my let- are tl I had already been re- ters. Frunze Party; secuti for defending the proached verita Tartars of Crimea The Party organization of the To be consistent, the Party Writers' Union. Moscow with Committee should have ac- doma the time cused me al event in defence of the Dear Comrades, Germans living Volga an es Germans the in tion.

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few the last and the Turks. It' should also months I have sent remembered that 1958 be several letters to my the I was expelled from the Party Party cell and to the Central for having defended the Chet- world Committee criticising a whole I should chen-Ingush people. phenomena monu series of negative reproached for have been life of the in the internal defended having with arms, Party and the social life of intere in the first years of the revo our country. the Leninist policy of the lution, ment right of nationalities and the I persisted so that the pro- vided national equal- minorities to blems I raised would lead to ists ity. public discussion. used After having debated them tiona What happened to me is the clearly, in the spirit be told how not accidental. Party, could a mo from the whole and why I was wrong; and, if It springs reach the Party leadership. line of sometimes was right, try of the Cen- that The Politbureau could supported SO he comn tral Committee does not itself positive solutions to the pro- all the Party laws, does blems I raised could be found respect defen take them into and applied where necessary not of ca to the Party and the State. In spite of the decisions of the 22nd and 23rd Party Con- No one can deny, I believe, conti the and anti- gresses, indisputable Halle that had the Party human acts of Stalin are being right guaranteed to me by the and 'cautiously' but insistently re- Party Party statutes mach habilitated.* And, in practice, member, to take this step.

anim Stalinist methods are allowed What followed however, again more and more scope. doub Party violated the statutes as As under Stalin, freedom of well as violating simple com- speech, freedom of the press, is- cies mon sense. freedom of assembly, freedom informed that the mem was freedom to march to meet, Party Committee state Moscow and demonstrate in the streets would debate letters my on exists in written form in only 17 of this October vear. the Constitution. sion For reasons of health, In all those who think practice, could not be at the meeting— exercise these rights try to peller following a serious and pain- second! ful heart attack, the laid -that recently me up; for- the doctors categorically bid me to participate in these discussions because of the nervous tension it would have involved. as I had set out and And argued very clearly and in the problems convincing way I was thought the raising discussion could go on with- out me. It appears that the content of my letters was never ex- amined. Instead of discussing had the them, my letters 'anti-Party' and anti- labels Soviet' attached to them In a totally wanton way and I was expelled from the Party.

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Several other sta- tutes were flagrantly violated: 1. The question of my Party membership was ruled on consulting my without local organization. I was expelled for 2. indefensible cising the of a Party right member: to express himself before the Party on any impor- tant question, to present his proposals and defend them until a decision is taken about the matters they concern. The transcript of the pro- 3. of ceedings the meeting decision of and the the Committee Party were passed on to the local committee right away without informing me first. Neither was I told about 4. the local committee's de- liberations; they had evi- dently decided already A Soviet car rolls through Cze armoured with amazing rapidity to working class in that country, and expr THE LETTER of resi tion published here hav for the international author of the letter fought in the terror of the Stalin re communist convictions He fought the bu party consistently anc le fought for a Lenin national minorities suc the Volga Germans an were deported the Soviet writers and vakia. from constant -losed bents includin Stalin, a whole unaer national genocide. of itself • Czechoslovakia e especially striking illustra onuclear considering genuine terests of Our country anc communist ded for ional tension. The very tad o very uni the ommunist And with enc elenaine tne narrow interest: 1 caste climate of oppressi to reign in sorted Stalinist rall throws to criticise and the Part tate leadership. ion is forbiddy to da. discus- the right to elled for the Sole reason You are ex

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His ER of resignation and the funeral ora- Kosterin lived and died a communist. and struggle, the grandeur and remarkable life ed nere nave an exceptionai signinicance communist movement. The pathos of which is so vividly evoked in the speech magnificent testimony to the resur- who of Yakir, is a Bolshevik was an he civil war, endured the torture and the Soviet working class and the new gence ot generation of youth who will dig the graves of the le Stalin regime vet retained his undimmed. Kremlin bureaucracy as surely Kosterin's dug the graves of the Kremlin Tsar generation bureaucracy's policies in the and passionately. In particular and the Russian bourgeoisie.

in relation to the or a Leninist poncy norities such as the Chetchen-Ingush, The speech and the letter together constitute eloquent and damning indictment of the heirs Germans and the Crimean Tartars who an masse to the far east before of Stalin and, we feel certain, it will inspire the new generation of communists inside and outside the Stalin. world war bv is resignation Kosterin continued his Soviet Union to complete the task begun by Trotsky in the and the Left Opposition: through the of socialism carry reecherallull political revolution and open the road to a world against the return of some of the worst exemplified by of October. the trial writers and the invasion of Czechoslo- M. Banda, October 10, 1969 Kosterin endured all stalin adarisation Michael Banda, editor of W during these seatin is salin era bit il remained on coutd olde it school in th then introduce a third session wit.

appropriate rates ol teacners voranteenglu sla eachere and to not was want the best fo the at you have formulated pro scat it win comin hope appeared good com- … true recognize inroads in their own you but don't conform to the thin seriously munists conditions until too late.

is undermined about ur Party nas in the basic prescripuons unal lall aowi all of our. carry out packet Committee orders from on without Central thinking this can live In other words, all the con who consi- only lose Satures, tradictions which anect one Children are streamed, and arge state enterprises are teachers stream themse ves be rouna in teachin a Fist easter a year The punish are there are middle-aged and cynical, year: guilty local violatingtese sta aogged foresaw young, The underpaic Tues If this is the case I will res- them is S apparent at any staff. cind to meeting the Party from struggle Stalinism cussion in the lower Party or- initing to its discanine.

Insiae SuD- Only the authorities stand ganizations But with without lo gall I am ave outlined changes to bes communist, the pupils. 'corrected'. the existence, reform can whole But almost manipulated i nevIk strength for that. into trom tears wilhess to that. I could still endure these cor Louay. wner it l nna mysel outsiae ine Par for illy marxisto stings- loudy Marxist-Leninist against employment As a protest the Party magrant order to free statutes and in remous to like arice 'Mr. myselt from that Party discip remarks the who tineprives me our Coates "Morning and Rights Sespondent in the occa by your Declaration of the Star October Communist Pai Man adopted United Soviet Union issue ship card, my Party Last Monday (September government larger flow of pupils. ship cardaking bers step 698- number 0.2y3.090 October 24, 1968 29) the he limes business News carried a letter trom Mr Insulule sound like good light activities politics for parents enter the day-time life of the school.

for Workers' Dul unics. the institut legotiate Coates f which M leading member, has ways beet determined the ponent struggle used as economies. consciousnes. i can ble morning worKIng Ciass perioa is unpopular, ll can tracking period, to extra with going to assembl and are. or course, opposeu l No index reference to October 7, 1969

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is Briain 10 This Workers' R Publicaiions, 186a Nap around Klugmann' Park S.W.4. the August 9ox invasion. Kosterin had the deepest Icelas or tai o the bureaucracy's action.

October 11, 1969 nda, editor of Workers' Press ago the National Union of Women Teachers was a ginger have the group, now National Association of Schoolmasters excluding with and competing women the NUT. Strong, lively branches of NUT in school the every should struggle on every re- organization proposal in the school and in the local asso- ciation. By dealing with im- mediate issues and by contact with parents and pupils, teachers can develop the unity for a political struggle for con- trol, going beyond the £135- a-year pay-rise demand to which the NUT is committed.

B. Russel. the struggle of the working class to take power. them, socialism is For with radical' watered down phrases about industrial de- mocracy' etc., in order not to hurt the feelings of their mid- dle-class friends. As the letter in 'The Times' says: 'The argument for in- dustrial democracy or work- ers' control is no less valid for in its humane promise these people (highly qualified technical personnel and mid- than it dle-aged executives) is for shop-floor workers'.

explains that The letter they were 'not disappointed' at the failure of the proposed occupation of GEC on Mer- seyside last month. "The struggle for industrial democracy does not proceed only by such dramatic up- heavals. (Least of all do their mid- friends want up- dle-class heavals'.) They then explain how 'In- dustrial Democracy' is to be achieved. 'We have been studying the markets for the GEC Liver- pool products ... at specially negotiated prices. 'If British-Leyland can sell hundreds of buses to develop- ing countries, by the simple organizing long device runs of production at a low price: how much more easily could the government follow suit, with their capacity to link trade deals to the aid offer special programme: to trade terms and to enter into commodity agreements.' The circle is now complete!

While Mr Coates hands out Friend tir Feet oles a vice to the employers and govern- ment on how best to run British capitalism. The working class which now comes on to the scene in a fighting mood is some- thing these people like to for- get. J. M. Jarvis.

October 11, 1969 PIOTR YAKIR is an historian from Moscow and the son of Army Commander I. E. Yakir, who was assassinated by Stalin. Piotr himself, as the son of an 'enemy of the people', spent 17 years in a concentration camp from the age of 14 to the age of 31.

MANY TRUE things have already been said about the dead man. I also loved him and l would like to speak about him without hold- ing back. I would like to recall my meetings and discussions with him; those meetings which now seem to have been so few and far between. At my last meeting with him I even arrived late. I went to see him at his invitation; that was when it was most possible to have a conversation with him. I won't take too much time away from those who are waiting their turn to share their sorrow with friends. I'll describe one side of Alexis Kosterin, a side that 1 don't see in many of his gener- ation. I want to talk about his fidelity to his ideals. This fidelity he preserved pure and unshaken from his youth to the last sigh; to the last moment he raised his hist to ask for oxygen because he could no longer speak. I know that among the ruthlessly millions of men out by the Stalinist wiped extermination machine, there many- perhaps the were majority-who, because they kept their faith in Marxism- Leninism, had to cross the Styx. [Traditionally the entry into Hell.] But many of this generation survived. The majority of these survivors were not victims of And all, all be- repression. trayed their ideals. A few isolated men, crouch- ing in their corners and hold- ing their faith deep in their Talking of certain falsifications by the k told Yakir that men specialized in a study find 'all the necessary quotations necess: deeds of the Stalins, Krushchevs and Brez!

in 1966, is seen ab A NEW SYSTEM of work-measurement has recently been developed in Britain, according to 'Work Study', the specialist magazine for consultants and manage- ments. This new system called 'tape data analysis' (TDA) has been devised by a re- search team set up in 1966 by the Methods-Time-Meas- urement Association of the United Kingdom. The Report comments that• the new measuring technique is : 'claimed to be at least ten times more productive than the Methods-Time-Measure- ment-2 (MTM-2) technique hitherto regarded as most advanced system of its type.' It explains that the MTM system of copying down in a notebook the actions of an has serious disad- operator vantages which are overcome by TDA. In the new system the work measurer uses a port- able tape recorder in conjunc- . with la series of mneu- tion monic codes which corres- pond to MTM-2 motion se- hearts do not change the appalling picture of the de- generacy of an entire genera- tion. of Some the representa- tives of this generation, of about 'sacred course, speak ideals' which they swear to hdelity but they serve the Stalinists faithfully, the Stalin- ists who mock ideals whatever they are. Many of these flunkeys hope to get a few scraps from the leftovers off the banquet table of our rulers. The Christian ethic calls such people Phari- sees. Others behave like this out of fear. They are repulsive hypocrites who in public praise and flatter the powerful and then turn around and criticize in private confidences. them Some of them, having al- ready fouled themselves like this, then don't hesitate to denounce their erstwhile and trusting confidantes when they sense danger. Most of these people are fanatics and petty bourgeois.

They have never read the by the bureaucracy, Kosterin once alized in a study of Marx and Engels could necessary to justify the blackest achevs and Brezhnevs'. Krushchev, deposed 1966, is seen above. 55 50 45 40 35 By Bernard Fra works of the creators of Marx- ist-Leninist theory; they are stuffed with prejudices and ready to dress up any drivel with the name of Marxism- Leninism, socialism, commun- ism and other 'isms' in order to receive their credentials from the authorities. They will support all the undertakings of those in power including exploits worthy of the Black Hundreds; they are ready to do even better. These are the people who cried 'crucify him' to Pontius Pilate; the people who flood the streets of our cities and villages like a tidal wave, howling for the execution/ the 'enemies of the people'.

This is how they dealt with Kosterin in his Party organ- ization and in the Presidium of the Writers' Union. How could not be one struck by the strength of this man's spirit; this man who preserved his convictions in the midst of this dark mass of people, gangrenous with preju- dices and preconceived ideas; this man who preserved his convictions through the tor- tures of the 'house of Vaskov', the horrible Magadan where he was shut up in May 1938 and Kolyma concentration camp; his convictions preserved through 're-education' by the pharisees and hypocrites and the howls of the fanatics and petty bourgeoisie. Looking at the life of this man one can only say, 'Truly, the men of October were a strong generation'. I loved Alexis Kosterin be- cause of his great spirit; I loved him as a citizen. An em- pathy which flowed from our somewhat shared destinies no doubt played a part too. But I loved him particularly for the clarity of his thought, for his fidelity to his ideas. It's no secret that many who endured the same trials as Alexis Kosterin lost faith in the ideals they had fought for in their youth. They considered the ideas, and not only men, responsible for what happened to them. Alexis Kosterin drew other lessons. When we were to- gether he spoke to me like this: • Marxism-Leninism, no more than • other ideological any system, is not totally pure nor genuine in all its parts. It car- 80 5 10 15- 20 25 30 y Bernard Franks ies with it the mark of th ndividuality of its creators- times change. It's a very easy thing to do in our country, given the method of quotation used here; a method that shatters the thought expressed in a passage, not once but often into many fragments. The quotation is often com- pleted with statements entirely strange to the original text.

This is done with impunity because in our country no organ of the press would dare to con- tradict such falsifications. There are many volunteers ready to shovel out and distribute this pre-digested food. This exploitation of the ideas and names sacred our created the 'moral' people has base on which Stalinism in the past and neo-Stalinism today have developed. It's been diffi- cult even for me to free myself of this hallucination. For a long time I too thought that the policies carried out consciously consolidate to Stalin's personal dictatorship were a series of errors of de- tail' committed in the local and Central Committees. I fought against these 'errors' of 'detail' and 'deviations'. I always emerged from these scarred and bruised struggles but sometimes luck was with me and I threw myself into tilt- ing at windmills again absolutely certain that this was exactly what my duty as a Party mem- ber consisted of. It wasn't until after 1934, after the assassination of Kirov, that I started to have doubts.

But the veil didn't finally fall from my eyes until the "house of Vaskov", It was only then that I understood that Marxism- Leninism had been buried in our country and Lenin's party destroyed. I am leaving aside the ques- tion of whether or not his final conclusion is correct.

But I must bow before the then 10 a.m., Repondez S'il Vous Plait.

10.30-11.0, Wie bitte? 12.40 p.m., Weatherman. 12.45, Grandstand.

5.15, Star Trek. 6.05, News. 6.15, Simon Dee. 6.45, Dixon of Dock Green.

7.30, The Dave Allen Show.

Stars: Spen- 8.15, Three Great cer Tracy, Katherine Hep- burn and Judy Holliday in 'Adam's Rib'. 9.50, News. 10.00, Horse of the Year Show.

10.45, Match of the Day. 11.45, 24 Hours. Conservative Party Conference. 12.10 a.m., Weatherman. 11.15 a.m., Conservative The Party Conference: Edward Heath. quence'. (mneumonic = de- signed to aid the memory.

OED) The report adds: "The limitations which an analyst encounters when he cannot write or even speak fast enough to record rapid sequences of movements is overcome by the new ver- the bal "shorthand" and verbal descriptions added enable the trained analyst to reconstruct MTM-2 ana- lyses for entire jobs with a high degree of accuracy' The existing MTM systems are based on the theory that all work can be broken down into a number of basic moves and that it is only necessary to take down the sequence of moves made by any opera- tor, then to look up the 'standard times' for these moves to arrive at the cor- rect time for the job. Up to now, the consultants have used a type of written shorthand combined with figures for distance moved and weight lifted. The article quotes the tech- nical director of MTMA that "Tape data analysis allows work : to be recorded as fast as with time study,

WORKERS' PRESS

Kosterin told Yakir that he began to hav the leadership after the assassination of K the death of Kirov to begin the purge of t infamous Moscow Tr integrity of this man, his purity, his courage and his incredible fortitude. Imagine a man convinced that in spite of the doctrine they profess, men who hold nothing sacred are leading this country. Imagine that he knows that these leaders will stop at noth- ing to close the mouths of whoever tries to unmask them.

As if that were not enough, he also had endured the tor- tures of the 'house of Vaskov' and years at the Kolyma con- centration camp! If you have imagined all that then bow your head again to 3.00-4.30 p.m., Saturday Cinema: Seminole. 7.00, The News and Sport.

7.15, Gardeners' World 7.30, Rugby Special and Inter- national Golt. 8.15, Chronicle: 'There Is no Conqueror • 9.05, Domenico Modugno. 9.50, The First Churchills.

10.35, Review. 11.15, Line-Up: The Week.

11.40, News Summary. 11.45, Midnight Movie: 'Foxhole in Calro'. 10.10 Families Talking. a.m., 10.35, Stay Alive. 11.0 Conser- vative Party • Conference. 12.30 12.55, Captain Scarlet. p.m., News. 1.0, World of Sport. 1.05, On the Ball. 1.20, They're Off.

3.10, International Sports Special.

4.0, Wrestling. 5.0, Results Ser- vice. 5.15, Bonanza. 6.10, News. 6.15, Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45, The Saturday Crowd.

with a methods descrip- tion over 100 times more detailed.' It reports that the TDA system is being released at the moment for use and that: 'Considerable interest in this new technique is being shown by industrial engi- neers abroad and arrange- ments made for its release in other countries' With the Labour govern- official backing ment's for work-study, there is a ready market-and a profitable one -for new methods of inten- sifying work and rationalizing the worker.

NEXT

TUESDAY'S

WORKERS

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World port workers under attack le began to have doubts in 1934 about sassination of Kirov (above). Stalin used n the purge of the Old Bolsheviks in th nous Moscow Trials Alexis Kosterin. Without hav- ing time to heal from all he'd endured he intervened on be- half of the Chetchens and the Ingushes. At once the pack of phari- sees, hypocrites and fanatics fell on him. He was again ex- pelled from the Party and he expected his arrest at any moment. A trial beyond com- prehension for those who did not pass through 'the house of Vaskov' and Kolyma or through the other numerous camps in our country. But Kosterin survived this new test. There were communists who 7.30, Please Sir! Love of 8.05, 'The Strange Ivers' Martha starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas and Lizabeth Scott. 10.00, News. 10.10, Saturday Night Theatre: 'In Another Country'. 11.10, Frost on Saturday.

12.00, All Our Yesterdays.

a.m., The Musclans. 12.25 Border TV 10.20-10.45 a.m., Stay Alive. 11.0, Conservative Party Assembly. 12.25 p.m., All Our Yesterdays.

12.55, National News. 1.0, World Of Sport. 5.15, Tarzan. 6.10, National News and Border Weather. 6.15, Wheel Of Fortune.

6.45, The Saturday Crowd. 7.30, Border Sports Results. 7.25, Jokers Wild. 8.05, Portrait of Clare starring Margaret Johnston, Bailey, Richard Todd, Robin Ronald Howard and Jeremy Spencer. 10.10, National News and Border Weather. 10.15, Saturday Night Theatre: In An- other Country. 11.10, Frost On Saturday. Yorkshire Party Cone pen 1205 atro Party Conference. News. 1.0, World Of Sport. 5.0, Results Round-Up. 5.15, Cowboy In Africa. . 6.10, News. 6.15, The Saturday Crowd. 7.0, Please Sir!

7.30, Edgar Wallace. 8.30, Seven Women From Hell with Patricia Owens, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero. 10.0, News and Weather.

10.10, Saturday Night Theatre: 'In Another Country': 11.10, Frost On Saturday. 12.0, Late Weather.

Westward Party 11.0 a.m.; Conservative Assembly. 12.25 All Our p.m., Yesterdays. 12.55, National News.

Of Sport. 1.01, 1.0, World On The Ball. 1.20, Racing. 3.10, Inter- Sports national Spocial. 4.0 Professional Wrestling. 5.0, Re- sults Round-Up. 5.15, Tarzan. 6.10, National News. 6.15, Wheel Of Fortune. 6.45, The Saturday Crowd. 7.30, Please Sir! 8.05, The Saturday Film: ' Died a Thousand Times' Jack starring Palance. 10.0, National News. 10.10, Frost On Saturday. 11.55, For Life. 12.01, a.m., Faith Weather. defended him, kept him out of prison and got him reinstated in the Party. I speak to all those militants, and above all to one communist whose name I won't give because 1 was not authorized to do so-he never forgot, to his last day. Even after this terrible moral Alexis Kosterin entered test, into struggle for his ideals.

He intervened on behalf of the Germans in the Lower Volga, on behalf of the Tartars of the Crimea and on behalf of other national minorities. He spoke out against the re-birth of Stalinism. ... But how can I enumerate all that this man with a half- broken heart but such a strong soul was able to do? He tried to make us, his friends and companions at arms, share his faith. I remember one of our conversations in which he countered our objections with the following arguments: • Of course the so-called ad- vanced capitalist countries have outstripped us in social development by an entire epoch.

They have satisfied the material and spiritual needs of their citizens much better than we, they have guaranteed the free development of the individual better than we. But have they attained the ideal ? Can a man whose life does not satisfy him whether because or unhappy circum- of birth stances-can he hope to break of the vicious circle in out which he is caught ? Have they created equal con- ditions for the development of everyone? Has misery and crime com- pletely disappeared ? Have social, national, racial inequalities been liquidated ?

What do you propose as an alternative to this system which we see is far from y being perfect? He was silent for several minutes then answered him- self: • The only alternative to this system and to Stalinist "socialism' is Marxist-Leninist socialism, pulled out of the mud, regenerated and 9 developing in liberty. 9.0 a.m., Nai Zindagi-Naya Jee- van. 9.30, Repondez S'il Vous Plait. 10.0, Wie bitte? 10.30, Morning Service. 11.30, Buying a House. 12.0, Know How. 12.30 Representing Union. 1.0-1.15, The Sky At Night. 1.25- 1.50, Farming. 2.0, Ten Classic 2.29, News Headlines. Dishes. 2.30, Day Time. 3.5, The Extra- vagant Story of the Motor Car.

4.40, The Man Who Talks to Children. 5.05, Going for a Song.

5.30, Dombey and Son, 5.55, Ken Dodd. 6.05, News. 6.15, Malcolm Muggeridge asks the Question Why. 6.50, Songs of Praise. 7.25, Detective. 8.15, Play of the Month: Vincent Price in 'The Heiress'. 9.55, News. 10.05, Omnibus. 11.05, Monty Python's Flying CIrcus. 11.35, Weatherman. News Review. 7.00 p.m., 7.25, The World About Us.

8.15, Workshop. 9.05, A Year In the Life.

9.55, Show of the Week. 10.40, Thirty-Minute Theatre.

11.10, News Summary. 11.15, Line-Up: Fllm Night.

11.0 a.m., Church Service. 12.15 p.m., Sunday Session: Families Talking. 12.40-1.05, Your Living Body. 1.25, Sunday Session: Stay Alive. 1.55, Out of Town. 2.15, Sports Arena. 2.45, University Challenge. 3.15, The Big Match.

4.15, The Flaxton Boys. 4.45, The Golden Shot. 5.30, On The Buses.

6.00, News. 6.15, The Great Debate: Father Trevor Huddleston talks with Enoch Powell. 7.00, Stars on Sunday. 7.25, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). 8.20, Music Hall. 9.20, 'Desire Under The Elms' starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, and Burl Ives (part one). 10.10, News. 10.20, 'Desire Under The Elms' (part two). 11.20, Tonight With David Nixon.

12.05 a.m., The Musicians.

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How full of joy he was at the birth of democracy in Czechoslovakia! Hearing the news about the process of democratization there, he burst out: • You see! That's what I told you! There it is, the alter- native to capitalism y and to Stalinism! He had complete confidence in the Czech Communist Party and the Czech people. • But Czechoslovakia is not Russia! People there know what democracy is. They will not endure the barbarism forced on them for long. Stalin made a mistake. Atter a pause he added ironically: • He swallowed a delicacy that his barbaric • stomach couldn't digest. • Czechoslovakia is not Touva or Mongolia! It's an ad- vanced European country with the richest democratic tradi- tions. I think that little Czecho- slovakia will have enough moral strength to sweep the whole socialist world along with it. The Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia marked him deeply. I believe this intervention brought the fatal end closer by putting too heavy a burden on his heart. He followed the evolution of events in Czechoslovakia closely. He seemed to want to hold back the disease that was keeping him in his bed so that he could fly to this people he believed become a and soldier in their ranks. Until his death, until his last sigh, he believed in the victory of the Czechoslovak people because he believed in the strength of the ideas that illuminated the way they had taken and which had illumin- ated his whole life. I bow once again before the this incredible strength of spirit, before his courage, and this fidelity before ideals. I ask you to join me.

I would like to be like him; I would like those close to me, family and friends, to be like him. Border TV a.m., The Morning Service.

11.0 12.15-1.25 p.m., Sunday Session.

1.55, Border Diary. 2.0, Farming Outlook. 2.30, Adam 12. 2.55, Soccer. 3.50, The Prisoner. 4.45, The Golden Shot. 5.30,. The Flaxton Boys. 6.0, National News.

6.15, Creatures Great and All Small. 6.35, A Man On His Own.

Stars On Sunday. 7.25, Strange Report. 8.25, Diamond Head starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, Nuyen, France James Darren. 10.10, National News and Border Weather. 10.20, Music Hall. 11.20, Tonight with David Nixon. 12.05 a.m., Epilogue. Yorkshire 11.0 a.m., Morning Service. 12.15 Sunday Session. 12.40, p.m.. Your Living Body. 1.05, You And Your Child. 1.30, All Our Yester- days. 2.0, Sunday Sport. 3.30, The Moonraker. 5.0, Julia. 5.30, The Flaxton Boys. News. 6.0, 6.15, All Creatures Great And Small. 6.35, A Man On His Own.

7.0, On Sunday. Stars 7.25. Hawaii Five-O. 8.25, Music Hall.

9.25, From Here To Eternity (part one) with Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Ernest Borgnine. 10.10, News and Weather. 10.20, From Here To two). 11.40, To- Eternity (part David Nixon. 12.25 night With a.m., Late Weather. Westward 11.0 a.m., The Morning Service.

Sunday 12.15 p.m., Session. 12.40, Your Living Body. 1.05- 1.25, You And Your Child. 2.0 Farm and Country News. 2.15, Star Soccer. 3.10, "My Foolish Heart' starring Susan Hayward Dana Andrews, Kent Smith and Robert Keith. 4.45, The Golden Shot. 5.30, The Forest Rangers.

All National News. 6.0, 6.15, Creatures Great and Small. 6.35, A Man On His Own: Laurens Van Der Post. 7.0, Stars Sunday. 7.25, Feature Film: 'Red Skies Of Montana' starring Richard Widmark and Constance Smith. 9.10, Msuic Hall. 10.10, National News. 10.20, Strange Report. 11.20, Tonight With David Nixon. Faith For Life. 12.0, 12.06 a.m., Weather.

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G.E.C.-English Electric

MANAGEMENT

TRIES TO SPLIT

WORKERS

EIGHT HUNDRED GEC-English Electric workers, who have been on strike at the company's three By David Merseyside plants since Monday, returned to work Maude yesterday after an undertaking that management staff would be withdrawn from maintenance work.

The company is also trying to convince them thal Mersey dock its threat to make 3,000 workers redundant is not so serious after all. Joint talks aimed at ending the over- time ban which has been in force since August will talks fail take place today. GEC spokesman said vy eanesady. al t panther. MERSEYSIDE port employers failed to get agreement hoping that Aer member. will now understand inat with the Transport and General Workers' Union on thev striking about Wednesday on a new deal for 10,500 dockers.

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Tyneside nonsense distan arose Managemen hat changed misune Mersorde Ima year and t builders "The management's state- FIVE HUNDRED striking miners demonstrated on attempt Thursday outside the Manvers, Yorkshire, headquarters carve-up of the National Coal Board.

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building pite the refusal of Monday counci met no one sacked omicials to meet tne demon work lifted. at the •Codess two strators, miners rom more dits loined the strike Hebburn, alter the meeting Tyneside. * the Cadeby market hoe should bore to out in The site, the propor pinal increases in tollor z2 wie a number ot Boss, Coroned: sier- oR their mateudensy sackinroke yead sacking ate or the

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S.L.L.

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BIRMINGHAM

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WAGES

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Society against the ban. sent 15,00l Vauxhall Luton portles- had

FRANK

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WILLIS,

stable Socialist prospective Preston dock against the Tube men mentary swindon direction's tha sells strike employers squeal ciccuol, COpy sup- workers fress nreaten employers porter on one or swindon's While neit a leaders nousing estates. Irish week with a dune ot Frank, a local engineer, i week • a member of the Socialist halted since early August.

Labour beague as it en conese their chain Is believea inal a Sure en election October 30. be held June i8. Downing alocation of shame or a Volunteers to hen with New body canvassing and other elec- the depot. s5. sch Se again in Turk, it was anon.

On the Northern line, main- Swindon three-week-old strike Rooms : and 18 trains ine on Tuesday Miton Koad. swindon, tonrior to preston oceanne diately! Unions that the Amalgamated Phone. Swindon 4b7u. october 11. 790 Car workers prepare for national conference Thore omely as it is therefore posed very capitalise system crisis of the emplovment and short-timi why workers from the Michelin motornaum a nied Citroen workers and the se workers advi Reports on th vorters in England ain We Europe. isory crich is pare the question leaders 1 ne campain arainst un e which Schumann Nover arrives Trades Unions Moscow Alliance By a foreign correspondent

MAUKICE

SCHUMANN

French Minister, Chorelor conterence Thurs- flew to Moscow on with for Soviet leaders. Motor workers conterenc During his five-day visit he All car, car extend°t capitalism" components and scient the delivery workers are invited Year. 40 d motor workers' Italian workers Two shot conterenct Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth in Chicago fight 'shanty- Birmingham Saturday November 8 march 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. town' scandal credentials to: Write for 3w are shot Parsons Path, arrested he Guevara by the Boliat Oxford. | FOR the third time in a month 200,000 chemical and pharmaceutical workers struck in Italy on Wednesday.

Conterence lee: 5s. a person Their action was in support of claims for a new pay illed by a rally ATUA meeting Democrat The province of Terni, a By a foreign correspondent In Latin America, guerrilla 'Workers' Press and heavily to er the again to t Rome, north producuvity deals brought Sunday, October 12, 3 p.m.

standstill gener He sies dar off me phants linked to Cavenley use while suines hit the day stoppages пиво town Pressure for a habitants are action. Middle East Nations meeting between Soviet and US leaders has produced flurry cent have tuberculosis. further diplomatic activity, conference but no halt to the fighting Disease in the Middle East. lightine or meter late and r, white le child Gromyko Rogers agreed on an Arab-Israeli 'package-deal' to be presen- Egyptian government main bourgeois partith the warring govern- stated it ing to 100ling sita Con completely Hie Social been with rea ments. m49 cessenre Kremlevolutionary Arms embargo truggles of th Within hours of from

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