Workers Press no. 157

No to Geneva conference and protest' opposition!

Workers' action can stop the war workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 157 • THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Indo- China chronology 1859: French invade Indo-China.

FEBRUARY 1930: Communist Party of Indo-China founded.

EPTEMBER 1941• Jananese occuov inco nina aner tall c rance in curop JUNE 1941• Vietminh (communis-ed Liberation Army) Tounded.

GUST 1945: Surrender of Japan. Vietminh seize power a claim Democratic Republic of Vietna

BY MICHAEL BANDA

THE DEATH and devastation policy which 45: British ships begin to bring French troop ack into Indo-China Johnson first unleashed on S Vietnam has now with devastating reached Cambodia force. As Nixon and his press aides were trying to sure the world that US SHIPPING INQUIRY in the French capralist germen.

were going into MAY 1946: French set up puppet 'Republic of Cochin China'.

Cambodia to preserve its Mergers and oCTational Assembly Stil in vote or mina be ir neutrality, the real pur- pose of the invasion was of Defence made brutally clear by a brief item on the Press speed-up has обо ата но вана сольний Association tape. Motione his action It read: indo-china- DECEMBER 1014746: Stalinists vote for provisional military US troops capture town. 'Snoul, Wednesday go ahead indo-chinas ARCH 1949: French establish a puppet government in Indo hina under Bao Di OCTOBER 1949: Victory of Chinese Revolution. Chiang expelled BRITISH shipping companies should be en- trom mainland MAY 1950: US begins military aid to French in Indo-China.

couraged to undertake further mergers in order AUGUSin 50 kur aver. Some sada to train virt to keep pace with rapid technological change, according to the Rochdale committee of inquiry e build- into the state of the industry, which reported 1953-1954: Situation in Indo-China gets worse for French.

yesterday. Apart from recommend- improved training M.P.s play down Cammell tacilities and a retorm oi investment grants The Laird crisis, but system, the report has little Destruction to offer the ailing industry.

Nationalize Natole aven aid let MAY 8, 1954: French forces surrender at Dien Bien Phu.

Stie Opposes to m Front yards' fight ween existing com- ent of Consortia like still urgent Govt aid MERSEYSIDE'S Labour MPs and shipbuilding ar has Unleashed an bodie- union officials are busy playing down the crisis facing Birkenhead's Cammell Laird yards follow- to Diem (now ing their various discussions with government crostaled i Pars to Molotover lepartments over the last few days nstallec JANUiem regiss. US miltary aid begins to flow directly to Dipyara workers suvul not allow themselves to s of this time ant President in on LATE 1957: Diem terror Agreement Lord Rochdale said have votes for the onust Ho Chi Min eulation would manbo both NOVEMBER 1960: National Liberation Front founded in South.

i ne 961: Joint declaration by Diem and Vice-President

MAY

Johnso NOVEMB. 1961: Kennedy steps up military aid to Diem Let a thoro Which would DECEpty increase end lester do your defende the industry's neutral a neva Conference. 14 powers' guarantee

JUNE 1962:

carsis to education sed EMeral Dung Dan overthrown and killed. Replaced by

NOVEMBER

workecessary NOVEMBER 22, 1963: Kennedy assassinated. ' A single union should be He can Be Whitehall, • sender in coate the JAN General guyen Kan Van Minh overthrown. Replaced by

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no more than a us ships be hardeN Gold price rises as Goneral Kanh overthrown. Replaced by Dr

AUGUST

guyen Xuan stocks fall torare point er tong SEPTEMBER 1964:/General Kanh removes Dr Oanh: SEPTABER 1964: Attempted coup by General Lam Van Phat General Kanh again removed-this time by остова an i 0g! pur down denaded his indicates the JANUARY 1965: Huong removed. Dr Oanh back again.

e at Pleiku. smiling ta Witn back in pade Huy Quat replaces Dr Oanh.

FEBRuneral 16 1965. prices, credit by investors tocks

FEBRUARY

crash of 1929. on the appointed UNE 11, 1965: Vice Marshan Chases my only hero stage eduction from some quired market price has now to the eral he decision ad the feder

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

REPORTER

IN ITS

witch-hunt Whippe missa ol Rosemar trom Girlings brombor- ough tactory, the capitalist press several times hinted • 9* nolice invactiga. even finne' though question of any offence by her anyone else had the few then, davs • since SLL members ir the york. shire area have been sub tected anersistent cam. paign of police surveillance.

The neighbours of •Shefield member in woman report over last her mar was constantr watched a man i In baln and by officers in a cortes no ice van

PRETEXT

In Bradford engineering round that the coins worker ans and from unde connuous observation Last Tuesday plain clothes officer Huddersfield of Young Socialists i named 15 mom fictitiously to note was present. Wednesday at 5.20 a.m., on the way to pick Wouters Prese Leeds. leadinis member was stopped called alled a in ine check of Exactly minutes later check all vehicles thic had disappeared completely.

INTIMIDATION

Are the nolice carving out a section sea te place mical doe are.

of the in sket outside Pilkington's caminaion startar th s factory Canal St glass which press, to intimidate SLL and and to create atmosphere where the

SLL

some sort of instead of a the ly with Workers are thay not chawing crude the nickagarr to the rights of the indini- dual as did the press men BLACKLEGGING' on the five-week-old strike at Pil- who pursued Rosemary Whippe? kington's St Helens glassworks was yesterday cut to a bare minimum after three days of renewed mass picket- What is more imnortant: these investigations have ing. the Home fitice canction ?

Several hundred strikers arrived Yo dank the main entrance the morn- Lenin Centenary Two lectures to mark the hundredth anniversary of Lenin's attempts General and Muni cipal Work Gen birth to force a re- and company

TUTT

who re those Cismissal main Pilking- But discount thet ton's claim to have re-started production at St Helens some either inhe unlikel the few hundred worters whi Monday and returned Tuesday or the three labour- one broduction worker who Monday, May 11, 7.30 p.m.

and One carmer were able wAnt Vecterday nythin "Theory-practice and nroduce all unnoit for the ctrira troT the revolutionary party' transport Arivard hitterg stopped both Hoc the Suppa of tananae and hudradar the alace Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m.

wine out any possibility of produc • Lenin and the coming tion fuethar than wane oftorn cottlement English Revolution' A slogan popular during the recent wave of strikes in Ital told than Both lectures will be given by increasingly appropriate one for workers at St Helens G. HEALY, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League

FOOD

STRIKE

BEAVER HALL

Garlick Hill, London, E.C.4 the ALL production has stopped stopped

ATT

April (Near Mansion House tube station) factories of Bachelor's Foods brothers subsidiary Le is men strike of Admission two shillings over man- moves into its second

No to Geneva conference and protest' opposition!

Workers' action can stop the war workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 157 • THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Indo- China chronology 1859• French invade Inco-China.

FEBRUARY 1930: Communist Party of Indo-China founded.

Japanese occupy Indo-China after fall of SEPTEM In Cope JUNE 1941: Vietminh (Communist-led Liberation Army) founded.

oclaim Democratic Republic at Vietnan seize power a GUS 194 ourender or da

BY MICHAEL BANDA

THE DEATH and devastation policy which ships begin to bring French troops Johnson first unleashed on S Vietnam has now force. devastating reached Cambodia with As Nixon and his press aides were trying to as-

SHIPPING INQUIRY

sure the world that US troops going into were MAY 1946: French set up puppet 'Republic of Cochin China'.

Cambodia to preserve its Mergers and neutrality, real pur- the of the invasion was Dost made brutally clear by a brief item on the Press speed-up has

DECEMBER

Association tape. It read: "Indo-China- DECEMdge for 194748: Stalinists vote for provisional military capture town. one Ginalion to Marshal al ram a to a ga go ahead.. MAY 1947: French MARCH 9d Bad bastablish a puppet government in indo i OCTOBER if Victory of Chinese Revolution. Chiang expalled BRITISH shipping companies should be en- begins military aid to French in Indo-China.

couraged to undertake further mergers in order

MAY 1950: US

AUGUST 1950: Korean war begins. US advan leade to keep pace with rapid technological change, according to the Rochdale committee of inquiry into the state of the industry, which reported 1953.1954: Situation in Indo-China gets worse for Frenc yesterday. Apart from recommend- improved ing training M.P.s play down Cammell facilities and a reform of grants investment the Laird crisis, but system, the report has little to offer the ailing industry.

Nationalize ommite forced MAY 8, 1954: French forces surrender at Dien Bien Phu.

1967 lowint

JULY

French yards' fight Cardinal Spella Man las still urgent Govt aid MERSEYSIDE'S Labour MPs and shipbuilding union officials are busy playing down the crisis * our in and Chou til (chil facing Birkenhead's Cammell Laird yards follow- ing their various discussions with government departments over the last few days.

US military aid begins to flow directly to

JANUARY

Shipyard workers should

BY DAVID MAUDE

not anow memselves lo LATE 195 salem stop-gap before allowing simi- be so easily disarmed. wrote i were participation nee Aureement or the yars and whateve the 7,SD dess menteached by both NOVEMBER 1960: National Liberation Front founded in South.

and Vice-President MAY 13nson.: Joint declaation by Diem Merchant NOVEMBER 1961: Kennedy steps up military aid to Diem deports their the ird whichdu DECromply increase out tester do oyour Woefence snall JUNE raiSe of a Geneva Conference. 14 powers' guarantee analysis to de taking more rounded with a sere wot he ot NOVEMBra Dung Dan overhrown and killed. Replaced by saucation leaders NOVEMBER 22, 1963: Kennedy assassinated.

A single union should be

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Van Minh overthrown. neplacod wy General Nguyen Kanh

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Tonkin incident. US ships bominciden Gold price rises as win backing for all-out war in Vietnam.

Buyen ua Dantal Kanh overthrown. Replaced by Dr stocks fall Lairds goes in leadies SEPTEMBER 1964: /General Kanh removes Dr Oanh.

SEPTEMBER 1964: Attempted coup by General Lam Van Phat General Kanh again removed-this time by "elt tre leadin Ere was always one go Huong removed. Dr Oanh back again.

JANUART 1800.

-bombing of us tano at Plaiku.

What worries them is the FEBRUARY orders fi

1965: NLF,

fear that a collaps JonAson Huy Quat replaces Dr Oanh.

FEBRUARY

buying or stockedi credit

FEBRUARY

These vit relaxing the restriction failures throughou JUNE 1, tag Vice Marathan caes my only hero sages crash of 1929. The sharp fall in profits decision and the fed. eral Reserve

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

REPORTER

IN ITS attempt to whip up a witch-hunt around the dis.

Whippe missa of kosemart from Kir inos Krombor. ough factory, the capitalist Binet ha several times "police investiga- tions', though Crel quesuon or any orence had Sier •anvone e se arisen. the few days since then, SLL members in The york. Shire are? have been suh. jected to a persistent cam- paign of police surveillance.

The young netchbours ot one woman member in Sheffield report that over last week- n in paly end her flat catched and by officers in a

DOLICE

val.

PRETEXT

• Bradford engineering worker roue that the com.

goings and ines and were under from This fai continuous observation. Last Tuesday plain ciesdes cer entered evening meeting of Huddersfield Young Socialists on the pre- text looking skined 75 mem.

SURE

fictitiously fact

OLIV

NOTE

wao was coresen. Then, on Wednesday at 5.20 a.m., on the way to pick the wowers Press Trom strich leading member was stopped car for what the his called routine check of all vehicles in the minutes check on vehicles had disappeared completely.

INTIMIDATION

Are the police carrying out mounted outside Pilkington's mass Campalsa, started TEn€ Helens Canal St glass factory Dress. to mimicate •ce ani forced the plant to virtually close down.

Y memher And to create atmosphere where tha

SLL

sort of political of openl Workers the r ress i And they showing the same disregard of the 170l01- BLACKLEGGING' on the five-week-old strike at Pil- pursued Rosemary who Whippe? kington's St Helens glassworks was yesterday cut to a bare minimum after three days of renewed mass picket- What is more the Home Slice sanction ?

have investitions ing. Several hundred strikers early the arrived ing to flank the main entrance the massive Canal Lenin Centenary cheet works and ned was a petrol tanker, a lomer carry- glass-tank equipment and but five out about 30 men lice, who arrived for work Two lectures walkie- carrying were out to mark the after clashes huesady s hundredth and about between the Dickers tollowing afternoon anniversary Shitt. The strikers are increasingly angry about 'scabbing', of Lenin's tha birth dismissal for those who ror man OUL. But they discount Pilking- some Groduction at st-Seletes to have re-started unlikely that either the few hundred workers who or the Moree Monday and production rite able carrier Monday, May 11, 7.30 p.m.

yesterday •Theory-practice and produce anythin support for the strike from the revolutionary party' driver hitters and transnort has now stopped both main- tenance and supply tanks Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m.

" Lenin and the coming weeks after a settlement.

English Revolution' than Both lectures will be given by one for wakers at st Helens.

increasingly G. HEALY, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League

FOOD

STRIKE

BEAVER HALL

Garlick Hill, London, E.C.4 ALl Production has stopped stonned (Near Mansion House tube station) factories of Bachelor's Foods subsidiary IF 19 boatenance brothers strike Admission two shillings illal ning moves into its second week.

PAGE TWO

THE BAN on Workers Press industrial correspondent David Maude by the Labour and Industrial Correspon- dents' Group has raised very forcibly the vital issue of relations between censorship and the government departments and the press.

The Group's vote to exclude our correspondent bars the Workers Press from access to advance copies of government White Papers and other documents, and from the confidential 'briefings' at which government ministers and leading trade unionists give their views on a 'non-attributable' basis.

Government ministers and the Tory press want the Workers Press kept out of this 'magic circle' at all costs. They are backed in the Industrial Group by 'Morning Star' reporter M. Ambrose, who voted with admitting David the majority of the group against Maude. A REMARKABLE and revealing document is now in the hands of the Workers Press. It is the rule-book of the Press Lobby and Parliamentary Press Gallery-the group of accredited and care- fully vetted correspon- dents who are graciously allowed to enter the hallowed sanctuaries of the Houses of Parliament and 'report' the delibera- tions of their members. This "freedom', however, at a price. is granted only The price is adherence to the rule-book, which lays down very severe limitations cannot what can and be published. 'wrong' hands—i.e., to see to it that the working class is Elementary like things kept in ignorance about the 'incidents' and con- names, behind-the-scenes versations cannot be pub- rings of the government and Opposition. lished without violating the 'code' — a code which, like In carrying this task, out the parliamentary lobby has so many other hypocritical one great advantage over the institutions of British capital- Industrial Group: not only ism, has no official existence.

does it have no official exist- but it is backed up by ence, rules of parlia- the stringent Source mentary privilege. In theory, it is a breach of report the Alas- privilege to As 'Guardian' editor debates of the House of Com- tair Hetherington pointed out what takes mons, let alone in his address at the University behind the scenes. February 26: place of Stirling on / servilé dol- But the lobby's 'In theory there is no lobby laboration with the authorities, it system and, strange as of its kind character as sounds, lobby correspondents political mafia, gives its effec- are supposed to keep confiden- unlimited the tively power over tial the very existence of The parliamentary reporting. lobby and meetings. lobby nevertheless meets regu- like a kind of semi- Cyphers larly, secret society. It is briefed by the Prime The rules reveal the lobby Minister, the Leader of the correspondents as mere cyphers Opposition, the Leader of the of policy, Whip and government syco- House, Chief phants who wait at the cabinet -all of course on a non- others— table for pieces of information attributable basis. It is the which be uncritically must of important source many shovelled into the columns of political stories.' their newspapers. Like the Labour and Indus- Any correspondent who did Correspondents' Group, trial otherwise would be quietly voted 19-4 to which recently but effectively hounded out by exclude from membership our the group. correspondent David Maude, the lobby has as its main pur- This is made clear to every be- restrict and new lobby correspondent pose to regulate the dissemination of govern- fore he is allowed to begin work. Each new recruit to the ment news and ensure that in- formation gets into the 'right' lobby is carefully screened by an official of the House called hands and is kept out of the

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The document, which is dealt with in this article, reveals that the system of exclusive 'groups' of jour- nalists who enjoy a special relationship with the government departments is not confined to the in- dustrial sphere. The parliamentary lobby is even more exclusive and carefully regulated than the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group. A similar system undoubtedly operates in relation to other government departments. Seven years ago, the then Opposition leader, Harold Wilson, spoke of the relations between the Foreign Office and the diplomatic correspondents: *Press comment is conditioned by official press conferences—particularly by the Foreign Office. Nothing is said to parliament by the Foreign Office, and diplo matic correspondents are reduced to utter dependence on a daily briefing at the Foreign Office. If the press By John Spencer It is no accident that the the Serjeant-at-Arms-a man Com- selected for his absolute correspondents of the of Party's 'Morning Star' devotion to preservation munist i are among the most loyal up- parliamentary procedure and holders of the labby rules. for his impeccable ruling-class credentials. The 'British Road to Social- The present incumbent is a ism', the Party's Stalinist pro- man named Alexander Gordon gramme, elevates parliamentary Lennox, rear-admiral, cretinism to a principle. holder of

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and the Like all the other reformists, Knight Commander of the 'left' Labour including the Bath. MPs, the Stalinists collaborate in maintaining and building up If the correspondent the facade 'parliamentary allowed to join the lobby- -and democracy' like 'Private Eye' acting in this some, re- porter Auberon Waugh, respect as a vitally necessary are on the 'blacklist' even before supplement to the activities of the Tory press. they apply—he is shown the rules and told top-secret to The lobby is the system abide by them 'or he will be highest pinnacle of Britain's blacklisted. kept press. Secrecy Ignorance The secrecy is nothing new to the lobby. Anthony Howard of the It is highly satisfactory to 'New Statesman' wrote a few everybody except the reader, years ago: who is kept in total ignorance of the back-stage jockeying at 'For men whose task is to the Palace of Westminster.

find things about other out the lobby Like the Industrial Group, people, correspon- dents traditionally display the parliamentary correspon- really remarkable wariness and dents are allowed to write just resentment when anyone tries what the authorities want the of investigate nature them to write--and nothing TO their own activities; not more. even the vestal virgins guarded the Once again, the Tory press of their craft more emerges as nothing more than zealously.' a creature of the 'authorities' The sheer servility which what the - printing just emerges from these rules, the authorities want printed and worshipping at the shrine of material which suppressing mysticism, might upset the parliamentary is careful nur- not merely carried out by the tured picture of parliamentary Tory press. democracy.

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its undoubted right to criticize, then the exercises facilities dry up. Correspondents are demoted from the inner ring to the outer ring, and are denied information altogether by a system of administrative blackballing.

•Whitehall spokesmen should recognize not only that facts are sacred but that comment must be free...

Under Wilson's administration the system—in relation to every government department, not just the Foreign Office-remains the same as it was under the Tories. And the Tory press-and the 'Morning Star'— not only keeps obstinately silent about this system, but uses it gleefully to hound out the representatives of the Workers Press. Here is the other side of last week's concerted Socialist Labour League. The witch-hunt against the such unanimity against press, which lines up with revolutionary politics, is unanimous in accepting the rules and regulations of the government.

'Sometimes it may be right to protect your informant to the extent of not using a story at all [!] This has often [!] been done in the past, and it forms one of the foundations of the good and confidential rela- tionship between the lobby and members of all panties.

'Remember always that you office hold responsible [responsible to whom- -to the of all parties", the "members Serjeant - at - Arms, the readers? Ministers, and that Members and officials have right to rely on your tact and discretion. 'Keep in mind that: (1) while you have complete free- dom to get your own stories in your and while way, there no restrictions of any kind of personal initiative, you have a duty to the lobby as a whole; (2) you should do to prejudice the com- nothing life munal of the lobby, or the relations with the two Houses the and authorities; (3) this is in your interest and that of your office, as well as in the general interest of the lobby' It is one thing when news- censored papers are against will, or when their news iS 'Briefings' forcibly suppressed. But what can be said about a press that voluntarily itself, in When the lobby correspon- which the journalists' group 1s the chief disciplinary body?

dent has digested the implied threat in the final paragraph The in rules-now our of this section of the rules, hands - are headed coyly he can proceed to read the 'notes on the practice of lobby section on 'collective lobbying', journalism' and bear the legend which deals with the top- 'private and confidential'. secret 'briefings' addressed by Workers Press industrial cor- respondent David Maude (right), who has been refused admission to the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' He with Group. seen engineering union official Ernie Roberts outside last year's Labour Party conference. "The of lobby technique journalism,' the rules say,' can be fully acquired only by It is a technique experience. which brings the iournalist into close contact with Minis- ters and Members of Parlia- ment of all parties, and im- on him very high Doses standard of responsibility and discretion in making use of the special facilities given him for writing about political affairs.'

The first rule in the book is spelled out under the head- 'individual lobbying': ing 'Over a period of 75 years the lobby has been under an obligation in- name formants. Moreover experience shown that Ministers and hac MPs talk more freely under the rule of anonymity.. It correspondent's is the lobby his primary duty to protect informants, and care must be Available from NEW PARK anything taken not to reveal that lead their might to London, S.W.4 identification. Out this month: Where is Britain Price: 75. 6d. Leading Tepsion Movernment and The section heavily stresses the need lor ment security Ordee of conceal the very exis- sateguarding or un formants': 'Do not talk about they themse pear to know something the arrangements made by th

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lobby, do not confirm their conjectures, or assume that, as they appear to know so much, they may safely be told the rest. 'Steps have been taken to prevent leakages of informa- tion about lobby meetings through Departmental officials and others. This section ends with what is surely the understatement of the century: "The lobby's machinery can- 'not operate effectively unless the courtesy and co-operation shown by Ministers and officials are reciprocated.'

Even more farcical are the 'general hints' which follow this section: 'Do not "see" anything in the Members' lobby, or in any of the private rooms or cor- ridors of the Palace of West- minster. You are a guest of parliament, and it has always been the rule that incidents, pleasant or otherwise, should be treated as private, if they happen in those parts of the building to which lobby cor- respondents have access be- cause their names are on the lobby list. This rule is strictly enforced by the authorities' Etiquette The blinded' correspon- dents should comport them- selves properly too. They are solemnly enjoined: 'Do not run after a Minister or Private Member. ... When a member of the lobby is in conversation with a Minister or Private Member another member of the lobby should not join in the conversation unless invited to do so. Nor should the lobby activities of any colleague ever be the sub- ject of published comment...

Do not use a notebook, or, as in a rule, make notes when private conversation in the members' lobby. NEVER, in ANY circumstances, make use of anything accidentally over- heard in any part Palace of Westminster. 'Finally, if you are in doubt about ANY point of the lobby etiquette or practice, consult the Chairman or the honorary secretary of the lobby. They special facilities have clearing up doubtful points with the authorities.' TIONS, 186a Clapham High Street Price 12s. 6d.

Thursday, May 7, 1970 Above: Pictures taken at intervals of 9, 19 and 38 minutes show the growth of a cloud seeded with silver iodide particles.

modern

INSIDE HIS

ive winds before moving up storm': and from the away buildings, has man COre learned to fashion the In order to decrease the speed of the winds and spread atmosphere exactly to the energy over a larger area his liking. By setting to produce less damage, silver dials he cools and de- iodide particles sprayed are humidifies the air in hot, into the clouds from storm airplanes. damp seasons and heats The particles convert very and adds water vapour cold droplets into ice water crystals, releasing heat into the to it during cold, dry storm. times. According to the theory, the added heat should cause pres- But outside his enclosures, changes sure that result in man is just beginning to lessening the wind speed.

This technique been achieve the capability of tried recently three hur- on predicting the 'whims' of the which began in the ricanes elements and is still a long Caribbean Sea including 1969's Hurricane Debbie-and from way exercising any after careful study to isolate decisive the control over changes produced by 'seeding' weather. than normal rather variations which occur, it has been tent- Floods and droughts, hur- concluded that the tornadoes, hail- atively ricanes and storms and tidal waves still storms were weakened by as much as 30 per cent. roads destroy crops, tear up disrupt and bridges, com- 'Rainmaking' and electrical munications transmission lines and Dower endanger human life. Man's attempts to alter knowledge Today as about of precipita- natural patterns the atmosphere grows through trainate usuallor hoeht of se the use of rockets and satel- 'rainmaking', the purpose lites in particular, attempts to of alleviating droughts. influence the weather are based Since 1963. ESSA has been chemicals into the on putting conducting research in seeding right time atmosphere at the fluffy, cumulus-type clouds TO and place. determine the conditions under made which they be to dissipate by seeding. Stormfury crow or In many clouds, liquid water In the United States, the temperatures well Department of Commerce— below freezing, but they will through its Environmental if little no rain there are not enough freezing Science Services Administra- tion (ESSA)-is engaged in a nuclei- -particles which can number of field experiments start the growth of ice crystals.

designed and to learn how When artificial nuclei-such under what conditions rain can silver iodide particles- as -are be increased diminished, added, much the super- heavy dispersed fall snow to cooled water changes to ice. lightly larger more over great deal In this process, area, hail decreased, lightning of heat is released which, in suppressed and hurricanes causes the cloud some cases inau weakened. large clouds grow. Project Stormfury is a joint more than small usually rain US Navy project

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and which is seeking means of chemically taming the hur- ricane. BEFORE the British- within a hur- The power made racial Constitution ricane is too great to be countered any source of Smith came to office energy yet controlled by man, attempted Britain slight human change. under British-controller white domination eration. clouds circling the detre, producing desrac.

This attempt broke down, In the by

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Available from New Park Publications Ltd, 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4. clouds, scientists believe that this technique should encour- age increased rainfall. Experiments which have already been carried out sug- that seeding increases gest rainfall from individual clouds by 100 to 150 per cent and further tests will be taking place this year. Man has already, but unin- tentionally, interfered with the weather. It is at this point that meteorology and ecology meet. The eradication of trees and other vegetation to make room for cities has sharply reduced water evaporation into the air.

Smoke emissions from homes, office buildings and factories have increased atmospheric dust particle accumulations.

As a consequence, an aver- age city gets 30 per cent less sunlight and 10 per cent more rain than open country. Until weather modification but, in doing so, it paved the way on the one hand for the fraudulent "independence' of N Rhodesia which became Zambia and Nyasaland, which became Malawi, and, on the other hand, for a 'white' regime in S Rhodesia.

This regime would secure the northern borders guard- ing the precious mineral wealth of S Africa for imperialism. This Zambezi line drawn by Whitehall was, in fact, part of NATO strategy globally. In terms of this strategy there was to be no 'independ- ence' or 'majority rule' South of S Rhodesia and the Portu- guese colonies, except for Bot- swana, Swaziland and Basuto- the so-called 'Protecto- land, rates. The latter could safely have African governments, since the latter would be closely con- trolled by the apartheid regime and monopoly capital in S Africa. The Zambezi was to be the 'white line' South of which the colour bar would nat be disturbed. When the Central African Federation was breaking up, Lord Malvern was succeeded in 1957 by the Liberal Gar- field Todd as Prime Minister of S Rhodesia. Smith

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research advances to make its techniques widely operational, there still remain the latest methods of weather forecasting to minimize the effects of violent weather. In this field the satellite and the computer have prepared the way for huge advances.

Models Theoretically, the mathe- matical equations governing the motion of gases have been known for many years, but in the absence of adequate in- formation weather on con- ditions (temperature, pressure, density, humidity, etc.) at a particular time and over large regions and because of the complexity of the equations, prediction had to be carried out with the crudest models which yielded inadequate results. Garfield Todd has long had a reputation, encouraged by the African National Congress and other servants of the Liberals, for "liberalism' and "progressive' for being whatever that can mean when he was premier of a white- controlled government, based franchise colour-bar on which shut the Africans out from all political rights.

Lord Malvern himself, form- erly Sir Godfrey Huggins, was the first federal prime min- ister. He was duly knighted by the British government, as was the settler-leader, Coghlan, long before. Coghlan presumably received his knighthood for his firm stand against the Africans in the 1920s. He had cam- paigned for lynch law against the Africans and when the Prince of Wales visited south- ern Africa in the 1920s, Cogh- lan received his knighthood.

Thus did Britain bless racial- ism and tyranny in S Rhodesia.

Malvern had the honesty to describe the Central African Federation, which was hailed by supporters of the Capricorn Society as 'partnership', by its

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Today, satellites such as the American ITOS and the Soviet METEOR can give ample in- and high-speed formation computers can rapidly deal with calculations based on fairly comprehensive and com- of the atmo- plex 'models sphere's movements. It is planned to provide Britain with a week-ahead accurate weather within the forecast next two years. Meteorologists have already worked out plans for possible weather satellite systems to cover the entire globe. One scheme that suggests only seven 'metsats' would be coupled necessary, to an advanced computer system to process the stream of data.

The cost is likely to be large, but details will be known when the results of a £100,000 study being carried out by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics is published in the near future.

proper name: It was, he said, the 'partnership of rider and horse' This same Malvern, placed in power by the British govern- and parliament, con- ment tinued the old British apart- heid policy which, in turn, was taken further by the Todd regime. Todd, an ex-missionary, and later opponent of Smith, came out with a 'liberal' proposal to raise the number of Afri- the racial common cans on roll from 2 per cent to 20 per cent, making it clear that this 20 per cent was a fixed maxi- mum figure. Todd's liberalism meant that over 95 per cent of the popula- tion would have 20 per cent of the franchise-—a racial dis- crimination which meant that 19/20ths of the people would have a fifth of the nomina vote. (In fact the high qualifi- cations virtually excluded them from parliament, let alone office.) It also meant 5 per cent of the population would have 4/5ths of the franchise-one which they could fully exer- cise. Satellites like the ITOS (Improved Tiros Opi much more accurate information on the mov

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In fact it was racial discrim- ination of 76 to one in favour of the Europeans. Todd's franchise was: designed, he said, to increase African collaboration with the settler-regime and would be, he claimed, perfectly safe for 'white' rule. Even this, however, was too bitter for the European voters to swallow and he was replaced by Sir Edgar Whitehead. Before he left the premier- ship, however, Todd doubled the head-tax for Africans. He also backed the use of Federal troops to shoot down African strikers at the Wankie coal- fields. Malvern, Todd and White- head all presided over a polic of terror against the Africar workers and peasants. This terror was legitimized by the British 1950 Subversive Áctivi- ties Act. This Act, sanctioned by Whitehall and Westminster, was first used against Benja- min Burombe's African Voice Association, then against African National Congress, formed by Dunduza

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Satellite) above are now being developed to give roved Tiros Operational tion on the movement of the atmosphere. of Nyasaland and by Force jet-bombers and rocket- Chisiza Vampires the George Nyandere. firing against Liberation Zimbabwe Army The same British law was formed in 1963. later used and his by Smith colleagues, Harper and Field It was then that the British against Nkomo and 126 other 2,000 Africans in S arrested Zimbabwe African banned Rhodesia alone. The same Peoples Union members.

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and police terror was used by Britain against the This reign of British terror, continued Smith, took workers and peasants of the by 1950 and future Malawi, when a guerrilla place under the associated laws made rebellion broke out there in by 1959-1960. in which even a Britain. The same Subversive Activi- number of chiefs took part ties Act was invoked to bring in the pre-'independence' out the Rhodesian Royal Air struggle.

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Local elections-Swing to Labour Scottish workers say French E.P.

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SHEFFIELD

ANCILLARY WORKERS at the British Steel Corporation's Grimesthorpe, Sheffield, works face a crucial stage in their struggle for an im- mediate wage increase. A MARKED swing a

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Negotiations were

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started over six weeks ago Labour Party back i on a claim for a £3 a week The maintainance key Scottish municip now work increase on the basic rate gained nothing for all ancillary workers to ancillary elections. work lifted be followed by an increase overume Dall llas DeCil ano nas not beer on bonus earnings which, 'he lories lost over. it Is une lal all control of Glasgow, tory with the national engin- that

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stewards to recommend acceptance Britain's second largest eering package deal in- of the management's offer the next meeting in the city and were ousted in crease due in the autumn, with the way the important towns of would mean a total in- maintainance men. East Kilbride and Dun- crease of £5 a week. watch Anculary Workels out! The claim has been put fermline. At the mass meeting Motherwell, Paisley, forward in order to keep following policies should Musselburgh, Clydebank the ancillary workers' asiccu. • Reject the management's and six other municipal- bonus in line with piece- and vote im- ities fell to Labour in a work earnings-recently mediate decisive action of the original support swing which indicates increased by a negotiated claim without strings. rise in job prices. working-class growing No flexibility. of the Seeds ore mack o consciousness Unity with the maintain- mass meeting weeks need to keep the Tories megang for other all other ance offering a £2 12s 6d immediate out. Increases The vote clear Increase ucu dor cemenl gave deal in the productivity Reject on greater flexibility new

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evidence sharp meeting of ancil- _the The mass present being class polarization taking lary workers relected TOlS be brought negotiated to place in the run-up to the ofter and imposed an immedi this overtime ban support IntO operation General Election Jatel of the original autumn. this year or early next

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year. The Scottish Nationalis During the following week, Party, U.S. scientists the seats it won in 1967, lost 2 when maintenanc men works were on ana caned only live. stain, the shop ste wards wited on dole i ne LI Deral lOST tour seats. Independents and hed mainedst Party the overume Dan, arzulls lau and the Communist to unold it aurine une main- lost one seat tainance strike would weaken By a science correspondent the hand of the strikers. decision was taken Polarization THE ECONOMIC squeeze consultation with the theolarization the and file had origin- the united States The noted the massive cutback in rederal Gréater London of Stalinist- funds for basic research Council elections last month ésulted situation where develop to continue with the Real sonaarily favour- maintainance men would have es as high as $15,000 are no able conditions l0l a powe.

been oreanize laclory. offered a wide luckv if thev are strike wares Tories at the next election against productivity. after making hundreds of ap fight means plications. on v against tae lories. Dul unemployment rate for against the Labour The Headers doctorates hourine who have created the con

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Americaniysilists ditions the electora ceived inell made 1964 and now 1966 are in jeopardy then pat threer ears more three London area, Midlands: past vedis Dry and sunny. Light to mod- than half the national rate of powertul winds. erate. socialist will im per cent, according to a 23C (73F). Doncies Max. recent survey. Dry and sunny. meciate v sureneuned Shengand. working movement Moderate, SE winds. Very warm inland. Max. 23C (73F) Specialists who have spen class and ensure the dereau average of 5} of the Tories on a national veats ON mal near coasts. Max. 14C post-graduate training scale. are inburst jobs outside phy- and E Scotland: ice and le they took toron the Dry and sunny apart patches near coast very warm

NO TOILETS

Fresh strand. Max. 20C (68). Nor or winas. "There Is now very much

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ate shees of emergency an 12C mal near coasts. physics community (54F). Institute said American ABERDEEN dockers Physics director William are le ships winds. al a press conterence in Nev until berthed 19C (66F). york last weet lavatories Entral or newiy-modernized hernal so here, are obenea susanne bills or lne insu turned down education Channel Islands: tute's Ine Have Neands. and manpower added: their otters rom employels Dry and sunny. Isolaled tua open a cutes unell der Light. SE winds. later. Max. 23C (73F). 'There's such a tense feel either in company omces Very warm. _ among student y They're in a store until a dispute over ing England: Guthreaks dreading the supervision of the lavatories Bright thun Light, rain. inter is settled graduate. winds. warm. Max. 18C (64F). Vals. Occasional loads Rather wam. Max. 162 Irelanu. ocal thunder. bicul, (61F). Outlook for Friday and Satur- Dry East and North. Outbreaks of thundery rain in the SW. Con- anuine walll.

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was at shipping Merse. yesterda! stanasul men- 140 gigboat anout docking help With une ships-came out on strike in river's tugmen, demanding a who are raise their weekly. Crease now in their basic to £25, are third week on strike. TWo ColonS rull subscriotion (For any two days ted dally ·i tor thre) OR for three months

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Thousands of American troops I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for areas on the eve Bien French defeat at ru vesterudy. An estimated 45,000 Ameri- Name troops can and s vietnamese may now be inside Cambodia.

Vietnamese troops. Address widening allied taliating for assaults communist com mack camps inside Cambodia, Workere base Post to: Circulation Organizer, •Prese. 1868 lemilitarized Clapham High Street, London, SWA. (Tel: 01-720-2000) the inflicting zone toddy. nearly heaviest casuallies two years.

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BY A POLIIIVAL ACPVRICH

Working class politically and Workers thereby heaps to keep Nixon swing against the Tories swept the ness of Nixon's military pess- action feat municipalities after Tuesday's local

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hopitest Arito, the Brazilian guerrillas was welco fire-bombs hunted with ship has launched a the area South 1960litica onsisoners More tremors intere ate many more to stateh capita many more to Sao National between come. searchin detachments Phe United Stareshe action of olutionary the No fear Laid waste British labour can make The forest been laid has nighty contribution in haste areas

WIL

He eraton or the na stop destruction Yet the guerrilla movements countryside, and the operatin will give by the stalisus, ted suste ve cal on rate init turehe brutality of the Brazi- • leader- trade unionists Stalinistsitically support bicycles peris nists covertly, What their hatreth st groups rena stoppe an a erot in the stewart be kicker working-class Aided Shipping DOMINICAN police have announced the arrest of two of President Balaguer's bodyguards in connection with the murder of a leading trade unionist on Sunday.

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struggle be- the

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1 prostic al Exposed e or nights US im he Cambodiat evokes, it has one con persation. It has hold and they whink the to hate in the kee SIL and the Workers Press.

this by 'pressure' on the Presi Doing of American bayonets.

We say the defeat of im. Raid On April 9 their premise ere raided following

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and not only of Us im-

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presen was a chosand times of Stock - right i Kears Brid's Eye frozen foods an Obstacle

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innumerat Wakin powder The main obstacle to mobi- APRIL 12, 1966: First B-52 bombers in raid on N Vietnam Chair MAY 8, 1966: US bombing raid near China frontier.

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considerable declared by especially ome

FEBRUARY 1968:

NLF Tet Ottensive ven for President nailed in Vietnam NOVEMBER 1968: US 'bombing pause' begins.

The manic. FEBRUARY 1969: New Tet Offensive. Big US and puppet losses JUNE holds 1954 Geneva great pared so upholds e be me 1954 Agreement: strictly abide NoV arch 1968 Revelations or us army massacres " FEBRUAnive in Laos gains momentums is step up supply ofeen and alms to gains moments.

up supply the 4 Te may chin MARCH 18, 1970: Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia deposed bo stalled. Massacres of Vietnamese minority in Cambodia 536.220 -the big. TWO HUNDRED workers at the Coventry factory of ounce begin. s se nedee Courtaulds Engineering Ltd have been on strike since APR Wal oVer i next year.

ment sold las see. 1970: Nixon announces 150,000 US troops with Tuesday, and will be meeting next Monday to discuss

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further action on their Claim for zs an nour increase 1970: Nixon announces invasion of Cambodia.

Confidence loss "stice and argol a dost nik minar of alan honkers ney toom the stock mar- Ket have thing with a brighter future The rise in the gola pric the dis, le of confidence i world's francial and credi

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not some By our science correspondent ahe are terratee sea at Maure rugged Fra Maur region is Apollo-is mis- tried "stiflover crisis of Wall The troubles age and origin of the solar the death system Inursaay. May t, 19ru Garaudy expelled

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AT THE request of the Party secretariat. Garaudy, Roger stalinist heretic been re- has already moved by the leadership from the Central Com- French mittee not the Communist Party, has been expelled, by a small majority, from his Party cell at Chennevières-sur- Marne. ic or he workins class in developed capitalist societie of technicians and intellec to bread the Spanishi miners strike. Booed is he was boised at tine ci Stalinism.

SOVIET-

CZECH

TREATY

SIGNED

I yet been made prie Cammell Laird

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weak rank-and-file organization. Agreement negotiated vorking, elimination of severa nary necions. started monte one young bier. CP confusion munist Sty willi shis the Partes Barry tellini. Stalinists have building under industry raise cide This boilermakers at Upper yatt must not be buried