THE DEATH and devastation policy reached Cambodia with devastating

As Nixon and his press aides were trying to assure the world that US in the French capitalist government. troops were going into Cambodia to preserve its neutrality, the real purpose of the invasion was of Defence.

made brutally clear by a killing thousands. Indo-Chinese war begins. brief item on the Press Association tape.

It read: 'Indo-ChinaUS troops capture town. budget for 1947. 'Snoul, Wednesday American tanks captured the Cambodian plantation town of Indo-China. today after US air śtrikes destroyed 90 per cent China under Bao Dai.

soldiers celebrated the victory by tearing from mainland.

city blocks one roletely levelled. "neutrality' served' by Attila and his airborne Huns.

Destruction to the others.' Unable to defeat the Liberation Front (NLF)-or even find it— the JS high command, with th anction of Nixor and the critical approval of Wilson and Stewart, have decided to destroy every sign of civilizasive and rookend high explo- eastern Cambodia Chose whom the Gods wish • destroy first cedented installed-thanks to Molotov-in the South).

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have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh.')

Johnson.

regime.

effort...:

Berkeley California 'neutrality' of Laos.

General Duong Van Minh.

NOVEMBER 22, 1963: Kennedy assassinated. ' General Nguyen Kanh. Gold price rises as to win backing for all-out war in Vietnam.

THE ORGANIC relation- GANIC relationfails. ship of politics and eco- inlitics and nomics is clearly revealed in the interaction of the IndoTran Van Huong.

China crisis and the crisis of confidence which began to shake US capital in April.

When Wall St closed on Tuesday it was at its lowest level since August, 1963.

General Kanh back in saddle. Alarmed by the continuing fall, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it appointed chief of state. was relaxing the restrictions the down payment rea military coup, ousts Phan Khac Suu. quired to buy stocks.

Only 65 per cent of the • PAGE market price has now to be SHIPPING INQUIRY Mergers and speed-up has go ahead....

BRITISH shipping companies should be encouraged to undertake further mergers in order to keep pace with rapid technological change, according to the Rochdale committee of inquiry into the state of the industry, which reported yesterday.

Apart from recommending improved training facilities and a reform of the investment grants system, the report has little to offer the ailing industry.

stages between corin companies, but welcomes the Govt aid It also recommends steps to improve the image' of the industry in workers' eyes, but makes only a passing refer ence to the low pay and bad causes of dissari action. basic Instead it recommends steps to deal with what it calls 'the problem of boredom'.

Agreement

Lord Rochdale said yesterday that the committee welcomed the degree of agreement on manpower and training reached by both sides of the industry-now embodied in the infamous Merchant Shipping Bill. lishment hmencome in estab training board which would conduct a thorough survéy of analysis t0 da training necessary for seagoing workers.

A single union should be stocks fall put down, instead of the 80 per cent demanded since 1968. This is expected to cushion prices which have now fallen by over 10 per cent in the past month.

The buying of stocks on credit by investors who did not have the money to pay when the price fell, •contributed to the Wall St crash of 1929.

The decision of the Federal Reserve Board therefore M.P.s play down Laird crisis, but

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yards' fight MERSEYSIDE'S Labour MPs and shipbuilding union officials are busy playing down the crisis facing Birkenhead's Cammell Laird yards following their various discussions with government departments over the last few days.

Shipyard workers should not allow themselves to be so easily disarmed.

The shadow of the forthcoming election hangs heavily over the yards and, whatever the result, bodes ill for many of the 7,500 jobs at Laird's.

Powerful Tory pressure has been building up for some time to let a major yard go to the wall as a spur for further speed-up in the others.

Reports that the party is considering plans to cut aid and sell off government holdings in Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, it returned, indicate that this whip-cracking policy is now taking more definite shape.

Even if the Labour leaders grant Laird's the £4-5 million loan rumoured in Whitehall, it can be no more than a indicates the extreme concern now felt by leading circles of US capital.

What worries them is the fear that a collapse of share prices, accompanied and exaggerated by the bankuptcy of stockbroking firms, ould set off a chain of banking failures throughout the world.

The sharp fall in profits still urgent to the massive Canal Street sheet works and turned away a petrol tanker, a lorry carrying glass-tank equipment and •ll but fve out of about 30 men who arrived for work.

Police, carrying walkietalkie equipment, were out in force after Tuesday's clashes between the pickets and about 100 'blacklegs' following the afternoon shift. stop-gap before allowing simi- The strikers are increasingly lar jungle-law economics— angry about the "scabbing, with, no doubt, a thin veneer attempts by officials of their of 'worker participation'-to union-the General and Municome into play. cipal Workers—to force a reYesterday's announcement turn and company hints of of a £2.5 million loss on Swan dismissal for those who reHunter's fixed-price tanker main out. contracts will increase the em- But they discount Pilkingployers' determination to step on's claim to have re-starter up their drive against wages, some production at St Helens working practices and jobs It is unlikely that either in the yards, whether Wilson the few hundred workers who or Heath is returned. returned Monday Shipyard workers now re- Tuesday or the three labourquire, above all, a fighting and one glass carrier who policy to answer these attacks.

With unemployment already went in yesterday were able at 4.6 per cent-almost twice to produce anything at all. the national average-even a Support for the strike from partial closure at Laird's fitters and transport drivers would be disastrous not only for those directly concerned; it would constitute a wedge against pay and conditions for every other employer in the area.

Last defence hree weeks after a settlement 'It'll be murder in this area if Laird's goes' , a leading Merseyside portworker told the Workers Press this week.

'The yards were always the last line of defence-if you couldn't get a job anywhere FOOD else there was always one going there Last month's jobless total STRIKE in Birkenhead itself, where Laird's is the biggest single employer, was 2,539-the Factories, of Bachelor highest figure for any April since 1964. • The labour force at the subsidiary yards has already suffered a reduction from some 11,000

THE BAN on Workers Press industrial correspondent The document, which is dealt with in this article, exercises its undoubted right to criticize, then the David Maude by the Labour and Industrial Correspon- reveals that the system of exclusive 'groups' of jour- facilities dry up. Correspondents are demoted from the dents' Group has raised very forcibly the vital issue of nalists who enjoy a special relationship with the inner ring to the outer ring, and are denied information censorship and the relations between government government departments is not confined to the in- altogether by a system of administrative blackballing.

dustrial sphere. The parliamentary lobby is even more 'Whitehall spokesmen should recognize not only exclusive and carefully regulated than the Labour and that facts are sacred but that comment must be free..?

The Group's vote to exclude our correspondent Industrial Correspondents' Group. A similar system Under Wilson's administration the system—in bars the Workers Press from access to advance copies undoubtedly operates in relation to other government relation to every government department, not just the of government White Papers and other documents, and Foreign Office-remains the same as it was under the from the confidential 'briefings' at which government Tories. And the Tory press-and the 'Morning Star'ministers and leading trade unionists give their views Seven years ago, the then Opposition leader, Harold not only keeps obstinately silent about this system, but Office and the diplomatic correspondents: Wilson, spoke of the relations between the Foreign uses it gleefully to hound out the representatives of the Government ministers and the Tory press the Workers Press kept out of this 'magic circle' •Press comment is conditioned by official press Here is the other side of last week's concerted costs. They are backed in the Industrial Gro conferences—particularly by the Foreign Office. Nothing witch-hunt against the Socialist Labour League. The 'Morning Star' reporter M. Ambrose, who voter is said to parliament by the Foreign Office, and diplo press, which lines up with such unanimity against the majority of the group against admitting matic correspondents are reduced to utter dependence revolutionary politics, is unanimous in accepting the on a daily briefing at the Foreign Office. If the press rules and regulations of the government.

Is Britain Going? PAGE TWO departments and the press. on a 'non-attributable' basis. Maude.

A REMARKABLE and revealing document is want at all ip by David departments.

'Sometimes it may be right to protect your informant to the extent of not using a story at Thursday, May 7, Leon Trotsky Where

entire Los Angeles police force was mobilized under a state of emergency to put down a student demonstration in the university campus. 69 students were arrested.

Similar scenes were enacted in other campuses in Bultalo, New York, where even high school students joined in; in Madison, Wisconsin, where another state of emergency was declared; and in Austin, Texas, where students tried to storm the state capital.

While the conservative National Students' Association calls for the impeachment of President Nixon, students are planning to throw human chain blockades in Washington and disorganize traffic.

The elemental fury of the movement and the rare courage of students such as those who faced the police in Buffalo with chants of 'Shoot me', ', however, cannot stop Nixon and his generals.

If Nixon and Spiro Agnew can afford to taunt students as 'bums' and incite police riots against them, it is principally because the reactionary leadership of the trade unionspersonified by George Meany - continues overtly and covertly, to support the Nixon government in its genocidal war.

Even the 'lefts' in the American Labour Alliancesuch as Reuter and Hoffado little or nothing to impede Nixon.

Aided

They are aided in this cynical game of duping the workers by the sterile reformist policies of the Stalinists and the revisionist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) who do nothing to embarrass the labour leaders and the bourgeois pacifists and confine their opposition to marches and teach-ins.

The SWP and Stalinists leaders do not desire or fight for a defeat of the US imperialists in Vietnam consciously.

They do not want a victory for imperialism either.

They want a face-saving formula which will enable Nixon to withdraw US troops and they think they can get this by 'pressure' on the President.

As Lenin pointed out in 1915:

'Those who are in favour of the slogan, "neither victory nor defeat" , are consciously or unconsciously chauvinists, at best they are conciliatory petty-bourgeois; at all events they are enemies of proletarian policy, partisans of the present governments, of the present ruling classes.' Lenin was a thousand times right.

Obstacle

established for officers, the committee said, and it explicitly rejects the prospect of a merger between the National Union of Seamen and a major union like the Transport and Géneral Workers' Union.

The situation of British shipbuilding, as the report makes clear, is one ot a declining industry inside a booming world shipping situaBritish shipping now commands only 11.5 per cent of total world tonnage compared with 28 per cent in 1939.

The Rochdale report, which gives the shipping employers carte blanche to continue exploiting the seamen, must be rejected in its entirety and a fight for socialist policies in the industry opened up.

The treaty provides for increased political and economic "co-operation' between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Its full terms have not yet been made public. Chronology to its present 7,500 level over the last few years as a result series productivity deals forced through with the help of reformist union officials and weak rank-and-file Agreement An agreement negotiated early last year made provision for round-the-clock shift working, elimination of several specialized trades, interchangeability, flexibility and work study.

In workers received a total pay increase of ls 6d an hour phased over several months.

Laird's has more recently begun to tighten up on lateness and absenteeism with a system-similar to that operating in several MeasuredDay Work car plants-of verbal and written warnings, bonus sanctions and disciplinary actions.

"They've really started sweating it out of us boilercommented young maker.

Workers are very bitter that they now face the threat of the sack despite claims, such as that written into the 1969 agreement, that productivity deals would contribute to 'improved employment within the company Prospects CP confusion Particular responsibility for confusing the issues facing shipyard workers is borne by the Communist Party.

Stalinist shipyard worker Barry Williams, the Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Birkenhead, issued a state the goversment to take control of Laird's affairs under public ownership and with workers' participation in Under cover of a so-called distinction between 'shortterm' and "long-term' solutions to the shipyard crisis, however, Williams' fellowStalinists have consistently resisted calls for the total nationalization of the shipbuilding industry under full workers' control.

boilermakers demand Upper Clyde This raised by and shelved by their union's officials must now be tenaciously fought for by all shipyard workers.

It must not be buried.

The main obstacle to mobilizing the working class against the war today is the phoney opposition of the Stalinist - SWP - YSA alliance which refuses to break the SCIENTISTS at the US space agency (NASA) have urged an immediate flight plan change for Apollo-14 which may still be going ahead in early October.

They are pressing for the target to be the moon's Fra Mauro highland area—the proposed landing site for the abortive Apollo-13 mission.

The Apollo-14 crew, which will be led by veteran Alan Shepard, is already in training for the flight, which at the moment is aiming for APRIL 12, 1966: First B-52 bombers in raid on N Vietnam. MAY 8, 1966: US bombing raid near China frontier. JUNE 29, 1966: US bombs Hanoi and Haiphong. FEBRUARY 1968: NLF Tet Offensive. Dollar crisis. Johnson announces that he will not run for President again. Admits he has failed in Vietnam. NOVEMBER 1968: US 'bombing pause' begins.

FEBRUARY 1969: New Tet Offensive. Big US and puppet losses. JUNE 1969: World conference of Stalinist parties in Moscow upholds 1954 Geneva agreement: 'The United States must strictly abide by the 1954 and 1962 Geneva Agreement.' NOVEMBER 1969: Revelations of US army massacres in March 1968. FEBRUARY 1970: Pathet Lao (communist-led liberation army)

offensive in Laos gains momentum. US step up supply of men and arms to Laotian royalists. MARCH 18, 1970: Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia deposed by CIA coup. Pro-US, right-wing regime under Lon Nol installed. Massacres of Vietnamese minority in Cambodia begin. APRIL 22, 1970: Nixon announces 150,000 US troops withdrawal over the next year. APRIL 30, 1970: Nixon announces invasion of Cambodia. MAY 1, 1970: Liverpool dockers, millions of Italian workers strike and march against Nixon's war on Indo-China.

By our scienc the Littrow crater region at at edge of the Sea of Serenity.

The rugged Fra Mauro region is seen as potentially far more important scientifically than the flat 'sea' areas already visited by Apollos 11 and 12 and may yield information to determine the age and origin of the solar