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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY NUMBER 158 • FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970 PRICE Behind student murders Nixon's real fire against U.S. labour subcontinent on fire THE INVASION of Cambodia stretches to the utr the forces of American imperialism in a sub-conti which is aflame with revolutionary struggle from Chinese border to the straits of Malaya.

Nixon's desperate moves in Cambodia are in response to a situation in which the popular liberation movements hreaten to drive imperialisn out of the whole of SE Asia.

In LAOS, where tens of thousands of American and Us-supported troops are engaged in the defence of Prince Souvanna Phouma's puppet regime, the Pathet Lao already control large sections of the North.

Last week they took Attopeu in the South, only 30 miles from the S Vietnam border.

Posters have appeared in Soravane, one of the main southern towns, announcing that it, too, will soon be captured.

Bombing

The THAI and MALAYAN governments, backed respectively by US and British imperialism, are now collaborating in joint bombing raids against the Communist guerrilla movement in the frontier area.

Guerrillas also control large, areas in northern Thailand bordering on Laos.

It is this scale of popular resistance to imperialism and its political creatures that drives Nixon to jeopardize his position in America with the latest 'escalation'.

Mileage strike 150 train drivers at Garston, near Liverpool, staged a one-day strike yesterday for increased bonus and better mileage payments. About 100 trains were affected by the strike.

Ford's fly in glass supplies claim stewards SHOP STEWARDS from Ford's Dagenham complex claim that supplies of glass to the paint, trim and assembly shop are being maintained from Holland, Belgium, W Germany, Eire and S Africa.

A shipload of glass arrived from S Africa two weeks ago, they say, but supplies have since then been flown in from European sources. Monday, Nixon brought his Indo-Chinese and youth.

STUDENT

PROTEST WIDENS MORE THAN 80 colleges and universities were officially closed in America yesterday as action against the Indo-China war continued to grow.

National Guardsmen clashed with demonstrators at Madison and Kentucky and nine students and 12 policemen were injured at the University of Southern Illinois.

The board of directors of the Association of American Colleges, representing 900 institutions, has called on Nixon to take immediate steps to reverse 'the growing alienation between the White House and the academic community'.

N Vietnam has marked the 16th anniversary of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu with a call to the Vietnamese people to intensify their battle against the United States.

Meanwhile, figures issued in Saigon yesterday show that American deaths continue to mount. The toll for the whole period of the war is 41,733, according to military sources.

Students plan a massive march to the White House tomorrow.

'No expense is spared to break strikes,' one Ford worker told the Workers Press. 'Replacements were flown in from Australia during a recent dispute over séats.' The 8,000 Pilkington_glassworkers at St Helen's, Lancashire, whose five-week-old stoppage is causing the glass shortage, continued their strike yesterday despite attempts by their employers to cause a split with claims that picket lines were being stirred up by 'outsiders'.

Allegations that clashes bepublicity, is trained on the reactions of middle-class America, the only force that can end the war in Indo-China is carefully obscured from view.

The scenes at universities and colleges across the USA must indeed be familiar to the thousands of trade unionists who fought out the great class battles of the 1930s with Republican Steel, General Motors and Ford.

Body-strewn and blood-stained streets are nothing new to the US working class.

They had to fight for the right to organize against the same force that now shoots down students demanding an end to the imperialist war in Indo-China.

When US students strike and occupy their college buildings, they follow in the tootsteps of their tathers, who broke the anti-union bosses of the 1930s by the sit-in strike and the mass picket.

And when four students fell under a hail of bullets from Nixon's militia, they joined the thousands of working-class martyrs killed by the US ruling class in the fight for union rights, decent wages and tolerable working condiions.

Stirred

Important sections of American workers have already been stirred by the heroism of the anti-war students and youth.

That sympathy will turn into anger and hatred now that Nixon's guns have been turned on their own children.

For despite the wave of revulsion sweeping through even the most conservative regions of the United States, new massacres are being prepared.

Governor Nunn of Kentucky ordered his State police onto the Lexington University campus with loaded rifles and fixed bayonets, while Colonel Critchfield of the State Police said : 'Use force' 'My officers are under orders to use such force as is necessary to perform their mission of protection. Anytween pickets and "blacklegs' had been instigated by people who were not employees of the company were dismissed with contempt by strike leaders.

'Scabbing' at the huge Canal Street sheet works has now been cut down almost to nothing by several days of mass picketing outside the main entrance.

Meanwhile the rank-and-file strike committee has plans for mass resignation from the General and Municipal Workers' Union.

Print workers new problems LEADERS of the National Graphical Association si yesterday that the union will accept the findings the joint committee set up under Trades Union Congr general secretary Victor Feather to find a settlement the 'Daily Mirror' pay dispute.

The union confirmed a statement from Newspaper Publishers' Association Lord Drogheda that the working party's decision binding on both sides.

Few rank-and-file union members, will be mappy with wever secretary John Bonfield's claim that this Ilth-hour settlement is 'probably the best . . . we could make in the circumstances'.

Anxiety

There is already considerable anxiety in union about its apparent inability to force web-offset newspaper printers Parrett and Neves into an acceptable recognition agreement at its Chatham works.

Yesterday morning's decision to drop the threat of strike action and hand over to arbitration on pay differentials at the 'Mirror' will be seen by many members as a further climb-down in the face of increasing pressure from the employers against their craft position.

There are no grounds for complacency in the NGA that Feather's working party is going to tina some cover-all, solution in this situation.

Wedge

The press lords, having obtained a wedge for productivity dealing in Fleet Street's machine rooms from the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, were prepared for total war with the NGA -even if a number of papers face grave London Stock Exchange.

over the world BY DAVID MAUDE vestment-rose slightly.

went to the wall in process.

But they were banking on Glaxo, ICI and Unilever. what they - correctly, as it turned out-diagnosed as an unwillingness in the latter tell, though less sharply. union's leadership to go all the way for a restoration ot their members' 48s differential at the 'Mirror'. which fell in price. Parliamentary 'regrets' as IN THE years from 1964 to 1968, according to Local Government Minister Anthony Crosland, 'the exceptionally rapid and severe run-down in the traditional industries' led to the liquidation of 678,000 jobs.

Speaking in the Commons income' (further cuts debate on unemployment on Wednesday, he said that in coal-mining 208,000 jobs had been eliminated; in agriculture, 134,000; in textiles, 123,000; in metal bankrupt shipyards). manufacture, 43,000; in ports and inland waterways, 21,000 and in shipbuilding and marine engineering, 20,000.

tention of abolishing it.

Crosland was replying to a speech by Tory Shadow Labour Minister Robert Carr, who outlined point by point the Tories' plans for 'dealing with' unemployment gramme. —plans which include the creation of 'a new environgovernment Share prices fall by a top-level intervention THE UNCERTAIN . inter- from British premier Harold national situation, the war in Wilson, who apparently inCambodia and the growing formed Lynch that two of anti-war movement in the This ministers were involved United States caused further in a gun-running plot unfalls in share prices on the covered by British IntelliThe market continues to Nigel Blaney, Minister for reflect the major crisis of con- Agriculture, and Charles fidence in the future now Haughey, Minister for afflicting the ruling class all Finance, are alleged to have been connected with a plot.

Yesterday, there were few buyers for shares, many of Sympathy which fell steadily in price, though government securities Local Government Minis—considered a 'gilt-edged' in- ter Kevin Boland resigned in sympathy with the sacked Industrial shares fell sharply ministers. however. Among leading The three ex-Ministers shares which fell in price were known to favour were EMI, Rank Organization, military intervention Been give Than cut a d British-American Tobacco, Hawkers and Bowaters also gun-running into LondonTube Investments. Guest derry.

Keen and Metal Box were It is said that the gunamong engineering shares running was cloaked under ment rises ment for the conduct of in- Tories and the Labourites, dustrial relations' (i.e. anti- however, conceal a growing union laws), cutting public hatred in the working class expenditure to a "smaller for everything the Tories proportion of the national represent.

Through their treachery, education, transport, mining, the Labour leaders have etc.) and "much less inter- weakened the working class vention to prop up in- at a time when the emefficient industries and com- ployers and their party plan panies' (more closures of fresh attacks on the right to strike and vast increases Under the parliamentary in the numbers of unemfacade of mutual regrets' ployed. about unemployment, neither This makes even more party has the sligntest in- urgent the need to defeat the Tories in the coming Crosland, in effect, re- General Election and to assured Carr that the gov- fight for an alternative ernment was doing every- leadership in the labour thing in its power to carry movement which will carry through the Tory pro- out socialist policies of nationalization and end The amicable relations in once and for all the scourge the Commons between the of unemployment.

MASSEY

FERGUSON warns strikers as unrest grows BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT MASSEY FERGUSON'S president recently visited the Banner Lane, Coventry, factory against a background of industrial unrest caused vicious strings in a recentlyconcluded deal.

In Tuesday night's 'Birmingham Evening Mail' he delivered a scathing attack on 'wildcat strikes', claiming that strikes had caused the loss of 10,000 tractors this year alone and that the company would not tolerate this situation much longe:.

Behind this attack against workers, who are determined to maintain their wages and conditions, are reports of falling company profits and share prices as the economic crisis hits the combine.

Lay offs

1,200 assembly shop workers were again laid off this week when the programmers withdrew their labour.

For many months they have demanded improved office furniture and better working conditions and this is the second strike on this issue.

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claiming ! assembly sit receive an average . 0 per cent higher

The old agreement terminated on March 30, 1970, and on March 23 at 1l a.m. the convenors reported back the terms of the agreement reached by the NJNC.

48 strings for fl were read out to the stewards who voted for rejection.

At 3 p.m. the same day the deal was taken to a mass meeting which also rejected the offer.

Subsequently the company increased the wage rise to £2 plus strings and this offer was accepted.

Disputes in the factory have now arisen as the impact of the strings becomes apparent and the cost of living continues to rise steeply.

The president's attack must be taken as a warning to Massey workers.

As their profits fall, the employers will fight back to impose productivity strings on every wage concession and the Tories will back them with the force of the law if they return to power.

All wage demands must be fought for without strings, whether they masquerade under the title of productivity bargains, Measured-Day Work, 'quid pro quos'. or any other names that the employers like to stick on them.