Are you serious about industrial action against Indo-Chinese war?

LAMBETH SPARKS CALL FOR ACTION LAMBETH Electrical Trades Union has called on its EC to organize a one-day stoppage 'in opposition to the genocidal war of American imperialism in Indo- China and against the shooting of four American students'.

The resolution passed overwhelmingly by the branch believes 'This is the only way to oppose the war and only effective expression of our solidarity with the victory of the National Liberation Front'.

Saigon's troops to occupy all Cambodia?

FIGHTING flared up again yesterday along the Cambodian border as another US-backed attack was launched towards the trun of Do Van whona man TTC ine town ul Do neu, wnere pro-us I was uecisive in ueredung tnem, ana forces of the right-wing Lon Nol regime such action today could be decisive are under heavy pressure from the NLF. in ending American aggression.' US artillery, helicopters and 'advisers' are all involved in the offensive by Saigon puppet forces. our readers that attempts This new operation follows the joint US-Saigon 'sweep' into the Se San River region begun on May S.

Further South in the 'Parrot's Beak' area, new struggle. clashes have been reported between US-backed forces and the NLF. the 'Morning Star' nor leadOfficial figures for US casualities were issued yesterday. Since the beginning. of the invasion on May 1 they have lost 115 killed and 474 have been wounded. Pattern too cléarly.

Now in its third week, the pattern of the invasion becoming clearer.

The Saigon regime is using the Nixon attack on Cambodia to extend its own reactionary regime as far West as possible.

A Saigon military _spokesman, asked earlier in the week whether S Vietnamese ground forces intended to occupy the tive. Cambodian capital, replied:

It is not very far from Neak Luong (where Saigon MPs was units are already in action) to Phnom Penh.' Another Saigon military official told reporters that the search for the alleged NLF hideouts would go on, 'no matter how deep we have to go into Cambodia'.

Advanced guard

Nixon's High Command are obviously using their Saigon advance fining the war as a violation their own invasion Cambodia. United Nations Charter and US troops may well halt temporarily at the 20-mile limit announced by Nixon— while their Saigon henchmen we THE TORY leaders find the Labour Party's proposed election campaign a little too 'personalized', it seems. But while they proclaim their aloofness from 'gutter politics', the Tory press and establishment feel free to indulge in the methods of the smear, witch-hunt and character assassination as part of the campaign for 'law and order' and to We challenge 'Morning Star' IN YOUR statement to the Communist Party last weekend you referred to the ASTMS proposal for a TUC-organized day of action on the Indo-China war and explained the attitude of your This is what you said: 'It would be a tremendous thing if Britain's labour movement decided to demonstrate its opposition to Nixon's war on one particular day with meetings, factory actions, stoppages and other forms of protest.

'Last year, though there was no lead from the TUC, hundreds of thousands of workers on February 27 and May 1 took action against the anti-strike laws. It rana danician in Anfantino tham nad - > The Workers Press supSocialist Labour League and • to substitute 'left' noises Young Socialists LENIN CENTENARY PUBLIC MEETING Birmingham on Monday May 11.

Sunday, May 17 against the war. 7.00 p.m. does the opposite.

DIGBETH CIVIC HALL Speaker:

erry Healy, national ecretary, Socialist Labour League 1954 Geneva agreement'.

Admission 2s 'Law and order' brigade howl for blood Some anti-union laws, please, students who participated knock the middle class into line for the next election. Warming to the fight, no less Meanwhile, the press must be implied that subversive than three pillars of the establishment leapt out of their holes recently, dusted down their party pieces and joined the fray.

Lord Shawcross QC, former mounting , witch-hunt. Also expressing themselves on not greatly interested in Labour . Attorney - General, speaking to the Institute of Directors attacked the 'naked power' of the shop floor as a threat both to industry and the political While the London VC, Sir "They are too often and most superstructure of Britain. 'This was power, not right, not even reason, still less legality,' he said. editor ported this call wholeheartedly while warning for militant working-class action and to hide behind the TUC's failure to act, would be exposed by the Since you made this statement, however, neither ing members of the Party in the trade unions have tried to implement such a policy. Tuesday's edition of the 'Morning Star' (May 12, 1970) illustrates our warning about 'left' noises only Food prices VUM statement increase Your paper gives uncritical prominence to the faster thoroughly opportunist statement of the Scottish area of the National Union MR STUART GREIG, chairdent, a Communist Party of Minéworkers whose presi- grocery chain has warned that man of David Greig, the member, sits on your execufaster and larger increases in the prices of foodstuffs is to This resolution which was sent to Wilson as well as come.

'It is my opinion that during the period between now Aréa Executive Committee and October we shall see a lot of substantial increases Nowhere in this resolu- he said. 'Food manufacturers tion is there any call for profits have been falling and working-class action are continuing to fall and they are not prepared to see In fact the resolution it continue?

It calls on the working There were 213 price inclass to place its confidence creases in the week ending on in world imperialism by de- magazine Thursday' The Grocer'. says the trade of the imperialist-inspired These affected pickles, dog food, sausages, cake, bisby calling for a 'peaceful cuits, preserves, canned vegesettlement of the Vietnam tables and soups and tea war on the basis of the bringing the total for the first 20 weeks of the year to 3,666 increases. to tame the power-mad Sir William Mansfield hordes! Cooper from Manchester free to do its job, probing 'plants' were now at work and discussing matters of in the academic world. 'legitimate public concern' The universities have been an open condoning of the invaded in increasing numbers by students who were Rolls body workers fight pay 'strings' WORKERS at Mulliner Park Ward, Willesden- the craftsmen who make the body work for 'the finest car in the world'-have been locked out from the RollsRoyce-owned factory for almost three weeks over a claim for increased piece-work rates. matters of 'public concern', study, he said. the vice chancellors of both He saw some of the elements Manchester and London of force, inhumanity and universities launched in at intolerance' that arose in student militants. Nazi Germany.

Douglas Logan, called for unknowingly to themselves the outlawing of sit-ins and the tools of men who would the expulsion of those invade and overthrow the Yesterday through willesden 40-strong BY JOHN SPENCER behind their after a mass meeting addressed by officials of some of the ten unions involvéd.

Rolls - Royce locked the vorkers out when they re fused two-weel factory that pa rises soderne that rises linked to productivity strings.

Many of the workers regard the introduction of Measured.

objectivity of universities,' he said.

Naturally, to avoid 'personalization' • no names were mentioned.

Be warned, the faceless men are at it again!

A dose of 'discipline' must surely, be in order, thinks the middle class.

Yes, the Tory election campaign is well under way and within the working class the fight for socialist policies will be decisive in defeating the witch-hunt, given credence by these eminent gentlemen, and keeping the Tories out.

MUD DIBUT Day Work. Rolls-Royce have already taken steps to bring the speed-up payment system into its Midlands plants.

Piecework rates at the Willesden factory were fixed four years ago and are now, workers say, totally inadequate against steep cost of living increases.

'In the past we've given productivity deals away and raised our earnings by productivity alone. But you reach a point where you have to fight for a straight wage rise,' lock-out committee mémber H. A. Braidley told Workers Press.

'We are not prepared to accept a productivity deal. Management have fixed production targets before and have never achieved them. How do they expect us to do it if they can't?' His fellow committee member D. W. Graham said:

'We have no control over the production in the factory, that's the management's job.

At present the men are fighting to be paid unemployment benefits by the local

social security office. They have so far been refused anything because Rolls-Royce claims the lock-out is a strike.

'We've all made claims and had to make appeals', said one worker. 'We are waiting for the appeals to be heard.' Though trade union officials have made themselves available for talks with management, Rolls-Royce has so far made no effort to open discussion on the dispute. I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for Name Adaress Post to: Circulation Organlzer, Workere Press, 11 Clapham High Street, London, SWA. (Tel: 01-720-20)

PILKINGTON BONUS • THREAT Pilkington's hit out yesterday at its 1,700 hourly paid workers-members of unions other than the General and Municipal Workers'—not involved in the dispute.

Iheir guarantee ot average bonus earnings will be withdrawn as from today if the strike goes on, a Pilkington's spokesman announced.

They will be paid only for hours worked with any bonus actually earned.

The company's 6,500 staff workers at St Helens and Aldkirk Ormskirk will have to take three days 'compulsory holiday'-to be docked from their annual holidays— during the next few weeks.

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with dix me Two editions (For any two days you select) £1 for three months 24 a year Could you please tell us how a campaign, run on the above lines, could defeat US intervention in Indonot a mockery the Indo-Chinese struggle for independence to talk of a peaceful settlement' within the framework of the counter-revolutionary UN?

And just where does the working class enter into this diplomatic fraud?

It is a matter worth reflecting on that while this resolution was being adopted, the S Vietnamese puppet eaters were announcing their categorical determination to Cambodia long beyond the June 30 schedule of Nixon and that the US was pourLon Nol goter ment military aid to the that W the sover worsesy, the formation of the United National Front of Cambodia'.

The truth of the matter, as you know, that Kosygin was replying to Sihanouk's request for recognition and that the so-called 'greetings' was, in fact, a diplomatic rejection of Sihanouk's request!

Thursday's 'Star' continued the chicanery by reporting that diplomatic relations are to be re-established between the Thai government and Lon Nol's junta-and, of course, omitting to mention the unpalatable fact that the Soviét government still maintained an embassy in Phnom Penh !

By refusing to break off diplomatic relations with the Lon Nol-CIA regime and by refusing to recognize the Sihanouk government-in-exile the

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