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They reiterate the claim nade by Joint general secretary Georges Marchais ir a radio interview on May 11, that they no document to the Czechoslovak Communist Party alyone for eventual trials. which could be The notes in question, they say, were not handed - is watching but referred to by Etienne Fajon when he met present Czech Party leaders in November last win, ceden year.

Dubcek said in the conse It is true of the interview can be hate th regarded as incriminating from a socialist standpoint.

He stressed that they were conscious that rightwing forces were at work, but said they intended to deal with them openly • in front of public opinion. by token Speaking of the 'ManiA WORK-measurement data supply service for employers, aimed at 'improving productivity in British industry' has recently been set up.

According to the Institute of Work-Study Practitioners' monthly journal, the new body will be known as 'The British Work-Measurement Data Foundation' and will 'compile, develop and distribute data to members'.

The report states that the Foundation has developed from co-operation between leading industrial concerns in a joint workstudy project which started in 1958.

Founder members include British Oxygen,_ICI, Pilkington's, Rolls-Royce, the British Railways Board and Leyland Industries.

dy four set up The Foundation's council includes Department Employment and Productivity, CBI and TUC representatives.

To begin with, the Foundation will specialize in data for small batch production and maintenance work. In addition:

Fields of activity covered are electrical, hitting, machine tools, sheet metal and plating, bricklaying, joinery and painting.

The reason for this emphasis is given by FounPAGE force, by Communist Party members. The CP

socialist state.

The welfare state will never be adequate while it is shackled by capitalist economics.

WEATHER London area, SE, SW and central southern England, Midlands, Channel Islands: Dry, sunny periods. Wind NW, light to moderate. Warm. Max. 18C (64F).

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Thursday and Friday: Showers and bright periods. Becoming cooler. festo of 2,000 Words', he defended the decision to allow its publication and then oppose it.

Those who signed it, he said, could not be dealt with 'administrative measures'. But if the need arose 'in the factories there are 70,000 armed men ready to go into action' to defend the Party.

The notes underline the real reasons for the Soviet invasion—not the threat of counter-revolution, but the development of the political revolution against Stalinism.

But for the French Stalinist leaders to pretend that they could not be used to frame Dubcek is sheer hypocrisy.

Scene set

The Soviet invasion set the scene for socialist legality to be crushed in Czechoslovakia.

The Husak regime is moving unmistakably towards trials of its opponents in the full tradition of Stalin's purges, together with autocratic expulsions from the Party and the reimposition of censorship.

The French Stalinists are desperate to disguise this fact-and their own complicity in it.

Accordingly they have made no mention of the speech by Indra, broadcast on Prague radio on January 14 this year, in which this arch-Stalinist henchman of Husak sought to lay the basis for framing Dubcek.

Indra, basing himself on the notes, asked 'Who was Alexander Dubcek? An incompetent man? Or something else?' ', and went on to accuse him of conniving at the free political activity of the Club-231 (an association of those unjustly imprisoned under the Novotny regime) and the Social