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IN manufacturing of 'Red Plots', forged documents, perjured evidence, distorted news and provocation there is no body so

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 168, 22 May 1970 · scan pages 2, 5

Topics: Police and the courts

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welcomed by the conferwith its appeals for the restoration gallows, more powers to aeal witn aemonstrators and an end to reiorm ol police complaints proi terent to the whit her position die tan elecspeakers at the conterence disp laved real enthusiasm for the prospect of breaking demonstrators' heads he waction caterwauling minority'. The 'way-out minority' presumably includes such people as the St Helens' pickets suffered the police licatien outside the Pilktugtc""giass tac.

lones on monday.

Yesterday the conference voted more firearms training and canca 101 Desire scaren lo develop new weapons for ponce use As arseward of the Tory police demanded a pay TIse.

However, . like the it is, the Police Federation began its conso that pay i ang lerence by runng oul als achieve their pay rise.

Instead, they rely * on hair mignt waen mey come co put - their anu-working class programme into ac There has long been a wide spread myth in Britain that the police stand above politics, are somehow "impartial'.

devoted only to keeping the peace and helping old ladies over the road. The Llandudno conference has brought down the truncheon on this particular fairy story.

These taperiore and mere shaping up as a Tory private army.

Llandudno is a mirror of the future Toryism offers the working class: the rapid development of a police state directed against all the rights of workers. background of minstig tant trade want rants againstil the most vicious election since the war gets under way.

In this Tory campaign the police have been allotted are pia dien ite to te. Tull definite role. mate as the British capitalist class and For over a century it has used these techniques to mould 'public opinion, to manipulate the middle class, to expedite colonial wars, whip up imperialist war hysteria and facilitate election victories for the ruling class.

In this the British press, reflecting the uraallons of the Tory ruling class, has earned itself the unique, distinction of being a pioneer in fraud and the protagonist of journalistic venality.

Admittedly without all this colossal fraud the rud of the ren with not survive.

precise to discredit the Irish Parliamentary slander its with its infamous of incriminate the murder "The Times', In century, as the interests the ruling into violent with thẻ working class and the talist press has excelled itself in the art of slander - to the left-wing movements.

• Notorious The most notorious éxample of this kind of rascality was of course the 'Zinoviev letter'—a fabrication of the capitalist class which played an important role in securing a massive maioritv in parliament for the Tories in the General Election of 1924.

Without this victory the preparations for 1926 by Churchill could not have been carried out.

Now once again the carrion crows of Fleet Street are on the wing scanning the political horizons desperately for a new victim and filling the air with their raucous lies.

Having persuaded the Labour leaders to go to the polls on the basis of contrived statistics, these scavengers are now moving in to ensure a Tory victory by creating the kind of mood and atmosphere in which US officers now lead Cambodian REPORTS from Phnom Penh confirm that Cambodian troops are now fighting under the orders and leadership of US army officers.

A US-led and trained battalion of Cambodian concrints was yesterday thrown into a river-borne attack on Tonle Bet, the strategic East bank ferry town on the Mekong River.

to do with As Nixon's June 30 deadline for withdrawal from Cambodia approaches fees become éver committed to his Cambodiar adventure.

Contradiction

demoralization ande unrest hin officers.

proclaim their open Thing a disguise cor tempt.

defeated, not victorious army.

US - supervised G.I. DEATHS INCREASE US BATTLE deaths in IndoChina last week reached 217 the highest figure for nine months. The total was , 49 up on the previous week. 77 of the fatalities were amongst troops fighting in Cambodia. Job evaluation threat to FURTHER details released on the secret meeting held recently at Eastbourne between building employers and union leaders make it quite clear that major emphasis is being put by these people on the spreading of job evaluation methods throughout the construction industry.

They evidently see this as a means of 'rationalizing' the wages system in line with the government's policy of eliminating so-called 'wage drift'.

The current issue of the building trade paper 'Construction News' gives details from a special document on job evaluation in building drawn up for the employers the man who recently chaired the government-sponsored report on labour-only in contruction.

The proposed scheme would work as follows:

FIRSTLY a panel troops

Still no ban

on Springbok cricket tour HOME SECRETARY James Callaghan's formal request to the chairman of the Cricket Council to 'withdraw their invitation' to the S African touring team is almost certain to be discussed by today's Council meeting. Maurice Allom, chairman, followed a threehour meeting at the Home Office where Callaghan discussed the tour with Council mémbers.

In his letter, Callaghan gave five reasons for his request.

'We have had particularly in mind the possible impact Sovex strikers want £6no strings MEMBERS of the engineering, boilermakers' and transport unions at the Sove› factory in Erith, Essex, are on strike for a pay rise of £6 a week without strings.

They have completely rejected management's proposals for a productivity deal - a leal for which, in any case hey are prepared to 'chip in only 15s a week.

The deal would cut out tea-breaks, reduce the ratio of mates to skilled men, allow upgrading, flexibility of labour and the introduction of merit pay and an end to the firm's contribution to the sick pay scheme. which draws up a description of each job on a site-the operations it covers and the tasks involved.

NEXT, each job is looked at in terms of certain requirements considered as important by the employers.

Skills

These are: physical skills including degree of exertion), mental Skills and acquired knowledge, responsibility and environment (exposure and discomfort involved in the job and risk of accidents).

It is not proposed that every job is looked at in this way. on relations with other Commonwealth countries, race relations in this country and the divisive effect on the community. Another matter for concern is the effect on the Commonwealth Games.

I have taken into account too the position of the police; there is no doubt as to their ability to cope with any situation which might arise, but a tour of this nature would mean diverting police resources on a large scale from their essential ordinary duties.' But, of course, Callaghan has still made no move to ban the tour.

The Union of Post Office Workers announced today that it will ask the Post Office to withdraw its recorded results service for the South African tour.

BOOTS

RALLY BOOTS' chemical group rallied on the London stock exment of all ming or Profits for the year ending March rose to over £20 million on sales of £224 million.

Certain tasks will be examined in detail and then used as standards or 'benchmarks' and other similar jobs will be compared with these. THIRDLY, points are awarded for certain qualities associated with these requirements.

For example under physical skills, using a five-point scale, a heavy job might be awarded five points, a job which requires continuous effort but is not excessively heavy might be given three . points, while a light job might be given one point.

Regarding the rating system -the method by which each member of the panel expresses

preparations for trame-ups in Czechoslovakia, ne was booed by the delegatés at February's 19th Party Congress for insisting that the Congress should consider the sending of coal by the Polish government to help Franco break the strike of Asturian miners.

Not broken Garaudy has not, in tact, broken from Stalinism. logue television - his 'dia- On Tuesday he pursued with the Church, joining in a discussion programme with the reactionary Jesuit Cardinal Danielou.

The leaders of French Stalinism are now trying by shouting 'anti-communist!' as loud and long as possible, and by expelling him bell, book and candleto bury the important questions raised in the 'Garaudy They must not be allowed to do so.

Czech trials

The report that three Czechs prominent before the Soviet invasion-Vaclav Havel, Ludvik Vaculik and Jan Prochazka - are to be tried on the serious charge of 'conspiracy against the Republic' makes the fight against frame-ups by the Stalinist bureaucracy an urgent one.

This fight can only be waged through the sharpest political batle against those who try, with secret dealings and bureaucratic expulsions, to cover up the international class questions now forcing themselves to the front in W Europe. the wave of industrial and state agency employees, POSTAL WORKERS struck this week.

RAILWAYMEN are on strike until this evening, and TEACHERS have also taken action.

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