C.P. election policy outlined in Acton

AN AGEING audience of about 50 people including a goodly number of older ladies spent a boring evening listening to Communist Party general secretary John Gollan and the Acton CP parliamentary candidate Maurice Costin whose contributions were alınost indistinguishable from the dullest Fabianism.

THE 1,500 engineers on strike at Fort Dunlop Birmingham voted yesterday to continue their stoppage which is now in its fifth week.

The strike, which has stopped production at one of Europe's largest tyre plants, is for a f6 a week increase in pay 'with no strings attached'.

Management of the £300 million company has offered £3 10s and wants to tie this to a cut-back of 100 engineers from the work force.

Costin set the tone for the meeting by informing his listeners that although the Acton Labour Council had done its best over housing 'it had never led public actions for lower interest rates'.

Quite where this protest would have to be directed Costin never explained to his mystified audiencé. Zurich, or New York perhaps?

Gollan devoted the major part of his speech to the Common Market, stressing that 'the people must decide through a reférendum-in itself a most undemocratic device as de Gaulle's addiction to it amply verified.

He then opposed the EEC because it would 'undermine the sovéreignty of the British parliament' and its right to decide' on control of monoRON BEAK, suspended Union of Post Office Workers' branch secretary at London's Electra House overseas telegraph headquarters, told the Workers Press :

on how members of the labour movement see the US Round-up issues in the General Election continues this week with four trade unionists, from the Midlands and PAGE TWO G. HIGGS, Transport and / steward at Coventry's Stan THERE IS NO positive alternative at this stage to voting Labour.

I would certainly never vote Tory. The capitalist system is represented by these Tories. They are not in business for our benefit but for profit.

For the little we receive they are prepared to go to all devious means to get it back again.

To solve the situation I think there should be the full application of Clause 4 for a start. Labour missed the boat in 1945. They should have nationalized all the insurance companies, which really covers everything.

The capitalist system is really the international banks. Their leral Workers' Union shop 1-Triumph plant, said :

motto is 'United they stand divided they fall'.

They're one big club working against the interests of the working class. The building societies constantly put their rates upthey never take them down.

With regard to Vietnam and Cambodia, all reports seem to be subject to a more sophisticated machine than Goebbels ever thought of. It is not right to give oppression any support.

To the ordinary peasant in Indo-China there is no such thing as N and S Vietnam. It is completely wrong that women and children of any creed or nationality should be massacred or wiped out. Vietnamese peasant trussed, blindfolded, gagged and labelled.

Friday, June 5, 1970 ordinary Indo China there is no such thing and S

Makinth.

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LATE NEWS LUCAS WORKERS STRIKE Six hundred and fifty workers at Joseph Lucas in Birmingham went on strike yesterday in support of a olaim for a f9 a week pay increase.

The strike is at the diecasting plastic factory in Foremans Road, Sparkhill.

A management spokesman warned that if the strike continued it would quickly affect workers in other Lucas factories in Birmingham.

BARBER WARNS OF CRISIS The government decision to refer part of the doctors' and dentists' pay award to the Prices and Incomes Board was Registered as a newspaper at the Post Once. Published by Workers Press, 186g Clapham Hish Street, London, S.W.4. rinted by Plough Press Lto. (LO), 806 Clapham S.W. Street, London. with 15s to:

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Willout jasuncano unless Britain was heading for an economic crisis, Conservative Party Chairman Anthony Barber said yesterday.

Senior hospital doctors, general practitioners and demtists will get a 15 per cent rise from April 1 and the Prices Board is being asked to advise how much of the balance of the 30 per cent recommended by Kindersley should be paid to these grades.

Hospital training grades are to get the full 30 per cent backdated to April 1.

BROWN: NO UNION

BACKING Transport Union yesterday and General said it had not received any nomination for sponsorship from Mr George Brown, the Belper MP and deputy • Party leader who had previously been on the union's list of sponsored MPs. US military éxperts have insisted that 'Asian wars' can only be won by Asians-that is, by pro-imperialist forces drawn from Asia.

Peking Radio revealed that two top-ranking Japanese envoys visited Taiwan, where they 'secretly exchanged views with the political mummy, the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang, on the so-called "security system in the Far East" , so as to step up military collusion'.

The broadcaster summed up these sinister dévelopments correctly when he stated:

'All these are serious provocations against the 700 million Chinese people' Latest moves , From the beginning of the Viétnam war, and especially Since Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, we have warned that the main US drive is against China.

These latest moves by the right-wing Sato government show that Japanese imperialism - faced with the same crisis now shaking Wall St and the White House-is also turning in the same direction to solve its crisis.

The fight against US imperialism should not deflect anyone from seeing dangers posed by these new threats to the peoples of SE Asia.

Printers meet over pay FOLLOWING A series of lightning stoppages this week by printing workers, which held up editions of the Lomdon evening papers, a mass meeting of SOGAT members was being held last night at Clerkenwell Green to discuss their 25 per cent wage claim.

The employers have also met to consider the claim, which covers 23,000 national newspaper printing workers, and will be replying early next LENIN • CENTENARY MEETING SWINDON Sunday, June 7, 7.30 p.m.

Lenin and the coming English Revolution OXFORD HOTEL 'orner of Groundwell R Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) poles ofe payments: matters banking and the balcertainly not decided in the Barliamentary debating chamSome of the audience nearly nodded off to sleep during the interminable reformist recipes outlined by Gollan, including the 'trimming of monopoly margins and the halving of military expenditure.

This notion that simply by a little pressure capitalism and its political agents can forced to change their nature was taken to absurd lengths.

Gollan asked why the Labour government, if it was "bold enough' to introduce wage freezing. could not be equally bold and implement a prices freeze.

Tearing himself away from these reformist day-dreams Gollan claimed that there was a conspiracy to keep foreign policy out of the election'. opposition parto this, had been His supposed 'pleading, for the government to dissociate' from the IndoChina war.

Revealed

The complete fraud of the CP's opposition was revealed when Gollan was reminded of the statement in the 'Morning Star' of May Il by its editor George Matthews that:

*All means of pressure, including industrial action should be exerted to compel the British government to end its backing for the US war.' Asked what action the CP had taken to fight for indus. trial action, Gollan replied that any such action taken would be 'supported'. and that the TUC had been asked to 'consider' the matter.

Even in this vain cover-up or dropping the fight_com Jollan was careful ti limit his remarks to protests and 'shop stoppages'.

The meeting was closed with perhaps the truest words of a long evening from the chairman who thought that the audience would be want. ing to get home to watch the World Cup.

in Soyuz rebuked ground control for slacking on their physical exercises, are facing more medical tests amid speculation that they may stay in space for up to a fortnight.

The men - Col Nikolayev and flight engineer Sevastya:nov-have already completed more than 40 arbits of the earth since Monday's launching