Commandos ready for Ulster action

ELECTION

PHOTONEWS The pro-Unionist Pride of Shankhill band marching down the Crumlin Road, Belfast, in another manoeuvre which last week sparked off bitter fighting.

NO Special reporter In Ulster JOHN SPENCER TROOPS and police have been out in force on the Crumlin Road and its surrounding streets in Belfast.

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T.V. talks in London GRANADA television chiefs and union officials met at the Trades Union Congress's London headquarters yesterday for talks on the technicians' pay dispute which has blacked out the company's programmes for two weeks.

Members of the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians - 300 them-have been on strike for a 12-per-cent productivity payment for new 625-line and colour working methods. could try to smooth over the crisis of world capitalism that today reflects itself inside the Communist Party. many Cp. door, however, willing to discuss the problems of advancing to socialism with Workers Press sellers.

At the same time older Party members told Workers Press sellers that their paper was financed by the CIA and that Stalin should have murdered • Trotsky sooner.

Inside the Philharmonic Hall it is easy to talk. Outside things are becoming more difficult for the CP every day.

They were operating for the irst time new and much stiffer plans for dealing witt ghts and demonstration lans announced by senic olice and army representa ives at the weekend They saw littlé action on Sunday, despite an attempt. by shankhil band to repeat the coat-trailing manoeuvre which ind to last week's street fightThe band marched up the off almost without incident.

Provocations like this are expected to get more frequent at the Orange Order and the Paisleyites approach their July But police and army plans are aimed at using the growing tension to tighten their grip on the working class, especially in Belfast.

From now on, the authorities say, if trouble flares, the area will be flooded by hundreds of troops aimed at overwhelming opposition by sheer weight of numbers.

Passers-by will be warned at the start that they constitute an illegal assembly. If they don't leave they will be promptly arrested.

In future, too, troops will retaliate against stonethrowers with tougher tactics — more snatch squads and more gas.

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WAGE FREEZE

Both Labour and Tory leaders tip-toed gingerly round what they would do in the event of a major economic crisis blowing up within short period of the General Election.

"We have stated our opposition to a compulsory wage freeze,' claimed Tory leader Edward Heath during a barrage of questions.

But what would the Tories do if their warnings about an impending economic crisis were correct? Wouldn't thes nave to embark on a policy of freeze and squeeze?

'Not at all,' floundered a thoroughly rattled Heath, 'you vague when asked if-as the Post Office Engineering Union alleged last week-the Tories intend to de-nationalize the télephone service.

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