We won't have shackles on unions'

Anti - Powell demonstrators shout 'Sieg Heil' at Powell supporters. Powell draws the curtain set the tone for his second evening of election meet- BY MARTIN ZARROP ings in Wolverhampton.

Visibly rattled by the antiracialist slogans shouted throughout the second meeting by a group of 50 youths, Powell declared:

which you xtreme tip in the tiny exhibi Ion outside this hail I ask you to recognize in they were threatened by fascism in the 1930s.' Full plans This opening blast for capitaust 'law and order' prepared the ground for a full exposition of the Tories' plans for making the working class pay for the crisis. • Housing: No justification for paying a subsidy on every council house... We should allow genuine prices to work houses and everywhere else and then look for a decent minimum level'. • Development areas: 'It is not in anybody's interest to keep industry going in a place not suited to it.' De-nationalization: Steel: 'If I can persuade my party to do so I shall.' And airlines? 'Early action, beneficial action, can be taken.' • Foreign aid: 'It does more harm than good to that country... It is a fool who thinks that the development of Nigeria is the responsibility of this little group of islands in the North Sea. We developed ourselves ... It depends on the will to do something-to save, to invest, to work." • Productivity: "The object of every nation is to increase the amount of wealth that the worker produces ... Labour saving is the source of wealth.' Minimum wage: I don't see any purpose in defining a level below which a worker is poorly paid.' • Immigration: 'If you introduce into an advanced economy large numbers of additional unskilled workers, instead of having more invest[money in your pockets), less LABOUR candidate Evan Luard tried to smooth talk away all the problems in front of the working class as he defended the Wilson Immigration over the last 15 or 20 years had been an 'economic disadvantage'. Immigrants were 'never invited'.

I do not have a policy of repatriation different from that of my Party... generous assistance to all Commonorigin, to their countries of wealth citizens who wish to • East of Suez: 'A brigade and a squadron or two of aircraft' subject to agreement, of course.

Powell's reactionary message is plain. Teriamssive burden of the bankruptcy of British capital is to be met in full by the working class in Britain and elsewhere through mass unemployment, super exploitation, the destruction of the social services and poverty. This is the Tory programme. One man commented In Britain, the key to its the Labour government • PAGE FOUR COL. 6 → • PAGE FOUR COL. 2 This is the time to raise sales of BETWEEN NOW and the general election tens of thousan of people, young and old, will be introduced to politir many for the first time. It Is vital that they become acquainted with the revo tionary Marxist point of view. We have made extensive plans in order to do this. Th include:

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Reut farad at tha fantrne- lalcu al gate meeting with a clear-cut question on whether he would oppose the re-introduction of the measures in the notorious anti-union White Paper 'In Place of Strife', Luard refused to commit himself.

The White Paper, he claimed, was 'not a system against the unions' and five-sixths of its provisions were to strengthen the unions.

'Ballots'

He even went on to claim that, contrary to the experience of every trade .. unionist, ballots belore strikes and 1-11 - Awhat he termed 'conciliation pauses' would not weaken the unions in any signiticant way.

Luard said that he could not give a 'categorical' answer for 'hypothetical' situations— an obvious escape clause for supporting Wilson on all future occasions.

Supported

Workers pointed out later that Luard had in fact supported Wilson and his White Paper up to the hilt.

Luard trotted out the by now familiar hocus-pocus that the government had learned its le sadded that the strengsh of the balance of payments made it 'very unlikely' that anti-union legislation would be seen again.

The boom, he thought, 'was beginning to take effect. This was greeted with scepticism.

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Rank-and-file glass committee wants re-deployment MEMBERS of the rank-andomanitte • at Pilkington's Helen glassworks are to meet tonight High on the agenda will be their fight against redundancs at the key Triplex safety glass works throw the Genera and Muni Provisional Pik constituting constituting Union Committee.

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These done Said hate stopped issue Place of Starte to the revoluthe banks and the monopolies is a dangerous confusion. with Bring Worse to a it Rank-and-file glas