Big line- up against guerrillas

-For God's sake say something now or you will lose your own position'-A Heath supporter Papers roll-but nothing settled weekend after being strikebound for five days, but none of the basic questions posed by the printworkers' strike abour-without have been resolved. . The claim for 25 per cent on basic rates by the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) and the Society of Lithograph Artists, Désigners and Engravers (SLADE) was demanded beillusions combat the every-day attacks on workers' conditions which are bound to come following the election.

I end by congratulating you in the job you are doing since the publication of the Workers Press.

You carry out an . essential task in educating the working class by your reporting of disputes and your analysis of the political situation nationally and internationally.

Your articles on SNP, Plaid Cymru and Ireland are timely and should have the effect of unity against the main enemy-Toryism.

V. Fairbrother Area Officer: Liverpool. National Union of Tailors & Garment (In personal capacity) decided on Saturday morning.

ADOUL 2,000 menDers THE 82nd AIRBORNE division are believed to both be still standing by in readiness for an American National intervention in Jordan.

committee's three Under the pretext of protecting American lives and property Nixon is ready to deal a direct blow at the demanas. • Full nationalization of all Arab revolution and to restore 'order' and the • POo-per-cent workers' conreactionary rule of King Hussein and his feudal satraps.

• Maintenance of the present The troops alerted to do this job are the same ones The Labour used to attack the American Path ail because He di working class in crushing the 1967 Detroit Negro uprising.

With the left-wing guerrilla solution of barliament for the forces virtually in control of elecuion. broposed to nationa. large sections of Amman, a lize only ports handling more than five million care more 8 government would has been forced into the open This measur committed to scrap ever ERSTWHILE insisting that comWhile the Arab masses, plete nationazation was headers to what trol ary, nationalist regimes, their erstwhile 'allies' prepare to previous merely for workers participa stab them in the back.

Nasser's statement backing Numbers ni cockers nave the attempts at a deal between Hussein and Yasser Arafat (leader of Al Fatah), and condemning the guerrillas who continue the struggle Dockers in other ports may against the Jordan regime, has alerseyside men In ssien days TRawüs demand for a $20 Time SUDDOT nationa! minimum wage. the signature of Stalinist 'expert' on the Midthe asser on matt Still 'there are serious reasons for thinking' battling for I.O.S.

corpse WHEN THE 1969 accounts of Investors Overseas Services published Saturday, just in time saulsly Canaalar law. Ene were aron restor confidence the this in were down from 514 show that profits the million BUT million accounted for held jointly Arctic land, King land, the say thin revaluation SID FRENCH SAYS are 'not competent' to appraise Fleet St 'back to normal' the transaction.

S40 million loans po directors Another tricky HIS PRAYERS year.

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scene battle founder of los and cause of fast-eroding money values. largest But the 'settlement' is no- and the international bankin where near the mark on this interests now working to take score alone. overhese Toe urm. -or All the six Fléet St unions led are to receive a 5 per cent comprehensive increasé and four weeks annual holiday — an increase of a week. Il'S obviously going to be a small meeting, said the chairThe employers' first offer is man as he peered out across NOW IT'S UP TO YOU believed to have been 5 pér the desolate wastes of the cent on basic rates in the Vestry Hall, Mitcham (above). form of a cash bonus, which SPECIAL ELECTION OFFER would have left overtime and After this frank, hard-hitother additional rates un- ting introduction, the audience changed. of ten settled down to another We are absolutely convinced that our circulation can inspiring episode in the Combe considerably Increased over the election perlod. Above basic munist Party's campaign to elect Mr Sid French (or anyYou have the opportunity to Introduce new readers The agreement also stipu- body) to Westminster. by using our speclal election offer of 18 issues by lates that the actual increase post for 15s from June 1-20 (back Issues still obtainBut where was Sid? to any man shall not be less able). Get your new reader to fill in the form below than 10 per cent of his basic Over at the neighbouring and post with 15s to: wage. Methodist Church. Mr French This clause will cover only a small number as most print (top left) was meeting the Special Election offer, Workers Press, workers' take-home pay is people' (300 of them) at a 186A Clapham High Street, London S.W.4.

candidates' forum held under well above the basic.

the auspices of the Merton wages set against the crisis It was the pressure for Council of Churches. I want to help the Workers Press raise Its circulation: facing the newspaper owners Yes, Sid was where the (re) that put SOGAT joint general action was—sharing the scene Namo. secretary Richard Briginshaw with Mr Robert Carr, Tory on such a hot seat. candidate and leading spokes- 1 Address The settlement achieved man on union-bashing, Mr after nearly 40 hours of nego- Reginald Vincent, Labour tiating, packed into five days, candidate and Justice of the will do little to cool it down. Peace, and Rev Arthur Green, The employers' determina- Vicar of the Ascension and Postal order/choque for 158 enclosed.

tion to break down the differentials between the unions and bargain with them collectively caused the negotiations to be i what TUC general sécretary Victor Feather called 'the toughest, most complicated and most complex that I have seen in my life' The drawing together of the unions into common negotiations paves the way for interchangeability between the unions in the plants.

Chairman of the Newspaper Publishers' Association, Lord Goodman, commenting on the very satisfactory' nature the settlement, undoubtedly had this in mind.

Union leaders at the press conference immediately following the final agreement around midnight denied that the now mitted to immediate talks on an 'equable wages structure' which 'will arise from a joint examination of the most efficient use of manpower and plant' A year's time limit has been laid down for the establishment of this new wages structure.

Playing with fire

The union leaders know that they are playing with fire.

The press barons above all want to implement productivity deals and ultimately decimate the labour force in the industry.

The enormous developments in printing technology over recent years, coupled with the life-and-death battle now being fought out between a shrinking number of Fleet St papers, have produced an absolutely explosive situation.

The collaboration of the union leaders in productivity dealing, even though only just beginning, sharpening thé employers' knife on their behalf.

The problems in front of printworkers pose irresistibly the necessity of political solutions, of the nationalization of the industry under workers' control.

But this will remain at the level of a propaganda demand unless the struggle is taken up to replace the present opportunist leadership in the unions.

Recognition

CEYLONESE Prime Minister Mrs Sirima Bandaranaike's two-week-old government yesterday announced in Colombo that it will extend diplomatic recognition to North Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany and the Vietnamese NLF's Provisional Revolutionary Government. All foreign banks in the country are to be nationalized and steps are to be taken to end Ceylon's 22 years of British Dominion status.

The students-about 100had earlier occupied the Saigon University's three-storey agricultural faculty building as a protest against the Thieu-Ky regimes continued detention of anti-US student leaders.

The students then moved on to the US embassy to demonstrate against the imperialist occupation of their country.

SERIES

This is the most recent in a series of clashes between students, youth and workers and the armed police of the puppet Saigon regime.

It proves that even in the capital, the anti-imperialist movement is so powerful it can take to the streets in defiance of the regime's repressive forces. Paris transport PARIS is expected to be paralysed today by a tube and bus strike. Unions have called the stoppage following the refusal of the management, who are backed by the government, to make minor concessions on wages and holidays, and to simplify the labyrinthine pay structure. Paris Rothschilds, held a meeting in Paris last Thursday, attended by several US representatives, as well as the Dresdner Bank and the Banco Commerciale Italiano. The bankers, led by the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company of New Yark, were reported have attended with the backing of the US government.

This indicates the deep worries of US capital that an IOS collapse would set off a renewed slump in share prices and further damage confidence in the dollar.

IOS share sales to repay European savers wanting their money back is at the same time extremely dangerous for the US balance of payments.

IOS acting chairman, Sir Eric Windham White, who is taking the lead in all negotiations with the banks for an IOS 'rescue', said in Geneva on Saturday that he was beginning to feel 'a new confidence' in the future of the company.

He must be the only one. that the clashes in Jordan 'have been provoked and prepared by American agents' seeking to aggravate the situation in order to procure the capitulation of the Arabs.

Arafat's recent Moscow visit laid the way for this attempt by the Stalinists at a political lynching of the Arab revolution.

Victory against Hussein and Zionism cannot come except through a complete political break with the peddlers of "peaceful co-existence'.

MEET Political significance General Election OXFORD Wednesday, Jane 17, 7.30 p.i.

Alma Hall, Alma Place Speaker: G. Healy (Su national ATUA and Young Socialists meeting Eve of election meeting NEWCASTLE, Wednesday, June 17 1.30 p.m Connaught Hall, Blackett Street. speakers: Neville Atkinson, Nationa.

Committee Young socialists. Petel Flack, Socialist Labour League.

ALL TRADES MEETINGS 'Fight the Tories' OLLERTON. Saturday, June 20, Plouch InD. tion as 'common-law criminals'.

'Interrogate'

Brazilian police chief Fleury, who recently toured France and Italy 'investigating' the activities of Brazilians in Burope, is known to attach great importance to taking the lives of these two men.

Asylum

Their lawyers have requested that they be given political asylum, since they are obviously sought because of their political views and activities.

Their plight underlines the support which American imperialism and the 'democratic' governments of W Europe are prepared to give even the most brutal regimes in Latin America.

INGS BRISTOL UNIVERSITY YOUNG SOCIALISTS STUDENT SOCIETY June 11-17 In commemoration of the centenary of Lenin's birth. Monday, arism and history. Tuesda Marxism and alienation. Speaker Mike Banda, editor of Lenin an revolutiong Engliste Meeting boil inkers Press Awl ncadet showing now Workers Press 2 produced.

ALL MEETINGS 8.15 p.m.

STUDENTS' UNION QUEEN'S ROAD BRISTOL leading spokesman on devilbashing.

I don't think I shall be forming a government, he announced, much to the relief of the assembled congregaAt this news, the reverend Green obviously considered a small token of thanks order.

Mr French stood and lowered his eyes obediently as the sound of the Lord's Prayer filled the evening air (see picture page one).