SPEAK UP GOLLAN & MATTHEWS

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE ANNOUNCES Polish coal by the fascist Franco regime to break the Asturian miners' strike in January 1970.

The 'Morning Star, dally paper of the British : Communist Party, clalms to support both these struggles. Tories warm up at No. 10 NO DECISION on whether there is to be an autumn Budget was announced following yesterday's 45-minute 'house-warming' meeting of the new Tory Cabinet.

Ministers-including Chancellor of the Exchequer lain McLeod—reported their initial reactions to what they found on taking over their new departments.

But 'checking the books' is likely to go on until the first statement of overall government policy in the Queen's Speech to the reassembled parliament on July 2. •. St James Park tub Yet on the vital question of scabbing by the Polish government of Gomulka, It remains completely silent.

More • and more Communist Party members and 'Star' readers' are demandIng that Party secretary end union HQ THE 250 non-salaried headquarters return to strike action.

The stoppage was in support of a demand for a f5 interim increase pending negotiations on a new pay structure.

But officials of the Clerical and Administrative Workers —the main union involvedand SOGAT recommended a return to work on the basis of the promise from AEF Chairman: M. BANDA Editor Workers Press Gomulka, but an Issue that concerns every trade unionIst and soclalist in Britain.

Once again we ask these exponents of diplomatic silence-speak up and denounce Gomulka's scabbing on the irish working class, or admit that you support it.

strike staff at the AEF's Peckham work today after 14 days of BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER president Hugh Scanlon of an increase running into 'pounds' for the lowest paid adult worker.

This proposal was accepted at a mass meeting at which the strike committee had no alternative suggestions.

Many of the strikers feel that their claim has not been advanced by the stoppage which has ended just as support from other areas was beginning to come in.

Deadline

A two-week deadline has been set for the further negotiations which are to start immediately.

Although any increase negotiated will be backdated, little agreement has so far been reached on the implementation of a new pay structure based on a completed job-evaluation exercise.

CIGAR RISE A PAY RISE of not less than 12 per cent for more than 200 workers at the Churchman's cigar factory, Ipswich was announced yesterday. The award will mean an extra £150 a year for men and £130 for women.

HERE will be isolated instances of unthinking antagonism, Mr Frank Cousins, chairman of the Community Relations Commission, told reporters yesterday.

ddressing a press conference on the occasion of the publication of the CRC's report for 1969-1970, the exgeneral secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union stated that the affects of the Tory election victory on race relations was an open question. It is difficult to answer whether the government's attitude will be better or not, he said.

It depended on how the Tories dealt with their 'intolerant As far as repatriation was concerned we would have to 'wait and see'.

The report itself is the usual mixture. Economic crisis and class conflict are drowned out with pious phrase ande melter of do•Progress' It is encouraging that, despite environmental difficulties, there has been real progress towards multi-racial harmony and neighbourliness aren in tha. 99st deprived The pr posed Ter attack od housing through slashing public expenditure is, course not mentioned. If the CRC continues to Malaysian for I INCHE JOHARI, Minister of Commerce and Industry in the anti-communist Malaysian government of Tunku Raman, has expressed hopes that the Tories will maintain troops in his country.

In an official statement on Monday, Johari reminded the Tories that they had promised to reverse the decision of the Wilson government to withdraw troops from the Far East:

•Malaysia hopes that Mr Heath will keep his word and that a continued British presence in Malaysia and throughout the Far East [will Warning that Leyland could no longer afford increases in of the level that now seems to be expected as a matter course' Lowry claimed that rises had cost t some £l2.5 million Ie hoped that the union would not now press claim:

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revolution. from Rome, after he declined to take a medical examination.

Told he would be deported if he refused, he agreed.

A Home Office official said later:

'Mr Theodorakis has been allowed in as a visitor.' Theodorakis,, held in a Greek prison for two and a half years as an alleged danger to public security, was released over two months ago, and has made his home in Paris, where he was joined by his wife and children.

When released, he was suffering from tuberculosis; and has since had an operation for appendicitis.

Homes drop ACCORDING to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government the number of new permanent dwellings completed in Great Britain during May 1970 was 29,257 compared with 30,231 in May 1969.

The figure for the first five months. of 1970 was 136,264 as against 142,966 for the same period last year.