Guerrillas move back as Nixon pulls out

Lucas men return call A FURTHER 1,400 Lucas car-components workers were laid off by the company yesterday as 650 die-casters and plastics workers from its Sparkhill, Birmingham, plant voted to continue their strike for a fl pay increase. decision came despite the efforts of General and Municipal Workers' Union officials to force a return on the basis that proedure was not. exhausted : Mapy of the stokers had been very angry on Friday when ordered: to attend yesterday's meeting and bad shouted out that they would hold their own. meeting next Friday.

But the strikers turned up o prevent a small meeting voting to return.

Despite an adjournment of this morning's meeting so that officials could see the management, the previous offer was not improved.

Under this, skilled workers would get 28s a week, plus a promise to bring forwara a 25s award due in December to a date to be negotiated.

This would give, management claim, £3 5s a week for skilled men, but less to lower grades.

This was rejected by a large majority.

WEATHER IBERATION forces are already re-occu ne regions left vacan by the US withd com Cambodia, which was scheduled to be leted today.

This was admitted yeserday by US military fficials, who predicted nat the guerrillas would stablish an administration ›yal to the exiled governent of Sihanouk in all reas 'searched and desroyed' by. Nixon's task orce.

In other words, upply routes from the North, iscover and smash the ythical 'central office' of the LF, and round up the 40,000 Liberation fighters egions of Cambodia.

None of these objectives has een secured.

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The discovery of NLF headuarters has been proclaimed : least ten times-only to be enied just as often.

The key garrison towns of abang Suek and Bo. Kheo e once more in guerrill: ands—only hours after the S withdrawal and the retreat a budiat troops from NE The last redoubt of the IA-created Lon Nol regime - the Cambodian capital hnom Penh - is ringed by iberation forces.

Back in S Vietnam, the ruggle against the Thieu-Ky •gime has erupted in the lain cities, where student emonstrations and strikes ave forced Nixon's puppets ing factories, but the employers seemed to feel that they had the strength of a Tory government behind them.

The strikers, members of the chemical workers' union, are seeking to extend the strike to the company's Norwich works and are appealing for support from haulage workers and the Federation of International Chemical and General Workers' Unions.

A mass meeting is to be held on Thursday in the Dagenham football ground.

Dying awal. comKEANE CASE ments bring to 11,000 the number of British forces in the province.

They were joined yesterday by 3.000 men of the Ulster Defence Regiment, many of them former B Specials, mobilized by Tory ser-can at premier Chichester-Clark the weekend.

At the same time, Army GOC Lieutenant-General Sir an Freeland stated that any ne carrying firearms is liabl o be shot without warning Toryism, with the aid of thi most flagrant rovocations, i bent on establishing an iron military dictatorship in the Six Counties.

Already the ChichesterClark regime, hated by Cathoand Protestant workers alike, has established a virtual curfew in Belfast and introtences tof noters: pr duced prison set'Anyone found guilty of participation in disorder or riot can be absolutely certain that he will receive exemplary punishment' under the new law, Chichester-Clark announced.

, BACKED UP Freeland and ChichesterClark were backed up in their

This suggestion was greeted with derision from the crowd and Hume and McCann shouted down.

The meeting broke up in disorder.

Hume coupled his "compromise with the demand that Devlin be released from prison and the forthcoming Orange Order parades banned.

The military in short order demonstrated the absurdity of this pacifist-reformist pipedream.

In Belfast, Catholics being evacuated from their houses on the Springfield Road housing estate were attacked by troops after they had been stoned by Protestant crowds.

Troops moved in only after fighting had continued for some time, and singled out the Catholics for the full riot There can be no compromise with the military in N Ireland.

The Tory Stormont government, with the full backing of Edward Heath's Westminster administration, is clearly hell-bent on a massive pogrom in Ulster.

That is the only possible explanation of the carefully calculated imprisonment of Devlin and the continued Orange provocations.

Belfast on Saturday saw no fewer than 12 Orange marches.

Chichester-Clark has made not the slightest move to restrain the Paisleyite forces SUBSCRIBE NOW who insist these provocations must continue right up to the grand finale on July 12.

According to the Belfast Citizen's Defence Committee, their demand to the Home Office in London that the Orange marches be rerouted legislation. produced a reply 'acknowledging our feeling of anxiety, stating that nothing could be done to ban or re- powerful weapons wil be reroute the Orange parade'. quired to beat back this offensive than the bold, 24-point This is the background type with which the Transagainst which thousands more Paid do o 'Record' troops are due to arrive in Ulster.

The Chichester - Clark the Tomes issued at london's regime, riddled with friends Alexandra Palace two days and allies of the Rev lan after the election. Paisley, continues to exist by the kind permission of the blacker print to convince Protestant Unionist leader, T&GWU members that their with the backing of 11,000 occupational troops. All those political tenden- main inflexible is more than real trouble if they reSocialism group and the Com- like the International "left' talk. munist Party, which justified Content the Wilson government sendlation against trade unions', and