ULSTER TORIES ARMY RULE

ANOTHER provocative Orange Order parade was due to march through Belfast yesterday afternoon as Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling returned to London from his 48-hour "fact-finding' mission.

Maudling heaped praise or the army when ne visited troops billeted around Belfast yesterday and told the men of the Royal Scots that the vere doing a 'fine job' patrol ling the city's Catholic area.

ling is believed to however have rePrivately, Maudassured Stormont ministers and MPs that the army will in the future take much firmer action than they did during last week's riots. ..'Tto Stormont Tories are known to want a much more decisive display of force by the army, particularly against the oppressed Catholic minority.

Some are privately calling 'salutary killings' to intimidate rioters and allow the luly 12 Orange parades to go ahead under military protec One right-wing Stormont Tory is quoted by "The Guardian' as saying the troops had 'behaved like Boy Scouts' and calling on the soldiers to open fire on snipers All pretence of a 'peace. keeping role, in the view of these bloodthirsty Tories, should be thrown out of the window and the army should buckle down to its real job of establishing a blanket military dictatorship.

Sentences

Stormont has already taken giant steps along that road.

Not content with the blanket provisions of the Special Powers Act, which does away with virtually in er legal right of workers Ireland, they yesterday rushed through a law providing man datory minimum sentences of offences. five years for riot came from the ReV lan Paiser who claimed the government had all the powers it needed under the Special Powers Act, but was afraid to use them for fear of offending the opposition.

Maudling, not surprisingly, refused to give would including Labourite the paddy forced. Three of MPs, Devlin, walked out of their discussions with the Tory Home Secretary.

There can be no doubt after yesterday Tories round of meetings that the champ-down in Uister and exedité moves towards military lictatorship Opportunism attitude markedly Labour leaden leaders who saw portunism the Belfast opMaudling emérged happy after had assured them port.

reform' programme and put through Stormont inciteTheir with Maudling the dangerous and Wolff's Catholic been and

PAGE TWO DATELINE: ULSTER NO SMOKING D The member for N Antrim speaks: Paisleyite Lambeg drummer at Protestant Unionist election meeting 5.

Paisley's ultra-Unionist policies maintain the split in the working class and keep many Protestant worke tied to Toryism. However, workers in the Belfast shipyards are organized in powerfu, trade unions, posing an immense problein for the employers and the Ulster Tories. The shipyard worker shown here7 operating an automatic welding machine. Behind the Unionist Party stands the Orange Order, shown on a recent provocative march & Another prop of the Unionist regime is the Ulster Defence Regiment,8 which contains many former members of the infamous Ulster Special Constabulary (the B Specials).

Another shipyard worker--a welder-is shown below 9 The main shipyard in Belfast recently announced a loss of more than £3 million for the last financial year, threatening the jobs of many workers in the yards.

Thursday July 2, 1970 AF helicoptèrs fly British troops into Belfast during a practice airlift 1 before last weekend's street fighting. The soldiers, Royal Marines from the Ballykindler Camp, were on their way to reinforce units occupying the centre of Belfast. One of the most heavily-guarded areas of the city, scene of much of the fighting last weekend, is the Crumlin Road. The main industry in this part of Belfast is linen, an industry which employs a high proportion of women workers 2. Working conditions in the linen mills are noisy, hot and cramped, 4 and wages extremely low. But while the linen bosses sweat. profit out of women workers on the Crumlin Road, the ladies of the Belfast middle class busy themselves with genteel Presbyterian rituals. Our photo 3 shows the 'offering' (collection) being paraded at a recent meeting of the Presbyterian Women's Assembly in Belfast. 1503

"In a clothing factory visited by the team young girls told us they worked in conditions of 90 degrees in the summer for a miserly £7 a week' Thursday July 2, 1970 3Y JOHN SIMMANCE INTERNA TONAL THERE IS A ROAD Sheffield's factories have bad We covered ten factories with week on the Saturday, we were school at 15 and and go straight THREE meeting but to centre the cam-