Czechs recognize striker-killing Franco regime
By Robert Black
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This was dismissed as nonsense by one steward who pointed out that the performance of a machine was a known factor, but that the men operating and servicing it would be the items' to be co-ordinated.
The discussion revealed that many stewards are patently uneasy about the tele-control, which had only been mentioned briefly at the mass meeting.
On the shop floor, some workers are puzzled that the shop stewards recommended acceptance of the system before they had learnt the facts about i did vote for acceptance of the proposals claimed that they had done so with little alternative.
Had the recommendation been defeated, they say, the shop stewards' committee leadership would have had to resign and a strike without leadership would have developed.
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Outlook for Sunday and Monday: Cloudy with rain at times in the South, but sunny intervals with showers in the North. Rather cool in the North, but near normal elseLATE NEWS MPS ON HOLIDAY MPS started their summer recess last night until October 27. But they did so with a warning:
Mr William Whitelaw, leader of the House has told them that they may have to come back to work in mid-August to make further emergency regulations should the dock strike continue.
LUSAKA PROTESTERS RIP FLAG Lusaka, Friday-Britain's High second Second Union Tasak lost its days today, when about 700 members of Zambia's National Youth Service marched on the building in protest against Britain's decision to sell arms to S Africa. 'OMPLETELY impervious to the murder on Tuesday of three trikers in Granada, the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia has pened up diplomatic relations with the fascist Franco regime in pain.
The conclusion of the negotiations, which bezan earlier this week in Paris, was announced yesterday by Radio Madrid.
The consular and commercial agreement signed in Paris provides for more comprehensive exchanges between the two regimes in the near future.
Those Communist Party members who until now have hesitated to condemn the Husak regime for fear of being labelled anticommunist, should think again.
• Consistent It is the Kremlin-backed Husak government which betrays communism and the working class by • openly siding — like Gomulka and other E European Stalinist leaders who back Franco — with the fascist oppressors and murderers of the Spanish working class.
In awarding official recognition to Franco, Husak is at least consistent.
Only a week ago, the last surviving workers' councils, elected under Dubcek, were Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, S:W.4. officially wound up and condemned as dangerous manifestations of 'right-wing opportunism'.
Signing a diplomatic pact with the fascist Franco however is thoroughly consistent with Husak's SOWORKERS belonging to the Basque independence movement (ETA) were stated yesterday to have been responsible for the Molotov cocktail and slogan painting raid on a government building in Bilbao on Thursday, in solidarity with the murdered Granada strikers. And in Barcelona, sentences from five months to five years were imposed on students for burning fascist flags and a portrait of Franco.
called 'proletarian internationalism'.
In this, as in every other aspect of policy, the Prague egime does not act as a tree gent, but on the order of its masters in Moscow, who still maintain thousands of well-armed troops on Czech territory. future