No prison without trial yet

trade unions.

Taxi fares the Joint Security Committee held on Wednesday.

up 6d THE Home Secretary yester- a week of rioting in Belfast day approved a sixpenny sur- parked by the shooting of charge on stondon taxi fares [9-year-old Daniel O'Hagan bi British troops last Friday. from August said that th Office spokesman that the increase of the Unionist government a mere are and Pr interim have threatened to resign if there are not 'tougher measures' against people takmeters decimal currency next year. ing part in street fighting.

passed in 1922 and made a permanent law 11 years later, gives powers to the Minister of Home Affairs to make regulations and 'take all such steps and issue all such orders as may be necessary for preserving the peace' enable the police to arrest people without a warrant on suspicion of acting, having acted, or being about to act' in a manner contrary * t peace, and to hold them indefinitely without charge.

search homes without warrant and with force at any hour of day or night; declare a curfew, prohibit meetings; deny claim to a trial by jury and arrest persons it is desired to examine as witnesses and compel them to answer under penalties, even if their answers may incriminate them.

include the right to prohibit the holding of an inquest after a prisoner's death; to prohibit the circulation of any newspaper and to arrest a person who does anything "calculated to be prejudicial to the preservation of peace or maintainance of order not specifically provided for in the regulations'.

legal rights they have at present.

law.

DEMANDS for the immediate use of the provisions The Special Powers Act, in the Special Powers Act to detain people without trial were believed to have been rejected yesterday by the Ulster cabinet and a later meeting of the Joint Security Committee.

Regulations under this Act The Cabinet had before it a list of demands from the 1966 committee of Unionist backbenchers.

No statements were issued SEARCHES but Home Affairs Mr Robert Porter said afterwards:

They can also enter 'and "There has been no change in the government's decision at the moment regarding the Special Powers The right-wing Protestant leader the Rev lan Paisley Other provisions of the Act was later to see the Deputy Prime Minister to press fox more harsh measures against demonstrators and for the detention of members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.

In other words, the Ulster cabinet is now considering the introduction of martial law, 1970: Thirty years depriving workers in the pro- since Trotsky's vince of even the tenuous assassination The Tories have a long experience in operating, this SOCIALIST type of all-embracing colonial They used precisely this type of measure against the Mau Mau in Kenya, where LABOUR the infamous Hola concentration camp became the setting for brutal murders of prisoners LEAGUE fighting for the liberation of Now, with 11,000 troops equipped with the latest barbarities of modern military science, they are planning to Memorial impose the same regime on Meeting OVERFLOW Activation of the Act will inevitably mean the establishment of concentration camps ACTON in order to detain its victims.

The prisons are. already full TOWN HALL to overflowing with the hundreds of people arrested High St, Acton since the disturbances began.

The N Ireland Tories have so far kept the Special Powers in the background,. fearing August 23 that to activate this infamous law would cause a wave of popular anger and sweep them Sunday Instead they recently passed another Act, the Public Order Act, under the provisions of which they have banned pro- Starts 3 p.m. cessions and restricted workAdmission 2s Their position has been immeasurably strengthened by the treachery of the Labour leaders, who sent troops into Speakers: Forwarder with she the province last August to 3. HEALY (SLL national bolster the Unionist regime, secretary), M. BANDA and by the electoral victory (Editor Workers Prese).

JENNINGS (Editor The Communist Party and Keep Left). duilywnewspaperthe revisionists who justified the sending of British troops Chairman: WORKERSIPRESS last August are a vital link in the chain which is being C. SLAUGHTER (SLL forged for Ulster workers' Central Committee). ALSO: The first public showing of the latest The Communist Party newspaper 'Morning Star' responds Young Socialists film- Youth in Action in to this offensive of British imperialism with . . . a the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.