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GKN STRIKERS KICK MIT NCAI VUI UCHL UNION representatives were booed of the platform at GKN-Sankey's Wellington football ground yesterday when they tried and failed to sell back-to-work terms to 5,000 strikers.

Shouts of 'nuts' and 'you're selling us up the road again' greeted the terms of the deal worked out at top-level meetings in London.

The officials were unable to make themselves heard it official? you going to make over continuous shouts of and 'off! off! off!'.

Finally one striker grabbed Strikers show their placards as police arrive at yesterday's court hearing.

Court pickets slam Tory law and order' Agnew in Cambodia VICE-PRESIDENT Agnew became the first US government leader to visit Cambodia since the CIA coup last March when he broke his journey to Thailand yesterday for talks. with Lon No! as!! her mombers of the pro-S regime in Phnom Penh.

Agnew landed early yesterday from Saigon at the capital's Pochedong airport and immediately flew by US army helicopter to Chamcar Mon.

After four hours of talks, he flew off to Bangkok, the last capital on his tour of SE Asia Assize Court BY A CORRESPONDENT countries which began a week ago in S Korea.

The only possible subject for discussion with Lon Nol was the desperate military position of his regime, which nas now lost more than two-thirds of Cambodia to the guerrillas, and is daily forced to fight off liberation forces approaching within ten miles of Phnom Penh.

Diplomatic relations with the Lon Nol regime were resumed some time ago by the White House after many years of tension between the US and the Shihanouk government, which allowed NLF and Laotian guerrillas to pass through its territory.

Cambodia is becoming the centre of military and political struggles having a direct bearing on the future of all IndoNow both the Kremlinwhich only three weeks ago received an economics minister from Phnom Penh - and Nixon have diplomatic relations with the anti-communist Lon Nol dictatorship.

"TACTICAL'

British Stalinists have attempted to justify this support as a 'tactical manoeuvre'.

It is nothing of the sort. It is a total betrayal of international solidarity, and Communist Party members must join with the Socialist Labour League in exposing and denouncing it. Trotsky Memorial Lectures TROTSKYS LAST WORDS " IAM CONFIDENT OF THE VICTORY OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL GO FORWARD.... 1965 THAT MEANS FORWARD TO THE FIRST DAILY TROTSKYIST PAPERI 197OTHAT MEANS BUILF "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' STRIKERS from the Burmah Oil site at Ellesmere Port mounted a large picket outside Chester court-house yesterday when 44 fellow-workers appeared before the magistrates on charges of obstructing the police.

Strikers crowded the public gallery the coutt while about 100 stood outside the courthouse gates with placards attacking Tory 'law and order'.

A number of other building sites and factories, including Girling's, Dista, Petro and Wigan • EPIU, sent solidarity delegations in • supports of the 44—who were arrested while walking along a road near the site.

IN A BODY Police. maintained in court were exceeding their ickets under the law by walking in a body and holding up traffic.

1,700 construction workers on the site have been on strike for seven weeks demanding a 15s basic hourly rate. The company has offered only 13s and rejected demands for redundancy clauses, increased holiday credits and union control over labour recruitment.

Site convenor Bob McKenzie said yesterday that the strike was completely solid.

LITTLE INTEREST 'Not a single man wants to go back until the demands are met,' he said. But he added that the trade union officials had taken very little interest in the Burmah Oil struggle.

The Tory government would dearly like to set precedents limiting picket rights as part f their programme for lega control of the unions