'Dead' Soviet in forced labour camp

LATIN AMERICA less squatters Chilean miners to THE 11,000 coal-miners of the Lota-Schwager since Monday for a 50 per cent wage increase.

refused to improve on far Elnerica increase.

Rapidly rising prices in Chile mean • that very large increases are necessary merely to keep the real standard of living of workers from deteriorating.

The government, with one day to go to the presidential election, has threatened to try to break the strike by special imports of coal.

During the election campaign the right wing have hardly bothered to conceal their willingness to attempt a military coup if the right-wing candidate, Jorge Alesandrini, is defeated.

US support

The • US Ambassador, Edward Korry, has also been active in support of Alesandrini.

On Monday shots were fired during clashes between police and demonstrators outside the US Embassy.

Police also attacked homeless squatters who occupied unused land owned by land speculators, including the Catholic University of Chile, in the centre of Santiago. THE 'Central American University" at Managua, capital of NICARAGUA, has been shut down by the government after a student strike lasting over a month.

US firms

investment FURTHER cut -backs in capital investment by US big business are anticipated in a report just published by the Securities and Exchange Commission, gether with the Commerce Department.

Hit by sharply-declining profit returns, US firms have planned to spend £34,208 million on new plant and equipment this year, an increase of only 6.5 per. cent on 1969.

A survey carried out last May pointed to a planned increase of 7.8 per cent. And cutting-back is still in progress.

This decline in the US investment rate dominates the approaching clash between the United Auto Workers and .the 'Big Three' motor firms, whose three-year contract expires in two weeks time.

Hundreds of students occupied the buildings and demanded the resignation of the university's rector, the Jesuit Father Leon Pallais, who tried to run the university with no control by students or staff. IN Caracas, capital of VENEZUELA, the Chamber Deputies has passed a government bill placing all university matters under the direct control of the government and abolishing the theoretical 'autonomy' they previously had.

The new law will provide a legal cover for police attacks on left-wing students and staff on the campuses.

Barricades

During the 'debate' on the bill the Chamber of Deputies was surrounded with a guard of hundreds of armed police. IN BOLIVIA, the students of San Andres University, in the capital, La Paz, have launched a campaign of demonstrations against the summary execution by government troops of eight guerrillas, two of whom were students of the university.

They erected barricades and THE SOVIET oppositionist Ghennadi Gavrilov, who was reported last May to have been sen. tenced to death and executed under military law, is alive and serving a six-year forced labour sentence in a Mordovia camp.

The news of Gavrilov comes from the same source - the Milan daily 'Corriere della Sera'-that reported the transfer of the imprisoned oppositionist Alexander Ginsberg from the Mordovia camp to the Vladimir Prison in Moscow.

Gavrilov, who was an officer on a Soviet nuclear submarine stationed in the Baltic, organized there an opposition group, the Union for Political Rights.

They campaigned for the realization of the rights which xist on paper in Soviet law ncluding political and intel lectual freedom, but emphasized that this must take place within the framework of a socialist state.

Rights strongly opposed the Soviet invasion of slovakia.

Other members of the Union were arrested with Gavrilov, but no news is yet available of their fate.

held marches in the streets of La Paz, demanding the return of exiled staff members and the re-establishment of freedom of speech.

The university, 'taken over' for a week in July by fascist *Phalange' thugs, has now become a centre of opposition to the Ovando regime in Bolivia.

IN COLOMBIA, the government has launched a massive sweep against guerrillas in the Santander eastern region after seven soldiers were killed in an ambush.

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BIRMINGHAM: Tuesday, September 8, p.m. "The Wellington' corner Bromsgrove St and Bristol St. "Trade unions - the vital question'.

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