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Send wour donations today 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. IE NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY NUMBER 257 • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1970 PRICE 6d. EDITOR Plans made to resist Thediaily organ of the Socialist Labour beague FROM AMMAN, like ripples in a pond, the impact of the guerrilla struggle has now reached Syria, Lebanon, the Israeli-occupied territories and even Moscow, where the betrayal of the Arab Revolution PLANS TO purge present union leaderships and resist company speed-up proposals formed the main topic of discussion amongst many GKNSankey workers yesterday following a far-fromunanimous vote to end the Shropshire factory's was first devised. Morris Motors by yesterday's vote to return to work.

men stick out for new rate FIFTEEN HUNDRED pieceworkers trom British-Leyland's Morris Motors' plants at Cowley, Oxford, voted yesterday to continue their challenge to Lord Stokes' plans to speed-up This £410 million combine.

Assembly workers on the Minor 1000 production-line BY A have been out-180-strong CORRESPONDENT over the last four weeks.

They have been supported suspension of socialin their strike during the last security payments to 2,200 fortnight by 1,300 other piece- workers at the plant (Cowley workers from the factory's is completely shut down by stadium, one of them com- mounting, 'N' block assembly the dispute), the pieceworkers mented bitterly:. and sub-assembly shops in a have decided to challenge the 'We won't get ours while dispute over pay rates for firm's attempt to force acceptwe've still got them up there.' Leyland's forthcoming ADO 28 ance of 17s 10d an hour as A few union cards were model. the starting piecework price torn up. for the ADO 28.

Redeveloped

But most of the militants Senior shop stewards met management on Thursday and seemed to agree that would This is scheduled to go into be letting the officials off the volume production shortly on won several points in informal hook; there was important Cowley's redeveloped South talks, but the company would work to be done in the shops side. not budge from this offer. and in the branches. All 1,500 workers voted Fleet St's cautious approach Transport and General unanimously yesterday to to the dispute is to some Workers' Union cars secretary continue their strike and to extent understandable. Moss Evans clearly sensed this meet again, after the works' holiday, on September 29. Burned fingers Despite a virtual press black-out on their struggle and The Cowley management ALI. THADES UNIONS ALLIANCE important respects - relating has burned its fingers in two both to termination of a special Minor 1000 agreement CONFERENCE and to established 'mobility of labour' practices.

But the black-out may seem The Pilkington Defeat the just a little surprising in view struggle and the proposed Tory 16,500 British-Leyland workers of the fact that a total of right to strike anti-union laws have been laid off as a result of the strike.

St George's Hall, Lime St Stewards explain that Leyland hope to start ADO 28 LIVERPOOL production on a . 'controlled piecework' system, similar to that operating of late on the Minor 1000 line at a price of 16s 10d.

While bitter fighting continued yesterday, Palestinian and Jordanian students began a sit-in at the Jordan Embassies in London and Moscow.

This action is of great political significance, for Soviet Radio stations have so far maintained a total black-out on news coming from Jordan.

The students' action is a blow at the Kremlin's treacherous Middle-East policy.

A four-point petition handed to Jordanian Ambassador Hasan Anis Ibrahim demanded an end to 'the atrocities of the Jordanian government against the partisans and the people of Jordan'.

STRIKE

The movement in solidarity with the guerrillas has also spread to Lebanon, where 300 Palestinian employees of the Beirut United Nations headquarters struck work against the Hussein regime's war on the commandos.

Also in Beirut, 500 students and workers took over the Jordanian Embassy, declaring they would not leave until the Hussein regime had been overthrown.

In Damascus, Syrian workers and students are also involved in solidarity demonstrations.

In the Zionist-occupied Gaza strip, Arab workers and shopkeepers defied the Dayan terror and supported the strike call of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

HEROIC

The guerrillas' heroic stand in Jordan is transforming the political situation throughout the Middle East.

For, whatever the immediate outcome of the fighting in Amman and the rest of Jordan, the Palestinians have dealt an irreparable blow to world imperialist strategy.

Until the outbreak of the hi-jacking crisis two weeks ago, Nasser and Hussein seemed to be moving smoothly towards a cynical deal with the Zionists, based upon the Nixon-Rogers 'peace plan'.

Now the fedayeen have put an end to that.

The Arab Revolution not only burned three airliners on Dawson's Field. It also burned its political boats irrevocably.

There can be 1.o going back to the situation before July 1970.

What has begun so courageously - and in a sense empirically — in Jordan, is already drawing the entire Arab nation into the fight against imperialism and its agents at home.

The crisis of the entire MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21 Trotsky Memorial Lectures "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Starts 8 p.m.

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS IAM CONFIDENT OF THE VICTORY OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL GO FORWARD 1965 THAT MEANS FORWARD TO THE FIRST DANY TROTSKYIST PAPER 197- THAT MEANS BUILD LONDON, Friday - 25 members of the Union Arab Students began "sit-in' yesterday Jordanian Embassy in Kensington—with the permission the Ambassador, Saad Jumaa.

Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban paid a surprise visit on Tory Foreign Secretary Douglas-Home.

After discussing the crisis in Jordan, he left to be replaced Soviet Ambassador in London, Mikhail Smirnovsky.

Crisis talks are also proceeding in New York and Washington between Zionist leaders, White House officials and diplomats of the other 'big powers'. AMMAN, Friday—Heavilyarmed Palestinian guerrillas were still pouring across the Syrian frontier into North Jordan late today, as Hussein's forces prepared attack commando troops around the town of Irbid.

They also headed further South where guerrillas are still holding Zerka, 30 miles from here.

It is reported that six giant US transport planes are standing by in Turkey for the possible evacuation Americans from Tordan.

A British military spokesman in Cyprus has said a marine commando unit was on its way from Singapore join 'Albior, Commando carrier the Mediterranean.

The US Sixth fleet has also moved closer to the battle area.

TEL AVIV, Friday — Israel has now released all of the 450 Arabs detained in a mass security swoop through the occupied territories last weekend, military sources said here today.

ALGIERS, Friday—Algeria called on the Jordanian government to put an end to the bloodshed in Jordan and reaffirmed her total support for the Palestinian cause. The second of Two BEAVER HALL GARLICK HILL Near Mansion House tube Admission 28

mood-attempting to channel it in the direction of a return —with an earnest appeal to the 37 shop stewards who had opposed the recommendation to end the strike, and who stayed in the body of the meeting leading opposiAt their Thursday night meeting with stewards of all five unions involved, officials failed to get agreement that all stewards join the platform at the mass meeting and present the return call as a unanimous decision.

'You have a responsibility as shop stewards, , Evans told hecklers at the mass meeting.

•.. there's a job to be done and it has to be done inside that factory.' Swung waverers And it was undoubtedly Evans, rather than AEF executive council member Bob Wright or General and Municipal national officer Ken Baker, who swung most of the waverers at the meeting for a return.

In fact Wright- after insisting that Sankey's jobevaluation scheme meant a substantial pay increase for the whole : factory, an uplift for low-paid pieceworkers and a basis for 'a more equitable piecework system' - almost succeeded uniting the meeting against his 'take good advice •. this is the end of the road'.

'Out! Out!'

And loud booing, chants of 'Out! Out! Out!' and slow hand-clapping exploded when he cited as authorities for his advice 'three of the most experienced and powerful union leaders in Great Britain — Lord Cooper, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon'. / Talks about implementation 'stringed' offer, later, the officials company's multitold reporters would begin as soon as possible.

But many GKN-Sankey workers are already preparing to meet the blow when the axe does fall. world capitalist system now makes it Possible for the workers the imperialist powers to strike their blows Jointly with the semi-colonial peoples against the common enemy.

Such a situation had not matured during the French war in Algeria (1956-1961) and the Zionist 'blitzkrieg' of June 1967.

Heath and Nixon both have their hands full combatting powerful strike movements at home. Nixon's army is fully engaged in Vietnam, while British forces are stretched to the limit in N Ireland.

A new Suez, Vietnam or Cambodia would only intensify the already unbearable problems of imperialism.

IMMEDIATE

Nevertheless, British labour must be ready to take immediate action should any intervention against the Arab Revolution and the Palestinian guerrillas be mounted by either British, US or Zionist