Workers Press no. 265

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NUMBER

THURSDAY. COCKT. Sru Pilkington conference builds up Callaghan lays does into support

BY MICHAEL BANDA

WITH TWO days to WHILE THE Labour leaders squawk and All Trades go to the Pil- Unions squeak ineffectually in Blackpool, the employers Amance kington's conference and their government are busily preparing their support continues come in. lines of fire against the unions.

stewards' backing the This is the meaning CBI's latest Tories try to of the Nottm

LABOUR'S

parliamentary top letter to its members. brass are carefully keeping their intimidate busmen options wide open for a form of Any hesitation on the part ion branch h called on th Trades Counci incomes policy policed by the council extend corous resolution union leaders. Produce Come action workers This much was clear from Party and treasurer and shadow Home Secretary i Treased hoy so peekes have James Callaghan's speech here yesterday DAY TWO of the council morning. manual workers' pay action 1969 to 22 9n 1970. unprecedented 2,821 workers s spread the rolling strikes cherise have been nine debate the trade u into the provinces yester- future Labour policy tomorrow. st in the best Mia lebroughsed un day, with Birmingham the The decision was takensatr The Party's National Executive Committee main target. plumbers union branch which was to be first later union branch. collection all for moy an evenineer ollowed by an evening

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ine with annual conference decisions.

representise these Also in Yorkshire a meetin or saturdays arie into thi at the citys bil- A was aced by exei votes his ress she irreversible declin instrument shop at IC boro And ir polit, was carried up and of Britis to force mens pande re- After

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ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

Union Congress 'partia- Victor Feather tomorrow with Lament vat raby out with the

CONFERENCE

showed The Pllkington Defeat the se not dispose of and favour of Walton co strikes struggle and the proposed Tory lice to a you see anti-union laws General strike, there is trem ront to strike must strike St George's Hall, Lime St

LIVERPOOL

Borough: 10 0 Saturday October 3 retreating giving up or . The union's Greater London 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. struggle and the divisional officer Ron Keatins

EEC

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DEBATE

crystal clear that stores it i holding further • See page 4 sue Tories esperation loyers

SOCIALIST

remation to fight to the end.

them will need Arging nore than the

LABOUR

Those who think that we or shitt the from the per promise po present 'no com ional ce e to say in of ate 'Freedom' up toe

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nationa Party leader Harold Wilson, The dangers al hat the of uncotected these aspect if re-elected Prime Ministe Trotsky unprocessed Telegraph' cheers the sual fredom ensure hims Memoria sponsiDe to Mie House o- Weapons • PAGE FOUR COL. g Meeting moment never to do nothing eate to one thei

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resent the Partick Burgh Hall A members sin 000 (nr Merkland St underground) pattour men since 19642 7.30 p.m. anton propose see This it change of strikes Admission as Trotskyglish Revolutionoming haat beey Forward with the Speakational sHaary

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Federation this first Trotskyist these thin carra can as cent and add sai daily newspaper- Sunday with the rights of trade un

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. September £1,000 Appeal Fund closes at £1,062 18s 4d A SPLENDID result which could have only been realized by is the de re i sa of expression of thousands dangers of a Tor readers to face up decisively governeat Workers Press provides working day-to-to build - Unly

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ship this nant to prepare tne wOrkIns pulld marty which will revolutionar pul an end to capitansm and orvism for ever this diet on. we start the collections the last minute. pashing inite boations Clapham High Street, • London, sW4 Ban ................ cements WITH A SURE class instinct, every imperialist programme. Tack Jones intervenes. leader together with his lackeys in the working- class movement has stepped forward to mourn.

the death of Egypt's President Nasser.

ine nooe or tears in nest quarters measures the extent which both imperialism and Stalinism relied on Nasser to leave for cairo to Dav Da last respects, his for a Medle hast Peace plans with signed Egyptian The nature of such a 'peace' of Pales of thousands shattered is clear. tinian fighters- Fatah right-wing Al leader Yassir Arafat prepared While troops • and guerrillas both prepared to reported SDokesmer that the begun 020 the Northern Irbid and Ramtha destroy remaining commando strongholds. This was the meaning vasser:- Alalat - Hussein truce' plan.

LINE-UP

Palestinian guerrillas should look carefully at this line-up of forces. It is clear that even Presi- dent Nixon present als-

NATO

Cussine WiLl molitar the Mediter. commanders n tempted diplomatic formalities and attend Nasser's funeral His expressions SOTTOu have been joined by those of General de Gaulle. "Thoughtful' Israelis reported Nasser's death. be "sober' leading Zionists dear v. were rapidly coming recognize behind the 'anti imperialist Nasser's speec settlement would Alau recognition on the State of Israel. Tory premier can stated [Nasser'sl power and influence were only recoznized •ПОТ the United Arab Republic but COAL BOARD chairman Lord Robens has offered an throughout the Arab world.' avenue of retreat from a fight over the miners' pay He was somerory, aso shocked not claim, which threatens a national official strike for the because miraculous ot change the Party's first time since 1926. class position the 1956 need to keep will By an industrial correspondent Suez Miners becaus leadershi a close on their Nasser proved eye. and this latest down the board's offer again natur between and creases of of bourgeois nationalism lay duell which falls short call a strike dweek, Mr KoDens Mas Unle

BUTCHERY

Lawrence Dav. national union +LU miniman surtace of mineworkers general secret- workers, tal tor those under- Social - democrat Lord him the Board and for face ground (George) Brown ould not object if the union workers. for asking US imperialism decided seek arbitration 'stop weeping' and get on with national° te points Mr the butchery in Indo-China- sad thin Middle it st the thạt Berlin said it tribunal exists he best : man the industry's conciliation produced last ha gone machinery. deal: before achieved his NCB feels the DUSSi- aim', the butchery of the the dispute setting ralestinian arabs. through the tribunal should be Another The Stalinists considered. agree wiin inese senuments- Not used meeting

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20a get or with the job of selling out the The tribunal at seas at Arab revolution. Kosygin and his While been used tor ten vears on

AMERICAN,

British

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and French ambassadors to deputation wept major issues The union executive is call- Germany met the Soviet yesterday ine on brians eye uwu omers envov from E Berlin vester- to support official strike action.

day in anotner attempt through a ballot to be held cauer, whose conemoulon l during prepare deal over week commencing Is peoples saugge tar our divided city. Octo his limitations and weissed This the seventh The miners have turned detects " neeting the top-secret discussions that began in Evidently, whatever the Mathe Soviet limitations and defects'

CZECH

Union's aim the InosE take over is to preserve the status quc Egyptian leadership the

SOVIET-

in Europe particularly at the preparing support them furthe expense derman working to r the Middle class.

TRADE UP

pact Moscow. Konn LeLU signed in the summer does Israel and dealing not CeRtan recognition ovier-czecnoslovak trad brutally revolu- Soviet towary querrilas. be 13 per yet highedths in bebricht *Pravdaending to bear The line-up of class forces reported December, is clear. The guerrilla move- ment is in great danger. yesterday. ana mcallons. Russia has now signed trade The The povert. ceve looment WILl ment has made ratincator Varist brooramme and tactic European members of Come of the pact dependent on a is now urgent if the guerrilla 'positive' of leadership is to be purged and con and negotiations are still going on with Mongolia. present talks. victory won.

workers press

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1970

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NUMBER

265 As strike wave grows The CBI calls for attack on unions Pilkington conference builds up ele la does prom support

BYNCHAEL BANDA

Labour still peddling WITH TWO days WHILE THE Labour leaders squawk and All Trades o то те Unions squeak ineffectually in Blackpool, the employers Alliance Pil- kington's conterence and their government are busily preparing their continues to incomes policy support come in. lines of fire against the unions.

backme the This is the meaning and of the CBI's latest Tories try to parliamentary Nottm

LABOUR'S

top letter to its members. brass are carefully keeping their intimidate busmen options wide open for a form of incomes policy policed by the council extend union leaders. action workers This much was clear from Party Productivity Gazette. treasurer and shadow Home Secretary James Callaghan's speech here yesterday DAY TWO of the council NOTTINGHAM busmen voted of one saturay pare manual workers' pay action modest 1,939 ne moprecedented 2,821 in 1970 spread the rolling strikes could ther wise have been as outine debate action today into the provinces yester- future Labour police otherwis day, with Birmingham the main target. Luck y become a key ise that the Pany 1a for me on ter a

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the tall siturere thes the city. Also in Yorkshire a meeting so cored by erecutive tes figures move a further attempt Vilton ha 291, oas ore British reperi norce the wAfter coverin hise soprachine stari

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on Moscalation of the strikes

DAVID

idealism, callaghan in Blackpool to • choice introduction bigger ones, such as the miner judge • PAGE FOUR COb. 4 festo legislation

ALI. TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

trade • Feather remorse ran the baby with Lament

CONFERENCE

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claims were made tea The Pllkington Defeat the number three London boroughs eent, he said, proposed Tory Social justice for and bete right to strike anti-union laws a connie base ok General Strik spokesman said: The unio wayne there St George's Hall, Lime St very annoyed about it an Pa 280* dom. taboupoles

LIVERPOOL

attemptbilit; ointedas And in 'to 'other Londo part rese one government Saturday October 3 sherip theate divisie union's 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Greater workersappealed strike wave. e could

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W. Hunter, deighton citro Corpor Conferenc culated gainst the

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credentials

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Secretary, Leighton View, Suince morning with the P • See page 4 holding furthe ШЛЕЕ e ory whic Moving the resolut & GWU

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'try and Which lever mination to fight to the end as supported sate Don Hushes porned out

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in ander no hair-hearted Partv leader harold wilson and salarieste e he niondilatory t first 25 sovernment Undeterred by the prospec tactics Trotsky Prime are the Telegraph cheers th qual freedom of movement.

Memorial Prime the members. Mine House

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sponsible Meeting The case of

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Partick Burgh Hall (nr Merkland St underground) the policemen 7.30 p.m. Admission es Chris emotional proposing speech.

Trote glish Revolutionoming hat bey caldo have da rise HE PAY claim for 109,00 Forward with the Speaker Dation secretary i

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is directly tied to introdt first Trotskyist relual to asiate from te government' rotics the feding of she C editorially, Sunday daily newspaper- and fair against conference

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would at constables int order to justify a so per cent October 4 rebates O-a-year wag brackrkers in industry -who ment-

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Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, sW4. cements WITH A SURE class instinct, every imperialist nays cown prostamme Jack Jones intervenes. leader together with his lackeys in the working- class movement has stepped forward to mourn- the death of Egypt's President Nasser.

The flood of tears in these whichmeasures the quarters mperialism fast respect airs green eit and Stalinism relied on Nasser respects, implementing with Ior a Middie bast peace • Cab tal over

LAC

The nature of such a 'peace' coroses of thousands of Pales 1s clear. tinian nanters —was Shattered right-wing by the Jordanian army. AC leader Yassir Arafat prepared While troops and guerrillas both prèpared to move out of Amman under the agreement, Fatah spokesmen the the Northern begun Irbid Ramtha

1TON

serter the dawn enor destror remaining commanco stronanoids. This was tne meanine vaster.- Almat- Hussein *truce' plan.

LINE-UP

The Palestiniar carefully at this chould nok line-up of forces. It is clear that even Presi- dent Nixon with military Mediter- ranean tempted diplomatic formalities Ignore and allene wassers numera.

His expressions ot sorrov joined by those of have been General de Gaulle. "Thoughtful' Israelis "sobere reported mood over Nasser's death leading Clearly, Zionists rapidly oming 'anti- imperialist' demaros Nassers mileron 1o Speed settlement' which wond Arab DIlt the stamn recognition on the State Israel. ry nremier anth ctator '[Nasser's] power and influence United Arab Republic but COAL BOARD chairman Lord Robens has offered an throughout the Arab world.

avenue of retreat from a fight over the miners' pay He was also 'shocked': not claim, which threatens a national official strike for the because change the Tory Party's first time since 1926. position since the 1956 class By an Industrial correspondent Miners will need to keep Suez invasion

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becaust a close eve on tae leadersolo Nasser na nroved me ang down the board's offer of in- nature atter this atest move 2021n reactionary may affect Greases of between 37s and of bourgeois nationalism.

their wilingness to call a strike. S0c a week Robens written the Mr unions demand tor a

BUTCHERY

Lawrence Daly, national union minimum surface £22 for i those under- Social- democrat for (George) Brown notorious workers. for asking US imperialism 'stop with indo-China- butchery DOInTS OUL LO the that Berlin national reterence Was a tribunal exists as part of the the best man the Arab Middle coal conculation East nas procuced has mache erB feels the deal: betore he achieved The nocsI- aim', i.e. the butchery of the bility of settling the dispute Palestinian Arabs. through the tribunal should be Another considered. to The Stalinists a man agree with these sentiments- stop weeping and on Not used meeting with the job of selling out the The tribunal was set up at Arab revolution. nationazalon Out nas While Kosygin his heen used tor ten veers on

THE

AMERICAN,

British wept major issues and French ambassadors to The union avertiva is call. W Germany met the soviet ing on Britain's 292,000 miners envoy from h kerin vestar dav in another attempt held through leader, whose contribution prepare deal the his people's struggle far out- week commencing during divided city. weighed his limitations and October 12. the seventh defects' (1) turned miners have discussions that topse top-secret Evidently, whatever the March. and defects' of "imitations

CZECH

The Soviet Union's aim who take over the those Egyptiar leadership is to nreserve the status auc

SOVIET-

in Europe particularly at the preparin to expense the German working class. East tonicle the Meddle

TRADE UP

Moscow-Bonn contict recog signed in the Cano dealina Soviet-Czechoslovak trade the GRaN recognition revolu- brutaly witt The the 1971-1975 plan period will Soviet percent higher than tionary guerrillas. be 43 in brought pressure nas been The line-up of class forces December, cars ending years bear Ulbrichi reported guerrilla is can Silence protests on the paci ment is in great danger. and s implications, vesteraay. its Russia has now signed trade development Tha anuaan. ment has made ratification Marxist programme and tactics aareements WIth

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of the pact dependent on a is now urgent if the guerrilla Huronen membere at Come con and negotiations are still outcome of is to be purged and going on with Mongolia. present talke victory won

WORKERS PRESS

PAGE TWO

SPEAKING in a TV in- Thursday, terview last Tory Prime Minister broke Heath long silence. He echoea the previous Saturday's speech by employ- ment Minister Robert Carr, attacking the trade unions and insisting that new anti- union law would be pur lor- ward immediately. capitalist be a about it. going up more replies represeniles ing i back on beal or the

SOME COMMENTS ON

about tre an that the voi threatening to escape Organize What was Heath saying? He sides together (inion the union of this viewer on Parkingtons determined steadines get

JUST OUT

inteo the more Bracey sane for stacks IN to deal with a situa tion as it arises Cliff Muddle Slaughter approach

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

When employer sacks

BY ROBERT BLACK

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of the Tory government. name All the talk Address onest e this argument bitat claptrap to ever unt from another side. revolutionary plans of the enemy N SATURDAY (Sept. 26) WORKER:

RESS PUBLISHED AN EXCLUSIVI

INTERVIEW WITH TUC GENERAL

SECRETARY VICTOR FEATHER

•UNEMPLOYMENT,

ENTITLED

WAGES AND THE PILKINGTON DIS.

PUTE: BELOW CLIFF SLAUGHTER,

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CEN-

TRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER, TAKES

UP SOME QUESTIONS RAISED IN

THE INTERVIEW.

BY CLIFF

SLAUGHTER

This will be the major instru- in an era when reforms are no longer within the capacity of ment of Tory policy. Its capitalism. Feather's predecessor is on

TUC,

George Woodcock, Despite his talk of 'social made exactly similar Feather is statements revolution', perfectly about the necessity of union adapted to the capitalists' plans. with any government peratior He cannot in any way warn or f any political parts lead the 10 million members of the

TUC

against the Tory Feather is obscuring the very this critical situation. enemy on important change which Instead, he says: place when the Tories elected. What we think is that twice whether it's two equals four Since Wilson's anti-union laws Conservative Labour arithmetic, had defeated. been the Communist arithmetic or arith- offensive of the working Governments metic come had made the position more and and governments go. impossible for the employ- more From this it follows, for Thẻ growing world ers. Feather, that it is simply a ques- made necessary the transference the

TUC

influencing of office to the Tories, to try and tion of deal with the in working class and whatever government political inflation in a different way.

whatever its power, colour. Feather the plays employers Where does this kind of ame by ignoring this difference policy lead? A few days after The consequences of allowing Feather's interview, a few more Feather to win out in the labour details emerged about movement would be disastrous. sparse Heath's proposed anti-union laws. Bitter The Industrial Court, which is be to rule the unions, will served, first and foremost, by the They are more afraid of the Commission Industrial Rela- real strength and mobilization on the working class than of the tions

(CIR).

employers' most diabolical plans.

Feather thinks "democracy works'. He chooses to ignore the fact, which he understands very this well, that behind 'democ- racy' is the bitter struggle of, interests. He opposed class ignore the fact, chooses to which he well knows, that the capitalist class prepares its attack behind the mask of this 'democracy. When questioned about the closure of Palmer's shipward, Feather reveals the bankruptcy position. Forced of his to acknowledge that with all the of the TUC he was power unable to save a single job, he continues with the same stream of words. Having denounced strike 'dramatics', he only action as says: I think the way to do it is by a lot of pushing, shoving, arguing and stressing the case all the time.' There is a very dangerous warning reasonable' here. Feather's talk to millions sounds of British trade unionists, whose experience has always been of talk (negotiation, arguing, stress- ing, etc.) plus militancy (pushing, shoving, etc.). Now, when we reach a situa- tion in which at the end of all the pushing and shoving and arguing and stressing, thousands of men are still sacked, Feather shoving, talkingi more pushing, insists on Meanwhile the employers press sack alad sad and resolute way to against Feather's arguments seike aust the fore be rented out of hand. All the strength of the employed workers be must thrown against asis of a fight for a new, po.

cal, anti-capitalist leadership mongone without engene. Demand Instead of this, Feather wants productivity deals plus pressure on the government to create Heath more demand. We know, of course, that the government will not change its mind about the working attacking class. They have this policy for the very basic reason that they must preserve and improve their profit rate. Feather's proposals do not amount to a policy at all. They simply keep the working_class out of action while the Tories and employers press on with their attacks. How, for example, could the employers 'create more demand' as well as carry out their main um in productivity bargainin and unemployment? The whole purpose of the Tories is to get more unemploy- ment, to put the capitalists in a bargaining position stronger against the employed. This would keep wages down demand' would go and SO down! And so, if a number of pro- ductivity deals are negotiated in and a particular yeat, more capital invested on new machines, a number of jobs will disappear.

employer will certainly The not pay a bigger total of wages the smaller number of to employees, or the whole point of the exercise, so far as he is concerned, is lost! His aim was to increase profit, capital, and have accumulate more to invest in order to com- pete with rivals doing the same!

NoW democratic' pressure and Feather, what says who about the government to reflate' and increase 'demand'? But this can only be' done by putting more purchasing power in the hands either of the people the government or departments. And this money were would have to come out of the value appropriated by surplus industry. Reduction survive only reducing the share of the work- ing class in the national income and in the income of every industry. All the employers' and the government's plans are in this direction. For Feather to echo the Jack Jones idea that the Thursday, October 1, 1970 When he says 'higher produc- tivity' he means 'higher rate of profit'. When he says 'productivity deal', he means a deal which fixes wages in accordance with a fixed, higher rate of surplus value. There is no question of pressure to get it back in higher demand. The Tories' and the employers' policies are as one, and must be fought as one, through a poli- tical fight in the unions, to mobilize the working class on every front against the govern- ment to force it to resign.

This is why Feather's opening two kinds of remarks about Conservatives' is so dangerous.

As always, in any war, we must try to take advantage of hesitations and divisions within the enemy command, but it is not at all a question of two Tory. They of differ types şlightly, if at all, only on the question of how and when to, attack the working class.

This division may loom larger to Feather, because these differ- ent elements debate precisely just how contemptuous they can afford to be of the Victor Feathers of this world. Point proved The few days since Victor Feather gave that interview have proved the point to a certain extent. Ten days ago, the outspoken anti-union speech by Carr might have been taken as not neces- sarily representative of the wisest counsels of the Tory leadership.

It is clear that such an inter- pretation would have been mis- taken. Heath went to the extent only five days later, of saying he would risk a general strike to get his anti-union laws through. All the plain talking', "com- mon sense' of Feather will not prevail against these implacable class realities. Heath's strong words have nothing to do with Heath as an individual leader.

The other retreats and successive betrayals of Feather and the leaders have given union the Tories a calculated confidence that now is the time to show their hand. No doubt Feather, on the basis of what he says in this interview, will continue to treat this gov- ernment 'like any other govern- ment', 'pushing, shoving' to per- suade them to listen to reason. This is what the Tories want him to do. The working class faces very grave historical decisions.

Victor Feather and the trade union bureaucracy want to cut down these decisions to the sional role of bargain•. Profes- stature of their own , keep- ing the capitalist system going. But every 'bargain' struck today on wages, because it involves productivity, holds within it the immediate prospect of unemployment. Feather's role is to collaborate with the class enemy and try to prevent the working class's strength being used in action against unemployment. That is another side to this interview, and it is of the great- est importance. On every ques- tion, Feather persists in his 'English', 'matter of fact' atti- tude, as if to say it has always worked, and it-will work in the "future'. Admission We know that in a situation of rapid change, when prepara- tion for power is the question before the working class, this persistance is fatal. That is why Feather defends his approach, while at the same time admitting that it is actually leading to unemployment, ship- yard closures, victimization, eco- nomic slump and so on. The capitalist class is forced by the capitalist crisis, and by the workers' wages offensive, to prepare its attacks, and it will bring together all its political and economic resources to do so, first and foremost being the trade union bureaucracy. But it is an historically bank- class, with an outlook rupt reflecting its bankruptcy, an out- look which cannot provide the answers for this revolutionary epoch. It can and will be chal- lenged and overthrown. The All Trades Unions Alli- ance and the Socialist Labour League, through the Workers Press, will raise in the working class a fighting force based on Marxist theory which will enthu- siastically take on the responsi- bility of building a new leader- ship, able win workers' to power and socialism.

Thursday, October 1, 1970 THE WRETCHED ROLE of joint fight against the imperialist enemy is on the battlefield and the late Gamal Abdel Nasser for this support bourgeoisie backing, in the anti-feudal, anti- means full military including co-ordination and, imperialist Jordan war in working the under necessary, was a surprise only to those military command of the bour- geoisie. who have illusions in the Just as the failure of Farouk colonial bourgeoisie. with Israel in 1948 led to cope These illusions are usually to his downfall at the hands of due either being Neguib and Nasser in 1952, to colonial SO victims of the deception the failure of the Nasser regime spread by or about this bourgeoisie, or with Israel militarily to deal in else through a patronizing 'met- 1956, 1967 and now again, has, ropolitan' attitude towards the step by step, jeopardized his colonial agents of imperialism.

own regime in the eyes of the Pabloite revisionists spread Egyptian and workers peasan Ben Bella and also in the eyes of opposition such illusions in in Algeria and Mrs Bandaranaike in elements among the students and Ceylon, Nasser's and earlier his own bourgeois group. 'militancy' made him a candi- The Nasser regime was always date for their patronization.

tied hand and foot by the Not only have the experiences powerful Misr financial group of the Egyptian fellahin and city with which was associated the workers, the socialists in Nasser's Saadist Party in Farouk times.

well as the strikers Disons. executed by his Free Officers' This group, representing the weeks small industrial class in Egypt at Movement two after it the beginning was intimately overthrew King Farouk in 1952 bound both with the old taught many Egyptian up workers feudal still and Nasserism aristocracy, which peasants what owns 50 per cent of the land really is, but there is also con- in Egypt that can be cultivated, siderable literature on the sub- and with imperialist monopoly ject. capital, which continues to dom- This 'subject' is not Nasser inate the Egyptian economy.

the man, but Nasserism as the policy of a class. During the time of both the There has been any unofficial, but de facto British never question of 'neutralism' by revo- of Egypt, from 'protection' the lutionaries regarding Israel's time of Lord Cromer, and of the recognition and existence.

official occupation, British It was the duty of the working imperialism bled Egypt dry.

class everywhere support British imperialism Nasser agaryst Israel, converted just Egypt into a one-crop exporter.

as it was its duty support the Cotton replaced food. feudal, reactionary, corrupt King Lancashire and other textile Farouk in 1948 against 'modern', England lived off the areas in colonialist Israel. of the sweat Egyptian This support was unconditional producing fallahin. and was Liven On the other hand British What Nasser communists. industry saw to it that no workers or peasants inside Egypt.

industry of significance grew up Lenin supported Kemal Egypt. in turk' in Turkey's struggle against The consequence of this imperialism after the First Worid policy was that Egypt, despite its War and at the same time con- population superiority demned the Ataturk regime for Israel (about ten to one), could its merciless persecution of the industrially, match Israel despite considerable industrializa- young communist movement in- side Turkey. tion after the struggle of the But unconditional does not Egyptian forced people the mean uncritical support. British out of the and country On the the les- troops contrary, as its of Canal out the of the China sons struggle in Zone. against Chiang Nasserism Kai-shek and could not over- against Japan have shown, it is come this basic weakness in the necessary to maintain the organi- country's war potential, because zational, political and ideological of its own association with the independence the of working Misr group and the ¡atter's sub- class, its unions and its revolu- servience to imperialist finance tionary from the party of party capital. the colonial bourgeoisie. It was this subservience which There be can no Popular Egypt forced on a policy of Front with this bourgeoisie.

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10.00-3.40 London. don. London. 6.00 Dav 10 Mike and the 705 Weather. OUR ANSWER to the ques- tion: 'Is there intelligent life on other worlds?' must be "Yes, there is'. Naturally, the subject of extra- terrestrial life has attracted a great deal of speculation from fiction science writers and others but, as far as we are concerned, any such speculation must be strictly conditioned by the level of man's present knowledge of the material uni- verse. No writer would science speak today of the earth being flat, or of the possibility of sail- ing to the moon in a ship or, like Jules Verne, consider firing astronauts into space from huge cannon. The advance of scientific has dismissed such knowledge possibilities as man has come to understand the necessary obedience to physical law of both himself and his environ- ment. Therefore, to answer the cen- tral question of this series of articles in the affirmative is not to assert a faith, even though it is impossible to say when direct proof will be forthcoming, but a question of method.

Man is beginning to under- stand the origins of the uni- verse, the process of star forma- tion and the conditions in which planetary systems develop.

Processes revealed Over the last 50 years, the advance in scientific techniques has yielded wealth of data which is rapidly revealing the basic processes of life itself and the basis for its development on Earth over millions of years.

In all of these huge advances, there has been no place for some supernatural mover, no forbidden area scientifically out-of-bounds for man. It is almost a certainty that before the end of this century unmanned probes to Mars will bring back samples of material that will contain direct evidence of life's existence on that planet - even if only in the form of the simplest virus. Of course, there is a huge gap between a virus and intelligent man. However, the striking fact about life on earth is its essen- tial unity despite the myriad forms that it takes. As science writer Isaac Asimov expresses it: 'Life on earth is merely a long- playing, imaginative variation on a single chemical theme, and life on any earth-like planet may prove to be a series of varia- tions on that same perpetual theme.' Man, along with the rest of life on this planet, is based on protein molecules and nucleic acids. All make use of the same vitamins, the same types of chemical changes, the same methods of liberating and untili- zing energy. Life, which began in the sea, is made up of precisely those that are, elements and were, common in the sea. 'There are no "mystery ingredi- - ents" , no rare and magical items that were included only through a stroke of great good fortune,' insists Asimov. This is, of course, a bitter blow to vitalist theories that insist that the difference between living and non-living matter lies HTV (West) colour channel 61 as above except: 4.16-4.18, 6.18-6.35 Re- port West. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 and HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white service as above except: 5.20-5.50 Dibyn-dobyn. 6.01-6.18 Y dydd. ANGLIA: 9.30-4.15. London. 4.30 News- 4.40 Paulus. 4.50 Joe room. 90. 5.15 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.20 Arena. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Film: Black Dakotas'. The With Gary Merrill, Wanda Hendrix, John Brom- held and Noah Beery. A Confederate the Indians for agent conspires with his own gain. 8.15 Glamour "70 final. 9.00 London. 11.00 Prisoner. 11.55 Reflection. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

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in a certain 'essence' which has no material base. Research into the history of man and his complex develop- ment into a self-conscious social spark, also being 'divine needs no here and chemistry, natural biology and other sciences are transcended by the science of society - historical materialism. The certainty of intelligent life elsewhere follows from the materialist method and the immensity of the universe.

way? Contact possible in any rumours, it is udlikely that a the despite all the ing saucer will land in your back garden, disgorging little green men demanding "Take me to your leader'. Such which rumours arose from thousands of sightings of strange lights in the sky and similar phenomena led the US government to make a thorough and lengthy • investigation after the Second World War. The scientists concluded that either imagination had been at work or the events could be explained 'away by natural phenomena. A journey between stars-as we can conceive it at present- would take hundreds or thou- sands of years at moderate speeds. The faster a spacecraft travels the more the danger of damage to the occupants increases from interstellar mat- ter. It would be like sitting inside one of the most powerful atom- smashers that man has made!

Surpasses Such a journey therefore pre- a technological level supposes which far surpasses that of man.

Indirect contact by radio has also been discussed and attempted. All stars emit radio waves over a wide spectrum of wavelengths. Is there a natural choice? suggestion put forward One during the 1950s was the 21- centimetre wavelength. This is GLASGOW-the city where road after, dreary road has the same slab tenement houses, most of them slums, grim, dark and dull. The impression you have when you come into Glasgow is that for some of the thousands who there the economic slump live conditions of the 1930s still exist, reports YS National Sec- retary John Simmance who, with national recruitment team has 1 been campaigning in Scot- land for the past week, as part of the nationwide build-the-YS- to-defeat-the-Tories campaign.

The Gorbals, most notorious slum district, has virtually dis- appeared, but the new estates on the outskirts of the city cannot compensate for high unemploy- ment, low wages and dead-end jobs. Glasgow is famous for its gang violence and it is easy to see why, says John Simmance, whose team went into places like Springburn, Paisley and East Kilbride. Grim future With unemployment in Scotland standing at 94,272 and a large proportion of it centred on Glasgow, the future facing the youth is a grim one giving rise to intense frustration which explodes in a violence directed particularly against the police.

The famous and much pub-

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ne Arecioo Ionospheric Observatory, the radio telescope

LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS

by MARTIN ZARROP

FINAL

PART

the 'natural' was els th for pro- lems connected with the His report of the discussion hydrogen which the gramme in a wider context.

how most 1al reveals the hanal plentiful element in most generalues in bressions scientuc reasoned tnat any vice be paralpants were laces intelligent beings who capable transmitting my schied would be familiar with Drake suggested that such and make calculation depends use or tnis simple ana universal nalulai law. lactors. nve of which we have the May July 1960 already discussed Derwer Involve minimizing under Frank Drake, stellar and planetary development what would Radio astronomer at the National under which Would neu state or mina! tnes demesse. number of stars on length. The results were negative recognizable pattern factors tnat no tion of signals was received of intelligent the profit system and its degrada- and mean ising. wise chapati of rec develo! Con would the end prising. The orlds and cate man. othe mant have *Are sup- uni- judices Journey time that verole is sillall, to say tne least.

ested in establishing communica- ability that Conference tion. civilizations other will Tack his Not too. Are It was Soon Walter Sullivan that con- able на ва 1 reed of a decades. gist, anthropolo- one case, no one is calling ust Greenbank to discuss the prob- gist or

YS RECRUITING TEAM IN

SCOTLAND

THE GORBALS GLASGOW

INTERNATIONAL

Two new recrults to the YS talk to a member of the team outside a Glasgow factory want a job, a decent entan leaflets and papers enthusiasti- vage and a training. cally. thriving Bast meride Ys branch the

IWO

Kilbride I Kian whiches team visited bad been toa they • ory Jobs like many offered were at £5 for and His backer ford once an ver the counti s very litle to offer the you they each get e3 10s and f2 terms Dole queuing said one can live on that; they thought of the The campaign. ® bise tree on or at the 'Sometimes cole on one espetes aid obe ste tis, Young be t much have to queue Told in k that skilled were absolutely deter- factories vacancies recognition mined that

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And so it went on. One participant calculated that, 'if our civilization survives its preseny ears after, only reaching ten potential for self- destruction, and if this is typical (I), then, on the average, there is only one communicative site in the galaxy at any one time.'

(Sullivan, p. 284) It would, of course, be diffi- cult to put a figure to any assess- ment of 'communicative sites.

However, the strand that runs through all the 'assessments' is the acceptance of imperialism -not as the last stage of man's prehistory-but as an advanced in the development of stage 'technological society. Intelligent life exists else- where-of that we can be cer- tain. With the release of produc- tion and technology from the shackles of capitalism, man can begin to explore the universe in which he lives in a planned way. We will then be able to answer in the affirmative the question: 'Is there intelligent life on earth?' In Paisley a new YS branch was set up after campaigning amongst the unemployed youth and the girls who work in the mill industry. The team was told that there was a threat of closures in the town, something which poses a real threat to very youth as there is already a high rate of young jobless. In Glasgow itself YS work was centred Springburn, which on was once famous for its railway industry-the works have now been demolished. Young people walk the streets with nowhere to go and no money to spend. Their bitter hatred of the Tories was sharply in their eagerness to expressed discuss the Young Socialists' campaign to force the Tories to resign and their willingness to help build the YS branch.

United fight A future under the Tories, as the Glasgow working-class youth are beginning to realize, means increased exploitation or a rapidly lengthening dole queue.

That is why many of those the team spoke to during the Scottish campaign agreed that only a united fight of employed and unemployed for a socialist programme of the right to jobs and living wages through build- ing a mass Young Socialists movement can free them from the grip of the capitalist sys- tem which seeks only to degrade them.

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CONFERENCE COMMENTS

Less constituency control After Palmer's closure Tyneside delegates call for nationalization LAB Sen Red NORTH EAST Labour conference delegates, shocked by the closure of Palmer's Hebburn- on-lyne shipyard, demanded yesterday that the solution c eg the Nationa Labour Executive Committee power government nationalize the ship. next bullding industry and direct new tactories inte paeir MPS. said that the will gave the right to con.

amen Teesday night many BE iMP On the Bet *simply ex-

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

industry under a not represent nave rank-and-ile members ex- Sie was supported "went nder Prime here thore ret time sold be pub move see ownership. lis Pank and old on then question.

Price-war concen of Palmers hits micro- -hiding on the ne Daviss attitude sand hat on We demand electronics jobs Tyneside. This was the biggest ute of the last govern- By an industrial reporter Doris Starkey, acting secre.

RECENT REDUNDANCY

notices by Texas

WEATHER

Instruments of Bedford to 250 (9 per cent) of its employees reflects a crisis situation, including пота. Near a price war, which has hit the world micro- Be. electronics industry over past weeks.

What is particularly Significant about the orcrets and smace vehiclestro Pilkington conference situation is that this is The crisis one of the most modern present

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industries in existence. the Pilkington sorkers reinstatement figgto Miero-electronics integrated huge surpluses of ensold int Sunderland Trades Council tegrated circuits in the USA.

television and radio systems, Pikington it has drape

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batternoon Leila are as US, lap ma German Pales and Britain). heroine Many

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man eard at senior Bovern- abour's Blackpoo would beared likely that there

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Whitehall until th

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craft taking her to the Middle East had left. will be c as to climate mise month, ever and stabile i sein expensivepracticable • They sover mons statement to refer back de

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Of 1,600 feated.

UNIONS ALLIANCE

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re, 1862 seven

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Alma Hall. Alma Place Principham nes and the Tory

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constituency rank and file. the NEC who will probably Now the NEC can virtu- support him. "It is now only a small ally instruct a constituency party as to what candidate step before the bureaucrats it can field. can decide exactly who we can choose as candidates.

As one Liverpool delegate see this move by the

PHEN JOHNS

NEC

as an attempt to strengthen the professional said: It means that if we careers politicians that now say to an MP "You must riddle our Party. It is put forward socialist poli- move against those who cies or else", he now knows genuinely fight for want a that if we dismiss him, he socialist policies the 1n party." has the right of appeal to

RECOGNITION STRIKE BY CROYDON

"DAY"

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& AND

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DISPUTES

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THE STRIKE of DATA members at the engineering firm of AGI, Purley Way, Croydon, for reinstatement and rights to negotiate has now ended its fifth week.

Management has refused union officials meet to conference discuss sackings of

DATA

members following over recognition. struggle We believe that this dis- At a packed meeting of and others/ occurring at pute, Croydon DATA branch on this time as is clearly shown Tuesday, plans to step up

DATA

in the lock-out of picketing and to organize members at Rolls-Royce, can further support for the AGI linked be with general men was discussed. attack on the trade unions Croydon Trades Council and that all possible means is be asked to help should be explored to pub- organize mass picket of a licise the Pilkington dispute as

AGI

factory the and the a warning to all.

AEF

district office is also trade unionists. being asked for assistance. Shop from stewards two Lucas factories combine at Fazakerley, Liverpool - Lucas Equipment and Industrial Ramotse jailed

CAV-

-have decided to send 12 delegates to the conference.

The Sunderland Trades

AFRICAN

guerrilla Ben-, Council has backed the also jamin Ramotse gave call of the South Shields and clenched fist salute in Pretoria Kirkby Trades Councils for yesterday as he was jailed for one-day general strikes against 15 years on six charges, under unemployment. the Terrorism Act. Dustmen have to work in i 'YOU GET rats down here LP looks and swarms of flies, and here you can see maggots floating in the water, com- EEC safeg mented Mr Black,

NUPE

shop steward at Southwark's Manor Place depot, as he DAVID MAUDE in Blackpool showed our reporter some of the work dustmen have DELEGATES to the Labour to do. -Party conference yesterday de- The picture shows a rub- feated-by 3,049,000 votes to 2,954,000 votes—a Transport bish shoot under one of the Victorian and General Workers' motion tenements in Kennington. that Britain 'should not enter European Economic Com- the In summer the stench is munity on terms which would terrible, and in winter you involve a threat to full em- are wading through six ployment . . . a rise in food inches of water as there is prices ... or a loss of control You even have no drainage. over basic political, economic to torches bring your own and foreign policies'. to see anything. They endorsed, by a large 'Considering the condi- majority, a National Executive tions we Committee statement reaffirm- work in I think our wages are ridiculous. For ing last year's conference too long we've been used as policy of insisting on 'adequate cheap labour; but there's a safeguards for Britain's bal- of younger element now who ance payments, cost of living, are not going to stand for national health and this any more? social security systems and Thursday, October 1, 1970 Aluminium price war

MEASURES

'dump- against aluminium sneet ana surld oroquets european tacturers are expected Iron the Board of Trade next week.

This follows complaints from the British Aluminium

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are now battening down the say hatches for such a combined Forded market being payments for strikers benent assault. Vorway, Sweden, should be attacked. Italy, Belgium and Austria.

The danger now consulted its mem greates having confronts the working class.

bers, the Cil is now prepared

THAI-

give and The trade union leaders and Tell unstinting support to Heath's Industrial their syndicalist supposed, bis tand revisa so Relations

MALAY

Bill refusal plement in firm ent match the plans and prepara- de sand while Forcing cheat

DEAL ON

tions of the Tories, as well as play atremors deals with the

GUERRILLAS

producuvily down lory threats as un connivance of the trade union necessary and irrelevant' sabre-rattling, bureaucracy. magnify this

THAILAND

and Malaysia danger a hundredfold. this way unemployment agreed yesterday on 'surrender wi veincreased. terns than All the conquests of the As the 'Telegraph' business guerrillas operating along their working are at stake. common border. We can and secuon aran states about une The terms of the agreement, defeated (better, which unspecified, leadership were revealed in Thered tore employers to will defend Joint press re the rights of need capers case Issuca diler a meeung o Class Implacably Illake d more colecuve stand ruthlessiv une Malaysian- ina Genera ane Ine ones arainst nien pav claims. privileges and border connoittee Which Their local those power. meets every six months to dis- and authorities nationalized cuss methods of suppressing industries. "The time for bluffing has guerrilla activity. of limited value unless backed unreasonable strikes. This indeed must inspire

ROYDON DATA MEN

every class conscious trade employers, torether Make with the Cabinet, having October 3 conference of the stortegy to attack the uniond worked All trades Unions Allance a success.

'MOPPING-UP

Tories try to

OLD AGREETEN

IN CAMBODIA

WITH DATA

intimidate

THE

CAMBODIAN

govern- ment of Lon Nol has begun a council 'pacification' programme around Taing Kouk, 52 miles workers North of the capital Phnom The Cambodian High Com-

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mand said yesterday that As London rank-and-file co- 13,000 troops, cover ment ordinating committee chall carrying out mopping-up oper-

LONV

•weene Tole ations around the town which workers Press atter muesdav night's committee meeting, the was held by guerrillas until Tories Council workers. Thursday, had begun the pro- example far concerned glamme, aimed al gaining sup- it's a straight fight between us port trom the population.

and buwaru 1 nt lories wont back cown witn- our a ment. will doubt "he start complaining about the public being forced to But their and old age meals on wheels pensioners is synineuc Not sorry certainly don't orles feel sorry these people- •for they don't put up their pen- sions that they are properly housed. The London mold a mass meeune ar rowe 1 uesaay morning •scuss Turmer action Tony Sweeney said that most of the 'strain-

BY DAVIDBARNE

out have thad and ly strike WAGES AND UNEMPLOYMENT are at the leaders forefront of a number of disputes in French we sukes spreadine. industry and services this week.

Croydon Monday On and Tuesday In Croydon council workers Force vuvriere socialist reviewed the first The CGT (Communist) and members at a packed and stormy obeyed CFDT (Catholic) unions called services meeting strike call in Tuesday 40-hour cyclis. acuon oniy on luesady. demands for improve- Angry that labourers in the une gant Car ment in pay scales. Highways de varumen Billancourt, were plant near uncer MistruCTor unions have decided in remain work, the meeting principle decided stewards should against threatened sackings.

rk in this. explain sand their See nest hese • to

LETTER

strike action in solidarity with olet coulen workers. But the so far vulsiat Ine has letter Factory on Wednesdar Lane Prime Minister chaban- morning. meeting Delmas urging min to lift the labourers addressed by

• TGWU

steward Ward decided creall restrictons are the French car to the strike depressing join industry'. Contingents of stewards and Threatened with widespread strike members

CGT,

were touring crovaon management the coal- holding Inrouenout mining industry finally meetings and discussions lids depots and workshops witn all unions Involved used Union Previous t They Workers' drivers minority unions for play- The firms back callall ing off against the CGT which I Ol depots witnout making represents a large majority of miners. Bob and Lear Genera obstinate Faced with the Municipal steward, comment- retusal of on the statements of Lam tne state aerospace dustmen's leader Hausty, oNAs. to goree to a Frank per cent increase above rises 5 Our the cost of living Force called a half-day strike for out—l think tney will Join us October 7. under rrank sully has been lot of pressure, but I think he

CENTRES

will change his mind.'

SNIAS

43.000 the WULKeIS. Ilain centres •emme Nantes ane oulouse

U.S. STUDENT

politicians threat- Gaulist ened to cancel the Concorde

LEADER HELD

prothe pre sent nese a lever

STUDENT

mallo der Redou

AMHRICAN

Lille CA leader Michael Fleisher (NE was arty in Philadelphia rrance, most emplovees connection with the strike-breakin DT back at work following killing of a looks for concessions ponceman auring bank robbery last made a boston maion officials. week. Bureau hederal safeguards a leaflet i nev

OUT

Investigation said that Fleisher saying: was leadin figure 'All means conciliation National Information having been exhausted, 'entre at Brandeis University, power of independent decision useless to continue planning and economic area of pirance, a tactors the massachusells. set uD earlet foreign policy. unis year to co-ordinate strikes campuses throughout Proposing his union's motion, lne Levy lexule combine an- United states assistant T&GWU general sec.

300 future sackings nounced This followed the shootings retary Harry Urwin warned Inis week, in addition to 800 Kent University and decision declared ten days ago. industry Common Market The Vosges textile National canyuses with widespread Guardsmen and police irreversible would inter- and redundancies against which reisner was detained at nic

ICIE

Will develop home just before midnight on vorkers have tried to organize menl plans such as tne rapour and charged government nad been pursuing.

sulke action attempting to evade arrest and Suggestions that the National

'RESTRAINT'

accessy deleine Executive to murder. committee snould But union officials, including The arrest has all the hall- Calla special conterence -voiced , have urged LIe Marker Issue rame-uo. in anne Party veteran Emanuel Shin- 'restraint', possible the with were welcomed recent Bill to increase We .. miners' deal witl claiming. Cormley. to Immediately after able Boston police was com-

ACEC

make use of the the laci missioner coming menar

T&GWU

plant struck on Monday for a claimed that it was part resolution croaked not guarantee against any future 'damned radical, damned une Issue whether it intransigently opposed entry.

revolutionary' plot.