Feeling grows for all-out Council action

Croydon council workers were up once again at 6 p.m. yesterday to picket all the local depots.

tractor The combined MinistryCBI pressure had the speed-up In response to Burnet's next MASSEY FERGUSON management in Coventry is reported to be planning. a speed-up on the night shift.

The night assembly line now moves at 18 tractors an hour but management want 'The dock strike? The dock that speeded up to 22 an hour.

At the same time the firm has announced plans to make 300 workers redundantabout 10 per cent of the indirect employees. by this threat have affected staff unions to 'negotiate' with the "voluntary, and are preparing employers surely what posals, but manual workers' of the last Labour gov- shop stewards have rejected the company's redundancy document in its entirety. militias armed by the Fedayeen in Amman must be disarmed.

"These militias have no raison d'etre, nobody is threatening the population,? the King told M. Jean-Francois Chauvel, correspondent of the daily 'Le Figaro'.

that the nationalist regimes will try to crush the revolutionary wing of the Palestine movement, and its consistent opposition to the RogersKosygin plan has earned it the hatred of the nationalist leaders.

Agreement

The suppression of the revolutionary wing of the Palestine movement is clearly the quid pro quo of the agreement between Hussein and Fatah leader Yassir Arafat drawn up in Cairo with Egyptian president Nasser just before his death.

'The Observer' colour supClandestine protest over Nixon visit CLANDESTINE leaflets issued by the banned Communist Party and the outlawed Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) were handed out in Madrid before Nixon's visit there yesterday.

During the talks in the capital the US President is expected to thank dictator General Franco for his cooperation in renewing US base facilities in Spain.

Nixon will also talk about the Middle East situation to Spanish Foreign Minister Lopez Bravo.

The bases agreement gives the US a further five-year lease on the Polaris base at Rota and three air bases. The CP and PSOE leaflets A THREAT that troops may soon be used in London hung over council workers yesterday as their strike rolled into the West Country and the North-East.

The Ministry of Defence insisted yesterday afternoon that army help in carrying out afternoon's Congress House strikers' work has not yet been called for. meeting between TUC genBut the Greater London and the four unions involved Council claimed such help to produce any crack in the would be forthcoming if strike is expected to increase necessary and that 'the gov- the Heath Cabinet's deterernment is keeping in touch mination to break it. with us'. Five thousand Bristol coun And the failure of yesterday cil workers began all-out were protesting against this.

The agreement also brings closer Spanish membership of NATO, by providing for defence co-operation part of the security arrangements for the Atlantic and Mediterranean areas.

Nixon flies into London airport this morning for talks with Tory premier Heath before going on to Dublin for a two-day visit to the Irish Republic. The two leaders will lunch with the Queen at Chequers.

The visit to Ireland has been denounced by the Union of Students in Ireland and the Sinn Fein. They plan to demonstrate when Nixon arrives against US policy in Vietnam. eral secretary Victor Feather strike action to win their wage claim yesterday—as did men at Bath and Taunton.

Oxford council workers voted unanimously to strike today as part of the official campaign.

Ambulancemen in Bristol, Bath, Somerset and Gloucesnd sewermen at Redcar an liddlesbroug walked out earlier in the day.

And the strike-which is in support of a £2 15s claim for all 770,000 of Britain's localsnowed to spread turner next week.

13,000 out An estimated 13,000 workers were on strike yescontes and one hidings tralley to hara 2n nn man lany lu nave ovuvv mel vul in key areas where, they say, their action 'will have the maximum effect'.

But limited action of this nature can only encourage the Tory government's belief that the union leaders are far from prepared for a fight to a finish.

Strong feeling for all-out national action was shown at yesterday's strike meeting in DATA men face sackings ROLLS - ROYCE yesterday afternoon threatened to sack Nan. Draugntsmen's Association members at its Bristol, Glasgow and Leavesden plants if they refuse to accept its 7per-cent pay offer by October 12. The union's executive met in London yesterday afternoon.

plement pointed out how 'old hands like the Algerian Minister Abdul Aziz Bouteflika lectured Fatah on the need for real integration of all the commando groups into body-if necessary by force.

'Bouteflika pointedly minded Arafat recently how the Algerian FLN ruthlessly exterminated its rivals during the war with France. But how avoid "irresponsible violence!

'Other Fatah leaders have insisted, "This must be a humane revolution' Arafat's 'humanity' has tied him inexorably to the Hashemite feudalists, and must now favour a 'settlement' with Israel.

How he is going to carry out this pogrom against the 'left' is another question however. The left-wing is strongly entrenched in the North and has substantial support from China and Albania.

Blessing

These counter-revolutionary noves have the blessing of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who told a rally in Azerbajan yesterday that he hoped Arab leaders would 'honourably carry on the cause of the late president.

'We have tried to contribute in every way towards a final termination of the fratricidal struggle in Jordan and also to put an end to the annihilation of units of the Palestine resistance movement.' A cease-fire agreement has been signed with Arafat's blessing between guerrillas and Hussein's forces in the North Jordan town of Ramtha.

Tunisian prime minister Bahi Ladgham, who returned with Hussein from Nasser's funeral yesterday, is supervising the 'restoration of order' behalf 'of the Arab nationalist leaders.

He said yesterday that calm Wal complete in the capital and throughout the rest of With the active agreement of all the bourgeois-nationalist Arab leaders and of the Soviet bureaucracy, and with the sympathetic connivance of world imperialism, the discredited Hussein is given the go-ahead to crush the revolutionary wing of the guerrillas.

Arafat, with Stalinist backing, has begun the betrayal of the Palestine revolution.

One step From coming to terms with Hussein over the bodies of Habash and Hawatmeh it is only a step to reaching 'peace with Israel, perhaps basis of a rump * bastin on state on the West bank the Jordan.

The United States Senate has just passed a £8,000 million arms budget which includes generous milioviet leader Alex Kosygir cairo that Soviet military aid would continue despite Nasser's death.

But the Soviet Union still wished to continue the search for a peaceful solution in the Middle East, he said.

His statement was echoed by interim Egyptian premier Anwar El Sadat, who told an Italian journalist in an interview two days before Nasser's death:

'Peace must be concluded as soon as possible through the Jarring mission.' The development of revolutionary, Trotskyist leadership to lead the Arab working class against imperialism, Zionism and the Arab bourgeoisie is now the only way to meet the very real dangers in front of the Palestinian revolution.

British workers must stand solidly attempt to crush the revolution.

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