Behind the public health 'emergency? Tories prepare to smash ¿councilmen's strike

CONS released Employment Minister Robert Carr yesterday.

As we precicted. the Tories have turned a deaf ear to THIRTY THOUSAND more local council workall the protests, threats and appeals of trade union leaders and have spelt out hlunty and brutaly Their determination to take the waking class back to the era the Combination Laws. in the grounds tha Mussolini dead, but his . nationa emergency sprit lives in this document in the field of public whose proposals include: health has arisen, the 1) A now national incitin ruling class and all its with High press and television slatus industrial relations mouthpieces are howl„ine nower of the NIRC to fine workers guilty ing for the use of 'unfair industrial action' and the responsibility of : county COUTES TO collect the strike (Inis means attachment arning astle in Proposed by 3, Collective agreements to be legally ouncing unless the et strongess possible arms Secret 'serious' disputes.

Union cinser ano h11ris. feat the class and dictional disputes between smash the trade unions. unica: Heath's remarks on TV Cooling-off periods of 60 about facing a general strike davs before strike action were not accidental. The only ) Appointment of a registr criticism made by his fellow I trade unions wit power to der comery with goweich Honor had by wood ment rules. for Pres not to team cock ana pavnter yesterday:

These proposals, taken in line with the Grout without Tour hayd becalled in proposals for an end to tax and supplementary sewage stations deserted by enefit for strikers and the striking council employees. call of the newsnaner. TOT "strike breaking estionger instant strike-breaking ous hazard to health exists working and it must be met.... that there is no room for state must be used to protect manoeuvre and very little in one eye oneserve idly the public.' diminishing reserves on the rapidly lic is being panickedint accumulating pile of sewage and rubbisł Tories know that the only way Dush cowi wages ane these low - paid worker: troops, and wait crease nronts is through tne and rehe bludgeem lo anti- scourge unemployment They also know that the cly- union legislation.

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Clear neither respect for leaders who refuse stubbornly to mean by the national interest mobilize the working clas here made more clear tha capital ani fight Usual instead preach interests and lull the work- communit class ational interest demands th ing class into With see council workers must be complacency of the build up to smash the driven back to work as an unions.

is de ully ually leaders tely just is the eal reason wi muck the Stalinists Times' says : and revisionists within the trade unions to carry out sensitivity about calling in the this historic retreat and troops wherever and whenever provide the necessary safety that is necessary. valves within the rank and file. 'Now this Vided ba sy tty Liaison mittee TOT the petence when yes is to the ve is to confuce militant trade aware vare of vis and is apar unionists about the real role eir re ation leaders are to do should be car. ently determined capialist stat distorters and government and the public health, it is bei confusionists were prinpal defender of thi <O compromis with which Strike and GN-San refused defeat vorkers.

Knows hows he Tories in 1925 support systematically prepared civil conference to defend the Helens worKerS and 4ha October 3 supplies.

They publicly asked others not to support it, as in 1! s to be available varn West Ham depot delegate Harry Wilson speaks for an all-out strike at yesterday's meeting of unwise to speak out Stalinists 'appreciated' 'Daily Express' said PERHAPS the Stalinists of the British Communist Party would like to explain the political meaning of the attention paid to them by yesterday's issue of "The On its editorial page, 'The In other words, the pub Times' gives its full backing to the Tory government in any decision to use troops to smash the council workLeaders to capila workers kers' strike and to advance its preparations to smash the unions. It welcomes a 'trial of strength'. According "Now There Tis es On the page facing this editorial, the paper carries some 30 column inches on national interest "The state of the Communist Party in Britain: an appreciation by Victoria Brittain on its 50th anniversary'.

The Party is clearly seen as having policies 'almost What the Tories always indistinguishable' from the Labour 'left', but is boosted as having considerable influence in the trade unions and consisting of people sewage or no sewage, th who believe they have 'unsullied ideals'.

The work of CP local councillors in attending to the complaints of their conCeasefire mis-used by his, and not public healt there must be no FIGHTING has broken out once again in North Jordan around the provincial capital of Irbid, the stronghold of the guerrillas.

Government troops, guerrilla spokesmen alleged, had used the cease-fire only as cover to station themselves in the nearby hills.

Yesterday they attacked a village eight miles north of Irbid with tanks and armoured cars.

Israel has turned down Arab guerrilla demands to release 35 commandos held defeat the low-paid council in her prisons in return for the hi-jacked airline passengers released in Jordan last The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) submitted a list of of 35 names to the Interame cal emergenty national Red Cross and to the Israeli embassies in London and Bonn.

Yesterday's Daily Telegraph' The embassies returned the letters unopened.

Meanwhile Arab bourgeois E London councilmen.

Times' stituents is highly praised.

All in all, the Stalinists are, it is carefully explained, not the slightest threat to the Tory preparations expedited on the opposite page.

Both "The Times' and CP industrial organizer Bert Trades gions Alla All they are the only thing to the left of Stalinism.

We ask the Stalinists again. his loving or t that it is actuati poltical panty nich in to Jordanians GUERRILLAS CLAIM rulers and their imperialist and Stalinist friends are cold-bloodedly determined to wipe out, if they can, every vestige of revolutionary action by the masses.

The Jordan government of Hussein has announced rewards of 5,000 Jordanian (£6,000) on the heads guerrilla leaders George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh.

By contrast, Yassir Arafat, chief of the guerrilla organization Al Fatah now working directly with the Arab bourgeois-nationalist leaders, gets very ditterent 'We will deal only with those who want to fight for the liberation of Palestine and not with those who want to work against us.' According to Odeh, the guerrilla organizations of Still a big demand for allAmbulance men join strike AMBULANCE men in the NW, the Midlands and London joined council workers in their strike yesterday.

SE and parts of W London were hit by a 24-hour strike. Ambulance men in Deptford, Camberwell, New Cross, Lee and the Elephant and Castle came out against the advice of their federation (FAP).

Services in Brixton, and Chelsea were also affected.

Throughout the Midlands ambulance men stopped using radio except in extreme emergencies and men in Ashton-under-Lyne were only dealing with emergency calls.

Council

pays up Ashton-in-Makerfield UDC nas supported the council nanual workers' claim for a £16 10s basic and has said that they will be paying this sum, with or without the permission of the employers' association, from October 1.

Habash and Hawatmeh are only 'armed leftist political parties.

He certainly makes everything clear: if the Arab masses think that by fighting with or supporting the guerrillas they are fighting to defeat imperialism, then they will be disarmed hunted down, and destroyed.

This is precisely what he means by saying that '...we will not deal with those who want to work against us.' Reaction as a whole sees Il very urgent lo vunu up it ranu nraant tn huild un Arafat as a popular bourgeois-nationalist leader, now that Nasser is dead.

They need someone whom the masses will listen to, but who is • safe for imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy.

out action MOST AREAS of Britain were hit by the council workers' dispute yesterday as the four unions involved called out over 40,000 of their members on official strike.

All council work in London may be at a standstill-today when men attend a mass demonstration outside the Greater London Council's County Hall headquarters while GLC chiefs discuss the emergençy inside.

A GLC spokesman told as yet, no request for the use of troops had been made to the government-but that the situation was being watched closely.

Voluntary labour was being used to keep the city's sewage pumping stations operating.

If the government decided to call in troops to keep sewage pumps going they would be drawn from the Royal Engineers, it was learned later.

But at a mass meeting yesterday in E London, union leaders outlined plans to end this 'scabbing'.

Raw sewage

In the WEST COUNTRY, 5,000 striking council workers at Bristol have closed 220 city schools, stopped refuse collection and shut the main sewage works causing 50 million gallons of raw sewage a day to be pumped into the river Avon.

Corporation officials were meeting yesterday to review the situation.

In WALES, council workers were out in Cardiff, Newport and Swansea where gravediggers stopped work.

Nearly 30,000 Welsh school children were at home because their schools were closed.

In the MIDLANDS manual workers at the £17,500,000 Upper Tame Drainage Board's sewage works at Ninworth walked out and sewage works at Nottingham, Lincoln and Derby were affected.

Dustmen struck at Walsall, Warley and Dudley, and West Bromwich dustmen are expected to join them tomorrow.

The NORTH-WEST was affected for the first time yesterday, when 750 sewage men walked out of plants in Liverpool, Wallasey, Stockport, St Helens, Denton and • Droylsden. The strike spread during the day to sewage workers in Holyoakes, Leigh, Atherton, TUC meets Tory • government proposals published by Robert Carr's Productivity yesterday, are te ing of the Trades Union's purposes committee it's in BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FOUR detained Soviet oppositionists have been released from custody over the past two months without being brought to trial.

The four are reported to be 20-year-old Ira Kaplun, and Vyacheslay Bakhmin, 23, both arrested last December for 'preparing to hand out leaflets', ', Anatoli_ Levitin-Krasnov, a 55-year-old former priest, and translator Vladimir Telnikov.

Following the release of Ira Kaplun and Vyacheslav Bakhmin, a petition for the release of others still held is circulating in Moscow.

Among the signatories is top nuclear scientist Academician Sakharov.

The appeal calls for the release, among other prisoners, of General Pyotr Grigorenko, held in a special psychiatric prison for his courageous fight on behalf of the deported Crimean Tartar nationality.

It also mentions the names of Anatoli Marchenko, author of 'My Testimony' and Olga Joffe, confined to a psychiatric prison in August after arrested at the age of 19 for the same activities as Kaplun and Bakhmin.

BOLIVIA Right-wing call truce TWO DAYS after had raised the flag Bolivian governmen Ovando Candia, they This followed a meeting with Ovando himself, arranged by the papal nuncio. Everything now seems to point to a deal in which Ovando makes further concessions to the right.

Workers' and students' leaders in Bolivia had called yesterday for emergency action to defeat the rightwing military rebellion led against Ovando's more liberal regime.

Conciliated

Ovando has swung sharply to the right in recent months in an attempt to conciliate The leading left-wing cabinet ministers--Fuel and Power Minister Marcello Santa Cruz and Information Minister Alberto Bailey Gutirrez-have been pushed out in a series of government reshuffles in the last four months.

The two ministers were chiefly responsible for the nationalization last May of on Carr plan for anti-trade inion legislation, Department of Employment and be considered by a special meetCongress's : finance and general ler cabinet'—on Friday morning. Late News. right-wing army officers ; of revolt against the t of. President Alfredo yesterday called a truce.

BY A CORRESPONDENT the US-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil company.

But his government's rightward swing has met powerful opposition trom the trade unions who expected further nationalizations.

Six killed

Last month, six people were killed in demonstrations against Ovando's decision to pay £32 million compensation to the company.

The demonstrations brought to a head dissatisfaction among right-wing officers, who accused the president of political indecision, tolerating violence and lack of a coherent government plan to deal with the working class.

say Swindo THE SWINDON district committee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundryworkers has passed a resolution deploring the Home Secretary's decision to force German student leader Rudi Dutschke to leave Britain.

The resolution recognizes this move as an attack on the trade union movement and requests that the AEF executive council urge the

Coventry Trades Council, for fear that the TUC might disaffiliate the Trades Council!

Since these people remain tied to the perspective of 'peaceful co-existence' and refuse to call for a campaign to force the Tories to resign, they are incapable of leadan effective struggle against the Tory, government's anti-union laws. Their struggle is demagogic and utterly phoney and it will not be made any the less reformist by the presence of Lawrence Daly at Beaver Hall.

We urge all workers who are serious about fighting the anti-union laws and Toryism to support the the Socialist lined by Socialist Labour League and the All Trades Unions Alliance in their charter of demands and to build the revolutionary alternative to Stalinism in the trade unions. the London strike cent.

West Newham delegate Harry Wilson said that he disagreed with the tactics selective action and allowing the maintenance of certain services.

'I am from the East End of London and I've learned that you don't hit an enemy then pick him up and apologise, you hit him again until he goes down,' he told a cheering audience at Poplar's civic theatre.

I think we should say this from our meeting to our official leader Jack Jones-for Christ's sake, Jack, make it all out and lets get cracking!' Picketed Union representatives from the Transport and General Workers' Union, the General Lyne.

Manchester schóols closed by a one-day token strike by caretakers and cleaners.

100 per cent Across the Pennines in YORKSHIRE dustmen and sewage workers were out in Leeds, Bradford, Rotherham, Halifax, Sheffield and Wakefield, and Bradford experienced a 100-per-cent stoppage of sewage and refuse workers.

In the SOUTH, Luton, Gillingham and the Prime Minister's home town Broadstairs were affected by the stoppage.

Over 400 E London council workers met union chiefs in Poplar yesterday and applauded demands to make SHOP STEWARDS at the British Steel Corporation's River Don and Associated Works at Sheffield are negotiating bonus increases for most manual workers.

Production machinists, ham-