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The opening shots have been fired over the terms on which Britain can accept the common agricultural Common Market policy levies duties on low-cost imports while farmers peasants receive prices tor their produce which are well above world prices.

The result is that big surpluses pile up while consumers pay more than in Britain. These surpluses are paid for by levies on imports.

This policy, which aggravates the European agricultural crisis, has been the most difficult to make acceptable Common Germany, as the biggest importer, pays large amounts into the farm fund, while France, the largest food exporter, receives payments Benefits Present price levels in Britain are related to the fact that she is a large-scale importer, paying world market prices and benefitting, especially, from purchases of lowcost butter and sugar.

British farmers receive guaranteed prices from the government to make good the difference between their cost prices and the market prices determined by the cost of imports.

This keeps food prices down at the expense of the taxpayer.

The hammering out of the common agricultural policy has been the most difficult part of the construction of the Common Market so far.

Since it merely provides a temporary solution to a chronic problem - the fact that too many resources are tied up in backward and inefficient agriculture — and only at tremendous cost, further struggles between the themselves can be expected in future years. class bureaucracies with it.

Although in his comment on this editorial David Spencer of 'The Times' tried to give the impression that the differences were not so wide as they appeared to be-leaving room for 'movement on both sides, as in all negotiations'— he made no mention of the instruction to the British government contained at the end.

Sharper

If the moderate and supposedly 'liberal' 'Le Monde' can write in such terms about what the Conservative government should do if it wants to get into the Common Market, can be sure that official opinion in Bonn and Brussels, as well as in Paris, is sharper The only ticket for admission which the Six will accept is one which shows that the Tories are able to deal with the working class, stem inflation and wage increases, and impose economic and financial burdens which entry will require. BERNADETTE DEVLIN, jailed for six months for her part • the Londonderry disturbances of August, 1969, is expected to be released from Armagh prison on Friday.

The independent MidUlster MP has earned two months' remission for good conduct.

Miss Devlin was re-elected to her constituency at the last General Election - but was not allowed to leave prison to take the oath of allegiance at Westminster.

WEATHER Eastern parts of Scotland and England will have showers, which will be rather frequent and heavy exposed to the strong or gale particularly on coasts northerly winds, and with some snow on high ground in the NE. • Wales and western parts of England will have sunny periods and a few, mostly light. Scotland N Ireland and W may so have a tew snowers at nrst but these will mostly die out anc it will become generally cloudy.

It will be rather cold or cold in most parts but in the NW temperatures will be near normal. Outlook for Thursday and Friday: Continuing rather CO England scattered showers in becoming cloudier and less cold elsewhere, with perhaps some rain or drizzle in places.

No one is more determined to do this than 'The Times':

'Anyone in present circumstances who asks for more than 10 per cent is joining in a process of self-destruction. Anyone who strikes because he will not accept 15 per cent deserves to be resisted with all the influence of society and all the power of government.? (Our emphasis.)

Measures which really hurt —like unemployment— are suggested by "The Times' as a corollary to 'standing firm', which means bringing in capitalist class to fight as a class against every encroachment on profits and to defeat the unions decisively -regardless of consequences:

*Perhaps no country has been able, without profound economic sufiering, to break the impetus of inflation. 'Beat strikes 'Yet the cost of failure is such that Britain must try. The first thing to do, and the simplest, is to start beating strikes. The local authorities should be given total support in refusing to make any further offer, even if the strike lasts for months. (Our emphasis.)

"The next stage should be to make it a national rule that any strike is followed by the immediate withdrawal of all offers made before the strike' "The Times' has spelt out its programme: to defeat the working class by state intimidation and by the supine acquiescence of the trade union leaders-and the complacency and false optimism generated by the Stalinists and revisionists in certain sectors of the working class in relation to the TUC and the crisis.

The only way to defeat this programme of counterrevolution is to build the alternative leadership to reformism, to alert the working class to the dangers of Tory strategy and launch an immediate struggle to defeat the anti-union laws and force the Tories to resign. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m. SUNDAY, had the former Tate and Lyle chairman, who died on August 19, not seen fit to launch an attack 'on what I regard as the greatest impediment to exports which exists-strikes, official and unofficial'.

Citing Girling's, Lucas's, Pressed-Steel Fisher and Pilkington's, Runge claimed there was 'evidence that many of these industrial disputes and walk-outs are being fomented by people whose loyalties are not to their fellow-workers or the firms which employ them, but to philosophies and paymasters totally alien to the industrial democracy which employers and trade unions have striven for years to establish in this country'.

A mere handful of men whose loyalties do not lie in this country were being allowed to disastrously tarnish Britain's reputation in international trade, he charged.

'Every year thousands of workers in this country find themselves saddled with politically - motivated shop stewards and branch secretaries because they have been content to leave their election to the "other fellow" who will go along to the meeting. It is this apathy which has undermined the position of responsible trade union leaders . . .

'APATHY' 'It is this apathy which allows members of the Communist Party, Maoists, Trotskyites, anarchists and other disruptive elements. to infiltrate into industrial disputes.' Just what is the British National Export Council?

Runge himself, who was educated at Charterhouse public school and Oxford's Trinity College before joining the boards of Vickers and the Tate and Lyle sugar monopoly, claimed it to be 'a non-political organization in the party sense, but has enjoyed the support, backing and encouragement of all three political parties in the House of Commons'.

Its formation was in fact announced in the Commons by one Edward Heath, then President of the Board of Trade, on July 20, 1964. FARMWORKERS LOBBY TALKS Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance GREAT NATIONAL RALLY AGAINST TORYISM ATE NOW! Confederation of British Industry last year, was new Tory Secretary of State for Trade and Industry John Besides the CBI, who acted as hosts for yesterday's Council meeting, its five sponsors are the Board of Trade, the City of London-based Committee on Invisible Exports, the Association of British Chambers of Commerce-and, 'last but by no means least', Runge wrote, the Trades Union Congress.

A TUC spokesman claimed yesterday to be too busy fighting the government's proposed trade union legislation' to read the report and thought it unlikely that any statement would be issued by the Congress-which hosted a council meeting in January —on Runge's allegations.

Its sponsorship of the Council was based on the fact that its aims were broadly in line with the TUC's 'general economic purpose', he said.

General secretary Victor Feather Normally attended council meetings, added the spokesman, but had I 'a more important engagement' yesterday.

Yet the ‚council's attack on strikes and shop stewards is entirely in line with Tories' propaganda build-up to anti-union legislation--and with their plans to strengthen responsible union leaders' against their members.

And implicit in Runge's report--he was one of the Mr Cuber Of the notorious campaign against nationalization of the sugar industry--was, a boost for the government's already welladvanced proposals for attacking the nationalized industries.

'NEGATIVE' •By comparison with the private sector,' he wrote, 'the direct or indirect contribution of the public sector to our balance of payments is still very small and in most cases is negative.' If the union leaders fail to reply firmly and openly to these attacks, trade unionists can only, conclude that their perilous wait and see' policy towards trade union legislation applies also to the Tories! denationalization plans.

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the tE PRODUCE and CANT To WE '7 7/8 DEMAN REPRESENTATIVES of Britain's 180,000 farmworkers' who want an end to low pay and near-feudal conditions on the land, lobbied pay talks at the Ministry of Agriculture in London yesterday.

Inside, a meeting of the Agricultural Wages Board was discussing their claim for a £4 17s pay increase to bring their basic weekly wage to £18.

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