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vie UnInk Pilkington experience a warning to councilmen LEADERS of Britain's 770,000 Yes a mediatory: emexperience style sackedmedikington _glası how percy the fight anti-union legis. public-relation +n hø ønn în extremely class That is why there is a conTHE POLISH Stalinists have lost no tir following up last week's London talks bel Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and the government.

Their official newspaper 'Zycie Warszawy' ('Warsaw Life') comments that the visit was one of the signs that Tory Prime Minister Heath is looking for ways to normalize relations with the Soviet Union and to make good certain most glaring errors' of the Wilson government!.

Paradoxical as it may sound, the paper adds, the Labour government had allowed Anglo-Soviet tension to increase.

Every worker in Britain knows how the Tories are going about rectifying the 'errors' of the Wilson government. slashing of social services are only the and Strike - breaking, unemployment round in an onslaught designed to culminate in anti-union laws and the abolition of the most basic working-class rights.

Nixon's laws ALMOST 60 million Americans went to the polls yesterday after one of the most bitterly-fought mid-term election campaigns in United States history-dominated by the law-and-order witch-hunt stirred up by President Nixon's Republican Party.

BRITISH-LEYLAND yesterday issued an implied threat at its Morris Motors plant at Cowley near Oxford that redundancies will follow if the factory refuses to accept Measured-Day Work on production of a new model.

A statement was given to all stewards to the effect that the company could not see its way clear to producing the new modelAEU national committee recalled next year! 'Union leaders must fight' DEMANDS that union leaders act now against the Tories' anti-union legislation plans have been made by union branches in Scotland, the Midlands and the SouthEast.

The Amalgamated Engineers' executive has so far received over 100 requests from branches and district committees for action— including token strikesagainst the law.

Its only response yesterday, however, was to recall union's policy-making national committee sometime between January and March of next year!

Glasgow's Woodside branch of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers is urging the union's executive 'to conduct a campaign for a one-day strike on December 8 as the first step towards defeating the Tory plans.

It also calls on the execuAnswer with labour All 435 members of the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 senators and 35 of the 50 state governors are up for election and state legislatures are being selected in 45 out of 50 states.

Nixon himself voted early— for a member of the John Birch Society and two extreme right-wing film actors. He left his house in San Clemente, California, to endorse_governor Ronald Reagan, Senator George Murphy and Birchite congressman John G. Schmitz.

This gesture was given the maximum publicity in order to underline Nixon's support for a crack-down on the left.

Two press reports from leading US newspapers yesterday suggested that the White House had deliberately exaggerated the danger to demands grow tive to instruct AEF- they hope to draw other sponsored MPs to campaign sections of workers-and a in support of such action demonstration through both inside the Parliamen- Nottingham. tary Labour Party and in T&GWU No. 1/714 Tha Trannont. and e -.General Workers' Union branch at the Ibrox bus garage, Glasgow, has backed calls for a one-day strike action against unemployment and the Tory attacks on the unions.

Shop stewards at Nottinghamshire's Plessey factory at Beeston have called on Trades Union Congress and Labour Party leaders to call a special conference to organize official strike action for December 8.

Within the next week, they will be holding shop meetings to discuss independent strike action on December 8 — into which Women residents from Whiston Rd, Hackney, in full support of the council workers, ba the way to contractors intending to move the rubbish 'barricade'.

Dockers back councilmen A section of Monday's successful march through Southampton by councilmen. They were backed by dockers and busmen who swelled the ranks to 1,500. About 100 university students also joined the march.

branch members from the Middlesex factory of Westland Helicopters at Hayes have echoed the Beeston call.

The branch believes that the action should be part of the preparation for a general strike if necessary to force the Tory government to resign.

Similarly, Mitcham's AEF 58ME branch calls on the union's executive to press the TUC leadership to 'organize a one-day strike against the law, proposed anti-union and 'organize the strength of the whole trade union movement to force the Tories to resign': Hackney strike made official HACKNEY councilmen's strike was made official yesterday as the first private contractors moved in to shift rubbish in the borough. STUDENTS' CASH FOR COUNCILMEN SHEFFIELD University students are to make a £20 donation from their union funds to the National Union of Public Employees' strike funds.

The students have also voted at a union general meeting to dissociate the union from the Rag Committee members who tried to use the council workers' strike as the basis for a stunt outside the Reading sewage works.

The motion carried by the meeting emphasizes 'support for the council workers' strike and strongly disapproves of the actions of the Rag Committee which gave rise to publicity giving a misleading ampression of union policy and undermining our support for the strikers.

A public meeting of strikers cheered officials who brought the news of union backing for all of Hackney's 1,750 council workers, most whom walked out last week.

While they met, contractors began tackling the unofficial street rubbish dump at Hoxton Square and Whiston Rd where housewives barred their way. (See picture this page.)

After the meeting stewards drew up lists of pickets who will begin guarding the street dumps that the council say they will clear.

Overwhelming support has been given to the Hackney strikers by residents on the big council estates where the main dumps are.

'We don't mind the rubbish, said Mrs Emily Simpson, who lives adjacent to the Whiston Road dump.

'We support the men. They deserve to get the incerase, especially as the Tories have already pushed up the cost of living.

I know how they feel-I'm an old-age pensioner myself.' Hackney's example was praised by E London district officials at yesterday's meeting, but they were careful to point out that this did not set a precedent and the national strike would still remain selective.

They also warne not to ‹pect too much fro the Scamp inquiry, whose report is due tomorrow.

I don't think Scamp will give us the 55s, so don't start saying it's all over. Keep out and get ready to stay out next week, said the Municipal Workers' official Dave Ryland.

Tory leader of the Hackney council, Alderman Don Bridgehouse, attacked the strikers and their supporters.

claimed that recent demonstrations by householders had been organized by agitators seeking to break down pay negotiations said that until the outcome of the Scamp inquiry was known, Hackney Council would continue to bring contractors to clear refuse.

• See LATE NEWS. conference at Porthcawl tomorrow to be certain that there will be a strike.' Some 15,000 miners at 22 S Wales pits remained on strike yesterday.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Thoresby colliery-one of the biggest pits in Europe - remained out on strike.

Some 30,000 miners, who comprise almost half the country's labour force, were out YORKSHIRE; their strike closing 24 pits and a coal-preparation plant pletely and seven collieries and a workshop partially.

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Overtime bans were being operated at three more pits.

Among the pits closed were the 1,500-strong Kellingly 'super' pit and six collieries in the S Yorkshire panel— relatively inactive up to now. Spain: Workers strike & march FIFTEEN hundred shipbuilding workers stopped work for an hour yesterday near Bilbao in N Spain and massed near the factory entrance shouting 'Amnesty and Liberty'.

Another 500 workers in Asua, near Bilbao, staged , a one-hour strike, but did not demonstrate.

About 150 Madrid university students marched for a short distance down a main road in central Madrid, clapping and calling for a general amnesty before rapidly dispersing when police arrived.

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Nixon during a violent demonstration against him at San Jose, California, last week.

The 'Washington Post' quoted an unnamed San Jose police official as saying:

'If you want my professional opinion, this wasn't half as bad as some of the things I've seen around here. The White House really played it The 'New York Times' said there was no evidence that the incident was 'arranged' for the President's benefit in line with reported White House policy allowing demonstrators near so Nixon could use them as a foil for his law-and-order speeches.

But the paper added that the President did not seem to be in any danger because most of the debris was thrown after he entered his car.

'The main question about the President's behaviour concerns his decision to jump on the hood of his car after the first few eggs were thrown and give his campaign victory salute to the demonstrators,' the "Times' added.

The phoney basis for Nixon's final campaign speeches detracts not a whit from his urgent desire to get tighter laws aimed at the working class in the United States.

This makes all the more dangerous the recent proNixon moves by the leaders of the US trade unions.

the AFL-CIO equivalent of the TUC stated just a month ago that The Democrats are more and more losing favour with our lads'.

But with unemployment at nearly 6 per cent, working-class voters who might previously have voted for Nixon's policies are growing alarmed. And they are not satisfied with Nixon's and Agnew's demagogy.

But the US working class lacks a mass political party which can defend its basic The building of a Labour Party answer Nixon's reactionary campaign for repressive laws is now the most urgent issue facing American workers.

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It was thus no surprise that chairman of the GLC establishment committee, Mr Leslie Freeman, rejected the Labour opposition leader's appeal to open direct negotiations with A National Union of Public Employees spokesman said that TUC general secretary Victor Feather's offer of TUC mediation in the strike was 'hypothetical".

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RENT CONTROL TO END Rent controls in the private sector are to end under a Tory government plan to introduce the so-called 'fair rent' system throughout private and council housing. 'The government,' Environment Minister Peter Walker told the Commons to Labour protests yesterday, 'will remove the present artificial distinction and inequalities between private and public rented sectors and within each of them.' Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. 'Published by, Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4. revolutionary Tories by Polish Stalinism is an integral, and essential, part of Soviet Stalinism's strategy to subordinate European working-class interests to the exploitation of inter-imperialist rivalries between Europe and America.

Under the slogan of European collective security, the Stalinists - the British ones included - are preparing to collaborate in the most chauvinistic manner with their own ruling classes and stab the European socialist revolution in the back.

We should therefore not be surprised if, for example, the British Stalinists,, like the Italians, were to change their attitude to the Common Market in the near future.

The 'Morning Star' and the British Communist Party remain criminally silent about the reactionary alliance between Stalinism and the Tories.

Strike-breaking In just the same way, they kept their mouths shut while Polish coal and Polish cement were breaking strikes for Franco and the 'green Tories' in Dublin.

Communist Party members are calling for strike action on December 8 against the Tory The 'Morning Star' also claims to oppose the Tories.

When it keeps silent about these developments, it is preparing rod for British workers' backs, just as it tolerated scabbing in Spain and Eire.

Foreign policy, to paraphrase Clausewitz, is the continuation of home policy.

The Tories' relations . with