Workers Press no. 300

workers press

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1970 • NUMBER 300

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What we think Similar no will ere dropped indin next week ternational Monetary Fund Both ose tam will be led by By the Editor THE STREAM of foul innuendos, gross distortions and rank misrepresentations by the capitalist class and its agencies against the trade unions has now grown into a but particu- andy in rain. thundering cataract aimed at drowning the miners' struggle.

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197 sand.-5 In the vanguard of this surging effluent is amoun Lord Robens and, of unlikely to he brushed

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Daily

PRESENT

course, the

PEOPLE

Mail', whose four- Lord Robens?

BREPUNANCY

BEFORE

column headline yester day screamed: WHO IS Lord Robens of Woldingham,

PROFITS

- out Tusk day the chairman of the National Coal Board?

Well for a start he is a very, very rich man. miners hadude alune his salary has risen 20,000 the will Pickets 'good he strike. or the pay leader in tog humoured' 'Evidence' miners have Ignoring the fact that 55 - Acton, London, stewards miners same perio he ora Robens thundered: ton, Lord government SHOP STEWARDS at Evershed and Vignoles doubt that there the Ltd, the Acton electrical firm, have called on all unions to stop closures and redundancies by gray an idear them bat. taking methods were generally good- fighting Tory government policy.

the grand our reports todas 420,000. Almost ine mall daded, nowever. firm, stopped workers Lord Robens refused to be onstrate, they are raring against management's Wicked do ny otiatement. negotiate a proper redun demon i course the tax is wicke mplained recent His allegations have already This ed ion yement sponse lateste W Yorkshire with- among indirect workers forcing the Tories to 1o smean our calelate this • Here was no and chanting, LITTLE TRUST was placed by rank-and-file Papoil polities are reformist Sacking Reginald firemen yesterday in Home Secretary Maudling's alleged sympathy with their pay-and- Trader cronies must ensur fiready • cals nentin. orker hours claim. solve the ean sul : In They fear, however, ment implementati difficulties. Worries ord Basic Rilance's Charter Oni Firemen say: The situation has becom

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they which has compete m Stop on na has este sack ite of their hundreds every iating body Dec 8 Bonus year so e wow i Union London 2,100Ye government. •E DIVISION area claims hold Sinister workers' total weekly mittee of the rire brigades dancies for Union is asking the executive ation ce his sinister exagger- up full i But managemen the Distributiv "might inject District Council to set aside in the 1 dis atone started be refused do discuss. return December Has al day tomorrow tere to discusions action and a first step to- s himself. wards defeating the Tory Concerned e5 his p tere, however. At a * ir final forgo son, to see stopping there proposed in she country shop special PAGE FOUR CoL. 4 dustrial Relations Bill. bonuses continued. cleaning-up' they Maudinges che follewing resolution, was view to take passed: Amalrik trial opens n HULL, the 550 dustmer the national trend for no cleane Businent in rem closures in and enon to die even ent e Lon Previous outburst were found there. to inis one which and the Communist mitted to the city don station delegate restra has obviou neet Menn don nore delege ste tor dee Novender 14 advantages Soviet Had the miner ched master-minding like *Sverd- i with open am in lovsk. riterday we went

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expected to accept.

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He was moved to Sverd- term The daily paper that leads the Tory government PRICE 6d. November £1,250 Appeal reaches £280 8s 5d NOw Is the time to step still have 4969 this Fa to raise fight Fund. tor the November Workers ting a huge response from all those trade unionists who are determined to defeat this Tory There is a real need to keep expanding and reaching out to and more readers wherever we can. Help do this by raising Tone never donation is extremey welcome Post yours today to: Workers Press

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

186a Clapham High Street, London, swy4.

MORE MINERS

were encouraged to strike after Lord Robens' wild outburst yesterday accusing pickets of using violence to spread the Part vesterdays dispute. fine outside the Acton elec- trical firm Evershed and The KENT coalfield came to a stand-still as 3,500 workers has been has miners from three pits joined men in Scotland, Yorkshire, lay-off workers S Wales and Durham, swelling the strike total to 105,000.

edundancy 45,00 ment being negotiated. Kobens was surrounded by angry miners Coal Board headquarters claim over examined

ANNUAL

violence by

EVENT

and hooliganısm BucKets. Roben also challenged from S WALES Cwm Secretary colliery Williams, who lodge, Bryn was Cwm amone DIcKels coke ovens tole mopens to ge to the police to see il pickets Wales were violence. *Lord Robens is doing a lot 6ácK0od by up the

FOR 35 YEARS

miners, he mented. hundred oven

SERVCE 4 WCEKS

pree reversed a decision to WOrKers return

WOIK

alter seeing the wm nickers

REDUNDANCY

secretary

AIT

the Che Workkes oven lodge

PAY

told the our have should really retreated. accepted Have NCB's offer, all mineworkers 1ould SuDDOrt En strike. joined the strike vesterdav. Despite predictions of At Snowdown colliery where the stoppede was 160 a 'flop' demonstration Leil. At a rowdy ing yesterday some right-wing altemptcu ulsuccess" Tully to prevent ine walk-oul, In e •nowcown secretary Workers TOld une Press: These people were deat with by the ordinary members vent back home. will cost the Board 25,000 tons of coal

YCER

In DURHAM there was no change. A total of 5,270 men are ou ano tour De Dies 1are. 38,000 are on strike and in

SCOTLAND

joined the strike four in produc- aving only tion. Albert Martin, FACTORIES and shipyards in Glasgow and secreidi y W Scotland were at a standstill yesterday as

MANHAR

miners. unlocu 20,000 shipyard and engineering workers staged on the witch nurune bana wagon when he said in coal a one-day strike against unemployment in the ville that there was evidence outside bodies were The Nottinghamshire leaders he strike involving almost factory have every Issuck the Glasgow saving: the unconstitu- place despite the withdrew mittee ask tional and policy methods now being recommencation tor sucke used by certain groups in une action Dy une unlon atter a meeting last

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we are compelled to week with convenors and sub- une teeto or gleeru oress anu reiterate that we shall carry of factories the televisions predicuons democratie flop. Some of them had voted whatever yesterday's support Arms severely are pressures affected these included bear brought Yarrow's Weir Pumps Motors, ash yesterday's This weakened bodies." Olivetti, Weir action Glasgow the Nottinghamshire All Carde Shipbuider th to strike colleres were workine norm- three ally yesterday, wale out today sions-Clydebank, and and tomorrow Yorkshire S committee called 24-hour stoppage in the after- Wales pickets are expected in •Cotstoun- electedls noon. the de will deal with Notting- also joined the stoppage.

Two thousand workers Great feeling hamshire Rolls-Royce's E Kilbride plant Yorkshire collies, The area's great feeling for

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DICKEL

action unemoloyment was shown by the big support yesterday by small non- engineering plants, Electricity workers part for the first time in years, and by corporation workers back pay negotiators Glasgow AEF district said me. Ferrie tary Mr

HICX

delighted the with was respoe Stoppage received one They ELECTRICITY supply workers are weary in Tease weekly in Londore yesterday inter-union conference want of the most vicious attacks abolition of promised the ever seen from sections of the 202 full backing to their HotelEs Clausein capitalist Soress, in which they press, tried all manoeuvres increase lor In 190/. and subterfuges to prevent our he industry's 120.000 manu: Under this electricity work- workers. els Call moved arouna "Our members nave snown

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quite dearlv todav that thev would provide -week power stanon. turn to the trade unions and increase throughout the The do not to the capitalist press.' expect

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dustry and the other ts mil- undernes ere ray alane in alone in receive lion would increased crim unt ney see emplovere hift and al a meeting ot the national y manoeuvre The claim falls substantially council for the industry Stalinist-dominated com- I short of what militant power on November 19. • Paislev

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1970 • NUMBER 300 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Robens and press attack on miners widens What November E1,250 Appeal Robens' we Witch-hunt is reaches think £280 8s 5d accusation Say 'No' y November 30 to TUC brings out aimed at wholes freeze RUMOURS of. more miners Organization for Workers und

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

186a. Londom, Sa Stre working class MORE MINERS were encouraged to strike yesterday after Lord Robens' wild outburst accusing pickets of using violence to spread the dispute. Similar The KENT coalfield came to a stand-still as 3,500 claim there by час. workers miners trom three pits joined men in scotland, torksnire lay-off S Wales and Durham, swelling the strike total to 105,000.

ment being negotintegree Robens

EDINBURGH

was By the Editor outside his claim

ANNUAL EVENT

and violence b picketanism THE STREAM of foul innuendos, gross distortions and

REDUNDANCY!!

from s also challenged misrepresentations by the capitalist class and its rank agencies against the trade unions has now grown into a thundering cataract aimed at drowning the miners' struggle.

Cwm ovens is rices In the vanguard of this surging effluent is Who is sidenlikely Lord Robens and, of

AMAS

to be brushed

FOR 35 YEARS

nettine come 'Daily the

PRESENT

PEOPLE

SERViCE 4 WEEKS Mail', whose four-

]IREDUNANCY

Lord Robens? column headline yester

BEFORE

and ere TUC General Cou day screamed:

REDUNDANCY

WHO IS Lord Robens of Woldingham,

PROFITS

go return tor chairman of the National Coal Board?

PAY

out - Well for a start he is a very, very rich lations proposals. man. Whatever the tortured oppor- Fight Tory policy Coal Board Despite predictions of will + Sno hreatened Pickets 'good £20,000 fanuary he miners he stoppage was 10 to stop closures' a 'flop' demonstration He has remained at humoured' per can 'Evidence' nationalized and 20,000 out fully to Every day brings - Acton, London, stewards e Worker In 1968 ne to bring-out the told paltry "thunderedation, Lord governmen SHOP STEWARDS at Evershed and Vignoles with by th people 512,500, in deal afterwards that these had doubt real thee is sinly st Lta, the Acton electrical firm, have called on against redundancies by all unions to stop closures and Board 25,00 tons !! coal ar hooliganism are taking fighting Tory government policy.

PUR total of 5,20 m I rate and verned i The 'Mail added, however: 20,000 change Firemen sceptical idle Lord Rened no dole queues

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onstrate, they are raring to Wicked fancy strate proper refusa.

and in SCOTLAND Glas® that Of course the tax is wicked pily pine in produc the strike But of renewed een belied ons have stade a ville for programm him - weed W Yorkshire leaders FACTORIES and shipyards in

NOTTING

Glasgow anc HAMSHIRE miners. police officer tter of W Scotland were at a standstill yesterday as pay talks is almost one and 20,000 shipyard and engineering workers staged find it: developed. lop stewards calculate tl a one-day strike against unemployment in the added that, despite housing phanshe leader elf dangerously split. area. _placed by rank-and-file shouting LITTLE TRUST was Poet, politics are reformist chanting, Sacking firemen yesterday in Home Secretary Reginald The involving every to to ik Glasgee district sayin vie ood more Trader cremates must Maudling's alleged sympathy with their pay-and- Already withdrey despite the mittee last Sundav hours claim. tional inunion leader recommendation for strik 1970) the teeth of sleetal! week with convenes ar Basic possibletuation Trades Of Bas Rine's Firemen say: "The demo the when the tim" ha i say

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with the employers Stop on de of their national included these

THES

Weir Pumes workers every Tion Wakened asser dens tiatine Brigades Union London Dec 8 Bonus action Nottinghamshire the siniles he Mid-Lark government. claims hold committee Sinister mittee of the Fire Brigades workers' total weeks vut stoppage in the atte MAN 250 on the hin th up full atience his sinister exagger- Union is asking toe execunve Rose does kiberke plant union's London Great feeling horksime into oye mesotations with District Council to set aside "1930s who sta return The area's great feeling for December day

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o as individual to express himsel.

Tre ro e to discus inos action and a nrst step to chese city conle 1942. wards defeating the Tory а Бого но Concerned Robens' philo- stewards Electricity workers proposed In- government's combines Few firemen are sorry to stopping there, however for the fist time in years,

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articipation' austral beats Die by corporation workers. back pay negotiators pub bonuses continued. Amalrik trial opens dustmen commend for deplores the fire service into delighted gene in Britaincutives ELECTRICTY Sun Co ernes orkers ElO after oppositionist Amalrik. until 1984», 1 to signed use Communist mane steva membersery for in 1967. cam, Min than other ini Tally 1,000 Under this electricity work * The 32 delegation to de No di is can waround portant and 32-year-old power station. confed get the woulout anti-te will also t - throue other creased ton-are still working to rule.

coming. The unen dely to thee his out on December have t FBU Lewisham, Wales. leaders Franci receivel thes un Terminen yesterday ace in His polic sa Not that, a one-day strike council of te. shift and overtime payments.

employer Charles with open demand, But realinist-dominated the industry The clawat mistant niale a possible three-year somar de buse he cock domas.

militant power He was moved to Sverd-

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short d

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PAGE TWO

FROM A SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

IN THE last few years pollution and ecology become popular have topics for protesters, newspaper columnists and eminent speakers. Even the eminent most Prince Philip has voiced opinion, while 1970 has been designated European Conser- vation Year and a new mag- azine called "The Ecologist' has begun publication in Britain. Behind the column copious and inches the platitudes, how- there exist problems which capitalism is unable to solve- The Cuyahoga the poisoning of rivers and River in Ohio; destruction the of the which is so soil and the of accumulation polluted it wastes in the atmosphere.

Ilterally burst It that with appears every Into flames. advance science and tech- nology under capitalism greater destructive power unleashed such a rate that it is rising not only in wars and unemploy- will be 25 expected that There ment, but through the destruc- cent carbon dioxide per tion of the environment. in the the end by of the century.

TOXIC

Such would greatly in- a rise THE BELCHING of smoke from the ability of the atmo- crease the sphere to retain heat from furnaces, and fact stations, gas the sun-the so-called although 'green- works factories, house effect'- and the resulting controlled to some extent today, is still a major cause of dirt and increase in temperature could the melt polar In toxic gases the atmosphere, outstripped addition quite small differences only by the in carbon dioxide concentration car. In Britain about 200 would affect the million whole pallern tons of coal and 25 million tons of terrestrial vegetation. of fuel oil are consumed annually giving rise million tons to one

SMOG KILLS

of dust, two million of tons smoke and five million tons of THE MOST openly destructive dioxide sulphur (an acidic gas -the 4,000 effects of air pollution- which is harmful to life even in 5,000 additional deaths to in very low concentrations). London in 1952 and the death of About ten times as much dust cattle the 1957 Smithfield at and sulphur dioxide is found in both due to smog show, -have towns compared with that found given rise to a number of minor, in rural areas. Carbon monoxide changes in the policies of govern.

and dioxide carbon to ment and industry, but no com- be found in increasing concen- prehensive plan has emerged.

trations in the air due the to burning of fossil fuels (coal and the atmosphere man's oil). assault on nature are planned Motor vehicles are responsible matched by the drastic results widespread for pollution. The of pollution in rivers and oceans.

exhaust gases contain high concentration of carbon monoxide which very

OILY SEAS

poisonous to mammals and birds. This gas dangerous ANNUALLY about 700 million may reach levels, traffic jams. tons of crude oil are carried in particularly in city Cars in Britain also emit 3,000 throughout the world. tankers tons of lead in their exhaust The lack of adequate safety pre- fumes and this has accumulated cautions has led to a number of vegetation and soil accidents in which thousands of in the In roadside verges. of crude oil have poured

LOTS

The present average levels of into the oceans lead in have The collision of the our bodies been Glory', shown to cause metabolic dis- and •Pacific turbances over a period of years.

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Name Address of between 40,000 and 50,000 Although no programme tons of oil were discharged, underlines research had been carried out, the danger of oil pollution. Army scientist claimed that Not beaches fouled the chemical action of the sea only are would but some of the oil forms render the gas harmless into the casks over lumps which float on the surface as it seeps from Having developed of the Several saury fish a long period. sea. and stockpiled more lethal nerve caught in trawling by the oceano- vessel Atlantic the imperialists. graphic con- gases,

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'outdated' killers the tained large amounts of tar 1n ocean with dire their stomachs. consequençes. Some Danish boys who went These fish are known to be for earlier this year in Swas the food of several larger species the Baltic off the island of Als of fish such as the tuna that are were badly burnt by a concen- for human caught consumption. tration of mustard and nerve gas Although water covers two- dumped there since in the water, thirds of the earth's surface and Second World War. the amounts to some 1.5 billion cubic kilometres, the effect of dumping

GREAT LAKES

and into tne sea concentrated 'treated' sewage into CAPITALISM not only destroys rivers and lakes is not negligible.

through weapons production, but in carrying out its normal profit- One warning signal was given during a typhoon in Japan last making. accumulated It has turned rivers and lakes year when on the sea bottom was disturbed into bodies of water which can and gave rise to huge red waves, only support primitive forms of vellow toam beaches life. near Tokyo. The pollution of the Great United Lakes in N America• Earlier this year the -the largest dumped area of fresh Statec water in the word Coverien 12,500 rockets with is the best known example. nerve gas 16,000 discharge of warheads into feet, of The large-scale the lakes and

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traininario streamshe dares cer ing of nitrate fertilizers into the lake and from industrial plants has caused a huge increase in bacterial contamination. Floating trash and debris are to be found in abundance and pesticides endanger water quality.

Together with heat, oil spillage, chemicals, toxic metals and the waste treatment processes them- selves, it is that estimated it would cost $1.4 billion to clear up the mess. Lake Ontario, though not as badly affected as Lake Erie, had 38 sites in need of treatment in June 1968. The cost would be $187 mil- lion and yet of the four towns in the area only one had made provision for definite any expenditure. The pollution problem affecting the lakes is not isolated to the United States. The addition of raw and un- satisfactorily treated sewage and industrial wastes to Swedish lakes set in motion similar destructive processes. The addition of large quantities of phosphorus and other nutrients encourage the growth of algae which in turn deoxygenate the water and kill fresh water life.

One such lake is Lake Trummen near the centre of the Smäland city of Växjö which was killed of raw sewage by the injection and waste from a local textile factory.

POLLUTED RIVERS

IN BRITAIN the main target of pollution is the rivers. A survey of the rivers under- taken by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1958 showed that a total of 1,278 miles of grossly polluted river were and that 5,422 miles needed improvement. This is 27 per cent of the total length of the in rivers England and Wales, a not in- considerable proportion when one realizes that serious pollution tends to be confined to industrial rather than remote un- areas populated parts. Recently more than 5,000 fish within a few days were killed in the River Cherwell near Banbury, when chemicals swept downstream piling up dead fish along a mile of river. For nearly 200 years, capitalism unprecedented Kas launched an and unplanned assault on nature and only recently has any attempt been made to trace the contra- dictory processes that have been set in motion to seek solutions which embrace man and nature as a totality. • In further articles on aspects of pollution and ecology we will be dealing with this question and the politics of those who taking up the anti- are now pollution banner. service above except: 5.20-5.50 as Libyn-dob n. 6.01-6.18 Y dydd.

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11.00 Making whoopee. Labour bu and bourg THE PROMINENCE given to recent diplomatic visits suggests that Britain and France are becoming increas- ingly interested in each other's former spheres of influence. These reports noted the so- called tribal Toubou clashes with French soldiers in Chad and the visit of the President of Gabon to Britain in October. Another noted Kaunda's visit to Pompidou.

Presidents Bongo of Gabon, Tsiranana of Malagasy, Banda of Malawi and Ojukwu of former Biafra all openly advocate African collaboration with 'white' South Africa. Bongo toasted Vorster before sending doctors to S Africa in exchange for visits from Chris- tiaan Barnard, the heart surgeon and the plastic surgeon, Penn.

Essentially they follow the 'open-door' of "critical' policy 'white' S Africa contact with pursued by the Anglican Church of- England. 'Diocese' After criticizing arms sales to S Africa, Dr Michael Ramsey is due to visit his segregated, racialistic, discriminatory, anti- African, Anglican 'diocese' this month. This is the same apartheid S Africa which the Anglican missionaries and Church had such a major hand in forming; the same Anglican Church whose Canon Collins and Bishop of Woolwich spoke at the so-called anti-apartheid committee rally at Trafalgar Square on October 25.

It is only because they are defined by the race-classifiers of Britain, S Africa, W Europe and the USA as 'black' that Bongo, Banda, and company are regarded as collaborators with apartheid.

A similar colour prejudice was manifested towards Kaunda and the OAU during their recent tour of Rome, London, New York and Paris. , The Kaundas were either a negrophilistic patronized in manner by their social democratic mentors, or were ridiculed as bourgeois' and snubbed "black by their 'white' masters.

In fact, the Kaundas represent semi-colonial a nationalistic bourgeoisie too petty and small in and capital match Size to wealth with the trade union and labour bureaucracy of the USA, UK and W Europe. The two are identical twin servants of the same boss-imperialism. The nature of this semi-colonial bourgeoisie makes it necessary 'bourgeois' for the far more social democratic labour bureau- crats of the USA, Britain and W Europe to place them under ideological tutelage, and for the imperialist bosses of both to rule the semi-colonies with an iron fist, and not with the 'luxury of democracy' that it can, albeit decreasingly, afford in the imperialist Grecian democracies themselves. An example of this direct tyranny is shown in the recent events of the ex-French colony of Chad in former Equatorial Africa. Francols Tombalbaye There the French Army had to guard French groundnut, tin, and cotton interests because the weak Tombalbaye regime could not stand up to the struggle for real and not paper independence being demanded by its people.

Francois Tombalbaye was the Quisling whom France installed to rule after 'independence' was granted in 1960-to Chad- within the French Community.

Over 2,500 French troops were stationed at Fort Lamy and else- where to protect French invest- ments against the workers and Thursday, November 12, 1970 ur bureaucrats

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France derided less than 5 per cent of those who peasants whom should as 'tribalists' and whom all be secondary school French including are in such schools. governments, Stalinist-backed the Popular Such 'life' French under Front of the 1936- government 'civilization' in Chad. And it is 1938 period, and that of Thorez "backward, de Gaulle 1939- against this that the and after the savage, tribes' are fighting today.

1945 war, repressed murderously.

'Independence' Early October 1970 was man- in the French 'socialists' oeuvre of French press lamented the death Gaullists and de prevent a of some 11 French soldiers at Dien Bien Phu in Africa. the hands of the N Chad peasant- guerrillas who falsely de- Were Already in 1947 there had been 'tribes' but who lost scribed as Madagascar massive rising a reported what the 40 men in (Malagasy) which France, with Algiers Chad Resistance Move- typical democratic genteelness, guerrilla ment described by massacring some overcame France. against 150,000 people. The French could Army not Tsiranana came to as take this humiliation lying down the French the puppet to mask and on October 26 claimed to the muderous role of French have killed "Toubou over Army and only recently helped rebels' as a reprisal for the earlier France hold naval exercises to defeat of the French. off Malagasy. His for support 'contact' with Vorster is merely Reports extension of the French arms Vorster- who, unfortun- salesto It is certain that the reports for France, be ately happens to of the French press cannot be the local manager of what is taken at face value, but equally 90 per British estate. cent a clear that French 'independence' is not having an easy passage at French capital has been But of the hands its and worker into Africa and creeping peasant victims. Mozambique and of has hopes French Their position under slightly undermining the immense by the fact omination ¡s hwn fortress of British interests in that 99 per cent of the .3.3 million S Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia.

people of Chad live no more than 29 years (less than half the life This is the reason for Pom- in France); ( a per pidou's double-handed deal with span have annual income of under Kaunda in Paris after Kaunda's capita €30 (about 1/15th that of France): but still empty-handed servile return from his rebuff by Nixon have under 20 per cent of their children in primary schools and and Heath. A Chad peasant guerrilla held prisoner by a French soldler In October 1969.

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Thursday, November 12, 1970 Youth from the Opel works demonstrate exu THE SIGNS of an increas- ingly serious economic crisis are appearing in W Germany.

In the last year the number of by job vacancies has fallen almost 8 per cent and the num- ber of unemployed has risen by 2.8 per cent. The enormous increase in the cost of living is forcing the working class into struggle for wage increases. The strikes by hundreds of metalworkers thousands of firms throughout Germany was a against the attempts of big blow the Social Democratic govern- ment to hold down wages. The CDU-CSU coalition, which forms the main opposition ruling class party in Germany, is making preparations for this its own changed situation. Franz Joseph Strauss, leader of the Bavarian section of the CSU has been organizing an extra- parliamentary opposition to bring down Brandt's government since November 1969, after the first big strike wave. Strauss's supporters come from the big industrial firms, such as Flick, and the BMW car com- pany. In a conversation a month ago, Strauss said: *If anyone tried to stop me coming to power, I would kill him. I want freedom, justice and good life for the German people, even if this has to be achieved through a machine gun.'

IMPETUS

The unity and strength shown metalworkers' strike, by the despite the attempts of the union leaders to hold back the move- ment, gave a big impetus to the apprentices in the metal industry.

In an interview with a German Kuznicki, 19- Christian paper, year-old youth shop steward in the Hamburg firm of Blohn and Voss, described how apprentices became involved in the strike: The apprentices' demands were for '13th-month' bonus pay and training leave. The employers only offered a 310 Deutsche Mark increase. The Hamburg apprentices organized a protest demonstration in support of their demand. Christian was later told he would not be getting with the firm when he a job finished his training. apprentices Dachau, In organized a similar march, this time to the Dachau Palace Café, taking where negotiations were place between union officials and the employers to settle the wage claim. The apprentices found that the employers would not even speak to them or their delegates.

They entered the café through entrance and when the a back refused, they employers still began shouting, 'if you go on throwing dirt on us, we'll start a few things flying. 'Open your accounts, show us your money!'

OWN DEMANDS

in in Oberhausen, And the IG- Northrhine-Westphalia Metall union apprentices struck with the metalworkers in October on their own demands -for a rise of 150 DM a month and six weeks' annual holiday. They called for a regional con- ference of all apprentices in the area to organize a joint struggle for young workers' rights.

13 demonstrate exuberantly for higher wages.

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youth A concealed camera catches this act of vlolence against a reform school inmate.

The 'hell' of German reform schools ANOTHER side to the life that youth throughout the maims world. German capitalism has to offer working-class youth, was exposed The ruling class uses the same and methods everywhere can by a report drawn up by the only be answered by the struggle Social Democrats' youth move- of the working class to take the ment, concerning the conditions power. in youth reform schools, in But the SPD bureaucrats refuse to face this task, and in fact they Charlottenhof, near Schandorf, are already seeking to silence in Bavaria, which is controlled those who questions raise class by Strauss's CSU faction.

before the youth. *We felt as if we were in hell, Frankfurt SPD-Young In the we couldn't stand it, said one of Socialists (Jusos), members of the the youth who has run Junge Garde (sister many organization away from his home. of the Young Socialists Eng- land) have been attacked by the The usual form of punishment, right wing. fines, was beating as apart from well as other medieval torture Brandt's hatchet-men forced methods. new restrictions through a mem- includinspo bership meeting, Anything is used as an excuse full requirement that only tools, for beating with garden members could enter the Jusos bowls, sticks whatever gets and that powers should be dele- into the "instructors' hands. gated within the Jusos, establish- ing small, picked committees forced scrub Youth were obedient to the Party officials.

clean the main filthy toilets and entrance with a toothbrush.

They also demanded that no Garde members of the Junge DM Parents 240-480 pay should be allowed in the SPD.

month and the youth get up to 4 DM pocket money, novery, hing such which meant to cover as hair cuts to writing paper.

There is no on meat except is Sundays, and all the food rationed out. THE SWEEPING econo-

PUNISHED

mic reforms which have Youth who tried to run away been announced by Zam- were punished by being made to president wear wooden shoes, which caused bian Kenneth their feet to bleed, or walk bare- Kaunda - despite their The the foot even in the Freihols at thoroughgoing appearance were never heated, and cases of - will have little to do freezing were frequent. with socialist nationaliza- the Social- The conclusion tion. Democratic youth draws, that •Charlottenhof is the balance of social Speaking to a meeting of the 25 of failures in years politics', is a complete evasion of ruling United National Inde- kind of Tuesday, this Party the reasons for pendence treatment of youth. Kaunda made it plain that the proposed take-over of certain The conditions in Charlotten- banks and foreign companies hof are part of the contemptuous would be paid for. and destructive nature Under the the measures, capitalist system, which kills and is to acquire 51 state per

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IV documentary — a public relations job Oil Federation fails as troops' Powell-Sil the withdrawal nears were care All i as Base sited real voice of 19th century. Feudal 1968 Dhabi cost of the Brotativand *the end of is The discoe Has made the a preachine of pound rate Brish ol Toryism a Tong as posited that way s in ENOCH POWELL could not have wished for a better public-relations other exercise than the hour-long documentary which occupied commercial television on Tuesday night.

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laboriously - it would have As miners lobby today's NUM executive been impossible to gain ever In fact i gent in our t the slightest understanding of am an ease et Rowel The meaning Yorks men demand from the flow of cliches, both and pictorial, that veroa emerged. impossible national unity to progran sleed last apart Powell in the of the class struggle in Britain today protests notwith- MANY Yorkshire miners have now been on strike in support of their f5 pay claim for more than two weeks.

win offensive Present The than portrait They remain bitterly critical of their national and local Sid Schofield, official leaders secretary in alca forecane or racil upeared his particular-and are watching today's London meeting ol cooter Britaine this executive like hawks. the National Union of Mineworkers' Many Yorkshire miners plan to lobby today's meeting demands that it abandons further Monking case of mi to its in support of strike national ballot on the Coal Board's £2 7s 6d to £3 offer.

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want a. simple majority vote at a special national They is to come; he said This mood pervaded the 1969 delegate conference to pull every coalfield out.

Telected in coo Workers Press spoke to some of these men about the prices rom neaty hal te die

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reasons behind the strike.

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Workers • what the unico say to the chance discussion—-such as free return to the market forces it, its as simple as that he after this budget? he wen nen's attention, he said the stain of 1 i- 'stice The branch don t Should and finished, thrown out.' corany noi Sily it understand as a lovere also meant to see him astoNe Withone Tdeli council Charlie Fiedor and Johnny 'Here's wage, Bot min-budies and mini should stay oy the limelight, mini-car: we so him in arous pars of his of the mass media. onstituency and their Morgan from strength when he was lifted of smore bate on the Tortes the ground. vat the it should have been ab pest cen Butie wan Despite thes, Powell is.

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nature ride in et a der and he s attacked a dience and some shot ciemonstrations for and working there should hal ed in the way of historica shut pits is just a big bithreat to E Carmeneith, Powel saideader real rowel of the working class. working Kaunda 'nationalizes, but big capital until we get 820, 522 and 830l still in control wis hare or five major foreign Will also obey and Mateon, 2a completel Milies. Supa company 'basis ernment wanted Contributions come Rovers rest rests on the toi declared that Whelmen, the new measur share capital S African captia, British ani cades but he is art going to boor existins The Zambian a order no tho oner of this is national I unity: way

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Arafat's complaints confirmed Big wages

WORLD REACTION TO DE GAULLE

US arms FROM Downing St and apartheid Stalinists' S Africa to Transport House and movement in the Kremlin, bureaucrats and imperialists are mourning the death eulogies of their great French ally.

Fascist Franco praised de Gaulle as S Vietnam a great statesman', Tory Heath spoke 'the man', true greatness surpass imported while Labourite Wilson described him as a towering figure in his own country

BY JOHN SPENCER

whose authority was respected Inrough- everyone out the world. LEADERS of more than 10,000 American-paid con.

o san wede Gaulie Gurion Lionist leader ben struction workers in S Vietnam yesterday ended the also greatest French- nan of the else biggest strike of the Vietnam war after a Saigon govern.

ed turn as one ment promise to press their demand for higher wages.

into Jordan Now and Stalinises S govern: de acle Radio andra lathat law nan rise who-

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* Wase in love spared their last Yor a motta by the stalysed FrenchR she mang link Haile Selay- 10 p paralysed for in and Der an he strike the two countries. Heath and many more lay inside on and road sonne Stalinist Ne do not mourn the deatk Labour Minister Dam Apply 'Garde Mobile' and the Will apply to all the * he 120,000 SHIPMENT of United States arms to Jordan's Robens its con of France, great, free, eternal' King Hussein has been confirmed by Hussein's Northumbe rand in N9 Bitter ring chief minister Wasfi es Tell.

th rom 1930 itter e wotor mue miliens The shipments, he told of Communist Party n Beirut Dole newspape Power weight of Gaullist Bo correspondent, were tor purposes necessitated by

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special Inere Workers in this actoninering stances Dismissed Pressure commando die to our cat The troops od us paper dat the international arenand that 'Because of this, the state 30 miles ment continued Ese pasin Phnom Penh the guerrilla fighters. different -ya trom 3,0 0 2,000 Recently, Arafat produced contral of Higway si we go from here?'. orces periodious on the chibo route Protest layed a key Nazompany district Drollse 1ne blasgow Abr retus: the nd to link it with the emestinian commando mothe Carr's Bill 'one sided' been heavy fighting parts on the side discovers TUC pamphlet provincial capitunder so a procest. Do Gaulle greets an old friend Ceception in ye, Jacques Duclos at a Russian Embassy Ko fire pon Tuesday night Compromised Defended 'Make TU leaders against the wishe! Rhodesian independence the fern for regime.

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