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186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. LIMB-MAKERS ANGRY AT 'BLACKMAIL' LETTER IN A major move towards increased collaboration with world Stalinism, the Tory government has switched from opposition to guarded but definite support for a European security conference.

Heath told the Lord Mayor's banquet on Monday night that a European security conference 'could serve a useful purpose so long as there was a reasonable prospect of worthwhile results on important issues ... Here, as elsewhere, we are interested in concrete results to improve the situation'.

day, Foreign Secretary Douglas-Home spoke of the likely success of the present four-power Berlin • talks, and replied favourably to Labourite Denis Healey's suggestion that progress on Berlin might remote 'a major obstacle to the early holding of a European security conference'.

be held, Home replied, 'it must achieve something practical; and considerable preparation of the agenda for such a conference will be necessary.

about this and if there were good preparation for it, there is something to be said for it It will depend largely on what will in Berlin.' Campaign British Communist Party have been campaigning officially for a European security conference since early 1969—just a few months after the invasion of Czechoslovakia and less than a year after the May-June betrayal of the French La conference with NATO tary pacts and the estabOVER 1,000 artificial limb- lishment of mutual alliances. makers who have been on unofficial strike nine weeks for and the capitalists of western a 20 per cent pay rise were angered yesterday by a letter from their employers which class. they claim is 'industrial blackThe letter, written by. B.

Waggot, managing director of Hangers, the London limb manufacturers, and chairman of the joint negotiating com- employers. mittee, offers the men a £2 16s increase.

But it adds that if they do betrayal of May-June 1968. not accept this and return to 42 los work, it will be reduced to The £2 16s represents a one per cent improvement on the 12 per cent already offered by the British Surgical Trades Association, the employers' Discredit 'We consider this is a move by management to blackmail some of our weaker members and discredit the unofficial leadership by implying that are not informing the men, Tom White, a member of the strike committee told the Workers Press yesterday.

The determined strike by this reputedly docile group of workers has stopped supplies to the country's 25 fitting centres and 100 amputees are said to be waiting for limbs.

Inevitably the men have been labelled as heartless and cruel by management and the press because of their in- Or transigent stand.

Full subscription Denial 'But we deny these accusa- Name tions, Jack Crisp, another strike committee member said. Address 'Many of the strikers have themselves lost a limb so they know the problems involved.

'But we are not going to be exploited as we have in the talks denial refuted BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT DESPITE heated denials by Israeli and Jordanian officials, there is very little doubt that secret talks have taken place between King Hussein and leaders of the Israeli government.

BBC correspondent Michael Elkins defied the Israeli censor on all news relating to the talks when he telephoned his report to London on Monday: 'Since the story has been published, leading correspondents-I among them-have decided to challenge what seems to us totally unjustifiable censorship.

The meeting between King Hussein and the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister did take place.

It is not the first meeting the King has had with Israeli leaders.' Other reporters have given details of where the talks were held - North of the towns of Elath and Akaba, In the Commons the same If such a conference is to Fun enaded some of the meetings.

which stand on either side of the Israeli-Jordan frontier.

I have not a closed mind There have also been reports of earlier meetings between Israeli and Jordanian officials in Switzerland and in Jordan itself.

Russians show in goodNO RECORDS The talks were, in fact, discussed in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) last week, all The Soviet Stalinists and the reterence to the debate being struck from the records and censored out of the Israeli press.

But now a leader of the Uri Avneri, an account of the debate which throws more light on the question.

He states that in a Knesset Since then the Warsaw Pact countries have been asking for session he asked where the government leaders were.

When told they were busy powers, aimed eventually at holding 'consultations', Avneri the dissolution of both milireplied: 'What consultations are these without Allon who is in The Stalinist bureaucracy the desert having talks with Europe would then be able to Avneri says that Allon and concentrate on main Hussein held a two-hour meetenemy: the European working ing, in, the Soneger desert during the first week of Since the invasion of November.

Czechoslovakia and the May- The persistance and simiJune events in France, the larity of the reports, and the question of how to deal with frantic attempts of the Zionist the working. class has been leaders both to suppress and top of the agenda for the deny them, only gives more bureaucracy and European weight to the original claim that the talks did take place.

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In her foreign policy speech to the Knesset on Monday, for the first time she made no reference to the need for an Egyptian withdrawal of missiles from the ceasé-fire zone:

'More than anybody else in the world it is we who are interested in the peace talks and in their progress, and we mous counter - revolutionary dividends for the French employers during the great strike two years ago.

W German Social-Democratic premier Willy Brandt has been pursuing a similar policy for similar reasons.

The process has been accelerated by the Bonn-Moscow treaty, signed in August this year.

Germany has just signed a similar treaty with Poland.

Polish strike-breaking in spain and Ireland, the moves towards diplomatic relations with Franco and the cordial relations between the Stalinist regimes and the Greek junta are a clear index of what the Stalinists mean by 'European The very day after the election of the Tory government, Moscow Radio hailed Heath's win as 'a victory for a more independent foreign policy'.

Heath has not been slow to get the message.

Plain

The message is plain British workers, too.

The Communist Party's refusal to do more than protest about the anti-union laws, their position during the miners' strike and their refusal to combat the trade union bureaucracy, are intimately tied up with the counterrevolutionary plans of the Kremlin.

Unless these plans are halted, the European working class will pay a terrible price for the establishment 'European security', because it means security for capitalism against the rising tide of revolutionary struggle. to avoid the for housing past and work for low pay for what is a very skıltul Job.

'We think it is the management who are heartless. They have been dragging out this dispute. They refused to meet us directly for eight weeks and it wasn't until last Friday that talks started because of our approaches.

'We have been a quiet group of workers in the past but the mini-Budget and the increases other workers have been winning are a big factor in our révolt,' he added. limb-makers The London will meet in Roehampton tomorrow where two of the largest limb factories, Hangers and Steeples, are situated.

Latest offer

There, the latest offer will be put to them by the two main unions involved, the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, both of which have urged the men to accept the 12 per cent and go back to work. tre-left coalition of Christian y, Social Democrats and e debate of the amended ler way in parliament.

alliance with the Communist The same goes for some sections of the Christian Democrats, particularly as recent revelations of Mafia influence in the party have tarnished a number of reputations on its right wing.

Apathy

The Rome Chamber of Deputies' proceedings present a spectacle of bored apathy, while the real discussion continues in the clandestine