Scanlon plea for help from bosses

A WORKERS PRESS PAMPHLET Just off the Press Packed with information on how far they could go before they called a strike. Equally management themselves knew whether it was worthwhile to accept workers' demands rather than face industrial action.

There was, he said, fundamental and irreconcilable Speaking in London at a conflict between capital and labour, though not necessarily between workers and manageBut those conflicts had been somewhat resolved in the past by negotiation.

There was in industry a RULES There were rules to be observed and honoured and those rules are the rules of war or rules of the conduct The union leaders knew of peace or armistice,' said But the legislation threatened to disrupt these rules by legal intervention.

I hope even at this stage we can prevail on the government not to go ahead and to leave it to both sides of industry to work out the deep and fundamental questions involved in industrial relations, he said.

It was clear from the tone of his speech — and even clearer from the fact that such a declared enemy of capital should bother to speak to a business lunch-that Scanlon above all fears the turmoil that the legislation will unleash in the unions.

It threatens to deprive workers of rights, but it will also destroy the gentlemanly rules of war on which men like Scanlon have based their careers. Frame-up Seale BLACK Panther chairman Bobby Seale went on trial in New Haven, Connecticut, yesterday under tight armed police guard, with jury selection expected to take up to eight weeks.

The Panther chairman is charged with the killing of Alex Rackley in May 1969.

Also facing the same charge, which carries the death penalty, is Connecticut Panther leader Mrs Ericka Huggins, aged 22.

Both have denied killing Rackley, and the case has all the makings of an elaborate and calculated frame-up. After his trial as one of the 'Chicago seven'when he was bound and trial begins.

gagged in the court-room The trial of the 'Chicago at the orders of Judge seven' was part of a conJulius Hoffman-Seale has certed drive to persecute been extradited to Connecti- the Panthers out of existcut to be tried for his life. ence. This trial is the next One Panther — Lonnie link in Nixon's police camLucas—has already been paign. framed on charges in con- Police have taken elabornection with Rackley's ate precautions to ensure death. He is now serving a the trial takes place in an 15-year jail term for con- atmosphere of intimidation spiracy to murder-under- and fear. Bullet-proof winscoring the danger that dows have been installed in Seale will be railroaded to the court-room and a heavy the death chamber by police guard is on 24-hour Nixon's legal witch-hunt. duty outside. tion with the bureaucracy, it disarms them in the face their own working class.

This lays behind the tortuous progress of the Strategic arms limitation talks between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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NATO is anti-Soviet in its international aims and a counter-revolutionary weapon against, the W European working class, as the tragic example of Greece proves.

Its liquidation is one of the essential tasks of the European working class in the struggle for socialism.

• 'European security aimed at workers. See page 3.

SOLAR ENERGY T ..... Blosphere. bes MINERAL Photosynthe sis fi andır decompose CaCO PAGE TWO CO2 FUEL COMBUSTION nonia SOLAR ENERGY Minerals Organico Samtanic otosynthesis, i Lead organic matte con Nitri Fossil fuel co,d COz Evap :alcareous Shell Minerals Nitrates Minera Particies Rain of Detritus Decomposer LIMESTONE An Illustration showing major cycles of the SpE Volcano HOMO SAPIENS - man, a species of animal able to begin consciously to intervene in nature — arose through a process of natural selection and produced being able to stand erect.

With his hands free man could begin to mould nature to his requirements.

The development of handsnot only the instrument of labour but the product of labouropened up a new stage in the history of life on earth, the age of man.

The hands did not exist alone, but were part of a highly complex organism and what benefited the hand, benefited the whole body that it served.

As Engels says in The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man':

'Mastery over nature began with the development of the hand, with labour, and the widening of man's horizon at every new advance. He was continually discovering new, hitherto unknown, properties in natural objects.

'On the other hand, the development of labour necessarily helped to bring the members of society closer together by increasing cases of mutual support and joint activity and by making clear the advantage of this joint activity to each individual. In short, man in the making arrived at the point where they had something to say to each other...

'First labour, after it and with were the two most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of Rape gradually changed into that of man ...

'The réaction on labour and speech of the development of the brain and its attendant senses, of increasing consciousness, power of and judgement gave both labour and speech pulse to further development.' are solutions which incompatible demonstrate, with the continued existence of capitalism.

Energy from the sun is the main source of energy for living organisms. This energy, although sometimes temporarily trapped by green plants is eventually reradiated from the earth. The energy we derive from oil and coal was derived from the sun many millions of years ago.

The planned use of material derived from nature for energy purposes is possible.

EXCESS

Robert Whittaker and Gene Likens of Cornell University have estimated that 164 billion cubic metric tons of dry organic matter are produced annually, about a third of it in the oceans and two-thirds on land.

This net production represents the excess of organic production over what is required to maintain the plants which "fixed' the energy. It is available for conThursday, November 19, 1970 heating of the atmosphere over towns.

John R. Clark has claimed that in the United States, the use of rivers, lakes and estuary water for cooling purposes could become so extensive as to be a threat to all aquatic life, but that the water could be pre-cooled by using it to heat houses and offices. This would, of course, require planning and investment.

Water is the substance necessary for the existence of living systems.

It is one of the main building blocks of living matter.

In producing 20 fresh-weight tons of crop, 20,000 tons water will pass into the plants at their roots.

In a recent article it was indicated that if water is supplied to plants when they need it, an increase of 0.39 ton of dry matter per acre per inch of water could be obtained. In terms of fresh weight the gain is about 1.5 tons per acre per inch.

SALINITY