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LATE NEWS WHEN IN ROME • • • TUC general secretary Victor Feather yesterday attacked next week's threatened strike against the Industrial Relations Bill ... from Rome.

Feather did not think the action would help the TUC. It may in fact be helpful to the government, he claimed, answering questions after a four-day visit as guest of Italy's prédominantly Roman Catholic trade union confederation CISL.

CLEANERS SACKED

All night cleaning staff at Companies House, a Board of Trade office in central London, were sacked yesterday by their employers, the Strand Cleaning Company.

The nine women, eight of whom are in the Transport and General Workers' Union, recently applied for union recognition from the company.

These are the very things that the. Tory government and the owners of industry are trying to erode.

At Heathrow airport the workers are highly-. organized and we have a closed shop. Through this method of organizing workers' good wages and conditions have been gained since the end of the war.

But noW that British capitalism and indeed world capitalism facing very serious economic crisis, the Tories are faced with the task of smashing up organized labour and of reducing all these hard-won the airport nothing.

The Tories having to de-nationalize the airlines as well as illegalizing the closed shop, and the airport workers are very conscious of this. These workers you see have been through big struggles in the past which they have won when the employers and the Tory could afford to give away a few crumbs from the table.

Now the Tories are handing over BEA and BOAC business to a private airline. This will mean lot redundancies. Without the right strike workers in BOAC and BEA will be forced to look for jobs elsewhere at lower wages.

the government can change the law and transfer routes from thest state airlines, then they can easily do the same with workers' hard-won rights.

But even a whole host of one-day strikes will not persuade the Tories change their minds as the Communist Party pretends they will do. Tories must be got out of office now while there is a split in their party between Heath and Powell and only a prolonged General Strike will achieve this.

And trade unionists must call upon the TUC to organize a General Strike and if they refuse to do so, then a new leadership will have to be elected to carry out this responsibility.

The success of the general strike will depend on its leadership and only the All Trades Unions Alliance can offer this leadership because they are the only movement which bases its actions on an understanding of Marxism and the history of the working class.

NOT SATISFIED Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, currently on a visit to the province of Sarawak (Borneo) said in Kuching yesterday that his government was 'not satisfied' with present army efforts to combat the guerrillas on the island. FOREIGN COYRESPONDENT A STORM is brewing in the United states alter a vcc embery oro rammic ca posing government operatons civilians engagec Vietnam-war protests.

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Press incitement

at Holland Park comprehensive school CAPITALIST press outcry about incidents at Holland Park comprehensive school, London, earlier this week had a politically sinister taste.

From some of the reports of alleged window - smashing and 'rioting' it appears that all hell had been let loose in this experimental school.

'militant hotheads', 'rowdy skinheads' were some of the expressions used about those who were supposed to have been on the rampage'-mainly first- to fifth-year children at the school.

'STRIKE'

About 400 of the total staged against what they thought was the French unions agree claims RANCE'S largest Stalinist-led trade union ganization the CGT has reached agreement ith the Catholic-influenced CFDT on a proamme of common claims.

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repression detailed A TOTAL of 3,068 police raids were carried out and 453 people were arrested in Quebec between October 16, when the: War Measures Act was invoked by the Trudeau government, and November 24, the Canadian parliament was told yesterday.

Ten convicted Quebec 'terrorists': have been transferred from Quebec city ' prisons to the maximum security wing of the St Vincent de Paul penitentiary in Montreal. incommunica do and all doors Prisoners there are locked by remote contro i has been the scene of bi riots.

Against this background parliament on Wednesday carried the new Public Order Bill demanded by Trudeau to replace the War Measures Act. Smithfield and Heathrow out A MASS meeting of Smithfield meat market workers voted yesterday to support December 8 strike action by a two-thirds majority.

The meeting was held in the centre of the market and there were angry scenes when Transport and General Workers' market organizer Len Smith was escorted by a police sergeant to the nearby Snow Hill station in connection with obstruction of the highway.

Some 200 workers from the 600-strong meeting stood outside the station chanting 'We want Len' and 'Let him out' until Mr Smith emerged after five minutes. There was no charge. • He told Workers Press: "The meeting's decision means that the market will be shut down on December 8. This affects 3,000 musici SOVIET scientists and musicians are again under attack.

In a 'Pravda' statement yesterday, the head of the Composers' Union called on all musicians to 'safeguard Soviet music in every way from alien ideological fluences.

The target of this warning could well include the worldfamous Soviet cellist RostroSchool governor Mrs Anthony Wedgewood Benn said stories were exaggerated sacking of one of their favourite teachers.

Yet this incident-one of the many such cases in the area — prompted the Tory paper to initiate a ruthless They are to seek a minimum wage of 1,000 francs (about £75) a month, with a cost-ot-living,: sliding scale, lower retirement ages, a reduction of the working week to 40 hours, no redundancies without alternative employment and an hour free every month for trade union meetings.

The 'agreement' ¡ tollows sevéral months of dispute about common claims, with CFDT leaders . urging the Stalinists to back a campaign for measures of 'workers' control' and "reform of the state apparatus.

But even on the demands now settled, neither leadership a class intention of organizing No concessions They well know that the employers will not and cannot make such concessions In a joint statement they have called for 'vigorous development of action on the claim', referring to 'negotiations at all levels' and the need to 'explain the demands made in every firm, section and region'.

Dec. 8 workers. The one-day strike won't be sufficient. Our full forces mobilized, haven't yet been TWO HUNDRED airport stewards yesterday effectively scotched Fleet Stinspired reports that retreat over the December 8 strike was under way among airport workers.

At a meeting called by the Air Corporations Joint Action Committee, they not only endorsed all 'previous decisions to strike on Tuesday, but also laid plans for bringing out those weaker sections that were not yet committed.

should be very surprised it any aircraft move on Tuesday,' said committee chairman Ian Stewart.

press atta ns and so povich, who issued a statement of solidarity with opposition writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn when the author was attacked for accepting the Nobel Prize for literature.

And in Wednesday's 'Pravda', Viktor Silin, head of the Party Committee at the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow'«somemade an attack on Holland Park comprehensive school pupils in the school grounds during Mrs Benn's visit attack on the system of A statement by the Inner considered to be the solucomprehensive education. London Education Authority tion to the 'smashing' time.

"There have been problems mentioned evidence held by 'Eton is also a large at Holland Park before..? the deputy headmistress school and a showpiece. editorialized the Evening showing that reporters had Eton has also had its moveNews' (December 2) and in fact incited the children ments of pupil power, went on to draw the con- to riot by bribing thém notably one-and-a-half cenclusion that 'in a non-selec- with • cigarettes and giving turies ago. tive school that is almost them objects to throw. inevitable'. Support for this allegation JAUNDICED INCITED by the sixth form • which in a mass flogging. The The Tories were desper- grees of exaggeration that The jaundiced speculation ately trying to prove that have been indulged in by and misrepresentation by the eruption in the school the press . . . the school the capitalist press have was due to the comprehen- has functioned normally'. been used to distort a sive system and not to the Writing in yesterday's genuine protest by pupils appalling conditions in which "Sun', Henry Russel Douglas deprived of a teacher who some of the children live. appeared to find what he they respected and admired. 14: bartering WARSAW PACT leaders refurned home yesterday aftér a summit meeting in E'Berlin whose terse final communiqué appeared to gloss over the major issues of The final communiquéissued on the eve of the NATO powers' ' meeting which opened in Brussels yesterday—made only the most general reference to the strengthening of security and the development of peaceful cooperation in Europe.

The NATO meeting made it clear that it expects the Soviet and E European Stalinists to come to terms over Berlin before entering joint Warsaw Pact-NATO discussions on 'security'-ie, on joint anti-working-class measures.

The Ulbricht regime in E Germany is extremely worried by Soviet attempts to reach agreement with Britain, France and the United States over Berlin, because it fears the Soviet Union may make important concessions on the status of W Berlin.

Not GFR As 'Der Morgen', newspaper of the Liberal Democratic Party, one of E Germany's three official Stalinist parties, recently stated:

Everybody knows that W Berlin is not and never wil be a part, of the German Federal Republic [W Germany]:

'Neues Deutschland', the leading official paper, also maintains that "The GDR will agree to talks with the Federal Republic only on condition that the latter gives up all its activities in W Berlin and recognizes the GDR'.

Of all the E European Stalinist regimes, Ulbricht's is most dependent on the Soviet Union as it completely lacks any popular base outside a narrow circle of bureaucrats.

The Soviet Union is at present involved in four-power talks over the Berlin question cks on ientists one who parades his "non-Party" attitude plainly, and simply lays open his fanks to the enemy'.

This is generally assumed in Moscow to be a veiled reference to Academician Sakharov, the so-called "father' of the Soviet H-bomb.

He has recently been openly critical of Soviet scientific and cultural policy.

came in a statement issued 'The Eton incident ended stated that despite 'the de- Holland Park one won't.' Berlin Felations with Bonn and the Berlin question.

West demands concessions before securitv conference agreeritalist Rowers havey said this must precede the opening of talks on European Security which the Kremlin is anxious to get under way.

Disagreement

Brezhnev's recent speech in Erivan, Armenia, 'completely exploded western propaganda slanders about an unyielding Soviet attitude with regard to Berlin', Tass said in a radio broadcast this week.

agreement betwee P-ent disagreement between the German . Stalinists,' and the Soyiet Union: (baside the T German Communist Party there are indications that the leadership is split on the question.

The Yugoslav radio, which supports Soviet plans for a European Security conference, speaks of disagreements within the leadership over the Berlin question.

The cynical and unprincipled preliminary horse-trading over the European Security conference is a further indication of the character of this plan, which is aimed at joint agreement between the Stalinists and the western capitalist powers to police Europe against the working class.

has long historyof talk with KING Hussein of Jordan flew into London yesterday morning for talks with the British Tory government as part of his 20-day world tour.

Chief aim of the trip is to solicit imperialist support for his reactionary regime, still threatened by the Palestinian guerrilla movement despite Hussein's attempts to suppress the Palestinians in a bloody civil war earlier this year.

Fresh evidence of longstanding secret contracts between Hussein and the Israeli leaders has come to light, following recent revelations about Israeli support for Hussein against the commandos.

The Spanish daily 'Madrid' at the weekend published a series diplomatic documents which, according to the newspaper, prove that in 1967 there were 'contacts and negotiations between King Hussein and Israel after the end of the six-day war.

The first document is dated October 11, 1967, and is urgent letter to the Jordan ambassador in Washington telling him to make 'immediate contact with Secretary of State Dean Rusk to put pressure on the Israeli government' over its Palestine policy.

There is also a letter from the Jordan Prime Minister to his ambassador in Rome, dated October 10, 1967, ordering him to make contact with the Italian Minister of Information and Culture with view to his putting préssure on the press 'not to publish anything about the secret contacts between King Hussein representatives and the Israeli authorities'.

Taken : in line with recent information. about secret contacts between the two sides these documents make it very doubtful whether Hussein has any intention of honouring his pledge to Egyptian premier Sadat in Cairo this week that he would take steps to strengthen the front against Israel.

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