W. Germans want Britain in Common Market

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forced by events to change Nothing sing or the sou in a revolutionary took E.E.C. ENTRY MEANS ATTACK ON WAGES BRITISH entry into the European Common Market state 'as soon as In his Paris meeting with French officials, the West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel insisted that the Common Market Council meeting which opened on Monday must agree to the entry of Britain.

Reports of the meeting between Scheel and his French opposite number Maurice Schumann said that agreement had been reached on this vital issue.

Under de Gaulle, French opposition had always proved one of the main obstacles to British entry.

The Brussels Common Market Council meeting will draw up the agenda for next month's 'summit meeting' of the six member states.

That meeting will decide on the Labour government's application to join the Market. New stage With the three main Market countries-West Germany, France and Italy-in favour of British entry, the class struggle in Europe stands on the threshhold of an entirely new stage.

If Wilson's application succeeds, it will mean an immediate and brutal attack on the living and working conditions of the British working class.

Food prices in particular will soar, while in the factories the employers will the attack on wages and working conditions.

They will have to do this to combat the increased penetration of their home markets by the European monopolies when British entry leads to the reduction and abolition of import duties tariff barriers.

Only the most ruthless employers will survive in such a cut-throat trade war.

That means that the monopolies will fight back with all the means at their disposal to check the wages offensive that has now been unleashed in Britain.

Jointly with the workers of all Europe, the British working class must answer the challenge of the capitalist Common Market with socialist policies and the building of revolutionary leadership.

The imminent, entry of ritain into the Market undernes how urgent these tasks re.

BAZAAR landed by its possible'® ** ALCANATED GEEZING UNION LAYDON (NORTH) DISTRICT Czech regime hits at union independence DESPITE months of continuous regime has been unable to break Czech cultural workers' unions.

This fact was admitted on Saturday when the Czech Minister for Culture Jaroslav Bruzek announced that he had abandoned his attempts to win the unions for collaboration with the regime's cultural policy.

Instead, Bruzek said, the government would collaborate directly with individual cul tural workers, by-passing their unions.

Bruzek revealed that talks between his Ministry and unions representing writers. television workers, film and unions are still incapable of correcting their inadmissible views, their incorrect and sometimes even anti-state positions'.

The Husak regime plans to counter this opposition to the Kremlin occupation in the only way it knows-through administrative pressure and The cultural unions, the Minister said, would be curbed by state control of their funds.

Censorship would also be stepped up:

'In the sphere of editing, energetic measures will also be necessary.' The principle under attack here is not only that of censorship but the independence of the trade unions from the state.

This new measure openly proclaims Husak's right to dictate policy to the Czech pressure, the Husa the resistance of tl trade unions through state control of their funds, most of which do not come from the state, but from the contributions of the union membership.

The Stalinist regime's attack on the cultural workers' unions is a test case.

Their resistance has made it much more difficult for Husak to launch an offensive on his main enemy — the powerful and still partially independent industrial workers' unions. LONDON TRANSPORT'S Acton maintenance workers were supported by many other sections of railway workers in their demonstration yesterday.

Banners from Park Royal, Parsons Green Camden Town, Parsons and - as far afield as Swindon dotted the march.

Lift and escalator workers, ticket machine workers, members of the NUVB, ETU and ASLEF, swelled the march to over 1,000.

The 400 AEF craftsmen from the Acton works have been on official strike for eight weeks.

They claim that the LTB nas broken a long-standing agreement on the training of craftsmen.

One worker told the Workers' Press:

The agreement has operated very well since 1958, but then 15 months ago, it was broken without explanation. This called into question the whole position of craftsmen.

'I think this has something to do with the fact that the AEF here are the only ones who've had nothing to do with the agreement, Pay and efficiency Iceberg tip At a mass meeting, Frank Willis brought fraternal greetings to the Acton men from the Swindon • Railway Workshop and told them their dispute was 'only the tip of an iceberg.

'The effect of the pay and efficiency agreement is undermining working conditions everywhere. Having signed this, the NUR is faced with the threat of unemployment amongst its members-I think this is why they have been trying to get their members into the craft grade.

'I don't condemn the NUR membership at all, but the leadership.' A sheet metal worker alleged collusion between the LTB and the NUR in breaking the agreement.

The workers then marched to the BBC's White City studios to protest against a press blackout on their