Bank and CBI clamour for

100 pc up this year BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT STRIKES in Israel over the first nine months of this year have increased more than 100 per cent on 1969.

Official figures just released show that in the period January - September 1970, 80,000 workers were involved in strikes totalling 172,000 working days, compared with same period in 1969, which saw only 30,000 workers on strike for. the loss of 90,000 working days.

These statistics show that despite a non-stop barrage of Zionist propaganda, Jewish workers are beginning to hit back against their exploiters.

They also underline why the Meir Cabinet is anxious to make peace with the Arab leaders.

There are even more pressing problems at home.

ITALY'S three major dockers' unions yesterday called for a week-long boycot of all ships flying the Spanist. ilif to protest against the trial in Burgos of 16 alleged Basque nationalists. Charter of Rights BRITISH-LEYLAND hope to crop the labour force at their Pressed-Steel Fisher factory in Swindon by 10 per cent as part of their drastic manpower reductions for 1971. This cut-back means that 700 of the plant's 6,000 workers may soon face the dole.

The Draft Charter of Basic Rights issued by the All Trades Unions Alliance for its December 19 conference calls on all workers to reject threats of unemployment and fight for the policy of nationalization under workers' control. This can be the only answer to the Tory policy of unemployment and Derek Montaut, who, as a steward at Pressed Steel is in the thick of the fight against redundancies, agrees.

We asked for his comments on the Charter and only be implemented by a socialist government.

The Charter is a really excellent document covering all ine aspecis oI ameramin. tha the traditional rights by workers. I think it is more important today than at any other time to circulate the document in all trade unions because of the consistently anti-working-class policies of the Tory government.

It will lead workers to see that the rights which they consider are their own —rights that they want to extend-cannot be defended unless we rid ourselves of capitalism and construct the socialist society.

It will fall on fertile ground if it is circulated in the Leyland combine.

In Pressed Steel, Swindon, 700 people are being made redundant, buí this is not just a cut-back policy by management because they are using the rédundancy threat to bring in Measured-Day Work and speed-up on the line.

ALL TRADES MEETINGS Discuss the proposed draft of the Charter of Basic Rights stable REU use 996398 Dun. LUTON:

revor Parso GLASGOW: Sunday, December 13, A WARNING that jobs may be hit by government attempts to curb inflation by restricting demand has been issued by the Bank of England.

The Charter makes it clear that redundancy and pressure for productivity are political attacks by the capitalists and that these attacks can only be answered politically by workers.

This is why the demand for workers' control and ORDER YOUR POSTERS TODAY! * TORYIANTI ma MI!!!!!!

nationalization in the Charter is also so important.

In the British-Leyland group especially the only way to ensure that jobs are safeguarded is to demand these things as the economic crisis gets worse and worse.

When we come to the fight against the Tories we must not sit back after December 8. Because no policy of protest and protest alone is going to defeat these Tory attacks that are çentred around the anti-union legislation.

The Tories I feel can only be defeated by an all-out campaign for a General Strike aimed at bringing them down.

The trade union and TUC leaders have shown quite clearly that they not going to fight, despite all their fine words.

In many cases they are in part in favour of the Bill because it will destroy the militant shop-floor move -ment if the Tories can push it through.

Other points in the Charter which are vital are the linking of wages and pensions to prices.

I think pensions must be allowed to rise faster than the cost of living because it is a terrible thing that older workers who have been exploited all their lives havé to live in such poverty and meanness. is that Mhaonly word of criticisme Charter is clear or specific enough about its policy regarding immigrant workers. We should make more of an léadership get off the hook on these matters.

I will certainly be bringing this excellent document up at our next branch meeting and circulating it in Pressed Steel.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE 2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE Saturday December 19 Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth, Birmingham 10.30 a.m.

For delegates or visitors' credentials send 5s to: Alan Wilkins, ATUA Secretary, The Hiron, Styvechale, Coventry In its Quarterly Bulletin, the bank says that the cost of deflationary policies are likely to be high in terms of further bankruptcies, falling output and unemployment.

But there was further confirmation yesterday that the government will not be deflected from its path of austerity and unemployment.

The Tories, with the cooperation of the Stormont government, have launched a tion of the Harland Operathree-month holding Wolff shipyard.

This is undoubtedly aimed at pruning the labour force and introducing a speed-up of work for the men that remain.

Take-over

This policy will be in preparation a take-over one of the big three private concerns who are interested in the yard - Ulster's largest employer.

In England, Girling workers Bromborough latest to feel the impact of Tory policy when 200 of them received redundancy notices yesterday.

Girling's management that the cut backs are due to firm's bad strike record The major factor in the timing of the redundancies is clearly government encouragement to employers who want to get tough with their employees.

The implication of the Bank's warning is that the government should impose an incomes policy and ease off on restrictions on demand which injure commercial and banking interests.

Unlikely

But such talk is unlikely to engender a response from the Heath government which is in fact aiming the long term impose more effective incomes policy than any legislation could provide.

EMPLOYERS must support the Tory government's anti-union Bill, even if critical of certain parts of it, said Confederation of British Industry president John Partridge, speaking in Cardiff yesterday He told CBI Welsh Regional members: "While we are critical of some aspects of their [the Tories'| Industrial Relations Bill, we should stand firmly behind its broad intentions.

'Overmuch power h a s passed to elements of our industrial society that do not have responsibility.

Irresponsible 'The passage of power to irresponsible elements in our industrial community has struck hard at our national economic performance' Partridge's comments indicate that the CBI will be pressing the government to strengthen its anti-union proposals. It will be sending out a letter to its members next week commenting in detail on the Tory Bill. Trieste fascist riots halt Tito visit YUGOSLAV President Tito's visit to Rome and the Vatican, due to start yesterday, was cancelled at the last moment after violent fascist demonstrations in Trieste.

The city, long a subject of dispute between the two states, is divided into two zones.

The smaller, Zone B, with a majority of Slovenes in the population, is administered by Yugoslavia under a 1954 international memorandum.

Under pressure from the provincial government of Slovenia, Tito pressed Italian Foreign Minister Moro to include the subject of Trieste on the agenda of talks during his visit.

The Italian government's POWER TALKS AT TUC Frank Chapple, _ETU secretary (left) and Jack Biggins, G&MWU, enter Congress House yesterday for talks with TUC general secretary Victor Feather on the power work-to-rule.

A TOP-LEVEL Sudanese military delegation, led by Defence Minister Major-General Khalid Hasan Abbas, is in Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders.

Also with the delegation is Mu'awin Ibrahim, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

The Sudanese military regime has recently arrested and imprisoned several leading Sudan Communist Party members, including its Secretary-General, Abdul Khalig Magoub.

In July, the al-Nimeiry regime closed down the Palestinian Liberation radio station operating from Khartoum when it denounced the so-called Rogers peace plan, supported by both Nasser and Moscow.

Even more cynical is the hospitality shown to Queen Farah of Persia, who was entertained last week by a banquet given in her honour at the Kremlin.

refusal to do so, and the strident opposition of the extreme right brought the cancellation of the visit.

A number of fascist organizations its hinterland claiming Trieste and for Italy, brought armed supporters from all over N Italy to demonstrate. on Tuesday. But became clear that their real intention was a massive provocation against the labour movement.

Following speeches by veteran fascists, including parliamentary deputies of the MSI, Italy's largest fascist organization, about a thousand young thugs, most of them armed with clubs Who's Who watch TWA TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES has been forced to meet dozens of creditors in New York in a bid to dispel rumours of imminent collapse.

WEATHER of losses this year. E ENGLAND will be cloudy at ing were not panic-stricken first patches of nri lein claras small investors, but major and patches of hill fog. and England will also dependent for a $200 million cloudy at first with hill fog patches, but will probably be- loan-and therefore survival— retand and and at scotiand next year. N Ireland and S and will dry rather cloudy A roll-call of the concerns be and though with sunny intervals in represented reads like a Wall many places. St 'Who's Who': American NW and N Scotland will, however, be mostly cloudy with some Express, Barclay'S Bank DCO, drizzle. Banco Commercial Italiana, Temperatures will be near nor- the Bank of Hawaii, the Irving mal in central parts, but a little Bankers' below in the SE and rather above Trust Company' Manhattan. in. N Scotland. Trust and Chase Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Mainly dry apart from some rain in the SW later. Frost locally at Worried night. Near normal temperatures in the NW. but rather cold elsewhere. Ranko are artremely unrried or iron piping, set out into the streets while the police made themselves scarce.

They shouted 'Communism will not pass! We'll put it back in the sewer!' 'Partisans are murderers!' and even 'Down with the red Pope who blesses the communists!.

They attacked passers-by 71. and attempted to sack the local offices of the Italian Socialist Party - they tore down and burned the Party flag.

Numbers of them wore German military helmets with 'SS' painted on them. When the police belatedly intervened, they arrested a few dozen young fascists, but almost all were later released.

Israelis lose grip on Gaza ISRAELI occupation forces may have lost control of the Gaza strip-the 40-mile long section of Egypt, heavily populated by poor Arabs, on the Mediterranean coast E of Israel.

The military correspondent of the Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' claims that the people are 'so terrorized' by guerrilla forces who carry out reprisals against those who collaborate with the Israeli authorities, that they cannot be 'protected' by the occupying troops.

Since there are now undisputed reports of the Israeli army blowing up houses and villages of those suspected of 'terrorism', it is clear what this 'protection' involves.

Like the Palestinians in Jordan and Syria the Gaza population is determined to throw off the brutal military rule of the Zionists once and for all.

Wall St triggered by TWA's forecast banks on whom TWA is a1c CALCHIELY WULLICU about TWA's ability to guarantee their loans, which will rise to a staggering $442 million for 1972.

Latest estimates indicate that some of the seven biggest US airlines—-including TWA --must either go to the wall or merge in face of a collective $200 million loss.

TWA's claim that it would edge into the black in 1971 and go on to moderate profits in 1972 and 1973 does not carry much conviction in view of the world-wide tendency of falling profits for airlines, very few of which are now making money. LONDON 'Evening Standard' print workers, who took industrial action against a Jak cartoon which portrayed power electricians as greedy, boneheaded, heartless loudmouths, have provoked the indignation of Lord George-Brown and Christopher Chataway, as well as the paper's National Union of Journalists' chapel.

In a magnificent gesture of class solidarity against the Tory press and television witch-hunt of the power workers, the printers stopped the presses after the paper's first edition and refused to restart them until management agreed to publish a statement from the Federated House Chapel alongside the cartoon.

The statement read:

"The cartoon by Jak which appears on page 14 expresses his own opinion. We wish to make it clear that the opinion is not shared members of the Evening Standard Federated House Chapel, which represents 'The Federated House Chapel most strongly deprecates the cartoon and feels that it goes above and beyond the bounds of humour and fair commert.

'However, to show that we are not boneheaded as portrayed and because we firmly believe in the freedom of the press we have not refused to print, once given this A power cut prevented resumption of production after the management had agreed to publish the statement, but copies were The crisis meeting was Those attending the meetProfits have been slashed by excess capacity as the rate of growth in passenger transport has followed the overall US economy into decline.

TWA last 'nonth began a drastic cutback with the announcement that between 1,500 and 2,000 of its_staff would be sacked before January 1. Tories BY JOHN SPENCER the trade unions within this newspaper. opportunity to express our opinions.' POWER CUT printed later in the afternoon.

The printers' action is a terrific blow to the Tory efforts to build up. a press witch-hunt against the power workers' struggle. It issues a clear warning to the Tory press: thus far and no farther!

lory spokesman Chataway was reduced to muttering dark imprecations about democracy being threatened:

"This is a direct attack on one of the basic freedoms in any democracy-the freedom of the press, he intoned.

Some "democracy', when the entire orchestra of the capitalist mass media is pumping out dirt against the power workers seven days a week !

SLANDERING

What the Tories mean by democracy is their right to go on slandering the working class.

Lord George-Brown says substantially the same in a letter to the "The Times' deploring the printers' terribly dangerous course'. His reason: •Whatever you think you can do to this government other people will do to a better (meaning a • Labour) governHis Lordship dips his cup in the same muddy well as Chataway.

-And the NUJ chapel did the same with their resolution protesting in the strongest fashion' against the printworkers' action and drawing attention to the carious situation, Paper's 'preThe Tory government plans to take away workers' hard-won democratic rights to strike and organize. Its housetrained millionaire press is bending all its efforts to whip up the right anti-strike atmosphere for this attack. Workers have every right to hit back with every possible means against the Tory onslaught.

FRIGHTENED

What frightens the Tories and terrifies the Labourites is the power their workers have to spike their guns.

They are scared because they see the shadow of workers' dictatorship in the printers' action.

CANADIAN Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is to visit Indonesia early next year as the official guest of the Suharto regime, which has killed at least 1,000,000 communists since it came to power in October 1965.

Trudeau, who only recently introduced repressive laws banning the French separatist FLQ movement, will have the opportunity to see an anti-working-class dictatorship at close quarters.

French court backs fascist 'Trade union' BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FRENCH courts have backed the fascist-led 'French Confederation of Labour' (CFT)— the employer-backed 'trade union' which has been at the root of a number of recent provocations in French industry.

A Boulogne - Billancourt court, near Paris, issued order on Wednesday quashing the recent trade union election for shop delegates in the town's giant Renault car plant.

The case had been brought by the CFT on the grounds of 'illicit propaganda'.

Boulogne-Billancourt factory workers were among the leading sections in the May-June 1968 General Strike.

The plant has always been stronghold of France's largest trade union, the CP-led CGT.

Together with the Catholicinfluenced CFDT-which has "militant, adopted a relatively programme - the CGT regularly polls over 90 per cent of workers' votes.

The CFT, despite a good deal of discreet management help, got only • 3.5 per cent. But their legal action was backed by the Social Democratic union 'Force Ouvrière' always led by some of the most réactionary functionaries in the French labour moveRETREAT