As housewives march against price rises Gomulka shoots demonstrators

SINGING the 'Internationale', the anthem of revolutionary communism, thousands of Polish that now promises to engulf the whole country. Wilson attacks Trotskyists in anti-union law debate AFTER Tuesday's debate on Relations Bill it is abundantly amount of parliamentary protest slightest difference to the Tory to shackle the unions. Noisy protests from the Labour benches did not dent the Tory majority, which at 44 was swelled by abstentions of former Labour ministers Gunter and Mayhew.

Liberal MPs and the archTories Enoch Powell and Rev lan Paisley voted with the government.

This is the parliamentary farce to which the Trades Union Congress leaders want to hogtie Britain's ten million trade unionists and their families.

Majority

So long as the Tories remain in office they can and will roll their Juggernaut majority over the historic rights of the working class.

The Labour and trade union leaders are on their bellies before a system which places the votes of the right wing higher than the gains for which past generations of workers paid with their liberty and often with their lives.

What Lenin scathingly called parliamentary cretinism here reaches its most malignant and dangerous form.

Parliament is part of the system capitalist 'democracy' in which the working class has the right to vote every so often to decide which set of big-business representatives are to sit on their backs for the next five It should not be forgotten that Hitler came to power in Germany not through a coup d'etat, but through the due process of this same parliamentary democracy.

Road

Weimar democracy opened the way for Hitler. Labour's general staff is travelling inexorably down the same road.

Wilson takes the opportunity of the second reading debate not to attack the Tories, but to strike a blow against the Trotskyists and the victimized Pilkington workers, with his remark that:

"The Pilkington strike was costly... but the Bill could not have been invoked to deal with it. Under the 20 per cent scheme for agency shops the militants would have had it easy and would overrule moderate union leadership... In the case of Pilkingtons and many others, the Bill might even be called a "Trots' charter"!

This statement casts light on the worthless promise delivered by 'left' MP Eric Heffer from the Labour front bench, that the Bill will be repealed by the next Labour government.

The TUC leaders share every Egan on Monday when students and dockers joined together in a sit-down demonstration outside the Swedish Consulate in Gdansk.

housewives marched through the city against the Gomulka regime's weekend decision to increase food and fuel prices by as much. as 30 per ceat. bouring towns Gydnia and the Industrial Sopot by the afternoon. clear that no fighting between workers and will make the militiamen then began. determination -dansk Kadic Due to the continued aggre ve onslaught 6 p.m. i win red at A curren strikers to resume work next morning. the German motor vesse workers cast on Tea and in 'Gerd Hovald' striking dead. All ships in port were Harod wilson ordered to leave, he said co-operative buildog ated the ounce of the Labourites' devotion to the parliamentary Rames alonesit military and game.

Do they seriously consider they can fight the Tories with a pile of petition forms?

Their proposal that workers protest in their tea-breaks on Jartuary 12 is obviously drawn up by the same Congress House wiseacre.

These leaders must be forced to fight the Tories. dockers, There is no other way to swing into action the ten mil- supper and student lion trade unionists who alone can defeat this Bill and force the Tories to resign.

January 12 must be made the start of a general strike against the anti-union laws Gomulka used the prenna In March 1968, and their Tory authors.

That is the only way in weapon anti-Semitism which the working class can plit off demonstrating student sweep out the foul mock- rom the workers medieval corridors of the tions The no Spurn hire ene Palace of Westminster and assert its rights against the class Tory dictatorship threat.

and trade reads on ae WAGES in the Common Market countries will increase fascists. by a 14 per cent average this year, says an EEC Executive Commission report issued yesterday.

Prices also went up sharply --18 per cent in Italy, 15 per cent in W Germany and be- work with nothing gained. tween 11 and 124 per cent in the remaining four. months Productivity increases, on favours the other hand, have slackened off over the last year. Behan 'shot at' claim MR Brian Behan, whose letter to "The Times' on Monday partist dictatorship of the late General praised the Bona de Gaulle, complai ned yesterday that he had been shot at on the day after the publication of his letter. "The police' he said, 'are working very hard to try and sort it all out.? The movement beThei were brutally dispersed by police using water Then on Tuesday morning, Strikes spread to the neigh.

Several reports that militiamen are injured and It blamed the clashes on No disruption open fire TUC LEADERS yesterday maintained their stand against Curfew workers 'disrupting' industry by holding work-time meetings on January 12.

January 12 is the TUC's Day of Protest against the the General and Municipal Worl Tory anti-union Bill. A proposal at yesterday's meeting Captain Wilhelm Raetz of from transport union chief by the company.

Jack Jones for meetings to be held in working timeinstead of during lunch-breaks the plight of the men who are or after working hours-was blacklisted by Merseyside em*The harbour is completely defeated on the Council. ployers, the glassmen claim.

The meeting produced the remarkable formula that meet- Pilkington • rank-and-file comings could be extended into mittee - the organization of main railway station were in working hours where the the sacked employees-saying employers agreed! it would help them in any way it could if they would Jones' alternative proposal forget about their break-away The movement now break for a national rally at Trafalgar activities and rejoin the munig out not Square on February 21 was cipal workers' union in a accepted. spirit of 'rapprochement'.

The general council also Stalinist press will doubtagreed to hold a special TUC Casson, legal adviser to the next few daysi assuring us in the congress-on March 18, in rank-and-file committee, apmore than three month's time! Liverpool regional secretary of the union, to ask him to negothe men he was told that French workers dundancy' at the plants. Split join trial Press that he then rang the protest Pilkington's legal department at St Helens and they told MILLIONS of workers all him they were quite willing to over France stopped work consider re -employing the for five minutes yesterday in sacked workers if the union a protest against the trial negotiated the matter. of 16 Basque nationalists at Burgos, Spain.

In Marseilles, dockers refused to load a Spanish freighter as part of a ban Assemble: 2,30 pm. 41 alga Square., March worthemSpanishi LE bassy.

The demonstration is being organ lized by the "Ad Hoc' committer of basques, Catalans, Galicians, and Helens glass plants.

Spaniards, 125 Shepherds Bush Rd,' W6.

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TO HIS BIDDING Railmen have lodged a 25 LEADERS of the 250 Pilkington workers who were sacked in St Helens in At igust say that ‹ers' Union is obstructing their chances of bein Eg re-employed The union is also ignoring The TUC has written to the to be taken back and lose all pension and other rights.

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reactionary Lynch government in Ireland, with Polish cement arriving just in time to weaken the strike of cement workers.

Gomulka's treaty with W Germany continues this strategy of collaborating with imperialism while cracking down on all working class and student opposition at home.

This is the real meaning of 'European Security'.

Now the full force of this counter - revolutionary regime is directed and Sopot.

The power and scope of the movement reflected in frantic radio threats against the strikers:

'For all this. sort of barbarism, power and strong, efficient blows are needed.' While tanks patrolled the streets of Gdansk, militia men were sent into the Cegielski Marine Diesel works in the industrial centre of Poznan, more than 100 miles to the SW.

There had been reports of protests against the price increases there also.

Poznan was the scene of strikes and bloody fighting in the 1956 movement against the ultra - Stalinist regime which made way for Gomulka in the so - called 'Polish October'.

Now its workers are on the move again-only this time against the leader who betrayed all their aspirations.

Six people were killed and many injured in two days of serious street clashes, the official Polish news agency PAP reported yesterday.

WEST INDIES university students occupied the administration building in Port of Spain Trinidad protesting against Black • Power leader Carl Blackwood being stopped from entering the country after attempting to attend a conference in St Lucia. He was banned from there and from Antigua.

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