SLL Central Committee statement

for Polish DEATH BY SHOOTING in the streets, tear-gas dropped from helicopters, water-cannon turned on demonstrators, and tanks roaring through the town - these have proved unable to intimidate the shipyard workers of Gdansk (Poland).

They remain on strike.

Gdansk, together with the neighbouring towns of Gdynia and Sopot, is completely sealed off from the rest of the country by a cordon of police and troops.

All rail and air communication is banned. Only police and army vehicles rumble in hundreds into the area.

A complete curfew is in force between 6 p.m. and 5 Reports say that workers' action in these Baltic towns has been followed by others in Poznan and in the automobile plant at Zeran, outside Warsaw.

Ruthless

Gomulka and the Stalinist bureaucracy will follow the deaths and hundreds of serious injuries they have already inflicted with the most ruthless repressions.

These bureaucrats are fighting for their privileged Xmas on the dole MORE WORKERS will be spending this Christmas on the dole than in any other year since 1940—the end o: I the great depression.

Nearly 620,000 men and women were out of work on December 7 according to offer their wives and children. government figures released yesterday.

This means meagre celebra- ment reached a 30-year record tions next week for 27 out of of 4.7 per cent during the every 1,000 workers because month and the same percent during Christmas 1970 they age was recorded in Scotlanc where an extra 10,600 workers will have no money and will be chasing a job. have joined the queue at the Working people in the labour exchange since Sepdepressed areas of the country tember. face even more shocking hardship.

In Ulster male unemploycrease in the wholly unemment is now 9 per cent. In other words almost one in ployed between November every ten bread winners will and December was 17,742; only have social security to normally the figure rises by only 7,000. reements chances of getting employment mote.

binding figures was the sharp decrease in the number of vacancies which were 16,787 less than this would include such in November. This means that agreements as the 1968 en- three workers are chasing gineering package deal—-and every offered job.

Registrar of Trade Unions to be given powers to take strikers to court.

Wednesday's meeting of the CBI governing council decided to mount a concerted campaign for these amendments.

It is also demanding the closest and most detailed consultations at all stages' as the government's code of industrial relations practice is drawn up. inconceivable.

Appeal Fund rises to NOW WE have begun to get into our usual stride. Yesterday we received £201 10s Od, leaving £670 2s 2d to complete the total.

Keep it up. Only seven days to go before Xmas. We are sure we can do it.

The fighting socialist policies of the Workers Press are meeting with a great response. More and more trade unionists are speaking out in favour of our Charter of Rights.

It is already becoming a means for rallying hundreds of thousands against this Tory government.

Push the campaign over this vital weekend. Post every Dutschke with his wife Gretchen (left)