Apprentices Anti-Tory rally

A mass meeting of all 4,000 Hull dockers this morning the company 23 weeks ago for striking in defence of a fellow-worker.

The Hull "black' was imposed in support of their fight for reinstatement, and glassworkers' Rank-and-File Committee regards yesterday's events as an important step towards a national ban on Haffin wary Fund £134 5s attractive advertising displays, thousands of leaflets and tickets and a programme for the rally which will include plays, music, exhibitions and other attractions.

Make February 14 a huge success. Raise money at work, where you livefrom everyone who wants to fight the Tories. Post your donations 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

welcome 'This is not our view; we consider that planning and organization can be as important: as physical participation in demonstrations and the FULL support for the like.' Alexandra Palace anti-Tory The tribunal does say, howrally on February 14 came Never, that the evidence from yesterday from the Apprenthe security services had not tices' and Junior Workers' persuaded them to believe that Committee at HawkerSiddeley's Kingston upon been an 'appréciable danger' during his stay Dutschke has Thames plant. to national security.

"The committee voted But it continues-and this overwhelmingly to welcome appears to be the main stated the Young Socialists' de- reason for dismissing the cision to launch a massive appeal—'if he were to remain campaign to force the Tory for a further period as a fullgovernment to resign and time post-graduate student he demanded that the Trades would be free from any conUnion Congress call a ditions during that period and General Strike to defeat the YOUNG SOCIALISTS MAKE RALLY For more detalls or a ticket please write to YS national secretary John Simmance, 186a, Clapham High Street, London SW4. Please send me more detalls/a ticket. | enclose cheque/ postal order for E1.

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Catholic hierarchy. we consider that having regard Secret talks on the N to all circumstances of the Ireland government crisis have doubt be a risk in his con- been in progress for some time between the two Irish tinued presence on a longer governments and Westminster. term stay of this kind'. Last month, according to the 'Irish Post', Faulkner held Predictably, the Dutschke decision was welcomed with a secret meeting fixed by the UK representative in Ulster, considerable glee in extreme Ronald Burroughs, Cardinal right-wing circles which inBelfast hotel with terpreted the tribunal's ruling Conway, primate of Ireland. as a reactionary step backed by the government. 2 UNDERSTANDING Speaking for the right-wing The 'Post' also says BurTory Monday Club universities roughs spent Christmas in group Mr Graham Webster- Dublin and 'has been particuGardiner said :

larly active in bringing about a general understanding' be'NO OBLIGATION' tween Stormont, Dublin and Westminster'.

"There are too many sub- The talks with Conway 'can versive elements in the United be seen as a further effort at developing rapport which Kingdom today without addwould both facilitate Mr ing to the problems by im- porting aliens. Let there be no Faulkner and generally conwishy-washy thinking in the tribute to all-round undermatter of national security. standing'.

Plans agreed between the 'There is no moral obliga- three governments are tion on the United Kingdom designed to keep out the to allow anybody freedom of Paisleyite Protestant Unionists entry for an hour... a threat who have made big inroads is a threat. A breach of an into the Tory following in agreement is a breach. Good Ulster. riddance to Dutschke. What The Tories fear Chichesterabout the others.' Clark is too discredited to keep Paisley out.

The decision also supports The other strand of the the sentiments of Peregrine agreement is what the 'Irish Worsthorne who wrote in the Post' describes as 'an all-out right-wing 'Sunday Telegraph' effort at maintaining peace on September 20 last year and a curb on militant concerning the Dutschke case: organizations on both sides of "This government is not, in the border'.

Its heart, liberal • the Last November, the Fiann:

¡ail government in Eire re sooner this is admitted and opened the infamous conunderstood the sooner a centration camp at the genuine debate can begin.

Curragh, outside Dublin, and 'There is much to justify took special powers to intern hard-line policies at the pre- Republican militants. sent time. The government Sweeping special powers are need not be ashamed of already in operation in N espousing them... Ireland, where British troops 'If Mr Maudling means to are the government's main be illiberal let him boast of it.' prop.

REPRESSION LIBERAL Over recent months, examples of collaboration in These firm beliefs in re- repression between Irish and action are in great contrast to British governments have inyesterday's liberal sentiments cluded the case of Frank expressed by Michael Foot Keane, a left-wing Republican MP who has unsuccessfully held in Brixton jail awaiting campaigned for Dutschke to extradition Dublin on stay in Britain. ank-robbery charges.

The plot to install Faulkner He said he was 'shocked at Stormont reveals just how and disappointed' by the recontemptuously the Tories of port. all shades regard the demoI believe in the long-stand- cratic guarantees and 'reforms' ing liberal and hospitable supposedly being introduced traditions of this country and in N Ireland. the insistence that Mr and Despite his formal commitMrs Dutschke must leave ment to the Callaghan reform marks a wretched departure package in Ulster. Faulkner is from that tradition, said Mr generally regarded as being to Foot. the right of Chichester-Clark.

sell-out' CP members on the Trades Council refused to support a call for a lanuary 12 demon. stration. controlling the union district The 'Morning Star' did not committee and with one of its even see fit to print the press own members directly. in statement of its full-time charge of negotiations, to pre- workers Hill and Caborn. vent every Party member in- Does not this indicate that its leading members into on there is in fact serious disagreement within the Party unprincipled sell-out. leadership itself on the whole implications of the 'Devey Devey was the secretary in affair' for the political and Sheffield of the 'left unity committee, ? the local agency trade union work of the of the Liaison Committee for Already discredited by the Defence of Trade Unions.

rapid rightward evolution of The Batchelor's sell-out their pet 'left' union leaders, came between the December 8 Stalinist policies in the trade one-day strike, when Caborn unions have received a sledgeand Devey were the Sheffield platform speakers, and the January 12 strike against the Was Devey's acceptance of the money just a personal epi- today's meeting sode, or a major political event ?!

Ask workers Hull The CP should ask the 100 maintenance strikers and 700 production workers who were • FROM PAGE laid off for seven weeks if they consider it an 'episode'. Workers' official David Shen£3,000 should be shared with The suggestion that the sis night these 800 men and women— sionine the back night about £3 10s each--will be received with anger and bitterness by the Batchelor's wor- voted not to 2 to load kers and by all those who gave support to the strike. WOIK I0 In effect they are asked to take a miserable share in the workers in sell-out, instead of fighting against it.

This is only a way of trying