GOD AND STALINISM

LM state relations in Poland have always been an excellent barometer of the faction fights inside the Communist Party leadership.

The rise to power of the Gierek-Moczar bloc following the Baltic strikes has been accompanied by a series of aggressive statements by Catholic leaders, not only in the hierarchy, but from the lay organization 'Pax'.

The leaders of this group, unashamed reactionaries and • antiSémites that they are, never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's rule.

Echoing

Now their day has come-or so they think.

'Pax's' • daily paper Slowo Powszechne' is already slavishly echoing Gierek's appeals for harder work and more sacrifices. It even mimics his own tortuous style of delivery:

"The ability to materialize these plans of dynamic development of our industry will naturally be connected with certain tensions •.. characteristics of development of industry and division of our national profit will reflect Tory-inspired mergers mean fewer jobs Profit and productivity onslaught against BRS BRITISH Road Services workers face rationalization and speed-up. When road transport was nationalized many thought the purpose was to improve working But now, says Ken Tobin, the only aim is to make profit.

A list has been made of all depots which are losing money, and if certain of them are not areas ers' Union officials have agreed to this procedure.

are to ey on the der in.

Heads of the nationalized road transport industry are clearly under pressure from the Tory government to re-organize for more profitable self-supporting units through mergers and redundancies.

Lost jobs

Iosing their yets. ana ng all over the country. things happen- This which Tobin points claims vity Agree sarily the normal wis not speed *nor this, on a demareover, BRS should depots on orays. I red and 30 mil i Kily Topossible on some prac noossible on Impossible nor bad; the says But i is are on area Scotland, it is impossible. When is pointed out san on dad rings and ose on Lorry drivers are frequently orking up to 60 hours a week haen is the saximum possibl under egislation According Accordi never below so hours:

A man can do six nights i reek at 340 miles a night. Thi polity at Rothwell is that a shorter mileage runs. ously on long runs Is especiAll a man gets off is Satu av nights-the rest is work an sleepight runs, even on relativels easy runs, has a bad effect or men and causes nervous strain themselves in the tensions created among the consumers, for the vast sum of money must be spent on investments and cost of production ..?

Less

In other-and far fewer words, less to eat and less to wear!

'Pax' is right to predict future tensions arising from the continued depression of Polish living standards.

How does it see the church's role in overcoming them ?

Here again, we see an identity of phrase as well as predicament with the secular bureaucrats.

After last month's strikes and As oll tanker drivers in London and the Home Counties fought out their parity claim this week, another driver explained other problems facing the man behind the wheel. KEN TOBIN, T&GWU steward at the Rothwell, Yorks, British Road Services Road haulage workers also ace a threat of increased proluctivity through the introduction of heavier vehicles.

Weight limit

At present the legal limit is 2 tons gross and the haulage mployers' lobby recently failed to get a Bill through parliament Second advance in life-science' research TWO HUMAN eggs, fertilized in a laboratory, have been developed to the. stage where they would normally be implanted into the mother's womb to develop the foetuses. in the latest issue of the weekly science journal 'Nature', today, is the latest step in the • our 'test-tube baby' project which hit the headlines last February.

COLLABORATION This new development is the frun of scientific collaboration between Oldham gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Dr R. G. Edwards and Miss J. M. Purdy of the Cambridge University Physiological Laboratory.

This method of fertilization is aimed particularly at helping childless women to become pregnant.

The basis of the method is to remove an egg from an ovary, fertilize it outside the body with the husband's sperm and replace it in the womb.

TWO ADVANCES If the method proves viable, it will help to treat the form infertility in which the Fallopian tubes are blocked. This is the demonstrations, the new leadership discovered that the regime has lost contact with the masses, and that there was a need for a 'dialogue' with the working class and especially the youth, who had spearheaded the revolts along the Baltic coast.

Now we find that the December upheavals also loosened the grip of the church on the more backward masses.

Assistance

For 'Pax' daily of last commented:

"The Roman Catholic Church of Poland has its duties also. It has in the past provided great depot, talked to Jack Gale.

increasing this maximum to 48 tons gross.

There is no doubt they will try again.

Ford's have a prototype of a yed ve fles are being produced which are capable of towing up One Swedish firm is import- ing vehicles capable of hauling 72 commonest single cause of infertility in women.

Over the last two years, steptoe and Edwards have made two important advancés.

Firstly, the clinical technique of removing the egg cells from the ovary by manipulations made through three small slits in the abdomen wall and, secondly, the fertilization of human eggs cutside the body.

Now, fertilized eggs have been grown to what is known as the fully developed blastocyst stage.

However, 'Nature' does not report the studies which are necessary to ensure that the blastocyst has the chance of growing into a normal baby.

As far as is known, there are still considerable problems to solve.

The womb has to be made receptive and how this is done during the normal process of fertilization remains a mystery.

In animal experiments artificially fertilized eggs have been implanted into females who assistance to the building of our fatherland and especially now at a time of great tensions and economic difficulties will do its utmost to narrow the gap between the working masses and Christianity and • at the same time provide foundations for more peaceful life for the Polish citizens' Special Pax the special contribution of to the stability of the Gierek regime is, ironic as it may seem, to lead the estranged masses back into the bosom of the Catholic Church.

God-and Stalinism-works in mysterious ways.

drivers tons gross into Britain!

Already it has been made legal to run wagons and trailers without mates.

So m e continental-based vehicles delivering in this this country are fitted with sleep.. accommodation for the driver SO that he stays with the vehicle 24 hours a day.

Some British drivers are claiming that these vehicles appear !! have no restrictions on driving There is no doubt that BKS workers must join with othcr workers in an all-out font against the Tories' anti-working class, speed-up and de-nationalization policies. have been made receptive.!: the normal process of fertiliza CRITICISM The Steptoe-Edwards project came under a barrage of criticism last February following a BBC-2 TV programme on the subject.

The project was surrounded by the same wild speculation and anguished cries of horror that has accompanied a number of other important advances in the 'life sciences' over the last two years—particularly those in 'genetic engineering'.

Steptoe and Edwards are, of course, not creating 'test tube life' by mixing together 'dead" chemicals.

They are "simply' refining medical techniques to the point where thousands of otherwise infertile women may be able to bear their own children.

DISEASES The possibility of modifying the fertilized eggs-once outside the body-to eradicate crippling hereditary diseases, such as the long run, but such develop- mongolism, is not ruled out in ments are not likely before the next decade.