Right-wing Faulkner tipped for Ulster PM

Workers Press no. 348, 9 January 1971 · scan page 4

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'In all the arguments about who was responsible for this settlement, one thing is crystal clear. When all else is said and done, the question of whether or not Terry Devey would accept the offer was bound to be of crucial importance in deciding whether the strike committee and the district committee would, in fact, settle on these terms.

This is Mr Devey's inescapable personal responsibility and in our view he can only retrieve his personal standing by sharing the £3,000 with the workers who struck for his réinstatement.' This amounts to saying that it is impossible for the CP, FORMER N Ireland Tory Minister of Development, Brian Faulkner, is being heavily tipped to succeed prime minister Major James ChichesterClark later this year or early in 1972.

His appointment would Dutschke be blessed by Westminster Tories and the Lynch government in the South, not to mention the Roman Bala to shift the responsibility from the CP.

Also to be explained is the sheenasse blacked in CP's full-scale retrèat in pre- all other ports', and that while paration for January 12. its policy, was officially by the Two ed In London and other centres as well as Sheffield, the boasts feel we should continue by Halpin and Liaison Comsupport the men who are bemittee spokesmen about big- ing victimized after the settleger strikes on January 12 have ment of the Pilkington disputé. been followed by the absence of 'any fight by the Stalinists. "They cannot get a job any.

In Glasgow last Thursday, where in the St Helens area.