Workers Press no. 350

MAY

What we think An apology for action

WHAT STANDS

is going through. of TUC money Some £75.000 the wrong organization around and on to titon contence Calepaign othe And campaigns friar be Tory govern- - like And the ces tor the He Bil becomin The the fight this demand. • case aroun EC threat to firemen's strike move headst discuss or strike diane on ernes Union Feral Is were circulating in employera sit men to swith the side the a deemen in tu

HUNDRED 1

Nottinghamob yesterday after- The city council. the cos cit natio su port claim. independent inqurt into thei per-cent pay meeting yesterday s executive Step up Up to last Friday, the execu- to propose expecter action it the employers retused pay orense everal art fighting i all-out strike against action

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

TUESDAY JANUARY 12, 1971 • NUMBER 350

RGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FACTORIES in Britain will be idle again today as striking workers fill the streets of all the main towns and cities to demonstrate against the Tory gov- ernment's attempt to smash trade unionism. This is the second

• BY SIEPHEN JOHNS

mass Six: protest in Major months of Tory rule their arsenal to deploy and the first on Decem- ports ber 8 has not weakened tough Mr antstanot take lieve this, also the re- government s Standing with the TUC and action solve to press ahead 'with the reactionary

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today Industrial Relations Maudling's Bill. "Secret talks' report the main issue behind to elastic strengthens vote day's protest mustnereror strator formula

DOCKERS

yester- of forced out of meeti day voted to join anti - Tory today's dest have regal a sa retice.

strike Man- chester. nere w noment of political tr

WHO PHILLIS

ane nacionwide row over the exposure of the secret union -emplove. this estion talks about abolition of continue wit protests which, no 1947 destroy the Billa dequate scheme continued yes- and Letudy. appeared greatly strengthen Manchester 'That's what the Tories Labour administr THIRTEEN Hull dockers were told yesterday that they will be suspended for five days from January 25 for refusing to load "blacked' Pilkington glass last Friday.

at least be monis on for If their appeal fails the port could stop for the duration.

ine luc nas already given its answer. The following statement has been issued by the sacked join the Handy hints Pilkington glassworkers' rank-and-file committee: aoday. Liverpool on tions campainiara capital.

and bonday some sations General secretary Feather ha valled some 350 also not fight to make the goe wi and preser Behind scenes the privilege: union laws.

COMMENTING

We have been engaged Transport since 195 the biggest retreat the saked and blackie dock labour scheme, • should Chuy his among vador ad Stalinists pave way for more negotiations Devey scandals have against Has publicl

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

• doing thi affair. TUC advice teased ovat Devetio Noris. which received eigh to me per T&GWU member

TREACHERY

workers' This silence can only leca ent betwe Jack Jones is collabor Workers Union. Municipa dispute was pose of their his issue, then it could well mht of the industrial all time so far we have recerved no 1s nOs-

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d (2}p) Guerrillas £1,250 January Fund stands at E178 WE NEED a much bigger under fire everywnere Tory government resign. We Take this enom TEne dangers are will never retreat in the face hold back of the ahead it we from Israel any way.e Go Appeal und Raise January's

1 ORLES

protect determinedly with their 58,000 extra and Jordan the reform- needed for launching trade leaders back down from the Palace. There's not a moment fight. wo loser

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Workers even determined

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Workers Press cereal

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energy turned Fund, 186a Clapham muSt mobilizing trade Street, London, 'SW4. MACHINE - GUN bursts and sporadic shooting echoed through Amman yesterday after clashes be- tween Palestinian guer- rillas and Royal Jordanian troops. Jordan valley, And In the guerrillas came simul- planes and Jordanian artillery.

The Israeli air force attacked the bases at Deir Ala and Sawalha. The command the Resistance Movement Jordanian heavy sallie aled. These co-ordinated allacks TEACHERS at a Middlesex primary school indicate close co-operation struck yesterday in support of their headmistress IsTael against canial covernments who has been suspended for refusing to use a tne guerrillas. nearby church hall as a classroom.

With the re-opening of the Jarring The teachers, who work at Park Lane peace talKs New YOrK , elimination of the guer primary school Brent, say they will stay • rilla movement is high on thé Zionists' agenda as a necessary out on strike until the ban on the head- precondition Mid-East mistress, Mrs Phyllis Clarkson, is lifted Mrs Clarkson suspended by Brent Embarrassment authority rerusing school and teach them more pupils hall separated from the main build The guerrilla a church also rya ament stave ing by a busy main road. states of using the hall, halt wrom cue danger now Israel's 1967 boundaries.

teacners clalin unar tne already grossly overcrowded and lessons have •Pravda described the hing Soviet newspaper on the school stage, in medical to be taken rooms and in general cramped conditions: Mrs Clarksor Casues... Didy. educat hall une to me nanas orme mos 'use church high beer straw vicious enemies on une Araos in a no attempt out made to dis the caron, had no tinguish which was sides. lacuuues for play, art and craft or wall display.

This description • Covers for in moe rea situation the

IGNORED

Middle the Palestinian revolution is being I nough She nad written letters on the over systematically strangled crowded state of the school, these had been Israel with ignored by the authority for months in degrees National Union of Teachers general varyıng . secre. of the other Arab states.

tary Edward Britto that Lile unden vas Though prepared to keep t stand atly r The he saity was autocratic in the ex- the guerrillas were wiped out, Le dave beel mo moves 101 Dyllan intervenuon so lar 7,000 marchers Whittled away Jordan's King Hussein say 'Heath out' already haunched an attack on Palestinian liberation movement in September and, WOLVERHAMPTON trade unionists stole of the with assent the other workers yesterday march rilla leaders their rights have striki Bill day early against striking steadily whittled d aracks suspended for demanding latest a general strike to defeat it.

coming a clear indee talks, is peace An esumated .u staver real meaning of an im away trom work aseauuu Powell makes 'peace strong demonstration marched the world. the Black Country Enrolan another pass town chanting Heath out! Dea, includi fac factories were at the price increases affecting halted, the 1,000. 600,000 SW middle class tyre announced with ycal plant labour f further rises before torce Ine he end of the year wyeroless steel works talled to BIG FIRMS who eport for work in answer passing The Gas Consultative Coun- grants Wolver- he ctrike callot th anything everything and lampton Bilston and District would find their bills increaser sillall users were attacked Trades Counci Enoch Powell last meat waen oy as muen as zu per cent.

Nottingham businessmen. Powell told the local Insti-

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

tute of Marketing branch that there was a 'great British industry firms employing 'obtain big training the expense smaller businesses. This is yet another attempt to Powell to boost his support

UNION

leader claimed yesterday that a visit by Mr employing tactory Several workers had been cancelled because would 'endanger race relations situation here. Workers' Union tobacco district Mr Peter the reatnerstone claimed

VAIT

WAC CANCel An after unlon plea. Mr Powell was to have had lunch with the directors Player and sons. the firm-John among sections of the middle who fear most the powe the big monopolies and the • control the giant nrms nave over their lives.

here is a common thread contact monopoly running through all examples ultra-right-wing Name propagand said he knew of a firm in the printing industry Address

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Lenin, Menshevism and the revolutionary party

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WORKERS PRE

Naxalites of on the march movement THE INDIAN and Ceylonese middle class are be- wildered by the capitalist crisis and are seeking to direct the working class to commit suicide according to an article by Charu Mashumdar, a leader of the Naxalbari movement. The article was published by a Ceylonese political group called reraalca sulanca - The pamphlet nast wing. urged workers their Join the rural peasants in an armed fight. Naxalbari move- THE EIGHT of the Naxalbaris against the Indian capitalist government and the pro-Moscow Communist Party pinpoints the danger to the working class of the Utopian, adventurist and petty-bourgeois policies and methods of such terrorist groups. desa to stalin steaking. defeats We reproduce a criticism of the main ideas of the Naxalbari movement- task tnese the pro-Chinese agrarian movement—in India by a leader of the Revolutionary bourgeois movements is to called radical forcesty to the so.

Communist League of Ceylon, part of the International Section of the Fourth International. political power. which they were brought about.

capitalist class, they show workin cas the pea so try.

liquidate class or not an outcome of is the policy of the chinese Cons, Synthesized + traders reas because of the dehe ats it to be These herom have sonaled snown by ther useless ! strustes Based on the isolated guerrilla occupation of the or ties.

defeat Comintern consciousness amons workers.

he Seconds Conferen vy nat Len betrayals need to take ere toade revolves not her anciese shoi. 31, p. is COllected Works, were star epic acre decisive, the policies accorulls cause it was without arms.

Back turned mas that see Working on workers defeats

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шаерепаел птол use it rese eile in e Evaded set antent it which Mashumdar says: ments within these countries.

move. We should not prevent the in were they an e Mashi duestion his pate er evaded struggles? (Our emphasis.)

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opposite The complete of Mashumdar's policy that was which Lenin outlined and prac- tised in 1898 in preparing the foundation for Bolshevik Party which led the Russian working class to power in 1917.

He based himself on Marxism and fought to lead the working class, which is the revolutionary class modern society, to achieve power. Mashumdar has turned his back on the working class and has replaced a Marxist class analysis of the present situation with petty-bourgeois illusions.

He says: 'Accordingly he [the worker] is inclined to stay in the instead of towns sacrificing everything and going to the rural areas to merge with the peasants to take part in rural revolution- ary struggles. Eliminate The task of their party is to eliminate this inclination and somehow send the workers to villages. Mashumdar puts it for- ward in this way: "There is another thing which we did not do: we did not kindle the pride of the workers.'

Then he explains what will happen when the pride of the workers is kindled. 'If he (the worker) loses his job through pride he would be- come a good party organizer in the town or he would go to the villages join the armed to struggles' !! This perspective to create un- employment among the working class in a situation where the employment, wages and condi- tions of labour of the workers are threatened by capitalism will only succeed in demoralizing and atomizing the working clas.

Mashumdar says that expul- sion from jobs favours revolution because it helps to send workers to the villages. But Lenin stressed the dire necessity to intervene in the day- to-day struggles of the working class fought and vehemently against middle-class theories to send the workers to their villages.

Lenin showed the importance of including the 14 demands of peasantry in the programme * the revolntionary nawtu and to agitate for it. At the time he was Dalulle of merging the working class with the peasantry, which is a petty- bourgeois formation. Episodic All gains of the Naxalbari movement in India during the past are temporary and These will gains be destroyed if the Indian working class does not take power.

The Naxalbari movement in does not fight to establish India the leadership of the working class over the peasantry of India to achieve state power, but contain the working class within the reformist petty - bourgeois needs of the peasantry. This will inevitably lead the Indian working class and peasant movements to defeat and to the perpetuation of capitalism.

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10.45 NEWS ON 2 and weather. 10.50 CRICKET. Australia v England, Fourth Test.

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Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk. A young prospector makes an implacable enemy when he refuses to go into partnership.

SHADOWS OF FEAR.

9.00 "Sugar and Spice'. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines. New suspense series of plays.

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NEWS AT TEN.

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Documentary about an American freshman at Stanford University in California.

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Knocking the old tricks Tuesday January 12, 1971 Hugh Griffith and Gene Wilder (left)

REVIEWED BY HUGH SPENCER

AS THE titles come up on the screen at the beginning of the film they are accompanied by a background of old movie clips showing dashing young heroes of the Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Errol Flynn variety rescuing innocent damsels in dis.

tress, from dastardly villains of the Basil Rathbone ilk.

There are sword fights balconies, on swinging chandeliers, leaping on from trees onto the pass-

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galloping horse, ing in

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fact all those feats of

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extraordinary courage

LEICESTER

that period-drama films

SQUARE

of the 1930s and 1940s were crammed full. of- feats that would cripple the 'ordinary' man or put swift end sex to his life in any one of those heroic leaps. These titles give us our first hint of what we can expect from the film itself.

Orson then When Wallac appears to introduce the extraordinary of events the on the eve 1789 does Wat that is almost certainiv a send. up of Alfred Hitchcock intro.

ducing one of his own films. Precarious Donald Gene what think Wilder Sutherland that thrilling story through on seeins and melo. Hallall dramatic: with UnIs coes supero erect But what the overstepped? funny, and auctaric u many of the the m of his- inevitably dim-witted carpet which he whips away Scarlet Pimpernel children variety. assistants, mix the his Wild that fathers each tne auscharges his pistor into thi seem wond that thic receive one or each pair air. sets. out to what the film to parody all the This first meeting between Rolling ituations arrogant gruff ploited in these old films. sets peasan swearills So tha relationship situation is set *~ll To axecute thic Rud Vorkin ing with the children between these two casses that into Charles Couper (a hac lined in a formidahla noct reneated throughout the of comic actors and comedians whose real film. led Donald Sutherland, of Jacques Cisy, The 'aristo' demands that but fine per verted aristocrat his wife tended first. Claude Identity the peasant threatens him nuner likewice downtrodden whose sympathetic neasant language. course nassant with nine nounde of lead coch character matched by the The flam classic "aristo with brother, takac the theatrical situation of mis- threat cold is dead, taken identity. with falcon, aristocrat and Wite and a raw blade, this An neasant inches flock of sheen) both ten doctor's arrive eloquent mer aristo very pregnant hance with with one nound of lead shot.

Ass to he aynected a citi wives both give birth to evolved who to allow the identical sets But the se ta cunning playing aristocrats tably the doctor. with the aid returns with four foot of clean taken reluctant behind T 900

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companies could sold he to private enterprise when the Tories start hiving-off parts of the of an che 31 han dover for the general nationalizad inductripc later activities ancillary this Con Corpora a net proseven are not showing this year. ins specials turnover of 1230m. So far c Handover vities' coal and other railways chemicals and The could Office Viltastics, fallen IncA Office wire have under onal Data John Davies wire chadow ham. cessing Service, wh 1C eering, concrete pipes and bricks.

mer.1 m 1967 Hiving off The Gas and Electricity Coun rich cils and Boards These it 4 per assets sets of largest jackpot al mintingc tho Ruy for 400m services bel belongs to thranch con. the total employed them net fixed asses of 8116m.

assets tracting. throughout the nationalized sec- Profitable tor. one se Hall Tood could Hiving from Even British Rail has beyond though King Coal Robens demise thing canitalist ancillarie hat nomists from hauo romanal the channing profitable obstacles nanfitpers' husinesses rane of these inductries six key in Shipping is relatively booming Tand Mol here «ho Roitich Steel Corporation workshops are keep- Consanta y without danctir aimact AndinpAriMO ing in the black ciency losses. tain't nex: chonning revolution peasants. It is out of this confusion and contradiction that all the old cinema tricks are turned into extremely funny, high camp gags. A good example of this is when, at the court ball, all the 'conspiritorial aristocrats pass notes to each other ask- ing friends to kill enemies.

Fever pitch This reaches fever pitch, and out of the chaos a note is passed to Jacques de Cisy, who is really Charles Couper, which, when opened says 'Hello, handsome'. The reason behind the com- plexity of the plot and situa- tions is to take all the melo- dramatic clichés that we are familiar with in old films over The Gas Board: Next for the chopping block?

The fact that almost all these activities are profitable gives the lie to the deliberately fostered nationalized industries are inefficient.

On the whole they have a bet- record productivity ter of increases than in the private séctor where, in any case, as Heath is fond of saying, even firms with household names are in trouble. Nor it is likely that the pro- peried sales will stimulate com- Exchange On the contrary if a nation- alized concern sells a subsidiary of simply exchanging masters.

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into the absurd where they can be dealt with and yet at the same time fully enjoyed by the audience. In this, the film is highly successful. But, at the same time, whilst redundant ideas about film- making and film content were getting a severe lampooning, the techniques of high camp, professional 'in' jokes and the form of self parody are them- selves rapidly becoming hack- nied. This was suggested by the choice of title which really had little to do with the film itself, but was there merely to draw box-office. The same, I think, can be said for the whole choice of period. While it is specifically noted Theré is only one reason for the Tory decision to hive off, confirmed by Sir John Eden a week ago. That is to hand over profits to private capitalists. the diversification of the nationalized industries into growth areas such as North Sea Gas they have ceased to be, the white elephants they were when the state took them over. Maximize The alternative to hiving off —selling shares in state com- panies along the lines of BP- would continue to leave all the crucial investment and sales decisions out of the hands of the capitalists who must control the whole process of command if they are to maximize their profits through judicious plan- ning. as being France on the verge of the 1789 revolution, the choice is really quite arbitrary and does not in any way assist or divert from the intention of the director to 'have a go' at the old forms of cinema.

'Knocking' One of the most enjoyable pieces of 'knocking' is the way it deals with the problem that old films have in successfully resolving complicated plots and tying up loose ends. When the film finally returns to modern day, for Orson Welles to give an explanatory epilogue, he starts or sayin most estraordinary the most extraordinary pages of history ...', but is allowed to get further no because somebody off-set shoots him!

A CROYDON GASWORKER

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bY A POLITICAL RePORIER IT IS NOW CLEAR that it was a combination of right-wing reaction 'left-wing' and political irrespon- sibility that helped the Tories to deport Rudi Dutschke. ei ne lorles usea sinister pro- ana un preceaented cesses une so-callea Dutschke tribunal- the Bill metnoas waich c lea 'Sunday Telegraph' to sug- gest unal telepnone laboing

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clause ol the Bill berore it Is to enormous 'has grown a This membed hhe alben its deliberate refusal to face reanty lies before CP is desp centre of the and inse ruc line poli- Wages conid dominated lalson t Commirte. tullig ne feren fici l n TUC embpaign Rudl Dutachke seen Linchpin orce the Toe Bill, is thei t or the undertake. working class. Contempt believe that 'Security Youn Sacid she 'advice without it and ıne Durscake case was d being forced out of office.

great example of this incident we noted hata ehi sch has yer to bay th t wanted verbal radical-

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He is, of course, talking who are demon LIBERATION forces launched an unexpected has the demeninona othe 192 attack vesterday on a Cambodian battalion post crithen the tion 15 miles SW of Phnom Penh and near the official leng shis normally 'secure' section of Highway 4 linking of the 1930s. and degradation the working Kompong Speu to the capital.

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Is this to happen again?

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METINGS

believe ' t hế via Hin. Miners and the pr hee picd ie komib lty postmen's Charter of Basic citd ep-water strike Rights want a deadline 02 neon. Sip tund. s laner: d6.

pected to ker (Olerton Colliery) 'The Guard pom he munt LEADERS of Britain's 230,000 Aa he i aas hey min Come to tween fected the Post Omices palers Alesandra Palace! per cent pay offer. rorce the Union of Post seciye or ers Tories to resign! Saigon. alled "Soldarity», publication to tore more enten verk ers Tay Ninh province. Published reactionaty petisea il pel it.

F.™. AEU House, 33 Dunsabi®

WORSE OFF

Tribunay to ihst arYe st, Nw, P.m: WHoneedAlber

/EST LONDON

BA ENHA. Th dren Sao. Keighley again worse fo than sackings double just under 30 per cene ia 40 pet coml SWP.ND Niford Hotel, Drove Ra: jobless 15 add 20 per eses. ot much of the fer. R his wek Vill nerly ge reserves tropign yesterda nounced e rate of sh ire eoplly A. ateios Hali. Fechei eao withdravtadying 39.,00 tores I emp edund nere settfect

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patary ani ent an lan Bill is dested d miratio tus hai G&MWU inform sheuggle on dar behair. Direct result serended o ita strate a Many ert eres Ke th bis. and one Wi hav had storming sop any suppor they ni prevent The been onstrators warned ! " Coba on the coast mant. are ore es Anti-union laws relaioss dobert Ram sec SaT o Te Tete SEMS to appeali, tor you sus Published by w Siv Hie Stred io capnan e se, indon, against the anti-union laws.

Tuesday January 12, 1971 Arrest powers in search for envoy

URUGUAYAN

authori- ties have given sweeping new powers of search and arrest to police and troops WORKERS in Gdansk, the Polish town at the hunting for kidnapped Geoffrey ambassador Mr centre of last month's mass strikes against the Jackson. Gomulka regime's huge price rises, are con- Government and parliamen tinuing to press their demands, despite repres- sources Sale a „ten-mar sion from the new right-wing Stalinist regime.

commission. which congress Last week, many of the summer President's

BY JOHN SPENCER

shipyards struck demand- request the of 200 ing release Ihe measure would suspend the workers and directors imprisoned workers for some enterprises: a key of the well. • don't arucie consutu know to what extent it's true, yu as an empower their part in the strikes, upposed Donce Ta10 Drivate houses and their intransigent posi- arrested an c hold zloty work to l without bringing compared the few has forced gov- coCongress agreed to a similar alOE tte groszy

UL LIS

ernment open talks That's a discrepancy in our ten one day alert on August with them on and system ang in wares it's one my workmates. conditions. Nothing used to be said about maros organizaton was these things. accusec maureenne Attempts were always made police adviser be vruguayan to smooth radio at the it over.' cause the government turned weekend From the the prommence down then demands for all political worKers Teeings against the plant spoke so- release prisoners. Stalinist bureaucracy. called self-govern- shipyard fitter, chairman ment conterences

MESSAGE

of his Socialist These. he said. have ofter …youth union branch, drew particular atten- been held in atmosphere the position Soon after the latest move tion which 01C not the youth: Just release of initiative l messace trom the lunamaros often they only National Liberation Movement care and attention "More stamped the indices sent British amanation bassador to Uruguay had beer earnings noved to 'the management people the guer was very problem of the also slated: and are the least rillas fac- an earlier offer another tory, kidnanded every 100 ex being decided in Warsaw, freauentlv prisoner reTurT

TOT

The

MACHINES

publication news- by omcials with less than the socal highest qualifications papers of a Tupamaro political from turner same should be These practices toc manitesto shivard-the Lenin Works one of All but the news spoke or outdated machinery papers have refused vorker gave a clea making in the worrchonc tion since it would contravene hat the new regime impossible to achieve the pro- laws. from 1959, the machine rom regarded with Although the Tupamaros suspicion by the mous have yet trial workers. presented "The ransom demands for Mr Tack. recent top-level wartime. govern- machines simply changes in the leaderchin sUll ruguayar are ment has stressed it will not and government OUr Party not fit for production. have been widely discussed. policy chance Its declared one knows It, but this is not the guer- do the arose ime not negotiating with being annied here. doubts rillas in any way. Machines supplied from the Soviet some people (1). Union suit- uncertainty what able for heavy work. cause worked, plastics, he said. EC threat

INHERITANCE

precision engineering These WOrKS olwa interviews in cicate that the Gierek-Moczar regime near Gdansk were even more a mia to firemen's replaced outsooken. which has 'We have it every day, one has inherited 'the treatment problems and Sa10. strike move relations be ten Stainist bureaucracy. men and management distributior of bonuses

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the wrong size of bonuses for political revolton Poland announced arrival regard Tory the governmeni With mass strikes their interventol against ITALY'S biggest trade union Gdansk and szczecin calm It is clear from these inter.

confederation has called on all A meeting took place • be. views that December 1970 was tween

FBU

leaders non-teaching staff of Rome only the first round of struggle Home Office last Friday night for the Polish working class. university to begin a four-day the tome Ottice made strike today for more pay and •yesterday that sterling stale. better working conditions.

Charan ment issued auer. wards official No statement available from the FRIl when yesterday wen1 nress outcome of its about the executive meeting fire stations vhat one FBU delegat *an attempt the firemen that counci workers'

VICTORY

won't happen again'. A JAPANESE cancer expert warned yesterday TRIUMPH Motors in Coven- ore-day token sterda 9300 that bans on cigarette advertising on television was strike and in publications are insufficient to stamp out engine assembly et e claim stuck in smoking. negotiating pipeline. )r lakeshi Hirayama of th Centre Epi demic Department, Cancer demic dea predit in that the annual

PUBLIC

LECTURE

in the Japan from lung 20000 louble six less stricter The importance of Marxism measures vere today cigarette smoking. said his esti- Hirayama Monday January 18, 8 p.m.

mates Dast hac peen accurate would it aim Lung cancer Co-op Hall, Whitney Chambers, 1977 Fanshawe Avenue, 30 million Japanese estimated continued 20 cigarettes a day, he Speaker: G. Healy (national secretary of the Socialist Labour said. His research showed more League) chace were cent of male lung Tad died o higher rate than non-smokers.

Cancel at a su Elements of Hazard Hollowing the recent Chardu hitting report ori the dangers Marxism by the British the British College comments phasize hazards once are particularly revealing as it Lecture by Cliff Slaughter Tories is certam ladl not tar banning (SLL Central Committee member) tobacco advertisements in the nress.

RISTOL

nuary 14, 9.30. Hall, Old Market. Thursda giants particularly would deprive

SWINDON

is necess with must coupled ion of the other RCP recom mendations.

PUBLIC MEETING

Clinics Make the Tories resign! -AWAUAr social services leave no roon for such RCP's suggestion of clinics to Friday January 15, 8 p.m.

help send with £1,200 million

OXFORD HOTEL

revenue

DROVE ROAD

government make great Adm. Is and furv. signitying noting