ITALY Class mounts

TENSION continues to mount in Italy after Wednesday's general strike of 20 million SCENE at the Albert Hall, London, yesterday—full to the brim with striking London teachers. at four public meetings the film of the first issue being prepared printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' Meetings were held yesterday in factories and offices throughout Italy to protest against the brutality of Milan police (see photograph page four).

Eye - witness accounts confirm that fighting was provoked by the police, who drove their vehicles into a rally of strikers.

When the workers fought back, the police used tear gas bombs as well as truncheons.

RELEASE 19

Angry workers also demanded the release of the 19 demonstrators still held by the Police after the clashes in The general strike, called in support of cheaper and more plentiful housing for workers and peasants, was Italy's fourth since the end of the • It was certainly the largest and most rowerful, embracing not only the entire industrial working class, but decisive sections of the middle class and professional workers.

The strike also received big support from university students, who in many northern towns have been attacked by fascist gangs for backing the workers' fight for higher wages and better living conditions.

The scale of the Italian strike wave is unparalleled GREET MOON: The lunar space craft, Intrepid, successfully blasted off from the moon yesterday to rejoin the orbiting Apollo 12 mother ship.

Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean had earlier completed their second 34hour walk on the moon.

They set up scientific experiments and retrieved parts of the unmanned Surveyor moon probe.

JOBLESS: The total number unemployed on November 10 was 571,771, making 2.5 per cent of the total labour force.

Although this was 562 fewer than in October, the figures are distorted by the return to work this month of several thousand car workers who were included in October's total.

The number of wholly unemployed on November 10 was 548,227, an increase over October of 13,387.

DRUGS: A government report, released yesterday, warns that human health has already been harmed by the insertion of antibiotics into animal feeding stuffs.

Used by farmers to promote quick growth in young animals, they encourage the development bacteria resistant to the drugs.

Hospital patients' lives have been endangered because life-saving drugs have been made ineffective against the resistant bacteria.

VC 10: A Nigeria Airways VC-10 airliner crashed yesterday when approaching Lagos airport after a scheduled flight from London.

First unofficial reports said that the wreckage had been found to contain no survivors from the 85 passengers on The aircraft was the first VC-10 to crash since : the four-engined jets went into service five years ago.

DEBTS: British Debt Services, a collection company, has complained about the 'era of cloth-cap banking' brought about because more and more lower-paid workers are receiving monthly salaries transferred directly into bank accounts.

Standing orders, the company says, are no longer the guarantee of credit-worthiness they used to be.

ROHAN TRIAL: The trial of the Australian, Denis Rohan, accused of firing Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque, was adjourned again yesterday.

When it resumes on Monday, defence counsel will deliver his final plea that Do insanity and ultre bre not liable to imprisonment.

TYPHOID OUTBREAK: There are now five typhoid cases-including a laboratory worker who was accidently infected in a London clinic a Health Department spokesman has announced.

Three passengers, who arrived in a ship from Australia on October 22, have already been confirmed as suffering from the disease.

Docks both in its breadth and duration.

Even at its peak, the French occupation movement of May 1968 involved only half the number of workers on strike in Italy.

The British ruling class, already pressed by large-scale strikes ranging from dustmen and miners to tube guards and teachers, fears the impact that Italy's strike wave will have on the rising militancy of the British working class the This explains why recent strikes in Italy have been played down by nearly all the newspapers.

IN FRANCE too, police clashed with power workers occupying the plants during a 24-hour strike in Paris.

The strike wave is not and cannot be confined to a single country.

The Italian workers are blazing the revolutionary trail for the whole of Europe.

S.A.LT. Talks resume Monday AFTER completing their second session yesterday the Helsinki arms limitation talks (SALT) between the USA and the Soviet Union are due to resume on Monday.

Neither side as yet made any comment on the progress of the talks, which are intended to prepare the way for a full scale conference on the limitation of strategic nuclear