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Bukovsky for jailed opposition

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 402, 13 March 1971 · scan page 5

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Toy jobs

NEARLY a thousand workers at the Mettoy Toy Company were sacked yesterday and given two weeks pay in lieu of notice.

Nine hundred of the workers sacked were employed at Mettoy's Stanley Road factory in Northampton. The company has announced a and consolidationt to ensure consolidation to ensure profitability.

Resist clain SOVIET writer Vladimir Bukovsky has sent a letter to western psychiatrists asking them to take up the cases of oppositionists imprisoned in Soviet mental institutions.

A prominent opponent of the bureaucracy, Bukovsky himself was declared 'insane' after his arrest in 1963 for possessing a copy of "The New Class' by the Yugoslav writer Milovan Djilas.

He spent the next year and a half in a Leningrad 'mental home'.

Barbaric

In his letter, he refers to other oppositionists who are now undergoing the same

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