U.S. seeking scapegoat for Vietnam massacre

We still need MICHAEL, BANDA officer in charge of the company, William Calley, ordered the men to round up and kill every living person.

When the men refused to comply with this order, Calley repeated: 'I want them dead'.

Calley then started shooting into a huddle of Vietnamese women, children and babies.

After hesitating, Meadlo then joined him in the slaughter.

Altogether, said Meadlo, about 370 were killed in the village.

EYE-WITNESS

The North Vietnamese News Agency gave details yesterday of an account by one of the nine survivors at My Lat.:"The few of us survived the massacre because we were protected by the corpses above us', said one man of 60 years. "The Americans attacked one house after another, using guns, tear gas and dynamite.' Another participant in the massacre, ex - serviceman Charles Gruver, admitted that they had orders to wipe out the entire village; men, women, children and babies.

According to Gruver, one soldier shot himself in the GREET at public meetings the film of the first issue being prepared and printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' NEWCASTLE Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

County Hotel, Neville Street LEEDS Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m.

The 'Old Bar' Student's Union, Leeds University SLAUGHTER (Central Committee member, CANTERBURY said Gruver, "but this was Gruver also threw some light on the charges against Calley, the First Lieutenant who supervised the slaughter:

'He was just one of three platoon leaders who had orders from higher up' If Gruver's claim is true, then the trial of Calley is a deliberate attempt to pin the Pinkville massacre on a scapegoat who, however depraved, shares his guilt with the army leaders and those who began and stepped up this brutal imperialist war.

We want no scapegoats or whitewashing.

That is the game of the 'anti-war' Democrats and Republicans in the USA as Calley: Gave the order for massacre well the 'left' in British labour movement who use the imperialist outbursts of Brown to take the pressure off Wilson and company.

SOLIDARITY

The fight to secure the removal of all US troops from Vietnam must be based on the working-class movement in both Britain and the United States.

Against the imperialist solidarity of Brown, Stewart, Wilson and Nixon we must develop the international solidarity of the US and British workers with their class brothers in North and South Vietnam.

That must mean an all-out fight now to bring thousands of workers out on Sunday January 1l to demonstrate their total opposition to Nixon's war, and Wilson's craven support for it.

Every delay in the struggle now makes more My Lais certain in the future.

WEATHER Outlook for Thursday and Friday: Cold in most areas with occasional rain or sleet, followed by wintry showers. S.E. England, Channel Islands: Sunny intervals. Snow or hail showers, heavy locally near coasts. Wind north to northwest, fresh or strong, locally gale at first near coasts. Very cold. Maximum 4C (39F). London, Central Southern and Central Northern England, East Midlands: Sunny periods. Scattered snow showers. Wind north to north-east, moderate THE STANDARD-TRIUMPH COURT REPORTS: Local and national union officials — as well as workers-are sharply attacked in the court of inquiry report into Merseyside's recent Standard-Triumph dispute, published yesterday.

'Our impression is not one of speedy determined efiorts to secure a return to work, says the report. It also attacks the plant's majority union - the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers-for refusing to give evidence to the inquiry.

The 1,150 workers who took action for lay-off pay and higher bonus earnings are attacked for taking 'precipitate strike action'.

drilling rig, constellation, capsized and sank in the North Sea yesterday after being pounded by 40-knot winds.

The rig was under tow for Rotterdam at the time.

The 19 men on board were transferred to another rig by helicopter shortly before the Constellation sank 90 miles off Great Yarmouth.

TUC POST: The TUC general council is expected to confirm the appointment of its next assistant general secretary at a meeting today.

Lionel Murray, TUC economic department chief for the last 15 years, has been recommended by the finance and general purposes committee.

The post is regarded as a stepping stone to the general secretaryship.

STUDENTS' SIT-IN: More than 50 law students have ended their sit-in yesterday at the Council of Legal Education, Gray's Inn Place, London, in protest against education conditions.

They were complaining of overcrowding at lectures and a lack of representation • on the Senate of the Inns of Court.

They have rejected a Senate proposal for a joint standing committee with equal representation from the Senate, the Council of Legal Education and the students.

WHITEHALL TALKS: Rumanian prime minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer talked with top British government officials yesterday, the second day of his official visit at the invitation of the Wilson governOn Monday he attended a dinner with Wilson Labour Foreign Minister Stewart.

Maurer's visit reflects the closer ties that the Rumanian bureaucracy is seeking with the capitalist world, especially since Nixon's trip to Bucharest last summer.

SOVIET SATELLITES: Tass News Agency announced two new Soviet earth satellites.

The launching of the 311th and 312th Sputniks it •conCosmos series were to tinue space research'.

Tass did not say whether the two flights were linked, but reports indicate two widely separated orbits.

TANKER ADRIFT: The 17,300-ton Liberian tanker, Pacocean, broke in two in rough seas off Formosa yesterday.

45 crew members were reported to be adrift in the aft section.

Ships and US Air Force rescue planes were standing by to take off the crew, but were hampered by stormy weather.