C.P. SUPPORTS - TO NIXON
By Peter Read
1969Peter ReadUnited States Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
November
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Monthly Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4. Unborn babiesdeformed by chemical still in use AS MORE and more US soldiers were coming'| forward to give their accounts of the 'Pinkville' massacre, it was revealed at the weekend that detoliant cheticals used by the US Air Force f.Vietnam are causing the birth of thousands of deformed babies.
To one should have an! llusions about Nixon's de termination to continue with his policy of genocide against the Vietnamese om Nikon* aware ove South Vietn newspapers have abies throughout the countryside.
A prominent biologist, Pro fessor E. W. Pfeiffer, mad recat then statistics Unpublished blished, which o overment Nation The '2,4,5-T"
Who are much more sensitive WEATHER Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Sunny intervals and showers, chiefly in the north, where they will turn to sleet or snow. Becoming colder from the north.
London area, SE England, East Anglia, Central Southern England, E Midlands: Dry with bright intervals. Wind W light or moderate. Near normal. Maximum 8C (46F). SW England: Dry with bright intervals becoming cloudy later. Wind W moderate becoming fresh. Near normal. Maximum 10C (50F).
Channel Islands, Central Northern England: Dry with bright intervals. Wind W light or moderate. Near normal. Maximum 7C (45F).
NW England, Edinburgh: Rather cloudy with rain spreading from W during afternoon and evening. Wind moderate or fresh, SW. Near normal. Maximum 8C (46F). Glasgow area, NIreland: Cloudy with some rain but snow on mountains, becoming brighter and drier later. Winds SW fresh, becoming W fresh or strong. Near normal. Maximum 9C (48F). THE FIGHT to stop Wilson's visit to Washington is on. And predictably, the first to speak out in favour of the visit to Nixon was John Gollan, British Communist Party secretary. to drugs than laboratory animals..
The US government is quite consciously using weapons which it knows will result in thousands upon thousands of babies being born deformed in the same terrible way as the thalidomide babies.
The growing awareness that he US imperialists will use every means to destroy the Vietnamese people is one of the main forces behind the mounting opposition to the There is no question of a at public meetings the film of the first issue being prepared and printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' CLIFF member, Yesterday's 'Morning Star' carried this report of Gollan's speech to a Communist Party public meeting in Leeds on Sunday:
'Pinkville has shown that Vietnamese accusations that the US is practising genocide in Vietnam are true. Mr Gollan said in Leeds yesterday. •"This horror can't be shrugged off by sacrificing Lieut. • Calley or Capt. Medina as the fall guys", commented the Communist Party's general secretary. "The real criminal is Nixon as commander-in-chief" ..?
Having condemned Nixon as 'the real criminal', what as the with the Vietnan Wilson refuse to meet this exponent of genocide? On the contrary.
Gollan says that he should go to Washington :
Which elso go to when Wilso Washington ? [our emphasis]. That George Top the weeping and get c Hat of the labour and s, o ith the war, and Stewai GREET LEEDS Wednesday, December 3, 8 p.m. The 'Old Bar' Students' Union, Leeds University Speakers : CANTERBURY NAILN GRANK FORIVOURiH CHILD'S SAKE MINE. THEH -AÇACHER!
ABETTERI Striking women teachers seen before entering yesterday's meeting at the NUT's London headScottish bus strike spreads Edinburgh men warn BUSMEN from Edinburgh's New Street SMT depot have decided to stop work in support of East and Central Scotland crews who have been on strike for two Their resolution was carried 130 votes to 22 at a ciple midnight meeting on Satur- buses day (November 29). crews Management was warned to start immediate negotiations for an £18-a-week minimum The strike began in Kirkcalation of indicator bard 163.
But this issue became sub- votes. merged in the wider demand pay and the strike spread to and Central Shoolandout Bast There is a real determination to win the claim and a can only be done in conflict vith the leaders of the Trans port and General Workers Five-hour meeting A special delegate meeting held in Glasgow on Tuesdaj 80 delegates from every depot New productivity threat The meeting, which lasted five hours, agreed to submit a laim for a basic £18 minimum ALTHOUGH the 16-week-old A small minority vote were strike of Hillington's (Glasgow) against the calling off of the Rolls-Royce electricians ended strike without a scrapping of last Friday, there are already the job-evaluation deal, which indications of a new conflict was introduced last year. nation de decided involving not only the elec- The electricians are to retricians —as stage two of a ceive a £150 bonus payment pay and productivity deal is as an incentive to get the manning of buses is not in The decision to return was Electricians were approached taken at a meeting of the 70 on the day they returned to strikers when union officials work round the clock to clear announced an agreement for the backlog of work. re-grading electricians after an What is involved is not only conductress receives a investigation by independent clearing up after the strike, consultants appointed and but the hurry • to introduce agreed by union and manage- further job - evaluation In depots where the prinment. measures.
DEAL!- OVERCROWDE VIT- CHILUI . IIP-. " ": . (IVING W 1 POWN! LS.
Pramatir rise in Gil & roam юс le sum Aucceay anchor stallace, quarters FROM M. SHAW of one-man operated has been agreed • all receive an extra 15s. a Still out In Fife, bus crews of W Alexander & Sons rejected the return to work by 740 to In Falkirk, a return-to-work motion was carried by ll The 115 against the return called on their union officials to resign and said they had been 'sold down the river'.
sere scion should continue Picketing is being carried out at all main depots.
Solidarity action is now needed from busmen throughout the whole of Scotland and from workers in other sections of transport secure an all-out victory for the t18 minimum with no productivity 'strings'. brought forward.
Via narzam summa.n ft : = CLASS S IINDEREDUC ATC: - .I MREN Scotland at Rolls Royce ALMOST 5,000 teachers— including 500 members of the National Association factory back to normal working within two weeks.
afe dosage of such chemical: nd in the Vietnam such concept in any case a complete nonsense In Octoher the US Defence Denartment very belatedly see report s limit4, S-T' to un Probited Preiter saw this to en he observed an airborne Protessor white-washing defoliation expedition March:
"Then as we were over Aru watery nace anato ributaries of the Mekong, on and gallons of this stuff the one spot. another occasion, were evacuated besos had difficulty, one to evacuale over the town of Ho Nai' These revelations. taken with the or the a accounts the imperialism will determination stiftense fighting to vied he war and to aid revolution through SIXTY of Britain's 89 British Road Services parcels depots were strike-bound yesterday.
More than 6,000 drivers and loaders were out solidly behind their demand for a substantial increase in their basic pay.
They were joined by 200 drivers from a Birmingham depot.
Union and management representatives met across the table at the road transport industry's national joint negotiating council yesterday evening.
BRS and BRS (Parcels) management were in attendance.
The men have already rejected a 30s. offer tied to productivity "strings".
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