Second firm threatens to pull out ANOTHER TILBURY CONTAINER BLUFF?

The British Communist consortium yesterday bury docks in London.

Wh at Powell By our education correspondent of the union, from assistant lecturers right up to college principals, have already been involved in action of one kind or another.

Leaders of all three unions have attacked Powell's claim, made at a Tory banquet on Wednesday night, that by striking the teachers had 'deliberately undertaken to set and example of lawlessness, illfaith and indifference to duty. Bring Gaullist thugs to justice -say French n AT A packed Paris 1 night, Gérard Bloch of tion for the Reconstruc national told 5,000 'the fight for justice, inseparable from the fig The meeting in the Mutualité was part of a campaign initiated by the French Trotskyists to demand the trial of the Gaullist thugs who brutally attacked Jean-Pierre Speller and two other young trade unionists on the night of April 26, 1969, the eve of the referendum which defeated de Gaulle.

Witnesses have stated that two of the 20 attackers were sons of a Gaullist Cabinet Minister.

Comrade Speller, a 23-yearold printer, was beaten with iron pipes and attacked by a police dog.

Nothing done

an open letter to the Minister of Justice he said that as 'the son of a militant worker who has fought for 30 years for respect for liberties and justice, for the liberation of the working class, I hate fascism!'.

The only answer Industrial Big Lucas-C.A.V. petition signed SIXTY-FIVE workers at the Liverpool CAV factory, including 17 shop stewards, three senior stewards and three members of the AEF district committee, have signed the following petition :

'WE, the undersigned trade unionists, employed in LucasCAV factories in Fazakerley, Liverpool, express our anger and disgust in condemnation of the atrocities committed by American troops in Vietnam.

We demand the withdrawal of all US troops now. We demand that the Labour govvorkers meeting on Wednesday the Trotskyist Organization of the Fourth Interworkers and students the fight for liberty, is ght for socialism.

Speller received to his letter was that the case was being investigated.

Seven months have gone by and nothing has been done.

Comrade Speller spent a month in hospital after the attack and lost the sight of his left eye. He has been unable to return to his printing job because of his physical and psychological injuries.

He told the Workers Press that the bourgeoisie resorts to fascist methods of this kind in dealing with workers when the traditional Stalinist and reformist bureaucracies can no longer control the working class.

'The only answer to these methods', he said, 'is a mass answer like that which defeated de Gaulle in the reterendum.' The meeting was addressed by a broad spectrum of trade unionists, representatives of left-wing political groups and fighters in the workers' moveMilitant resolutions and Stop Wilson's to Nixon cam Off good THE CAMPAIGN to Washington has got of start—in fact it has pl most popular campaig Dozens of resolutions have been passed by many union branches and thousands of signatures have been collected on petition forms already.

Wilson and Brown are hoping that people will soon forget about the atrocities and that the anger at the war will be dissipated by the phoney investigations and the 'soulsearching' going on within capitalist-class circles in the USA.

They are helped as usual by ernment break with American policy in Vietnam and that the visit of Wilson to Washington be cancelled.

'We call on the Labour MP for this constituency — Eric Heffer — to demand in the Parliamentary Labour Party the removal of Wilson and Brown and all leaders who support the American government in their brutal and vicious war against the Vietnamese people' A copy of the following resolution passed by Bexley Trades Council is being sent to Harold Wilson :

'THE Bexley Trades Council condemns US imperialism's brutal war against the Vietnamese people. We demand that the Prime Minister Harold Wilson cancel his intended visit to Washington in January, which we feel would be an act of association with the alleged atrocities?

Thirteen workers on the day shift at Stepney Power Station have signed a petition urging the leaderships of the trade unions and the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to demand that Wilson's visit to Washington should not take place and calling on the Labour cabinet to cancel Wilson's visit immediately.

DINH BA THI, acting leader of the National Liberation Front delegation at the Paris Vietnam talks charged yesterday that Nixon was stepping up the 'burn all, kill all, destroy all policy started by the Johnson administration in WEATHER Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Continuing rather cold with wintry showers in eastern districts.

TODAY:

London area, SE, and central southern England, E Midlands: Dry with frost at first. Becoming cloudy with rain spreading from the NW perhaps falling as snow over high ground at first. Clearer weather will spread to all areas by midnight. Wind NW, moderate. Maximum 8C (46F). Channel Islands: Dry and bright at first, a little rain later. Moderate NW wind. Maximum 10C (50F).

visit paign stop Wilson's visit to to a very encouraging sved to be one of the is we have launched.

the silence and inactivity of the Stalinists and revisionists who, together with the 'lefts' in parliament, give aid and comfort to Nixon and his war by their refusal to fight Wilson.

".. -Contrast Contrast this with Gollan's contemptible lies and slander of Trotsky, and you can see how close to imperialism these people stand.

Unlike these wretched leaders we are confident that the heroic Vietnamese people will eventually defeat American imperialism — no matter how many atrocities are perpetrated by the US forces.

We say this not only because the Vietnamese people have the means and the will to victory, but also because of the growing solidarity the American workers and intellectuals with the Vietnamese and the groundswell of opposition to the war in the US-and in Vietnam.

The whole world knows the names of Lieut. Calley and Capt. Medina and the crimes committed by US soldiers in My Lai-but there is another side to the war which the press is very reluctant to publicize.

Dissent

Because this is the most important aspect of the war.

We refer to the opposition and dissent among US forces in Vietnam which is growing daily. Let us quote one example.

According to 'Newsweek' (December oó1 1969) 100 officers and GIs at the 71st Evacuation Hospital at Pleiku refused the traditional turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day and instead went on a silent fast.

Their real feelings were expressed by Capt. Donald Van Nimwegen, a doctor :

'... after days and days of seeing men with arms and nces Nixon South Vietnam.

He said: "The Son My mass slaughter is neither an isolated event nor a case of alleged violation of US rules of war by some US servicemen. It is but one among thousands of barbarous crimes.

W. Midlands, SW, NW and central Northern England: Cloudy with some rain and drizzle during the afternoon, clearing from the followed by clear periods and scattered showers. Moderate or fresh NW winds. Maximum 8C (46F).

Edinburgh and Glasgow area, N. Ireland: Cloudy with rain at first and snow over hills, clearing from the north, followed by bright periods and occasional showers, falling as SNoW over high ground. Moderate or fresh NW winds. Maximum 7C (45F). retreat, but keeps up BY DAVID MAUDE DISGUST and confusion was expressed by many BritishLeyland workers yesterday at the outcome of Wednesday's Birmingham one-day conference of senior shop There was disgust at their failure to carry two important resolutions.

As reported in yesterday's a permanent strike fund were rejected and a resolution condemning the lack of official for Merseyside's Standard-Triumph strikers was from the agenda.

Confusion was created by the reports of meeting given out on television and in most of the press.

Wednesday's meeting took place in an atmosphere of considerable tension.

Critical

Militants bitterly criticized the retreats of Stalinist and right-wing Labour stewards in the face of attacks from the employers.

And these attacks continued even as the meeting took place.

Speaking to the Institute of Production Engineers on Wednesday night BritishLeyland chairman Lord Stokes directed heavy fire against the coverninent action on trade union reform, unofficial strikes and restrictive practices.

'Are we going to run the industrial activities of the country like a business or like circus-cum-charity-and, if latter, who is going to pay?' he asked.

Operating the old maxim ness-begins at home, rathe British- that charity-or busiLeyland tried to make certain that it would be their workers would pay by making new proposals for a job-evalu. ation scheme at BMC Service, Oxford.

Wider pattern

Although this was immediately rejected by the stewards, it forms only part of a much wider pattern.

We have already reported attempts to introduce jobevaluation at Birmingham's Longbridge Austin plant and Oxford's Morris Motors, What is the reply of the Communist Party and their friends of the Labour rightwing to this challenge?

The recent announcement that Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers president Hugh Scanlon is to chair Mrs Barbara Castle's brainchild—a national union-employer council to prevent motor industry strikes-jointly with Leyland's Lord Stokes did not prevent

Briefly

VIETNAM TRUCES: President Thieu announced yesterday that South Vietnam would observe two 24-hour truces 'for humanitarian purposes'— one at Christmas and the other at the New Year.

The truces will also be observed by the US forces in Vietnam.

BLACK PANTHER ARRESTED: David Hilliard, the Black Panther leader, was arrested yesterday on charges of threatening the life of President Nixon.

Secret service agents made the arrest after a Federal Grand Jury met in secret session and indicted him.

The charges against Hilliard stem from a speech he made three weeks ago to more than 100,000 anti - Vietnam - war demonstrators in California.

A conviction could mean up to five years in prison and a £400 fine.

US VIETNAM CASUALTIES: Since January 1, 1961, there have been 300,829 US casualties — 39,642 killed, 259,828 wounded and 1,359 reported missing or captured in Vietnam, the US military. command announced yesterday.

70 US soldiers were killed last week, the lowest figure for two months and 60 fewer than the previous week.

ITALIAN STRIKES: Traffic in Rome was brought to a halt yesterday by a demonstration of 2,000 bank workers through the city to mark the start of their 48-hour strike for a new work contract.

In Milan thousands of metal workers marched to the city centre.

Yesterday was also the last day of the tuesday strike by half a millius employees.

NATO CONFERENCE : Foreign and Defence ministers from the 15 NATO countries are today attending the second day of their two-day meeting in Brussels which is discussing the Kremlin proposals for a European 'security organizaThe Kremlin - suggested security conference in Helsinki during the first half of next year will mark a further stage in the ever more open co-operation of the Soviet bureaucracy with imperialism against the resurgence of the working class both in eastern and western Europe.

BOEING 707 CRASH: All 62 people on board an Air France Boeing 707 were killed yesterday morning when their aircraft exploded just after take-off from Caracas, Venezuela.

The wreckage fell into the sea five miles off the Venezuelan coast, but rescue teams found no survivors amongst the floating debris.

The airliner had made a stop-over in Caracas during a flight from Santiago in Chile to Paris. GREET Monday, December 8, 8 p.m. The Cornwallis Building University of Canterbury LIVERPOOL Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m. Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant LA TORRANCE (National Secretary Young Socialists)

Voroshilov ALON Two adlilone Longbridge convenor Dick Etheridge from singing the praises of his union's president at some length at Wednesday's meeting.

Both Etheridge and Bill Moore, Stalinist convenor of Liverpool's Hunt's Cross Standard-Triumph plant, supported the AEF executive's decision to withhold official support from the 11-week Standard strike.

Etheridge, as we have reported previously, is even versatile.

'Victory'

Journal', he described the 101st Trades Union Congress at Portsmouth as 'victory all the way' for his Singling out the fact that all the rule-amendments necessary to operate the TUC's June 18 undertaking to stop strikes were carried, he reported that 'this first year in its second century marked up changes that will determine the role of the TUC for the future' Workround for Measured-Day Scanlon's role in preparing and for the TUÇ'S nored Communist Party, and the right wing are happy to go along with this.

What confidence can be placed in a national motor industry stewards' organization —one of the proposals carried on Wednesday-led by such People?

Finally, why did the BritishLeyland trade union committee's joint chairmen Etheridge and Eddy McGarry points of Wednesday's meet that main ing were demands for lay-off pay, parity of earnings within the combine and holiday pay?

Everyone who attended knows that most of the discussion centred on the strike fund levy, the national motor industry stewards' organization and the Standard-Triumph The question is not so much what are they trying to hide -although the meeting was a closed one, all the reporters covering it had the oppa with discuss the agenda the platform—but why and from whom?

Is it that having retreated on two important fronts they want to sweep this under the carpet away from the critical gaze of workers in BritishLeyland's plants?

Final peace talks for although he was Killed those escorting phasis added.). 343. EmThen Khrushchev turned the activities er Voroshilo in the anti-Party group: 'The question arises how himself mixed oh with at Comrade Voroshilov group? Some comrades ‹now of the personal dis.

like there was between Voroshilov between Voroshilov Kaganovitch, Malenkov and ety spired these rating what basis? Because after the 20th Congress they were afraid of further posures of their rinlawell actions in the period of the personality cult, afraid they would have to answer before the Party. 'After all, it is no secret that all the abuses at that time were committed with their over, took an active part in them.' (Ibid, p. 352.

Our emphasis.)

Of all the members of the 'anti-Party group', this was most true of Voroshilov All these facts are public!

admitted and documented What, then, does Russell have to say about them in his obituary?

After all, Voroshilor was unlitary history int unique the annals of that he killed more his own General Staff than he took risoner in the ranks of the soviet Union's enemies. Such a feat surely should be recorded?

But as far as the Stalinis Russell is concerned nothing worth recording happened in the Red Army between 1935 and 1940: 'When in 1935 the rank of Marshal of the Army was ree revolution Voroshilor reinstituted. Tabolished pointed to war that Commissar was the first to remained and later Defence Minister until June 1940, when was replaced by Marshal Timoshenko.' Russell tells us that Voroshilov was the first Red Army Marshal, but he does not tell us who three. For they were murdered. the orders of Stalin and The he years between 1935 and are for Russell comHeletely blank.

can devote Voroshilovs paragraph to partner ship with emyo yenny, who later become:

Marshal (the other the five who was ... that became famous in and song throughout and far bevond. -but not a word to the Red Army purges infamous 'throughout the Soviet Union and far bevond' in it be that Sam Russell is suffering from an attack of that old Stalinist disease.

described his Editor George Matthews at the recent CP Congress suspension of the critical aculties' out that this attack On Speller was an attack on the whole working class.

Claude Kahn, national secretary of the Air France workers' section of the CGT, connected this brutal beating Gaullist government on the right of workers to strike. Tent bose workinging s prevent the from defending itself', he said.

The meeting was continually interrupted by chants of •Working class unite, 'Justice for Speller' and 'Democratic liberties'.

The Communist Party was conspicuous by its absence, as Yves Dechezelles, Comrade Speller's lawyer pointed out.

'It is surprising' he said, 'that on the left and even more surprising that in the workers' movement, there only one dissident But workers should not be surprised.

Once again the treachery of mercenary thugs and the America of Nurse Stanley and the millions of workers, technicians and soldiers who hate the war and Nixon and all he stands for.

Heartened

We are greatly heartened by these remarks.

We feel that the movement we are building against Wilson's visit to Washington is going to receive a massive response from the working class in Britain.

Into action comrades! Pour in the resolutions, fill in the petition forms.

Make sure every worker in your department reads the petition. Wilson must not pass!