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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY NUMBER 56 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1969 PRICE 60 U.S. government responsible for 'MURDER SCHOOL' G.I.S IN VIETNAM account yet of the US imperialist: has been given by two ex-army liet once and for all the myth, sustained by Brown, Stewart and all the other apologists for imperialism within the labour movement, that the massacres in Vietnam do not result from official US government policy.

stated yesterday through their lawyer William Zinman that they were instructed at a US training camp to hire mercenaries, who were then to kill supposed NLF sympathisers.

told that: (freavent resort. to the most extreme forms going to Washmost sickening nurder machine tenants, Francis Their evidence shatters ploys the same techniques of repression and brutalization whether it openly proclaims its goal of world domination and genocide, as under Hitler, or attempts to hide behind the mask of "democracy' and "freedom'.

The two ex-army men When the Browns, the Stewarts and the others glorify the deeds of the US army in Vietnam, they help to perfect the weapons that will one day be turned against the US and British working class.

The 'training schools' of the United States-and for all we The men insist they were know, of Britain--are not only building a force to intimidate and crush the peoples of the semi-colonial world, though that, at present, is their most The two lieutenants re- pressing task.

The capitalist class will one day need its mercenaries, its Reitemeyer and Cohn were Anti-Semitism The statement claimed the in Prague JUDGING from the statements emanating given number of small from the Interior Ministry in Prague, it seems as if another version of the Slansky trial Is The he slakinen state ated. being prepared by the new pro-Moscow officers Vietnam from regime. active service advised them officially to Once more-as in 1952 50 bodies a monthquota' of the spectre of a "Zionist conspiracy' is being evoked From the training camps in by leading members of the government.

This is aimed at besmirching the popular movement of workers, students onut reuse Reitemeyerome and intellectuals, which overthrew the hated Novone centrist anubiestalled learningne power.

These preposterous obiney were discharged from charges were made by Bohumil Molnar in an interwith 'Soboda', Bohemian newspaper.

Molnar denounced the former head of the Slovak The kill ratio' set by the US murderers for each GI is 30 people a month-the civilians ist and not every (!) Zionist a Jew.' Recalling the fact that Loebl was charged in 1952, as deputy minister of foreign trade, of concluding 'commercial agreements that were favourable to capitalist, above all Jewish merchants ...', the statement of Molnar is not a simple attack on 'Zionism', but a subtle and oblique charge against Jewish members of the bureaucracy as the scapegoat for the present crisis in the Czechoslovak economy.

Without comment It is interesting to note that the 'Morning Star'— despite the decisions of the 31st Congress on Czechoslovakia-reports this incident without comment.

Another suspension ot critical faculties!

(See page three for discussion on anti-Semitism in the USSR.) Nerve gas escapes in TWO HUNDRED people were evacuated from a US Army chemical and biological warfare test centre after lethal nerve gas had leaked into the building from a storage container.

News of the incident, which occurred in the Dugway Proving Ground, 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah, was released yesterday not by the Army, but by Utah Senator Frank Moss, who commented :

"The incident underlines the continual danger associated with the moving and storage of nerve gas.

Sheep killed

The gas-code-name GB-is thought to be the same type that killed 6,500 sheep in the Skull Valley region, 35 miles "Pinkville' area.

U.S. base By our sclence correspondent from the testing station, after 'routine' weekly test sprayings of nerve gas in March 1968.

In the Skull Valley gas incident the gas was carried by winds right over the top of a local town, though fortunately it did not settle.

This time, chemical warfare experts neutralized the leak and claimed there was 'no danger' to people living locally. After two hours, nerve gas production at Dugway was in full swing again!

The Dugway, incident follows widespread suspicions in Britain that the Nancekuke Incomes White Paper Phoney war' begins HOW, Mrs Barbara Castle has asked the Trades Union Congress and the Labour 'lefts, would you get expansion without inflation, other than through the government's incomes policy?

Each half of this question is as false as the other. Her 'opponents, nevertheless, have no answer.

Both the trade union leaders and the 'left' MPs object to Mrs Castle's Productivity, Prices and Incomes after 1969' White Paper in the same opportunist terms.

'Incomes policy would contiunue to be based on statutory interference in collective bargaining, complained the TUC General Council on Thursday.

It noticed that there was a marked disparity between the emphasis given to wages and salaries and that given to prices.

Different approach The TUC, said Mr Victor Feather, had 'a different apchemical warfare establishment-the British equivalent of Dugway-played a part in the recent outbreak of seal deaths along the Cornish coast.

Though an inquiry has concluded that the seal deaths were due to natural causes, many people are not convinced.

Menace

Nancekuke, like Dugway, is a menace not only • to the lives and health of people living locally, but to the entire world.

The fiendish perversions of scientific knowledge, in which these centres specialize, are part of world capitalism's global preparations for war with the working class. STOP WILSON'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON Scottish CP members sign petition ELEVEN members of the Clyde district committee of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers have signed a petition against Wilson's proposed Washington visit, including district committee chairman Hugh Boyd and I. Mackenzie, both Communist Party members. proach to the whole of the economic problem.

'We are asking for the government to change their policy towards economic growth'.

27-44 per cent, claimed an earlier TUC statement, was 'an unduly cautious estimate of the nation's productive potential.

In other words, the trade union leaders would presumably be expected to accept wage restraint if it conformed to their own cock-eyed 6 per cent 'estimate of the nation's productive potential' and ... if it were 'voluntary'.

Needless to say they have the full support of the 'Morning Star'.

Everyone knows, of course, that Mrs Castle's White Paper has nothing to do with the government's desire to see 'expansion without inflation' and a great deal to do with Wilson's proposed visit to Washington.

The Labour leaders are in pawn to Nixon . and the US banks up to their eye-balls.

Report

This is their end-of-term report.

Mrs Castle has had the enthusiastic co-operation of the trade union leaders in preparing the productivity side of the balance-sheet.

They even boast about it.

The 'left' MPs have carried out no struggle against the government's main weapon in forcing through productivity deals ... unemployment.

Neither the TUC General Council, the Labour 'lefts' nor the Communist Party-which called in yesterday's Morning of active opposition'—are goPrES ASTMS STOP WILSON'S WASHINGTOI IMPERIALISM IN VIETNAM MARCH: via Oxford Street, Regent Street, he Clydeside full-time ial W. Dougan also signed. he same petition has been ed by Pat Howden, AEF venor of Sunbeam ElecEast Kilbride, and 25 atures have been collected Hamilton Young Socialists. 50 students have signed a tion from the Oxford ng Socialist Student ety worded as follows: 'he massacres of Vietlese peasants by the US y have once again revealed barbarism of capitalism the duplicity of its reentatives in the British our Party. We call for the rediate withdrawal of all troops and for the pretion of Wilson's Washingvisit which signifies his port for Nixon? $ students at Warwick versity have signed lar petition, calling for the itest mobilization of the vur and trade union moveIt to stop Wilson's visit. ddie McCluskey, Coventry des Council President, irman of shop stewards at tes Motors, Stoke, and a minent member of the amunist Party, has also red this p. 'two he petition tas also been ed by 16 building workon Truscon's site, KingsI Road, Luton; 26 pupils Sarah Siddons School, th Paddington; 37 students the Courtauld Institute, don; and 16 members of th Kensington Young ialists. irystal Palace branch of I'MS has passed a resoon opposing Wilson's visit.

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CLASSIC CINEMA, POND STREET HAMPSTEAD, LONDON, N.W.3 FOR THE DEFEAT OF US DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY JAN. 11 Trafalgar Square past Downing Street. MEETING: Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych, Details from 186a Clapham High Street, London, Briefly NLF ACCUSES: The National Liberation Front yesterday accused US and South Vietnamese troops of killing 149 civilians during operations in Quang Nam province early this month.

The NLF report, quoted by the North Vietnamese news agency, said that most of those killed were women children.

TEACHERS' UNION WARNS: A further teachers' strike will be called in January if the one ending today has not won the interim pay battle, the executive of the National Union of Teachers said yesterday.

Mr Ben Johnson, NUT president, said at a press conference : 'If we find at the meeting of the Burnham committee, the batele has not day, been won, we shall call on other members of the union to take strike action in January' LIGHTERMEN STRIKE:

Three hundred London lightermen met in East London yesterday as their token strike against one company's alleged use of unregistered labour continued.

Union Lighterage Ltd., the men claim, is employing nondock labour to do their work.

They feel this may be used as a wedge to drive through productivity concessions under Lord Devlin's docks 'modernization'.

London's port employers, meanwhile, are still in a quandary about what terms they can offer in order to get containerization and Devlin's second phase agreed in. the port's enclosed export docks.

KAUNDA FOLLOWS CASTLE: Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, yesterday outlined or p : 17.05 Zambia on productivity, wages and prices to 'reduce the gap between urban and rural living standards'.

He warned that Zambia was rapidly being divided into two nations and we are invitira areas.

The Zambian government is already creating machinery to hold down prices and link wages to productivity. the labour movement today.

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fascist gangs, strike-breakers and killers in the most decisive war of all-against the working class at home.

The mercenaries and those that train them today are the potential fascists and unionsmashers of tomorrow.

Hitler began by baiting and attacking the Jews, but ended up by terrorizing and smashing the entire German and European labour movement on behalf of the employers.

That is why working-class solidarity with the Vietnamese people is so urgent.

In essence we are fighting the same battle against the same enemy-world imperialism.

These new revelations must serve as an added political spur in our campaign to stop the Wilson trip to Washington.

The British labour movement cannot in any way be identified with the leader of the system that instructs its soldiers to maintain their 'kill quotas'.

The bodies they are instructed to produce belong to the same class as ourselves.

No trade unionist, Labour or Communist Party member or socialist can abstain on the issue of Wilson's visit.

If they do, they are, in fact, helping to dig the graves not only of the workers and peasants of Vietnam today, but the British working class in the future.

That was the depth of the betrayal by the German social democrats before the war.

We must not allow them to take the same road here. speed-up, productivity deals and redundancies; the struggle for a decent living wage.

Similarly with national T&GWU bus secretary Mr Alan Thomson.

Mr Thomson apparently thinks that the municipal men have simply to argue that there is no reason why the busmen's claim should not be granted, on the basis of increases paid to other sections of low-paid workers, and the employers will cave in. He is wrong.

None of these issues, of course, can really be solved outside the battle for workers' control of public transport and the nationalization of the basic industries in order to direct funds towards the public services.

Is this why no such meetings have been called? ing to lead a principled fight o clear out all forms of state ntervention arainst the trad unions.

Forced into opposition to the Labour leaders by the movement of the working class, they remain there only in order to confuse.

Equally treacherous The Communist Party, for instance, quite able to square advice that trade unionists should 'campaign with all their strength to get the White Paper rejected and made inoperable' with demands that Wilson 'speak for Britain' on Vietnam when he visits Nixon in January.

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