New legal clamp- down on Czech working class

CZECHOSLOVAK parliament has passed new laws imposing two-year those accused of 'insulting the IT WAS announced on Spanish Radio on Wednesday night that Hungary has established consular relations with the Spanish fascist government.

The Franco regime already has diplomatic links with the bureaucracies of Rumania and Poland.

The announcement claimed that the new agreement was a significant step towards opening up diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union-a policy, the CBI reports on entry BRITISH industrialists as a whole are less enthusiastic about the advantages to be gained from Britain's entry into the Common Market than they were in 1966.

This is the conclusion which can be drawn from a big report produced by the Confederation of British While the balance of industrial opinion is still in favour, a closer look is now being taken at the disadvantages entailed.

Many members of the CBI are unwilling to commit themselves at this stage.

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This latest news is completely in line with current Stalinist policy of working for an all-inclusive Euro pean 'Collective Security Of necessity, it involves the closest relation with the rulers of the most reactionary dictatorships in Europe, not only in Greece, but workers on the Continent— longer paid holidays, regular bonuses, higher family allowances, etc.

Resist demands

The advantages which industrialists hope to secure from entry will depend largely upon them being able to resist working-class demands.

They pin their hopes mainly on the stimulus to growth, and thus the higher profits, which closer links with the European market would make possible.

Even so, it is understood that entry would mean a sharper competitive struggle both in the European and in the British market and require heavier investment than most industries have undertaken in recent years.

Tough times

In or out, British capitalism faces tough times in the years The view that entry would be a panacea for all its ills now has few if any adherents. ÖRDER THEDAILY Full subecription Two odillons (Posted daily) (For any two daya E10 a year O R you select {2 10s. for three • a yeaı months £1 for three months I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for Name Address pst to: CIrculation Organizer, Workere Press, 18 apham High Streel, London, SWA. (Tol: 01-720-200 jail sentences for republic' Another law will empower factory managers— no longer elected by the workers as under the Dubcek government ousted last March-to sack workers on the spot for alleged slacking.

These new laws now make permanent much of the emer- sent egisation decreed after August's demonstrations on the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion.

Like all the previous repressive acts of the Husak regime, the main blows entailed in these new laws are directed primarily against the powerful and politicallymature Czech working class.

The category of 'slacker' can and will be applied to all those who fight against the Kremlin occupation and those who serve it in the Czech government and party leadership.