Workers Press no. 644

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 22, 1971 • NUMBER 644 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Paris tower block Law and order' moves

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Sniping game that mistire blast: Ten killed

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Indians EXPLOSIONment block to deal with a fire in the base. the explor

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KILLED

.. Two down a hail of

BY A TOY

everyone has de manhunt ten,

TOMMY GUN

injured at number firemen had been led then burs we seriour BAN STAYS ON EXILED The rach

SECT CHIEF

Plessey guerrillas battle comes Yesterday's "Sun' treatment of the picture put out by the army information unit.

ARMY'S PHONEY

to a head

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

PHOTOS

A NEW and treacherous phase of the embattled

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

history of BanglaDesh began yesterday when PLESSEY workers at Alexandria, Dunbarton- Indian army stiffened its 'law- the occupying rejected a 'peace' shire, have unanimously the company to end the formula offered by and-order' campaign.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

15-week occupation of their factory.

THESE ARE hoax pictures taken It has now been officially confirmed that This means the men will by the British army. Qadir Saddiqui, of the Abdul the leader conunue wel aetermined But in yesterday's capitalist press the nont lor une rent to work courageous Dacca unit of the Mukti Bahini, is yesteraav top flessey picture above was given sensational being hunted by the Indian army.

offcials were iving N to treatment as it it was a real-life incident.

'view the situation' named Sodia pictures are no ca central arrested Monday Alexanarla convenor cadi yesterday that officials said orter to an industrial * he Sail Mail explained in story was re leased. esteguards toe the mere no THE GUERRILLAS are visit- hotels, the While indian nd that collat in me plant either executed of to Calcutsa ried by liberation court STA. W. "Tiger" Niazi. Boned chest 10 Niazi and his 100,000-strond this, said Eddie. He an act of won by the their professiona to terra grithe ent UCS stewards promise vasion e 10,0 strong nises at that, he said. December ed a young to meet Davies essful Varied £1,250 Fund: Nazis s he he base working-class right. political in Glasgow £345.26 needed • Nexa Agency, Gerald eutzin' to a head. yesterday: as he tried to more hi his face by Saturday 'India

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

about the РаК Board told esterdars atte TORY SECRETARY for Industry John Davies will meet Upper Clyde Shipbuilders stewards out by truck trade union movement. when he visits Glasgow today.

Safe passage DATA executive's The stewards press Minister шаке Unity ere spoke man to da, eariv decision on we rature SCotStoun vara. retreat on Rugby astern command. brings James Aurile. chairman the shop stewards ordinating committee told a sacking criticized

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; of workers in stor end his so dier Clydebank yard yester- * only to spires a re on victory unlol leaaers allure to back une Davies: Travels today December Appeal Fund the despin amen tel Strike stops ot a Perday eternal trees- sacked Gac draughtsmar 186a CLandon, Sigh Street in Rugby have been carried victimization in the aral. several union branches 27.25 pay increase over two kers leader D een in tou in a bank

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years. Boss, Leighton Buzzard, Beds bid to the victimization batta a three-week The wite Usakse 'ARREST HEATH: He's trying morning union then press ply mproved -laim inter Thin at his anti to depose the Queen' security situation. Trider This is had ivine 9,000 me the i National Bers spathe to

THE ARREST

REdward Hephin nister extreme right-wins matters bugleerine fice sacet By tot the ng e restanty way. such uld break Govan Shipbuilders Scions in stee Yelvira Ton neering Employers a derect ram the tenth me en and order is sere i a the best revealed yesterday red the or ad stress proposals Allle were footerming Mujib is well'-Bhutto *The backing we had from print 1 are to sti first hav a ta den nothing for hem The ence tates thom it s Tester Socin Mail Preside Geople of Pakistan. The NUI yesterike wiion He revealed that 500 to 600 drew strikę the workin a inthat don had outed in ere en ween royal name of te EEC and US in crisis talks

BY JOHN SPENCER

NIXON IS

losing no time to press home the advantage gained tor Us capitalism do d result of the Washington Group of Ten currenc deal. rainst oned of up-valuations dolla agreed competitive nesiumans Nroughs advineg naval Package said shade yest pay heresentation after the Christmas recess in e his boink almoperation terms corot Ralf Dahrendorf, ths Marke deficit Darendor sad the commo Delightful Create eldered ne delightful Tory Chancello Ann the course of this tête-a- defund internationa remed who ses hurt in th

The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 22, 1971 • NUMBER 644 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Paris tower block blast: Ten killed ng up to the into a hail of кол 106 лед, Б рест BAN STAYS ON EXILED Te rod

SECT CHIEF

Yesterday's "Sun' treatment of the picture put out by the army information unit.

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

A NEW and treacherous phase of the embattled

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

history of Bangla Desh began yesterday when PLESSEY workers at Alexandria, Dunbarton- the occupying Indian army stiffened its 'law- have unanimously rejected a "peace' shire, formula offered by the company to end the and-order' campaign.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

15week occupation of their factory.

THESE ARE hoax pictures taken It has now been officially confirmed that This means the men will by the British army. determined Abdul Qadir Saddiqui, the leader of une right to But in yesterday's capitalist press the courageous Dacca unit of the Mukti Bahini, is lying Ples to sensational Diclure i duve was trea being hunted by the Indian army.

welc treatment as if it was a real-lie incident.

'view the situation'. Siddiqi concocted pictures are now a central Illan Hamned Matard said to Eddie Monday. arrestee on but indian Omcials identity •case mistaken fren than being imposed by and was re- estate rica toe the leased. THE GUERRILLAS are visit i did soma mas post an up So men. being san toked Like int was, in fact, just factory article where pound. the model, said Eddie. HE OccurIlNu army want gun from Niazi and his 100,000-strong not accept this, Jesh t Poice Done Bengalis chering thes custody, not when he was arrested.

distered to the seat been asa act" '''the rich anctuary company. cure not i the hand. given India. December whol £1,250 Fund: successfully harassed Viazi's t porking class troops and political assassinations.

VIOLENCE In I Irelan : down £345.26 needed before re coanpany ma Reuter News e Alexandria THE National Coal Board stick to their increase or Plessey

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

are known to National Union of Mine. a 20-ycar-old sirl killed TORY SECRETARY for Industry John Davies ship his tut rain and air. out by will meet Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' stewards this when he visits Glasgow today.

is sacrifice is be DATA executive's Sate passage The stewards will • Our make all the generousty! Unity rotection for thei early for India's isten command yara de eat in pond st le brings James mens the s shop stewarus orainaune committee

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Nazi's mass meeting or workers in the vdebank vard vester- cracy of the every donation day. victory e old E Pakistan added Allie also Workers Press citations Davies: Travels today reinstatement he provisitest banga Dest December Appeal Fund Strike stops sacked GEC ard. Newspaper B6a Condon, Sig in kugoy nave been carriea victimization Saris pay forease out the wile attor Des! several union branches in the area tha Boss, Leton Buzzard, Beer, existing mamath ho task ot ending • the yester- the victimization The De ann govern me dare or 'ARREST HEATH: He's trying improve med their union official. 1 Shipbuilde: bournests arrival claim! getting a job. liquid gas to depose the Queen' Dacca at the

GEC

ay deal, veng 9,000 atch to che indian Express set one the Sailed Kingdal crown of the United

ARREST

0240 ° 83950 a s. From Dace has pit Worded in the same anti- Workers (DATA). right-oday British way, the the quated ' executives ofice secretary ta t swould basis this ul custodians of lam ThAt i victims a serie a Society had beer. and order: Clydebank division was Federation neer Employers o the Comin gualalileeu. and order is gerre dietent Alrle revealed copletion to barat see decision, bar Mujib is 'well'-Bhutto we had from *The al they had been worl working to rule ae would ban of the leave are's chancesty are ding people of Pakistan. i management spokesman yesterday with- working a eventry Radia B dicta rial pokers. Map- men has been job its part in seven days, lictatorial powers. make no comment on aid doubled i shits. sil strikes are boned nue anu nonour or royal name • King's nead. ess since January. EEC and US in crisis talks

DI JUHN SPENCER

PRESIDENI NIXON is losing no time to press home the advantage gained capitalism as a result of the Washington Group of Ten currency deal. dollar agreed a are bs rant to barriers of Europe terms bifFer hat the abmitted to capollo. Package Eberle said terms will com pheir ned in

EEC

difficult position in the about the use the mat • US. e're here to talk about, SIMILAR treatment is being Amand Heat i Delightiul cribed *Ba For Chancellor future must who hurt in e

Workers Press, Wednesday Decerer 22, 1971

PAGE TWO

US farmer: of Dr

NIXON'S

nomination the post of Earl Butz to Secretary of Agriculture has sparked off a domestic politi- cal row. His nomination was only approved by the Senate by a small majority. Reason for the heat lies in the accelerated disappearance of the American family farms-once the Jeffersonian democracy pride of -under pressure from the giant agricultural businesses. rate, 100,000 At the present farms are disappearing every year, many of them swallowed up by these corporals. still pros- Although there Cuse with their private perous farmers and heated swimming planes least 1.5 million rural pools. at American families live below the poverty line. that Dr - Butz, It happens sympathetic besides holding a chair at Purdoe to the farmers' plight. University, was himself a member of the boards of four agricultural and held stock to the businesses longer, but the doom of competi- of $109,000. He has also value tion and the small farmer is now quoted as saying that the writ large and not only in the been farmers will either have to adapt United States. themselves to changing conditions production in Cali- Lettuce controlled by three or die. fornia short, Dr In Butz not firms. The biggest producer of popular figure with small farmers fruit and vegetables in the state or with those Senators and Con- holds about 27 million acres, depend upon their fertilizers, gressmen who produces its own machinery and packaging material.

votes. Meanwhile farmers are own produce as well cans its over- distributing it to the fronted as bumper production crisis. markets. maize harvest has filled barns and Agriculture is longer run elevators to overflowing and cur- by the farmers, but is operated below on a large scale just as any other rent COSt prices production. Small farms are likely business. he main decisions are to disappear even faster than the made in the city boardrooms not present 2,000 a week. in the farmhouses. expect Big moved in and Farmers That capital has Butz will be sympathetic to their where the farmer survives it is as ..and they are probably plight the servant of the monopolies.

right. Nixon has probably written Butz is not likely to object to off the cort belt as a source that. And always lose boards ot there are always the boards votes. the agricultural businesses to go Incidentally, the agrarian crisis/ old argument familiar back to. clinches an His predecessor, Clifford Har- Marxists. That that the din, the laws of capitalist concentration went on the biggest of did not apply to agriculture.

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PART TWO

by a special correspondent THE USE of work-study pairs a week- -was attained within another nine months. in the industry is not Another case-study examine of a folding sec- re-organization new. In the early 1930s tion in a ladies' outwear factory.

In three weeks the work-study clothing workers went on officers were able to reduce the number of folders strike against the notor- from nine lo five (seven instead of 13 in peak ious Bedaux speed - up periods). The report states: "The of this went to- release labour system. wards relieving the chronic labour shortage in the rest Ten A Girls at Wolsey's stocking factory.' EDCs, the so-called Little The factory, for example, struck Neddies', exist to bring together for two months-and this at officials, government manate. of mass unemploy- ments and trade union leaders in time what are basically committees for ment. examining ways of increasing out- put and cutting back on jobs in However, and each particular industry.

new more in. tense systems are being intro- where the stopwatch duced even Collaboration The "Little Neddy' re- The work-study report on ferred to yesterday deals with the produced for the clothing was predetermined motion-time sys- clothing EDC by a working party the which based included which the personnel theory that all working activity director of Montague Burton broken can be up

INTO

certain from Ltd, technical basic human motions. Courtaulds Ltd, the director of been These had long ago Ellis and Goldstein (Luton) Ltd, Smith, measured and given fixed times and •Mr R. training operation it is only officer of the National Union of so in any add the basic Garment Workers necessary up Tailors and motions to arrive at the 'standard

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time' for the job: the EDC itself, four union On Мас- officials including of Studies gougan, cenera сестетат Workers Tailors and Garment Union, alongside

NEDO

sit The the last case studies in of officials and nine directors part of the report are instructive.

like Simon Kentons, companies One, concerning re-organization Selincourts and Tohn Colliers- of a trouser-room, states that at workers adopted the firm whose the start of the consultants' 'Fair Deal for с11T the ironic slogan vey. 200 operatives were pro- workers': Serfs'.. in the clothing ducing 2,400 trousers a week: strike of 1970 Nine months later, 125 opera- It was in this action that 30,000 tives workidg at "78 performance" Leeds clothing showed wete producing over 3,000 pairs a government, the the Labour em- week. officials ployers and the union performance - 4,000 that they were no longer going Standard by Tom Kemp THEORISTS of the extreme in France generally right remained polite and gentle- manly - in their writings.

Charles Maurras is still spoken of with respect as a great literary figure - and surely overrated. Even Drumont, with his concentrated hatred of Jews, pours his poison into well-constructed sentences.

French rightists have main- tained certain guiding principles from the time of the embittered Maistre, emigré, Toseph de writing in 1796. to the royalist of Vichy, Charles suDDorter Maurras. Hatred They hated the French Revolu- and tion, its principles results. They were extreme hatred of nationalists in their aliens, particularly Jews.

The French Right wanted a strong state rul They -as a second best they were ready to ac wanted a strong state ruled by hereditary monarch and sanctified by the church--as • carand ready best, they were royalist movement to overthrow to accept a Petain or a de Gaulle.

the hated and corrupt Third The of this volume, Republic. editor J. S. McClelland, says: They, together with the others, writing for the disgruntled

TANÓ

right in France attacked "The of the middle members universality and rationality. upper class, not for that section democracy and in doing of the bourgeoisie actually in worked out an opposing position power. of great coherence and force!

They wrote for impoverished of the The first part state- provincial France: aristocrats in as for the second mant ic true. for lawyers, doctors and journal- it is hardly borne by part, ists who blamed their problems 011+ the selections in this book it.

their Tewish competitors, onto and for thei student sons in sons Who these publicists were the Latin Ouarter. They addressing? and from army navy officers, and retired, and De Maistre was trying to rally active from political clerics. the emigré aristocrats to fight the revolutionarv government.

were preaching to the one tee In a real then. Maurras sought to build a to be the 'poor relations' in terms of wages and working conditions.

The work- co-operation in officials study by union which created and has speed-up de- stroyed jobs, especially at a time should mast unemployment, be condemned by worker. every It is no excuse to say that at the was begun time the exercise shortage of labour existed in Textile workers march (above) and some areas Not passive Eliminating jobs, even without drastically reduces the sacking, available places for school-leavers and older workers looking for jos. tor she Tory in fact, is doing a job for the government by working preparing new and redundancy in methods dustry which Industrial Kerations tha the Relations hopes Act will enforce. But the officials are bass ve in developing new associates methods of exploiting workers.

As the EDC report notes: "The National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers organizes special courses in work-study for their shop stewards.' A paragraph in the trouser- room case study also shows how officials combine with union work-study officers to play a key opposition role in stopping any to management's. speed-up plans: girls of.four • Oné groun continued to fall considerably be- low target and it was quite clear from follow-up studies that they back wère deliberately holding production. of these studies, the 'By use convinced officials were 11n101 that this the case; was girls told that resy did not have union support they for their action and the problem disappeared.'

CONCLUDED

'THE FRENCH RIGHT (from de Maistre to Maurras) ?

Edited and Introduced by J. S. McClelland. In the series 'Roots of the Right'. General editor George Steiner. Jonathan Cape. Paperback £1.50.

When the right extreme triumphed defeat the atter nt 1940 it was in the senile Bona- form Petain. partist of Marshal The people who read this kind of literature praised God that had the Republic at last been removed. Within a short time the regime legisla- was passing anti-Semitic tion which went even further than the Third Reich and handed over French Tews to the Nazis. The writings of these rightists exude contempt for the masses They praise the virtues of war (de Maistre says war is divine), soil. patrie (fatherland) and of the king.

of Maurras. In tha only a return to absolute mon- archy could arrest the decadence of France. Worship a kind of Barres indulges in morbid ancestor worship. 'Work. Family and Patrié' the watchwords of Vichy, strong state ruled by a hereditary monarch were from vere ready to accept a Petain (above) or a distilled writers such as these backward- de Gaulle. to create Utopia looking reactionars by emission of the Nazis telling this section of French society what they wanted De Gaulle himself vac infi Maurras and his politi hear. enced by cal much deputies conceptions were very Of course, were cor- in the authoritarian, rightist tra. bought rupt. newspapers were dition. This tradition lives on, and the Third Republic (and its Gaullist from not only in the ruling staggered one where it is modified by party, scandal crisis cil shis das arist to the ri heist various other elements, but also right and fascist the mill. which conserve groupings an At the same time, the growth important following. of the working class, in size and " The general The posed impression class consciousness, book this one another threat. Yet such turgid tedium. non- occupied When the workers sense 'provides fascism with an the factories in 1936 the rightist ideology. These extracts can thus grOUDS suddenly found that the usefully studied for what be money flowed in from the bosses they represent. at the same time the flood of middle class.

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goldmine PHILIP WADE spotlights the Tooley St property bonanza.

Real and unreal DOWN AMONG the construction costs" End he land, 3 Mich teth of ugly, construction costs slab decaying warehouses that stand on all about €13Smowed money, in fantastic inflation Cuise, work in • Pose mane how las the s bank of the hames between Cannon St rail- way bridge in the Wand ramid fol- Tower Bridge in the E, a have of land decapitalization

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group of property

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have found a magic gold mine. It is somewhat different to estate ought what i also sinke a real gold mine where value Bel is created by the amount of physical work put into the Planned for Grecon Coctio The mining of the rare mineral.

alone The re eate world the cali magicians mon. The Property Bor maries groset "Given this situation estate a call the fortune near o you havent yel future? 1 Shareholden or is a director

ALOE

* This is hare heope it: d Che Todity St • Tha raising their hor the Oe learned the tools o the trade estate send is 15 making ai ment. 'Area—38} acres. Value {300m plus ... This is the magnitude of the plan to redevelop Hay's Wharf-a plan for the largest and most exciting commercial project to be undertaken since the Great Fire of 1666'. — From the Hay's Wharf official publicity DrOCHurC вВС 1 1230-trump trump on. Zatch iN mother. 1.

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THE CITY

SOUTHWARK

LAMBETH

Map of London showing (large shaded area) the region of THA 300m will be shared then.

a group of dynamic tycoons Southwark's Draft Strategy Plan for The London Bridge and i of land in Southwa Thamesside' and in red the Hay's Wharf goldmine.

traditional dustries have dried tra 'development' Chalice to increase the number of conception exists al They he moment. see thes chance to increase the number rom the City of edgin nouses tor renune and Ior sale. Way he enthuses. The draft plan is only a guide order hopefully gain a like does few lay down any and crum os anc to the made to deselope like have Locati pro Asals land concessions all carry At and of these plai Hay's. n favour of Hayre now stacked All the of Alivate devdopers. the hands tecisio people piaos The make the under. offices, two to build a 1,450 shopping centre lunge or social v-use ess redévelopment programme. It also and 626 flat units. are tne members concedes that the council is pre- Labour- It the ould th willel controlled. they class. The Hays Whar nut na nanıng rents will be astronomical.

for noise their the cotinells social di plans. draft plan But Just a few months ago, South- wark's planning departmen for rev held he land and to for Hay's Whart uses he. London ability main conception of the ràise large the overspill council is to attract finance. City London and rom With with " why London clut- office the create more

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Point rand area.. of the four which Hay'she Wharf is offices are preferred use opportunity and chunk 'of the, tWO considered a suitabi revitalize a large borougn. Listenairman pletely dependent to what Charles Hal- ford, planning mon of the has to say in intro housing institutions under committee the working class ducing the sectors. here is no evidence of one tha arts has in favour wortedl for meeting tourime sods.- the working class time historic assets can settings long-held that ork was being handled by their more walk dream gardens and narts can he real Times', Michael made provements can passenger transport The planners have started from

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PAGE THREE

Doing the dirty work SOME of the papers, not to men- tion Tory Central Office, have been waging a campaign to make Education and Science Secretary Mrs Margaret Thatcher popular.

During her 18 months in office the 'Mirror' said last week, Mrs Thatcher had : • Deliberately slowed down the trend towards comprehensives.

• Axed free milk for primary school children. • Raised the price of school meals. Helped the direct grant schools. Doubtless Thatcher is the most unpopular member of the govern- ment. But the fact remains the poli- cies are those of the government as a whole and no. just a reflec- tion of her personai whims.

The sooner everybody realizes this, the sooner we'll get a gov- that won't need the ernment Thatchers of this world to do its dirty work. Popular Mrs Thatcher. 30 per cent M' lud OLD-AGED pénsioners will be pleased to learn that peers of the realm have awarded themselves a 'modest' but significant increase in expenses for attending that institution - the totally useless House of Lords. These poverty-stricken gentle- men actually had to struggle by on £6.50 a day for boring every- body to death with their speeches.

Now they have given them- selves approximately a 30-per- cent increase. They are to get £8.50 each day, which is a couple of quid above the weakly hand- out to old people without titles.

But this foolish comparison leaves out the tremendous ovér- heads the Lords must forgo to keep up appearances. Take the leader of the House Earl Jellicoe -- an old Tory and godson to the late King George V. He has Tidcombe Manor and its extensive grounds to keep going London heside there be London residence in the fashionable Onslow Square. In addition there are the heavy drinking and dining bills at his club 'Brook's'. The Labour leader in the House Lord Shackleton-faithful to his class - congratulated the Tory Jellicoe for winning the increase.

But he needs the money too.

What with a few paltry director- ships, he finds it very hard to make ends meet. He's senior executive director of the John Lewis Partnership, director of Rio Tinto Zinc De- velopment Enterprises, Mercury Holdings, Woodrow Insurance Wyatt Holdings, etc. (so nice to see a Labour man getting on).

So the men who rule us, while submitting demands Lords, resist the clamour from the old for more money. Listen to the Tory Minister for Health and Social Security Sir Keith Joseph. We quote from Press Association: 'Sir Keith Joseph said there would be no Christmas "bonus" for pensioners. "The government have been particularly careful to avoid any impression that thére was to be any immediate in- crease"! Stretching the Xmas spirit THE OLD Christmas spirit took a bit of a buffeting in Willesden the other day. Bishop of Willesden the Rt Rev Graham Leonard arrived at his new home in Willesden Lane to find it already in use ... by tramps. A difficult moral problem for someone who's probably pre- paring to preach Christ (sorry, vicar) knows how many words from, texts like 'And there was no room in the inn. How close to the season of goodwill can you get and still call the cops defend your to rights under the laws of property you defend for the other 360-odd days in the year?

Workers Press, Wednesday December 22, 1971

PAGE FOUR

BRIGADIER Frank Kit- son. head of military in- telligence has in uister, receivea warn aporoval for his demands for the nent acainst subversIves in Britain. As we revealed in a specia

BY PHILIP WADE

OCTOBER figures for engineering export taking orders were nearly as low as those recorded in 1963. New orders from overseas markets lent of the wholeheartedly only rose by 1 per cent during the third quarter of this year. Significantly, deliveries fell by a massive 6 per cent. at 103 The index for October stood (1963=100), 12 points lower than at the end according to month this vear oi any previous Department of Trade Industry statistics issued on Monday. in the nome market new orders rose bv/ Der cent in the third quarter com pared the Engineer with clerks crumbs drop pay claims

BY DAVID MAUDE

ENGINEERING

employels heard him were rubbing their nands lustry before autumn 1972' clerical yesterudy unions' decision to drop all lobed in the mech- tered national ciams for across горест от anical the-board pay rises. whot Juke's steech show® never work ag engineers plant o pe in small groups More immediately, it take Boom Engineerin boom e industr pur with the existing labour Bandes theoemine to trate elyonths shake-ost in capacity. vho did not receive one Leaders of the clerical and tral and m expiry of current agreements. rejection laulonal pay clam

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And following

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agreement, Tory against plant bipartin rangemente in government s consulauve proposals for the of reform Suden Ho! this sphere also. financing. Th teme derelo delightec National wiln Students' dele- Union the harsher alternative of a Earlier this vear the tech headed its government students relieve the authorities Workers Communist Party president Digoy lacks, spent two-ana- ated bational paine a-hait hours at the cauca- shipbuilding employers. student- tion Department discussings government proposals. draughtsmen's pay as a result.

the government

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sit-in at she ends of theed • not parties, Communist Party student

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01-622 7029 stewards to demand Adult Tyneside. Kitson himself behind Kitson's pro- Thompson of Kit a duff wine- taster: How long before Heath acts? Yas Reginal shouting, rell-loved placed in Secretare tasting competition in Lon- fellow by Edward Can ell one 07 The the must act i site so ough, to won it test cany cone _Torygrapt for the occasion. And what a first prize he trip four dozer do or his l mad now ter the use mustal en techniques. Danger of radioactive leaks i achieve ther gelignite, ignored sies eind all By a Monked Pros citizens with company

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good intelligence, sire. basic But it is Thompson's wide- which generates nuclear power not is ranian has been charged with failing is out, consist if measure possible radio activity, leaks during repair The US Atomic mys that the is his paticular contri- this subject oday torten he his book Electric, the soldie rate or 135 mirens a un emits radioactivity this to be handed ext on measurement) ing the concerned with train over a year. a safety levels ve proposing 1 ouR does mic contro SW AFRICA'S Ovambo wor the he tus. NLF takes heir striketan the land of stother countries, ntract labour system suit te enterpris phd id dust. the hands of private country, and th LIBERATION troops yesterday took complete control of the strategic Plain of Jars in N Laos Labou following hazards at the pant- f 4 alleged safety withdrawal from covemnen lorces Oranjemund the last remaining outpost there.

oversings. sovernment Now the been holding out at Muong- Pacific N of Pran, nearly too lilies quarters. vietnam, arter sentindi servi ese It snould be interesung to CrOODS. _ supported ov tanks opens the road for the badly hit d and an anti-aircratt battery.

that the Plain at l overran fault in hazardous earthquake weekend. schoolboys mann them. the all Iliportall base. county. 'When Wilson discovered Cabinet secrets were * lost ed said he creation was suld being leaked to Salisbury he was furious.'

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Bear, High Street. s "The Make the lory government employed workers and youth encouraging the gai Return a labour govern ment pledzed to restore full all in the trade monst and repeal роушсть laws against the unions! 3Ee pm Traderad labor Discuss ITUA Manifesto.

BEXLEYHEATH :

OVENTRY: Thursda i p.m.- Christmas Socialist Labour League Special Course of lectures e also following ATUA Nationaling of the Partein to prepare for the orking for the spie: rovical per sion dog al

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SUNDAY JANUARY 2

the Special Brance MiS and Historical Materialism today investigation

BEAVER HALL, GARLICK HILL

harged? were (Nr Mansion House tube), 7 p.m.

given by , new G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) articles, and