Workers Press no. 648

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 29, 1971 • NUMBER 648 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Catholic Bhutto- Pension fund loaned

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at low interest rates hierarchy Mujib

ON PAGE 2

condemns An interview with talks LCS sued Provisional playwright

DAVID. MERCER

in ine sory governmer nd the working clas go on Vauxhall for breach

BY ALEX MITCHELL

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Header Rahman back 'Right with had "cordial' talks to the aid of its class-the Pakistan President Zulfiqar As US bombs blast N Vietnam to Work' bourgeoisie Ali Bhutto yesterday. of trust' Released from jail last week In the co sery the and visional wing of the Nixon-Mao *Cardinal 'm demare

BY PHILIP WADE

THE LONDON Co-operative Society is being under when there sued by an employee who alleges a breach of Violencocano trust' in the management of the society's fllm deal may pension fund. people A High Court summon: steward almost Cautious Robert trustee of the pension fund, Co-op uld hance, lent itsel money alloy rales or interest be near McNab: he winy bord vast nial report of on • hours of refille new repress mere

BY JOHN SPENCER

with the tire doi Antes run the Monieg orning Star AMERICA'S barbaric bombing offensive against

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more than cent, pel indi st he rotest ant Melvin Laird, the Ameri- « Tom 18 C150 desbomb can Secretary of Defence, Trade war told a pentagon press con port aircraft. workers press Republic ference in Washington that cuts US that chamical position is the bombing resumed over Roosevelt Hotel. extra the agains rich propertied class Christmas and still con• over halt mile radius of its vork to kill the persan Meet Subordinate deficit caterial boar tinuing — would be socialism in Raphoe longed until he was satis ned the remaining US

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of emotiona troops in S Vietnam were pension tund on keeping Monday January 3 Commerce patriotismoften adequately protected. 9 The crats privileges reported, Sondon td * in ties, Laird said: said.000 mi tast ical during renancy. letti is called concussion et those Americha speaker: Alex Mitchell aty inuitary a cost Vietnam, Lao: ban admired he so l no dead no

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humanity Wednesday January 19

WAGE RISE

Linwood parity Speaker Stephen Johns strike looms Young Socialists' official monthly paper of what is blamed. warning Mujib

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

A JANUARY 10 shutdown at Chrysler UK's Linwood factory near Glasgow has moved closer 'Keep Left' leads the fight for the right to work!

with workers' rejection of a £3.60 pay offer.

Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

The 5,000 workers nave imperialisn Inreatened strike rom tner claim lor to Saturday January 8, 2.30 p.m.

Air challenge that date if the US-owned succeed or el attacks of the work car firm comes no nearer working week. Unable the East India Hall, East India Dock Rd, London E14 1972: Crunch year in nployers throug Young socialists National speaking contest subcontinen

PRESENTING THE NEW YOUNG SOCIALISTS 1972 FILM

Arbitration DOCKERS' leaders in most

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the docks Workers there want party.

Special Evening Attraction rejected evidence that 1972 is to be a egan in october the Linwood clair 7.30 p.m.-10.45 p.m. crunch vear with government Indust- and employers acting , le mid Dece ter, al all over- PETE BANKS SOUND and unison to undermine jobs.

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Bhutto- MujibR talks go on

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leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahmar had 'cordial' with talks Pakistan President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto yesterday.

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sentative of E Bengali opinion a ruins, shuton cookin man a Dest total economic collapse. Cautious months it unleashed amon force sm were popular e used nt are y he beca sermond In they to questionhat His in at demand or Bout do retain of fede onths suffering are leman anned tor so behind out the to employer. Arbitration rejected WORKERS at rejected arbitration of the ok it i company-dictated price. The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 29, 1971 O NUMBER 648

GAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Catholic Pension fund loaned

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at low interest rates hierarchy

ON PAGE 2

condemns An interv

DAVID MERCER

Provisional on the one an

IRA

and the Vauxhall

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AS CIVIL war threatens to carworkers engull reiana. une nomar back 'Right Catholic church has come to the aid of its class-the to Work' bourgeoisle dolin epeated sery ing of the TRA isional wing

BY PHILIP WADE

political THE LONDON Co-operative Society is being sued by an employee who alleges 'a breach of trust' in the management of the society's fllm call gre. pension fund. A High Court summons taken out by shop steward ing on the streets. Robert evans claims tha Co-op, London trustee of the pension fund, Provisionals else rates of interest. Planarchy adole country in summons says ive mine managemen of highs deprive declaration tron tacks? hake good the extra interes wrested and court.

BY JOHN SPENCER

in inch demonstrat with helipe run ming star tors seated by barri AMERICA'S barbaric bombing offensive against town. Air force kept quiet Vietnam is aimed at weakening the revolu- N The 1969. ay tered the mob Interest was In creased had or that it. tionary war in Indo-China before President about horror bomb 7. When were Nixon visits Peking in six weeks' time.

devastating Vietnam

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Melvin Laird, the Ameri- ainst the parsestant Trade war can secretary or Derence, bomi horror told a Pentagon press con- workers bress ference in Washington that cuts US scientists say its power

READERS'

suite at the by the nuclear surpas lts blast

MEETINGS

Ine bombing- resumed over still con Christmas work to kill the past Subordinate deficit Board tinuing - would be pro- ideas Cludes Bon longed until ne was satis- paper

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dropped to fied the remaining US roland by 1960

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il sentiment troops in S Vietnam ot 3821m, represented by were Monday panuary 3 and Department dacqualery protected represented Woman bose Bad doc the Swand on tel reaali aencil traced effect executive ainst muse betor untold Seventeen years chemical d the breacy speaker Fund, warned when the US v rais coation Alex Mitchell Pentagon has those cost Vietnam, Laos

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ing forces ones Vietnam. nd Cambodia Wednesday January 19 humanitv

WAGE RISE

it says it is not designed to workers the reason down to increases the vi price in obbed of at Geneva. salaries steppen Joins During the present campaigne execuesale betrayal the • can tal, appointed carly Young Socialists' official monthly paper state or via is plan ad. Co-op warning - the month

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

What a eithe Roo Birch A JANUARY 10 shutdown at Chrysler UK's

LAOS

British Mac 'Keep Left' leads the fight for the right to work!

Linwood factory near Glasgow has moved closer managemented ordis Forward to a weekly 'Keep Left' in 1972!

with workers' rejection of a £3.60 pay offer.

Th win the No I leader t mand that th the The 5,000 workers have taik with threatened from claim £8 and strıke Saturday January 8, 2.30 p.m.

Air challenge date if the US-owned reduction barrierss goods hive-hour the on Vietnam ilal peasants -hope president David Ainte car nrm neare working week. East India Hall, East India Dock Rd, London E14 the and the re and shes also being Ballenged assembly Young Socialists National Speaking Contest in shot donton Over vie

'PRESENTING THE NEW YOUNG SOCIALISTS 1972 FILM

DULAcKs leaders in most latter actoriest the docks major ports growing Workers there want patoy.

commie faction eftedi vet anti- Special Evening Attraction raft fire evidence that 1972 is to be a 7.30 p.m.-10.45 p.m alks on the Linwood cla

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Workers Press, Wednesday December 29, 1971 to Workers Press outine ton -all these forces are Salties There on hei anti-capitals! Fetial of Light Pr Stiato nor meet by 1s uneasy her Tes there. anarchists political DAVID MERCER is one of britain's leaaing playwrignis. His work includes several suc- time the issus treak Apeople cessful television plays including two important trilogies for the BBC. A film of his study of schizophrenia, 'In Two Minds'-now called 'Family Life' ~ s soon to de released David Mercer has been a consistent supporter of the Workers Press and the Trotskyist movement. Here in the first part of an interview with Stephen Johns he discusses the implications of the capitalist economic crisis, the Tory government and the future for the working class. period The crisis develop to (Capitalism is rapidly becoming a historical night.

the c progres mare. Pid be repres there them He 3200 s and 19305 ok period a tea pak what went on in the (Do your own thing and you abandon society ultimately to fascism. y was almost a rehearsal for 'anky save to make ins need: be Cor those " he function one o protectiorotection, acter. But in the present circum- powel. talism of what I would can Otherwise !. can she it all owners is being threatened.

appenin the str armed what i just uncer aware ot a than zer think the Festival mblize, thing they neat level, at the level neces are compresents would be The symptoms of this are here -think the as of the erie, where the interests of capitalists.

hational sors, those crisis to the poein of breakdown. think the msanse ots com capitalism. MUSIC in the Russian revolution IN THE FIRST years of the Russian Revolution there was a tremendous output of musical expression This derived from the mod- and theoretica debate. ernistic tendencies in Europe generally, from tradi- tional Russian sources, from experiment in opera and ballet and from the very nature of the Revolution.

from us last solans une movement known as rrolelcult which claimed to be the only valid cultural expression of the Revolution. In its view the dictatorship of the proletariat must express itself in terms of the daily experiences of the workers. of Thus the maic of the abounded wira editionary cas are and there Shostakovitch re Protect e assame politica Between the years 1918 to 1922 there were experiments with "factory whistle symphonies'. Here the trees cone cro the stanas on the root or a tall nouse ana conducis by means later abandoned.• of flags. Lunacharsky Subscribe! The bureaucracy declared that music must (a) sit immediately comprehen - workers press L Te untainted (b) Remain cor- upt western practices (* Be seared to 'socialist recon- (d) Be national in inspiration.

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perm was a aul Lively Full subacription (six days) for monins Name the Addles sed to wite long here. was achieved was known as tion. If you don't organize and resist, if you 'do your own thing' or whatever banal phrase they are using about it now, you are abandoning the mechanics of your society ultimately to fas- cism and repression. I don't want to be over-alarmist about this, but I do fear it. T: How do you see the the Tory development of government during the next year? How do you think the Tories going to are develop their strategy? DM: The government will accelerate its measures to both repress, inhibit and make impo- tent the working class and the unions. It will subordinate all priorities to the interests of pro- fit and dividends and the survival of those industries which are the most profitable. I think the government ' has laid the foundation for what is not only a depressed situation but a repressive situation. I think at every point of conflict that you take, whether it's on wages, development industrial and development, whether regional it's priorities in education or pri- orities for the sick and old, the government is forcing the people to pay for its ruthless policies.

The evidence of this is end- less. Workers know they are being hit by their wage packet and by the fact that unemploy- ment is increasing rapidly.

But there are other sections that realize they are under the hammer. For example the middle class, the small tradesmen and the professional workers are being equally hit. Speaking for an industry that I worked in for nearly ten years, the film industry, unemployment is extremely severe, particularly among technicians. But it also applies to writers, actors and directors, who are being asked to accept less and less money for what they do.

example I'm just engaged on a film where normally I would and inspired editorial an appeared in 'Pravda' denouncing the work in the most violent language. It was immediately withdrawn from production.

Shostakovitch renounced his 'sins' his and, suppressing natural gifts of and satire burlesque, devoted himself to the composition of cantatas and sym- phonies designed to assure the soviet public that everything was fine and socialism was just round the corner. 'The Song of the Forests', referred to above, was undoubt- edly of the most banal one works perpetrated by a ever gifted musician. His talent was such, however, that even within the cramping limitations imposed upon him, he has written many significant and popular works.

But today even the tension between his natural style and the requirements of social realism is the wildly erratic expressed in standards of his writing.

In 1948 the tenets of social realism were reinforced by the famous "Zhdanov theory' A. Zhdanov was a tough Stalinist who took over the leadership in Leningrad from the ill-fated Kirov and was responsible for the city's defence during the war.

At the behest of Stalin - who doubtless fully was occupied with his own infallible theses on linguistics and other subjects— Zhdanov presented a lengthy report to a conference organized by the Central Committee and attended by leading musicians from the entire Soviet Union.

The report, after attacking leading Soviet composers, dealt particularly with atonalism and the subject of folk music. The speech was remarkable for the frequent employment of words 'beautiful, "jewelled', such as 'natural' and other superlatives, and urged composers to refresh themselves by constant immer- sion in the golden spring of folk song. Had Zhdanov really studied folk music, instead of using it as ideological he an battle axe. would have known that folk song is not a fixed entity, but historical process stretching over thousands of years, for much of which it was crude in form and violent in content.

Zhdanov's It is clear from language that in what he had mind was only the final stage of folk song when it had lost its peasant sturdiness and with its smooth progressions and clear harmonic implications was ready to 'go to Court' and be trans- muted into aristocratic dance- forms. Zhdanov was in fact tell- suck very ren gemither to , for the whole of classical music stemmed from the adaption of folk music into the formal dance, thence into the suite and finally the symphony.

As regards atohal music, it is necessary to be briefly technical.

have received on the many issues. …How do you payment first day of as part of think the class, shooting working Now my fee. will receive therefore, face up this intensified class until that film goes into attack don't even know from the Tory government? profit. DM: if the film will be made- - writers Here we've already begun are lucky if one five of the to see a development. The whole films they work on ever reach what generation that grew up in the screen. was called the post-war boom facing for So if you have to accept this is the first time deferment principle. the privations, the fears and the means they have hammered you down anxieties of the depressed at a professional level just economy. they are hammering workers I think this has struck very down. deeply into the consciousness of I believe Barber workers a lot of people. the says are (The formation of a Marxist revolutionary party has become a credible thing. y pricing themselves out of a job, working class, will response, well this utter cynical and hypo- tend to make the transition from from purely trade critical argument is being used economism the film industry as well.

forms of struggle to of their seems that everyone, make an examination to me. right the predicament in political terms.

employment spectrum, is under attack from They are going to look round the Heath government. and see who is standing in their While the best interests politically and not government strengthens its position as far as just economically though the two should go together. it think can, there seems to be com- within the a Labour government will be the plete impotence We will have the kind camp of the social democrats. first step. of movement that is prepared to Indeed in many cases there is collusion between the overthrow Heath and bring in a positive Tory government and the Labour Labour government. leaders, the trade union leaders But also there is going to be a and, to the Com- growing realization that very munist Party too. solid strong and politica organization, independent of the They are collaborating with present political is the government to help them necessary. In other words I think carry these policies which it is the time when the forma- lead to serious depression.

of a revolutionary party, of Marxist party, 5]: You say rightly that the and a principled revolutionary ocia Lab- democrats-the become credible party Party-are in collusion thing.

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government over Andrei Zhdanov: used music as an Ideological battle-axe to attack leading Soviet composers.

Atonalism means the abandon- There are, of course, many ment of key centre and was the Despite positive features. the culmination of a logical process intensity of industrialization, the Debussy with Union commencing and Soviet avoided the cen- the impressionists. turies long estrangement of the Here British worker from again Zhdanov's whole his musical stand is idealist. Like any good heritage. Victorian bourgeois he regards Under the nationalized. the tonal values of the 19th omy, houses, concert halls, opera century (i.e. the major and minor could be built at will. The ete laws—-in eternal fact inheritance from Tsardom as the system was only firmly regards ballet in particular was established some 400 rich. Yet ago very British years many and preceded by systems listeners have found the musical was embodying quite different ideas.

content of performances by with visiting Soviet such As other emanations of groups, as Stalinism, the Red Army Choir, and the Zhdanov formula trite unadventurous, adopted wholesale despite the by mag nificent voices and the range musicians under the influence of of the British Communist Party. dynamics. It that Nor do the bones of Zhdanov certain the musical position inside the Soviet Union rest. must reflect more and more the Recently the 'Morning Star' divßions imposed by the bureau- published an article by Dr Alan cracy. Bush attacking atonalism and Buildings, teachers, and instru- alleging that tonalism was 'in the ments available lavish blood'. profusion- -for minority. But 'Fings ain't what they Only the 'best' children ren are used to be'. admitted to the Palaces So far were the readers from Ultimately ture. the danger is the reverent prostration before that the deprived majority will this diktat that the paper had identify with one or two narrow to print a letter strands of pouring musical culture as long ridicule on the whole conception.

gesture of opposition the to What of the musical establishment' as has happened Con. of Soviet sciousness elsewhere. citizens There are signs in under impact this Europe that this Longed and one-sided debate pro- has process already begun. I would like information about

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workers Press. weonescav Decemo Part two of a discusssion article, ai 148 tiney vere iot nation or Terace, and preietore There is no particular ot the big powers- -that this kind 1 ne Albanian mauon unity is not lust armncult. bur Thracian heger. 1 nc Temer and Take Bak Mos he creation of a Balkan Fed- Stalin Yugoslavia should nevee Aibanıa submission to built national supposes the victory of the stalin's poleies when these movements exploded, letarian revolution under the the irotsk visis were in ine van ternauonalsl Danner

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skyism. guara. Inelr objecu was to trans- in 19e i induced f Cmaciasto tkia national liberation with abania. and ciliatory attitude towards Nixon, China. This was th the conditions Ior direction in Albania. ead Scou Ein-lats meaning general secretary, Pouliopoulos, East ine rar became a Trotskyist and defen- visthis she Balkans. once spat. They made their first "chistémen situation dea these demanas in ine bour- mith yugoslavia in 1967. in 1969, towards making couris in geols the tines or 1908. not uney estabnsnea alpiomanc rea- vasion or The unity of Rumania with unrelenting MOSCOv With Bulgaria, allacks on tnt balkans rebes are less friendly, ahe cessi oe ndly 1968, wesent the The sa kans The Warsaw Pact nas carried military exercises in Hungary Albanian THE RAPID development of evicted and Bulgaria, while Hungary has rmDassy was Sofia. 1 was he Rumaniat re-established Trom years has made her the October The ast ten rift with the Balkans. trongest state in oe nas ser a woriq recora wil still officially annual expansion requiar the Greek capitalists oier des rus per industry and Conl la divides the territorv which unti 196.* of the present

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bureau- under need to. Decause are committed to cracy, pressure Irom which has always hare sil conception marke.m close to the Chinese is isote co ntre Balkan from otner state method. Their resistance ing rhetoric, defence gnfalinism. combine revolutionary own prive ted tapos tibe the sinidin state socialism Baikan region. single proceeded has snail's pace. Baskan of world Stalinism. ous role The invective directed Tito ite Soviet-Rumanian inter- treaty, acreaucraed bicone communists' who' had impicil approval or the co-operati obedey neea Ior However claith" Kosovo- Since thrs sizeable'. Albanian been established, and-the Greek minority. the nationality Epiras... exniosive dropped. 4 Phonetic transliteratic question. the conficting interests Rumanian Foreign Minister, Manescu, with Papadopoulos in Athens

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Not to be ousted THE ANCIENT Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI and at 77 long retirement, seems to be past surviving an attempt by elements Nixon administration to in the oust him. One of his great strengths is during his that extensive search for 'subversives' he has compiled damning dossiers on private lives the of many of America's top politicians.

It was his plodding deter- mination to defend his country 'the great Red threat against that earned Hoover his position as head of the world's most powerful law enforcement organ- ization. For example, as a junior in the no less can 400,000 people who he compiled a dossier on allegedly were dangerous sub- This his versives. impressed superiors greatly and earned him promotion. But Hoover, was not. always so efficient. In• 1936 one nasty Senator prised out of an embar- rassed Hoover the fact that he had never made an arrest in his life. Angrily he stalked back to his office to learn that public number enemy one, gangster Alvin Karpis, had been located in New Orleans. • The great G-man leaped on a plane with a bunch of his boys determined to prove his prowess in the field. The gallant band cornered into a Karpis as he got car outside his apartment. Hoover strolled forward and arrested the villain before he could reach for his rifle in the back seat. 'Put the cuffs on him boys,' he growled Cagney style. Oh woe! The tough G-men had forgotten to bring any. An irate Hoover bound Karpis with one drive to the central post oftice: his agent's neckties. commanded the big chief. More disaster - the strangers did not know how to get there.

Finally, a kindly Karpis guided them downtown. I know where it is. I was. just it, going to rob he explained. CS in Birmingham CS GAS comes to Bitmingham.

Police there have used it for the first time during a siege of a terraced house.

They succeeded in gassing neighbours, two police officers and a police dog. Circular on may oxygen depletion or carbon mon- Gas masks, the report added, would not give protection against this. • The officer in charge of the operation, assistant Chief Con- stable, J. G. Morrison, confessed his total ignorance of the report.

What is more disturbing, how- is ever, that a special group within Birmingham's 2,000-strong force are being trained to use the gas. It may or may not be an acci- dent that the band are all sharp- shooter members of the small- bore rifle team. They carry out routine duties, but are on call whenever gas needs to be used. They are intensively trained under Home Office standards.

Morrison was one of the officers gassed. He emerged from the and house staggering Other officers and neighbours had to be given oxygen in a nearby ambulance, and one sergeant was rushed to hospital. Commenting on the rather un- successful debut of the gas, Morrison said: 'You learn with every lesson and this was the first time we have used it. I suppose the troops in Ulster did not know much about it the first time, but they, probably know a great deal now.

They didn't know much about rubber bullets, noise machines, low density counter-subversion either, but, like they say, practice mame perfect. Watch out Birming-

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River- side houses: New property boom

BY PHILIP WADE

ALTHOUGH 53 Labour councillors at Wandsworth say they will resign en bloc over the Tory fair rents' are faced with bill. Iney another decision over an important housing question.

Pady has Private 0 мінь 200 5 5 00 ressing need for 20,0 in the atestactory Battersea aridge teste to used by Philip Mills polectios i depot. waste been Noise shield The 280 ho isola or a fro E 30,000 studio he river. and a restaurani. partie heavy con- Opulent Vandsworth's housing sit rom gọo cedores elose downa area a levelopment will walkways along the Thames. included in the planpec pication. stand on 222 Money-spinning May's Wart propos seen the ve projects de e avai with Sandes te ornite onde pane scleme. Workers Press, Wednesday December 29, 1971

PROPERTY AND HOUSING

The Golden 140 Miles THE FiM 22 better have more walls to December

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THE McLEISH family, including two children aged one and two, face the threat of eviction from their N London flat early in the New Year.

This will' be, the outcome of Clifford McLeish's year- Zelma long fight to get much-needed repairs to the bathroom and mething about ana toller. code dar thingney In his fight to have repairs until nov e ele be aleator McLeish twice has his McLeish LO Day 1CHl vale lanaioras. ne look cols autempi • do the repairs Torce the lanaiora into ao- stop paying your est, ing the necessary repalrs neru bue rent.

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