Strike stays despite Rhodesia shootings

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January Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG pay battles against Measured-Day Work. They say management is trying to introduce an MDW system to replace piecework earnings.

The strikers are not due to meet again until Thursday.

At the Rover plant, Solihull, more than 1,000 men have decided to ban overtime and stage a one-day strike this week. The overtime ban will affect all five components factories in Birmingham.

Peter Nicholas, the senior shop steward, said a management pay offer had been rejected because it was too But the offer would also mean a change from piecework to MDW.

Workers at the Triumph car-body plant in Liverpool voted yesterday to end their successful ten-day strike for the reinstatement of two sacked men. GHANA'S new military leader Col I. K. Akyeampong has arrested Gen Akwasi Afrifa, leader of the coup which toppled President Kwame Nkrumah in 1966.

Reports from the capital of Accra say that Afrifa is only one of several dozen leading military men and politicians in 'protective custody.

At his first victory parade, Col Akyeampong said 'In the name of God, we shall prove to the world that Ghana can succeed in administering the affairs of the country'.

Following its coup against Dr Kofi Busia, Akyeampong's National Redemption Council has dissolved parliament and banned all political parties.

Col Akyeampong has set up a government of six army officers and a civilian Attorney-General.

The coup raises big questions about Ghana's future.

The economy is on the decline owing to the slump cocoa and raw material prices. Last month the currency was devalued by 44 per cent and home prices leapt by almost the same amount.

Ghana is heavily in debt and has a yawning balance of payments deficit.

The new regime faces insoluble problems which found no place in the manuals its members studied at Sandhurst, and are not covered by their apparently religious philosophies.

Czech arrests in Prague CZECH police have arrested three men who were prominent 1968 'Prague Spring, which preceded the Soviet invasion.

They are Ludek Pachman, former Czech chess grand master; Milan Huebl, former rector of the Communist Party college; and Karel Kinc], a respected radio and television commentator.

According to sources in Prague, the three are among a number of people arrested in connection with the dissemination of 'anti-state' leaflets during 1970 and 1971. fire on the strikers, killing one : 19-year-old miner and wounding several others.

"The shooting was completely unnecessary was carried out indiscriminately,' one of the strike leaders said yesterday.

He said the men would refuse to return to work until discussions were held on their pay claim. They are now demanding an independent inquiry into the police murder.

It is most unlikely that the Current ned desia win currently in offer to examine the shooting incident at Shabani, one of the world's largest asbestos mines.

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have vicious hand in deling with African "troublemakers'.

As the team goes about its 'testing of opinion', the Smith secret police are patrolling the streets of not only Shabani but a number of other towns and villages to suppress any dissent to the Tory sell-out.

The sensitivity of the situation was shown yesterday when Labour's shadow Futaig.: Secretary, Denis Healey, was refused permission to visit Salisbury.

Healey, a noted right-winger, was in favour of selling arms to S Africa when he was Wilson's Defence Minister. He was also strongly against the suggestion in 1966 that Britain should send troops to put down Smith's UDI.

But even the presence of Healey is feared because he would almost certainly become the focus of powerful antiSmith sentiment from among African workers and villagers. campaign in LEADING shop stewards representing almost 100,000 carworkers backed the Young Socialists' Right - to - Work campaign at the weekend.

BMC joint shop stewards' committee-covering workers in British-Leyland's Austin-Morris division -agreed on Saturday to support the marches and gave a £10 donation.