African death toll mounts Smith govt creating its

FEATURE FOR MINERS PRESS oil eat interest for mee 'Miners and the Tory Government', It is written Yorkshire miner, Brian member of the Lead Uo Al miners are Invited to discuss this article and space Is being set aside to publish their vlews. we Cost of Sitarts Februar you Starts February, 19 Sitarts Februany d9 Ten days to reach target WE ARE getting close to the end of the month. This has been our best month so far, but there can be no sitting back. We still need to ralse another £374.40 to complete our total. Formula to avoid UCS showdown FROM STEPHEN JOHNS UNION leaders and shop found another formula to between the government al Clyde Shipbuilders.

In Glasgow, boilermakers' president Danny McGarvey, got a promise from the consortium's liquidator that there would be no further redundancies before the end of February.

This deals with • the immediate crisis at Scotstoun division, where steel work is; rapidly running out.

At the same time a mass meeting of ucs workers backed the shop stewards' policy - thrashed out at a stormy meeting with McGarvey on Thursday-that no talks with Govan Shipbuilders could start until: • A firm buyer for Clydebank has emerged.: • The government has agreed to a 'holding operation' to guarantee jobs at Clydebank and Scotstoun until any new company had begun operations.

This formula emerged when McGarvey found himself in a majority of one when he suggested to stewards that talks with Govan Shipbuilders should start immediately.

Communist Party steward James Reid, told a Linthouse division meeting that the government could be forced to 'get their finger out, come off the fence and start talking turkey if stewards stood by their four yards policy. TEN-WEEK strike of 150 pieceworkers at Lucas Electrical Equipment, Fazakerley, Liverpool has forced the company to reaffirm the principle of 'mutuality'-mutual agreement on pay and conditions.

A mass meeting yesterday voted to return to work on Monday, but to come out again on Wednesday for the area's token strike supporting the dockers, miners and Fisher-Bendix workers.. RHODESIAN police killed eight Africans and wounded 14 others in Umtali late Thursday night, bringing the death toll to 13 in the past nine days.

avoid a s id workers yesterday howdown at Upper The Smith regime's answer to the mass upsurge of the African population sparked off by the arrival of the Pearce Commission is a policy of tough reprisals. Action by police and military is escalating into another Sharpeville massacre with hundreds shot down in cold blood.

Police and troops are guarding every important town in a show of force which is having little effect in silencing African opposition to the proposed settlement with Britain which ensures white minority rule.

Security police have detained Josiah Chinamano, a leader of the African National Council and former member of the banned Zimbabwe African People's Union, and his wife Ruth.

They. ad previously beer letained under the Law and Order Maintenance Act which gives Smith wide powers to imprison and muzzle the opposition.

Swoop

Mass arrests of Africans were made in a police swoop in Fort Victoria. Rioting broke out in this and other towns after it had been learned that former Prime Minister Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith had been arrested.

Chanting nationalists made it plain to the two Pearce Commissioners visiting the town that they would have nothing to do with the settlement. Five meetings which the Commissioners were to have held have already been called In a statement on Africans' complaints that they were not permitted to hold meetings to discuss the settlement, Lord Pearce has backed Smith's claim that they have only been prevented when there has been 'a law and order problem'.

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