LONDONDERRY SHARPEVILLE TORY HAND PULLS THE TRIGGER F

THE LONDONDERRY massacre was a deliberate act of the Tory government at Westminster.

The whole operation was planned militarily and politically in the Cabinet office. Faker Slipped remier ondon last Thursday he saw.. both Heath and Maudling to discuss the final details of the plan.

The shooting down of 13 civilians-most of them hit in the back—is the latest and most murderous phase of the Tories' campaign to intimidate the N Ireland working class.

In Britain the same government is preparing another kind of war against trade unionists. Their aim is to starve the miners into submission and the Industrial Relations Act is gradually coming into operation to strip unions and their members 13 NAMED The 13 who died have been named as: Michael McDaid, of Tirconnell Street; Hugh Gilmore, of Garvin Place; John Young, of Westway; Gerald McKinney (35), f Knockdaragh House; Gerald Donaghy, of Meenan Square; James Wray (23), of Drumcliffe Avenue; Patrick Doherty (21), of Hamilton Street; Bernard McGuigan (41), of Inniscarn Crescent; Michael Kelly, of Dunmore Gardens; Jack Duddy, of Central Drive; William McKinney (27), of Westway; William Nash (19), of Dunsee Gardens; and Kevin Mellbenney, of Phillip Street.

BHUTTO IN PAKISTAN'S new President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is currently in Peking, where the authorities have organized a tumultuous welcome.

He is seeking further military aid and economic assistance from the Chinese Stalinists Soviet yesterday attacked the Union and India for supporting Bangla Desh.

Serious of hard-won rights.

Yesterday Londonderry was like a morgue city. Nobody went to work and the streets were deserted except for small crowds of people holding heated discussions.

The common enemy entire community is the British army.

ago as October 26 that the army was moving towards another "Sharpeville'. Further evidence of their intentions came in December when the army, with Cabinet's approval, altered the Yellow Book which governs firing regulations.

On Sunday afternoon the First Battalion, the Paratroop Regiment, did not even observe these permissive regulations. They fired at anybody.

The demonstrators were marching to protest peacefully opposing the introduction of the fascist-style Special Powers Act which enables the police and army to pick up innocent people, detain them and torture them and then dump them in internment camps.

The 'paras' were specially brought from Belfast to Londonderry 'to deal with' the demonstrators.

A Fleet St defence correspondent told Workers Press yesterday:

It's quite obvious why they brought in the paras. The army believed that the local force stationed in Londonderry was too "matey". with the people. They wanted a group of soldiers who could be brought in to do the dirty work.' This savage intervention by the urmy now makes the fight to ge he Tory government out of offic the most urgent task.

And those, like the Communist Party, who refuse to fight ending the Heath government, must bear responsibility for Sunday's massacre. GOVERNMENT AND Opposition whips dragged Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin off Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in the Commons yesterday. Calling him a 'murdering hypocrite' she hit, scratched and pulled at his hair.

The Palace of Westminster was blanketed in high security yesterday as Maudling announced the setting-up of an inquiry into Sunday's shootings. Labour leader Harold Wilson nodded approvingly from the Opposition front bench as the announcement was made. ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES?! Lucky not to be shot In the back, a Derry youth is dragged loaday March 21, murder was committed at women and childres rom Johannesburg. he small African township of Sharpeville, 36 mile and 162 were wounded, but usoffic Jnion of South Africa, uader its pris minister Heariek fire on unarmed demoustrators with sub-mi Verwoerd, is directly responsible. But there are those Sten guns and rifles. They used Saracen armoul in Ulster ?

at ALEX MITCHELL STALINISTS WIN CLYDE SHIP VO"

A MASS meeting yesterday allowed UCS shop stewards' leaders to release yet another ship-the bulk-carrier -New Westminster City'.

They did so after James Reid, Communist Party spokesman for the stewards committee, 'told them that thé Texas-based Maratbon Manufacturing Co were serious about making a bid for the threatened Clydebank yard.

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