ALL-WHITE JURY PICKED TO HEAR DAVIS FRAME-UP TRIAL

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDEI AN ALL-WHITE jury is now AN ALL-WHITE jury is now sible jurors have been called and employee assured for the frame-up trial so far the selection process has in a liquor store, also said he Administration is very interested assured for the frame-up trial of black militant and Com- attorneys have frequently said against him. of black militant and Communist Party member Angela that this is the most critical munist Party member Angela Davis after the prosecution part of the trial of Miss Davis dismissed because they can't off major development aid to Davis after the prosecution objected to Mrs Janie on charges of murder, kidnapping afford to take the time off work. Haiti because of dictator Francois objected to Mrs Janie Hemphill, the only black and conspiracy in Marin When a painung contractor 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's policy of Hemphill, the only black person on the jury panel. person on the jury panel. The only possible way in which three people died.

The only possible way in which an all-white jury can now all-white jury can avoided is if the jury selection there, she is charged with supply- end up with a jury of all older, nical and military aid to the avoided is if the jury selection process eliminates all 150 mem- ing the guns, which under Cali- wealthy: people simply because regime of the late dictator's son, process eliminates all 150 members of the panel and a new fornia law makes her respon- others could not afford it. bers of the panel and a new group has to be called. group has to be called.

Prosecution and defence both Prosecution and defence both recently excused because he Davis will not get a fair and have the right to challenge 20 have the right to challenge 20 feared he would lose his two impartial jury. She is a political cludes M. Luckner Cambronne, prospective jurors without giving prospective jurors without giving jobs if he were to vote for prisoner and only mass action Minister of Interior and National a reason. acquittal: by the American working class Development and one of the most a reason.

One hundred and fifty pos- One hundred and fifty posWidespread demonstrations after Spanish killings STRIKES and demonstrations of solidarity with the workers of El Ferrol have been taking place throughout Spain despite a harsh police clampdown.

Police killed two striking shipyard workers and injured 30 others when they opened fire on a demonstration in El Ferrol last Friday.

There was a series of strikes in industrial centres and university students stayed away from their classes.

Fifteen wo rkers at El Ferrol Ch become more arrogant FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT CHILEAN capitalists, backed by American im. perialism, are preparing to oust the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

On Saturday, March 4, they held a meeting at a ranch on a big estate near Chinihuevear near Santiago, the Chilean capital, to discuss the next stage of their strategy.

It was attended by important leaders of Eduardo Frei's Christian Democratic Party, the fascist 'Fatherland and Freedom' organization, and representatives of big business and the rightwing press.

The gathering, planned secretly since early February under the slogan 'This is the time for action', decided to lay the basis for a unity organization against the government called 'SOL'— the word means 'sun' and its initials stand for 'Solidarity, Order and Liberty'.

Among those present was Senate Chairman Patricio Alwin, a leading member of the Christian Democrats. Others were former Treasury Minister. Andres Zaldivar; Jaime Velasco, leading CDP ideologist, former party chairman and ex-director of the CIA-financed Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America and Gonzalo Fial, editor of the CDP magazine 'Que Pasa?' Representing the traditional right were: Senator Francisco Bulnes, Julio Phillipi, Foreign Minister of ex-President Jorge Allessandri, Enrique Campos Menendez of a powerful clan of rural landlords, and Braun Menendez Behety, the Argenile's right wingers sible jurors have been called and so far the selection process has occupied three weeks. Defence was afraid of possible hostility in extending relations with the occupied three weeks. Defence attorneys have frequently said that this is the most critical part of the trial of Miss Davis on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in Marin Civic Centre shooting incident Civic Centre shooting incident vas dismissed for financial on August 7. 1970, in which on August 7, 1970, in which sons defence attorney Leon Branthree people died. Although Miss Davis wasn't didn't want to see Miss Davis tration has given extensive techAlthough Miss Davis wasn't there, she is charged with supplying the guns, which under California law makes her responsible for the deaths. sible for the deaths. Another possible juror was that this will be the case. Angela died last April.

Another possible juror was recently excused because he feared he would lose his jobs if he were to vote for acquittal: Clifford Defayette, a postal can save her.

Clifford Defayette, osta were arrested on Friday after the civil governor of the province had blamed 'communist cells' for the strike demonstration.

At Sestao, near Bilbao, 3,000 workers from the local naval shipyards demonstrated on Saturday with placards inscribed 'We ask for bread and they give us buliets' At Valladolid, some 200 people demonstrated shouting 'Socialist Spain' and slogans against General Franco.

In Galicia the majority of engineering workers are on strike, tine-Chilean financier.

Also on hand were Supreme Court judge Jose Maria Wysaguirre, Bar Association presidentAlejandro Bascunan Sergio, a building industry magnate, the Fontaine Aldunate brothers -Jorge, president of the Industry and Trade Federation, and Arturo, assistant editor of 'El Mercurio'-the main spokesman for US interests in Chile, Manuel Valdes and top leader of the big landlords and spokesman for the fascist 'Fatherland and Freedom' party, Jaime Errazuriz.

The meeting followed closely on the defeat of Allende's nationalization measures in the Chilean Congress and the decision by American judges to freeze Chilean assets in the US following a plea from the American copper companies which have been nationalized.

Commenting on the freezing of Chilean assets, 'Que Pasa?' asserted that foreign companies have the right to invoke the contracts signed six years ago by former president Frei. In the same issue Mario Arnello of the National Party claimed that 'constitutional guarantees are not enough to defend freedom and democracy from Marxism-what is needed is a mobilization of the Chileans'.

At the same time the rightwing press has launched a big campaign against Communist Party infiltration into the Chilean army - to consolidate the support the right already enjoys in The right wing intend to step up this anti-communist propaganda in the press while they continue to deepen the constitutional crisis of the Allende regime. They have denied Allende's right to attempt to veto the anti-nationalization legislation through appeal to the ANGELA DAVIS part-time worker worker said he hostility Many people have asked to b ton said he was sorry because he including the Astano factory in El Ferrol itself.

Representatives of the official state unions (Sindicatos) at this factory have protested at the way the Bazan workers were treated.

In Madrid, policemen clubbed and chased university students in the streets and arrested an undetermined number. The students fought back with stones and oranges.

On the outskirts 800 workers at Perkins Tribunal Court and are clearing the way for an impeachment move against Allende for departing from the constitution by his attempted veto.

Behind these parliamentary manoeuvres are the preparations for a coup and civil war. The election of Allende's government was a response to the rising militancy of Chilean workers and peasants. This mood is not satisfied by Allende's parliamentary programme and exhortations to more productivity, especially when the right is being allowed to prepare te defeat the government quite openly.

This the reality which is reflected in a luke-warm way through the columns of the leftwing press in Chile. The leftwing daily "Clarin' noted on March 4 that as the right-wing moved towards an impeachment, they could push the country to civil war since the 'anger of the masses would escape from the control of the leaderships of the parties' On the same day, another leftwing paper, 'Chile Puro', carried an editorial criticizing the Popular Unity government for its softness: "Let's finish off this sordid confrontation in which the government follows the letter and opposition has aw while the converted the law into a cover for sedition.' 'El Siglo', , organ of the Chilean Communist Party, on: March 9, carried an announcement in large letters to be cut out and used as a poster reading:

'Chileans alert: the reactionaries trample on the law and threaten civil war to reconquer their privileges. Let us defend the government and its achievements.' These statements indicate not only the militant mood of the masses prepared to defend their US CARPET OUT FOR HAITIANS THE UNITED STATES government has given a red carpet welcome to a delegation from the brutal and repressive Haitian government.

Secretary of State William Rogers will lead Americ :an senior officials in discussions with the Haitians - indicating - muraung LuC the US Administration is very interested in extending relations with the Caribbean state. Caribbean state.

In 1962 President Kennedy cut In 1962 President Kennedy cut off major development aid to Haiti because of dictator Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's policy of political murder and terrorism. political murder and terrorism.

But President Nixon's adminis- But President Nixon's administration has given extensive technical and military aid to the regime of the late dictator's son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, who Jean-Claude Duvalier, who became president when his father died last April.

The Haitian delegation in- The Haitian delegation includes M. Luckner Cambronne, Minister of Interior and National Development and one of the most powerful men in Haiti. powerful men in Haiti.

truck factory began a sit-in on Friday demanding that the management reinstate a fellow-worker who had just been released from prison after serving five years for illegal association'.

Police in Barcelona charged several hundred workers who answered a call for a demonstration against the El Ferrol shootings in the industrial suburb of Tarras.

Faculties at the universities of Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostella, Barcelona and Oviedo remained closed. gains from right-wing coup, but also the vacuum of leadership in a Chilean working class tied to the policies of the Stalinist peaceful road to Chilean socialism.

This Stalinist leadership centres the attention of the masses on parliament and plebiscites when thousands can see that these institutions will not defend them.

Allende's speeches prepare to hand the masses over to bloody defeat. On March 4 he warned: 'The Chilean revolution is in the balance... We do not wish to have recourse violence, there are only two ways open to demand dissolution coneress orner, nole a plebiscite, but not a plebiscite of the kind the opposition wants.' On March 9, Allende toured the Taltal nitrate zone. In a speech to the workers and inhabitants of Taltal, he thanked the Christian Democrat municipal councillors for having voted in favour of declaring him an adopted son of the city and then affirmed his belief that Chile was on the road to socialism, although the Chilean road was one 'that will not be repeated easily elsewhere'.

To emphasize the point, he made an extended eulogy of the Chilean bourgeois democracy: "The Chilean way is possible because the congress has been in existence for 100 years because the people have always had the right to self-expression and bècause the armed forces have always respected the law.' It would be wrong to see Allende's policies as the fruits of complacency. His regime, heralded by every Stalinist hack as the successful practice of the peaceful road, consciously disarms the masses before the approach a right-wing takeover. worker students cramped college HANNIGAN ABOUT 250 students are now occupying Ravelin House, the administrative department of Portsmouth Polytechnic.

The occupation of administrative buildings follows a sit-in started last Tuesday at the Polytechnic's social work department in protest against overcrowded conditions and limited facilities for social workers.

Occupation of the administrative offices has, however, been opposed by the majority of the social workers who want to limit the occupation to their own department in order not to affect the running of the Polytechnic as a whole.

Social workers decided to.. sit-in following the threatened arrival of scientific equipment in the department's already overcrowded lecture rooms.

Staff and students have been told that their present accommodation will be taken before the end of their present courses.

This would mean the fragmentation of the social workers' section and their removal from college facilities like libraries and tutors.

The lack of accommodation for the course would mean that the present education methods of seminars, lectures and tutorials would be changed to lectures only.

Students are not prepared to accept this with examinations only seven weeks away.

They are demanding that if they must vacate their present premises they are . offered superior and adequate accommodation for the section whole. This must be agreed by staff and students and not dictated from Polytechnic administration, they say.

The students also demand that there is no cutting back on courses as a result of occupation.

The social work section was started about seven years ago at Highbury College, N London, with eight students. Since moving to Portsmouth it has grown to LCI full-time students and 60 part-time students and staff.

All members of the section are mature students whose ages range from 21 to 53. Accommodation for the course has always been considered inadequate, but requests for improvement have until recently been stifled with the promise of a new buildinß' built for another however, be anolIe four or five years.

• Great Yarmouth borough council has for the second year running decided not to make a grant to the University of East Anglia at Norwich.

Until 1970 the council contributed $4.000 a year..

The original decision to to "withhold funds was . taken after students staged an anti-apartheid sit-in.

The chairman of the council's finance commitee said yesterday the decision to withdraw the grant was a stand against the 'weak and incompetent administration of the university'.

Yarrow ballot UNION officials on the upper Clyde are forcing a ballot of 2,000 finishing trade workers at the Yarrow naval shipyard. This is despite a vote to reject a latest management offer of £3 at a mass meeting of over 1,000 Yarrow workers yesterday.

Shop stewards are still asking the men to turn down the offer which comes after six. week strike which has closed the yard—once a part of UCS. The ballot will be held today as pay talks between the boilermakers' officials and management continue.

Workers Press, Wednesday March 15, 1972 PAGE 11 Worke Press Wedn 1972 PAGE rch 15, VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD: 'SAN FRANCISCO. Cli Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy. Re-creatio Break. 3.40 Edgar Wallace. 4.40 Paulus: 4.55 Get This. 5.20 Tigha I would like information abou This i leading s car, bus! disputes could be next two UNION CHIEFS are on the point of signing with British-Leyland 6a new, improved, faster procedure agreement-with a new, improved, faster sell-out Is the reaction of hop stewards in the and truck combine terms of a new procedure which ratified within the weeks.

Arrived at after months of secret discussions between Lowry, director at Leyland, and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, these terms are now in the hands of • The agreement, which is designed to replace the 50-yearold York Memorandum LIC CSEU tore up last year, covers nine foolscap pages as against the 20-odd originally put forward by Lowry.

Its main points-expected by the company to be accepted by all 14 unions shortly-are:

An apparent guarantee that there will be no changes in pay or conditions without prior union-employer agreement. • A two-stage procedure which can be completed in 20 working days, but with • An escape-route back to horse. trading between company and national union officials after the procedure proper has been exhausted.

The draft deal confirms the rights of signatory unions, whether registered under the Industrial Relations Act or not, to represent and negotiate for the hourly-paid workers in the combine.

It recognizes workers' rights to elect stewards to act on their ›ehalf, with the proviso that they nust be 20 years old and have 12 months' service with the company.

Stewards would still have to ask permission from supervisors before moving from their section.

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press exclusive BY OUR INDUSTRIAI CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE interference with their electoral constituencies which was feared at one stage of the negotiations is contained in the final draft. Stewards will be expected 'to at all times act in support of all relevant agreements'.

The new procedure would maintain or set up plant-bargaining committees comprising management representatives and shop stewards, which would act as the final domestic stage of the procedure.

One external stage-plus a, so-called 'peace' clause—is also provided for.

In a section dealing with the principles on which plant procedures should be based, the draft agreement says that where no joint negotiating body has been established, the final domestic stage of negotiations shall be plant conference involving management, stewards and full-time oficials.

For all plants the external stage would be called an extended plant conference and could involve national union officials and national industrial-relations executives of Leyland.

It is here that stewards who have seen the craft agreement become suspicious.

The extended plant conference should be the final stage of the procedure, leaving either unions or management free to take whatever action they deem necessary to settle the dispute. But it isn't.

A clause in section 5.4, on page seven of the draft, provides that 'after the above procedure has been exhausted either may nevertheless special meeting involving representatives of the corporation and 'national officers of the unions concerned.

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Clapham meeting will take place, the clause goes on, 'the parties strongly recommend that no unilateral action should be taken heti. such a meeting has been The final clause in this section is an undertaking from Leyland that its staffing arrangements will be such that all stages of the procedure proper can be completed within 20 working days— very much faster than the York Memorandum.

stewaras suspect, however, that he 'special meeting' clause would be widely used by both the company and the union officials to delay and . undermine potential strike situations.

They also point out that while this is not a new danger, it is simply a back-door method of perpetuating one of the worst features of the old procedure.

The employers' refusal to grant status quo-the principle that there must be union-management agreement before changes in pay or working conditions-was the main reason for the CSEU's decision to tear up the 1922 agreement.

But a section in the new draft agreement with Leyland, stewards believe, does appear to guarantee the principle:

'Where an employee (or group of employees) or the management of the establishment wishes(i) to change the terms of a written agreement (provided that such change is not debarred by the agreement itself, "(ii) to change an established custom and practice, or (iii) to introduce new terms, *a claim shall first be raised through the agreed procedure. No action or change shall be implemented until agreement has been reached or, alternatively, the procedure has been exhausted and five working days' notice has then been given of such action or change.' With a procedure lasting only 20 days, of course, status quo would be much less of a burden to Leyland than at present.

In addition, stewards point out that clause (i) of this section could have sinister implications for the construction of future agreements. Leyland could start insisting on deals under the Measured-Day Work pay system in which only the benefits and not the principles are negotiable.

Finally there is the 'peace' clause, which lays down that there shall be no industrial action by either side until the procedure is exhausted and five working days' notice has been given.

Because of its still-precarious economic situation, Leyland has had to back down from several of the demands it is understood to have made in the course •of negotiations - control over stewards' constituencies, for instance.

But in the last analysis, one of the stewards' main reasons for considering the draft agreement an improvement on the York Memorandum is not contained 7.00 7.25 8.10 9.00 9.20 10.00 10.10 10.55 BE 11.00 7.30 8.00 8.10 9.00 9.20 10.00 10.10 11.20 11.25 6.00 6.35 7.30 7.30 8.00 9.00 10.00 10.10 10.45 11.40 12.10 12.25 TOM AND JERRY.

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