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Now they are gone. The former UFWOC headquarters are up for rent. Today, anybody who wants to join the union has great difficulty getting work in the fields.

Many workers realize that a political fight must be waged. Caught between the state power and the grip of the church, between those who aid capitalist exploitation of labour and those who ay that the 'burden is light', many see that the only way out is the end of capitalism.

Jose Frias said: 'Yes, workers If you cannot cross the border, the road dead-ends in the slums of Tijuana. Hovels of cardboard and wood scraps, inhuman conditions and brutality arise out of the vice-like squeeze of inability to get work in the US, and 30 per cent unemployment Tijuana.

It is in these slums, barely a quarter mile from the border, that the reality of capitalism is other families and it is too crowded. I go to Tijuana and things are bad there too. You could end up in the slums.

'I don't think things are going to get any better. They are going to get worse. There has to be a change. Socialism is the only way out. We need a movement for socialism.' REPRINTED FROM THE UNITED STATES 'BULLETIN' WEEKLY ORGAN OF THE WORKERS LEAGUE.

MAUDLING Top Left: Sales academy director, Paul Pope, with cine projector and recrull Wagner of New York on flying visit to Greece. Above: Fund president Re executive Rogerson and Lawson. Below: Jerome D. Hoffman and Maudlir business. Right: Hoffman: 'I'm growing like a weed'.

LEFT THE OFFSHORE 'Yes'. The punchline is, of course, purchasing capacity and they •Will estate inu tak United States real don't buy, it is your fault as the A pamphlet issued by the prospect. But, when using the academy says: •When do you start apology, you must mean it. If you closing? The minute you open don't, and are at all "cute" about your mouth. The whole sales ear. If you are sincerely sorry, process is nothing but one big and you should be, and are close. ( sincere with apology, this One of the niftiest closes IS technique will get you sales.

1, Saturday I alouotte AstuzaWHEN WORLD Tales: of Hoffman: Part 3 To launch his offshore fund, Real Estate Fund of America, Jerome D. Hofiman began a massive public relations effort.

From his headquarters at Kings House, Buckingham Gate, Hoffman despatched thousands of leaflets and expensively produced brochures. 'Dear Investor,' one of them read, 'American real estate is probably the soundest investment struction in the 50 states United States.

Impressive stuff. Except that after 18 months in business there is no evidence that the company 'aid a single brick.

But although Hoffman wasn't in the construction at all, he continued to pour out misleading publicity material. One large photograph showed an apartment block situated under the brow of Brooklyn Bridge. It carried the caption: 'Constructed by the known as the lost, sale close. It goes like this:

'Use this on those prospects that you nave lost diler evciy- harro Inct after salesman, not the fault the it, he will toss you out on your ts. Bottom left: Mayor Robert *ginald Maudling with senior ng share dinner and discuss ch prominence that he hardly eds introducing' The same issue also contained ofiles of other British directors cluding Maudling's close friend, ird Brentford, former junior ›ry Minister in the Macmillan vernment, Brentford's con 'ispin Joynson - Hicks, and illiam M. Clarke.

Clarke was the former city litor of «The Times' and is day director of the governent's Committee on Invisible ports. He regularly appears on markable," he said, "that we are bringing together the combined exinvestment and financial facilities wa of both sides of the Atlantic" wh 'There followed question- ber and-answer period during which res Mr Hoffman and Mr Maudling Ma dealt with questions from the lea audience. Mr Hoffman said the fund is now covered in about 55 countries "from Hong Kong to Panama to Kuwait" • "There is some of the world," Mr Hoffman said, "which maybe does not understand all there is to know about securities" After the article appeared some •REFA executives say there is a boardroom confrontation in lich Maudling asked Hoffman, cause of his unsavoury past, to sign. When Hoffman refused audling himself decided to Ive. some extracts from one British newspaper about my resignation from REFA. "The purpose of the leaflet must clearly be to do damage to your business. It is anonymous and there is no way on the face of it of telling who has circulated it, but it appears likely that this has been done by a competitor of yours.

Then, 'for the record', Maudling stated that he considered REFA to be 'a good and sound investment'. In sending the tions. On December 19, 1969, he attended the company's first-and only-Christmas party. "Fund Forum' was on hand to capture a photograph of the deputy leader of the Tory Party, glass in hand, talking to Hoffman and other executives.

The caption said: 'Mr Maudling took the floor and extended the compliments of the season to managers, their wives and members of the London staff.' He also attended a general managers' sales conference and was photographed shaking hands 'MIT time for my political work, particularly in connection with party policy". 'That "political work" really paid off in June of this year. Great Britain's Conservative Party swept back into power with our ex-chief Reginald Maudling standing next to new Prime Minister Edward Heath. 'As a result Mr Maudling was appointed Home Secretary and deputy Prime Minister, which made him the number two man in the government. Nobody