FBI is trailing me- Anderson

of every major American trade un of war' in Washington tomorrow.

Called by right-wing AFL-CIO ( action dockers in with the and trying to discredit him.

His house in Washington was under close watch by 'closely-shorn men in cars'a familiar description of FBI agents. Anderson accused the White House of mounting the FBI operation.

He is at the centre of a Senate probe into alleged handouts by the giant International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) Two cousts dock strike threat BY A FOREIGN CORRESPON the United States are threatening a national dock UNION LEADERS in Board decision to slash the dockers' pay rise. Top ‹ against the Nixon Pay in trade union have been called to an emergency "

George Meany, president of the US equivalent of the meeting will to back the government.

The Pay Board set up to administer phase two of the wage freeze policy imposed on August I5 last year, cut the dockers' wage rise by 30 per cent last The Board is supposed to keep wages down to a 5.5 per cent norm, but the dockers' rise -wOn after a 134-day strike. amounted to over 20 per cent in the first year of their contract.

Pay Board sources claim they would have 'lost all credibility" if the rise had been allowed to go ahead intact. -Last week's Pay Board ruling affects W coast dockers organized in the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. But a similar decision is expected shortly on the E coast dockers' recent pay rise.

ILWU president Harry Bridges, is said to have agreed to delay any strike action against W coast ports until the Pay Board rules on the E coast contract.

Last month, Bridges said his union and the E coast dockers' International Longshoremen's Association had agreed that if the Pay Board cuts back either agreement we both in La reement We forces and pull out every port in the United States' If this pledge is put into operaBOOKS to finance Republican Party election funds.

ITT investigators are also prying into his life.

He was previously the medium through which secret briefings on the Indo-Pakistan war for top government officials were leaked to the press.

The Senate committee ing into the allegations ITT were told by one corporation's lobbyists, M Beard, that a document p support for Republican funds if an anti-trust suit States sion ion tion, the resulting total shutdown of US ports would mean a head-on collision with Nixon.

The Washington meeting likely to discuss how far other unions will back dockers in such a struggle.

The AFL-CIO leaders, thoroughly steeped in the politics of class compromise, will do everything in their power to avoid and betray this decisive struggle with Nixon.

Meany, together with other top union leaders, is a member of the hated Board, though he voted with THE RICH GET GROWING inequality in the distribution of wealth and income in the United. States since the end of World War Il is highlighted in a report prepared by two professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

gap between the richest 20 per cent of families and the poorest 20 per cent widened to $19,071 in 1969 against $10,565 in 1947 when measured in terms dollar values.

The report sees the Women's Liberation Movement as a force making for increasing inequality between rich and poor families.

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Anderson denounced Mrs Beard's testimony as 'probably the most bizarre, most blatant and most incredible of all the lies we have heard so far in this whole litany of lies'. . Three weeks previously Mrs Beard had not denied the authenticity of the document.

The hearings involve President Nixon's nominee for the post of Attorney-General, Richard G. Kleindienst, who is accused by Anderson of lying about his role in the ITT payoff.

National doc ly rise. ToF emergency other union representatives against the dock pay cut.

These leaders, tied to the Democratic Party of big business, are mortally afraid of the surge of workers' struggles against the government.

A national dock strike, backed by the other unions, could smash their increasingly fragile coalition with the Democrats and put the question of a genuine Labour Party firmly on the agenda. • Meany and his fellow bureaucrats want to avoid this revolutionary step at all costs.

CHER the lowest labour cipation ratios'.

The MIT professors see the problem strictly within the framework of capitalist property relations and merely put forward the proposal for some kind of wealth tax to make possible a degree redistribution income. Skopje FRAUD on a large scale is alleged against the former director of the Commercial Investment Bank in the Yugoslav town of Skopje.

He and other officials pocketed large sums of money when bank premises were bought in Ljubljana and Zagreb which were never actually used.

In addition, the bank director, Misko Bozinovski, obtained loan of 240,000 dinars to build himself a luxury flat although he already had two others and a weekend house.

Two of the bank's staff are now in prison and one is on the run. Skopje was recently the scene of another scandal when a number of officials were arraigned for trafficking in driving licences.

Soviet Siemens THE GERMAN electrical combine, Siemens, opened an office in Moscow on l March 15. Its aim is to promote the 'dynamic development' of technical and economic contacts with the Soviet Union. It is the first W German firm to establish an agency in the Soviet capital.