NIXON BANS US RAIL STRIKE

Under an emergency order signed yesterday, he set up two boards to look into the disputes and banned workers from striking for 60 days.

The boards have wide powers to try and enforce a settlement before the two-month 'coolingoff' period is over.

The banned strikes were due to begin at midnight tonight, when members of the Sheet Metal Workers Union were to walk off the job in all member firms of the American Railroad Association.

On the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad, now supported by massive infusions of government cash, train drivers and guards in the United Transportation Workers Union were also due to strike.

Presidential press Ronald Ziegler said that there were few settling either dispute.

A strike against tral would close cent of rail traffic United States. If honoured the Workers' picket li could close the Turkish guerrillas killed AFTER a gun battle with strong security forces who attacked their mountain hideout, 10 Turkish guerrillas and their three British hostages were found dead.

There are conflicting reports of the final stages of the kidnap drama, but the Turkish Ministry of the Interior claims that the hostages were found shot through the head with their hands tied behind their backs.

First reports said that the guerrillas had died when they blew up the house, but it was later said that they had been killed in the battle with the troops.

The main leaders of the "Turkish Peoples' Liberation Army' were among those killed, and included Mahir Cayan and Cihan Alptekin who admitted responsibility for kidnapping and killing the Israeli consul a vear ago. PRESIDENT Nixon yesterday union Taft-Hartley Act again: to prevent two major strikes closed down the entire US rail on Friday hopes of the Penn Cendown 40 per in the Eastern other unions Sheet Metal es their strike entire railway invoked the antit railway workers which could have This is the second time in less than a year that Nixon has invoked Taft-Hartley against a major strike threat. He used the Act to order dockers back to work during their long strike at the end of last year.

Nixon's attempts to use rightwing trade union leaders to enforce his pay-freeze policy through the Pay Board broke down earlier this month when four of the five union representatives on the board walked off in protest against attempts to cut the dockers' negotiated pay rise.

He is now forced to rely more and more heavily on the repressive anti-strike laws as the presidential election date nears. RUMANIAN LEADER PRAISES SUDAN ANTI-COMMUNIST JUST eight months after the bloodbath of Sudanese communists by General Jaafar Numeiry's right-wing military dictatorship, Rumania's president Nicolae Ceausescu is in Khartoum for a four-day state visit.

At a banquet given by the Sudanese president yesterday Causescu pledged support to the military regime as part of what he termed the 'African struggle against imperialism'.

Numeiry said the Sudan was keen to develop bilateral relations with Rumania on the basis full respect for national sovereignty.

He spoke of the 'fruitful cooperation' which had resulted from resumption of diplomatic relations in December last year.

Sudan broke off relations with Rumania in 1969 when Ceausescu exchanged ambassadors with Israel.

Last July, the Sudanese armed forces crushed the Communist and the powerful tradeunion movement after defeating NLF steps up the offensive in Vietn offensive in Vietnam N VIETNAMESE battered S Vietnam's defence line below the demilitarized zone with shells, shells forcing the abandon- mortar bombs and ment of two military camps.

Big field guns were brought into action for the first time, probably firing from N of the demilitarized zone. Ground Nixon an attempted coup army officers.

The Chinese Stalinists immediately supported this counterrevolutionary bloodbath and within weeks they were joined by the Kremlin's men in Europe.

Vasil Bilak, Moscow's representative on the Czech Communist Party leadership, told a secret central committee session October 21 last year that revulsion against the killings was 'based on a misunderstanding'.

He attacked the executed Sudan CP leader Abdel Khaled Mahgoub for "moving towards sectarian positions' in opposition to the 'progressive forces' (i.e., Numeiry and his military backers).

Ceausescu's 'independent' foreign policy has exactly the same counter-revolutionary content.

His visit is a full endorsement of Numeiry's butchery and shows the line-up of world Stalinism against the Sudanese working class.

fighting was also raging in a number of places and the Americans brought jets and naval forces , into action in an effort to stem the offensive.

The second US gunship to be lost this week was shot down over Laos where it was trying to halt the southward movement of field guns. and the Young Socialists.

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