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A SINISTER RIGHT-WING GAIN BY WALLACE

By David Maude

Workers Press no. 732, 6 April 1972 · scan page 12

Topics: Latin America

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right-wing Ploy o7 mass marc tsunabe Allende RIGHT-WING pol ical parties opposed government of Chilean Ch ean President Sa vad Allende have mass march t Santiago next week to 'reaffirm their faith in democracy.

It has been set for Wednesopening in Santiare of the 12third United Nations conference on trade and development, at which more than 140 nations will be represented.

The decision to stage this new challenge to Allende's 17-monthold Popular Front government was taken last night by leaders of the powerful Christian Democrats, the right-wing National Party: and the smaller Radical Democrat and National Democrat parties.

The opposition hold a majority in both houses of Congress and has been blocking Allende's plans for further nationalization.

The right-wing leaders said they intended to march peacefully through the centre of Santiago even if government permission for the demonstration is denied.

Ther are angry about a recent government ban on i women's protest march, while a mass rally in favour of Allende was allowed to go ahead.

The right-wing parties alre backed by US big business and the Central Intelligence Agency. which has openly admitted planning intervention against Allende 17 months ago.

Allende's coalition of Stalinists. Social-Democrats and bourgeois radicals is fighting in Congress against a right-wing amendment barring him from further state takeovers of industry and The opposition plan to block Allende's veto on this issu c and challenge him to take it 10a plebiscite.

LIN Wallace in fancy GEORGE WALLACE, governor of Alabama and extreme right-wing US presidentiat hopeful, won 22 per cent of the votes in the Wisconsin Democratic primary election yesterday. Leyland stewards чм comyun new procedure our industrie SHOP STEWARDS from throughout the BritishEland cars and hęavy vehicles combine yesterday sent union officials back to the company for improvements in a new disputes procedure.

A lotal of six amendments in the proposed agreement will be sought, but many of the car workers' leaders who participated in yesterday's Birmingham meeting where pessimistic about the outcome.

There are no teeth in their decision. Union leaders were interpreting it afterwards as an *acceptance in principle' of the procedure.

More than 400 leading stewards and local union officials attended vesterday's meeting which was chaired by Moss Evans, national car and engineering officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

The main report on the proposed agreement the result of CANa T7.

Eastern Mercantile, opens its first foreign branch in London tomorrow. with the Bangla Desh Ambassador to Britain. Syed Abdus Sultan, performing the inauguration ceremony.

City experts will help the bank channel vital foreign exchange and aid back to Bangla Desh.

The new branch in Finsbury Square, will also enable the many Bangla Desh people living in Britain to send money home. They have not been able to do this for a year because of the war - and it has been a blow to the country's resources.

MOST areas of Wales, the Midlands and S England . will have a •generally cloudy day with occasional rain but perhaps some sunny spells later in the day. Scotland, NW England and N Ireland will have sunny spells and showers, the showers more reCentral and England will be mainly dry with sunny spells. Temperatures will be near normal.

He finished second behind Senator George McGovern, who won 30 per cent of the votes with his programme for pulling out of Vietnam completely and leaving the Saigon regime to its own devices.

Wallace's showing, just a few weeks after winning 40 per cent of the poll in the southern state of Florida, is a sinister sign of the growing right-wing movement in the US.

The Alabama governor, a notorious segregationist and advocate of stringent 'law-andorder' measures against demon•strators, is backed by the John respondeni months of private discussion between Leyland and unions was presented by Hugh Scanker g rement spins the Amalgamated Union of Engincering Worker..

Main points of the proposed procedure which is designed to replace the 50-year-old York Memorandum torn up by the unions last year, are: @ pung man topshot stewaras, providing they are 21 and have 12 months' service in their plant. • Drastic reduction in the number of negotiating stages a dispute has to go through. • Company agreements that the procedure should be exhausted in 20 days. • Encouragement of the setting up of joint works' committees which would be the final domestic stage of the procedure. • No changes in wages or working practices without prior unionmanagement agreement - the sought-after status quo principle.

"In theory. there-would be just one external stage to the procedure.

But many shop stewards vesterday expressed concern that this would not be the case in practice. One of the clauses referred back to the company for amendment provides for national officials to be called in after the procedure exhausted, but before action is taken. contention yesterday's threehour meeting the proposal for joint works committees.

Many; stewards expressed the view that this could prevent individual unions obtaining speedy action on disputes of particular concern to them alone.

Moss Evans later told reporters that there would in fact be no interference with union sovereigntv.

There was in any case a substantial amount still to be negotiated at factory level before the draft agreement was transformed in plant procedureș. he said.

'This is in fact an enabling agreement which has to be built on at plant level', he said.

Reserves up BRITAIN'S official gold and currency reserves rose by £32m during March to stand at £2.715m at the end of the month. Last month's increase. which takes the reserves to another irew peak, follows a £4m increase during February. Birch Society and other extreme right-wing and fascist groups.

In the last presidential election, he won 13 per cent of the vote as, a third-party candidate and if the primaries are any guide he will win even more votes this time if he stands as a third-party candidate again.

He appeals to the frustrated middle-class and backward workers who reject the policies of the two main bourgeois parties. He has gained ground as a result of the treachery of the labour bureaucrats who have tied the unions politically to the Democrats, rejecting the building of a Labour Party based on the trade unions.

But many stewards felt that the unions were now in a bad negotiating position with the company at national level, since there are no plans for a re-called stewards' meeting and no proposals for action if the company refuses to grant the amendments.

It is felt that if these are not granted, the draft agreement will simply be accepted as it stands by the union negotiators. We demand the right to work!

Make the Tories resign!

DON TO WORK DEAL TO LONDON 1972 LIVERPOOL TOLONDON GLASGONTO LONDON RIGHT TO WORK 1972 YOUNG SOCIALISTS 12th Al MARIAL CONFERENCE SCARBOROUGH Saturday & Sunday April 8/9 Grand Hall, The Spa Dance to 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' Saturday night 8 pm Cost aproximataly e. s0 also see a star-studded show Cost approximately £4.50. For tickets apply to John Simmance, National Secretary, Please send me details/tickets I enclose NAME :

ADDRESS McGovern Swithdraw troops The Wisconsin primary eliminated John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York, , who abandoned his candidature after winning only 7 per cent of the poll.

The 1968 Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey, won 21 per cent of the poll, while the other main Democratic contender, Edward Muskie, finished in fourth place with only 10 per cent of the poll.

Teachers aft pople strike -clail THREE girl student- teachers have been arrested and charged with aiding ..workers illegal strike a tyre factory near Bilbao, informed sources claimed yesterday.

The girls, whose ages ranged from 20 to 22, were being held in prison at the Basque City of Vitoria on charges of distributing funds from the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions among strikers at the French-Spanish Michelin plant there in February.

Bloody clashes between factory workers and police erupted at the height of the strike, in which some 3,200 workers walked out in demand for higher pay.

The three girls are being accused of channelling some £900 to organizers of the illegal walkout. They are expected to go on triurt later this year. public order YOUNG SOCIALISTE WE DEMAND THE RIGHT AND THE LONDON YOUNG SOCIALISTS RIGHT TO WORK IN SWANSEA TO LONDON 1972 MUNG SOCILISTS WEDMAND THE 1972 186 a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG Conference.

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