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Ex-Securicor man is new Asian supremo

By Jack Gale

Workers Press no. 850, 24 August 1972 · scan pages 4, 5

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A cool million ALEXANDER Black Mitchell, of Poulton Priory, Poulton, Cirencester, Glos, a former High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, left £L,149,686 gross, £1,119,820 net (duty £284,416).

Mitchell, who died on June 29, left the Trull estate at Cherington and Rodmarton, near Tetbury, to the children of his son, lan N. Mitchell on their 21st birthdays, and the residue to his wife, Mrs Violette C. R. Mitchell.

NOW OPEN NOW OPEN Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m.

Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. THE MAN who the Tories have appointed in charge of the Ugandan Asian resettlement board is a director of Securicor, Britain's largest private police force.

He is Sir Charles Cunningham, a former permanent secretary at the Home Office who dealt particularly with police matters.

In 1962 the Macmillan government appointed him in charge of the inquiry into the Vassall spy case and last year he headed the investigation into security at Belfast's Crumlin Road Jail.

Curiously enough the man tor, Robert Carr, the new Home The other five board members named today by the Home Office are: Mark Bonham-Carter, chairman of the Community Relations Commission; Mrs Charles Clode, chairman of the WRVS; Praful Patel, secretary of the Committee on UK Citizenship; Douglas Tilbe, director, Community and Race Relations Unit of the British Cr uncil of Churches and chairmar executive committee of the coordinating committee welfare of evacuees from Uganda: and B. H. Wilson, town clerk of the London borough of Camden.

Profits bonanza for Marley MARLEY, the tiles and building materials group, is on target for another profits bonanza.

With just nine months of the trading period gone pre-tax profits are already nearly £2,400,000 higher. At £7,015,000 they compare with . £4,632,000 for the same period in 1971, and £6,940,000 for the full 12 months.

The latest figures show that around £750,000 of the increase was scored in the third quarter.

Good news had been expected on London stock markets and the shares were standing just a shade lower at 1263p.

100,000 MINERS CAN'T BE WRONG BITER PIT STRIKE MID-AUGUST, 1944 30 BOB WAGE SLASH UNION FUNDS FROM STRIKERS Press, Thursday August 24, 1972 Part one of a wo part article The story of World Wa Il is always presented as one of wonderful "national unity. All petty differences - such as those between employers and workers-are said to have been put asid for love of the dear old country behind its dear old leader, Winston Churchill, inspired by love of its dear old King and Queen.

Certainly plenty of people tried to make it so.

These included the Labour leaders, who rushed into Churchill's wartime coalition the trade union leaders who threw away every hard-won right of their members, and the Communist Party who outdid them all in patriotic fervour and vitriolic strikeBy Sapien C.I.D. Visit District Committee BUT AT I HE REVOLUTIONARY COMMIENT says Northumberlanch QUAL UNNERS, RUKNEK SELLING OUT BY JOCK HASTON this had happened twice this had before.

It was typical of the employers' casual attitude to these matters (after all, they weren't down the pit) that they produced maps show that -and the maps were dated previous to the two disasters that had already happened!

When the tests, Stalinist Arthur Horner agreed with them that they need not the guaranteed wage for the 17 days lost while they resisted doing. the talk course together for Of during all the the good of all' etc., reasonable people just didn't mention the fact that the mine owners were making a packet.

Indeed, one Lt-Col Mayhew declared 1n House of wish to interrupt my Honourable Friend, but there is a war on.

is not quite justified in the

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