HEATH DEMANDS WAGE-CUTS

government should fight out the ir confrontation their Phase Two policy control of wages will cause.

The propaganda war of lies has started. Through the Tory-controlled Press and television, Two means an extra on wage increases. •But every working-class living standards have been is to come. BEFORE NOVEMBER, wages barely kept pace with prices. Food rose 22 per cent over 12 months. Wages rose 15 per cent. In working-class families food takes every third 5p in the purses.

So on top of other price increases like rents, workers were little better off than they were a year ago. FTER NOVEMBER'S 'freeze' on prices food has gone up 6 per cent in two months-that is an incredible rate of 40 per cent a year. Wage rises have been banned. On the latest Tory proposals the working class will suffer a 20 to 30 per cent drop in living standards in 1973.

The Tories, of course, are not expecting to convince the mass of trade unionists that their policy is fair. They have deliberately caused inflation by devaluing the pound 10 per cent and now they boast openly that food prices will not be controlled.

The government knows that a showdown with the working class is a certainty and leading Tory spokesmen have identified the car industry as the main field of battle.

Ford and British-Leyland workers both have claims for more than treble the 4 per cent norm. The government will not allow these, and the car workers may well take industrial action. Then the stage will be set for using the penalties under the anti-inflation Act-unlimited fines and jail.

Such a clash will spread far beyond the car industry. Like the jailing of the 'Pentonville Five' dockers, it involves a most important basic democratic right and the entire working class would respond.

The Tories are actively preparing for this now.

A main aim is to whip the middle class into line with the scare over inflation. This will begin in earnest on Wednesday when Heath holds his presidential-style questions-and-answers Press conference which will be televised.

The venue is Lancaster House, an opulent mansion in London where the government will try to recreate the splendour of the past to impress suburbia that the Tory fight against inflation is genuine.

Secret, but even more serious afoot.

navanlad the nlane hu tha cannait. revedicu me pidus vy une security services to create a scare around the socialist movement by false allegations of conspiracies and These go in hand with special political and military training thousands of middle-class individuals are receiving in the 'third force'-the revamped Territorial Army now being developed' as a modern, fully armed "blackshirt' Diackieg orce. (see inis page.) Linallam 'Such preparations tie in with the very serious possibility of a shap General Election. This would take place under conditions of a massive governmentpromoted red scare, perhaps at the same time as a massive inevitable of state already national These are the great dan that face the working class.

Every day wasted—every that the working class is mobilized—is a day for Tories. Another 24 hours which they can develop t plans for civil war and dicta ship. workers are told Phase £1 and a 4-per-cent limit housewife knows that slashed and that worse preparations dustrial confrontation.

From this the Tories would hope to sail forth with a brief for dictatorshipit is not for nothing that their political commentators are all comparing Heath to General de Gaulle.

Don't waste single day gers day not in heir torDRIVE OUT CORMISUNEE • Councils of all sections of and parties of built in every instruments of The time to hit back is now. There can be no more illusions about the coming confrontation -the Tories have said so openly.

• All workers in the wages struggle must be united behind the political campaign to bring the government down and replace it with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. • The TUC Congress must be recalled to plan this offensive and the old leadership that will not fight must be removed.

Action, involving the working class the left, must be area as the main the fight. Silent 'third force' army ready for Ulster in Britain THE HOME OFFICE and have been quietly building up a force to deal with civil unrest in The body of armed and trained men is the revamped Territorials, known as the Army Volunteer Reserve (AVR). One division of this organization, AVR III, has forged close links with the police force. They conduct exercises together and have worked out a co-ordinated command structure in some areas.

AVR III with 23,000 would be used in the unrest for better wages 1 men has event of a or against the Ministry fence 60,000-strong 'third Britain.

an armoured car division; it General Strike or large-scale the high cost of living.

The 'Daily Telegraph' defence correspondent, Brigadier W. F. K. Thompson, said on Saturday:

"There is general awareness in Whitehall of the possibility of a Northern Ireland form of violence spreading to other parts oi the United Kingdom.

'The present government has increased the establishment of the T and AVR by a further 10,000 men, one of whose roles is home defence.

In 1967 the Wilson government disbanded the old Territortals, the part-timers who did drill in church halls and attended an annual camp.

In its place grew the AVR, a more disciplined and betterequipped force. Between March and December 1971 the size of the force rose from 49,100 to 56,300, mainly due to the addition of 20 infantry-type units.

A new set of official figures will be published next month and they are bound to show the strength is now over 60,000.

Recruitment for the AVR is being conducted vigorously among the middle class and the unemployed. Those who join are sworn to secrecy about the training programme and they are thus inducted into a 'brotherhood'.

Their chief activity is enacting 'war games'. Two training schedules are the storming of an IRA stronghold ('pretend you're in the Ardoyne') and putting down a race riot in Brixton.

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