Nixon's new war-on workers at home

ON 1 Edward visit to sident been savagely slashed and many items of welfare eliminated entirely.

Despite the signing of the Vietnam ceasefire, welcomed uncritically by the Stalinists, this budget is not a 'peace' budget. It is a declaration of class war by a ruling class which is determined to take back from the workers of America and Europe what it has lost to the revolution in Asia.

The budget cuts were announced as Nixon prepared receive British Tory premier Edward Heath, who arrives in Washington for talks on trade questions today.

The talks will centre on relations between the US. and SLL public SWANSEA Wednesday, January 31, 7.30 p.m. Oxford Street School, Oxford Street.

Speakers: Roy Battersby (ACTT), Don Jones (AUEW convenor Viscose), Jim Beavan (mid-Glamorgan AUEW district committee). All in a personal capacity.

McGUINNESS • and McCallion were jailed for six months for belonging to the IRA, but cleared on explosives and ammunition charges. • See page 11. Europe. Nixon will make it plain that he expects big trade and economic concessions from the He will also indicate that Heath must shoulder the burden of struggle against the British workers. He announced at his inauguration that other capitalist countries could no longer simply rely on the US 'umbrella' and must take responsibility: for 'preserving their own peace'. Inside the US Phase Three of the President's wage control programme, begun in August 1971, is already beginning to bite into workers' wage packets.

Just a few days before Nixon announced his budget plans, the Briant Colour liquidator might get tough THE BRIANT Colour liquidator may soon be forced to take legal steps to clear the men out of the factory unless a buyer is found.

Mr David Brockdorf made an offer for the Old Kent Road factory a month ago, but it was rejected by liquidator Mr P. Granville White on the grounds that it fell far below Cost of Living Council slashed a wage increase won by 33,000 hospital workers from 7.5 to 5.5 per cent under its Phase Three powers.

Presenting the budget from the Florida White House, Nixon said that 'the greatest threat to our new prosperity is excessive spending'. He promised big business that tax would be kept down.

Among other cuts, the president slashed: • $600m in health care for the elderly. • $59m in school milk subsidies.

$305m in public grants. • $2,7001 service grants. the real value of the assets.

A spokesman for the liquidator Mr H. B. Blandford Baker said yesterday: 'Ultimately the job of the liquidator is to realize the value of the assets.

'He was appointed seven months ago and we have still not found a buyer. What option is there but to take steps to gain The sum to be spent on so-called defence is an all-time record, eating up 30 per cent of the budget total of $268,700m.

Warning against any attempt to fight the. budget proposals, Nixon said: 'Should congress cause the budgeted outlays to be exceeded, it would inescapably face the alternatives of higher taxes, higher interest rates, renewed inflation or all three' This attack cannot be met by liberal protest or by the class-collaboration policies of the US union chiefs. It must serve as a spur to the building of a Labour Party in the US, based on the trade unions and fighting for socialist policies against both parties of big business. possession of the factory and put it under the hammer?' About 105 men and women are still working in at the factory and the co-ordinating committee has called a special Press conference at the Connaught Rooms today to discuss the position.

The workers have made no formal statement on the Brockdorf offer, which involved employing only a third of the present stafi.

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