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PLAN REACC/ONAR The Colombian Teachers Union (PECODE). CON FECODE: HES TRAS CA-ESTATUTO DOCENTE/ Tell CONLA USO QUE NO CONTEAL it In a future Press we shall campaigns and for the working Id sIno s ul An open attempt to break the Steelworkers' Union local has developed in the strike of 1,500 trade unionists at the Hussman Plant in Bridgeton near St. Louis, USA.

Workers at the Hussman Plant, (a division of Pet Inc., which makes refrigeration equipment) have been on strike since May I.

Steelworkers' Local 13889 struck over the callous refusal of Hussman to satisfy its demands of improved wages, health and welfare benefits. Workers told Labor News (paper of the US Socialist League) that the company was also trying to double up on manning levels and reduce union representation.

Shortly after Hussman began to hire non-union scab workers, the company got a restraining order the absence of an authoritative trade union federation partly due to the opportunist manoeuvres of the Communist Party in the SCTC and the absence of a mass revolutionary party representing the independnece of the working class and based, therefore, on the Transitional Programme.

The largest parties on the left remain the CP and the Independent Workers Revolutionary Movement (MOIR) which will both be standing separate popular frontist candidates in the Presidential elections next year.

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REPRINTED 'LABOR NEWS' against mass picketing and called in Bridgeton police and trained riot squads.

On August 1, three hundred pickets were attacked in what one local labor paper has called a "police riot" . A hundred pickets were arrested Janet Stone and David Ramsey were later given jail sentences by a judge for violating a temporary restraining order against coming within one hundred yards of Hussman's gates.

Ramsey was singled out by the prosecutor in a red-baiting attack. Ramsey is a militant auto worker at the Chrysler plant and an organiser for the National Workers Vita isate Maoist Wevolstionted with the Communist Party.

As a result of his absence to attend his trial, Ramsey has been framed-up, victimised and tired by Chrysler management, which hopes to prevent any connection and solidarity between the militant Chrysler workers and Hussman strikers.

The Greater St. Louis Labor Council has condemned the August 1 police riot and Hussman's union busting as "an outrage to everything decent".

The Labor Council has also endorsed a boycott against Pet Inc. (the parent company) which owns 905 liquor stores and a chain of restaurants.

But boycotts, statements and demonstrations at stockholders' meetings are not enough. The Labor Council must call a mass labor movement picket at Hussman's.

And it must call for the removal of police riot squads and the judge's restraining orders.

But to do this would mean a break with the Democratic politicians who control the police and judges.

Independent Labor candidates must be run in the next local elections. Labor must ai Iso call for massive public works to dry up the pool of unemployed w ho can be used as scabs.

LEBANON -Israel's armed attacks over the last two weeks on Palestinians in Southern Lebanon is a new example of the ultra-aggressive line of the new Israeli government. But it is also clear that Israel has continued since the end of the civil war to give direct aid to the fascist and near-fascist Lebanese Phalangist forces. The new aggression may be one of the results of the "secret" meeting two weeks King Hussein).

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ago between Foreign Minister Dayan and an Arab leader (possibly