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1. As a result of a strike by 500 workers, no steel has been produced at the Abbey Works of the Steel Company of Wales in Port Talbot since Friday night.

2. The wage squeeze has held down purchases, and caused unemployment to soar to 640,000. The squeeze has been brought in to pay the costs of the military burdens and the policies of which they are a part.

3. A call to the Labor and Peace movement will be discussed at a national conference called by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester on June 11. Trades councils, trade union branches and organizations of the Labor and Peace movement are being asked to elect delegates and applications for credentials are already flowing in.

4. Those who ask about the conditions of membership, to see whether anything has substantially changed, are given evasive replies, of the sort the Foreign Secretary gave in the Commons yesterday. Those who point to the damage that Market membership would do to living standards are asked to leave matters to the Prime Minister.

5. The National Steel Corporation will be empowered to direct the disclaimer of any agreement or lease entered into by a company coming into public ownership.

6. Proposals from some 20 authorities for the reorganization of secondary education along the comprehensive lines had been wholly or very substantially approved in 1966. A few authorities were invited to reconsider part of their proposals and others were asked to consider modifications of varying importance.

7. The 24 men were originally suspended for leaving work early after they had been refused permission to have extra time to clean up after doing what they claimed was a particularly dirty job.

8. Before the Minister left Rhodesia yesterday he told the Press that his request to meet the "restricted" leaders of the African people, had been refused.

9. Just now the body's natural defense mechanism against bacteria and viruses works is being more closely examined at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London.

10. At least five people were killed and scores injured as hurricane Inez swept across the French Caribbean Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe on Tuesday night. Heavy damage was caused as the storm hit with winds up to 125 miles an hour. Communications were disrupted and many centers cut off.

11. The Government was "very mild" as regards prices and rents, compared with the "uncompromising tone" when wages and salaries were dealt with.

12. This is happening when the home market is being restricted by the new Budget.

13. This figure of 30 has been treated as a military secret until a newspaper published it a few days ago.

14. A few years ago when it was decided to expand accommodations in the General Assembly Hall, at considerable expense, enough seats were allotted for delegates from 120 countries. The magic number was arrived at after consulting ufologist, within and without the organization.

15. Police, who believe the four prisoners have separated, investigated reports that a farm and a factory — between Tavistock and Plymouth — were broken into overnight.

16. The new powers of the Government on wages are as totally unacceptable to the trade union movement of this country as the old ones. They must be resisted, and defeated.

17. The Government must ensure that the unions were not called upon to accept impossible tasks and then be blamed because they failed.

18. Another speaker thought that some of the older mental hospitals can only be adequately dealt with by pulling them down and rebuilding them.

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 938