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CATHOLIC ACTION DOWNS U.K. REDS
Definile Stand
THE communist president of the Red -dominated Electrical Trades Union in Britain has admitted publicly that Catholic Action helped discredit his union and prepare the way for its expulsion from the Trades Union Congress, the central council of Britain's organised labour.
FRANCE'S top Protestant leader said that if Protestants attend the coming ecumenical,
He is Frank Foulkes, and the admission came in a speech he made attempting to stave off expulsion at the T.U.C.'s annual meeting at Portsmouth. But the T.U.C. voted overwhelmingly to oust the Electrical Trades Union for ballot -rigging and
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communist control. The electrical union's 240,000 members hold key jobs in British industry, It is the seventh-largest union in Britain. Foulkes tried to arouse the wrath of his audience against those he said were trying to split the trade union movement. "Over the past four years there has been a united effort by one particular group containing elements from Catholic Action, Tories (the ruling Conservative Party in Parliament), ex -communists and other dissidents
with the object of creating the precise position in which we find ourselves today," he declared. He singled out specifically the Catholic Herald, a national weekly which has campaigned against Catholic lethargy generally in trade union affairs, as one of the "enemies" of the Electrical Trades Union. But Foulkes made no adequate answer to the charges made in a 45 -minute speech by the T.U.C.'s general secretary, George Woodcock. The delegates decided by ten -to -one (7,320,000 card -votes to 735,000) to send the E.T.U. out "into the wilderness." This means it will not be recognised by the other trade unions, whose members will not officially support it in any industrial action. It also means that the ousted union will probably be disaffiliated from the Labour Party, the official opposition in Parliament. It will no longer be able to take part in British or international trade union affairs.
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The Holy See has announced that it may invite some non-Catholic religious leaders to take part in the council as observers. Pastor Charles Westphal, elected president of the Protestant Federation of France earlier this year, told a meeting in southwest France that any Protestant representatives at the council must take full part in its deliberations. "The very fact of a dialogue with Rome is in itself a matter for rejoicing, because it constitutes mutual enlightenment," he said, "But if Reformed delegates attend the council, they will do so not merely to put in an appearance, but to take part in a dialogue on a footing of From that equality. time on, these new relations ought to contribute to a change in climate, but should not again bring basic differences into question."
Boy Killed In Cuban Incident 18 -year -old boy was killed by Castro militiamen when Catholics gathered in the centre of Havana to stage a protest demonstration over the cancellation of an annual procession in honour of the Blesed Virgin. AN
Small Group Holds Power The decision, one of the most pivotal in the history of British trade unionism, follows some years of bitter public and private controversy. Through the indifference of most of its members, a small group of ardent communists had been able to gain complete control of the union's executive board. A lone Catholic, John Byrne, backed by
The dead youth is Arnaldo Soccoro. At least five others were injured when police and miltiamen fired into the
the Catholic Press and particularly the Catholic Herald, fought a stubborn battle against them. Last year he was able to stand as candidate for general secretary of the union. He was declared defeated by Frank Haxell, senior member of the British Communist Party. This imposing ceramic relief inspired Byrne, a stocky worker from Glasgow, took by the Apocalypse of St. John is destined the case to the English High Court in July, for the apse of St. Joseph's Cathedral in and after a costly, 33 -day action, he proved Hartford, America. Looking over the that the Electrical Trades Union was condetail of Christ in Glory is artist Enzo trolled by a tiny communist clique for comAssenza, prior to polychroming and firing. munistic purposes. The court ruled that Requiring 90 tons of clay, a ton and a half of colours and enamel, and measuring 82 communist officials rigged the election for Feet high, this work of the International the post of general secretary. THE Annual Eucharistic Procession will be Institute of Liturigical Art is the largest The court ruled that Haxell and four other ceramic in the world. held at Aquinas College on the Feast of communist members of the, union were guilty of conspiracy, and that Byrne was in fact Christ the King, Sunday, October 29. elected and should immediately take office. Special arrangements Judgment was given munists and the disbanding are being made to ease the formed a campaign com- the E.T.U. delegates were that the union was con- of four special sub-commit- mittee whose purpose was asked to leave the hall, parking problems, which trolled by the Communist tees set up, aft, the High have been increasing in Party as a tool of commu- Court decision, to under- "to destroy the general Foulkes and his party walkthe past few years. secretary." ed out of one door and nism, that its communist mine the authority of the The communists would Byrne out of another. leaders received outside new general secretary, Mr. The route of the pronot survive if the members directions from the Com- Byrne. This was ignored. cession itself has been The union's future is unused their votes, he said, but certain, but with reform it munist Party and that the altered, but the assembly T.U.C. general secretary under present conditions the communists selected the and Benedidion ovals will could easily be admitted to candidates for election to Woodcock, also a Catholic, union's next revision con- the T.U.C. again. The union be the same as last year. told the Congre:1;: "Fraud is ference would comprise 40 union offices. elections take place this Distinc t i v e structural Later the general council the question. Fraud is the communists out of 50 dele- month and a hundred -strong alterations to the entrance of the Trades Union Con- issue. You are here as the gates. group of Labour Members of the main oval, now gress ordered the Electrical conscience of the British "Those are the conditions of Parliament has appealed being carried out by the Trades Union to obey a trade union movement." under which we in the to every E142trical Trades College authorities, will three-point ultimatum which Byrne addressed Congress E.T.U. are trying to secure Union member to vote. It is provide an even more atcalled for the resignation of after Foulkes. He said that democracy once again," he estimated that the union's tractive setting for this Foulkes, the barring from communists in the Electrical added. communist membership is stirring occasion than in office of five le^ding corn - Trades Union had now After the expulsion vote, actually under two thousand. previous years.
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crowd of several thousand which thronged the Havana church of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, according to reports reaching Kingston, Jamaica. A procession honouring the Patroness of Cuba has been held traditionally at the church on the Sunday afternoon following the feast of the birthday of Mary. The incident this year took place following an edict by Ramiro Valdez, head of the secret police, that the procession could be held only in the morning, not in the afternoon as previously. When the street outside the church of Our Lady of Charity began filling with people for the usual procession, the parish priest, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Boza Masdival of Havana, announced the police chief's ruling. Some of the people became irate, and began shouting denunciations of the government ruling. Also heard were such chants as "Cuba si, Russia no" and "Long live Christ the King!" Police and militia were rushed in to quell the demonstration. Shots were fired and young Soccoro and a number of others were hit. It was believed to be the first time under the Castro regime that militia had opened fire on a public demonstration.