ANTI-APARTHEID NI ANTI-APARTHEID NI Newspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Price 5 np. March 1971. The Tory M.P's who profit from apar~theid... Page 4. Anti-Apartheid News March 1971. Page 2 ACTION -NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Britain Surrey AAM v Powell 'TE SURREY Anti-Apartheid Movement have laid a formal complaint about Enoch pvwell's immigration 'nightmare' speech at Carlhtton on February 15. Only the Attoraey-General, Sir Peter Rawlinson.can decide whether Powell should be prosecuted. The Surrey AAM claims that Powell's aeech was intended to create hatred b. tween different sections of the community here'. Their secretary, David Oldham, stated that they understood Powell to have said that he wanted to send only coloured people back to where they had come from. I' Heis saying nothing about the Americans the Canadians, the Australians and the other white immigrants who come here', he pointed out. David Oldham said that Powell's speech had to be viewed in the context of a situation where unemployment was heading for Ithe one million mark, where there was industrial unrest resulting from'the government's Industrial Relations Bill, and where the government was .intending to send arms to South Africa, and to do a deal with the Smith regime. All these tended to heighten racial tension, he stated. The Sutton branch of the Anti-Apartheid Movement had mounted a picket for Poweil's Carslsallon speech. The 200 people on the picket included members of the local Labonr, Liberal and Communist parties, local trade unionists and churchmen. About so members of the National Front were on the opposite side of the road. TGWU THE TRANSPORT and General Workers Union has taken swift action to warn its u membersagainst the Johannesburg Corporation's attempts to recruit British bus drives to work in South Africa. In a statement to the press tle Union said 'Out union could give the South African gove p rnment many examples of how bs services can be operated harmoniously by bus workers of different raes and colours. But we are certainly absolutely opposed to British bus workers being used to fill jobs apparently that the whites 'in South Africa do not want and other workers are not alno'ed to heve simply because of the colour of their skin' A STRONG resolution opposing white minority domination in Southern Africa has been set down for the Scarborough confererne of the Transport and General Workers Unio, which is being held from July 12-16. lue resolutionwhich is being put forward l 1 Branch 1128 of the TGWU, condemns .n by the British government and British companies which enables this domination to continue. The sale of arms to Suluth Africa is specifically mentioned in this connection. Tie motion also calls for the union to render moral and material assistance to the freedom fighters who are fighting in Mozamljique. It appeals to union members ,ot to transfer work to Southern Africa,and" in particularto refuse to work on the CaboraBassa dam site. Barclays THERE HAVE been moves within both the trade union and community relations fields against Barclays Bank's involvement in the Cabora Bassa dam project and in Southern Africa generally. THE ASSOCIATION of Cinematogrnph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT) have removed their deposit account from Barclays. They bank with the Co-operative, but had been using Barclays as a clearing S house. The decision was taken because of Barclays role in Southern Africa. THE LEEDS branech of the Association of Broadcasting Staff has set down a resolution for the annual meeting of the ABS at the end of April, condemning the BBC/for continuing to bank with Barclays. It has also urged members to switch banks if they hold Barelays accounts. THE NEWHAM International Community have urged the Community Relations Commission to transfertheir account from Barclays to a bank 'not associaed with racialism'. NIC officer Jerry Westall confidently expects support from other community relations councils. The Commission receives an annual grant of £395,000 from the Home Office. Ita chairman, Mark Bonham Carter, said, 'Wir have always had perfectly satisfactory service from Barclays, but this criticism will be brought to the attention of the Commission'. UEA STUDENTS at the University of East Anglia portested against recruiting visits by three companies, two of which are helping .ts build the Cabora Bassa dam in Mozambique, last month. They were ICL which owns 42.7 per cent of African Explosives and Chemical Industries, the South African firm which is supplying explosives for the dam; Guest Keen-and Nettlefold, which has set Up a factory in Mozambique in the hope of winhisig supply eontracti lo the project; and GEC-Engiu tElectric which led one of the thcee consortia that bid for the Cabora Basso main contract. Swansea ANTI-APARTHEID groups in the Swansea area have been active in the last two months. Swansea University Anti-Apartheid group demonstrated against the Immigration Musi, stre of the State of Victoria, Australia, when he visited Swansea. They distributed leaflets protesting at Australia's racialist immigration policy and drawing attention to the growing alliance between Australia and South Africa. Members of the Wet Wles Anti-Apurtheid group held a placard parade through the centre of Swansea protesting against the governmenta plans, to sell arms to South Africa. Kensington AAM THE KENSINGTON and Chelsea branch of the Anti-Apartheid Movement will hold its Annual General Meeting ons Monday March 22 at the Ecumenil Ctentre, Denbigh Rd, London W 1.1. The meeting wil start with a showing of the film 'Witnesses', followed by discussion of the branch's future activities. Everyone Welcome. Coo t: Eddie Adams, I3 Cornwtal Crescent, LondonW II. Tel. 229 1155. I St Albans A AM A NEW Anti-Apartheid group is to be set up at St Albans, Harts, following a packed public meeting held on February 26. The speakers at the meeting were Abdul Minty the Anti-Apartheid Movement's Hen. Secretary and Rev. Greenway of Luton. They were followed by a showing of the film End of Dialogue. At least 40 of the . people present wer keen to follow up the meeting and to play at active part in the new AA group. Nest day at Harypoden, Hers, Harpenden Young Liberals staged a hooded march through the centre of the town in protest against British arms sales to South Africa. The march ended is an open-air meeting outside the local Wollwrths,which ettracted a lot of attention from Saturday afternooi happer. Prospective members of St Albans AAM, c9oact: Roger Currell, 71 Blythway, Welwyrn Garden City, Harts,. Croydon RUSKIN HOUSE, Croydon. was the setting for the fifth of AAM's trade union regional conferences. Coming less than a week after the Governments announcement to sell helicopters and spare parts to South Africa the conference devoted muc h If its time to discussing the implications of fhe decision and deciding on courses of action to be taken. Michael Bames M P and Andy Wilson, of the AUEW, spoke on posiblc action in parliament and in the trade unions respectively. In the final session John Sprack led a discussion on mohilising the trade union movement. Earlier in the day, delegates had heard a vivid account of the fight of African trade unionists in South Africa from John Gaetsewe of SACTU. The film End of Dialogue was also shown. By a unanimous decision the conference resolved to give 25 per cent of the collection to the Union of Post Office Workers Hardship Fund. Leeds THE CONFERENCE of trade unionists organised by the Anti-Apartheid Movement* in Leeds to organise opposition to arms sales to South Africa went ahead as planned in spite of the postal stoppage. Trade unionists, students and local activists heard John Getsewe, the London representative of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, outline the hazards facing African trade unionists in South Africa. Philip Whitehead, MP fon Derby North admitted that Labour's record on Southern, Africa was by no means clean. In an attack of Conservative government policy, he argued that it was only the strength of the organised Labour Movement that could stop the delivery of British arms to South Africa. Roger Trask, the Anti-Apartheid Movement's Field Officer, put suggestions for action. It was agreed that activity should be directed through the Leeds Anti-Racialism Committee. The conference was chairad by Peter O'Gorman, President of Leeds Trades Council, Young Workers THE FIRST Conference of Young Workers, held in Manchester at the beginning of February, passed a resolution unanimously condemning the sale of arms to South Africa. Aberdeen ON PEBRUARY 24 Aberdeen's local newspaper, owned by the Thomson Organisation, attempted to hold a 'Tour South Africa' film show and travel foram in the local YMCA, An ad hoc anti-apartheid committee had been formed for the -occasion, comprised mainly of members of the Aberdeen University Socialist Society, and the Student Christian Moyement. In spite of the infiltration of a local press man into their planning meeting, they managed to make the South African films inaudible and to disrupt the forum until the meeting had to be stopped. SA rugby at Twickenham A I MlER of white South African rugby playero have been invited to play in a -ies of rugby matches in England in April. The matches are part of the entenary celebrations of the English Rugby Union, and the South Africans are lobe part of the 'President's Team'. The Queen has been invited to attend the matches. Final confirmation of the dates and venues of the three matches has not yet been published, but it is believed that the details are: April 7 at Bristol l10 t Coventry 17 at Twickenham France Rugby protest IN SPITE of the international condemnation of South African racism in sport, and the demontrations against the Springboks during their tour of Britain, the French Rugby Federation is proceeding with its planned tour of South Africa in May and June this year.