centre of the US atomic power weapons development industry in April 1973 100,000 litres of radioactive water leaked into the carth.
In the United States in 1975 a fire started in the Brown's, Alabama nuclear plant. It raged through the reactor's wiring system ihreatening to destroy all control over safety devices.
Soviet nuclear power, Chernobyl. betore was no safer than that in the United States. In the southern Urals in either 1957 or 1958, the date is secret, a catastrophie nuclear accident occurred. Radioactive contimination was spread over an area of 1000 square kilometres:' suppress the real record. The most notorious incident was the murder of Karen Silkwood on November 1974, to prevent her passing documents on the safety record of the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant Cimarron, Oklahoma, to the New York Times. In 1978 company officials admitted conspiring with the police to remove the records from Silkwood's crashed car.
Getting out the truth on nuclear power is one of the most urgent tasks for the left: This book and pamphiet were written betore Chernobyl. But they will let you understand what it is about.
We all live on Three Mile Island: the case against nuclear power, Greg AoRtusOD ,Pathfinder Press £3.95; What Working people should know aboul the dangers of nuclear power. Fred Halstead, Patntinder Press, 80p plus 18p p&p Both from: Other Books. P KOY SH LOndORNI 2XP:
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undisclosed information sickness, or unsatisfactory wage a national campaign.
Correctly, the .tintiisation for their political beliets. 1•) L S104 provide to Ford? „ PUSSe Should BT be alloed to vet all its employees, and deny them access to their political records? Is it ac ceptable that companies can compile lists of left-wingers and union militants? Should organisations who provide these lists to companies be British management of course are not prepared to admit that these are their real aims in the exclusion lists they compile, or the victimisations they conduct. Their chosen weapon is bad timekeeping on application forms. probation. And to cover their true purposes they bring in the tame jurnalist to create a red-scare or a witch-hunt.
Individual cases of victimisation are difficult 10 fight. But these are not two isolated instances. They are part of a vast vetting operation conducted by BT. Its effects are, and will be, to permanently exclude from employment all BT employees who have been active trade unionists or whose political views are suspect in the opinion of their bosses The BT vetting operation is national in scope. The response by the labour movement must also be to National Communications Union has already called upon the National Council for Civil Liberties, and the TUC to take up the fight. Out aims should be to expose the extent of vietimisation, to challenge its legality, and where the laws prove ineffective to frame new legislation which guarantees the right of workers to be active trade unionists free from exclusion lists and vic-