K IRELAND! 'CFISIS Muction industrial sectors; (3) A Natural Resources Divi- wn charged with the develop- t of our natural resources of N, gas and minerals, the estab- hment of State-owned smel- s, refineries and associated allurgical .and petrochemical & public ownership); (4) A Finance Division respon- Mole for all aspects of industrial hd commercial financing ‘‘and operating with the State- ed banking system. A cardi- Mi principle of all such financing erations would require auto- Matic equity participation. This ision would absorb the func- ‘on of Foir Teoranta which in the Ast four years has advanced £12 Xillion to ailing companies with- exercising any real control er these firms and with little tation of have the money J - J _ (5) A Foreign Industries Divi- Mon which will endeavour to at- tact investment from abroad and cardinal principle of such under- tking to be majority State y ' ity’’. n making a case for the estab- aishment of a State Construction ompany the document states, e case for public ownership is er so clear as in the examina- jal needs are so obvious: uses for workers, schools, in- \dustries (all of these being held ' n of the building industry. The. e dustries, roads, community amenities. The resources are there also, for all to see: Native cement, timber and other materials, the skilled and semi- skilled workers waiting for em- ployment, and above all, the finance in the Building Societies, insurance companies and Banks. What is lacking is the use of politi- cal power directed to fulfil these social needs’’. In 1975 the Confederation of Irish Industry indicated, in’a re- port, that each year £800 million worth of engineering goods are sold in this country and that only 24 per cent of this amount is man- ufactured here. Every extra one per cent on that figure could pro- vide 1,000 extra jobs on a perma- nent basis. In “GO TO WORK IRE- LAND” the reasons for the dis- graceful state of Ireland’s en- gineering industry are analyzed in detail and plans for its develop- ment are advance. These would ‘‘weld together the different elements of the en- gineering industry from the twin job-creating tasks of supplying the huge home market and estab- lishing the metal fabrication fac- tories to use the output from the promised zinc smelter’. A timely warning is given that ‘*no full exploitation of our re- sources can be expected until our engineering industry is totally Tomas McGlolla, President of Sinn Fein. reorganized’. In the introduction to the document it is stated that the Left Alternative in publishing it “‘seek to stimulate discussion and de- bate among trade unionists and political activists generally’’. They will undoubtedly succeed in this. There is, however, a danger that many people reading an- nouncements of the publication of the document might not fully ap- preciate its comprehensiveness or its quality. Itis to be hoped, there- fore, that the group which put so much effort into its production will pay particular attention to its distribution. “ ¥t is a document which needs to be read by every worker in this country. It deserves to be. And if it is, action will almost certainly follow. It is pointed out in the introduc- tion that the Left Alternative are convinced that the economic de- velopment of Ireland as one unit Mick O'Riordan, Communist Party secretary. exploit and develop our mineral, oil and gas resources to the economic benefit of the people of the whole of Ireland’’. The Left Alternative states that unemployment in Ireland in- volves more than the173,000 cur- rently unemployed North and South. Future economic pros- pects, population projections and action being taken to provide em- ployment have, they assert; to be considered. ; They see the half million in- crease in population predicted by 1986 and the projected numbers leaving agricultural employment “not as a threat, but as a challenge’’.- The size of our population and our workforce and the necessity _ to create an additional 30,000 new can give the greatest prosperity - and highest living standards to all our people. “It seems obvious,”’ they instance, ‘“‘that the heavy engineering industry in the North ‘of the country is best equipped to ~ Release of Mig 25 pilot asked The wife of abducted Soviet pilot Victor Belenko has cabled _US president Ford appealing to him as ‘“‘president, father and ' husband”’ to help Belenko return’ home. Belenko’s family has charged that the actions of Japanese and American au- thorities were ‘‘inhuman’’ and that physical pressure was applied to him. To date au- thorities have refused Belenko the right to communicate with his wife and family either by tele- phone or by correspondence. Belenko’s wife, Lyudmila, and his mother told newsmen at a Moscow press conference last week that they were convinced that Belenko ‘‘was in trouble and needed sympathy and help.” They said that their appeal was to world public opinion in the hopes that pressure could be applied for Belenko’s release. An appeal to ‘the Soviet government, they said, had met with a favorable response and an assurance that Belenko would not be punished even if he had made an “‘érror.”’ As more facts come out in the ““Mig 25”’ incident concerns over Belenko’s well being are growing. Reports of the actual landing at Hakodate airport in Japan indi- cate that the landing was in fact an emergency one and that Belenko had no intention of ‘‘defecting’’. - Belenko reportedly emerged from the landed aircraft and fired sev- eral warning shots in the air to ward off onlookers. He then de- manded that a cover be placed over the aircraft and that photo- graphers be barred from the land- ing strip. The next reports of the pilot are under Japanese guard, his head in a sack and his hands handcuffed. Nine days later Soviet officials were permitted to meet Belenko r CHANDRA TO VISIT CANADA TORONTO — Romesh Chandra, Secretary General of the World Peace Council and President of the United Nations Non-Governmental Organization Subcommittee on Racism, Apartheid and Colonialism, will address a public meeting at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, on Sunday, October 24 at 7:30 pm. Admission to the meeting is free. The meeting is sponsored by the Canadian Peace Congress, an affiliate of the World Peace Council. Chandra comes to Canada in connection with a world-wide campaign by the World Peace Council to obtain one billion (1,000,000,000) signatures in support of the second Stockholm Peace Appeal which calls for holding a United Nations spon- sored World Conference on Disarmament. The Canadian goal is one million (1,000,000) signatures of which some 800,000 have been secured by Canadian Peace Congress canvassers as of the date of this release. For more information call 861-1163 or 960-0921. 2 jobs each year between 1976 and 1986 will, the group predicts, dominate politics here for the for- seeable future. _ The document contains sec- tions on Planning, The Role of the I.D.A., The State Sector, The Building and Construction Indus- and ask questions from a distance of 25 to 30 metres away. However the Soviets say that the distance made it impossible to positively identify the man. Moreover, answers to questions were largely incoherent indicating the possibility that he had been drugged. Belenko is currently being held incommunicado somewhere in the US with supposed anti-Soviet Mattie Merrigan, Liaison of the Left. try, The Engineering Industry, The Textile Industry, The Food Processing Industry, The De- velopment of Natural Resources and Public Ownership of the Banks. Instead of planning being just another kind of prediction com- bined with the setting up of advis- ory targets, and with negotiations among the owners on their needs and targets the Left Alternative views planning “‘as an instrument for translating the needs and wants of the people for goods and for jobs into implemented deci- sions on the functioning of the economy’’. Since an economic plan is a plan for community effort in a common cause it must be arrived at democratically with participa- tion of workers and consumers. Strict enforcement is only merited when a plan is truly democratic in origin. And the main targets of such a plan must pertain to em- ployment, consumption, wages and the distribution of income. statements being ascribed to him. The Mig 25, one of the fastest de- fense planes in the world, is still in Japan being taken apart piece by piece by a team of American and Japanese scientists. Soviet appeals for the cessation of provocations, the return of Be- lenko and of the Soviet jet have met with no reply from either Ja- pan or the US. The appeal of Be- lenko’s family seems also to have fallen on deaf ears in Washington. Support the Revolutionary Struggle in South Africa > AFKICAN — NATIONAL CONGKESS (SOUTH AFRICA) oe BUY A 1977 ANC CALENDAR THEME: ‘THE STRUGGLE INTENSIFIES’ 12 PAGES — SIZE 18” x 10” $3. each. Bulk orders of 10 or more receive a 33% discount NAME = Ee Fee ADDRESS