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annual paid holiday required by the CaT met tre fion (led bv the Communist Party) refused to sign agreement, demanding an immediate reduction 10. 38 hours with no But under firench labour law sallaluft of the other union Tereranons is clousi to make the agreement bind.

(even though the : CGT is the strongest union in the industry).

The diversity of disputes on the 39 hours and the fifth week was surveyed by the Trotskyist weekly Lutte Ouvriere In "fior a in many cases, there is no real reducton workme me. at Jeumont-Schneider in hours a week is be are, bal the 40th nour becomes over time (which means a 0.67 wage rise) Iby law time must be paid at tim and a quarter!

workers, particularlound employers saying that it their counted out, they were already doing less Than hours, to the decree did not CHARLES J. Haughey, the millionaire property dealer who leads Fianna Fail, was voted back as Prime Minister of the Irish Republic in the Dail on March Ith. He was elected Taoiseach by 86 votes to 79 for Fine Gael. The working class and socialist deputies divided according to which party of the bosses they wanted to form the government.

The Labour Party was unwilling to form a new coalition, but nevertheless voted for Fine Gael's Garret Fitzgerald. The three Sinn Fein the Workers' Party deputies and Tony Gregory joined Independent Fianna Fail nationalist Neil Blaney to give Haughey a comfortable, though inherently unstable, majority.

Independent Socialist TD from Limerick Jim Kemmy (associated with the self-styled British and Irish Communist Organisation, which would make him somewhere around the centre in British Labour Party terms) attempted to form a Dail bloc of Leftsfor-Fitzgerald, but ended up as the only 'left' to vote for Fine Gael.

Haughey -outbid Fitzgerald, undertaking to spend £120 million on projects to placate SFWP and independent TD Tony Gregory.

That means they will vote for a slightly modified version of the austerity budget which the Fine Gael-Labour coalition tried to put through the Dail last month.

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A NEW crop of public relations fiascos last week added to the headaches faced by Ronald Reagan in crushing the revolutionary movement in El Salvador.

Despite the carefully cultivated image of US imperialism as all-powerful and engaged in a world-wide offensive, Reagan is increasingly bogged down in an impossible situation.

The Salvadorean state foIces, with crumbling morale, are known to be losing the war in the countryside. Sooner than confront the guerrilla forces of the left-wing FMLN, they have preferred to slaughter unarmed civilians in a series of well-documented atrocities.

Lavish supplies of US military equipment and aid to the junta have failed to GUATEMALA HONDURAS