Iranians, Turks, etc When evidence of Amongst the charges apparently made They also claimed thar Labour Party cards had been handed out to non-members SCARED OFF Other charges aginst the right reportoday the right to appeal:
Transport and General Workers Union and his zole in helping to organise and Britain fight for the rights of workers in the catening industry - many of whom are Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Arabs, Caprino was involved in recent picketing outside the Grand Metropolitan Hotel and was obviously pinpointed by the Special Branch operators who follow such strikes closely. The fact that the former Tory Home Secretary, Robert Carr, has interests in the catering industry may also have helped to speed up Home Oftice plans for victimising foreign workers who happen to be militant and political trade unimists.
When the Tories introduced the 1971 Immigration Act, The Red Mole (Red Weekiy's prodecessor pointed out in some detail that the Act was not only racist, but was designed to intimidate immigrant workers active in trade unions by holding over their heads the sword of deportation.
The let that the Tories did not use this notorious Section 42 of the Act even once is an indication that they were scared off by the possible response such a blatant measure would meet. It was left to a Labour Home Secretary - the 'civilised and humane Liberal" Roy Jenkins - to pur that section of the Act into operation.
Having failed to wage any effective strugzle against the Act in 1971, the trade union movement is now finding its members being rictimised and deported. Section 42 allows the Home Secretary to deport anyone who 15 poleccally undesirable, and rules out*Nor is there a right to appeal (except as to the country of destination) where a deportation order is made on the ground that the Secretary of State deems the person's deportation Strand (where advisory panel meetsi to be conducive to the public pood as being in the interests of national secunty or of relations between the United Kingdom and any other coun accepted as 'one of the boys' Recently the Home Office seems to have further tightened up its surveillance of foreign workers an students. Red Weekly has already received a number of complaints indicating a vicious campaign by the Home Office aguinst all foreign citizens actively involved in trade unions or socialist organisations in MILITANT Franco Caprino expressed the situation well when he lold a recent visitor in Pentonville prison:
*I is no coincidence that at a time of growing crisis, when immigrants, the weakest section of the working class, are beginning to unite and find some confidence in their struggles, I am sitting here in a prison cell trying to light a deportation order "There is no charge, no hint of wh Eam in prison except a short stateme from the Home Office that Tam a threat to national security. What does that mean "It means that 1am a militant trade unionist. My arrest is yet another example of the rightening up by the ruling class in order to repress militancy "They told me here that if 1 signed a statement refusing to appeal against deporlation 1 could have been back in Italy by Christmas But I am appesling because I see moy struggle as part of a peneral work ing class struggle and of a purticular struggle by immigrant workers.
It is now more than a menth since Caprino was arrested, yer the campaig to free him is still painfully weak. Trades councis, trade union branches students unions must be urgently mobilised to turn on the pressure. And the Labour Jerls" must be forced to come clean on where they stand on this issue. Only such moves will make Mr Jenkins think apain.
Terry Kelly (For farther onformation on the comprign рове 01-969.9205 .... •FREE FRANCO CAPRINO! • Mass picket of Thanet House in a from 12pm, Monday 27 January. Also picker of Home Office at Epm on # Friday 24 January