Maoist wins praise of Tories' main backer Bad news at the

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VICTOR MATTHEWS is the chairperson of Beaverbrook Newspupers, and someone who doesn't hide His politics under a bushel. Three months ago he said: "It & very important in the present state of the country that the Beaverbrook papers should continue to express their views which are sympothetic to those of the Conservative Party and of capilalise.

REG BIRCH Is a senior official in the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and a leader Maoist, Communist Party of Britain [Marxist Leninist).

Saturday Mr Matthews said of Mr Rich: '1 conmend the responsible attitude of Mr Birch in this matier, and in persuading Mis Menters to StOl Out Is which will allow the management to manage and the workers to The occasion of this flattery was the settlement the week lore lock out cf ALEW mem bers at Beaverbrook which bad stopped the Duily Express, Sundoy Prores and Evenine Mandard from littering the streets of London.

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