Workers Press no. 1016

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THE TUC's decision to invite unions to join in a day of national protest and stoppage' is hopelessly inade- quate to deal with the critical economic and political situation. The trade union movement is now exposed to the gravest dangers. The government has already replied to this weak- ness with an arrogant Budget which will make sure that the cost of living will continue to rise steadily and cause the purchasing power of wages to go down.

A substantial £350 handout has been given to the rich with the abolition of surtax, but Value Added Tax (VAT) will put up the prices of the majority of consumer items.

But the real medicine for the working class is yet to come.

Budget was only an interim one while the currency Tuesday's crisis staggers on. As soon as the full burdens of runaway in- flation are worked out, the costs will be passed on to workers and their families in further savage cuts in living standards.

The government has declared class war on the trade union move- determined to pass the question of inflation and is ment over of its own international the blame for what is in fact a crisis capitalist system. It will make no compromise with the TUC reformist leaders, no matter how often Victor Feather crawls to Downing Street.

In contrast to this capitulation by Feather, Jack Jones and company the Heath Cabinet the working class is putting tremendous to up Tory wages and rents. Gasmen, the onslaught on its resistance to staff, hospital teachers, railway- and civil servants are en- men, strike gaged unprecedented action. But these fights are now In all Escaren danger defeat, just the of as

SCHOOL STANI

defeated in 1971, postmen were because of the refusal of the 'lefts'

TUC,

backed up by the and the Communist Party Stalin- ists, to do more than call a one- in their support. day stoppage strike will settle 24-hour nothing with this Tory govern- ment which is utterly determined with to win the confrontation the trade unions. The TUC is disarming workers by refusing to to what tace up really The required. feeble the protests merely confuse middle class and of the sections the gov- working class and give time to build the ernment up forces of the state and prepare a General Strike for on issues and at a time of the Tories own choosing. Preparation The only the working class win the coming con- frontation is by determined pre- paration for it. Being politically prepared will be decisive. The Socialist Labour League has con- sistently called for the mobiliza- tion of the full strength of the the working class to create necessary political and industrial General Strike conditions by the Tory government to make resign. All trade unionists who use of the TUC the paralysis as an indepen- for not taking excuse toward; dent action themselves aim are in fact achieving this the

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helping to carry

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THE NUM is to call a special its treacherous role. executive on Friday, March 16 to The danger is so great and the make a final decision about its time so short that such confu- sion amounts to betrayal. Those pay dispute with the Coal Board.

who succumb to this paralysıs The Board yesterday made it end up blaming the invariably be no third clear that there can holiday added the

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DECISION

FOR TRADE

UNIONISM

NO.

• CUTS ON

Small

SCHOOL STAND

EDUCATION

UP pay.

TZACHERSLIVIN

WHY?

40,000 teachers Short Miners' executive still talking about pay

BY ROYSTON BULL

package to a ballot immediately with recommendation vuted but the executive such t2.29 package deal. Joe Gormies ova delay

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president, said this would move until March 16. turned almost certainly Gormley said as there was no third week he could not recom down. There were moves to put the mend acceptance. A

BY DAVID MAUDE

ALMOST 3,000 striking teachers marched through London yesterday against the Tory pay laws under which they have been offered an 'insulting' 28p a week extra on their metropolitan allowance. Max Morris, NUT presi- claimed *the dent-elect, widest spread yet' was sup- porting the union's three- phase campaign of selective strikes. Twenty-one areas were represented on the march and members of the college lecturers' union, ATTI, were also taking part. But in the ranks of the demonstration, which peri- odically broke into chants of 'Tories out!' criticisms of the union policy was widespread.

Teachers from most dele- gations said they were in favour of all-out action now the selective strikes had failed to shift the govern- ment. Above left: Many of yester- day's demonstrators were young women teachers. Two are interviewed on page 12, along with hospital workers and gasmen.

workers press BOOK NOW FOR NEXT SUNDAY'S PAGEANT— page 4

IT'S THE HOUR OF

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY THE EDITOR

THE TUC's decision to 'invite unions to join in a day of national protest and stoppage' is hopelessly inade- quate to deal with the critical economic and political situation. The trade union movement is now exposed to the gravest dangers. The government has already replied to this weak- ness with an arrogant Budget which will make sure and cause the purchasing power of wages to go down.

A substantial £350 handout has been given to the rich with the abolition of surtax, but Value Added Tax (VAT) will put up the prices of the majority of consumer items.

But the real medicine for the working class is yet to come.

one while Tuesday's Budget was only an interim the currency crisis staggers on. As soon as the full burdens of runaway in- flation are worked out, the costs will be passed on to workers and their families in further savage cuts in living standards.

The government has declared class war on the trade union move- and is determined to pass off over the question of inflation crisis of its international the blame for what is in fact a capitalist system. It will make no compromise with the TUC reformist leaders, no matter how often Victor Feather crawls to Downing Street.

In contrast to this capitulation by Feather, Jack Jones and company Heath Cabinet the working class is putting tremendous to the up resistance to the Tory onslaught and Gasmen, on its wages hospital staff, teachers, railway- and civil servants are en- men,

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gaged in unprecedented strike action. But these fights are now in danger of defeat, just as the 1971, postmen were defeated in of because of the refusal the "lefts'

TUC,

backed up by the and the Communist Party Stalin- ists, to do more than call a one- day stoppage in their support.

A 24-hour strike will settle Tory govern- nothing with this ment which is utterly determined win confrontation with the to the trade unions. The TUC is disarming workers by refusing to face up to what required. The feeble is really confuse the protests merely middle class and sections of the working class and give the gov- build ernment time the up forces of the state and prepare General Strike for issues Con and at a time of the Tories own choosing. Preparation The only way the working class can win the coming con- frontation is by determined pre- for it. Being politically paration will be decisive. The prepared Socialist Labour League has con- sistently called for the mobiliza- full strength of the tion of the the working class to create necessary political and industrial General Strike conditions by the Tory make to government resign. trade unionists who use All the paralysis of the TUC as an excuse for taking indepen- not dent action themselves toward; this are in fact achieving the TUC helping to carry out THE NUM is to call a special its treacherous role. executive on Friday, March 16 to The danger is so great and the make a final decision about its confu- time so short that such Those sion amounts to betrayal.

pay dispute with the Coal Board.

succumb this who to paralysis Board yesterday made it The end blaming the invariably up be no third clear that there can week's holiday added the

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DECISION

FOR TRADE

UNIONISM

NOTM

CATS Ol Small

SCHOOL STANG

EDICIL

UP pay

TEACHERSLIVIA

WHY?

STANDARDS DONAN

40,000 teachers short Miners' executive still talking about pay package to a ballot immediately

BY ROYSTON BULL

with rece mesendation, vuied executive Ic cul, Gormley, £2.29 package deal. Joe delay such 2-l maiority to said this would

NUM

president, a move until March 16. be turned almost certainly third meek hed could not ves no Gormley aown. not recom- There were moves to put the mend acceptance.

BY DAVID MAUDE

ALMOST 3,000 striking teachers marched through London yesterday against the Tory pay laws under which they have been offered an 'insulting' 28p on their a week extra metropolitan allowance. Max Morris, NUT presi- dent-elect, claimed 'the widest spread yet' was sup- union's three- porting the phase campaign of selective strikes. Twenty-one areas were represented on the march and members of the college lecturers' union, ATTI, were also taking part. But in the ranks of the demonstration, which peri- odically broke into chants of 'Tories out!' criticisms of the union policy was widespread.

Teachers from most dele- gations said they were in favour of all-out action now the selective strikes had failed to shift the govern- ment. Above left: Many of yester- day's demonstrators were young women teachers. Two aro interviewed on page 12, along with hospital workers and gasmen.

CPers vote for rent rise Nixon aides will crack dollar whip PARE 2 Markars Prace, Thursday March 8, 1873 THE CLYDEBANK vote to implement the Tories' rent Act raises serious questions for the working class. Fighting speeches had been made by the non-implementers. Labour councillor Joseph Bauld had said: 'We are not going to be intimidated by the law courts or the Secretary of State! We have taken a stand and there can be no retreat from it.' Mrs Brown had sworn: 'I will not give in, even to the threat of jail.' And Clir James Reid, National Executive member of the Communist Party and leader of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, had promised: 'If a hair on the head of any councillor is touched, then the whole working class of Scotland will be part of the battle.' But these were merely 'left' words and the failure of the Labour and Communist Party councillors to live up to them reveals the bankruptcy of centrism and Stalinism. These people drifted into opposition to a Tory government measure inadequately prepared for a serious political struggle. This is the essence of centrism. The trade union movement was called in only to pay the councillors fines and to bolster up anti-rent Act demonstrators with supporters from other areas.

the Tories. Such a 'fight' cannot possibly defeat The central question remains that of leadership.

The Labour leaders abandoned the rent struggle 1972 Labour Party conference when the at 'left' MP Frank Allaun told delegates that the councillors Party could not support rebel and Labour government would that future not repay surcharges. The trade union leaders refused to mobilize the industrial might of the working class behind those Labour councillors who originally set out to defy the government. Workers were kept only partially active and were involved in only piece- meal, isolated actions. Above all, they are given no political answers by the Stalinists and centrists to the main question —how to defeat the Tory government and force it to resign. In 'Socialist Worker' of January 27, Paul Foot wrote an article praising the I1 rebel councillors

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MENT

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earth,' he said, Clay Cross. 'No power on 'can party to rent increases make these councillors under the Housing Finance Áct.'

councillors have been abandoned by But these their Labour Party chiefs, given no assistance by the union leaders and left isolated as one Labour council after another capitulated.

In these circumstances it is empty 'left' talk to say, as Foot does, that, if the Tories Com- put a missioner into Clay Cross: 'The battle will then move from the council chamber to the estates.'

The Tory government cannot be beaten by 1l isolated councillors in Derbyshire and a spon- taneous movement in the Clay Cross housing estates. The Clay Cross councillors must be supported for standing out against the Tory government and its state laws. But Marxists have a responsibility to show that—no matter how courageous individual workers may be-victory cannot be won without forcing the union leaders to mobilize the work- ing class against the Tories.

The central task is to link all the struggles of the working class on rents, prices, wages and basic rights to force the union leaders to call a General Strike to make the Tory government resign and a Labour government pledged to repeal return all anti-working class legislation and introduce socialist policies. It is precisely on this question that the centrists remain treacherously silent.

THE RENTS fight at Clydebank has ended. The town council, which includes Jimmy Reid and Communist other Party councillors, voted unanimously on Tuesday to implement the Tories' Housing Finance Act. The councillors were €5.000 fined last mont, for refusing to implement and they raised the money by appealing for donations from the labour

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Announcing their decision abandon the struggle, to Brown (Labour) and Cilr James Roid (CP) Ballie Mra Betty Baile Mrs Betty Brown (La- who both voted to Implement rents.

13 rebels bour said: "The have held meetings many be brought against Clydebank the due brought Said 'We weekend and Brown: OVer

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was decision is that from tonight back to the court or ses deciter that the muST sion by the Secretary be implemented because could State for Scotland who had have any heavier the not Her statement came only asked decree

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burdens DUTi on lie

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

in Europe THE UNITED STATES gov- ernment has no intention of making the slightest conces- sion to the Common Market or the Japanese at tomorrow's Volcker, Treasury Secretary mitment meeting of Finance crucial sterling. George Schultz and Dr Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve Board The Ministers in Paris. powerful drive Consulute

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In the words of Treasury level delegation to Paris.

They are unev 1971. The under-Secretary for Monetary not interestea In proposals 1or Inter• ried through co-operation and currency Affairs, Paul Volcker, the ad- realignment. ministration does not intend outre ucacy Those Common Market worthies trade war hope for 'American This throw good money after who an contribu- cion to supporune ue

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bad' by supporting the dollar tary system are living in cloud-cuckoo into chan tory of the international money on getting such a markets. chancellor barber nas oransac con- Numeiry threat to Arab guerrillas PRESIDENT Nixon's call 'firm international action' against so-called quickly the Saudi Arabian embassy This statement paralleled taken General King be tried for murder. similar remarks by the Numeiry, pro- jalaar He launched direct mussein or jordan, an arcn- imperialist dictator of the enemy of the Palestinian attack on the Fatah guerrilla Sudan. organization, the largest cause. liberation Following the raid Hus- Nixon's aides have indi- Palestinian

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tion, sein confirmed sen- Claiming that death they calca want une organized the armed take- febus aud and a taller er tences _Fatah leader September guerrillas over of the embassy. held Khartoum put death. Fatah has firmly denied ns comrades. any involvement in the kid- They were arrested in Wash- At a ceremony lapping of the diplomats their to the Israeli- way ington yesterday he called occupied west bank. whole world on com- il das diways Walllallici connection Black Sep. Il nas no Une of the munty to lake a lm sland Black September. tember demands was for against international out- the release of these laws'. In an revealing Dri. outburst soners. Nursery, who owes his his counter revolutiondl. Cen- spleen Palestin- Hussein has now offered continuee rule to the against une tral Intelligence Agency, ians, Numeiry said of the reconsider the death was quick kow-tow eight prisoners: it the commando

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only be organization guarantee huberaust leader Will Will He announced that the September that will be take action any eight commandos who killed We are in a position black. against Jordan and provided guaranteed position [WO Amencan To make a er cas ock This and Belgian diplomat in throughout the year.' by other Arab states. Election manoeuvres by Gaullists

LAST-MINUTE

bargaining left coalition of the Com- side with a 'red-scare'-style has been going on as French munist Party, the Socialist appeal. political for Party and the left Radicals.

pal lico CP secretary Georges Mar- me ma dao me venera! chais, A contest is also going on nas cone every. Election which takes place for support thing possible to establish an _The … or thnsa on Sunday. middle-of-the-road voters image of the respect- utmost Gaullist

UDR,

which be- i ne who will have to choose ability, has OCCu first ba. the same direction. ost leavy Tween lot, wants the candidates of left coalition. He hopes, by still further Jean Lecanuet's Centre Party So decisive are these votes emphasising the to stand down. that President of the Pompidou Disalluc This would provide uker make special. wanch me coalion solid front against what are last-minute broadcast to fighting, win some called the 'Marxists' of the swing them to the Gaullist centre votes. union movement which has already helped us tremen- dously by their • moral and financial support. 'But we realize that the axe is likely to come down in the Court of Session bringing a heavier fine and we felt if we had taken the defiant stand further it would have shown us to be irresponsible'

ABANDONED

Another Labour-con- trolled Scottish local autho- rity — Cumbernauld - has also abandoned its defiance of the Tory Act. Cross, Derby- At Clay shire, the Il Labour coun- cillors who face a £6,985 surcharge, have decided by a majority vote to call off the month-long rent and rates strike. But they are to continue their resistance to the gov- ernment and rents will be collected at the pre-rent Act level. unlimited support for to The Americans are continuing the ve against Europe and Japan which y began in earnest on August 15, 71. The Trade Bill now being hur- d through Congress with the back- of the American trade union • the next stage of the reaucracy_is de war offensive. This Bill gives Nixon powers to op- e sweeping tariffs on imports, enter • bilateral agreements with other intries and bludgeon America's petitors into accepting US agri- tural produce and industrial goods.

The Bill's provisions put an end to the post-war trade system based on the principle of non-discrimina- , the tion and governed by rule of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade.

This system could not con- tinue once the Bretton Woods currency agreement which underpinned it had been destroyed. Economists in top Washington circles are talk- ing quite openly about the introduction of a 15-per- cent surcharge on all im- ports once the Bill is pas- sed. On top of the revaluations imposed on European Japanese currencies, such a would crush whole branches of industry at a stroke'. The other side of this ruthless offensive Washington is the courtship between Soviet leaders. As soon as the Paris meeting is over, Schultz will be flying to Moscow to hold preliminary discussions on trade expansion. This is expected to in- clude the possibility of granting the Soviet Union most-favoured nation status in trade. Schultz, the White House said, will not be negotiat- ing in Moscow. This indicates that the sides have already two agreed the main lines of the new relationship under the treaty signed last year. The Soviet bureaucracy is being drawn into the global plans of American imperialism, both to com- bat its capitalist rivals and to co-operate with it against the world revolution.

Workers Press, Thursday March 8, 1973 PAGE 3 Little 'adventure' in Britain's most exploitative industry

INTERVIEW BY ALEX MITCHELL

FLEETWOOD on the north-west coast is a fishing town. It has been since local people can remember. Behind the east coast towns Hull and Grimsby it is Britain's third biggest fish- producing port. It wasn't surprising, therefore, that when young lan Rimmer left school at 14 he went to sea. It should be immediately emphasized that his reasons for going on the boats are not lyrical ones, this 'down none of to the sea in ships'. Harsh In his own complicated Ian explains why. way, acho betr all, IAN RIMMER It school First of says, his 10 join the taw mates all went to He sea. trawler life join the trawler with them. wantea to be Fleetwood. Secondly, the take boys owners young The relatives of fishermen 'pleasuring' while they are washed overboard killed drawing men still at school. The idea at receive a death t sea benefit £1,000. lads a no 1s to give the local LAce couple of pleasant days at scheme for injuries. In recent Ian and and thus encourage into union many his have them take this illalco up acciden to romantic life! the Transport and General Workers' Union Ana Imiraly, the most compelling reason, disappointed, They what else is there to do in with After money is taken out the union's however, Fleetwood! off with a fresh heart each for his mother, Ian himself attitude It was really thick only job time. Starting all over again.

has picked up the I've following never met the union which I've heard open to offered Ian

LIC

sallic says never been sonne SOrT Dros sects That res • £61 for three weeks Unemployment in the town boat in his life. His offices chronic. Blackpool' are left Ian's contributions So school and (E17048. for three weeks 'Well, me, 1 went the Navigation mathunent are deducted from his wages College for which breaks down any weeks. (86,400. for two weeks which £4 a week. tact he might have w do

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weeks

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was. with ne course he went to sea as an en are in the union tha On one. of his trips Ian 'observer For this money. union he men involved in his first membership tz a week the 'fish The Sole receiver weeks money'-a share of the catch weekss foins jagged piece wire velopments are provoking a from the net through his keen interest in political and -although two weeks glove and I'd through his index hardest spent were ure mallers him dormant for many 1n my ite. when nicer. been On his its too late ou the deck towards the rollers years aboard 'Fair which take the The Fleetwood nets over men don't was the side. owned by Ward's. Dick Ward out.' to see another genera Ian is now 16. He's head- Luckily the chairman Fleet- of young men exploited The Tion wood Fishing Vessel Owners' ing for the same disappoint- metal was rusty and by the monopoly snapped. Ian says: Association. ments that previous genera- start- people are Granada When the job was finished have felt this most une recent Television programme exploitative industry. cut problems. There's even talk were RIMMER, the

IAN

Life Apart' on the Fleetwood one of his Another fisherman took the of strike action. brassie -youngest member m a recent u was seen in the Granada TV fishing Ward said: three his and he industry, mates splinter teeth That'll idea a trawler crew. you an alica d of how documentary voyage serious it's getting.' caci new weeks at sed purica Il our. 'Mind-labs for strikers' Co-ordinate all hospital strikes Labour Minister's Orwellian plan says steward for industry's 'mental illness' MORE than 700 hospital workers at New- castle Royal Victoria Infirmary return to

KENNETH ROBINSON,

that behind the tendency to hospital ancillary work today, but many want to see all-out dollie. and the former Labour Health surike nes severe mental workers. servants strike action in the future.

illness which has to are suffering Minister, has an answer by psychiatric from 'a severe mental illness'.

tech- amel two-day strike • was ine nirst or a series o Britain's swelling He wants them all psychia- protests against the government's state pay laws.

strike movement. trically treated. More stoppages will take place next week and Madness The madness and irration- drivers striking is meanwhile supply Newcastle's hospitals He savs ality is not the minds of 'a mental illness' and needs will remain on indefinite strike.

'The best way would be solve WOrKCIS. Wall said: I think the shop stewar•…•• decent and this earn a ware action should be co-ordinated throughout oroDien strike This extraordinarv view of defend their basic standard open psychiatric units country for selective periods. This would have the class struggle con- ine living. corporation tained in a letter written by •effect. crisis-ridden could be the where the workers capitalist system which has Illazazilit screenea lor mental winess. 'Management its tor more down 2n ye. Caned i mad. resolve Robinson's Orwellian 'solu- Action': During lashing tion' strikes the out and attempting de- aainst a dictator. Now.we have a dictator in this "ne underving cancer more sinister because he was strikes and general unrest prive their basic country. the personne •rector been workers democratic rights. British Steel Corporation. He 'Heath decides how we live •He has cod wields The • 'heal the eat and what our wages wjll be. has con- under a remenaous amounl we way of research. madness' overthrow the lives of of trol over

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ever u. fully the

KENNETH

ROBINSON

been and now Thousanes workers, cabilalisin sullalice & See Merthyr Tydfil picket line, page 11.

established beyond any doubt By Robinson's account the means production. Coles Cranes occupation determined to defend union reached. But then Employment officials would be three Acrow factories at manage- THE 1,000 sit-in workers at they. call "scurrilous slander' in To nave deen He the local Press. management insisted on new has present as observers. menl s Coles Cranes, Sunderland, are for a which were Many men are demanding, destra leder in eras underland.

'an angel'. terms Shop steward Matty Wake laid that the should a letter in stringent to continue their fight for trade than those however, down challenge: CYCl the 'Sunderland throughout the Echo' renamed oroposed. oreanice union rights despite an attempt

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Sumer Evianny Acrow group Acrow' by Cranes workers They demanded that only men 29a1ST Tae ante Coles dictatorship now or in the future.

action of chairman, Swiss -Taylor said de Vigier was to split them. 68-point 'bosses win. Continue this fight millionaire Alphonse de Vigier. strong, trustworthy generous, would be charter' alowed InTO until approachable, They voted unanimously WC helpful, the plant. d be return these al d 1he dispute nas: now reacnec sculls made 300 mass Management would back, the im height of bitterness after person'. meeting yesterday to Keen to They are to their ten-week coupati ot redundant without consultation intervention of a local vicar, Many AUEW organizer Harry Wilkinson trade unionists in many and maintain control up who have said yesterday. of the DarLs which destroy trade union rights.

been arranged for tomering, bad Taylor, described as an Orange come Lieu crane makine owned into touch with him over Acrow (Engineers) Ltd. from County Antrim' visited sackings and rationalization by Last week, tomorrow, but man agreement between would tend to disagree. They also lashed back at what unions and management appeared Department yesterday's meeting tHIs mine

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thuraday March 8, 1973

A POLICY

STRIKE

TO MEET

TORIES

OU"

THE CRISIS

THE TORY government is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con.

frontation with the working class. Each day sections new of workers are forced to become criminals — under Tory law - to defend their standard of living against government-inspired soaring cost of living. Large sections of these workers openly acknowledge that the only answer to their fight to maintain a decent standard of living is a General Strike. That is, the creation of the industrial and political conditions which will force the government to resign.

In its place must be elec- be guaranteed. This can only exposed. The banded and fully be Tory ted Labour government breaking the grip secrets of the adminis- a Tone of capitalist ownership on the this sphere must be which is pledged by the mass tration in Employed and un- All rights to assem- action of the working class to pubusneu. employed must unite to insist bly, free speech and the Press implement socialist policies.

on Labour government guaranteed. na- must be We "pledged policies knowing socialist to tionalizing the main industries that the and banks, under workers' Sard or hinge a his her the sent leaders of the Labour move.

living. dard of control and without compen- not the ment have no intention of intro- sation. ducing such policies. Indeed, living standards of trade The struggle must begin the last unionists, but the profit of them sys- allalysis Sonne now. No closures, no sackings, will be prepared to Join a coall- tem, which causes the crisis. tion government with the Tories must be the policy of the trade The first step must be to ex- to head off the working class.

Occupation fac- propriate all the great fortunes But if tories threatened with closure, the working, class is rich, close down the strong enough to force the Tories part fight to bring Stock Exchange, place a state out, it is strong enough to deal down the Tories. control over all movements of with the in own and of the midst. This can 1n only be achieved cavital

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3) The democratic right to country. Dy, exposing mem In the ught lor strike and to organize in trade Nationalization of the basic an alternative socialist policy.

Only the unions, organized industries and of all large com- The Central Committee of the working class can lead Socialist Labour League panies, banks, building and in- calls of kind out the historical surance societies will provide upon the working class crisis. Every right and every policies to the for unified Don ine tollowing

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gain won by the working class, unite the working class against the living plantc this rasher leadership of the Tories every democratic right in Bri- standards of the whole people.

because Workers' Lalli, beet Wol control of these, as labour movement: of the organized strength of well as the present national- Here is the policy which the the unions and the strike ized industries, will run them Labour government must next weapon. in the interests of the workers be forced to carry out. A Labour government must and consumers. immediately repeal the Indus- Again, the fight must begin 1) A Labour government must trial Relations Act. This fight State control of wages immediately repeal the Indus- forcing the must beau now ov must be answered by the most trial Relations Housing Act, TUC to break off all relations widespread fight for wage in- Finance Act, Immigration Acts, with the government and meet price rises Fair Trading Act and all wage creases working standards. mobillze the class to and improve This control. After the repeal of all destroy state control of wages.

means a fight to remove the anti-working class

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Tory government and change sures, there must be legislation 4) The right to defend rights the union leadership. implement the Charter of past and change Basic Rights, along the follow- won In All the changes in the system. 6) The right to health and wel- ing lines. legal procedures made by the Every Tory fare benefits. gov- 2) The right to work! Capital- Tory government must be re- welfare bene- ernment cut in demands unemploy- pealed. and Nass hits, in the health service and secret police The right to a job must MIS organizations must be dis- all public spending must I would like information about

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Name.. Address. OF be revoked. On the basis of the Common Market plans for nationalization, dictatorship. a crash pro- gramme of expansion of ser- Withdraw all British troops vices to the unemployed, the from abroad and disband the low-paid, the sick and the aged present standing army. undertaken must be as an absolute priority. The working Sign treaties with all ex- class and the Labour for colonial countries pro- govern- ment must take immediate and of equal trade and grammes for absolute responsibility mutual assistance, these victims of the capitalist Break from NATO and all system. imperialist alliances. For the carrying out of such 7) The right to decent housing.

policies the SLL fights for the.

Decent housing is not a luxury; of Councils of setting up it is a necessity. People have Action lead the struggle to basic decent The right to against the Tory government accommodation at rents they These Councils every area. afford. Nationalization of can unite trade unionists, tenants, the handful of building mono- unemployed, all political par- polies and building societies ties and tendencies of the will provide the basis for class (Labour Party, working of massive programme new

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IS, Communist Party, house building. The disgraceful IMG, etc.) to fight against the problem the homeless in main enemy, the Tory govern- the cities must be immediately ment. solved by census and taking- The SLL calls upon every over of all unoccupied pro- socialist and class-conscious perty. worker to this pro- consider gramme and manifesto very 8) The international respon- carefully, and to decide now to sibilities of the working class.

take their inescapable re- up The working is interna- sponsibilities. The building of Class fight for the tional. We the revolutionary party is the un- restricted right of any worker burning question now, not in of nationality to future. The SLL any move some remote freely through the world.

is determined to carry through Withdraw the troops from its transformation into a re- Ireland. Unite the Irish and volutionary party. British working class to throw We appeal to all readers out the Lynch and Heath gov- of the Workers Press and ernments. our supporters to join the Unite in the struggle for the Socialist United States of

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THE GENERALS' REGIME

BY JACK GALE

It is difficult to obtain information about the condition of political prisoners in Turkey. Dur- ing November and Dec- ember, 1972, an Amnesty International Mission (headed by Mr Muir Hunter QC) visited Tur- key to inquire into alle.

gations of torture. They were permitted to see only one prisoner-Ilkay De- mir, an inmate of Sagmalcilar Women's prison. Although the Mission submitted a list of prisoners they wished to see-including 13 other in- mates of Sagmalcilar Women's Prison-they were allowed to see no others. The prisoners whom they did not see included: In Ankara's Mamak No 1 Prison; Irfan Ucar, Nuri Cola- coglu, Ertugrul Kurkcu. In Ankara Women's Prison; Nergis_ Savran, Tulay Tad, Behice Boran. In Istanbul's Sagmalcilar Men's Mustafa Prison; Laciner, Yalcin Ozturk, Murat Belge, Sadik Akincilar, Yilmaz Guney. Sagmalcilar Women's In Prison; Ezel Incili, Ulker Akgol, Bilge Dicleli, Lale Arikdal, Selma Veyisoglu, Fer- dane Yurtsever, Nazife Kaya, Ayse Baykara, Elif Gonul Tolon, Julide Zaim, Ayse Emel Mesci, Kadriye Deniz Ozen, Ruchan Manas. The reason given by the Turkish authorities was that all these prisoners were under military, not civil, control.

But when the Mission saw Ilkay Demir on November 29, she claimed they were being kept out of sight because they had recently been tortured.

In Selimiye Prison; Sarp Kuray, Necmi Demir, Talat Turan, Mehmet Alkaya, Orhan Sakasci, Yilmaz Guney, Munir Aktologa, Yusef Kupeli. In Daoudpasa Prison; Ilhan Selcuk, Ilhami Soysal, Dogan Avcioglu, Fahri Ariel, Mete Munir Aktologa. Sonmez, Although the interview was conducted in the presence of the prison authorities, Ilkay Demir spoke up with great courage. She confirmed that, as a medical student at former Capa hospital, she had • per- sonally tended the wounded feet of her husband Necmi and of Irfan Ucar and a num- ber of women prisoners re- sulting from the 'falanga' to which they had been sub- jected. She confirmed that the floor of the torture room' was covered in blood and that the wounded feet had been ex- amined by a Dr Garabet Arman, whom she recognized as being on the staff of Capa hospital. When asked for medical certificates about the wounds, however, Dr Arman has refused to provide them.

She described different types of falanga frames in use —one in which the feet were secured by straps, and one in which they were inserted through holes. She was also familiar with electro-shock torture applied to both men and women, mainly in the genital regions.

Another common form of torture is the insertion of a policeman's truncheon • into the vagina or anus, leaving serious internal inflammation, bleeding or permanent infec- tion. Ilkay Demir provided a list of women prisoners and the ailments from which they were suffering as a result of such treatment. One woman, Turkan Sahin, when arrested was pregnant and had a miscarriage in the police station beaten. More evidence was revealed in a lished by the Sun 'Insight' team last This disclosed ment of Sadik A lawyer who of members People's Liberation April 3, 1971, arrested by policemen and station. police blindfolded before General. He underwent falanga and electric ture until he the required crimes nother case w L-year-old girl U She was tortured for two hours and truncheons inserte body. Most of the tor tions were the Turkish Agency (MIT) an official, military, guerrilla organizat Commando B' A regular patter First emerge. by civilian police, torture at the har counter- then a return to the civil ities for formal arre Despite brutality, the is much loved by after being of torture Sunday Times December. the Akincilar, defended the Turkish On Akincilar was Comes taken to the He was later driven to and brought Major- beatings, 'confessed' Akgol. Falanga against Intelligence semi- Coullel called arrest of lanes and finally extreme regime the British Fully armed Turkish soldiers parliamentary Institutions.

Tory government. When tions were asked in the British Parliament about the tortures going on in ing ate behalf mer Foreign behalf said: I prefer to the enormous Turkish the to ensure government believe we way When that Turkish authorities. according from the the original told an that 'would This authorities and determination democratic ments'. of 'O• the Turkish against the expressed ques- Turkey, Secretary reply- to parties parliamentary preserved. the Turkish Was under the that was figures newspaper disruptive Tory went support their in retain their regime used and open- the 'Sunday Workers Press, Th deal with clvilian unrest In Ankara. Inset: Jul ild admire the way in which our Turkish friends Telegraph' of April 2, 1972.

called Sane In an editorial Man of Europe, this Tory paper gloated at the shooting down of members of the TPLA and claimed that the Turkish rulers could teach the British the arts of govern- ment. This editorial is worth quot- ing in full to show the blood- lust of the British right wing: 'If there was Michelin a Guide for terrorists instead of for tourists, Turkey would be categorized as "worth a dé- tour" to avoid. Nowhere else in the western world do the state authorities give an im- pression decisive of such determination to resist black- mail and to strike back with- out any agonized searching of the liberal conscience. 'There is nothing surprising about that. The Turk has never been renowned for humanitarianism. But gentle what is significant is the ex- tent to which decent, reason- able people here would wish to see more countries follow the Turkish example, terrible and tragic as may be the fate of the innocent victims, such as the British radar tech- nicians. This reaction is both in- evitable and desirable. West- ern civilization today is far more seriously threatened by lay a supine indifference to the Press, Thursday March 8, 1873

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Inset: Julian Amery, Tory Secretary of ish friends have been able to retain their forces of anarchy and subver- sion, by a willingness on the of lawful authority • to part cave in to violence than it is by any danger of excessively brutal repression or tyranny.

In the 19th century most of the western world had little to learn from Turkey which was justly regarded as the "sick man of Europe." But today it demonstrates a will to survive and to preserve its institutions which in a body politic is the true mark of health and vitality. 'Who would have thought, a hundred years ago, that Tur- key would ever have much to teach Britain about the arts of government? Yet today it is fast becoming the model to which many eyes are turned with growing envy and admir- ation. In a world challenged by anarchy the mailed fist, Will always be more alas, attractive than the bleeding heart.' But it is not only the imper- ialists who love the Turkish torture regime. Soviet Presi- dent Podgorny paid a state visit to Turkey last year and the Soviet Union is building factories in the country by arrangement with the regime.

Close trading relations exist between Turkey and the Stalinist - controlled Balkan states, particularly Bulgaria.

And when Nihat Erim was installed in power by the military chiefs, one of his first congratulatory messages came from the Kremlin.

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THE TAFF VALE PAGEANT

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Workers Press, Thursday March 8, 1873 Perhaps more than any other area of Britain, the valleys of South Wales were the birth place of the labour movement. The miners sent the first Labour MPs parlia- to ment and the rail. workers' struggle became the reason for forming the Labour Party. « The 'Pageant of Workers' Rights', also named the 'Road to Workers' Power', traces the history of the working class. It with Taff Vale and the formation of the Labour Repre- sentation Committee of 1906— the forerunner of the Labour Party. aday March 8, 1973 Taff Vale is the name of the railway company which took its employees to court in 1901 for striking. The company successfully sued the Amalgam- ated Society of Railway Ser- vants for damages and the trade union movement sud- dènly found itself faced with il. destruction. But during these years also consciousness grew new within the working class and its organizations—not only did workers need unions, they needed an independent politi- cal voice to speak for them in parliament. So out of an obscure strike in the South Wales valley the Labour Party was born. Over a decade later it formed the first government. Harold Wil- son and all the Labour leaders today owe their very existence to the men of Taff Vale who fought to defend their basic rights. It is this struggle that the Pageant team Merthyr In Tydfil, South Wales, at the northern end of the Taff Vale railway line, is attempting to bring to life. The handful of people who heard the most important judgement of the National In- dustrial Relations Court last year will readily appreciate the importance of episode. this NIRC president Sir John Donaldson used mainly the judgement of Taff Vale to sup- port this ruling that unions were responsible for the actions of their shop stewards and therefore could be fined. Since then the two largest unions in the country have been robbed of tens of thousands of pounds —money that their members paid to sustain their own or- ganizations-like the men of Taff Vale. Taff Vale ends the Pageant and presents the question—if workers needed a voice in par- liament in 1901, what do they need today when they face a far more serious challenge?

Clearly reformism is incap- able of defending basic rights that the pioneers fought for.

Reformism is the language of Victor Feather and Harold Wilson. The working class faces a new challenge. It has to political construct a new revolutionary force-a party that will secure the gains of the past for the benefit of the majority. This is the lesson of Taff Vale and the most impor- tant lesson of the Pageant.

The struggle in South Wales has already yielded enormous results. A cast of 60 workers and youth has been assembled and, for the first time since the early 1920s, revolutionary leadership is being constructed once more in the valleys. The youth are the vanguard of this movement. Thev have ioined the Pageant and the work of the movement with an inspiring dedication. The campaign in South Wales has proved one thing— that the Pageant is only the merest beginning-what lies in front is the construction of a movement that can lead the whole working class - the youth, the older workers and the housewives. This is now a possibility in Derek Thomas (rig South Wales. It has been made Rehearsing for the so by the campaign. 1901 strike.

ales lous kers bled ince nary cted The this ined k of iring outh ng- the of a the the and y in Derek Thomas (right), campaigning with the | nade Rehearsing for the Wembley rally. Above right: 1901 strike. DERECK THOMAS, a Mer- thyr Hoover worker, who has taken a leading role in the cam- paign: There is now a fight going Merthyr for the future on in of the whole working class. We today and have the facts from from the history we are trying The to reproduce. working class now faces a crisis that will affect the lives of every one of At Wembley when we put us. the Pageant, we have the on opportunity to say to workers, 'This is the road your fore- fathers took. This is the road you must take.' It was talking to a reader of Star' 'Morning the the at "There Triang factory. He said: is nothing happening in Mer- thyr to take the working class forward! But I said him: to 'Well now there is.' I talk to "Oh the my mates. They say: socialists have been here before and they went away. But it is keep that up to us now to movement going. How else do we build the revolutionary party? How did they build the They did it. Labour Party? Only them. with the Pageant team in Morthyr. Above left: When we put this Pageant bove right: The Talf Vale railway, scene of the on before workers they will see that such struggle through them, goes not apart Irom them, that thev have to do it. I would like to say that the revolutionary movement has come to these valleys to stay. CLIVE BUNCE, garage worker: Look around this valley and this town and what do you see? People have been ripping the wealth out of these valleys and exploiting the people for hun- dreds of years. Even now there is no security. I have a job at the moment, but how long will always last? 1 hat 1s ine South Wales. question Merthyr is Hoover's now, there If that goes, is nothing else. the town is finished. The Pageant shows this his- tory and puts it into perspec.

tive. at Beared about the degradation and the and squalor of these areas their history. But one thing they keep very secret from you -how did the working class drag themselves out of this?

feeling that here changed, someone something maybe came along and helped ress. Thursdar March 8. 1973 PAGE 7 them. But this is not true. We had to fight for all we got.

That's what we are trying to show in this Pageant. Did people realize that our forefathers starved in the past for what we have got today?

Did they realize that men were sent up the line with not enough coal to get back — deliberately so they would have to steal the coal to get more money? Did they realize that one of the jobs of the driver's mate was to nudge the driver to stop him falling to sleep because he worked such long hours? People have forgotten these things. It is a good thing to remember it be- make them cause the Tories then are the same Tories we have today.

I was talking to a man the other day. He said: "You don't talk about history. want to What has that got to do with me?' I said: 'You are history.

Everything that makes you stand there today is the history of your class.' People don't realize this, but we have to show them that it is true and that they will have to fight again in 1973.

THE FRENCH POPULAR FRONT

1936: CP puts an end to the General Strike PAGE & Workers Press, Thursday Ma

BY TOM KEMP

Delegate meetings were called for each industry in June 1936 at which the trade union leaders tried to sell the Matig. non Agreement and end the mass sit-in move- ment. In the case of the Paris engineering workers, the terms were twice rejected by dele- meetings. Many were gate demanding a mass demonstra- tion against the employers in Paris. of the Acceptance Agreement proved equally in other industries difficult and the strikes continued.

Sections of the Press and organizations representing the capitalist class did not hesi- tate to describe the situation as revolutionary. They clam- Party oured for Socialist leader Léon Blum to take action. The Prime Minister of the Popular Front government hastened to pass the laws on the 40-hour week and holi- days-with-pay in an effort to calm the workers and defuse the situation. On June 12 the Trotskyist paper 'La Lutte Ouvrière' was seized at the printing press and action was begun against its supporters. This was a sign that Blum saw the danger of a new revolutionary leader- ship placing itself at the head of the strike movement. In the days after Matignon the Communist Party played a key role. Its support for the Front ensured that Popular this should be a counter- revolutionary one. On June 10 it congratulated the work- ers 'on realizing the slogans concerning a of the party national reconciliation.'

It went on to 'address its warmest wishes to Catholic and Croix de Feu (i.e. fascist] workers who, with the Social- ists and Communists, fight to- gether and display on the factories, workshops and offices, the tricolour of our fathers and the red flag of our hopes, reconciled by the Com- munist Party .. • For good measure the CP's Political Bureau denied that 'the Gardes Mobiles [armed police] and the army are hos- ursday March 8, 1873 tile to the workers in struggle'.

While churning out this treacherous stufi the Com- munist Party had to contend with the dangerous fact that the workers were still in the factories despite the employ- ers' willingness to accept the Matignon CP agreement. Secretary Maurice Thorez and his colleagues did not hesitate.

On June 11 Party members in the Paris region were sum- moned to an aggregate meet- ing addressed by Thorez. He insisted that there was no question of taking power.

To re-assure the militants who saw the Party as genuin- ely revolutionary, Thorez said that its goal still remained Soviet power - something which the present CP Secre- tary Georges Marchais would not say today. But the time for this had not come. 'We have not got behind us, with us, with us to the end, all the population of the countryside,' said Thorez. 'We run the risk of alienating some of the sym- pathy of layers of the petty bourgeoisie and the peasantry.

What then? 'Then we must know how to bring a strike to an end satisfaction has been when obtained. It is necessary to know when to make a com- promise when all demands have not been met, but when victory has been won on the most essential demands' This passage given was front-page prominence in the CP paper 'L'Humanité' on the following day and set the key- note for the Party's work: get the strikers out of the fac- tories • • • Within a few days the Party's strenuous efforts began to yield fruits, despite the opposition of some elements in its own ranks. The work- ers accepted the agreement in one factory after another and the occupations were brought to an end. The ruling class had a lot to thank Thorez for.

A Central Committee reso- lution passed on June 13 con- tained the following passage: The Communist Party, con- scious of its responsibilities, courageously its has taken stand without fearing to attack the hysterical gesticulations of the Trotskyists and their near-Trotskyists . . . • "The CC approves the Political Bureau combat- ing the opinions of those who declare, without any thought for the responsibilities which weigh on the workers' organ- "everything izations, that is possible" and they oppose to this dangerous, formula the communist declaration that everything is not possible; the principal slogan of the party remains: "Everything for the Popular front, everything for the Popular Front"! Without any doubt the French Stalinists played major part in June 1936 in bringing the strikes to an end preventing the develop- and ment of a revolutionary situa- tion in France. The revolutionary current in the working class had to be arrested before it upset the policy of class collaboration the 'left' of the bour- with geoisie, represented by the Radical Party in the Popular Front. The French Stalinists did in 1936 what they were to do again in 1944-1946, 1958 and 1968. This position is defended official Party today in the histories. Take, for example, a little book published last year under the auspices of the 'Institut Maurice Thorez' on the Popular Front period. It is one of a series put out by the Party to cover the period 1934-1954. The reason for this period of time being taken is that the Ministry of Educa- tion has recently introduced a course on this period into the history curriculum of the universities. The Party therefore has to 'official', produce its own, version of events, in which it played such a prominent role, for the benefit of students. It called upon Party intellec- tuals as well as some old-time Party members who could speak from personal exper- ience to give courses of lectures which provided the bases for these books. the volume for 1934- In 1939* as much space is de- voted to the question of sh whether the Party should have participated in the Blum government as is given to the strike movement. This is dealt with in a very sketchy way.

It says that the strikes began to decline after June 11-but does not say why: that it was after Thorez had said it is necessary to know how to end a strike and the Party put all its forces into that task!

The question of how the strikes began is left vague; the main emphasis is on the fact that they were not carried out orders of Moscow. The on author, Jacques Chambaz, now has to deal with the accusa- tion that the CP betrayed the workers in struggle. The ques- • tion is, he says, that the situa- tion was not revolutionary and he claims that the majority of historians - presumably he means bourgeois historians— believe that it was not. The evidence he gives for this negative conclusion on examination to be proves threadbare. First he says that the workers wanted change through the Popular Front, not revolution. But the workers did chal- lenge the rights of private property, did begin to estab- their own of organs power. It was lack of leader- led ship which ing the road of a struggle for power. Then, echoing Thorez at the time, he says other sections of the population, such as the peasantry, did not want revolution-and they amoun- ted to half of the population.

So the Communist Party, to put the best interpretation on the official view, tail-ended the petty bourgeoisie. But this is not the real his- tory at all. This was an alibi which looks no better today than it did when it was put forward at the time. The Com- munist Party was not waiting for a revolutionary situation to declare itself; it was activ- ely and consciously stifling it by contusing the working class with the policy of the Popular Front and holding it back from any development of con- sciousness and a struggle for power. record of the strikes The of shows that the CP played a From right to left: André Marty, Jacques Duclos, Maurice Thorez and Monmousseau, French Com- munist Party leaders who brought the general strike to an end and Instructed the party not to take power. treacherous, counter-revolu- tionary role, making use of the confidence of advanced sec- tions of workers to keep their struggle within the limits of bourgeois legality and respect for private property. It was exactly the same role as that played by the CP in Spain in 1936-1939 with tragic results.

The Stalinist leaders were well aware that they could be outflanked on the left by a revolutionary leadership. That fear paid tribute to the fact that the situation was revolu- tionary. It accounts for the especial venom which they reserved for the Trotskyists, who were small in numbers at this time, as well as other left currents which they feared might be- come a pole of attraction for who chafed workers at the restraints imposed by the exist- ing leadership. It explains the purge of left elements which went on in the CP's own ranks before they could constitute a dangerous opposition to the opportunist course of the Thorez leader- ship. Party policy conformed at all times with the require- ments of the Soviet bureau- cracy which dreaded a revolu- tion anywhere in Europe and in 1935 had made a defence pact with France which still remained the fulcrum of its policy in Europe against the menace of Nazi Germany. In any case the question of whether there was a revolu- tionary situation cannot be decided by counting heads or by pointing out that the middle class and peasantry were not prepared for revolu- tion. The decisive classes were the ruling class and the work- ing class; the one a tiny minority of the population and the working class, in France at this time, also a minority, though a much larger one than Russian proletariat. in the 1917. Several years of economic depression and growing social crisis had undermined morale of the big bourgeoisie.

The strike wave revealed it to be in a state of panic, forcing turn to Blum to find it to some way of saving property —which he did with the CP's help and support. Even Thorez said that the army, made up of conscript soldiers, would not fight the people. In fact there was no way of bringing the strikes to an end by armed force, as even the generals regretfully admit- ted. If the CP had put itself at the head of the working strong enough to stand in the • way. Once they saw a determined leadership large sections of would have peasants come over to the workers' side, as they were already doing when the strikes were in progress.

The same applies to the middle class which, in any case, could not constitute a force except behind some fascist movement.

But the fascist leagues were not comparable in strength in 1936 to Hitler's movement in the early 1930s. They began to receive considerable sub- sidies only after the events of 1936 when the employers saw that strong-arm methods were necessary to prevent a repeti- tion of the sit-in strikes.

The crucial question was the of revolutionary absence leadership able to pose an alternative and expose the betrayals of the Stalinists.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

*Le Front Populaire (La France de 1934 à 1939j' by Claude Willard et al. Editions Sociales 1972.

Young Post Office workers have been singled out for a particularly painful slap in the face from the Tory govern- ment. When Employment Secre tary Maurice Macmillan met leaders of the six unions in- volved in the current f5 claim recently he insisted that any relaxation of the hated incre- mental scales system operating in the corporation would only be made as part of the fl plus 4 per cent Phase Two pay law formula. This hits every Post Office worker between 16 and 24.

At present they do not re- ceive their maximum pay until aged 24. But under the Hard- man report of 1971, they were promised that they would reach their maximum at 21.

The Post Office was preparing to implement the promise this year. Now, the Tories are saying, this can only happen if older workers agree to give up part of the miserly £2 the govern- ment is offering them. Macmillan made brutally clear to the union chiefs that there could be no exceptions to Phase Iwo, and that the government was determined to hold firm to this policy.

The Employment Secretary would not even promise that postal workers would receive special treatment under Phase Three. But they would be able to submit evidence to the Pay Board once it was set up, he offered David Leitch was a former feature writer on the 'Sunday Times' and then its Paris correspondent. He decided to write a book about his life in journalism. It was published last week.

For a fee of something like 'Sunday Times' £2,000 the bought the serialization rights.

The 'New Statesman' adver- tised that excerpts from Leitch's book would be appear- ing in the 'Sunday Times' on February 25. Come February 25, no Leitch book. But a small note saying that the excerpts will now be run in April in the 'Colour Magazine'. Why the hasty change of plans? It seems that Leitch's exotic adventures included a trip to Moscow with his boss, Lord Thomson, to see Khrushchev.

reports that the Leitch Canadian billionaire spent most of the time trying to launch a takeover bid for 'Pravda'.

The courageous editors of the "Sunday Times' saw these rude references to his lordship only days before serialization.

Hence the series was tem- porarily scrapped. We can confidently predict that when the articles appear in the magazine they will not include the Moscow trip with Thomson. Lord Below: Khrushchev and Thomson. Leitch reports that the Canadian billionaire spent most of his time bldding for 'Pravda'.

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The obituary ( the 'Morning Monday, Marc two i tained items. One rea Joseph. In Joseph Stalin, Secretary May, Tom, Par The other, a mo 'box' layout, said: of comrade JOSEI builder and defenc ism who died Mar Jean and Harry F But the and Hawcetts Communist Party's in valn searching ther mention of th He didn't r hero. mention. How different fr when Stalin's ago, going to live for e what the Johnstone Communist March 14, 1953: 'In the Stalin the the whole world h

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ituary column in orning Star' last , March 5, con- two interesting One read: 'Stalin, of memory Stalin, General of

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om, Pam Hirons'. le TOSEPH STALIN, id defender of Social- died March 5, 1953— Harry Fawcett' Hirons mourning scanned sa party's or ily paper earning ror any their departed didn't rate a single fferent from 20 years Stalin's name was live for ever! This is arch-Stalinist agent League paper, on 1953: passing of J. working people of world have suffered able loss ... No man Workers Press, Thu people in every country in the world are plunged into the deepest grief at the news that the • heart of the most out- standing leader revolutionary all times - COMRADE of JOSEPH STALIN-has ceased to beat ... Stalin-loved as no other man in world history has ever been loved by work- ing people . . . Stalin-who golden pages in has written world history whose lustre time can never efface; indeed, with the advance of years, grandeur and their nobility will increase •With tear-blinded eyes and a grief we have not the lan- guage at our command to des- cribe, we swear that our Com- "Daily munist Party and our Worker", will do all in their power to pick up that banner of national independence [!] that Comrade Stalin spoke about in his speech to the 19th Congress, hold it proudly aloft, and never allow it to be sullied by any power in the world.

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE

MEMORY

OF JOSEPH

STALIN!'

Pollitt rated Stalin above Party Lenin, though the were slightly theoreticians more modest. They only con- sidered Stalin the equal of Lenin-though, of course, the equal of Marx and Engels as well:

ANDREW ROTHSTEIN:

'Stalin indeed, from was first to last, an exponent of the Marxist art of combining theory with practice at the level of genius—a level which put him abreast of his great predecessors, Marx, Engels and Of this gigantic Lenin ••• figure in world history we may say what Engels said at Marx's graveside in Highgate 70 years ago: "His name and his works will live on through the cen- ('Daily Worker', turies". March 6, 1953).

JAMES KLUGMANN:

'As we mourn the death of the world's greatest working- class leader, we receive a mag- guide for nificent gift and those fighting in Britain in the cause of socialism - the first volume, in English, of Stalin's "Collected Works" 'One of the greatest features of all Stalin's work-his com- bination of the most profound theoretical understanding and theoretical explana- constant tion with the most consistent revolutionary practice and the utmost simplicity and clarity throughout - is reflected early writings of the these of young Stalin... Press, Thuraday March 8, 197 S 'From the style alone-its simplicit ience of the worker those for for •• how r is to 'Labour egacy' April, 1953) In same 'Labour eulogy reach Dutt's glous tervour: 'The Stalin, rising world of free on tor éver perishable monume creation une soarin of socialist and 'After nearly tireless theoretical : cal activity leadership, rising to height of achier from triumph to tr greatest disciple anc of Marx and Lenin his lifework 1953. •Through all the thunderous dissolution of an o the birth of a new, the ship of human aspirations with tenacity, and confidence. lies plain ahead. he could say with B sword I • "My that shall succeed pilgrimage, and and skill it. My marks with me to be a me' penetrati 'Like the light, loss bare the contour: world, the modern the darkness. memoration of Stali found study of and example. tion of the rich -all this is now an tinue the indispensal for further 'Labour Mont Dutt. 1953) The last word mu N. the late D. apologist and defen Trials, Moscow Stalin butchered the "Labour Party. In April 1953, that hac We can ful of the ments of our histor So thankful, are forced to they shameful silence.

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its illus- ›m the daily exper e workers, its logic, is whom • how much there ('Stalin's same issue of R. Palme reached a reli- and will of architect of the d of free humanity, or éver in the im. of his monument he soaring triumphs and communist six decades of oretical and practi- and political from height of achievement and ph to triumph, the sciple and successor nd Lenin completed March 5, all the storms of dawn, of the of an old era and f a new, he steered and f human hopes unflinching judgement ence. Now the road Departing, ly with Bunyan: me in my and my courage • him that can get ks and scars I carry • be a witness for Stalin laid the contours of orld, the light and The com- i of Stalin, the pro- ly of his teachings le, and the absorp. of e rich treasury ance he has left us now and will con- word must be with which hered the Bolshevik Monthly', Labour , that hack wrote: indeed be thank- Stalinist fact,

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday March 8, 1973

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

BRITISH trade unions have never claimed to be an Hugh writes Scanion, alternative government, engineers' union president, in the March issue of his union's journal. The unions, Scanlon says in an editorial, did not seek a confrontation with government. During their talks with the Tories at Chequers and Downing Street last year they had been prepared 'a package deal never before to give. them offered in peacetime'. While the AUEW, together all with other unions, con- sidered that there could be no long-term solution to the economic problems country's until the Tories were removed from office, they would paign to do this through the ballot box. Writing in advance of Mon- day's special TUC, Scanlon calls for 'maximum unity and the attack pledge that •an by the But in his own enthusiasm to government against one iS an avoid the implications of the pre- attack against us all'. Scanlon sent situation, goes on of the Tory Under Phase Two history. to play tricks with the Pay Boa laws Price Commissi members remember, Price Commission and Let our 'that this is not the first their respective codes constitute, he says, time this old chestnut [the "who in effect, a permanent system of Britain" issue] has statutory wage control. governs seen the light of day. If the unions, accepted by "The Times" of August 3, In bargaining would be collective 1925, Home the then Tory destroyed. The unions themselves Secretary, Toynson-Hicks, said: would be emasculated. "This thing 1s The not finished. danger Sooner is not over. or

'HYSTERICAL'

later this question has got to be fought out by the people of the land. • •Is Scanlon attacks the Fleet Street England to be governed Press for supporting Heath's and by the Cabinet Or Man mand policy, for about-face on incomes handful of trade union their 'unprincipled and hysterical' leaders?" • against the unions and outbursts What Scanlon does not say is their leaders. period of that this was in the the In their enthusiasm to Tory preparation to defeat General Strike which broke the vince the unions that suicide is beneficial,' he says, 'the papers following year. Neither does he are now constantly writing about draw the lessons of that defeat or mention the of the the possibilities of election treachery an "who fought on governs union leaders. Britain" theme.' Joynson-Hicks is quoted merely

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ALTERNATIVES

In this country the unions have never claimed to be an alternative government. Similarly we do not expect Fleet Street or governments to pose as alter- native union leaders' Scanlon here places his mem- bers in an entirely defensive stance in relation to the Tory government, leaving them com- pletely open to the Tory pre- parations for confrontation with the working class today. Cllve Revill plays Nicolal Trlletski in Cl with Rex Harrison in the title role.

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Tuesday March 13, 5.30 p.m. Barnstaple Community 8 p.m. Labour Hall, Harrow and Centre. THE MAN in charge of investi- Mr Robinson one of Mrs was gating 'pay anomalies' created by Barbara Castle's discoveries and the government's anti-inflation advised her Department in 1968.

policies when the Pay Board is Educated Barnsley grammar set up was named yesterday.

school, he was a clerical officer in the civil service from 1948 to He is Mr Derek Robinson (41), 1955

TUC

who worked for the former scholarship to Ruskin College.

then Prices and Incomes Board and at of the Department Economic Affairs. He became lecturer in indus- trial relations at Sheffield Univer- He will be a deputy chairman of the Pay Board under its chief, teaching sity, trade union stu- Sir Frank Figgures, responsible dents in the extra-mural depart- for looking into pay anomalies of Since 1961 he has been ment. Oxford Univer- groups such as the gas and hos- senior officer at Institute of Economics and pital workers and some sity of civil servants. Statistics. atskl in Chekhov's comedy 'Platonov', being repeated on BBC 1 tonight, 7.00 Film: "The 8.30 Lon- NO SHara. all about? 11o2d Avengers Jackpot'. don. Sport! 11.00 Police call Cinema, 20 News. Monty Nash. Greatest fishts YORKSHIRE: 9.30 London. 2.30 Jobs around the house. sha 5000 230 unky ondon. and Lost Nota London. 4.25 in space. 7.00 London. Wantham Film: of Damascus, 8.30 Lon corner. 7.00 6 Mine don. 10.30 Sport. 11.05 Cinema. 11.35 9.00 Cimarron strip. 0o London. Mod sauad. 12.30 Weather. 11.00 I ondon. Patandare. 111.35 Gardening. Tota noll

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BY OUR OWN CORRI

THE LARCHGROVE Assessme is one of the 'hell holes' where on remand. The idea of such institutions by creating an atmosphere of w But as working-class youth know only too well, this is far from the reality of these homes. An official inquiry into Larchgrove proves the point. It reveals that remand staff frequently punched, kicked, pushed and cuffed the boys. After an 18-day investi- gation into allegations against staff, 13 incidents were found incidents proved-nine of violence towards, boys, two incidents involving neglect and two incidents of 'unsym- pathetic handling'. Mr Ronald Bennett, QC, and Mr Peter Righton, stated in their report: "There is ample evidence to support a clear conclusion that shouting, pushing, cuffing and shaking frequently occurred par- ticularly at line-ups and when minor offences were committed.

'We also find that there was sporadic punching and kicking.'

Glasgow Corporation which owns the centre was blamed for taking more than three years to implement recommendations for improvement after boy was stabbed to death there in 1969.

'The malaise is the fault of the system rather than of any particular individuals-stafi or boys-who are subjected to it.'

'ANGRY

steelworkers from Shotton, Ebbw Vale, Teesside and Stanton and Staveley lob- bied the TUC steel committee meeting in Sheffield yesterday.

The men shouted 'Heath out' and 'Feather out' as union dele- gates from British Steel Corpora- tion plants went inside for the meeting. contingent of 300 travelled from Shotton in north Wales for the lobby while a further 100 came from other plants threat- ened by the Tory 'rationalization' plan. So far the TUC has provided not an ounce of leadership against the attack on some 50,000 jobs in the steel industry. It was significant that the visit- ing steelworkers were not greeted by Sheffield steelmen. There was no delegation to meet them at the station and there was no Sheffield representation on the lobby. This is despite the fact that by far the biggest employer in Sheffield is BSC. It is also worth noting that the AUEW district secretary is George Caborn, a member leading of the Com- munist Party and that CP mem- bers are in prominent positions in the leadership of the Sheffield steel unions. The fact that the CP leaders did not mobilize a lobby against the TUC steel committee is in line with their failure to mount a lobby outside the special Con- gress of the TUC last Monday.

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ssessment Centre in Glasgow where teenage boys are sent titutions is to assess the boys re of worthwhileness'. Among the many women on the F workers from 1 these ancillary Tydfil, South Wales. They were s are working in the area fo who Pool rally (see page 4).

BY OUR OWN CORRI

EIGHTY-ONE workers, mainly women, at Empire Pools, Blackpool, are now in their fourth week of strike demanding recognition of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. It is an official strike. Last November Empire Pools (formerly Edwards Promotions Ltd) recognized the union in the presence of the conciliation officer, but in January recog- nition was withdrawn. It has now rejected efforts by government's the Conciliation Department to bring the sides together. Now the firm is giving double bonus, free meals and transport to and from work to anyone who works during the strike.

The management is also claim- ing that girls now working will have to be sacked if the strike is successful.

USDAW

denies this and says it only wants recognition.

The pools workers are also fighting for improved wages and working hours which are at pre- sent £12.80 for a 21-year-old clerk working 40 hours a week.

Weekday overtime rates are time and a quarter, rising to time and a half on Sundays,.. Workers Press, Thursday March 8, 1973 PAGE 11 Mass picket mounted over sacked trade unionist again in a

WORKERS

Zenith pany for the past nine take part and Municipal Workers months union dispute. Union staged a one-day Carburettors. Honey Stanmore, cognition. quit Middlesex, orga. ASTMS fight. have position chair. On January 28 Suppliers mass ricket for are be-

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strike man of the union group. Sande tomorrow. leved to be using non notice on the company The dispute at Zenith's • That he would not drivers break Union t and the recogni- way to the picket They over union act expired 40 the support encourage- been told the tion and the sacking the Deot. Mr Mike Dale, the Men to older ford works walked out When Mr Dale rejec- Other sections have quality manager official one-hour ted these conditions, threatened with white. been the cultual the closure if they back the collar

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group. Wad

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members are Immediately they spot. that the sacking led Tomorrow's mass claiming com- 40

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WHAT THE STRIKERS SAY

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Workers Pross, Thursday March 8, 1973 and defend its basic standard to fight against state control TENS of thousands of workers of living. over wages and Heath's moves in various sectors are in strug- But also, without exception, gle against the Tory govern- towards the corporate state.

it is faced with a weak trade exception Almost without ment's state pay legislation.

union leadership: none of the Press reporters have Gasmen, civil servants, tea- Workers union leaders is willing to call found that the rank and file is chers, hospital ancillary workers for national strike action on be- test'. determined to resist these laws and railwaymen are all rallying

TEACHERS

GASMEN

Public is very !

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COLLINS,

chief and he's got a good job in

BERT

the Could nave lik, shop steward at the North would have liked „ the Thames Gas Board, said: TUC to have much gone public is very much "The A week Turter on vonady. behind us wenne would have shaken the gov- the Press said there would ernment, but one day means all be deaths and explosions

MOLOC

over the place. 'Had they come out with as I know, I am the only policy of one week, casualty so far.' think somewher would have got Collins (Mr suffered heart attack following Frank Veal, of the West- with said: "The heated meeting gas depot, munster He time-d Whats effort is a waste boara omcias. confined to his home rest- time. that going to show? What we want is two ing.) I think the TUC is very hinoov weekS warl weak. I have always thought something really strong. soilt sits on the fence tio mumbling is use. People

T&GWU

strike leader jess. are sarut Hospital, much, particularly Say should take things King's we Feather. He is retiring soon into our own

MAIN

achers Sue Lilley (right) and Altson Hackney Brodie. SUE LILLEY, a teachers are angry voUne teacher from Hackney, now Tae v pared to face that and said: e TUC seems carry Lambell 'It's good that they've The done something at last. Councillors be ¡ike our execuuve. Bon't be elective. one-day strike They want to back out." support Orty, from David the with 'It's the same Greenwich teachers' hospital our "thev' re to cao cone o ron od executive. just not militant workers enough. call form some 'Young . teachers like action, but there pay claim myself are taking home policy shey vehit! dangers the protest You £20 a week. on. under 'It's not only that the can naraiy pay tue TenL should with that. It's existing, people Becon exsperated, bur living. giving a lead not Brodie, also Alison from Hackney, said: also those 100 |

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Walll association de- everybody out indefin- manded an extended itely. from the execu- 'After April of strike struggle is be tive. This course, Tories a cording to the political, and that's the al King's Collago Hospilel, London. Seo moro on paga 11.

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TAL WORKERS

A PORTER at Kings College Hospital, Den- mark Hill, Oliver Batter- shield, said: "This one-day national strike means nothing to me. The TUC is going to its the government on knees when it should be at telling them what to do. It's not good enough. 'I take home £23 a week for 52 hours. I've got three children, and I have to pay £6 rent for two rooms. This can't go on. 'We're out for a week, and I think that when we hold our next meeting we must extend this action. But we need the support of all the workers' Ridiculous John Lawrence, co-chair- man of the T&GWU strike committee at Kings action College Hospital, said: 'A one-day action is ridi- culous. "This struggle against the Tories is obviously becoming national-you've got teach- Ford's the gasmen involved ers, civil servants, all with us. 'But at the moment we're all split up. 'If we don't get satisfac- tion, we will have to have everyone out. 'We've got 700 union members here and they are 11. all for further action.'

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