Workers Press no. 1025

workers press

DRAWN DEEPER INTO PAY BOARD NET

TUC CHIEFS OUT TO

SMASH PAY FIGHT

BY REFUSING to take a against the Tory governme sciously opening the door Board. By such default an limited struggles and usel to build up the authority action. This Pay Board is the machinery of the corporate state for dealing with the working class. Once the trade unions accept it, they will be trapped inside the corporatist legislation of state wage controls. These mean the govern- ment decides how much workers shall be paid and how to punish workers agitating to fix their own wage levels. But to defeat this legisla- tion requires a political fight force the government's to resignation. Rather than do this, the trade union leaders, almost to a man, are going to help sell the Pay Board idea to workers and do everything to break the growing strike movement. TUC secretary Victor Feather is trying to get the *national day of protest and stoppage' called by the TUC special Congress to be held on May Day to reduce its impact, while the govern- will possibly make ment May 1 a public holiday to reduce the impact still further. Frank Chapple, electricians, and Sir Sidney Greene, rail- waymen, are already saying they will not take part in the one-day protest anyway.

David Basnett, G&MWU, has imposed a ballot on the gasworkers which loads the question in favour of accept- ing the pay offer rather than continuing industrial action.

Union leaders representing hospital workers, civil ser- vants, train drivers, and teachers are all resisting action, as did the G&MWU from the gasmen. In cases where the trade union leaders cannot con- trol the militancy of their members, the government will resort to bullying tac- tics, such as the fines against Jack Jones' transport work- ers union and Hugh Scan- Ion's engineering union, which both these lefts' tolerated. Or else they will resort to threats of lock-out, such as that just used to persuade the train drivers' leaders to industrial call off their action. (See page 12.) And behind all of this the

INCORPORATING TI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

By Royston Bull take action in defence of thos vernment's pay laws, trade uni e door for acceptance of Phase fault and by wearing out wor nd useless protests the leaders hority of the Pay Board as the Tory government is prepar- ing state machinery, bodies of armed men' , to physically crush the strike movement if the union leaders are un- able to betray it completely.

The full-scale emergency powers operation planned to coincide with the publica- tion of the Ulster White Paper this week is nothing but a dress rehearsal for dealing with the General Strike when it comes. By their servile crawling before the employers and the Tories, the union leaders hope to be able to avoid the class confrontation and lead a quiet life. But the objective dis- integration of the capitalist makes this system im- possible. The struggle will go on, The union leaders' weak- ness and unwillingness to fight will only disarm the working class and make the struggle more bitter. Their political cowardice will give a hesitant govern- ment more determination to carry out attacks on the working-class unions and living standards which the economic crisis, and the ex- right wing of the treme bourgeoisie, both demand.

Once emboldened by suc- cessful inroads into working- class rights, the Tories will launch an outright onslaught to impose a corporate state.

The TUC, the 'lefts' , and the Stalinists are pursuing time-wasting one-day stop- pages, token strikes, over- time bans and other forms of pressure politics. With half-hearted stop- Ford workers, pages, the gasworkers, hospital work- ers, train drivers, civil ser- vants and teachers are all fighting with one hand tied behind their backs against a ruthless ruling-class deter- mined to pass the burdens of uncontrollable capitalist inflation onto the workers.

Once wages are effectively cut for all workers by tying them to a low government- imposed ceiling-while food and other prices rocket- the Tories will then begin to ruthlessly drive wages down.

This is the process the government is persuading union leaders to embark upon by first getting their

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY MARCH 19, 1973 • No 1025 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Tenants in rally laws, trade union leaders are con- workers piecemeal in against bailiffs for Phase Two acceolance and the Pay Board.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN BOLTON

Only by building a new leadership and by clearing TENANTS from all over the once-powerful rents strike in this the Tory

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Lancashire town. ranks labour The the north-west demonstrated in the movement can Last Tuesday Bolton bailiffs, act- Bolton on Saturday in de- class lor a ing the instructions the succos borough we ence or me a Dy their entered ureasurer. defeating the Tory govern- fence of six council house homes and seized goods to compen- ment. £22.88 rent arears. families who have had their sale tor wel Trade Tenants Oldham, from Hattersley, sist Iccall comercuces furniture seized by local Manchester 50-strong delega- of their unions to reject any Towerhill Tenants' dealings with Associa bailiffs. Board and Phase and ton KIrKOV. LiverDoor. Turned

OUT

for the march through Bolton town •emane d Genera sulke The six are the remnants of a to force the Tories to resign.

They chanted "Tories Out anti-government Mass picket planned at hospital slugans. At one stage wielding sticks moved in une aemonsurators wner attempted they sit down to Bolton High Street. On At a rally after the march Neil Duffield carpenter the ane one Six tenants who have had their furni- ture never a aid hat be pay rent increase In Dosed the Labour-controlled coun cil. "There of only five are us left now. One family has paid because intimida- will not tion. but Day

LAING

can all my fur- unev take niture, he said. His wife Eileen said: 'We need industrial

SUDDUEL.

workers shoule reaize mal a rent rise is a wage-cut.

"The Tore are flinting freezing wages in the but est know which the population section benefits from the freeze- it's not the working class.'

a he meeting at the told

LONDON

workers building meeting police had used brutal tac

GUN LAW

will stage a mass picket out- Mondav against ucs last side the St Thomas's Hospital demonstration outside Kirk- by Town Hall. site in Lambeth this morning.

The police force in Britain is under- *They piled in This contractors follows the

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men, children and pregnant going a tull-scale reorganization.

moves last week to bring alter- men are nein is recruited, the intelli- women. gence branch being extended and native labour onto the site in Manchester tenants' all officers trained police-type coaches (above).

are Denne -InE leader, Fahey, Connie Sald weapons. every major city OT that the nghi • ot the tenants there are now armed patrol groups. When pay strike electricians should be linked with fight of the whole working tried to prevent a Laings'

TOMORROW

•class lo coach going through the gates, Workers Press begins two-part government. manhandled by they were a series investealine some or the new •We have to get rid of techniques being adopted by the po- of traitors in the Labour large contingent police the Britain lice both in and in Italy, West the Party specially trained in anti-picket Villains Germany ane rance. the lory Party who want to duties. take us back to the 1930s.

workers press

DRAWN DEEPER INTO PAY BOARD NET

TUC CHIEFS OUT TO

SMASH PAY FIGHT

BY REFUSING to take a against the Tory governme sciously opening the door Board. By such default an limited struggles and usel to build up the authority action. This Pay Board is the machinery of the corporate state for dealing with the working class. Once the accept it, trade unions they will be trapped inside the corporatist legislation of state wage controls. These mean the govern- ment decides how much workers shall be paid and how to punish workers agitating to fix their own wage levels. But to defeat this legisla- tion requires a political fight force the government's to resignation. Rather than do this, the trade union leaders, almost to a man, are going to help sell the Pay Board idea to workers and do everything to break the growing strike movement.

TUC

secretary Victor Feather is trying to get the 'national day of protest and stoppage' called by the TUC special Congress to be held on May Day to reduce its impact, while the govern- will possibly make ment May 1 a public holiday to reduce the impact still further. Frank Chapple, electricians, and Sir Sidney Greene, rail- are already saying waymen, they will not take part in the one-day protest anyway.

David Basnett,

G&MWU,

has imposed a ballot on the gasworkers which loads the question in tavour ot accept- offer rather than ing the pay industrial action. continuing Union leaders representing hospital workers, civil ser- train drivers, vants, and are all resisting teachers action, as did the G&MWU from the gasmen. In cases where the trade union leaders cannot con- trol the militancy of their members, the government will resort to bullying tac- tics, such as the fines against Jack Jones' transport work- union and Hugh Scan- ers Ion's engineering unlon, which both these lefts' tolerated. Or else they will resort to threats of lock-out, such as that just used to persuade the train drivers' leaders to industrial their call off action. (See page 12.) And behind all of this the

INCORPORATING TI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

By Royston Bull take action in defence of thos vernment's pay laws, trade uni e door for acceptance of Phase fault and by wearing out wor nd useless protests the leaders hority of the Pay Board as the Tory government is prepar- ing state machinery, 'bodies of armed men', , to physically crush the strike movement if the union leaders are un- able to betray it completely.

The full-scale emergency powers operation planned to the coincide with publica- tion of the Ulster White Paper this week is nothing but a dress rehearsal for dealing with the General Strike when it comes. By their servile crawling before the employers and the Tories, the union leaders hope to be able to avoid the class confrontation and lead a quiet life. the But objective dis- integration of the capitalist system makes this im- possible. The struggle will weak- The union ness and unwillingness to fight will only disarm the working class and make the struggle more bitter. Their political cowardice will give a hesitant govern- ment more determination to carry out attacks on the working-class unions and living standards which the economic crisis, and the ex- right wing of the treme bourgeoisie, both demand.

Once emboldened by suc- cessful inroads into working- class rights, the Tories will launch an outright onslaught to impose a corporate state.

The TUC, the 'lefts' • and the Stalinists are pursuing time-wasting one-day stop- token strikes, over- pages, time bans and other forms of pressure politics. With half-hearted stop- the Ford workers, pages, gasworkers, hospital work- ers, train drivers, civil ser- vants and teachers are all fighting with one hand tied behind their backs against a ruthless ruling-class deter- mined to pass the burdens of uncontrollable capitalist inflation onto the workers.

Once wages are effectively cut for all workers by tying them to a low government- imposed ceiling-while food and other prices rocket- the Tories will then begin to ruthlessly drive wages down.

This is the process the government is persuading union leaders to embark upon by first getting their INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY MARCH 19, 1973 • No 1025 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Tenants in rally laws, trade union leaders are con- workers piecemeal "in against bailiffs for Phase Two acce lanct Pay and the Board.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN BOLTON

Only by building a new leadership and by clearing TENANTS from all over the once-powerful rents strike in this Tory the OUl Lancashire town. north-west demonstrated in une can the working movement Last Tuesday Bolton bailiffs, act- for a class success- Bolton on Saturday in de- ing the instructions of the ful detence of their rights bi borough entered ur casult.. defeating the Tory govern- fence of six council house homes and seized goods to compen- ment. families who have had their sate tor their £22.08 rent arears.

Trade unionists must in- Tenants Hattersley, sist trom conterences seized by furniture local Manchester 50-strong delega- Towerhill Tenants' ton from dealings with Pay Associa bailiffs. Board Phase and and non, LiverDool. for march through Bolton town the chela Dulkt The six are the remnants of a centre. to force the Tories to resign.

They chanted 'Tories Out' ano an covere Mass picket planned at hospital slugans. At one stage police wielding sticks moved in on the acmousuralors wner attempted sit down they on Bolton Street. hi a lally aller ine marci Neil Duffield carpenter the Six chant Who have had tee turns. would never day aid that.be would renu increase In bosed the Labour-controlled coun- cil. 'There only of five are • One family has us lett now paid because But will tion. not Ddy

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can my lake

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niture,' he said. His wife Eileen said: 'We need industrial support Workers should realize a rent rise is a wage-cut.

'The are freezing lories in the "national inter- wages but know we which est the seculon benefits from the freeze- it's not the working class.'

Tony Boyle Kirkby from told the meeting that the

LONDON

building workers police had used brutal tac will stage a

GUN LAW

mass picket out- tics last Mondav against side the St Thomas's Hospital demonstration outside Kirk- by Town Hall. site in Lambeth this morning. The police force in Britain is under- 'They piled This follows contractors the men, children and pregnant going a tull-scale reorganization MOTe moves last week to bring alter- men are being recruited, the intelli- women. gence branch being extended and native labour onto the site in Manchester tenants all officers being trained the police-type coaches (above).

ale leader, Connie Fahey, said weapons. every major city DISe the fight tenants ot the there are now armed patrol groups. When pay strike electricians should be linked with the fight of the whole working tried to prevent a Laings'

TOMORROW

Class lo get ma or une lory coach going through the gates, Workers Press begins two-part government. manhandled by new they were series investigating some of Tne have rid 'We get techniques being adopted the po- in Labour large contingent of police the traitors Britain lice both ane in taves Party specially trained in anti-picket dilu Villains and France • Torv Party 'to whe 19505° who want duties. take us back

World-wide float an admission of failure Markets open in state of anarchy PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday March 19, 1973 IT WAS time treason It had taken more was recognized, extreme than a year to recognize Tory MP, right-wing the danger in Northern Mr Harold Soref, said at Ireland. It was more Thornby, Lancashire, at than two years since a the weekend. bomb had been thrown in the House of Com- 'The Angry Brigade, mons, he said. the

IRA

and other 'Surely do not we revolutionary bodies want to wait for fighting treated should be as in the streets and the such and capital restored, pun- of parlia- destruction ishment before dealing ment said. with these subversive the anti-immi- Soref, groups which threaten grant MP for Ormskirk, us. was responsible for lead- 'It is high time the ing the Monday Club police protected were witch-hunt against the from insults and slander Socialists' Young sum- attacks and abuse. mer camp held in Essex is "The alternative last year. anarchy and civil war He also recommended which is the logical con- permits of the activities that travel clusion introduced of the civil rights Should be workers and community between Dublin and some form Britain and relations partisans. of identity card which "There can be no opt- ing out except at would also control our illegal immigration. peril' Sinister series for BBC ACTOR Kenneth Williams returns to Radio 4 next month in another series of shows in which he plays agent fighting against the BRA-the a secret Brotherhood of Revolution and Anarchy. The series, starting on April 3, is among new schedules announced by the BBC yesterday.

THE TORY

government will produce a code on picketing in the next two weeks. Publication of the docu- ment follows for pressure tighter picketing laws by chairmen of nationalized in- dustries, port employers and building industry bosses. On its front page yester- the Tory 'Sunday Ex- day press' said: 'As the miners prepare for a national ballot over their latest tight pay claim, a illegal, police crackdown on violent picketing is on the way. •What really matters is that the law should be en- forced and that the police should be better equipped 'it' and backed in enforcing Workers Press has already the of reported formation special inter - constabulary units or 'heavy mobs' to deal PICKETS will be out with pickets. ing at the Imperial This squad was in action Leicester in support o at a privately-owned wharf at Hull on March 9 and cutting. The strike, at Shrewsbury last again fourth day, follows a Thursday, when building that management is appeared on workers con- wages by up to f8 and spiracy charges.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

A JOINT communiqué from the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union and Italy says nothing about support for the Common Market. Issued after an Italian delegation visited Moscow says the the need for 'the it accept two parties of a policy of inter-European co-opera- definition tion'. This can co-operation between only mean the Common Market and NATO on the one hand and COMECON and the Warsaw Pact on the other.

The Soviet bureaucracy obviously expects the powerful Italian party to be a main advocate of its policy of doing a deal with capitalist Europe, pre- sented as 'detente' and 'peaceful co-existence'. The reassert their communiqué says the two parties wish to other Communist co-operate with Parties and with all parties which represent forces of detentes, peace and social progress in Europe'.

Nothing is said about the Warsaw Pact invasion 1968, which of Czechoslovakia August the in Italian Party criticized at the time in order to placate public opinion and conserve its 'liberal' image.

CURRENCY

mar- kets this reopen morning in a situation of almost total anar- chy after their record 17-day shut-down. The system of "fixed but adjustable parities' has been swept away and in its place practic- ally every main capitalist currency is floating. Ministers Finance and central bankers meeting in Paris on Friday could find no alternative to the 'float- ing' regime. All their efforts to regu- since the crisis the late breakdown of the 1944 Bret- I be out in strength this morn- Imperial Typewriter works at upport of a fight against wage- strike, which is entering its follows allegations by workers lent is attempting to reduce o £8 and £10 a week. The auto department men, mostly Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' members, stop- ped work after a failure to get talks with the com- pany. Most of the factory's workers are in the Transport and General Workers' Union and many are immigrants. A bonus scheme nego- tiated last autumn has beg

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information has been revealed about the part played by an Italian Com- munist Party delegation which acted as go-between in carrying_peace proposals from Pope Paul to Hanoi in December 1966. In an interview with the Rome paper 'Il Messaggero', communist deputy, Anton- CEMENT WORKERS have occupied residential a church in Seville, Spain, in the closure protest against of their firm 'Andaluza de Cementos'. The 100 workers point out that there is a

BY JOHN SPENCER OUR |

ton Woods system in August 1971 have ended in failure.

The adoption of a world- wide foat is their admission of failure. The American delegation the Paris conference, at headed by Treasury Secre- tary George Schultz, made only the most token gesture Tr towards assisting the other capitalist powers. The US said it would delay the removal of checks , 'until on US capital exports the dollar is stronger and would intervene 'in principle' to support the dollar if the rate falls against the EEC bloc. In addition it will join the . 13 participants in other 'studying' ways of 'making Imperial Typewriters' worker pushed production of elec- tric machines from 500 to 2,000 a week. The highly-organized auto the section clinched best and the highest in- deal But in the creases. past couple of months manage- ment has been looking for ways of reducing the bonus.

When the wage-cutting began the auto men began ello Trombardori, said he had told the Pope he was available to carry a message to the North Vietnamese government. He did this on instructions from Party sec- retary Enrico Berlinguer.

Negotiations with the Vatican were conducted through a Jesuit priest Father Roberto Tucci and it great shortage of cement in the province, and that if they lose their present jobs, they will never get new ones. In Seville, factories have been closing down at a rate of one a month.

ER OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

the Euro-dollar market less volatile'. These guarantees are so vague as to be meaningless.

The Euro-dollar market consists of those dollars ex- ported from the US since the war. They cannot be re- deemed for gold at the US ure Treasury. The US government has no intention of taking charge of this immense pool of 'hot' money, which, in any case, is beyond the control of any single government (or group of governments). The absence of any plan to deal with Euro-dollars makes it certain that there will be further and even more violent upheavals in the currency markets. rs' workers outside the plant.

to clamour for negotiations.

Last Friday 400 workers at one gate signed a petition calling for a works' meeting.

It is understood the union has refused the petition.

Benny Pinigar, speaking for the auto men, said his department was first on the firing line on wage-cutting.

He called for support from other sections. was from him that Trombar- dori received the Pope's message just before the delegation left. He was also sent by the Party to see the Pope in 1969 during a visit to Uganda, with a view to arranging for Cardinal Pig- nedoli to accompany him to North Vietnam at the Vati- can's expense. 01-622 7029 Not only will the failure of the Paris meeting fuel the existing lack of confidence in paper money, it will also create intolerable conditions for international trade. Traders depend on having some guarantee that the different currencies will re- tain a stable relationship for quite lengthy periods of time. That is why the six EEC countries, with Sweden and Norway, trying to hold are their currencies within a set of parity bands. Already this relationship is showing signs of strain is not and it expected to last for very long before collapsing. breakdown of the The capitalist monetary system must lead directly to a credit collapse on an international scale. GEORGES Séguy, Com- munist Party leader of the union federation CGI, has to responded the Gaullists' electoral victory with a blatant call for a corporatist state. During the election cam- paign, the CGT leadership workers not to upset told the election chances of the Union of the Left by strik- ing for wage increases. Now, Séguy has made an appeal the Pompidou to government to execute the promises it made during the election. This abandons even the common electoral pro- gramme with the Socialist and left Radical Parties.

Writing in 'Le Monde' Séguy reassures Pompidou that the CGT and CP will remain the main pillar of support for French capi- talism: It is ridiculous to give the CGT some murky desire for political revenge consist- ing in exploiting the dis- content of workers for the of agitation and purpose creating disorder' Particular reference has been made by the Stalinists to a speech made by Pierre Messmer in Province in January calling for a meeting of the representatives of the - employers, government and trade unions to negotiate wage increases and reforms.

On March 15, the Cr laily, 'L'Humanité' printec the whole of Messmer's pro- gramme, which it is urging the working class to fight for. It is no more than a string of vague promises to im- purchasing power, prove working conditions and in- crease pensions and family allowances - the customary right-wing 'social' promises.

Séguy claims that it will be difficult for the employers and their government not to make concessions, 'although their margin for manoeuvre is cut by the worsening economic and monetary crisis affecting the capitalist world'. The workers will have to rely on their own strength, he adds... but the 'militants will need a lot of realism and a great sense of re- sponsibility.

The Union of West Ger- man Policemen has ac- cused the social-demo- cratic government of training members of the para-military Federal Border Police as soulless killers. The union has demanded an answer from Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, say- ing that the well-armed border police have formed Ranger units with a licence to kill, trained in the arts of torture by American commandos stationed in . West Germany. According to the union, border policemen have been tortured insulted and to toughen them for combating 'terrorism'-a top preoccupa- ion of Genscher's Interior Ministry at a time of great financial and social crisis.

The union has stated that border police commandos had their genitals tied to trees, or were locked in torture cham- bers and bombarded with cold water and noise to brutalize them for combat. The police union president, ha Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, has found happi- ness at last in the United States. I've found exactly what I was looking for in this country, she told the 'New York Times' society page reporter the other week. She's certainly adapted well: the 'Times' says she's now a who is fed up super-patriot with 'long-haired hippies' and 'protesters in the streets'.

• She even has a credit card with a women's clothing store. Worth about $4m from royalties on her two appallingly sentimental books, Svetlana is exile in enjoying a cosy Princeton where she owns a black-shuttered mansion with a two-car garage. Her best friend-she calls Werner Kuhlmann, has de- Int manded a parliamentary inquiry Ge Ge into border police training Ac methods. He says that as the tol Federal force is trained to 'te shoot to kill - rather than sp shoot to wound like other West German police-it pre- po bo sents a hazard to civilian life.

A spokesman for the union in said: The border police are do training hardened killers, who gu Ist are being used more and more in normal police operations.

Where policemen are taught to be shoot and capture, if they have air jac to, these people just open fire rif and kill. They are trained as soldiers, not as policemen.'

pa In fact, the border police are W effectively a military formation, set up in 195l at the height go war, just after of the cold the Germany had been divided. They patrol with Br armed in high-speed launches da the Baltic, northernmost tip of mi the 'suicide strip' frontier run- th ning between the two German ba states. Apart from foot and ski patrols along the tightly- po surveyed frontiers with East an Germany and Czechoslovakia, pr they now use armoured troop me carriers. go The green-uniformed guards the have become increasingly con- no him 'my American godfather' -is George F. Kennan, master- mind of the cold-war contain- ment policies of the 1940s when he worked as a State Department diplomat. But not everything has gone smoothly since she left the Soviet Union six years ago. Recently Svetlana divorced wealthy architect William Peters after refusing to live with him in a commune in ell: Arizona. 'It was very painful, very painful, related the daughter of the • who murdered man thousands of Bolsheviks. 'But I believe in private property and they live a communal life, They share their incomes, their food, their living. 'Everyone works, including the children. That's why I left Russia.' As the saying goes, the apple never falls far from the tree. Workers Press, Mo The United States and other major trading coun- tries are claiming large amounts of compensation from the Common Mar- ket for trade losses resulting from the entry of Britain, Ireland and Denmark. The compensation negotia- tions opened last week in Geneva, headquarters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. They are likely to drag on for several months and will almost certainly give rise to bitter and acrimonious ex- changes between Europe and America. The American government regards the negotiations on compensation curtain- as raiser for the world multi- lateral trade talks which are due to begin in the autumn.

The Geneva talks are very much part of the trade war between Europe and America, as the complete lack of pre- liminary agreement demon- strates. Under GATT rules countries are allowed to claim compen- sation from a trading bloc like rich the GATT if its enlargement the results in loss of trade to them.

ent. This, the US claims, is what lion ling has resulted from the growth of the EEC, and in particular 1. from the accession of Britain, air- a big customer for US products.

hen The Americans, together sed with other countries affected oot by the Common Market's en- ber largement-notably Australia, ped Canada and Japan - have ers. gathered three truckloads of to statistical documents to back nan their case. orts The United States is taking atic the negotiations very seriously on indeed. While its negotiators in talk in Geneva, the Washington Congress is rushing through ion President Nixon's Trade Bill.

om- This empowers the President ith in to impose tariffs against foreign exports either on a discrimi- the natory or a wholesale basis the and is a most potent threat and against the EEC. ass The Common Market coun- tries could well face a 15-per- the cent surcharge on their exports use to the United States unless ast they show willing and com- ese pensate the US. lan This could only be the first hat • is to complete capitulation step to US demands. Press, Monday March 19, 1973

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The US wants lower tariffs on certain of its exports to the Common : Market in com- pensation for the effect of Britain applying the restrictive Common Agricultural Policy.

Britain is the world's largest food-importing nation and the loss of markets in Britain the last straw for American food interests which already feel the EEC farm policy dis- criminates against them. The Common Market showing no sign of accepting the American demands. It claims that the lower common external tariff on manufactured goods offsets any losses caused by increased food tariffs. This amounts to a total rejection of the US claim. The system of negotiation being adopted is positively Byzantine. A single delegation

EEC

will representing the negotiate separately with any claimant country proving principal supplying interest' in any product, but in consulta- tion with others justifying 'a substantial interest' in it.

The result will apply auto- all remaining matically to countries under

GATT

the 'most-favoured nation' rule.

This could lead to all sorts of complications. For example which outside country would to negotiate be qualified if Britain's major supplier of a given product should be one of the original six Common Market states? Are Commonwealth coun- tries entitled to compensation for withdrawal of preference?

Whatever the answers, if any, that are found to these questions, one thing is certain: under present conditions of trade war there can be no amicable settlement of the results of EEC entry. Britain's entry to the Com- mon Market was in itself an act of trade war against the United States, designed to gain increased protection for British industry from the cold wind of recession blowing outside.

The Common Market coun- tries , which have already had to take the costly decision to allow sterling to float on alone are in no mood to pay further bills for British entry. The conflict between Europe America will not be and settled peacefully round the table, but only through ruth- less conflict between powers.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday Marc Dear Editor, In 1961, when I was 31 years old, I was introduced to the Communist Party by way of 'Daily Worker. Having the read the paper for some weeks, I then decided to attend a branch meeting. This I continued to do on a weekly basis for three months and for the next four years was left to stagnate. No real intro- duction to Marxist education was given, only boring talks from the branch secretary who thought that to question any- thing he said would be a dis- ruptive element; he then left the district and unknown to my husband (who was also a member) and I, a branch meet- ing was called to elect a new secretary. A week later we were intro- duced to him in the local pub; this one proved to be even worse than the last. By this time my husband and I were beginning to wonder what sort of organization we had in fact become part of, as public activity was never mentioned, let alone carried out. We began to agitate and point out it was surely our task to get out to the people and try to awaken some real political awareness in them; first by a canvass with the 'Daily Worker' and then a leaflet campaign to let people know there was a communist branch in the area, as it seemed very much like a secret society at this time, with only 12 members. •We had our campaign, with my husband and I and the branch secretary, who made one appearance and then went underground again. The other comrades made excuses like they did not wish their child- ren to come under any attacks due to having parents who might become known com- munists (incidentally I had six children) so the paper sales and any other activity • were left to my husband and me.

In 1966, during the General Election, canvassed we three weeks solid (my husband took two weeks off his sum- mer holidays), leaving home at 8.30 a.m. in the morning and returning any time after mid- night, as the candidate was not in our own area; again no other comrade would partici- pate. When this campaign finished my husband was elected branch L

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rotsky Now available from New Pa 186a Clapham High Street, | nday March 19, 1973 secretary and myself chairman.

We held a meeting and put it down the line to the comrades that they had to start being active if we intended . to be in our political serious task. This was treated with horror by the old Party stalwarts.

The district secretary was he informed us present and that we could not, and must not try to force comrades into doing anything they did not wish to do. We then de- cided what was urgently needed to instil some militancy into the comrades; there was also an obvious lack of a grasp of Marxism. We then held classes for three months, but to no avail. Things remained the same, the sleeping members being fully protected by the Party officials. My husband and I carried on regardless and in- creased the branch member- ship to 34 in a matter of six months—all were young • mar- ried couples who were willing to work the same as we were but what happened was that the older members refused to come to any more branct meetings and even paid their dues direct to Party office.

The situation regarding our position was becoming in- tolerable, as the older com- rades were going about trying to block our work. People who had been buying literature for some great length of time sud- denly stopped. We realized a being smear campaign was waged against us; we were be- ing criticized at every turn, until, in the end, we left the Party. Along with us left all the young people we had recruited.

It obviously left us all with a bitter taste in our mouths.

I must point out here that the reasons given above are not the only reasons we were treated in this manner. Other major reasons we had were begun to question the role of the Party: why it would seem that they were not playing a revolutionary role; why true the change in the name of the 'Daily Worker' to the 'Morn- ing Star' (which we voted against); why, when we asked what we felt were very import- ant questions, we never re- ceived any answers? By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated of leading Sharp pen-portraits figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for the first time published in an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the Socialists' 'Keep Young paper Left' Their enormous success has led to the completion of the whole book, translation of the which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub- lished in the Soviet Union in 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures Second Inter- the national, their strengths and weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

New Park Publications Street, London, SW4 7UG Mrs Winnie Price (centre) pictured at The main reason, as we then felt, was that the total leader- ship of the Party was very weak and, of course, we ex- pressed all this at branch meet- meetings. ings and other It was always received with shock - how dare we question the leadership? The year we left the Party was 1969. In 1971 we moved to Middleton and because we still wished to be active and stir people into being class applied for we conscious, membership of the CP, think- ing things may have changed.

But we were only fooling our- selves. The attacks from this Middleton branch were even worse than the last branch and the first attacks came only a few months after rejoining, because I brought to task a Labour councillor and a mem- ber of the CP on their atti- tude to the anti-Common Market campaign in the area.

In my opinion there was no real fight and no linking up of other issues. I was then told by the branch chairman I was destroying left unity and this had to stop and that my hus- band and I were taking the Trotsky line. Soon after this we began to buy the Workers Press. Again I was attacked and told I must not only stop buying the paper, but must not be seen speak.

ing to the comrade who was selling me the paper in the local pub, as I was destroying the image of the Party. The tenants' association in this area had long been defunct and my husband and I raised this issue at a branch meeting.

After a long discussion on the matter it was decided that we would book a hall, leafiet the estate inviting people to attend and set about reforming the association. This was done and 60 people attended. We then decided on a further meeting two days later, as the present secretary did not wish to carry on in that position (he was a CP mem- ber). Also the present chair- declined to carry on as man he had just recently been nom- inated parliamentary candidate in the area - he was, of course, a Labour councillor.

Before the second meeting was called we were informed by the branch chairman that if there was any chance of one of us being elected as or chairman secretary we should decline the offer as, and I quote, 'it would affect our Party work,' particularly myself as I was standing in the local elections. We went along to the meet- ing and when the election of the secretary came up I was nominated and seconded by members of the Labour Party.

I declined the offer, but was having very grave doubts as to why I should decline. A very lengthy discussion took place by all the 30 people to why I should present as ictured at rehearsals for the Pageant 'Road to take the position and in the end I accepted. This obviously did not please the branch chairman who, after only few weeks, began to accuse me of neglecting my Party work. I then informed him that surely this was part and par- cel of my political work and that it made it easier for me to get through to people canvas- sing for the election. He could not or would not see my point of view on this matter. All during this period I had continued to read the Workers Press. For the first time in my political work I found that the Press was giving me the political answers to the issues facing the working class, SO that at a public much SO, meeting with over 400 workers present and because I had be- incensed by the come so statements being made by the association chairman (who was a Labour councillor), I grabbed the microphone from his hand and informed my fellow wor- kers that there was only one way to fight the Housing Finance Act and that was to Strike to call for a General have a General Election to kick the Tories out. I must state at this point that when I mentioned General Strike I had not really inten- ded using this phrase, but !

obviously would not retract it, and I was glad I didn't as there was a wonderful response from the workers. I then went on to say we could not fight single issues; that we must all understand between the connection Industrial Relations Act, the Housing Finance Act and entry into the Common Market, as this was the Tories' way of trying to take away our basic and for my fellow rights workers to remember that we have the power to stop them with the right kind of leader- ship. Well, as you can imagine, this did not go down well with the reformers. I was a tenants' accused of turning meeting into a political meet- ing; needless to say I still con- tinued to speak on these lines.

Suddenly the CP members who had come into the ten- ants' stopped committee attending meetings. Out of the blue my husband and I were invited to a Sunday morning meeting in the Labour Club, where we were to find out that members of the CP and had met the previous day LP and formed a committee, as the September 6 known committee. role was to ask the people to sign petitions of support for the councillors who were going to vote against implenientation and we had been invited to find out if the tenants association would help them in this task. In the following two weeks we were out every night with petition forms, asking people 'Road to Workers' Power'.

over the loud-hailer to attend the town council meeting on September 6. The bulk of this work was done by the tenants' associa- tion; we had collected over 2,000 signatures. On the night of the council meeting, they were all there basking in the glory of this wonderful politi- cal task they thought they had done. After this the association decided on a further public meeting, so we called a meet- ing with the September 6 committee to ask would they help with the ground work— leaflets, loud-hailer, posters, etc. But no help was forth- coming. Even on the night of the meeting there was only one member of that committee present. just before this It was state of affairs that I had de- cided once again to leave the CP. After the public meeting I wrote a letter to the local paper expressing my disgust with the Labour Group for their betrayal of the people.

Because of this I was barred from entering the Labour tenants' Club where the committee held their meet- ings. The rest of the committee was informed that they could stay; in other words, get rid of your secre- tary and everything will be OK. We found another place to meet and are still functioning • will continue to do so and without the CP or LP and more and more the Workers Press is being sold in this area, giving all workers, as it gave to me, the political under- standing which, up until the past few months, was so sadly lacking in this area. I wish to add here, that out of a branch of 98 members, only six did any work in the tenants' association. Even at public meetings we were lucky members of the to get ten branch to attend. This, added to what I have already stated, proved the Stalinist nature of the Com- munist Party. It also proved that this Party is just another party of reform and back- wardness, in which, for anyone who wishes to be a revolution- ary, there cannot possibly be a place. appealing to other I am comrades in the CP who feel the same as we do and want to build a big revolutionary out before you party-come get lost in the wilderness.

Don't fall for the Stalinist peaceful line of co-existence. Get truly involved in the class struggle. Work alongside com- rades who are willing to fight, not hold you back. This fight is now, so don't waste any more time. fraternally, Yours Winnie Price.

POVERTY THAT CRIPPLES AND KILLS

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDE

'We believe from our exper- ence of the children with rickets referred to the unit, and who came from differ.

ent schools and backgrounds, that rickets will be found in all schools to a greater or less degree..? A report on conditions during the Industrial Re.

volution? A description of the 1930s? The sentence quoted above comes from the report of a study carried out by four pro- minent doctors and scientists in the Birmingham area pub- lished in the British Medical Journal on February 10, 1973.

Out of 569 schoolchildren studied, aged 14-17 years, 233 showed signs of rickets when blood tests were taken, and in about 4 per cent the disease had progressed so far that X-ray examinations showed abnormalities of bone structure developing in the wrist, ankle and pelvic regions. addition to the 569 in- In cluded in the study, a number of other children had also been referred to the medical unit because the bone distortions had become so obvious as to be noticeable without special tests. Rickets, the dreaded disease of past generations, which produces undersized, weakened men and women with twisted pelvises and bent legs, is with us again. Caused by inadequate diets, particularly a shortage of vitamin D during crucial stages of growth, especially in the early 'teens, it shows in stark human terms just what the Tory attacks on workers' living standards means. • There is nothing abstract about the fight to defend the basic rights which the working class has won in past battles.

Victory or defeat will be mir- rored in the bodies and lives of millions of men, women and children. The unemployment and poverty of the early part of the century not only brought desperation and misery, they also brought disease and death.

The Ministry of National Service, reporting on over 2 million men examined for military service in 1917 and 1918, acknowledged that, out of every nine men of military age, three were 'perfectly fit and healthy; two were upon a definitely infirm plane of health and strength . . . three could almost [in view of their age] be described with justice as physical wrecks; and the remaining man as a chronic invalid with a precarious hold on life' Rickets and tuberculosis were rife. Infant and maternal mortality were high. The death rate faithfully reflected the living conditions of the work- ing class. The official figures at the height of the depression in 1937, ranged from 73-90 deaths per 1,000 in peaceful, middle- such as and upper-class areas Bournemouth, Exeter, Oxford Cambridge, 106 and to working-class Birmingham, 113 in Bermondsey (south London), in Manchester, 134 in 128 Rhondda, 135 in Burnley and 138 in Wigan. More people died of tuber- culosis in the high unemploy- ment areas of Durham, North- umberland and South Wales than anywhere else in the country. New-born babies died at the rate of 47 per 1,000 in comparatively well-off south- east England, 59 in the Mid- lands, 63 in Wales, 72 in Dur- ham, and a terrible 114 in Jarrow. The Pilgrim Trust, in an inquiry carried out in 1928- 1934, found that the death rate amongst women in childbirth

SPONDENT

poverty of the The una and rickets, the dreade disease of past ge was 19.8 per cent higher in mi areas with a lot of unemploy- ment than in more prosperous districts. For one thing, apart from the exhausting grind and des- pair of trying to make ends the dole, and the meet on unhygienic conditions of slum housing, few women could proper food. Doctors afford were prescribing a healthy diet of milk, cheese, butter, eggs, liver, fresh fruit and vegetables during pregnancy, but how many women whose men were out of work could afford even required for the 4s a week two pints of milk a day, let alone all the other necessary foods? With the supreme cynicism of middle-class do-gooders, the National Birthday Trust Fund carried out an experiment in 1935-1937. One of group 10,384 pregnant women were given special food at a cost of 13s 4d a week each. Another group of 18,854 women were just left to bear their babies as best they could on what they could afford. The Fund found that the maternal mortality rate in the first group was 1.03 per 1,000 births. In the second group it was 6.15—nearly 1,200 women —who died, the vast majority because they could not buy sufficient food to keep them alive in pregnancy. The establishment of the welfare state after World War Il was no accident. Nor was it a generous gift from conscious-striken ruling class.

It was the result of an enormous upsurge of working- militancy and • firm class a determination never again to be subjected to the terrible, dark days of the past. The working class swept the Labour government to power demand- ing great changes. The em- ployers, weakened by the war and terrified by the spectre of revolution which was stalking throughout Europe, reluctantly conceded. undersized, under- The nourished and women men reared in the 1920s and 1930s watched the new generations of post-war children grow up tall, strong and straight on the orange juice, cod liver oil, ly of the 1930s brought desperation and mise of past generations, has reappeared amongst in milk and school meals of the th welfare state. It became the proud boast that one of the finest achieve- ments of the 1945 Labour government was that everyone had the right to live as full, healthy and long a life as regardless of their possible, personal income. But if the Tories were forced to accept the introduction of ' the welfare state in the 1940s, they have never ceased to hate it. They fought to limit the scope of the National Health Service and the Labour govern- afraid of an all-out ment, challenge to the capitalist class, agreed not to nationalize the highly-profitable drug industry and to retain the use of private practices and private hospital beds. are today The Tories ex- ploiting these loopholes to the limit in order to undermine Writings of

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Press, Monday March 19. 1973 PAGE 5 prices and rents and frozen wages ensure that, once again, families are finding it impos- sible to provide varied and healthy diets for their children.

As the Birmingham report shows, the incidence of rickets schoolchildren is be- among coming a major problem. When the first 133' children with rickets came to their notice, the doctors started special vitamin D treatment.

Within a short while improve- ments were shown, although some children took as long as six months before they were back to normal. •Non-specific symptoms of muscle weakness, lassitude, aches and pains.;: were re- lieved by therapy,' the report states, 'often in a sufficiently striking manner to be com- mented on by their teachers.'

However, as the writers point out: "The unexpected size of the problem compelled the follow-up to be limited. Thus only 133 • .. were treated, being those that were seen earliest in the survey. Those seen later were not followed- up or treated.' Behind the cold figures is the human suffering — 100 underweight children, their growth stunted, plagued with lassitude, muscle weakness, all. And thousands more who have never even been diagnosed. Although some of the symp- will clear toms the up as children reach adulthood, the twisted bones and lack of growth will be with them for life. By robbing workers and their families of their right to a decent living standard and welfare benefits, the Tories are condemning thousands people to disablement and an early death, just as surely as the gangster who maims and kills his victims. By refusing to mobilize the working class to defend their rights and bring down the Tory government, the Labour and trade union leaders play the part of accomplices to the crime. But the working class is fighting back. In spite of the sabotage of its leaders, it not : allow itself will to be driven back to the con- ditions of the past without an enormous struggle. Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage reet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request.

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AND ALEX MITCHELL

The United Biscuit company this week announced record profits for the third year run- ning and celebrated by asking for another round of price increases. Fifty per cent of the UB includes Mc- which range, Crawford's, Vitie's Carr's, Penguin, Wright's and Mac- farlane's biscuits, have already increased prices by 5 per cent.

Now it is the turn of the Managing other 50 per cent. director Hector Laing blames increased raw material costs. If prices stayed the same, he says, the group would suffer from decreased profit margins.

The government does not object to this argument. The case of United Biscuits is perhaps one of the most Mnndeu Maunh 10 1077 blatant examples of deliberate Tory discrimination against the working class. While wage increases are kept down to the pittance de- creed by government, the big monopolists like UB all con- tribute to the incredible rise in food prices now tearing away at a rate of 28 per cent a year. UB's share of the rocketing cost of living is considerable.

In 1971 profits were 43.1 per cent over the previous year and the latest returns show a further £2.8m increase to a record figure of £21m—this is before the latest round of in- creases. The profit increase for the first half of 1972 reached an amazing 67 per cent, though margins narrowed to- wards the end of the year.

UB's shareholders rake in such fabulous wealth because the company holds a mono- poly position in the industry -the firm claims more than half the £200m biscuit market in Britain and, with the other giant, Associated Biscuit Manufacturers, (Huntley and Palmer, Jacobs, and Peak Frean) controls well over two- thirds of biscuit output.

The ability increase to prices simply to maximize pro- fit was revealed last year by one of UB's brightest execu- tives Bill Bowman, who heads the international division. Bowman was commenting on the overhaul of the UB empire, which followed an in- by business con- vestigation sultants McKinsey. 'There was no advertising, no product support, no image, they were just cut-priced pro- ducts,' he said of the old-style "family' UB. 'So we made a start on re- vamping McVitie. We put prices up massively, we im- proved packaging and got away from the round English- style packs.' disguising There is no motive in this statement. UB was raising prices, exploiting its commanding position in the market to rake in more revenue. The UB group was an amal- gam of family firms with a rather lazy attitude to mar- keting and making money. But recent years have seen a drive for rapid integration coupled with expansion into other food nuts, crisps, flour lines (KP manufacture, and preserves meat wholesaling). The overhaul has meant massive redundancies within the industry. Four of the UB biscuit plants and four of the nine general food factories have been closed. While the rationalization was going on, UB was relent- lessly extending its monopoly power. In July 1972 it bought Wright's biscuits from the Cavenham food and retailing for f4m. One of the group first moves after the take-over a decision to close the was South Shields plant, threaten- ing several hundred workers with the dole in this area of high unemployment. At the time UB same teamed up with the other con.

fectionery giant J. Lyons to buy 50 per cent of Fox's Biscuits. The only big com- pany standing in the way of total monopoly now is Asso- ciated price Biscuits-but effectively competition has been eliminated in the indus- try in favour of the adver- tising war. 1971 £2.9m In was spent on TV advertising alone. benefit The people who from UB success the most are the shareholders and the average UB directors. The worker gets just over £1,000 a year-this is less than man- aging director, Hector Laing, each week. In 1971, for gets example, Laing personally „re- ceived £68,000 in dividends in addition to his salary (£12,000 plus) and was also trustee of which received trusts £302,000. Other benefactors of UB include Lord Craigton who netted £13,000 a year as chairman in 1971. Craigton is an ex-Scottish Tory MP. The group's other connection with the Party is through British United Industrialists, which received £5,000 of UB cash last year. Organizations like UB make fabulous profits and directors incomes beyond enjoy wildest dreams of the workers they employ. But there are no Tory controls for them-the laws apply only to the hospital worker, the railway driver or who earns a frac- the gasman tion of the amount of the food bosses. Edward Heath on his way to the 'Fanfare for reach of millions of youngsters. The biscuit Britain's big food monopolies enjoy the closest relations with the Tory government.

Under the Phase Two laws these multi-million pound cor- porations have special privi- leges which don't extend to wage-earners. Under the new laws, wor- kers are forbidden wage in- creases other than the £1 plus 4 per cent laid down by Heath. If trade unions or their members fight for a decent living wage above this ceiling, they face fines and imprison- ment. But the food monopolies they please. All operate how fresh food and vegetables are from the so-called exempt 'freeze'. This has given wholesalers complete freedom to launch an unprecedented prices ramp. To get the price of processed food increased, simply the companies make application to the Minister in charge. And he has a 100 per cent record in granting these increases: tinned meat, bacon, to the 'Fanfare for Europe' Banquet. Above left: Povert gsters. The biscuit manufacturers, for example, make ri ham, cakes and biscuits. In other words, the "freeze' on prices is a complete and utter Tory fraud. The code on prices has been blasted asun- der by the profit-hungry food conglomerates. The Tories have no inten- tion of injuring their rela-

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United Biscuits (record profit of {21m last year) Associated Biscuit Manufacturers Reckitt & Colman Ranks Hovis McDougall Spillers Tate & Lyle Brooke Bond Liebig Manbre & Garton Unilever Imperial Tobacco Group (chairman Sir John Partridge of CBI) British American Tobacco Workers Press, Monday I Above left: Poverty in Britain-soaring or example, make record profits—and still put their prices tionship with the monopolies.

They rely heavily on them for financial support. In this table, prepared by the Labour Re- search Department, we see major food that every single group is a substantial contri- butor to the Tory Party. Out of a total of more than

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British United 85,000 Industrialists British United €2,000 Industrialists £20,000 Aims of Industry £500 Economic League £500 Aims of Industry £5,000 £4,500 £5,000 Aims of Industry £2,500 £2,025 £3,500 Economic League £1,000 Conservative Part £1,000 European Movemen £4,000 Economic League £1,250 Common Cause £1,000 Economic Leagu £1,250 Aims of Industr £1,000 Common Cause £250 ers Press, Monday March 19, 1973 PAGE 7 ng food prices put proper nutrition out of still put their prices up.

£63,000, £37,000 went to BUI, which is a fund-raising body for the Tory Party. The pre- sident of Tate & Tyle, Sir lan Lyle, is also president of the right-wing organization, Aims of Industry, and one of his directors, Mr M. D. Oliphant, council of is the the on Economic League. While the Tories and their backers in the food industry are accumulating record pro- fits and drawing vast salaries, a survey has been conducted health of school- on the children. It established that 30 per cent of children in a sample throughout the country were in suffering • degree or one ancther from rickets. This can be directly attri- buted to the soaring cost of food and the fact that the Tories ended free school milk and made the price of school meals higher and out of the reach of millions of young- sters.

CIA MONEY TAKES TAMPOE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Marcl A series on revisionism and ( Bala Tampoe's paid visit to the United States is admitted by Jaya Vit- hana in the International Marxist Group's recent pamphlet 'Ceylon and the Healy School of Falsification'® But it is excused the on grounds that it was 'a study project on trade unionism' or- ganized by Harvard University,. As and that it was useful for 'making learning contacts, about trade union movements in other countries and putting across our views regarding the problems of trade unionism'.

This garbage is an insult to everyone who reads it, but par- ticularly to IMG members who are required to peddle it around. • May we point out to Vithana that United States imperialism is not in the habit of organiz- ing international meetings in order to enable revolutionaries and put to make contacts across their views? Every worker who has been in politics five minutes knows that one of the major activities of the Central Intelligence trade Agency is to corrupt union leaders, particularly in colonial colonial and former countries. It is only that kind of inter- day March 19, 1973 n and Ceylon by Jack Gale. Part ti national trade union 'seminar' that Robert McNamara would attend. Do we have to inform the leaders of IMG, who claim to be Trotskyists, that the Ameri- ruling class is not in- can terested in assisting the trade union movement, but only in making it safe from revolu- tionaries, in corrupting it and in smashing it? The CIA expends money through institutions like the precisely to Asia Foundation organize such seminars. Vithana twists and turns this way and that, but one little matter he omits-who paid for Tampoe's trip to the United States?

Who paid, Mr Vithana? Let us quote again from the Ceylon Commission's state- ment. Referring to actions by 'compromised Tampoe which the Fourth International', they list as number one: 'A trip to the US in the summer of 1967, financed by the Asia Founda- tion.' The Indian member of the Commission was more explicit: 'The Commission cannot but take a dim view of the manner in which Comrade Bala got himself invited to the USA ostensibly under a project sponsored by the Harvard University. •Although Comrade Bala maintains that he had kept the Unified Secretariat and So- cialist Workers' Party (US) informed about his trip, some of his activities in Washington like his interview with McNamara have not been fully explained.' (See Workers Press, Part two continued. December 5, 1972.) avoids Vithana altogether the delicate matter of who paid for the trip, because he knows, as we know, as the Unified Secretariat knows, as the IMG knows, that it was paid for by the CIA. This means that Bala Tam- poe associated with the CIA.

(We have not accused Tam- poe of being 'a CIA agent', as Vithana maintains. What we have said is that Tampoe 'as- sociated with' the CIA by taking a trip to the United States, paid for by an organ- ization—-the Asia Foundation -which he knew was financed by the CIA.) Those who protect a man who associates with the CIA, who place him on their leading political bodies, disgrace the name of Trotskyism, a name which they have no right to claim. It is almost embarrassing to explain to these self-styled Trotskyists that when Tampoe politely through the sat seminar conducted by Robert McNamara he was listening to the man who at that time was US Secretary of State in charge of the mass murders being carried out by American imperialism in Vietnam, a man with the blood of thousands of innocent workers and peas- ants on his hands. How could a man with even the slightest feeling for the oppressed masses of Asia, for the heroic fighters of the Viet- namese revolution, have sat quietly listening to this lead- ing spokesman of world im- perialism? Yet this was a member of the International Executive Committee of the Unified Secretariat! This is the man the IMG leaders defend. But there is more. Vithana has to admit that Bala Tampoe did attend re- ceptions at the British and West German embassies. One is the embassy of the colonial power responsible for some of the worst brutalities the world has ever seen on the Indian continent. The other was in honour of an ex-Nazi.

Ah well, says our apologist, normal practice of it is the unions representing trade workers of foreign-owned com- panies to send representatives to such functions' It may be. But is it 'normal practice' for members of Inter- national Executive Committees claiming to be Trotskyist to honour British imperialism and swill champagne with ex- is the issue, Nazis? This Vithana! Let us ask IMG members one question. If one of your members attended a function in London in honour of an ex- Nazi, would you or would you propose that that member not be instantly expelled? Would you accept as a reasonable ex- cuse that it was 'normal prac- tice for trade union officials to attend such functions? Above: Tampoe (left) and Robert US McNamara, Secretary of State at the time when Tampoe met him and attended his semi- nar in Washington. Yet the question of Tampoe's visit to Washington, financed by the CIA remains unanswered by the revisionist Unified Secretariat.

Because, on the basis of Vithana's argument, only one conclusion can be drawn-that the leaders of the IMG would be prepared to attend such a function. That is precisely the behaviour they are condoning in Ceylon. And not only con- doning, but rewarding with unanimous re-election to the highest body of their inter- national organization. The man who honoured a former leading member of Hitler's Nazi Party-the party which tortured and murdered millions upon millions of workers-is himself honoured and defended by the Unified Secretariat. The entire leader- ship of the Unified Secretariat -and Vithana himself-ack- nowledge that Tampoe did this, but say it was 'a mistake'.

We say it was not 'a mis- take'. We say it was an un- principled, degrading and poli- tically filthy act. That act alone should make ion Bala Tampoe a political leper.

These are your leaders, members of the International Marxist Group! And, as if that were not enough, Vithana proceeds to justify scabbing.

TOMORROW:

Revisionists slander the RCL (Ceylon).

BUDGET

Social priorities at Manchester and Salford have been got right! The budget for the police this year is to rise by £2m to a total of £10.5m.

The increase has caused indignation on the local authorities, particularly Sal- ford, where increase the amounts to 18.9 per cent.

Councillors are furious because the government is currently tightening up expenditure. On everything, it seems, except the forces of 'law and order'.

TRAINING

This tasteful item appeared in one of the Manchester news- papers the other day: There was training on the Armoury - Greek Street, home front for men of A Company (Cheshire) Mercian Volunteers Territorial and Volunteer Reserves — during the weekend. The drill hall was the scene of intense activity as the in- fantry boys carried out assess- ment tests that covered radio communications, weapon. handling, map reading, first aid and driver training. Driving instructional films were shown.

The weekend programme was supervised by Major Ted Carrington, OC; Captain Ivor Townshend, second - in - com - mand; Lt lan K. Broomfield; WO2 Alan Coldrick and Staff Sgt W. A. Horncastle, staff instructors. In the evening wives and girl friends joined the off-duty troops in the Mercian Club for a social evening. Twenty-three men of A were also carrying Company out training at Proteus camp, near Ollerton, Notts, to form a support weapons unit for a camp. They were coming accompanied by Colour Sgt Bob O'Sullivan. Cpl A. Denny, seven years a Territorial, has attended a sergeants' course hard-going at Brecon, South Wales. It firing exercises and involved fired being at with live ammunition. And cadets of the No 1 (Stockport) Detachment, Army Cadet Force, have had an evening of strenuous tests. They took the physical activity section of the Duke of Edin- burgh silver award at their Monday drill night.

NEW MEANING

Last month PC Peter Slimon of Kensington police station and 27 other officers had placed their notices to quit. They were angry about the disciplinarian James Starritt, the deputy commissioner New Scotland Yard. Starritt, one of the old-time, hardline coppers, feels that the force is becoming too sloppy. He wants to put a bit of spit and polish into the ranks.

Apparently he turned up at 5 a.m. to do a full dress in- spection of the morning shift loudly abused officers and wearing slightly long hair.

But a week before his notice was due to take effect, Slimon was involved in a shoot-out at a Knightsbridge bank. He pulled a gun and shot dead a ank robber while he himself was wounded. Slimon and 15 of his mates have decided to stay in service.

who knows this As someone fraternity well said: "They feel that the shooting of the bank robber has given their vocation a new meaning.'

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Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG Eyesham Perincek, had seen people bea Granada television's 'World in Action' pro- gramme on the Turkish military police torture machine - shown last Monday night — re- vealed the enormous courage of the opponents of the regime so loved by the British Tories. Over 15,000 political pri- soners have been jailed under 'Operation Sledgehammer' which followed the right-wing coup two years ago. Brutal beating, electric shock treatment and sickening sexual assaults are common- place in Turkish prisons and detention centres. Yet of the nine former pri- soners interviewed in Turkey by the 'World in Action' team —operating without the per- mission of the Turkish govern- ment-six were prepared to openly face the cameras and give their names. Eyesham The first was Perincek, the wife of an avowed revolutionary. She had seen people beaten until they could not walk, stand nor sit.

Of the risk involved of speak- ing openly, she said: There is a risk and I hesitated, but if we don't do anything it is going to continue.' •Siar Yalcin had seen two men-Hasan Cekin and Sarp Kuray—so badly tortured that they could not move. Their defence lawyer, Muk- kerem Erdogan, told how he had himself been arrested for Eyesham Perincek, had seen people beaten till they could not stand or sit. Above: A Turkish jail.

TURKEY'S VICTIMS

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defence lawyer, acting as although he had no polltical with his connections clients. He told of hearing a tor- tured screaming: wollail such human heard neve anywhere'. voice When he was taken in him- pools of blood self he saw on the concrete floor and met another prisoner the way 'The face I saw out. He said: didn't look like human face.' After eight days of electric shock torture, he sigend false 'confession'. In the same cell as Erdogan Nuri Colakogou whose was finger nails had been burnt off because he refused to obey beat up fellow orders to prisoner. Colakogou's wife, Sezi, said she had seen her husband un- able to walk because of elec- torture and the beating tric of his feet. He on the soles told her he had been forced watch some girls being stripped, bound with chains and raped with electrical truncheons. girl, whose iden- A young tity was hidden at the request of her family, not of herself, had been charged with having of forbidden possession book. She was given electric torture for 30 days and then 'not guilty' the found on grounds that 'there was no reason for her arrest. A student arrested after had had his demonsualon finger nails pulled off and his truncheon pushed up Another student had allus been badly beaten up and then Press, Monday March 19, 1973

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d or sit. Above: A Turkish jail.

forced to watch a girl being raped by a grooved truncheon containing electric wires.

Yasha Kemal, a novelist and founder member of the ban- ned Turkish Labour Party, Turkish declared that the government was lying about the use of brutality in its jails.

Kemal, whose son is on trial, and whose daughter-in-law is in jail, declared: 'I will stay in Turkey until the end and I will fight this government.'

Ergun Atasu-whose Dr case is still continuing in the martial law courts—neverthe- less appeared openly before the cameras and denounced the torturers. such displays of After courage it was nauseating to hear Labour MP Frank Judd prattling on about raising 'the voice of a wide cross-section of European political opinion'.

of A wide cross-section European political opinion in- cludes the Tories who lavish praise on the Turkish regime, Stalinists whose co-thinkers in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union seek closer economic and cultural relations with the barbaric regimes of Turkey Greece, and outright fascists. The 'World in Action' team have provided a useful ser- vice in showing such atrocities to as wide an audience as possible. But the courage of the tor- turers' victims must inspire all those who are fighting to end capitalism and the in- human degradation to which it sinks. in its single-minded defence of profit.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday March 19, 1973 Two months' time will with Labourite. assistance, Feather has already taken the tell, but a document president's job the Euro- which reached pean trade union federation. Now he is to speak on the Workers Press offices a subject 'A Single Trade Union few days ago suggests Movement?'. Also on the that TUC opposition to speakers' bill will be right- the Common Market Labour peers Lord wing George-Brown and Lord stands a good chance of Kennet, Eire Labourite Conor being buried, Cruise O'Brien (tipped for a job in the new Labour-Fine priately enough, in a City Gael coalition), Young Liberal of London crypt. Peter Hain and newspaper The crypt, publishers' chief Lord Good- man. for at least one session The first session of the con- ference, which will take place nized by the European Move- London's Guildhall, will be opened by the Rt Hon The conference, Lord Mayor of London, May ll, is timed to Colonel The Lord Mais

OBE,

starts on TD, ERD, JP (once plain Alan celebrate the quarter of a cen- tury since big business first got Raymond Mais). together with politicians, Mais is a former member churchmen and of the army's Special Forces, academics, union leaders to plot the building and a employer European formation of the Though 62, he re- Economic Community. mains a member of the Terri- morning session involv- torial Army. ing all 900 expected delegates Also involved in the open- will introduce the main theme, ing session will be the Tories' "The Future European Europe Minister, John Davies, Society'. and the extreme right-wing Then Tory Duncan Sandys, the plan is to break MP. up into smaller discussions on This reactionary sounding-oft will be followed, the future in Europe of poli- the mass tical parties, youth, on the afternoon of May 11 media, education and and the following the day, by the One of the main trade unions. 12 smaller discussions. These speakers in the discussion on will take place simultaneously the unions is to be none other Haberdashers' Hall, Guild- Victor Feather. hall, its Livery Hall. than general and, secretary of the TUC. the European Society's hand- Officially the TUC is sup- 'one crypt'. out says, posed be British For those unable to make to against the conference, its proceedings entry into the Market, but fol- lowing the Tories' streamrol- are to be published-at £5 a lering through of the measures, copy.

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Or Full subscription (six days) for ..months. Name Address Amount enclosed f Small groups managers at Aircraft Rolls - Royce French compa volved in the ( project are now figures which c up to 60,000 jol Following of US options on ill-starred aircraft, agement and union in motion a series c surveys possible consequen There is one vita between these parallel, respects activity. On the one hanc panies are single-mindedly defending their pro workers' expense. the the task of single worker A clash is inevi only question for th class movement BAC, Rolls and Department of Industry are extremely cagey since the January 31 ment by Pan Amer Airways and Airlines thạt they celling their optio Concordes. The reason for obvious: caution is ellations were political dynar of the existing world signalea a new trade war which out most of the of selling this cost And Aerospacr as Michael Heseltine four MPs have of the estimated 30 Concorde workers voting in their con every possible manufacture and sel aircraft and that the companies to wo labour force cuts. All BAC-the m committed of the chiefly invol panies say is that a slowin its production inevitably cause so: dancies in its comn craft division unions will he when anythi know is decided. company's. I The tions machine the ever. erase admission of George Edwards tha chairman workers' liaison Bristol, all that is mr relatively 110IC coups of senior s at the British Corporation, the oyce and companies in- n the Concorde re now juggling hich could kill ,000 jobs. the cancellation ions on buving the both man- a series of inquiries, cnotes onsequences. one vital difference two, some sets of one hand the com- ruthlessly and dedicated to their profits at the .On the other charged with of making sure not loses his is invitable - the the working- ement is how pre- the unions to meet understandably about the planning das reacne( anuary 31 announce an American World Trans World options DTI's for the can- from the out- al dynamite. nocking out almost 56 options ng worldwide, they turn in the could wipe f the other chances this costly aircraft. Minister wals re. parliament on one out of every at least some nated 30,000 British living and their constituencies. current line linister has pledged support and selling of the up It 1s ies to work out any -the most heavily two com- nv involved _ wil a slowing-down of ion programme will some redun- its commercial air- and that the the first 1 anything definite apany's. public-rela- cannot, how- February Sir chairman wards that the can- presented 'one hell ohn Blackley, join BAC-Roll: committee that is meant by the encouraging noises now being made is that 'neither company wants any real dialogue with the unions' Says John, shop stewards' secretary at the Rolls engine tactory at Filton, Bristol: 'It's not just a question of Con- corde. 'Concorde is a symptom of the instability of the whole aerospace industry. A job in aerospace used to be a job for life. But all that has gone now.

This is the issue that's got to be looked at.' Between 4,500 and 5,000 of the workers at John's factory —a third of the total labour force-are on Olympus 593 engines for Concorde. At BAC, Filton, the situa- tion is even more serious.

There 6,000 out of 9,000 work- are engaged in Concorde ers work. But John Blackley points 'We are all agreed it out: would be a trap just to get involved in a campaign to save Concorde. 'As I say, the situation in the industry , generally has to examined. be These will be political decisions if men lose their jobs. The livelihoods of whole areas will be destroyed, in France as well as here.

'Certainly one of the things we have to fight for is nation- alization of the entire industry.'

At the moment, however, most of the liaison committee's efforts are being expended on obtaining recognition from the companies (neither BAC nor Rolls will finance, or provide a venue for, meetings) and setting up investigations of the possible effects of the can- cellations. Vic Ryan, the Transport and General Workers' Union full- time official in closest touch with the situation, explained that there were two main ideas here. The first is a public inquiry, probably with an academic in the chair, to examine the effect of redundancies on the un- employment situation, the im- pact of a Concorde wind-down on the life and finances of and other related Bristol itself topics. It this tails to get oft the ground, the proposal is to win the backing of the city council for 'dispassionate study', conducted in private. Says Vic Ryan: 'Before any- thing else we've got to get recognition for the liaison committee. I reported the situation of no support from either of the companies to the district com- mittee of the Confed [Confed- eration of Shipbuilding_ and Engineering Unions] last Tues- day and they have authorized me to take this up with the companies again. am hoping to hear from Jack Service, general secretary of the CSEU, very shortly. Locally there are healthy signs of impatience. 'We've got to get something something off the ground, moving. The main thing is to imbue people with a sense of the urgency of the situation.

We can't leave it till we find ourselves faced with the old questions, the death of any real struggle against redun- dancy: "Where, when and how many?"' Certainly the Concorde workers have very little time to spare. World capitalism's deepen- ing economic problems threaten to cut aw remaining possibilit the supersoni Claimed in Ilan, and CAriTas rency crisis in parti these £23m-a-time tremely doubtful pects. wave succesr the economic erosiol lakes flimsy basis ana rren( ments have authoriz tion of 16 materials for a furt speed of tr The ment of the crisis ' overtake all plans redundancies outside this perspec

LAST DITCH

George Elliott, the

BAC

great weight which a campaign its infancy yet' has At their 10,000 workers at bridge factories 6,000 There are six bouts of sacki last two-and-a-half aucing une 2,000. These experience two contradictory according to He that savs struggle has been w snm Ders wno But, gone. well, 'this time it's the know know there are no p alternative work ber of people threat it's a last-ditch time and they've g The rumour at W that 2,000 of the 6,0 be may threatene period by the but a down, •Whatever opinions of hoods depend on have some basis fo of job tion industry and Concorde's the we've got. Workers are looking from the various li which have nurllees but besides the up, aneurtes co-ordinater stoppage once are declared. This is clearly ina the meet workers now face, a is the demand nationalization. Mass unemploym aircraft industry in the Labour Teluli and nationalize all production and control. This would be ju step to a planned world transport and production industry. • cut away the last possibilities of sell- upersonic by China, France The cur- s in particular makes n-a-time aircraft ex- sales pros- e succeeds wave of crisis, the place which the on ld French govern- authorized produc- aircraft plus or a further six of the develop le crisis threatens to s perspective. workers • yet' has to bear. were peak there rkers at the Wey- Now there There have been of sackings in the nd-a-half years, re- labour force by xperiences have had tradictory effects, will that the s been weakened by already nato he points out as the members the crunch. are no prospects of work for the num- ple threatened-that this struggle hey've got to fight. our at Weybridge is of the 6,000 workers threatened over the Concorde run- collapse of the of course, would iott says, 'our liveli- it. We must basis for continua ecurity in thi nd at the moment only basis risingly there is un- at discontent and Weybridge. arious liaison com- been set ich have sides the suggested concrete Only far is • emerge so -ordinated half-day redundancies learly inadequate to Concorde threat w face, as, by itself, simply for employment in the lustry can now be , in the struggle to Tories out of office governmen to socialist policies alize all of aircraft components ines, under workers sport and transport

Workers Press, Monday March 19, 1973 PAGE !!

Chrysler man Porters & lecturers Food up 15 p.c. back grants sit-in refuses to join since the 'freeze: engineers' union THE INCREASE in the price of all fresh food is 15 per cent since the start of the 'freeze' in November, Mr Norman Buchan, the Labour PRODUCTION at Tilling Stevens' car factory at Shadow Minister for Agriculture said in Ren- Maidstone, Kent, has been disrupted because a worker refuses to join the union. More than 700 carworkers are operating an overt me ban in protest against the man's action.

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against the union is ground- All of the meraDer less. Union of Amalgamated Clive Longworth (39), an Workers Engineering be- air conditioning colossal DoCe increases, inspector, gan the ban last Friday at renses union. cove muell the Chrysler-owned plant. I believe that the govern- „ now be allowed their budget There were disruptions price ol processea meals. salme Time (now. run the and not the counury plant caryser unions. not "yes" Ryton, Coventry, at the end he said. last Joseph une use ra oo• brces sce management spokesman Incal oro-

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6.30 p.m. Norfolk Room Caxton Hall Caxton Street, SW1 THE DELAYING tactics used by the train drivers' union leaders in once again postponing industrial ac- tion in return for further talks at British Rail head- quarters today will not put off a decision on drivers' pay for long. The talks can settle noth- ing. The government is determined that there shall not be a single exception to the Phase Two pay laws. No •matter how long-standing the grievance over a review of drivers' pay, British Rail has strict instructions to nego- tiate a fl plus 4 per cent deal for all railwaymen for 1973 and nothing more. The threat Richard Marsh delivered on Friday to lock out the train drivers if their non-co-operation campaign did not stop was the real voice of the government and the employers. The five-four vote by the ASLEF executive back down before this to ultimatum is a move fraught with dangers. On the one hand, it will encourage British Rail and the government to be even more ruthless next time. On the other, it will weaken the train drivers' determination and destroy any confidence they had in the union. The railway drivers, who could have given a lead to the whole working class, are now faced with more time wasting instead of being given the opportunity to fight for their right to a decent standard of living which they are clearly willing to do. Peron plea GENERAL PERON has de- in Madrid that the clared new Peronist government in Argentina must 'strive for a government of national union capable of liberating and reconstructing the coun- try' The urban guerrilla move- ment had now lost its 'raison d'etre': 'Once the causes have disappeared, the eitects will • disappear in turn, as will the methods of violence.'

SATURDAY AN

• Monday March 19, 1973 THE NATIONAL Union of Law and Tenure Committ Teachers expel three may All but about 30 of the schoolmasters following dis- the Central teachers at ruptions a Westminster wanted to vote at meeting Central Hall resolution drawn mass meeting Wandsworth association last month. for indefinite strike Greenwich association secre- against the Tory pay las Roy Porter has lodged a tary The three men under complaint of unprofessional con- duct against the three and the of expulsion from the uni before the union's all members of the Wand is now

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

THE TORY government has set up a special securit!

by Earl Jellicoe to deal with any 'national emergency' of the military, the secret service, police and the ci be directly responsible to Prime Minister Edward H This is the first time in peacetime that a govern- ment has vested such vast martial powers in the hands of a body not controlled by parliament.

The Tories have used the pretext of the central London bomb incidents to set up this body. The Press has been carefully fed with stories that the committee is solely in operation to deal with the possibility of further explosions when the White Paper on Northern Ireland's future is published. This is un- must be a body true. the Organization for the Maintenance of Sup- The committee has been plies (OMS), the notorious set up permanently. It has co-ordinated been given a full-time staff, attack special ofhices and a large General Strike by the army, budget authorized by the the police and a strong force Civil Service Department, of blacklegs. headed by Jellicoe. But because British capi- News that the government talism is today profoundly had seized these wide-rang- weaker and the desperate, security ing powers was Tories will try to smash given by the Home Secre- General Strike more fer- Robert Carr, tary, at private briefing with ociously. crime Friday And if they defeat such a reporters late afternoon. national strike movement, they will push forward their The story was 'leaked' to plans for dictatorship the Tory Press by Carr, thus over the working class. by-passing a parlia- proper and announcement One feature of the new licacal y the prospect of a debate.

body is its wide ruling-class It will representation. com- When asked if the govern- prise military men and the ment had any evidence that police, plus senior civil ser- bomb attacks being were will vants who maintain planned White Paper tor links with big business. day, a spokesman said 'No'.

He said it was better to be Carr has also invited prepared than sorry: private security firms to help in his plan to meet a It then emerged, however, 'national emergency'. that the committee has been 'unofficially' meeting under There's little doubt this Lord Jellicoe's chairmanship call will be well received by for at least a weak. the country's largest private Securicor, where Carr Its army, announcement was himself was a director prior made only after the miners' to joining Heath's Cabinet.

executive voted unanimously to hold a strike ballot. Establishment of the com- It is worth remembering mittee marks a considerable of that Jellicoe was made head victory for the policies Brigadier Frank of the emergency Kitson and committee a clique of reactionary army during last year's set up officers. miners strike. This body was responsible For more than two years for misjudging the mood Kitson has been arguing for the miners, the support they a national command meeting would receive and mishand- in secret and accountable to ling the question of supplies.

'national nobody but the This time, it seems, the interest' to crush the leader- ship and organizations of the Tories are going to war well advance. working class. stations in They are determined not to • See 'Hang subversives' be caught unprepared this and picket code-p. 2. time.

Y AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & I5, WINTER GA

Committee. the chairman's ing to obey David Whitely. instructions to sit down and re- 30 of the 2,000 reading the Wands- Central Hall They are charged with mount- worth resolution. ing the platform without author- by up and Since the Central Hall meet- calling leave by the platform party and ing, at which the union's exe- achon the chief addressing cutive forced to quit the y pay laws. the meeting by means of an un- platform, the council of Inner Teachers' official public Association under threat address London plugs from the has voted for all-out strike union are removing the the Wandsworth official and refus- action. • micronhones

BY IAN YEATS

BEHIND the return-to-work vote by 400 ancillary workers at London's Whittington Hospital lay total disillusionment with union leadership. Feeling among General and Municipal Work- ers' Union was high at Friday's members was circulated mass meeting that a petition security committee headed which few refused to sign.

ergency'. It comprises heads The

G&MWU

head- petition, to sent to I the civil service and will quarters, condemned the "deplorable lack of leader- ship and guidance by officials during the recent ward Heath. strike. Whittington was one of few the hospitals where workers voted for all-out, in- definite industrial action.

strikers, Instead, say the they found themselves ignored and isolated. Consultants, senior medical staff and broke voteer workers' picket lines. workers allowed were stav at their posts through- out the stoppage providing the strike breakers with their incentive. if any, of the ancil. rew. lary workers Whittington had condence in the policy of selective industrial action the which were committed. They hoped their would push them to adopt tougher tactics.

But it did not. The last was reached last Thursday when officials told about a quarter of

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the

SURIKER

they were eligible for

HOL

dispute they pay because had not been union mem- bers for SiX LOre months. Under heavy pressure from the strike committee, the decision later partially reversed, but before about 60 strikers had been disgusted that SO they decided day and go back to work. Cllr Gerry one of the opponents the Ross. Friday, feeling Housing Finance Act in Hackney Council, speaking them. selves defenceless against the on saturddy. bitter Tory Press and scellg of support Snowballad throughout the country cause of the selective strike policy, the poorly-paid an- cillary workers were ready to go back. the • CONFERENCE called to discus‹ They voted by about three 'ories' Housing Finance Act was stager to one to end the strike and Tenants by the National Association of work to rule instead. and Residents in London on Saturday. The decision was egged on by the Communist Party-dominated rumour that. any The body the strike would have was examining a 14-point programme 'to undere hase they soive London's housing crisis'. become illegal under The programme does Two of the not once men- Few at the packed meet- tion the Tory government and its one 'so- ing at Central Halls, cialist' demand is the 'nationalization of way, on Friday wanted to go all land that, owned by urban except owner-occupiers'. But most believed that all-out unless national It also contains pie-in-the-sky calls for strike was called and all the the building of 100,000 homes a year 'until hospital unions acted to- London's housing problem is solved'.

gether, they could not win.

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