Workers Press no. 1027

workers press

TORIES WHIP UP

'LAW AND ORDER'

BY ALEX MIT

THE TORY reactionaries are i "law and order'. A large body restored, natural life senten juries. Already they have armed the police, formed special 'heavy mobs' to smash pickets and stepped up the use of phone-tapping. These measures have been seized to create an atmosphere of panic and hysteria, particularly among the middle class. Evidence of the Tory 'law and order' crackdown is voluminous: • In January a Yorkshire miner, Ernest Critchley, married with two young children, was given a year's jail for poaching. He was caught with ten pheasants in a bag. • At India House on February 20 two teenage Pakistanis were shot dead by members of the 'shoot to kill Special Patrol Group whose police nickname is 'Central London Commit- the ment' . At the inquest last Friday two officers were commended for their 'courage' in shooting the boys, who were waving toy plas- tic pistols. • On March 15 24 building workers appeared in court at Shrewsbury charged with con- spiracy under an 1875 Act. They face a total of 210 charges. When building workers, steelmen and dockers arrived to picket in their support they faced a 1,000-strong contingent of police from the new riot squad". • Last week pickets at the St Thomas's Hospital site in south London were manhandled by the police anti-picket squad thus allowing a coachload of scabs to move on to the site. The police have broken the picket line each day for the past week. • At the Fine Tubes factory at Plymouth on Monday seven pickets were arrested during an angry clash with the police. Spe- cial police reinforcements were drawn from other constabularies to smash a national picket organ- ized by the strike committee.

-WHO SAID IT?-

'THE STREETS of our country are in turmoil. The universi- are filled with students ties rebelling and rioting. Commu- nists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes, dan- ger from within and without.

•We need law and order! Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. We shall restore law and order.' -Adolf Hitler, Hamburg, 1932.

INCORPORATING THE NLWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

X MITCHELL

ies are in full throat demanding ge body of them want hanging sentences and trials without Also on Monday Mr Justice Croom-Johnson sentenced a 16- year-old boy to 20 years' impri- sonment for mugging. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a man and robbing him of five cigarettes, a bunch of keys 30p. accomplices, aged 15, got 10 years each. • Yesterday Leeds pickets were pushed, shoved and sworn at by police and their shop steward with standing in front charged of a vehicle. Behind these sinister develop- ments in the police and the judic- iary is a deliberate Tory strategy: they want to mobilize the middle class with a series of scares and hysteria-charged court cases.

For example, the direct result of the bomb incidents in central London been the establish- ment of a full-time security com- mittee under the chairmanship of Earl Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal. This is the first time in peacetime that the military, the intelligence services, the police and the civil service have set up such a command.

And why? We must ask why?

Is there any evidence to show that there is going to be wide- spread bombings or muggings throughout the country? Is there shortly to be a takeover of em- bassy buildings by immigrant children waving rubber daggers and cap guns? These suggestions are patently ludicrous-and the Tories know it. Heath and his cronies are whipping up this atmosphere to prepare for a massive counter- attack on the trade unions and the working class. And when it comes to vio- lence and brutality this is a government of experts. In Northern Ireland they intro- duced horrific torture tech- niqes at Holywood barracks and then legally whitewashed the shooting of 13 innocent civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday. It is the same government which has created record post- war levels of unemployment and pursued policies which deliber- ately increase the cost of living beyond the reach of ordinary working men and women. Shoppers are 'mugged' on the high streets every day of the week by the Tories' food policy. Food prices have gone up 15 per cent since the so-called freeze began in November while wages have been held down by all-powerful legal restraints. It is a government which can be up to its ears in giving away North Sea oil rights in a multi- million pound scandal, and yet INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 1973• No 1026 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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The face of Tory 'law and order' Top. St Thomas's Hospital site workers take a beating from the newly formed anti-picket police squad. Above (I to r) the story of four judicial actions: Paul Storey, aged 16, who got 20 years for 'mugging'; Iner Of 1 MosaGroves, lost her eyesight wing the anonymous repaymento major debts; Belfast Groves. lost bullet fired at evesiont when I nil by a rubber Alex McDonald, chairman of Distillers, the multi-million pound whisky empire poit blank range by which marketed the drug thalidomide. vears for stearng a lew 16-year-old 20 jail a sort Regiment, the followers of Briga- In the fags and activity William Whitelaw, the dier Frank Kitson But Ulster Secretary, has the hide to trains tnese tnugs. wno pays the unionists torturers?

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causing her sight. spiracy by launching an all- denis mus torestame Turtne interrogation the bankrupt The soldier responsible for out fight to remove the Tories and the likelihood of more big the was member firing from office. names coming out. the First Battalion, the Parachute

workers press

TORIES WHIP UP

'LAW AND ORDER'

BY ALEX MIT

THE TORY reactionaries are i 'law and order'. A large body restored, natural life senten juries. Already they have armed the police, formed special 'heavy mobs' to smash pickets and stepped up the use of phone-tapping. These measures have been seized to create an atmosphere of panic and hysteria, particularly among the middle class. Evidence of the Tory 'law and order' crackdown is voluminous: • In January a Yorkshire miner, Ernest Critchley, married with two young children, was given a year's jail for poaching. He was caught with ten pheasants in a bag. • At India House on February 20 two teenage Pakistanis were shot dead by members of the kill Special Patrol 'shoot to Group whose police nickname is 'Central Commit- London ment'. At the inquest last Friday two officers were commended for their 'courage' in shooting the boys, who were waving toy plas- tic pistols. • On March 15 24 building appeared in court at workers Shrewsbury charged with con- spiracy under an 1875 Act. They face a total of 210 charges. When building workers, steelmen and dockers arrived to picket in their support they faced a 1,000-strong from the contingent of police new 'riot squad'. • Last week pickets at the St Thomas's Hospital site in south London were manhandled by the police anti-picket squad thus allowing a coachload of scabs to move on to the site. The police have broken the picket line each day for the past week. • At the Fine Tubes factory at Plymouth on Monday seven pickets were arrested during an angry clash with the police. Spe- cial police reinforcements were drawn from other constabularies to smash a national picket organ- ized by the strike committee.

-WHO SAID IT?-

'THE STREETS of our country are in turmoil. The universi- are filled with students ties rebelling and rioting. Commu- nists are seeking to destroy our is threatening country. Russia us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes, dan- ger from within and without.

'We need law and order! Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. We shall restore law and order.' —Adolf Hitler, Hamburg, 1932.

INCORPORATING THE NLWSI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

× MITCHELL

ies are in full throat demanding ge body of them want hanging sentences and trials without • Also on Monday Mr Justice Croom-Johnson sentenced a 16- year-old boy to 20 years' impri- sonment for mugging. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a man and robbing him of five cigarettes, a bunch of keys and 30p. accomplices, aged 15, got 10 years each. • Yesterday Leeds pickets were pushed, shoved and sworn at by and their shop police steward charged • 'standing in front with of a vehicle. Behind these sinister develop- ments in the police and the judic- iary is a deliberate Tory strategy: they want to mobilize the middle class with a series of scares and hysteria-charged court cases.

For example, the direct result of the bomb incidents in central London has been the establish- ment of a full-time "security com- mittee under the chairmanship of Earl Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal. This is the first time in that the military, peacetime intelligence services, the the police and the civil service have set up such a command.

And why? We must ask why?

Is there any evidence to show that there is going to be wide- spread bombings or muggings throughout the country? Is there shortly to be a takeover of em- bassy buildings by immigrant children waving rubber daggers and cap guns? These suggestions are patently ludicrous-and the Tories know Heath and his cronies are it. whipping up this atmosphere to prepare for a massive counter- attack on the trade unions and the working class. And when it comes to vio- lence and brutality this is a of government experts. Ireland they intro- Northern duced horrific torture tech- niqes at Holywood barracks and then legally whitewashed shooting the of 13 innocent civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday. It is the same government which has created record post- war levels of unemployment and pursued policies which deliber- ately increase the cost of living beyond the reach of ordinary working men and women. Shoppers are 'mugged' on the high streets every day of the week by the Tories' food policy. Food prices have gone up 15 per cent since the so-called freeze began in November while wages have been held down by all-powerful legal restraints. It is a government which can be up to its ears in giving away North Sea oil rights in a multi- million pound scandal, and yet INCORPORATING THE NLWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 1973 • No 1026 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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The face of Tory 'law and order'. Too. St Thomas's Hospital site workers take a beating from the newly (| to r) the story of four judicial actions: Paul Storey, aged 16, police squad. Above Tormeo ant ocker who got 20 years for 'mugging' John Poulson's case has abruptly ended following anonymous repayment o debts: Belfast of major Groves. lost bullet fired at motel ner evesiont wnen nit by a rubber Alex McDonald, chairman of Distillers, the multi-million pound whisky empire point blank range by which marketed the drug thalidomide. jail a years for steaming a few fags and 16-year-old face of this Regiment, the followers of Briga- In the

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activity William Whitelaw, the dier Frank But Kitson Ulster • Secretary, has the hide to trains these tnugs. who pays the say unionists torturers? british trade The same people in are 'terrorists. It is arrant hypocrisy for The real terrorists are the screaming for law and order this hated government to talk who, today significantly silent government and its agents are

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her sight. spiracy by launching an all- interrogation of bankrupt The soldier responsible for the out fight to remove the Tories and the likelihood of more big the shot member firing was from office. names coming out. the First Battalion, the Parachute

Italian Stalinist slams 'Pravda' distortions Fascist's nephew faces Currency strains hit Common PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday March 21, 1973 concrete ITALIAN Stalinist leader Enrico 'Pravda' also left out a phrase endorsing aims of the struggle against imperialism. the need for the 'gradual overcoming Berlinguer has attacked 'Pravda' for 'Our attitude has not, in fact, changed the counterposed blocs unti tneir nguida• a distorted version of his tion'. giving sace adr ume. meetings in Moscow last week with ne tallan Instead the Soviet paper stressed that his parys rige sie hita 'the CPSU and the Italian CP are fully pre- Leonid Brezhnev and other leading developments pared to act. on the basis of the great ideas Eastern Europe. •urealcdis. of Marx. Engels and Lenin, in the spırit ol He said the Italian CP 'could judge what proletarian internationalism, on the deci- is post in and way gis no tes thi bealy.

In an interview published by the Italian sions of the 196y conterence in order CP newspaper 'L'Unita', Berlinguer said make a new contribution to stronger unity that 'Pravda's' comment 'did not reflect in •O nOL Walll l(

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•ocalile because this builds faith in socialism'.

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outcome of the talks. paper included a reference to 'the right of known that the Italian party, which took every party to elaborate autonomously its extremely long debate, Behind the dispute an active part in tne is Moscow's desire parties

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bomb charges

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

CLAUDIO

ORSI,

nephew of one of Mus- solini's right-hand men, has been arrested by police in • Monza on charges connected with bomb attacks on trains and buildings in 1969. The Italian authorities re- leased the Pietro ana cast Valpreda at the end of Dec- ember after they had found Llosible Corove ally between nim ana the bombings. Valpreda was in jail for three cals. Orsi, whose uncle was Balbo, Claudio Orsi. Italo was imprisoned San viltore jall to found the Young F ope Saturday evening. The "based owner of a motel in Ferrara, woclcile and Tezcan. ruter local Tem eols

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Mao Tse-tung', and then a fascist youth, he Italy-China Asso- so-called judicial investi- stranger to twist CaLon une lalesl galons. collaboration an anti- Last November he was questioned Orsi has his continuously been of attacks ci ee conra neoend asenes contacu

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on synagogues, but the local vanni and Franco Aldo Fais, Freda, prominent fas- magistrate, Ventura confessed Cleared him of these charges CISLs of anti-semitism. ma cer •atuToo valuiua. that he participated the On March he was bomb the law attacks on arrested for distributing courts of Milan and lurın in the zemrers WAnICt accused May Andreotti government When Franco Freda was fascism threatened and two arrested complicity of the Ferrara judiciary with was Orsi organized death. two conferences estab- Within days of friend and beginna solidarity tew his Orsi Leicase, was Mak• confessions anti- campaign The favourite fascism to the I'm venue press: notut it ist, What Ventura and Freda in Fer can I dc Italo rara was Orsi's motel. Balbo Was my uncle?' In a last altempi to main• his 'ultra-left' tain In Ferrara he lived Orsi defended himself lapsed hippy, with Illilsll. 'All these

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art ultra- Wtra -ent ane lne without any basis in fact. right and thriving as a pro- I've been friend vocateur. Freda's for ten From being a member i ve never snarea nis polit• the fascists, he moved on cal ideas.' Valpreda... released after 3 years.

Journalist could get 25 years jail

BY JOHN SPENCER

The central banks of the involved various countries

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Peter journalist Niesewand on SIGNS of strain in the OI have agreed nevere charges under Rhodesia's Official Secrets Act eight-member joint float the market support the ended yesterday. Niesewand (28) was remanded members of European currencies joint float. in custody until March 30 when the regional appeared within hours On float's court magistrate, J. E. T. Hamilton, will Monday, give of the reopening of the first day, the German central judgement. He faces. possible sentences of 25 bank sell Belgian foreign international years imprisonment and fines of up to €11,300.

Nanes ano owcos! Kronen exchange markets. to keep the mark within the Witnesses trial-heard in altenged Tae 'tunnel of parity values. The joint float involves included Rhodesia's Director of Informa- camera French tne belgian tion, David Secretary Law and The participants are show- Willams; TOr -uxembour‹ frane Danish, Order, Jack Fleming; and two journalists, Michael ing every sign lack of Dutch guilder, confidence in the ramshackle Keats of United Press International and Anthony Swedish Norwegiar Rider, who represents a South African newspaper TOInE loar arrancements. kroners and the German mark. These currencies France has toughened still group. every further stringent hoat against those • The Rhodesian State Prosecutor, R. R. Horn, but ornet colors Will excnance controls. eumnal. has demanded the death penaltv tor three Africans attempt to maintain a fixed ing the payment of interest convicted of 'possessing arms of war', under the relationship foreigners' holdings them- aluno French banks. Sitn reme c aw ane reer vacerdncer

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selves. ties at a time of great crisis for world struggle against Stalinism. ot, in fact, changed Berlinguer, who hopes for a govern- ment portfolio in an Italian version of the Front, clinging to his also affirmed Popular is grimly party's 'independence'. Like the British CP ke up its own mind' Italian Stalinists criticized from in the USSR right-wing standpoint the 1962 invasion a and Czechoslovakia. CP 'could judge what s not in this reality, Their criticisms were designed to en- ving lessons. But we middle-class hance their image with the speaking the truth devastating split in the and prevent a th in socialism'. parties' ranks. Now Moscow aims to whip them back into line in preparation for be- were again report of his traying the coming revolutionary struggles inter- in Europe. hich dwelt only atisfaction' with the The disagreements in no way signify a break from Stalinism by the Italian Com- • between the two munist Party, which has a lengthy history lesire to tighten its of counter-revolutionary treachery to the ern Communist Par- Italian working class. SPAIN'S director of embassies, Luis Villegas, has just returned from Moscow after a three-day visit to fix up accommodation for the Spanish commer- cial mission in the Soviet capital.

A communique from Franco's Foreign Ministry stated that official has an headquarters been attention facilities allowed authorities satisfactory, solution to the practical problem of the trade agreement' Villegas must have been helped by the hospitality that the Spanish Embassy in Helsinki has given to involved the European Security countries in Conference. The embassy has organized two meetings to discuss the military aspects of the security in Portugal, Mediterranean. Participants included Greece, Germany and ... East Germany, Rumania, and Yugoslavia. EIGHT military policemen in Rio de Janeiro have been sentenced to of 473 total years in gaol for torturing four soldiers to death last year.

One of them, ex-Commander of the First Battalion, Gladstone Pern- Lieut-Col Armoured asetti I Eixeira, was given seven years.

The others were a captain, a lieutenant, three sergeants and two corporals.

Two members of the civilian police, also found to be involved in the killings, sentenced were to one and two years' imprisonment. The four murdered soldiers—all aged 19. -were suspected of being connected with vice and drug smuggling but had not appeared before a court.

on the torturers, however, The sentences have by the be ratified Supreme Military yet to Tribunal. US food prices FOOD prices in the United States have gone up by an annual increase rate of 56 per cent in the last three months. This was claimed this week by Senator Abraham Ribicoff (Democrat), who said also that prices of farm products and processed foods had increased at an annual rate of 30.8 per cent over the last six months. Ribicoff was attempting to introduce legislation in the senate which would freeze the cost of agri- cultural and meat products at their level of March 1 this year. The Benelux countries happens on any scale the have gone further, float will collapse. even bringing in a negative in- With three of the nine terest rate as a discourage- Common Market countries ment to foreign holdings of floating their currencies in- their currencies. dependently, it is becoming These measures reflect the impossible for the EEC to fear that the European float carry out even such simple will be the next target of tasks as fixing next year's 'speculation' on the inter- farm This was post- farm prices. national money markets. earlier this year in This lack of confidence the vain hove that the cur- can only encourage the the nine would rencies of of hot holders to money stabilize themselves. cover themselves against the break-up of the joint float The EEC is disrupted by by moving their funds to the monetary crisis and its future is extremely tenuous.

the safest currency. If this

BOLTON RENTS The day the a m bailiffs came

BY STEPHI

TENANTS in Bolton held a after a threat to auction off rent arrears was lifted by the Six council house families wel for refusing to pay Bolton's £1.04 Tory Housing Finance Act.

Last week bailiffs impounded furniture to compensate the authority for the f22.88p rent arrears, but after an emer- meeting of the housing gency committee on Monday they have been called off. Neil Duffield, a carpenter and one of the six, told me that the borough treasurer had deputy rung him yesterday morning to tell him of the climb-down.

'It was great news, he said.

'We consider it a victory. I think that the solidarity demonstration made the treasurer think twice.

'We have been going round other tenants, and some are going back on rent strike they have been so encouraged by our fight. Neil Duffield faced seizures worth £50. Bollen The bailiffs left their mark.

'But we know we are not out of the wood yet. The treasurer has only abandoned one method of intimidating us because it clearly failed.' This remarkable episode at Bolton began last Tuesday when Eileen the bailiffs called at Kelly's house. take your suite,' 'We won't they said. 'We'll take the side- board, table and chairs instead.'

They stuck their mark on the furniture. 'Now they're ours in law,' they said and they walked out with this warning: she and her hus- band had 15 days to pay their £22.88 rent arrears or the fur- niture would be sold by auction.

She couldn't move the table but 'she could polish it, they added.

"That made me real mad,' 'My husband Eileen told me. Roy worked for that table-now they just come in and snatch it.

You don't have any rights really.'

Eileen and Roy Kelly and the five other families on Bolton's Brightment estate are the first victims of the Housing Finance Act in the north-west. Other have been threatened tenants with eviction but these are the first to face a threat of having their 'goods and chattles seized' —to use the medieval phraseo- logy most fitted for this almost medieval legal procedure.

The six are the remnants of a once powerful rebellion against the Tory • Act which has raised the rents in the town by £1.04p.

At the height of the campaign out of Brightment's 5,000 500 tenants were refusing the in-

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held a victory party last night ion off their furniture to pay by the borough treasurer.

ilies were originally under threat n's £1.04p rent increase under the crease. Now the six are fighting it out alone. I came home that night and I was real mad. You feel SO powerless to do anything this kind of dictatorship, said Roy Kelly, a maintenance fitter. 'Then I thought we had better pay. 'But after the demonstration I am determined to stick it out.'

He was talking after the soli- darity demonstration in Bolton which attracted tenants from Oldham, Manchester, Hattersley and Kirkby, Liverpool. Despite yesterday's decision Bolton may set a precedent for action against other tenants.

So far the authorities have acted mainly against councils who defy the Housing Finance Act, and all in England bar Clay Cross have caved in. Tenants have been sub- ject to normal eviction warn- ings for arrears. But such action carries with it the complication that tenants can go to a county court and protest. Bolton's borough treasurer ap- pears to have found an ingeni- ous way of avoiding courts and tenants directly. penalizing • the The irony is that it is the town's Labour council that is mainly responsible for his power.

He claims to be taking action under a clause in the 1958 Local Government Act, but a solicitor has told the tenants that under this act the treasurer is exceed- ing his powers. But the trea- surer says that a council deci- last November effectively sion delegated to him many powers normally residing with the elected representatives. Seize property 'This to me was a very crafty move,' says Neil Duffield, a car- penter, who has bailiff stickers table and benches in his on a living room worth £50. 'At that time there were a few hundred tenants resisting and the borough treasurer was clearly thinking how he could get round the legal complication with as little fuss as possible so he got these powers. 'When I rung him up he said the November decision was just a formal recognition of custom and practice with Bolton County Borough.' Under the regulations the bai- liffs can seize property at will.

They can apparently break into: the house with police help if the tenant is not at home. It is also within their power to estimate the amount of furniture neces- sary to recover the arrears.

When they came to my house, said Neil, 'they looked round. "How much is that table and benches worth", they asked.

I said about £50. The arrears are only £22, but they said that at public auction they would get less than £50 for the stuff.'

'The Press was in the room at the time. I had tipped them off.

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at the British Leyland car plant Oxford, came day running yesterday after another spontaneous walk-out by 5,000 direct workers. The unrest has been caused by a management attempt to further its Measured-Day Work schemes by imposing industrial engineering studies on the labour force. After the walk out, which similar action by followed Monday's night shift, the men held a mass meeting and Roy and Elleen Kelly with furniture the bailif levied w "This inhibited the bailiffs, I think. They warned they would will be s sue if any pictures of them ap- peared. But at other houses they respectful less with the were people. Some of the women were very upset indeed,' said Neil.

The behaviour of the Labour council when faced with this attack on their staunchest sup- porters has been despicable.

They decided to implement the Housing Finance Act before it became law. There is even the suspicion that their decision in November to hand over powers to the treasurer was made to shift responsibility from their shoulders. The six families were left with tables, chairs, sewing machines, food-mixers and a host of house- hold goods earmarked for the bailiffs and two official notes.

One reads: "Take notice that by virtue of an authority given to me by the mayor, alderman and burgesses the County Borough of Bolton and Thomas William Pickering as agent I have this day seized, distrained and impounded on the premises the specified in the following 'And further take note that unless the said rent be paid to- gether with the expenses of this distress or the case to be re- unanimously endorsed shop stewards who are calling for a complete rejection of the move by management. The issue has now developed into a major confrontation. Stewards consider that Ley- land's have 'thrown down the gauntlet' in this key works.

Trouble began when indus- trial engineers went into the plant to oversee work. This was days after Leyland's an- nounced that they were furthering their Measured-Day Work scheme in the factory.

The action will continue until management drop their bid to force through speed-up and higher productivity. Workers Press, Wednes the bailiffs wanted to take away.

levied within five days ... they will be sold according to auction.'

The second document was a 'walking possession' order, which is simply notice to the tenant that the bailiff can walk in at

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday M Mr Larry Eaton, chief clerk at the British Steel Corporation's concrete plant at Stanton and Staveley, Ilkeston, near Nottingham, has been re- appointed an employee. director. A member of the General and Munici- pal Workers' Union, Eaton will serve the em- ployer as part-time divisional employee.. director. He resumes his director's seat at a time when BSC, under the direction of the Tory government, plans to snatch the livelihoods of away 50,000 steelworkers and their dependants in the next decade.

Some 1,300 of these jobs are at Stanton, where iron-making is to cease. Workers to be thrown on the scrap-heap include 4,600 at Ebbw Vale, South Wales; 6,000 to 7,000 at Corby, Northants; 6,500 at Shotton, north Wales; 4,100 at East Moors, Cardiff; 1,000 at New- port, Monmouthshire; 3,500 at works, Anchor Scun- thorpe, Lincolnshire; and 2,800 at Hartlepool, Co Durham.

Trade unions who permit their members to in 'worker- the director' schemes are openly collaborating with the bosses and the Tory government in turning thousands of their members onto the streets.

The scheme was originally devised by the TUC and BSC heavy in 1967 and ran into distrust on the part of work- The G&MWU "Journal' ers. describes this opposition as 'teething troubles' • Eaton him- self that "liaison with says and discussions with unions personnel services' should be increased. A two-year long TUC-BSC study of the scheme produced the startling : information that the worker-director (BSC has 16) 'lost touch with the men he was supposed to represent and became increasingly em- bedded in the management structure.' As a result of this, the rules were changed to permit the Writings of

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This simply means that a type of corporatism has been evolved in which labour bureaucrats carry out the functions of capitalist man- agers and foremen. Over 200 years the working built up trade unions class to defend and improve their conditions of work. Now the Tory government is trying to strip away trade union rights and replace them by these corporatist-style 'worker-directors'.

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bureaucrats are going all the way with them as thousands of their members are flung on the dole. who is a staff taton, branch committee member of his union, makes this per- fectly clear. In the G&MWU 'Journal', he says: 'We try to bridge the gap between man- the shop floor agement and and try to overcome the sus- picion that has existed be- the two.' tween As if every steelworker in the land did not have very good reason to be 'suspicious' of the BSC management. sings But the union journal the praises of 'Our Man on Board'. Employee-direc- the tors,' it says, 'can play a vital in industrial relations. role can encourage the shop They floor and management to talk round a table if a dispute threatens. "Their knowledge of the pressures operating on both sides make them a useful safety valve in a contracting industry where industrial strife could have disastrous results for all.' In other words, their role is to confuse and sidetrack workers while the employers and government plan to throw them out of work. What steel-workers need to- day is not 'safety-valves, but a leadership which will fight jobs. their The save 'worker-directors' should be told to get out of the board- or be expelled from rooms the union. And the union leaders must be told to quit collaborating with the employers and do the job they get paid real interests. History of Russian Revolution —special gift pack of three volumes £1.70 including postage u require. Amount enclosed £ post to: tions, 186a Clapham High Street, Lor Publications Booklist is a vailable, fre The close liaison and friendship between the army and the para-mili- tary Protestant organiza- tions in Ulster is an open secret. The British army, particu- larly the officer caste, look on "illegal' organizations like the Ulster Volunteer Force with special favour. New evidence of this cosy relationship has just come out of Ulster. Protestant extrem- ists have recently launched a propaganda drive among Bri- tish troops based on London bombings alleged to have been carried out by a mysterious freelance Republi- group from the Ander- can • area of Belfast. sonstown Spearheading the drive is a virulently loyalist newsletter circulated in Ulster by the Constitution Party which ap- pears to have its sympathies with the UVF-the most ruthless of the Protestant terrorist forces. Distributors of the 32nd edition of the publication, called The Ulster Constitu- tion', have been seen recently in Belfast in deep and friendly conversation with troops who eagerly read the literature.

The lead article of the paper is openly seditious. Under the 'Help Us' it asks masthead troops to: • Surrender their arms to the Protestant organizations.

• Ignore found in arms Loyalist areas. • Tip off Loyalists who are about to be arrested. Allow Loyalists in deten- tion to escape. • Desert to the Protestant forces with their arms. The appeal exploits possible fears caused • by the London bomb attacks. It begins: 'As we predicted, the IRA bombing English are now cities. The next Provo bomb could kill your wife, your sweetheart, your family. Your interests are the same as ours.

In order to protect your loved ones, the IRA must be dealt with. This is no longer a con- flict from which you can stand aloof. Help us. Help us get deal with our the tools to mutual enemies. We need guns and ammunition. Help us get them' Things get a little more awk- ward when the anonymous author attempts to 'explain away the incidents in east Belfast, when Protestant fire was directed against the Bri- tish army during the recent strike.

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4040440ag040000040000 As ve predicted, the I.R.A. are now bombing Eni could k111 your wife, your sueetheart, your famil ours. In arder to protect your loved no longer i conflict from whieh you can stand a to deal with our mutual enemies, lo need guns an are sent to search 8 Loyalist are ignore anyth you are already doing this and we thank will be of the Engineera will have admit strike in fart 9elfast not aimed at targete to keep heada down. Even shooting required i before it was authorised. We do not aven blane y ordere and that you consi you were acting ive. You elternative.You hava can rafuneta.a to u bringing your rifle, le i oL you can des Even if you do to go that far you carrying otc..If you are out orde: sent to ist organisations. If you are sent to serve a de tip him off, and if you cannot try to meke an op the next bomb ney kill or mutilete one Weles. It is in your interests that as of. Halo us to help you make Britaln, th disposed While we send our sympathy to those injured bi that we mant point out that we, and many others ir Westminister government had backed up of doing everything to handicap and finally de ened. The people of London are reaping a small ans, by their bungling and meddling, have wown.If sounde bitter they should remember that we every bomb that they have had, we have Iiterally torn down around up with the co-ope of Whiteler, Heath and Ulleon, who evidently the Loyal people of Ulater. It 1s no wonder ue ai This happened, says "The Ulster Constitution', • because there had been extreme provo- cation and then the action was designed merely to 'keep heads down.' The kind of people behind the paper is revealed in a page 2 article which describes why corporation bus driver Patrick Crossan had to be murdered (or "judicially executed', as the journal delicately puts it).

Constitution, says The Ulster He was, a Republican who had been observed shoot- ing from Catholic areas. The article goes on in embarrassed fashion to explain why the atrocity led to a 100-per-cent busmen's strike, despite the high proportion of Protestant workers. This demonstration of class feeling was caused by 'Provo threats', it is said.

Despite the nature of the appeal and despite the quite open approach by the paper's Residents Sutton, St Helens, have threatened to picket a local chemicals fac- tory in protest against alleged dangerous pollution. Angry 1 workers and resi- dents have now given the Leathers Chemicals factory a week to close or they will picket it. Mrs Joyce Haury was trea- ted at St Helens Hospital after she collapsed while working at Crosby Spring Interiors in Fleet Lane, a mile from Leathers. She said she was still suf- fering from after-affects a day later. About 50 workers were evacuated from the factory as the fumes built up, she said.

Mrs Haury (28), mother of body was going for the doors.

Even the men were in panic.

My legs and arms were tingl- ing like pins and needles. Then they went blue. I thought I going to die. I was terri- was fied'. Firemen gave Mrs Haury oxygen and she was rushed to hospital by ambulance.

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4.......... ow bombing English cities. The next Provo bomb family. Your interosts are the gam sa dealt with. Toldsie d ones the I.R.A. must be us! stand aloof. Help Heip us get the toola and ammunition. Holp us get them. If you anything you find. We know that some of those that are! No gun in Loyalist hands • uf p: opagande you may have heard. Ae any member much publicised shooting during the lad at targete but obviously simply intended Was red a fantastic amount of provocation for the provocation. We know that hat you considered yourse as to hava alternat- по accx aut on conalence grounds 1080 by It. sure you do not make fainterprot ordero, be slugglen in • sent to search a Loyalist area tip the Loyal- serve a detention order on a Loyalist try to make an opportunity for him to escape! Remember.

one of your loved one in England, as Scotland, hat as many of the l.R.A. bombere as possible are ke Britaln, the whole of Britain, aara to live in. ose injured by the Proto homb in London me fool many others in this country "told you go".lf the up the Ulster security forces in 1969 instead d finally destroy them this would not have happ- part of the crop which their politic- , have sown. If anybody from London thinks that thie that we have resped the bulk of theit crop. For ave suffered a thousand. Ve have had our Province the co-operation and it times the active help vidently prefer Britain's declared enamies to o wonder ue are bitter. supporters to members of the army, no action has been taken against the journal or its distributors. One can only conclude that the army hierarchy is either afraid of the backlash which action against the propagan- dists would bring or even ap- prove of such extreme Loyalist sentiments. Inquiries could start with Belfast city councillor R. Lind- Mason, whose say | name appears on a recruiting slip on the back of 'The Ulster Constitution' Such inactivity over sedi- tion is confined only to the extreme right-wing Protes- tants. Workers Press readers may remember the case of Cork- born Michael Anthoney Tobin in April last year. He was found guilty of encouraging desertion by Maidstone Crown Court. Tobin had been dis- tributing leaflets to British soldiers urging them to join the fight for free Ireland. He got two years. Mrs Jean Jones (34), who also works at Crosby's, said: There was a burning sensa- tion at the back of my throat.

Everybody was coughing and spluttering'. Mr Roy Bryan (26), a fore- man at the Crosby works, said: When we got outside there in Fleet Lane were people staggering about. The fumes were a terrible sensation'. Mr Harold Scott said: 'I was dou- bled up and on my knees with coughing. I couldn't get my breath'. Another local resident, Mr H. L. Barton, said: I was taking my dog for a walk when I got a mouthful of gas. I could hardly breathe. I just managed to stagger home. I was fighting for breath for three and a half hours. 'This is the second time I have been caught in leakages from Leathers and I don't want a third dose. It might kill me next time. If it is not something closed after this, terrible is going to happen to the families of Sutton and St Helens'.

SPECTRE OF STARVATION

Salvador Villalba Tor- dillo was one of millions of workers forced to leave Spain to find work elsewhere in Europe. He died on January 24 at the age of 25 in a Zurich hospital, a victim of the harsh conditions imposed on immigrant workers. He left his native Tesorillo- Jimena, near Cadiz, in south- in 1971 with Spain ern a work-contract for an agricul- tural labourer's job in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. After his contract ran out, he returned to Spain, but was unable to find work in the would-be economic land of plenty of Franco's police-state: Once more he took the road to Switzerland. He worked for a year as a waiter in restaurants where he had no stable employment since he could not get a work permit. On August 15, he finally 'got a seasonal workers' permit in Lenzerheide/Val- bella. With the low wages, bad food and long, tiring hours, as well as having to share one small room with three others, Salvador Tordillo gave up the job and went to Zurich. in the There he worked Seilbahn restaurant and there he died without any medical treatment. A diabetic, he was afraid that his employers would sack him it he tell ill, and so he gave himself insulin injections during the day and very rarely consulted a doctor when feel- ing weak. end This came to an on January 4 when he fell into a through lack of medical coma attention. When Salvador did not turn up for work, his em- ployer went to his room, found in bed him and • unconscious left him there for fear of the money he would lose if he became involved in medical expenses. Salvador lay there for hours until his employer finally sent for an ambulance. He died before reaching hospital.

His boss washed his hands of the affair: he thought Salvador was drunk, so he left him 'to sleep it off' On January 9, Salvador was buried. Just two brothers at- his funeral-they tra- tended velled from England where they work. pilots released from American captivity in North Vietnam are to set up a corporation to man- age the money they hope to earn from their books, articles and public appearances. have not been Final plans worked out for the corporation, but the US army is unlikely to raise any objection. The PoWs concerned mainly are career officers who may wish to re- main in the forces for some time. Considerable sums are await- ing them from back pay and allowances and the proposed corporation will also look after the investment of this income. The PoWs are being showered with offers of money and gifts, most of, which are linked to sponsoring of commercial pro- ducts. Pentagon official commen- A ted: 'A guy who's in on this isn't supposed to turn around and exploit it for profit. On abso- the other hand, there's lutely nothing in the regulations from writing or preventing him giving a speech.' prisoners-of-war While still they realized that their tem- misfortune could be porary turned into dollars on their re- lease. The initiative in the pro- ject was taken by senior officers in the North Vietnamese prison camps who took as their model the Apollo astronauts, some of whom have made fortunes as a result of their notoriety.

Starvation is threatening millions of people as the world faces the big- gest famines in history. This is the dire warning now being issued by as Dr experts such Akkela H. Boerma, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. Speaking recently to the Council of Europe, . he said that food production had probably fallen in 1972 despite continued growth of popula- tion. India and other parts of Asia were • already seriously threatened by food shortages.

Over 1,500 million people are estimated to be slowly dying from malnutrition or outright starvation. The much-vaunted 'green revolution', which to was overcome the food crisis in the underdeveloped countries, has proved a total failure. Based on the use of high-yield seeds, fertilizers and improved techniques of cultivation, it has brought prosperity to a handful of rich farmers and peasants, but has made no im- pression on the overall prob- lem. The great mass of peasants are too poor to employ such methods and have insufficient land to enable them to be applied successfully. In addi- tion, millions are landless and jobless and their numbers have • while capitalist increased farming has made progress.

Harvest failures in a num- 'ber of countries have led to depletion of world food stocks, including basic cereals.

At the same time, the price of climbing food has been steeply. In the face of this critical situation, Boerma can only launch pathetic appeals to indifferent governments. He wants those in the under- developed countries to carry • out reforms to enable output be increased while he to . pleads with the advanced countries to devote a larger part of their resources to over- seas aid. Both these remedies are equally futile. The national- bourgeois in governments countries like India are too closely tied up with the big landowners, capitalist farmers and village moneylenders to be able to carry out the neces- sary revolution in agrarian re- lations. Appeals to the governments of the advanced countries are equally futile. Boerma's reme- dies, such as the constitution of stocks of food for emergency purposes, increased aid to the developing countries and the opening of markets for their agricultural pro- processed ducts in the richer countries, will be disregarded, as they always have been. Workers Press, Wedn The capitalist governments and big corporations are in- terested only in exploiting the less-developed countries. They are not moved by the slow starvation of their inhabitants or by the danger of famine.

They are only worried about the danger of revolution and that they will aim to prevent in concert with the govern- While the world suffers from • a shortage of food and prices soar, the Common Market is menaced by excess production of milk and milk products.

The nine EEC members have 400,000 tons of butter and 350,000 tons of powdered milk in stock. This is kept off the market to keep up prices under the Common Agricultural Policy. So while surpluses accumulate, prices actually rise. Although prices to producers have been reduced, output continues to because grow there are more dairy cows and their milk vield tends to rise.

By the end of the year the stocks of unsold butter and milk are likely to be higher still-and so, undoubtedly, will the price paid by the housewife.

The 'experts say that the markets in Europe are satur- ess, Wednesday March 21, 1973 PAGE 5 ments of the national ruling classes. There is no solution to the problems of the under-deve- loped countries within the framework of capitalism. In fact they are now being aggra- vated by the breakdown of the international monetary system with the accompanying trade war and drive to protection.

say, with om ated. That is to present levels of income not much more butter could be sold even with some price reduction. At the same time, of families cannot millions afford butter because of the all-round increase in the cost of living. The powdered milk coul! save the lives and improve the health of thousands of children in the under-developed coun- tries where staiks. starvation Instead, much of it is likely to be destroyed or made unfit for human consumption and put to some industrial use.

is Because capitalism on production system based for profit and not human need it cannot.resolve contradictions of this kind where food is overproduced while millions hungry. ( The Common Agricultural Po!: has only aggravated these cont: lictises.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday March 2

BY JACK GALE

American and European police are increasingly using the most-advanced scientific techniques which will assist them in their fight against political opponents. In West Germany, a com- puter system has been intro- duced which, by the middle of this year, will enable the and descriptions names wanted people to be flashed screens at vital on display police the points across country within ten seconds.

The off the got system ground last November when Interior Minister Hans- Bonn Dietrich Genscher inaugurated tragedy Wednesday March 21, 1973 the first terminal at West Ger- many's biggest airport, Frank- furt. At the same time, ter- minals were also opened in airports at Cologne and Dus- seldorf. Genscher will be remem- bered for the part he played in the shooting down members of the Black Septem- ber group during the Munich Olympics. Indeed, an article in the 'Computer Weekly Inter- national' makes it clear that there is a direct connection the Munich between events and the development of these police techniques: 'The country has been hit repeatedly by plane hi-jackers and terrorist groups, culminat- ing in the Munich Olympics tragedy last year, and this has obviously been one of the con- siderations behind the speedy introduction of the system. Speaking in Frankfurt, Gen- scher said the system would be a big help in combating air piracy and similar crimes.

The new system is being built up at West Germany's new 60m deutschemark Bun- deskriminalamt (BKA—Federal Crime Office) in Wiesbaden. The Bonn government is pour- ing 122m deutschemarks into BKA development this year— compared with 22m in 1969.

The German Federal states developing similar are also systems. Last year the Bavarian government ordered state a Siemens 4004/45 computer and eventually this will link up to 18 police centres throughout the state. Saxony, Lower Hamburg and Northrhine Westphalia are also collaborating on such a system. The BKA Wiesbaden centre now has two Siemens 4004/150 computers y and Siemens 404/6 central unit. It also has 12 discs with 660 million characters, and nine tape units. Other equip- hand includes three ment on printers, two punch card readers, three punch card two punch tape stampers, readers and two document writers. Backing this are 18 Siemens Transdata date display screens in the BKA itself and one at crime police head- each quarters in Saarbrucken, the Hessen state crime office and the frontier police HQ in Coblenz. Another 18 are installed at frontier crossing points.

The new system can process eight inquiries per second and feed back information within ten seconds maximum. the system has been When fully developed there will be about 600 display screens within West German borders.

Deputy President of the BKA, Herr Hein! a describes the closed mesh system dragnet'. months' After only two and with work, only one 4004/150 in operation, display covering about screens were 10 per cent of West German frontier cross traffic - about 300,000 people a month-and 65 per cent of all air trafic.

that is only the beginning.

The way the system works at airports is that the passenger hands in his passport to con- trol officers who, if they think a check is worthwhile, lay the face down passport on a counter glass panel from which a TV camera flashes a picture onto a screen in an adjoining 100m. Here a second officer types the details of the passport via a display screen unit directly into the Wiesbaden computers.

The answer 'no record' or 'person wanted' is flashed back seconds. within A similar system is already in operation in the United States. Customs Automated Data Intelligence Net- Processing work (CADPIN) is one of the advanced computerized most the world. systems in The heart of the network is a Burroughs B5500 system.

The computer is linked to 160 tele-type terminals located at US Customs inspection 2,200- areas along the entire mile Mexican border as well These as 42 other key points. include major crossings on the selected Canadian border, international and airports Customs field offices through- out the United States. First put into operation in

CADPIN

April 1970, now works round the clock and responds to each inquiry with- in one or two seconds. It is between currently processing 330.000 500,000 queries and from primary terminals per week. average of one That is an inquiry per 1.3 seconds and the rate is considerably higher during periods of peak cross- ings. The Americans also are developing a computer analysis and of voice comparison characteristics which can identify a speaker on a tele- phone. A group of scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey, have been granted a patent for such a system. A sample of a persons speech is taken and then its charac- teristics are broken down and the computer's in stored memory. Later speech can then be compared with this sample on the computer's screen. Solid line voice patterns on the display screen represent the current speech and dotted line patterns represent the per- son's reference sample. A full comparison of all the speech characteristics takes about seven minutes, but if Above: German police in action during the arrest of the Baader- • Meinhof group. The authorities 'law-and-order' used witch- hunt of the anarchists as an ex- cuse to arm the German police on a massive scale. Right: Hans- Dietrich Genscher, head of Ger- man police, he has inaugurated the advanced some of most equipment and techniques.

main characteristics the only are considered the computer can answer in 12 seconds.

These computer techniques are justified on the grounds in the that they are needed fight against crime. Obviously they can be used in that way.

be used But they can also against political groups which hatred of the incur the American and West German ruling class. In West Germany, as we political have shown, the potential of such systems has been openly admitted. As the working-class internationally comes into sharper and sharper conflict with capitalism, we can intensification of expect an such police techniques. Workers Press, Wednesday A Home Office working party on firearms has recommended a full- scale re-arming of the British police. Already some sections of the country's 67 police forces are equipped with new guns described as 'some of the most up to date and powerful in the world'. This large-scale arming of the police-undertaken with- out the consent of parliament or the public-has nothing to do with beating bank robbers.

Home Office figures issued earlier this month show that police were faced with guns, real or imitation, on only 20 occasions last year. But in the same period fire- were issued to police arms officers a total of 2,237 times, an average of six occasions every day. In other words the police are roving around with loaded revolvers in their belts on false pretext. If it's not to shoot it out with bank robbers, then why have the police resorted to gun law? The answer lies directly in political and economic the crisis of the Tory government.

Fearing a large-scale chal- its bankrupt and lenge to parasitic system of exploita- cion, the ruling class is arm- possible ing itselt with every weapon to attack the working class. The Home Office has sent to all chief constables a cir- cular which is divided into two sections: recommended arms and those mentioned purely for information. of the It is measure savagery being planned by the Tory government that section one includes the British army's FN rifle fit- 7.66 mm Belgian ted with telescopic sights. This deadly weapon is currently used in Northern Ire- being land. 's Press, Wednesday March 21, 1973 PAGE 7 Are Carr and the other 'law- and-order' campaigners going to tell us that these are to be used to stop muggings on the high street? These weapons have only one use-shooting long people from distances. equipment to They are the launch a civil war. The main recommendation in section one is the dropping British-made Webley of the pistol and the introduction of two imported • handguns: US-made Smith The and Wesson Model 10. It is a 0.38 calibre six-shot revolver; and • The German-made Walther Polizei 9 mm Pistole seven- shot automatic, probably us- ing 0.38 Colt ammunition.

which The overseas •guns will be introduced almost im- the Metropoli- mediately by reckoned tan Police are to 'man-stopping' increase the effectiveness of police marks- one third and pro- by men vide a 100-per-cent increase in rapid-fire ability. Both use ammunition which has greater hitting power and penetration than anything cur- rently in use. A source close to the Home Office working party told 'Guardian' reporter: 'The basic consideration was to find a cheap, sturdy, reli- able modern handgun which available and readily was give Rover-car depend- would ability in standing up to re- handling by different peated had to meet officers. It also the primary objective of be- ing able to stop and kill a man in the open with accuracy at 50 yards.' Geoffrey Boothroyd, an and author authority on guns authoritative book, of the 'The Handgun', said: 'Both the Smith and Wesson and the Walther are about in the same league. The revolver is slightly heavier at 34 oz than the 27Ł oz Webley. 'What the police would be getting here would be a defi- nite man-stopper.

REVISIONISTS SLANDER THE RCL

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday h A series on revisionism and C Jaya Vithana, in the In. Marxist ternational Group pamphlet 'Ceylon and the Healy School of Falsification', says that several letters sent by Bala Tampoe to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike during the Ceylon 'emergency' in 1971, were 'soft'. But he also thinks they 'laid the basis for the reawakening of the working class and re- orienting it on a perspective of struggle' We will quote again what these letters actually said.

On May 14 Tampoe's Ceylon Mercantile Union to wrote Mrs Bandaranaike: 'We think it necessary to draw your attention to certain emergency regulations that have opened the door to police and military terrorism against the people.'

Apparently, this 'revolution- ary union leadership trade laboured under the illusion that Mrs Bandaranaike did not know what was going on! They continued: 'There is a widespread belief that "ex- cesses" and even atrocities have been committed by police officers and members of the armed forces.' A further letter declared: 'Does it serve any useful pur- pose to regard the rebels as criminals, who have intimi- dated and murdered innocent people, raped and looted and indulged in kidnappings and arson, even if some of them be proved to have com. may mitted such acts' (See Workers Press, October 20, 1972.)

Is the view that the young rebels should not be regarded as "terrorists" and that they are deserving of humane treat- ment, a view that cannot be taken seriously in a country where the teachings of the Buddha are revered.' The 'basis for reawakening the working class and reorient- A series on revisionism and Ceylon by Jack Gale. Part three continued.

ing it of on perspective struggle was laid. according to Vithana, by letters which (1) Appealed to the head of a ruling government to stop the oppression on the grounds that she may not be aware of the 'excesses' taking place. (2) Conceded the bourgeois claim the young rebels murderers, and were lapists looters. well- (3) Appealed to that known revolutionary source, the almighty Buddha. that Vithana little worder fails to back up nis Clalins as to the revolutionary content of Tampoe's letters by quoting from any of them! •Not taking a position' But, if that were not enough, two leading

IMG

members Tariq Ali and Robin Black- burn-published a letter together Mrs Bandaranaike Mandel, with Ernest Alain Krivine others which and becaus 'Without wanting to take a position regard to with which recently armed clashes occurred in Ceylon the profoundly undersigned are perturbed' Can the IMG leaders tell us of one instance in which the leaders of revolu- tionary tendencv issued a pub.

lic statement saying that they were 'not taking a position' on the workers mass murder or and by bourgeois peasants armed forces! A further lie and distortion deserves some attention. Vithana alleges that 'after the repression had begun, the Re- volutionary Communist League letter to the Prime WIOLe Minister piedaing with ner to lift the ban on their newspaper and citing as a reason the fact that they were the oniv ones who had consistently attacked the JVP's politics. 'Given the situation, there was nothing wrone in Part three continued. the tactic of writing letters to Bandaranaike in order, to reach the masses. But Healy's Cey- lonese friends were more con- cerned about their own sect and driving a nail into the JVP coffin rather than the mass movement.' IMG members ought to note that when we refer to Unified Secretariat statements, CMU letters, etc, we quote verbatim trom them. All the IMG has to do, if it wishes to refute our charges, is to reprint the original documents. Vithana, by contrast, refers to our statements only in the most general terms. He never quotes literally from them— because if he did so his lies could not be maintained. Let us examine his claim that our comrades 'pleaded with Ban- daranaike, etc The letter he refers to was printed in full in Workers Press on May 29, 1971. We "This specifically stated that appeal is made by Wilfred Pereira, residing at No 27, Arethusa Lane, Colombo 6, who is the registered proprie- tor, printer and publisher of following newspapers which have been banned by the Competent Authority under the Emergency Regula- tions: • "Kakaru Puvath" , "VIro- dhaya" and "Thollalar Seshl" —organs of the Revolutionary Communist League-and "Tharuna Satana" -organ the Revolutionary Communist Youth.' Unlike Vithana and his IMG mentors, we will now repub- lish extracts from this state- ment. We invite Vithana, the he IMG, the Unified Secretariat, or anyone else to challenge this statement—or, indeed, to compare it with Bala Tampoe's references to the venerable Buddha: It should be abundantly clear to any political liter- ate who has followed our press that our politics can by no of the most-fertile stretch police imagination be put in the same category as the poli- tics of the JVP (which is purs* ported to be the government's main enemy at the moment) and similar Guevarist or Mao- ist organizations. Between our politics and the politics of those other organi- zations-as also between our- selves and the traditional 'left' leaderships—there lies the un- bridgeable gulf that exists be- tween Marxism and the several varieties or petty-bourgeois re- formism. The putschism or conspira- torial adventurism of such organizations isolated from the is only the working class obverse side of the counterfeit coin of parliamentary reform- ist opportunism, which the petty-bourgeois agents of the bourgeoisie try to palm off on the working class as genuine Marxism. When we differentiate our- selves from those other orga- nizations and parties, we do not for one moment imply that we condone the suppres- sion of their newspapers. Nor do we demand that the press of our political opponents be suppressed. On the contrary, we stand for the democratic rights of all political parties and organiza- tions that base themselves on the workers and peasants and speak in their name and for the socialist transformation of society, irrespective of the means they advocate... Pro- scription and press gags are, above all, a means of suppres- sion resorted to by govern- ments which cannot find any other answer to the political arguments of their critics and opponents. As this appeal will show, we are justified in believing that herein lies the reason for banning our newspapers. In this appeal, however, we are only permitted to plead on behalf of our democratc rights. If and when those rights are restored to us, we shall take up once again for public agitation the question Mrs Bandaranaike in 1964 atter the formation in 1971on the government. Tampoe was writing to her and appealing 1o Buddha to treat the "terrorists' humanely. of general democratic rights, in defence of which we have always been in the forefront.

As Marxists, we believe that enthusiasm and the fresh aggressive spirit of the youth can be won for. the struggle for socialism only if the youth can acquire faith in the ability of the working class to lead society onto a new road. in- The working class can spire this faith only by its strength, the firmness and determination of its actions and the clarity of its perspec- tive. The propaganda and. agi- tation carried on by our news- papers was always inspired by this unshakable belief in the leading role of the working class. Our newspapers, with their . emphasis on Marxist theory method for ideological and arming of the working class, were not only vehicles for pro- *paganda and they •agitation; above all a school of were Marxism. And for us Marxism is the distilled essence of the historical experience of the international working class...

In the name of humanity, whose fate today is threatened by the forces of international reaction, and in the name of the international working class who alone can fight and over- come those forces, we appeal against the banning of our newspapers and for the restor- ation of our democratic rights in order to allow us to resume our work for the building of the revolutionary in party Ceylon as part of the inter- national party of the socialist revolution, the Fourth Inter- is a sine qua national, which non for the building of a new world. behalf of the Political Committee of the Revolu- tionary Communist League.

Paul Johnson, the ex-editor of the 'New Statesman', is alleged to be the finest prose-weaver in the Hampstead set. This is a dubious claim. What is even more dubious is his authority to be writing about sex. Yet this is the ambitious task which Johnson has just set himself in the women's 'Cosmopolitan' magazine, He listed 55 politicians that Cosmo girls might fancy. His 'Cosmo Girl's Guide to Poli- ticians' included such raving sex symbols of the 1970s as Edward Heath, Lord Longford, Reg Prentice, Cyril Smith ('Nice one Cyril'), Norman St John Stevas and William van Straubenzee. Cosmo politicians, Below: Edward Heath and Lord Longford.

WORKERS

NOTEBOOK

PARADISE

One man who must be quite happy with the virtual martial law in Northern re and the unemployment and poverty Grant, Britain Anthony Tory MP for Harrow Central. He told an audience the other night that there was no better Great place than Britain in which to live and work and other where the lights of freedom. justice honesty ana shone so brightly. He said no Britain shorte lie can leave Britain short. leave that to the BBC, he added.

MIRACLES

Someone should take the Descriptions Act Trade to the Rev Melvin Banks. He has just held a public meeting in Fleetwood and the advertise- The orind separane same. blind lame walk! Miracles will happen!'

Banks is on a 'divine heal- crusade' ing which 1n these astonishing events are due to lake place.

BIG NEWS

really news une ported 'Harrow Ob- in the server'. Item appearing in last week's paper: 'Someone stole clothing from a washing line in a gal- den at Headstone Lane, Hatch End, on Monday morng.

RARITY

Have you got a set of Josef Stalin's works- Russian— -in on your bookshelf? If so, you be able to do may business with an advertiser in Satur- day's 'Morning Star' who is appealing for these volumes. It is rare to find a reference the tyrant who destroyed the Bolshevik Party the columns of that journal these It is integ to think davs. that there demand for his works.

RUS.

parucularly In sian. Can it be that the Soviet embassy Is trying to ouy tem up for reasons of its own?

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Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG A edition of recent the Spanish Communist Party's fortnightly news- paper, 'Mundo Obrero' carried the most grovel- ling article yet on the 'Liberation of the Spanish Church'. The 17th Conference of Spanish Bishops apparently accepted a statement headed is possible' 'Peace which claims that there is no incom- patibility between Christianity and Marxism. 'Mundo Obrero's' expert on the revolution of the cassock, Fernando Melchor, claims that document shows that 'objectively, not a few Chris- tians are in favour of Marxist analysis.. One's enthusiasm grows on hearing that the document has the of important support Spanish capitalists' and was 'an ex-ambassador written by for Spain, a distinguished of the bourgeois member opposition'. It was, of course, the boast of veteran Spanish Stalinist Santiago Carrillo at a meeting organized by the British CP in London last year that social- ism would be built in Spain 'with and the the cross hammer'. Carrillo also wants a mod- ern army to help him on the way and is always castigating 'Francoist feudalists' the not having a modern army for national defence. General Diez Alegria, head of the General Staff of the Spanish Armed Forces, has been spotlighted by the Car- rillo leadership as belonging to the 'evolutionist' wing of the Spanish bourgeoisie. A member of an aristocra- tic family which also sports a progressive jesuit, Jose Maria Alegria, he is a cultured man, and, so it is said, in no way, a 'gorilla' like Hugo Banzer, the dictator in Bolivia. Happily, the radical Spanish 'Editorial publishing house Alianza' has recently published a selection of the general's works. In one section, 'Defence and society', Alegria writes: "The first duty of the army today, undoubtedly, is to con- stitute the means of coercion of the state, the organized

CARRILLO HAS PRAISE

: FOR THE BISHOPS

AND MILITARY

disposal force at the of the This expressed community. in readiness to deal with in- vasions and to deal at home with subversion or violence...

'But forget MUSt

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that included in this primor- dial mission. is a historic duti the guardian of national traditions and vales must remain in the moment of historic crisis are We experiencing.' A fillip for the CP recruit- ment campaign amongst the officers of Franco's army: *There is preoccupation among officers, particularly, the young ones, about the economic so cial conditions in the country, which fills them with sion they feel they are untavourable One Stalinist critic said of this enlightened remark 'Diaz Alegria is not one of the slave-drivers in the bar. racks, but with man an sciousness -ke nae Nasser- like sciousness Peru, Chile type colonels in Uruguay and and perhaps Panama.' The Stalinist praises same Franco's general for having a 'centrist mentality equidistant between the extremes on the relation between the state and the army'. That is because he wants to

KGB TRIES

TO SILENCE

THE CHRONICLE'

The crackdown on opposition- sts by the state security police

KGB,

the ruthlessly carried out in the past few months, appears been lave partly successful. The underground journal 'Chronicle of Current Events', kept up publication every two months for five years, has not appeared since last October. A main

KGB

aim was to silence this voice of the opposition. The KGB has warned that there will be random arrests ss, Wednesday March 21, 1973 PAGE 9 the army against the use right-wing para-military groups like the Warriors of Christ the 'extreme the King and the fifth left, guerrillas, column, and violent revolu- tionary struggle' Since there is so much radi- calism among the bishops and CP secretary, Santiago Carrillo. Above: Franco with monks. The church remains the friend of the fascist regime, not of the working class. military high command in Spain, it should surprise no one that the Spanish CP has been so luke-warm in its cri- ticism of the deals between Peking and fascist Moscow, diplomats in Madrid. of known and suspected dissi- dents if another issue appears.

A few people have been held, but it is believed that the editors of the 'Chronicle' are still at large and intend to bring out further issue sooner or later. One dissident was told by a KGB major, Gennadi Kislykh, that he would be arrested if it did appear again. The police have also been trying to buy off oppositionists with vague promises of an amnesty if they will say how the 'Chronicle' reaches other countries.

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"The Private of Lives Panther' newspaper in America,

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

about how to make a self-igni-

LITTLE ATTENTION

Molotov cocktail and ting 'people's hand grenade'. has been paid to the The defence has claimed that Old Bailey trial of Tony similar pub- recipes have been Soares a young lished elsewhere in Britain with- com- the out prosecution advoc- ana lnal munity control *Black Panther' had magazine ate accused of attempt- itself been on sale in this coun- try with the same article in it.

ing to incite readers how- of the magazine 'Grass The prosecution says, that the attempt to incite evel, Roots' to commit is peculiar to the 'Grass Roots' which murder, to make Molo- organization, politically in Britain. toy cocktails for an un- King Hamilton Judge Alan lawful purpose, to com- drew the jury's attention to the mit arson, and to possess passages in the article. following firearms with intent to •In 400-year struggle for our guns and survival it has been the endanger life. the force manifested in racist The charges arose out of pig cops that occupy our an that directly oppress, the September 1971 munities article in brutalize and murder issue, reprinted from the 'Black repress, 'So for us to talk about sur- vival, we must talk about self- defence against this brutality murder defined by and that is the racist Dower justifiable homicide. 'So when a self-defence group against this oppressive moves by executing a pig by system stabbing, means- -sniping, bombing, defence etc. - in

BY OUR OWN

the 400 years of racist against

CORRESPONDENT

and this brutality murder, can defined correctly as self- only be JOURNALISTS at the Edin- defence. burgh 'Evening News' have 'All self-defence groups must management and blows against the slave- defied strike master until we secured have National Union of Journa- and survival people, our as if this takes shooting every pig lists' instructions to go back blowing and up every pig-sty, to work after walking then let's get on up. out last Thursday over a pro- Then follows the detailed re- cipes for the two devices which ductivity dispute. the prosecution's expert witness said worked very ments The 68 journalists want their effectively. be current wages agreement to at the end of 1973 terminated Soares has In his defence, of April 1974 in return instead claimed he is being framed, and working on increased sizes 'Grass Roots' for the editor of that of editions. Tony that time was one who has since fled the Jamal, Ending their current agree- Soares admits having early will country. ment three months previous and subsequent close enable the journalists to get back produ- Glasgow connection with editing, with par sooner on and distributing the ahead of cing maga- went journalists special connection zine, hit no them in the last round of pay with this particular issue. Scotland last negotiations in He told the court that he was The Edinburgh journalists are full-time the North working at Law Centre at that the hasty Kensington beginning to regret deal they allowed their union period and although he still was Black Liberation leaders to push through in Nov- active in the of the and attended meetings ember, under pressure Front government-imposed do with the 'Grass Roots' book- oncoming pay standstill. shop and magazine at that time,

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4.19 News. 8.00 London. Protectors. 8.30 11.35 Spy- force. 12.30 Reflection. a, he had not even read the offend- ing article when the issue came out. The prosecution has claimed that Jamal probably does not exist, since the police were never to find him and he never able turned up for meetings arranged through Soares, who claimed he Jamal's acting legal was adviser. They surmised that Soares Jamal, which the was defence and many witnesses have strenuously denied. Summing up, Judge Hamilton said that although the authori- were unable to establish ties was responsible for the who article's appearance, the jury could not acquit Soares just be- cause he was the only person • with the paper who connected was in the dock. If he was in anv way res- ponsible for that issue in the production or distribu- editing, tion, the jury must say so re- gardless of who else might have been involved. The judge said it was no de- fence that the article had first been printed in the US. As evidence of incitement, he drew the jury's attention to the episode in the case concerning suspected ter- three Ukrainian rorists arrested in London with A FURTHER 150 workers at Ferranti's transformer division at Chadderton, Oldham, are to lose their jobs at the end of this month. The news comes seven months after the group announced 175 redundancies Chadderton,

WORKERS

at the Copdale Road plant of Imperial Type- writers. Leicester, have pledged support for strikers the auto department. They threatened to strike too if management went ahead with a new agreement which threatened to cut wages by up to £10 a week.

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10.58 London. Cartoon. News. WoWildlite Harriet. theatre. LOndon. 10.45 Thompson. London. 8.30 Un- venturer. 11.35 12.05 touchables. Protectors. A kind of living. fire-bomb equipment. At the home of one of them was a copy of the 'Mini-Manual of the Guerrilla' printed by Urban 'Grass Roots' from sheets of an American edition of the book found in Soares possession.

Although Soares had no con- nection with these Ukrainians, they may have been incited by the manual if the jury decided the manual was capable of such incitement. The fact that Pelican also published the Books had manual, which included recipes for Molotov cocktails, was not the same thing as attempting to incite, the judge went on.

The prosecution tried to con- nect notes written by Soares 'Grass Roots' for an issue of with the recipe issue, and sub- written subse- mitted a letter quently from Algiers by Soares 'enforced retirement' about his prosecution from Britain. The alleged he was running from the police. refer- Soares said the notes red to a later issue of 'Grass Roots'. Notes written later about an seizure of key London armed Soares installations were, claimed, the outline of a book he planned to write. and will bring its labour force there down to 11,050. It follows a long period of ex- treme depression in the UK market for transformers. There has also been a significant jobs Electric cutback at General Co transformer plants. 30 Over the last months Fer- ranti has reduced its overall labour force by around 3,000 to 16,000. The Imperial workers, many of them immigrants, mounted a picket yesterday. Their strike is not being supported by the official union leadership.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain Middleton (nr Manchester) Langley community Centre Middleton 4 p.m. Sundays: March 25 April 1 and 8 Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution in Britain: 1. Political tasks facing the British working class. Marxism and the revolutionary role of the working class. Lessons of the history of the working class in Britain. capitalist The roots of crisis: Marxism and the contra- • of capitalism. Britain dictions and the world crisis. 3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democra- tic rights today means prepar- ing for working-class power.

Basic reading: for transforming Perspectives the SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems of the • British Revo- lution (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth Inter- national, Communist Manifesto.

Forward to the Revolutionary Party' TOTTENHAM: Wednesday March Bricklayers Arms, 21, 8 p.m. Tottenham High Road, nr. White Hart Lane. WOOLWICH: Wednesday March 21, 8 p.m. Castle, Powis Street, SE18. READING: Wednesday March 21, Transport and General 8 p.m. Workers' Union office, Kings Road. The battle against the Tory pay laws.' WEMBLEY: Wednesday March 21, : School, High 8 p.m. Copeland Road, Wembley. SOUTHALL: Wednesday March 21, 8 p.m. The Library, Osterley Park Road. HOLLOWAY: Thursday March 22, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. HACKNEY: Thursday March 22, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central opp. Town Hall, Mare Hall, Street. LEWISHAM: Thursday March 22, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road. SLOUGH: Thursday March 22, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road, Slough. STEVENAGE: Thursday March 22, 8 p.m. 'Red Lion', Stevenage Old Town. WILLESDEN: Thursday March 22, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Hall, High Road, NW10. MIDDLETON: Thursday March 22, 7.30 p.m. 'Assheton Arms' WANDSWORTH: Monday March Kings Arms, High 26, 8 p.m. SW18. The Fight Road, against Stalinism'. WATFORD: Monday March 26, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall, Wood- lands Road, near Watford Junction. ABERDEEN: Monday March 26, 8 p.m. West Front Room, Music Hall, Union Street. DUNDEE: Tuesday March 27, 7.30 p.m. YMCA, Constitution Road. FORD carworker Ronald Fre- derick Dorrington, who was knocked down while picketing during the strike, has WOn £3,071 damages. The sum, plus legal costs, was awarded against Terence John Jiggens, who drove at the picket line with a loud exhaust system and head- lights on in a bid to break the line. 'He took the risk that some people might not be able to get out of the way quickly enough risk did and unfortunately the not come off, said the judge.

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

THE TORY White Paper on the future of Northern Ireland includes a com- mitment to maintain the military occupation. The long-awaited document, published keeps Ulster Secretary Mr Whitelaw in charge of 'secur- ity? Its other main pledge to the Protestant bourgeoisie is that the Six Counties shall remain part of the UK so long as the majority of its people wish. A Northern Ireland Assembly of about 80 members is proposed and elections are to be held 'as soon as possible'. Westminster is to permanently retain responsibility for appoint- ing judges, magistrates, etc., con- duct of public prosecutions, elec- tions and 'exceptional measures in the law and order field to cope with emergency situations.'

Tories' The strategy of the Ulster Secretary, William White.

law, is to isolate 'extremists' on both sides and hopefully settle down with a patched-up solution which will have the support of the 'moderates' of all shades and persuasions. Whitelaw's apparent conces- sions are made in the hope of Eire some statement from the welcoming the pro- government posals as the 'best that can be hoped for at present'. is expected to Such a move carry weight with the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the north's Catholic. com- munity, weakening as well as support for the Provisional IRA.

Government ministers in the

TEACHERS MEETING

victory to the teachers! Force the TUC to call a General Strike! Make the Tories resign!

WEDNESDAY

MARCH 21

6.30 p.m. Norfolk Room Caxton Hall Caxton Street, SW1 ORPINGTON and SIDCUP Council of Action

DEMONSTRATION

• Halt rising prices and rents.

• Force the Tories to resign.

• Elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies and to restore democratic rights. • Victory to gasmen, civil serv- ants, hospital workers, teach.

railwaymen and car workers.

SATURDAY MARCH 24

Assemble: 10.30 a.m. Corner of Orpington Cray Avenue and High Street. Socialist Labour League

PUBLIC MEETINGS

The Road to Workers' Power Build the revolutionary party

LIVERPOOL

Sunday March 25, 7.30 p.m.

Mona Hotel, James St (entrance at back Moor St)

PRESTON

Sunday March 25, 8 p.m. Windsor Castle Hotel, Egan Street 26 Counties would find it politically impossible to disown the objective of unity of Ireland, if only because this could leave the Provisionals as the only political group advocating such a policy. Yet privately, ministers and officials in Eire say that unity is not possible in this century!

In spite of all the publicity build-up for the Tories' proposals, the White Paper can offer no solution for workers in the Six Counties. The Tory government is in no position to offer con- cessions to the Irish, or the British, working class. All the basic problems of high unemployment, bad housing, rising prices and political dis- crimination still remain.

Whitelaw The civil war in Northern Ireland arose out of the inability of the British ruling class to grant any concessions in the Six Counties. The publication of the White Paper can only be the blueprint for the continuation of military rule from Westminster which will continue to deny workers in the north their basic democratic rights-to vote, to work and to a decent standard of living.

Until these problems are re- solved there can be no peace in Ireland. The rapid worsening of the economic crisis and the sharpen- ing of class conflict now opens the door for the collaboration of the Heath Tory government with all the most right-wing and reactionary forces in the army and police. Brigadier Frank Kitson, who was involved in the top-level sent the para- decision which troopers into Londonderry on Bloody Sunday last year, is now one of Heath's closest allies in the secret preparations against the British working class.

These men the greatest are enemies of the working class, both Catholic and Protestant, in Ulster. The issue facing every worker in Ireland and Britain today is one of power. No amount of bargaining or of 'good faith, Pleading or acts will change the Tories minds. They are driven on by the objective of the pressures economic crisis. The working class defeat must prepare to them. In Ireland this means a total rejection of the Westminster proposals and the preparation to build a revolutionary party based on Marxism which will fight to unite both Catholic and Protes- tant workers and youth against the class enemy.

TAKE HOP

HOSPITAL workers at St Shoreditch, Leonard's, were engaged in a 24-hour strike yesterday against the suspen- sion of a shop steward and a member of their union com- mittee. The workers insist that the suspensions are a clear case of victimization. Last Friday the two men— Pat Lynott and Alan Malpass -were suspended minor on charges relating to their work in the hospital theatre pending an inquiry by the management board the East London group of hospitals. The charges, Pat Lynott says, included 'failure to change into theatre clothing, not reporting to the theatre sister and other petty items'. He explains: "It been normal practice not has to change into theatre clothing when doing routine work when there are no operations being carried out? St Leonard's ancillary work- ers returned to work last Thursday from an official eight-day strike. Says a statement from their union committee: "The two workers suspended are both leading activists within the hospital who are organizing and advising their members in the present action of work-to- rule and go-slow after having just returned to work. This move by the manage- ment is being taken as a clear case of victimization.' SWANSEA hospital workers are to continue their tough action which has completely closed one of the five hospitals in their area. They have rejected a plea from the Glantawe Hospital Board to operate an emergency laundry service. The strikers have been angered by local press propa- ganda which has suggested that the strike caused the closure of Mount Pleasant maternity hospital, which was due for closure because of alteration before the strike. THREE HUNDRED ancillary workers at Ladywell Hospital, Eccles, currently on are strike. Last week they unani- mously voted to keep up their action. COLOURED people face 'sub- stantial' discrimination when according to a house-buying, Community Relations Commis- sion study of Manchester, Not- tingham and Sheffield. housing market The private was the area of worst abuse. Dis- continuing crimination was despite efforts to abolish it, the study said. THERE IS to be no inquest into the 43-year-old station foreman who died after arguing with passengers during the rail work-to-rule in London. Police said Herbert Fox died of a heart attack caused by hardening of the arteries. Workers Press, Wednesday March 21, 1973 PAGE 11 Hospital steward suspended Ladywell Hospital, Subscribe now!

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FOR THE third time in as many days police man- handled pickets yester- day. Leeds electricians claim that at 9.30 yesterday morning they were without warning pushed.

shoved and at by sworn police. Electricians Wimpey's at Albion site have been on strike for eight months after they were sacked for refusing to cross picket lines during the builders' strike. Police officer warning St Thomas's electricians' Hospital picket

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dnesday March 21, 1973 They were reinstated for eight days but when they worked to rule in protest against having their pay stopped during builders' strike they were dis- missed a second time. Electricians' union shop ste- ward Jim Peyton said yesterday: 'Four of us were picketing one of the gates and then four police 'arrived. 'They went berserk. I've never seen anything like it. They really had a go. They attacked us- pushing and shoving and swear- ing and shouting abuse.

"GET BACK"

'They told us we weren't going to picket any more and to get back to work. All the time they were pushing us, although none of us spoke or took our hands out of our pockets. They pushed us about 20 yards, two yards at a time'. No electrical work has been done on the site since the strike began. Now the Yorkshire Elec- tricity Board has been called in to put in mains. Said Mr Peyton: 'We've tried to stop them putting in mains because once the mains are in usually sub-contractors take over. We're on strike, so, once they're in, the mangement may try to start bringing in scabs'.

He added: The union officials are totally opposed to the strike.

We are on our own. They won't do anything for us and they have instructed us to go back to work.

"CHANGED LINE"

'The police singled me out as and bundled the shop steward me to the station. They charged me with standing in front of a vehicle. They changed their argument that we couldn't picket. They said we could go back and picket peacefully. 'We've been peacefully picket- ing for eight months so what they did was to tell us we couldn't, lock us tell us we could, Up and then He said: 'We want to identify with the electricians St Thomas's Hospital site. We shall be back on the gate tomorrow morning. architect John

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Poulson 'sick being hounded by weighty claims. whose bankruptcy Poulson, resumes in June, said hearing that a Leeds Corporation claim against him for than more £278,500 was 'ridiculous'.

The Leeds claim concerns the inter- of the flm building national swimming pool in the city. It alleges design defects, as well as delays in building the pool. said at his Poulson (62), home: 'The whole claim is obviously ridiculous. It is case of the corporation jumping on the bandwagon with other claimants. It is a farce.'

He thought he was now be- coming the subject of a witch- hunt, although a lot of people seemed to be jumping off the bandwagon because they realised their claims could not be sub- stantiated. I am sick of being hounded by weighty claims. My solicitor has the matter in hand.'

BY IAN YEATS

PUTNEY teachers called for extended strike action to win an increase in their special London allowance on the eve of today's one- day strike. In the third and final stage of the National Unior Teachers' of campaign 36,000 London teachers at 3,000 schools will take in- dustrial action today. Elliot School teacher Jean Howkins told me yesterday: *The odd day's strike here and there is going to have no effect at all on the govern- ment.' Like many of the 150 teach- the school ers at Miss Howkins was present at the Central Hall, Westminster, meeting where the

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executive were forced to abandon the platform to mili- tants. She explained: 'The execu- tive's resolution was very mild.

We wanted further action. We didn't want it to end there' The 4,000 strong North London Association at their meeting on Monday over- whelmingly passed a resolu- tion calling on the executive to drop expulsion proceedings against three militants. Three teachers from Wands- worth Association are accused of defying the executive by reading out a resolution calling for extended strike action.

Jill Quiggin Alan Jackson TRIUMPH and Chrysler factor- ies in Coventry were both hit by strikes yesterday. At Triumph all car assembly work was halted when 200 cleri- cal workers walked out demand- ing a 'compensatory payment' to make up for wage increases frozen under the Tory pay laws.

At Chrysler UK, Ryton, the Jean Howkins The North London resolu- tion accuses Communist Party members of the NUT execu- tive of leading a witch-hunt of militants. Many of the Putney teachers who were at the meeting said they voted to hear the Wands- worth resolution partly be- the executive's high- cause handed action threatened democracy within the union.

As their campaign draws to an end large numbers of teachers are asking whether NUT leaders were right to on winning concentrate a higher London allowance rather than insisting on a re- view of salaries as a whole. Alan Jackson said: 'We're fighting on a London claim and it is very difficult to get UP and away UP, went the profits of the British Oxygen Co. in the first quarter of its current year. The gases-to-metal group's pre-tax profits soared £5,777,000 the three months ended 1972, compared December 31, with £4,471,000 inthe same BRITAIN's cables giant, Insulated British Callen- der's Cables yesterday re- ported a jump of more than £6,500,000 in pre-tax profits for last year. £34,321,000 The total was against £27,789,000.

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night shift of over 2,000 men were being laid of because of a strike in Scotland. The stoppage is at the firm's Linwood works, which supplies components to the Coventry fac- tory. • Oxford car men fight speed- up, page 3. support throughout the coun try.' He added: 'The problem is that the main salary claim has been settled. It was imposed on us through arbitration.'

Jill Quiggin told me there should be an overall review of teachers' pay. She said: 'You need at least £2,000 a year to live but a teacher earns about young £1,000 plus the London allow- ance.' 'An increase in the London would be a help allowance but it is nowhere near is enough. What difference going to make £118 to whether you can afford £16 a week rent or a £3,000 mort- gage?' period the year before. Sales are flying high at a compared record £69,811,000, with £59,714,000 in the first quarter of the last financial year.

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