Workers Press no. 1032

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A FRESH attempt to smash resistance to the Tory pay laws was launched yesterday when TUC chief Victor Feather opened talks with the government aimed at ending the increasingly effective hospital workers strike. The negotiations come four days before the corporatist-style Pay Board goes into action to dictate the level of pay increases to trade unionists. The Pay Board's guide-lines were published They show workers will yesterday afternoon. be strictly limited to the government pittance of fl plus 4 per cent until autumn.

Then new laws will come in which will keep wage rises well below me rise in une cost of living These guide-lines, published as a White Paper, and Tory Ministers have the latest statement from made I quite clear Lar une nosoilar workers can expect absolutely nothing from the government.

this light, the Heath-Feather summit talks must be as part of the continuing seCh conspiracy between the right wing in the TUC and the govern- disarm and defeat workers leading the campaign against the pay laws.

The period of talking and conciliation in fact ended long ago. It is impossible for the Tories to avoid open confrontation with the working class.

The international monetary crisis is now threat- ening me woole credit structure on waich world trade is based. A crisis in this sphere means desti- for the tution -already suffering of payment problems. These recore balance factors above all others dominate Tory strategy.

Phase Two has already passed into history. The Tory bludgeon Coal nOW

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une UnIOns into accepting the corporate state -where wages will be fixed on a basis by panels appointed permanent and controlled by the Tory government.

immediately ahead the Tories In the months hope to prepare the conditions for such economic dictatorship over the entire working class.

This policy has two sides. On the one hand they words in public about the speak sort concinatory need to give lower paid workers a 'fair deal. They offer talks and Feather, as usual, walks right into the trap. On the other hand the plan for attacks TUC snub for civil servants repressive the workin" class drel well advanced. This week the Home Carr Secretary Robert

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BY ROYSTON BULL

unver legs anon Kendall Bill described which will in effect outlaw right picket. Large his unioni's visit the the to "TO civil servants' TUC last night as 'a total unions lorces or ponce and possibiv wards strike action which troops will empowered waste of time'. were already well known to workers try them. to make strikes effective.

The leader of the CPSA The made and was speaking after seeing committee torces Kendall, but suggestions order will also be on hand general finance and Phase enforce Two transport workers leader purposes committee which Jack Jones said that the which workers fight- under had been asked to support committee had agreed to ask ing for wage increases can the civil servants. be jailed or heavily fined. all 10 unions to cive waal they could to the

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had asked leaders series the labour movement, the They would respect picket

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the different attitudes of the lines and help in other ways INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MARCH 27, 1973 • No 1032 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Stephen committee had the which not elaborated. his Jones said union could would within these terms. Kendall added that he re- ceived encouragement from anvone Ine COm- mittee. Both Jones and engi- Hugh Scanlon leader are members. No answer was given to Kendall his re- financial for GueSt assistance and supporting action organized by the

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ALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

THE LOFTHOUSE pit disaster appears to have claimed seven victims. All hope of find- ing survivors faded yesterday when rescue teams discovered that the main tunnel to the coal face was clogged with silt and rubble.

Coal Board production director Norman Siddall said when he heard the news: "The chances of any- body being found alive is extremely remote.'

The announcement finally dashed hopes of relatives pit head for and miners waiting anxiously at the ones and colleagues. news of their loved The question that will be asked now is why were these sacrificed? men Despite the Coal Board's veto on the cir- of the disas- cumstances ter, several important facts have emerged. • ONE is that the S9B face was being driven within 80 yards a vertical

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plane of old pit shafts which were mapped. The

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that the claims level of S9B below was that of the old workings but measurements taken after the disaster have shown this to be wrong. • ANOTHER is the admis- sion by the NCB that no drillings S9B test into face were taken to see what lay beyond. This is despite the know- ledge they that were approaching old workings.

One Board official, Roland Norman Hollis, admitted that the face was in a critical condition. There are now reports that the shafts provided a for passage way surface water to the old tunnelings around Lofthouse pit. Electrical contractor Bert Greensmith of Kirkhamgate he says reported to the ago that Board two years rainwater was flooding a called Bushy Beck stream and the old flowing into mineshafts. IF the price of meat does not come down housewives might well find themselves reserving real meat for Sun- He said: Farmers ought day lunch and buying syn- to be ringing the alarm bell, for thetic meats midweek because these once experi- Tory MP meals, said a ments with synthetic meats yesterday. show that it is a satisfactory Mr Richard Body, anti- substitute. it will be the Market Conservative MP usual routine meat for- mid- for Holland with Boston, week meals and we will have was at a Westminster Press the roast beef and lamb and conference launching pork chops relegated to the booklet on the meat situa- Sundav lunch and for eat- tion published by the Open functions ing at in restau- Forum. Seas rants. Svnthetic meats would be Mr Body is the Forum's of more widely used for saus- chairman and a member the rightwing Monday Club.

ages and meat pies.

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A FRESH attempt to smash resistance to the Tory pay laws was launched yesterday when TUC chief Victor Feather opened talks with the government aimed at ending the increasingly effective hospital workers strike. The negotiations come four days before the corporatist-style Pay Board goes into action to dictate the level of pay increases to trade unionists. The Pay Board's guide-lines were published They show yesterday afternoon. workers will be strictly limited to the government pittance of £l plus 4 per cent until autumn.

Then new laws will come in which will keep wage rises the rise in the cost of living.

we nee These guide-lines, published as a White Paper, and Tory Ministers have the latest statement from cear mar me gospita workers can expect absolutely nothing from the government.

this light, the Heath-Feather summit Talks must be as part of the continuing cons oilacy between the right wing in the TUC and the govern- and defeat workers leading the campaign against the pay laws.

The period of talking and conciliation in fact ended long ago. It is impossible for the Tories to avoid open confrontation with the working class.

The international monetary crisis is now threat- eng the wnole crealt structure on wnich world trade is based. A crisis in this sphere means desti- for tution the British suffering cullily all caly of payment problems. These factors above all others dominate Tory strategy.

Phase Two has already passed into history. The Tory nOW Diuazeon une InTO accepting the corporate state- -where will wages be fixed on a permanent basis by panels appointed and controlled by the i ory coverament. In the months immediatelv Tories economic hope to prepare the conditions for such dictatorship over the entire working class This policy has two sides. On the one hand they speak soft conciliatory words in public about the need to give lower paid workers a 'fair deal'. They offer talks and Feather, as usual, walks right into the trap. On the other hand the plan for repressive attacks TUC snub for civil servants the well advanced. This Home week the Secretary Robert Carr servants'

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leader

BY ROYSTON BULL

unveil legislation Ilkev •TO Kendall Bill described which will in effect outlaw the right picket. his unioni's visit to the to Large civil servants' TUC last night as 'a total unIOns 10- forces of police and possiblv wards strike action which waste of time'. troops will be empowered were already well known to workers try them. to make strikes effective.

The leader of the CPSA The made committee forces and was speaking after seeing Kendall, suggestions but order will also phasen hand general and Phase transport enforce workers reader purposes committee which Jack Jones said that the which workers fight- under had been asked to support committee had agreed to ing for wage increases ball the civil servants. be jailed or heavily fined.

unions to give what help they could to the Kendall said the

TUC

Almost every tendency

CPSA.

had asked series leaders the labour movement, Tne They would respect picket or pomuess quesuols lines and help in other ways

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the different attitudes of the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MARCH 27, 1973 • No 1032 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE By Stephen Johns committee had which the not elaborated. his Jones said union what could WOlO within these terms. Kendall added that he re- ceived encouragement from anvone mittee. Both Jones and engi- Hugh Scanion leader are members. No answer given to was Kendall his re- for financial assistance and supporting action organized by the

TUC.

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ALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

THE LOFTHOUSE pit disaster appears to have claimed seven victims. All hope of find- ing survivors faded yesterday when rescue teams discovered that the main tunnel to the coal face was clogged with silt and rubble.

Coal Board production director Norman Siddall said when he heard the news: 'The chances of any- body being found alive is extremely remote The announcement finally dashed hopes of relatives and miners waiting pit head for anxiously at the news of their loved ones and colleagues. The question that will be asked now is why were these sacrificed? men Despite the Coal Board's veto on the cir- of the disas- cumstances ter, several important facts have emerged. • ONE is that the S9B face was being driven within 80 yards on vertical plane of old pit Shafts which were mapped. The

NCB

claims that the level of S9B was below that of the old workings but measurements taken after the disaster have shown this to be wrong. • ANOTHER is the admis- sion by the NCB that no test drillings into S9B face were taken see to what lay beyond. This is despite the know- ledge that they were approaching old workings.

One Board official, Roland Norman Hollis, admitted that the face was in critical ( condition. There are now reports that the shafts provided for passage way surface to the old tunnelings water around Lofthouse pit. Electrical contractor Bert Greensmith of Kirkhamgate he says reported the to Board two years ago that rainwater was flooding a called Bushy Beck stream and flowing into the old mineshafts. IF the price of meat does down housewives not come well find might themselves reserving real meat for Sun- He said: Farmers ought and buying day lunch syn- to be ringing the alarm bell, for thetic meats midweek because these experi- meals, Tory MP said with synthetic ments meats yesterday. show that it is a satisfactory Mr Richard Body, anti- will be the substitute. it Market Conservative MP usual routine meat for- mid- for Holland with Boston, week meals and we will have Westminster Press was at the roast beef and lamb and launching conference pork chops relegated to the booklet on the meat situa- Sunday lunch and for eat- tion published by the Open functions ing at in restau- Forum. Seas rants.' Synthetic meats would be Mr Body is the Forum's chairman and a member of widely used for saus- more the rightwing Monday Club.

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Hong Kong panic will rebound around world PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuarday March 27, 1973 ALTHOUGH Anthony Wedgwood Benn likes socialist, he to consider himself a serious frequently ends up backing the most reac- tionary policies. This is due to his refusal or inability to make anything but the most shallow analysis of what is happening to capitalism. His latest 'progressive' outburst is to say what are all the controls the Tories a good thing • to manage the introducing to try are economy because they will prepare the way for Labour to legislate real socialism.

'The whole nature of the mixed economy oper- on market forces has been transformed ating by this quiet revolution. In future, industrial- ists are bound to turn their minds to what the government thinks should be done, and less and less to market forces as a guide to their corporate planning.

"Thus the Ministry of Technology has been the whole argument about recreated and intervention has passed into history books.'

So powerful is the government's control over the economy, Benn believes, that a new parliamentary select committee for trade and industry might be necessary as an additional development of safeguard against the corporate state which is now causing deep anxiety on both sides of the House of Commons'. 'planning' Benn refers to of course, is The nothing of the sort. Government intervention • on behalf of the whole capitalist class has always been a feature of capitalism, especially at times of economic crisis in regulating ex- spending change credit and public rates, controls. The extension into the detailed running of individual industries or even com- panies is only the same thing gone further because the crisis is much deeper this time.

But the Tories, no more than any Labour gov- ernment past or projected in Benn's mind, heart of the have not even identified the anarchy of capitalist production, let alone begun to tackle it. The essence of market forces remains untamed, namely the anar- chistic implication of private ownership for profit, comprehensively analysed by Marx.

that capital- This dictates, among other things, ists cannot remain capitalists unless they can survive the competition to get their share of surplus value created by productive labour.

relative over-supply of capital The constant reaches crisis proportions at the end of an The conflict between the inflationary boom. various capitals then takes the form of take- bankruptcies, dumping, cost-cutting, overs, speculation, closures and a rash of instability impossible to regulate. into is spiralling downwards Capitalism currency chaos, which in turn threatens the credit superstructure of international trade.

But the only way to stabilize currencies is to inflationary with replace their content additional surplus value and 'thus put real value back into money. This means simply getting workers to work harder for less money. But this intensified exploitation leads directly • to intensified class struggle. And this is the position in Britain and every other capitalist country. Thus, the relentless demand for profit in a world economic system, run necessarily on unplanned, competitive lines, leads inevitably to economic and political crisis whichever party is in government. The 'instruments' the Tories have set up cannot alter this. ' They can only try to keep the system intact by making sure the working class sacrifices its own living standards to keep profits going.

the fundamental driving force Only when human society is changed from unplanned production for the extraction of surplus value to planned production to meet man- kind's requirements will the anarchy of be replaced by market forces conscious socialist controls. The total inability of the capitalist governments to regulate or even fathom out the chaos in the currency ex- changes and the gold market is proof of this. Fascism was born precisely out of the anarchy the 1920s and of capitalist production of 1930s as a bid to 'regulate' the difficulties.

The essence of fascism is to tinker with the any capitalist or market forces much as social democratic government does, but to make the anarchic mixture more 'acceptable' by wiping out the opposition to it in the working class. Quite unwittingly, Benn spelled out the danger of a corporate state being introduced into Britain by the Tory government. But, in his reformist naivety, Benn fails to understand that it is precisely in going along with capitalism's attempts to shore up a decaying . system with 'controls' that the danger of fascism arises. .....

THE DOWNWARD

Hong the plunge of Kong stock exchange In- dex has already wiped nearly a fifth off the re- cord levels it achieved just over a fortnight ago.

The collapse of the Hong Kong share market has been even more spec- its rise. On tacular than March 9, the share index Hang prepared by the HAIFA district court yester- day sentenced two Jews and four Israeli Arabs to jail for belonging to a Syrian-spon- sored espionage and sabotage network. The alleged ringleader, Daud Turki, a Haifa book- seller, and Ehud Adiv, a for- mer Israeli paratrooper, were each sentenced to 17 years' jail. Subhi Na'arani (28) was given a 15-year sentence, while Dan Vered, the second Jew on trial, was given ten years. given Anis Karawi was 15 years in prison while the only defendant to plead guilty, Simon Hadad, was given a two-year sentence and bound over for three years. Adiv and Vered are the first Jews born in Israel to have been convicted of con- spiring with the Arab states against the Zionist state.

• Their arrest shocked many Zionists because it demon- strated that their ideological grip was slipping. Another 26 people, in- cluding four Jews, 17 Arabs and a Druze, are to be tried in batches for alleged mem- bership of the 'ring' over the next few weeks. One is the son of a Com- munist Party MP. JUAN FARINAS, jailed in 1972 for his opposi- tion to the Vietnam war has won parole after serving one year of a two-year sentence. He will be released from the Federal Peniten- tiary in Danbury, Con- necticut, USA, on April He was sentenced for distributing a leaflet at his induction centre which de- nounced the Vietnam war. It was being waged against the Vietnamese workers and peasants in the interests of American monopolles, said Farinas' • be leaflet. his In a statement on parole, Farinas declared: I have to thank the thousands of working men, women and youth who made the fight for my re- lease their fight; the trade student and union, peace, organizations that political committed themselves to my defence, and last but not least, my comrades in the Workers' League and the Young Socialists, with.

out whose selfless efforts and drive the massive cam- paign organized for my defence would never have been possible.

BY JOHN SPENCER OUR I

Seng Bank reached 1,775. This than was more double the price only two months before, when the index had stood at just over 800. From January to March it rose steadily and without interruption. The rush to buy shares reached unparalleled heights of hysteria. Civil servants neglected strike and THE mass lock-out which began in Denmark last Wednes- day is a trial of strength between the employers and the highly organized Danish trade union move- ment. It is a result of the breakdown of the coun- try's conciliation machin- ery which has long oper- ated as a mechanism of involv- class-collaboration ing the union chiefs, the employers and the govern- ment. This system of class- compromise, the envy of the British Fabians, has been thoroughly disrupted by the development of the econo- mic crisis and the country's entry into the Common Market. As one commentator put it last week such a system can exist only on the basis of a certain amount of con- fidence and permanent con- census between the three parties (union chiefs, em- ployers and government). This no longer exists: the employers have nothing but hostility and contempt for the timid minority coalition regime of social-democratic

BY JACK GALE

From the very beginning of this fight, even in the very leaflet that I distributed in the induction centre, it has been conducted as a fight of the working class for its defence against a system of wars, racism, ex- ploitation and misery. It has seen the fight against the imperlalist war in Vietnam as indissolubly linked to the fight of the working class against the attacks of the capitalist class and its govern- ments in all countries. Throughout their fight on as' • behalf of Farinas, the Work- ers' League and the Young Socialists insisted that the attack on him was more than infringement of an civil liberties. It attacked the entire working class, an attack necessitated by the crisis of capitalism. The American Trotskyists won enormous support in the labour and trade union movement for this principled stand. Unprincipled exceptions to this rule were the Ameri- can Communist Party and Workers' the Socialist Party revisionists. Both refused to support a

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their jobs to buy shares.

Businessmen sold their busi- nesses to gamble on the stock market. Hypnotists and astrologers cashed in with advice to in- vestors. Then the slump began. Prices which had risen on exaggerated hopes of the China trade and the influx of inflated paper dropped.

The market is falling out

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premier Anker Joergensen.

At the same time rela- tions between the employers and the workers have com- pletely deteriorated despite all the union leaders' efforts to maintain class peace and clamp down on workers' militancy. Once considered a antee of 'social peace, suar- , the fact that all wage deals are a single six- settled over month period every two years now only increases the size of the clash between the unions and the employers.

This time the collective negotiations began in Octo- ber last year. Over 250,000 workers are locked out or on strike and despite the willingness of the union chiefs to compro- mise the employers are standing firm on their de- mands. They have rejected draft proposals put forward by a government-appointed medi- ator: the employers want the TUC to guarantee against seeking legislation for higher detence of Farinas based on a class position. They said they would only Join the Juan Farinas De- fence Committee if It stop- ped characterizing the attack on him as an attack on the whole working class.

The Workers' League, the Young Socialists and Farl- nas himself refused to ac- cept those terms and will now expand their efforts to develop a defence in the labour movement of all those workers singled out for attack by the capitalist rulers. Only out of struggles of that type can the American working class advance in Its understanding of the tasks it now faces, particularly the necessity to construct a political alternative to the United States capitalists and their parties. of control and there is a stampede dispose shares before they lose all their paper value. Many of the shares were 'margin purchases' bought on hire purchase. The collapse of the Hong Kong market is certain to outside have repercussions Capital from Britain is in- volved and the Hong Kong market has also attracted funds from the Euro-cur- rency market.

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employee benefits over the la- next two years. But this is simply the sticking point in a conflict much wider implica- with tions. The Danish entry into the Common Market, supported both by the employers and by the Labour government under Anker Joergensen, was opposed by substantial sec- tions of the trade unions.

To get the majority they in the referendum wanted entry, EEC supporters on painted a very rosy picture of benefits which would flow from it. The union chiefs and the industrialists signed joint press releases describing the future in the Market in glowing terms. In fact, on entry the Danish employers found themselves drawn im- mediately into the financial and trade crisis of their EEC 'partners'. They were unable to give the concessions that the unions demanded and found themselves faced with an.

offensive movement of the working class. Demands included equal wage rises for pay, special the lower paid, shorter hours for shift workers, higher holiday pay and increases in cost of living allowances.

Joergensen, a former trade union 'left' who now ped- dles plans for corporatism under the guise of econo- mic democracy, is. trying desperately to avert spread of the strike. Unless he succeeds in this effort the country will grind almost total halt on to an April 3, when the engineers and transport workers, already on strike are joined by workers in distributive, fuel, oil, airport and power industries.

BRITISH

UNITED Trawl- trawling the biggest ers, company in western Europe with 100 vessels, has con- firmed it is to buy Ranger Fishing Company from the shipping line, P & O. The North Shields head- quarters of Ranger will be down and operations run will be transferred to the Humber ports of Hull and Grimsby, where British United has a monopoly. The run down will start immediately and take about three months to complete, costing 60 Tyneside jobs.

Ranger has a fleet of fac- tory freezer vessels, four of which were ordered in 1969 at a cost of flm each......

Hull demo steps up hospitals pay fight The miners have some unfinished business with the Tory government

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1100 'WE HAVE been going round listening to the men and the feel- ing is that it's got to be industrial action. Nothing less than a national strike will do? This was the verdict from Sid Barker, miner from Ollerton colliery, Nottinghamshire, on the eve of the big coalfield ballot which starts today and ends tomorrow.

Next Tuesday the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive will announce the result. If the Coal Board's offer- -dictated by the Tory government—is rejected, the stage will be set for a showdown between the Tory government and one of the most powerful sections of the working class in the country. 'Whether miners ine like it or not, we will be in the vanguard, said Sid, Labour Party member. 'The Tory governmeal will make a strike a big political issue-it's them or us, I don't think there is a miner in the land who has illusions that any about Like Sid Barker, many miners feel there is a lot of unfinished business from last year's strike. 'We slipped up last year because we in my opinion stopped complete ShOT victory. We were at the point when we could have got the whole Tory government out. 'Now a lot realize that the were let off the hook Tories and that the wages they have taken back have been WUll through the vast increase in the cost of living. "This is why most men see it as polluca. surike ana wages. not just one over did Suppose we will could only the government come back and snatch it off •Everyone knows how things since the have last strike: Prices rents and all up, fares up, fuel up the rights the cauc unions under attack. 'This would happen again. There is only one way proper increase-- culined to get shut of this govern- miners will 'I think re- spond to this if they get the pleasantly lead. was SuL- prised recently WiCk WC went to a school for the union. 'Some

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One said that paganda. General wanted Strike and that this would be a bad thing because then Colliery,' he could go to the country Top: Sid Barker, a faceworker at Ollerton and for Notts. Above: Paul Falkinder, a fitter at Allerton win more breaking up the unions. Bywater, Yorkshire:

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Interviews by Stephen Johns 'But one man got up and asked "Who are the public —it's the hospital workers, the gasmen, the railwaymen and the miners all getting hammered by the Tories" 'In other words he said the public is the working class -and he was quite right. "There are about 10 mil- lion workers in this country 30 million people are in the -with . their families working class. I think they overthrow this can govern- ment. I'm not afraid of a showdown with these forces.

'The Notts leaders are asking us to vote for indus- trial action. In my opinion if the miners come out, and I think they will, it will be a long drawn out struggle.

'So the strike would have to be extended. There are plenty of workers the same the miners and even as worse off-they are suffer- ing under this government.

'Someone has got to make stand and stop these a Tories driving us into poverty. Because let no miner make a mistake: if he doesn't vote for action, he's voting for a rapidly-declining living stan- dard. I will be voting YES and so will all my friends' Paul Falkinder (23) is a fitter at the NCB workshop at Allerton Bywater, York- shire. He, too, is voting for the union policy. 'People are beginning to realize that a strike on a purely financial basis can only be a temporary answer to the problem. 'The problem is external because the cost of living and the attack on unions are as important as wages now.

or rather the whole thing is tied together. 'A lot of men finished the last strike with the feeling that they had done very well. cash terms perhaps 'In they had. But it was an illu- sion. The Tories survived the struggle when we nearly had Workers Press, Tuesday March 27, 1973 PAGE 3 ANCILLARY workers in Hull step up their pay fight this week following a successful weekend demon- stration (left). Called jointly by the local branch of NUPE and the Hull and District Trades Council, the march passed through the city centre to the applause of shoppers. Laundries are closed at the Hull Royal Infirmary and the De La Pole and Castle Hill hospitals. E

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the working class have come under attack and Trades Council, Buck- many such rights are inghamshire, h a s now illegal. passed resolution a calling for a General Therefore call we the entire Strike to defeat the upon orga- nized labour movement Tory government. to unite in a General The resolution was force Strike to the moved by Mr R. Kal- Tories to and resign ber, behalf of on elect a Labour govern- Chesham branch of the committed ment Transport and General scrap all the anti-wor- Workers' Union. The king class legislation at resolution, carried by present on the statute nine votes four, books and nationalize stated: the banks, insurance Since the Tory gov- companies and all the industries ernment came to main etc, under workers' control power two and a half years ago all the basic and without rights and conditions of compensation. them. So the cost of living "This was all a trick on the part I went up and your money of the Tories. began to disappear. suspect the Board knew that 'There is a fairly general it would end up in a ban on all wage increases recognition of this the and on were coalfield now I think. just stringing the union "The along. Wilberforce settle- ment last year also gave an- must say the union other advantage the leaders were willing partners to Tories and the Board. -they gave out all that stuff 'Under on productivity last autumn it negotiations and encouraged output to could not take place until go instead of preparing for January, the Board up SO the battle ahead. dragged its feet all through the time that the government 'Now we must make up for with the TUC lost This must be the was talking time. decisive battle.' inflation. over

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday March Any worker harbouring illusions that the Indus- trial Relations Act could possibly work in his favour would find himself rapidly disabused of the idea if he tried to sue for unfair dismissal under the Act. For the 'contributory negli- gence' clause which applies to industrial injuries—under the 1945 Law Reform (Contribu- tory Negligence) Act-has been used as a model in deal- ing with sackings. Clause s. 116 (ili) of the Industrial Relations Act states: 'Where the industrial court or industrial tribunal finds that the matters to which the com plaint relates were to any extent caused or contributed to by any action of the aggrieved party in connection with those matters (whether that action an unfair indus- constituted trial practice on his part or not) the court or tribunal shall reduce its assessment of his loss to such extent as, having the regard to that finding, considers court or tribunal just and equitable.' So a worker can be held responsible not only for his own injuries, but for his own sacking-even when that held legally to be 'unfair"!

And this means a reduction in the compensation awarded to him. s. #16 (iii) has Clause • been widely applied already and the amount by which compensation can be reduced rests entirely with the tribu- nal. It has varied from 9 per cent to 90 per cent. Various reasons have been held to constitute 'contribu- tory negligence'. For instance, a Mr Street had been sum- marily dismissed by Wrights Insulations for leaving a site at 4.12 p.m. instead of 4.30 p.m. An NIRC tribunal found the dismissal unfair, but under negligence' the 'contributory clause, Mr Street's compensa- tion was reduced from £70 to £15. In 'Mellors v Pressac' a Writings of OF

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site on strike over victimization. Cases of uni strial Relations Act, workers themselves can be for 'aggressive and in- Cabe, solent behaviour' at a meeting.

The tribunal held that there were mitigating circumstances for Mr McCabe's behaviour— but it cut his compensation by 25 per cent. Refusal to obey an order is a frequent cause of dismissal and is used as a powerful argu- ment for cutting compensation.

For instance, a Mrs Laraway sacked by Hewlett- was Packard for refusing to hand over to her employers a gift voucher she had received from one of the firm's suppliers.

held to The dismissal was be unfair, but compensation Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request. ses of unfair sacking have long been the conc res can be held responsible, even when It is hel was cut 50 per cent. Many firms sack employees on the vague and generalized grounds that they are 'unsuit- . This also goes down well able' at NIRC tribunals. Photo Precision sacked a Mr Fletcher because it 'ques- his capability and tioned loyalty'. The tribunal accepted that Fletcher had shown 'lack of adaptability' and assessed his contribution to his own dismissal at 25 per cent.

A Mr Davies, sacked by was held Bailey and Mackay, to have been unfairly dis- missed but to have been 25 per cent responsible himself because, said the tribunal, 'he to his own had contributed misfortune by his failure to adapt himself to changes re- quired by management at times.' A worker dismissed while because of absent from work injury incurred there might think he had a strong case.

Mr Parrott was sacked by the Yorkshire Electricity Board under such circumstances.

The employers claimed that Mr . Parrott-who suffered long from bronchitis—had record of illness and injuries.

The NIRC tribunal assessed Mr Parrott as 'definitely acci- dent prone' and 'prone to be ill'. Its judgement continued: 'The consequence of this is that we consider that he, him- self, very largely contributed to his dismissal and although the actual dismissal took place in unfair circumstances, in our view, nevertheless we feel that it would be just and equitable to reduce the figure that we would otherwise have ordered to merely a nominal figure.'

Mr Parrott's compensation was cut by 90 per cent-from £500 to £50. Even where an employer has been unable to show a valid reason for sacking a worker, the NIRC tribunals have still found it possible to apply clause s. 116 (iii). In Hancock versus British the concern of the trade union move- n It Is held that the sacking was 'unfair'.

tribunal Road the services, declared that it was left in doubt as to what was the real reason for the dismissal' and that BRS had not discharged their duty under the act. Nevertheless, the worker was held to have contributed to his own sacking to the tune of 60 per cent! One of the most ominous developments, however, has been that pressurizing an em- ployer for a wage increase has been held to constitute action meriting a reduction for con- tributory loss. This happened last year in case of Dobson, Bryant the Morritt. and Heather versus The workers were sacked for their actions in support of a wage claim and the introduc- tion of a sick benefit scheme.

The tribunal found that the dismissals were unfair because the actions were not in breach of the workers' contracts of employment. But it went on to state: 'We do think that Mr Dob- applicants son and the other contributed to their in loss wage increases pressing for which on the figures which have been put before us today appeared to be on the unrea- sonable side ... we think they were pressing unduly and un- reasonably for more wage in- creases. 'We have taken this into account and made a reduction in respect of it' No amount of compensa- tion, of course, can compen- sate a worker for loss of his livelihood when the Tory gov- ernment is deliberately driving up prices in order to reduce the standard of living of the working class. But the only way to fight back is through the workers' own class organizations, the trade unions, and not through the capitalist courts.

MAO'S NEW CULT FOR

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

"Take Lei Feng as our ex- ample' latest is the slogan. Maoist The Peking Press carried front-page facsimilies of the inscription 'Learn from Comrade Lei Feng' written by Mao Tse-tung on March 5 ten years ago.

Lei Feng, soldier Peoples Lit of the Liberation died while Army duty at the age of 22, is held up paragon as a virtues. The propaganda media are full of stories ol nis llle and good deeds which would put to shame the most dutiful Emphasis is laid boy scout. on his self-sacrifice and dedi- Canon. The Communist Youth Leagues, which have been re- formed and strengthened during since their dissolution the 'cultural revolution', are Feng's life told to take Lei of service as Al- an example. lifetime Feng though 1n his was devoted to Lin Piao, then the head of the army, he now held up as a true dis- ciple of Mao. Piao, who died in Lin crash in Sep- mysterious alr tember 1971, is alleged to have plotted to kill Mao and take but his power, 1s not Halle in public. referred to Instead, the virtues of Lei Feng are opposed to the vil- lainy of the arch-revisionist | Liu Shao-chi, President once of the People's Republic of China. All over China have been held on how ings to learn from Let Feng, songs have been composed his in honour and pictures drawn of episodes in his life. The attack on what is des- 'the revisionist line cribed as Shao- of swindlers Liu 1ke chi must be taken to include denunciation of Piao as

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Mao's one-time desig- well. nated successor is also regar- ded 'ultra- being rightist' who wanted China to the Soviet shelter Union's nuclear umbrella and dreamed of restoring capital- ism. Thus a Peoples' Liberation unit in Shenyang was Army told : criminal "ne alm like Liu Shao-chi swindlers

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military in Ankara sentenced has 14 Turkish five between students months and three in years prison for allegedly using guns security forces and resisting during demonstrations in 1971.

Another military court jailed 15 students for boycot- ting classes in protest against

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Mao with Lin Plao, who died in a myster was to attempt in vain to change the Party's basic line and policies for the historical period of socialism, subvert the dictatorship of the prole- tariat, and restore capitalism., "Their tactics were counter-revolutionary tactics of refusing to be open and pursuing above-board but exclusively intrigues and cons- piracies... The so-called true • which they wanted socialism establish a totally to was Soviet revisionist-type of social fascism.' it dead (5 bani) the of guerrilla execution leader Deniz Gezmis (pictured above) and two comrades. One student received two years and the others three months. It has been an offence for students to boycott classes since martial law was intro- duced nearly two years ago.

Mao with Lin Plao, who died in a mysterious air crash in September, 1971.

dark In contrast to these deeds, Lei Feng is held up as a shining example and all sec- population have the tions of been called upon launch to activities 'cherish-the-people' in emulation. is seriously

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ported from that area one 'according to incomplete sta. from Harbin, Suihua tistics Mutanchiang, and the broad masses of security cadres and performed over 2,800 police for the people services good during the New Year and

ITALIAN BOSSES

TOUGHEN UP

A direct challenge to the trade unions was made by the president of the big Ital- employers' organization, ian Confindustria (Italian Con- federation of industry) at that body's annual conference last Renato week. Lombardi called for a national incomes policy, political stability and discipline. His indicated that speech the Italian bosses are not satisfied that the present based on the Democrats . which Christian was elected last year can pro- vide political conditions to defend private property.

The time has come, he said to state openly 'whether one wants to continue along the free road progress and well-being, whether one wants to destroy the system, nationalize the economy and it of those thus deprive instruments of efficiency, pro- Workers Press, Tue: Spring Festival. They also closely worked together with the masses in dealing heavy blows to the class enemies who had engaged in sabotage activities' The nature of these acti- vities, and whether or not they were inspired by Liu Shao-chi or Lin Piao, is left to the imagination in the re- port. But the reference does suggest that a bitter behind- the-scenes struggle is going on which could involve the suc- cession to Mao himself. competitiveness ductivity and whose value is today recog- nized even by many socialist countries' The continued political in- security and the deterioration of the economy and the com- petitiveness of Italian industry was, he said, 'steadily under- mining the enthusiasm and of industrial perseverance managers'. Industrialists must defend the existence of private per- sonalized management as a condition for getting the eco- back onto feet, nomy according to Lombardi. The speech was a sign that the Italian employers intend toughen up the struggle to against the working class and are looking back to the strong corporate state established by Mussolini in the 1920s, in which organizations like Con- findustria played a key role and the trade unions were destroyed. ress, Tuesday March 27, 1973 PAGE 5

WITH ALBANIA

A plea for the restoration of relations between the Soviet Union and Albania-severed ten years ago-was made in a Moscow broadcast in Al- bania on March 13. It said that the Soviet Union had always regarded in Soviet 'the difficulties relations' Albanian as tem- porary and passing. Referring to the present state of affairs as 'unnatural and contrary to the norms and principles which regulate relations between the coun- tries of socialism it looked forward to the restoration of friendly relations. Albania was the only coun- try in Eastern Europe to take in the schism China's side with the Soviet Union which took place during the Khrush- chev period. It continues to pay respects to the Stalin cult and generally acts as Peking's mouthpiece in Europe. Tirana radio broadcasts bitter denunciations of Soviet policy and statements from leader of the Enva Hoxha, Party. He Albanian Communist took China's side in the schism with Russia which occurred dur- ing the Khrushchev period.

what purport to be. Maoist parties in Poland, East Ger- many and other countries.

By not referring to these questions, Moscow radio made it clear that it was prepared to wipe the slate clean. Its offer of a restoration of good relations with Albania was a clear bid to undermine what remains of Peking's influence in Europe. Three Africans have been sentenced to death in Salis- bury for guerrilla activity.

They were alleged to have planted the mine which caused the death of an army corporal last December. One of the men told the court: "Although you are go- ing to sentence me to death, I am not afraid of that. I was trained abroad before I came into this country. I knew that there was death. 'It is not your first time to in this country. kill people You started it the very first year you came to Rhodesia. I am fighting for my country. I this homestead attacked cause I am fighting agains: the white man.' He was referring to the attack on a homestead last December by six armed men during which a landmine ex- ploded under an army vehicle

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday March 21, 1913 Workers Press. Tuesdav March 27, 1973 PAGE 7

PIT DISASTER

The chance of finding anyone alive is extremely remote.

These words spoken shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon miners entombed 750ft dashed hopes of saving seven below the Yorkshire countryside.

Charles Cotton, Alan Haigh, 30; Finnegan, Edward Frank Billingham, 48; William Armitage, 41; Sidney Brown, 36; and Colin Barnaby, 36; are the men.

miners admitted chances of From the start the Lofthouse were at the coal face survival were very slim. Most of the seven their bellies working the 2ft 6in when the water flat seam broke through the face. They got the full blast of the

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Now these will asked. Why the questions were mining so close to tunnels dug by the ancestors of the Lofthouse colliers? Why, when maps did show the approximate whereabouts of the shafts leading to the old workings, were there no investi- gations of their condition? Why were there no test drillings taken on S9B face to find out what lay beyond?

Belatedly the old shafts were filled in. The frogmen (above) went flood drilled to down into the inky black water. A hole was carry fresh air into the tunnel where the men might have been were held (centre). Heath trapped (left). Press conferences flankd by swooped on the colliery men (far police and security left). The miners (above left) and their families watched silently.

But the saved. The workings Lofthouse men were not near had claimed their last victims.

LABOUR'S TAME LEFT WING

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday March

BY JACK GALE

"The Class Struggle in Parlia ment' by Erlc S. Hetter. Victor Gollancz £3.90 350 pp.

The Industrial Relations Act, legislated by the Tory government in 1972, was in fact pre- pared by the Labour goy. ernment of 1966-1970—in particular by the at- tempts of Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle to force through 'In Place of Strife' in the teeth of overwhelming opposition from trade unionists. As Eric Heffer MP says in book, published his new earlier this month, the Labour government handed the Tories weapons with which to beat both the Labour Party and the unions. This was obvious to every- one. The leading Tory lain Macleod admitted as much in the Commons on April 16, 1969, when he said of Barbara Castle: am in warm support of her in this matter. I give her the further assurance that as soon as possible we will build on the foundations which she is laying and, in particular, that agreements entered into shall be enforceable by law.'

day March 27, 1973 Such a position-the La- bour leaders carrying out attacks not only on the people who voted them into office, but on the very trade union movement which created the Labour Party-placed an im- portant responsibility on the 'left' Labour MPs. It was for this reason that during the time of the Labour government the Socialist La- bour League waged a consis- tent campaign to make the 'left' MPs fight Wilson. In fact, they did not conduct such a fight, and in his book, 'The Class Struggle in Parlia- ment, Heffer is very much on the defensive about this.

He says: "Too often there are those in the Labour move- ment who underestimate the role of the left and, even give impression the worse, that Labour's left during this period (i.e. from the Labour victory of 1964 to the end of 1972) conducted a sham fight' (р. 136). Yet what is the record? In the period 1964-1966 Heffer himself, along with other Left MPs, excused Wilson's failure to introduce socialist measures on the grounds that a majority of four did not allow it.

In 1966 Wilson got a majo- rity of almost 100. But-as Heter now admits- Wilson sought a larger majority, not to legislate socialism, but to railroad through anti-union legislation in the face of any opposition there might be in the Parliamentary Labour Party. The 'left' did argue against this in the PLP but it re- mained at the level of argu- ment. It is true that 56 Labour MPs voted against Barbara Castle's White Paper March 3, 1969, but it was known at that time that the Tories were not going to vote against, and that therefore the government was not at risk.

Heffer's argument is that it would have been to wrong bring down the government- inded, that it was the central task to preserve the Labour government. But would the working class have been in a more dangerous position today if the 'lefts' had fought Wilson to the extent of bringing down his government? On the contrary, it would have been better to bring the government down and . then fight again for a Labour gov- based on socialist ernment permit policies, than to Wilson to open the door to power for the Tories, with all the resultant attacks on the basic rights of the working class. Heffer recognizes that this is what the Labour govern- ment did. He also admits: 'I do agree that the Labour government did not advance us one step towards a real and funda- of mental transformation capitalist society" (p. 269).

In these circumstances to be 'critical of the acts of folly' committed by the Wilson gov- ernment and to 'push hard to policies' (p. change wrong 269) was, and is, inadequate.

The left' at no time armed and prepared the working class to fight Wilson's anti- socialist measures. Heffer says that in 1964- 1966 there was 'a great deal of rumour that legislation • that could send trade unionists to prison was to be introduced' (p. 53). There was more than rumour, there was certain knowledge-yet Heffer and his 'Tribune' colleagues con- sistently denied at that time that such legislation could be introduced by a Labour gov- ernment. In so doing they disarmed the working class and facili- tated Wilson's attacks on the unions. The Labour leadership-and following them the Tories- were undoubtedly encouraged by the outcome of a confron- i with the unions deli- tation berately contrived by Wilson after the 1966 election. Such a confrontation was required by the Labour pre- mier in order to create the conditions for putting his prices and incomes policy on a statutory basis. His oppor- tunity occurred with the sea- men's strike of June 1966.

It was during this strike that Wilson made his notor- ious witch-hunting speech about 'tightly-knit groups of politically motivated men'. On television he warned that the strike was 'against the state and against the community' The leadership of the Na- tional Union of Seamen buck- led before this offensive. But this was also one of the most discreditable episodes in the history of the Labour 'left'.

When Wilson invoked the Emergency Powers Act _ seamen, left-wing against the MPs like Foot, Mikardo and Heffer spoke against it. But they did force a not division and Wilson's mea- sures went through unop- posed. Heffer now says: 'I regret that we did not vote against the introduction of the Emer- gency Powers Act. Whilst our opposition was sincere, our failure to vote was not en- tirely understood in the country. 'Many trade unionists won- dered why we had not voted.

I too wonder at this and have no explanation for it' (p. 59).

It is not a question of 'sin- Above: Labour leaders sing 'Auld Lang Syne' on the platform of last year's conference. Barbara Castle who formulated 'In Place of Strife' (obscured by micro- phone) is beside Wilson. cerity but of political out- look. Heffer, though a 'left, remains a reformist. He spells this out: "The question arises: can be introduced by socialism democratic parliamentary means? The answer is surely: some countries, no; in in Britain, yes' (p. 272). It is this reformist political position which has prevented Heffer and those like him from really fighting the right wing.+ These 'lefts' see themselves, not as an alternative leader- ship, but as some kind of guardians of socialist morality: 'The Labour Party has been a coalition. Within its ranks have been people of the left, the centre and the right.

"The left are always very concerned about keeping the Party true to its basic princi- ples. At times they have sought real power within the Party and at other periods when that has appeared im- possible they have acted as the Party's conscience' (p. 263). Thus the guiding line for the 'left's' actions is always to seek a basis of unity with the whole spectrum of views with- in the Labour Party, includ- ing its most extreme right wing. This is what Heffer means when he says: 'The task of the left wing of the Party is clearly to win the whole party for a genuine socialist policy "Tribunites". Naturally, would like we the Party as a whole to adopt the platform of the left' (p.

267). At the time Heffer wrote those words, the PLP included not only Roy Jenkins but Dick Taverne. What emerges here,

then, is that the left will always seek to stop short of a com- plete break with the right. Heffer says: "The left is an integral part of the Labour Party and therefore must work to preserve the unity of the Party" (p. 274). The 'Tribune' MPs did op- pose 'In Place of Strike'. But it was not their role which was decisive. The real force which made Wilson and Castle retreat was the power of the working class, expressed through its unions, which forced Chief Whip Bob Mellish to inform Wilson that he could not guarantee a parliamentary majority. But Heffer draws a danger- ously wrong conclusion from this. 'At the last moment' he 'commonsense prevailed' says, (p. 89). It was not 'common- sense' whih prevailed, but the class power of the unions.

What is more the 'solemn and binding TUC undertaking to stop strikes, on which the proposed legislation was with- drawn, remained in force the Tories and formed under the basis for the union chiefs' talks with the Heath govern- ment. Despite Heffer's claim that during 'the role of the left the six years of the Labour government was an honour- able one' (p. 267), the 'left' sat back and permitted the onslaught on the unions to be prepared. Their opposition Wilson was always too to little and too late. When the Donovan report, which laid the basis for the of anti-union both plans Wilson and Heath, was pub- lished, Heffer's reaction was favourable. 'In Place of Strife' When was published on January 17, 1969, it included proposals government-imposed for a 'cooling-off' period, ballots for national strikes and the de- duction of fines from wages.

Yet Heffer described it as '80 cent acceptable-possibly per more' (p. 118). The bad bits, he said, 'made it a barrel of honey spoilt by a spoonful of tar' and this, he 'is essentially my repeats, view today' (p. 103). Then, when it became clear that the 'spoonful of tar' in- volved binding the unions to the state and removing basic rights which the working class had won over 200 years of struggle, Heffer could . not see the confines of the beyond Parliamentary Labour Party.

When Wilson and Castle ignored the opposition of the TUC, the decisions of the La- Party conference, the bour PLP (including its trade union group) and a 16-5 vote against the document on the national executive committee, the par- liamentary 'left' could not turn to the organized working class, the force which in fact pushed back the Labour leaders. Instead, Heffer tells us, he and Michael Foot MP were "in a mood of black despair, only disaster could see we ahead' (p. 138). Now he is dangerously complacent. He says: The is reasonably united party now, despite the problems of the Common Market' (p. 89).

These problems of the Common Market involved 69 Labour MPs voting openly with the Tories, 20 more ab- staining in defiance of a three- line whip, and a further 20 expressing various degrees of agreement with the pro-Tory rebels! Out of these 109 mem- bers of the PLP, only one..

Dick Taverne-s not still there. On what basis, then, is the party 'reasonably united'?

The right wing is even more aggressive than before. Several of them openly support the renegade Taverne. One (Peter Doig) even spoke in favour of Emergency Powers being used Tories against the by the miners. Wilson advised Heath on the best way to use the state pay laws against the working class without even waiting for them to go through parlia- ment. The PLP did not lift a finger to assist the thou- sands of Labour voters who were prepared to fight the Tory "fair rents Act. Eric Melfer If there is more unity, then, it is only because the "left' fight abandoned has against the right precisely at a time when millions of wor- kers are moving into struggle against the Tory government the state in defence of and basic rights. These struggles raise the question of power because they bring workers into con- flict with the government and the state. Heffer seeks to avoid this. '"Tribune" MPs He writes: were in the vanguard of the struggle against 'In Place of Strife". They also played a prominent role in the fight against the Industrial Rela- will be tions Act. They equally prominent when the Act is repealed' (p. 278).

The operative clause here is 'when the act is repealed'. But what happens now, when the Act is in operation?

Heffer has no perspective for smashing the Act in the only way possible, by mobilizing the full strength of the work- ing class to force the Tory government to resign. It was the same parliamen- reformist limitations tary which made the "Tribunites' confine their opposition to the Bill to left-wing speeches without ever basing them- selves on the large numbers of workers, such as the doc- came into direct kers, who conflict with the Tories' cor- poratist-style measure. Now, as the Tories accele- rate their drive towards the corporate state (Heffer invents a new form of society called * 'the democratic corporate state', the Parliamentary La- bour Party moves to the right.

The root cause of this is the raging economic crisis of capitalism which hardly rates a mention in Heffer's book.

Writing of In Place of "Those Strife', Heffer says: responsible were "Old Left" leaders like Barbara Castle and Harold Wilson. 'In the past Harold and Barbara had given hope to millions that a new era would be forthcoming from a new Labour government. In fact, what we were getting was the conservatism writ large.'

old But the author can give us no explanation of why the 'Old Left' should move over to the right, nor, for that for believ- matter, any reason ing that the 'New Left' would not take the same course.

is now much The process more advanced. What we are getting today is not just conservatism, but the politics of coalition. This is what lies behind the talk of 'centre' alignment. a new It is the preparation for open collaboration with the Tories in seeking to impose a Bonapartist dictatorship on the working class. Heffer is blind to these dangers. He writes: 'The 1971 conference decisions prove that the Party is moving to the left. It is only a matter before the views of of time the left become accepted as Party policy' (p. 273). Within less weeks of the 1971 c Jenkins wing clique into lobby and get away necessary Eric Heffer in 1960-1961? In 1960 the Lab conference "left" and called for disarmame nucical Party had accepted of the tical ideas Yet the right spired overturn borough decision. of organizer Campaign for Socialism in 1961 w Rogers, who the organized bels for the EEC The right wing Party the Labour driven out. are They would king class back days when ployers. The working settle with who still Tavernes bour seats in parlia must be removed ar by other candidates pledged cies. sheer Eric Heffer to been PL recent libera (p. 226). the which as points out is creasingly composition-is pidly the right. LO ralization' consists the right. wing like. "Tribune"' fesses, 100 1966. Socialism 278). remains bune' main danger not 1S coalition and which the right the ting on Heffer writes: trade unions desert Party, that left wou when the consider its not a IS trade unions desert Workers Press, Tuer than three le 1971 conference, to lead his right- Tory the get away with it! remind to of what happened the Labour Party 'moved to the called for unilatera isarmament. The the wing con overturn the Scar- And the the right wing Democrat • 1961 was William years later right-wing re- EEC vote. t wing will destroy Party unless they uld take the wor- 70 years had must the Dick who still hold La in parliament. They moved and replaced who will to socialist poll for chere ha ent liberalization of

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Heffer correctly becoming in- class in ra- moving The libe consists of permit- ght. wing to ao a Heffer con- s too optimistic on was not "Tribune" be- Today, 'Tri- ains silent on but dictatorship right wing is COUl le agenda. ever vrites: If the as desert the Labour would be the time left would have to s position'. of the matter ns deserting the La rass, Tuesday March 27, 1973 PAGE 9 Trade unionists demonstrate against Labour's anti-union bill, 'In Place of Strife.' bour Party but of the right wing severing the links with the unions in order to forge alliance with the Tories an against the working class.

Heffer's book is basically a record of valuable time be- ing wasted when a determined fight should have been waged to defeat the heirs of Ramsay MacDonald and kick them out of the Party. The Socialist Labour League has called for an emergency conference of the Labour tic Party which must put an end to this time-wasting. Such a conference should clear out the Jenkins traitors, mobilize the whole working class to make the Tory gov- ernment resign and adopt socialist policies to dispossess the capitalist class of its power and its property. This task cannot be left to the Labour 'lefts'. Speaking of the Labour Party of MacDonald, Trotsky explained why the right suc- ceeded in defeating the left within the Party, even though were pushing events outside workers to the left: "The extreme right con- tinues to control the party.

This can be explained by the fact that a party cannot con- fine itself to isolated left cam- paigns but is compelled to overall system of have an policy. The "lefts" have no such system, nor by their very essence can they. 'But the rights do: with them stands tradition, experi- ence and routine and, most stands important, with them bourgeois society as a whole' ('Problems of the British Re- volution', New Park Publica- tions, pages 12-13). To defeat the right-wing Labour traitors requires the building of a revolutionary party which will increasingly expose and fight against every single act of treachery. To quote Trotsky again: "If you wish for victory over organi- MacDonaldism. over zed betrayal and over treach- ery elevated into a system, then you must operate not in of the "lefts" but the spirit in the spirit of the Bolsheviks' (op. cit. p. 6).

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5.50 London. 6.00 Day by 6.35 day. Junkin. 7.05 London. 12.10 News. 12.20 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 2.30 House- Crossroads. Report West. 6.15 Report Wales. 6.30 Try for ten. 7.00 Tarbuck. 7.30 Film: "The Hills Run Red'. 9.00 London. 12.10 Looking at. 12.40 Weather.

12.04 News. 2.50 12.05 London. 5.20 Cartoons. 5.35 Wind in London. the willows. 5.50 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Tarbuck. 7.30 Cool million 9.00 London. 12.10 Reflection.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30

London. 2.30 Women. 2.50 London. 5.20 Osmonds.

roads. noon Tarbuddy;30 Cartoon.

Tarbuck. Cartoon. 7.35 9.00 London. 12.10 Ian Phelps reports. Weather.

ULSTER: 11.00 London. 1.32 News.

1.40 Schools. 2.40 Romper room. 2.55 MONDAY CLUB members in north London are preparing a detailed dossier on left- wing groups. They will pass it to the Special Branch if Scotland Yard asks for it.

The dossier is on 'all facets in this area, of subversion ranging from infiltration into the teaching profession of ex- treme left-wingers to the groups of violent anarchists who live here'. The north London club's sec- retary, Mr Richard Devonald- said a special 'counter- Lewis, subversion sub-committee' has been set up 'hard at work col- lecting files and information'.

Speaking at the club's annual meeting Devonald-Lewis said there was much to be done. He said the survey of 'violent an- archists' was 'a terrifying and fascinating exercise to watch this jig-saw puzzle grow and see the interlink between the various groups and the umbrellas of respectability under apparent which they flourish. DOCKERS who experienced police brutality at Neap House Wharf last year will remember that the man in charge of the £70,000 opera- tion Laurence was Byford. He has now been pro- moted to Chief Constable for Lincolnshire, said to be one of the most efficient police forces in the country.

In an interview on Radio Humberside on Sunday, he said the Neap House Wharf was very useful operation because it helped the police develop their tactics or future occasions. It also showed the public that 'mob violence' did not always win, he added. "There are times when the police must be auto- cratic, not democratic, says Sir Laurence. I am not opposed to men going on strike so long as they keep within the law.'

This does not strain his democracy much, since the Tories are doing their best to make strikes illegal. He entirely agreed with proposals of the Criminal Law Commission to abolish the police caution and the right of the accused to silence. WHITE-COLLAR workers staged a sit-in strike for an extra week's holiday at the Dunlop headquarters in Birming- ham yesterday. The workers 1,500 members Gilbert O'Sullivan (lett) guests on Jimn and—at last-David Balley's film profi both on Independent channels tonight.

London. 4.23 News. 4.25 London. 5.20 6.00 Emmerdale farm. 5.50 London. Reports. 7.00 6.35 Crossroads. Tarbuck. 7.30 Columbo. 8.50 Cartoon.

9.00 London.

YORKSHIRE:

9.30 London. 12.25 12.40 2.30 Hammy hamster. 2.45 London. Houseparty. 5.20 Weather. 5.50 London. 6.00 Calendar.

7.00 Tarbuck. 7.30 6.35 Crossroads. Cartoon. 7.35 McCloud. 9.00 London. 12.10 Scales of justice. 12.40 Weather.

GRANADA:

9.30 London. 2.30 Harmony abroad. 2.50 London. 5.15 5.50 London. 6.00 News. Police file. 6.35 ° Smith 7.05 Police • family. I place sufficient importance on this work that I have direc- ted that our papers be kept in an extremely safe place. It is our intention to make information available to the National Club and, should they request it, to Special Branch at Scotland Yard.

Devonald-Lewis's statement ended with the extraordinary statement that Hampstead was a seething hotbed revolu- tionaries. Police in action against Neap House Whar of the clerical unions ASTMS, APEX, and TASS—were follow- ing up a four-week overtime ban at Fort Dunlop. Overtime bans have also been imposed at other plants; belong- s on Jimmy Tarbuck's now programme film profile on Andy Warhol (right), London. 7.35 Film: "The Deadly Dream'. 9.00 London. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Memorable meals.

9.30 London. 12.25 Hammy hamster. five. 5.50 12.40 London. 5.20 Jackson London. 6.00 Today. 6.35 Crossroads.

7.00 Tarbuck. 7.30 7.35 Cartoon. McCloud. 9.00 London. 12.10 News. 12.25 Lectern. 10.58

GRAMPIAN:

London. 12.25 Hammy hamster. 12.40 London. 1.38 Schools. 2.40 News. 2.50 London. 5.20 Emmerdale farm. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.05 Country focus. 6.35 Cross- Cartoon. 7.35 McCloud. 9.00 London. 12.10 Tarbuck. 7.35 Meditation. This will come as something of a surprise to the well-heeled trendies, Fleet Street editors, academics and New armchair Statesman' contributors who in- habit this luxurious neck of the woods. 'It is regrettable but true,' he 'that area contains said, this more than its fair share of sub- versive groups and it came as no surprise to us that the majority of the defendants in the recent anarchist trial were locals.' (Un- true.) The meeting also heard some astonishing comments from club president, Mr Victor Montague. He attacked those in the club a 'slide towards who preferred concensus. 'It is a hopeless doc- trine, he said. What Conservatives led by the Monday Club must assert is that if a certain type of govern- ment does not foster the cause life on of the individual's this planet as the individual believes he is brought here by God to to live it, then that type of gov- ernment will be swept away, by votes if possible, by revolution ultimately and inevitably.'(!)

use Whart pickets. ing to the company, which has refused the claim for a fifth week. Yesterday's 24-hour action at Birmingham may now be echoed at some of these other plants.

Narrow ACTT vote to lift black on Boultings Danger stage at Shepperton studio Workers Press, Tues

THE

FIGHT for Shep- be placed in would not position where hey had to perton film studios has Dusiness

O.TV

studio which could then entered its most make terms which were not dangerous stage. ululieieidl. In the face of these offers At the where point and attacks from Vavasseur asset-stripper John Bentley and the Boultings on rridav. looked set to scuttle him- Malca meeling i The self the rocks of

ACTT

executive, which has on led the fight workers' opposition to his Shepperton, plans, J. H. Vavasseur Ltd a eso lon offering to lift the black.

moved in. It added the proviso that Company have Oneras the told representatives Boultings onleppel- that consideration for they are

TON

HIST

piclaicu any future films. wait 'a vear or so' to realize return on their newly- The wrangle continues. acquired assets at Shepper- The Boultings are reluctant to give any guarantees what- LUlL, ever and the Simultaneously the Boult- executive con- who were the 109 brothers Lifluc. Insist major owners in the old proviso. British Lion, have announced Both the unions and the Ley wii make new workforce al c 'Soft Beds, Hard Battles', at that the Boultings will make the studios. further films at Shepperton 'Soft Beds' Hard Battles'. Witch-hunt disagree- the pcsenl ment is solved the Boultings Vavasseur has will be free Tenoved make ns immediate threat of please and wierever tney studio and the with labour from any Boultings offering alc LIt source. orOspecI WOlK aceled extra sugar to the pill, with out even t Tev ove ł*e the hint of yet more films ACTT the promise it wants, giving If in a year's time-Vavas- Shepperton first con- in the pipeline. John Boulting of the Boulting Bro- seur's deadline-it sideration lalls tar short thers 'Soft But before the Boultings team which make Is lO guarantee that cast-iron Chat There ilttie make a start on 'Soft Beds Beds, Hard Battles' at Shepperton. more films will be made. new film Hard Battles' they want the the studio and work- They are not bound in any way to lift black im- unius the depleted. use studio for any future work,

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posed on them last summer.

Deadline workers fear the new owners especially since the film union ACTT Shepperton workers backed lifted its black on any move.

three unions-ACTT original implement In the combination of the and FFU-imposed plan for carving up time Deney given extenson Shepperton. une biack last huzust tobe Vavasseur and the lifting of vent any of the British Lion the black Boulting Under it 60 on prime acres directors, inçluding the Brothers' building hims. workers are to be sold for Boultings, making films see ally- danger — that their development and the new where but at Shepperton. numbers will reduced studio stages, workshops Boultings and their LaST week _the and cutting rooms drastic- their threat munce. aly tuncaled. to make Among the magnates and black unless was SITed bankers of the film industry with vicious anti-'reds' campaign. ovinion bees held that Shepperton should Boulting John accused be closed and work Three weeks ago concen- a mass 'little Cabal

O HUNSE

trated Pinewood- meting of the studio wor-

VICW

who are ideologically moti- by Lord formally rejected the recenuy nererated kers vated' of preventing the

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

Rank. Bentley deal-including black being lifted. offer of 50 per the the Boultings starve cent of He and his brother would shares in the new company.

photo. of ILFORD Limited, the Shepperton films, not accept any qualincation 380 workers Vavasseur a third of the are almost to their position as •free graphic equipment firm, has an- might accept offers of per- certainly counting on how producers in a free society' manent already much this rejection will be employment nounced shock plans to close down He claimed the people made from Pinewood being

WUILII

yeal S no-work pay possibly under very different

WHO•UL

up money rolsiars Uters part of its Essex plant. did so for a 'programme' and could drift away. circumstances. A company spokesman said the 1975 that closure date would not mean 'mass redun- dancies' among its 800 Ilford workers. There is alternative work at their Brentwood and Basildon sites, he said. 'Some reduction the tota number employed is expected, he added. The

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

company has been estab- lished in the town of Ilford for more than 90 years. Ilford Limi- THE COUNCIL of Ministers steady flow of Stalinists to tascist and Madrid dent of the Soviet firm hastres DesT ted Altred was louneed Spain. presided over by General who started making Harman export, Borontsov, arrived glass photographic plates at his un suncay the omeia bukerın of state published the final rati- Madrid. Franco decided at the week- Cranbrook Road. 1U11c 111 He is to attend the inaugura.

end to increase the minimum atalium olta mrlarl ll ilduc Now lou production workers.

and the Alcala 70 125 research berween Sovler tion of a new factory in ex- wage by 30 pesetas to 186 Union, signed by Franco in Feb- perts, de Henares devoted to bulding sales and marketing pre-fabricated houses. is 1 ual y. starl. yance workers anc pesetas a day. Soviet 150 other administrative Two of the basic points in the equipped entirely with em- ployees work there protocol are: This maxi- macminery. minimum-the General and ureet. mum for many workers-will Borontsov and his entourage • The Dor he use ot dedes Municipal Workers' Union shop will then of bureaucrats be paid as trom April 1 and delega- steward, said it necessary was too cally works out at a weekly wage of Barcelona for talks with Catalan will have diplomatic the

LIOTS

commenu Tiincowi. employers and will the Berga isit £7 for the basic 48 hours.

munity. meting of his members will be •Carbones de mines held tomorrow discuss the The members respective shortly to be fitted with Russian cosure untedl round of propaganda delegations will enjoy freedom machinery. in praise the but une eledı SoC ai pusucel • los muveucul counlly. In O1 Tuski, retnaica Post sterice measure which will convince no Will not be able to carry out any Worker it will or professional busi- though commercial worker, attract been Lesson. orders

OLACC

ness tor personal gain even more unvesument onsur- be built in the severd SIDs Io LT0 ope and the United States.

As Franco himself sealed the yards where police have clashed It will certainly not deter the rapprochement, between Moscow violently, with strikers.

ress, Tuesday March 27, 1973 PAGE 11

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain Middleton (nr Manchester) 4 p.m. Sundays: April 1 and 8 Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution In Britain: 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the contra- dictions of capitalism. Britain 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: Perspectives for transforming 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. DUNDEE: Tuesday March 27, 7.30 p.m. YMCA, Constitution Road. LEICESTER: Wednesday, March 28, 8 p.m. Pineapple, St Mar- garet's bus station. LINCOLN: Thursday, March 29, 8 p.m. Albion Hotel, St Mary Street. Socialist Labour League

PUBLIC MEETINGS

The Road to Workers' Power Build the revolutionary party

SALFORD

Wednesday March 28, 8 p.m.

The Angel, Chapel Street.

ATUA

Central London branch Censorship, the media and the Tory government. Chairman : Royston Bull Speakers: Stuart Hood, David Maude and other speakers from Fleet Street and ITV to be an- nounced. London Film School, Langley St., Covent Garden. Sunday April 1, 7 p.m. North London Council of Action Don't Let Hospital Workers, Teachers, Railwaymen, Gasmen, Fight Alone! Force the TUC to call a General Strikel Make the Tory Government Resign!

DEMONSTRATE!

SATURDAY MARCH 31

Assemble: 2pm Civic Centre, Wood Green March through Wood Green 01-720 2000 01-622 7029

Provos put out a feeler SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday March 27, 1973 rebuff DESPITE a categoric to Whitelaw a few days ago it now appears that some of the big fish of the Provisional IRA are preparing to on the Provisional nibble the bait contained in the White annulled when Paper. (1956) is repealed unc proposals but, at the This is what emerges from an interview envisage not an given to Press Association staff reporter, of the cause John Shaw by David O'Connell, leader of attitude. the Provisional Sinn Fein, in Monaghan Thus in view of th on Sunday night. he said: 'All Mr O'Connell. who has been associated this war would be en 'political action' with the of the IRA had no option wing the IRA would be IRA, made it clear military campaign. prepared to conclude a temporary bilateral O'Connell, activity by asserted that truce if the ban on political police, British Provisional Sinn Fein is lifted.

the army altered the flow of a Such a truce would have to be accom- to the IRA. panied by 'cast-iron Truce guarantees'. They had bought terms would have to be in writing and quarters and volunte effective liaison system • should exist an trained to use rock flashpoint to investigate areas such as would soon be used Lenadoon Estate, cause of the truce contrast to his In breakdown last July. conditions of a But for cessation of any permanent reserved Sxtre MacStiotain wi extremely hostilities British would the government have to (a) grant the right of self-deter- leased from mination to the Irish people; (b) set a date of a continuation for withdrawal of troops the eventual The Provo and (c) declare a general amnesty for that MacStiofain wo political prisoners in the North.

the Republican Mr O'Connell indicated that the ban any prisoner who ST JAMES'S Hospital, South Following a mid-morning mass meeting, porters, can- London, was hit by a two- teen staff, technicians and hour strike reinstatement domestics walked out and yesterday. massed at the main gate de- Ancillary workers just re- manding that the worker turned from a fortnight- involved, Helen Rose, be de- long stoppage over pay given her job back. feated the apparent victim- ization of a young trade Helen, formerly a student unionist. nurse, had transferred to the nothing on The its own.

FROM PAGE ONE

Tory government must be removed. Every reformists, the Stalinists in trade Communist Party and unionist knows this. the the centrist groups like the But it can only be re- International Socialists, seek moved by a General Strike this desperately to keep of indefinite length, as joe stark reality from the work- Gormley miners' leader has ing class. already stated.

LINE-UP

Such action is long over- The Tory government due. behind will provoke massive in- They all line up dustrial conflict anyway.

the politics of protest the being biggest event all The only question to be General Strike one-day the asked is, are the working on May Day. anticipate this by class to This strike will solve organizing their own cam- Provisional not to unify policy

COMMENT BY MICHAEL BANDA

Ireland but to perpetuate the division reactionary Loyalist through the creation nine- oI a ICauCis countv Provisional Assemblv. That is why prison'. This is phrase Sinn may curious O'Connell remained equivocal the view of is no Special Act owers whether Provisionals

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question Paper prisoner but a well sealed under the White Republican Whitelaw's •rollary

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Cancludie 1U1 at the same he did known Provisional tallic, Northern Ireland Assembly elections. immediate be- 'One does not discuss personalities, one truce To make commitment before the the situation,' governments Malu Callul ally and rules were only comment O'Connell would make.

11C known would be unrealistic was O'Con- present situation, denied split in the movement and nell's position. that 'truce' periodically welcome insisted that was would connell's rerusal condemn enced. unoer examination. Assembly continuation direct as option but to continue its The bankruptcy policy ot kenin ican tantamount in relation Protestants

TUIC

a flew acceptance Whitelaw's the Irish he suggested is wanted by continued Loyalists amination. Basic- haus thatune were had not own desire for self-determination. open the door must. sooner or laler. whole struggle has been on the further capitulations and and ally this widen The ot arms rift inside the

IRA.

No matter how much of seit-determination. assue Provisional leaders denounce the bought from Nothing could from arms many be lurtner tne LilC had The Loyalists volunteers now seen truth. grave danger of per- 1921, they are in which determination- another petuating used against the British. 'about the They want the protection of the Crown, There can be "truce with british they the border poll imperialism. Until the British troops have was that's why voted In and Ireland tor been forced and imper- muture ulty will Souli Icave who will soon be re- the British connection. been buried Comoted known to favour The Loyalists efforts of British and Irish workers-the and is middle-class only because struggle must armed suruzzic.

WULKCIS

laconically remarked Republicans Republicanism- the heroism- have Oner -despite would back to from a corrupt Vatican-dominated cannot do Only a revolutionary this. not unlike that which exists in the Marxist party based on the Irish working 'the Yeas been discharged South. class can.

HOSPITAL

MARCH FUND

WORKERS

domestic during stan

IN FIVE DAYS

strike. The hospital management claimed ventertal IT must be an all-out, last- that she had been taken on

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

spurt to a domestic complete our super- minute outside A MASS meeting of ancillary workers fund. We know that you, authority. readers, will do everything you at St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, But after a meeting with can but there is not a moment strike committee they to waste. Our target is £1,750 The Paddington, voted overwhelmingly yes- were forced to agree to her and we have five days left.

terday to continue their all-out strike.

relocalcielle It is at this time that Workers But another meeting will be held at 6 Press most important. to confirm whether the 300 today showdown with the Tory govern to avoid a dolll. showdown workers will stay out until Friday.

ment. the miners start NUPE branch secretary, Mr Don Stead- Wallen rade for strike action, man, one of the two men arrested last week, paign of political and in- union movement where said after the meeting: must come to their support.

government to resign? 'We've got to the point now where the inion leaders must call everybody out.

Workers Press and the paper is more than vital Socialist Labour League have Commenting on yesterday's talks betweer used to build a revolutionar always answered YES to this Tory leader Heath and TUC general secre- readersnip Inrougnout ine work- question. Feather, he told tarv. Victor i don't ing class. A confrontation with lic. expect anything at all from the talks. Nothing the Tory government cannot be

SHOWDOWN

will happen until all hospitals take action avoided. Lopener. Keep Workers Press right out There is no way out for St Mary's ancillary workers were in a mili- the working class. vote in ront. Do everyming possibie, tant mood yesterdav and during therefore, before this weekend to They either fight the de- complete our It is a tough until we have won" showdown Tory Cisive 011 fight. Let's make

NUPE

steward Mr Dennis Molloney said Sure terms or fight it on terms your donations Imme- most favourable to the he thought today's meeting would vote to diately to: continue the strike indefinitely.

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