Workers Press no. 1034

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UNION CHIEFS STALLING ON ANY ACTION

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MARCH 29, 1973 • No 1034 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TORY

BY ROYSTON BULL

THE TUC is shamefully manoeuvring to head off the strike movement against the Tory pay laws. It is confusing and demoralizing individual unions so that they eventually take their wage applications to the corporatist Pay Board.

DICTATES

By continuing their dialogue with Edward Heath at Downing Street this National week and the Economic at Vic- Development Council next week, tor Feather and his collaborators are trying to prevent the trade union move- ment from identifying the Tory govern- the enemy that must be ment as defeated. Feather and the hospital workers' leaders that they wasting knew davance

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become- break off all talks with must the mobilize the Tories and employers and the General Strike to force the government's resignation. On the other hand, Jones and Feather have leadership pretend to give struggles wage workers againsi state Con trols, as demanded by the March 5 special Congress, all the 5. aiming fight things the and ІГОП coming a decisive one. leaders have been week Committe Purposes Finance and I he action in support of the hospital meeting next to discuss stalling ever bargaining General Committee Since groups which what to do workers ane Omer by twice, and the General Council.

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workers press

UNION CHIEFS STALLING ON ANY ACTION

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MARCH 29, 1973 • No 1034 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TORY

BY ROYSTON BULL

THE TUC is shamefully manoeuvring to head off the strike movement against the lory pay laws. It is confusing and demoralizing individual unions so that they eventually take their wage applications to the corporatist Pay Board.

DICTATES

By continuing their dialogue with Edward Heath at Downing Street this National week and at Economic the Vic- Development Council next week, tor Feather and his collaborators are trying to prevent the trade union move- ment from identifying the Tory govern- the that must be ment defeated. Feather and the hospital workers' leaders they knew that were wasting auvalle Heath their time asking

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public inquiry into ancillary staffs' claim. Iohn Transport General Norkers Cousins, and I don't know sale alterwards. wily we came.' Feather the Tory strategy Know tast holding back workers' wages until be inflation blows itself out would under- mined if Heath allowed any special cases.

weather aco knows that tae onv way now to avoid severe and increasing cuts in the of living is to get working class standard out of oiice mus cover merr Jones Transport and union Chlet Feather have set themselves firmly against any such course of political action.

Hence the need to the strike move-

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ment quickly exhausted and called on as as is decently possible. Their hand, Cabines Ministers tactics one to tne naked threats crush Tory trade UnIon resistance to _The economic demands. By pretending not to notice these arrogant

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they 10UC class will ignore them too.

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must become- break off all talks with Tories the and mobilize and employers the General Strike to force the government's resignation. On the other hand, Jones es and Feather have pretend leadership to give struggles workers drainst slate ware COn- trols, as demanded the special March > Congress, while all the time to spin out prevent the be. things hght allu 11UI1 coming a decisive one. TUC leaders have been week to discuss Committee. the Finance and action in support of the hospital meeting next stalling ever bargaining General Purposes what to do. Committer wages made illegal by they were instructed to co- twice and the General Council.

101 Was This procrastination is nothing government decree ordinate by Congress. produced but deliberate fraud on ine beet November working class. is the circular to trades coun- for sue cils asking for demonstrations • Th Congres delayed calling the calling Since March 5 decision, tactic yet the special until March of the hospita special the

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nated Trade Council of for them govern- Africa send delega- outh 'to Hall lu there assess the TUCSA is technically not 'all- Board the Pay • They blocked moves for a tion' of the African workers. white' because has Indian and see any extra crumbs can be General strike ones. multi- 'coloured" bespite us cams tO be offered. Scanlon for one-day of racial, TUCSA has several times covs e ee on The working class not protest and to exclude black The Ter South Africa will 'promote the must voted development bodies misled. Any has today. The represen- he worewnue They put off calling even that HUnC future depends on taking up the the views African of of pitain supposed feeble protest until May I.

of Tory challenge the govern- broken off relations with all- workers and acting on their be but retains its half matters of wages and hehung have delayed for four white unions, ment Iney employment. basic rights. links with TUCSA. weeks taking any industrial

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IT WAS a great post yester- day of £212.46 bringing our total up 10. £1,146.60. But don't sit back now—we have £603.40 still to collect in only three more days. Keep up the pace and we know you will do it. More than ever the trade union leadership plays com- pletely into the hands of the Tories. Workers Press must be used to build a revolutionary leadership to defend the basic rights of the working class.

The centre of this is the struggle to transform the So- cialist Labour League into the revolutionary party. So we can't waste any time in the campaign to complete our March Fund. Rush all last-minute donations imme- diately to: Workers Press March Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG Hundreds of building workers demonstrated outside parliament mark the intro- yesterday to duction of Eric Heffer's Private Members' Bill lo outlaw the lump, labour-only sub-contract- ing in the building and construs- industry. An estimated tion 300,000 men avoid union mem- bership and evade tax payments employers by this means, and get cut-price labour. St Thomas' strikers claim alternative labour is paid more-p.3

Communiqué demonstrates Ministers' impotence Pious money wishes in PAGE 2 Workars Press, Thuraday March 28, 1973 WHENEVER the Stalinists see the opportunity to lie against Trotskyists, they seize it they said: 'To argue against it [the TUC's one-day strike call for May l], as some on the right and the ultra- left do, on the ground that by itself a one-day strike would not change government some of the phrases used may sound.'

By 'ultra-left', they mean, of course, the Socialist Labour League. But it is a deliberate lie to say that we have 'argued against' the May Day strike and 'justified inaction'. On the contrary, we have called on all trade unionists to support the strike-but we have warned that it is totally inadequate. Reporting the TUC's special Congress of March 5, we said it 'proposed no action which is capable of defeating the Tory government and its cor- "one The resolution for poratist state pay laws. day of national protest" carried by the Congress is too little, too late. It will not have the slightest the Tory government.' impact on The one-day strike call was a 'left' cover, erected by the Stalinists and their friends, to permit the Congress to accept Victor Feather's right- wing policy document. The May I strike will be a similar 'left' cover for the TUC leaders' total capitulation to Heath's corporatist plans.

The action will take place under circumstances in which the gas men have been sold out, the hos- pital ancillary workers left to fight on their own, and the miners will have balloted on strike action in isolation from the rest of the working class. his Behind the 'Star's' 'left' talk, Feather and friends are manoeuvring to accept places on the boards. Under these con- Tories' state pay 'Star' claims, ditions May 1 will not be, as the a demonstration of workers' confidence and but a cover for the most abject be- strength, trayal. Neither the Stalinists nor their friends in the TUC intend May I to be followed by "further action'. contrary they intend it to be a sub- On the action to bring down the Tory stitute for real That is why they have stubbornly government. resisted the calls for the only action which can government—all-out the Tory bring down indefinite General Strike.

the March 5 That was the call raised outside This lobby, with its TUC by 1,500 lobbyers. persistent chants of 'General Strike! Tories Out!'

was played down by both the Fleet Street Press 'Morning Star. The Stalinist paper and reported only calls for 'a strong stand'.

The so-called Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which is led by the Stalinists and supported by the revisionist groups, deli- berately refused to mobilize any forces for the March 5 lobby, which was almost entirely orga- nized by the All Trades Unions Alliance, the industrial arm of the Socialist Labour League The Stalinists not only 'justified inaction', but deli- berately resorted to inaction. They knew that to bring out their supporters on that day would calls for a General have exposed them to the Strike to which they would have no answer.

They therefore kept them away.

The Liaison Committee has persistently refused to fight for a General Strike to bring down the Tory government. Inside the TUC the Stalinists up the General and their 'left' friends prop Council, while outside the Liaison Committee seeks to head off into safe channels the grow- ing dissatisfaction with the TUC leaders.

the right the Stalinists voted with In September, wing for continued discussions between the TUC leaders and Tory premier Edward Heath.

That is why the Liaison Committee's conference this weekend will be an even bigger fraud than the TUC's March 5 Congress.

There is only one way to defeat Heath's corpor- atist plans. That is to compel the union leaders to call an all-out, indefinite General Strike to create the political and industrial conditions for forcing the Tory government to resign.

representative in The Communist Party is Britain of the counter-revolutionary bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. Acting the Stalinist on theory of peaceful co-existence and the parlia- mentary road to socialism, it seeks to sell out and defeat the revolutionary aspirations of the oppressed masses everywhere.

Its support for a one-day strike, therefore, is not in order to prepare for a real fight against the Tories, but a conscious step to assist the right- wing and 'left' trade union leaders who want to dissipate the strength of the working class in isolated, piecemeal actions and futile one-day protest strikes, as they did during their fake campaign against the Industrial Relations Bill.

With the TUC leaders intensifying their collabora- tion with the Tories' corporatist plans, May 1 will not only be the biggest inadequacy, but the biggest betrayal yet in the fight against Heath's government. of course, Socialist Labour League members will, support the strike. But will fight harder they than ever to put an end to protests and win support for real General Strike action to defeat the Tory government and its allies in the work- ers' ranks. THE MEETING of the 20 Group of Finance Ministers and officials in Washington earlier this week failed to produce a single positive proposal for the 'reform' of the system. The meeting's final communique is nothing more than a collection of pious wishes which sim- the impo- ply confirms tence and helplessness of the capitalists faced with the collapse of their mone- tary system.

'USEFUL'

The Finance Ministers said they would prefer to see a system of fixed but adjustable parities, but that floating ex- the current change rates 'could provide a useful technique in certain circumstances' They looked forward to the achievement of a sys- Numeiry with the Queen on Tues ITALIAN premier Guilio And harsh attack on the Italian Soc for a centre-left coalit calling 'stabilty' to Italy. In a speech the Italian Socialist Party as defends the extra-parliamentary He warned that without a 'progressive recovery of confidence in the Christian Democrats, there would be a dangerous wave of emotional enthusiasm to- wards the national right.

sin of the The greatest Socialist Party is 'the pro- vocative socialist initiative to make abortion legal'. The unlikely 'red' spectre 'pale pink' Italian of the Socialist Party, which fully collaborates with the institu- tions of the EEC, is raised by Andreotti, to divert attention from the deep political crisis in Italy.

FASCISTS

week, the For over a in the fascist movement southern town of Reggio Calabria has organized strikes and demonstrations.

'Ciccio' On Monday, Franco, a fascist deputy and exponent of the corporatist union, Cisnal, called on the Reggio citizens to take the solution of unemployment and poverty into their own hands. A mass meeting of 4,000 applauded the spokesman of and the National Right, leader of Reggio Action Committee and proceeded to establish barricades in the streets. IN ROME, the scandal of the bugging devices reached a new stage with the pub- the United States announced tem which would (naturally) a substantial rise in its trade the growth encourage deficit which rose to $476m world trade, employment in February compared with and development economic $303m the the domestic in previous and support efforts of monetary authori- month. world ties throughout the to counteract inflation'.

MOCKERY

DEFICIT

Though US in- exports increased creased imports faster, the Commerce They also wished for: even Washington better Department in adjustment process countries' for balance of said. The US is pushing payments surpluses and de- now Trade Bill, international ahead with the ficits; better liquidity management based which is a prime example 'paper gold' issued of the use of trade controls the on

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an intensive for balance-of-payments by the study' of capital movements; purposes. Talk of an increased role use of trade controls less for special drawing rights is for balance of payments mockery while the price purposes. This list of platitudes was of the metal itself con- released tinues the upward trend. the day same as PRESIDENT Numelry of the visiting Stal- Sudan will be Rumania shortly after inist | finishes official visit he his Britain. to On his visit to four-day will Bucharest he discuss issues Important economic and development projects within the framework of an concluded agreement last year. firing squads Numelry's cut down the leaders of the Sudanese Communist but the 1971, Rumanian Stalinists are not n on Tuesday. has launched a ilio Andreotti alian Social-Democrats who are eft coalition to bring political speech in Rome, he described arty as the 'only party which amentary left'. lication of article in an 'Il Manifesto' claiming that a former Finance Minister, Luigi Preti, was responsible editorial for bugging the offices of the Socialist Party 'Avanti'. newspaper, Functionaries the at Ministry of the Interior have also been accused of buying up large supplies of bugging devices. The Ministry is doing its best protect the to private detectives who being are held on spy charges and gloss the involvement over of the National Right in these spying operations. Private detective Tom Ponzi medical is receiving attention in the San Carlo di Arona clinic for problems caused by his 'weak' heart.

In Milan 12 employees of the telephone series Rome authorities have service have been arrested. mounted a radar system on Also on trial will be Walter of the Palace of the roof Benefiorti, an ex - police Justice that can Identity chief. devices within bugging This radius of mile. Andreotti's claim that he showy exercise cost lens of "democratic' is for path against these activities of the millions of lire. right, looked extremely thin The engineering workers when a few hours after his by the speech, embracing have deen divided he was Hector Campora, the Peron- of their leaders in decision ist president-elect in Argen- the state sector to accept employers' tina and idol of the Italian the offer and leave private sector workers fascist movement. to fight it out alone. The Italian CP has weak- The token fight outlined ened the working class very hours' strike dangerously in the face of is at least 30 between April 1 and 21. this conspiracy. The gold price is around the $90 an ounce mark and bullion dealers dently predicting it will soon top the $100 level. This situation is throw- ing an intolerable strain on and world the economy signs that a crash is immi- nent are multiplying daily.

The Hong Kong stock ex- change index collapsed this month from over 1,700 to 1,200, shaking the financial pundits and casting doubt security of British on the capital in the Far East.

NAKED

"The Times', commenting on the position of the giant financial conglomerate Slater Walker, warned: "The risk ... is in SW's heavy over- commitments seas and particularly in the Far East where a more naked form of capitalism massive profits— permits massive and letting the massacre stand In their way. They have already agreed to lend the rightist, anti- Palestinian regime {25m for development. And they will be discussing other loans with the Sudan President.

The Sudanese want Ru- manian aid for a £100m river transport scheme, oll exploration plans, and in.

dustrialization of the timber, mining, tanning cement and industries. textile They will also be discuss.

Ing a joint scheme to fatten cattle for export. SOME 500 African work- at a giant aluminium ers plant at Richard's Bay on Africa's east coast South have defied a management their end ultimatum to face three-day strike or dismissal. Management at the plant said that the Zulu workers would be instantly dismis- sed if they failed to report for work and accept a £1.20 a week increase. By mid-morning yester- day none of the strikers had appeared nor had there been any dismissals. White scabs are manning the plant. The strikers are insisting Barney Dladia, Min- that ister for Community Affairs in the Kwazulu 'homeland' government, be brought into the dispute. He has mediated in other Zulu strikes in recent weeks.

THE INQUIRY into the Wankie mining disaster in Rhodesia which killed over 400 miners last June has severely criticized the col- liery management and the government inspectors. Methane gas in the mine had become ignited and had caused a coal dust explo- sion. There had been other contraventions of safety measures by the mine man- agement.

St Thomas strikers' jobs offered at higher pay Make everybody work harder says CBI chief ROBERT CARR, the Home Secretary, will meet a deputation of Tory MPs sponsoring a 'Bring Back the Rope' campaign next Tuesday.

The backbench Tories will be pressing Carr to allow the reintroduction of a Bill in favour of capital punishment. Forty • Tories have formed a committee to plan a campaign to have the rope brought back.

Mr Carol Mather, MP for Esher, who presided at the first meeting on Tuesday, said there was "a concern at the rising tide of violence, the increase in murder and man- 'Emergency' slaughter killings and the sharp rise in crimes gallows kept involving the use of fire- arms' Mather added: 'The the standing army and deputation the arming of the police, intends to but also sweeping judi- point out to the Home cial powers. Secretary that law and is a government Above all, this means order responsibility that that the gallows must and legislative action be should brought into use by him again. be taken and is a known fact his Cabinet colleagues It and that if this is not that when the free vote possible, time should be in parliament ended given Private capital punishment in a Membèr's Bill.' all 1969, gallows were This reactionary move destroyed. All except by backbench Tories is one. Workers Press has tied up with the rapidly been told that there is worsening economic dismantled, but situation. one The Tories want all preserved set of gallows the legal paraphernalia at Pentonville. They kept for attack the working to were class in the most brutal 'any emergency', prison officer was told way. They need not only an The Home Office has increase in the size of refused to comment. CARR ... Pressed for new hanging Bill ABOUT 380 workers at the Deloro Stellite factory enter the sixth day of in Swindon, Wilts, today The men clock in at 8 a.m. each day their sit-in. and leave at 5 o'clock, but they do no work. They are protesting against the management's handling of their pay review. The manual workers, who make small tools and surgical equipment, were originally offered the fl plus 4 per cent state pay limit. Later there were some small concessions given on other increments.

But what angered the work force was the fact that foremen were offered £2.64, which was above immediatelv began the Phase Two ceiling. They their industrial action to get the same increase as foremen. THE HEAD of Bri- tain's most powerful employers' organiza- tion yesterday called firms to exact on dramatic increases in individual producti- vity from every single worker. His call came 48 hours after publication of the government's White Paper on the operation of its Phase Two state pay controls. This puts direct econo- mic pressure on em- ployers to force up their rate of exploitation.

BLAME

In a speech to the Foreign Press Association, Michael Clapham, president of the Confederation of British In- dustry, attempted to pin inflation the blame for squarely on the working class. But he did so in a way which reveals that the em- ployers' main worry is that their traditional weapons against wages militancy- cuts in real living standards and the creation of a pool of jobless—are just not working. Said the CBI president: 'It has been an inflation led by wages and salaries at a time when the classical economic rules say that it should not have occurred: namely at a time when the economy has been stagnant and unemployment has been high.'

CAPACITY

Clapham claimed that the was some spare fact there capacity in the economy meant that the Tories had perhaps a year to solve the inflationary problem. "that', 'After he told his lunchtime audience, 'I am that im- inclined to think ports will start flowing in at a dangerous rate to supply demand for which we lack the capacity unless -and it is a big unless- we can raise dramatically the level of output per man.' The real 'English disease'

BY DAVID MAUDE

OUR LABOUR

CORRESPONDENT

the last 20 years had over been a low level of produc- tivity compared with com- the petitors in of rest Europe, North America and Japan. British industry had less capital at the disposal of each man employed than its The CBl's main competitors. Unless this was put right 'we risk becoming the pea- sants of the western world'.

Clapham, who beside his

CBI

holds the chair- post manship of chemical giant ICI, was at some pains to explain the historical diffi- culties of British capitalism.

He attacked those aspects of the Tories' Phase Two code which limited profits.

'Sloppy thinking about the role of profits, as we see from the White Paper on the operation of Stage Two of the counter-inflation policy, infects Conservative as well as Labour govern- ments.'

LOGIC

Such thinking he des- cribed, in the most omi- nous and reactionary terms.

as a cultural defeat, a • weakness in national logic'.

The CBI president went to hope that Phase on Three of the pay laws would be voluntary, and that em- ployers and employed could work together under it. •No doubt most of his journalistic audience will in- terpret this as a conciliatory gesture, and this is the im- they will try to pression foist on the workers' move.

ment. In fact the opposite is the case-which again demon. strates the treacherous nature of the TUC's colla- boration policies. HOME buyers will be pay- ing at least 10 per cent on their mortgages as building societies leap-frog each other in a bid to attract funds.

Mr lan Russell, a director of Anthony Gibbs (Mortgage Services) Ltd has predicted.

Leap-frogging was already evident with major, societies, such as the Leek and West- raising their in. bourne, terest to investors rate to 6.5 per cent. Workers Press, Thursday March 29, 1973 PAGE 3* STRIKING electricians at the St Thomas' Hospital site in south London, who are demanding {1 an hour, believe that alternative is being labour pald £1.15 an hour In a bid to break their Industrial action. Their information comes from men who left the site after being run across the picket line in two special, police - type heavy coaches owned by main con- tractors Laing's. According to these men, some of whom had been attracted from far as as Liverpool away by the promise of high earnings, electricians working on the site have been guaranteed up to 45 hours' overtime. This would mean pay of £100 a week. One factor helping the elec- tricians' employers, Phoenix Lid, in their search for other labour is electrician the attitude of the union leadership, which has refused official back- ing. But judging from the numbers of men in the which coaches break the picket, the employers having are nevertheless only limited success very in their search. Some of the 16 to 25 who go in each day apparently are managers. A national picket of the St Thomas' Hospital site has been called for April 6 at 7.30 a.m.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday March 29, 1973 For the third time in four years BSA workers face possible mass redundancy. This time, however, the jobs of all 6,000 The £25m motorcycle and remaining workers are at stake.

engineering group —heavily run down since its heyday in the 1950s-—threatens to founder altogether on the twin rocks of Japanese competition and US protectionism. The government has launched a half-hearted bid to save the company. But the Tories have undertaken to finance a £4.8m with which the merger with Norton Villiers, under Manganese Bronze chair- man Dennis Poore, can only temporarily stave off the crisis.

And Manganese Bronze in any event has already indicated that either way redundancies are inevitable. At BSA the real villian of the piece is capitalism—British capitalism in its most outmoded, parasite form. Here Andrew Lawrence examines the background to the jobs threat and explains why defence of the right to work at BSA is inseparable from the fight to force the Tory government out of office.

sales doubled from 22,000 "The Minister has made it 44,000. Yamaha 650/750cc clear that any assistance shot up from 3,000 to sales given would be to secure 20.000. Norton a healthy industry in Bri- Villiers, which had been resurrected from the tain rather than to main- bankrupt Associated Motor- tain any particular level Manganese Bronze cycles by of employment? This Holdings, did slightly better than BSA, but the firm admits from Manga- statement that it was riding the wave nese Bronze, owners of off by enthusiasm for set Japanese bikes. the company with which Now the British motorcycle BSA is to merge, makes firms are to be merged into clear that the very last Norton Villiers Triumph but the British industry still lacks thing the merger is de- the resources to keep up with technical innovations, such capitalist terms, and multiple rotary engines course, an industry is 'healthy' rapidly cylinders, now being so long as it makes profit.

developed by the Japanese.

which lost £8.2m in

BSA,

It is not those responsible 1970-1971 the financial year for BSA's appalling perform- and £3.3m in 1971-1972, does ance who will be made to pay not qualify. The 'particular for its crisis, however, but the level of employment' to be BSA workers themselves. after this year's maintained Already, over the last four predicted losses-already by almost 4,000 have lost years, chairman Lord Shawcross to their jobs-more than 500 in 'very substantial'-is any- be 1969 and 3,000 plus following body's guess. the big of 1971. The losses No doubt major surgery will story behind these sackings is be attempted by Manganese one of capitalist price anarchy, Bronze. trade war and straight, ordi- the patient, the Whether nary mismanagement. sick of the motor-cycle man The 1969 job cuts, which industry, will survive is ques- occurred August, formed in tionable. to the An answer part of an attempt to ration- can only be attemp- question alize production because of an ted if we look at the situation expected drop in sales on the in which the British industry key American market. finds itself today. In fact BSA's market fore- The industry faces ever- casts proved disastrously whelming competition from wrong. Japanese rivals who have its Instead of shrinking, Ameri- modern plants, the strongest demand expanded BSA's can key dealer network in the American dealers ran short of market and what American and supply because of the Times' calls a the 'Financial rationalization the company 'disciplined' labour force.

lost ground. By the plant, contrast and equipment, model range of the marketing resources British industry have all been allowed to run down since its hey-day in the early 1950s.

Meanwhile the home market swamped After BSA's disastrous was also being by 1970-1971 losses, its top man- low-powered Japanese cheap, agement drastically machines-forcing the diver- was changed. Lord Shawcross, sion of more and more re- former Labour Attorney- a bid to claw sources into drafted in General, was as back in the United States and Canada. chairman. The following year turnover

BSA

exported 85 to 90 per declined from £27m to £22m cent of its total production to while exports fell from £20m the States with the intention to flm and the position has of taking up the slack from deteriorated markedly the home market. since then. It even brought out a new when Last the 32-model (50cc-750cc) autumn, range should have been company which was aimed specifically manufacturing at peak levels at this new market. However demand trading results failed to match to meet American

BSA

failed this spring, to technical achievements. meet its production targets of production of As soon as Triumph motor-cycles. these machines started new 'There have problems been there were teething problems, transportation troubles and a in the production of the nev of 'ange of Triumphs', Shawcross component-supplier series 'For this, on be- strikes. announced. half of management, I must This produced cut-back accept responsibility. on the number machines Further heavy being exported and a delay in losses were of production schedules. incurred as a result the May 1971 it decline in the dollar's value was against sterling. announced that loss was British market is small financial The expected in the year and BSA has only a tiny share ending July. The City account.

of the European market. Cooner Brothers, were ants, This the asked to makes company make an urgent ap- totally dependent the praisal of the situation.

on But it is American market. At this time production precisely in the US that it is figures were running at record vulnerable competi- levels-some 50 most to per cent tion from the Japanese Honda higher than ever before. Yet the BSA directors were and Yamaha. 1970 and 1972, Between caught in the contradictions of

BSA

declined signifi- their own system. Their posi- sales cantly the American tiọn worsened with in mar- an an- 'super- nouncement that selling prices ket, especially in the bike' category, at a time when must rise because of increases in the cost of materials, com- demand was expanding. Meanwhile Honda 750cc ponents and production. This would clearly play havoc with to regain their attempt markets. tried to The directors soften the blow by also an- nouncing a 10 per cent reduc- tion in their own wages and the ending of production of the Aerial Three. Thousands pounds had of been spent in launching this model. Now it was being dis- carded • as a costly mistake. 'Orders from all over the world have been very much in excess of production; this is why the situation is so frus- trating', commented one of the tch directors, a Mr Deverall.

The directors did, however, see a trace of hope in the heavy demand for expected BSA and Triumph machines in 1972, and in the continued high production rate. But few people were really fooled by this false optimism and £5m was lost on the total value of BSA shares on the London stock exchange. The price of shares slumped from 71p to 42łp before crawling back up to 5lp. In June 1971 demand for BSA and Triumph motor cycles did in fact far exceed the supply. The company tried to reshape production methods in an attempt to cope. There was also a major re- shuffle of BSA/Triumph mar- keting organization in Ame- rica. Peter Thornton, the man who joined BSA Inc in 1969 and merged the parent com- pany and its independent sub- sidiaries into a single, nation- wide organization, was re- placed as president by Denis McCormack, who was also to be the chief executive officer of BSA Inc of the USA and subsidiaries. In the July financial report it was estimated that BSA's provisions and losses totalled £8.53m before tax. Compared to the previous financial year's profit of £2,224,332 this was seen as a death-blow. loss was The group trading £2,778,366, with £1,503,531 for exceptional items, the total deficit was £4,281,897. In addition to this there was £4,250,000 for provisions, such as reorganization to the motor cycle division, estimated future costs of factory and produc- tion rationalization, plus the consequential losses of the dis- posal of stock and plant no finally, longer required and, redundancy. Immediately there was a massive economy drive. There was yet another re- shuffle of positions in manage- ment and an increase in prices to counter losses in the motor cycle division. For the second time in two years a warning of redundancies was given out at Birmingham and Coventry factories. At the time flm same worth of shares changed hands which was no encouragement to potentially redundant work- ers. Then came rumours of a takeover and a possible bidder.

Share prices were boosted Lord Shawcross-was drafted in as chairman, after the huge losses of 1970-1971. July 13, 1971, when Dr on Daniel MacDonald (multi- millionaire controller of Ber- muda-based investment com- Vision Enterprises) pany, offered 55p per ordinary share for a stake of 50 to 60 per cent in BSA. This would have been a partial takeover with a controlling position. MacDonald's offer would have cost between £4.5m and £5.5m. It would have been a cheap buy. BSA is capitalized at an issued £9.3m, of which £6-£7m alone is placed on land, build- ings and the total assets on at 140p per shares valued share in the middle of 1970.

The then BSA chairman, Eric Turner, received this bid, but decision was taken to defer until August 1971, when the auditors' report on their financial position was ex- pected. This was accepted by MacDonald, whose offer was conditional and depended on satisfaction with this report.

MacDonald Apparently already owned approximately 300,000 BSA shares, which had been acquired within the two to three weeks, after the May statement of coming losses, for prices around 40p.

Despite MacDonald's bid, however, it was announced that 850 of the 7,000 work- force at the Small Heath and Meriden factories would be made redundant. Those affec- ted were to be 400 shop-floor workers and 450 staff. ted CONTINUED TOMORROW

Turkey's martial-law re- gime is carrying out a veritable campaign of ex- termination against the left-wing opposition. Hundreds of people have been arrested and tor- tured and trials have been going on for months. In many cases gendarme units have hunted down and killed members of suspect opposition groups. Others, like two secondary school teachers in Dortyol, are beaten up by fascist commandos who oper- ate with impunity. Even when political suspects are not arrested their houses are searched and books con- fiscated. The military have set themselves up as censors and have ordered many books to be pulped. The Istanbul Martial Law Command military prosecutor on January 28 ordered 137 books to be destroyed including all the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Included in the list was C.

Wright Mill's 'Listen Yankee' about Cuba, a book of articles by Maurice Dobb, Paul Sweezy and others 'From called Feudalism to Capitalism' and a called Maxim Gorky book Explains'. The martial law government strikes with particular venom at students, teachers and intel- lectuals but opposition is spreading among workers and peasants. Despite police oppression there have been a number of hard-fought strikes which have received little notice outside Turkey. strike in the Demir- Dokum factory in Istanbul lasted for 99 days and won concessions from the em- ployers. Coalminers have fought a long strike in the Cavuslu collieries, Uzunkopra, for a wage increase. Textile workers, leather workers and others have been on strike since the beginning of the year. Peasants in Guclu, a village in Akseki-Antalya, killed a big money-lender, Huseyin Coba- noglu, who had exacted high of interest from them rates while they starved, and con- fiscated their lands. Gendar- merie units had to be called in on January 23 to 'pacify' the village.

BY JACK GALE

fighting for his life in a San Francisco courthouse against charges of murder and kidnapping. Magee has not hit many headlines. Most of the middle- class liberals who fell over themselves to join the cam- paign to defend Angela Davis in 1971 and 1972 probably don't even know who he is. certainly the Stalinists, And both in the United States and in Britain, are wishing they had never heard of him. For Ruchell Magee was Angela Davis's co-defendant when she was charged with complicity in the attempted escape of three black prisoners from Marin Courthouse in August 1970. Three black militants and Superior Court Judge Harold Haley were shot dead. Angela was charged with having bought the weapons for the rescue attempt. The Stalinists organized her de- fence-she is a member of the American Communist Party— and appointed a liberal de- fence team to represent her.

The argument was that she was innocent, and that she was, in the words of chief The torture of political prisoners in Turkey has mean- while become an international scandal. The army's reply to these allegations was conveyed in the Order of the First Army martial law command of February 4. It ran as follows: 'Allegations that torture is being used on detainees and prisoners who are either on trial or are awaiting trial, are continually being advanced.

It is known that these allegations are put forward in order to put pressure on the judges and other officials with a view to influencing the mar- tial law courts' decisions. Be- cause of this, the publication of any news In February the independent woman senator Fatms Ismen, wrote to prime minister Ferit Melen about torture used on women detainees at the Yil- dirim No. 3 Military Detention Centre. She submitted a state- signed by 18 lawyers ment which ran as follows: women detainees 'Some were taken away by officials supposedly to the military prosecutor for questioning, but their eyes were blindfolded and they were taken instead to MIT (Turkish Secret Service).

'There the women detainees were subject to the tortures of beating up, bastinado, beating truncheons and with electric shock; they were then taken back to the detention centre.

'Gulay Ozdes was taken to the MIT centre in Istanbul...

and several torture techniques were used against her. The statement continued by describing what had happened women hunger- to some strikers: 'During the first days of the hunger strike, Thursday December_14, 1972 and the following Friday and Saturday, women detainees the were beaten up several times by the soldiers with truncheons.

'At the time the same detainees had their cell win- dows painted over, closed and nailed, thus stopping any pro- ventilation, and their per heating , was cut off. Visiting was forbidden. The statement gave the names of 18 women who had been tortured. In a Press statement on be- half of the martial law tribunal for Ankara issued on January_24, Lieutenant-Colonel Orban Izgu said that it had dealt with 1,189 out of 8,590 Leo Branton, attorney warm, articulate human being and she has love and compas- sion, yes for George Jackson, also for all humanity.' but It was, of course, the duty of all revolutionaries to defend Angela Davis against that bourgeois legal frame-up.

The Socialist Labour League, the Workers' League in like the United States, did that. But we also defended, and we still do, the heroic fighter Ruchell Magee. This is in stark contrast to the Communist Party, both in the States and here, who have sought to ignore Magee com- pletely. For Magee, self- taught worker, is alleged to have been caught with a gun in his hand and is accused of killing the judge. There is nothing in that to appeal to the liberal con- science. Magee's defence has Yet been a principled one through- out-unlike the 'humanitarian' special pleading put in for Angela Davis by the Stalinists.

Magee defends his right to fight his way out of jail on that he cannot the grounds gain justice from the American courts. The rights guaranteed by the United States Con- stitution, he says, do not apply, to the poor and to minorities. Turkish tankspart of the armoury of cases brought before it. Heavy sentences have been meted out for political activi- ties. For example, professors and lecturers from the Faculty of Law of Ankara University received sentences of four years to six years three months for 'anarchist activities'.

Sentences of five years were He repeatedly insists that the transcript of his 1963 con- viction for kidnapping and robbery was fraudulent. For one thing his motion to dismiss his lawyer, who had pleaded him guilty against his will, does not appear in the transcript. Yet it was this transcript which was used when his appeal against con- viction was rejected in 1965.

Now Magee is pouring out the details of his fight for justice in open court. He has told how he was hospitalized after being beaten by police who were attempting to force a false confession out of him. He has told how his at- tempts to obtain a record of court's proceedings and the to petition for a writ of habeas corpus led to his being placed in solitary confinement in San Quentin. Despite all this, or rather because of it, the US Com- munist Party's Western Coast paper, the 'Peoples' World', has refused to side with him.

The reason is clear. Magee is a continual embarrassment to the Stalinists. His during the presence preliminary hearings of the Davis case, when he was chained to a chair which was bolted to the floor, and when another chain was placed Workers Press, Thu moury of the generals' regime directed at destr imposed in December on ten students who had led a sit-in at the Middle East Technical University. At the trial of the teachers' union 59 people were sentenced to prison, some for more than ten years. In January, Akolulkadir Bolurcu was sent to prison for four years for an article offen- round his neck to stop him making political speeches, was a constant reminder that the Stalinist attempts to avoid the political implications of the . were hypocritical and trial reactionary. This was made worse by Magee's openly expressed con- tempt and distrust of all lawyers, not least those pro- vided by the Communist Party.

Thus, it was with enormous relief that the Stalinists greeted the separation of the Davis case from the Magee case in August 1971. This meant that the Stalinists and their revisionist allies could concentrate on their liberal appeals for Angela without raising the question of freeing all the victims of class oppression in the United States. particular could they leave Magee to his fate, which they have sought to do ever since, and avoid the political of the trial-the oppres- core sion by American capitalism of black militants and revo- lutionaries as of its part uppression of the entire work- ing class. Angela Davis was acquitted in June 1972. That certainly did not mean, as the Stalinists and re- visionists claimed, that mass could pressure •change the course of bourgeois justice.

If that were so, why did these people not use the same methods to free Magee? The truth is that the acquit- tal of Angela Davis coincided Nixon's with diplomatic Press, Thursday March 29, 1973 PAGE 5 d at destroying all opposition.

sive to the regime. A number of death sentences have been passed on members of the Turkish Peoples' Libera- tion Army, an urban guerrilla sentences of group and years were demanded for the leaders of the Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Party on trial in Ankara. manoeuvres with the bureau- crats in Moscow and Peking.

These bureaucracies have no in the freeing of interest Magee. The Stalinists and revision- ists must be made to answer: Why was Magee dropped after Davis was acquitted? Davis was fêted by the Stalinists not only in the in the United States, but Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia (she refused appeal an to speak up on behalf of political there) and East prisoners Germany. She was even wel comed in fascist Spain. But while the Stalinist func- tionaries have draped Davis with flowers, nowhere have they demanded the release of Magee. In Britain, the Angela Davis Defence Committee, composed of Stalinists, liberals and revisionists, reconstituted itself into the Angela Davis Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners. But its flurry of Press con- ferences, rallies and inter- national gatherings on behalf of Davis is in sharp contrast to its inactivity on behalf of Magee. It is a basic revolutionary duty to defend all class war prisoners. Trotskyists everywhere will demand the freeing of Ruchell Magee. But also, they will not cease to expose the cowardly and unprincipled silence of the Stalinists and their friends as this courageous fighter defies the might of the US legal system.

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Workers Press, Thursday March 29, 1973

UNION

BY ROYSTON BULL

work to accept the run-down by their 1n jobs own union, Cargo traffic through which had ostensibly set out Britain's smaller docks to halt the slide. and wharves, which are The vehicles used were pro- mises of something emerging outside the main ports from the Jones-Aldington covered by the National committee of inquiry and the Dock Labour Scheme, National Ports Council longer- has almost doubled in term look at the non-scheme which has just been ports, the last seven years. published. The growth of these un- Lord Aldington is chairman been registered ports has of the Port of London Auth- of contention for bone bitter former vice-chairman of ore Tory during the registered dockers Party and close recent labour run-down at the friend of Edward Heath, Liver- main ports like London, and wealthy banker prohit- pool and Hull. conscious industrialist. boiled Their anger over By jacking up the compen- during last year's national sation payments to more than docks strike when some of £4,000 in some cases for dock- these non-scheme docks car- ers willing to leave the indus- ried on working and acted as altogether, Jones-Alding- try a strike-breaking force against was able, at the second ton the registered dockers. get the national attempt, to But the principal obstacle docks strike called off. the dockers during the Jones offered the men large to strike was not this at all. It lump sums to quit the ports was their own union bureau- and in that way solved the led by Jack Jones. menacing problem of the tem- cracy led back Dockers were to porarily unattached register.

But the £4,000 can quickly evaporate in this period of un- controllable inflation. On top of this, the dockers who left have exchanged at least a modicum of job security offered by the Dock Labour Scheme for what? The other part of the deal which got the docks delegates to vote to go back, despite the opposition from the dockers' mass meetings, was the pro- mise of action over the non- scheme ports by way of an instant report. Nearly eight months later, the report has come out. It confirms everything the dock- ers were saying about cut- priced labour and casual em- ployment undermining their main port conditions. But now that all the anger has subsided, and thousands of dockers have been conned into leaving the industry, what chance is there of doing some- thing about it at this late stage? There was never any policy worth pursuing on the docks other than the wholesale ex- propriation and nationalization of the ports and associated industries without a penny compensation. The same is true of all other industries. The point being that whatever piecemeal fights there is little are put up, future for the working class in the steady deterioration of the capitalist economic system other falling opportunities. To raise the demand for the of nationalization the port industry under transport workers control without com- pensation is to raise the de- mand for a political showdown Tory with the government. The Tories act as the direct representative of all the capi- talist interests which adversely affect dockers' lives, such as Lor• Alcinoon. Charman or in ort of London rejec. Unregistered container ashar sabour casual attached register, non-scheme ports, etc. these mhenomen. exist because the Tory govern- ment and the labour onvern.

ment hefore it chose to allow them to exist under the tree market economv chose to sack ones persu capitalist game a d selay their capitalist game and an highest bide security-to highest bidder. security-to backed by committee, ton £25m public funds. Jones So turned dockers into asset strippers-their own assets. And he scooped a nasty political situation off his plate relatively quickly and cheaply fuss than with little more a glass of water poured over his head members many question his role during that docks crisis. But although the dockers live to fight another day, there is no doubting that an oppor- tunity has been lost. The exact moment when the end to the ight to put an narchy of capitalist produc to reach tion can begin a climax can never be predicted But the crisis over the dock- ers' security of employment last summer was as good an issue as any. The failure to turn that fight into something was en- of political tirely the failure leadership by Jones and his Communist Party supporters among the dock stewards. They made no attempt at all to make the fight a poli- tical one. They deliberately left the fight at the level of just another wages or money issue. The Stalinists were happy to bury the political principle of job security in a nationalized industry when they saw the men could be persuaded to go for a cash pay-off. Now the report on the non- scheme ports comes out with some unpleasant reminders for of the Stalinists just what they sold out on last summer.

• Unregistered port traffic is still growing fast at the same time as the number of regis- tered dockers is still falling.

• Nearly 15 per cent of em- ployment in non-scheme ports is completely casual labour.

In the five main non- scheme ports, there are still rates and conditions be- pay low the standards of the regis- tered docks, despite all the claims to the contrary. • In dock work being under- taken by manufacturing firms on their own account at pri- vate wharves, the rates of pay are in accordance with general pay rates in that particular industry, not in accordance wtih dockers' rates of pay.

• Timber handling is being more and more removed from traditional dock work and going to specialized wharves with non-docker rates of pay.

• The amount of casual la- bour in the non-scheme ports is unjustifiable. • Many non-scheme ports provide wages comparable to registered dock work only as 'result of significantly a longer hours against the back- ground in many cases of lower basic rates and less favourable holiday and sick pay and pen- sion arrangements' • 'In respect of labour costs, non-scheme undertak- these to enjoy fail ings cannot a cost advantage over scheme ports' • 'There is a strong case for conformity by the non-scheme ports and wharves with those terms and conditions of em- ployment which are nationally agreed for dockworkers.' • Amenities in some non- scheme 'do not undertakings yet seem to be up to a satis- factory standard' • 'Existing legislation in res- pect of health and welfare at non-scheme ports is in some respects inadequate.' • Non-scheme undertakings provide inferior training and welfare to re- arrangements gistered ports. • Some non-scheme ports unsatisfactory have pension provisions. And this is merely what is admitted by the employer- dominated National Ports Council. The NPC can find no answer to other charges: that while the major ports have to provide a full range of services, the non-statutory cream off wharves are able to the specialist traffic; that if there was just one employer of labour over a as a maior wide area such it would help river estuary, cushion the effects of redun- dancy; that the only way to avoid wasteru finances is to control all new aevelooment.

EMPLOYERS'

STRATEGY

The Couloi at leveth at as the nsvchological one thing tor dock workers to accent that six conventional berths will be replaced bu one new roll-on roll-off berth of ploying a men tenta mployed on the conventiona this beher accept that port. And another standards labour costs believed to be below the standards set by the National Joint Council Transport Ir- tor the Port dustry. But they otter no solution to the problems involved. Even docu- unis emplovers one and the Saints night vince something with ports strategy. r8 Press, Thursday March 29, 1973 PAGE 7 They therefore intend urgently in examine consultation to with the British Ports Asso- ciation how best such a stra- tegy can be evolved and what measures of control either as above outlined or a different character would be practical and desirable in the evolution of such a strategy.' However, employers the are, after all, commercially- therefore minded men and must come down in the end on the side of private enter- prise. They want the scheme and non-scheme ports both to continue and to compete with each other. 'It is neither wise nor prac- ticable to seek to prevent the forces changes that market and customer demands will bring about. 'But at the same time, the Council have sought to re- the social problems cognize that these changes may pro- duce and to consider the proper limits of planning. both as regards manpower and new future physical development.

that are commensurate with the country's needs.' That is the capitalists' reason for not wanting to na- tionalize the port transport industry. What are lack Jones' the Stalinists'? and It is official union policy of the T&GWU as well as of the national ports shop stewards committee. Why are they not it out? carrying

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BY JACK GALE. PART TWO

There are more than 55,000 untried political prisoners in Indonesia, most of whom have been in jail since the abortive Untung coup of Sept- ember, 1965. Large numbers of these have had no • charges what- ever laid against them. And they include people who were children of 11 and 13 years of age when they were arrested and who have been prisoners for seven years. One 1l-year-old boy was too young to survive alone when his parents were arrested, so he accompanied his mother to prison. When she died he was sent to join at the Nusakam- his father in Central bangan prison Java. When his father also died, the boy was transferred to the Buru concentration camp where he is now held as a 'B' the risoner. category reserved for 'committed Marx- ists and traitors'. Almost all the prisoners are held because of some alleged involvement with the 'September 30 Movement' which staged the unsuccessful coup in 1965. A presidential instruction, No 09/KOGAM/1966, signed on President Sukarno's behalf by Gen Suharto and issued in May 1966, defines three levels of 'involvement': 'Clearly involved directly in the September 30 Movement.'

Those who: 1. Planned, helped to plan Poverty and terror in Indonesia

CONCENTRATION

or this counter the 2. Being objectives, ties this counter movement. ment. ing of the ary movement: whether in for approval revolutionary 2. of September 'There are September Those who: Were former, of like the aegis of Lecton

PKI,

party their activists; 2. of former, the unuc protection

PKI,

ing to Affair"* of the

1 CHILC

revolutionary bout the plan for revolutionary but did not report authorities; of undertook activi- Impiementaton or ter - revolutionary involved indirectly tember 30 Movem. se who, after know- counter-revolution- attitude, deed or words, of this movemen iously displayed an in deed or posing endeavours, suppressior 30 Movement indications of, ț there was, involvement in the Movement.' members of the tlawed PKI or of of mass organi. the pro- said former together with ordinary aegis of/under the f/the former part antecedents, ed in the "Madiun said counter- movement, did accordance with conditions and abiliti *This incident September clash between major and the army. The Suharto regime tinuing the oppressi of the niques colonial administratior on a larger scale For example Dutch ished for life 1,106 In revolutionaries to Upr (West Irian). This region habitable because of forests and rampant No Charges were against the prisoners were never orolen te In 1969 the Suhart set up a similar conc Buru island camp on ember ducted

LOUT

shown Sonne pared prison camps. However they shown the real is situated deep in the the grounds near Here the river. physical liquidation prisoners is pursued Milaria rages, spi huge mosquitos, practicall cines are existent. starvation cause most of the pr sold ana the money by the prison As under charges have prisoners the attorney tried. As Sugih Arto said in 1971: "Then there prisoners. we knou tain they are they ideological al C scious, but there is no evidence to bring then a court. Sugih Arto also 'Local commanders power to arrest and gate any persor of being picion national security. can be held for an u period of time.' did reasonable id abilities. occurred i It was to regime is con- oppressive tech former Dutch nistration — only a former nor-general 1,106 Indonesian s to Upper Digul was hardly of swamps, malaria. laid risoners and they rought to trial. le Suharto clique ilar concentration u island. In Nov- foreign corres Buru and specially - pre- were ep in the swampy Wai Apu and systematically spread and practically ers are forced to vn food, but exist evel f the produce is pocketed administration Dutch laid and have not been genera "B" Chat con- sus- people These which from ference project they buru, cultural traces son eds. of on 'the priss ness ful faces'. But a group visited the i who months later - ted than the Red -expressed the physical prisoners, many of said, were All journalists Indonesia. A 'New was allowed to ci after its Buru repr blacked out. letter, and written the held in East Kaliı gives the lie to th whitewash: 'Here in 800 political cluding myself, ha under detention 1965 in connectio tember without any prosp released. 'We all have st extensive interroga vestigation. bounds of We have been than more hospitalization Heavy tyres round our stripped nak been testicles have We have been thro and pushed i covered with glass splinter been given and cigarettes hav to burn us. this but this would not describe all have suffered. •There are some who have been the mouth have forced us to things that are not have we already everything Buru Press con- which they spoke in terms of est admiration. said, reminded re of a common agri- than camp found no They dejection tense. or prisoners' Cheer- group of journalists ed the island a few • perhaps annore ng and less regimen- the Red Cross coal. deep concern condition of the many of whom, they 'desperate'. these banned were 'Newsweek' issue red to circulate only Buru report had been dated political prisoners also skinantar lie to the Red Cros: East Kalimantan, prisoners, in- yself, have been held since October onnection with what the Sep Movement,

PKI

ny prospect of being have suffered from interrogation and in- exceeding beaten which led to the of the victim have been tied necks, We have naked and our been punched been thrown into the pushed into self-dug at the bottom i splinters. We have electric shocks ettes have been used on like piece be large enougl all the hardships we some among us shot through The authorities t are not true though told them of importance in Indonesian political West Kalimantan exceeds the bounds @releanee connection with our 'We have workon Ine government build remunerati we work teers' and receive all. The officers to wash servants clothes and to clea lonels If you care to e (7tp) day, and day night struction of the airport There are hundred odd jobs the officers, far mention them all. B have been imprisone long time seems to about our release, families have b Qur Many wives have not prisoners have to le for financial reasons. Many of died: sometimes prises us while we ping wood in the for are female prisoners some of whom wer when they children have captivity. maised in 'These are just a problems stress. It is nothing a broad outline. Forced labour by is risoners hroughout Indonesi source of corruption fit. For instance labour project owned by a company the military area and his family majority of shares. Here underfed, ridden prisoners are carry out heavy to 13 hours for up Their pay is Rp 15- 'Phe per day. the victory of Suhart enormous misery and which he has brough nesia on the Parties of China.

CONTINUED TOMO

children ave to leave school I reasons. my friends have etimes death sur- hile we are chop- in the forest. There prisoners here too, om were pregnant arrived. Their e just a few of the should abour by politic videsprea Indonesia and is a orruption and pro• istance the forced Java is on company of which area commander hold the disease- ners are forced to eavy manual work 13 hours per day. ; Rp 15—less thar ir responsibilty for of Suharto and the isery and slaughter is brought to Indo- Communist Indonesia and

D TOMORROW

'THEY'RE ALL COONS

TV Review Black citizens of Leeds might have been in- terested on Saturday to see an old acquaintance of theirs, white Liberal Maureen Baker, trying to demonstrate that clashes with local police the force were all due to 'misunderstandings'. Relations black betweer and police workers the are not of the best in Leeds and they weren't improved some

WORKERS

NOTEBOOK

OFF DUTY

We've stiff upper lip seen from the Foreign statements Office. Even the Home unce isn't averse to putting the odd one out. But how's this from the Blackpool police. Chief Constable Mr Stan Parr said that no court pro- ceedings to be taken alc John Superintendent Cameron, head of Blackpool of Lancashire

SUN-VS ON

County Police, following an incident in a Blackpool store.

Parr said: Following his visit to a town centre store on 3 the the February file time ago when the dead body of the Nigerian David Oluwale was discovered in the River Aire. Two Leeds policemen were subsequently jailed in connection with his death.

But this didn't stop Mrs Baker spreading sweetness and light on David Dimbleby's BBC 2 programme 'Some of My Best Friends'. Mrs Baker has launched a so-called 'Leeds Scheme'. This consists of telling a group of black people that the police aren't too bad, and aren't they a bit 'over-sensitive'? incident was referred to the Director of Public Prosecu- tions. On his advice, court proceedings will not be insti- tuted. The superintendent is still off duty under medical care' Evangelist Billy Graham wants to bring back the death penalty and have rapists cas- trated. The man of God said: when a person 'I think is found guilty of rape he should be castrated-that would stop him pretty quick.' was speaking in Graham South Africa where he has had one of the most enthusiastic receptions of his career.

If you're caught stealing from the docks you can be certain to receive a very stiff fine. It's all part of the 'law and order' in dockland. Not so, however, Then Mrs Baker skips across to tell a group of policemen that black people aren't too bad and aren't they a bit 'too crude'? The third stage consists of bringing the two groups to- 'expert gether, under the guidance' of Mrs. Baker, so that they can hold hands and love each other. This sicken- ing charade was performed on television on Saturday. Unfortunately, the. effect was ruined-despite the pre- sence of two selected genial, smiling police sergeants if you happen to in the 'law and order' brigade yoursell. Seven• British soldiers who stole from Belfast docks they each received were suarding jail three-month sentences, suspended for a year. Magistrate Mr John Petrie told them: It is extremely regrettable that people whose function was to maintain law and order should themselves break the law? Mr Petrie told the accused, all from the First Queen's Regiment, that he took into account the fact they had been under considerable strain dur- ing service in Northern Ire- land. He added: 'I also accept in mitigation that in recent weeks, two of your comrades were killed and ten others in- jured.' The seven admitted stealing between them clothes, confec- tionery and other goods worth £300 from Belfast docks last January. Workers Press, Thursday March 29, 1973

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('We're only human like every- Above: London police clash with black youth. Inset: Kitching and else')-by outspoken one an Ellerker, two Leeds policemen constable who had police in connection with David jailed clearly missed the point of the Oluwale's (inset right) death.

whole exercise. where' Mrs Baker had finally suc- 'the young policeman' getting But ceeded in voung "There's West Indian had strong views. to say everywhere'. and bad He be good wasn't going to Your lovable, friendly silenced, and he proceeded to ser- of geant had promptly responded on the wreckage trample with his prepared statement: Mrs Baker's programme. 'Yes, and we're sorry if some- 'It's a term I picked up in bit hasty and Leeds! he 'I times we are a insisted. never what a coon was till I we get misunderstood. We try knew offence. transferred to the Leeds police never to give Then the force. It's what everyone calls UD spoke young cop: 'That's right, that's why It's them in the station. a I never call a coon, a coon.

that blacks. term means Blacks are coons.' Mrs Baker and was aghast -for once—silenced. Her serr Readers may remember that geants hastened to try to piece Mrs Baker joined with the I'm Group the ruins together. sure' International Marxist Socialist said 'the young police- one. in an attack on the Labour League which Stephen didn't to man mean give offence. That is just a general Johns replied to on December he's picked up 2 and 5. 1972 term some- Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37₺p • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

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. Weather. Sport West. 12.05 Lon LAnd on: 2 fondue stewart S. o ols: 240 pomper room! n. S.S. 11.51 BRITAIN'S biggest machine tool manufac turers, Herbert, have plunged .a•ero • me rea wilh recora two yea losses of £8.5m. The group's results, covering show a pre-tax loss of £4.5m of 12 months, MORE than 200 students. are occupying the adminis- Conocsee vila ToTeS These figures do not show the £1.3m cost trative block at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in support caused by group's redundancy and This developed out of the campaign for higher grants.

closure proaramme. of a rent strike at the Brinsford Lodge Hall of Resi- No dividend has been declared, but dence, where students have to pay £7.25 a week for chairman Sir Richard Young says there Is hope the future. Orders for the first food and accommodation at a former army camp.

four months the current year Have n creased 19 per cent. The amount allowed in A number of local Labour their grants for machine-tool sector has been accom- councuuors are Tae cov. Ine erning council and the local suffering from slump in modaton Is competition authority education La- and AS basic week and they trom Japan. Cialun pour controned. accommodation is poor. fluctuations level economic John Spence, the presi- There fire risks, activity. are dent of the polytechnic's adequate heating and meai- students' told Wor ocre tood. l ere is no u- that the anomaly kers tress time although the the pro- hall is miles from the vided for in grants altulll- town centre. nocamon ano woał stucencs students are with- actually have holding all rent payments, clearly al- although, following tempt micel- tran ster

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NUS pre- addressed by education onto the stu- building societies increase Dick Jacks, they dents themselves. cent. Ine agreed to pay rent of £6.50 mongage rate wom s lo lu per 'We have make the are the Educational, the First National a week. just and the Irish Civil Service. DOlnT nol The occupation was spar- to education, but is similar relaleu increast receni JolOW. ked by the refusal of the policy lor! move by the Irish Permanent, the larges! stucialy, building 90 lety c ehe Republic The DoLvLeClnic• SalO. council to even consider this the health service control cent the Republic's offer well, negotiating posi- the government bulaing socletles aSSe s To niuse loa bar ls mnic ene1 LOll

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Lulcal CIOSt Colacs Duvare schemes the hall permanently and and refusing ancillary house loans, application kers . action to recover and adequate Hiulscr exISuIe back pay the society involved.

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aceases. HACKNEY: Wednesday April 11, o.t. p.m. warioui Centra "Law and Order"- Hodo. Thursday Preparation for dictatorship'.

General Strike to make the lories resion'.

runelas Broadway. Peel Hotel, Boar • Lane.

BERMONDSEY:

Thursday April

LINCOLN:

Thursday, March 29, 12, 8 p.m Against the Pay Laws'. 'Havelock Arms', Bala Albion Hotel, Mary •.ln Cav steen ou boutnwark rark Street.

LEWISHAM:

Monday Road. 'Build Councils of Action Deptford Engineers BASILDON: Sunday April 1, 5.30 p.m. Club Make the Tories Resign' New Road Community Cross (opp. banaciane Centre. 'Build Councils of Action.

Cross Tube). 'Build Councils of

CROYDON:

Thursday April Tory Action. Force the Tories Road, Croyson. The fight agambst Ruskin House, Make the p.m. Coombe Resign'.

ACTON:

Stalinism' Co-op Hail, High Road, W3.

Monday p.m

'TUC

'Kings Arms', p.m.

FULHAM:

Swan d tukam April 12, musical naneralsiake SW18. TUC must call a Genera o.in. ne owan „oTocei BRIXTON: Tuesday April 3, 8 p.m.

'Forward to the Revolution- Strike'. way Centre. Control ary Party'. •Txton ¡ranin®

WATFORD:

Mioda Hall. April 9, Room. 'Victory to the Hospital HOLLOWAY: Thursday Apri! 12, Workers. Make the Tories p.m. Trade Union Watford Road, Watford Station. 'The 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, ,Seven Sisters Resign'. Road 'Forward to the Revolution- fight against Stalinism' DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 3, 8 ary Party'. CAMDEN: Tuesday April 10, p.m. Co-op barking ran shawe Avenue, Barking. p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale

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8 p.m Jiud call a General Strike': Road/Fairfield West me odes Keson must call a General Strike'.

PADDINGTON: Tuesday April 3, Tuesday April

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10, Harron. p.m. 'Prince Serns Road. WILLESDEN: Thursday April 12, . Small Hall. Clanham Manol Road/Gt Western Baths, Clapham Manor Street, and Trades Hall op.M. *Victory Hospital 'Tory SW4. 'The

TUC

must call High Road, NW10. "'Law Workers. Make the Tories Order" Preparation for General Strike to make the Tories ana Resign'. resign'. arctatorsnip.

TOTTENHAM:

Tuesday April 3, EAST LONDON: Monday April 16,

HARROW:

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Tories plan more spying on jobless Stop similar pit tragedies - official Yorks miners want Lofthouse inquiry MINERS' leaders have demanded a public disaster inquiry into the Lofthouse colliery Women Speaking in which seven men were killed.

yesterday from the National Union of Mine- launch Barnsley, York- workers' headquarters in Scargill said shire Arthur they sericialy Shotton wanted 'binding recommendations' to stop a similar disaster happening elsewhere in fight Britain. The Yorkshire area executive has LEADERS of the Dee- called for a public inquiry into the circumstances side Women's Steel Cam- of the disaster. paign feel large redun- statement said: dancy importance that all the events leading and payments are the inrush of be fully creating. apathy towards cholic surroundine Walc. investigated. the fight tnis ena our nauonal to save the sending in Mr Keith Saunders, the national mining 6,500 jobs at the Shotton to consult with our own engineer and to Chical. steelworks. report investicate baCk Tre natonal executive committee. елентет support, the women said in 'It essential that from this arising tragic statement: no of an should bi Campaigning against the Shotton closure.

neaundancy pay Is not a the near future.' accident of a similar nature in pay packet-ickst thend tof In London miners' president Joe Gormley said packet pay In their • Press release they that a practical man with knowledge 'What the Sonne or mier wor asked king lives.' make ourselves mines should neda tne inqulry talner lan a juage.

The What do statement was issued must we to for and Industry, Peter …une Minister after Walker, can ask for a public special the inaugurual meeting come the apathy Chief Inspector of 100 local housewives who so apparent? from the of Mines. or leave •Does the end of steel- join the inspector to report incident in his menfolk fighting annual report. make that Shotton Lne closure. little we can sit back government announcement on Ine aisaster Is expected shortly.

BY JACK GALE

SPYING on people's private check his name and address with his employer.' lives by government agencies After the which, incriminates the this. lllay du- is to be intensified. The Tory woman, be used when she proach the employer lor permis mave rejected the and interviewed.' government has to him The SIs are also empowered recommendation from its all y slalclucil state: made instrucuons to drea or one encours of inquiry own 'Make effort the but landlords. No one willing 9. commule every into Social Security benefits man to sign a written statement inform a neighbour need be practice should be that the restricted. Toughness before fairness in Criminal The Fisher Committee's report says that neighbours

WARNING

Code says that people's A orcer •iscover conceded cohabitation' should only be used legal rights being des- *Positive official troyed yesterday as a last resort. WaS the Release lawyers' encoracene by group. Release the public to spy on their neigh- They the Criminal should not given, Revision bours Law Committee 'upper body ellens ageing forming of 'abuses' should still victed. They want the right alc alculous lo make the acted says com- and the right even more of caution Tine •Criminal Suelet policeman abolished. biased defendant in Dy a Release

CLRC

court says the It also recommends that gov- CLRC members have proposed ernment investigators should™ assumption that too many guilty not sweeping changes in the criminal people are getting off is Knowi THe law people and that changes proposed get more con- observation should be employed the in such a manner that inves- tigation would not be known lo

ATUA

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

Central London branch All these recommendations rejected. Minis- have been Tory Censorship, the media and The revolutionary party ters that such limitations the Tory government. history of would obstruct inquiries. Instead and the the Department and British working Chairman: Royston Bull class Security announced yes- ter day Stuart Hood, David Maude and other akers from selected Merthyr Tydfil conducted Fleet soon more to be locallties as as stall wor be employed in investigation Caedraw School London Film School, Langley St., Merthyr Tydfil 'Undisclosed habitation' Covent Garden. 7 p.m. 'concealed habitation' is one the obsessions of Social Sunday April 1, 7 p.m. main 30, vidays Marcl oincers. \pril 6 and 13 security COn- siderable checks are made on Lectures

MITIN

Peter Jottries women living alone and drawing All Trades Unions •encils. oodid occurly couche (fraud) states: Alliance That in rend the working "To ascertain Por la victoria de los obreros alleged desertion genuine de los hospitales. usually discreet requires The Revolutionar Past of the Por la defensa de los derechos ritish working class-and it les in une neighoournoo ano m básicos. these are inconclusive, keeping future. observation the woman's Por la derrota del gobierno conservador. The Transformation of the SLL nome. his Is generally a matter for special investigation.

Into a Revolutionary Party.

MARTES, 3 DE ABRIL

Special Investigators (SIs) spy

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days,

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three successive Leaves. It a me is and En el Small Hall, Trotsky, Where Britain Conway Hall, and leaves. Goino? the enter heave. The woman Red Lion Square, W.C.2. British Revolution. questioned about it. The instruc- tions for SIs say that if Cerca de la estación de Par in a Realmang Transforming suspicion metro de Holborn. remains arter questoning, ten: Entrada 10p 'On the morning of the third

TODOS AL MITIN

Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

day lollow the man to nis place of There tactfully enorovnnent Workers Press, Thursd THE ICI Staff Association which is registered under the Industrial Relations Act is to make application to National Industrial the Relations Court to examine staff representation at ICI.

The court is expected to fix a date for a private hear- ing during the next few days.

The most likely outcome is a reference to the Commission

SHOTTON

inst the Shotton closure.

release they and let it happen without even a whimper of protest?

ust we do 'We think not. But where Ives heard? do to over- is the support? We have support in Flint, y which is growing Holywell and Rhyl, but is the support in d of steel- where Deeside? on mean So 'We are not trouble- sit back worried since the SIs instruc- tions specifically The says: claimant should not be told the source of information which gave rise to the suspicion against him.' Action against a claimant can be taken before inquiries com- mence. The AX code states: would destroy what little rights the defendant had. Release says that the odds in criminal trials are not loaded heavily in favour of the accused and that there is no evidence whatsoever that juries were being deceived by clever professional criminals. Release says: 'In their decision to put toughness before fairness, the CLRC have, in our view, usurped the responsibilty that was vested in them.'

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain (nr Manchester) Langley Community Centre Middleton 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: 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.

88, Thursday March 29, 1973 PAGE 11 on Industrial Relations, headed by Mr Len Neal. The dispute over staff repre- sentation at ICI is a long and bitter one. For almost two years

ASTMS,

Clive Jenkins' white-collar union, has been campaigning inside the chemical and textile giant for bargaining rights. Last year the company spon- sored an inquiry into attitudes towards union or staff associa- tion representation. causers or women with no- thing better to do with our time, but busy wives and mothers anxious about our husbands and children.' The women have orga- nized a series of outdoor market days collect to money and raise the clo- issue local sure among housewives. • Meanwhile British Steel Corporation announced this week that the coatings de- partment at Shotton steel- works produced an all-time record of nearly 10,000 tons coated • steel, coil and sheet, last week The total production of zintec coil and sheet-steel coated with zinc and strips used in the motor industry and for making household appliances—passed the 500- ton mark for the first time.

The crews of the zintec coil line broke all their pro- duction records with 2,895 tons on a line designed to produce only 2,500 tons. The coatings department is one of those which will not be affected by plans to down the works. run There will be cases where, before evidence establish to. fraud can be obtained, it is clear from information available that the claimant is either not en- titled to benefit or is entitled to lesser benefit. The benefit adjust- ment should be made without delay.' And the Supplementary Bene- fits Commission has invented its . Section own standards of 'proof. 2041 of the AX code states: 'It must be understood that there is a distinction between (a) in- formation about which a deci- sion about entitlement to sup- plementary benefit can be made (b) evidence to prove a and criminal offence in court.'

These codes, which the Tories intend to make even more op- pressive, existed throughout the period of the Labour govern- ments of 1964-1970. The head of the Supplementary Benefits Commission is a Labour peer, Lord Collison, formerly head of the Agricultural Workers' Union.

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BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

SPECIAL squads of police have been breaking up picket lines outside hospitals in the north-west.

Strikers at Salford and Manchester have been told that 'new laws' allow only four people on picket lines.

The police campaign against workers he must go,' hospital on Monday the strike began said Mr Shaw. when drivers at Hope Hos- Yesterday it was the turn of pital, " Salford, launched a Hospital, Ladywell Eccles near dawn picket to stop laundry Police Manchester. told strikers there that the regulation under bags through the getting Phase Two of the government hospital gates. anti-inflation policy allowed only Ken Shaw told Work- Driver four pickets on the gate.

ers Press that they were attacked steward Bernard Fenton Sho They a squad of police soon after said: told our picket was illegal-at the very most we "The suddenly We have heavy mob had a ten strong force. been out three weeks here and swooped. An inspector, two ser- four constables and four we are staying out.' geants. "specials" in cars suddenly ap- part of The police action is They told us that only peared. Tory plans to deprive workers could picket-two at each tour There is of the right to picket. side of the gate. in fact no 'new to restrict "The inspector said: "If I say pickets four, though this is four I want four". When Heath one of the measures that Home Secretary can turn the police on peaceful Robert Carr is expec- ted to announce when he unveils regarding the law The police appear to picketing.

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

be anticipating events. Secretary of the Manchester and Salford hospital group, John THE WEST of Scotland wants Duckworth, has threatened 20,000 of London's civil about pickets in the local Press.

servants and in return claims to I will take any action neces- Civil offer a better, cheaper life. the including calling in service chiefs, Scottish politicians sary patients feed- police to maintain and businessmen heard about ing. I don't care if there are ten the demand at a Press conference outside unions on picket duty spearhead- in London yesterday, will not be allowed to do they ing a campaign for the dispersal it. he said. of civil service jobs to the West of Scotland. The campaign is Provost being led by the Lord Mr William Gray, of Glasgow, afterwards: 'We have who said 20,000 civil for case some West the servants to come to and "in Scotland® terms of of social justice this is an absolute necessity.

WILLIAM

MOREY (29), a car- Road, of Fernhead penter, Paddington, convicted yesterday of conspiring to rob banks and of taking part in a £2,297 armed Bank, was robbery at an Acton ordered at the Old Bailey yester- hospital treat- day to undergo ment for a mental disorder. His will be fe Common an in- detention The definite period. Serjeant, Judge Mervyn Griffith- 'You are for- Jones, told him: tunate in having so many people who are prepared to help you.

I hope will come to terms you with life as a reasonable member of the community.

TURKISH

Cevdet President, office Sunay, whose term ended yesterday, was still with- out a successor as tension be- and civilian tween the army politicians mounted. Army chiefs have been trying to impose their General Faruk Gurler, nominee, balloting began on March since 13, but parliament has denied him an adequate majority. They have made it plain that the new president must be acceptable to Some of the pensioners who allender them. AIRPORT workers at Heathrow, London, yesterday declared that they would not co-operate with any stage of the BEA-BOAC state airlines merger until the British Airways Board gives a guarantee on security of em- ployment. At a 10,000-strong mass meet- ing at the airport, shop stewards spoke of fears that redundancies vote for no co-op 'Heathrow workers A HINT that the trade of the c unions were prepared stop the son, whel to see amendment to ployer or the Industrial Relations ted Act was made yester- ber, day by leader of the en- courts to gineers Hugh Scanion. buck or back upo Speaking at a lunch union mol in the House of Parlia he might ment Scanion talked done him about the possibility of amendments to the Act. way, we 'What immediately overcome springs 1o mind is the It would h fitable,' hi desire by all sections attended yesierday's rally.

14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS,

50,000 now employed by the air- lines could become surplus.

Fred Gore, Heathrow electri- cians' steward, claimed that from right down to local the board would follow the merger now in panel level, management was re- fusing to give progress. Ine assurance workers wanted. figure of £5m was men- He drew attention to the fact tioned connection with re- that the group's personnel direc- deployment plans, re-training redundancy, the tor for British Airways was and voluntary Howard Phelps, a former assist- meeting was told. Robens the But there were other indica ant to at tions that up to 16,000 National Coal Board. of the no cooperation with the merger. This is the line fol- on the part of the trade community to lowed by the right-wing union movement to way-out per- in the TUC the authority of whether em- and general usurp an parliament. Victor a disconten- secretary Feather. that don't see trade union mem- des- challenge to a particu- Scanion, the often from using cribed as a 'left' in the lar law can in any way courts to make a quick his trade union movement, be construed as a chal- get own to the fundamen- upon the trade appears to be new lenge convert. tal rights of govern- movement which ment govern, he think But his union re- to might has pledged to out- added. a disservice. mains 'If somehow, in some right and principled Scanlon was speak- anti- ing luncheon at could have opposition to the we the House of Commons overcome that I believe union laws. given by the Parliamen- added there has it would have been pro- never been any desire tary Press Gallery. he sald. JACK JONES, 'left' general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, yesterday called for 'a new at the attack on look poverty. Speaking national rally at a National Federation of of the Old Pensioners' Associa- Age tions. Jones asked how the gov- could justify giving ernment pensioners fl a week extra- lower even than the pay norm- and delaying this until the autumn. of the times in 'It is a sign Britain' Jones said, "that modern while pensioners afford cannot ends, there will be tax scrag Smarties, and that while cuts on VAT will cut the cost of a new fur coat, pensioners are having to rely on jumble sales to get their clothes.' The TUC is be supposed to "campaigning' for basic pensions d6 for a married persie. £10 for a single person and But

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