Workers Press no. 1035

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"PEACE WITH TORIES' SPEECH

MAKE SCANLON

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By our political correspondent THE TRADE union leaders' re- sident Hugh Scanlon, the biggest accommodation corporate state. Scanlon wants the trade union movement • To accept the Common Market.

• To accept the principles of the Industrial Relations Act. • To accept the principle of state control of wages.

His speech to a Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch outlining these proposals amounts to a stab in the back to all sections of workers fighting to defend their wage- bargaining rights. His recent left' words about a defeat for the gas- workers and the hospital workers being 'the end of trade unionism as we know it can cover up right-wing pre- parations. For nothing could be more central purpose: to fine and damage calculated to the imprison trade unionists if hospital fight than Scanlon's they go too far in challeng- overtures to the Tory ing the rule of the bosses.

gov- ernment. The key to a successful The hospital workers civil struggle against cut- wage teachers, servants, miners, ting and the other effects workers, car dockers, and the economic crisis is other workers seeking wages clarity the about central all fighting the govern- are role of the Tory government.

ment. The biggest *left-talker' the Tories But whole has confusion now sown strategy is based on forcing right in the middle of the Britain's economy dance to fight. the monopolists' to tune Dockers, Ford workers inside the Common Market and the gasworkers have while putting trade unions already been divided and under the police control of demoralized by their vacil- the National Industrial Re- lating leaders. lations Court and the pay laws. The hospital workers are being worn down by the in- This is the strategy which decisiveness of their own has given the Tories leaders and the deliberate their arrogant determination delays by the TUC in mo- hospital to crush the wOr- bilizing aid. kers. This is the strategy to which Hugh Scanlon's com- But where does the Com- speech provides munist Party stand on these promise powerful assistance. questions? Do the Stalinists still stick by their support to Hush Scanlon? He said: I hope we shall be going into Europe. The Stalinists have set FOOD prices are rocketing firmly against themselves the High Street on to pay encouraging any moves to- for Tory industrialists' entry wards a General Strike and to the EEC where they hope political confrontation to make better profits. with the Heath government.

This is why they are try- He said: 'We [the TUC ing in the most determined leaders] offered the govern- limit the way to strike ment to limit at a wages movement to one-day stop- fixed level: and pages other protest THIS is the starting out gestures. point of corporatism. which All branches and district in turn is the road to fas.

committees of the engineer- cism, or "national socialism'.

ing should demand union He "Two amend- that Scanlon withdraws his said: ments to the Industrial Re- proposals. could offer lations Act a forward The only way forward for co-opera- way for the trade now union with the Tory govern- tion and labour movement is to ment. a clear break with make

NEITHER

amendment will reformism in all its forms make the slightest difference and build the to revolu- the Act's and tionarv party. to powers INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MARCH 30, 1973 • No 1035 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Happy in Tory company Heath welcomes Scanion concession IN THE Commons yes- terday, premier Edward Heath welcomed the re- marks made by AUEW Mr president Hugh Heath told Scanion. questioners: *We have offered to consider am- endments [to the Indus- trial Relations Act]. This has been a long-standing offer and this is the first time specific matters have been mentioned.' JAY MARCH 30, 1973 @ No 1035 • 4p

TEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

y... engineers' president Hugh Scanion with Home Secretary Robert Carr

TWO

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work. worker protested two national building work- ers were arrested in ers' ware strike. arrecte made Leeds yesterday after This the second The strikers, all elec- is an incident at the time Albion men have been tricians. refused to House site in the city arrested on the Albion picket and CroCC site. lost Now they wages. conito They will all appear are demanding back The were part mon on two charges of ob- payment from the firm of picket a four-strong struction before Leeds The issue is to be to who attempted talk magistrates on April 13. raised on building sites to an electrician enter- The dispute began in the north with a view ing the site. soon after last year's to solidarity action. The man week aream police and panied by the managing director of his firm. Shaw Dale Ltd. LEADERS of the workers action in 15 stae- Police moved the Ford unions yesterday ing overtime baas. picket 20 yards up the •confirmed the National work-1o-rules and token road and then came Toint Negotiating Com- stoppages. was down the street to move mittee's rejection of the agreed to meet the com- them again. $2.40 company's today. See nant 3031n After building offer and endorsed 3. one p.

workers press

'PEACE WITH TORIES' SPEECH

MAKE SCANLON

RETRACT!

INCORPORATING TH

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

By our political correspondent THE TRADE union leaders' re- treat before the Tory offensive is sident Hugh Scanlon, the biggest is now an with accommodation the corporate state. Scanlon wants the trade union movement • To accept the Common Market.

• To accept the principles of the Industrial Relations Act. • To accept the principle of state control of wages.

His speech to a Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch outlining these proposals amounts to a stab in the back to all sections of workers fighting to defend their wage- bargaining rights. His recent 'left' words about a defeat for the gas- workers and the hospital workers being 'the end of trade we know it' can cover up right-wing pre- unionism as parations. For nothing could be more central purpose: to fine and calculated damage imprison unionists to the if trade hospital fight than Scanlon's they go too far in challeng- overtures to the Tory gov- ing the rule of the bosses.

ernment. The key to a successful The hospital workers' civil struggle against wage cut- servants, teachers, miners, ting and the other effects workers, dockers. and car of the economic crisis is other workers seeking wages clarity about the central are all fighting the govern- role of the Tory government.

ment. The biggest 'left-talker' But Tories' the whole has confusion now sown strategy is based on forcing right in the middle of the Britain's economy to dance fight. the monopolists' to tune Dockers. Ford workers inside the Common Market and the have gasworkers while trade putting unions divided and already been the police control of under demoralized by their vacil- the National Industrial Re- lating leaders. lations Court and the pay laws. The hospital workers are being worn down by the in- This is the strategy which decisiveness of their own has the given ories leaders and the deliberate their arrogant determination delays by the TUC in mo- to crush the hospital wor- bilizing aid. This is the strategy to kers. Scanlon's Hugh But where does the Com- which speech munist Party stand on these provides promise questions? Do the Stalinists powerful assistance. still stick by their support He said: 'I hope we shall to Hugh Scanlon? be going into Europe. The Stalinists have set

FOOD

prices rocketing are themselves firmly against on the High Street to pay encouraging any moves to- for Tory industrialists' entry wards a General Strike and to the EEC where they hope political confrontation make better profits. to with the Heath government.

This is why they are try- He said: 'We Ithe TUC ing in the most determined leaders] offered the govern- to limit the strike way limit ment to wages at a movement to one-day stop- fixed level.' and other pages protest

THIS

is the starting out gestures. point of corporatism, which All branches and district in turn is the road to fas- committees of the engineer- cism, or 'national socialism'.

should demand ing union He said: Two amend- that Scanlon withdraws his the Industrial Re- proposals. ments to Act could offer lations The forward only way way forward for co-opera- for the trade now union ment with the Tory govern.

and labour movement is make a clear break with

NEITHER

will forms amendment reformism in all its make the slightest difference and build the to revolu- the Act's and tionary party. to powers INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER @ FRIDAY MARCH 30, 1973 @ No 1035 & 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Happy in Tory company. Heath welcomes Scanlon concession IN THE Commons yes- terday, premier Edward Heath welcomed the те- marks made by AUEW Mr president Hugh Heath Scanion. told questioners: 'We have offered to consider am- endments [to the Indus- trial Relations Act]. This has been a long-standing offer and this is the first time specific matters have been mentioned.' DAY MARCH 30, 1973 • No 1035 & 4p

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engineers' president Hugh Scanlon with Home Se TWO BUILDING work- worker protested two arrested in ers were arrests were made. This is the Leeds yesterday after second an incident at the Albion time men have been House site in the city arrested on the Albion centre. site. They will all appear The men were part on two charges of ob- of a four-strong picket struction before Leeds to talk who attempted magistrates on April 13. to an electrician enter- The dispute began ing the site. soon after last year's The man was accom- police and panied by the managing director of his firm, Shaw Dale Ltd. LEADERS of the 15 wo Police moved the Ford unions yesterday picket 20 yards up the -confirmed the National road and then Joint Negotiating Com- came down the street to move mittee's rejection of the them again. £2.40 company's pay one building offer and endorsed After lome Secretary Robert Carr national building work. Stike. The strikers. all elec- tricians, refused to

COSS

wages. Now they demanding are payment from the firm raised on building sites in the with a view solidarity 1o diet. workers action in was. ing overtime 4Ork-O rules 2n010:** stoppages. was aiso agreed to meet the com- 10021.

Japan's nuclear GE 2 Workors Pross, Friday March 30, 1973 IE DECISION of the Labour Party National Executive Committee to merely offer speakers to individual unions 'if requested' on May 1 s a sign of the increasing strength of the ight wing in the Party leadership.

en this inadequate gesture was not un- animous. The Labour leadership split 17-6, with three former Cabinet Ministers-James Callaghan, Denis Healey and Shirley Williams -among the minority who wanted to have nothing whatever to do with the TUC's day of protest. e right wing opposed the May I strike on the grounds that it is 'political' and that the unions should keep out of politics. Mr in particular, argued that the Callaghan, Party should never be associated Labour with strikes as this would lose votes.

is voice was the voice of Callaghan, but the hand was the hand of the Jenkinsite right wing, which mustered 69 pro-Tory • votes, abstentions and 20 more sympathizers 20 when it voted with Heath's government on the Common Market. This treacherous group wants to break the links between the Labour Party and the unions. It aims to split the Labour Party from its working-class base.

e one-day strike on May 1—inadequate as it is—is a gesture of opposition to the Tories' corporatist-style legis- anti-working class, lation. The Labour Party right wing, however, Tory full sympathy with these in measures. akins and his supporters are paving the way for coalition and for the destruction of the the door which would penetrate every corner of life.

ck Taverne is only the front-runmer for this tendency. But for the action of the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party in rejecting him, he would still be nestling inside the Parlia- mentary Labour Party with his co-thinkers.

His recent attack on the hospital ancillary workers was an open expression of the views of every PLP right winger.

ly a struggle to unite the industrial and political wings of the labour movement in to force the Tories to a General Strike resign and place in office a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist policies, can defeat the right wing. ch an action, far from losing. votes, would rally millions of workers and large sections of the middle class against the Tories who are destroying their living standards and basic rights. is the time-wasting and collaboration of the union which and trade leaders Labour and drives demoralizes Labour supporters into arms of the the middle class the apparently strong and determined Tories.

le trade union leaders limit workers isolated struggles and one-day protests, in- sist that these struggles are non-political and make frequent treks to Downing Street to offer their co-operation to Heath.

le Labour Party leaders declare their opposi- tion to political strikes, turn their backs on co-operate with the the working class and Tories in parliament. le fight against the Tory government is in- the fight to remove these separable from leaders in the Labour Party and the unions.

I those, like the Communist Party and the revisionist groups, who try to obstruct the development of a political struggle to force and who the Tory government to resign of a revolutionary the building oppose leadership, are confusing and holding back the wording class and preparing for defeat.

• right wing must be removed. Intensity ite campaign to force the union leaders to indefinite General Strike to create rall an il conditions for making the Tories resign.

! Labour Party members and trade unionists must demand a special conference of the Lhour Party to plan the defeat of the gov- cument and to thrash out socialist policies.

0% leaders and MPs who refuse to pledge Themselves to such policies must be driven ont und replaced by people who will.

BY JOHN SPENCE

THE JAPANESE governm war fought with atomic wo own nuclear armoury. Prin firmed what has long been Tokyo last week that J nuclear weapons. The 'defensive' term in Tanaka's statement will fool nobody. Japan is formally barred under its post-war consti- tution from rearming. Yet a substantial has army been built up • since 1950 with American assistance under the guise of a 'self- defence force'. This army is 250,000 strong and is to acquire the advanced most weapons under a grandiose expansion in the coming programme period.

HIROSHIMA

There is great popular hostility to nuclear weapons in Japan where the United States wiped Hiroshima and Nagasaki off the map with A-bombs in 1945. But the big monopoly companies which rule Japan are eager to regain the colo- nies and sources of raw materials which they lost in World War Il. They are driven by the intensity of the economic crisis and by ruthless pres- sure from the US which is squeezing them out of the they have domi- markets nated in the past. The big monopolies have their eye, above all, on the RENAULT is to lay off 7,000 continued strike by 400 low-p in the body-pressing shop. Th the giant Billancourt plant si down a compromise deal negot by the Confédération Générale The Communist Party paper 'L'Humanité' cried Wednesday victory on after the afternoon shift had apparently been per- suaded to accept the deal.

This only granted part of what the men had been de- manding and included pay for only two of the days lost through the strike. Most of the men, who are mainly immigrant workers, later rejected the package, demanding the full claim together with pay for the days lost through the strike.

The CGT was forced to negotiating return to the table under threat of see- ing the movement get out of hand. The strike affects about 400 workers on the R-4 and workers in R-6 lines. but other departments have held sympathy strikes one-hour and a series of meetings of support during working hours. The CGT has made stren- to limit the efforts nous strike and bring it to an end. The management has brought in strong-arm gangs to intimidate workers. On Monday 50 foremen made and officers several to get the line attempts moving, but workers sat down on the machinery and refused to budge despite the armed guards brought in by the management. The workers' refusal .to.

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overnment is preparing for a thir omic weapons and plans to build ry. Prime Minister Kakuei Tana g been suspected when he annou that Japan might acquire 'de ACCORDING to the 'New Scientist, Japan could build up a 'credible nu- clear force' within a short time once the political de- cision is taken. The country has eight nuclear power stations operation, and plans to have 23 by 1976, making It the second largest nuclear power in the world after the United States. A chemical processing plant to separate the ura- plutonium from nium and spent reactor fuels is under construction at Tokai and building of a uranium en- richment plant is planned.

'The country will then be among the few self-sufficient In nuclear technology,' the New Scientist' says. In 1970, Japan became the fourth space power by or- biting a satellite and Is well advanced in all aspects of missile technology, includ- ing guidance systems.' In other words, Tanaka has only to say the word and the monopolles can be- nuclear gin turning out complete with weapons rockets to deliver them on target. mineral resources and labour ..force of the Chinese Peo- ple's Republic and Soviet Asia. Earlier this year a top Tokyo government commit- off 7,000 workers because of a 00 low-paid immigrant workers shop. The workers, on strike at plant since March 21, turned eal negotiated on their demands Générale de Trevail. accept the latest offer is a Stalinist- blow the to dominated CGT's policy of class peace. Renault is reckoned as one of its major strongholds but its hold is being chal- lenged by rank - and - file militants. If the strikers win their demands, Renault will have to make similar concessions hundred other to several workers of the same grade in its plants. Its have remained cars competitive in recent years through intensive only methods and speed-up of French and immigrant workers. This policy has been tacitly accepted by the CGT.

but is now being opposed by the workers themselves. PRESIDENT Numeiry of the Sudan has been fêted extravagantly since his arrival here last Sunday.

He has lunched with • the Buckingham at queen Palace, he has been given a grand tour of the military college at Sandhurst and, on Wednesday, the London Corporation threw a ban- quet for him at Mansion House. Numeiry, the man respon- sible for butchering the ...... r a third world to build up its ei Tanaka con- e announced in ire 'defensive' retly for some time. In April produced a detailed te re- Sato port setting out the amount last year the govern- of men and the ment was accused of hold- weapons 'self-defence' forces would ing secret nuclear talks with with Washington. need to wage war China and the USSR. Yanosuke Narasaki, Last year's military budget Socialist Party MP, pro- envisaged spending twice as duced in parliament a tele- the armed forces gram from the Pentagon to much on in the coming five years as the American Naval Forces in Japan. in the last five-some £5,800m. of deploying a It spoke joint US-Japanese naval

MISSILES

nuclear unit as a means to block nuclear threat from a third country. Japan already has a wide The message cited parti- cularly the strengthening of of sophisticated wea- range pons, among them US Phan- China's nuclear arsenal and aircraft and advanced build-up of the Soviet tom the anti-aircraft missiles and its Pacific fleet. forces less are strong •The Chinese government than other medium any recently resumed diplomatic power. relations with Japan after a lapse of over 30 years. Chin- Last October the Self- stated for ese Stalinists proclaimed the Defence Agency need for a new relationship Japan the first time that based peaceful co-exis- could launch counter-attacks on against foreign guided mis- tence. with Nike and However the Japanese sile bases monopolies and their Penta- Hawk missile installations.

gon backers have other ideas The developent of and are rapidly putting them nuclear striking force has into effect. been under discussion sec- the full brunt of US air THE LAST planeload of States command United power. continued bombing The troops left Saigon yester- of Cambodia is the pro- day at the end of a decade duct of serious American of direct American in- concern about the deterio- volvement in South Viet- of their rating situation nam. puppet Lon Nol. forces The American Even Sirik Matak, Lon have gone, but US advis- Nol's former right-hand "experts', undercover man, has no confidence in ers, men and agents remain. the regime's survival. He They will be attempting is now under house arrest prop up the Saigon to in Phnom Penh. dictatorship against the The liberation armies National Liberation Front.

are only a few miles from In exchange for its pri- the capital and Lon Nol's.

soners of war, the Ameri- regime is maintained only can army has left Viet- by the US Air Force. This nam. But Laos and Cam- has led to hostile ques- continues to bear tions in Washington. bodia SOUTH AFRICAN troops duction. The company appealed for help after 700 have been sent to alu- plant at Richard's African strikers had turned minium Bay, Natal, to maintain pro- down a wage offer and de- fied return to an order to work. Zulu chief Gatsha Buthe- lezi protested at the move.

Now South Africa is again, showing her teeth he said. If this is not op- pression, then I do not know Sudanese Communist Party is. what oppression 18 months also aao. was African The workers in welcomed to 10 Downing plantiest aboards of the Street. week upwards against Among the guests were £50 for white workers. They the Foreign Secretary, Sir have turned down an in. Home, Alec Douglas the crease of a little over £l.

House Speaker of the of The troops 100 national Commons, Mr Selwyn Lloyd will servicemen. maintain and the electricians' production, an army spokes- Chapple. union chief, Frank man said. Only months few aao • We will examine British Chapple was at a lunch at Buckinaham Palace with interests in South Africa the queen herself. again tomorrow.

Day of protest meetings planned PRODUCTION at the Ford car complex in Dagenham, Essex, came to a standstill yesterday after more guerrilla action strike support of the £10 wage claim. Over 5,000 day-shift workers in the body and assembly plants were laid off because of a strike by maintenance electricians on Wednesday. There is a strong possibility that the disruption will continue today because men are annoyed that Ford only warned them of the lay-off at the last minute. The wave of industrial unrest connected with the f10 claim is reaching a peak at Dagenham.

The situation will be discussed at the Ford National Joint Nego- tiating Committee today in London. There the unions will give some indication of the action, if any, they are prepared to take over the claim which has been outlawed by the com- pany because of the government pay laws. Ford is prepared to discuss improved fringe benefits and a

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relaxation of clauses penalty concerned with lay-off pay. Ar increase in pensions is also a possibility. The unions are claiming a £10 increase, week's holi- an extra day and a 35-hour week. CPSA general secretary Bill Kendall.

NEW prosecutions are awaiting sentence after being prepared against a month-long Old Bailey trial found him guilty of the black community attempting to incite political group Black readers to make bombs Liberation Front in and commit arson. connection with an The BLF has never issue of their news- been associated with or paper 'Grass Roots'. accused of any acts of terrorism. No evidence Police claim it pub- of preparations for ter- lished recipes for mak- rorism was offered at the ing Molotov cocktails people's trial. and hand a • A full report on the grenade. Soares affair One of the group's appears in leaders, Tony Soares, is tomorrow's Workers currently in custody Press. A TOTAL of 933 people have been arrested In Northern Ireland the moved into since army Catholic strongholds in Belfast and Derry. Over 400 have been arrested this year and 40 charged in the past week alone. The army says March has been of Its most successful months151 people one have been charged with terrorist-type offences.

all

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workers

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at London hospitals will stage next one-day stoppage authority emplo total Thursday. day of action. London Trad Up to 250 hospitals will be affected and nearly 40,000 supporting work- NUPE spokesm ers will stay away. The National Union of Public Employees has they also called on their 50.000 local unions to follo Come on brothers, there's no harm in talking тис/

PHASE 2

TALKS

THE CIVIL and Public Services Association, the most militant of the civil servants' unions, is calling on all its 200,000 members to hold protest meetings in working hours today fol lowed by mass walk-outs. The union is to settle the next stage of the campaign against the pay laws at an executive meeting next Tuesday.

The CPSA leaders have denied Press rumours that

INVITATIONS

have now they are calling off indus- the TUC gone out from to trial action; that they are all affiliated unions asking broke; and that they are them if they would like to going to take their case to participate in the national day the corporatist Pay Board of stoppage and protest on May 1. in order to end the fight call for This half-hearted their members have put General Strike Is a one-day up. in great danger of being They say that their initial abused because of the of selective strikes campaign cringing way in which the went on for a fortnight as

TUC

is setting about its planned. Funds are available task. for further strikes if neces- Right-wing electricians' Many voices sary. on Frank Chapple leader im- executive have already called his medlately announced for further industrial action.

to deter. Intention speak The executive meeting will minedly against the pro- discuss this in this light posal when his own execu- Two the Phase legislation tive meets to discuss it.

outlawing strikes which will come into force on Sunday.

Some

CPSA

leaders Mr Len Lever, president already saying the strikes said: 'The TUC could or- should go on despite the law.

ganize supporting industrial The CPSA is still waiting action. 'It for some real support from could help us with the TUC. After several meet- finance. ings, they still have nothing 'It could instruct unions tangible than cir- not to cross picket lines.

more cular to unions asking 'It could have co-ordinated all the unions currently tak- them not to cross picket lines other ing strike action against the and give whatever support they can. Boye shorts polices. Bill could have Kendall, secretary, short, said he taken over the role of the was with the way the public sector conference that che tested congress we had organize to special Congress But it done selves. hasn't General calling the anything of the sort.' The civil Council to co-ordinate action servants are of those of the deliberate in support unions victims tactics of the TUC leaders in struggle against the Tory pay is laws. to delay things as much as particularly galling so that the anti- they can Tory because our fight is finally de- union was one of the moralized and worn out by few to submit an that emergency mo motion to pointless protest struggles. General Congress, we withdrew That way, the it in favour of the transport Strike to force a political with the engineers' workers' motion showdown govern- co-ordinated be avoided, the calling for ment can action. Where is the action?'

TUC hopes.

OUR OWN REPORTER

On Thursday afternoon there will be a mass march from Tower rity employees to back the Hill to St Thomas' Hospital fol- lowed by a lobby of parliament.

don Trades Councils The mass meeting will be

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the addressed by general Mr Alan Fisher, secretary T&GWÚ leader Jack Jones and trade expected other Labour MPs. , to follow their lead. Workers Press, Friday March 30, 1973

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday March 30, 1973 For the third time in four years BSA workers face passible This time, however, the jobs of all 6,000 mass redundancy. remaining workers are at stake. The £25m motorcycle and 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 £4.8m with which the Tories have undertaken to finance a 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.

Barclay's Bank, According involving Sid to which make available was to Cresswell, engineers' However,

BSA

£10m. was to union divisional bridge the gap with f5m solid organ- izer, the unions did not cash. The first stage of a series of resist the mass redundan- asset realizations was for BSA cies at BSA in 1971, 'be- to dispose of its shareholding in the Sealed Motor Construc- cause we were told to do tion for £2.lm (the theoretical so would afiect the future value was £2.25m). of the company. BSA was not entitled to sell these shares until March 1972.

This is a damning admission, was needed As the money which badly for the augurs badly,

BSA

had to firstly SO struggle against unemployment 400,002 entitlement to waive in the group today.

SMC

shares. It received only Cresswell goes on: It now.

the 500,000 extra 99,998 of seems that the sacrifice made shares is was originally to re- at that time has been in vain.'

ceive in March. Theoretically, The fact is that it was it also lost £700,000 dividend unprincipled always wrong, it was to get in March. and unforgiveable to accept Instead of the theoretical that workers should pay with £2.25m, value therefore, their livelihoods for the crisis BSA was left with £1.6m to of BSA. discount. sell at sizeable Yet this was the posture the These shares were disposed of leaders placed their when the union at 13lp each, cur- was 149p. members in from the outset.

rent market value At the time of the Vision The net proceeds for the first bid for Enterprises

BSA,

1n stage was f2.1m, with a forfeit July 1971, management de- of 30 per cent on the theoreti- layed the threatened redun- cal value. This left £3m to go.

dancies for 8} per cent of the At the same time, union total labour force. officials of five unions repre- Union leaders agreed to 4,500 senting workers were 3,500 workers 'work-in' being put on against planning short time, to increases in redundancies. mobility of labour and to the they de- But immediately surrender of an annual pro- cided to compromise and hold ductivity bonus that was to be until work-in back the paid in 1972. inquiry set government was It has since been learnt that up by the Tories. Tory Minister, Sir the management was not atter Trade The any kind of compromise. John Eden, met these officials retreat of the leaders in London on October 22, union but only paved the way for further after listening to their claims and redundancies. that the productive August 1971 was of Small For

BSA

marketing capacity a month of panic, which high- was solid, he remained Heath lighted the depth of the crisis noncommittal over their re- into which the company has quest a government in-

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fallen; there were share trans- *The problem is short- quiry. actions, the selling-off of sub- term finance', said Bob Wright sidiaries and a rush to raise of the engineers, meaning that solid cash.

BSA

scrapping just for was BSA announced that it was £5m. sell its share stake in to Alfred Herbert of the (one five big, machine-tool makers which amounted in Britain), 17 per cent of Herbert's to This desperate equity. was The fact that the bid to realize approximately govern- £lm in solid cash. realized the plight of ment been BSA and did not offer the Had the investment the BSA thought profitable by extra £5m shows that it saw then it would have re- the company as non-profitable board, tained its shares. But Herbert's and was prepared to see it go was in trouble. It had already down the drain. had large redundancies early Some 3,000 workers were in 1971 with the threatened with the sack, and prospects, according to the annual report, that, time just less than at 1,000 also in July, of some more.

had received their figures showed Herbert's notices and were sending them that machine-tool orders for back via their shop stewards.

the first five months of 1971 was planned to A work-in £56.8m, worth only start in November. were which was a drop of 40 per But, due to the betrayals of the same period in the officials, the work-in cent on was 1970. defeated and the 3,000 redun- On August 26 250 workers at Small dancies Heath had effect by the end of —members of the white-collar taken ASTMS and TASS- unions i 1971. staged a one-day token strike However with f3m to go the of co- new chairman, Lord Shawcross, in protest against lack operation from Herbert's believed that this amount which had per- management, could be obtained through the sistently rejected union sale of most if not all of the sug- and gestions of short-time metal-components division. £4.25m work-sharing to prevent With estimated re- an going into future rationaliza- dundancies. could not afford to

BSA

tion costs, order to main- in chances the

BSA

take over tain production, any Herbert's, especially since the benetoss announced thization other definite hope, Dr benefits only reorganization time MacDonald, had by this would be apparent in 1972, withdrawn his bid. especially in the group's motor- The fight for solid cash was cycle division. therefore forced to continue as This would be maintained realized that the it was esti- 'with co-operation of all con- mated peak financing require- the trade cerned,, particuiarly ment, before the selling season unions,' said Shawcross. for cycles arrived in As who has motor one worker 1972, was to be f15m. been with BSA for ten years A rescue attempt was made says today: 'We have learnt to live with crises, but we have all been working flat out to get the company back on its feet.'

Shawcross However has been unable to predict BSA's 1972 financial position because reorganization, the claims the motor-cycle is 'still capable of making a substan- contribution tial to group profits'. In the early months of 1972 BSA had taken steps that could only bring adverse effects to its future position.

In January 1972 it stopped production of the BSA motor cycle and thus halved motor- capacity to around cycle 40,000 vehicles a year. The excuse for this step was the concentration on the produc- tion of Triumph machines at the Meriden, Coventry, fac- tory because it was more economical. BSA was not in a position to take advantage of an up- in world swing • demand and could not afford to miss any short-term benefits. As it was the size of the American market could not be assessed at that stage, be- cause of the situation on the California coast, where, for the first time, Teamsters seemed likely to link up with longshoremen in a strike.

US stocks may not have been enough to ride through the strike and the big selling (March-May) period was crucial to BSA's position.

There was also the 10 per cent surcharge on • American imports to be considered.

Recent legislation on British motor-cyclists had also attack- the BSA home market, which left the company just hanging for a strong gust of wind, and the likelihood that it would follow the route of other motor-cycle companies

LENOLO

UNLOP S

such as. Ariel, Matchless and Velocette. The question remaining is whether or not recent develop- ments are the final gust of ost wind? At the last annual meeting, held in December, Shawcross said that BSA lacked the capi- tal for a retooling vital for the production of new models.

Similarly, like the last appli- cation made to the govern- ment, the new application for approximately £6m was rejec- ted at the end of last year. Apparently a 'leak' of this in- formation caused a rush of in- sider dealing to take place at the Stock Exchange. Within three hours BSA's shares had dropped from 19p each to 44p, which meant an immediate loss of £2.5m on the firm's stock market value, with only £800,000 left. By in 1968 BSA had contrast, been capitalized at £40m, with each share selling for 237łp.

By lunchtime Shawcross had to step in and close all trans- actions. Department of Trade The and Industry denied that there had been a leak' of the secret

THE AMERICAN 'SUPEI

Honda 750 Yamaha 650/750 Harley-Davidson 1000 Harley-Davidson 1250 Triumph 650 Kawasaki 750 Norton Commando Suzuki 750

BSA 650/750

BMW 750

Moto-Guzzi 750/850 Triumph 750

BSA 750

Lord Shawcross — In January 1972 BSA production was shifted over to Triumph machines.

negotiations which had been going on with BSA. An inquiry is now going on into the share crash. Recent accounts show that BSA has an overdraft of £6.3m with Barclay's, and its main assets are in stocks of motor- cycles whose market value under conditions of trade war cannot be calculated. The big selling period in the US is starting now, but BSA'S is well behind production schedule. If BSA was to miss the boat in the US, as it did two years ago, the effect would be disas- trous. The company's cash position is very weak. BSA's interim statement, which is due this April, is ex- further pected to announce a loss, and there are still prob- lems in management, finance, marketing and design. The trade unions inside BSA are going to have to face either mass redundancies or complete closure. It is on the right to work that the fight will have to begin; to force the Tory government to resign and to return a Labour government to socialist policies. pledged To maintain jobs in BSA or any other industry, this is the only way forward.

N 'SUPERBIKE' MARKET

1970 1971 1972 22,000 34,000 44,000 3,000 9,000 20,000 15,000 11,000 n.a. 13,000 9,000 n.a. 14,000 14,000 12,500 8,500 4,000 4,500 6,500 6,000 4,000 4,500 6,000 3,500 3,000 2,200 2,000 900 1,800 600 400

MY FRIEND THE SHAH

BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

The 'Daily Express' fre- quently Pincher as the man who brings you tomorrow's news today. He is also one of the most of the Per- faithful admirers sian system of absolute mon- 'Express' alcav. Icculal readers will know. His for the Shah's support regime is rivalled only by his keen desire for the return of capital punishment. Friday 'Last wrote: ne *Those who doubt the effec- tiveness of capital punishment deterring bomb outrages should look at its results in Persia. "Terrorist attacks there have almost ceased since the Shah announced that those who use military methods tor political ends automatically put themselves under military law. "The military court penalty lot Planting a bomb in Persia death by shooting, whether the kills allyone not.' This little item is mislead- say the least. Pincher ing to evidence torward to show that 'terrorist attacks' nave aecreasea. In fact, since the Shah's firing squads are still shoot- at the ing alleged terrorists rate of at least 50 a year, it to indicate that would seem capital punishment has not the regime's 'deterred colla ageous opponents. Since the military trials are conducted often than more not behind closed doors, and elementary rules of the most evidence do not apply, it hard tell to whether the accused are really guilty. This is not in any case the concern of the court, which of the purpose Shah's political punishing opponents. Knighted Pincher's is case ren- dered less even convincing when it is borne in mind that 20 years for at least the last the Iranian military has been civilian opponents the and sentencing regime them to death after barbarous tortures. Pincher is not, unfortuna- sole admirer of the tely, the dictatorship savage Iran. Others who share his views include the British govern- ment and HM the Queen. The Queen recently knighted Kingdom United citizen who lives in Tehran by the name of Shapoor Reporter.

This man was knighted for "services to British interests in He Iran'. consultant to several large British firms.

The Pincher indefatigable tells us that Reporter was 'so discreet he will not say what they But it is my guess alc. involved in securing Was the crucial Persian orders for Concorde airliners, naval ves-

LONDON'S NEW

SLUM SCHOOLS

Many new schools will rapidly deteriorate into slums as a result of Tory education Inner policy, Education London Au- thority leader Mr Ashley Bramall has said. ing with baited breatre to Ste Local authorities wait- whether the government will raise the cost limits on school building this year. The cost limits within which any individual school can be by the are lala aown Department of Education and Science and for the past three years at least they have been adjusted in April. In 1970 the Tories increased Left: An opponent of the Shah's regime sels, hovercraft, missiles and other defence equipment' This 'defence equipment' is being ordered by the Shah to his already huge turn army into the most powerful fight-.

ing force in the area. The Shah wants to domi- the oil supplies of the nate Persian Gulf where he has already grabbed territory from the surrounding Arab states.

His aggressive territorial ambitions are backed to the hilt by the Tory government, which sees him as the guaran- tor of British imperialist interests. Sir Shapoor Reporter's role in this military build-up fully in the family tradition.

The Iranian workers and pea- sants have plenty to thank for. Reporter family the Sir Shapoor's father was Oriental Counsellor at the British Legation in Tehran.

According to Pincher the British commander there, General Ironside, was ordered to depose the reigning Shah and 'assist in finding a new th them by 10 per cent, a year later by 13 per cent and in April 1972 by 15 per cent.

A spokesman for the De- partment of Education and Science confirmed that the cost limits were once again under review. But a spokesman declined to say when an announcement would be made or indeed if there would be one this year.

The Association of Munici- pal Corporations is demanding a massive 30 per cent rise this This, it says, is the only margin capable of allowing them to keep abreast of es- calating building costs which some experts say have gone up by as much as 50 per cent i's regime faces the firing squad. Right: The S ruler who would more truly Persia's national represent aspirations' words, In other someone who would be a faithful repre- ht. " sentative of the British im- perialists' interests in Persia —a puppet ruler, to put it crudely. Ironside turned to Reporter seeking a nomination for the post. He told the General, Pin- cher related, that he knew of 'only one man with the integrity, resolve and mental capacity to take on the job Reza Khan, Persian officer in the Cossack brigade'. Reza Khan, in fact, was a an officer, and sergeant, not practically illiterate. His sole positive qualification was an unenviable reputation as a vicious martinet. Ironside took an imme- diate liking to him. Before many months were over the former Cossack sergeant was on the throne as founder of ew the Pahlavi dynasty. since the Tories came to power. The Association has re- cently conducted a survey in- to the effects of Tory educa- tion estimates on school build- ing. This showed that the gross school place had area per fallen by 2 sq. ft. since 1969.

It also showed cost limits persistently trailing price rises.

Using 1964 as the base year, actual costs in 1970 were 126 compared with 119 for DES cost limits. By 1972 actual costs were 171 com- pared with the DES estimate red of 156. AMC spokesman Mr R. Berry said: 'Either we just won't be able to continue building or we will have to break the law and build below standards.' The DES proscribes mini- mum standards for school- building relating mainly to floor space and window areas.

Mr Bramall said: 'We are getting to the stage where the primary schools we build are Workers Press, Fr ght: The Shah and Empress Farah.

Pincher claims he was 'a progressive monarch'. But his son really wins most of Pincher's praise. The ruling Shah 'happens to have a quite outstanding flair for leadership', and as a result Persia is progressing socially and industrially at an unpre- cedented rate'. Both the Shah and his side- kick Reporter are convinced rapidly expanding that 'the Anglo-Iranian partnership' 'one of the most encouraging developments in international politics'. Reporter's previous efforts have not gone unnoticed. The Labour government of Harold Wilson awarded him an OBE in 1969, but his services to British imperialism stretch much further into the past.

'During the war he was a psychological warfare expert with the British in India, Pincher writes. Then for a time he served the US im- so cut to the bone that "We teachers saying, are would rather soldier on in the deckers 19th century three than work in Mrs Thatcher's future slums"' added He that ILEA was being forced to build primary schools without adequate for children, necessary space room for teachers and cup- board and utility space. Skimping on new schools has produced a long list of defi- ciencies. Noise insulation is some- times inferior, the quality of wall facings are reduced, wall clocks are left out, television outlets slashed, sinks in wet areas too few and the number of doors slashed. The Inner London Teach- ers' Association has strong views about the so-called new slums local authorities are be- ing forced to build. General secretary Mr Bob Richardson said: "The trouble is, schools are being built to a price not a standard. 'Some of the new schools 3 Press, Friday March 30, 1973 PAGE 5 perialists as well, no doubt helping to prepare the 1953 that overthrew the coup Mossadeq government? At any rate Pincher writes: 'In the Persian oil crisis in the early 1950s, when Moham- med Mossadeq nationalized Britain's oil interests there and diplomatic relations were severed, he served as political adviser to the US Embassy in Tehran! 'Since then he has develo- ped into one of those extra- ordinary international figures at the highest who moves levels but for personal pre- ference manages to keep out of the limelight.' With that record Reporter not only has every reason for keeping 'out of the limelight' he also has a strong incentive to support the most repres- sive possible regime in Persia. It's the only way the Shah and his intolerable dictator- ship can stay in office. tend to look tatty before you start and it does not encour- age children to look after them. 'The children get blamed for damage to materials not used to heavy usage' Mr Richardson said circu- lation and teaching space being cut to a areas were minimum with the result that teachers are finding their jobs increasingly hard. One possible consequence of skimping on new schools could be the sort of fire dis- which recently hit a aster French school. The authorities have been of penny-pinching accused and using inferior materials in the school's construction.

An ILEA spokesman told me that skimping will very soon hit secondary schools as well. As a graphic illustration, he told me that if Pimlico School, opened in 1971, were rebuilt •today, the hall, the stage, the swimming pool and two gym- nasia would have to be axed.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday March 3

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

John Clark is fishing the icy seas off Iceland. His mate, Alex McLellan, is locked in a Lancashire jail. But they will both be thinking of Fleetwood and the mass meeting next Friday. Friday is the deadline given Vessel to the Fleetwood Owners' Association by the port's 880 trawlermen. If the bosses don't cough-up and pay 'substantial their employees a increase' as well as improve job security by de-casualizing their hiring policy, Fleetwood may face the first trawlermen's strike in its history. Chances of avoiding a show- down seem poor. John Hulmes, the Transport and General Workers' Union organizer in Fleetwood, has met the em- ployers. 'There has been very little progress on anything,' he said.

'The employers are not willing to give any money and say they can't under the govern- y March 30, 1973 ment's anti-inflation policy We will anyway. meet on Friday and it will be up to the men to decide what action to take.' the strike comes off it If will be about trawlermen like John and Alex. has just recovered John from eight stitches in the head and two in the nose when a chain of stern trawler a smashed into his face off Ice- land. His father was killed on trawlers and he has the better than 50 per cent chance of being maimed if he stays in the industry. Trawling is the most danger- industry in Britain. The ous risk of death is 40 times greater than in mining and 100 times greater than in manu- facturing. Alex is suffering trom an- other condition. He was fined £100 in court after an incident with a dock official. The promptly owners "spragged' him. This means they banned him from getting a job on a Fleetwood boat. John found it impossible to raise money for the fine, so he went to prison. This kind of disciplinary action is quite open and arbi- trary in Fleetwood. The owners have a Disciplinary Committee which has the power to sus- pend fishermen from any ship of the Vessel Owners' Associa- tion. get 72 The trawlermen • leave in every hours' shore three weeks. If a man decides he wants a little more time at home, he must sign off and go the dole. If he simply onto fails to turn up for the ship, he gets 'spragged'. you for committee 14 days, John Clark told me just before joined the he 'Maretta' for Iceland. 'If you miss a ship three times, you're "spragged" for life.' Richard Ward, president of the Fleetwood Vessel Owners' Association, justifies the com- mittee this way: 'It is not fair to the average fisherman who keeps to the rules that he should be ham- strung by the activities of a few and the committee is pro- tecting the interests of the majority by taking action against the minority. But the average fishermen ary of Fleetwood all hate the committee. They point out that the 'rules' are the owners' rules. Another, subtle, more method of demoralizing the trawlermen is the 'silent walk- about' This is the blacklist of the the employers decide sea. If a man is a , "trouble-maker' or perhaps too keen on his rights, for some inexplicable reason, he can't find work in the port. He get's the 'walkabout' trudging from ship to ship after a job.

These are some of the more extraordinary conditions at- tached to trawling. But by any standards the rewards are poor. The average pay for 'deckies', the bottom rung of the trawl- ing heirarchy, is £27.50 by the owners' estimates. These earnings are made up of a basic-rate and 'poundage' -extra earnings which vary with the size of the catch.

The hours worked to earn this modest wage are incredibly long. The owners estimate the working week at 64 hours, but say the figure is the crews more like 100 hours. A man works up to 15 hours a day (or night). He is guaran- teed six hours rest. But when a bumper catch is being hauled over the side or the nets are in danger, it's 'all hands' and the precious few hours' sleep are lost. Life becomes at sea one grinding routine. Cut off from social life, their wives normal and girlfriends, the men yearn hours' leave. their few they return to Fleet- When wood they rush home to their loved ones or get 'legless' in the quayside pubs and clubs which have very liberal closing hours. The men who control the fleets are shadowy figures. The ultimate owners may never have set foot in the fishing ports. The chain of command starts with the trawler. Victory, Alex The 'Wyre owned McLellan's old ship, is Trawlers Ltd of by Wyre Fleetwood. The ship is ser- viced by Jas Robertson and Sons Ltd (Fleetwood). One of the major wet-fish Fleetwood merchants in H. Field and Son. Trawlers and las Wyre owned by Robertsons are Trawlers Ltd British United (Hull). British United Trawlers and H. Field and Son are part of Associated Fisheries Ltd.

Between them, these inter- related companies manage to increase the price of fish 99.4 per cent between dockside and shop. Fresh cod fillets on the dock cost 18p per lb (December Abor whic catcl tran 197 a lt ciat mer groi hig moi rem pro con shir E1.3 bro tior a b tan wne exp and be wor

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday March 30, 1973

ep Above left: Gutting fish at the docks. Earnings are made up of ne basic rate and te size oler which varies with the size 1111 Char A catch. Above right: Jonn Fleetwood deckie. Right: trawier cabin. et- eir 1972). They retail at 35.9p in a lb. bs At the last annual meeting in 1971 the chairman of Asso- ng ciated Fisheries had this to say: he 'Previous chairman's state- he have stated that the er considerably group must ng higher profits in the future...

must stress that at the overall moment outcome dominated by the reulails of our fleets.' ex profitability ed Profits Fleetwood at are of considerable. In 1962 the 40 ship on the Iceland run earned nd £1.8m. ships brought in f3.8m worth of fish.

sh The battle against exploita- is tion at sea will start on Friday.

If the Fleetwood men decide on strike action it will be only a beginning, though an impor- tant one. True justice will only come when the trawler bosses are expropriated and the industry run by the fishermen. to Iceland trips Inen ane and the danger they bring will nd be for the benefit of the whole he working class and not for the profit of the few.

THE

CONDITIONS

WE HAVE TO

PUT UP

WITH FOR

THIS KIND

OF MONEY'

John Clark (19) is a Fleetwood 'deckie'. He has been on the trawlers for three and a half His father was a fisher-

CAD.

man, killed at Stornoway, and his stepfather is still on the trawlers. work The sometimes terrible. Too bad to describe to those who haven't been out.

We do it for the money-there is nothing else in Fleetwood.

But sometimes it's OK when you get a good crew and a You can have decent skipper. a good laugh. The money really depends We get over 60p for every £100 of fish landed.

last trip we cleared £10,000, which is a good catch and I cleared £37 with the But it's not often like this. is Press, Friday March 30, 1973 PAGE 8 You have to remember the conditions we have to put up with for this kind of money.

Last time out, for example, we were off the east coast of Ice- land. We had a storm that lasted for two days then two days of blinding snow. You have to work through all this.

When it freezes, the ice goes half way up the mast and it gets onto the rails. It gets thicker and thicker and weighs the boat down. If there is not going to be a thaw, we have to go out and chip it off. This is the real hard work. But the ships look really beautiful covered in the ice. Some time I would like to take a picture of them like that. We work about 15 hours a day. But if the skipper declares an emergency, you all have to work-say your trawl got twisted up or something. The conditions have been bad for too long at sea, especi- ally with the 'walkabout and 'spragging'. This is all wrong.

If they don't give us what we want on April 6, we should come out-I want to come out anyway. About 75 per cent are in the union, but this is improv- ing now because there is a fight ahead and we are in for more money. We will have to stick together to win through.

PAGE & Workers Press, Friday March 30, 1973 Poverty and terror in Indonesia

INDONESIAN

COMMUNIST

PARTY

DESTROYED

BY MAOISM

BY JACK GALE. PART THREE

In 1965, the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI had membership of a over 3 million and was largest Communist the Party in an Asian capi- talist Mass country. or- ganizations under its con- had combined trol membership of well over 10 million. Stalinist Dominated by the theory of peaceful co-existence, the PKI- -under the close direc- tion of Peking-restricted its mass forces to support for the Bonapartist Presi- regime dent Achmad Sukarno. represented Sukarno the bourgeoisie, balancing Halive and the between semi-colonial He masses, leaned on the PKI on the one military hand and reactionary leaders, such as Suharto, on the other. the leading Instead of into oppressed Illasses struggle for power against both world and internal reaction Maoist theories imperialism, meant that the itself Sukarno's dissolved into

(NASAKOM),

alliance which y March 30, 1973 error in Indonesia had always sought diplomatic support from Moscow and Peking. the door This opened to bloody counter-revolution.

When the right wing struck in 1965, the coalition of bour- geois nationalism and Stalinism fell apart. before that, under Even Sukarno's rule, some PKI com- mittees in the regions had been their leaders outlawed arrested. Yet right up to the actual

PKI

counter-revolution the was advocating a 'Fifth Force' of armed peasants and workers to fight Malaysia side by side with the army, navy, air force and police. The army-Sukarno-PKI alli- destroyed by the ance was September 30 coup. (The movement has always been known as the 'September 30 Movement', although the actual events took place on October 1, 1965.) Led by Lieutenant-Colonel Untung, a member of the Pre- sident's Palace Guard, a group of middle-ranking officers seized six top-ranking generals and executed them at the Halim airfield, just outside Jakarta.

The Untung group brought the PKI chairman, D. N. Aidit, Former Indonesian president, Achmad mittee member is escorted by military tribunal in Jakarta just after the 1965 and other political leaders to their Halim base 'for their per- sonal safety'. On October 2-shortly be- fore it was banned-the PKI daily 'Harian Rakjat' published expressing editorial , the an Party's official view that the Untung coup was 'an internal affair of the army'. The right-wing army leader- ship, however, chose to regard Untung as the chosen instru- ment of the PKI. Claiming that the entire Communist and left- wing movement was implicated, Achmad Sukarno. Above: A PKI Com- by military police to be tried before a the 1965 coup. they not only crushed the Untung group, but launched a murderous attack on the left throughout Indonesia. Over 500,000 people were murdered and 250,000 arrested.

Over 55,000 remain in jail and only about 300 have ever been brought to trial. President Sukarno remained as a figure- head for the new regime until March, 1966, when he was forced to sign over his powers to Suharto. Every left-wing organization was made illegal and in early 1967 a new wave of arrests launched against

PKI

was members who were working.to revive the Party. Attempts were then made to establish a new PKI base in Blitar, East Java, in 1968. This, too, was bloodily repressed. unprecedented blood- This bath did not, however, prevent the Kremlin Stalinists from reopening friendly relations with the CIA-backed Suharto regime after a 'decent' interval.

Diplomatic and trading rela- tions were resumed in 1970.

The Soviet Union provided generous economic assistance to the butcher's regime--in- cluding building a new steel plant in jakarta and à super- phosphate factory at Ijilatjap in central java. In 1970 Suharto's foreign Adam Malik, was minister, guest of honour at a banquet in Moscow given by the deputy chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, Mr Vladimir Novikov. In 1971,' the Soviet Union' resumed the sale, on 'easy' terms, of spare parts for ships and planes to the Indonesian armed forces. This was one week after the leader of the PKI youth move- ment, Pemuda Rakjat, •had been sentenced to death in a military court for attempting to reform the Indonesian Com- munist Party. These weapons were used in counter-guerrilla warfare in Java. • In June 1971, Foreign Minis- was again fêted- ter Malik this time in Belgrade, where he had talks with President Tito and the Yugoslay Foreign Minister, Mirko Tepavac. In July 1971, after the vic- tory of the ruling Sekbar Golbar party in Suharto's rigged elections, its chairman, Sokowati, was congratulated by the Soviet Ambassador in Jakarta, Mr Volkov. Volkov declared Suharno's 'election' rather predictable success to be la victory for democracy and for the people Indonesia'. invited of Sokowati to visit the Soviet Union for talks. A similar in- vitation was extended to the regime's Minister for Social Affairs, Mintaredja. The total domination of Indonesian industry by first American and then Japanese capitalism has been discussed in an earlier article. But Euro- pean big business is anxious to get in on the act. On a visit to Paris in November last year, Suharto urged European businessmen: 'It would be profitable for you businessmen, who are always looking out for new outlets wherever you can find them, to take interests in the potential of Indonesia.' Suharto is also optimistic about establishing friendly re- lations with China--and he has good grounds considering he was in full agreement with Mao Tse-tung on supporting the butcher Yahya Khan againsi the people of Bangla Desh..

In a speech on the anniver- sary of Indonesia's indepen- dence from Holland, Suharto said he was anxious to open friendly relations with China, embassies and to reopen the which were closed in 1967.

'We want to open friendly relations and co-operate with irre- all countries, he said, spective of political and social systems.' No one should be surprised at the willingness of world Stalinism to enter into the closest relations with the re- gime which physically des- troyed hundreds of thousands communists. The respon- sibility for the Suharto counter- revolution rests squarely on Stalinism, in particular on the Peking Maoists. Only the construction of the revolutionary International - the International Committee of the Fourth International-can bring about the defeat of world imperialism, its puppet regimes and its international ally, world Stalinism.

WHITE LIBERALISM

WONT STOP VORSTER

In February this year, • the South African gov- ernment resorted to more sweeping administrative action against student leaders than it has ever done before. Leading members of the executive of two organizations representing between them the majority of students in the banned and country were placed under house arrest. The organizations concerned were the National Union of African Students South (NUSAS) and the black South African Students Organization

(SASO).

Additional restrictions were placed on the non-African student leaders (i.e. Indians and Coloureds). They are not allowed to enter any African township nor enter a factory, publishing or printing house.

SASO has been in existence for only three years and be- came prominent in 1972 when Abraham Tiro, its President, publicly criticized the system of Bantu education, and the separate tribal colleges which blacks have been obliged to attend since they were ex- cluded from other universities.

Tiro was immediately ex- pelled from one of these so- called 'ethnic university colleges' at Turfloop in the northern Transvaal. This led student boycott and to wholesale dismissals. While the government - appointed college authorities sifted the dismissed students for re- students at all-white entry, in universities demonstrated sympathy. These demonstrations - mainly at the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand —led to brutal police baton charges, but resistance con- tinued. NUSAS was formed in 1924, claimed to all represent students regardless of colour and was led for the first ten

SOLID GOLD

A sidelight to the economic crisis. One of the features of the past three months has been the accelerating price of gold. This may not concern you or me too much, but all those dinky couples who are thinking of a spring wedding are getting distinctly worried.

the bullion price con- As tinues its dramatic rise, so does the cost of wedding rings and other jewellery. Because of the high price on the open market, most British jewellers have stopped buying They are hoping for a fall in the price. Some hope! Ronald Collingwood, joint managing director of Britain's biggest jewellers, H. Samuel, explains that his company has been forced to halt gold pur- chases. If the present trend con- tinues then either the com- panies will have to pay the higher prices or there will effectively be a shortage which would force the price of jewellery through the roof anyway. I can see gold rings, brace- lets and other jewellery having to go up by as much as 25 per cent later this year because of the cost of our raw materials,' he said. He suggests that what will by liberal English and years y- Afrikaans-speaking whites.

It included all the major university institutions - with the exception of Fort Hare, then the only higher education institution for blacks. In the 1930s, however, there was an intensification of far- right nationalism among accused Afrikaners. The un-national NUSAS of being and condemned it for sup- from Nazi porting refugees Germany. By 1937 the last Afrikaans student group (at University) had Stellenbosch left NUSAS. The Afrikaners then formed their own student body, the Afrikaanse Nationale Studente- bond (ANS). One of the leaders of ANS was Dr P. J.

Meyer, now head of the Broadcasting South African Corporation and, until recently of the secret chairman Afrikaner society, the Broeder- bond. The ANS allied itself closely with the Herenigde Nasionale Party (HNP) of Dr Malan, who became South African Prime Minister in 1948, and with happen is that young couples will turn to cheaper, thinner rings—9ct instead of 18ct or 22ct. Among those rushing to buy solid gold rings are not just engaged couples, however.

: told Workers Press has been that some of the biggest clients at present include bookmakers, estate spivs. diplomats, real They are anticipating a col- lapse on the stock markets and are anxious to 'chase gold in- stead of paper currency' It's being sick time. A new LP has just come out called 'America-why I love her' performers this The on nauseating album are John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.

CONTROVERSIAL

FIGURE

Sunday schoolteacher A has been sacked because she loves a man once labelled the 'fascist rector' 'People can say or think what they please. It makes no difference to us,' says 56-year- old widow Mrs Lynette Barnes who runs the Sunday school in the Berkshire town of Purley, near Reading. is the Rev Her groom George Nicholson (77), for- mer rector of Burghfield in and a one-time Berkshire, member of the National Front.

He has been a controversial figure in his parish for his un- orthodox religious teachings.

Nicholson has— organizations farther to even the right. One of these was the Ossewa Brandwag, a Brandwag, a para- military pro-Nazi organization to which the present Prime Minister, Balthazar Vorster, belonged. The ANS President declared in 1940, after hearing speech praising Hitler and Mein Kampf' by Dr D. J. Vorster (the present Prime Minister's brother, who is official of prominent now a the Dutch Reformed Church): "The holy fanaticism of the ANS will soon rule the univer- sity. We are proud of being called Nazis. It shows that we stand alone, and Mr Vorster has shown us where to draw inspiration and the our methods by which we can obtain power.' ('Cape Argus' September 16, 1940.) The Afrikaans - speaking university students never re- turned to NUSAS. They are now organized in the 'Afri- kaanse Studentebond' which, though it has ostensibly abandoned Nazism, enthusias- tically supports apartheid.

Repeatedly called for the repatriation of coloured immi- grants. • Attacked Jews in a pamph- let called 'Synagogue of Satan'.

• Led a ten-year campaign in support of apartheid. One one occasion his bishop reported him to the Race Relations Board. Mrs Barnes was sacked from her job when she announced her wedding to Nicholson, who is divorced from his first wife. The rector of Purley ex- plained the dismissal in a letter to parents which said: 'Mrs Barnes has been asked to re- linquish the leadership of the Sunday school because of her association with a man many of whose views I would not wish to see infiltrating to the children. Mrs Barnes replied: 'It is ridiculous of the rector to sug- gest that I will be indoctrin- ated by George.' added: And Nicholson 'There has been a little trouble in the parish over my divorce, but I don't think this has in- fluenced the rector. I believe it is purely because he dis- my views on with agrees Christianity.'

HIS LORDSHIP

"The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them high and lowly, And ordered their estate' We don't know if the words of the old hymn are inscribed on the ancestral home of the Workers Press, F students entered Black NUSAS in 1945 and stayed within it until the late 1960s, when segregation was imposed on it: by law. NUSAS opposed apartheid in education. In 1951 it resisted the segrega- tion of medical training and it campaigned against the in- of special Bantu' troduction education in schools. It launched a lengthy • cam- paign to resist the exclusion of Africans, Indians and Col- oureds from the universities, but failed to prevent the gov- ernment passing legislation to exclude all except whites from setting universities and up tribal colleges. Even one or two Afrikaans universities ex- pressed disquiet at these laws.

Because of its liberal stand, NUSAS came under continual government harassment. From 1955 on, its leaders had their withdrawn, their passports telephones tapped and their under Special meetings put Branch surveillance. Some of them have been banned and detained under the 90 and 180-Day provisions. The union's mail has been Marquis of Hertford, but they ought to be. When 26-year-old Neville Figgett worked on his Lord- ship's 8,000 acre Warwickshire estate, Ragley Hall, as a main- tenance man he was paid the basic minimum wage-£16.20 for a 42-hour week. Then, last November, Mr Figgett was told he was suffer- ing from multiple sclerosis.

Two months later he was sacked at 24 hours' notice- and paid no money in lieu.

But that wasn't all. Mr ES Now available from New Pa 186a Clapham High Street, .... 3 Press, Friday March 30, 1973 PAGE 9 intercepted and its headquar- ters raided. Individual leaders have been subjected to phy- sical attacks by the far-right, ranging from slashing of car tyres to bomb explosions.

Politically, however, NUSAS has never gone beyond ex- pressing its adherence to the Nations' Declaration United of Human Rights, Indeed, one of the factors behind the for- mation of a separate student union for blacks, which plays into the hands of the racialists by dividing the students, was ineffectual at the disgust liberalism and paternalism of

NUSAS.

Neither white liberalism nor black separatism will over- racialist Vorster throw the regime. This requires a rev- olutionary party based on the working class, affiliated to the International Committee of the Fourth International. Below: At the university of Witwatersrand students demon- strate against the bans on lead- ers of the student organizations, NUSAS and SASO, imposed by the Vorster regime. 1 NO - Figgett who had worked on the estate since he left school -was living in a tied cottage.

So his lordship began charging him £5.30 per week rent. But who says there's no Neville justice for the poor? Figgett went to an Industrial Tribunal. And he got compen- sation. All £76 of it! Lord Hertford told the Tribunal: 'If there had been no social security benefits available I would have felt a moral obligation to keep him Mr on.' By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Iilustrated of leading Sharp pen-portraits figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for.

the first time published an The translations English edition. were first commissioned by the Young Socialists' Keep paper Left' Their enormous success has of the led to the completion translation of the : whole book, which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub- lished in the • Soviet Union in 1926. It provides the most vivid historic picture available of the Second Inter- figures of the national, their strengths and weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

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Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.01 Report Nest. 6.15 Report Wales. 6.30 Doctor in charge. "Mysterious 0o rim: London. Island'. 9.00 10.30 Upper 11.00 Press call. 11.30 House crusts. of mystery. 12.30 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: 4.25-4.50 Stesion cantamil. 6.01-6.15 Y dydd. 10.30 Sports 11.00 arena. Dragon and the lion. 11.40 UFO. 12.45 Weather. HTV West as above except: 6.15-6.30 Report Wales. BRITAIN will have to accept the price increases put for- ward by the Common Mar- ket Agricultural Commission despite the squeals of Tory Agricultural Minister Joseph Godber. The Commission insists that Britain's entry means accept- ing the prices laid down under the Common Agricultural Policy. This policy has always a source of sharp dis- been sension and the differences have grown greater, as shown in the Brussels discussions this week. Market pro- The Common posals include a 10.76 per cent rise in beef prices and a 4.76 per cent rise in milk. Although an increase in the price of has just been bread turned down wheat prices on the world market are expected to go up 30 per cent so that a big jump in the price of bread, cakes and biscuits cannot be long delayed.

Godber attacked the prices increases and called for a price freeze to fight inflation. The only support came from Italy, while the Irish delegate claimed that the increases were not big enough. When they were pushing for BASILDON: Sunday April 1, 5.30 DA Barnstaple Community 7.3 Centre. 'Build Councils of Action.

the Tory government MIl resign'. ACTON: Monday April 2, 8 p.m.

Co-op Hall, High Road, W3. 'TUC must call a General Strike'.

DAGENHAM: Tuesday Aprll 3, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue, Barking. 'Victory to the Hospital Workers. Make the Tories Resign' PADDINGTON: Tuesday April 3, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales', cnr.

Harrow Road/Gt Western Road, W9. Victory to the Hospital Workers. Make the Tories Resign'. 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, Tile3: Ro 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, ham High Road, nr. White Hart Lane. 'TUC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign' WEMBLEY: Wednesday April 4, Copland School, High 8 p.m. Street. 'Tory "Law and Order"— Preparation for dictatorship'.

LEEDS: Thursday April 5, 8 p.m.

Peel Hotel, Boar Lane. 'The Fight Against the Pay Laws' Two hours 20 minutes of Stalin on BBC 2 tonight. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 12.04 News.

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entry, the Tories bamboozled the public with the claim that prices would rise very little. This is what Edward Heath himself said on July, 14, 1971: 'Joining the European Com- Market will have only a mon marginal effect on prices. In the first six years of our member- ship, while we change over to new system of food prices, the increase in the cost of liv- ing will be a half new penny in year.' the pound each British capitalism has always enjoyed advantage from. an cheap food bought at world market prices. This kept down costs and and helped to cushion wages industry in its competi- British stronger rivals tion • with for export markets. If food prices rise to the higher European levels, this advantage will dis- appear. It is this aspect, rather than inflation, the struggle against which explains Godber's last- ditch stand at Brussels-before falling into line. The Tories know that, in addition to the 27-per-cent in- crease in food prices since they came into power, another up- 5.30 DAVENTRY: Thursday, April 5, HA 7.30 p.m. Daventry Social Club, New Street.

MIDDLETON:

Friday, April 6, Str 'Assheton 8 Arms, near p.m. Middleton Gardens. LEWISHAM: Monday April 9, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road (opp. New Cross Tube). 'Build Councils of Action. Force the Tories to Resign'. WANDSWORTH: Monday Aprll 9, 8 p.m. 'Kings Arms', High Street, TUC must call a General WATFORD: Monday Apr|l 9, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall, Watford Road, nr Watford Station. 'The fight against Stalinism'.

CAMDEN: Tuesday Aprll 10, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert, Wharfedale Road, Kings X. 'The TUC must call a General Strike'. CLAPHAM: Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, 8 1 4, SW4. 'The TUC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign' HARROW: Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. Labour Hall, Harrow Wealdstone. 'The TUC must call a General Strike'.

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10.58 1.38 Schools. Cartoon. 2.52 2.40 3.25 Good afternoon. world. 4150 London. 5.20 General hos 3.55 Let's Shirley's 6.00 News. 6.10 pital. 5.50 London. Grampian week. 6.35 London. 7.00 "Three Brave Men'. 8.30 Upper Film: 9.00 London. 10.30 Partners. 11.00 look. 11.05 Film: "Don't to Strange Men'. 12.20 Medita- Talk tion. wards leap is inevitable. The new prices, plus which starts will next put many. essential foods out of reach of working people. In another attempt to stave off the effects of Common Mar- ket entry, the government is to pay the sugar refining giants, Tate and Lyle and the British Sugar Corporation, a £4 per ton subsidy. The French government has opposed this move— bitterly which will keep down prices of sugar and confectionery-as a breach of Common Market re- gulations and threatens to chal- lenge it in the European Court.

While France and Germany, the two most powerful members of the Common Market, stood together against Godber's price freeze proposals, they fell out over the complicated system of border taxes now in force. These are intended to counteract the effect of currency fluctuations which have cut the across Common Agricultural Policy.

The bitter conflict raging over farm policy is only one side of the rivalries within the Common Market which have been shar- pened by the monetary • up crisis. • 5, HACKNEY: Wednesday April 11, club, 8 p.m. parlour. Room, Central Hall, opp. Town Hall, Mare Street.

'The TUC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign' BERMONDSEY: Thursday April 12, 8 p.m. 'Havelock Arms', Bala- clava Street, off Southwark Park Road. 'Build Councils of Action.

Make the Tories Resign' CROYDON: Thursday Aprll 12, 8 p.m. Ruskin • House, Coombe Road, Croydon. 'The fight against Stalinism' FULHAM: Thursday April 12, 8 p.m. 'The Swan', Fulham Broad- way. 'Forward to the Revolution- ary Party' HOLLOWAY: Thursday April 12, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Forward to the Revolution- ary Party'. KINGSTON: Thursday April 12, 8 p.m. 'The Castle' *, enr Fairfield Road/Fairfield West. 'The

TUC

must call a General Strike'.

WILLESDEN: Thursday Aprll 12, reet, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Hall, , "Law NW10. Tory High Road. and Order" - Preparation for dictatorship'. EAST LONDON: Monday Aprll 16, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E3. 'Forward to the Revolu- tionary Party'.

TRADE UNIONISTS seeking a lead in the fight against the Tory government will be sadly disappointed by the agenda tor engineers' the union national conference in ten days' time.

About the furthest any divi- sional committee is prepared to go in the resolutions tabled for is an instruction that discussion the executive 'lead a struggle in the TUC for united action to defeat this government'. the problems None of major facing the working class can be solved except. by the forced re- signation of this Tory govern- ment', says another motion from the same division, Kent. A Labour government pledged to socialist policies is needed. This resolution continues by instructing the executive 'not to compromise, but to fight to halt the disastrous retreats made by the TUC'. main, however, the re- In the solutions tabled sound as if the would like divisions concerned the Tories altogether. There is little which really challenges the retreat of the TUC General Council-and, more par- ticularly, of engineers' president Hugh Scanlon himself. of This certainly true motions from divisions where the Communist Party has influence.

The line from north London, for instance, stamping ground Stalinists Sid Harraway and Arthur Gibbard, is simply that 'every effort must be made by organized labour, the TUC and the people as a whole to remove •them [the Tories] from office as quickly as is humanly possible'.

Other divisions want the execu- tive to just 'disregard any norm or ceiling in any wages negotia- tions' (south London), and to , 'full and immediate' official give to 'any members in- backing volved in dispute due to the government interference' (Man- chester).

GENERAL STRIKE?

But there is no trace in the agenda of the calls to the TUC for General Strike action mus- tered by some divisions in pre- although finally vious years, ditched by the Stalinists.

Emergency motions will there- fore be essential if the confer- • to make any move to is ence stop the TUC's headlong retreat before the Tory corporatists a retreat signalled so plainly by Scanlon Wednesday - and on meet its responsibilities to the working class. Scanlon, who last August tied his members to a two-year pay deal in settlement of their 1971 claim, issued what has now amounts to a challenge to exist- ing union policy on almost every front, from the Industrial Rela- tions Act through to the Com- mon Market. No doubt one powerful factor in his decision to make this chal- lenge was the knowledge that he MEMBERS of the Shot- ton Action Committee returned this week from their trip to inspect steel- works in Czechoslovakia. Dillwyn Hopkins, a member of the party, told Workers Press that the had inspected the team new tandem open hearth system works at Ostravia.

This is very similar to that used at Shotton which is threatened with closure by the 'rationaliza- tion' plans of the Tory government. Mr Hopkins said: "The productivity will not be as high as the BSC basic oxy- smelter (BOS) method, gen but it will be much cheaper.

'There are three furnaces working in Ostravia now. They expected 1.9 million tons production in the first full year of operation but in fact got 2.4 million tons.

It is working so well they

BY DAVID MAUDE

OUR LABOUR

CORRESPONDENT

faces little or no criticism on the wages front at his own confer- ence. national Although no new claim may be submitted before August 25 this year, the confer- ence agenda contains resolutions demanding increases of up to basic rates for skilled £15 on workers, and a five-hour cut in the working week. The call for a f10 increase is widely supported (by south Lon- don, the north east, the Wirral and west Cheshire, the east of Scotland and east Midlands).

Every engineer knows that it is ridiculous to suggest rises of this order can be won except in the most bitter struggle with the employers and the Tory govern- ment, and that any serious pre- paration for such a struggle must mean learning the lessons of last disastrous plant-by-plant year's industrial action policy.

Yet it is left to the right-wing South Wales and north York- shire divisions of the union to raise the slightest criticism of the plant-by-plant policy and the final settlement-and their criticism is directed towards end- ing national struggle for wages all together! This year's conference of the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers, to be held in Torquay, faces the most crucial

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will be putting in a fourth furnace soon. 'Another important thing is that it is not near a deep water port. The nearest port is 600 miles away in Yugo- slavia. The ore comes from furnace years. plant. ing. only have present. 1 47, W U 1K- ers at Ostravia because the Czechs don't believe in un- employment. Two or three men do the work of one. Here, unfortunately, we be- lieve the opposite. Mr Hopkins' wife, June, is chairman of the women's decisions in the union's history.

However much divisional com- mittees might want to ignore the they • cannot. and costs from the union under exacted Tories' Industrial the Relations Act are sufficient proof of that.

And if Scanlon is suggesting that amendments to the Indus- trial Relations Act might pave the way for industrial peace, this is certainly not the mood of his members. Motion after motion on the conference agenda congratulates the executive on its stand against the Act and calls for the fight to be continued until it is re- pealed.

'NO CAPITULATION'

Typical is the motion from the North Lancashire and Cumber- land division which states: 'This national committee notes the attacks which have been made against the trade union move- ment under the guise of the Industrial Relations Act and is resolved that there will be no capitulation whatsoever by the AUEW whilst the Act remains on the statute book.' Other resolutions demand not only repeal of the Act, but also the repayment, with interest, of any fines imposed by the court on trade unions. Only three or four right-wing motions propose that in future the union should defend itself when attacked in the NIRC.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The revolutionary party and the history of the British working class Caedraw School Merthyr Tydfil 7 p.m. Fridays March 30, April 6 and 13 Lectures given by Peter Jeffries The Unions and the working class in Britain. The Revolutionary Past of the British working class-and its future. The Transformation of the SLL into a Revolutionary Party.

READING

Trotsky, Where is Britain Going? Problems of the British Revolution. Perspectives for Transforming the SLL into a Revolutionary Party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Workers Press, Fr section of the Flint Cam- paign Committee. She said: I know it's down in black and white, but it's unbe- lievable that they're going to close Shotton down. It's been here so long. 'Last week my little girl came home from school. The teacher had done a random test. Out of 32 children in the class, 28 had fathers who work in steel.

'A member of our com- mittee who works in Cour- tauld's is helping us. He is Shotton concerned that goes, there will be two or three men after his job. 'Before we know it, we are going to be like the highlands. I've got two sons. One wants to be a teacher, but there'll be no one to teach.

The other wants to go into computers-but where? I've always brought the children to respect up policemen. 'But when we marched TALKS will be held in Hull today bitter dispute at the Bankside Wharf being used. Earlier this month the : day off to picket the wharf to stop timber. The meeting with the dockers' requested by Mr leaders was J. H. Barchard, managing direc- tor of W. S. Barchard and Sons, timber merchants of West Docks Street. Mr Barchard said: It is an ex- ploratory gesture and 1 am going in with an open mind. Until we meet each other we do not know if anything can be done. The question of employing registered dock workers at the. wharf is not on my mind, but I am ready to discuss anything.'

TWENTY-TWO

machining method engineers are on official strike at Massey Ferguson's plant in Banner Lane, Coventry, over upgrading. In December 1970 the firm reorganized and closed down the production engineering depart- ment. A representative of the stri- kers told Workers Press: The duties of these production engi- neers was then added to our duties. But they were earning £4 to £5 more than us. 'We therefore put in a claim for upgrading which actually

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain Middleton (nr Manchester) Langley Community Centre Middleton 4 p.m. Sundays: April 1 and 8 Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) Socialist Revolution The in Britain: 2. The roots of 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.

› Press, Friday March 30, 1973 PAGE 11 to the Houses of Parlia- ment in London one of them went for my son at Lam- beth Bridge because he was carrying a banner. "I thought: "You're not going to have him". They snatched the drummer and dragged him along the ground. It was an eye- opener.' A conference of all clo- sure-threatened works will be held at Connah's Quay, near Shotton, on April 13.

This will be followed on April 28 by the biggest single rally ever staged North • Wales. Bands will be at the head of the three columns of marchers from Flint, Buckley and Northrop. It will be directed against the BSC and the government,' says Mr Tory Hopkins. 'The emphasis will be on the youth-where are they going to work when the place closes down?' ull today over the long-running and le Wharf where unregistered labour is nth the 2,000 Hull dockers took the f to stop unregistered men unloading Last year the National Dock Labour Board ruled that work at should be done by . wharf registered dock workers. But a subsequent hearing by an Industrial Tribunal at Leeds decided that the company could use only its own regular employ- ees at the wharf to discharge cargoes for its own use to be processed at the wharf. The hearing of an appeal by the board against the tribunal's decision is still pending.

only amounts to £1.80 a week.

We should have asked for more.

We thought we were being rea- sonable. The firm agreed regard- ing the extra job The claim been through procedure twice. On March 9, the company threatened a lock- out it sanctions were not litted.

'We resumed normal working and then gave them seven days' an official strike. We notice of came out on March 19' All other members of TASS technical and supervisory (the section of the AUEW) in the two Massey Ferguson plants are banning overtime. Council of Action Don't Let Hospital Workers, Teachers, Figit Alone, Gasmen, Force the TUC to call a General Strike! Make the Tory Government Resign!

DEMONSTRATE!

North London

SATURDAY MARCH 31

Assemble: 2pm Civic Centre, Wood Green March through Wood Green Lambeth

SATURDAY MARCH 31

Assemble 2 pm Ramsden Road (near Balham Tube) March through Tooting Broadway to a meeting at 4 pm at the Franciscan Road School, near Tooting Broadway. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, Longon, SW4 7UG. Printed Plough Newsdesk: 01-622 7029.

We could stay out 'indefinitely' Factory delegations back one-day hospital strike SÄTURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL

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STRIKING

ancillary workers at Commenting on the all-London St Mary's Hospital. Praed Street.

dite sinise НРХИ week (see

BY IAN YEATS

London, said yesterday that they page 3), Burton said: "The could stay out 'indefinitely'.

union should call everyone out It would be pointless to Picket Mr Joe Rouco added: ordweek lOl ciay, al Union "t DaCK aTer

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weeks. better if we iney nave not given us neary National of Public Em- support from other hospi- support. The unions have ployees' shop steward Mr Henry We seem to be all by our- decided they run us, we pay Laido OuL told me. Burton selves.' their charles collsiomasen other way round. He claimed a mass meeting of Although up to 100 hospitals 300 strikers at lunchtime are affected by the work-to-rule, the heads unions could vote LUCar stay

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umars b lae onl one broucdı Henry Burton Joe Rauc until they won their f4 claim.

to near standstill by strike action.

branch secretaries '

ALL

HOSPITAL

ancil-

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

lary workers in Coven- try, Rugby and Nuneaton tention of marchin with accepted by the member- are on a 24-hour strike hospita workers. he said. Sulb.

BY JACK GALE

today.

HOSPITAL

"The CO- •onziets. Cori• They will hold a march Aberdeen reacted angrily mittee is toeing the Tory decision line. INTEREST repayment rates on house mortgages yesterday to by and demonstration in Cov- are soaring astronomically and will soon be afternoon co-ordinating this 'We need leaders who

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mittees to call off their Provincial will fight Heath over per cent. The Building against the government's

LLC COW

strike. Society, the Britain, to General Strike. The seventh has state pay laws. largest in Bill Fowler, executive leadership ready all present announced that it is breaking away from the Coventry Trades ounCl committee menser ure back driven and the local district Confederation of SICCOMNC UCU HIVOSLCEL LC SELe.

slave conditions

CADOU

the Transport Health Service Employees mittees of of the Victorian days.' ling £349,123,000 weeks ago the an General Workers' and vuon. •lanci salu tlat unc uLORS Building Societies Asso- £49,985,000 The Aberdeen strike

AUEW

and

TASS

have represented co- Tine ciation action began February recommended over the previous year. asked all trade unionists committee were to •.s-Deracerl invester It had liquid funds of this demonstration. support rate, but the Provincial £82,094,000 an Ancillary workers in five from Rolls- 'The workers will now offer 6.75 per weeshuons of £8,272,000. hospitals were called out crease No Royce factories, Chrsyler's, angry. one has peen for three-day periods. Cent to Investors, gross• it had

TASS

consulted and meetings Ana reserves he ing up to 9.4 per cent. £15,246 rise held discuss strikers and been ancillary

HUNDKED

ToCC past llave £1,681,000. miners York's

STOIS

coventry

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•euson. beneve workers decisions the Leek The Alliance Society liery have signified their in- would have been accident hospital, the Icvel and (the WASDO TRe had LoTEt assers eighth largest £458.051,000 which was and the Alliance £80,715,000 the offer

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largest) Liquidi DIeVOls investors 6.5 per cent. funds were £98,979,000 Other a rise of £22,112,000. smaller socie- ties nave

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TeSerYeS were nounced that they will £13,851,000 increasing in-

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MEMBERS

of the bility of government help to V couleul lale aDOVC • The largest building Labour Shadow Cabinet yes- save the works.' LEADERS of 320,000 Posi Ine norm. society the OI terday saw Industrial Deve- So far none of the Halifax. This giant had The firm's liquidator re- seeking to follow gas unio Chris- Minister Mr cently initiated further High soaenec invorved total assets last year OIC t in this breakaway have topher Chataway ing Phase Two of the Tory an en- „.›yo.0lo.. court moves io cain bosses said off a legal what their attempt to stave rise of sion of the south London 1101l- OrmOUS Briant Late yesterday after- gage rates will E402,347,000 Ante ese the

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plant. Colour Printing on noon Union of Post Office The e previous year. Mr Bill Freeman, chair- Kent Road. Workers' they are Tom the secreti Its liquid funds were joint chabe s certain to be more than Anthony Wedgwood Jackson was at Post Office £425,946,000 in- committee which an the 9.5 per cent, which Benn and Mr Bob Mellish headquarters, where he running the sit-in, has been was hought to be the the previous CICaSC OVCI MP for Bermondsey, were year of £76,039,000. was believed to be putting summoned to appear in the which the apparently hoping to get the UDoCr High Court on April 4 with the final touches to a deal Its Association could re- government to intervene reSCrYC weit all® the books, yielding commend when it meets a rise of money as they did at with -Uilially . papers and documents. £13,658. creases of f2 from on April 13.

ONAR

While shareholders in But Mr Freeman has said Last week one of the Benn said before the meet- Mondav. specialist these millionaire compa- 'We shall discuss with that neither he nor The almost-completed deal, socie- ing: nies wax fat, millions of books would be going. which is said to conform in

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Indicalce Clalaway. unc

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mid- working-class and mortgage rates would vary between 9.5 people ............... vent and more than lo.s ce-cass are constantly burdened with rising prices, rising per cent in some cases. renLs rising

THOL-

• The Provincial Buil- standard of ANOTHER greal post yester- The trade union leaders detend their gages. ding Society last year continue to avoid show- living. he Labour Party of {261.92 brought our had LOLa assers down with the must be made to bledge figure up to {1,408.52but Tory govern- So keep our paper out in do that, on its return to everything We still meti front. sure you raise crease • •Л

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office, will immedi- they can avold a fight {341.48 lo collect by the final £341.48 over the have over the the Tory laws. ••revious ver. against pay this alery

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grOSS next tao days. Don't leave Its liquid funds were Saturday complete our But all profiteering the the at detoneRs Keep it up. We're £76,563,000 target. world by Scanlon, Sote lit tlinner of basic needs. pense in the every donation immediately crease of almst there. any other union leader, All these hrms to: the previous year. Press anti-union Workers is needed the should i nationalized laws be And its that Workers Press without compensation, more provide reserVeS WCrC ever in- revolutionary leadership ands of trade unionists March Appeal rund with the land, the crease of £2,141,000. are being forced 186a Clapham High Street to thousands workers everywhere building industry and to fight this London, SW4 7UG Leek and West- the building supply • The everywuere. verneu a ..... .......... douche ado assers tola- arIs.

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01-622 7029 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL Joe Rauco County, went strike on yesterday afternoon. They stopped work at 3 p.m. and will not go back until mid- night on Saturday. ONE union leader repre- senting the hospital work- ers says that the ancillary workers' industrial action would not defeat the gov- ernment's policy. Mr Frank Lynch, general secretary of the Confedera- tion of Health Service Em- ployees, says in his union's Journal: 'I do not think the policy of the present government can be breached by the action of the ancillary staff.

The government strangled by the rigidity of its own policy behind which it is no longer entrenched, but imprisoned.' 00 Post Office workers are as union chiefs into accept- he Tory pay laws. every respect to Phase Two, falls far short of the claim, supported by six unions, for a £5.50 increase across the board This would be the biggest the union leaders success have yet handed the Tories in their attempts to impose state regulation of wages.

But it would be certain to widespread arouse anger among the unions' rank and file. Lofthouse miner THE WAKEFIELD coroner yesterday adjourned an in- quest into the death of Lofthouse miner Charles who would have Cotton, been 50 the day after the pit disaster. Mr Philip Gill adjourned the hearing to a date to be 'steps were fixed because being taken to recover the of six other miners bodies still missing.' Dr Lionel Rose said that Mr Cotton had no serious injury and it was evident he drowned in very muddy water. •Everything is compatible to him dying in the • inrush of water,? he added. The was told inquest that Mr Cotton's body was recovered 80 yards from safety in the pit tunnel.

His son, Terence, was on the same night shift but escaped.