Workers Press no. 1038

workers press

THE TORY PAY-

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

AMID A FLOURISH of publicity the Pay Board came into operation yester- day armed with sweeping legal powers to hold down all wages during Phase Two to £l plus 4 per cent.

But this increase it amounts to an average of 8 per cent—is already way in excess of the Tory government's re- quirements. That is why one of the immediate tasks of the Pay Board is to draw up Phase Three, which is likely to halve the present state pay award. The Tories will further have to strangle wage claims because of the depth of the economic crisis which is driving like a battering ram through its manoeuvres with the trade union bureaucrats. These objective economic conditions will force the government into an unavoidable showdown with the working class No amount of on wages. betrayal by union leaders—e.g. the gasmen's claim, the Ford dispute, the postmen-can remove this confrontation from the agenda.

The Tory-owned 'Daily Telegraph' is very clear about this inevitable clash.

In yesterday's editorial, the "Telegraph' main commended Heath for his success during the first phase of the state control over wages. The specifically paper

BY OUR POLITICAL

dealt with the point Workers Press raised

CORRESPONDENT

in Monday's paper that it is one thing to and pass state pay laws... 'arrangement' ('a statutory another thing enforce to over prices and in- control them: comes. buttressed by a con- *The enforcement of a law cordat with the unions') will which curbs wage increases not get the Tories out of the depends on a formidable dis- woods. play of will by nerve and "There will be fewer and victories, those who introduced it. fewer the paper But are made governments says. of fallible mortals It concludes by saying that up buffeted by the popular pres- the primary objective must be 'a curbing of the unions' sures of the hour. monopolistic power'. 'Over a long term, the law Herein lies the real inten- dis- will not, therefore, tion of the Heath govern- interestedly be enforced. The ment-to smash the unions.

Two) particular law (Phase Tories The have alwavs will then be held in con- been able to whip the trade tempt and other laws too.

union leaders into line- -to- Telegraph' has And the morrow the TUC is meeting for other sobering advice Heath at the Neddy talks. Heath. But the working class re- It says that the present mains determined and ready London dockers leaving the Royal Group yesterday in their dispute

TING. THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY A

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OI

to fight providing it is with leadership won't that compromise, that won't sell out. The unions have before them the permanent suspen- sion of all rights of free wage negotiations. But one by one they are coming to accept this great- attack on basic est ever democratic rights. When engineers' president Hugh Scanlon offered a deal with Tories last Wednesday he was only voicing the general consensus in the upper councils of the unions, the TUC and the Stalinist leadership of the Communist Party. But despite this the big battles lie ahead. It is impossible to deprive the working class of all its rights and reduce it to the unorganized rabble it was before the era of air dispute over pay and productivity.

ESDAY APRIL 3, 1973

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trade unions with a de- cisive class showdown. The Tories know this and they are preparing. The diplomatic start of the Pay Board is deliberate —a transparent disguise for the real preparations for class war. If there is one lesson Ito be drawn from this first round with the Tory gov- ernment it is that the re- formist and Stalinist leader- ship is utterly incapable of leading the working class to anything but defeat. In the immediate days and weeks in front no time must be lost in constructing an alternative revolutionary leadership in the working class. This can only be done through joining us in the transformation the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. • 4p

LABOUR LEAGUE

IT HAS been an outstanding year for the Socialist Labour League. March 12, 1972, chalked up the Right to Work rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, when an audience of 8,500 greeted the hundreds of Young Socialists who successfully completed the five national marches. March 11, 1973, an enthusiastic audience of 10,000 watched four major episodes of English working-class history, also at the Empire Pool, and went away determined to continue the fight to prevent the Tory government from taking away democratic rights won in over two centuries of struggle. Between these two major events we had the national conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on October 22, 1972, when an audience of 2.200 unanimously pledged to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party.

Following that was an overflow rally in London greeting the three years of the Workers Press.

1973 there was the Young Early in January Socialists' 20th Annual Meeting of 'Keep Left', which was also packed out.

We could go on and on. Every campaign and public function of the Socialist Labour League, the ATUA and Workers the Young Socialists. Press was an unqualified success. But this is only part of the story. In every field of work the Socialist Labour League goes ahead in the same way, among youth, in the trade unions, the professions and particularly in those layers of the working class in struggle. We are now in the decisive stage of the cam- paign to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. Discussions are going on in all parts of the country around the two main draft resolutions on perspectives and amendments are starting to come in for the pre- liminary National Conference, which will be held towards the end of May. Every reader of the Workers Press is warmly invited to take part. The most encouraging side of this work is that it has virtually put us out of business as we were in the past. Our premises, workshops and print- ing facilities are swamped out. Just think of it- only a little over three years ago we installed an entire new plant. We've simply grown out of it.

Now we need major extensions to our printing presses, because of the growing circulation of Workers Press-at least 20,000 square feet of office space, an increase in the number of full- time workers, a list of technical equipment for propaganda and agitation purposes which is too large to enumerate here, etc. etc.

Our approximate financial requirement between now and October 30 is £100,000. This will be the largest development fund in our history.

Not a penny is needed to pay off debts. We have no financial crisis in our day-to-day run- ning, apart from keeping a hard eye on the inflation and price rises of essential goods.

Thanks to the unswerving devotion of the read- ers of Workers Press we have so far kept the wolf at bay. But it is a never-ending struggle.

We need the full £100,000 to prepare the aroundwork for the transformation of the Socialist Labour Leaque into a revolutionary partv. We feel it can be raised in two parts£50,000 by the end of May and £50,000 by the end of October.

We know you are going to give generously.

Could we now have a substantial donation to start the ball rolling. Who will be first?

workers press

THE TORY PAY-

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

AMID A FLOURISH of publicity the Pay Board came into operation yester- day armed with sweeping legal powers Two to £l plus 4 per cent.

But this increase—it amounts to an average of 8 per cent—is already way in excess of the Tory government's re- quirements. That is why one of the immediate tasks of the Pay Board is to draw up Phase Three, which is likely to halve the present state pay award. The Tories will further have to strangle wage claims because of the depth of the economic crisis which is driving like a battering ram through its manoeuvres with the trade union bureaucrats. These objective economic conditions will force the government into unavoidable showdown an with the working class on wages. No amount of betrayal by union leaders—e.g. the gasmen's claim, the Ford dispute, the postmen-can remove this confrontation from the agenda.

The Tory-owned 'Daily Telegraph' is very clear about this inevitable clash.

In yesterday's editorial, the 'Telegraph' main commended Heath for his success during the first phase the state control over wages. The specifically paper

BY OUR POLITICAL

dealt with the point Workers Monday's Press raised

CORRESPONDENT

in paper that it is one thing to pay laws ... and pass state 'arrangement' (a statutory another thing to enforce and in- control over prices them: comes, buttressed by a con- "The enforcement of a law cordat with the unions') will which curbs not get the Tories out of the wage increases depends on a formidable dis- woods. play of nerve and will by "There will be fewer and who introduced it. victories, those fewer the paper But governments made are says. fallible mortals up of It concludes by saying that buffeted by the popular pres- the objective must primary "a curbing of the unions' sures of the hour. be monopolistic power'. 'Over a long term, the law Herein lies the real inten- will therefore, not. tion of the Heath govern- interestedly be enforced. The ment-to smash the unions.

Two) particular law (Phase The Tories have always be held will then in con- been able to whip the trade tempt and other laws too.

union leaders into line-to- And the "Telegraph' has morrow the TUC is meeting other sobering advice for Heath the Neddy talks. at Heath. But the working class re- mains determined and ready It says that the present London dockers leaving the Royal Group yesterday in their dispute INCORPORATING. THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY APRIL 3, 1973 • No 1038 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BOARD

STARTS

WORK

to fight providing it is with leadership that won't compromise, that won't sell othe unions before have them the all manes su pene rights of all

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wage negotiations. But one by they are coming to accept this great- esi ever democratic rights. When engineers' president Hugh Scanlon •hered a deal with Tories last Wednesday the was only voicing ne genera consensus upper councils of the the

TUC

and the unions, Stalinist leadership Communist Party. But despite this the big battles lie ahead. It is impossible to deprive the working class of all its rights and reduce rabble The unorganized before the era Was Dockers face pay law clash-see p.12 • No 1038 • 4j

ESDAY APRIL 3, 1973

TTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR

trade unions with a de- The cisive class showdown. Tories know this and they are preparing. The diplomatic start of the Pay Board is deliberate —a transparent disguise for the real preparations for class war. If there is one lesson to be drawn from this first round with the Tory gov- ernment it is that the re- formist and Stalinist leader- ship is utterly incapable of leading the working class to anything but defeat. In the immediate days and weeks in front no time must be lost in constructing an alternative revolutionary leadership in the working class. This can only be done through joining us in the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. 038 • 4p

LABOUR LEAGUE

IT HAS been an outstanding year for the Socialist Labour League. March 12, 1972, chalked up the 'Right to Work' rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, when an audience of 8,500 greeted the hundreds of Young Socialists who successfully completed the five national marches. March 11, 1973, an enthusiastic audience of 10,000 watched four major episodes of English working-class history, also at the Empire Pool, and went away determined to continue the fight to prevent the Tory government from taking away democratic rights won in over two centuries of struggle. Between these two major events we had the national Trades Unions of the All conterence When all dience of 2,200 Alliance in the October 22, 1972, when an audience unanimously pledged to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party.

Following that was an overflow rally in London Greeting the three years of the Workers Press.

January 1973 there was the Young Socialists' 20th Annual Meeting of 'Keep Left', which was also packed out.

We could go on and on. Every campaign and public function of the Socialist Labour League, the Young Socialists, the ATUA and Workers Press was an unqualified success. But this is only part of the story. In every field of work the Socialist Labour League goes ahead in the same way, among youth, in the trade unions, the professions and particularly in those layers of the working class in struggle. We are now in the decisive stage of the cam- paign to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. Discussions are going on in all parts of the country around the two draft perspectives and resolutions on main amendments are starting to come in for the pre- liminary National Conference, which will be held towards the end of May. Every reader of the Workers Press is warmly invited to take part. The most encouraging side of this work is that it has virtually put us out of business as we were in the past. Our premises, workshops and print- ing facilities are swamped out. Just think of it— only a little over three years ago we installed an entire new plant. We've simply grown out of it.

Now we need major extensions to our printing presses, because of the growing circulation of Workers Press-at least 20,000 square feet of office space, an increase in the number of full- time workers, a list of technical equipment for propaganda and agitation purposes which is too large to enumerate here, etc. etc.

Our approximate financial requirement between and October 30 is £100,000. This will be the now largest development fund in our history.

Not a penny is needed to pay off debts. We have no financial crisis in our day-to-day run- ning, apart from keeping a hard eye on the inflation and price rises of essential goods.

Thanks to the unswerving devotion of the read- ers of Workers Press we have so far kept the wolf at bay. But it is a never-ending struggle.

We need the full £100,000 to prepare the groundwork for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. We feel it can be raised in two parts£50,000 by the end of May and 50,000 by the end of October.

We know you are going to give generously.

Could we now have a substantial donation to start the bail rolling. Who will be first?

VAT is spring cleaning Stalinists join meat Feeding Saigon's 'dollar addicts' PAGE 2 Workers Prose, Tuaeday April J, 1873 THE LIAISON Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions is not a genuine rank-and-file movement. It is a stooge organization of the Communist Party whose sole purpose is to head off the development of opposition to the present trade union bureaucracy. The Stalinists are determined to keep workers tied hand and foot behind Scanlon, Jones, Jackson and company in order that their struggles may be isolated, weakened and defeated.

The British Communist Party does not act in the interests of the working class, but of the counter- revolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. This bureaucracy, acting on the Stalinist theories of peaceful co-existence and parliamentary roads to socialism in order to defend its own privileges, is bitterly opposed to revolution anywhere in the world. That is why the British Stalinists faithfully support the reformist trade union leaders at every turn —as they are doing, for example, over Hugh Scanlon's acceptance of the Industrial Relations Act, state pay control and the Common Market.

Yesterday's 'Morning Star' spelled this out when Liaison explaining why the conference of the Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions re- jected a move by members of the International Socialists group to put forward resolutions and amendments. "The conference voted overwhelmingly against thinly-disguised move to transform the Liaison Committee into an alternative to the official trade union movement ... 'It took the form of demanding that resolutions should be moved at the conference and voted on.

But most delegations realized that a decision to have resolutions would strain relations with official trade union bodies, whose rules and regu- lations do not allow them to commit themselves in resolution form unofficial trade union at gatherings.' (Emphasis added.)

In other words, the purpose of the Liaison Com- mittee conference, dominated by ageing Stalinist hacks, was to let off steam by means of "left' talk while mounting no challenge whatever to the official trade union leadership.

It is this leadership which has sold out the gas the hospital workers, isolated workers and miners, and continually trailed to Downing Street to collaborate with Heath, while wasting the energies of the working class in one-day protests.

The revisionist International Socialists and Inter- national Marxist Group, despite their shouting at the Friends' House gathering, collaborate with the Stalinists by persistently presenting the Liaison Committee as a genuine workers!

move- ment which simply needs a few organizational improvements. An 'Open Letter to delegates to the Liaison Com- mittee' in the current 'Socialist Worker'-the IS weekly paper-claims that the one-day protest strikes organized against the Industrial Relations Act were 'a creditable record'.

But the Stalinists and the union leaders organized these protests as an alternative to a real fight for an indefinite General Strike to bring the Tory government down. The 'letter' goes on to say that 'The vitally neces- sary structure of local liaison committees had not been built. The LCDTU, say the revisionists, 'must give the lead in creating genuine local committees throughout the country'.

And 'Socialist Worker' concludes: If the lessons _ last year have not of the been learned, the LCDTU will inevitably and justly be condemned to irrelevance.' For the revisionists it is simply a matter of 'learn- ing the lessons' that the organization has been inadequate in 'giving a lead' and building local committees. And who is to do all this? Why, the Stalinists of course! Acting upon the wise advice of the Inter- national Socialists group.

Nowhere do these anti-communist revisionists analyse the role of Stalinism in the trade unions.

Nowhere do they expose and fight its counter- revolutionary nature. Despite the clash and fist-fights at the Liaison Com- mittee conference, the real political call of the IS group was that the Liaison Committee must take the initiative'. (his persistent refusal to discuss the political nature of Stalinism goes hand in hand with the reiection by the IS of all the enormous economic and social gains of the Russian Revolution. They are not impressed by the strength of the Soviet Union, but by the bureaucracy.

They reject the workers' state, but prostrate them- selves before the representatives of the counter- revolutionary caste in the Kremlin.

Stalinism can and must be defeated. But this can only be done by the International Committee of the Fourth International which, basing itself on the enormous strength and gains of the working class, is determined to resolve the crisis of leader.

ship in the working class.

struggle against re- That involves an unceasing formism, Stalinism and revisionism.

BY IAN YEATS

THE GREAT VAT

price hike began on Britain's high streets yesterday. cafes, were putting up the Those looking towards In London suburbs, everything the an prices from spring for oppor- trading quiet and of tea tunity to do up their home Clos • o-course shops were closed meals. now face price increases on many everything from wallpaper for the dav while owners When housewives go to and managers sorted out Dalli laundries dry cleaner knives. new charges. they will be asked to pay VAT at the full 10-per-cent For the time being some The manager of Home rate. tailor's shops, such as Charm, Brixton, South

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London told I feel utters, who takes a taxi Anyone Ill. but many shop- home really for people. willnave keepers warned that tags 3p surcharge If it en- Majority the prices are Can ceol gaged phone what by going to go up. when new stocks arrive. used to he on near benioci there will no longer be any At Times Furnishing Eating houses, res- the cheap rates for the call.

prices of electrical taurants down to the corner

HOUSEWIVES

the United States yesterday began a week's boycott of meat pur- chases in protest against the escalation of food prices.

The protest, backed uncritically The bigges by the liberals and the Communist In lact, nis secretary Ior Agriculture Earl Butz, is on record as saying that in the Party Stalinists, demonstrates the the American people have been depth of hostility across the coun- catulls Luenl United State too cheaply In the past. try to the price increases.

Butz and the big food monopolies President Nixon, whose recent show rectify this are out to situation 80 per cent. all. ot freezing raw meat prices is a patent June aest coverimen not going to be swayed by figures show that retail food prices are Beef steak this week's protest. rising at an annual 30 per cent rate.

ago at $1.29 amilles boycotting meat is not a voluntary PRESIDENT Nguyen Van Not only does Washing- local officials and business- ton supply military aid on a men are induced to become Thieu is in the United which "dollar eve

HOW

States for urgent talks over $1,000m a year, it also pendent the and provides foreign exchange for infamous with President Nixon and any South Vietnam's activity. US officials on averting class on a scale far in excess has been falling catastrophe for the South of what the since 1971, partly because earn from Vietnamese economy. its exports. the dollar been de- has foreign because of re. villed from the currency are supplied duced local purchasing and Apart danger that his forces might be through de- 'counterpart funds cuts in Congressional appro on battlefield, priations. Brenter American withdrawal poses nated businessmen These have causes other dangers for President change their Vietnamese brought the aid figures for piastres (which Vietnam down by as less outside South Vietnam) much as 40 per cent His is puppet regime into US dollars There very con- completely dependent for its Lavourabe rare survival on financial These funds are a potent cuts in the amount of dollars handouts. source of graft and corrup- into South Vietnam flowing Even limited restrictions

WOUN

on these funds could cause Cambodian leader Prince slash imports and possibly uncontrollable slump. Sihanouk has described how impose import restrictions. goods have temporarily gone down. But all major items of home furnishings, from three piece suites to carpets, were being marked up by between 3 and 5 per cent.

Hairdressing charges, garage costs, cinema theatre tickets, football ad- mission fees will all affected by the new tax. Shopkeepers said yester- day that it would be some time before the full impact of VAT was felt. The biggest increase of all has been the price of beef, a major consti- nt of many workers' diets in the ited States. The price rose 6.7 per t in February-an annual rate of Beef steaks which retailed two years • at $1.29 a pound are now being sold at $1.89 (about 79p a the cheapest pound). Even cuts are over $l a pound.

taking These rises are place at a time when the Nixon Pay Board is rigor- ously keeping wages to a maximum 5.5-per-cent a year increase. The Democratic Party, which is supported by the majority of union leaders and by the Stalinists, is call- ing for even stricter con- trols.

MARKED RISE

Since wage controls began in August 1971 the price of beef has gone up 17 per are up 30 per cent, eggs cent, veal is up 58 per cent.

Prices of houses, fuel and many other commodities have also risen markedly.

devaluation Dollar has raised the price of all im- ported items. This attack on living workers' standards cannot be answered by pro- test boycotts and other diversions. A boycott of meat pro- ducts can only turn atten- tion away from the struggle for higher wages against the Nixon pay controls and the collaboration of the union bureaucracy in their opera- tion. This would prick what is left of the wartime con- sumer boom in the cities.

and destroy the regime's re- maining political narrow base. Thieu's neighbour lon Nol of Cambodia, another pensioner of Washington, is facing even more severe problems. His: capital, Phnom Penh, is surrounded by partisans of the exiled Prince Siha- nouk and repeated bombing strikes by US B52s have failed to break the siege.

The Phnom Penh regime recently turned down an from the liberation offer forces to negotiate a peace deal which would exclude Lon Nol from the govern- ns... ment.,...

Bank and boardroom men clamp your pay THE MEN who will adjudicate the therefore the standard of living —of workers began their duties yesterday House in Westminster. The Tory - appointed .of the Pay members Board include a Treasury mandarin, senior execu- from ICI, Cour- tives tauld's and GEC, a lead- ing banker and a former official of Labour's Prices and Incomes Board. These men - all getting extravagant salaries- -have two main powers invested by the state pay laws: • Prohibit the whole or part of an intended pay in- crease from being paid. • Reduce to a permissible level a pay increase that is already being paid. Their powers are backed by the might of the judiciary. Anyone not complying with an order or notice issued by the Pay Board may be prosecuted. The first offence may be a fine of up to £400, but on but that themselves among indictment the fines can be each country would have its unlimited and could result tariff wall to own, separate in jail sentences. the outside world. In 1965 he returned to the secretary

'CAREFUL'

Treasury as third and became second secretary in 1968. Last year premier Edward Opening the board for Heath promoted him to business yesterday the chair- of the director-general Frank Figgures, Sir man, Economic Devel- National said: opment Council. 'In dealing with pay in- responsible Figgures was creases and making sure that the first in- for launching they comply with the code, formal' talks with the TUC's to be careful- we intend Feather Victor last year but quick.' led the tripartite which to The wielding this men talks and the state pay laws.

are drawn enormous power straight from the ruling class,

KENNETH JOHNSON,

to say the Tory Party not another Oxford gradu- itself! served with the has ate, Colonial Administrative Ser-

FRANK

FIG-

SIR

GURES, KCB, CMG,

in 1961 he the chairman. He was edu- joined the cated at Oxford and Yale. After the he became war mic department. director of trade and finance government the Organization for to Economic Co- European 1948 to 1951. operation from on economic planning After a spell at the Trea- he became secretary sury general of the European Free 1967 he became

(EFTA),

Trade Association CBI's director of and six industrial formed Britain after department relations. including other countries, was active in drafting Portugal, were refused mem- and promoting laws against bership of the Common the unions. Market. tauld's and

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Frdays late Satidays gam -o p.m. the wages - and — of millions of rday from Neville chairman and managing director of one of the tex- tile giant's subsidiaries, Cook and Watts Limited. past few weeks In the Courtauld's has been named as one of the British com- panies paying slave wages to its workers in South Atrica.

DEREK ROBINSON

was educated at Oxford a TUC scholarship. In on 1961 he became senior re- search officer at the Oxford University Institute of Eco- nomics and Statistics. From 1965 to 1967 he was an economic adviser to the ill-fated Prices and Incomes Board. Since 1969 he has been a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

RELUCTANCE

GEOFFREY GILBERT-

SON was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and Cambridge. For many years he has been personnel man- ager at Imperial Chemical Industries" is Michael Clap- whose deputy chairman ham, the president of the

CBI.

Since last year Gilbertson has been general manager (personnel) for the company.

ICI has shown a bitter reluctance to allow ASTMS, the white-collar union, to enjoy bargaining rights in- side the firm. An ICI Staff Association was set up with the assist- ance of and the company this body was one of the first to register under the Industrial Relations Act.

MICHAEL: BETT • is known to members of TASS (formerly DATA), the technical and supervisory section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. From 1970 to 1972 he was director of industrial the Engineer- relations with ing Employers' Federation.

On October 2, 1970, the EEF sent a confidential cir- cular to its members which OVER 20 maintenance workers London, the main British-Leyland strike yesterday after management negotiate with the Amalgamated Workers. The strikers have appeale of the union, Andy. Wilson, for off

BY ALEX MITCHEL

determined represented • struggle to smash DATA militancy in engineering works. The union's newspaper said the secret letter 'shows clearly the concerted effort to undermine being made and dismantle genuine staff to destroy unionism and DATA (now TASS)'. Workers Press When asked Bett to comment he said: 'We've prepared ourselves for guerrilla warfare. We've had to. The gloves are off.'

Since leaving the EEF, Bett (38) has been personnel director of Sir Arnold Weinstock's General Elec- tric Company, where tens of thousands of jobs have been lost over the past few years.

JAMES BLAIR-CUN-

YNGHAME, OBE, went King's College, Cam- to bridge. He was chief per- sonnel officer at BOAC from 1947 to 1955 and director general of staff at the Na- tional Coal Board from 1955 to 1957. Since 1968 he has been a powerful figure in the banking world-chairman of the National and Commer- cial Banking Group Limited since 1968 and chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland since 1971.

'JUSTICE'

IT IS from this corporatist board and from these six men that the working class is supposed to receive 'wage justice' and have 'anomalies' rectified. The board is a conspiracy of ruling-class interests to slash wages and impoverish the working class. its laws The board and can only be ended by a fight to remove the Tory govern- ment from i office. An incoming Labour gov- ernment must be mandated by the trade unions and the working class to dismantle this corporatist body. Lancaster's, at Kingston, distributor e appealed to the district organizer on; for official backing.

Workers Press, Tuesday April 3, 1973 PAGE 3.

COUNCIL tenants in Lancaster have now all received notice of a 50p- a-week rent increase to

TCHELL

bring them into line with the Tory government's 'fair rents' Act. Notification of the in- given at the was creases weekend, following last week's council meeting, which finally decided to im- plement the Act. The decision to increase the rents was taken by the city's Labour councillors together with the voting Tories. Only three councillors in the Labour group refused to support the increase-Mike Lewthwaite, Bill Corr, and Gordon Houlding. The others merely 'regis- tered their disgust' while voting for the increase. One tenant commented afterwards: 'It's a good job our ances- did bit than tors a more "register disgust" their at the Tories-or we wouldn't have any labour movement today, and we wouldn't even be free to stand here talking about it!' This is the second increase Some of the in rents in Lancaster under Board Pay the Act. members in A previous 50p rise was brought in by the Tories office their before thev lost control of (left to right), the council to Labour. Mr Ken John- The Labour Party pro- mised to oppose the Act son, executive when it took over and Lan- deputy chair- caster Trades Council urged man, Mr lan the council to stick by its pledge. Hudson, secre- But even those councillors tary to the who did vote against the Board, Mr increases had said that, with the lack of leadership from Derek Robin- the Labour Party nationally, son, deputy they thought it unlikely that chairman, and Lancaster would put up a fight. Sir Frank Figgures, • A fuller report on Lan- caster rents fight will appear chairman. in Saturday's Workers Press.

CONDITIONS at Gartree Prison, Leicester- shire, are back to normal after last Novem- ber's riots, the Prison Officers' Association has said. They added that after he disturbances extra was being put back into working order. police were drafted in But in his letter (see and prisoners were kept locked for long article page 4) the pri- up periods while the jail soner alleges that in- sub- was repaired. mates are being But an inmate at the jected to a reign of ter- top-security prison has ror: that they continue in their cells; smuggled out a letter to to eat al- that that they are not relatives claiming far from being back to lowed to wash properly "barbaric and that they are un- normal a tyranny' has been estab- locked only one hour lished at Gartree. in 24.

SECURITY

LETTER

4 The POA claims that Harborough's Conser- Gartree was vative MP Mr John not built Farr, who has taken up for top-security prison- ers and that riot dam- the case, assures me made the that the letter was writ- long age detention of inmates in- least three ten at evitable while security months after the riot. And he added that it was restored. During the riots secu- into his hands came within a week of being rity doors were ripped cell walls written. out, torn down and The Home Secretary the outer wall of the has not commented on prison the allegations and a breached. The POA also says Home Office spokesman would only say that the that prisoners were to eat in their forced matter was being inves- tigated. cells while the canteen

'REIGN OF TERROR' CLAIM IN

TOP SECURITY PRISONS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday April 3

BY IAN YEATS

'B' wing at the notorious top - security Gartree prison in Leicestershire is being used to subject in- mates to a reign of terror, a prisoner has claimed. The man prefers not to re- veal his identity for fear of reprisals from the prison authorities. He alleges that for 23 day prisoners hours a are in solitary confine- locked ment in cells only seven • feet square. Since the riot last Novem- ber the walls of cells in 'B' wing have been strengthened with wire mesh and the beds have been cemented into the floor. There are no curtains on the windows and there is no escape from the powerful arc lamps which flood the cells with perpetual light and make sleep difficult. A table has also been cemented into the wall and the prisoner says that for all but one hour a day men in 'B' wing have a space no bigger the floor area of two than telephone boxes to move about in. one hour they For are allowed to walk in a circle affording them the only exer- cise they would otherwise get.

But the special character of 'B' wing : does not end with the environment. Prisoners there are apparently given 'special treatment' as well.

The letter smuggled past the prison's rigid censorship system is now with Tory Home Secretary Mr Robert Carr after finding its way into hands of Leicestershire the MP Mr John Farr. No luxuries It alleges that warders punch and slap prisoners, that food is of the minimum and served up within four yards of that lavatory and an open there is a 'barbaric' punitive regime. Extra food and clothing and personal plates and cups are taken away from all those sent to the isolation wings. Prison- ers with savings are not allow- ed to buy such small luxuries as jam or syrup. Our informant claims there are no education classes, no films, no library The Monday Club, the right- wing Tory group, has set up a special executive to co- ordinate its 'Halt Immigra- tion Now Campaign'. The director of this opera- tion is Mr Ronald Bell, QC, the Tory MP for Buckingham- who is notorious shire South, for his anti-immigrant views.

The man responsible for running, the campaign on a day-to-day basis is Tony Van der Elst, an actor. The idea of setting up a special co-ordinating body first became clear two months ago News' adver- 'Monday when tised for 'A full national mem- ber of the club to fill an honorary position (reasonable paid to would . be expenses undertake a task of a highly- important nature. In the first applicants for instance the post should write to the direc- tor, giving an outline of their political experience. No one is quite sure about Mr Van der Elst's previous lay April 3, 1973 Tory Home Secretary, Robert Carr who conditions it described. and, worst of all, no associa- tion. Even though there are wash- basins available, he claims they are forced to wash in a plastic jug and so cannot keep clean. He says that although the Home Office says bread and water punishment longer used in British jails, several prisoners' are in fact on such a diet. 'political experience, but he started the job this month.

The campaign has three main objectives: • A halt to immigration. • A realistic repatriation scheme. • The repeal of the 1968 Race Relations Act. The campaign was launched public rally at at a mass Central Hall, Westminster, on which September 16 last at members of the National Front acted as stewards. At a march following the meeting the NF-with banners —were prominent on the walk to No i0 Downing Street to present a protest letter against the arrival of Ugandan Asians expelled by General Idi Amin.

Max Hanna, a former Mon- day Club member, says in this month's issue of 'Race Today' that there was an ugly side to "patriotic rally. During this the singing and "Jerusalem' and «Wogs there were. shouts of Out' and similar remarks.

Carr who has the letter and has so far refus In addition to all of this, there are a host of 'restrictive petty rules' which inmates can be punished for disobeying.

Uniform They can be punished for failing to wear a tie when ask- ing for a letter, failing to wear the grey uniform when called to the office and failing to put on shoes on a visit to the * toilet. ES Now available from New P 186a Clapham High Street far refused to hold an inquiry into the Our informant alleges that during last year's riot, extra officers were called in from borstals, detention centres and jails. Three months later, he says, they are all still there.

He claims they are used in large numbers to intimidate prisoners. for the first time he dis- ¿loses that the November riot the * vas first sparked off by poor food. By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated of leading Sharp pen-portraits figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for.

the first time published in an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the Socialists' 'Keep Young paper Left' Their enormous success has led to the completion of the 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 picture available of the historic 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.

n New Park Publications h Street, London, SW4 7UG But, more important, he prisoners' claims tempers broke when they saw foiled escapees 'surrounded by scores of prison officers' hit with batons and then one of their number struck by an officer over the head with a claw hammer. The letter says 'As the in- mate fell down unconscious the officer was seen to strike him again and again with the hammer. The watching inmates thought the man had been killed. 'All the prisoners had been on low morale because of the and to them this was food the last straw. The prison blew up? But the letter claims that those who took part in the riot have been punished 'crush- ingly' long ago. The writer insists that his letter to the outside world is not a plea to help them and he goes on: 'It is an urgent plea to help the non-rioters, many of whom are undergoing severe punish- ments, yet who have never been charged with any breach of the rules.' Committee He alleges that under rule 43 of the prison rules no evidence or charge is needed for men to be incarcerated in the feared 'B' wing. He accuses prison the authorities 'grossly abusing' this rule.

More serious still, he claims that many of the 40 currently in isolation' are ex-members of the inmates' food committee disbanded by prison the authorities before the riot.

committee was axed The after the Home Office upheld its complaints about prison food brought to the light of result of requests day as a from within the prison to Mr John Farr for help. The letter says that they have been put into the wing 'without true justification' and on 'trumped-up excuses'. 'This is our last hope,' the letter ends. 'I beg you on be- half of the other inmates and myself to insist on a free in- quiry here.' Mr Farr has asked the Home Secretary for an inquiry. So far without success. There has already been an investigation into the riot, but despite repeated requests, Mr Farr has been told he cannot see the report. Property tycoon Harry Hyams, owner of the empty but pro- fitable Centre Point building in St Giles' Circus, London, cut-from has taken a pay £15,315 to £15,293 a year.

And Hyams' exemplary con- Tories' tribution the to 'counter-inflation' measures does not end with this magni- ficent gesture, which will cost 50p a week. He him almost is also foregoing a dividend 20,527,210 payment on his shares in the company of which he is chairman, Oldham Estates. But let's look again. Since Hyams pays the top income tax rate of 75p in the pound, his actual spending will be cut by some- power thing in the region of only a week-while, because he is not drawing a dividend, already massive share- his holding will actually increase in size. Nice work if you can get it.!

FRANCO'S WEAPON: THE FASCIST UNION

Corporatism in Spain by Juan ( The Bonapartist dictator- ship of Primo de Rivera in the mid-1920s estab- lished corporatist organi.

zations in Spain for deal- ing with labour problems.

It was a system of joint members committees whose were elected by employers and unions, though appointment was subject to approval by the Ministry of Labour. The Spanish Social Demo- crats collaborated fully in the committees, joint and used their leadership of the UGT (General Workers' Union) to break down the strike move- ments which developed in the Asturias. The Second Republic con- solidated de Rivera's corpora- tist legislation with the Joint Councils Act of 1931. These joint councils took over the role of the joint com- mittees. Before a strike or lock-out was declared, details had to be submitted to the council. If talks broke down, five to eight days' notice had to be given of strikes in transport or food supply. No notice meant the arrest of strike leaders. On October 21, 1931, an Act was passed banning political strikes against the Republic. The Constitution of the same year called for the par- ticipation of workers in the direction and administration of undertakings and sharings of profits' Despite these laws and the collaboration with the govern- ment of both the anarchist and social-democratic leader- ships of the working class, the insurrection took October place in 1934 in the Asturias, and in May-July, 1936, there 113 General • were at least Strikes and 228 strikes of a political or solidarity char- acter. y Juan Garcia. - Part two The anarchist unions played lip-service to being , for the of the bourgeois destruction state, but were content to lead militant struggles for wage in- creases, leaving the Republi- can government to establish its framework for repression.

workers' combativity The was not defeated by this legis- but their leadership lation, turned the Spanish Revolution into the defence of the bour- geois Republic. Fifty •years of organization broken up, thousands was concentration perished camps and a socialist revolu- was crushed by Stalin's tion peaceful coexistence with pri- vate property in the form of the Republican Party. Charter Under the Labour of March 9, 1938, the Organi- Sindical of Garcia zacion Ramal was established under the control of the Falange, the one party in Franco's one- party state. Section 5 of the Charter states that the union is an instrument in the service of the state and its principle in- strument in economic policy.

The aim of the 'trade unions' is to unite workers and em- ployers. There are two sec- the economic and the tions, social, representing employers and workers respectively: the social section has to have an employer as chairman. The Charter has been modi- fied over the last 15 years to.

give the corporatist union the appearance of having the func- tion of the trade unions in bourgeois-democratic states.

In 1958, the so-called Col- lective Agreements Act was passed through the puppet parliament, the Cortes, Madrid. The Act's main provi- sion is for the establishment of joint committees for the introduction of job-evaluation.

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The 'representatives of work- ers are elected by a secret ballot, but the names of the elected must go before the management who have the right to veto! In May 1968 the Spanish TUC 'revised' the regulations of the Organizacion Sindical, replacing the fascist termino- logy of the 1938 Charter with liberal phrases, while retaining Workers Press, Ti virtues of Franco after his appointment as he ont carrying trade-union members of the refor yed by the fascists. Top: Franco discusses wi ober, 1940. the essentials. So the 1938 clause stating: "The national trade union orga- nization of the state shall be based on the principle of unity, auth- totality, and graduated ority, now reads: trade union "The Spanish movement shall have as its essential task ... a transfor- development of mation and social and economic structures based on the fullest possible expression of human freedom and dignity and of social pro- gress, in accordance with the requirements of social justice.'

These sweet words may ring true to the Central Intelligence Agency men and reformist bureaucrats in the Interna- tional Labour Organization in Geneva, to which the Organi- zacion Sindical belongs. They may be for the Spanish Communist Party an indica- tion of the so-called 'evolu- tionist, progressive' wing of the Franco regime. workers know But Spanish that the fascist union repre- sents a vicious instrument of • Press, Tuasday April 3, 1972 PAGE 5 nent as head of the new corporate state.

the reformist UGT and anarchist CNT: cusses with Hitler in the Fuehrer's car- repression and they fight to build their independent orga- nizations in the illegal workers' be commissions. a CP Andrade, member, who was one of the leaders of the strike movement in the port of Vigo in September and October last year, has recorded of Franco's experiences his social justice: 'I was arrested at 3 a.m. on Monday September 25. They searched me and found a book by Dolores Ibarrurl, a news- paper of the workers' commis- sions and notes that I had written on the extension of the commissions, the commis- sions in Barreras, the "Pact of Freedom". 'They left me alone til I p.m. Then three Civil Guards dragged me upstairs and began to beat me until 4 a.m. I was almost unconscious when they dragged me along the floor by iny hair and made me stretch out, resting on my feet and hands. Every time I fell, they kicked me..

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FINE TUBES: UNIONS MUST ACT

The card on which Fine Tubes strikers have pinned their hopes may be lost unless drastic new taken. measures are Already there are dan- that a meeting of gers Rolls-Royce convenors in Birmingham today may lift the blacking of sup- plies from the Plymouth plant. In six weeks' time the dis- the American firm's pute at factory will be three years old.

Strike committee chairman Mr Hermann Welch told me: 'We realized we had to make something crucial happen 1t wanted to win.' we After Christmas the 26 men of women remaine the 172 original strikers wrote to convenors at one of Fine Tubes most important custo- mers- Rolls-Royce. They asked to be allowed to put their case to mass meetings of the men. Instead, on January 30, strike leaders were invited to a regular monthly meeting of the convenors at Birmingham.

Agreement reached was to black all Fine Tubes products from the combine's, plants.

But Rolls-Royce, Derby, . part in which did not take convenors' meeting, de- the fied the black and continued inte to use fine tubes RB 211. Further talks were at a second combine held meeting on February 20. Now all work coming from or going to the Derby plant was also to be blacked. The women living on and men £13-a-week strike and pay Social Security believed that at last they had a trump card in their hands. pay strike be- When their gan on June 15, 1970, any in- terference with supplies from Fine Tubes could have brought Rolls- Royce to a standstill.

The specialist high precision tubes made at the Plymouth factory were going into the RB 211, the Olympus, Con- and the making of corde Westland Helicopters. If the Said Mr Welch: resolutions passed by the con- venors are carried out to the full, it could stop the whole aircraft industry.' But the industry has not been stopped and there little sign that it will be.

A Rolls-Royce spokesman told me: The blacking has had virtually no significant effect on the company's operations.'

He claimed plants at Cov- entry and Glasgow were 'work- ing normally, although there was slight disruption at Bristol and the small special engine plant at Leavesden, near 'The Watford. He added: blacking does not seem to have been implemented with any great enthusiasm. 'Fine Tubes materials arrive at factories and we are told fin there is a black, but then they get moved mysteriously into the workshops.' He said: 'We have also considerably reduced the amount of Fine Tubes pro- ducts we use. We have got it down to a few thousand pounds a year.' Allowing due • exaggeration to the company's claims, it is nevertheless true that Rolls - Royce factories are working more or less normally.

This has not gone unnoticed by the strike committee and, said Mr Welch: 'If Rolls- Royce factories were not using Fine Tubes materials, there would be a halt right away.

I don't believe they are blacking it. The are still work- ing on Concorde at Bristol.'

He added: 'The blacking is very much a last resort. You go to meetings and they build your hopes You think something is going to come of it. But then you suddenly at find they are not doing any- thing at all.' It looks as if Mr Welch's doubts are true. I understand that today's combine meeting of in Birmingham convenors may be asked to end the blacking. Mr John Blackley, convenor at Bristol-where the blacking is claimed to be most effective -told me: "The combine has stopped 90 per cent of the Rolls-Royce order book going Tubes. But it is still to Fine not enough to make it critical.

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the black because the Derby shop stewards refuse to take part.

The second leg of the hurdle is the refusal of union leaders in factories owned by Fine Tubes' other major customers -jike the Atomic Energy Authority-to impose a black.

This refusal has meant that apart from the axeing of one shift the jobs of all 172 strikers have been filled by alternate labour and business goes on very much as usual. The new non-union work- force was enticed into the fac- tory with pay rates 13 per cent higher than the strikers.

Strikers claim other employers have given Fine Tubes manage- ment every assistance in evad- ing blackings that have been imposed. Almost from the start, the dispute turned quickly from a a battle for pay fight into recognition. Said Mr union Welch: If we allow the firm unionism is to win, trade ended in Plymouth.' American Over a•= dozen firms have set up in the town employing labour forces of be- tween 300 and 500 and with little or no union organization.

'They are all watching Fine the strikers, Tubes', said Mr Welch, "to| Workera Prass, Tuanday Apell: 3, 1972 PAGE Y see if we are beaten. Although the strike has the officia backing the OI T&GWU and the AUEW, the men say they feel they are fighting alone. Despite long years of union membership, a bitter three-year battle for trade rights, une men claim that at have their no time union leaders backed them by mobilizing membership nationally Said Mr Welch: 'There are 10,000 union members in the dockyard alone. had It ther been pulled out, it would have a help. been Sit there was pressure the trade put on by unions throughout the coun- we could win? try, The strikers are now in des- perate need of financial sup- port and say their fight is at the mercy of the trade union movement. 'If we don't get some money we will have to wrap it up,' Mr Welch told me. Another picket has Illass been planned for May 1, but it tne union chiefs persist in limiting their support for their beleagured Plymouth members this crucial struggle for basic trade union rights will be lost.

'A CONSTITUTIONAL DEVIATION'

PAGE & Workers Pross, Tuesday April The Greek regime. Jack Gale i On April 21, 1967, the Greek government of Panayotis Kanellopoulos overthrown by a was military coup and a National government headed by Constantine Kollias assumed power. proclaimed: Kollias 'We have long been witnessing a crime committed against our people and our nation. 'Unscrupulous and • base shameful party compromises, recklessness of a great part of the Press, methodical attack on and undermining of all in- stitutions, complete debase- ment of parliament, all-round slander, paralysis of the state of machinery, complete lack understanding of the burning problems of our youth, moral and finally constant inflamma- tory slogans of unscrupulous demagogues, have destroyed the country's peace, created an sday April 3, 1973 * Gale investigates the tortures and atmosphere of anarchy, chaos, hatred and discord, and led us to the brink of national catastrophe.' 'No other way of salvation remained except the army's intervention. 'Such intervention is, of course, a constitutional devia- tion, but such a deviation was imperative for the country's salvation which is the supreme law. .. 'We belong to no political party. We are inspired purely by patriotic motives. We aim at removing from the country's organism the decomposition which threatened it; at avert- ing discord and massacre to- wards which bad Greeks were leading us. 'We preach brotherliness.

'From this moment there is no right, centre or left. There are only Greeks, believing in Greece and in one noble, lofty and complete ideal of true democracy-not in the demo- cracy of the pavement, mob, and anarchy. 'Of course there are some es and the police state. Part I.

traitors, demagogues, unscru- pulous and professional anar- chists. We shall isolate these few instigators. •To avert discord and im- pending civii strite, the gov- ernment has proclaimed mar- tial law throughout the coun- try.... "The government is bound categorically to warn most that any reaction against its national task from any quar- ter will be stamped out imme- diately with every means at its disposal.' At the same time the National government issued a statement of policy reaffirming its full support for its obliga- tions under NATO. It immediately arrested 5,000 'dangerous communists'.

On April 29 it banned the EDA (Democratic Left) Party, which was the successor to the illegal Communist Party and had 22 seats in parlia- ment. On May 4 all youth organi- zations sponsored by political parties were banned, as were

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some 260 trade union, sport and cultural organizations. The junta, however, organized its own Hitler-style youth move- ment-the Alkimos. Mayoral elections and elec- to municipal councils tions were suspended and those said 'with to have been elected communist support' were re- moved from office. •Bearded, foreign, long- haired beatniks' were banned from the country, mini-skirts were outlawed as was long hair for youths. School prin- cipals were instructed to see that all their pupils attended church on Sundays and holy days-and joined the Alkimos.

A 'state of siege' was pro- claimed throughout the coun- try and the government em- powered to introduce decree- laws. Kollias was later replaced by Col George Papadopoulos, and the regime of mass arrests, purges, martial law, censor- ship and torture was inten- sified. Beatings and torture are Left: Papadopoulos, present ruler of the Greek military govern- ment. He successor to was Kollias and continuator of the regime of mass arrests, torture and martial law. standard practice at every police station, but there are special centres where intensi- fied torture takes place. This is usually, but not exclusively, out at the headquar- carried ters of the Security Police (the Asphalias). The location of the more important of these torture centres are as follows: In the Athens area: 1. The Asphalia, Bouboulinas Street, where the commandant is the notorious Chief Inspec- tor Basil Lambrou. 2. The Military Hospital 401, Vasilissis Sofias A venue, 25. The director- Athens general here is Dr Karagou- nakis. 3. The Dionysos Military Camp, headquarters of the 505 Battalion. In charge here is Col Costas Papadopoulos, brother of the dictator. Paraskevi, in the 4. Aghia charge of KYP (State Intelli- gence Service) officer Zourelis.

5. The Kessariani, situated at the Damari stone quarry. The above-mentioned Lambrou is also in charge here. In the Piraeus area: 1. The Asphalia at 37 King Constantine Street, headed by director Yiannakopoulos. 2. The laid-up warship "Elli' at the Scaramanga naval base.

Lieut-Cmndr Thrasyvoulos Ka- marineas commands the 'Elli'.

In the Salonika area: 1. The Asphalia in Vardariou Square commanded by Maj Stamatopoulos. 2. The headquarters of the Third Army Corps under its Cmndr Karamitsos. 3. Headquarters of the KYP at Kalamaria under its chief officer Kourkoulakos. 4. The military airport, head- quarters of 561 Battalion.

5. The Karabournaki military camp. 6. The KYP headquarters at Emvolon. 7. The centre at Lake Basil.

8. The headquarters of KESA (the Greek military police sec- tion) under its commandant Lieut-Col Nicolaos Kavotzimas.

9. The Vassilika centre under Hrissanthos Foumas. There is also the centre at Patras, under the directorship of A. Syfantos; the Asphalia Agrinion, commanded by at . Sub-Lieut Loukopoulos; and the Corinth military camp. In Crete there are two Asphalias —one at Heraklion (director: Koletis) and one Insp at Chania (director: Kapellou).

In addition to these torture centres the main prisons and camps for political prisoners are: The Lakki and Partheni concentration camps, both on Leros Island; Alikarnassos pri- the Averof prison son camp; for men and the Averof prison for women; Korydallos prison; and the military prison at . Boyati. There is also the notorious Section K (the 'Death Sec- tion') at Kerkyra prison and the Eptapyrgion prison in Sal- onika. Relatives of prisoners incarcerated there write of the 'medieval regime' under the chief torturers and head guards Prokos and Christo- doulopoulos. Not least important is the prison at Thermo Trichonida which houses more than 500 soldiers and members of the gendarmerie who failed to prove "amenable' to the mili- tary regime. The main organizations res- ponsible for inflicting torture are the civil police force, the armed forces, the military police (ESA), the army intelli- gence (A-2), the marines, the 'Battalion of Mountain Com- mandos (LOK), the navy police• (ENA), the State Intelligence Service (KYP) and the security police (Asphalia), a section of which is attached to the civil- ian police in every area.

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BY DUSTY HUGHES

The large subsidized companies and sponsored festivals are shutting the door on any kind of politically conscious theatre. That much at least is clear after seeing the show Peter Daubeny has chosen to repre- sent Germany in the tenth World Theatre Season at the Aldwych — 'Little Man . ..

Now?' What presented by the Bochem Schauspielhaus Company. The play, set in the early 1930s, is predictably enough, presented as a decadent musi- cal revue, 'Cabaret'-style.

Pinneberg, a decent young clerk, and his working-class their wife Lämmchen, start married life with high hopes.

But Pinneberg loses his job at a fertilizer warehouse and the couple move to Berlin in The 20-year sentence on a 16-year-old Birmingham boy mugging has been widely for criticized by members of the legal profession. It has only a warm note in the struck right-wing Press and, of course, in the Tory Party.

One of the freedoms wanted by the silent majority in Britain was to be able to move about without any risk pl of 'mugging' or other forms search of work. He takes a job as a shop assistant in a smart clothing store. We see the couple slowly decline into poverty and misery, and the store gradually denuded of its expensive suitings. Eventually Pinneberg loses that job too. Franz Schluter a film star famous for playing the oppressed little man', visits the store merely to try on a few suits. Pinneberg begs this bloated and rich image of himself to buy a suit and help him reach his monthly sales which will save him quota from being made redundant.

But the film star, insulted by the request gets Pinneberg the sack sooner than he ex- pected. At the end of the play the couple, now abject and in the ghetto, reject the idea of stealing wood to keep warm.

But the road to the ghetto in is presented as a chain of of violence, Anthony Grant, under-secretary for Industrial Development said in Coventry the other day. He told a meeting of 500 women Conservatives from the West Midlands: 'I personally welcome the new-found deter- mination of the courts to clamp down on these cruel and cowardly acts. 'There will be the usual squawks from various people and organizations, but we really must see this as the only way to secure the return of freedom which everyone wants.'

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Look out, you're on Candid Camera. This slogan from a long- dead TV programme should have been prominently dis- played in the editorial offices of a new magazine put out by luck, mistakes, events; bad 'exploitation " by unscrupulous people, as if these things were eternal and static. We never in action and Nazism see there is no attempt to explain how it feeds on the demorali- zation of the lower classes.

Only the united strength of the working class with proletarianized petty - bour- geoisie, like Pinneberg, behind it could have defended Ger- erg many against the Nazi party.

But the demoralized petty- bourgeoisie went over to the Nazis because that unity was never achieved. In the elec- tions of 1930 the Communists who increased their vote from 3,300,00 to 4,600,000 were • that this was the sign happy of a favourable trend. But the fascist vote leapt up from 800,000 to 6,000,000 and the Social Democrats, though in considerable decline secured the votes of still 8,600,000 workers. It was here that the policy of the Comintern, dictated by Stalin, was crucial. It divided the working class by throw- of ing amongst them an enormous London region of the the General and Municipal Wor- kers' Union. regional If it had been, secretary Harry Robertson need not have been quite so open to ribald ribbing as he is at the moment. In a desperate bid to popu- larize the stuffy, right-wing image of the G&MWU, the editors of 'Candid', for that's what the magazine is called, devised a snappy layout for Robertson's statement in the inaugural issue. Nothing wrong with the But for a headline lay-out. they picked on his phrase that trade union the movement would not need a crystal ball Three of to tell that Phase the pay laws would be biased against it. Screamed the head, right mugshot alongside a Robertson himself: 'No Need For Crystal Balls!' •.. Workers Press, Tr smoke bomb in the form of social fascism. Though the weakness of the Social Democrats had opened the door to Hitler they were still in the eyes of millions of workers, the traditional Now the representatives. social democrats were being called social fascists, and the ruthlessly well organized Nazis could be seen by the stranded lower middle class in bitter contrast to the hopelessly con- relationship of the fused workers' parties. "The success of the Com- munist Party', said Stalin, 'should not make us dizzy' The world crisis which created the situation becomes in this play, an intangible oppression like the forms of fate in Greek tragedy. Out of the teeth of history, in fact, marches dazzling chorus a line of slightly wobbly Marlene Dietrichs who sing that even if the skies are grey you must keep on smiling because things will be all right in the end.

The gloriously unoriginal line is to contrast poverty and desperation with the decadence ... • Press, Tuesday April 3, 1973

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Driven by the desperation of decline into poverty, workers at a German unemployment bureau in the 1930s demand jobs. and dreams of German low- life. The play also denies the existence of any escape for Pinneberg but Nazism, though the im- earlier he had seen potent starved proletarian beast' as his natural ally. There is no explanation of his change of heart. Even in this reactionary 'Oh What A Lovely Slump' there powerful visual are images that could have been to better use and linger put on long after the action has faded. The couple stand be- fore a vast household accounts book that fills the whole stage and contains the pathetic jottings of their day to day hardship, Pinneberg stands below the desk of his employer which stands 12 feet high and stretches away into pers- pective, and behind it the boss sits like a wizened demigod with a huge pencil like a magic wand. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37tp • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p ' Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

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In Alberton, a few miles south of Johannesburg, about 250 Africans refused to start work at an iron factory. These casting workers said they earned the equivalent of between £5 and £6.30 a week and wanted at least wal0.35. a. week....

Massey's answer claim with MDW A CLAIM by 4,800 hourly-paid workers at the giant Massey Ferguson tractor plant in Coventry, has been answered by management plans to abolish piecework altogether. In its the company impose place wants to Measured Day Work which will enormously increase the pace of labour and productivity in the factory.

The men's original claim was for a substantial wage in- crease, adjustment in shift payments, higher retirement pen- sions and the relating of fixed bonus employees to movements piecework earnings. step to MDW the firm is demanding that 182 As a nrst workers leave the assembly and paint shops by means of 'volun- tary redundancy' and voluntary retirement throughout the plant.

The piecework stating 'major hirm that it is allacks liability against assets'.

'proof" of this management claims numerous stoppages over the past year and a quarter- -they claim 27 the plant had only weeks of full production and that

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most of the disputes related to

CORRESPONDENT

piecework. The the firm orestes fifth, point in the union claim which was 'the resolving outstanding Claims alln allullla- during mes moteo Massey Ferguson factory banner on a demonstration in Coventry's As far as Massey is concerned precinct. piecework system. which caused 'a wide disparity of earnings'. "This causedi resentment and discontent and produced con- flict and interruptions in produc.

Shop Liull. e workers But claim many of disputes been The have result of 'deliberate provocation'.

"Strings' allowed by national officials over the past four ycals Nave

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enor cce. Mia v a rece

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the trade labour, union allowed in the past movement has avule Icuulualy.

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used by toe nirn to transter mrer and when it thinks fit-often lower earnings. was led the these that of the capitalist svstem and IKe lo siuvpasco in ehe 15 causing enormous trade „ Tne Snoa war where Mas. lay-offs in the months that sey Ferguson is fighting powerful the firm talks rivals like the Ford Motor Com- pany In lne

LICCLO

MOBILITY

The committee didn't take KE. e decision until February to full

SUPDULL

ally SCULUl sts on comp stat mobilit ot aerenaing pay ana conditions mobility sists complete work following an investiga- tion: by a sub-committee.

aDour Une voluntary dundancy of 182 assembly work- The firm's attack on workers' if 182 do not volunteer ers. And rights they -what then? continue crcll meet union officials today.

steward from Massey AS strike at an com- outside Ferguson Workers tod rress. ponent firm, Rubery Owen, "The firm is present tooled which produces the fue tanks 70,000 trac- up to produce over 101 une uraciors. luas ico lo

LOIS

a vcal bul Divuullivn balce lay-off Massey Ferguson in the current are iancia vear assembly workers. expected to only 49,000 Inside Massey Ferguson some Ulii lda. restricting The leadership Joint sociols alc UVCI LIlIC OI or bano overnme as a tesut Stewards Committee SnOD was the firm refusing settle unprepared for these sharp claims or carry out agreements.

the firm. Used attacks of the The has an- to the compromise management was the he seep nounced that although ola boom

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to an outside component firm's strike, none of them will get guaranteed lay-off pay unless the sections within Massey lift their overtime restrictions. The proposal in the firm's

MDW

lays down plan grades of workers with wages ranging down from £54.ll to £34.04. The maximum increase allowed any worker will be already on £4.81 and those £54.11 or over will get noth- ing. 'Full work-measurement in all areas, fixed breaks and ac- mobility of full ceptance labour' is central to the scheme.

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jected the firm's MDW plans and is insisting that at today's talks union officials must not discuss Measured-Day Work but press the claim that the workers have put in. The scene is now set for a major confrontation. Of course it will be one that does not only involve Massey management. The call to reject MDW and press forward for a substantial wage rise is now illegal under the Phase Two. regulations that came into force yesterday. If they do fight, therefore, the Massey workers will be up against the Tory • government and all its legislation. Such a fight will require more politiche leadershipitanapa bet a political leadership capable mobilizing the working class in- side and outside Massey's in General Strike action to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour government that will repeal all its anti-working-class laws. All Trades Unions Alliance

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DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 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, 'Prince of Wales, 8 p.m. cnr. Harrow Road/Gt Western Road, W9. 'Victory to the Hospital Workers. Make the Tories Resign'. TOTTENHAM: Tuesday April 3, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, Totten- ham High Road, nr. White Hart Lane. 'TUC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign'.

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'Stop the closures-make the Tories resign' Tabernacle Congregational Church, Armoury Street, Ebbw Vale. Speakers: Michael Banda and & Shotton steelworker. WEMBLEY: Wednesday April .4, 8 p.m. _Copland School, High Street. 'Tory "Law-and Order"_ Preparation for dictatorship' Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office.

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DIGBY JACKS,

National Union of Students' president and Communist Party mem- ber has returned to his claim that students' grants increases could be won from the Tory government. Opening the NUS conference in Exeter last night, he told delegates that Tory Education Minister Mr Norman St John Stevas' last public utterance on grants seemed to show 'that the issue is still open' on: 'However,. one He went thing is quite clear: the govern- ment cares little for the well-

'INTRANSIGENCE'

The argument student over grants, he said, 'is about the intransigence of a reactionary Tory government and its willing- ness to see prices rise and the standard of living of the major- ity of the population which in- cludes us, eroded. 'We have secured substantial support from the trade union movement at every level. We have given support to the hos- pital workers and to the teach- ers. However, working-class struggles have date not to generalized to a sufficient degree seriously to threaten the ment's vicious prices and incomes policy.' Jacks went on: 'This will begin to happen on May I-for we must give all our energy and support to the fight of the trade union move- ment . . . . This conference at the very least must pledge its support and solidarity for May 1. Such talk is doubly treacher- ous since it is Jacks' own party, the CP, which has done its ut- most over the last two-and-a- half years to head off every stuggle against the Tory govern- ment. On every occasion the Stalin- ists have covered up for the re- treats and betrayals of the TUC leaders. When engineers' leader Hugh Scanion last week pro- posed a deal with the Tories, it 'Morning Star' the CP's was which defended his position.

Jacks is suggesting that May 1 will be the point when work- ing-class struggles would begin to seriously threaten the Tories' pay laws. The half-hearted action by the TUC could never hope to do this. Only by mobilizing all sec- tions of workers for a General Strike to force the Tory govern- ment to resign can the pay laws be defeated. ON THE dispute at Stirling University, Jacks claimed that the NUS had 'waged one of the most successful struggles in the recent history of the British student movement.

'GOOD TACTICS

'What this dispute shows for us,' he went on, 'is that mass action combined with local action, negotiation and external support of solidarity wins in the end-if it is combined with good tactics and timing.' Yet a resolution on the pres- ent conference agenda 'notes the lack of support given by the larger COs [constituent organ- izations] and the NUS executive' and censures the executive for only sending one representative to a picket on February 6, 1973.

THE OTHER main topic for dis- • is the White Paper on cussion Education. Here again Jacks, while cor- rectly pointing out that the pro- posals mean huge cutbacks in further offers education, no policy for stud- really concrete ents, particularly those in col- leges of further education.

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PAQE 12 Workars Press, Tuarday April 2, 1973 Ports at a standstill Hospital strikes: No Dockers Pay Board action yet' things they can do until the

HOSPITAL

workers' face pay end of the leaders believe their year. Union officials interpreted strike action will not be Fisher's word USt declared illegal under the "reluctant' yesterday Tory laws, indication that the latest pay clear the which into effect came Pay award yesterday. Board settlements the £1 Bernard Dix, research be- Sep- officer Tne Natona Tore rase law clash Union of Public Employees, tember, they might and said that action sider their join against worker would only provoke further in the trade union Alan Flsher... Walting however, reactors movement. signs there were of Public Employees, said the delibe- ernment as peach held be For this reason,

•I CONCCLU

that it was up to the gov- rate isolation strike ernment to take action. by the

TUC

Coun-

BY DAVID MAUDE

shall wait and see cil leaders. "We and Thursday On one-ody One the government does, hospital what 200 hos- strike of London's LONDON DOCKERS joined the fight against the Tory pay laws he said. workers' staged Dilais Is lo 'We shall with protest against the pay laws.

yesterday. Work came to a standstill as thousands of men through- The initiative Board, which OUl Call alell over their demand them and out the enclosed docks walked out in protest against a £2.60 pay only issue yesterday, witn …nOT need notice I banning L0lS exhorted deal. action 'We have been order

LUIS

for it to be illegal. bv the government to go to have By mid-afternoon most of the docks' 7,500 men were on strike the Pay Board. The initiative could com how Pay itself 'But we have been reluc- 'We have out five from the against the deal, which conforms exactly with Phase Two of the because so weeks. long time, the hospital employers. or Lall order pay laws. Ships and cranes were idle from Tilbury, through the Alan Fisher, general sec- we before Tar ever retary of the National Union there is very little effective Royal group to West India and Millwall docks.

'Double figures' Some work had started soon walked out, along with during the morning Furness working nICa jail threat areas not directly involved willy. in the pay dispute, but was Riverside wharfs on strike stopped by shop to Soares soon included Purfleet Deep stewards. Wharf Victoria Deep and Several of London's river- water. AN OLD BAILEY judge yes- side wharfs, which recently Tony Soares, terday ordered Phase Two pay IN

HULL,

where dockers acceved a member of the Black Libera- deal, also came out Phase recently accepted do 200 hours sympathy. meeting has bern called for _rront. to WO award. mass community service for alle- Following meeting inciting of dockers' this evening the issue gedly the enclosed renters wharfs and 'Grass Roots' to make bombs. lasted man commee most of the morning, it was ports. For attempting to incite read- announced that mass meet- commit arson, he The Hull dockers-bitterly ing is to be held on Friday. bound over the recent Ports Council Early yesterday most seven vallulld The judge warned Soares that work problem- -have dockers going to on this

DONI

if he appeared before the court the a.m.-2 p.m. shift were demanded the recall Transport and General within under the impression

DEVCI

national would go followed Workers' Union's to prison lor a period une poncy of years whieh could be counted was witharawal doCks celerate double figures. in operation with flexible man- on this issue. who denied the ning arrangements. vonres It was this body Which charch 21, was found guilty on Refusal to co-operate with voted to last year's but his sentence was docks strike flexible national artel manhos Was Lne pending

NPC

bust bored tactic chosen by the dockers being promised ports. 18-man report. Alan King-Hamilton dissatisfaction makes the concessites the report said showed Soares Dress reports event to The employers ohysicallv and plus 4 per cent on differen- the He was impressed by fact dockers redI Lial The tials. registered wharfs are taking that there was no evidence that their work. had, in sea, brass hooted This tactic was endorsed been incited mass MaST newsman implementation which had now ceased publica- tion So from soon after 7 a.m.

AT LIVERPOOL,

yesterday cockers nOSI areas of the enclosed docks is losing trade be- demanded increased labour shortage gang

MAKE IT A

Jones- and made arising more than one job per shift.

that they would work severance scheme accepted by that same dele-

RECORD

Leyland hit twice gate conference. Ted employers had already A confrontation with the the2.60 would Liverpool dockers, leaders therefore agreed laws un- settled for a f2.70 pay award their SINCE the day Workers Press withoray Day offer- -and send men home started three and half years It is that STRIKE ACTION hit two sections of the without pay-if this was are said to have offered aid nOW dear al- leadership built in each British-Leyland car combine yesterday. At London men if they monthly ways Fund done. which will bring Oxford workers stopped over the company's with flying colours. Port of London Authority gether the struggle against Pool he disput was emer tabile in Liver- magnificent In five days' time, support has Jones-Aldington and the was over manning. nockers at mme novas were enabled the told yesterday morning that the employers ofter the unregistered London

NOU

threat from day-shift Two thousand production wor- was no work for them settled, original fier days : a week to six there with the niht against

DOLS

Tories new Pay doard. referred at Leyland's Austin-Morris days a week; from four-page Kers

DOCV

Diall on this basis. Shop the pay laws. returned to work yesterday morning to allow paper to the existing 12-page then dec ared ThaT This can done only be negotiations to take place.

tabloid. dockers should strike. The board could take behind the demand for But a 11 voted to Our monthly mass meeting at a.m. target At first had some time to it appearec consider the action- General started £1,000 Now until next has but might quickly that gangs case, strike axall. not meel the Strike to «Torce none: £1,750 Monday. big the notice of an intention resign and replace them Matrov. mocal ace Issuc you have collected nearer the to make an order. At Leyland's Triumph car plants in Speke, employer Royals, with Labour government £2,000 mark. It is a great record size demanded under the the made Liverpool, claimed lay-offs were immediately collie commutica socialist and shows enor mous support inevitable 100 men walked out from open the way for an attempt cies, including WICk paper

TOT

man committee policy. the dockers' tion the docks under paint, assembly shop 10 e TItO •ano over pris mies -even though at times workers' control. manning. But Scruttons' Jeaders under the pay laws.

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