Workers Press no. 1039

workers press

PRICE RISES

CREEPING POVERTY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

BY JACK GALE

THE TORY

government plans creeping poverty for the working class—while wages are held down by the state. Small luxuries would have to go first, then food and clothing cut down, until finally the working-class family would be unable to make ends meet at all.

Any wage increase within The food 'under the greatest the Tory state limits of £l prices pressure' is bread, accord- ing to Godber. The manufac- plus 4 per cent will be eaten turers want a rise of lp per away by rising costs within a large loaf. This for month. week, ex- The full effect of EEC entry the Union of Shop, ample. on prices has yet to be felt. Distributive and Allied Wor- British prices, however, must be kers accepted an increase of forced up to European levels.

£1.80 to E2 for supermarket This means butter will be 179 workers. per cent dearer, cheese 62 per How long will this 'increase' cent and bread 10 percent.

be worth anything? Common Market policy is to April sees the second stage of fix food prices highest at the the Tories' "fair rents' Act, oppo- the Mar- evel proposed within sition to which was sabotaged ket. For example, cereal price: by the Labour leaders and the Germany. are highest in There- Stalinists. Now council fore many the European for price house rents will go up another wheat, barley and oats are ad- 50p. justed to that level. Mr Anthony Beresford, Presi- Similarly, the full effect of dent of the Food Manufacturers' Value-Added Tax (VAT) is still Federation, has stated that be to come. In the first days, some fore the end of this year: prices have fallen, but these will certainly rise again. MEAT will be up 12 per cent.

And the government has the BUTTER 24 per cent. power to increase and extend VAT at any time SUGAR 18 per cent. Meanwhile, in Britain, the re- FISH 10 percent. tail price index published by the Department of Employment DRIED EGG 20 per cent. was at 172.4 February 20, com- This means another 4p to 5p with 171.3 on January 16, pared 1p to 2p and 159.8 on February 22 last a lb on butter and a lb on sugar. year. All canned foods will be Early increases are expected in future be- hotel and boarding-house char- dearer in the near 12-per-cent ges, toilet requisites, washing cause of a rise in the cost of tinplate and higher powders and telephone costs. Cinemas and football distribution charges. matches will Oil could also cost more. Tory Minister of Agriculture, rise a gallon next month Fisheries and Food Joseph Godber said on Monday that the Building Society chiefs meet been reach peak food prices had not yet today and are expected to re- commend that interest charges "The high prices for meat and house mortgages be raised to on cereals in the past few months, 10 percent. which have already affected Higher canteen charges will hit fresh foods, still have to show millions of workers. And there their full impact on manufac will be more. he declared. tured foods,' A government order this week Godber also made it clear that the subsidy means a the thould be gi for more rises price increase of ltp per lb.

Phase given under But the Tories have not yet Two. Applications for increases succeeded in imposing its policies would be recon- so far rejected on the working class. sidered, he said. The union supported leaders, I would expect that in Phase by the Communist Party, have dissipate there will done all they Two the policy can have to be further rises.'

the strength of the working class

IE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY APRIL 4, 19

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

The huge meeting at the F Essex, yesterday which rejecte The men voted three to one a given by union officials.

in isolated, piecemeal struggles and one-day protests. They isolated the gasworkers and hospital ancillary workers and allowed the miners' strike ballot to be conducted separate from all other working-class ac- tion, while leaders like engineers' president Hugh Scanlon spoke out in favour of the Industrial Relations Act and the Tory pay laws. The Labour Party leadership has opposed the Tories only in words, while collaborating with them in practice and tolerating within its own ranks the sub- stantial Jenkinsite pro-Tory wing.

This creates divisions and con- fusion. it does not mean the But a Tories have won the battle.

The government's offensive against the working class is felt not only, in every factory, dock and pit, but in every high street in the country. There is enormous resentment and resistance to these soaring costs. RIL 4, 1973 • No 1039 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

OUR FUND appeal is just one day old; when are we going to get started? Who will give the first sub- stantial donation? Of course we will really be grateful for any sum large or small. But send it in quickly.

Post at once to: Socialist Labour League Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. the Ford plant, Dagenham, i rejected the latest pay offer.

› one against, but no lead was PRICES go rocketing high AS the trade union leaders remain with

VAT

on top of huge in- silent on these issues and pre- creases in food and other basic pare to this accept onslaught, items, we know that this month only our paper shows the way it will be a struggle to raise our forward in the battle against the We appreciate Fund. Tories. that you, dear readers, will feel the brunt Help us with a very special of this attack. effort for our April Fund. We But everywhere, thousands of know it might mean a sacrifice, workers will not be able to pay but this is the only way to fight these huge prices while wages back. Raise all you can and post are legally kept down. An enor- immediately to: mous movement must emerge to Tory No fight the government. Workers Press one will allow their basic stan- April Appeal Fund_ dard of living to be taken away.

186a Clapham High Street this political In situation, Workers Press is decisive. As London SW4 7UG

workers press

PRICE RISES

CREEPING POVERTY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

BY JACK GALE

THE TORY

government plans creeping poverty for the working class-while wages are held down by the stafe. Small luxuries would have to go first, then food and clothing cut down, until finally the working-class family would be unable to make ends meet at all.

Any wage increase within The food 'under the greatest the Tory state limits of £1 prices pressure' is bread, accord- Godber. ing The manufac- plus 4 per cent will be eaten turers want a rise of Ip per away by rising costs within a large loat. month. This for week, ex- The full effect of EEC entry the Union ample, of Shop, on prices has yet to be felt. Distributive and Allied Wor- British prices, however, must be kers accepted an increase of forced up to European levels.

£1.80 to £2 for supermarket This means butter will be 179 workers. dearer, cheese 62 per cent per How long will this 'increase' cent and bread 10 per cent.

be worth anything? Common Market policy is to April sees the second stage of food prices fix highest at the Tories' 'fair rents' Act, oppo- Let. Proposed within the Mar sition to which was sabotaged ket. example, cereal prices the Labour leaders and by the Germany. are highest in There- Stalinists. Now council fore many the European price for house rents will go up another wheat, i barley and oats are ad- 50p. justed to that level. Mr Anthony Beresford, Presi- Similarly, the full effect of dent of the Food Manufacturers' Value-Added Tax (VAT) is still Federation, that be has stated to come. In the first days, fore the end of this year: prices have fallen, but these will certainly rise again. MEAT will be up 12 per cent.

And the government has the BUTTER 24 per cent. to increase and extend VAT at any time. SUGAR 18 per cent. Meanwhile, in Britain, the re- FISH 10 per cent. tail price index published by the Department of Employment DRIED EGG 20 per cent. was at 172.4 February 20, 4p to 5p with 171.3 on January 16, This means another pared Ip to 2p 159.8 on February 22 a lb on butter and and last a lb on sugar. year. All canned foods will be Early increases are expected in the future be- hotel and boarding-house char- dearer in near of a 12-per-cent ges, toilet requisites, washing cause rise in and the cost of tinplate and higher powders telephone costs. Cinemas and football matches distribution charges. will also cost Oil could more. Tory Minister of Agriculture, rise by Ip a gallon next month Fisheries and Food Joseph and petrol by Ip a gallon. Godber said on Monday that the Building Society chiefs meet food prices peak had not yet today and expected are to re- been reached. commend that interest charges 'The high prices for meat and house mortgages be raised to on cereals in the past few months, 10 per cent. which have already affected Higher canteen charges will eit fresh foods, still have to show And there millions workers. their full impact manufac- on will be more. he tured foods,' declared. A government order this week Godber also made it clear that the subsidy means a for the more rises price increase of per lb. under Phase given Tories have not But the yet Two. Applications for increases imposing its policies succeeded in would be recon- so far rejected the working on class. sidered, i he said. The union supported Lunist Partyp the Communist I would expect that in Phase by have done Two of the policy there will they dissipate have to be further rises.'

the strength of the working class

IE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY APRIL 4, 19

• CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

The huge meeting at the F Essex, yesterday which rejecte The men voted three to one a given by union officials.

in isolated, piecemeal struggles and one-day protests. They isolated the gasworkers and hospital ancillary workers and allowed the miners' strike ballot to be conducted separate from all other working-class ac- tion, while leaders like engineers' president Hugh Scanlon spoke out in favour of the Industrial Relations Act and the Tory pay laws. The Labour Party leadership has opposed the Tories only in words, while collaborating with them in practice and tolerating • its own ranks the sub- within stantial Jenkinsite pro-Tory wing.

This creates divisions and con- fusion. it does not mean the But Tories have won the battle.

government's offensive The against the working class is felt not only, in every factory, dock and pit, but in every high street in the country. There is enormous resentment and resistance to these soaring costs. RIL 4, 1973• No 1039 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

OUR FUND appeal is just one day old; when are we going to get started? Who will give the first sub- stantial donation? Of course we will really be grateful for any sum large or small. But send it in quickly.

Post at once to: Socialist Labour League Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. the Ford plant, Dagenham, rejected the latest pay offer.

one against, but no lead was the trade union leaders remain silent on these issues and pre- creases in food and other basic pare to accept this onslaught, items, we know that this month only our paper shows the way it will be a struggle to raise our forward in the battle against the Fund. Tories. We appreciate that you, dear readers, will feel the brunt of this attack. a very special effort We our April Fund. workers very her be able to y know it might mean a sacrifice, not be able to pay but this is the only way to fight these huge prices while wages back. Raise all you can and post are legally kept down. An enor- immediately to: mous movement must emerge to fight the No Tory government. Workers Press one will allow their basic stan April Appeal Fund_ dard of living to be taken away 186a Clapham High Street London SWA TUG

Architect of Mexican repression Jews urged to buy land in occupied territories PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday Api THE CHINESE government has ser ists around the world that it has n its rapprochement with right-wing overseas. Diplomats in Peking are said to place this interpretation on premier Chou En-lai's meeting with New Zealand Associate Foreign Minister Joseph Wald- ing — less than 24 hours after he had received and fêted the general secretary of the pro- Peking New Zealand Com- munist Party, V. G. Wilcox.

'Either China made a diplo- matic faux pas in receiving the Communist Party leader before the government minister when they were both in Peking, or this is a clear message to allied Com- munist Parties around the world,' one diplomat told Reuter.

'And we know that the Chinese are just too careful to make such diplomatic slip-ups,' he added. In recent weeks China has es- tablished diplomatic relations with Greece and Spain, in addi- tion to earlier ties with such countries as Sudan and Iran.

CORDIAL

These ties were an extension of the cordial relations with US imperialism reached when Presi dent Nixon visited China last spring. The leaders of the various Maoist organizations have faith- fully endorsed their masters' re- actionary turn. But feel apparently they peeved that the influx of capi- talist ministers and diplomats in- to Peking has pushed them down the scale of protocol and de- prived them of the rewards they feel are their due. The Peking Stalinists still capitalist contacts value their higher than their overseas 'com- rades, however. Diplomats told whether Reuter they doubted Peking would have made a simi- lar gesture with a country of greater size or importance than New Zealand - such as Japan, Canada or Australia. So British Maoist Chairman Reg Birch and his fellow lead- ers elsewhere must still get used to taking a cut in status in fav- our of capitalist diplomats when they visit Peking. resday April 4, 1973 it has sent a signal to worried Mao- : it has not forgotten them, despite ight-wing and fascist governments THE DEMAND by Israeli Moshe Defence Minister Dayan for more Jewish set- tlement on the occupied west bank of the river Jordan has met with some opposition in the ranks of the ruling La- bour Party. militarist The one-eyed called for individual Jews to be allowed to buy land in the territories occupied in 1967 from any Arab willing to sell for a good price. This makes nonsense of Israeli • that they are ready to claims negotiate with the Arabs with- out preconditions on a peace settlement. This is one of the reasons why Dayan's proposal has run into some resistance at the top. The Labour Party leaders' 'opposition' is not in the least principled: the Party remains dedicated as always to the ex- pansion of . Jewish colonizațion in the Middle East and has no intention of abandoning the conquered territories. Dayan's critics simply want the expansion of Jewish coloni- zation to take place under con- trolled conditions. General Haim Bar-Lev, the Minister of Commerce, says the

COMMON

MARKET the British Foreign Ministers yes ment.

terday staged a hasty Sir get-together to bring 1:Home has into being the com the fund munity's Monetary Co- sited In Bri operation Fund • which much administrati should have come into force on April 1. concentrate The fund is : to be bourg clain sited temporarily in to house th Luxembourg, the small- a 1965 agr est of the nine Common The Market states, despite finally agr strong opposition from top-secret visiting

WEEK

after President entertaining Numeiry, butcher of the Sudanese trade union movement, the Tory government wel- comed yesterday yet another infamous dic- - President Luis Echeverria Alvarez Britain from Mexico. and his wife Maria will spend three regal apartments of Windsor nights the Castle. He was the architect of the massacre of Mexican 1968 the of the eve Olympic Games in Mexico City.

are being tortured in secret police As Minister of the Interior, he headquarters: responsible for the

BY JUAN GARCIA

Was ruthlessness of the police, who bear the signs of "The victims jailed 900 over students their bodies,

LOLLULC

chief of Mexico City, have workers had after covered over for three weeksyes

LACH

Them have murdered mactine guns ally many protestors. Falcons' exploits. Trade unionists doe Mexicae On March 31, 60 thugs armed 1970, Echeverria Mexican became network with clubs, chains, steel bars and President, following the Mexican Donce SLale. KAlves _oroke Into une Nanona challenge chilles is quickly dealt with.

the state Successie Polytechnic Institute and a High Ministers taking over full control School in the capital and attack- of state powers. The fate of railway worker anu students Teachers valentin Campa has rederation

ONE PARTY

and the students' union issued a a notorious example people olicy 'helping the that the Whel a sing police was virtually unchallenged is arrested he is inexplicably re- in the afterwards while elections and campaigned

DISAPPEARANCE

lett-wing students who are arres.

cornerci Mexicans one-party never released. system. A would-be populist politician, December Valentin Echeverria " meet the people. His toured the Revolutionary Campa was released after serving Institutional Patty. His party vinces lo 11 years in jali for organizing a proud boast been that rall strike• and men Det Police and fascist 'wealthy Mexicans must be of the Mexican Communist Party.

ties have spite of subject to the law as peasants.

supposed amnesty and After student recog- addressing north Mexican nition Latin America's 'lefts' meeting in the by

WEALTHY HANDFUL

-Cuba's Fidel Castro and Chile's citv of Ciudad Obregon Lauda President Salvador Allende- was seized by a group of men in side to the new plain clothes claimed to be 'progressive' The law defends the right of His has President. disappearance a handful of wealthy landowners never been solved. i the fascist Falcons broke us exit thousalas ol ocasallls of the fascist With such a recora or repres and landless labourers: there has President Echeverria will demonstration of students and killed been lack President's doubt welcome guest at

LUCI

the call yus police gave Falcons encour- Windsor Castle WIstes which was not just wining and dining with In the province Acapulco ATter verbal. alone, 90 peasants in jail for Loyales prosition and members HM's loyal the Labour spokesman de. the guerrilla led by lucio Cabanas niea complicity: ine government ment rally alla lade Echeverria shock-troops or secret Guillermo Zamora Avila,

LUIS

and nis wiTe-: Acapulco peas- folk-ballet expert- will move on police.' chairman France, Belgium, Moscow and diplomatic defence de- dulls nations by the mayor and police clared last week peasants That. reking. Zionist imperialism 'neutral' cannot 'allow itself Cyprus, the nearest of Jewish colonization, dispos- CovernICEl to be dragged along by the poli: country. sessing mme arao poouanon us: tical inclinations of individual has already been done in These black-market purchases Israel proper. Land purchases on the addition the govern-

CULES I

are west bank should continue the Dayan's the and

OWI

Colleall outburst be subject to state authorization.

'critics' blatantly occupied territories. Military speeches of his kibbutzim have the nature of Israeli Sinai, along the fordan and west reveal im-

UNDER COUNTER

•erlalisi ol ine waza strip. The Israeli leaders remain At the same time, particularly Zionism, tich has never be of Foreign Minister ba intan saili the west bank, Arab civil a similar on Zionism, which has never Eban said functionaries servants and than form al e anything more the government could not allow being corrupted by high salaries rewisa making

USC

citizen pick he paid both from Tel Aviv and any sufferings of the Jewish ot the create responsibilities from Amman wanted to and colonize masses enslave the army

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state. 309S E The occupied lands are being wOrKerS ocasallls well become involved in pro- "softened up' for the expansion Palestine. beyond Jewish property tecting the 1967 frontiers. State authorization Italian military plans state authorization, the purchase occupied of Arab lands in the territories is going anead al steady rate through under-the- in detective's office the Among counter deals. Press chasers, accoraing lo is the Jewish National Fund.

ula-ee landowner fixing stop any

MILITARY

counter-espionage agents have now been caught would-be landowner up in Italy's telephone tapping scandal.

deal with an Arab lanaiora wno wants to sell. The landowners The investigating fighter magistrate in plane and of Italian motor often absentees and the found Kome has revealed that plans in the al c Dallul budls

WELC

frequently reached in a French Mirage supersonic jet deals are Onces

OTI

« A lesanoro Moreante He is a private detective alread bugging custody charges. Argument over EEC fund HQ The counter-esoonare arells Information Service • SOM the pians now to discover how reached Morgante's office. the British Tory govern- by six of the nine EEC session, allows Luxem- Sino-Soviet trade bourg to keep the tund Alec Douglas the about Until

TOTA

has argued that when a permanent site £700m is being made

SINO-SOVIET

1972 trace fund should available in. be will be decided. support totalled £122.4m about $300m, a 70 per 1971 russels, WHeTe Ine argument over cent increase over the the fund's site is only the parity bands of estimate issued accorums to an administration is already the latest in long the float. by the semi-official Japan Ex- Luxem- series obstacles Britain, Italy and Ire- Trade concentrated. ternal Organization right pand Cancone acrosannen

(JETRO).

* 1965 a tree mund under monetary 'co-operation' arrangement and their This means that Sino-Soviet 1965 agreement. within

EEC

currencies floating the trade has increased for two con- The to man- fund those Cont touse. But seculive veals. Cannot agreed after age the other member- JoInt 7081 Tine be predicted at this time that three-hour currencies embarked on states. the will expansion con- tinue this vear. it said

Tories returning workers to medieval medicine

BY DAVID MAUDE

OUR LABOUR

CORRESPONDENT

FOUR THOUSAND Oxford carworkers were laid off yes- terday by British-Leyland, which is refusing to meet the demand of body-plant workers for guaranteed shift pay dur- ing an assembly plant strike last week. Production the main Austin - Morris division model at Oxford, the Marina, made was stopped all day. The Maxi lines were also hit. The number of workers laid strikers have no plans to meet again before next Monday.

SECURITY

Main issue in the dispute, body-plant senior according to shop steward Bill Roche, is security of employment. An offer of eight hours' pay to cover earn- ings lost during the assembly workers' strike was rejected by a mass meeting on Monday.

The stewards insist that Ley- land management is in breach of a 1971 guaranteed • shift agree- ment. They point out that while the assembly plant gates were open throughout the dispute men who would agree to work with work-study engineers, the body-plant shut gates were throughout. The body workers were laid off indefinitely.

While the company claims the strikers are due for no money under a lay-off agreement, it has already made two offers and yesterday that it was admitted still hoping to reach a negotiated settlement. Last week the Press crowed victory when the assembly wor- kers returned to work after a highly - principled, eight - day struggle against the introduction of work-study dubbed men, by the engineers' 'industrial company.

TIRELESS

The 'Oxford Mail', praised tactics negotiating the car body plant which 'have been shown to be more effective and to involve less loss of earnings through strikes'. enemy of the This tireless working class in Oxford at- tempted to intervene inside the trade union movement in the on be- Austin-Morris factories half of the company. Its target wäs the struggle for principled of the car- defence workers' jobs, living standards and organization. But the carworkers have rapidly demonstrated that they utterly reject these attacks, and will continue to fight uncom- promisingly in defence of their rights.

VOTING

Jonathan G commences merchant this week to elect a new the chairma executive of the Mon- club. day Club, a right-wing be publish branch of the Tory 'National A Party. Conservativ The balloting has Groups' of taken a murky turn with Mews, Ed the appearance of a London. Bu four-page bulletin in organization of George support address is Young, the ex-deputy director of MI6. between th Young is challenging tremely rea Workers Press, Wednesday April 4, 1973 PAGE 3 does for the economy!

SCORICESS

RGE

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

HOSPITAL

ancillary negotiations with the Sumner is going to get union official said Calling all hospital workers Sheffield chief administrative offi- in money from unless

NO COLLABORATION WITH

Shef- the United his opa pocket. Out

PAY

have voted unanimously

CCI

BOARDS

"The feeling is very Group, ned

HOSPITA SI

much that we have been

THE

sate nee-day

FORCE

TUC

TO Mr Kenneth Sumner. Union officials said

CALL

strike from today.

A GENERAL STRIKE

the

DUSSOONIA

They have been dis- was a red her. too long and many of The decision

MAKE THE

ring' and were equally members cussing want taken at a packed mass that it could not

TORY

GOVERNMENT

work based imple- Monday of escalate the dispute.'

RESIGN

meeting be paid under the terms on producti- •'Hospital said. workers workers Loca or tue Ireeze, ne Thursday April 5, 6.30 p.m.

VIL.

DELCHCS

hospitals. Stewards have orga- lead-in payments or ti will nold a demonstra- Friars Hail, Blackfriars Road, nized pickets and in Doncaster It was revealed at the _Loneon COHSE shop stew- Friday. Miners meeting that_ right-wing toured hospitals from (near Blackfriars Tube) ard said after the meet- sure there is STeware Detonyma make Arminorpe and benties Montage by A.P. the

COHSE

union had right-wing split of the collieries have promised been don't know where strike. holding

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

TORY

THE

government's White Paper on the National Health Service, published yesterday, invites the private The government lists the rea- medieval medical services, while Chequers and Downing Street medical sector to step up its sons why it is 'beneficial' the privilege to which led to the introduction of influence in the NHS. private facilities of the highly-paid consultant.

nos- the state pay laws. Its publication is bound to pilals. Sir Keith Joseph, The Tories despise the free the million- hospital work- National Heath which striking for Health and Service, The fact that people-with Secretary alle who bitter about the Social Services, has been a per- one of the major conquests world to ers the choose from- Was ale sistent advocate of the expan of the working class after the way private practitioners bleed to ritan They want opened of the private sector in the war. up the NHS. international centre of

SIUN

private exploitation

NHS.

for medical excellence. The document claims that the It can be defended today ' only This presence of the private patients Part-time consultants scarce v surerising by a united struggle by all sec- since a number of his Tory Party in NHS hospitals is 'good for the private and NHS tions of against the

DOLA

vanents workers involved to raise stand- friends intimately service and helDs can give more time to them and di c -the with profiting out of the private Conn enemy-

LOV ZOY-

ards for other patients'.

emergencies ernment. The opposite is the truth. Hos- schemes. it. they the same easy are pital workers are made to spend incomings cavour covere hospital. President of the Western Pro- ment must be instructed by the extra doing work for Time une Association is John nationalize mass movement to private wards at the expense of Private patient accommoda- patients who can't tion used

NHS.

medica service- -no working-class rartriage Tormer orested The of the CBI who took a leading loopholes-and expropriate the required. anore me orate Trees. Dares wilen part in the tripartite big drugs manufacturers. There is another blatant lie in • Amenities enjoyed by private White Paper. It rejects argu- the practice may set standards

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beds in NHS unar orvate

NHS

to follow-as shown he hospitals necessarily long mean for

NHS

bv the increased privacy in new vaiting lists patients:

GET YOUR BOOKS. PERIODICALS AND

hospitals. They can ave ory a very mar-

NEWSPAPERS FROM THE

ginal effect,' it says. • If private practice is divorced But number of private

NHS

hospitals it could beds NHS hospitals is skills expall- professional ulaw scarce ding. This means that vital space away from them. in hospitals being These handed over to those who belong statements represent the Tory attack doctrinaire to mecca Insurance scenes. This must- -and does- -mean Torie a campa first shots nase that ordinary NHS patients come the campaign to in in which dual health system at ine norom or me overe. waen it comes to admissions for oper- poor have tne pul wilk the most feeble, miserable almost ations, etc. nathan Guinness, didates been col- lished by the 'Conser- nas of rative Underground banker, oured by allegations of the Press, strongly supports le chairmanship influence by the Nation- al Front. Young. The bulletin claims Guinness says that Young has grasped the problem won the burnsieu

LIC

the Association it considered move club and concludes that Coachmen's the National Front Guinness both in- consistent and naive. said But neither the added, Guinness there snowered 10 Thursday -b p.m. NOW OPEN Monday 9 an the there was no was strong evidence ganization that night opening) 9 am.—7.30 p.m connect that the bulletin was Fridays (late evidence known, Saturdays 9 am.--5 p.m the work those with the extreme e ecton sainte these two ex- right-wing Front. wanted The bulletin, pub- Young elected. emely reactionary can-

SECURICOR: THE FIRM THAT

PAGE & Workers Press, Wednezday April A, 1973 Securicor is not so much In the space of a couple of paragraphs he manages to in- a company, it's more a voke the Athenians, the con- way of life. That's what 'Noblesse Oblige', cept of Proust and Christopher Wren.

the chairman would have But beneath the beatitudes us believe in his annual there lurks the uglier side, of review just published. It this operation—which is noth- ing than the reads like something out more training and equipping of the largest of the Epistles. Britain. private army in 'We are moving into a more Mr Keith Erskine told the .

society, Securicor shareholders — who hazardous he says, have just made handsome divi- 'Mugging is only one more dends because of record profits threat to civilized life.

Violence —that 'Securicor cares'. is the enemy. Liberty depends on order.' large advertisements in In Erskine is no Adolf all national (Now newspapers Hitler. But remarkably Erskine humbly 'It is how prays: human to err. We in Securicor similar this sentiment is what the Fuehrer said at a rally our errors; but slowly, regret painfully and in Hamburg in 1932: persistently we 'The streets of our climbing peak of country are to unimpeachable integrity where are in turmoil. The universities Service is an end, not a filled with students rebel- are ling and rioting. This is one of the 'And the republic is in purpler from the 1,500-word danger. Yes, danger passages in within and without. We need holier-than-thou tract. Erskine Yes, law and rambles order. without from one classical law and order our nation can- reference to another, from one We shall restore mixed metaphor to the next. survive. not Aims of Securicor To observe the highest code of business conduct.

1. enrich both jobs and lives; to 2. To devolve and involve; to private enterprise with social justice; to care for the combine individual. To put principle before expediency and make sure our word 3. is our bond. divesting from what is practical to enrol the 4. While not idealism of youth. 5. To ignore class or race; to judge only by merits; to work in comradeship. 6. To divide more fairly the fruits of investment and work by means of the mutual company.

7. To combine what is best in public service, e.g. devotion to duty, with what is best in private endeavour, e.g. adaptability.

8 To express in the terms of guarding and watching man's regard for his neighbour and wish to serve him.

9. In sum, to seek Love, Truth and Justice.

Securicor recently declared record profits from its world-wide private policing works. Shareholders will be receiving a bumper dividend. of law and order.') Erskine goes on to encour- age public support for the of 'law and order' or forces repressión, as we call it on des the Workers Press: I hope that the public and the media-will come to see those qualities of integrity, devotion and duty, kindness plain which and courage animate the vast majority of police, security men and others who are in the last resort our insurance and our defence.

'Having got to know many hundreds of them, I believe they are the salt of the earth.'

In an oblique reference to the Industrial Relations Act, Erskine says: 'It will not be enough for the law to be changed - there must also be a change of heart, of which there are signs. If this does not come soon, private enter- prise is doomed.' And that, of course, is the rub. Securicor functions for the simple reason of protect- *private ing and guarding enterprise'. Its guards ride the bullion vans, check passengers at Heathrow airport, patrol warehouses and factories and keep tabs on 'troublemakers' It is not known how inte- grated the Securicor company with the state police machinery. One suspects pretty closely. A former director of Securicor is Robert Carr, now Home Secretary. When Ugandan Asians were expelled last year it was Erskine and Securicor holding com- the pany, Associated Hotels Limi- which made space avail- able to receive fleeing families.

It is one of the most gro- tesque ironies that Securicor has close links with the trade union movement in the form of the General and Municipal Top: the Securicor man, trained with the largest private army in Britain. Above: former Carr; director of Securicor, now Home Secretary. Workers' Union leadership.

Lord (Tom) Williamson, the ex-head of the union, sits on the board, as does Ray Gunter, the ex-Labour Minister in the Wilson government. One of the 'errors' made by Erskine and his colleagues in past concerned a sub- the sidiary, Security Complete Service Limited. This outfit sent out a circular to clients listing services it would under- take. These included: (1) The supplying of under- cover agents-a man planted among your employees to pro- vide you with a complete appraisal of any unauthorized happenings. '(2) Reporting on any per- son who may be suspected of causing dissension or inciting employees to defection.' In its best christian tradi- tion Securicor had the letter withdrawn. And, of course, there were profuse apologies.

You see, Securicor cares!

The clamour for guns for the police has been joined by Mr Ron Gregory, head of the west Yorkshire force.

He said that police should be armed to meet the threat of 'violent crime: 'Criminals will not be de- terred from using violence impose unless society can sanctions which will be an effective deterrent-and the police cannot be expected to enforce the law without using sufficient force to carry out their duty, he says in his annual report. Gregory's plea for guns is all the more curious because the crime rate in his area has fallen by 1,285 to 71,833, or 1.8 per cent. His statement is in line with a Home Office directive to all chief constables urging a pro- paganda campaign favour of arming the police. repeatedly As have we stated in Workers Press, the new police gun law has nothing whatever to do with bank robbers and criminals. It is a direct response to the rapidly worsening economic and poli- tical crisis of the Tory govern- ment. The police are at present standardizing their forces with 'man-stopper' weapons new and armed patrol special groups (SPGs) are being set up in major metropolitan centres.

William Palfrey, the former Chief Constable of Lancashire, may have retired, but he's still very active. Whenever there's a speech to be made, a television pro- gramme to appear on, or a radio chat show to take part in-Palfrey is always there.

The other day he turned up at the Davyhulme Women's Association Conservative where he chose a wide range of topics to speak on-reli- gion, politics, teenagers, law, capital punishment and the birch. A local reporter said there were 'cries of approval' when Palfrey called for the birch- ing of teenagers who commit- ted mugging offences or foot- ball hooliganism. Palfrey, incidentally, is earn- ing a fat salary as 'special co- ordinator for youth employ- ment' for the Lancashire County Council. In nearby Blackburn, Pal- frey's views are shared by lan McGaw, the prospective Tory candidate. In a speech to the faithful, MeGaw said he was in favour of the re-introduc- tion of capital punishment.

I feel that our society needs a death penalty, he said.

STALINISTS TO DEFEND

NATIONAL INTEREST IN THE EEC

Corporatism in Spain by Juan G The Organizacion Sindi- cal, Franco's corporate union, has been unable to dampen the militancy of the Spanish working Throughout the class. missions and political organizations have been built illegally. Spanish workers have fought working with European the class against the erosion of their living standards by in- flation. A recent Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on prices showed that prices in Spain rose by 12.3 per cent from April to October 1972, while the average increase in Europe was 9.6 per cent. Despite a 'correction' figure of 6.5 per cent published in the Spanish Press (The OECD report had a printing error!)

gone on strike workers have to defend the shrinking value of their wage packet. During the first two weeks of February, there were 50 strikes involving 25,000 work- ers in the Basque provinces, Asturias and Barcelona. In the Basque provinces, 3,200 workers in the shipyards of Astilleros Españoles, and more than 2,000 workers in Babcock and Wilcox engaged in action for higher wages.

Juan Garcia. Part three Over 10,000 miners in Astu- rias, in the mining valleys of Nalón, San Victor, Turón, Nueva Montana, struck, while hundreds of 'pensionistas' oc- cupied the churches of Mieres, Gijón and Langreo. All were protesting against the high accident rates and in the pits. low wage-rates One family loses a son or a father each year. The 'pensionistas' are miners who have had to retire through illness or accident and receive a pension from the company: In 1972, according to official 38,000 statistics, there were , the majority of 'pensionistas' them silicosis victims. The greatest danger in these struggles derives from the leadership of the Spanish Com- munist Party which ties the working class to illusions that the Spanish fascist state can be transformed peacefully into a bourgeois democracy. This evolution will enable Spain to take its place in the Common Market. The CP's main demand in the commissions used to be the call for a General Strike to remove Franco and call a Constituent Assembly. This a cover for setting up was "democratic assemblies' in each area, the embryos of that future imaginary Assembly.

The commissions were subor- dinated to these bodies. In a period of sharp class struggle, as in the prolonged strike in the Seat car factory in Barcelona or the strike by Citröen workers in Vigo, local 'general' strikes solidarity, were called to lay the basis for a local assembly. 'Progressive' bishops, mili- tary officers, businessmen and intellectuals would be ap- proached to form such a body. The car workers risked tor- ture and death to extract a statement from the clerics the need about for more "social compassion' or 'social justice' Spanish Stalinism continues the policies which led to the defeat of the Spanish Revolu- tion: the liquidation of the struggle of the independent working class into an alliance with the so-called 'democratic' wing of the Spanish bour- geoisie. The leaders of this 'opposi- tion' to Franco are Gil Robles, staunch anti-communist and Ruiz Gimenez, a former Min- ister of Education of Franco!

In line with the rightward • of European Stalinism, turn the 'demagogic' call for a Gen- eral Strike has been eliminated from CP propaganda, which now focuses on the demand that Spain must be 'demo- cratized' in order to enter the Common Market. This follows . visit of a a delegation of the Spanish CP to Moscow and the debate at the 8th Party Congress in the Workers Press, Wadn Ruiz Gimenez, a former Minister of Franco's, whom the CP regard Above: 'opposition'. as an Communist Santiago Carrillo, Party secretary— the EEC is a competitive reality' last months of 1972. Communist Party secretary Santiago Carrillo presented the main report from the Central Committee at this Congress, the right-wing advocating turn: "Today, the Common Mar- ket is a fact, a reality ... But the Spanish bourgeoisie knows that any agreement on mem- bership in accord with the Treaty of Rome is incompatible with the fascist structures of the regime and hence the pres- sure for the regime to deve- lop: hence the phenomenon of neo-centrism. ass, Wednezday Aprii 4, 1973 PAGE 5 The polemic between the different sectors of the bour- geoisie might lead misinformed people, depending on their polítical inclination, to think that the EEC is a type of niraculous panacea tor all the problems of Spain-that EEC equals democracy; or that the EEC is the surest way of pre- venting or delaying the social- ist revolution. 'Attributing so many vices virtues to the EEC is and meaningless. The EEC is a reality surround- competitive ing us and in the face of which must lay the basis of a we policy which seriously defends the national interest. ...

Carrillo calls for the crea- tion of a democratic regime under which 'the CP would be in favour of an agreement with the EEC enabling Spain progressively co-operate to with European countries as our economic structure is re- newed and becomes competi- tive enough'. Juan Gomez, leading party 'theoretician', followed Carrillo in the debate, noting with consummate hypocrisy: 'The Common Market did not prevent France, a full member for over ten years, from experiencing the May- June events in 1968. If they did not have a different con- clusion, that was certainly not because of the existence of the Community'

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday Ap EEC and NATO strategists:

BY CHARLES PARKINS

War, as the German writer Clausewitz pointed out over 100 years ago, is the continuation of poli- tics by other means. And, as Lenin once remarked, politics is 'concentrated economics'. If you understand the meaning of these aphorisms, then you can understand an important aspect of the Euro- Economic Community, pean which seems to have been deliberately ignored by many of its advocates. This aspect was hinted at the other day by NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns, in a speech in which he refer- red to relations between the EEC countries and the USA, and warned' the European states against thinking that economic strength was a sub- stitute for "security'. It was not the first time that Luns had spoken on this matter.

For most people in Britain, the most serious aspect of the EEC is the effect which British entry has on our living stan- dards--dear food, VAT, fac- tory closures, and so on.

But a more long-term aspect of the Market, at least as serious if not more so, is its potentiality as a new political and military alliance. The Common Market is a matter of guns, as well as butter. While this issue has been nesday April 4, 1973 studiously avoided by those in the Labour Party and the trade union leaderships who support the EEC, it is the topic of keen discussion among the political and military strate- gists of NATO and the BEC countries. What is more, it is precisely British entry which is seen as bringing the military issue forward on the agenda.

As a consequence, the last few months have seen the military journals of western capitalism full of discussion on the prospects for the new alliance. In December 1972, nies Quarterly CUS Royal United featured an article, 'NATO and the EEC • In the same issue, the question of changed rela- tions between the European and the capitalist powers United States is dealt with in a contribution from NATO secretary General Luns. The same question is dealt with in the January issue of the magazine 'Defence', in the editorial column. In the journal 'Survival' published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, in the January-February issue, an article by Francois Duchene "The Strategic deals with Consequences of the Enlarged European Community'. In the background of all this thinking on the part of strategists is the western supreme significant fact of world politics today - the internationa! crisis of capital- ism. It is because the economic bankruptcy of the capitalist system is matched by the political bankruptcy of the social-democratic (Labour) and Communist Party (Stalinist) and their intellectual leaders hangers-on, all of whom have based themselves on capital- ism's supposed strength, that these leaders and their re- visionist hangers-on refuse to acknowledge the reality of this crisis. For the same reason that they have refused to face the real significance of the European Common Market. capitalist economic The crisis has led to two develop- ments in government policies.

One, is the onset of a vicious trade war between the United States and its rivals. The other, first, is the linked to the urgency for all these govern- ments of an offensive against own working classes, their aimed at destroying all the gains in living standards and rights achieved by organized labour over many years of struggle. • in the USA, and Nixon Heath in Britain, and their counterparts in other coun- tries, want to put the clock back to the days when a mass of unorganized, weak ana pool workers were open to be freely exploited by the power of capital. But they realize that to 'go back' in this way requires new measures, such as state control of wages, abolition of demo- cratic rights and a powerful executive state to impose the wishes of the big monopolies.

To return to the days of un- restricted exploitation, yet in a period of modern powerful monopoly capitalism, the rul- ing classes need to go forward to the corporate state. However accommodating the leaders of the trade union and labour movement may be in their efforts to avoid a strug- gle, the politicians and military leaders of the ruling class know that a struggle has got to come.

INSURGENCY'

That is why Heath could tell the United Nations Gen- eral Assembly in 1970 that this was going to be an era of civil war. It is also why the Tory government has aimed to strengthen itself with new legislation and with the deve- lopment of armed police, a big in the Territorial increase Army and new weapons. 'Counter-insurgency' has been the topic of a number of articles in the same magazines that have been discussing the 'strategic consequences of the enlarged EEC'. There have been features on internal secu- 'counter-insurgent' rity, on tactics, and on new weapons, like the armoured de- cars signed for such warfare, which are now being supplied to the British army. The September issue of the 'RUSI Quarterly' carried an article by Brigadier Michael Calvert, currently a Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, entitled Some Aspects of Guerrilla Warfare'.

Brigadier Calvert, an army engineer and a member of the Monday Club is particularly interested in the topic that he •Town Planning and calls Counter-Insurgency' Unlike the Labour leaders, he seems to have made his acquaintance with the writings of Marx and Engels, judgeing .

by his reference to the way European cities such as Paris were replanned and rebuilt in the late 19th century, so as to the barricades and counter street-fighting which had be- come traditional tactics of pro- letarian revolutionaries, and to facilitate easier repression by the forces of order. The briga- dier believes that similar con- siderations should enter the planning of cities today.

He makes it quite clear in his article that he is not just talking about remote some colonial context, but thinking of Britain today, as he coolly discourses on the way city streets, working-class housing estates and university cam- puses ought to be laid out with their strategic aspect, in the event of civil war, in mind.

As might be expected, he is full of admiration for the work of another military writer, Brigadier Frank Kitson (formerly of army intelligence, the Infantry head now Training School) whose book, Low Intensity Operations'-an

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. AS BUTTER

'admirable book', says Calvert rch -discusses the situation that of could Britain as me alise result of a drop in the stand- re'. ard of living, with the army 1l y the the being called assist police against strikers. rly Calvert is particularly taken he with the idea of co-ordination, ind of the police, armed forces, etc., deal ers, _to witn an gency. He thinks it particu- larly important to have 'one ngs man' to be in charge. ing As Workers Press readers vay know, Tories will the IrIS nave recently set up a special com- mittee under Lord Jellicoe, to co-ordinate police and military in an 'emergency. of In the December issue the 'RUSI Quarterly, yet an- G. other Brigadier, R. . S. Bid- well, also comes out in support ga- of Kitson, and says that fears on- expressed by some MPs about the his ideas are not really justified.

in The European Common Mar- ket is an alliance of the mono- ust capitalists of Europe. ote poly ing Capitalist powers, whose nor- are those of illy relations mal ity and rivalry, can competition only form an alliance if they ing have a common enemy. The m- ut bickering, haggling and jockey- in ing for positions that have nd. on among the national gone governments of the EEC coun- the tries reflect the fact that des- tendency towards an ary pite the international economy con- ce, tained in the development of the productive forces, the try ok, capitalist system an cannot overcome Left: Sir Alex Douglas Home and Geoffrey Rippon seated beside Minister, Edward Tory Prime Heath as he signs the treaty of accession of Britain into the Common Market—a new political and military alliance. tions of nation-states. What has brought the EEC powers together today is not the strength of capitalism, but its worsening crisis, and the consequences this produces.

The EEC's member-states are brought together only by their desire to form an effec- tive common strategy against their rival capitalist powers the USA and Japan-and their need to deal with their own working classes. Only two weeks ago Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver, the newly appointed Chief of Services, visited the Armed Bonn to participate in a meet- ing of FINABEL, a military union between service chiefs of EEC countries. The body was set up in the early 1950s as a prelude to the founding of the Common Market in 1956. Carver was the man who wrote the highly- flattering introduction to Kit- son's book on counter-insur- gency. The Cabinet appointed job to the top military him because of the civil war views that he shares with premier Edward Heath. For a man like NATO boss Joseph Luns, it is a matter of open concern now that the North Atlantic alliance, built up under US leadership from the late 1940s on, may come apart under the strains of trade.

war and deteriorating relations between European and US capitalism. His recent speech calling on the EEC powers not to neglect security' reflected this con- cern. And it is not the first time he expressed it. In his lecture, printed in the of the RUSI December issue Quarterly, Luns referred to a by Nixon that, to statement assist the United States to overcome its economic difficul- ties, European nations must be prepared to shoulder their own arms burden. Luns went on to comment: 'Whilst NATO is not dir- ectly responsible for economic matters and is not the forum in which difficult technical, economic or financial negotia- tions take place, it is, never- theless, vitally concerned with their outcome. If these prob- lems are not promptly solved by Americans and Europeans alike, the tensions which may develop between the two sides of the Atlantic would under- mine the Alliance's solidarity and, furthermore, effect the availability of resources needed for a sustained defence effort.'

The date of publication of this lecture is interesting. It was actually given to a semi- held in March last year. nar Yet it is published in a maga- zine • in December. Was this just an incidental matter of delay, or was it felt by the editors of 'RUSI Quarterly' that Luns' views had become topical interest of particular with the looming of trade war and the entry of Britain to the enlarged EEC? Certainly its publication coincided with a spate of arti- cles on the same theme. Taken together, these would suggest that British entry is seen as a significant factor in the EEC emerging as a new power bloc. Although Luns may be wor- ried about the effect of the new economic and political situation on NATO military strength, his views in no way justify the claims by the bur- eaucracy in Moscow or Peking that an independent French foreign policy, or a new Euro- pean alignment, may somehow 'progressive' break mark a with US imperialism, or a step to 'world peace'. Asked a question at the NATO seminar about the atti- tude of France, Luns hastened to reassure his brass-hat audi- ence that the French presi- dent had gone firmly on record that, in the event of conflict, France would be on the side of her NATO allies. The NATO boss would seem to be worried about effectiveness; but he has no worries about an 'independent Europe' being any kind of move to the left.

A more positive approach than that of Luns to the rise of a new European power bloc is taken in the January 1973 issue of 'Defence'. In his edi- torial, Denis Archer also makes clear the reactionary attitude from which he and his fellow strategists start. On the question of Rhodesia and South Africa, for instance: *Even supposing, for the sake of argument, that all the bad things that are said about these two regimes are true (and we are quite certain that they are not), the fact remains that minority governments in both countries govern with the practical consent of the great majority of the populace ...

On the question of the coming to power of military regimes by means such as the Greek colonels' coup, Archer recommends that '... if and when it has become estab- lished, the sensible course for the other nations to pursue is to determine their future rela- tionships with the new regime solely on the basis of strategic considerations (military and economic) and without refer- ence to the acceptability of the new system in terms of morality or of political ideology'. Of course, that is precisely how relationships are deter- mined! Massacres in Indo- nesia? Repression in Turkey?

Mass imprisonment and tor- ture in Greece? A small price to pay for having regimes that look after capitalist eco- can nomic and military interests!

And of course, it is sheer hypocrisy for western politi- cians to pretend horror at the actions of the Greek colonels.

They took power by putting into effect a NATO contin- gency plan and it is known that a similar plan exists for Italy, and further plans : have undoubtedly been drawn up for other European countries.

Reviewing the changing re- lations between the western powers, Archer says that when NATO was established, it re- flected the United States' 'crusading spirit against com- unism'. However, in his view, 1972 saw the USA changing its attitude somewhat towards the 'communist powers' He goes on say: 'Situa- to tions may well arise in which some of the other NATO nations will find it difficult to support the policy • line taken by the Americans.' Coming closer to the point, Archer moves on to call on NATO Secretary General, Joseph Luns. Right: Brigadier Frank Kitson-support for his counter- insurgency ideas now appears in the 'RUS| Quarterly.' the European powers to deve- lop their own. military and strategic programme to go with their economic align- ment. It would not be at all sur- prising if, within the next decade or so, there were sev- eral changes in the member. ship of the western alliance...

Within the same period there are also likely to be major changes of alignment and alli- ance in Africa and the Far rd East. Since in terms of mili- Workers Press, Wed tary preparedness ten years is not a long time, those respon- sible for national planning ought to have contingency plans for all possible realign- ments. We think it quite pos- sible that some such range of plans exist in Paris... Indeed, it would seem that some such plans do exist in Paris and that they are not just at the level of contingency of plans. The strategists French imperialism want to see their policies writ large as the programme of a new European power bloc based on the EEC.

MILITARY

POTENTIAL

In the January-February issue of 'Survival', François Duchene of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, writing on "The Strategic Con- sequences of the Enlarged European Community', says that to be realistic such a pro- gramme could only be under- taken if the new alignment in- cluded the major military powers in western Europe.

writes, 'Accordingly', he 'British entry has lifted the most obvious constraint on its progress from an economic to à "political" stage?' Enthusiastically, he says of the EEC's military potential: 'In military terms, its general purpose forces, if they were single organized as a ever American or Soviet even standards.' Then, taking it further: 'a nuclear European Community could have a degree of self- reliance in all its policies and, by definition, a unity of poli- tical organization and purpose, which would turn its potential assets into achieved weight at many levels of world politics.'

Duchene acknowledges that nuclear strategy is not yet the main thing on the agenda and" that there are other political questions to be settled first.

But among these, he sees rela- tions with the United States as the most important-and as determining the need for a European nuclear force. Against this background of military preparations for class in the EEC the Dick war Tavernes and Roy Jenkins and their fellow Marketeers have a lot to answer for. And we should remember that it is not only the obvious right-wingers in the labour movement who have supported EEC entry. There are a num- ber of so-called 'lefts' in the Parliamentary Labour Party, characters like Paul Rose, the for Blackley, Manches- ter, for instance, who have put forward the idea that Press, Wednesday April 4, 1973 PAGE 7 socialists ought to welcome the Common Market out of some sort of 'internationalism', and that European unity' was somehow a step towards 'peace'—as though you can abolish gangsterism by getting a group of the most notorious imperialist gangsters together to form a bigger and stronger gang! 'lefts' The parliamentary who put forward this sort of 'internationalism' have been echoed outside parliament among certain revisionists and also the drawing-room 'revo- lutionaries' and academic pseudo-Marxists of the 'New Left Review, who have at- Socialist Labour tacked the League as 'chauvinist, because of our principled opposition to the Common Market. Presumably these gentlemen will also have to decide now, in retrospect, that socialists who opposed NATO were also chauvinist, for opposing an international capitalist agree- ment! As for the Labour leaders, they never declared opposition to the EEC on principle; they only argued for better terms for British capitalism. They sheltered the pro-Marketeers in the Parliamentary Labour Party and succeeded in pre- venting the Labour Party con- ference from committing the next Labour government to withdrawal. Now we see the conse- quence, as TUC general secre- tary Victor Feather and others, abandoning any pretences, rush to collaborate with the

EEC

and to take highly-paid jobs in its institutions-just their political forbears rallied to take posts with capitalist governments on the eve of World War I. The SLL and Workers Press will continue to fight for a Labour government to take power mandated to carry out socialist policies, which must include withdrawal from both NATO and the EEC. The history of the last two centuries shows that the rise of monopolies, the erection of tariff-barriers and the launch- ing of trade wars between rival imperialist power blocs are the prelude to real, shooting wars. It was so before World War nd I and World War II. Imperial- ism has not changed-it has only acquired more deadly weapons. The depth of capitalist crisis today, and the formation of new power blocs, only brings nearer the danger that capi- talism could take us into World War Ill. Those who oppose us must be made to face their respon- sibility for what they are help- ing the imperialists prepare.

FINANCES GREEK TORTURE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Apı The Greek regime. Jack Gale i • law any Under existing Greek arrested can be anywhere and held in- communicado for any length of time. The authorities are under no obligation to give any reason for the arrest nor to inform anyone of it. There is the closest connec- tion between the military re- gime and the torturers. As mentioned yesterday, the com- mandant of one torture centre is the brother of dictator George Papadopoulos. The chief army torturer- Col Basil Ioannidis--is at- tached to the office of the army Chief of Staff. The current chief of the KYP-General Hadzipetro-is a member of the inner junta.

There are also close connec- tions with the United States, which replaced Britain in 1947 as the chief source of econo- mic and military aid to Greece, lesday Aprt '4, 1973'' * Gale investigates the tortures and and particularly with the CIA.

All the Greek armed forces were equipped, trained and supervised by the United States. KYP is modelled on The and largely financed by the CIA. When former Prime Min- ister Andreas Papandreou clashed with the KYP in 1964 he revealed that the KYP fin- ances came direct from the CIA without passing through any Greek Ministry. The CIA lay behind the colonels' coup. There was no basis for par- liamentary democracy in illusions Greece, despite the spread by the Stalinists.

The Americans ex- were tremely angry at the election of a Centre government in.

1963, and when it seemed likely to be re-elected in 1967 the CIA acted. In 1970 Papandreou re- vealed how the US govern- ment adviser Walter Rostow National Security met the Council in February 1967 and proposed the establishment of es and the police state. Part 2 a military dictatorship. This was supported by President Johnson. before the coup, real Even control of internal and foreign policy in Greece was in the hands of the CIA and they were not prepared to allow that to be threatened. In 1957 the CIA had estab- a camp outside Athens lished at Aghia Paraskevi, which was used to interrogate prisoners from Eastern Europe. It con- sists of eight sound-proofed bungalows in which doctors administer a 'truth drug.

commander is Lt-Col Its Zourelis of the KYP. The Aspholia receives US aid including special white cable whips and headscrews known as 'iron wreaths'. Hundreds of prisoners have reporied being told by Athens Security Police Insp Lambrou: 'Behind me is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the United States. You can't fight us. We are Americans.' The United States is not the only country to lend encour- to the colonels' agement Greece. The Soviet Union maintains extremely friendly relations with the colonels, as do all the Stalinist states. Since November 1969 close cultural and trading relations have been developed between Greece and the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary, East Germany and Albania. Contacts have been estab- lished with China. Regular visits are exchanged between Greek Ministers and leading figures in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Regular banquets and jun- ketings take place where these gentlemen drink each others' health-for example, when Cornelu Manescu of Rumania June I1, visited Greece on 1971; at the Salonika trade fair in August 1971; when Greek Ministers attended a reception at the Greek em- bassy in Tirana to celebrate Greek National Day. US President Johnson supported establishment of a Greek the 1967. Left top: dictatorship in Agnew and Papadopoulos. Left below: Rumanian foreign minis- Cornelo Manescu with ter, Papadopoulos. (A full account of all the connections between Stalinism and the Greek colonels was published in Workers Press on January 31, 1973.) The Stalinists bear the major responsibility for the defeat of the Greek revolution after the end of World War Il. Stalin collaborated openly with British and American im- perialism to crush the Greek workers and peasants. Greek Stalinists be- The trayed the revolution and sub- sequently collaborated with the Centre Union of Andreas allowing Papandreou, the forces of the right to plan their coup behind the scenes in collaboration with the CIA.

(For a full account of the role of Stalinism in Greece, see Workers Press of January 29 and 30, 1973.) of course, There is also, support for the Greek regime in this country and it is not confined to Tory circles.

A few years ago it was re- vealed that Sunderland Labour MP Gordon Bagier, who had just returned from a junket in Greece and denied stories of torture, was on the payroll of public-relations firm Maurice Fraser and Associates of Lon- don. Fraser had been hired by the Greek rulers to build up their image in Britain. Another organization which does not come out well from the Greek situation is the International Red Cross. On February 10, 1970, the political prisoners of Kory- dallos prison denounced the International Red Cross Com- mission in Greece for refusing to show any interest in the fate of Communist Party mem- ber Argiris Baras--desperately ill after torture and refused any medical treatment. In a smuggled letter the Korydallos prisoners declared: 'We have sent many letters to the IRCC asking it to visit us and concern itself with this case. 'Our relations have visited it many times and have brought up the question of Baras. They have met with no understanding, no response, absolutely no concern regard- ing our demand that Baras be admitted to a civilian hospital'.

The Korydallos prisoners wrote again on February 15: "The IRCC delegation in Athens has shown complete indifference to this case.

'We have sent many letters asking it to and telegrams visit Baras and interest itself in his admittance to hospital, have met with but we no response. 'We had an earlier promise that Mr Martin, head of the IRCC delegation would visit the prison about the middle of January but this promise has not been kept. 'The IRCC took the same attitude when it was visited by our relatives who put the issue of Baras and other seri- ously-ill political prisoners. The junta is utilizing it (the IRCC) in order to • cover its policy of the extermination of its imprisoned political oppo- nents.

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TO BRING THE LAGGARDS'

STALINIST

CRISIS

The campaign to push up production in the vital third year of the Ninth Soviet Five-Year plan is now being waged in all the organs of propaganda and in Com- munist Party meetings and conferences. 'Pravda' carried a leading article on March 26 under the heading: 'More goods for the people'. It called for a • big increase in output and an improvement in 'the quality and consumer appeal of products' • It admitted that light in- dustry had fallen behind its target in January, but claimed that this had been made up in February and that produc- tion was still increasing 'due to growing socialist competition'. These comforting words followed by a severe were warning, and it was this which the reader was obvious- ly expected to attend to.

Not only was the rate of growth of production in the industries light and food lower than in Soviet industry as a whole, but 'nearly one in every five enterprises failed to fulfil the plan for the first two months of the year while in the meat and dairy industry the failure rate is one in ten' This high rate of failure to achieve plan targets is a matter for serious concern. Strenuous efforts are being made to bring the 'laggards' up to scratch. Reports from different parts the Soviet Union always speak of 'shortcomings' on the part of particular enterprises and organizations. These include the turning out of poor quality products, failure to meet production waste and embezzle- targets, ment of materials and falsifi- cation of accounts. A recent report from Perm spoke of machines standing idle because raw materials had not been received and said that useful employment of machines in capital construc- tion and assembly was no more than 40 per cent. A meeting of Party activists in the Ukraine was told of shortcomings' on the "serious part of the printing machine analysis instru- works, the works, the Kalinin ments works, the Kiev food machines association and the cotton mill 'which do not fulfil state plans and socialist pledges'.

ÊS toky Now available from New Pa 186a Clapham High Street, 'In the oblast [region] as a whole', the speaker went on, '57 enterprises failed to fulfil their plans for the sale of products and 109 enterprises for raising productivity.'

The assembled bureaucrats on this occasion were treated to a run-down of 'shortcom- ings' in practically every sphere, forgetting the not Institute of Archaelogy of the Ukrainian Academy of No Sciences. doubt .the audience knew too well what the 'shortcomings' were for it to be necessary for speakers.

to specify them in detail.

They were told that 'the implementation of the prin- ciples of communist morality is impossible without the struggle against manifestations which are hostile to us, such greed, bribery, idleness, as theft, drunkenness and the private-property mentality'. No doubt these six deadly sins adequately were more than represented in the audience of party and state officials.

They were ordered, in addi- tion, to intensify their struggle against a broad category of manifestations' 'negative 'bourgeois ideology, nation- alism and Zionism, and the survival of the past in the and behaviour of awareness the people' A recent meeting of the Central Committee of the Byelorussian Communist Party was also treated to a list of shortcomings, some of them far from minor ones.

Masheroy, the First Secre- tary, said that production plans for 1971 and 1972 had not been fulfilled in primary oil refining, knitwear, leather footwear, furniture and wall- materials, Annual plans had not been fulfilled in a industries as list of other various as briquetted peat, butter and combine harvesters.

He said: 'All these short- comings resulted from serious violations of Party and state discipline by the managerial workers of many enterprises and of certain Ministries and for the first time years, the republic's industry failed to fulfil its pledges re- and garding higher output labour productivity.' He did not say whether any action had been taken against those bureaucrats obviously serious offences. of guilty These included, he said, 'the shameful widespread practice in the of modifying plans By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated Sharp pen-portraits of leading figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for the first time published in an English edition. The translations Socialists' 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- in the Soviet Union in lished 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures of the Second inter- 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.

New Park Publications 1 Street, London, SW4 7UG course of the year to produce seeming plan fulfilment'® In words, falsification of figures to make it seem that targets had reached when production had been unsatisfactory. A similar state of affairs was revealed in Lithuania at a plenum in January. The meat and dairy industry, the build- agriculture industry and failed to reach their targets.

Some 90 enterprises did not fulfil their productivity growth 'frequent sp plan. There were cases of wasteful use of re- involving excessive sources, consumption of electricity, materials and semi- raw lity finished materials. 'Cases of mismanagement numerous' still the are assembled bureaucrats were told-as if they did not know —and the principal reason why capital construction plans 'un- had not been met was economic dissipation of funds and other resources'. • In other words, some bureaucrats had dipping too deeply into been public funds for their own purposes. The contradictions in which the bureaucracy is caught are nowhere more apparent than in agriculture. Here too a vigourous campaign is on to try to avert another disastrous failure to meet crop targets.

of 197.4 In fact, a target million tons has been set for this year, 11 million tons more than the record year of 1970.

It seems unlikely, on present indications, that such a target ion " can "be reached. In some re- gions there was not sufficient snow covering over the seeded fields; in others winter wheat was sown too late and crop yields are bound to be down again. Food items, such as meat, butter and fresh vegetables, in short supply or un- are obtainable in a number of areas of the Soviet Union.

There has been talk of pur- chasing France's big butter surplus to meet consumer needs. it Reliable reports make clear that the food situation it has is more critical than been for a number of years and . it is likely to get worse until late in the spring or supplies early summer when normally improve. Lack of food no doubt affects pro- duction both by decreasing physical efficiency and by re- ducing the workers' incentive to work. Working in the salt mines used to be considered a dire punishment equivalent to a slow death but Soviet experts have discovered otherwise.

They have found that the salt mine climate is good for bronchial complaints and has other curative properties.

small experimental hospital is to be set up underground near the Solotvino salt mines in Workers Press, Wed The difficulties of industry in reaching targets set for pro- duction and productivity are aggravated by the food crisis.

But the situation in agricul- ture, although influenced by bad weather conditions, is also • a result of industry's inability supply sufficient farm to machinery and especially spare parts. On some collective farms as many as two-thirds of the tractors may be out of action vth • at any one time, waiting for spare parts which are slow arriving. Even 'Pravda' admits that only 80 per cent of the country's tractors were working order at the beginning of March. The chemical industry can- not produce enough fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides for efficient agriculture. More- over, when they are available in. sufficient quantities they often badly used are or wasted. In Byelorussia it is reported that in 1971-1972 there was an insignificant in- crease in crop yields after There is one place in the Soviet Union where the memory of Josef Stalin, whose bloody purges cost millions of lives, is still very much alive.

That is the Georgian town of Gori where he was born in 1879. A Stalin museum stands beside the two-room wooden house which was his birth- place. A huge statue of the kind once to be seen in most Soviet cities but now removed is still there. In Gori de-Stalinization has never been carried out. Many Georgians still revere Stalin and resent his elimination from the history books. Some are still hoping for his full rehabi- litation. the Ukraine and large a medical centre will follow.

The KGB already sends oppositionists to what are described as 'psychiatric hos- pitals. Perhaps it will now be sending them for a cure Solotvino hospital at the instead. The Stalinists in the Langley tenants' association at Middle- ton, Manchester, were stung recently by a letter to the local Press condemning their re- formist politics and failure to mobilize the working class.

Their reply is a wounded defence of their role, with much praise for 'progressive' Labour Party councillors. In one intriguing passage they cite Clydebank council in their defence. 'At Clydebank,' they wrote, 'CIlr Jimmy Reid and two ress, Wednesday April 4, 1973 PAGE 9 try application of mineral fertili- zers owing to 'unskilful use and loss of nutrients during their transportation and storage'. The difficulties in reaching targets in industry are con- nected with the agrarian crisis which, in turn, is a of the forced consequence carried out collectivization under Stalin in the early 1930s. The bureaucracy falls back on exhortations to work harder and blames climatic conditions when its own mis- management and the policy of 'socialism in one country' are really responsible. The working class is no longer willing to put up with shortages and bad conditions.

It is demanding not only more, but better food and consumer The Pravda' editorial goods. reflects the concern which the bureaucracy feels at the chal- lenge to its power and position implicit in the situation. growing reflects fear of the strength of the working class.

A thousand miles from Moscow, the Stalin relics are preserved ready for future use.

which The bureaucracy created Stalin in its own im- age came to dread the jealous and blind wrath of the blood- thirsty tyrant upon whom they depended. Frightened by the ferment which Nikita Khrushchev's ori- ginal 'revelations' stirred up in 1956, it now leaves huge gaps in Soviet history which are too dangerous to be dis- cussed. The heirs of Stalin, the present-day leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, still adhere to the theory of 'socialism in one country' which Stalin was the first to expound. The power and privileges which they enjoy today have their roots in the Stalin era: that is why they cannot per- mit the archives to be opened and the full truth about the crushing of the Bolshevik party, the purges and trials to be known. The existence of Gori, with its museum, its piously pre- its gigantic served relics and statue is an awful reminder of the past. The bureaucracy can neither boost it as a national shrine nor call attention to the past by closing down the museum uprooting the and statue. Whichever way it turns, it cannot get rid of Stalin.

other communist councillors alongside the progressive Lab- our and Scottish Nationalist councillors have shown the way in mobilizing the whole of the Labour and trade union movement in not implement- ing Tory policies.' Since the letter was pub- lished on March 9 one can only conclude the Stalinists of Langley are a little behind the time. It is, a fact, after all, that Clydebank, after a fine in a Scottish court, went the way of all (bar Clay Cross) Labour councils and decided to imple- ment. The vote was unanimous. 'Progressive' councillors, Scot- tish Nationalists, Jimmy Reid and his Stalinist comrades all voted for TORY policy. As for the working class, it is true they were mobilized in Clyde- bank. It was suggested that a collecting tin be taken round to raise money to pay for the fine!

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Tories Action. Force the to Wednesday April 4, 7.30 p.m.

Resign'. Stop the closuresmake the Tories resign' WANDSWORTH: Monday April 9, 'Kings Arms', High Street, Tabernacle Congregational 8 p.m. Ebbw SW18. 'TUC must call a General Church, Armoury Street, Vale. Strike'. Speakers: Michael Banda and WATFORD: Monday April 9, 8 a Shotton steelworker. Trade Union Hall, Watford p.m. Road, nr Watford Station.

'The fight against Stalinism'.

WEMBLEY: Wednesday: April 4, 8 Copland High CAMDEN: Tuesday April 10, p.m. School, "Law and Order"_ Street. "Tory 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale p.m. The TUC Preparation for dictatorship'.

Road, Kings X. must call a General Strike'. ABERDEEN: Thursday April 5, CLAPHAM: Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. West Front Room, Music p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Hall. "The Way Forward for Hospital Workers.' Saths Te Clapham Manor Street, SW4. TUC must call LEEDS: Thursday April 5, 8 p.m.

General Strike to make the Tories Hotel, Boar The Peel Lane. resign'. strike and the hospital workers' 8 HARROW: Tuesday April 10, fight against the state pay laws.' & Labour Hall, Harrow p.m. Speakers: Cliff Slaughter.

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THE CLAIMS by Hugh Scanlon, his colleagues on the engineering union's exe- cutive committee and the Communist Party that the engineers' president was mis- reported by the capitalist press about offering a deal to the Tory government can easily be settled. Let Scanlon clarify exactly what his position is on the questions raised. And if the 'Morning Star' really wants to convince people that it does not support Scan- lon's capitulation to corporatism, then let it denounce Scanlon.

Scanlon has returned to the question of the confrontation between the Tory government and the trade union movement in the latest edition of his union's journal. His editorial comments are full of the usual Scanlon left phraseology. We must give due warning that if the government persists in its indifference to the suffering of hospital workers and patients, then the entire move- ment will be forced to take action if only to make the gov- ernment see sense?

DAY BEFORE

-First point to make is that...

written the day before this was he made his lunchtime speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery offering to accept the Common Market, to accept the principle of the Industrial Relations Act and the principle of state control of wages ... in return for con- cessions. But secondly, and more im- portant, there is no real contra- diction between the two faces of Hugh Scanlon. Even as his editorial was being composed, the TUC's Finance and General Purposes Commit- tee, of which he is a member, was refusing yet again to take action on the hospital workers' behalf. There have been four top-level meetings of TUC leaders since the special Congress decision to co-ordinate action in support of individual unions struggle against the pay laws. Not once has Scanlon so far suggested that strikes be called in the hospital workers' support. It is now four weeks since the special Congress and five weeks since the hospital workers and civil servants started their action.

COLLAPSE?

How much longer before these fights collapse under the com- bined weight of police repres- sion, middle-class hostility and the refusal to give a proper lead by their own union bureaucrats?

If Scanlon really means what his editorial states-If we allow these groups of workers to be picked off one by one and then defeated, the consequences for collective bargaining, living stan- dards, and trade unionism itself are enormous-then let him act on it. Collections by engineers and support on picket lines and in demonstrations, as Scanlon pro- poses, while very helpful would not be enough. If Scanlon wanted to stem the tide of retreat begun by the gas- workers', Post Office workers' and Ford workers' leaders, - of which the engineering president is one of the most influential, he should have spelt it out at yes- terday's AUEW executive meet- ing. Leit: scanion at a 1970 meeting Industrial the corporatist Society. Right: Sitting with his union's delegation at the Labour Party conference. By our industrial staff At the same time, let Scanlon correct any wrong impressions, if there are any, about what he proposed to the Tories. Scanlon is not likely to do anything of the sort. Elsewhere in his editorial, he writes: "Certainly, there is some justification in criticizing a one- day stoppage as ineffective if the objective is a dramatic change of government policies. Expressed in terms of a strike, only sus- tained mass action could bring such a change about.' Good left phrases. But then he goes on: 'All this does not mean to say that the May Day_protest will be without effect. Far from it.

The government might not make a sudden about-turn because of but ..a widespread the protest, stoppage will certainly indicate the trade unions' determination to maintain living standards.'

The government might not make a sudden about-turn, but Hugh Scanlon certainly can!

He has an idea of what is re- quired in terms of strike action, and he knows what dire conse- quences will follow if the move- ment fails to meet the challenge.

But then he says that he will only do what everyone else is doing.

'LEFT' TALK

"Rightly or wrongly, we have to work within the united policy as laid down (by special Con- gress), he says. And, of course, they are not doing that. It is just more even 'left' talk from Scanion.

Not only is Scanion not carry- ing out what he claims to be necessary, he is not even carry- ing out the minimum of activity which he claims TUC policy has obliged upon him. And, of course, even if he did carry out all that he says is necessary in terms of sustained mass action, it is still an illusion to think that this would change government policy. From behind all this empty talk, the real Scanion emerges: the 'left' leader who is preparing to do a deal with the Tory gov- ernment which is introducing the corporate state into Britain.

Scanion made many militant- sounding remarks about the gas- men's struggle, but then nothing. His latest outburst has come in the middle of the hos- pital workers' desperate struggle and in the middle of the miners' balloting in the coalfields on strike action. No longer is Scanlon just doing nothing to back up his left words, he is now actively sabo- taging , the working class's fight against the Tory government.

His moves to compromise the struggle at the height of the battle are deliberate. Scanlon, along with his 'left' allies and Stalinist supporters, has decided to lend his efforts to getting the trade union move- ment to accept corporatism.

THREE

Northern Ireland High Court of Appeal judges yesterday fixed April 25 as the date of execution of Albert Browne (29), a UDA man convicted of murdering a policeman. They refused to allow him leave to appeal to the House of Lords. It seems that only an interven- tion by the Home Secretary or the Ulster Secretary can stop the execution going ahead as planned. Browne convicted of was shooting a Belfast policeman on the M2 motorway in October last year. He was sentenced to death on March 6. This is the mandatory sentence for _killing a policeman in Northern Ireland.

STEWARDS at a Sheffield engineering works have asked the district committees of local union branches to form a com- mittee to unite all workers against the government's pay laws. The call comes from the joint shop stewards committee

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETING

Build the revolutionary party Join the Socialist Labour League Defend basic democratic rights Make the Tories resign

TUESDAY APRIL 10

7.30 p.m. Caedraw School Caedraw Merthyr Tydfil Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Cape. High Street. Printed Newsa 702901-720 2000. Workers Press, Wadi Yesterday's appeal against con- viction was the fact that the trial judge had dis- allowed evidence of self-defence or of provocation to be put to the jury. HOSPITAL workers in the mili- tant Stockport area have begun a one-week strike. Stockport In- firmary, the town's main acci- dent hospital, was operating with only three-quarters of its beds filled. Doncasters, Sheffield, one of the big local engineering works.

They want the committee to campaign for the TUC to call a General Strike to force the Tories out of office and return a La- bour government pledged to re- peal all anti-trade union laws and committed to socialist policies.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The revolutionary party and the history of the British working class Caedraw School Merthyr Tydfil 7 p.m. Sundays April 8 and 22 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.

ross, Wednosday April 4, 1973 PAGE 11 Lord Chiet Justice, Sir Robert Lowrie, sitting with Lord Justice Curran and Lord ustice Jones, rejected the grounds for appeal.

After the hearing Mr Robert junior McCartney,. Browne's counsel, said he would be dis- cussing an application to the House of Lords for permission to take an appeal there. They have 14 days to do this. At St Thomas' geriatric and psychiatric hospital the propor- tion was slightly higher. Pickets were out at both hospitals hand- ing out leaflets explaining their case. Taverne backed as Euro-MP LABOUR renegade Dick Taverne, MP for Lincoln, has been re- warded by the Tory government.

They are backing his nomina- tion as a member of the Euro- pean Parliament. Taverne was one of the La- bour MPs who kept the Tories / in power by voting with the government over Common Mar- ket entry. Later he was expelled by the Lincoln Labour Party be- cause of this violation of Party policy. The European Parliament Is boycotted by Labour MPs.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain Middleton (nr Manchester) Langley Community Centre Middleton 4 p.m. Sunday April 8 Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution in Britain: 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 Tasks of the Fourth Inter- the national, Communist Manifesto.

Miners ballot against strike action Right-wingers takestudents' union presidency SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Af

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dockers' walk-out took a tighter grip on the port yesterday, with 36 ships idle as opposed to 27 on Monday. Dockland was silent yester- day morning. All 7,000 men in the enclosed docks stayed away solidly without the need for pickets. The only sign of activity was meeting at Tilbury, a mass remained where dockers out after being told "their 18-man committee would seek official backing from the Transport and General Workers' Union. Later the 18-man committee, which comprises 12 T&GWU dockers and six members of the Amalgamated National Steve- dores' and Dockers' Union, met shop stewards from the river- side wharfs in an attempt to spread the stoppage. The men in the enclosed docks walked out after employ.

ers refused to accept their with- THE RESULT of the miners' ballot rejecting the NUM exe- cutive's recommendation for a national strike against the government-imposed pay set- tlement is a direct conse- quence of the capitulation by TUC leaders to the state control of wages. As Joe Gormley himself said after announcing the result yes- terday: "The miners perhaps thought that after the TUC special Con- gress [where Jones and Scanlon sidetracked the call for a General Strike by asking for a one-day stoppage] they would be own fighting govern- on their ment policy. The NUM president added: 'It would be wrong to draw the con- clusion that the miners have voted to accept the government's policies or that they are satisfied with this wage settlement. THE PRESIDENCY of the Na- tional Union of Students fell to the right wing yesterday on day two of the annual conference at Exeter University. current running Digby_Jacks' university's Mike mate, York Randall, won the election on the fourth ballot in a close finish national executive with fellow member Mike Terry, who was backed by the Communist Party.

union's But voting at the biggest-ever conference took place in an atmosphere of frus- tration and confusion at marking time over the national grants campaign as prices soar.

Of the 1,100 students packed into the Great Hall at Devon- shire House, only 600 voted with some delegates tearing up their

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

Inesday April 4, 1973

BY DAVID MAUDE

drawal from flexible manning arrangements. In protest against the employ- ers £2.60 pay offe devalue the the dockers had decided to Devlin Phase Two conditions Green Book and demand more men in gangs and only one job per shift. The employers were commit- ted to withdrawing the offer and men off pay altogether putting if this happened. meeting has been A mass called for Friday and the en- closed docks employers, meeting yesterday morning, decided they had little choice : but to wait for the outcome before making their next move. HULL dockers, meanwhile, were determined yesterday afternoon to go ahead with a 24-hour strike this week following the discharge by unregistered labour

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'But they saw what was hap- pening around them and said: we'll take what we can get now, and keep negotiating. 'Maybe the miners are being more realistic than anyone be- lieved. They will go into action when the time is right. When you, ime is wrong, they'll tell Gormley admitted he was sur- prised that only 36.0 per cent (82,631) voted for strike action, 63.4 per and cent (143,006) against. He thought that last year's seven-week strike and even lon- ger overtime ban was still too near for the miners to decide to strike again. He said the deal, with extra other fringe pension rights and benefits, like somkeless fuel al- lowance, was worth about £3 a week.

BY IAN YEA

cards in disgust. Randall is regarded as a left- winger, although he is not a CP member, and has been care- ful not to identify closely with Stalinist-inspired. tactics the which have so far dominated the fight for higher grants. middle-of-the-road solid A social democrat, he said the NUS must develop as a strong union and play its part in the struggles of the labour move- ment. But the Stalinist and revision- ist exhortations to escalate the grants campaign with a still bigger show of militancy to torce Chancellor's the Tory open purse fell on deaf ears. of a timber ship there on Sunday. The ship, the 'Inge Fiedler', a arrived secretly Dutch vessel, at Bankside wharf in the early hours of Sunday morning. By 3.30 p.m. eight non-regis- tered men employed by wharf owners W. S. Barchard and Son Ltd, working under a heavy police guard, had unloaded the ship's 400 tons of French beech and battoned it down for sea.

The Hull dockers, who have conducted long campaign a against unregistered wharfs, are bitterly angry at the failure of the recent National Ports Coun- cil report on the subject to re- commend their registration under the Dock Labour Scheme.

They have demanded the re- call of the T&GWU docks dele- gate conference in this issue.

Both this issue and the Lon- don expected to stoppage are the main items for dis. form cussion at Saturday's meeting of the national port shop stewards' committee in Birmingham.

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The NUM will ask for its im- plementation from April 1, and for more talks holidays, on hours and productivity. In the ballot, 225,637 votes possible of a were cast out 290,000. No area reached the necessary 55 per cent in favour of strike action. Yorkshire, field, came closest with 53 per cent, followed by Scotland, 51 South per cent, cent, and kent, 4y per cent.

Of the other 19 areas, only Derbyshire, North Wales, Cumberland went over 40 per Emlyn Williams, South Wales vice-president of the union and commented: 'Naturally we are disappointed, but we are not surprised because we are of the • view that the national leader-

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• thirsting The conference was after an assurance that although the present fight could not be taken much_further, they could still win. Randall's 'no com- promise' platform gave it to them. The fact that his stance turned out to mean no more • than 'equitable distribu- securing an tion' of whatever money the Tories were prepared to make available for grants was passed over in the frustration at seeing the Stalinist campaign immor- ably stalled. In the elections for president the results were: Randall right-wing La- Mike bour) 306

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Dagenham meeting i

BY STEPHEN JC

FORD workers at the Dagenha company's latest pay offer yesi down a call for a nationwide o of their £10 claim. The two decisions were taken at a morning mass meet- ing of about 20,000 workers.

After the vote militant shop stewards criticized the union leadership for failing to give a clear lead. The Dagenham meeting is the first a series be held to throughout the Ford empire. The plant verdicts will be con- sidered on Friday • by the 15 unions involved in the claim.

They will decide what future to take in the combine. action Meanwhile the men are being told that the union will back any action they take. Transport and General Work- ers official Fred Blake said the : decisive. Dagenham vote was 'This is the biggest area in the combine and will be a big factor in deciding future action.

strike action is never National ruled out,' he said ship out-manoeuvred the mem- bers. 'Negotiations started on three in November: wages, priorities craftsmen's differentials, and shorter working week. The Board immediately conceded £2.29 across the board and then for some unknown reason, some- one, principally Mr Gormley, in- troduced the additional week's of holiday which was not one the mandatory negotiable matters' Presumably Williams would have asked for less and settled without a fight Gormley attacked the TUC for delays in organizing the May 1 day of 'national protest and stoppage'. The NUM was still waiting for an official letter from the TUC containing details of the call to action. An instruction to strike would require another ballot 'which might get heavily defeated'.

(Communist Party Mike Terry backed) 270 Mike Hill (International Social- " ist Group) 136 Piers Corbin (International Marxist Group) 27 Brian Prangle (Young Socialist Student Society) 13 In the election for vice-presi- dent Communist Party member Stuart Paul, with a militant- sourding policy of full backing for the TUC's campaign against the Tory pay laws, received 353 votes, Roger Haworth got 231 Richard Palser (Inter- votes, national Marxist Group) 31, and Dusty Miller (Young Socialist Student Society candidate) 17.

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Dagenham complex rejected the ffer yesterday, but they turned nwide overtime ban in support Despite this kind of talk many of the most militant shop floor clearly dissatisfied leaders were with the way union officials pre- sented the claim. While calling for its rejection they offered no lead whatsoever on how the future campaign was to be fought or how Ford workers could successfully challenge the government pay laws which have dictated the Ford offer. Opening the meeting Fred Blake repeated the union's ear- lier argument that Ford could break the Tory pay laws on their own and make an accept- able offer. He said all the 15 unions had the offer put rejected forward last Friday which made only minor improvements in holidays and penalty clauses. Some unions had taken a hard line and in- sisted any concessions to would be tantamount to com promise with wage restraint but one union had urged a ballot of the membership. He said the unions were ask- ing the men to reject the offer and let them decide on future action on Friday. In the mean- time the officials would back any action the men took in support of the claim. Ron Todd district secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union said that the company had insisted on a stand- still in pay and grading for the duration of the agreement if it was accepted by the men. WORKERS at the Dagenham body plant voted to continue their overtime ban and to re- ject the company offer at enarate sectional meetings yesterday morning. The fram- ing, sub-assembly and under- body sections voted heavily against the offer, but there was a split — noticeably between younger, more militant workers and older men — in the other areas. The global figure of the cur- rent offer, he added was £12.75m, compared to f30m in 1970 and £36m in 1971-1972. Bob Dalziel, district secretary for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, foundry section, was the only official who appealed to the meeting over the pay laws. "There is plenty of advice go- ing about in the Press, on the radio and TV telling you what to do. I think that it is time, after the months of negotiation, that you should make up your own minds. 'We know this lot in West- minster are going to screw the We have had working class. VAT, Phase One, Phase Two and Phase Three to come. It is clear that the Tory government are determined to impose wage res- traint for a generation or more.

This is what is involved in your decision.' After the offer was rejected by an estimated three to one majority, a resolution from the Dagenham Press Trim and As- sembly plant calling for a nation- wide ban on overtime was put to the meeting. But the officials declared that this was lost by a narrow majority. While the men were meeting at Dagenham, Ford workers at the Daventry World Spares Centre agreed to the company's offer and called off a work-to- and ban. rule overtime Their position in the dispute will not clear, however, until the unions have met on Friday.