Workers Press no. 1048

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*POLITICAL SEARCH THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

DAWN RAIDS

MORE THAN 500

police, some of them armed, raided homes in London, Glasgow, Liver- Manchester, pool, Birmingham and Coventry during the dawn hours yester- day. In the biggest 'politi- cal' raids for years, the police broke into homes in Coventry of members of the International Marx- ist Group (IMG) and removed papers and documents. Coventry police were issued with warrants under the Criminal Dam- ages Act. They seized IMG conference papers and address lists. Two people are expected to be charged. One of those detained is a Catholic priest who has access to his been denied solicitor. Some 11l homes were raided nationally and 14 people, most of them Irish, were arrested and taken to an undisclosed police head- quarters for interrogation.

The country-wide swoop was controlled from London Commander Robert by Huntley and Commander Matt Rodger, operations chief of the Special Branch.

Huntley is head of the recently-formed Special Pat- rol Group, the armed sec- tion of the police force which was responsible for and shooting killing two Pakistani teenagers at India House. In London the main tar- gets were homes in Kiburn and the north-west suburbs and involved more than 200 plainclothes detectives. The Scotland Yard press issued carefully- bureau worded statements about the

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

raids throughout yesterday, but refused to answer any direct questions as to who had ordered them and why they were being carried out.

But Fleet Street editors were kept in touch and told to 'play the story as anti-

IRA'.

This move to create an IRA panic among the mid- dle class is part of a deliber- ate Tory plan to open the Ulster front in Britain. The Tories know that they face an enormous fight to force the working class to submit to their policies of state control of wages, soar- ing prices, increased rents and mortgage charges.

PROVOCATION

They want to destroy this movement by undertaking provocations in the workers' movement against the left.

On January 20 last, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League issued a statement speci- fically warning of the Tory intention government's to intensify attacks on the left.

The future of every party and political ten- dency based on the working class is inseparably tied to the successful preservation of basic democratic rights.

The attack on these rights is part of the ruling class strategy to ultimately ille- galize and suppress every form of political representa- tion of the working class.

Recent events in Ulster and Dublin and the political trials in 1972 show unmis- takably that the Tories are prepared to use secret police and intelligence forces to infiltrate and create provo- cations on a massive scale.

The Socialist Labour to defend League pledges unreservedly all such vic- tims of Tory provocation whether they belong to the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 14, 1973 • No. 1048 ® 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £100,000

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Against the police raids Communist Labour Party, Partv. International Socialists International

MONDAY APRIL 16

Marxist Group. 7.30 p.m. Whe Ces ral com Today Conway Hall behalf of the mittee, fulfils that pledge.

Red Lion Square The raids are linked to near Holborn Tube other attacks the movement: the oute workers London WC2 lawing of tree ing, the Industrial Relations police Speakers: Act, the increase in Tariq Ali Narassment alla DCISCCULOn Isle-

WORKERS

at Watney of pickets. worth and Mortlake breweries are on strike against (International Marxist The defence and productivity basic management s pay Group) democratic rights means the agreement, The using in e excuse Inal Ine mobilization of the working prevent them giving a {2.40 increase. Jim Higgins Tory agreement, due to operation on April 2 Cass Torce The come into (International Socialist) government out of office.

guaranteed mean ouasilie ly thin way police spies, overtime, the ending of compensation payments for Gerry Healy police the changeover fo shift work and Measured-Day May- spies (Socialist Labour and Work Strikers the transport department. say provocateurs the £7 League) clique these multarisEs

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many ornem would lose hang around the Tory Party terms, which the management is insisting are im- be exposed and frustrated.

the pay rise. plemented despite the stopping of Now to get the Tories out!

THE Tory government But Heath has intention was

BY JACK GALE

holding an election. The Tories completely repudiated in last OnCe

JONE

possibly can, while their attacks on Thursday's local government 25, and west Midlands by 74 to living and basic elections. rights will In addition, Labour defeated the It is only the Tories non-metropolitan coun- cowardice of the in the Labour swept to power in the and trade union leaders Labour Northumberland, Council winning

LICS

cumorld. Greater London which permits this. Ceve ano. Derovsoire Nortiamoron 57 seats to the Tories' 32. On the shire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire Education new Inner This week's election results are west Glamorgan and south anchthe Tories have seven.

Labour has 40 places endorsement the Socialist Labour Glamorgan. and the League's demand To torce The trade union leader.

SWEPT OUT

One by Labour was to call a General Strike to create scal

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Carshalton which is Home Sec- the making Tory government resign. Kobert CarT s consuluene. These that in a in the next General Election.

They give the lie to the trade The Tories crushed in all ment Were sweDd OnCe union leaders who have Dersistenty In London, for example, the Tories SIx of the big new provincial conur strike claimed such action that In not of them did control by 65-35 in 1970 won would strengthen the Tories. win even half the they number his parlia- shortly before Heath The hospital workers still in mentary majority seats over seats Inat went Labour. Lnel are biggest defeat was in south General Date since Uner 13ST shire, where they took only 13 seat: Election, miners, dockers, gasmen, London vote The reversal of that teachers, municipal workers, civil Labour comparca to Labours o. alone majority

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and 40 Seryants. entineer Labour Manchester if a won east seats General railwaymen have also been on strike.

by 69 Tories' 23, Election were held now. The pro- seats Mer vincial votes indicate a much greater Wea 53 to 26. sevside Dy Ine and west Yorkshire by 51

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by 74 to 26, Labour majority.

workers press

"POLITICAL SEARCH THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

DAWN RAIDS

MORE THAN 500

police, some of them armed, raided homes in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Liver- pool, Birmingham and Coventry during the dawn hours yester- day. In the biggest 'politi- cal' raids for years, the police broke into homes in Coventry of members of the International Marx- ist Group (IMG) and removed papers and documents. Coventry police were issued with warrants under the Criminal Dam- ages Act. They seized IMG conference papers and address lists. Two people are expected to be charged. One of those detained is a Catholic priest who has access to his been denied solicitor. Some 1l1 homes were raided nationally and 14 people, most of them Irish, were arrested and taken to an undisclosed police head- quarters for interrogation.

The country-wide swoop was controlled from London by Commander Robert Huntley and Commander Rodger, operations Matt chief of the Special Branch.

Huntley is head of the recently-formed Special Pat- rol Group, the armed sec- tion of the police force which was responsible for shooting and killing two Pakistani teenagers at India House. In London the main tar- gets were homes in Kiburn and the north-west suburbs and involved more than 200 plainclothes detectives. The Scotland Yard press carefully- bureau issued worded statements about the

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE (

BY ALEX MITCHELL

raids throughout yesterday, but refused to answer any direct questions as to who had ordered them and why they were being carried out.

But Fleet Street editors were kept in touch and told to 'play the story as anti-

IRA'.

This move to create an IRA panic among the mid- dle class is part of a deliber- ate Tory plan to • open the Ulster front in Britain. The Tories know that they face an enormous fight to force the working class to submit to their policies of state control of wages, soar- ing prices, increased rents and mortgage charges.

PROVOCATION

They want to destroy this movement by undertaking provocations in the workers' movement against the left.

On January 20 last, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League issued a statement speci- fically warning of the Tory government's intention to intensify attacks on the left.

The future of every party and political ten- dency based on the working class is inseparably tied to the successful preservation of basic democratic rights.

The attack on these rights is part of the ruling class strategy to ultimately ille- and galize suppress every form of political representa- tion of the working class.

Recent events in Ulster and Dublin and the political trials in 1972 show unmis- takably that the Tories are prepared to use secret police and intelligence forces to infiltrate and create provo- cations on a massive scale.

The Socialist Labour to defend League pledges unreservedly all such vic- tims of Tory provocation whether they belong to the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 14, 1973 • No. 1048 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITȚEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £100,000

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THIS is a bad day. Not single penny piece our fund came In TO yesterday morning. It still stands at £1,307.95. We need £692.05 to make the £2,000 by next Tuesday if we are to qualify for reader's offer to double the fund. At the rate we are going we simply won't make it. you think? What do Post your donation to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St London SW4 7UG

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Against the police raids Labour Communist Party, Party. International Socialists International

MONDAY APRIL 16

Marxist Group. 7.30 p.m. Today Workers Press on Conway Hall behalf of the enlal col mittee, fulfils that pledge.

Red Lion Square The raids are linked to near Holborn Tube other attacks on the the workers movement: the out- London WC2 lawing of free ing, the Industrial Relations police Speakers: Act, the increase Tariq Ali

WORKERS

Watney of pickets. worth and Mortlake breweries are on strike against (International Marxist The defence basic productivity of a Group) Maud Circul d democratic rights means the the agreement, Waldene mobilization working of thi prevent them giving a £2.40 increase. Jim Higgins Tory agreement, due to come into operation on April 2, cass

TORCE

The (International Socialist) government out of office.

guaranteed all overtime, the ending of compensation payments for ln thin way police spies, Gerry Healy Measured-Day -can police spies, changeover to shift work and way- (Socialist Labour Strikers say the and the Work the transport department. £7 League) clique these helleasts hang around the Tory Party terms, which the management is insisting are im. be exposed and frustrated.

the pay rise. plemented despite the stopping of Now to get the Tories out!

THE Tory government But Heath has no was intention

BY JACK GALE

holding an election. The Tories completely repudiated in last OnCe

TONY

posters caning while their attacks on Thursday's local 25, and west Midlands by 74 to government 20 and basic elections. rights will In addition, Labour defeated the It is only the cowardice of the Tories in the non-metropolitan coun- Labour swept to power in the and trade union leaders Labour Greater London Council ties Northumberland, Cumbria. winning which permits this. Cleveland.'Derovshire. Northamnton.

57 seats to the Tories' 32. On the shire, Nottinghamshire , Staffordshire London Education new Inner Glamorgan and south This week's election results are Gwent,

WESL

Labour has 40 places endorsement Glamorgan. and one Tories have seven.

Socialist Labeur and the League's demand to orce me eaters

SWEPT OUT

One by Labour was to call a General Strike to create seat won Carshalton Home Sec- the for making the Tory retary Robert Consuluca coveriment residi. These results indicate that in a in the next General Election. General Election the They give the the trade le to The Tories crushed in all of

WEIC

ment would ONCe leaders who have unIon Ders sterly In London, for example, the Tories SIx of the big new provincial conur such strike action calmed bations. In of them did control by seats in 1970 won would strengthen the Tories. half of they even number his parlia- Will Sury cure call cu The hospital workers still in mentary majority seats over seats liar went La Doul. biggest defeat was south General

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since shire, where they took only 13 seat: Election, miners, dockers, gasmen, The evers or monor vote teachers, municipal workers, civil comparca lo Labour o o. to Labour majority alone points servants encineers chee Labour won es 23, ester- 40 if a the Tori Beast seats railwaymen have also been on strike.

by 69 Tories' Mer- Election were held now The pro- seats to vincial votes indicate a much greater Tyne and Wea seyside by 53 to 26. by 74 to 26, west Yorkshire by 51

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Lavour maority.

Engineers —break from PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday April 14, 1973 THE executive of the National Union of Mine- workers have taken a wrong decision in not calling on their members to strike on May 1 in solidarity with the TUC special Congress call for a national. day of protest and stop- page against the Tory pay laws.

Whatever interpretation is put on the NUM's rules covering the invitation or instruction to miners to come out on strike, the higher principle of class solidarity is what is in- volved here. The NUM has a duty to back the fight for on May Day which was the strike action clear wish of the special Congress.

Passing a resolution inviting miners to parti- cipate in a day of protest and demonstration is not what the trade union movement wants, expects, or has called for. And Joe Gormley knows it. The trade union movement is involved in a struggle over policy for fighting the Tory offensive against basic democratic rights.

Gormley and the NUM have taken part in that struggle and have called for a General Strike to force the Tories to resign. And it was Gormley who opened the way for the May 1 stoppage decision by successfully challenging the General Council's do-nothing policy at the special Congress.

But the fight to give the correct leadership to the trade union movement cannot stop just are busy frag- because the TUC leaders menting the struggle, confusing the working class, and brazenly refusing to implement Congress policy. The position of Gormley and the right wing at the NUM executive is a retreat every bit capitula- as deplorable as the scandalous tion of Scanlon and Feather to the Tories.

It is true that in the recent pay ballot, miners voted against strike action. And it is equally true that one of the main reasons was their understanding of the need for more than just a wages struggle to beat the Tory government this time, of the need in fact for the General Strike. And because miners have no confidence in the present TUC leadership, they are unwilling to lead the way into such a struggle.

The same holds true for the working class wholesale generally. Because of the tulation by the TUC as well as individual leaders in the gasworkers, hospital union and other struggles, workers, trade union movement is on the defensive for the moment. But that is a very dangerous position to be in vicious Tory government daily with the turning the screw of police and state re- pression ever tighter on the working class movement. working Whatever the hesitations among people, a bold lead is required and must be for the movement to go back onto given the offensive. Gormley and the NUM executive could have helped to give such a lead by working to mobilize not just the miners, but the whole trade union movement for an all-out strike on May Day and from there on to greater things. They had the mandate for this from the TUC special Congress decision to which the NUM were a democratic party. Instead, Gormley and the right wing have chosen to retreat using a pedantie rules formula as their miser able excuse. The Stalinists on the NUM executive emerge with no credit from despite the fact they voted for a strike call.

Their constant support for politics and for the main capitulators on the General Council, Jack Jones and Hugh Scan- lon, has contributed as much as anything to the confusion and fragmentation of the anti-Tory struggle. The Stalinist industrial correspondent Mick Costello tried to add further to the confu- sion in yesterday's 'Morning Star' with a Socialist Labour slanderous attack on the League's fight for principle.

'One irony in the present situation is that, as so often in recent times, the Tories and the left wing of the trade union and political movement both understand the full mobiliz- ing significance of a 24-hour general strike.

Those who denigrate this action are the right wing and the Trotskyist fringe.'

Costello is a liar. The SLL and Workers Press, while all along attacking the TUC leader- ship for deliberately trying to head off the movement for the General Strike, have, of supported the always maximum course, mobilization of the working class for such protest strikes as do take place, like May I, and we do so today. 'THE GROCER' magazine reports a total of 213 prices increases this week on honey, biscuits, canned meats, canned fruits, dis- infectant, bleach and de- tergents. This brings the total in- creases for the year to 2,599.

Among those items which went up was Fray Bentos owned; by beef, corned Oxo. A 7oz Brook Bond can of corned beef now re- tails at 27łp (5s 6d old money) while the Izoz line is 46p (9s 2d old money): A HOUSEWIFE was sent to prison yesterday for stealing beef and other meat from a super-market. Mrs Clara Elizabeth Ali (43), of Jubilee Drive, Kid- derminster, was sentenced to three months after she admitted stealing joints of beef and lamb and lamb chops worth f4.29. And she must also serve three months of a pre- viously suspended sentence

THE WORKING CLASS

from the policies of Stalin if it is to defend any of it is the major lesson fro conference. One choice faced the 52 dele ference this week at Torquay.

Were they going to allow pre start a new round of collaboratio ment? Or would they reject attempt promise and order the leadershi to force the government to resig The answer was YES to the first question and NO to the second. Scanlon got the green light for more talks with Heath and the second Britain biggest union in lurched closer to the Tory corporate state. The key to this develop- the Communist ment was Party which has assembled one of its strongest fac- the union's tions ever at national committee, which decides policy. It was the Stalinists who opened the door for Scanlon.

In the crucial debate on the Tory pay laws the two Party leading Communist delegates, Sid Harraway and abandoned Arthur Gibbard, their motion which specific- ally outlawed more talks with the Tories. This resolution read: 'This national committee instructs the executive coun- cil to inform the TUC that we will take no further part in discussion with the government on prices and wages. 'We believe that to dis- cuss such basic issues while rents and other items have seen such huge increases, disservice to our was a membership, when an all-out campaign for higher wages in our would have been members' interests.' same two delegates The dropped another resolution which read: •... every effort must be by organized labour, made the TUC and the people as a whole to remove them [the government] from office as quickly as is humanly possible.' These two motions reached the national committee agenda, but they were with- drawn in tavour of a com- posite resolution which gave Scanlon the loophole he needed to go back to 10 Downing street. The engineers' policy is now similar to that adopted by the TUC last year, which had pious words forbidding union leaders to talk to the The official food price in- dex has risen by 3.8 per cent in the past ten weeks, according to the Ministry of and Agriculture, Fisheries Food. When the figure was an- nounced in the Commons, Mr Harry Ewing, Labour MP for Stirling and Falkirk, said: "This really is a scath- ing indictment of the gov- ernment's freeze policy? • See centre pages for 'The Great Prices Ramp'. -making a total of six months. Mrs Ali's solicitor said she had been affected by drink and took 'a colossal amount of meat', far more than she needed. • Bryan Mahon said Insp Mrs Ali had a long record of convictions and had served several jail terms for theft. She had twice ap- peared before the court for offences in breach . of the suspended sentence. CLASS must be broken f Stalinism and reformism ny of its basic rights. This son from the engineers' • 52 delegates who met in con- allow president Hugh Scanlon to llaboration with the Tory govern- • attempts at further class com- leadership to start the campaign t to resign? From Stephen John Stalinists covered Scanlon's retreat Tories on 'any form of wage restraint'. But, as Scanlon revealed national committee, at the the union leaders went right the ahead and promised Tories to hold back wage increases at £3.50. This week Scanion posed one question: did any dele- gate dare challenge his right to go back to the Tories?

The Stalinists and the "left' were silent. The CP's other big job was to protect Scanlon from the justified anger felt by his members over his recent statements. Two weeks ago Scanlon stated clearly he wanted minor amendments to the Industrial Relations Act, and he added: 'If we could get these two essential amendments, we could then talk of some of practicalities' the other The Stalinists did not take up this issue either. Instead they engaged in an orgy of praise for the executive's stand against the Industrial Relations Act.

The Communist Party de- legates peddle this policy in the name of 'left unity. It is worth examining this strategy. Unity, Stalinist-style, means reformist attracting every who talks 'left' but in prac- tice goes along with every

MERSEYSIDE

dockers will meet tomorrow to decide whether to con- tinue their four-day de- marcation dispute, which spread involve to more than 4,000 men and 30 ships. The dispute, which con- cerns allocation of dockers' jobs to supervisory staff, has work on both stopped the Birkenhead Liverpool and sides of the river. It centres on the container terminal at the north end of Liverpool docks. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, which employs two-thirds of the registered dock labour force in the port following recent estimated yester- mergers, day morning that their entire ¡labour force was on strike

CAR PRODUCTION

at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory was halted by a walk-out of about 300 en- gineering workers yestel- day. About 38 men in the crankshaft section stopped work in a labour dispute, were joined by and they about 250 men on machin- 1 Johns in Torquay n's retreat. retreat made by the leader- ship. The price of this unity (one that the Communist Party willingly pays) is to principle- abandon every like the one of not talking with the Tory government.

The AUEW national com- mittee, therefore, is not a seeking to give body a political lead. It is a conspiracy of bank- rupt factions that have one common aim-to prevent any independent initiative by the working class. The Stalinists, with the left trailing behind them, pro- ect Scanion, Scanlon runs for the Tories while the right wing prepares to accept the pay laws and the cor- porate state. This deadly bureaucracy was exposed on those rare occasions when hard reality broke into the empty phrases of Torquay. On Thursday the Fine Tubes men, who have been striking for three years against a firm hostile to the AUEW, came to get back- ing for their struggle. They got nothing from the national committee. Their emergency resolution was considered unworthy of attention by the standing orders committee-half con- trolled by the Stalinists and 'lefts'. or off sick. 4,135 had stopped work. apart from 'regretting' But the dockers' decision to strike while talks were taking place, the MDHC was keeping tight-lipped about the issues involved. Allocation of work be- tween supervisors, many. of them members of the clerical section of the Transport and Workers' General Union, ACTSS, and registered 'blue'

T&GWU

union or dockers has been a trouble- question in recent some months. It has become particularly crucial following the huge job loss which hit the re- gistered labour force as a result of the Jones-Aldington severance scheme. Sunday's meeting is ex- pected to be at the Pier Head at 11 a.m. ing operations which halted engine production. The company had to lay about 1,000 assembly off the day shift workers on who were also told not to report on Monday. In addition, about 1,500 workers were told not to come in last night. Not one delegate spoke out against this rejection of workers fighting for basic rights. Hugh Scanlon told them their dispute was 'not urgent enough' warrant im- to mediate attention. One can understand the Fine Tubes delegation being rendered speechless by the cynicism. They had been told to go and die quietly and away not to bother the great men of the national committee.

Can any engineering wor- ker have confidence in this kind of leadership? If Scanion and the national committee refuse to break one anti-union employer in Plymouth, how can they lead campaign against the a government over their pay claim? Every trade union battle today involves the fate of the Tory government. But no one in the engineers' union, stalinist, 'left' or right, are prepared ato take this goyernment on.

The lesson of the national committee is that a new leadership within the AUEW must be built—a leadership which will fight on the political issues and turn the union away from collabora- tion, towards the only possible fight-to make the Tories resign. THE Uruguayan army chiefs calling for lifting the are parliamentary immunity of left-wing Senator, Enrique Erro, a member of the Broad Front coalition opposed to President Juan Maria Borda- berry. Army chiefs claim that Erro has connections with the Tupamaros guerrillas.

One of his sons was arrested and charged with being a member of the movement. Political prisoners held in garrisons military are not permitted to contact rela- tives or lawyers and charges are continually made that they are being tortured.

A special Middle East correspondent poses some questions A special Middle East corresponde WAS LAST Monday's Israeli raid in the Lebanon, in which 26 people were killed and the headquarters of a left-wing Pales- tinian organization was destroyed, solely the work of the Israelis? Or did their armed forces and intelligence service enjoy the collusion of others, at least in the planning of the raid? This is the question which many Palestinians and other Arabs must have been asking themselves as the details of the raid came out. The Israeli raiders were able to go straight to the homes of the three Palestinian leaders they assassinated-Abu Youssef al-Najjar, a Fatah leader said to have connections with Black September; Kemal Adwan, another Fatah leader; and Kemal Nasser, official spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization. All three lived in flats in the residential area of Snoubra, in the heart of Beirut. It is thought that to get to these flats, the raiders, some of them in uniform, probably drove thoroughfare, along the main Verdun Street right past a Lebanese army barracks! They proceeded down a side street not far from the barracks to carry out a raid using explo- sives and sub-machine guns. By the time the army decided intervene, all over. to it was And Palestinians-and many Lebanese that too-suspect the intervention be- was not only lated, but probably just for show.

Lebanese Prime Minister Sayid Salam handed in his resignation Tuesday after an emergency on Cabinet meeting. Mourners carrying the coffin of Kamal I Army collusion in the Israell terror raid.

detail long before the Cyprus Earlier in the day he had incident took place. Israeli visited the scene of the The evidence also suggests raids and spoken to Palestinian that the planning of the Israeli guerrilla leader Yassir Arafat.

attack may not have been carried The same morning, Lebanese out e. Some the Israeli command students had demonstrated out- alone. Arab sources be- side the barracks with lieve that western intelligence army slogans like agencies were involved. The Lebanese secu- rity forces- -In collusion with the worth noting, Among points enemy'. It was to dissociate him- besides the behaviour of the self from the army's refusal to Lebanese army in the affair, are act that Salam resigned. the following: All the evidence that has come • Israeli agents are reported to raid have been arriving in Beirut for out since Monday night's that, although raid shows it was several days prior to the ostensibly supposed to be a 're- West carrying British, German prisal for the earlier unsuccess- and Belgian It passports. was Arab Cyprus, these agents who hired the cars attack had in fact been planned used the raid. in

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE FOREIGN

Office has been accused of making 'the most direct at- tempts at interfer- ence' in television programmes. Mr Denis Forman, joint managing director Television, of Granada made this claim in the Royal lecture to Television Society. He particularly men- tioned Foreign Office in- to 'World terference Action' film on in General Idi Amin of Uganda. He said that when Granada made a pro- in show- gramme Amin being Interviewed by the 'World In Action' | ing General Amin as 'a seized who had rascal Amin had displaced television shows a p power illegally, all hell that were puppets of the left gramme was let loose. that he was sym- friendly towards an and power-tha 'We were told in no pathetic to and a good friendly friend of Great Britain.'

good. uncertain terms - and Foreign Foreign Office 'But if it makes could the 'The be- is quite open in its 19th that Office have been programme it? those century belief that if friendly towards hind - that ondent poses some qu f Kamal Nasser-one of the three leading Pale The Israeli raiders were able to go straight to the homes of selected Palestinian three leaders. HQ stormed The left-wing Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was chosen as a target-its headquarters in the camp of Sabra being retugee stormed by Israeli commandos- although it is well-known that this particular organization opposed to the sort of terrorist tactics, such as hi-jackings, that Black September and other groups have been carrying out.

n Action' team hows a pro- friendly power-that's is un- bad.' The World in Action' lards an un- ower-that's film on Amin's rise to power-'The Man Who Stole Uganda' — was it makes a that is un- made by Alex Mitchell, now of Workers Press. Workers Press, Saturday April 14, 1973 PAGE 3 e questions It looks as though the recent and strike wave in Israel the 'spy trial' of Israeli Arab and Jewish have left-wingers, may caused the Israeli military to thought to the give menace to Zionism from any link between the Palestinian masses' struggle and the Israeli working class. They decided to make a mili- of the tary target out one Palestinian organization that had come close to posing such a perspective! There is a further possibility, however, (although the two are not mutually exclusive). Namely, that somebody else suggested the Front as a target. The DPFLP takes the position Palestinian that the national separated struggle cannot be from the class struggle against Arab reactionary regimes. Members of the Front have been involved in considerable ading Palestinians murdered last Monday activity among workers and pea- sants in the various Arab coun- tries. The decision of whoever months, In there has recent planned this operation to go for been a big upsurge of working- the DPFLP is significant for two class strikes and demonstrations reasons. by workers, and peasants,

SLU-

First it indicates that for all dents in the Lebanon. their shouting about Black Sep- the Zionist tember activities, Coincidence ? military leaders have a shrewder estimation of their enemies than be thought. might This social in unrest occurs which is the country centre The Democratic Front, which of banking and commerce for regards itself as Marxist, is in the Arab world and therefore 'People's War' favour of extremely important not only to against the Zionist state, based the Arab ruling classes but also on the struggle of the Palestinian to imperialism. It has been highly criti- masses. cal in the past of hi-jacking and Was it just a coincidence, used other then, that in a military operation similar tactics by Palestinian groups, as being in which the Lebanese army re- un- linked to such and fused against strategy, to HO of an achieving publicity but little else.

invading force, the organization which is not exactly Another aspect of the Demo- 'Lebanese rul a favourite of the cratic Front's policy distinguish- ing class became No. I target? ing it from other Palestinian Or did whoever arranged one, organizations, is that it has gone also the manage to arrange record publicly for on recogni- other? zing Jewish national rights in a have future Palestine state. Such collusion could taken place either by means of was in its (This resolution be- direct clandestine contacts the submitted to Palestinian tween Arab and Israeli govern- Congress, held in Cairo in 1969.)

through the ments, or good party, such as offices of a third Contacts have taken place be- the Central Intelligence Agency.

the tween elements in Israeli left and in the DPFLP, and in Israeli and Arab workers must 1970 the Front's programme was -before they find unite soon- translated into Hebrew and cir- that their ruling respective culated in Israel. classes have beaten them to it!

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday April The martial law-type pro- posals recommended last December by the Diplock Commission for Northern Ireland have been adop- ted in toto by the Tory government. A new Emergency Provis- ions Bill, published last week, forms the most comprehensive anti-insurgency code ever to be drawn up by a government for use in the UK. Its clauses are a measure of the lengths to which the Tories The Bill's proposals are aimed at giving the agencies of the state maximum power to deal with 'trouble-makers' in double-quick time. Trial by jury is scrapped for all those accused of 'scheduled offences' These embrace all major crimes and some minor ones, from murder to theft. They in- clude manslaughter, arson, rioting with damage to assault property or people, causing actual bodily harm, bombing, carrying firearms and intimidation. These categories are so wide Writings of

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will that from now on juries hardly be used for anything of any importance. In addition, the formal statements witnesses will OI now be accepted by the courts in cases where witnesses al C not produced. Thus the crucial safeguard ot cross-examination ot „olOse- cution witnesses by defence lawyers is removed The circumstances in which may give a juage been tightened up to the point where few can expect it. He may not grant bail in any case where the suspect's re- lease is likely to conflict with the interests of justice or the prevention of crime'-a defini- tion vague include to as almost anything. The tradition of 'British jus- tice', which savs that a man 1s innocent unless proved gully, Is stood on its nead the case of those charged with possessing firearms ex- plosives. the Bill becomes Once law, the onus of proof will be on the individual - not on the as in the past. prosecution, The army and the police are practically limit- to be less to stop, question, powers search, requisition and

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The army marches off arrested demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland Sunday, on Bloody January 30, 1972. anyone they suspect of unlaw- ful activity. The army will be able to arrest suspects and hold them for up to four hours and no warrant will be needed for the arrest of suspected terrorists.

It becomes an offence to re- fuse to disclose one's identity or to answer questions put by police or troops. combined security The forces have powers to enter any public place, to block roads and to stop the use of waterways if they think the peace is endangered. The Bill also stipulates that spying in aid of terrorists is an offence as will be the wear- ing of clothes identified with proscribed organizations.

The Bill is a foretaste of what workers will shortly be facing in Britain. For all those who have long believed that 'British freedom' meant what it said, the addi- 'under the law' tional words take on a new meaning as one more piece of repressive legis- lation after another finds its way onto the statute book.

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Trotsky—a cocumentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage reet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request. Representatives of the Provisional IRA in the United States have par- ticipated in a pro-impe. rialist • Home with Honour' rally in New York. A Workers Press corres- pondent in New York said that members of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, the Provisionals' arm in the US, marched with banners in the rally. The INAC contingent was led by the three authorized spokesmen for the Provos in America-Mike Flannery, Jack McCarthy and John McGowan.

These representatives took part in the rally on March 31 despite the fact that it was condemned by every anti-war group in the US. It is also a direct insult to the vast majority of Republi- cans in Ireland who are totally opposed to the death and des- truction caused by US impe- rialism in Indo-China. Support for the rally ap- peared in the newspaper, "The Irish People' under the head- ing: 'Home with Honour parade Saturday' The article said: The Presidents of the six major uniformed associa- tions of New York City are backing 'Home With the Honour' parade which will be held this Saturday as a tribute to Vietnam's veterans. Com- mittee chairman Frank D'Amico has said that repre- sentatives of 100,000 over men are endorsing this parade.

The Groups represented are The Transit Patrolmen's Be- nevolent Assoc., Correction Officers Benevolent Assoc., Housing Patrolmen's Benevo- lent and the Captain's En- dorsement Association. The parade will begin at noon this Saturday, March 31, at 37th and Broadway. The line of march will proceed up Broadway to Columbus Circle and from there up Central Park West to 77th Street. The lead unit of the parade will Father Duffy stop at Memorial, 46th and Broadway, for one minute of silence and taps for the war dead. The reviewing stand will consist of 1,000 Vietnam veterans-240 men from each of the four military branches and 40 members of the Coast Guard. Irish Northern Aid groups will march, with banners, be- hind the AOH Saffron Kilt Pipe Band. Northern Aid marchers should assemble with the Saffron affiliation with right-wing groups is not new. In August 1972 a social- ist sympathetic to the IRA 'The United Irish- wrote to man' showing how the Provos had a number of reactionary connections.

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It is surprising that some people in Ireland still think the Provos are socialists. In America no one has such illu- sions. Here they are openly pro-capitalist. In 1970 the American Provos backed the Conserva- for senator tive candidate from New York: 'Dear Senator We expected Buckley . . . much of you inasmuch as expected (and received) you much from us.' Letter to Buckley from Irish Northern Aid leaders Flannery, Mc- Gowan and McCarthy-'Irish World', November 6, 1971.

The Provos have the that American strange idea imperialism is going to help Ireland: 'What is needed • • • pressure by the United States Senate and House of the kind Representatives of brought about the which establishment of the State of ..: Letter to Buckley Israel -Irish Advocate', January 1, 1972. support Ken- The Provos nedy's vote-chasing resolution on Ireland. Of course Kennedy supported the establishment Rule and of Direct • he has 'condemned

IRA

publicly • Times' violence '-Irish January 19, 1972. But the Pro- vos have never attacked him for that! Edward Kennedy: The Provos In the US supported his resolution he backed on Ireland - yet direct rule and condemned IRA 'violence'. All intelligent Americans are horrified at the murderous imperialist war in Indo-China.

Not the American Provos: 'The United States of America ... continues to this very day to be the inspiration of the of the world'-Nor- peoples Aid advertisement, 'Philadel- phia Daily News', June 21, 1972. On May 10 the Provos held at New York's concert 'Special Guest Gaelic Park. Stars ... the New York City Police Emerald Pipe Band'— Advertisement, 'Irish Echo', May 6, 1972. In Ireland most workers be- lieve in some kind of social- ism. So the Provos call them- selves socialists to get their support. In the US most Irish are anti-socialist so the Provos don't have to hide their real right wing politics. Connolly spent years in the States, as New York organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. He fought US capitalism at every turn.

Would the Police Pipe Band have ever played for a genuine revolutionary like Connolly?

What kind of unsavoury move- ment must the Provos be if the police would play for them?

'Slaves be obedient to those who with fear and trembling, in singlene to the Ephesians, Chapter 6, verse The British churches, as everyone knows, are run on very big business lines. And they certainly make money in South Africa, that most Christian of countries.

The Prime Minister is Balthazar Vorster who was in- terned during the last war because of his open support for Adolf Hitler. His brother, Dr D. J. Vor- ster, a prominent official of the Church, Dutch Reformed once so inspired a right-wing student audience with his praises of Hitler that their president declared: 'We are proud of being called Nazis.

Mr Vorster has shown us where to draw our inspira- tion.' It would clearly be a de- plorable thing, however, and if the against Christian unity, South African churches were the only ones to make a profit out of the African and Indian population. The Church Commissioners for England, ignoring the that it is hoary old rumour easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, have commissioned almost 7 million shares in four companies ope- rating in South Africa. These are British-Leyland Motor Corporation.

GEC,

Metal Box and Associated British Foods. The market value of these shares totals £6,543,276. The total number of shares owned by British church orga- nizations in major British companies operating in South Africa is 8,895,634. Their cur- market value rent £7,564,679. Fifteen British church orga- nizations are involved. ose who are your earthly masters, singleness of heart.'-Letter of Paul 6, verse 5. The Anglicans, the Catho- Methodists, lics, the the Evangelists and the Church of Scotland are all in on it. They may have theological differ- ences, but one thing they're all sure of—where there's ex- ploitation there's money.

British-Leyland employs 3,000 workers, mostly col- oureds, at its big motor assembly plant at Blackheath, near Cape Town, and a fur- ther 1,500, mostly Africans, at its plants in Durban and Elandsfontein. Leyland South Africa is the 11th biggest South African Last year average company. wages paid to its unskilled and semi-skilled coloured and African labour was £7 for a 44-hour week. In addition to the Church Commissioners' 4.5 million shares (worth nearly f1.5m), the Central Board of Finance of the Church of England owns 250,000 shares (£80,000) and the Central Board of Fin- ance of the Methodist Church owns 10,000 shares worth £3,200. Lord Soper is a former President of the Methodist Conference and a well-known "Tribune'. A contributer to regular peace marcher, and soapbox orator, he is one of most famous protesters in the land. His protests, if any, don't seem to have achieved much inside the Methodist Church. For in addition to its share in the exploitation of the African carworkers, the Central Board of Finance of the Methodist Church has 20,000 shares in GEC South Africa (market value £28,000); 11,700 shares in Metal Box (market value £31,000); and 12,465 shares (£21,564) in Tate and Lyle, which also operates in South Africa. The full list of church in- in British-Leyland vestments is shown in Table 1. GEC has 29 South African subsidiaries and associates and is the biggest electrical engi- neering group in the country.

It does not disclose its South African profits, but its South turnover is £25m a African year. It employs a labour force of about 4,000 and on latest available figures (June 1970) Africans were earning as little as 10.7p an hour-£4.81 for a 45-hour week. Church investments in GEC are shown in Table 2. Metal Box profits in South Africa for the six months ending September 1972 were £950,000 after tax-that is, nearly £2m a year. Metal Box South Africa has assets of £25.5m. It operates factories in Cape Town,_Dur- ban, Johannesburg, Port Eliza- beth and Walvis Bay. Eight British . church orga- nizations have investments in • Metal Box. They are shown in Table 3. Other British companies operating in South Africa with churches' the blessings are Tate and Lyle and the Chlo- ride Electrical Storage Co.

In addition to the Metho- dists' 41,700 shares, men- tioned above, the Central Board of Finance of the Church of England has 100,000 worth shares £173,000 in Tate and Lyle.

The same saintly organiza- tion has 100,000 shares worth £95,000 in the Chloride Elec- trical Storage Company. The profits of Premier Milling, the South African subsidiary of Associated Bri- tish Foods are not available, but they increased by 10 per Workers Preas, Saturday Aprll 14, 1973

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cent in 1972 over 1971. Lister. Top South Above: Balthazar African Minister. left: Premier Milling employs Prime 18,000 of workers whom makes nis yearly vIsIt To the people in Mamelodi parish. 14,500 are black. The lowest British paid Africans £4.90 Associated get Invest week. Last year the Foods. Perhaps the others company pent £3m in South Africa o1 don't want to encourage greed, which is, after all, one. of the he modernization and expan Seven Deadly Sins. ion of production facilitie The But its more likely that they hurch Commissioner for England, with 102,000 realize that on the wages paid shares worth £46,410, are bv all the Christians and their for friends, the Africans some reason- -the only can hardly afford to eat, anyway.

British church organization to

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No. of Market shares value 4,458,000 £1,426,560 Church Commissioners for England Central Board of Finance of the Church of England 250,000 £80,000 5,000 £1,600 Pensions Board Church of England 60,444 £19,342 church or aneano caren's societ Church Missionary Trust Association to till Blackburn Diocesan Board of Finance 4,809 €1,539 £251 785 Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance Central Board of Finance of the Methodist Church 10,000 £3,200 15,92 £24,290 Church of Scotland Trust Birmingham Roman Catholic Diocesan £240 Trustees 2,00 £640 British Council of Churches £128 British and Foreign Bible Society Church Adoption Society 2,800 £896 803 £257

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TABLE 2: CHURCH INVESTMENTS IN GEC

2,930,933 £4,103,306 Church Commissioners for England Central Board of rinance ot thi 150,000 £210,000 Church of England Church of England Pensions Board 6,500 50,420 $70,588 Church of England Children's Society £59,360 Church Missionary Trust Association 444UU Central Finance Board of the 20,000 £28,000 Church Methodist Church of Scotland Trust £105,000 Church Army 11,503 t10,104 4,200 €5,880 British Council of Churches Trust Ltd.

TABLE 3: CHURCH INVESTMENTS IN METAL BOX

380,000 €1,007,000 Church Commissioners for England Church Missionary rust Association Church England Pensions Board £5,621 €4,293 1,620 Church Finance Board of the Methodist Church 1.681 £4,455 British Council of Churches 11,700 £31,005 £2,650 British and Foreign Bible Society 1,000 Church Army 375 £994

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In May 1970 in the run up to the General Election Edward Heath made his now-notorious speech promis- Ing to cul prices at a stroke.

But in the two years and ten months since coming to office prices on the High Street have risen at an unprecedented rate. For millions of working class families the cost of living has risen to such a point where they have to forego 'luxuries' like steak, fresh fish and vegetables.

Under the Tories they have been told to eat tinned beefburgers, chicken and chips.

It's no wonder that a school's survey recently re- vealed that large numbers of children in working class areas are showing signs of rickets, the condition caused ›y poor nutrition The prices ramp is the result of deliberate Tory policy. Since June last year the pound has been floating -downwards-thus making the value of all imported foods some 11 or 12 per cent dearer.

In November when the First Phase of the state pay laws was introduced the prices of fresh fruit and vege- tables were exempted from all controls. This enabled the profiteers in the commodity markets to charge what they liked while wages were legally held down.

Now the Phase Two laws are through parliament.

They end the right of free collective bargaining and impose Tory pay controls. Prices are all but exempted.

If a company wants to put up the price of its manu- factured products, it simply goes to the Tory-appointed Prices Commission, presents its case and then makes the increase But just let a group of workers try to get a wage increase above Heath's fl plus 4 per cent! If they defy the state 'norms' they are liable to prosecution, un- limited fines and even jail.

The price rises shown on this page are startling proof of the conspiracy against the working class. And this is not the end of it: the full effects of VAT are still to be felt; and the Common Market commissioners have already made clear that they want a new round of increases in the price of basic foodstuffs.

There is nothing accidental about these enormous price rises. They flow directly from the Tory policy of making the working class pay for the economic crisis.

In the face of this policy of mass impoverishment of the working class the TUC, and the abour party trade union leaders have offered no leadership at all for the millions of workers who have shown a willingness to fight. On the contrary, behind the scenes they have been working hand-in-glove to get the laws onto the statute books and to head-off the militancy of sections of workers. No worker can today bring prices down get higher wages without entering a direct political fight against the Tory government.

The only way forward for millions of workers who want to defend their standard of living is to force the Tories out of office.

They must fight in every trade union branch, trades council and constituency party to force their leaders to adopt this policy and then fight for its implementation.

In place of the Tories must be elected a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. Such an in- coming Labour government must be mandated by the mass movement to repeal all anti-working class legis- lation-the Industrial Relations Act, the Housing finance Act the state nav aws- and carry out policy of nationalization of the banks, basic industry and the food monopolies. Cheese 1970 10p 1973 15p Cakes 1970 8ịp 1973 19p 1ME29 Tea Bags lips '36 (Aux) Largerbag. more 16 Brade Bund: Tea 1970 72p 1973 14p

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday April Prisoners, so badly maimed by confine 'Peace' in Vietnam could well mean death to civilian political prisoners in the jails of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam. The US-backed dictator may well find it more convenient to kill off these prisoners rather risk their than testimonies reaching the outside world.

Estimates vary as to the number of civilians behind bars. The Saigon government refuses to diseuss it and the American officials claim it is an internal affair of 'independent' South Vietnam. But members of the Saigon- based Committee for the Im- provement of Prison Condi- tions claim that the figure is approaching 200,000 and that 50,000 people were jailed dur- ing the first five months of the North Vietnamese 1972 offen- sive alone. A pervasive police network operates at every level of South Vietnamese society. This network includes both mili- tary and civilian branches, but there is little difference be- tween the two. In 1971 the police administration was made into a separate military com- mand whose head is respon- sible directly to President Thieu. This combination of civilian police and military functions serves the objectives of the United States Agency for In- by continement that tney cannot walk,

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ternational Development (AID) finances most the which Saigon regime's police activi- ties, under the direction of Robert Thompson, President Nixon's top adviser on counter- insurgency. The South Viet- largest namese police agency is the National Police It force. has increased from 16,000 men in 120,000 by 1963 the OVCIr end of 1972, and further in- creases are planned. Represen- tatives of the National Police are now stationed every district in South Vietnam. The growth and sophistica- tion of the National Police been accomplished by a decade of planning, advising and funding. US economic National ass stance Police has grown steadily over With this the last four years. the funding police have developed techniques of con- which have now reached trol totalitarian dimensions Re- National sponsibilities of the Police force range from now identifying and keeping dos- siers on every citizen over 15 the interrogation of most prisoners. The Special Police, a branch Police, of the National al C responsible for eliminating Liberation Front Nanona and repressing all cadre for movements peace and They are especially neutrality. feared and hated because of their practice of infiltrating , use trolleys to move around. Some are also opposition political groups and torturing arrested suspects. The mass arrests of 1972 were carried out by the Special Police. The Active Service Police forms part of the National Police force for administrative purposes, but actually receives orders directly from the Presi- dent's office, from the Ameri- Central Intelligence can Agency, from the Chiefs of Staff of the South Vietnamese Army and from the American Special Forces. More than 20 provincial offices come under this branch of the police. In Saigon alone there are eight offices, employ- ing 80 to 120 people each, not counting the personnel of the 200 to 300 bureaux and all the informers. Police Field The National Force (NPFF) is 'a paramilitary police unit engaged primarily combating the Viet Cong in Infrastructure (VCI) in rural areas in south Vietnam'. The US Army calls it a 'relatively new and major police adjust- in ment counter-insurgency work'. Their equipment, in- cluding tanks and artillery, is identical to that used by • the South Vietnamese military forces. Most of their material support comes from the US Defence Department. The NPFF now numbers more than 25,000. The employees of the Official Saigon Police can be divided • are also blind. into two categories: uniformed police and plainclothesmen who are granted the right to This right be- make arrests. comes an illegal source of income since the innocent but well-off (merchants, restaurant proprietors) are arrested and forced to contribute large sums in order to ensure their release.

The Order Police, another branch of the National Police, are charged with assisting in the quelling of 'demonstrations, and riots' disorders Such specifically action has been praised in the United States AlD report for several years.

notorious of One piece American 'aid' was the Phung Hoang or Phoenix Programme.

This was originally designed by United States to 'neutralize' the political appara- tus of the National Liberation Front or VCI (Viet Cong Infra- The techniques structure). in- used ranged from paying formers assassination. to Though generally conceded to be a failure in terms of reduc- ing the NLF's political strength, : Programme has the Phoenix come to be a significant aspect in the repression of political dissent in South Vietnam.

Wayne Caoper, a former Foreign Service Officer who spent most of his 18 months in Vietnam as an adviser to the Phoenix Programme des- cribed the origins of the operation: 'In the mid-1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency which began a programme came to be known as "counter terror" or "CT". It was a uni- lateral American programme, never recognized by the South Vietnamese government. CIA representatives recruited, or- . and directly ganized, supplied paid CT teams, whose function was to use Viet Cong tech- niques of terror—assassination, in- kidnappings and abuses, timidation-against the Viet Cong leadership' Cooper traces the develop- ment of the Phoenix Pro- gramme from an exclusively American operation to its in- into the Saigon corporation police network. In the procest original objectives the Phoenix were altered. 'In the field, we saw the inertia and ineptitude and knew the programme wasn't succeeding. But we failed to notice that Phung Hoang was becoming something else-a means for repressive political control over the South Viet- namese. ... The "subversive" nationalist who expressed fatigue with the war, scorn for Thieu and Ky, and enthusiasm for a coalition government, by definition a threat to was public security. He might easily find himself on Con Son arrest being ex- Island, his plained to advisers by ascrib- ing to him a VCI title' In hearings before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, K.

in- Barton Osborn, a former telligence operative in Vietnam, testified on specific instances: 'They terrorized him [a prisoner] several times by tak- ing him with his elbows be- hind his , back, hands tied, running him up to the door of the helicopter and saying: "If you don't tell us what we need to know we are going to throw the helicopter." you out of They did this two or three times and he refused to say anything. He couldn't respond.

He wouldn't respond. There- fore, on the fourth trip to the door they did throw him out from the helicopter to the ground.' Osborn also stated that: I will say this: individually I never knew an individual to be detained as a VC suspect who ever lived through an in- terrogation in a year and half, and that included quite a number of individuals. That may be my experience; may be a tremendous exception to the rule, but the experience of my peers there and my own ex- perience first hand, which I swear to, and have sworn to, was categorically inhuman and with no rhyme, reason or bureaucratic justification for a murder programme which had gone way beyond the level of any competence at that level.'

In many prisons and in- terrogation spread centres throughout the country, tor- ture and physical ill treatment common. According to are reliable information received recently in. London, for ex- ample, 50 students — whose were provided-were names subjected to torture at the Saigon Police Headquarters during the period April 28 to May 28, 1972. Eight of them were tortured so severely that at least one limb was left paralysed; in- further seven were driven further 20 while sane, a suffered internal bleeding , or other internal injury. Recently two more students, Buu Chi and Nguyen Duy Hien, were tortured to death in Hué.

One of the most notorious women's prisons is at Thu Doc, where clubbings, phalanx, electric shock, water torture, hanging from the ceiling and separation from their children are some of the sufferings the prisoners undergo.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM

BY JOE HARPER

Bunuel's 'Discreet Charm there is appalling mis- some understanding or else some of the Bourgeoisie' is a catastrophe bursts in on them masterly work. The char- from outside. are a nondescript Many of the interruptions acters that we see on the film are in bunch of middle-class fact nothing dreams of but people—a civil servant a failure disaster which or different have characters in businessman, young a diplomat from a Latin turn. But in the end, it all amounts American embassy and the thing: the bour- to same geoisie are not what they seem.

their wives or girlfriends.

They are beset with all sorts problems, is modern-day of anxieties and The scene haunted by fears of inadequacy France, but it could be any and feelings of guilt and walk- western country. ing endlessly to nowhere. The action mainly consists Above all they are laughably of innumerable attempts of incompetent. this group of friends to get The whole film from the together and have a successful title to the closing shot is lunch or dinner free of in- subtly ironic comment on the cident. doomed historical position of Either They never make it. the bourgeoisie as a class.

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Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG Nowhere, of course, is this ever stated. Bunuel deals en- tirely in the stifling detail of everyday middle-class life - how to make the best dry martinis, how to make good of herb soup, where to go for dinner etc. etc. political in- Other, more cidents are brought in, such as a bit of heroin-smuggling and some brushes which the Latin diplomat has with a group of terrorists, but these are mainly episodic scenes used to bring ouț some of the detailed para- noias which torment the bourgeois soul. The most powerful impres- sion that comes across is the opposite of discreet direct charm. The bourgeoisie in fact are clumsy thugs and Philis- tines. with four The film opens Parking meters are no problem if you're a diplomat. In the last six years diplomatic immunity has been claimed by embassy staffs for a total of 132,055 parking offences. Nigeria tops the league with 11,104 'immune' offences, Next Saudi Arabia, with comes 6,789 waived parking offences.

The rest of the 'top ten' are: Hungary (6,727), Egypt (5,767), Ghana (5,677), Poland (4,47l), Turkey (4,460), Iran (4,162), Cyprus (3,637) and Cuba (3,460). Workers Press, Sal his guests arriving one evening for dinner at the young busi- of nessman's country home, all suaved-up, nervously trying not to notice the empty boredom of their sparse conversation, and looking forward to pigging in. They walk in, but the host is not there and the wife is in her dressing gown about to turn in for an early night. They have come on the wrong even- ing. some embarrassed After silence, they eventually come up with an idea-all go off to a local restaurant. After some confusion, think- ing the place is closed, they eventually get inside and settle down, deciding to ignore the strange behaviour of the staff and the absence of any other diners. 'Manchester Evening The News' had a remarkable item about Stalin the other day. It claimed that a diplomatic cor- respondent was in Moscow at a conference in 1947 when the Press, Saturday April 14, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie. Far left: Ambassador of Miranda (Fernando Rey); Mr Senéchal (Jean-Plerre Cassel); Mr Thévenot (Paul Frankeur).

They don't proceed very far before a terrible moaning from a back room interrupts them.

It is some mourners around the bier of the proprietor who died that afternoon. The guests leave dinnerless. They next come back to the businessman's for Saturday lunch. But when they arrive, the young couple are upstairs about to clinch. Because the wife apparently makes so much noise during their sexual bouts, the couple decide to nip out to the garden, while their guests are informed via the maid to make them- selves at home with the drinks.

During the boring lecture on dry martini making, a chance doorbell ring, coupled with the lengthy and unexplained of their hosts, absence sud- denly fills the civil servant and the diplomat with the fear that it is a police raid about their dope-smuggling. They do a with one of the ladies to get rid of too many martinis.

It was, in fact, nothing of the sort. It was the local bishop looking for work as a You've heard of gardener. worker priests? Well I'm a worker bishop,' he explains to the baffled maid, who shows him where the garden shed is.

The hosts come back breath- less and with grass in their hair, find their guests mysteri- ously vanished, and then have to deal with the mad bishop in a straw hat asking when can he start. And that's all in just the first 20 minutes. Later on, a pot-smoking army unit arrives; the friends do get arrested by some fairly brutal police; the worker- bishop commits homicide; and everyone's dreams become more and more fantastic. • And their mealtimes go on being interrupted. But the power of the film is in the observations of the middle-class mentality rather than in the events, themselves.

The pathetic vanity, the pre- tensions, the Philistine empti- of their conversation, ness their greed, their hypocrisy, their moral corruption, and the indirect influence on all of them of the threatened posi- tion of their whole class, make the film worthwhile. It is impossible to sum- marize in words how Bunuel achieves the effect he gets.

Every word, gesture and move- ment is carefully conceived and faultlessly executed exactly the manner required.

Not once throughout the film is the bourgeoisie men- tioned by name or spoken about. Not a word of political criticism is raised against their rule. But the bourgeoisie everywhere will squirm un- comfortably to see themselves as Bunuel sees them. great leader paid a visit to the ballet. The streets from the ballet back to the Kremlin were lined with double rows of police.

Then six limousines swept past.

Sitting in the back of each vehicle was ... Stalin. The question is, which one was Stalin? Marbone Canners Limited of Gloucester Place, London, were in Birmingham magis- trate's court the other day. The company was fined £25 after admitting 'providing food that was not of the substance de- manded' • It was all to do with a 6lb tin of corned beef. When it opened it contained was corned beef plus a 12-inch rolled green muslin bandage with a wound dressing in the centre. The corned beef goes un- der of the trade name 'Trusty'.

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8.30 Robert Powell, Barbara

9.00 A MAN CALLED IRONSIDE.

Linda Thorson, I. P. McKenna.

9.50 NEWS.

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10.25 UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS. On.

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tists. 12.10 Epilogue. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 Jobs around 9.40 Foreign flavour. 10.10 the house. 10.35 Jackson 11.00 five. Film: 'Em Cowboy'. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.15 Cartoon. 5.20 Bonanza. 6.20 Film: "To Trap Spy'. Julie a 8.00 Andrews. 9.00 London. 10.25 Scien- tists. 11.10 Name of the game. 12.40 Stories worth telling. Weather.

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6.50 CLIVE DUNN appeals on be- half of Task Force.

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Room With a View'. • By E. M. Forster, adapted for television by Pauline Macaulay. With Judy Charles Robert Geeson, Gray, Coote, Lally Tom Bowers, Chadbon. 10.15 NEWS. Weather. 10.25

A WINDOW IN THE WAR.

Colette 1873-1954. 11.25

KENNETH HARRIS INTER-

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3.55 Week. 4.40 Golden Match of the 5.35 Flaxton 6.05 Lon- shot. boys. 'East of Sudan'. 9.30 7.55 Film: don. London. 11.30 Department S. 12.25 Reading. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 10.30 Camping and 11.00 Citi- caravaning. rights. 11.30 London. 1.00 Ran- zens dall and Hopkirk. 2.00 Soccer. 3.00 Film: "Torpedo Run'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

Together'. 7.55 Film: •Two Rode 10.00 London. ULSTER: 11.30 London. 1.00 Explor- mind. Take better photo- graphs. 155 Pebbles and bamm bamm.

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YORKSHIRE:

9.20 master- and nieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Pipet friends. 10.35 Untamed world. his counle. 11.30 London. 1.00 11.00 Odd Farming. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Soccer. " An American in Paris'. 2.50 Film: 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton bovs. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "Where the Bullets Fly' 9.30 London. 12.15 Shirley's world. 12.45 Weather.

ich In "Shenandoah', BBC 2's Sunday 9.40 Foreign 10.10 foolery Morning Boys'. 10.35 Joe 11.05 Film: 12.30 London. 'Good 5.20 Persuaders. 6.15 Film: "The Prince Who Was a Thief'. 8.00 Julie 10.25 Andrews. 9.00 London. Scien- tists. 11.10 Name of the game. 12.35 Lectern.

SCOTTISH:

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GRAMPIAN:

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5.15 Who do do? 5.45 Sky's you the limit. 6.15 Film: 'Press for Time'.

8.00 Julie Andrews. 9.00 London. 10.25 Scientists. 11.10 Untouchables.

Kenneth Fortescue is Cecil Vyse in 'A Room with a View' by E.

M. Forster on BBC 1 on Sunday.

8.15 SEVEN

OF ONE. Ronnie Barker. "Shenandoah'. James

8.45 FILM:

Civil Stewart. American War story. "On 10.25

AWAY FROM IT ALL.

a Night'. Such By William Douglas Home. With Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Davenport, Jack May. 11.15 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

11.20 UP SUNDAY.

GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.35 Farm- house kitchen. 11.00 Addams family.

11.30 London. 12.55 Saint. 1.55 On the line. 2.25 Football. 3.20 Film: 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaton boys. 7.55 6.05 London. Sylvester. 8.00 Film: 'Yuma'. 9.30 London.

TYNE TEES: 9.20

Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Jobs around the house. 11.00 Chicago teddy bears.

11.30 World Waron: 1.50 Where the jobs 1.00 Farming. 1.25 are. 1.55 Shoot. 2.50 Film: 'An Ameri- can in Paris'. 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 7.55 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. Film: 'The Streets of San Francisco'.

9.30 London. 11.30 Creig. 12.10 Lec- tern. SCOTTISH: 10.05 World War I. 10.35 Women. 11.05 You pays your money. 11.30 London. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: 'California Conquest'.

4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. Film: 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "The African Queen'. 10.00 London. 11.35 Mannix.

GRAMPIAN: 11.00

Farm progress. 11.30 London. 1.00 Exploring mind. 1.30 Take better photographs. 2.00 Three Mus- Sport. 3.25 Film: The Golden shot. 5.35 keteers'. 4.40 London. 7.55 Flaton boys. 6.05 at Comanche Creek'. Film: "Gunfight 9.30 London. 12.15 A kind of living.

Carworkers attacked by thugs

BY OUR POLITICAL

CORRESPONDENT

TENG Hsiao-ping, denounced during the Chinese cultural re- volution as number two capitalist traitor after the disgraced head of state Liu Shao-chi is now back in favour. Before 1966, Teng, who is now 69, was Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party. His first public appearance since 1967 came at a banquet in honour of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in Peking. High officials shook his* hand as he reached his place at the top table.

The New China News Agency listed him number 15 among the 18 Chinese leaders present. Official sources explained that while he had made 'serious mis- ', they were not of the same takes', order of gravity as those of Liu Shao-chi's and that he had repented. A foreign diplomat commented: 'With Teng's reappearance to- night we can say that the cultural revolution is finally over.'

JAPANESE dockers are threat- ening to stage a 72-hour strike to press demands for a pay rise of £24 a month. They have the employers' turned down offer of £14.

BY OUR OWN CORR

THE CONSEQUENCES of the Eqi the United States appear-at least been contained by the Wall Street tions which invested in the bankru banks owed money by the firm s disaster with only badly burned fin The Securities and Exchange Commission-the government's rather toothless watchdog over the misdeeds of stock market operators—has moved in, pro- mising its biggest ever inquest.

This appears-again for the moment-to have restored to a certain extent the shaken nerves investors, the Wall Street of though there is no saying what new horrors the SEC investiga- tion will reveal. With one of the prestige names revealed as a of US finance investors gigantic fraud, are bound to start asking how many more Equity Funding scandais are lurking in the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The worst effects of the company's crash are being felt outside the United States in the European noney and bond mar- kets where Equity Funding had raised capital to the tune of $25m. The Euro-bond market is a creature of uncontrollable world inflation which has grown up in large part since August 1971, when President Nixon stopped selling gold from the US re- serves. International banking consor- tia in which all the capitalist world's main banks are heavily involved, undertake to dispose of shares and bonds issued by American and European coun- in exchange for Euro- tries currency. The very rapid growth of the market in this form of inflated paper, its world-wide scope and the involvement of top-level fin- ancial institutions makes it a transmission belt conveying , all the problems of one corner of WORKERS occupying part • of the Peugeot factory in Saint Etienne were forced out by a strong-arm gang with clubs and iron armed bars sent in by the manage- ment before dawn on Thursday. Nearly 80,000 workers in the town downed tools to pro- test against the attack. Later 15,000 attended a rally which was told that 20 of the strikers had needed medical treatment.

NN CORRESPONDENT

f the Equity Funding bankruptcy in -at least for the moment-to have Il Street authorities. The big institu- • bankrupt company's stock and the le firm seem to have escaped this urned fingers. the financial world into everyone else's bank parlour. The flood of paper on to the Euro-bond market has been ac- companied by a corresponding reduction in the standards of credit-worthiness required of the institutions taking part.

Large sums have been loaned to borrowers in areas like the Far East, where the Hong ; Kong and Singapore stock markets are plummeting and there is little or no check on the powers of bor- rowers to repay their debts.

The crash of Equity Funding, together with the inability cf US another prominent Financial, American firm, to pay interest its virtually bonds, on brought the Euro-bond market to a complete standstill.

New issues are still in the hands of the banking consortia, who can find no takers because of lack of confidence among in- vestors, and only the most well- known names are in the market at the moment. The absence of confidence in Euro-bond could the market if it conti- have severe effects nues, because it will leave the banks underwriting large blocks of bonds of doubtful value, creat- ing further liquidity problems for them at a time when much of their funds are already loaned out over a long term. The Equity Funding affair de- what writer monstrates one called the 'fallibility and fragility the mechanisms through which even 1 very big business may be conducted in America'.

These characteristics apply with even greater force to the mushroom growth of credit in the Euro-bond market. The sit-in has been going on for nearly two weeks in support of demands for a wage increase, shorter hours and pensions at 60.

French employers are increas- ingly resorting to strong-arm methods in order to discipline immigrants, workers, especially and to terrorize strikers. ( Gangs of men are recruited and armed and provided with guard dogs, ostensibly for "security' purposes.

These methods have the back- ing of the police and Gaullist and other right-wing groups.

The strike of 400 Renault workers in the press shop which THE LON NOL puppet regime in Cambodia is facing collapse under the hammer blows of the liberation forces who practi- cally surround the capital, Phnom Penh, and the main provincial towns. Heavy attacks by US B52 bombers based in Thailand have failed to halt the offensive. After General Alexander Haig's fact- finding mission to the area, Pre- considering sident Nixon whether to give South Vietnam the go-ahead to invade Cambodia in support of Lon Nol. Senator Mike Democratic Mansfield has warned that use of South Vietnamese and Thai troops in Cambodia could be dangerous. The Cambodian government, he said, has almost

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETINGS

Make Scanlon retract! No collaboration with the Industrial Relations Act!

No acceptance of Phase Two! Force the Tories to resign! Build the revolutionary party! South London

TUESDAY APRIL 24,

8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4 North London

WEDNESDAY APRIL 25

8 p.m. Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, W.3. Liverpool Transform the SLL into the revolutionary party Monday April 23, 7.30 p.m. 'The Mona', James St (Entrance at back in Moor St) Workers Press, Saturday Aprll 14, 1973 PAGE 11 closed bureaucracy to get the part of the Boulogne- workers Billancourt back, although all their demands settled factory was under pressure from the Stalinist had not been met. CGT leadership. In particular Renault refused After reaching in full for the days lost a compromise to pay with the Renault during the strike, which was management, the the blow for the delegates of

CGI

and heavy immigrant the Catholic CFDT told the men, workers. One said it would take foreign of whom two years to make up what had

THOS

workers, to either accept the been lost. proposals or refuse them-with- extremely The Stalinists were out indicating any alternative.

afraid that the strike in Renault In Tuesday's secret ballot on would snowball out of their con- the terms only 187 workers took They took over the move- the part of whom 108 voted for and ment press shop their intolerable 75 against. Pressure was obviously workers against conditions in order to sell it out.

applied by the trade union A POLICEMAN was killed by longing to the Movimento hurled Studentesco, a left-wing uni- grenade from a crowd of masked fascist de- versity group. monstrators who were defy- The leader of this organi- ing two-week ban on zation, Mari Capanna, and demonstrations in the Italian two of his comrades are of Milan. industrial city trial facing on trumped-up charges arising from an The fascists, who normally occupation of the university enjoy protection from the on January 25. police in attacking left-wing demonstrations, They were out on are charged with the for public kidnap and assault streets against meeting in the town centre, the university rector, a no- organized by the Italian So- torious right-winger noted Movement (MSI). cial for his bitter hostility to left- wing organizations within Their clash with the the university. police followed several days of street-fighting, which be- • left: Students throwing gan when the police at- stones during their demon- tacked be- stration. demonstrators

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Washington hesitating to ceased function despite IS of dollars of US authorize in Cambodia millions aid. which could the end not mean the The supply position in only of Lon Nol but also of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh Saigon regime. critical ( despite the remains During the US attack on Cam- lorries. arrival of a convoy of bodia in 1970 the Saigon troops million Its 1.5 inhabitants have their hated for savagery supply and heat no water Prince Norodom and rapacity. and public transport has stopped Sihanouk told the Australian Prices have soared running. So journalist, William Burchett, that pay will that worker's daily they 'helped forge our resistance not buy a glass of beer. the start'. Many movement from The people of Phnom Penh Nol's soldiers of Lon deserted celebrated the Cambodian New and over with their arms Year yesterday with dancing in to the partisans. of the street in an atmosphere There is no doubt that further almost feverish gaiety. Saigon would pro- intervention If Saigon forces Cam- voke fiercer resistance than enter even US sup- in 1970. The Lon Nol regime has bodia they will require only survived for plies and air support in order long be- •SO from of backing the to fight their way through areas cause held National Liberation Americans and the South by the Vietnamese. Front.

SLL LECTURE

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution The revolutionary party in Britain and the history of the British working class Middleton Caedraw School lollins Social Cent ntern Road, Hollins Esta Merthyr Tydfil 7.30 p.m. 7 p.m. Sunday April 22 Monday April 16 Lectures given by ectures given b Cliff Slaughter Peter Jeffries (SLL Central Committee) The Unions and the working class in Britain revolution Britain. The fight for democra-

READING

Trotsky, Where is Britail party. Going? Problems o British Revolution. Problems lution (Trotsky). Party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Clapham High Street, 01-622 7029.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Salurday April 14, 1973

DELEGATES

22 from

BY IAN YEATS

steel action committees, representing 111,958 men, met Connah's Quay, at We've been let down Wales, North yesterday We've oniclal Cuataes. been sold down the river. to hammer out a policy for fighting a Tory run- 'We are going to fight and Make down of the industry. we are about that.' llllslakc Nearly About 6,500 jobs travelled from are Shotton axed and Scotland, Midands ae ce 40,000 others could dis- north-east to the first-ever Tory rank-and-file confer- steel apocal

BY DAVID MAUDE

plans 'modernize' Wales.

LIIC

cuce ı vea industry go ahead. TWO YOUNG garage workers were remanded on bail at a Shotton action committee 'We Mr McLaughlin south London magistrates' court yesterday after being arrested cates caran!

IVIT

LUKe

IV_C-

won't hatchet Laughlin told the 200-strong men while on strike picket three hours earlier.

the country round conference:

U1I11Y

Te lne us waal 10 .O Kingston magistrates refused a police application to deny bail to one we told them what to We feel this conference of the two, Philip Penn, who is already due to appear in court on May 3 absolute do.'

LICUOODILY,

on a previous obstruction charge.

The magistrates also re- fused second police application, ban the two from the area of the until garage sunkedoline after the hearing. But although the second Lankesters picket, Charles Penn, faces

SPEED

previous charge,

LIMIT 5MPH

warned that •romers were they come before the it WIKCIy granted bail. Twenty-six workers the main British- Lankesters, Kiingston. Levoo eer have been on strike for two weeks for of the recognition Workers in nego- gineering tiations on new pay Survetue. Backing The dispute has the offi- cial support of the union's district committee and back-

PLEASE

Hes veted soueit rom une national executive. DO NoT CROSS Last Penn Friday and was arrested Witt

WAHTU

OOSECHON

the highway breach

LINE.

of the 1959 section

HORWAVS ACL

He appeared in The picket continued at Lankesters yesterday.

court Wednesday, the day after Lord Widgery, the Lord had ruled. on Cnet usuce, a police appeal, that Stock- must

OULU

Ilariotialco Cuti- vict a building union official under the 1959 Act. Thursday police ar. England and Wales: the working rived the Lankesters President Hugh Scanlon— picket with newspaper Wid- curlings reporung tne gery judgement. WUll Yesterday morning, Philip Culltlaly,a ucoyc Penn arrested win an was again Labour's, those or 1972, ins have while talking carare which was itself the customer who had pulled up 'amended' Industrial Relations of an' best year for Labour in local elec- on seeing the strikers' plac- tions since the war. Act and Common Market entry.

HOSTILITY

ards amouns an It these reformist leaders, dispute. 1S Ofice workers leader? Last Charles Penn was arrested Tne ota lnlsts. There is no lack of hostility year Jackson told Workers Press: when nis nrotner anemoied hand him a wallet con- lack of leadership. thoroughiv discredited Heath govern- taining the strikers' funds.

The transformation of the Socialist ment to continue in office.

lorce Election and hope that the left Labour League into the revolutionary "The Times' claim that the miners' Obstruction would party, the fight for Marxist leader- the government WIll IL. ballot confidence' Wab the and the win hands down ... Incre WOUie

SHLO

uliuds. Philip was charged with renascer ecsvev be a reaction against trade unionists ference of the Young Socialists this answered. wilful obstruction ballot-box situation following weekend are decisive steps towards oper highway. Charles was the historic crisis of man- General Strike or a mini- There is one clear message from resolving either a charged with obstructing General Strike.' - the Trese eecon resuils every Ke —

CUISIS

revolutiondry police oricer in the course single industrial throughout leadership. di ca of his duty. Both remanded on

FRESH LIGHT

were ball or tou ln their own recognizance. Replying to the police And this week's massive rejection

APRIL FUND IS NOW £294.89

Philip objection the rerl ones sneds nesanieul being bailed, counsel in-

TUC

General Secretary Victor brothers' Feather, who also claims that strikes structed by the

STEP UP FIGHT THIS WEEKEND

recently de- obiected that he had Tories and only been charged, not con- clared: victed, and that he was not

THE

SWING 10 Labour in Thurs. appeal therefore, 'We shall not go looking for •UH someone day's Council elections proves one trouble. We shall not seek dramatic fighting for his trade union getting either with the thing everywhere there confrontations convictions. enormous feeling against the Tory the ground. We need a very special or with employers, in attempt to ban covernnent that only effort immediately over this week- Lnc government and court or outside.' them the area, around. We trom he trade end to turn the position of the treachery argued that they should be leaders keeps this union govern- niv one monm beore ror Know " we ugut Hilg ather was telling the TU ment in office. So do your best. Post all your

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they did not obstruct the special Congress: donations to: This is why Workers Press is highway. important today. It is the only daily 'We have to deal with govern- paper that fights to build an Workers Press alter- leadership. And

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native revolutionary April Appeal Fund ment and we have always tried is vital for 186a Clapham High Street maintain working relationship working class in this political situ- with that government.' London, SW4 7UG ation. 01-720 2000 before And only three days the council elections a former 'left'- Called by Shotton action committee, the conference was expected to set up a national rank-and-file body to fight redundancies. Mr McLaughlin said: 'We want to get together to force the government, the BSC, the TUC and our own union leaders to give us the negotiations we must have' Conference resolutions in- dicated the new committee would press for an expan- sion of steel output up to 43 million tons a year in a bid to keep the doomed • steel- works opened. They were also expected a stepping up to call for of the campaign for a 35- hour week. 'A MEETING of 1,500 Rubery Owen workers Darlaston, Staffs, yesterday voted unanimously to con- tinue their strike for a fur- ther week. After hearing a report from local officials that no progress had been made in negotiating a settlement, the meeting to the original claim for £5- across-the-board for all workers. Until this point, the pay been scaled demand had down to £2.52 to meet the government's state pay laws.

workers told Two young Workers Press: 'I don't think we will back down now and I can't see the management withdraw- ing either. political stand 'It's a against the government's wages policy. One factory can't beat the government alone-we know that. 'There's going to be a national one-day strike on May 1, so the TUC will have to extend this to a General Strike. 'It's We got to come. should like to see a Labour in and government back end the they must wage freeze and the anti-union laws and provide cheap houses?

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workers in seven major hospitals in the Coventry area came out on strike yesterday. No services emergency are being undertaken, but the strikers have allowed one hospital to remain open for casualties. The laundry at Whitley Hospital, Coventry, is also out on strike. This supplies clean linen to all the hospitals in Cov- entry, Rugby and Nuneaton.

Hospital authorities say that this is the gravest situ- ation to date. A picket at the modern Hospital told Wallsgrave Workers Press: 'We are hitting hard now.

We here still think this selective strike method is wrong. Our branch has sent in resolutions demanding While militant action was still continuing in Wales (43 hospitals affected), north Scot- west (73 hospitals), land (90 hospitals), Midlands (50), north east (46), and the south west, leaders of the four unions were try- ing to negotiate a back-to- work agreement with man- in agement representatives London on the basis of a introduction quicker of equal pay and productivity.