Workers Press no. 1051

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INFLATION

IS RAMPANT

Tories' letter encourages dock 'casuals' INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY APRIL 18, 1973 • No 1051 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BIG

WORLD

BUSINESS

ADMITS

FRESH EVIDENCE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Their other strategy is to pass laws their of a worsening of the own exports, sO accelerating economic have

CADCELS

inflationary crisis that the war. govern- tue pace or te trade Two important conclusions sweeping the capita- wal must flow from this latest nas talled. Ine economy nas list nations of the but prices still evidence. One grown, world was released in rising at record rates- -/ per crisis annauonary workers on CCIl a year wide and nits their financial centres The New York. call here too 1s tor deflationary measures against they will all yesterday. come under the the working class and an in same nerce aracks as eaco Reports from New York, government grapples with debendent ПОНТ une mark hit which will Germany's problem London Bonn show stabilizing and includ- competitors, shaky economies. that the so-called boom ing Britain The continuing inflation business rapidly spilling over

BRITAIN

exposes the rubbish into IN the situation

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chered to mani tins inflation. Prices are in- MOSt serious Or all. which creasing at a record rate economy is on the brink of

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and busi- Comes une increase in and already there are ness activity. This 'boom" the continued inflationary in- curb spending will end in the greatest monetary sup- crease in al" and hit the working class.

threatening to LaCK

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class since the 1930s. this THE UNITED STATES has worse been hit with Greenwell, top City The latest crisis shows ruld vy dy stockbrokers that can do nothing naton erew record $40,000m in the first will not able to "solve' inflation. three this and months

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situation Price rises and the rapid that the wages and prices half of due

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w ds erosion or tear valuesis policy will be undermined by entirelv to inflation. inherent part of the capitalist Nixon yesterday the rapid rise in prices and system. was re- considering bringing back

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Inflation will be with us "The crunch will come in Ine Dan On increases capitalism capital markets when abandoned in present this working the priated Ine Phase Three policy "stop" against forced class and socialist planning authorities, they warn. the American introduced. This information is But there will be few con- This deep has the small crisis trols on prices. Right wingers proot that

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immediate political in the US Congress ine eve or eco- Con- nomic activity presents sceuences cabitals! a move yesterday to halt all problems for the system moves ever towards enormous increases. die worshing ands to deprive capitalist authorities. The result will be a new working class of all its round of attacks against the inev can only surıke back inflation by curbing basic menEs. ClaSS шоге spending particularly and for war The construction of a revo pressure trade against the Common Market wages of the lutionary party in every capi- These and the Japanese. will be held talist now class. down while prices rocket up- most urgent task IN GERMANY five groups wards. working class. DOCKS shop stewards in Lon-

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

possession of don are In they will have nothing to do der me 1947 ob security un- letter from Maurice Macmillan, with "casuals supplementary the Tories' Employment Minis Lne

DOCK

La bouT dockers who can be SackCa seneme. ter, which makes clear that the weeks notice eltner TheiT Macmillan's letter, written on employer their local Dock rovers ment Denie to

NDLB

chairman to bring 'casual' labour back Labour Board. followed con into the industry. And there is widespread hos- sultanons win Dou the Natonal The letter, written early Association of Port Employers tility e sewnere Industry to of the the Transport and January and General to the idea that the labour short- Board, Workers' Union. National Dock Labour ages caused by the Jones-Alding- expected to arouse considerable It forecast that the dockers'

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special severance scneme anger in the ports. by system response Jones-Aldington chole be nied Liverpool and Hull which dockers' scheme would Already "greatly have clear that traditional solidarity and could dockers made CACca our expectations -in lack

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it reduced the labour force nationally by 8,500 or more than 20 per cent. Macmillan also allowed him- self the 'prudent assumption' that the process technological in change the industry would wipe out even more jobs. His solution was "casual" labour. told Lewison: It seems He sensible that the NDLB should guide local boards towards deal- ing with individual proved labour

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So we qualify for the £2,000 donation. We are very pleased with the response over the past Keep it up. Post few davs. all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG YOU will be a Pensioner one day Pensioners lobby to support Bill A GROUP of old-age pensioners from London lobbied Danilamen Southall yesterday In support of Labour MP Sidney Bidwell's Bill upgrade pensions pensioners are Dale the national one in average wage and the Bill would them one third of the The organ- averace Was ized by Task Force.

workers press

INFLATION

IS RAMPANT

Tories' letter encourages dock 'casuals' INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY APRIL 18, 1973 • No 1051 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BIG

WORLD

BUSINESS

ADMITS

FRESH EVIDENCE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Their other strategy is to pass laws to their of a worsening of the own exports, so accelerating economic experts! have inflationary crisis announced that the govern- We ace rude lace war. against Two important conclusions sweeping the capita- wal Ination must flow from this latest nas raued. 1ne economy nas list nations of the but prices still evidence. One grown, that 7 per world was released in rising at record rates crisis Coll their financial centres Tokyo They will all come under And New York. cal nere too 1c tor deflationary measures against yesterday. the working class and an in- same herce alacks Reports from New York, government grapples with devencent LOaT Tie mark the which Germany's problem stabilizing London and Bonn show Will hit foreign competitors, includ- shaky economies. that the so-called boom ing Britain. The continuing inflation business rapidly spilling over IN BRITAIN the exposes rubbish into situation The kee it rama tons inflation. are in- of all. most serous which a record rate economy is on the brink of creasing at WC- and comes the increase in busi- and already there are ness activity. This 'boom' the continued inflationary in- moves curb spending will end in the greatest at- monetary sup- crease in The and hit the working class.

tack is threatening to class

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since the 1930s. this THE UNITED STATES has been hit with top City The latest crisis shows runaway "reenwer. that can do nothing • First Outout grew nanon. able to 'solve' inflation. record $40,000m in the Collicall three this this year and months

CURD

situation Price rises and the rapid that the wages and prices half of was due an

OUL

policy will be • undermined by entirelv to infiation. inherent part of the capitalist the Nixon yesterday. rapid rise in system. re- ano Was bringing back costs. considering Inflation will be with us "The crunch will come in until Une Dall ware increases capitalism markets when CA010- abandoned present in working the Dulated Une Phase Three against

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class and socialist planning authorities, they warn. the American This information is But there will be few con- This deep has proof the small crisis trols on prices. Right wingers that US immediate political in the the ever or eco- Con- nomic activity presente The Caolaus! a move vesterday to halt all enormous problems moves ever towards sustem increases. die worship and capitalist authorities. deprive The result will be a new working class of all its of attacks against the can only strike back Inev inflation by curbing Class all spending and particularly for trade war 1 he construction of a revo pressure the against the Common Market of the lutionary party in every capi- and the Japanese. held talist class. down while prices rocket up- most urgent task IN GERMANY five groups wards. working Class.

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

DOCKS shop stewards in Lon- don are in possession of they will have nothing to do der mie 1947 ob security un- letter from Maurice Macmillan, with 'casuals' supplementary the Dock Labour the Tories' Employment Minis- dockers who can sacked be ter, which makes clear that the week s nouice enter Macmillan's letter, written on employer their local Dock government Jand. H. Levison, tọ

NDLB

chairman to bring 'casual' labour back Labour Board. followed into the industry. And there is widespread hos- suilaons wit dom foe vatona The letter, written early in Association of Port Employers tility industry e sewnere Tre to the chairman the Transport and General January and to the idea that the labour short- Board, Workers' Union. National Dock Labour ages caused by the Jones-Alding- expected arouse considerable It forecast that the dockers' special scyclance scaeme anger in the ports. be by system response Jones-Aldington should Liverpool Hull which undermines dockers' scheme would "greatly Already and have clear that traditional solidarity could dockers laut allu

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it reduced the labour force nationally by 8,500 or more than 20 per cent. Macmillan also allowed him- self the 'prudent assumption' that the process technological in the industry would change wipe out even more jobs. His "casual' solution was labour. He told Lewison: 'It seems sensible that the NDLB should guide local boards towards deal- ing with individual proved labour

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So we qualify for the £2,000 donation. We are very pleased with the response over the past few days. Keep it up. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG Pensioners - A GROUP of old-age pensioners from London lobbied parliament yesterday in support of Southall Labour MP Sidney Bidwell's Bill to upgrade pensions. At present pensioners are paid only one fifth of the national average wage and the Bill would peg them at one third of the average. The lobby was organ- ized by Task Force.

Defend democratic rights meeting success PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday April 18, 1873 800 at joint meeting in London

THE CAMPAIGN

defend to members of the left and labour against police attack movement and oppression by the state began before a capacity audience London on Monday. Well over 800 people packed the Conway Hall to hear speakers from the International Marxist Group, the Inter- national Socialists and the Socialist Labour League call for the defence of democratic rights. follows the rapid The joint meeting escalation of police and Special Branch activity directed against the left and particularly the raids all over Britain against Irish people and members of the IMG last Friday. OPENING the Gerry Healy, meeting national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, said that the SLL had been con- cerned with the increase of police and state activity for some time.

The Workers Press had initiated a cam- 20 aimed paign against this on January at warning the left and the working class of the great dangers of oppression ahead.

He said the basis of this mass intimidation the deep economic crisis faced by the was capitalist system. "The question of basic democratic rights is now an urgent one for the Tory govern- They have to ment and the capitalist class.

deprive the working class of all their rights.

The legislation of this government, the Industrial Relations Act, the wage laws and the laws banning picketing have made 20 million workers into he said. But it was not just a question of law. Behind the new legisla- tion industry of an enormous repression had developed. This involved telephone-tapping, the secret police, special armed patrol groups, raids. the and planting of weapons trials that were no more than frame- ups. 'There is not a trade union office or a political organization in this country whose telephone tapped,' not continually he said. The American

CIA

was also cal repression in Britain poltp cal repression in Britain.

official who specialized in 'dirty tricks' working was now full time at the US Embassy giv- advice and help the ing to secret police and the security squads. Gerry Healy said that one of the most important cases was the recent Soar This Eire trial. re- vealed the use of agents pro- vocateur to incriminate activists on the left. When the defence counsel asked the Department of Public Prosecutions to take up the case after the use of provocateurs had been clearly shown, the had,

DPP

refused. This in effect, legalized the use of pro- vocateurs against the left.

The other maior sien of mounting repression was the Gerry Healy the military rise of men who planning for possible civil were war in Britain. question of gaining an advantage over one another in this battle, 'We have the Calverts, the but the of protecting these rights Kitsons and Clutterbucks which allow us to function.

who go around saying they are "urban guerrillas". When against "This fight must be waged by they talk about the need to com- us, to rouse the masses to the they bat urban guerrillas are danger and develop mass for civil war really preparing around the issue movement of against the working class. And basic rights.' "counter- when they talk about Duncan Hallas, national insurgency", they are talking of Inter- mittee member the about he infiltration gangs national Socialists, said though who frame and intimidate mem- differ- there considerable bers of the left, he said.

were ences between the groups repre- All the raids, the phoney sented, they the were united on bomb the talk about scares, defence of militants within the guerrillas and political urban facing labour movement police violence was designed, he said, attack. the to create necessary atmos- He said one major area of in- phere to prepare for mass re- creasing repression was in indus- the working pression against try, highlighted recently with class. the virtual banning of picketing.

He said the groups involved in He said this could only be deeply-held the meeting had answered by mass picket, as seen This was not differences. bad defend in the miners' strike, to thing since they represented the workers in struggle. movement of class forces, and in the of representing movement Duncan Hallas to

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forces, each group had a class describe the series of raids responsibility launched against IS members last said, had the year. These, he But the responsibility to wage of aim intimidating people on the ideological battle in order the left and adding the to to develop a revolutionary con- Special Branch's store of infor- within the working sciousness He left-wing had be protected groups. class to said it had to be recognized that against police and state repres- the suffered working class had That was why joint defence sion. a defeat in the battle against the was necessary. wage freeze, but not a decisive 'When we are talking about defeat. democratic rights, we are talking 'It is in these circumstances about the democratic rights of It is that the possibility of police re- working class. the not a Duncan Hallas pression increases. It is very hard for them to come out with the brass knuckle and the hob- nail boot when the mass move- ment is at a peak. But it is con- siderably easier when the move- ment is in recession,' he said.

He said there was also a growth of collusion between the police, the Special Branch and employers to victimize workers who were members of political groups. Two IS shop stewards had been victimized in this way.

It is absolutely vital to put Communist the pressure on Party on this issue. Their record is not good, despite the fact that their own members are and in- creasingly will be subject to this kind of We must repression. also pressure the Labour Party,' he said. 'Democratic rights were not handed by the government as the newspapers would have us be- but they were fought for lieve, and taken by the working class.

entering into a We are now situation where the ruling class is trying to chip away at the edge of these rights. • 'We must not fall into the error of believing the battle is already lost. The fact is that the strength of the working class is unimpaired. We can and we will win.' Tariq Ali, national secretary of the International Marxist Group, Tarlq All said that the bourgeoisie, who continually harped on the divi- sion within the movement in the remain hope that it would divided when under attack, would be disappointed. He said the move towards greater and greater repression came from the extremely serious structural crisis of capitalism and the serious crisis of social and economic relations within the system. This had not only led to the growth of political repression, but the rise of the forces of the extreme right — witnessed in its most virulent form in Italy, with the development of a large 'neo- fascist' movement. Part of the repression was to within the working use splits . class isolate militants and to in struggle workers and then using the state against them.

We had seen this in the Soar where hysteria over and also strike coloured workers in Newport, where raids had been launched against militants allegedly in search of illegal immigrants'.

'An essential part of this re- pression is to probe how much the working class will tolerate from the organs of the state, the police, the judges, etc?, said Tariq Ali. 'The central aim eventually is to inflict a defeat on the work- 800-strong A section of the audience which packed the Conway Hall, London, on Mon- day to hear IMG, IS and SLL speakers. ing-class movement and to try and change the balance of forces to increase the rate of exploi- tation and surplus value which has halved over recent years, he said. "This meeting is extremely im- portant. It has brought a num- ber of organizations together, but this should only be a be- ginning. We should join with the working class in joint action against the agents of repression.

'We shall show that our forces, small though they may be, can lead to big developments in the working-class movement in the struggle against the capitalist system.' In the discussion after the speakers appeals for solidarity with groups of people already facing jail or trial for their political activities were made.

Jim Kemp, a spokesman for the Militant group and a member of the London Joint Sites Commit- tee, called for a maximum turn out on April 25 in defence of the building workers trial on at Shrewsbury for picketing. He said coaches were leaving Lon- don at 6 a.m., Charing Cross Embankment. 'Let us make this defence of a basic right the first step of forcing this sign he said, sovernment to re- Other appeals were heard to defend the Belfast ten - the people arrested after the recent London bomb explosions. (See page 3.) The speaker said a solidarity picket was held outside Brixton jail, London, every Saturday at 2 p.m. Another speaker announced a demonstration in support of the Stoke Newington Four-jailed in the 'Angry Brigade Trial'-on May 12 at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 3 p.m. A collection of £73.73 was raised for the cost of the meet- ing.

Workers Press, Wednesday April 18, 1973 PAGE 3 Bomb blast BSC allowed to ignore Phase Iwo Steel prices up charges: Ten still held THE BRITISH Steel of European steelmakers by businessmen complete they intended do once any recalculating more than take the "toughest in custody up to 6 per cent. their produc- Corporation yesterday possible line In its announcement BSC charles. nerouations aimed limiting hardship Meanwhile fallen steadily Brs years the engineers' sale That recent announced price rises ind Tottenancith softening blow prices had union has agreed to back ow 'the their fight competitive inter- averaging 9.5 per cent. In fact

AUEW

leader • obsolete open-hearth charged after the bomb blasts in Lihs THE SEVEN men and three Laliullai

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steelworks open and save onn bova role conterence A spokesman said: "Even member of the Asa 50,000 jobs. 'In every country a degree of the with present price in- European Coal and Steel modernization Many don on March 8 were again remanded the Corporation's crease ale

BSC

ning hopes on de- Community, their ana inevitade. 1s not will remain below this in custody for a week at Lambeth court

DIICCS

cisions taken today Tra des the The policy slowly controlled by Phase Two. level!' first Iron and Steel in the trade yesterday.

BSC

has forecast further labour movement appears to The rises indi- conneceranon connererce rises with the since the war and the be persuading It was their third appearance before the Curtiuc aimed vidua items will range from end of Phase Two. of the AUEW next meeting

BSC

old ; to 15 per court. Chief Supt Roy Habershon, applying Dilase

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cent Reports say the new tarifi gently provide steci commuliec WOrkS for a remand, said the papers were now in The inere that will add an immediate 1 the maximum opportunities for increases mean speakers the hands of the Attorney-General.

AUEW

Tor- steel men prices will industry's conference in to secure altern- but Lul"

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tinue to trai behind those quay hope He understood a date had been provisionally steep lises oe expectec gave aLue alive employment. fixed for the hearing. As with the previous appear- Lankesters' strikers may return for negotiations ances Len. umere were strict security precautions out- side and inside court. Cars the banned

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Lankesters'

STRIKERS

No date for these talks and people approaching ankes streets Kingston-on-Thames had been fixed the area and entering coterday have acceptea union advice morning The sirikers room were stopped and searched.

to return to work on the continuing to picket The ten of are accused con- day the company Shop stewards agrees garage. spiring together and with others their de- pay stressed that there would be necolate en- mands. no return to work until they Caust Serious striers have Weeks had a firm date. picketing injury to property. The They were arrested as they strikers agreed Kingston's about to board planes garage after lengthy main British-Leyland dealer AUEW district bound meeting with Heathrow demanding recognition secretary Andy Wilson, who Ireland. of the engineers would nsisted no support on the stabilization talks and PRESS SHOP workers at Ford's

A.U.E.W

pay rates increases in tories in the area unless they

A.U.E.W.

apprentices' earnings have walked Cha- agreed to go back and nego- cause the management has the face "WO tiate.

STRIKE

pended five men without obstruction charges after be- pay tor yesterday But there

STRIKE.

arrested on the picket reusine to sioo a work to rue Two men were suspended on the line their right to negatiate ake

PLEASE

should have backed night shift on Monday and three have now NoT CROSS Lankesters Do NAT CROSS early shift agreed to recognize the on the vesterudy une Do entire 900 men at the press shop union, bring forward discus-

PICKET

PiCKE the apprentices' They stressed that their affects which only stewards must have full con

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verde es shift 24p an hour, and start talks trol over the negotiations Stewards workers. on the pay stabilization when these take place the body plant were meeting a1 5 p.m. yesterday. Hull chocolate

YOUNG SOCIALISTS AND SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

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workers continue reinstatement fight STRIKERS at the Hull chocolate firm of Needlers voted 94-33 on Monday night to continue their ten-day-old stoppage. They are demanding the reinstatement of Ken Chapman, who was sacked the day after he had been nominated shop steward.

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The management claims his job application form contained inaccuracies. The management has pro- be agreed by the regional office. posed a return to work with 'But since they are for a return Chapman suspended full pay, pending a Department of to work, it is hard to see this happening.' Employment inquiry. Production at the factory has But the strikers reject this. been badly hit. Night-shift They claim General and Muni- women workers have had to be Workers' officials, Cipal laiu Ull who nave dubicy suooorted Dois The strikers claim that idea, did in fact originally sug- some departments, women gest it to the management.

have not loined the strike alt Pickets claim: 'The officials

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having to men's work, but do that in the milling were asked

HOT

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they sackings issue behind our backs, are refusing to work because but they had talks on The bea London Supply lorries being WIcH the arm's Matina pay rise lor workers ir but slobocd.

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cocoa and confectionary indus- Transport General Crivers. Cane tries. Workers' Union members, have work after originally 'Officials claim they cannot returned to

MIMIT

make it oficia. because it ha supporting the strike.

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Scottish TUC ducks registered unions question SCOTTISH TUC leaders, Seamen, and the Scottish Further opened whose conference caucation nosociauion These yesterday, have ducked the tive have a comolnea affiliated membership to the affiliated issue of unions Scottish TUC of 30,000. over which have registered under expul- instead or moving the Tory Industrial Relations sion of these unions, the Scottish

DEFEND BASIC DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

General Council proposed Act. they Undl De zven Six affiliated Scottish unions three months to remove them-

BUILD THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

selves from the register.

are registered Une Partest being the Educational Institute be of Scotland with 32,000 members.

a private session of the Congress Watch this space for more details morning. The The others are the Scottish tomorrow sugges- Union of Bakers. British Actors' that if the unions Con- Equity Association, the Confed- cerned have not de-registered by eration of Health Service Em- July 31, they will automatically Congress. of be excluded from piovees. the Nationa Union

PARE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday A Dear Editor, After recent* reading your book review, "Three million police files and more to come' • thought the article in the 'Sunday Mirror' would be of interest to you. In it, the former deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, Commander John du Rose, proposes that all people in this country should be fingerprinted. another capi- An article in talist paper not long ago raised the question of compulsory identity cards. In both it was Robert Mark, Police Commis.

sioner. suggested that only the criminally - minded would object. As the Phase Two laws make all trade unionists potential criminals, perhaps the suggestion is right! Seen with the 'hanging lobby, the law-and-order siant of Tory policy is becoming very evident. Naturally the public, while being wooed into acceptance of tighter controls, is being reassured by references to the British love of freedom.

Your article, however, makes it plain that while the debate goes on, the ground work for Writings of

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There can be little doubt that for every move made in this direction publicly, several more are being made under cover. I think the point should be uty made that legislation of this type is, by itself, of little use to the Tories. Unless action can be taken against the work- ing class, mere surveillance does little damage. The result of the jailing of the trade unionists last summer make it clear that the Tories would be running a serious political risk if they attempted the like again. is not to say That • there will not be a confrontation. As soon as the point is reached where neither side can make concessions, there must be a clash between workers and the government. The international monetary crisis dictates that that time cannot be too far away. In the event of a victory for the working class and the election of a Labour govern- socialist ment pledged to policies, abolition of all in- struments of repression must be on the list of priorities.

On the other hand, it the workers' movement is defeated, the police files would be very useful in rounding up militants, just as they would be in the event of a military takeover. Thus, in organization and propaganda, the capitalist class is preparing for civil war and socialist and trade every unionist must view with suspicion all moves made by the capitalists and anyone who supports them. Fraternally A Reader Southampton (Name and address supplied) * Monday April 9, 1973 History of Russian Revolution -special gift pack of three volumes £1.70 including postage u require. Amount enclosed f ions, 186a Clapham High Street, Lon Publications Booklist is a vailable, fre Det Chief Insp Derek Sutcliffe of West The extent to which the police are equipped for the use of firearms has come way into the open part following the killing of bank raider and the slaughter of two Pakistani boys carry- ing plastic revolvers at India House. What is even less well known is the degree of police training in the use of these weapons, in which very large numbers of police are involved. For as long as three-and-a- half years the west Yorkshire constabulary, for instance, has been running five-day residen- in the use of tial courses firearms at Ripon. And by the end of 1971 they were already boasting that •• Auce ghos Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request. Det Chief Insp Derek Sutcliffe of West Yorkshire police alms his 0.38 Webley at the lorso targel.

TRAINED TO KILL

one in ten policemen in the contabulary were proficient in the art of Shooting to kill Since the admitted failure rate was 10 per cent this means that even then 11 out of every 100 police given were Delng firearms training. Now the proportion is even higher. The training, most nine use of the 0.38 Webley pistol, but sometimes the 0.303 rifle, takes forms - firing valIous bullets at

HUTCLOS

shooting holes in paper screens.

One part of the course con- sists of conditioning policemer react automatically to involving 'armed situatons criminals. Colour slides showing the different situations are flashed

THREAT OF EVICTION

The Labour-controlled Oldham council take action against its 1,333 strike rent rebels. The council wants to re £20,000 in back owed by tenants who are re- fusing to pay the 90p increases under the Housing Tories Finance Act. At meeting the its recent council decided that corpora- tion should officials take action' 'necessary recover the But councillors insisted they did want not 'mass evictions'. The motion put forward by housing committee chairman Cllr Wilfred Clover, called for 'simultaneous action against

MANAGEMENT

WON'T SHARE

The retreat of the entire trade leadership before the Tory has led Scot- pay laws tish shop stewards into a novel, but retrogressive deal. Unable to win a substantial for their members, pay rise .38 Webley at the torso target.

up on a screen for three seconds, in which the police- man concerned has to make up his mind whether he can shoot and actually fire. After he has fired the slide is flashed back on the screen so that he can see if he has hit the gunman or one of the people standing near him.

The aim is to turn out police- men who will react completely automatically in situations where firearms-or as at India House what looked like fire- arms-are in use, and shoot accurately. Police are not being trained to this level in these numbers just to deal with the occasional armed robbery. The powers that be clearly have a much more sinister use for them in mind. each tenant'. But it placed on record 'complete opposition for humane and financial reasons to the eviction of tenants'. Following this 'Pontius Pilate-like' resolution, letters will be sent to the rent strikers asking them for the arrears to be paid up. If they fail to do council will make the so, application to the county courts. ClIr Clover said later: 'By law tenants who don't pay can be evicted, but then again by law they can ask to be rehoused. That could put us in the ridiculous position of putting evicted families back in houses from which we have nst just evicted them? union leaders at the Alisia Shipyard, Troon, advised them to share the government's £l plus 4 per cent equally among themselves. Now 350 workers are on strike because 16 management staff refused to agree to the arrangement. A union spokesman said: It is the management who are against the Heath policy, while we are prepared to be guided by it?

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SPEND ON ARMS®

BY JOHN SPENCER

A claim that half the Soviet income national goes on defence is made in an unofficial study by Leningrad two econo- mists under writing a pseudonym. Their report, in typescript form, has been circulated dissident intellectuals in the It calculates past year. that defence spending must be four or five times greater than officially Western economists Wine have probed statistics have never put the level of spending like arms anything as high. The figure of 40 per cent was used by the well- known oppositionist, Andrei Sakharov, in a letter to Com- munist Party secretary Leonid Brezhnev last year. The official figure for the defence budget has not varied for five the

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would make it about per of cent 1969, the year to which in Peruvian The govern- ment Is still trying to bring to trial a wealthy banking family accused multi - million dollar of frauds. At the end of 1969 officials of the General Bank Superin- tendency were visited by Mari- ano Prado Heudebert, one of the richest men in Peru, who intormed them that his finan- cial empire, the 'Banco Popu- lar', was about to go broke.

that He Nelson also sald Rockefeller, through the Chase Manhattan, was ready to buy Rockefeller, it was subsequently claimed, was pre- pared to do this without fil- the unofficial estimates relate.

Defence costs are always difficult to estimate because some expenses are kept secret or appear under headings such as research or industrial in- vestment. This is particularly so in the case of the Soviet Union. anonymous Leningrad The economists also claim that the dollar value of Soviet na- tional income has been over- estimated by more than 100 per cent. They appear to represent a 'liberal-democratic' wing of which is cri- the opposition tical of excessive military ex- penditure. The report con- cludes: 'Gigantic military expendi- tures are not necessary for the defence of the country. More- over, in the long run, they have a negative influence on military potential by slowing down economic growth. They are useful only for obtaining short-term political and stra- tegic results, and they reflect a desire to play an even a little matter ing suit over of a $45m swindle. For several years, the Peru- vian authorities allege, Mariano Prado Heudebert and his son Mariano Prado Sosa, had granted astronomical sums in loans to 47 companies owned by them. The operations had seemed legal at the time since the firms mostly in textiles and real estate, were in the name of figureheads-in many cases, members of the bank's Board of Directors. On June 12, 1970, the Banco Popular was placed under government trusteeship. Mari- ano Prado Sosa immediately fled to Spain, while his father went sick and retired to a private clinic. Russian soldiers—part of a well-equipped army.

ers. The air force has a heavy armoury of missiles and planes.

role in the world arena. While all this report in probability exaggerates the the Union's size Soviet arms programme as a propor- tion, of national income, it is bureaucracy certain that the deliberately conceals and plays down its real extent. In recent years it has built which it up a powerful navy boasts of being equipped with with long- nuclear submarines range rockets and homing tor- and modern warships with rockets, quick-firing guns and the latest radio-electronic On March 19, 1972, an ex- reported amining magistrate that both Prados and Il for- mer directors of the bank were guilty of fraud. On April 28, 1972, the Prados and six minor execu- tives were charged. But Prado senior could not be placed on trial because he 'sick' and Prado junior was could not be placed on trial the Spanish autho- because rities refused to extradite him.

Now, some three and a half years after the affair came out Peruvian into the open, the military government has ruled that a court tribunal can ques- tion Prado senior in hospital.

The wheels of justice creak on. Workørs Preas, Wedr ll-equipped army. Above: Rocket launch- / armoury of missiles and planes.

systems. Building and equipping this fleet not only requires enor- mous industrial resources, but also highly-trained and technically-efficient crews who could be making a contribu- tion to production. This is in addition to a well-equipped large, army with modern weapons and an air force with a heavy arm- oury of ballistic missiles as well as conventional planes.

All these armaments consti- tute a burden on • the Soviet economy by diverting indus- trial capacity and scarce man- @ss, Wednosday April 18, 1973 PAGE 5 power from productive invest- ment and the consumer goods sector. The bureaucracy obvious- ly takes great pride in the weapons which it has at its disposal. In fact, the only use to which the Red Army has been put in recent years was to crush the Hungarian Revo- lution in 1956 and to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968. Instead of being an instru- ment of revolution it has been used by the bureaucracy for counter-revolutionary ends against the workers of eastern Europe. Because the bureaucracy can only see the defence of the Soviet Union in military and diplomatic terms, it is com- pelled by the pressure of im- perialism to maintain a huge military establishment which aggravates all the problems of the Soviet economy. The only way out which it can see is to make a deal with imperialism on the lines of 'peaceful co-existence' which will make possible mutual re- by duction of armaments agreement with the capitalist powers. For this the imperial- are demanding big con- ists cessions, including the opening up of natural resources to the big capitalist corporations.

In fact, despite its huge armaments, the bureaucracy exposes the first workers' state to tremendous dangers.

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FORWARD T

REVOLUTION

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

FIGHT ON FOR

REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS

Britain's biggest socialist youth movement in session (above right) at the Winter Cordens Rlacknool venue of last vear's abour Party conterence.

The Young Socialists are a living repudiation of the Wilson Jenkins clique who dominate the Labour Party. These leaders expelled the YS from the Labour Party in 1964 but now, nearly a decade later, the movement goes on fighting for revolu- tionary politics in Britain.

The delegates and visitors came 1,700 strong—900 from the London region alone —to discuss and vote for a full programme to lead the working class to socialism.

The first priority was to force the Tory government to resign and return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

Youth from all over the world gave greetings at the conference. Right: a member of the American Young Socialists who are sympathetic to the YS. Centre: singing Young the Fourth International at the close of the conference. Far right: the Socialist Dance on Saturday evening.

secretary of the YS, receives a presentation to Above: Iohn Simmance, national mark his third year in this office. The YS will elect a new national secretary soon.

Workers Press, Wednesday April 18, 1973 PAGE 7

DAL PA VOLUTIONARY E

DAILY PAPER

DEFEND BASIC

DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

BUILD A MASS

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

FORWARD TO THE

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PAGE & Workers Press, Wednesday a

BY ROYSTON BULL

There is overwhelming evidence that the massive inflation under- now mining the western economies is completely beyond the control of the capitalists themselves.

The anarchy and panic fluc- the gold and tuations on money markets are an integral part of the free enterprise cur- rency and credit set-ups.

The inability of anybody to 'solve' the financial crisis arises out of the blind forces of capi- talism itself. The market eco- nomy system is, by its very nature, unplannable and an- archic. Yet despite almost two cen- turies of booms, slumps, crises, crashes, trade wars and shoot- ing wars, the TUC leaders are, nevertheless, still calling on the capitalists to put their own house in order. dnesday April 18, 1973 In its latest document, the TUC is asking the Tory gov- ernment to exercise greater rates, control over interest credit expansion, and money market operations generally.

In a Press Statement by Mr Victor Feather', ', the TUC de- clares: 'A reversion to greater government control over the banks and the big financial in- stitutions, that's the conclu- sion of the TUC Economic Committee's study of high in- terest rates.' This is the kind of Utopian nonsense Marx and Engels first exposed over 120 years ago.

It is not that the bourgeoisie lack exhortations to put things right. They meet at interna- tional monetary conference after international monetary conference precisely to do that.

Their newspapers stress the urgency of a solution. The rival capitalist politicians tell each other how it should be done. The point is not that the capitalists refuse to end the chaos out of wilfulness or ignorance. The point is that they cannot end it because the system controls them and not they the system. Therefore the TUC's whole document calling on the Tory government to restore order is totally Utopian—it could never happen. The rest of Feather's state- ment is so unscientific as to arouse suspicions that the TUC economic committee has lost all touch with reality.

'Since the introduction of the government's new policy of competition in credit con- trol in September 1971, inter- est rates have soared and bank lending to the property com- panies has more than tripled,' it goes on. The attempt to break the clearing banks' cartel agree- ment on common lending and borrowing rates has absolutely nothing whatever to do with the current soaring cost of interest. Equally it has not the remotest connection with the amount of bank-lending that now goes for land speculation.

Interest rates are soaring as a direct result of inflation it- self, the annual depreciation in the value of money. resulting from the long-term expansion of credit and money supply by the United States far beyond what was realistically called real US economic growth. the printing The resort to presses by America over the last 29 years has been done They for political purposes. wanted to back up bankrupt anti-communist regimes and pave the way for US econo- mic and political influence all over the world by stoking up a permanent boom through use of the money supply. As a result, the western world, principally western Europe, has now accumulated millions of dollars which the US will no longer convert or take back and which are rapidly becoming valueless as America's economic position declines and its currency gets repeatedly devalued. But these millions of dollars circulate freely with all other currencies in Europe. There- fore, as they depreciate, so all currencies depreciate in value.

In other words, all money The platform at the TUC's last conference, In Blackpool, 1972.

begins to purchase less and less. This is inflation. The vastly overflated stock paper money is still being of added to at a phenomenal rate as the various capitalist states try to fight off politically dis- astrous developments, such as by 're- unemployment, mass flating', printing or more money. When inflation, or the de- preciation in the value of all money, is running at, say, 5 per cent a year, it is obvious that people in the money-lend- ing business, such as banks, etc, must charge very high interest rates if they are to lend at a profit. They will want 5 per cent for their normal interest charges, plus a further 5 per cent to cover the depre- ciation of whatever sum they lend. Interest rates of 10 per cent, therefore, are the inexorable result of 29 years of capitalist anarchy, the full burdens of which are only just beginning to be felt. The money going into land speculation is the same rake's progress at work, but in a different direction. With pro- fitable industrial production and trading undermined by un- even development of capital- ism, a relative surplus of capi- tal, and other factors, inves- tors want to make a profit somewhere. With currencies being so rapidly undermined, all smart capitalists are getting out of

money and into tangible assets as quickly as they can, such as jewellery, gold, houses, land, paintings and almost any commodity that has real value in it. The competition between Natwest, Barclays and Lloyds for supremacy on the High Street, while unnecessary, is not responsible for this state of affairs and could not affect it if it were stopped. The TUC statement goes The government must on: control the overall level of bank-lending and make sure that the manufacturing and in- vestment sectors are given top priority Very pious, but, again, utterly Utopian. It is a scien- tific fact that unless a capital- ist gets the best return pos- capital, sible on his then he will not remain a capitalist for very long. Banks will lend where they have to in order to make their profits. And conversely, indus- trialists will not borrow money and lay out new capital unless there is a profit in it. 'Control' of investment without the total abolition of capitalism is just a nonsense. Even controlling the overall level of bank-lending is beyond the powers of the capitalist state, despite frequent at- tempts to do so. Not the least international reason is the nature of capital. However many exchange are applied, capital controls funds in private hands will always find a way of crossing frontiers to find the best rate of They risk profit available. extinction if they don't.

TUC

The turns to one ol the uncontrollable factors flows of 'hot affecting the money' and other funds in a later paragraph. public intervention in the fier There must be far markets, ancial only control short-term Euro-dollar markets, ensure but also to that funds are available for investment cony me and social public investment agency.'

Nationalization More The TUC gibberish. that it hasn't a clue aamils how to start controlling the Euro-dollar market and cannot of single example point to a any capitalist state that has able introduce yet been effective exchange controls.

the Recently, example,

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Europe, strongest economy in West Germany, was forced to finally agree to a US devalua- tion by an avalanche of Euro- aollars coming into lls Danks and forcing up the rate of the Deutschmark. The only public intervention social investment to secure that could effect would be the outright nation- alization of all private capital in the banks, insurance com- panies and other financia! in-

TUC

The did not stitutions. Victor Feather outside 10 Downing St. His statement calls for 'a reversion to greater govern- ment control' over the economy.

even discuss this possibility.

Public intervention in a re- formist piece meal way can never work because social in- vestment is never the best of profit immediately source available to the owners of capital. These same arguments apply to the rest of the TUC docu- ment advocating control of the land and housing markets. After the total failure of six previous Labour governments to do anything to prevent the eventual • arrıva in voo to 1973 of the greatest and most damaging period of property speculation in British history, the need for outright national- ization of all land and pro- perty other than owner-occu- pied should be self-evident to all trade unionists. But not, apparently, to the

TUC

Committee Economic which includes several 'lefts' There is more to it, how- ever, than simple ignorance.

reformist bureaucrats of The the labour movement have a definite role to play in the survival of the capitalist sys- tem, of which they are an established part. Their policies lead nowhere because they were never inten- ded to lead anywhere. Their privileged status would be swept away by the social revolution. They have every interest in keeping the capi- talist system going. Workers Press, Wedn

TRIVIAL

While the price of food soars are cut by the wages state pay. laws, millions of working-class families are having to prune their shop- ping bills and eat less expen- sive food. In other words people are eating less food and nourishing food. less Spare a thought, therefore, for the problems of Lee Lang- ley, the lady journalist. She writes in the 'Liverpool Post': I have been having a week away from it all. Complete rest at a health farm. 'Hours of exquisite, un- ruffled boredom. Days spent without deadline or an alarm clock to quicken the pulse.

Without a telephone call, a confrontation or a problem. Not even a decision to make.

Suddenly there time to spare: time to fall into mind- less contemplation • of a tree or a flower; to study the tex- ture of a leaf, to watch the buds fattening on the branch and the thrushes fattening on the buds' She concludes her article by saying: Tomorrow it's back to the world of anger and television.' Such is the hazardous life of the middle class as they flog one article after another to the capitalist Press and swim reception to the from one next to write about all that is trivial. It's a hard life. ..

SPECULATION

We've heard of property speculation, but this is ridicu- lous. Land prices for burial plots in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland have soared to £2,000 an acre.

SPYING

The 'Glasgow Herald' has just completed an investigation in- to state surveillance and bug- ging. After revealing the wide- spread use of this sophisticated equipment, journalist Dorothy- Grace Elder said: 'Most active communists in Britain are spied on to some degree by the state, although Mr Alex Murray, secretary of the Communist Party in Scot- land, says he couldn't care less.

• "All our activities are above board and honest. MIS, MI6 or anybody else can hear " he told me.' what they like,'

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Interesting item in the 'Sunday Press', published out of Dub- lin. One of the paper's senior political correspondents, Mich- ael Hand, has an article en- titled My night out with O'Leary in Brussels'. In it Hand describes meet- ing the coalition's new Minis- ter for Labour, Michael O'Leary, and going on the town with him in the Com- mon Market capital. Now read on.... Michael O'Leary, at 36, is the youngest member the Cabinet and one of tw bachelors in the government (Mr Tom O'Donnell, Minister for Gaeltacht, is the other).

He was obviously pleased with his first official contacts with the European Commis- sion. He had a long discussion Dr Hillery, with the Social Affairs Commissioner. His with talks Thomson George were regarded as a bonus.

Michael O'Leary had known Cabinet, Chef de Gwyn Morgan, from his University days. At the dinner party with he had brought along us Maurice Foley, the former Labour MP, who is now the Director General at the Com- mission, for Development and Aid. The last time I had met Maurice was at Westminster.

He was one of the best in- parliamentarians formed on the north. And, of course, he had been a good friend of Michael O'Leary and his Labour colleagues. After dinner this clique of right-wingers adjourned to an Irish pub in the centre of Brussels. There O'Leary started the other drinkers by singing songs—"The Rocks of three Bawn', 'Flower of Sweet Stra- bane' and 'Trathnona Bear areir' Foley then couldn't be res- trained. He broke into 'The Rose of Tralee' 'We had something to sing about,' reported Hand. Entry into the EEC was secured by the votes of these right-wing- ers. They might be carousing in Brussels now, but the work- ing class and the trade union movement has a long and bit- ter memory. Political accounts are still to settled with Thomson, be Foley, Gwyn Morgan and the rest. 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 were first commissioned by the 'Keep Young Socialists' paper Left' Their enormous success has led to the completion of the translation of the whole book, which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub.

lished in the Soviet Union 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic Inter- figures of the Second national, strengths and their weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

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ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

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April HOLLOWAY: Thursday 26, Thursday April The Co-op Hall, Seven p.m. Weavers' Insti- p.m. Sisters Ques- Burniev crisis and LULe. KOce economie tions of May Day, 1973'. the rising cost of living'.

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The recent National Ports Coun- cil report on the future of un- registered docks has left dock- ers working in the major scheme ports deeply dissatisfied.

Regis- tered dockers want the un- registered labour in the non- scheme ports to be brought within the and condi- wages tions provision of the National Dock Labour Board scheme. A docker from Hull writes to Workers Press:

DEAR EDITOR,

I am disgusted with the National Ports Council Report. Many dockers don't appreciate the situation since the report. _Hull docks only know about the Trent ports, but all the unregistered ports are just drawing on a pool of cheap labour. There has been nothing from the union to explain the report.

Dockers will have to draw their own conclusions about what Jack Jones has done. The mass voice of dockers must be heard on the report, but the union won't call a meeting. The trouble is now that dockers are more isolated work-

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In to be in the past is now finished.

the dockers' tanner strike in 1894 Soon there will be more tally and in 1911, and of course you checking the numbers on 1926 men had the General Strike in containers than labourers.

as well. Jack Jones let the situation All our actions are tied up slip without fight. the Pickets away real with are Perhaps he couldn't do anything made out to be disruptors of the else. There was a lot of political The Industrial Rela- economy. The dockers pressure on him. tions Act put us outside the law.

been non-political. have always What is lacking is a mass circu- This back into history, but lation working-class paper to guts politics are coming in more now.

answer these points. The state and the police are TaGWU 10717 branch Dave Marson, We've still coming into it now. got the scars from Neap House in a personal capacity. 01-720 2000 01-622 7029

Ulster Assembly Bill gets its

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Taiwan architect Tzu Tsai- cheng considered will be Secretary Home before Robert decides whether to sign an order his extradition to America, it was disclosed yesterday. The Law Lords ruled by a 3-2 majority on Monday that Cheng must be extradited. He is wanted in America for complicity in the attempted assassination of Nationalist Chinese leader Chlang Kal-shek's son. But yesterday Labour peer Lord Brockway said the Home Office had told him 'that a de- cision will not be reached in the case of Mr Cheng before my appeal and that of Members of Parliament has been considerad'.

Brockway ... Contacted Home Office. Lord Brockway belleved that Cheng should be given the opportunity to go to another country rather than to America.

He said he had won a pre- cedent for such action many ago in the case of a years Spanish deserter from the Spanish navy. A Home Office spokesman said: 'Lord Brockway has been in touch with us.' A Press Association diplomatic correspondent writes: 'It is under- stood that the Home Secretary will, before signing the order for Cheng's surrender, spend several weeks looking at all representations made on his behalf. All trade union branches and members of the labour move- ment must demand Cheng be given asylum in Britain. Resolu- tions and letters should be sent to the Home Office, Whitehall, London, S.W.1. • See tomorrow's Workers Press centre pages for a background story on the Cheng case. THE EXECUTIVE meeting of the National Union of Mineworkers at the end of the month will have to decide whether to back the call from the Yorkshire area NUM for official strike action by the region's 65,000miners against the threatened closure of the St John's colliery, Norman- ton, with the loss of 660 jobs.

The National Coal Board says it wants to close the pit because the coal is exhausted. The NUM disputes this. The fate of the St John's mine has already been fought through the appeals machinery for the in- dustry. THE 1,400 assembly workers at engines, Perkins diesel Peter- borough, who were laid off on Monday, back at work were yesterday, but the dispute over pay continues. A union-management joint council meeting will look at it again tomorrow. The workers have been ban- ning weekend overtime working

BY IAN YEATS

THE NORTHERN Ire- land Assembly Bill was given a second reading in the House of Commons on Monday night without a vote being taken. Elections are fixed for June 28 and, aside from objections to the exclusion of Sinn Fein candidates, the Bill was wel- comed by MPs on both sides of the House. Tory Ulster chief William Whitelaw is expected to rule tonight, during the second reading of the Northern Ire- land (Emergency Provisions) Bill, on whether the ban on Sinn Fein will be lifted.

Only Labour MP, Mr one James Wellbeloved, showed signs of radical disagreement with the Assembly Bill. When he tried to force a division, no other MP could be found to come forward and join him as a teller.

Mr Wellbeloved wanted the powers of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to be sub- ject to an affirmative vote be- of their wide-ranging cause character. He also wanted elections to the new Ulster Assembly to take precedence over the local gov- ernment elections due to take place on May 30. The parties who will contest the election for the 78 seats are

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WORKERS in hospitals co Regional Hospital Board are time ban and a policy of non-c placed a ban on private patier rate of supplies to the central st The workers are demanding a activities of the North Hampshire brought in volunteers when the anc They are also demanding the right If the NUM executive approves the strike, the Yorkshire area will then have to ballot its mem- bers under rule. IN THE Midlands yesterday, NCB chairman Derek Ezra tried to spread confidence in the future of the industry under a Tory government by announcing plans for a f3m exploration pro- gramme over the next two years to discover new reserves of coal near existing collieries and at new sites. Ezra based his remarks on the dubious assumption that the pre- sent phoney boom is going to last. The British coal industry must be ready to meet the chal- lenges and major opportunities that lie anead, he said. at for the past three weeks.

They want parity with Coven- try car assembly but rates, Perkins have only offered a Phase Two level deal. The 1,400 were laid off while essential maintenance was done normally carried out at week- ends. The management has sus- pended the guaranteed week for all workers. Bernadette Devlin... nothing new from i still in disarray and Mid-Ulster MP Miss Bernadette Devlin told me yesterday nothing had come of meetings to consider ways of preventing the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Labour Party portraying themselves as the anti-Unionist opposition in the six counties. In addition to Miss Devlin,

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tals covered by the Wessex rd are continuing their over- of non-co-operation. They have e patients and are vetting the entral sterile department.

ding a full investigation into the mpshire Management Board, which 1 the ancillary workers walked out.

he right of shop stewards to sit in on meetings of Management Com- mittees and Regional Hospital Boards. The hospitals affected are in the Portsmouth, Southampton and North Hampshire areas and National Union of Public Em- ployees officials hospital met in representatives Winchester yesterday afternoon to try …to make arrangements for a • full return. THREE large Liverpool hospitals were expected to return to nor- mal working at midnight last night. A large meeting, mainly of workers, Friday women last turned down a stewards' recom- mendation to proceed with not the strike in view of the immi- nent settlement. WORKERS at 14 Glasgow hos- pital laundries were also expec- ted to return to normal working at midnight. UNION officials were yesterday attempting to persuade workers at the Central Sterile Supplies department in East Birmingham to return to work. On Monday workers at the unit, which serves about 50 hos- pitals in the area, had refused to return to work. UNION officials were also trying yesterday to secure a return to work Ashington Hospital, at where laundry Northumberland, workers and drivers were still on strike. Union chiefs agreed on Sunday to accept the offer of £2 for men and £2.60 for women (arrived at by bringing forward an 80p 'equal pay' rise from October) and to go to the Tory Pay Board.

Workers Press, Wedne new from meetings. both wings of Sinn Fein and the nationalist party were represen- ted at these meetings. It is thought unlikely in official White- government circles that law will lift the proscription of Provisional Sinn Fein to allow them to contest the elections.

In 1 Monday's debate, Labour shadow spokesman on Northern

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Edward Heath has expressed interest in a 'mini-TUC' formed of unions registered under the Industrial Relations Act. An organizer of the Federation of Registered Trade Unions, which is being established in Coventry had written expressing Prime Minister interest. TORY Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs Mr Geoffrey Howe has announced that of 12,300 price complaints between

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7.30. p.m. 'The Mona', James St (Entrance at back in Moor St) "... ...... ss, Wednesday April 18, 1973 PAGE 11 . -9 Ireland Mr Merlyn Rees re- iterated the party's view that a way ought to be found of allow- ing Sinn Fein candidates to stand. Labour 'left' Mr Stanley Orme, said: 'We are completely opposed to people who use the gun. But at the same time, we think that, if the people who represent the political wing of such an or- ganization can test their strength at the ballot box, this may be a more effective way of defusing that gun than the very precarious methods having to be used by the security forces now.'

• Sixteen English detectives are to join the Royal Ulster Con- stabulary to assist in security operations. The letter said the govern- ment would be pleased to hear the views of unions which had sought to make the Act work.

Federation organizers hope to recruit over 200 unions--with a membership of 1.5 million-to the body. November 6 and March 31, half were found to be 'not related' to the so-called price freeze.

Investigations had taken place into 5,700 Howe announced, cases. Some 5,225 of them were found to be 'not substantiated'.

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The revolutionary party and the history of the British working class Caedraw School Merthyr Tydfil 7.30 p.m. Wednesday April 18 (Note date change) 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.

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IT IS much, much too slow. If total we do not push up our today, we could find ourselves in difficulties in making our £1,750 this month. It certainly is not a time to relax. The Tories never sit back for a moment. As the economic situation continues to get worse, they step up their attacks against the working class. Prices con- tinue to rocket up whilst wages are deliberately kept down.

Workers Press is vital today.

Only our paper warns of the real nature of this economic crisis and that there can be no return to the conditions of boom.

It is decisive, therefore, that we use our paper to build a revolu- tionary leadership to politically prepare for this situation ahead.

We cannot waste another moment in the campaign to raise April's Fund. There are now only 13 days to reach our tar- get. It must be into action im- mediately to change the situation straight away. Rush every dona- tion to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG THE THREAT of interventio their strike was ignored yes Watney Mann's Whitechapel | A mass meeting applauded the extension of the strike to Isleworth and Mortlake brew- eries. Shop stewards received encouraging response to an their call for more workers to come forward for picketing duties. More than 800 workers are now involved in the strike, which is over Watney's alleged attempt to breach an agreement on pay and productivity signed last year.

The agreement phases out guaranteed overtime, ends com- pensation pay for the changeover to shift work and provides for the introduction of Measured- Day Work for transport workers.

In return a working party was to be set up to negotiate shift Discussions also pay. were promised on extra holidays.

After much dragging of feet a £2.40 across-the-board payment was agreed in settlement of the shifts issue, but Watney's refused to implement it on the grounds that it above the limit was allowed by Phase Two of the pay laws. Reference Over the weekend the com- pany referred the issue to the Pay Board. Yesterday's Whitechapel meet- ing heard a report from steward Hughie Wilson on the supporting action taken by craft union mem- bers at Isleworth and Mortlake.

This meant that these brew- eries would be closed down in a matter of days, he said.

From the Royal group of and General docks, Transport Workers' steward Tony Delaney brought a pledge of backing for the brewery strikers if needed.

After the meeting brewery steward Mick Herrin said the strike leaders had not discussed their policy on any action by the Pay Board. For its part, the Pay Board is examining the issues in the dis- pute and may be making a move tomorrow or on Friday. By then another 1,000 workers could have joined the 900 already laid off by the strike. • TRUMAN'S transport drivers have been in dispute with Grand Metropolitan Hotels, which owns Watney Mann, for three weeks over a plan which they say would cut their earnings by £10 a week.

ednesday April 18, 1973

'THE

GOVERNMENT

is really not functional at this time. It appears to be on the verge of collapse.' This is the verdict of the US Senate study mission report on the doomed Lon Nol dictator- in Cambodia which ship Nixon is trying to sustain with massive last-minute B52 bombing. So serious is the plight of the Lon Nol regime that it can- not even obtain enough intel- As a result the bombing being directed from the US Embassy in Phnom Penh! One western diplomat in the city described the panic of the US command succinctly: 'The Americans are throwing air support around like a mad ervention by the Pay Board in red yesterday by workers at chapel brewery, east London.

The Watney men at their meeting yester THE TORY government admit- ted yesterday that it had con- tingency plans to deal with 'urban guerrillas'. In answer to a question about 'anti-terrorist units special in the army to combat 'urban guer- rillas ihe parliamentary under Secretary Defence, Peter Blaker, said: "As far as the army is con- cerned, there have been no pro- posals for a special anti-terrorist unit as such, but there has been a good deal of contingency plan-

BY MICHAEL B

woman. They don't know what having.' effect ('Herald Tribune', April 17, 1973).

If the US generals don't know the casualties, civilians certainly do. Casualties of the bombing are huge--and growing daily _as the volume and intensity of US air strikes escalate into the new familiar pattern seen in the Viet- nam war. US fighter-bomber. pilots based on Thailand are flying an average of 250 sorties a day while the area around Phnom Penh alone is receiving an aver- age of 1,800 tons of high explo- sive daily. The genocidal bombing has not stopped insurgent the forces, although it has transformed half of Cambodia's 6.5 million popu- lation into homeless refugees.

Almost 500,000 of these face starvation because of the break- ing yesterday. ning with which my department has been associated.' Patrick Duffey, Labour MP for Attercliffe, spoke of the vital THE ENGINEERING union will try to persuade other unions to harden their opposition to the Industrial Relations Act at the TUC conference next September.

Unions will be asked to re- affirm their total opposition to the Act and to reverse the present TUC policy which allows appearances before the National Industrial Relations Court.

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down of transport and food shortages. The communist forces are now firmly dug in ten to 20 miles to the south east of the capital along the marshy banks of the Bassac river. Neighbouring provincial capi- tals to the south-Takeo and Tram Khnar-were heavily at- tacked on Monday night by the Khmer Rouge guerrillas who in- filtrated the central market place.

Government sources described the position here as 'highly critical'. A similar phrase was used to describe the situation in the seaside resort of Kep.

Government attacks on com- blocking munist forces the access to rice fields north of the capital have been repulsed while severe casualties were suffered by Lon Nol's men when they Saigon- tried to reopen the importance of the army not departing established from of civil and military frontiers relations. The engineers, who have al- ready paid £60,000 to the court in fines and costs, want the TUC to set up a joint fund to meet financial penalties suffered by any union for its defiance of the anti-union laws. The TUC will be urged to "concerted organize acts defiance' against the laws.

Phnom Penh highway to the east. At the same time South Viet- namese attempts to relieve the besieged capital have proved emphasizing the thus abortive, complete isolation of the city.

What worries Nixon and the US Pacific Command - felicit- ously situated in Honolulu-is not the future of Phnom Penh, but the prospect of communist forces reopening the port of Sihanoukville — renamed Kom- pong Som-and establishing a major logistics base for the NLF in South Vietnam. The overthrow of Sihanouk and the US invasion of Cam- bodia was carried out mainly in order to deprive the NLF of this strategic port. Sihanoukville, the Control of rice-basket of Cambodia, and the Mekong waterway would enable the Hanoi NLF forces to and launch powerful offensives in the south and smash President Thieu.

In order to forestall such moves and maintain his puppet in Saigon and Phnom regimes Penh, Nixon has not only escala- ted the air and ground war, but is also using every form of dip- lomatic leverage to secure the support of the USSR and China.

Presidential adviser, Dr Henry Kissinger already made urgent approaches to the Rus- sian and Chinese Stalinists warn- ing them that disarmament talks and trade concessions would be jeopardized if support by Mos- cow and Peking is extended to the Cambodian liberation forces.

Since Moscow_ already recog- nizes the Lon • Nol regime and supplies it with goods and weapons, there is every reason to believe that Kissinger will get a favourable response. Peking, however, is host to Prince Sihanouk's government in exile and has actively encouraged his cause against Moscow in the hope of making a 'neutral' Cam- bodia into a Peking sphere of influence. But having betrayed the cause of Vietnamese unity and inde- pendence to get trade conces- sions trom the west, the Peking bureaucrats will, without diff- culty, swallow the Cambodian canary as well. Only the international work- ing class can defend the Cam- bodian revolution and help it to victory. again, will Stalinism, once prove to be its grave-digger.

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shortages by recruitment to sup- plementary registers. I hope this suggestion will commend itself to the board.'

Macmillan's suggestion in case of any 'difficulty" in implement- ing such recruitment was that the board should come and see him for further discussions.

A Hull docker writes, page • 10. A MASSIVE queue of lorries built up at Liverpool docks yes- terday as drivers faced with re- dundancy picketing began a campaign. The congestion was worst at the new f50m Seaforth container terminal north of the old port.

Drivers, who are under notice turned away vehicles with goods for vessels in the P&O group of which the haulage firm, Ulster ferry Link Line, is a subsidiary.

A closure decision by Link Line has led to 60 drivers and fitters and 20 office staff being given notice. Verinder, Harold the union commercial services section secretary, said they were calling for a full inquiry into the closure.