Workers Press no. 1053

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NIXON MAY

BE FORCED

TO RESIGN

/ was in on bugging plans Mitchell

FORMER

Attorney- Mitchell General John yesterday admitted that he took part in three meetings where plans to bug the Democratic Party headquarters were discussed. But, he says, he rejected the proposals. • SATURDAY APRIL 21, 1973• No 1053 • 4p

INCUKFOKALING IME NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SCANDAL ROCKS WHITE HOUSE

PRESIDENT NIXON was fighting for his political life yesterday after By accusations that his closest aides Stephen and ministers were involved in lies, Johns bribery, espionage and theft.

The crisis is over the Watergate affair, which has been threatening the Nixon administration ever since members of his staff were found spying on a top Democratic policy committee in the presidential elections last June. Several highly-placed political rats have deserted the Nixon camp over the last three days and his government of 'honesty and decency' is disintegrating in a welter of charges and counter charges. Nixon's accusers say: • The ex-US Attorney-General and Nixon's election campaign John Mitchell organized the bugging of the Demo cratic headquarters at une watergate notel. • Mitchell handed over cash to seven men accused of the conspiracy to make them plead guilty or to buy their silence.

• Joe Dean, Nixon's lawyer was involved in the bugging plans and the attempt to bribe the

SCYCIE

Dean White House lies were heived on the conspiracy.

was lying when he reported last August that no • Top Republican leaders have attempted to hush up the scandal cartons of documents on Dean. Nixon's lawyer, and Republican funds from the President's HQ at the White bribed the Watergate So far Nixon has brazened out the scandal, but now the White House has been forced All Trades Unions Alliance Public Meetings Unal Ta v political staff were involved. The President has nounced that criminal charges What next after the must be made aramnst senor past present members his administration. miners' ballot? This threat has loosened Richard congues ana Kleindienst, the Attorney- The fight against the General who with. Mitchell's deputy has drawn from the case because informatior involving Tory government whom close and nad Delsond. ororessional relationsaiD Republican leaders are

SOUTH

ELMSALL:

demanding resig- Thurs- Hotel, Hilltop. of H (Bob) Halde- day April 26, 8 p.m. The

OLLERTON:

Blue day. May staff. Railway man, chlet 7, 8 p.m. Blue They he could become

DONCASTER

Monday April embarrassment the

BARNSLEY:

Thursday May President. p.m. White Bear 10, 8 p.m. Masons Arms. Hotel, Hallgate. heads seem several

CASTLEFORD:

Thursday to roll. but this

KNOTTINGLEY:

Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar St 'get-Nixon' satisfy the May 3, 7.30 p.m. Railway HOOmS.

JODDY

bullains up witnin ang outside his own party.

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Either the world's most ignorant President to his neck in a cesspool of or up corruption. THE Minister of State *There is some con- at the Treasury, John fusion about where this Nott, has admitted figure of £50m came that fraud had from.' undoubtedly taken in A report to the Euro- place the Common Market. pean parliament on be- half of the Committee Asked by Eric Heffer, of Finance and Budget- MP. 'un- about the ing pointed out that explained disappearance there was constant fraud of £50m of EEC Budget in relation to the Com- Funds in 1970, Nott mon Market agricultural replied: fund estimated at about *Fraud has undoubt- £40m a year. edly taken place in the Nobody seemed to European Economic know where this money Community. was going.

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NIXON MAY

BE FORCED

TO RESIGN

1 was in on bugging plans- Mitchell

FORMER

Attorney- Mitchell General John yesterday admitted that he took part in three meetings where plans to bug the Democratic Party headquarters were discussed. But, he says, he rejected the proposals. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 21, 1973 • No 1053 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SCANDAL ROCKS WHITE HOUSE

PRESIDENT NIXON was fighting for his political life yesterday after By accusations that his closest aides Stephen and ministers were involved in lies, Johns bribery, espionage and theit.

The crisis is over the Watergate affair, which has been threatening the Nixon administration ever since were found spying members of his staff on a top Democratic policy committee in the presidential elections last June. Several highly-placed political rats have deserted the Nixon camp over the last three days and his government of 'honesty and decency' is disintegrating in a welter of charges and counter charges. Nixon's accusers say: • The ex-US Attorney-General and Nixon's election campaign manager John Mitchell organized the bugging of the Demo.

cratic headquarters at the Watergate hotel.

• Mitchell handed over seven men accused of the • cashto conspiracy to make them plead guilty or to buy their silence.

• Joe Dean, Nixon's lawyer was involved in the bugging plans the attempt to bribe the White house aldies were i belved on the conspiracy.

when he reported last August that no • Top Republican leaders have attempted to hush up the by removing cartons of Dean, Nixon's lawyer, ~ •: Republican funds from the President's HQ at the White bribed the Watergate House. Seven. So far Nixon has brazened out the scandal, but now the White House has been forced All Trades Unions Alliance Public Meetings dollie unal political staff were involved. President has I he an- nounced that criminal charges What next after the might be made against senior present members of DaST his administration. miners' ballot? This threat has loosened Richard LonzUCS and Attorney- In e The fight against the General who served with. Mitchell's deputy has •lawa rom me case vecause informatior *involving Tory government with whom persons had close and poundl •roressionai Republican leaders are demanding

SOUTH

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resig- Thurs- Hotel, Hilltop. (Bob) Halde- day April 26, 8 p.m. The of H Haliull

OLLERTON:

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DONCASTER

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BARNSLEY:

Thursday May 30, p.m. White Bear President 10, O p.m. masons AFMS. Hotel, Hallgate. seem likely several nego.

CASTLEFORD:

Thursday to sali but is

KNOTTINGLEY:

May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar St 1 Thursday 'get-Nixon' satisfy the May 3, 7.30 p.m. Railway noons. lobby outside his own party.

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Either the world's most ignorant President or up to his neck in a cesspool of corruption. THE Minister of State 'There is some con- at the Treasury, John fusion about where this Nott, has admitted that figure of £50m came fraud had from.' undoubtedly taken in the A report to the Euro- place Common Market. pean parliament on be- half of the Committee Asked by Eric Heffer, of Finance and Budget- MP, 'un- about the ing pointed out that explained disappearance there was constant fraud of f50m of EEC Budget in relation to the Com- Funds in 1970', Nott mon Market agricultural replied: fund estimated at about 'Fraud has undoubt- £40m a year. Nobody edly taken place in the seemed to European Economic know where this money Community. was going.

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Transport House| Immigrants action sparks claims Big business blames workers for PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday April 21, 1973 THE LABOUR PARTY Young Socialists meets over Easter weekend with its finances in ruins and its membership, even according to its own figures, having dropped by almost two-thirds inside 12 months; This reformist youth "movement'-a small rump led by the liquidators of the so-called Militant group who supported the witch-hunting expulsion of the majority of the Young Socialists' National Committee in 1964— is holding a three-day conference followed by a in the Derbyshire miners' three-day rally holiday in centre

COMMENT

Skegness.

BY DAVID MAUDE

Judging from the list of speakers a printed tragic defeat will follow,' transcript would sink a they whine. battleship. all the 'Sadly this would be But. when words have been spoken, sO given the present leadership of the

TUC

and all the votes have been counted, what will as they would seek to call off a General Strike it all mean? Those youth who con- practically before it had tinue to cling to their begun. 'Therefore relationship with the we must Labour Party right wing, concede, that to demand of of the present leadership irrespective every "to make militant-sounding phrase of the

TUC

preparations uttered Skegness, . in concrete Strike" still saddled for a General will be and thus to subsequently with a bankrupt, mean- policy call a General Strike is ingless and tired, discredited leader- of utmost an act stupidity as it is entrust- ship. Typical of the ing a General Strike in re- "leaders" the hands of solutions on the agenda call, from Brent know advance is we In east LPYS, for Labour's would betray the move- and ment.' national executive the TUC General Coun- Small wonder, then, that the report of the cil to 'do all possible through propaganda, de- LPYS national commit- monstrations, and appeal tee has to admit a armed 385 in the to the forces slump to number of branches it and preparatory ranks are functioning. political strikes to claims that before (Last year they claimed a ensure full-scale General Strike 499, while in 1971 the situation has developed figure given was 503.) the. whote labour move-. Alongside been organ. has gone a drop from izationally 'the politic-- to eight in prepared for the ally average number of actual taking of power' claimed members per that's just the And branch. last and shortest On the face of it, this para- graph eight- that the card- means holding membership of paragraph resolution. This sort of fearful. the organization had bureaucratic plummeted from 8,706 nervous, appeal. for 'revolution' to 3,080. by committee is echoed But how much cred- in other be given almost every ence can to motion before the con- any of these figures is ference. a matter of opinion. Putney LPYS the 385 But In fact, of

LPYS

won't even go as far branches the as Brent. claims are in existence 'In event of a now, only 115 bothered the General Strike we would to submit resolutions to do our utmost to the conference. make it successful and explain The organization was only kept to the working class at all going unless the

TUC

the last that tarough year by a £1,400 grant from takes power on behalf of. the working class a tne parent party. TORY big business blamed the working class the deterioration in Britain's balance of trade yesterday.

goods, but raw m Mr A. Jarman, director of the machinery. Confedera- The CBI spokesm Engineering Industry tion, told me: 'There have been knew there would b as industry took in r so many strikes and disruption, for expansion, but if people are buying abroad.'

ment does not lose i A spokesman for the Con- down infla British Industry hold federation of can said: 'It is vital that the govern- we get the maximum ment does not lose its nerve should be able we as of these figures' them.' a result added According to the Mr Jarman that a of Trade and Indus percentage of the new marked of 'basic materials' imports competitor were not THE IRON and Steel Trades test of the promise on July 7 when the Confederation special con- Corporation's tube pledged its full ference Newport, Monmouth resources* in the steelmen's to shut. Shotton actic fight against 50,000 redun- And Mr chairman. dancies. told me he was 0 But steelmen sceptical 'up to a point. were yesterday about how much this He added: 'We'll h It could be really meant. things. bid to make us gooc Shotton ICTU delegate at: the conference at Congress House, The conference a vestigate closure Mr Joe Atkinson, said the acid * > 1 Rogers' Renault facing detente

AMERICAN

with re auons China in 1973 should move 'not merely from total shutdown to detente but trom detente co-operation' says secre tary of State William Rogers his the introduction annua lorelen DOnC y MCDUll the Congress RENAULT PLANTS face a complete shut-down following the failure The 743-page document of union-management talks to solve the dispute which arose out of the major foreign sels policy goals. 400 press-shop workers. two-week strike of nearly These include closer ties with the Soviet Union and called off under pressure from Stalinist leaders of the CGT The strike was necolallons 101 a elitalch. when some of the demands of the mainly immigrant workers had been met. Then ana strategic onensive arms the 7,000 workers who had been locked out because of the press-shop strike limitation agreement. demanded. full pay for the days lost and downed Gaddafi's cultural revolution tools. The Renault ma acen opposed ment strongly them

CULTURAL

number Com- said. 'We put

HUST

demand munists, well Mos- all in prison so that they

TAIS.

walch. as has begun Libya, could price of their accepted, land Brothers, have been may pay Col according Muam- crime heavy costs every imprisoned foreign WITh deceuse a cille was dafi said they had not who not believe in the time there partial Caoon IS profited launched Sunday from an oppor- them country's bookshops occasion •iven CIla It is increasingly of all their party purged an TonS •elle the Prophet Mohammed's 'There room books which the regime party members" Colonel birthday. considers objectionable. internalona. cal markel the Mine blackmail by US workers

THE UNITED STATES

The United States has also Phnom Penh and heavy oft fighting suspended the work the going on suspended of has mine- joint economic commission Iosses ale hick sweeping off operations and said that there will be killen and wounded worKers une the coast of North Viet- North Vietnam American air power and aid „ nealarrers the aid of South Vietnamese because of alleged nam unless it observes the cease- fire agreement. ceasefire violations ITOODs is orovine unaole Ulalils US bombing in Laos has maintain corrupt and this and Sandrouville nea and South Vietnam totally subservient puppet stompe• arter

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adys Cambodia. intensive raids in the Plain government in olce Ministers, Jars, bụt the Prime A Pentagon spokesman Diplomatic has

DI CSUIC

Prince Souvanna said the operations had been brought to bear on the sup- exiled government of Prince roolma. saenore dr been suspended 'because sangrouvllle port would be asked for Sihanouk Stalinist cf the failure of the other necessary. powers. side to abide by the agree- The US actions in The suspension of mine- reopenea and of sweeping is a blatant attempt licHts assul alle. Paris'. save toppling Lon Hanoi's arm over twist Cam- :The Us agreed to Clean mines from Haiphong and North Vietnamese only three Doold Darlies other North Vietnamese have been cleäred Join a new mines government

SITUATION

• aroucoour rrenca ceasefire was ports and rivers as

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Sullet position deteriorating Inuustry signed. almon oi the vietnam treaty Stalinist signed arlin e hin year. They accused the US of rapialy.

DOSI-

the tions only premeditated act drag mines have miles trom Phnom the capital, blockade in fact been cleared and the 0!.U ine ue lallu suspension of the operation North Vietnamese

DOTE

an indication of growing South troops to sattem ph to came dian rebelluon ocal clear the Cambodian are stab about the de Concl terioration of its position in Mekong rive Indo-China. The 'People's ute salle ullic Daily' calle vio tinf workers. the

THE PILOT

since 1970, but entered who bombed the Cambodian presidential multar! ane Cond and mandered elderly intervention LaOS palace Phnom Penh all the to DaCE the Canibodia. an attempt to kill Lon Nol auring violated had siestd has told a Peking Press con- lack of He ceasenre and try ference how he planned and Inen by of compromise . wile u all' carried out the attack. of the US agement. biatlile and the Saigon Capt St-Erie n ne has also developed Peugeot strike *notra son-in-law of Prince Noro- not in …the palace Ine attack, So people of dom Sihanouk, the deposed into long • ane DIttel the Photra the struggle and negotiations former geader. world. He had not flown a plane broken down llave

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

DECISION

the farm On trade deficit worker vein fraa in the the government on new G P- working week from to 40 mands raised output from been deferred until and steel industries

HOUTS

Cud. Wages une y ov ine agricultural Tarouca nocerazauon Board for England and Wales dundancies. Board the materials cent and fuel by 7 per cent say demand is and And bosses" message to the une ast inree montas a ausculsea waze Clall. Tories Is clear: Keep the working said lies 'We After the shake-out o oor in you sr, three years the employes class order want to buy British and expand output.

THE ASSOCIATION of Teachers employers raw The deficit -£197m in materials trade Technical Institutions, but if the govern- are bringing in expensive machin- the red-is expected to be ever the to do. jobs once performed of nerve represents mla orlly worse next month reveals and men. ›0,000 teachers in further educa that hent or Breca captaism. the 5.06, a seaco has an increase addition machine tools we get the maximum out of plant, line with able overcome • Spain-steel is be -many Trom inflation-led D V • ing brought in from Sweden and the ory state pay laws. boom and clamping down mer- coal from eastern and the Department America cilessly on the trade the : unions, impres • curooc. the

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have lifted the for conditions ast desperate fare 'freeze' domestic all bid by British industry to hold rises. The Civil Aviation Author- own in world markets. its Steelmen sceptical of conference decisions ity is expected to push up seat _DTI spokesman confirmed about y per cent DIlesy that the aov preet will try balance-of ride out present

RUBERY OWEN

delay trade crisis woe nostr.

LOOTS

workers were • Ine zovermeul up for a major export offensive.

told their three-week- chilt-Aowns. vesterady week's But news of a ds lasl ad rike nac veen mæde cocc of major reorganization by the AUEW and the

T&GWU

nyssen. Was

T&GWU

the : West German steel giant, and Harry Littlehales Incustra acton Volkswagen revealed, Britain's Wolverhampton, oreanizer

IOI

commutet he pincete ha water ace doing the McLaughlin compenters l are sallie thing. principle that union's . Sausuca trade war clouds gather reduced an• or mne nanonai acuon : laid oft at British- over europe une sienas are seT nousanos are for a new wave of sackings and Leghar, Daimlers Ferguson, Massey ruthless with repression Jaguar, .commuuca Chrysler and Standard and their workers orzanizallons come basic, democratic rights. Triumph. closure plans

It has been a 'backs-to- the-wall-year' for all those engaged in the fight for civil liberties the Na- tional Council (NCCL) says in its annual report.

The Council claims there have been major limitations on the freedom of individuals and they accuse the government of forging a transparent allegiance' between themselves and the judiciary. The Industrial Relations Act, "political' trials and cen- sorship were all examples of this allegiance. The myth of an unarmed police force has been shattered • dai and the special powers the police have are open to abuse.

'What happens when a re- pressive and insensitive admin- istration pushes things too far can . still be seen all too close. 'The Special Powers Acts there [Northern Ireland] indi- cate how quickly and com- pletely the rights of indivi- duals can be removed by statute. 'At home the rights of the the defendant suspect and have both been under attack.

The Criminal Law Revision Committee [CLRC] recom- mended changes which would have enormously undermined both 'The slender protection Oldham, the Lancashire textile town, is nearing what may be the biggest rents explosion in the long campaign against the Tory Housing Finance Act. Unlike most other working- class centres where rent rebels have dwindled to a tiny few, Oldham still have over 1,000 council tenants refusing to pay the 90p slapped on the rent by the Labour council. The centre of resistance is the Royton area. Soon the law will go into action and work- ing-class families will be hauled before a county court in debt actions. A spokesman for Oldham housing department said the would begin in about cases weeks time. three 'This is the danger period.

We usually give people some time to think about it, then act. The law is the law and must be carried out.' The most likely outcome will be a court order for re- payment of the arrears over a set period. And if the tenants go on defying-as they swear they will-'That will be a more matter. Contempt of serious court is, as we know, a bad breach of the law This kind of procedure may lead to a bigger explosion than eviction. The Labour con- trolled housing committee has indicated that it does not want people dragged from their homes. But a possible jail sen- tence for persistent contempt may lead to a much more vio- lent backlash from the council house families. 'We're treading very care- fully for the moment,' said the I spokesman. 'We realize this is afforded by the judges' rules would have been further weak- ened, the caution abolished and the right to silence limited. 'Overall the existing proce- dures for dealing with suspects are highly unsatisfactory in of civil liberties. The terms sweeping changes in the pre- advocated sent arrangements by the CLRC would, on any realistic view, put the indivi- dual at far greater disadvan- tage than he is at already.'

Fortunately the CLRC re- commendations were not put into practice, but the Council's on: The conspi- report goes racy law continues to pose a dangerous threat to civil liberty. 'Perhaps the most disturb- ing recent development has been its increasing use as charge in political or quasi- political trials.' The NCCL say that the right to protest has also been under attack and they note that the Peter Hain trial began with the words: 'This case will prove that there is no right to demonstratę in English law.'

One of the more interesting aspects of the report deals change in with the radical police organization and tactics over the past 12 months. Says the report: 'The change was the abandonment of the theory that officers and con- stables relate directly with the very explosive situation.

There are indications that the people in arrears who are really protesting is declining.

but only slightly, and there are those who will resist. If there is no movement soon, we shall to tickle the matter up have a bit.' The drift towards confron- tation has thrown the Labour council into turmoil. Labour leaders at Oldham followed the familiar pattern.

months of agitation After against the Tory housing policy, they voted for the ng Housing Finance Act. Any action against the Old- ham tenants will be extremely damaging to their political future and recently the coun- chamber has witnessed cil hair - tearing by the great Labourites. But, like all good reformists, they eventually voted to up- hold the Tory law. With a final flourish of hypocrisy, they confirmed their opposition to the Housing Finance Act, but gave the council officer the green light to recover the £20,000 worth of arrears that have built up during 22 weeks of resistance. One councillor had a more suggestion-move interesting in evict "trouble- and the makers'. He meant the leaders of the tenants' struggle who were upholding Labour Party policy. 'We represent 99.9 per cent of what tenants feel,' one lead- er, Mr S. Pierce, told a recent protest meeting. 'We feel that the Act is an imposition, that it is wicked, and that it is dastardly to the The main- council tenants. spring of this Act is fear, inti- midation; it isn't democracy, it is fascism the fear of losing your home and the roof over your head, he said. 'I only hope and pray that by resistance to the Housing bring. Finance Act, we can down this government.' A confrontation is looming in Oldham. But tenants will face it without the help of the Labour councillors they elected. Their only course now is to appeal to the industrial work- ers of the town-many live in council houses-to join this new battle for basic rights.

community in which they work. 'The Special Patrol Group in London was formed in the mid-1960s. It and similar groups in other cities are the end product of this change in thinking. The theory behind these new groups is that traditional community-based police forces are unable to deal with sudden in crime in their increases large demonstra- divisions, industrial disputes and tions, similar incidents. 'What is needed therefore is a group of officers and con- stables unhampered by the time-consuming duties of ser- vicing a community and avail- able to supplement any local force. 'They must be highly mobile.

well trained, have good com- munications and have the free- dom to act quickly and inde- pendently of authority' The report disclosed that such special groups exist out- side London at Birmingham, Glasgow, Teesside, Northum- berland, Gwent, Bristol and Lincolnshire. The Council says that the fact these groups and officers , 'sensitive' guarding areas are . armed only emerged last year by accident after incidents in which police shot at alleged law-breakers. It notes: •What is disturbing is that the police adopted an

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Meeting 130 p.m Jarrow. Premere showing Workers Press, Saturday Aprll 21, 1973 PAGE 3 Police line the streets, two deep, at the trial of the Shrewsbury building workers who have been charged with intimidation, assault and con- spiracy following last year's builders' strike.

offensive role rather than of mation on several Issues major public concern. includ-

NCCL

"Bloody Sunday" On censorship the ing the report says: "There has been a deaths in Londonderry and the marked escalation of govern- Thalidomide aflairs. and judicial The

NCCL

ment activity in says it is con- the field of censorship which cerned at the wav in which indicates that Britain is in dan- the police in London may have ger of becoming of the the "ac. one power to select only credited' most censorious countries in journalists to report the world. on cases in London courts.

'The Official Secrets | Acts And it warns there have were exposed in the "Railway been several cases where the Gazette" affair as a threat to courts have tried to impose freedom of and restrictions on hearings such expression civil liberty on a level with as the case against five men Frederick the obscenity laws. including Sewell 'And the use of the laws of due without regard for the contempt have limited infor- public interest.

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Assemble 10 am. Blythswoud Pancras Glasgow. 7.30 Square. Meetina. D.m Wood- side Halls. S. Georde's Cross. Glasgow. Pre- showing miere showing of Pägeant film.

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'ADVISE' THE BBC

PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Saturday Apri 'In the course of a review of public reactions to the BBC since the last meeting the programme "The Operation", shown as the "Play for Today" on BBC 1 on February 26, was discussed. Some members reported com- plaints about it which had reached them from members of the public. 'The council agreed that the play had evidently been in con- flict with the thinking set out in the recent document "Taste and Standards in BBC Pro- grammes". The director general, Mr Charles Curran, gave an account of how it had come to be broadcast and ex- plained why the BBC had subsequently found itself un- able to make any public com- ment on it.? This cryptic report was included in a two-page state- ment issued after the most recent meeting of the General Advisory Council of the BBC.

The stories which appeared in the Press following the re- lease of the statement were, considerably em- however, bellished. This was no accident. Using contacts in Fleet Street the BBC managed to convey a much more outspoken message: "The Operation' was slammed in the Tory Press as outrageous, even porno- graphic. censor's verdict was This conveyed to the media by the hush-hush methods usual which the establishment em- ploy to get their message across. "The Operation', written by Roger Smith, directed by Roy Battersby and produced by a play Kennith Troda, was based on the life and times of a property developer. In this sense the play was highly contemporary. It sought to examine the property mar- ket, the profiteers in it and the way corruption works in high places. Not a word of this appears in the BBC's censure note.

There is a reference to the code of 'taste and standards' to which the BBC allegedly aspires. We have already had a taste of these 'standards' on commercial television. The 'World in Action' documentary on the Poulson case was banned from transmission.

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undistinguished a group except for the fact that they are members or hangers-on of the ruling class: Chairman is Lord Aldington, the former Tory Minister and deputy chairman of the Tory Party, who is today chairman National and Grindlay's of Bank, the Port of London Authority and deputy chair- man of Sir Arnold Weinstock's GEC-AEl group. Aldington is also one of Heath's closest confidants.

When the celibate Heath occasional private throws an party at his country house, Aldington is always top of the guest list. They have spent Christmases together - stand- ing around the organ singing hymns and carols. Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage et, London SW4 7UG ble, free, on request. The membership of the council also includes, inevit- W. O. Campbell ably, both Adamson, director - general of the CBI, and Victor Feather, secretary of the TUC. general These share so many two mutual public appointments that they must spend most of their time together. There are Tory MPs Richard Hornby, Mrs_ Sally Oppenheim and Marcus Wors- ley, while the Labour Party is represented by right-wingers Jack Ashley and Dick Taverne.

The body meets four times a year but has only recently decided to issue statements- broadsides over the heads of producers, directors and reporters. It is against the work of this Britain's bankruptcy laws pro- vide a rogue's charter, says Ernest Barrett, president of the Engineering Industries' Asso- ciation. Opening an industrial ex- hibition in Portsmouth, Barrett said he was 'bitterly disappointed' to find that in the government's White Paper on fair trading there were no proposals for amending the bankruptcy laws. He said: 'As they stand today they provide a rogue's charter. A parent company is not held responsible for the debts of its subsidiaries yet it may milk a subsidiary of its profit, divert its liquid re- sources, encourage it to obtain : strength of its credit on the parent company's standing and advantageous then at an moment allow it to go bank- having of course first rupt transferred its plant and machinery. It reflects no credit on certain members of Parliament that the only amendment to the laws relating to bankruptcy that. they wish to sponsor 1s one to incorporate safeguards Left: Two members of the General Advisory Council, Victor Feather and W.O. Campbell Adamson, with Chancellor Anthony Barber. Above: The Council's chairman, Lord Aldington. Below:

BBC

director-general Charles Curran.

body that we must examine the decision by the Heath government not to hold an inquiry into the BBC and to extend its charter for five years from 1976. The Tories are happy with the present regime: they have notorious right-winger Pro- fessor Sir Michael Swann as the new chairman and Alding- running advisory ton the council. Under this executive the Tories hope to strangle any programme developments which offend the ruling class.

The attack on The Opera- tion' is an ominous warning of the desperate necessity of the Tories to maintain the firmest control over the bour- geois media. for their own precious reputations.' Inevitably the smaller firm was hit hardest and most often by that unscrupulous type of manipulation. Mr Barret criticized the gov- ernment's intervention to save BSA, by pumping £4.8m into the new Norton Villiers- Triumph company incorporat- ing BSA with British Man- Holdings, Norton ganese Villiers' subsidiary. involved The 25,000 men would have been swiftly snapped up by a Labour- hungry industry. 'Our members take a jaun- diced view of the handout of taxpayers' money to lame ducks at a time when, due to the change to the imputation system for corporation tax many will find themselves liable to pay more tax simply because they plough back pro- fits for expansion rather than distribute them in the form of dividends,' he said. 'It astounds me that the Chancellor of the Exchequer continues to regard this prac- tice as a vice rather than a virtue,' he said.

Soviet Union's foreign The trade in 1972 increased by 10 the previous per cent over year, according to figures just released. Special emphasis is laid on the expansion of trade with western Europe, the United States and Japan through the making of long-term agree- West Germany, since ments. Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ost- politik, has become the Soviet Union's biggest trading partner in western Europe. Increased trade with Japan is expected to bound forward when deliveries of equipment for exploiting Siberian timber resources begin. The big trade deals conclu- ded with US capitalism will also lead to a big increase in turnover in the next few years, according to Mikhail Kuzmin, deputy Minister of Foreign Trade. He said that it is not intend- buying certain ed to stop types of equipment, machine Brandt: His 'Ostpolitik' makes Germany a big customer. tools, machines and licences that can profitably be obtained abroad from although he : 'Soviet industry claimed that in principle, meet all the can, requirements of • the national economy' Thus, while paying lip- of service to the dogma "socialism in one country', in practice the bureaucracy has to admit that the Soviet Union is still dependent upon the world market and becomes in- creasingly so under the pres- sure of the technological changes going on in the capi- talist world. The bureaucracy's way of facing this problem is to move closer to the capitalist coun- tries and to open up the re- sources of the Soviet Union to the predatory monopolies which want to see capitalism restored. The Soviet Union has con- cluded the biggest trade deal ever made with a capitalist firm, the Occidental Petroleum Company of the United States.

Superphosphates The deal, described as 'stag- gering' 'epoch-making' and provides for the supply to the Soviet Union of superphos- phates and plant in return for chemicals. The contract covers a 20-year period and its total vaiue is expected to be at least $8,000 million. The agreement was signed by Occidental's chairman, Dr Armand Hammer, who as a young businessman set up fac- tories in the Soviet Union during the period of the New Economic Policy and claims to have known Lenin. Publicity Moscow has accorded great publicity to the deal including a TV interview with Hammer in which he said that it was 'the breakthrough in Soviet- American trade' which Ameri- businessmen had been can looking for. In a follow-up article to the industrial re- new organization scheme, the Soviet Communist Party daily, 'Pravda', calls for an improvement in deli- very times from factories as well as greater atten- tion to quality. Its strictures are addressed mainly to engineering and it gives some hair-raising ex- amples of what are euphemis- tically called 'short comings'.

For example, the First Urals New Tube Works eleven only 36 tons of pipes from the Orsk-Khalilovo combine in- stead of the 300 tons ordered for the first quarter of this yeal. The Karaganda metallurgical which should have combine. supplied and tractor with 2,000 machinery

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of thin rolled tons metal, delivered none until the middle of March. The paper gives a list of other delivery failures of the kind which suggests in- credible incompe- nadeenal tence and negligence. •Similar happenings. can no longer be tolerated, 'it says. The way it proposes to do this is by increasing the sanc- tions applied against those enterprises which tail to meet their contracts. This means re- as aucing une 'material incentives' both for the managers and for use at their discretion to pay out as bonuses. Although some concerns are held up as models, the tone of article suggests that Soviet industry deliveries only take place according to speci- fication and on time by way of exception. 'The activities of many major and local supply directorates, 'Pravda' says, are a long way from being up to the demands of the times. Direct contractual between relations enterprises are developing slowly. Pro- tocols concerning full use works capacities being ale approved with consider- able delays. Unjustified viola- tions of existing links between and suppliers are consumers being permitted.' It calls for constant scrutiny of the supply chain by Party depaniments in other ministries and departments. words, set a thief to catch a thief is 'Pravda's' only solution for goes prodiem waco une very heart of the bureaucracy's regime of mismanagement and the arbitrary character of the planning system. These defects can only be overcome when the working class takes over control of the state and the planning methods are freed from the stranglehold of the bureaucracy.

MORE US

BOMBS

DROPPED

ON

CAMBODIA

THAN ON

VIETNAM

In 1971, the last year for which full statistics are avail- able, United States B52s flew total of 1,000 sorties throughout the whole of Indo-China each month. Now they are flying at a rate of 1,800 sorties a month in Cambodia alone. Tactical strikes were limi- Soviet steel plant in Siberia.

according to specification and on me by pay opin ted in 1971 to 10,000 per month throughout the region.

Now Cambodia alone is get- ting 6,000. For the forces disputing Cambodian the control of countryside, American bombing has become a vastly more important factor in recent months. Workers Press, Sal In industry generally, but particularly in engi • on time by way of exception.

The B52 sorties in Cam- bodia alone in 1971 ranged from 20 to 250 per month compared to the current level of 1,800. Tactical air strikes then • a month numbered 1,400 against 6,000 now. On the basis of costs estimated recently in Wash- Press, Saturday April 21, 1973 PAGE 5 y in engineering, deliveries take place ington, United States B52s thundering in from bases in Thailand are costing £1.4m ($3.6m) every single day.

But American involvement does not end with the sudden increase in bombing re- corded since the Vietnam ceasefire and the upsurge of activity in Cam- guerrilla bodia 11 weeks ago. The US air force is also maintaining emergency air- lifts of desperately needed military supplies to besieged provincial towns such as Takeo. Hundreds of tons of am- munition and other equip- ment have been flown in from Thailand and the Cam- bodian port of Kompong Som to beat the guerrilla on- slaught on country's the communications. The Americans also are airlifting aviation fuel into Phnom Penh at the rate of 6,000 gallons a day to keep the hard-pressed local air- force flying despite the blockade.

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Workers Press, Sakurday April 21, 1973 'The guilt of the atom bomb is an Anglo-American guilt. The quarter million slain at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not killed "Save to hasten the end of the war against Japan and thereby lives" as the subsequent myth has been spread to seek to hide the guilt! Palme Dutt in 'Labour Monthly' May, 1954.

'All intelligent people know that the atomic bomb helped to shorten the war and thus saved millions of lives. Communist Party pamphlet 'Atomic Energy and Social Progress', page 3, 1946.

BY JACK GALE

The Political Committee • d) calls on the national executive, in co-operation with of the Communist Party the international socialist and has called for full support trade union movement, to en- discussion how for the CND demonstra- ter best the full force of the inter- tion this Easter. The national working-class demonstration will take ment can be mobilized to stop the form of a two-day ally sure cess. It that conference march from Glasgow to that Aneurin Bevan made his Faslane, where the peace with the right wing by denouncing unilateralism as British nuclear sub- 'an emotional and spasm' marines are based. claiming that a British Foreign The Stalinist leaders like to Secretary could not go 'naked pose as great supporters of the into the conference chamber'.

nuclear Bevan had returned movement against Just But their record from visit to the Soviet weapons. that when the fight began in Union where he had had dis- the labour movement to end cussions with Khrushchev. His production wife, Jennie Lee, explained to weapon nuclear and stock-piling in Britain, the horror-struck 'Tribune'-ites Communist Party opposed it. that Bevan was taking his line Campaign for from Khrushchey, who did not When the disarmament Nuclear Disarmament was want unilateral formed in 1958, the Stalinists by Britain. condemned it as sectarian would organization, which

BARGAININGR

split the peace movement and a large fol- could never win

COUNTESS

lowing. The first resolution against European bombs nuclear weapons at a Labour nuclear could be a counter-balance to Party conference was moved the United States and be bar- at Brighton in 1957 by a sup- gaining counters at conferen- of Trotskyism working porter Kremlin leaders the had within the Norwood Labour told Bevan. Party. The British Stalinists accor- It read: This conference, Khrush- Jingly lined up with that the time has believing Bime Ministsk Gaitskell and chev, come to abandon the pretence Tory Prime Harold that there can be any protec- Macmillan the need for on tion in a nuclear war, records Britain to have the bomb.

its belief that in a major con- flict there will be neither vic- tor nor vanquished, yet with- of out war starting the tests nuclear well weapons may doom countless numbers yet unborn to of inheritance insanity, blindness or malfor- mation. 'Conference therefore: "(a) oppose the further test- ing of nuclear weapons by all countries. (b) calls upon the national mobilize the executive to whole of the movement against nuclear weapons tests by orga- the National nizing through Council of Labour a national all means in- campaign, using demonstrations cluding mass in Trafalgar Square and other the centres throughout coun- try along the lines of the Suez campaign last November. "(c) pledges that the next Labour government will take the lead by itself refusing to test, manufacture or use and that it nuclear weapons. peoples of will appes to the Aldermaston march: The CND leadership othe: countries to follow their their ranks and fought bitterly - though un Trotskyists. lead. The 'Daily Worker' of Octo ber 12, 1951, said that those who called for unilateralism guilty of an utterly were wrong action. . . . It simply cannot unite the maximum number of people.' At Brighton at least two delegations came from unions whose leadership was in the hands of the Stalinists - the Electrical Trades Union and "the Scottish miners. CND leadership accepted the Stalinists into bitterly - though unsuccesstully - to exclude Although Communist Party members could not attend a Labour Party conference as they did determine delegates, the union's policy before the conference and the delegation votes were in line with that.

Both the ETU and the Scot- tish miners voted against uni- lateralism. Even as late as 1959, when there were scores of unilater- alist resolutions submitted for the Labour Party conference, union delegations mandated by organizations influenced by the Stalinists still voted with the right-wing on the H-bomb issue. Other unions not influ- enced by the Stalinists voted for unilateralism in 1959.

These included the Trans- port and General Workers' the Fire Brigades Union, Union, the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, and the Constructional Engi- neering Union. The Communist Party worked to prevent its mem- bers and supporters from join- ing the first Aldermaston march in 1958. Its line was that an inter- national nuclear pact between the Soviet Union and the Western Powers was much more vital than a struggle by the working class against im- perialism and its weapons of mass destruction. The Communist Party pam- phlet "Close All US Bases', written by William Wain- wright in 1958, declared. 'This movement the de- supports for a ban on the reof mand manufacture and nuclear weapons by interna- tional agreement' (Emphasis added.) This meant, of course, not by fighting for unilateral- ism in Britain. The pamphlet went on: That is the policy adopted by the last Labour Party confer- What is now needed is a ence. nationwide campaign of action, to achieve in deeds what the conference de- resolution manded in words.' The resolution adopted at the Labour Party Conference, of course, had been adopted in opposition to unilateralism and was the policy of the Gaits- kellite right wing! The Stalinists also sought to shift the emphasis away from opposition to British nuclear weapons by chauvinist anti- Americanism. Palme Dutt wrote in the 'Labour Monthly' of June-July 1959 that the main issue was 'not the British H-bomb or atom-bomb, but the leasing in Britain of the American atom- bombers or rocket sites'.

John Gollan's statement of the CP's position nuclear on weapons at its 26th Congress in 1959 contained a specific rejection of unilateralism.

The Party's policy was laid down as: 1. A conference at the high- est level. 2. No nuclear weapons for West Germany. 3. Recognition of the govern- ment of the German Demo- cratic Republic. 4. Readiness to discuss seri- ously the Soviet proposals on Berlin and on a German Peace Treaty. On disarmament, Gollan said: 'The crucial first step remains the banning of nuclear tests.

Public opinion forced the the con- western powers to ference at Geneva. It has not agree.' forced them to (Conference Report, page 10.)

The Communist Party sec- retary then went on to con- demn what he called the 'emphasis on the issue of unilateral disarmament in a way which has tended to divide and slow up the activities of the forces of peace, at a time utmost unity is the when need' Just to make sure there was eated nis painin The flan Gollan no repeated his point: issue is what will unite the greatest number of people to get rid of the bomb. We think that has every experience shown that to make agreement on unilateral renunciation of nuclear weapons a condition in the fight for peace only divides the movement. 'It tends to divert attention from the real issue - inter- national agreement.' (Report, thing else to the desire to get peace' conference between the powers led the Stalinists in Europe to organize mass demonstrations in tavour of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States of America! While more and more wor- kers and throughout youth Europe were coming into the fight against the H-bomb, Communist Party leaders in France were rebuking their members for not showing sufficient enthusiasm for Eisen- hower. Maurice Thorez wrote in the French Stalinist paper 'I'Humanité' on November I1, 1959: 'It is necessary to say that we consider it a political mis- take that in spite of the decisions of the Political Bureau [of Communist the Party] which had wanted the elected municipal and general councillors of the Paris region to be present, they were not all present at the reception for Eisenhower.'

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PEACE HOPES

Obviously, some of the less alert Stalinist councillors had thought they were politically opposed to the leader of American imperialism, and needed straightening out!

In Italy, the Stalinist leaders were equally enthusiastic for the US President. 'L'Unita', the organ of the Italian Com- munist Party, declared on December 4, 1959: 'We Communists of Rome salute Dwight Eisenhower and, in the name of 250,000 electors in the capital of the Roman Republic, express our con- fidence and our determination that the great hopes for peace which were aroused in the hearts of all peoples, hopes created by the meeting be- tween the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, shall not end in disappointment.' The much-vaunted summit negotiations in fact took place in Paris in May 1960—only to be blown sky-high when the American U2 spy-plane was shot down over the Soviet Union! By this time the Communist Party had swung round 180 degrees and joined in the Aldermaston marches. There had been considerable pressure, particularly from the ranks of the Young Communist League, to join the anti-war movement.

But the real reason for the Stalinists' about-turn was the realization that the pacifist and Labour-'left' leadership CND presented no threat to them. The first Labour Party resolution on the H-bomb had come, as pointed out was from a supporter of above, Trotskyism. The Trotskyists from the beginning presented the H- bomb question as a class issue.

Workers Pros We were the first to call for industrial action to stop nuclear weapons. In March, 1958, we published a 'News- letter' pamphlet 'Black H-bomb and the Rocket Bases!'

This demanded that the TUC and the unions concerned should black all work on the building of rocket bases and on the manufacture and test- ing of hydrogen bombs. We demanded Labour that the Party NEC support such action and launch an international working-class campaign for the ending of the manufacture and testing of the H-bombs. We called Labour to pledge that on the day it was returned to power it would stop British tests, unilaterally renounce British manufacture of the H-bomb, halt the con- struction of rocket bases and revoke all military agreements with the United States. The Trotskyists were also the only tendency able to put up a principled defence of the Soviet Union. We declared unequivocally that the only danger i of came from war imperialism and that a dis- armed Soviet Union would make war more likely, not less.

We publicly defended, as done, Trotskyists always have the right and duty of the workers' states to arm them- selves with the most modern techniques for defence against imperialism. The Stalinists were unable to meet this internationalist

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rare Prost, Saturday April 21, 1973 'Keep Left' contingent on one of 1 the Aldermaston marches of the early 1960s. It was the Trotsky- ists who put forward the issue of nuclear disarmament as a class issue that met the combined opposition of Stalinists, Labour- Ites and Tories. revolutionary attitude to nuclear weapons. They therefore kept away from the fight against the H.

bomb until they were sure that leadership was safely in the the hands of the Bertrand Russells, the Michael Foots and the Donald Sopers. The Stalinists had no diffi- culty in co-operating with such people. The CND leadership, which had fought bitterly-though unsuccessfully - to exclude Trotskyist banners from the early CND marches, raised no objectien whatever to the Stalinists. Like their successors in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, they sought to exclude only prin- cipled Marxism. They therefore collaborated with the Stalinists' switch in line, welcomed them onto their platforms, and raised political challenge to them.

Since then, the Stalinists have tried to claim that they were in the movement all along This, however, is just one more lie in the long history of Stalinist lies.

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Workers Press, Saturday April 21, 1973 In part two of this four-part John McLean story we show how the Scottish working-class leader came to socialism. By 1914 McLean was well versed in Marxist theory — the crucial factor in his attitude to World War I.

John McLean was born in Pollokshaws, near Glasgow, in August 1879. His own background was of the essence of the history of the Scottish working class, which had been snatched ruthlessly from the Highland glens and replaced with profit- able sheep by rapacious landlords in the early 19th century. Both McLean's parents were 'cleared' out of the Highlands.

H. M. Hyndman, leader of His father from the British Socialist Party. came island of Mull, his mother a question correct ideas. from near Fort William. They From his earliest involvement forced were to industrial in the socialist movement, Clydeside where they eked McLean turned to the living living, John's out until working movement of the father, Daniel, died at the age class. He fought to be part of of 43. that movement and to educate His mother then had four workers in struggle in Marx- children look after (three to ism. in infancy). others had died Before the war he was in- Iohn, then aged nine, was the Belfast volved in the dock second youngest. strike of 1907, the unemployed He later wrote: 'It was the campaign of 1908, the strike of the sacrifice knowledge of 2,000 women and girls at made and self-denial endured Neilston thread mills in 1910, his mother and sisters to by at Singers, Clyde- strike the enable him to be educated that bank, in 1911 and the Rhondda him his made resolve to use miners' of strike the same education in the service of the year, and in the many struggles workers' dominated which the years 1911 to 1914. When war broke out he was in Dunfermline assisting a strike of tenters. ceaselessly, He campaigned spending his summers on lengthy propaganda tours and holding hundreds of meetings But McLean was no mere and classes in the Glasgow protester against working-class area. In 1907, a writer in the oppression. He came to social- Social Democratic Federation ism through a ruthless theo- paper, 'Justice', described Mc.

retical fight against religion, Lean's efforts as 'Herculean'.

against secularism, against He was addressing an bourgeois theory, aver- economic age of one meeting a day, and and against the woolly reform- some days as many as five. ism of the Independent Labour Party, the dominant socialist During the winter he was con- ducting four economics classes, party on Clydeside. each meeting once a week.

By his twenties, he early had read Marx's 'Capital' and Politically, McLean too, fought to find the road to the had joined the Social Demo- class. He argued for cratic Federation, which, for working failings, the SDF to reaffiliate the all its sectarian to was Labour Party, from which is the main party with any basis had severed itself in 1902 on Marxism in Britain at this in the ground that it was not time. In 1906 he began weekly a socialist party. This sectarian attitude. fos- Marxist classes in economics H. tered by leaders like M. which were to become central Hyndman, to his revolutionary work.

By was implicitly con- 1917-1918, of demned by Lenin when the between spells Labour Party applied for affili- imprisonment, he was able to Second Inter- 500 workers to these ation the attract to national in 1908. Lenin rejec- which achieved world- classes, socialist fame ted the opportunist formula- wide in the who said tion of those that movement. Labour regardless Against all and the Party, eclectics of its theoretical basis, tended McLean stood compromisers, to socialism by virtue of being the of firm on correctness Marxist theory. "The Profes- a working class party. But he argued that it should satisfied they have sors are ago,' buried Marx he be allowed to affiliate because long of 1919, but 'some its establishment was a major wrote in us have maintained that Marx step forward for the working For Lenin the buried the Professors.' class. decision But Marxism was not simply was inseparable from a ruth- Top: The great transport strike of 1912, Above: The outbreak of war saw the co to support their own national governme behind pacifist ideas. less fight against the opportun- ism of the Labour leaders.

McLean did the not see question as clearly as this. In 1907, after the victory of the left-winger, maverick Victor Grayson, in the Colne Valley by-election, he advocated affi- liation on the Utopian ground that the more the bourgeoisie shouted that the Labour Party was socialist, the more likely it would be to become so.

McLean also-particularly in the 1911 Singer strike campaigned against the syndi- calist orientation of the Social- ist Labour Party, which sought the ideas of industrial unionism a road to workers' power which relegated politics to a secondary or non-existent role. But here again his articles displayed a lack of clarity on the nature of the capitalist 3 of 1912, one of the many struggles that dom aw the collapse of the Second International as governments. McLean stood out against chauvi state. While firmly opposed to reformism, he made some theoretical concessions to the reformist conception of the growth of the power and func- of the state being an tions evolutionary step on the road to socialism. In August 1914, John Mc- Lean took the most important stand of his life. Already an opponent of the increasingly chauvinist Hyndman leader- ship of the British Socialist Party (formed in an attempt to unite the left-wing of the ILP and other socialist ten- dencies with the SDF in 1912), that dominated the years 1911 to 1914.

lational as the Social Democrats rushed nst chauvinism and also refused to hide he stood firm against the his- toric capitulation to national- ism of the vast majority of the leadership of international social democracy. McLean refused to offer the slightest support to the British government or to hide behind the pacifist vacillations of the centrist Independent Labour Party. The war was a capital- ist war, he declared in print in September 1914; only the revolution could prevent fur- ther wars. 'Our first business,' he said, 'is to hate the British capitalist system.' It was this principled inter- nationlist position that Mc- Lean fought to bring into the working movements of the class which developed on Clydeside from 1915 onwards.

MONDAY: McLean in battle.

The anti-war fight and the great Glasgow rents strike.

KLINGENDER'S WORK ON

INDUSTRY, MAN AND ART

'Art and the Industrial Rovolu tion'. By Francls D. Klingender.

Edited and revised by Arthur Elton. Paladin. Price 75p.

BY TOM KEMP

Although the editor (and in fact co-author) of this book tells us, amongst other biographical de. tails, that Francis Kling- ender was 'a dedicated directly refer to the fact that he was one of those young intellectuals who, in the 1920s and 1930s, was attracted into the Communist Party. Nor does he say that, repelled by Stalinism, representational art of the Victorian period and its idealized portraits of Stalip, he left the Party and aban- doned active politics alto- gether, immersing himself, as he does tell us, in 'a study of the significance of animal forms in art. This was a refuge from the political con- tradictions he had been unable to resolve. On his death in the summer of 1955, the 'Daily Worker' accorded him an obituary in élogious terms: an honour rarely accorded . to a former Party member. It did not ex- plain why he had left the Party. A year or so later the flight of the intellectuals, in- cluding some friends of Kling- ender, took place following the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Hun- garian Revolution. Klingender was undoubtedly of extraordinary person a talent and enthusiasm for his : and this book is his work finest memorial. It arose out of an exhibition . which he had arranged for the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1945 on the theme 'The Engineer in British Life'. Klingender studied aspects of the Industrial Revolution which had been neglected hitherto both by the economic historian and by the art historian. He showed how technology created a new environment for man in work and in living and by doing so He tried affected art forms. to make a Marxist analysis of the work produced by indus- There's been a strike by over- seas telegraphists in Santiago for the past few weeks. No Charging retorts at the Breckton gaswo trial designers, architects and civil engineers as well as by cu poets, novelists and painters.

He showed how the impres- sive changes in the landscape brought about by advancing industrial capitalism influenced the artists of the time. He un- earthed from obscurity some of those responsible for popu- prints and engravings lar and showed how science in- fluenced the technique of reproduction. Arthur Elton, The editor, considerably expanded has sections of the book and in- of his corporated research own following up hints or suggestions which Klingender official telex messages can be sent in or out of the country.

is Well, almost. There one way to get a cable to President Allende-the Salvador com- mercial ITT lines are still be- ing worked. A court in the central Asian republic of Tadjikistan has sent a man to jail who paid £4,000 for a bride who dis- appeared during the lengthy Moslem wedding celebrations.

The money was handed over to the girl's father on presen- tation of an itemized bill: two sheep for her face, four sacks of flour for her hair and so on.

man, Nazri Sobirov, The complained to the local pro- secutor's office when the girl's father refused to refund the Both were subse- money. quently jailed for offences against Soviet law. Practices of this kind are ton gasworks, 1878. An illustration from the bo had made. This makes it diffi- by cult for the reader to know original author whether the or the editor is responsible for the conclusions. The black-and-white plates this paper- which illustrate back edition, while none too well produced, give some idea of these contemporary works whose subjects were mines, forges, bridges, viaducts, tun- nels and railways—the techni- cal triumphs of the day. Klingender certainly wanted to separate the achievements of the scientist or the artist from the capitalist integument in which he was obliged to work. He also wanted to still widespread in Moslem areas of the Soviet Union nearly 56 years after the October Revolution. The trendy vicar at Oldham Parish Church will give the Whitehouse brigade something to think about. There is an annual service at the church for the Oldham Repertory Theatre. On previous years the guests have included Andrew Cruik- shank of 'Dr Finlay's Case- book', Peter Adamson of 'Coronation Street' and Jessie Matthews, once 'Mrs Dale' of diary fame. But this year the Rev James Bentley has invited Danny La Rue, the female impersonator.

He will perform in a musical evening which has been writ- vicar himself. by the ten Whether he will appear in drag is not yet known ... Workers Press, Sa om the book by Klingender.

show how the more sensitive realized that the machinery which they had helped to de- velop became a weapon in the hands of employers to dis- cipline and exploit the working class. He quotes at length from Karl Marx's toast 'The People's Paper', edited by the Chartist leader Edward Jones, which shows the contradiction be- tween the achievements of in- dustry and science and 'the symptoms of decay, far sur- passing the horrors recorded times of the of the latter Roman empire' Marx's message of hope was 'That to work well the Press, Saturday April 21, 1973 PAGE 9 new-fangled forces of society, they only want to be mastered by new-fangled men—and such are the working men. They are much the invention of as times as machinery modern itself..? The tragedy of Francis Klingender, as of many of his contemporaries who came to Marxism in the 1930s, was that they wanted to join up with the working class, the new- fangled men, and became en- snared by Stalinism. Finally it repelled Klingender. In the last years of his life Klingender loath to was speak about his political posi- tion, but it is probable that his break with the Communist Party came mainly through his disappointment with Soviet artistic development and similar questions rather than principled opposition to Stalinist policies in the British labour movement. The passage in the book which described the 'cashbox aesthetics' of the Victorian bourgeoisie provides some sort of clue. 'Accustomed to the common level of the market-place they [the triumphant capitalists] often lacked all appreciation of qualities that not immediately suggest costliness.

Minutely, detailed copies of commonplace objects, either very large or very small (for both required enormous amounts of painstaking labour), banal sentiment, and heavy gold frames, amply satis- fied the normal taste of the new rich, and their older landed partners in the ruling class often followed their ex- ample in this as in most other things? The Soviet bureaucracy, after stifling the experimental art of the early years of the Revolution, imposed a rigid conformism on art and artists according to the same preten- us standards as those of the 19th century bourgeoisie.

Klingender's respect for artistic values and his desire for a revolutionary. art even- tually brought him into con- flict with this Philistinism displayed in official Soviet art.

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A special correspondent looks at the NUT conference in Scarborough and witch-hunt threat to teachers A special correspo AS DELEGATES meet in Scal at the annual conference of t Teachers (NUT), they are dangers. • The Communist Party-led ex ing that their union becomes pay law. set-up of the Tory gov • It is preparing to trample o The capitulation to the Tories Stalinists on the executive takes plac living standards are being slashed i ever-deepening crisis of capitalist Inflation of food prices, fares, rents and mortgage force rates many young teachers to live from hand to mouth. At the same time, Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher's circular 7/73 on non-university education threatens to reduce the number of people entering teaching by 40 per cent, which will mean larger classes and worse working conditions.

The record balance of trade deficit for March and the fall in the value of the pound can only increase the Tory govein- ment's teachers, determination to c t living standards by the union involving leadership in the Pay Board set-up and by forcing them to police their own members. The executive has accepted the government's under norm Phase Two of £l plus 4 per cent in the form of accepting of £52.03m in the global sum place of the £170m claim.

see their task They now as one of administering this offer in the form of a flat-rate increase of £l27 for most teachers, £135 to £170 for heads and deputy heads and a points system which determines the number of posts above Scale 1 in each school.

Set aside On the London allowance. they have set aside £250,000 of the global sum and are going to the Pay Board with Burnham management. The claim works out at 6.5 per cent, whereas retail prices have risen 8.2 per cent. The executive refusal to take in the national one-day part protest strike called by the TUC for May 1 further confirms the leadership's willingness to main- tain relationship with Thatcher and Heath. The other side of this open collaboration is the determined drive against democracy within the union. Over the year since the last conference, executive has the closed down the Young Teachers' Annual Conference and Young Teachers' Advisory Committee in a bid to stifle opposition to SLOUGH: Wednesday April 25, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- 8 p Road. ham TC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign' HACKNEY: Wednesday April 25, p.m. Parlour Room, Central Hall, Street. 'Economic Mare and the Rising Cost of Living'. CROYDON: Thursday April 26, • p.m. Ruskın House, Coombe 'Marxism and the trade unions'. WILLESDEN: Thursday April 26, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades Willesden Build Councils HOLLOWAY: Thursday April 26, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters The economic crisis and the rising cost of living' HEMEL HEMPSTEAD: Monday April 30, 8 p.m. Room 2, Adey- field Hall, Queens Square. 'Defend Basic Democratic Rights'. :in Scarborough this weekend ce of the National Union of • are faced with two great y-led executive is recommend- ecomes part of the corporate ory government; and mple on union democracy. e Tories by the right-wing and akes place at a time when teachers' slashed by inflation caused by the pitalist economy internationally.

policies from the most its militant section. hcw- More sinister than this; ever, is the attack on militant teachers in London after the executive provoked situation at the Central Halls, Westmin- on March 1 by stifling ster, discussion on the campaign for increase the London the allowance. President-elect and a leading Stalinist Max Morris spearheaded the witch-hunt by ranting in the about 'planned capitalist Press disruption by Trotskyites, Inter- national Socialists and the Social- Max Morris. sharpening witch-hunting knives. ist Labour League--and a lct of them were not teachers'. This had been followed up by a complaint of unprofessional conduct against Fred Scott, Eric Porter and David Whiteley of the Wandsworth Association and threats of expulsion.

further blow at union As a members' rights, the executive is to move a declaration at the conference: 'That no constituent association or division of the union members member or thereof shall organize. or en- gage in strike or industrial action prior approval of the without executive. EAST LONDON: Monday April 30, LEW 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E.3. All out May 1! Force TUC to call a General Strike! WANDSWORTH: Monday April 30, 8 p.m. 'Kings Arms', High Street, S.W.18. 'Trotskyism and Stalin- ism'. SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 2, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley Park Road. 'Report back from May Day'.

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday May 2, 8 p.m. 'The Bell', Hoe 'Report back from May Street. des Day'. WEMBLEY: Wednesday May. 2, 8 p.m. Copland School, High Road. 'Repori Back from May Day'. WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 2, 8 p.m. 'The Castle' ', Powis Street, S.E. 18. 'Report back from May Day' BRIXTON: Monday May 7, 8 p.m.

Control Room, Brixton Training Centre. 'Report back from May Day' at the NUT conference The reformists, Stalinists and protest politics in this period of unprecedented economic crisis have been exposed as bankrupt.

And the sell-outs of recent years have prepared the ground for the outright capitulation of the right-wing leadership, aided and abetted by willing Stalinists.

As far back as the 1969 cam- paign for the interim award, Max Morris declared that the union would fight for the full £135, but refused to confront the Prices and Incomes Act and Harold Wilson's Labour govern- ment. The campaign was limited to half-day strikes and fortnight strikes in selected areas.

Through this protest cam- paign, teachers were able to force the government to concede instead of the £120 £68.50 offered. But much for SO Morris' assertion that the leader- ship would fight for the full claim. With the election in june 1970 of a Tory government determined to solve the crisis of their system at the expense of the working class, the open bankruptcy of Stalinism and reformism became more and more exposed. Starting with a claim for 37 per cent, the executive slashed it to 15 before per cent any action hate been take finch he 1971 leading Stalinist, allowed the hand in nego- executive a free tiations by saying that the con- "support such ference should further action as the executive thought necessary' In May it accepted a 10 per cent arbitration award. Again in 1972, an arbitrated award of 13.7 per cent was accepted with a desertion of the basic scales in favour of the multi-scale payment employers' system. Morris, who in 1969 had pro- LEWISHAM: Monday May 7, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, 'The opp. New Cross Station. role of the TUC in the fight against the Tories' BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 8, 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', cnr. Wands- worth Road and North Street. 'Report back from May Day' TONBRIDGE: Wednesday April "The Foresters' 25, 8 p.m. Quarry Hill Road. 'Make Scan- No collaboration lon retract. with the Pay Board.' DERBY: Thursday April 26, 7.30 Branch Room, National p.m. Society of Metal Mechanics, 15 Charnwood Street. BLASGOW (Engineers' and Workers' Shipyard meeting): Saturday April 28, 10 a.m. Room 1, Partick Burgh Hall. 'Make Scanlon retract. SHEFFIELD: Wednesday May 2, 7.30 p.m. 'Grapes Inn', Trippett Lane. Workers Press, Sat ence in Scarborough at " con- posed a resolution ference retreat proposing no from the basic scale, was pro- five scales, while the posing revisionist 'Rank-and-File' group was proposing four. Collaboration with the Tories' Pay Board was proposed at last year's conference, where That- cher was the guest speaker.

• Although there was a vote for de-registering from the Industrial Relations Act, through the wheelings and dealings of the Stalinists and revisinists have amendment which would committed the executive firmly to de-registration was dropped by the International Socialists.

allowing the executive to recon- sider the position. It was but a short step from inviting Thatcher to the con- ference to acceptance of the Tories' Phase Two offer and the Pay Board under the smoke- of protest the screen over London allowance. . Even in that campaign, for all Morris's demagogy about That- the hard-hearted woman, cher, he always maintained that the "special case' allowance was agreed to before Phase One. He took principled never up a opposition to the state pay laws.

The revisionists supplemented Morris by their calls for 'mili- tancy' and their refusal to press the executive to demand the TUC to call a General Strike to make the Tory government resign. Diversions Even as Morris prepared the against witch-hunting knives their own they re- supporters, fused to take up a fight against the executive and its capitula- tion to the Tories. Instead they set up diversions, such as the London, ad hoc committee in which would organize ever more militant action. Teachers who have had their living standards by the cut latest sell-out will be forced into struggle once more in order to prevent themselves be- ing engulfed in poverty. If they are to win in future struggles, then they must draw several important lessons.

THE TORIES cannot be forced retreat through protest actions. They can only be forced to resign through the mobiliza- tion of the strength of the whole working in extended class General Strike action. THE STALINISTS represent a counter - revolutionary force.

which will police the unions under a Tory corporate state to help the Kremlin bureaucrats maintain co-existence peaceful with the Tories.

THE

REVISIONISTS will try to provide a cover for the Stalinists by organizing •strength-sapping protests, which divert the mem- bership from the main political tasks. At the same time all

NUT

members must come to their defence. Notwithstanding Press, Saturday April 21, 1973 PAGE 11 differences with IS, the our ATUA and SLL members will be the most consistent and un- compromising defenders of the right - wing victims of the Stalinist witch-hund In the real, day-to-day fight in defence of their living stand- ards and the education system.

teachers must help through the All Trades Unions Alliance to build a revolutionary alternative to the reformist and . Stalinist cancer which: threatens the

NUT.

Only the SLL offers a policy ind perspective wend the mash he hasic democratic rights of teachers.

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. East London

SUNDAY APRIL 29

7.30 p.m. Abbey Hall, Axe Street (Behind Barking town hall) Luton

FRIDAY APRIL 27

8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Road Transform the SLL into the revolutionary party

MONDAY APRIL 23,

7.30 p.m. 'The Mona', James St (Entrance at back in Moor St) Rost erice. Published a newspaper at the Post Office. by Workers Clapham High Street, Press, 186a LonGon, SW4 7UG. Printed Plough Newsdesk: 2000. Circulation: 01-622 7029.

Free expression' a mockery in Ulster poll

ULSTER LAWS

SWITCH TO BRITAIN

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday April 21, 1973 FOUR leading Republicans have The three others were nan as Brian Brennan, Martin Lyi been arrested in Belfast-only a and Bobby McKnight. week after Ulster Republican McGurran is still being qu Clubs were given the Tory go- tioned by police. A spokesman for the North ahead to contest this summer's Ireland Civil Rights elections. claimed recent moves Among them was Mr Malachy security forces were making McGurran, chairman of the mockery of Westminster's gra 'free expression' Republican Clubs' Ulster execu- ing of tive. elections.

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

TORY MINISTERS are treating the repressive le ing set up in Northern Ireland as a possible blue future unrest in Britain.

They will investigate how the machinery works whether it can be used in this country during ind unrest. Emergency Command on The new Northern Ire- contingency plans involving land laws include sweep- and Ulster-type legislation ing measures which allow: methods. An expert of this murky for Abolition of trial by bury of area state repression charged with people commented this week: serious offences. 'These things in go of fashion. You find • Twenty-eight days deten- waves that everyone is before judge now an tion trial by anti-terrorist. only. He commenting on was startling • The use of written police admission by the as evidence and Tory statements junior Defence the of anonymous Minister over 'anti-terrcrist use witnesses. units' in Britain. In answer to a question on such units, Peter Blaker, Innocence under-secretary at the an told Ministry of Defence Parliament: Other provisions reverse as the army is 'As far the traditional right of in- concerned, there have been nocence until proven guilty.

no proposals for a special People picked up for gun anti-terrorist unit such. as charges must prove in closed but there has been a good court that they knew noth- deal of contingency planning ing of weapons. Department with which my Many workers still has been associated.' have the impression The Defence Ministry was that these measures are about just what tight-lipped Northern restricted to kind of planning was under- Ireland. They are, but way. for the only present. 'We cannot add anything But there are now ad- Minister has to what the bring told parliament, vance plans to already Ulster methods to spokesman said. Britain. It is known, however, that Ministry of Defence of great interest is The and Home Office are the link between the the up police force and the army working with the recently- established special state of in actions against the OR he is up: to his neck in

FROM PAGE 1

the scandal. Whatever the explanation, enemies are ask- Nixon's this is the most serious ing if he was involved in challenge to his position whether he the plot and since he was elected. organized the cover-up. The two American political There be only two can run entirely parties are on explanations. business i lines receiving EITHER the President is million dollar hand-outs big business and the the most ignorant man in from White House with crime syndicates. the no They then pay back these control whatsoever over his staff favours by bestowing office M!!! transform the Socialist

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a change. Our to Labour League into the nost so far raised {161.04 our total up to evolutionary party. bringing {60841. Let's keep it up.

Workers Press must be Make at the centre of this strug- sure we raise our £1.750 target in good time.

gle. Now let's press ahead We are sure you will do as never before. it. The magniticent support Workers Press we have so tar far received for our Building April Appeal Fund Fund shows the enormous 186a Claoham High Street London SWA 7UG determination " that exists ...!!! Provisional Sinn Fein, a were named Martin Lynch illegal, has opened an Belfast intended as a cen its Ulster groups. being ques- There is speculation tha the Northern Ulster boss William W • Association may allow the premises to ves by the open, particularly if thes e making a to the Provisionals' invol in electoral politics. ister's grant- in the The Official IRA is to ci its support for a political ssive legal system now be- le blueprint to deal with works in practice to see ing industrial and political 'terrorists, the left and even militant trade unionists.

One well-aired theory is the possibility of army and Special Branch infiltration of örganizations to provoke activities lead which to arrests. Information is then passed on to the special police force units. These ideas were given a new life recently after the recent London bomb ex- plosions which took place in mysterious circumstances. Almost nothing has been heard about the ten people arrested in connection with this provocation. Elevated The high-ranking military brains who are the experts field, particularly Brigadier Frank Kitson, now head of the British Infantry School at Warminster have been elevated to top posi- tions in the establishment.

views - once con- sidered 'cranky'-are now in great vogue in the Tory Ministries. This evidence builds up to one inescapable con- clusion — Ulster repression its in is well on way Britain. on their supporters or pass- ing legislation favourable to American induștry and crime.

The Watergate affair has stampeded the Republican Party bosses. They fear it will lead to big losses in local elections, damaging their grip on and political therefore hit their pockets.

More important, this cess- pool of corruption has been uncovered at a time of great crisis for the American ruling class. The record inflation has wave of prices led to a demonstrations by workers.

The Watergate affair will not encourage them to moderate their wage own demands. Nixon's crisis is labour's opportunity. It opens the way to a campaign within the unions to force a General Election and to the construction of a Labour Party. to clear out the Democratic and Repub- lican gang. nn Fein, although military ned an office in party said yesterday i • as a centre for statement. Anthony McDowell ilation that Tory when gunmen opened army post in the Arde illiam Whitelaw remises to remain of Belfast. ly if they point Mrs Bridget McCa als' involvement pregnant, was seriou during an exchange tween troops and gur A is to continue a political rather Lower Falls. • 'Cranky' views Kitson • now welcome in Establish- ment. The ruling class leaders know they will have to put down large-scale unrest as the crisis gets worse. And they know they will need extraordinary powers and methods to do it. Now we are seeing the test run of this kind of official terror. Not one leader of the labour movement is exposing this extremely dangerous development. On the contrary, the vast bulk of Labour Party MPs principle the supported in • Ulster laws on Tuesday.

These men are leading the working class to the worst oppression in the history of capitalism. It is entirely the duty of Socialist Labour League members to warn the work- ing class of the dangers and to rally all trade unionists in a mass campaign to re- move the Tories and defend democratic rights. Quit EEC—call THE SCOTTISH TUC has called on the next Labour withdraw government to from the Common Britain Market. On the final day of its Congress in Aberdeen, the STUC supported Labour's continued all boycott of EEC institutions and called for Britain's Market member- ship to be made an issue in the next General Election.

Delegates also called over- whelmingly for the STUC a complete with- to secure drawal of labour by all Scottish trade unionists on May Day in opposition to the Tory pay laws. Mick McGahey, Scottish NUM president, said: 'There will not be a pit working in • Scotland on May 1! repeated Congress its complete : opposition to the Industrial Relations Act.

Treasurer Alex Kitson said the STUC would be satisfied by nothing less than its complete repeal. Residents in the Ardoyne campaign, esterday in an Easter trouble there has been caused by stationing the hated red beret McDowell (13), died parachute regiment at an old en opened fire mill in the area. 1 the Ardoyne district Third Battalion Parachute Regiment has been get MeCann, who is criticized from all sides since it vas seriously injured moved in a few weeks ago and exchange of fire be- s and gunmen in the its hardline methods have upset the entire community. THE MARCH index just issued by the Department of Employment shows that food prices were 1.9 per cent up on the previous month. Fresh foods, particularly eggs, bacon, tomatoes and onions, showed the biggest increase. The price index for all items went up to 173.4 points increase of 8.2 per cent over the year since March 1972.

Since the 1970 General Election, the food price index has gone up by 32.1 per cent, but the rate of increase has accelerated since the in November. state pay laws were introduced It is running rate of of now at a increase around 25 to 26 per cent increase a year.

The Tory laws restricting wage increases to plus 4 per cent means that wages can only go up at a rate of 6 to 7 per cent.

This is Tory policy in action-to push up basic food some four times much as wages prices as can rise. Further conflict is inevitable as working- class resistance grows to this severe reduction in living standards.

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secretary Victor Feather general and shadow Minister for Agriculure, Norman Buchan, have appealed to the Tories to keep prices down.

Tory policies These appeals against deliberate are useless. Only the mobilization of the working class to force the Tories to resign can end the widening gap between wages and prices.

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A SACKING at Ford, rushed into the seam from old Halewood, Liverpool, workings. brought assembly line

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the actors' production to a halt on the last shift before the union, has been asked holiday. About Easter by its General Council 100 men walked out and not to strike with the hundreds of the trade union more were rest laid off. The body stamp- movement on May Day and transmission in protest ing against the pay laws. plants continued work- government's ing. The man was sacked This is in line with the leadership's for refusing to do a job registration that was not on his work under the Industrial Relations standard. Act which caused them to be ex- THE TORIES have re- pelled from the TUC, jected calls for all kidney and their accentance of machines and disabled wage-cuts under the pay people's be laws. chairs to zero-rated for VAT. A CLAIM for £5.64 a ATTEMPTS to recover week increase for 8,000 the remaining six mine- glassworkers has been workers' bodies submitted Pilking- en- to tombed in the Flockton ton's by the General 700 feet and Municipal Workers' seam under- ground at Lofthouse Union. Industrial officer colliery, Wakefield, have David Warburton said been halted. Only £3.24 needed one was to body has been recovered compensate for the in- since seven miners were creased cost of living trapped March 21 and an additional £2.40 on to bring rates into line when thousands of gal- firms. lons of water and sludge with comparable