Workers Press no. 1057

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TUC OFFICIALLY

PHASE TWO

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

TUC LEADERS openly declared their complete capitulation to the state control of wages yesterday when Victor Feather announced their reluctant acquiescence in Phase Two of the government's pay policy. This means the trade union bureaucracy's acquies- cence in the first steps towards a corporate state in Britain. The TUC general secretary made this declaration of surrender on the eve of the massive May Day strikes and in a period when the soaring cost of food is making workers consider a declaration of war against government policies.

Feather's announcement is a calculated attempt to defuse the growing anger in the working class against the Tories continuing in office. Workers have shown in countless bitter struggles over wages, rents, and the cost of living that they want this government out and are prepared to fight it.

The local election results con-

BY ROYSTON BULL

firmed this amply. Feather, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon have consciously planned to head off any such strike move.

rout the government, which is ment to force the government's what the 1926 General They fear such AUpT resignation. Strike was meant to be, the 1973 development and its political General Strike is version of the much the consequences as as called being to commemorate bourgeoisie do themselves.

of the government's acceptance This was the reason for Feather And it is being organized policy. deliberately playing down next in such a way as to try to ensure 'We Tuesday's struggle. are the feeblest possible protest.

demon- this May Day leaving The Communist Party are now stration without any organization clearly getting in right behin in right behind getting from the centre as an expression of of resentment grass-roots corporatist with the arrangement consider policies which they Tory government. This unfair. the explanation for their Feather is not any members* actions at the teachers' joining on May 1 himself. the protests conference. condemned people for And he There. the Stalinists accepted calling Mav Day a General Strike.

a Phase Two Day deal, voted 'It is not a General Strike, and with the corporatist compromise It is a said we have never so. Pay Board, and acquiesced in the and day of stoppages protests of a May right-wing's rejection which be supplementary, Day protest for teachers.

complementary, or exclusive.

Star has And the 'Morning •We have not badgered unions blatant been silent about this into taking part, even urged betraval of the working-class them. We have only invited them struggle. Feather admitted. to participate,' The Stalinists want to

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round-up 'We have made confusion in the labour and trade to see what decisions unions have Their union movement. taken. We are leaving it as for the May 1 day 'support' of what spontaneous expression and stoppage only protest WaC vou could call a resentful, reluc- to the extent that it remained a acquiescence in Phase Two tant reformist gesture. policy of the government's pay The Stalinists will fight not under protest, in particular about all anti-Tory mobilize the to soaring prices," he added. forces May Day for massive Instead of a determined mobil-

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workers press

TUC OFFICIALLY

PHASE TWO

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

their complete TUC LEADERS openly declared capitulation to the state control of wages yesterday when Victor Feather announced their reluctant acquiescence in Phase Two of the government's pay policy. This means the trade union bureaucracy's acquies- cence in the first steps towards a corporate state in Britain. The TUC general secretary made this declaration of surrender the massive May Day strikes and in a period when on the eve of the soaring cost of food is making workers consider a declaration of war against government policies.

Feather's announcement is a calculated attempt to defuse the growing anger in the working class against the Tories continuing in office. Workers have shown in countless bitter struggles over wages, rents, and the cost of living that they want this government out and are prepared to fight it. The local election results con-

BY ROYSTON BULL

firmed this amply. Feather, Tack Jones and Hugh Scanlon have consciously planned to head off any such strike move- the government, which is rout ment to force the government's what the 1926 General They fear such

AVAT

resignation. the 1973 Strike was meant to be, and political development its General Strike is version of the much the consequences as as called being to commemorate bourgeoisie do themselves.

the government's of acceptance This was the reason for Feather And it is being organized policy. deliberately playing down next in such a way as to try to ensure 'We Tuesday's struggle. are the feeblest possible protest.

demon- this May Day leaving The Communist Party are now stration without any organization che Tubureaucracy in sippind in right behind from the centre as an expression of of resentment grass-roots with the corporatist arrangement consider policies which they Tory This government. unfair. the explanation for their Feather is not joining any members' actions at the teachers' the protests on conference. condemned people And he the Stalinists accepted There. calling Mav Day a General Strike.

a Phase Two Day deal, voted to Strike, and 'It is not a General with the corporatist compromise It' said we have never So. Pay Board, and acquiesced in the and day of protests stoppages of a May right-wing's reiection which can be supplementary, Day protest for teachers.

complementary, or exclusive.

Star' has And the 'Morning •We have not badgered unions blatant been silent about this into taking part, urged betraval of the working-class them. We have only invited them struggle. Feather admitted. to participate, The Stalinists want to

SOW

round-up 'We have made confusion in the labour and trade no to see what decisions unions have Their noisy movement. nion taken. We are leaving as 'support' for the May I day of of what spontaneous expression and onlv protest stoppage

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vou could call a resentful, reluc- to the extent that it remained a Phase Two acquiescence in tant reformist gesture. policy of the government's pay The Stalinists will fight not under protest, in particular about all mobilize the anti-Tory to soaring prices he added. May Day massive forces for a Instead of a determined mobil-

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

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'RELUCTANT

ACQUIESCENCE

SAYS FEATHER

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A Loses credibility Stalinists weaken Renault fight as strikes spread PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday April

COMMUNIST

• PARTY

members yesterday led the fight against the militants on behalf of the right wing in Britain's largest union of teachers. Delegates at the National Union of Teachers' annual conference at Scarborough voted for an emergency resolution proposed by the executive making impossible for anyone but them call for strikes or special to general meetings. Members of the International Socialists and I the International Marxist Group in the 235,000- a rebellion strong union led against the Stalinist and right- wing-dominated executive's cam- for rise in teachers' special London allowance.

Now the Stalinists have col- laborated with the right wing to silence them. Right wing ex-president Mr Harry Allison told the 2,000 delegates the time had come for the union to assert its authority over the rank and file. Allison charged •that decisions had been taken in some Asso- ciations on slender votes at poorly-attended meetings and in pursuit of objectives that were 'utterly unrealizable'. Executive member Mr Peter Kennedy said attempts to impose on sections of the union policies which differed from those agreed by the executive and conference were to be blamed on a minority.

'But there is a danger it may grow, he said. Communist Party NUT Pre- sident Max Morris called only speaker against the execu- one tive's proposal — although more than 60 delegates had submitted cards to speak against it. And speaker selected was the one fellow-Stalinist Joe Finch from Lewisham. denounced 'maverick Finch ultra-leftists' wrecked she Westminster Central Halls meeting at which the execu- tive was forced to flee the plat- form. In a speech devoted entirely to the left; Finch attack an on criticized what he called 'irres- and ponsible strike calls' said he had often had to vote down strike calls. In a deliberately-created atmo- of witch-hunt, Finch sphere personally denounced one of the teachers under threat of discipline from the union-Mr Keagan-as 'one of the people who disrupts the union'. Finch 'opposed' the executive's move only in his last sentence.

The NUT executive was, he claimed, 'giving magnificent a lead', but it would be wrong to change the rules because the leadership might change! past-president Mr Right wing Jack Jones said: If union loses control this under its rules, God above knows what could happen to the image of the union.' After the debate Stalinist pre- sident Max Morris declared the executive's resolution overwhelm- ingly carried. All Trades Unions Allian SOUTH ELMSALL: Thurs- day April 26, 8 p.m. The Railway Hotel. Speaker: Mike Banda (SLL Central Committee). DONCASTER Monday April White Bear 30, 8 p.m. Hotel, Hallgate. Speaker: Mike Banda (SLL Central Committee).

KNOTTINGLEY:

Thursday May 3, 7.30 p.m. Railway Hilltop. Hotel, (National Speaker: G. Healy Secretary SLL). sday April 26, 1973 Prince Sihanouk - the exiled leader of the liberation fighters - has recently returned to the Ankor. region of Cambodia. His forces control huge areas of the country and could lake Phnom Penh when they like. LEADERS of the two main unions involved in the Renault dispute have again appealed to the Gaullist premier Pierre Messmer to intervene and end the con- flict in the state - owned motor combine. The plea, by leaders of both the CGT and the CFDT, is the second attempt to pressure the government to step in and prevent the strike spreading throughout the combine and Alliance Public Meetings OLLERTON: Monday May 7, 8 p.m. Blue Tit. Speaker: Mike Banda (SLL Central Committee). BARNSLEY: Thursday May 10, 8 p.m. Masons Arms. Speaker: Slaughter Cliff (SLL Central Committee). Thursday

CASTLEFORD:

May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar St Rooms. Speaker: G. Healy (National secretary SLL). We could beat them tomorrow-Sihanouk Lon Nol regime CAMBODIA'S higher state council has begun to fall apart within hours of its formation. The three American stooges whose supposed to broaden the presence regime's base have started to quarrel with dictator Lon Nol. The council has been disparagingly dubbed the municipal council of Phnom Penh because its writ only as far as suburbs of the capital. It was runs formed under American pressure as an urgently needed face-lift for the crumbling rulers. Lon Nol, however, is unwilli to this rivers in the no doubt, contain such com "a broad. his rivals in the torting words power He their •aser cover ment spoorted council. aroused leader and an with anger yesterday able administrator" and radio broadcast Loone in Wnich figure in his leder- Oucillical he proclaimed himself hosen, Lon Nol watches the chairman of the council. but irrelevant to uscoote He claimed the right peasants in Cambodia. delegate withhold The paper cited one high- Lon Nol's disposal exist only LOor from- -the council all state light Lon Nol's presi- business. dency: the he issued Cornmanders claim pay The other three council last year declaring that and rations all y said it had beer Calent Tao- units in order to pocket tne formed on the understand- bits would be arrested for proceeds. equat status with Lon hol.

they The United States air force treachery. of dIl- mountie heaviest bomber ever SnIS pelly quarrel about nouncea, nad plans to strap raids the shadow power bombs to the backs of the known Indo-China in while the puppet beasts and release them near going on to the re. alicityl armies stagger from defeat government installations anne s comorete coraose catastrophe capital Te little sort decree Prince Sihanouk, the exiled in a oI completely surrounded by done inspire con- head state leads the liberation fidence in the troops. dictatorship. liberation has said he limes Come mone LoaT reun the Phnom Penh disparaged Phnom Penh regime have fallen long ago had it formation of the coun- has been enhanced clear that the US not been cil which said was by the extensive tour bomb 1f woule miculalely posea to ininate peace nego- l berated areas carried

OUT

tiations with the insurgents And with rates B2 thereby other at the and extricate visited, among port rate Wat dent Nixon from his war in and 250 hehter places. Ine

HAKOI

mIssions Cambodia. temples in the heart of the every day- nom net Reports by American dip country. the would be rouLCO omats in Phnom Penh will Many of the troops a Strikes are also threatened

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

amont workers. are demanding that the WhO government election even to other parts of French Le Mans, employing their bring Wants industry. 9,000 people, have been placer ecuvalent ever nonvare on short-time. industry. So far the strikes At the end of last week Com- have been confined sector The management is taking a Party secretarv Georges by the union leaders to protest Marchais wrote an open letter tough line Kenault, and un- stoppages. Messmer the support of urging coas the Gaullist government. Behind the mounting strike national IntereST Lo sic• In ane France is movement in the elsewhere Renault dispute. There disputes rapid eno Tine ale letter was across the in the car industry. front Party cutting deeper and deeper into daily past wage packets. 'L'Humanité', but drew no workers Tes.

AT PEUGEOT

ponse from the premier. neconanons are The Gaullists' victory at the still under way in an attempt to National Assembly resolve the workers' demand for The lates appeal brings elecuon lo many which Stalinist- zowed months both basic wage ot 1,500 francs union members were told by their dominated union and the week leaders not to rock the boat with which likes to pose 'leftist'. At the company's factory near

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The reality ware aenanas. Is just Lyons, ex-legionnaires n 'bars bring the Peugeot payroll used iron" Workers who had " been en- carer Renault dispute rapidly to an couraged place their hopes the strikers end. Popular are trying election premises. ne unions to cool down the resulting tense Front-style coalition of the Com Both union leaderships fear but been munist, Socialist and Left Radical situation, have unable and lock-out That The strike Parties found the electoral road Renault could become the flash- reach arreement so of another point mass action Darted ale Dolled Ine President, Georges Pompidou.

ANOTHER strike in the car in- ine the Saviem Pompidou com- declared his inten- Bud heir hopes hao the disaste there tion ignoring the would over Easter tactory. where has outcome of Ducals higher weekend been been a lenginy strike Ior the poll It It ShOuld have ruacly and up-grading of job him—a direct threat to plunge wages soattered. on •the man- Nor the country into civil classifications. are the strikes war rather agement announced that it would the probably be lock- extending conlinea lo motor mausury. unan renounce bower. In response to this situation OU!

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Dologne Billancourt outside Paris the most active and militant THERE ARE a number of strikes to another 3,000 workers. of workers to at steelworks both back This would Lorraine, the total the where wide- Lull settling accounts locked-out with means Cosures aren Lu catered with the employers. and where the Turner o out strike de Dunkirk, manding full pay for the period Usinor combine has large At all costs the Stalinists have when laid off Iron to muzzle the French they during modern plant. miners undertaken were earlier surike. •Ine laclory di Lorraine are cue

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sunke Class reLUrI 1O] completely closed down on Friday for 24 hours. government guarantees to co- with 20,000 workers locked out. exist peacefully with Moscow. The steel strikes have been The lock-out has accompanied by walk-outs Stalinists' been tem- Significantly, the porarily lifted at Sandouville, threatened bv a move lexules. on renneries and amon Doncy Is the Lorraine, ment began among plant, Dut engineers there once workers which are on strike and 11000th worker- though these have generally been immigrant workers who are out of the workers limited 24-hour 48-hour plant's completely under the CP's Is likely. Iwo-thirds of the fac- loken stoppages comination.

Workers Press, Thursday April 26, 1973 PAGE 3 British army

ALEX

MITCHELL'S

Far-East Diary executions Everybody's in Ulster beating the

THE

ARMY

has been Claim by Peking path accused of mounting a new wave of terror against civil- moderate ians in Northern Ireland in a strong statement from the

SCARCELY

The Catholics day final visit of the Central moderate Belfast Shirley goes by without some bv WeEK Wa. made Citizens' Defence Commit- beating actress. This celebrity or other Maclaine, Ene how the 'Hong Kong tee. path into China. The Standard' reported the affair The claims the committee that local newspapers The claim came from Mr will unconscious prima facie radio and television recent weeks there was •cover 'Actress Shirley Maclaine evidence that had engaged Tom Conaty, about the best- in reception and delegation ore Shirley Maclaine... Invited execution before either other as dignatories lial come due known moderate Catholic American al c pala lnel anuve mere Ulster chief William on The statement 'We route for a three-week visit are t0. "The not propagandists China. Whitelaw's advisory for the

IRA-

En-lai. com- Chinese govern- neither are we Last week electee reoresenanves was particu- mittee. Democratic Labour ment asked me larly lo conse did busy. was Party and the Labour Party other bring a delegation of regu- or Carving Peking greet Conaty said complaints against bodies who lar American women have commented upon of the army were rejected out of hand meet Chinese and reported army repression.

Mexico. The he his women," Miss Maclaine told and covering up was the order ot "The only people in the community reporters in New York who have basis talks Were hen "They some plaining about army repression and niche and working-class killings are •casalil. on those extremists

DUCIC

women. bringing them time Mr 1 m sides whom the army are now match- At the

OUR

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housewives, an in Peking ing in their methods.' Evelyn the gist, psychologist, civil rights is reckoned to be chairman the British sonne, The new wave of repression is al- 'with-it' charac- and Rothschilds electronics certainly the

CHUCISCU

• result of a desper- Sir John Addis engineer," she said. include Unita a levulaliul civil Blackwell, rights Karen acavist. boutner. speak immachae 12-year-old who organized McGovern's campaign no-holds-barred offensive against the Concord, California; Pat branson. once OI Ninibah Crawford, psy- chologist and Navajo Indian; oince to Whitman and Ivialcare

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and conservative housewite Republican Chinese view our worsen g noeranon Will Sinn allowed some amusement,' Miss visional rem to be LO Maclaine said. •roretaliali The lorv-controled Pres: in Hong Kong greets each of these with huge en- the Tories CalluL. alc their enthus- ls only oulstrippea -guess who?-the news- Sunday's papers of the Chinese Com- munist Party in Hong Kong everv issue or toeir newspapers- -they have three talks with publications are Chinese We pages of pictures of Chinese Nave doing bureaucrats anu makes a le neen business (TO. smiline •anc gether for he added. shaking hands with princes, final left Tories, dic This shahs, military моге Corresoul- Lalors alla mochasts dent puzzled. one description another. haer Trom Pering may boycott the elections unless the But Its immediate most has figure came devastating impact it all been Mean walte deral the swelling trade he

HOTCCOO

in Belfast Capt Troops In willing 'to seek union and working was cass dialogue opposition to the colonial the election. which conducts wil mol slalld Davil the day'. The statement accused feeler' itself in the most 19th cen- the British army of enforcing from the fashion new reign of terror in the Catholic For Press is now Sacrea minority areas. Of The wildly proclaiming the bene June Peoples, Vatican's The BCCDC said: 'It is degrading Deacelul co-existenct and sionary friendly relations, etc. 'that Whatever happened the statement that the army is not using pray dogs, the imperial- and the Christian be rough tactics value. 1e- lackeys, the paper tigers, confi- this Londonderry throughout Malue Deniasi alle etc.? propaganda campaign'. Fraser still pressing Demo outside explosions case charges against prison • Conspiracy searched three times and made charges were ex-

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people demons- to hand in newspapers. pected to brought yesterday trated outside Coventry magis- The accused remanded detained by against two people court yesterday as the trates until Monday, April 30. custody Special officers Manchester Police THE SISTER of Mr Francis men accused of

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Cast Branch. The arrests folowed the Fraser, the man sentenced to Applications conspiring to damage property tor hail tor results of forensic tests on ma- each one handcuffed 20 years for his part in the prisoners by causing an explosion was Coventry terial seized The Richardson and sing-y to a policemall were te gang resumed. consistent injuries with having raids a fortnight ago. fused. 1969 Parkhurst riot, said been kicked and beaten. Cries of 'Free All Irish Poli- Elm Fraser civil yesterday even would greeted mer ansoners Tre nine prison action Miles not stop them pressing for Catholic priest Patrick Coal being stockpiled officers, including assistant Hamilton (32) Anthony the of prison

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governor. lor une munes me re. Lynch +6); Nolana

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officers Fraser has accused of ceived at Parkhurst. (27); Francis for autumn crisis KeIT The Home Office has offered malpractice. Gerald Rush and Pra Mc- him £250 but Fraser damages, Cormick Stagg (17) and After the Parkhurst riot Fraser has elected me money. to (47) stitches his needed in tney were proudor His * Money Eva Brindle, Sous been COAL STOCKS are being built further 2 million tons the court. peace nore SULCHes said doesn't the South ready for possible political yestcrudy. stockolled and had a broken nose and Fifty olicemen with six dogs We're crises in the autumn and next Scotland board. come into la

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surrounded juries to the body. the court and people It's live in council flat. we're winter Having the coal within CEGB Fraser loathed by prison fighting principles entering une pubne gauery welt and in 1971 a warder at Central Elec- boundary fences any differ- warders ov october me Imbortant It would not hakt tricity Generating Board is likely During the miners' strike, Wakeheld two-eear suspended sentence and ence

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IT unev onered tim. 18 million in stock the turning points the

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the 'Daily have does not matter what prison of removed from the prison for he to, there is always Express' in London was delayed willin 1LS

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success ut nail goes sending abusive letters to one of yesterday by a dispute in the boundaries. electricity power stations was body there ready to take it out the closing by combined miners' This is 20 per cent above last on him. spokesmar nosers realives. MacHine said the copies lost were those the 'We won't be satisfied until October's ngure and is equivalent engineers' pickets of Last during riots ana ycal, these men are convicted. normally sent out by air.

to 12 winter weeks supply. Saltley Coke Depot. Gartree prison, Fraser sustained

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Aprll 2 Steel union leaders have abandoned any militant resistance against the government's drastic closure programme and are now agitating for a Utopian private steel project. The new strategy centres on the hoary project for a steel mill at Hunterston on the mouth of the river Clyde in • del Scotland. Unions came close to de- claring their colours recently with a heavy hint that they prepared to back a were scheme to bring private capital to the area. Arth bellion siona steel cer of the and Steel Trades Confederation told the Scottish TUC: "Other people are interested in Hunterston. If we are in- terested in the Scottish eco- nomy, if we are interested in providing jobs, we may well have these to encourage people to come here.' This is the first public sup- port from the unions for the steel project. The chances of getting pri- vate steel to the ared, course, are extremely slight.

Bell is grasping at straws to make up for his own union's near total lack of fighting op- position to the rationalization in Scotland, England and Wales. A day after his statement the ISTC met behind locked doors at TUC headquarters in London and held its first annual meeting since the war.

The debate produced no policy whatsoever to challenge the British Steel Corporation's rationalization plans. The union is dominated by the policies of its leader Sir Dai Davies, who has already stated that the ISTC is ready to co-operate with the steel cut-back programme. In his union's journal Davies said there would be a cam- paign to make sure the gov- ernment came forward with alternative jobs for steelmen, but he recognized the need for modernization. 'It cannot be denied by anyone familiar with the steel industry that large sections of it need bringing up to date,' he wrote. He added: 'While it may not be the function of a trade union to promote economic logic, to completely disregard it would be a betrayal of the many thousands of workers who will be employed in the modern steel industry of the future' Hunterston is now likely to Writings of

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UNION CHIEFS TALK

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with the steel cut-back programme and rationalization plans of BSC Casual farm workers reach record level Casual workers on the land have increased to record levels and the farm workers' union is seriously worried about the possibility of the meagre wages being further undermined.

The numbers of casual last year NOSe 62,000 of an increase … over 10,000 since This com- pares with the 322,000 work- ers on the land altogether.

The seasonal or casual em- ployee tends to work for the Dig comoines ana ls less con- cerned with trade unions and condition of pay and work.

This aggravates the consider- able problems of organization on the land. Another developing trend is the halt of the rapid drift of labour towards the towns. This is not a product of better pay - wages on farms remain the lowest in the country-but a of far higher urban resull unemplovnent. already stated that he would plans of BSC. Thousands of motorists are driving around Britain on tyres that could fall apart at more than 19 miles an hour.

They are third-grade tyres, made on the Continent and sold at quayside auctions at Hull and London. Many bear brand names like Pirelli, Michelin, Uniroyal and Dunlop-but they are sup- to be used only on posed farms. The British Rubber Manu- facturers' Association says that unscrupulous dealers are buying them and fitting them on cars. Once the tyres get into the country it is almost impossible to restrict their sale. They can be picked out by a small marking-'30 KM/H MAX'-but some dealers are 'buffing out this." mark!

No principled politics for Pierre Frank An American lawyer repre- senting the International Com- mission of Jurists said in Athens that Greece was a police state. The lawyer, Mr William Butler, and two other jurists have been investigating whether international stan- dards of law had been obser- ved in the case of six Greek incommunicado lawyers held by military police since their arrest in early March. Four of them had, a few days earlier, defended in court 11 students detained during demonstrations and recent charged with insulting the Greek authorities. Greek police arrest students.

Mr Butler told a Press con- 'Even if they [the ference: lawyers] are accused of actions against the government, they should be brought to trial immediately. It is therefore clear that constitutional provisions, par- ticularly article 10, are not implemented in Greece? (Article 10 of the 1968 stipulates that constitution no one can be arrested with- out a judicial warrant nor de- tained more than 24 hours without being charged.) Asked if he thought Greece was a police state, Mr Butler replied: 'Yes, I think it is.

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Available from: New Park Publications 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG or the Paperbacks Centre 28 Charlotte Street London, W1 (Enclose 10p for postage) The April 9 issue of 'Intercontinental Press' —a publication of the re- visionist Unified Secre- tariat of the Fourth In- ternational-carries an article entitled "The Lam- bertists and the Varga- ites Falls Out'. This is nothing more than a collection of sneers by Pierre Frank occasioned by the pub- lication of differences between the French Organisation Com- Internationaliste muniste (OCI) and the Ligue des Re- volutionnaires Socialistes Hongrois (LRSH). The Socialist Labour Lea- gue broke from the Lambert- Varga tendency in August 1971 on principled political issues. We did not hide then and we do not hide now, the im- disagreements with portant Varga which Lambert and made it impossible for us to continue in the same inter- national organization. We pub- four lished the main docu- ments of the split in Workers Press in April last year.

the Lambert- However, Varga organization is by no means as discredited and cor- rupt as the Unified Secretariat of Messrs Frank, Mandel, Hansen and Maitan. It has not crossed the divi- ding line of tolerating collabo- with the international ration agencies of imperialism. Our fundamental disagree- is with Lambert-Varga ment over their rejection of dia- Computers have not by stopped fiddling Soviet book-keepers and cashiers. They simply feed fictitious informa- tion into the machine and make false sums of money. Two in book - keepers Sverdolsk, named as Kalash- lectical materialism as a theory of knowledge and their claim that programme, not the conflict between theory and practice, was the basis of the building of parties. This liquidation of the party into spontaneity and so-called processes, in prac- 'objective' tice led to a failure to pene- trate into the French masses support the Communist who Party. It was a long-standing source of conflict between the SLL and the OCI, particularly over their tail-ending of the movement in May-June 1968.

By 1971 the OCI-LRSH had moved openly to uniting with against the Fourth centrists International-as they did at the Essen Youth Rally. And they seized on the criticisms which the SLL and our American co-thinkers, the Workers League, levelled at the Bolivian POR. Behind a cover of 'solidarity with the Bolivian Revolution' Lambert-Varga only not avoided an examination of the opportunist politics of the POR, but any discussion of practical the theoretical and questions of building the Fourth International. We characterized this ten- dency as a Pabloite tendency not, as Frank sneeringly claims because Pabloism is a 'phan- tom' , but because it represents liquidation of Trotskyism.

We will not withdraw one word of our fight against the OCI and the LRSH-but it must be said that there are no recipients of CIA money in- organizations. side those Neither Lambert nor Varga have any record of tolerating nikova and Siyatova, did this with the of the accounts Novaya Lyalys pulp -and - paper combine and other fac- tories. They invented numbers for non-existent workers and cashed the wages that an obliging computer worked out for them by arrangement with three cashiers who were in the know. All are now repent- ing in jail. In Chimkent three officials of the Building Directorate made a deal to steal timber which was delivered to ficti- tious sites. The head book- keeper destroyed the real prepared ficti- invoices and tious ones and the drivers of the trucks which delivered it timber to private sold the in house-builders. This very private enter- Workers Press, Thi organizations, let in their alone in their highest bodies, men who have accepted trips paid for by the Central Intel- ligence Agency of the United States. It the contemptible Pierre Frank who sits along- side a man who co-operated with the CIA. And he sits with him on the International Executive Committee of the Unified Secretariat. That man is Bala Tampoe, general secretary of the Cey- lonese Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary), the of the Ceylonese section Unified Secretariat. Tampoe was unanimously Frank's Inter- re-elected to national Executive Committee after their own Commission of Inquiry had reported that in 1967 Tampoe had accepted a trip to the United States paid for by the Asia Foundation, a well-known recipient of CIA funds. While there he attended given by seminars • Robert McNamara, then Defence Sec- charge of prosecut- retary ing the Vietnam war. Tampoe private discussions also held with McNamara. Among other activities which would merit immediate expulsion from any self-res- pecting working-class organi- zation-much less one claim- ing to be Trotskyist-the re- visionists' commission found that Tampoe had attended a function in honour of an ex- Nazi, and had organized scab- bing by the union of which he was general secretary dur- ing the devaluation strikes of 1967. prise was ably assisted by the works superintendent who carried out the necessary paperwork and, by falsifying names, cashed large sums of money. He and his confeder- ates are now doing prison terms. Sentences of 14 years were imposed on the deputy- chairman of a housing co- operative and ten years on its senior book-keeper as a result a fraud unearthed Kaliningrad. Together with accomplices, they accepted bribes on a large scale in return for finding flats.

'They took bribes every- where, a Moscow broadcast said, 'at board meetings, in corridors, in restaurants and on the street; they accepted anything — articles of gold, Press, Thursday April 26, 1973 PAGE 5 Bala Tampoe, who Above left: is general secretary of the Unified Secretariat's Ceylonese the

LSSP(R).

Top section, right: McNamara, then defence seminars secretary, whose attended. Centre: Tampoe Joseph Hansen, of the Ameri- Ernest

SWP.

Bottom: can Mandel, leading member of the Unified Secretariat. We recognize that there is a qualitative difference between people who have serious poli- however tical differences, grave, and who spread con- fusion and misleadership--and those who consciously permit their leading members to col- laborate with the CIA. Nor is it simply a matter as an individual. of Tampoe Had the Unified Secretariat expelled him as a collaborator, it could still have retained some integrity in the workers' movement. But to do that would have an investigation, not meant only into the LSSP(R) but into the whole record of the Uni- fied Secretariat, including the unprincipled reunification of 1963; and the entry of their into the Ceylonese section Bandaranaike government in 1964. Frank, Hansen, Mandel and their colleagues preferred to cover up for Tampoe rather than open these questions.

Every one of the leaders of the Unified Secretariat is thus tainted with the brush of the CIA collaborator. Frank represents a corrupt organization which every honest worker and revolu- tionary would reject. silver or glass; furniture and watches, overcoats and suits. outerwear and furs, food and wines' These cases are typical of many others which go un- reported. There is now crackdown on such abuses as the bureaucracy attempts to grapple with serious economic difficulties. But where does the example come for economic crimes and the filching of state property by these small fry if not from the gigantic demands levied by the powerful bur- national eaucrats on production? result of the present The campaign is likely to be anger against the bureaucratic system and its beneficiaries whose malpractices go un- punished.

WHAT NEXT FOR DOCK WORKERS?

PAGE 6 Workers Pross, Thursday April 26, 1973 Part one of a statement by the The rejection by the dockers' mass meeting of the recommendation sub- mitted by union officials on Friday April 6, shows that neither the 18-man negotiating committee nor the stewards' leader- ship warrants the connd- ence of London dockers. This is an unprecedented step end an which brings to an era of non-political reformist trade unionism in the docks and opens up new oppor- for the development tunities of Marxist leadership. in Press The capitalist over the particular gloats dockers', miners' and gas- workers' retreat in the belief militant workers that these have accepted Heath's policies and the prospect of a corporate state. ursday April 26, 1973 ement by the All Trades Unions Allianc The Press is supplemented by the arguments of revisionist and Communist Party stewards and union officials who say that the leadership is not worthy of its followers. Two stewards in the Royals have already resigned because they no confidence in the have workers. If the Press maligns the working class and distorts the real causes of the retreat, it does so because it hates the working class. If the revision- ists, Stalinists and officials do so. it is because they fear the resurgence of this class they do the than more capitalists. All Trades Unions The section Alliance docks un- these equivocally rejects slanders on the working class.

If the dockers accepted the pay norm of the Heath govern- ment and rejected the appeal to devalue the Green Book Unions Alliance docks section then this decision was pro- influenced by the foundly wholesale retreat of the union every political leaders from challenge by the Tory govern- ment. Dockers' union leaders have consistently broken their own mandate and recognized the Relations National Industrial Court. They have failed utterly to defend the basic rights of dockers to a job by accepting the principle of severance pay and, with it, the introduction of the supplementary register and the erosion of the scheme.

Above all, they have refused to fight for the nationalization of the under control and, instead, collaborated with the have plans of the monopolists to and profitability increase real efficiency while wages have either stagnated or gone down in some ports. The report of the National Ports Council has shown with absolute clarity that the growth of inflation and the monetary crisis of capitalism which has forced interest rates to fan- tastic i levels has led to a tremendous growth of indebted- of every major Dock ness Labour Scheme port. This, in turn, has led to the growth of unregistered ports and an intensification of the drive for greater productivity and discipline in the scheme ports. demands This situation imperatively campaign to force the Tories to resign and the election of a Labour govern- which will nationalize ment the ports. But this the leader- ship refuses to do. actions of the union The leaders are not the only source of confusion and uncertainty in the docks. The conscious- ness of dockers has also been affected the continued re- by the TUC not only to fusal of lead any struggle against the government's dictatorial laws, but even to give adequate sup- port to the dockers, miners, railmen, hospital gasmen, and other sections workers who have been forced to fight struggles isolated sectional against the combined strength of government and employers in the last three years. This bankrupt policy was special TUC revealed at the March 5 general when on Victor Feather and secretary the right wing-with the help of the Communist Party leaders -blocked any move towards a General Strike against the Tories and substituted for it the inadequate one-day national protest on May 1. This retreat has now turned engineers' into with rout president Hugh Scanlon's cring- offering co- ing statement Tory operation with the government in its attempts to solve the economic crisis, and the deliberate cover-up con- CP and the ducted by the 'Morning Star'. As a result of the Penton- and rail ballot ville Five experiences of 1972, the Tories have revamped their tactics.

the Instead of resorting to NIRC on every major indus- trial issue they have deliber- ately kept the court in reserve to while resorting massive intiation supplemented by an the with collaboration overt union leaders through the Pay Boards, regular secret taiks at and at 10 Downing Chequers vicious police in- Street and timidation of pickets. In this way they avoid a Left: The mass meeting on March 10 voles t and withdrawal from Clause offer Newman, acting secretary of NASO. Below: of the unions' 18-man committee, secretary of the T&GWU at the March 10 me frontal confrontation with the unions, use the union leaders and to police the militants tackle the working class in a piece-meal fashion. It is not as dramatic as the court, but insidious it is and more demoralizing. This is the sinister set-up which Scanlon and the Stalin- they talk ists defend when about amending the Industrial Relations Act. What Scanlon is saying is that there are more ways than one to create the basis for the corporate state. statements and de- These de- cisions are calculated to moralize and confuse the working class. Far from inspiring dockers to fight the Tories they only induce a feeling of deep scepti- and bitterness towards CIsm reformist leaders and a desire to conserve their strength, take what is offered and wait for Workers Press, Thursday April 26, 1973 PAGE 7 (2) Why did the union officials told by the employers that enthusiastically accept Clause there until April and that eas could increases 12 and the Green Book under Phase Two of Devlin in 1970 been made clear also if they there would be are no advance or implement it today? Does this the offer of £2.60 plus 4 per constitute principled leader- cent on differential payments ship? "The they employers insist (3) If the employers had cannot pay any more than this accepted the devaluation of without against the 4O1- the flexibility rule would that government which they are not have improved the offer wage prepared to do, said Mr Shea.

by a single penny? And is it (Emphasis in original.) gratuitous insult • Mr Shea said they had intelligence to dockworkers pressed the men's case most demand sacrifices which bring firmly with the employers, but no reward? they were the (4) Is it not reformist light- government's current wage mindedness to begin a struggle policies. increase permanenl 'There was no getting away demanding (by an from the fact that the freeze without increase in manning) would extend to the auLullIll securing the unity of the when Phase Three would come scheme ports national and would go then it on against struggle the Jones- for at least another three years Aldington report? [sic]. How (5) can the economic In other words the union blackmail of employers in the leaders thought that was enclosed docks defeated going to be a common, ordinary without the dockers unity of affair involving the port drivers? Was and lorry this employers and the unions, but not the lesson of Thames 65?

when they discovered to their What right officials have horror that the government was and stewards to blame dockers involved the bosses' side when they helped to sell the and the strike was a politica Devlin Plan and failed In they strike were preparea lo imple- accept £2.60 and three years of ment strategy capable of Phase Three as well! defeating the employer-govern- Shea's defeatism fol- was ment offensive and frustrating lowed by a plea from Mr Les the union leaders' manoeuvres?

Newman, of secretary acting Instead of an all-out strike the NASD who showed how lock-out which union leaders could initiative with the wals £9 wage demand into a £2 one accept the £2.60 wage employers. March 10 votes to at the crack of Heath's whip of a categorical re- Instead Tre Greenell. Led Said Newman: '"We thought Below: Maurice Foley, chairman jection of Phase Two we were Peter Shea, London docks on cost living alone an with asked to accept the corporatist of £8 to £9 was th of the government. increase al ine march 10 meeling. In- 110 1 111 right amount, but the employers stead of a campaign of political would not hear of this with dock-gate preparation meetings, we were hustled half- cocked into a stunt which was defeat. doomed to Instead of a docks delegates conference, where the question of a national wage claim could be tied to the question of the 'What was wanted was for supplementarv register and the the employers to "have , go defence of the scheme, we government' [!] but at the forced were fight Lne they were not going to do this employers separately and with- either !!!]. out a unified strategy. ' "The employers are hiding So, because of the political behind the Act and are of the stewards, bankruptcy the ones who are having delegates and officials, we were suffer because of this. deprived of the opportunity to After Newman came Maurice make a united stand against Foley, chairman of the 18-man the lory He did not doubt probability the of lock-out make a confused devalued the the dockers actical. Green Book caused This situation was Newman he could But like entirely by the fact that the 18-man committee tried to face strategy and made no attempt both ways, accepting the £2.60 warn dockers of the inter- norm while rejecting Clause 12 vention of the Pay Board.

in the belief that they could The political bankruptcy of avoid the Pay Board and cover their the committee was vividly ex by letical Foley when chal- modest concession on manning.

Dressed lenged by a Socialist Labour The employers, having tasted League supporter to define the blood in the dispute over the committee's attitude the meat trade in the Royal Docks to Phase Two policy in January, were not impressed by these 'Mr Foley stressed that at opportunist tactics no time and the April vote has "have the Committee shown that dockers were not received anv reference to take convinced either. action against the government's ('Port', We understand well that policies"!' March rapid technological change and 18, 1973.) political upheaval have created was this policy which confusion in minds of dockers failed to inspire dockers, but that this many Friday. confusion can be cleared up Where do stand docker the next round of struggle.

by a politically-conscious and In extremels pre- an It is for these reasons that revolutionary leadership.

What carious position. for the lay dockers will not easily forget re-educated cannot enclosed docks- -thanks to the the equivocal and thoroughly clarified, however, is the pre- union leaders' retreat on the unprincipled role of the 18-man sent leadership whose reformist basic claim 1970 wage farcical committee in outlook 1s an incitement to has risen by only £2.25 over opposition to the employers further two and a half years. wage offer. And this at a time when Tonist se retos mist like to From the beginning they productivity and the cost of who visionist sceptics sought by every possible means increased have at blame dockers for the living ine avoid a struggle the faster rate than at any time consequences of their own government's Counter-Inflation since the war. shou.d strategy we Act. This deliberate evasion is Now face we even more like to address the following clearly revealed in the report savage cuts in our standard of questions: first mass meeting of the of living and prospect Amal- further redundancies and the Stevedores gamated and labour of casua D-mers memberse lin March as the currency crisis and trade 18-man commutice war deepens. to decide on the £2.60 offer. But the leaders' re- union (See the 'Port' magazine, March Two treat on Phase will not 15, 1973, ( No 157) (I) Why did the 18-man com- the prevent the deepening of Here the are relevant ex- mittee accept and recommend will aid the crisis. only tracts: contemptible offer Tories to prepare more ade. Lne "The opened by £2.60? Was meeting quately for the coming period London docks secretary of the with Tory pliarce of stormy sugges acceptance of the Transport Union, Mr Peter policy and who said they had been

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Shea, Pay Board?

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday April

BY PETER JEFFRIES

Last month's Empire Pool Rally, attended by 10,000 workers, youth and intel.

lectuals, indicated the considerable interest which now exists about historical questions inside the working class move. ment. For Marxists, the growth of this interest in a period such as this comes as no surprise.

For it arises from the nature of the political crisis which the working class now faces.

As Workers Press and the Socialist Labour League alone have insisted, the Heath gov- ernment is by no means merely attacking the immediate living standards of millions of workers. The Tories are en- gaged on a programme designed to strip the working class of every fundamental right it has won in the last 200 years of struggle against bitter the employers and their govern- ments. It is the growing recognition of this fact which is forcing those in the front ranks of the fight against the Tory govern- ment today to turn back to the experiences of history. They are driven to do this in order to find the theoretical and practical lessons to bring the fight against the Tory govern- crisis-ridden and the ment, capitalist' system it represents, to a decisive and final con- clusion. is now the great respon- It sibility of the Socialist Labour League and its growing num- ber of supporters in the work- ing-class movement to encour- age and develop this study of history which the Empire Pool rally did so much to stimulate.

For us this has always been a revolutionary duty. The task of extracting from history its real lessons can only be done by those engaged in the day- by-day struggle to establish a revolutionary leadership for the working class. The attitude of the revisionists and reform- ists to historical questions is quite the opposite. which these Any attention people pay to history has always one purpose in view: to distort, obscure and deny the revolutionary content of the history of the British working class. Because they believe implicitly in the stability of the capitalist system and its capa- city to withstand any crisis, they must, in turn, be driven belittle the to denigrate and historical struggle for Marxism.

inside the working-class move- ment. This is clearly the case with an article in the current issue of 'International', the 'theore- tical' journal of the Inter- national Marxist Group, 'The Origins of British reformism' by one A. Jones. The International Marxist Group are the political descen- dants of those who broke from Trotskyism in 1953 on the rounds that revolutionary parties were no longer required to lead the working class sday April 26, 1973 power. The Stalinist movement could be forced to the left and made to carry out this his- torical task, they said. This counter-revolutionary standpoint, and in particular capitulation to Stalinism the which this split involved, are writ large over Jones' 'analysis' of the history of the British working-class movement. And because his purpose is to 'explain' the non-revolution- ary nature of the British work- ing class, he inevitably starts the crudest form from of idealism. He writes what might be called the 'If Only' theory of history. 'If only' British his- tory had been more like that of the French... 'if only' the Marxist movement had been composed of men of the calibre of A. Jones ... then we would long ago have had a socialist revolution. Like all middle-class rene- gades from Marxism, he is utterly unable to face up to the contradictory development of the working class in Britain, a contradictory development which had a real, historical and material foundation. He cannot begin in this way precisely be- cause the task of revolutionary Marxism now consists in re- practice these con- solving in tradictions. This in turn involves sum- moning up all the historical forces which are contained in the revolutionary traditions of the British working class, tra- ditions which stretch back to Chartism and beyond. This is clear from his dis- cussion of the Labour Party, with which his article begins.

'For some time now a series of articles in the "Red Mole" [paper of the IMG] have been trying to spell out an analysis of the British Labour Party• The essence of this position 1s ideology social that the of democracy in its Labourite version ... represents a whole series of organizations which correspond to or "embody" a particular consciousness and that these organizations funda- mentally determine the entire character of the British work- ing-class movement.' And, as if to emphasize the point, he tells us on the next page: • the structure of the Labour Party ... determines of the the structure As an idealist, Jones here actually manages to turn the historical process on its head.

ve- As anybody with even an knowledge of elementary working-class history British knows, the Labour Party did not determine the character of the British working class, but was on the contrary a reflection of the level reached by the class struggle at the end of the last century. It is this same idealist method which pervades his entire excursion into the past of the British working class.

In discussing the relationship between 'economic' and 'poli- tical' struggle, for example, he tells us: 'One of the founding principles of Bolshevism was that although it saw a big difference between trade union and political consciousness, it saw no difference between the political and economic struggle with regard to where they were carried out. Whether a strike was political or not was deter- mined by the consciousness of the people involved, not by it was a "trade the fact that union" affair.' Here Jones, at a stroke, dis- misses entirely the materialist theory of knowledge in favour the purest idealism. Whether a strike is political or not he informs us, is deter- mined by the consciousness of the people involved! So exist- ence is determined by con- sciousness! At the very foun- dation of Marx's doctrine was understanding that the the class struggie existed indepen- dently of the consciousness of those involved in it and that it developed through its own, internal, dialectical logic, in times of crisis reaching not merely political, but revolu- tionary proportions. All strikes against the Tory government are directly politi- cal, not because the majority of people realize that they are, is Jones' idealistic which criterion, but because the economic crisis has forced the to intervene directly Tories into the trade union movement.

In so doing they transformed all wages struggles into poli- tical ones concerning govern- ment and power. Jones' aim throughout is clear: he wishes to present the British working class as a help- less tool of the Labour and trade union bureaucracy who the have established a 'perfect' division of labour between themselves whereby the Labour leaders interfere in never trade union matters and the trade union leaders never meddle in political questions.

It is this division of labour which 'determines' 'the entire character of the British work- ing class'. Thus he tells us: 'A perfect situation of virtually frustration and powerlessness is created for the militant sup- porters of socialism. The com- plete ideological hold of a senile reformist party over the working class has been per- fectly maintained by this in- terrelation of roles.' What the ill-read revisionist.

'forgets', , of course, is that it was the great changes which took place in the unions from the 1880s onwards which laid the basis for great political which changes eventually brought the creation of the Labour Representation Com- mittee (1900), and the Labour Party (1906). And they were indeed 'great changes'; for the first time the working class broke decisively from the Liberal Party and formed its own independent party. And whatever limitations this party which were inevitable, had, Engels and those Marxists around him had been in the forefront of those fighting to establish such a party. It is vital that all workers now taking a serious interest in historical questions reject the IMG's idealist rubbish.

great political and Like all organizational changes in the working class, the creation of the Labour Party would have been impossible without the fundamental economic changes which the transition from capi- talism to imperialism involved.

And so it is today. It is the insoluble international econo- mic crisis which is driving the working class forward into revolutionary struggles and preparing for its break from social democracy and the trade union bureaucracy. Of course, Marxists know that this break does not happen automatically spontaneously; but as Or materialists they also know that without the great objec- tive changes in the class struggle, which the economic crisis is creating, such a break would be impossible. It is because all the revision- ist groups, the IMG among them, seek to tie the working class to its present level of consciousness and organization that they must distort the real nature of the history of the British working class, in this case the historical significance of the Labour Party. It is no accident that the IMG has been in the leadership which has sought at all stages, particularly since the election of the Conservative govern- ment in 1970, to turn the struggle of the working class away from one directed at the trade union leaders towards the most vulgar form of 'rank and file-ism'. In the same way they have failed consistently to call for the removal of the Tory gov- ernment and its replacement by a Labour government pledged to a socialist programme. For what they dread above all is that the working class will, in the process of struggle, expose and defeat the traitors in its leadership. For the revisionist Jones, the source of all the 'problems' now afflicting the British work- ing class are to be found in its period of origin, the perioa of the French revolution. Because of the early develop- of capitalism, trade ment unionism tended to grow along craft lines. This has had 'fatal' consequences for the whole subsequent development of the working class, thinks Jones.

For the essence of the early trade union/friendly societies was that they class- were collaborationist he tells us.

They were concerned with supporting members families, assisting unemployed members etc: 'In performing this type of function, such organizations were performing a purely sectional and not a class role, in essence which does help" organization of the bourgeoisie. Worse still, from point of view of the class solidarity, one of the main aims of these organizations, the regulation of apprentice- The Chartist movement portrayed at t Pageant of working class history at ships, could only be successful if carried on with the em- ployers against other workers.'

Here Jones slanders all those generations of workers, who, inspired by the French revolution, sought to bulla the early • trade union movement against the most vicious and violent persecution of Pitt and the state. And for their efforts, the trade unions were driven underground by the 1799-1800 Combination Laws; they had to endure over a quarter of a century of illegality and terror, learning to deal with spies and of all agents provocateurs descriptions. Jones feels obliged to explain none of these facts. Every serious worker today will re- ject with contempt these impudent attacks on the early trade union movement. The British trade union movement was born under conditions of illegality and it must now fight for its life and future against the threat of illegality.

Of course the early unions tended to be confined to the more conservative, craft, sec- tions of workers. This was inevitable, given the early development of capitalism in Britain. And because different layers of workers were affected at different periods by the on- set of the industrial revolution, this inevitably produced an un- eveness in the growth of trade union organization, as between skilled, semi-skilled and un- well as skilled workers as workers in different industries.

Instead of studying this as a real material process, Jones sees it only as an insurmount- able weakness. '... any dis- is unity along craft lines almost certain to have fatal consequences.' He thus seeks to ignore the fact that the 'chaotic' structure of the trade union movement, a structure which has evolved since the beginning of the 19th century, now presents the employers with considerable challenge.

For to begin even to deal with the economic crisis they are forced to smash trade union- ism, along with all the privi- leges, customs and procedures which have emerged alongside it over this long period.

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ayed at the Soclalist Labour League's Empire Pool, _last March.

THE UNION MAN THEY

WANTED OUT OF THE WAY

'MIDWEEK': Wednesday April 18 BBC-1 10.45 p.m. On 'Midweek' we saw what they called 'the comeback of Jimmy Hoffa'. The tired clichés of. a tired television news programme were injected into a brief sur- vey of the wretched career of what the com- mentary said was a man 'who made himself a millionaire and ran a hoodlum empire wield- ing incalculable power. A sensational account in the most reactionary terms of Hoffa's disastrous life and times designed as a piece of right-wing, anti-union (in BBC leadership terms and trade unionists are in the same box) propaganda. Naturally Jimmy Hoffa lends himself to this stuff with alacrity. Ludovic Kennedy and his team wasted no time in in- dicating that Hoffa was jailed in 1967 for embezzling $750,000 of the union's Pen- sion Fund; that he was given a sentence of 13 years, that his philosophy ultimate violence and brutality 'we don't need hoodlums' to handle our problems 'we got our own boys' and that he is without scruples when it comes to reaching for power and the biggest and best of everything that's going. But Hoffa stands for infi- nitely more than this sort of Edward G. Robinson life-style.

In the 1930s Hoffa, like many others, waged a great struggle for the American unions and the American wor- king class for decent living wages and conditions. He was first trained, in fact, by the Trotskyists in the Teamsters in Minneapolis. He rose to become President of Teamsters' the 2 million strong union, the largest and.

powerful of large and most powerful unions in the world's most formidable capitalist nation. 'In programme Hoffa the said: 'I don't allow nothing change me-nothing to changes me unless I decide it first." In one sense his life bears this out. He soon established himself as anti-politics and a 'pure and simple union' and in man 1943-1944 had no qualms in turning over the Trotskyists, who had first educated him, to the union leadership for their rapid removal from the scene. But in the 1950s, and 1960s, despite, or because of the brutal methods and under- world style of his practice as a leader (hardly unexpected in face of the savage pressures of American capitalist em- ployers, bent on fighting the unions with all they had), the Teamsters came to be seen and feared as the most aggres- sive of them all. They posed a serious threat

TEN YEAR DRINK

Thirsty Soviet citizens will be able to obtain the soon American soft drink, Pepsi- Cola, as a result of an agree- ment signed in Moscow last Thursday. The Soviet Union will pur- chase concentrate for making the drink on a ten-year con- tract in return for which the giant Pepsico Corporation will market Soviet vodka and wines in the United States. Pepsi- Cola is already obtainable in Poland and Hungary. Ironically, in the 1950s the Stalinist parties carried out a in western campaign Europe 'Cocacolonization', against a reference to the growing pub-

FRANK

Hoffa entering Lewisburg Penitentiary cuffs. He was jailed on a frame-up cha and jury tampering. Above: Hoffa (left) missive Frank Fitzsimmons.

licity for Pepsi's great rival taken as symbolic of subserv- ience to the United States.

MONEY CRISIS

Business John magnate Ferguson gunned his Jensen down the motorway. The speed crept up-60 mph, 70 - 80 - 90.

But John took no notice-his mind was far away. Eventually the police patrol swept past and brought the car to a screeching halt. John was arrested for speeding. His solicitors came to Whitminster court, Gloucester, to plea for mercy. They read out a letter from the apologetic capitalist and explained that the inter- national monetary crisis caused his lapse. 'He was churning over in his mind the money prob- which that lems particular crisis would mean for him and company, they his said. A sad: case--John was fined £40.

FOR

COTE

0.... nitentiary with a coat over his hand- me-up charge of misuse of union funds offa (left) with his successor, the sub-

BIG BUSINESS

Mr William Rees-Davies, Con- servative MP for the Isle of Thanet, has discovered the pornography. Like source strikes, it's all caused by anar- chists, and foreign ones at that.

Dash it, sir, no English an- archist would do such things!)

Bestial pornography was being manufactured and flown in from America, Holland and Germany, Mr Rees-Davies said, hn by foreign anarchists who were 'trying to break down Britain's society' 'Horrifying acts' it appears, 'are being for promoted anarchic purposes, the purpose being to try to break down all decencies the of human society. In fact, of course, the pur- pose of producing pornography is to make money out of it.

It is big business. As such, the people behind it are sure to be consistent Tory voters. Workers Press, Thursday April 26, 1973 PAGE 9 to the government and an was able, in collaboration with up- Teamsters' leadership, ambitious and-coming the to young attorney-general named Bobby permit the release of Hoffa in Kennedy used the situation to condition that lune 1971 on grab Hoffa and throw him into he had no part of the Team- and subse- affairs until 1980. investigation sters' an The naked corruption may quently a prison sentence on a titilate its bourgeois audience frame-up charge of misuse of funds and jury tamper- when played up as it was by union 'Midweek' the But the ing. team. With Hoffa put away and real issue is that Hoffa and forced finally to resign in 1971 others have opened the doors reaction from of the and exposed the to Teamsters, American working class on all Frank fronts, allowing Nixon's the submissive Fitz- gov- simmons in his stead ernment to prepare themselves confidence example of and persis- It a fine with was American legal blackmail. and smash right tence to every Team- collaboration and the that the class has won in its sters were rendered impotent: harsh struggles over the last their leadership at least.

in century. As the attacks the The workers of the United on States are faced now with the working class and its unions the wage have increased bitter fruits of the treachery as freeze consolidated and unem- and betrayals of their leader- ployment increased to unpre- ship, Hoffa included, which heights, Nixon had have accumulated over the last cedented manoeuvred establish 20 years. to building secure hold over the Team- Only the of an American Labour Party which sters' Union, just as he had done with all the other corrupt can fight back and restore the leaderships Meany, rights of the working class. union can hope Bridges and the like. to put a stop to Nixon's plans. In face of this security he Where is Britain Going? Paperback 374p ¿ Problems of the British Revolution.

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BSA

Eustace, chief executive, that the closure was planned be- fore the merger with Manganese Bronze because we do not need anything like the volume of re- search we have needed in the past'. BSA-Triumph is also to sell Umberslade Hall, a 17th-century mansion standing in 17 acres of ground at Hockley Heath, near Birmingham. Recently modern- ized at a cost of thousands of pounds, Umberslade Hall had I Scott Anthony as Cheri In Eplsode 2 of Colette's 'Chert on BBC 2.

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The new company will be known Norton-Villiers- as Triumph and will begin opera- tions in Tune. The recent £197m trade deficit shows that the ability of British capitalism to compete on the diminishing world market is rapidly. Nowhere is this more than cycle acute industry, where the Tapanese are een a divisional motor-cycle re sweeping the world. search and levelanmen centre. Take-overs, rationalizations Mr Henry Child, BSA group and government aid to individ- director said ual firms can research. has only be temporary that there must be redundancies solutions at best. among research staff, that facili- Wage-cutting speed-up and ties have to be diversified and sackings face all major industries based on existing sites, and that British capitalism seeks to as the research team must move to in the solve its crisis only way existing divisions. open to it—at the expense of the This rationalization working class. proves that no amount of government The workers' worst fears multi-million pound aid. trade be ended forcing their only by union deputations pleas to union leaders to develop a cam- Tory save Torv govern- paign to make the BSA-Triumph work- and elect ment resign aro Labour government pledged to A further offensive on jobs is nationalize such companies as Norton-Villiers-Triumph without likely in the very compensation and under work- when Manganese Bronze announ- ces its plans for the formation of "control. ers'

LOCKWARE

ROCKWARE

GLASS

have plans spend {14m streamlining glass admitted they are closing cannel their Greenford, Middlesex, Chairman Mr Peter Par- factory in order to lay hands ker commented the on cash from the sale of 35 valuable the acres of "The technology land which the plant disposal an enterprising has forced uS inevitably to the Concussi The we our mar- compally, quarter owned *Walker, Keting plans with four not five plants. Slater, of Slater Inside the Rockware plant al IN A large picket yesterday the 180 General and Muni- cipal Workers Union mem- bers in their third week of

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

sit-in at Aberdare Cables, Glamorgan, were joined by branches for financial John Jenkins, shot steward and union Helliwell's from workers chairman of the G&MWU branch Dacking Engineering, Girling Brakes at the lactory told workers Press The three National Union of that the cuts resulting Mineworkers' and the CWS Creamery branches repre- from management attacks and shift work were to the •onus rates Thei picket was a response £S a week, but tive tor ciarification on the black the management's instruc- f9 a week less than this LO earning ing of Aberdare Cables products.

tion to workers who had not time last year Aberdare Cables is part of the joined the sit-in to turn up Pirelli the South Mr Jenkins said that support _commone at 8.30 at the factory Wales workers are contacting the dolll. Was crowne rom trace unionists yesterday. Southampton Pirelli factories for in the valleys. of the The few who arrived were told Neath, Aberdare and by held Givneath personne Thallare! ultions Hunt to go home and come back last Tuesdar delegate Jones the Southamptor heard today to collect their from Aberdare Cables and de- factorie: are organized the P.Il. cided appeal individual

T&GWU

wasts.

THE EDITORIAL

board had been in and out of hos- Tommy later decided to of Workers Press sends its the Socialist DITa

ITOM

101T tremely bad stomach pains League. Only severe deepest condolences he took and health, which forced him yet an active the family and friends of leading Darl une Lo mosota De Tommy Atkins whose which followed the Brockle- Christmas, fore prevented funeral takes place today.

hurst take-over. him from doing SO Th met Tommy Clapham branch …ammv dies or cancer on Atkins on Friday April 18, in Stee sai "August ". the SLL have asked Worker: Stephen's Fulham, 18 last year. He been Press to express their deep- trying for a number of days sympathies to Tommy's west London. He was 55. publicity for relatives. win the He will always be remem did not make his Workers bered for his lively, cheerfu Press while in fact trying to contact another newspaper greater extens part Although just had illaculc. had politica Delegates come out of hospital. he was athiliations whatsoever

VISITORS

Trades a tireless worker throughout But his experiences with the Unions the strike the

T&GWU

transport sec- Alance conrerence When tion the men returned leadership October last year will re- curing collect Tommy's speech to work. he kept his arduous fight doing the extremely convinced him of the neces- 100 the issues which contronted long which he had build alternative used liquid workers' union members in been the fight against the new • for Manbrél venice driver bureaucracy. He did this because he Once he had made the Brocklehurst Company became convinced decision, however, he went wnich naa laken over lans. fight must be port control at the Manbré waged forward with his • 10. Cancer Sugar Company in Hammer inside the determination. Even leadership

ISUC

union. while after Sinita After the Workers operations hospital, strike, tie had worked at Mandre came took a keen for was Press reader Workers Press ana Joined ine and fight All Trades Unions Alliance storkers against see rory He unstintingly of his workers gave against organization at the refinery.

time with the For years he was a the

TOT

deal is a sad blov leading shop steward. conference on October 22 for the workers' 1972

SARAH HANNIGAR

For over six months Tom Tommy speal

GLASGOW

WALTHAMSTOW:

CROYDON:

•Thursday Aprit 26 (Engineers' and Wednesday MaKE BIRKENHEAD: Sunday April 29 'Chester Arms' Street (near tunnel entrance).

WOOLWICH:

narawoo• orders Wednesday May 2 8 p.m The Castle'. , Powis Street

HEMEL

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Thursday April 26, Monday S.E. 18. 'Report back from May 8 p.m April 30, Room 2, Adey Day' Queens Hall, Willesden High Road Square. Tele

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May 3, Thursday N.W.10. *Build Councils 'Defend Democratic 'Three Shoes' Felt- Rights' Horse Feltham Middlesex. 'The Fight against the

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26, EAST LONDON: Monday Thursday April April 30 Tories after May Day. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters 8 o.m. 8 o.m. Bou Control Briti All out May 1! Force May 7, 8 p.r Road. economic crisis and Road, the the rising cost of living'

TUC

call General Control Centre. 'Report back from May Strikel Day'

MIDDLE UN

S p.m. Kings ArMs, High street, Monday Thursday April 26, Deptford Market Place 'Kings Arms', High Street, Cross Day must begin Station. "The NeW the General Strike against the Tories'. Wednesday

WYTHENSHAWE

SOUTHALL:

May

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Tuesday April 26, 8 p.m. Thursday, Southall Library, Osterley 'Nags Head', 8 D.m. onr. Wands 'The May Day Strike Portway. «Road. 'Report back Day May Day'. 'Report back from May Day' int: Workers Press, Thur RE

CLASS

e plant at Greenford THE BRITISH Steel Corpora- tion's stocks of steel at Scun- thorpe practically are now exhausted because of the three- week-old blastfurnacemen's pay dispute which has halted all production at the town's Appleby Frodingham plant.

The number of men on strike or laid off rose this week by a further 2,000 to 7,000. The re- labour maining manual force, about 1,500 including mainten- engineers, is likely to be ance sent home before the end of the week. 600 blastfurnacemen The are demanding £2 a week more than made by the undisclosed offer BSC. An estimated 125,000 tons of steel has been lost so far.

nmy speaking at the ATUA conference not 1001 THE BRITISH Steel Corpora- tion has refused to foot the bill for a deputation from Shotton action committee to.

go to Czechoslovakia. Flintshire Labour MP Mr Barry Jones said he was 'very dis- appointed. Three men went to Ostrava last month to inspect tandem furnaces which they claim could be installed at Shotton thereby producing a higher output from the works and saving the jobs of 6,500 men threatened with the sack under Tory modernization plans. 01-720 2000 444A 6A1625 ress, Thursday April 26, 1973

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BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

DELEGATES at the National Union of Journalists annual conference at Newcastle de- cided yesterday that 75 per cent of the £37,000 to be raised from higher union dues will be earmarked for strike benefit. Moving an emergency motion Mr Peter Dodson, Teesside, said: 'Our negotiators can talk until they are blue in the face, but if the employers are not convinced we have provision to back our claims with adequate dispute benefit we are wasting our time?

In the voting 145 members were in favour of the move and 143 against. A second emergency resolu- tion sent renewed protests to the Tory government and to Mr lan Smith in Rhodesia over the im- prisonment of freelance journal- ist Peter Niesewand. The 25,000-strong union also set up an action committee to 'study and put into effect as as possible, every practical soon means of pressure the union can bring to bear upon the Rhode- sian government. A telegram to the Rhodesian prime minister. •Annual said: conference National Union of Journalists reiterates disgust and horror at persecution of Niese- wand and secrecy of so-called Demands trial. immediate re- lease.' Another, to Edward Heath and the Foreign Secretary, called on the Tory government to pro- tect her subjects in Rhodesia from the activities of the illegal regime'

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! Luton

FRIDAY APRIL 27

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FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

ORGANIZERS of the May Day strike in the West of Scotland estimate that over 100,000 workers will come out against the government's pay laws next Tuesday. Baillie, a committee member of But action is being Wilcox apprentices. Babcock and strictly curbed within the He said everyone should come TUC's limits of feeble May Day, but workers out •Oll should be protest. conscious of the enormous dangers facing the of about 500 At a meeting trade union movement. shop stewards in Glasgow yester- 'We Scanlon, Jones and Scottish day

TUC

general to talk with the Feather going secretary James Jack said the Tory government and organizing would be one of demonstration what is a sell out. 'silence of noise'. not 'Delegates must remember that platform Other speakers at- the what should central Issue Is tacked a delegate who condemned we be coming out for on May with union leaders i for talking Day. We forward must go to the and called for government make the trade union leaders call General Strike to bring the a General Strike to remove inis Tories down. government, he added. The Glasgow district secretary Despite the some splits, west of the engineers' Alex the Generat of Scotland will be badly hit on Ferry, challenged the May 1. The shipyards will be Strike demand. out, though boilermakers Ship. he told delegates, 'Now look, Govan mass meeting at 'the

TUC

and the trade builders voted to reject a strike officials and the union executives call. Departmental meetings will concerned, they are none of them be held that noW to coance General Strike. afraid of a But decision. are afraid of calling. for we The Scottish miners will be out General Strike and seeing and some big factories will join respond. one the Polarie There will be a strike at 'The failure to have a more the submarine bases, of positive type action Is nol Weirs Pumps and Marathon because trade union Manufacturers at Clydebank than we are are not more angry Maintenance workers for Glas- here, but because they have gow Corporation will also be out.

the responsibility assess res- Other which will places how they ponse to act,' he said. shut or disrupted are severely Ferry was speaking after dele- Singers Albion Motors, Airlie of gates, including James Clydebank, machine factory at Govan shipbuilders, had pointed Chrysler Renfrew, the plant at out that many of the men who and Yarrow shipbuilders. voted against one-day action did

ORSETT

Hospital ancillary so because they felt it was not staffs, mainly women in domestic enough. delegate who raised the sub-catering, yesterday voted to The General Strike issue was Gordon come out on May l. News of the Pay Board's move THE PAY BOARD has struck its first came during seven hours of talks blow against wage in- crease. Strikers at three Watney's between officials and the union London were told Tuesday. breweries in Watney's had that £2.40 increase Ten days earlier yesterday the board for advice due for implementation from asked on 'disallowed' by the f2.40, whether it could pay April 1 had been Board, the policeman of the across-the-board increase in the settlement of a shiftwork agree- Tories' state pay laws. ment reached last July. The com- In the face of this the strikers' pany claimed yesterday it wanted have dropped their de- leaders to pay. mand for of the rise payment But the Board replied that and recommended a new claim had since the brewery workers for five hours' guaranteed received substantial increases time a week for all 800 brewery under a job-evaluation deal, also workers taking part in reached July 1972, any fur- would exceed the ther increase 'We've no alternative, negoti- limits allowed by Phase Two. Brian committee member alill Watney's This advice reached Watkinson said after stormy on Tuesday. Whitechapel. mass meeting at • Yesterday, afternoon 'The the dockers, the a miners, and of Mortlake Isie- Post Office workers have accep- meeting -we can't hope worth strikers voted to stay out Phase Two- ted until their leaders have reported defeat it with the forces we to back on talks with the company, have here. But we've got to try money for our expected within the next two and members.' days. We will not bow down before IT IS getting better - but still of this Tory government. Instead from target long way must be used to £1,750. We now have five days our paper build a total. It is revolutionary leadership left to complete our be a fight working all the to mobilize the class still going to force this Tory govern- way for us to reach that amount.

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FROM PAGE 1

while these have misled tactics is the opposition to the pay laws response artecung ine has created of sections of the trade union strike and from there on to alleys, IlLU strike General Strike movement to the May camba …Tor ine contusion ae secson l c! because working class. call. they are hostlle to any thing that disturbs the peaceful The gasworkers, hospital wor- Only the policies peaceful and Socialist Labour League and the and kers. ford workers. miners, TUdu lu socldlls.ll Unions Ălliance can hundreds ‹о-eyıcence bewweesmocuasl Ino sanes H Ii ilducs and the Soviet bureaucracy.

who would end this government guce te wav darouca dos con the fusion and nd je e or decisive lead In this fear of a revolutionary laws, given and its class the he Tebr ea acy and crisis, hee Tac bureauras have beer are incsana aat •ooorlv lo neol. from the held back by the deliberate trade expose bureaucracy tactics the Salinists and prepare Com- union (TO] of the treacnery the coming battles with the Tors division, useless munist Party, in providing Haznenlalloll. protests and single issue fights.

Jones and Scanlon cover for

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Caedraw

WALES:

Assemble: 5.30 p.m. 7.30 School, Merthyr. Meettng: Speakers: ROY Caedraw School (Young

BATTERSBY,

KIKI

Socialists).