Workers Press no. 1066

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 8, 1973 €

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIAL

By Royston Bull OFFICIAL INVITATIONS have now been sent by the gov.

ernment to the TUC and the CBI to begin formal talks on Phase Three of the state control of wages following the secret discussions between Heath and the trade union leaders. There is now great danger that the TUC bureaucracy is ready to do a deal with the The harsh teeth of the Tories. pay laws would remain tightly and permanently clamped on the working class in return for some amendments to the Industrial Relations Act. Such an agreement would give the Tories virtually everything they want. The state control ot wages law contains enougn penal powers to drive back the trade union movement by means of fines, imprisonment and the full forces of law and order to isolate the militants and smash the working-class's resistance to wage cutting.

Any Industrial Relations Act amendments, or even its complete abolition, would be mere window-dressing for the TUC leaders to claim as a 'victory'. At the same time, government has the lory unleashed

CHOLOUS

brobakanda can Dalla trade union leaders Ireney overtures to the the latest twist in its attack on the working class and basic democratic rights.

Under its cover the trap is being prepared to bind the unions more firmly with corporate controls.

What the working class must demand to know initially to hold talks Sovernment secret and wnal was discussed It that the obvious enormous working-class resistance allacks on standard Or VIne prices and restricted wages has per- Trom rising suaded the TUC that the most cunning tactics are required incy know unal as me wore cass cans more and more bitter experience of Tory deception over and inflation, the more workers SOIVE DrOD- interests of capitalism at their expense.

lems in the Hospital and gas workers and other the recent struggles prove this defeat for the

TUC

Council at does weneral the special Congress on March > and the call for co-ordinated industrial action and a one-day general stoppase.

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ON October 2,200 On March 11, the greatest day our £100,000 Party Building delegates in the history of British Trotsky Fund (see right). Unions Alliance conference ism far, over 10,000 Social- trade And in every area the Le ague wirminenam voted unanimousiv UnioniSTS and tell Tamilies LaDour noiding to proceed with the transforma crowded into the Empire Pool, meetings and tion of the Socialist Labour Wembley, to see the of discuss, and improve the Pageant amend Leacue

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presened ute resolution une barty great struggles of the working is becoming more the task At the beginning of February class in Britain. urgent day.

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every published Workers This rally was a gathering to. left and right, have the completel Dollical perspecuves and gener or representarves caDilulated ine Behind forces the programme for the sub- the that will build the Tory state pay laws. par Central mitted the SLL's revolutionary party. their members by backs we have launched the Since ther commutee. protecied Communisi 8, 1973 • No 1066 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

HOSPITAL workers' shop steward, Mr Don Steadman (centre), and union member Peter Barker (on were acquitted yester- magistrates' day at court of wilfully obstructing police during a picket at St Mary's, Praed Street, London, on Thursday March Ancillary workers at the hospital stopped work between 10 a.m. and 12 noon in support of the two men. News of the acquittal greeted by was a standing ovation at the National Union of Pub- lic Employees' confer- at Eastbourne ence AFTER the snail's pace response of the week- end a good post yes- terday. Socialist Labour League branches in- clude: Harrow 24 Nottingham 20 Wandsworth 8.50 Hull (per J.U.) . 50 Swindon 8.50 Tonbridge 5 Liverpool . 25 10 Paddington Camden 1 Holloway 17 Watford 42.90 Acton 14.50 The is total now £11,149.77 and still no sign of a substantial Party - they dis- hold secret donation. We Heath. know cussions with We urge all our readers to that it is under con- join us now in the campaign to sideration by some form the revolutionary party.

Workers Press readers Starting on Thursday, Workers -so please hurry it up Press will publish the views of if you can workers from all parts of the country and all industries on the Post all donations to: draft programme for the revolu- Party Building Fund tionary party. 186a Clapham High St. We urgently ask all our read.

the resolution and ers to study London SW4 7UG to participate in this discussion.

workers press

HEATH BAITS

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An invitation to readers: Join the discussion INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 8, 1973 • No 1066 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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By Royston Bull OFFICIAL INVITATIONS have now been sent by the gov.

ernment to the TUC and the CBI to begin formal talks on Phase Three of the state control of wages following the secret discussions between Heath and the trade leaders. great danger that the TUC There is now bureaucracy is ready to do a deal with the The harsh teeth of the pay Tories. laws would remain tightly and permanently clamped on the working class in return for some amendments to the Industrial Relations Act. Such an agreement would give the lories virtually everything they want.

The state control of wages law contains enough penal powers to drive back the trade union movement by means imprisonment and the full forces of ones law and order to isolate the militants and smash the working-class's resistance to wage cutting. Industrial Relations Act amendments, Any or even its complete abolition, would be mere window-dressing for the TUC leaders to claim as a 'victory'. At the Tory the same time, government has unleashed an chorious propaganda the trade union leaders as Trienciv nvertures the latest twist its attack on the working class and basic democratic rights.

Under its cover the trap is being prepared to bind the unions more firmly with corporate controls.

working class must demand to know what the is a se san there fucitory initially to hold at least talks scoots secret ano weat was discussed o It obvious that the enormous working-class the resistance allacks on stanaaro prices and restricted wages has trom rising suaded the

TUC

that the most cunning tactics are required. They know that as the working class gains more and more bitter experience of Tory deception over and the more determined workers not to allow lue coverauca co lems in tne interests or capitalism at their expense Hospital and and other sections the involved in recent struggles this

LUVC

TUC

the defeat for the Goes the Special Congress March 5 and the call for co-ordinated industrial action and a one-day general

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ON October last 2,200 On March 11, the greatest day £100,000 Party Building 22 delegates at the Trades in the history of British Trotsky- right). Fund (see Alliance 10,000 trade the Social- And in Comerence Tale over even chea Birmingham voted and Labour League Unless Ther nolding with the transforma- crowded into the Empire Pool meetings and conferences 1o Socialist Labour Wembley, to the Pageant amend see discuss, and improve the into party. півтону •resented party struggles of the working The becoming WOTe At the beginning of February, class in Britain. urgent day. The

TUC

and Workers Press published the rally was a gathering to- leaders, right, wave of the ay Taws. Behind the •raT hootical perspecuves representanves capitulated the Tacks or payraws. programme for the sub- forces that will build the parCestral the SLL's revolutionary party. 'backs members and nitted by Since then we have launched Communisi connies. 8, 1973 • No 1066 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

HOSPITAL workers' shop steward, Mr Don Steadman (centre), and Peter Barker union member (on acquitted were yester- day magistrates' court of wilfully obstructing police during a picket at St Mary's, Praed Street, London, on Thursday March 22. Ancillary workers at the hospital stopped 10 a.m. work between and 12 noon in support of the two men. News of the acquittal greeted by was standing ovation at the National Union of Pub- lic Employees' confer- Eastbourne ence at AFTER the snail's pace response of the week- end a good post yes- terday Socialist Labour League branches in- clude: Harrow 24 Nottingham ... 20 Wandsworth 8.50 Hull (per J.U.) . 50 Swindon 8.50 ••. Tonbridge . . . 5 Liverpool .... 25 Paddington . . . 10 Camden . . ... .... 17 Holloway Watford 42.90 Acton • 14.50 The total is now £11,149.77 and still no sign of a substantial Party hold secret dis- - they donation. Heath. We know cussions with We urge all our readers to that it is under con- join us now in the campaign to sideration by some form the revolutionary party. Workers Press readers Starting on Thursday, Workers -so please hurry it up Press will publish the views of parts of the if you can. workers from all country and all industries on the Post all donations to: draft programme for the revolu- Party Building Fund tionary party. 186a Clapham High St. We urgently ask all our read- ers to study the resolution and London SW4 7UG to participate in this discussion.

Watergate-CIA implicated PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday May

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE UNITED STATES

is planning to produce a stock-pile of small nu- clear weapons with an explosive power only a twentieth of the smallest existing A-bombs. The new 'mini-nukes' will be ready for use in Europe in three to five years' time and their presence will vastly increase the danger of a third world war. The weapons will combine very low explosive power with extreme precision of blast or radiation. Among them is a 'property bomb' which will kill human beings and livestock without damaging buildings.

Using 'smart bomb' techniques Vietnam, developed over North these weapons can be delivered with pin-point accuracy at any Some of the bombs are range. equivalent to as little as 50 tons of TNT. Available nuclear weapons have in the past seldom been equivalent to less than 1,000 tons of TNT. With the new weapons the size distinction between the smallest nuclear weapons and the conventional bomb is largest completely eradicated. Once such weapons are made generally available to US forces, it cannot be long before their use becomes a matter of routine, freed from any remaining 'poli- tical' control. 'safeguards' The fiction of over the use of nuclear weapons, the myth that only the comman- der-in-chief can authorize their use, will become more and more difficult to sustain. • This is why the Pentagon is só: enthusiastic about the new bombs: it has long agitated to be given the absolute right to decide when nuclear weapons should be brought into use. The technology has been avail.

able for some years to make small 'tactical', nuclear bombs.

But their development in the was forbidden by United States Defence Secretary Robert McNamara. The Pentagon simply went THE CENTRAL Intelligence United States government to Watergate scandal. One of the convicted Watergate the CIA provided help for a bre psychiatrist in 1971. Ellsberg is charged with leaking the Pentagon Papers about the origins of US involve- ment in Indo-China to the Press. There have been reports that the CIA was unaware of Hunt's intentions when it supplied him with a special camera, disguises, Washing- tools and the use of a ton house where secret meetings could be held before the raid on the psychiatrist's office.

But the 'New York Times' reported yesterday that the order for the CIA to help Hunt came RENEWED American bombing las of North Vietnam is on the agenda unless Moscow can per- suade Hanoi to knuckle under to US demands for strict. ob- servance of the ceasefire treaty.

Dr Henry Kissinger, currently in Moscow for four days secret talks with the Kremlin chiefs, is charged with carrying from President this ultimatum Nixon. According to The Guardian' the Kissinger visit 'may be the sday May 8, 1973 ahead and carried out research in secret behind the backs of the Defence Department. Now it has sor ma tamily for smal nustiar.

submitted weapons. According to 'The Times' 'The change is likened by some ex- to the revolution which perts followed the introduction of the machine-gun during World War I.

'One peculiarity is that blast, radiation and fall-out could be varied from weapon to weapon —according to requirement. Thus bomb or shell could be a dropped with no blast, but with prompt and devastating radiation, killing all human life in the area without other effect any on surroundings.

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ligence Agency (CIA) is the latest ai lent to fall under a cloud as a resu Vatergate burglars, Howard Hunt, has te or a break-in at the office of Dr Daniel

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Major-General Robert from Cushman, then deputy director of the CIA and now commandant of the US Marine Corps. The paper reported that Cush- of the Joint member man, a Chiefs of Staff, has told the of Investigation Federal Bureau he takes full responsibility for the CIA's involvement, acting at request of the President's the senior adviser John Ehrlichman.

The CIA is now reported to be organizing an internal investiga- tion to try and save the agency's last throw in a diplomatic offen- . sive to shore up the January agreements'. If it fails, the paper Kissinger may not be able so sehold the President back' from resuming the bombing.

Haig, General Alexander top White appointed the to House post by Nixon last week, has been one of the strongest advocates of renewed bombing of the north to stop 'infiltration' southwards. Washington claims this is a violation of the cease- fire terms. 'Alternatively a bridge or installation be destroyed could by maximizing heat and blast, while almost eliminating danger from fall-out. 'A third characteristic is that will be made of the weapons fissile materials with an ex- tremely short half-life so that there would be no long-term con- tamination battlefield any through prolonged radiation.'

• The Pentagon is planning to make these weapons the pivot of its policy for the reconquest of Soviet the Union, China on behalf and eastern Europe world capitalism. The Washington war-mongers are driven by the intense econ-

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latest arm of the s a result of the has testified that r Daniel Ellsberg's

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(sic). The CIA is reputation barred by law from taking part in domestic surveillance and espionage operations. One correspondent yesterday described the evidence of CIA 'probably the involvement as most serious allegation made so far' in the Watergate case. It suggested a 'conspiracy of monu- mental proportions' which could have devastating consequences for the Federal government if proved. Unlike the White House staff who have been implicated up to now in the Watergate affair, the CIA link for the first time implicates a section of the per- manent civil service and not temporary appointees brought in the President's period of office. How many more permanent employees are in reality Federal hired criminals at the beck and call of the President? The re- velations also link the scandal with the former Democratic administration, which originally put Cushman at the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Not only was Ellsberg 'bugged' by the CIA, but the White House omic and political crisis of world capitalism. Their demand for more nuclear power coincides with the Water- gate scandal engulfing the Nixon administration. The Pentagon's man, General Haig, Alexander has been brought into the White House as Nixon's direct deputy, a position of enormous power from which he can push forward the de- velopment of militarism and the drive towards nuclear war.

The drive towards nuclear war resulting from the historic crisis of international capitalism en- dangers the entire future of humanity. The task of revolutionaries in all countries must be to alert the working these dangers class to and build revolutionary parties to take the power away from the capitalist class.

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made a determined effort to sub- vert his chances of a fair trial by bribing the trial judge. The Nixon judge was called to see at the height of the trial and offered a post as head of the

FBI.

expressed the hope in Nixon his television address a week ago that he could return to the larger duties of the presidency while the courts and the FBI finish the job of apportioning guilt for the Watergate bugging among his subordinates. But the revelations from the Papers trial indicating Pentagon White House role in a variety of criminal activities have added President's problems to the and intensified the crisis of his regime.

Yet his critics in Congress are shying from impeach- away ment-the only way the president legally be removed from can office. They are still pressing without success for the appoint- ment of an independent investi- gator into the affair. The latest Attorney-General, Elliot Richardson, is not trusted to carry out such an investigation.

Though he has not been impli- cated in the scandal himself, he as a Nixon is known man his appointment was widely seen to continue the as an attempt cover-up operation.

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SUPPORTERS of the Ad Hoc Committee for Indo- nesian Political Prisoners picketed the Indonesian Embassy yesterday to pro- test against the continued detention of an estimated 55,000 political prisoners in that country. Most of them have been in prison since the abortive uprising of 1965 in which up to a million communists are thought to have been massacred. The British government last year in- creased its aid to Indo- nesia to £11m which is the highest amount given to any non - Commonwealth country. The picket con- tinues today.

Why is the AFL-CIO silent on Just when labour can force Nixon out IN THE WAKE of Richard Nixon's speech Monday night on Watergate-loaded with lies and self-serving distortions- AFL-CIO leadership maintains its stoney silence on this un- precedented political conspiracy aimed against the democratic rights of the American working class.

The Watergate conspiracy exposes the criminal corruption of the ruling class and poses the urgency of a Congress leadership for the Labour to prepare an alternative political working class through the building of a Labour Party. This is why George Meany and the rest of the labour bureaucracy refuse to say anything on Watergate.

the fight to force the AFL-CIO, Every worker United Auto Workers and all trade union organizations to olner immediately convene a Congress for the purpose oI Labour Nixon programme and strategy to force out of mapping out a office, to smash Phase Three and to build an alternative, a Labour Party. This is the decisive moment to actually hold such a Congress, who was throwing the party.

not only because of Nixon's because at the verv weakness oun he is preparing to launch the most point ne is most vulnerable, vicious and dangerous attacks on the unions and all the basic rights workers have been able to wrestle from the bosses on v through 100 years over of struggles. Never before has the working class America had such •oportuniv to assert is tremes.

dous power-and to assert workers faced so many da gays.

Never before have Watergate? Nixon faces the most serious ana bolentaly explosive sonlical crisis American history. 1n He has been forced dump. reshuffle most of his inner circle order to, in try to rescue his could from the stench of preparations of the Nixon gov- control workers wages. government confrontațion to working people in his Watergate. but the crisis lingers Chillical the powerful television performance will 'When this office, working class With their silence, the labour Which must as the evitably big banks of what it means, I think of all leaders form the main prop today drive the things that I want to accom- corporations seek of Nixon government. They allu all the plish for this nation, with Nixon, collaborating oack workers avne ane working dIC conditions in the face of an un- things I want to accomplish 101 workers paralleled international economic YOu. very unions they are supposed with all the cynicism was to lead. It is their agreement with ClIsIs. and lying of the American ruling NixoR S real antennons were xon ware Contes. revealed when he signed the new class that Nixon could calo ne agreement, that respon- this 1S Economic Stabilization Act last was taking the 'responsibility' for sible sell-outs like the W. Abel's gift to the Monday. a law which got through Natergate tract in 1. while defend- both houses openly conoress WILl showders stee companies or me workers the aid of Democratic majorities.

ing Haldeman and traceman right to strike. the finest public ser- utter contempt It was with an vants it has been my privilege to With These petravals for the working class that Nixon workers must realize that Water- just moments before he placed claiming Know --ano Lave scandal, gate is not just another document known nothing about the signature on apot Bome volvement of his staff and closest loal le das in corill him which Teapot LalC with the the or Bobby Baker affair. The break-in Watergate and bugging at and tne extensive ponucal spying and sabotage activity of which it was represents a sharp break a part even with the traditions oi capi- talist democracy which arose out of the struggles of 1776 and the Civil War. the Watergate Thus, what scandal and Nixon's response it reveal Is more man corruption which has permeated days of the capitalism since the robber barons and Boss Iweed.

It has exposed the political it The place where all began-the Watergate Hotel in Washington. Civil servants may resume

CATCH

pay action A WARNING that civil ser- we mount a highly effective campaign of in- vants may resume industrial dustrial action'. action against continued 'in- said: mandarins " ne justice under the Tory pay the civil still have not service laws was issued yesterday at shock And recovered tron the the annual conference of the what eouary Important. we are still in a position to resume Civil and Public Services the it should action prove Association. necessary. added, i questioned In his opening address the Some. whether the action was really conference, preslaent effective. that in the overtime to have bans, work-to-rules and selective Lever made our doubts. sunkes mne

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There had been changes in the the pay laws, it had been fighting Tory government's attitude behalf of the civil ser- on the laws rnase oree Dav demon overcal. because of it, he claimed. 'But of the low-paid civil servants on picket duty The of this move- important, went a cervant even more Stake ment, he pointed out, chose 'we have serveu

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avoid the battle either through their the Department members' fight against the (V1l service self-interest'.

TUC'S

Never- that an era during which it idly pay laws, nor about the

CPSA

stood by and allowed the grades in back theless members ano their • relusing to of two other organizations those we reoresent deteriorale themselves prepared had shown Apart from a vague call to go the level of clerical labourers is dead and buried. on fighting. .. until victory with to go it alone now Lever claimed that the decision Yet Lever had nothing to say justice is won', he had ab solutely to go ahead 'proved to ourselve about rest persoeclive the

CPSA

leadership called off union's members. and to those with whom we have Workers Press Meany at a White House dinner with one advisers in the spy mission at Watergate. for What Nixon is preparing workers in the immediate period ahead includes new wage con- trols and plans to incorporate the trade union bureaucracy even in the further wage control laws, anti-strike apparatus! new minimum wage law which will form a cheap labour pool out of the millions of working- class youth, a drive to eliminate those social services and public welfare programmes which have not already fallen to his budget axe and a stepped up 'law and campaign to launch new order' attacks on the democratic rights of workers and their unions.

Watergate is not isolated from these attacks. It was an impor- tant part of them in the sense that it was part of Nixon's pre- parations to shed all the trappings of American capitalist democracy in order to attack all the basic rights of workers. It is not separate, for example, from the bugging of the head- the International quarters Brotherhood of Teamsters which was recently revealed. It is not only the exposure of these preparations in the Water- itself the ruling gate scandal class fears. It is putting tremen- dous pressure on Nixon because the continual political crisis of the past weeks has completely disrupted the government at a the international time when economic crisis is rapidly deepen-

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vants on picket duty during their recent The speech was really a cover- whose Finance up for the TUC and General Purposes Committee told the CPSA rudely that since the civil service unions could all unions against the pay laws would not be answered. cors Press, Tuesday May 8, 1873 PAQE 3 vith one Richard Milhous Nixon, • at ing. As Nixon said in his tele- vised speech: It is also essential that we not riod be so distracted by events such as this that we neglect the vital work before us, before. this nation, before America at a time of critical importance to America and the world.' This is the meaning of the warning given Nixon by Henry Ford II that the situation must be resolved one way or another it is undermining the because stability of capitalist rule.

In the face of Nixon's tremen- dous weakness at this point, in the face of this profound political crisis, in the face of the enorm- which face the dangers ous labour movement, the silence of Meany, Woodcock and the rest trade union leadership is of the criminal. new leadership must be A built in the unions against these traitors in the struggle to con- vene a Congress of Labour. This leadership must fight on the basis of the programme of the Trade Union Alliance for a Labour Party to develop a political, alter- native to Nixon and all the cor- rupt politicians of the Republican and Democratic parties. Out of the development of this ling leadership, out of the actual convening of a Congress of Labour and out of the united action of the labour movement which can force Nixon to resign will be created the conditions for the construction of a Labour Party. weekly organ of the workers kerque crew are FIVE building workers have received summonses to appear in a Birmingham court on May 22 charged with unlawfully as- sembling together with intent to carry out a common purpose in such a manner as to endanger the public peace on February 7, 1973. Also summonsed are an ATV camera crew. The charges relate to incidents at a Birmingham labour exchange involving at- tempts to acquire information about lump labour. Theatre blaze FAMILIES had to be evacuated from their homes early yesterday as yet another major fire struck two theatres and a bingo hall in Gorbals Street, Glasgow. Last week five children died in a fire which swept a council house in Blackhill, bringing the number of fire deaths in the city this year to 17.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday May 8, 1973 This is a not-unfamiliar scene man wister. With

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hands wall is Mr against the Sean Rowntree. Yet one hour after this photograph was taken Mr Rowntree lay in hospital

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worker has sent us a list of price increases at a London engineering plant's canteen. He says items in the price range 24p-7tp have increased by in the 8p-124p by Ip; 13p-17$p 1tp; 18p-22tp by 2p. by This, he points out, means increases of between 6.5 per and 20 the cent in first group, 8 per cent to 12.5 in the second group. Del CORE 8.5 per cent to 11.5 per cent and 9 per in the third group the per to cent in last

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Mr Harold Wilson, who walked across the waters to rescue the Mr David reverend gentleman Hathaway from Czech jail, has found a new defender.

Com- While House of the convulsed mons was with of laughter the exploits Harold the Superman, whose lessened achievement was on v by the minor detail of Hatha- way's release naving alcauy been jumped arranged, Walton, Liverpool, Eric Heffer. 'The actions of the Leader Opposition ot the welc

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fectly justified, he declared. 'He helped in a very difficult situation and it is about time this country accepted the good who are trying faith of people to do a good job on behalf of their fellow citizens.' Well done, Eric! Of course, Wilson's 'good jobs have cluded trying to pass laws against the unions and using forces of the capitalist the state against striking seamen, not to mention the total tallure of his government to take even sday May 8, 1973 seriously wounded by British army bullets. His friend Mr 'Mundo' O'Rawe lay shot dead.

ur Both were said to have been shot while they were 'resisting arrest'. His list shows the price increase for one meal: old price new price 2p 2p Soup 11p Roast meat 10p Potatoes 2p 2p 5p Two veg 54p Sweet 3p 34p 22p 24p This represents a 9.1 per cent increase. Vended tea re- mains the same at 2p, but vended coffee and chocolate have gone up from 2p to 3p.

Our correspondent tells us that there is a joint production consultative committee on the site, composed of management and unions, but it seems totally incapable resisting any Neither has any increase. action over the men's com- plaints been taken by the joint shop stewards' committee.

Eric Heffer: 'good job'. Above: Harold Wilson. a single step towards socialism, as Mr Heffer himself pointed out in his recent book. But you can't have every- thing. Merseyside shipowners will hold their annual meeting today against a background of increased tonnage using the port, but fewer and fewer con- ventional ships. At the same time they will be able to celebrate something of a tactical victory against what their annual report des- cribes as the 'rigidities' of the Dock Labour Scheme. Just over a week ago dock- ers' shop stewards in the port agreed, after a long battle, to the recruitment of a number of 'casual', supplementary dock- ers by a stevedoring firm con- nected with the group. This development, which came too late for inclusion in the annual report of the Liver- pool Steam Ship Owners' Asso- ciation, will no doubt be the occasion for a number of cele- bratory rounds of drinks to- day. For while the firm which has been given the go-ahead to re- cruit 'casuals'. , Liverpool Mari- time Terminals, itself wanted to recruit permanent regis- tered men, supplementaries are now a major plank in the anti- docker strategy of the ship- owners, the majority of port employers and the government.

The annual report of the Liverpool Steam Ship Owners' Association should be read carefully by every docker.

Under the special severance by terms recommended the Jones-Aldington report which ended last year's national docks strike, almost 10,000 jobs have gone from the in- dustry since September 1972.

But the Mersey shipowners, who did not give evidence to Jones-Aldington commit- the tee, are by no means satisfied Of the final report they say: 'We felt that it was entirely misleading to suggest that the of surplus menpower com- prised only 10 percent of the total labour force [then 41,000] were bitterly and dis- we appointed that the report failed condemn in any the to way rigidities of the whole National Dock Labour Board Scheme.'

Under this scheme, the ship- 'employers have owners say, been obliged to carry men sur- plus to their requirements and whom they cannot really afford to carry. 'One of the main problems in our ports industry is that A new English edition of the First Five International' in Years of the Communist corporating hitherto unpublished materia from Volume XIlI of Trotsky's 'Works'

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whole of cargo- from 2.8 million tons in 1971 the system is to 2.6 million tons in 1972.

handling changing from This explains the enthusiasm labour-intensive operation to a of the shipowners for capital-intensive and the the in- one, pace of this creasing use of 'casual' dock- change has been and will continue to be quick- ers, who now number one in force than of natural of the er the pace seven labour nationally. wastage through the normal retirement.' Of the closing months of last In other words, a 20,000 job year, when the dockers' stew- loss in five years followed by ards were still resisting the 10,000 more in six months is recruitment casuals, the report says: 'There was little only the start. More and more the shipowners could permanent jobs must be got do ex- rid of. cept to suffer the frustration To back up their of considerable delay in claims the about the changing character turnround of his ships and at of the industry, the shipowners enormous cost. fact that while 'In the event the situation point to the 355 fewer conventional vessels became so serious that many used were diverted from the port in 1972, com- ships pared with the previous year, Liverpool to at their size must have been in- additional cost to ship- creased. owner and the further loss of In fact the net tonnage using the docks com- revenue to the port increased by 348,000 pany. Merseyside port stew- The tons. Meanwhile the also ards' has said it report committee contains evidence of the trade will make sure the 'casuals' war beginning to bite hard. now to be employed by Liver- The expected Maritime Terminals-ex- increase in pool pected to be in the region of container traffic through Liver- 100—will soon be made per- pool, with the opening of the Seaforth terminal in May 1972, manent. failed to materialize. The shipowners' report In the foreign shows that they will container im- have powerful this and trade the in port texport. opponents of course, makes number fight, which, container ships dropped from it all the more important to 877 in 1971 to 680 in 1972, while the net ton- win. nage of these vessels dropped Below: Port of Liverpool.

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The Tudeh (Communist) Party of Iran has adopted a position of virtually un- critical support for the Shah and his counter- military revolutionary adventures in the Arab- ian Gulf. Tudeh is the official pro- Moscow Communist Party which has long been outlawed and persecuted by the dicta- torial US-backed monarchy. Its open support for the Shah's policy is proclaimed in the party monthly 'Dunya'. The article justifies the re- cent seizure of islands in the Gulf by Iranian forces which killed or captured the Arab garrisons and proclaimed the islands Persian territory.

are no grounds for There complaint about this action, 'Dunya' because the says, islands were occupied in agree- ment with the British govern- ment who have oil concessions there! This really is the logic of thieves. The Shah grabbed the islands as a prize for acting as Chief gendarme for imperialist oil interests in the Gulf.

The Tories awarded him what was not theirs to give and the Stalinists justify the transaction by referring to the property 'rights' of imperialist oil monopolies in the Gulf.

'Dunya' also parrots the Shah's line on the naming of the Gulf. The paper says it should be called the Persian Gulf because for centuries it has been Persian. This ignores the fact that on both shores of the Gulf the predominant population is Arab, not Persian. The Iran- ian province uf Khusistan at the head of the Gulf, for exam- ple, is almost entirely popu- lated by Arabs and there is a powerful movement to break out of the Iranian empire.

The population of the south side of the Gulf is entirely Arab. The argument of the Tudeh Party is the crassest chauvinisni designed to cover over and glorify the rapacious expansion policy of the Shah.

The same argument is used by the regime to justify Iran- ian intervention in Dhofar and Muscat and Oman where the are fighting Shah's troops alongside British mercenaries to smash a left-wing revolt against the Sultan. This intervention is not mentioned, let alone criticized, by the Iranian Party organ.

Tudeh is here taking its cue directly from Moscow: a re- cent issue of the Kremlin pro- paganda sheet 'Soviet News' appeared with the headline •Alexei Kosygin pays friendly visit to Iran' Kosygin was opening the steelworks at Is- showpiece fahan, almost entirely built with Soviet loans and Soviet technology. But Tudeh's grov- elling backing for the Iranian monarchy may have other causes as well. opened diplo- When Iran matic relations with the Ger- man Democratic Republic ear- lier this year, the Tehran papers proclaimed that a con- dition of the exchange of am- bassadors was that East Ger- many should stop the Tudeh Party's activities-particularly the Radio Iran Courier, which broadcasts from East Ger- many. The Tehran stories were strenuously denied by the Tudeh Party's representatives and the radio station continued to broadcast. However, since that time, the broadcasts have taken on a far more chauvin- istic tone. ...

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General Giovanni de Lorenzo, who was buried in Rome last week with full military honours, was the central figure in a fascist plot to take the Italy the power in early 1960s. As head of the counter- espionage organization SIFAR, de Lorenzo wielded tremen- wholesale dous oower. on politicians and left-wingers and building up dossiers and blacklists. later became a deputy the National Assembly, in first as sitting a monarchist

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Movement (MSI). De a tascist _Lorenzo was deputy at the time of his death his and n vaned knowleace of the underworld of scandal and blackmail in Italian poli- have been very use- tics must ful to MSI. He fought in Mussolini's armies during World War II, and the French hrst aralsl later on the Russian front. Atter the ot seD. ammisuce tember 8, 1943, he joined the resistance against Ger. tne mans. commanded of groups partisans in the Romagna and later took on the post been drilled Mexico, the in second largest latin American producer after Venezuela, but only just covering tomestie In Colombia, consumption. Workers Press, Tue

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underground deputy head of the Military Information Cen- tre in German-occupied Rome.

After the war he served for a time as chief of south Euro- pean operations on the stafi of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In 1954 he was promoted to become a general.

Two years later he was ap- pointed to head the Armed Forces Information Service (SIFAR), the military counter- spy organization. He stayed there until 1962. His next appointment was as head of the para-military force of Carabinieri, respon- sible for anti-riot activities and for preparing civil war against the working class.

however, the hope of finding large reserves died when the first 16 wells opened proved to be dry. Unless large new deposits Press, Tuesday May 8, 1973 PAGE 5 Left: The MSI (fascist) confer- ence held in Rome last year. De Lorenzo sat in the Italian National Assembly as an open member of the MSI. In 1966 he became chief of staff of the Italian ground forces where he stayed until April 1967, when he was quietly eased out of the ser- vice with a golden handshake.

Because of his past in the resistance against the Ger- mans, de Lorenzo was pain- ted, particularly by the Com- Party, as a model munist general. The Stalinists made him out to be a loyal servant of the constitution, an image which was rudely shattered in March 1967 by the magazine 'L' Espresso'. The paper revealed that General de Lorenzo had trans- formed SIFAR from a military intelligence branch into wide-ranging political surveil- lance network to spy on pro- minent personalities. led to a The revelations considerable scandal, and there are still many questions left unanswered day to this about de Lorenzo's role in the affair. Attention focussed parti- cularly on the summer of 1964, when the Italian capital was filled with rumours of an impending coup-d'etat. There were indications that despite having formally vaca- ted the SIFAR job two years before, de Lorenzo was in fact still the real boss of the poli- tical spy network. But the affair was covered up and pushed under the car- pet by Guiseppe Saragat, pre- sident of the Republic at the time, who wanted as far as possible to avoid spreading the scandal. De Lorenzo sued 'L'Es- presso and took out writs some of his fellow against generals who publicly criti- cized his conduct. Not un- naturally, he was unable to clear his name. Once he had left the mili- tary service he felt able . ta declare chis true. allegiances; emerging first as a-deputy for the Monarchist Party and then as a fascist deputy following the Monarchists' fusion with the MSI. The de Lorenzo affair con- firmed the extent to which the Italian state machinę is pene- many of trated by fascists, whom occupy the most sensi- tive and powerful posts be- hind the scenes. It exposed also the consti- illusions cynically tutional peddled by the Stalinists, who praised de Lorenzo, as resis- tance hero while he was bur- rowing and bugging and plot- ting to restore fascism. are found, Latin America is likely to become increasingly dependent upon outside sour- ces of supply controlled by the international oil companies.

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all Richard Nixon has but admitted his guilt by his latest desperate at- tempt to keep investi- gators from probing his own role in the Water- gate scandals. But even as he gave instruc- past and present tions that members of the White House staff should refuse to answer questions about any conversa- tions they had had with the President, the first firm allega- tion that Nixon knew what was going on was made. 'Newsweek' magazine re- ported sacked aide John Dean as saying that Nixon had pre- viously congratulated him for keeping two top White House aides out of the scandal.

Dean, in fear of his life, has Tuesday May 8, 1973 lodged important papers in bank safe deposit and the keys with Judge John Sirica who first pursued the affair.

It now seems only a matter Nixon of time before is brought to justice. Impeach- ment proceedings have already begun in Congress. His enforced resignation would provoke the biggest political crisis in US history.

It is part of the general econo- mic and political crisis of the capitalist system. The myriad corrupt connec tions spreading octopus-like Watergate scandal from the correctly reflect the capitalist system itself, based as it is on naked economic power. The underhand bribery and corruption is only the replica of the open political system power of money where the controls the Press and tele- buys the service of visIon, elected politicians and finances political campaigns. Monetary speculation, welch- ing on dollar debts, gambling with the fate of whole indus- tries on the stock market and deliberately debasing curren- by anarchically printing cles more paper money are all 'legal' acts of economic piracy. Exploitation, and the private ownership of of the means forces production for profit, millions of people around the world to live little better than animals. The wars and destruction capitalism regularly that plunges the world into make the illegalities of the Water- other break-ins in- gate and significant. The capitalist system is based on violence. The nature of its rule becomes more open in its period of decline and decay. virtual admission Nixon's that he is involved up to his neck in the perjury, the bribery and the general obstruction of justice that has followed the discovery of the Watergate wire-tapping came just three days after his appalling nation- wide broadcast when he tried to wriggle off the hook. But even as he was drawing up that speech, the President was consulting a criminal defence lawyer, John J. Wilson, who has also been retained by and resigned aides Haldeman Ehrlichman. The attempt brazen to things out will still go on, but in case it doesn't work just out, other contingencies have been prepared for. Nixon's Richard television apology to the American people reeked of dishonesty and cheap practices. As the supreme political representative of the capitalist system, the President performed, in US exactly as one would fact, expect him to. The essence of his message was that in order to preserve the fair name of democracy, entirely innocent men had to be sacked from their posts.

The whitewash job was of the same shoddy quality as the original Watergate break-in and the subsequent attempts to cover it up with lies, bribery and corruption. Nixon began by saying how innocent he was personally of any involvement in the affair.

Then he said that White House aides Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were 'two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know'.

reluctantly accepting In their resignations, he wanted be 'no should to stress there implication whatever of per- sonal wrong-doing their on part' or on the part of others charged. who have been But in order to guard 'the democratic integrity our process, it is essential not only and ethical that rigorous legal standards be observed, but also that the public have total confidence that they are both enforced being observed and by those in authority'. 'in order to re- Therefore, store that confidence', it was necessary that Haldeman and Ehrlichman resign. the enforced But how can resignations of the two most influential civil servants in the USA, both entirely blameless, restore faith in 'integrity', 'the democratic process, or 'rigor- ethical and ous legal standards'? If Haldeman and Ehrlichman 'no should bear implication whatever of personal wrong- doing on their part, then their resignations at what enforced is likely to be the height of their careers is a monstrous iniustice. How can that restore con- fidence? stranger things fol- Even lowed in the television speech.

Attorney-General Richard Kleindienst, 'a distinguished Kleindienst, public with servant no per- sonal involvement whatever in this matter, also had to resign 'has been a close because he professional as- personal and sociate of some of those who are involved in the case.

to be If the President is believed, Kleindienst had to be sacrificed because he just well some of the people knew under suspicion. knows all of the But who people involved better than anyone else? President Nixon, of course. They were all part of his political hand-picked machine built up over the years. Kleindienst, in fact, is comparative newcomer, joining administration the only in 1969. And who replaces him as Attorney-General? Another Nixon member the same administration, Elliot Richard- formerly head of the son, Department of Health, Educa- Welfare; formerly tion and Secretary of Defence; a man who knows well all the people in Nixon's entourage just Kleindienst knows them. And what responsibility is it of Kleindienst's anyway to bear the burden of resignation if he is innocent? As Attorney- General, he is responsible for conduct of the Justice the Department. But, as President, Nixon is responsible for the whole White House adminis- which is even more tration, involved. Nixon claimed that Richard- son, as 'a man of unimpeach- able integrity and rigorously principle' • could high re- establish public confidence in the Justice Department. immedi- US commenators ately pointed out that Richard- Mitchell, Top: John Nixon's in charge closest associate and of the whole re-election cam- paign, finally admitted he knew about Watergate. Above: John Dean, high on the White House says Nixon congratulated staff, him for keeping the top White House aides out of the scandal, "investigation' after his official into it on Nixon's behalf.

Workers Press, Tuesd inquiry, Petersen's boast now looks completely hollow. And yet other heads have rolled whiie he still remains 'to restore confidence in the Jus- tice Department'. Under FBI chief Petersen. Patrick Gray ordered was to confine his to the Watergate bugging and not to delve into the financial scan- dals or all the other allegations of sabotage and espionage. While working under Peter- Gray destroyed sen, what might have been vital evidence when he burned secret political files belonging to two of the Watergate convicted spies. Gray has since resigned. It was Petersen who instruc- ted the prosecutors at Stale Watergate trial of the lne seven. Judge John Sirica repri- manded them for not asking questions necessary to get the to the bottom of the matter. chief witness for the And the state, Jeb Magruder, has since admitted that he gave perjured evidence. It was Petersen who ordered wire-tapping to stop the investigation Teamsters into Union connections with the 1971, Mafia. In Nixon par- doned former Teamsters' presi- dent Jimmy Hoffa from the remainder of his prison sen- 1972, tence. In the Teamsters solid backing to Nixon's re-election campaign. Nixon's broadcast went on: 'Who, then, to blame for 1S what happened in this case?'

A very good question. Where and was the Watergate wnen plot hatched? Where and when was the subsequent cover-up of the White staff House hatched? It is inconceivable that the Nixon administration did not know all about It last june when happened, or that Nixon could not have insisted on every last detail being made known to him within 24 hours of the plot's discovery, if he had wanted. closest Nixon's political adviser, former Attorney- General, and former director of the Campaign committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), John Mitchell, swore to a Grand Jury last Septem- ber that he had knowledge of the bugging in- cident, discovered in June. Mitchell himself has now admitted that statement was Mitchell also said last Sep- tember: Neither the President nor anyone at the White House nor anyone in authority at CREEP have any responsibility for this.' Again, obviousiy not truc But that takes the involve- ment in the whole Watergate affair and the subsequent cover-up directly to Nixon's right-hand man. was this on the Nixon proximity to Nixon that made son has been Mitchell's resignation so neces- team from the beginning', has sary immediately the Water- services performed loyal to the Nixon regime", 'has a record gate scandal was discorered.

White But such of caving the LU House, guaranteed evidence has now poured out over the indicating family income reform, over the corrupt and illegal Nixon's dealings by closest size of the defence budget and that Nixon himself Nixon's statimen constitutional is now irrevocably covered right to continue the bombing in the same mud. It can only be of Cambodia. matter of time before the Other matters concerning full rottenness Department that is at the the Justice make heart of American democracy sense either. Kleindienst, no is exposed. relieved before he resigned, During his speech, Nixon, himself of overall responsi- for obvious bility for the Watergate inves- reasons, never answered his own order not tigations about who is to blame for the jeopardize public contidence in whole affair. There can be only the inquiries. one answer: Nixon himself.

The man then handling the Instead, he tried to bolster affair was the assistant Attorney-General Henry Peter- confidence in the capitalist sen. But the same Petersen was system. 'It was the system that has day-to-day | charge of in- In brought the facts to light and Watergate quiries when the that will bring those guilty affair first broke last summer, justice-a system that in this when he said: case has included a determined *This investigation has been Grand Jury, under honest prosecu- conducted my super- tors, a courageous judge, and vision. In no instance has there of a vigorous free Press. been limitation any ally a year, the full kind by anyone on its conduct.

After nearly story of the Watergate break- Indeed, the investigation by in has still not been told. Only both the FBI Grand and the deliberate of Jury have been the most the obstruction ex- itself haustive and far-reaching that justice by the system I have seen in my 25 years.

has prevented that from hap- of the With all that has come out pening. in spite It Is of the abortive because system and since last summer's Workers Press, Tuesday May 8, 1973

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i Sirica true. But only after overcoming enormous obstacles trom October, REEP's director Clark Mac- rashington Post" ha maliciously soug ppearanceen the White investigations nave tound. to be taise. Nixon wen Inal aevel- e rollade in and pr one stu opments and Ising devel vorking for him York Times' he the President's reported that counsel. ohn Dean. had super than more conspirators, allegedly to keep qun Mitchell and Mauric Sance cret Nixon were investigations New Grand Jury of an £83.000 con Robert Vesco, tribution central ngure in a traud probe secret which was accepted in after the deadline days end of undeclared shingt Poin reported that phoner favourable Nixon's decision Haiphong harbour Washington Post' reported CkErr also rigged results opinion same issue. the Pen- Ellsherg, defendants. covert Nixon ordered the investigation tisherg. which the burglary was a nart. FBI channels. outside normal The House knew two staffers about it, ev revealed that administration had the offered him, right in the middle of the Ellsberg trial, the job as new head of the FBI. NiXOn 0221 hith none inese Issues in his broadcast and tried to sweeo ine whole this esthet pat. distracted by crents suct Nixon theon tried to justify the content whole sordid business 'I know that it can be very east. unaer ine intensive ores ures of a campaign Importance ot the end justifies means. tho And both of our great parties guilty such have henr isled tity his thaNieon justify the means. evasive out. nauseating and pouring nationailst religious piety about America of millions al! being ayers ti help me in c thing es and of yours.' more than prayers to fix ihings up.

PAGE & Workers Press, Tuesday May & A series by Bernard Franks Part seven As well as its onslaught on the working class, the Common Market stands for the economic exter- mination of the small trader. Peasants, small farmers and shopkeepers throughout the EEC are being driven out of business leaving the way for the giant manufacturing, whole- sale and retail conglomerates with their insatiable greed for the monopoly of markets and profits. In France, the suicide rate is now higher in these small proprietor sectors of the Com- munity; in Britain, 7,000 shops close down each year. For everyone gone, another ten are in serious difficulties. Heads of the large super- market chains make conde- scending remarks about there ..... day May 8, 1973 always being room for the backstreet shop, even while they are planning store sites and local • price-cutting cam- paigns to eliminate the 'in- dependents. At the moment these out- number the retail outlets of the big chains, but such figures are only a small part of the story. The high price of land and property means that only the multiples with their large, high- turnover stores can afford the best high street sites. In the back streets, local councils and private developers further aid the retailing groups by forcing the small shop- keepers out of low-rent pro- perties and redeveloping area to include no store sites or those which are offered at eight and ten times the pre- If the big com- vious rents. panies don't want them, then they stand vacant. better than No one knows. the proprietor of a family shop just how much rubbish is in- volved in the claim of the retail tycoons that the multiple chains are built through the 'hard work' of the owners.

Many small shopkeepers must labour 12-15 hours a day, six and seven days a week, even to survive, never mind 'get ahead'. He or she must be their own. porter-moving and un- packing crates etc.; transporter -especially where fresh food has to be collected in the very early morning from the whole- market; sales assistant; sale cashier; and, after the shop is closed for the day, accountant.

In other cases a man or his wife may go out to work to provide the extra cash to see them over difficult times. Small little credit shopkeepers get from their suppliers, so the extra is necessary to pay the bills before the stock can be the money raised sold, and In fact, credit restrictions have taken a huge toll of the small shops. 'freedom and indepen- The dence' that some small shop- keepers claim to achieve-the right to be his own boss—is entirely non-existent. His hours are controlled by his location, by the hours of other traders, he is doing and by how well by the shopping habits of his customers who may go to work early or get home late. His finances are controlled by the banks, finance com- panies and tax officials. His is controlled, both in stock price and in what he may or may not sell, by the whole- salers and manufacturers.

For example, a 1970 Prices and Incomes Board report on price increases in the ice cream industry revealed that two manufacturers together control 75 per cent of the ice cream market. Those are T. Walls & Son (owned by Unilever) and Lyons Maid Ltd (owned by J. Lyons & Co Ltd). jointly own The two firms the company which handles the supply and maintenance of all freezer cabinets for both (Total Refrigeration Ltd).

The report stated: 'Virtually all sales by Wall's and Lyons Maid are made under exclusive supply contracts which require the customer not to stock or sell at the premises specified in the contract, without written ice-cream pro- consent, any ducts, as defined in the con- tract, other than those obtained the manufacturer con- from cerned' The specifying of particular premises is mainly a restriction on the family shop, as multiples could still sell different brands at different branches. It was also found that 'in most cases, customers under- take not to use the cabinet for any purpose other than supplied storage of products by the manufacturer' claimed: But, the report •.. there is a degree of com- petition between the two lead- ing companies sufficient to allow the a good consumer measure of protection? Finally, in this period when wages were being held down, the Board decided: 'We there- fore conclude that their need for additional revenue the the recent sought by example involves Another 'zoning agreements' controlling newspaper distribution. before In a brought case the courts in 1971, the exist- agreements CC ence of special The small shopkeeper: Often he works 12-15 hours a day, six and seven days a week, even survive-never mind get ahead.

between wholesale distributors of Sunday newspapers was revealed. These prevented Sunday newspapers being supplied out- a particular side the area of franchise from the newspaper publishers. The judge refused a local newsagent a ban on one agree- main- The defendants ment. tained there were no 'zoning agreements' and even if there were, they wre not contrary to the public interest. Enormous power is held by wholesalers through the mono- poly of products. Like the three brands controlling 90 per cent of tinned soup; two brands capturing 41 per cent of frozen fish; three brands with 84 per cent of packet soups; two brands selling 93 per cent of scouring powders; two brands per cent of razor 82 with blades, and so on. 1970 a market research firm looked into 34 products- accounting for about a quarter of the grocery trade turnover.

ed: They found that 60 per cent of this trade is down to 91 Many of these are brands. to produced by the same com- panies. Franchising, which is the leasing-out by manufacturers wholesalers of 'product- and territories, guaranteeing that no one else within a defined area will be allowed to obtain and sell a particular item, is being extended in rapidly Britain. It has reached enormous proportions in the USA. One notorious form of franchising is pyramid selling. nts CONTINUED TOMORROW *7:9%

BEHIND SOVIET RESHUFFLE

In the biggest re-shuffle of the Soviet leadership since the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, the heads of the army, the secret police and the diplomatic corps have been brought on to the ruling Polit- buro. A plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on April 27 also sacked two Politburo members known to be critical of the bureaucracy's policy of co-operation with US imperial- ism. Newcomers to the 16-man Politburo are Defence Minis- ter Marshal Andrei Gretchko, Andrei Foreign Minister Gromyko and KGB (security police) chief Yuri Andropov.

This brings the chiefs of the three arms which have a decisive role in carrying out the bureaucracy's policy onto its main policy-making body.

It makes possible a closer co- ordination in the execution of the leadership's aims and in dealing with any opposition to Gretchko (70) is the first military man to have a seat on the Politburo since , Marshall Zhukov was deposed by Khrushchev in July 1957. Gretchko was responsible for putting down the East Berlin uprising in 1953 and in charge of Soviet forces at the time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. In April 1969 he visited Prague with the task-brutally carried out—of finally depos- ing Dubcek's Alexander re- forming wing in the Czech bureaucracy and installing Gustav Husak in his place.

'Normalization' was then car- ried through, backed up by of Gretchko's weight armed forces. This experience will be valuable when similar opera- tions in eastern Europe are necessary. He has also been responsible for building up the Soviet Union's nuclear strik- ing force. Gretchko is a close friend of Party leader Leonid Brezhnev and holds strong ideas on re- inforcing the army's prestige and regimenting Soviet youth under its influence. elevation is Gromyko's more than a reward for long and faithful service. Foreign policy is now in a critical stage with the close ties now being established with the United States and other capitalist countries and the forthcoming Helsinki talks on a European Security Pact.

Gromyko was appointed to foreign ministry the under Stalin and accompanied him to the wartime conferences at Yalta, Tehran and Potsdam.

He was Soviet representative on the United Nations Secur- ity Council in 1946-1948, executing the tough line of that period. He continued to move up- wards after Stalin's death and became Foreign Minister after Postage: 1 Order from 186a Claph Left: Foreign Minister, Gromyko. Above: the disgrace of Dmitri Shepilov in 1957. After accompanying Nikita Khrushchev on most of his foreign journeyings Gromyko's career was appar- ently unaffected by the Soviet leader's fall. He has been a member of the Central Com- mittee since 1952. Andropov is the firsf KGB chief to sit on the Politburo since Lavrenti Beria was dis- graced and shot in mysterious circumstances after Stalin's death in 1953. was Soviet ambassador He to Budapest at the time of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

Since 1967 he has been head of the security police and a candidate member of the Politburo. The KGB is now being drawn into the formula- tion of policy, which includes repression of the working class in eastern Europe as well as measures against the harsher opposition inside the Soviet Union. The significance of these appointments is underlined by the disgrace inflicted at the same Central Committee meet- ing on the two former Polit- buro members, Pyotr Shelest and Gennadi Voronov. Shelest came into the top leadership immediately after the downfall of Khrushchev in October 1964, at a time when he was already the Party boss Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37гp i Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p • Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International , Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG 0. Above: Defence Minister, Gretchko. Right: KG of the Ukraine. He achieved a reputation as a hard-liner and was a strong advocate of mili- tary intervention in Czecho- slovakia 1968. In fact, rumours are being circulated that he made the decision to invade in August 1968 when other principal leaders were away from Moscow on holi- day! He is said to have opposed invitation extended to the President Nixon to visit Mos- cow in May 1972 and was re- lieved of his post in the Ukraine. Although a brutal persecutor of nationalists and opportunists, he has recently been denounced for 'national- ism'. A five-page article in the 'Kommunist Ukraini' for April launched a strong denuncia- of his book on tion the obvious Ukraine, with the intention of discrediting him ideologically. He was accused of not using a class standpoint, violating Leninist principles and upholding Ukrainian nationalist illusions hostile to the Soviet Union. Voronov, the other Polit- buro member dropped, rose to prominence during the Khrushchev regime, being picked out originally by the First Secretary for his know- ledge of sheepfarming. For a number of years he was Otto Kerner (64), a US Court of Appeals Judge and twice Governor of Illinois, and a co- defendant Theodore Isaacs, have been sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined $50,000. In February a jury had found guilty of taking them both part in a dubious race-track stock deal in which Kerner, while Governor, netted nearly $145,000 profit. On hearing the sentences, prosecutor James Thompson, who had asked for 'substantial' said that he thought terms, Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor Workers Press, T Right: KGB chief, Andropov-The three men br mainly concerned with agri- cultural policy and especially with dismissing and demoting those who transgressed Party instructions. His no doubt methods enemies earned him many and the growing difficulties of Soviet agriculture brought him into discredit even before the end of Khrushchev's reign. In recent years he has been in- creasingly effaced and his final sacking would seem only to be a formality. The First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Lenin- grad region Gregori Romanov candidate has been made member of the Politburo and, at 50, Is the youngest man on that .body. He has followed the usual bureaucratic careèr and has been a Central Com- mittee member since 1966.

He is known to be a faithful Brezhnev supporter and his elevation is a recognition both of his devotion and of the key importance of the Leningrad region. latest shake-up would The seem to be an attempt to con- solidate the ranks of the bureaucracy as it moves into a critical period. It faces in- economic difficulties creasing in the 'decisive third year' of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. It confronts a hostile and poten- tially revolutionary working was acting 'out of compassion'.

Kerner could have received up to 58 years in jail and Isaacs 48 years. is, neither of them As it may have to spend even a single day in the cells. The compassionate Judge Taylor sentenced them under a pro- vision which makes them both eligible for immediate parole.

Up to its ears in the Watergate bugging scandal, the Nixon Administration had decided to stand for 'decency. make a The FBI has been instructed to crack down hard on porno- graphy which, according to Nixon, is corrupting the youth of America and is largely res- ponsible for the increasing crime He refused rate. to accept the findings of the US Commission on Obscenity and Pornography that the average American porn-fan is 'married, s Press, Tuesday May 8, 1973 PAGE 9 ee men brought onto the ruling Politburo.

class at home and in eastern Europe. It is engaged in tricky negotiations with the imperial- ist countries. It has to deal with the consequences of the split with China. As shown by the sackings of Shelest and Voronov, there are divisions within its own ranks on how to approach these questions. The strains and pressures of the coming period are likely to reveal further splits and lead to a bitter power struggle in the Kremlin itself. It was significant that great emphasis was laid during the May Day celebrations on the personal qualities of Brezhnev, 'outstanding described as an fighter for peace and friend- ship among peoples and a *steadfast Communist-Lenin- ist' He has just been awarded the International Lenin Prize for the Strengthening of Peace among Peoples, which has pro- vided the opportunity for a succession of speeches and articles extolling his virtues.

These fulsome tributes were echoed in East European countries. The bureaucracy needs to focus its loyalty on a supreme figure who epitom- izes its own mediocrity. In Leonid Brezhnev they have found their man. Corrupting ... white, middle class and middle aged'. Police Lt Dean Olson re- cently revealed that the Vice Squad has two men whose sole job is to watch obscene films with a view to banning them.

He added that there is a long waiting list of policemen apply- ing for the job.

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NUPE leaders set sights on Aberdare occupation ended with DELEGATES represen- ting 430,000 public ser- vice workers yesterday urged their union chiefs to press for immediate wage rises of £4 to f6 this year. fight for serious such rises would clearly involve an all-out fight to remove the Tory government and repeal its state pay laws whatever 'norm' is adopted for Phase Three. But the National Union Public Employees' genera secre Fisher, made clear Lalv. that the sights leadership set on talks with al c Alan Fish forcing 1 ories them out of office. Cross, Croydon, Surrey, All 500 delegates at the NUPE ambulanceman, insisted that the Eastbourne voted conference keep sewers and mer WInO the for drains open are just as skilled ConDosite setting out basic resolton on the production line. target of £30 week for • He also point suressen anourer full-time workers resolution-the call made in the public service. for a cost-of-living regulator to Nas minins should press for protect the real value of basi wage this year, rae Rogers, a Norfolk hos- mullen all the resolution said. Katie It also declared that in future pital shop drew steward, atten- the objective of all claims should anorner point made In thUnion I alst menders average frequenly as ed why they members earnings to those of industrial hos- pitals Moving the motion, Stan coula not negolate in step with PRODUCTION workers Cables agreed Aberdare after an eight-hour meeting with management on Friday night to end their five-week factors prevented the

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lhe workers claim this resulted in pay cuts or ty a week mon pay deal agreed soside raine Management refused to review gave considerable the scheme bonus Dayllellls Inese were So the production workers began Calculate on six montns their occupation. ductivity. Last deputation went Municipal Workers Unera national bul auring the nist six month General and tarting in October, a number o head- All Trades Unions Alliance

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local authority workers instead of a few weeks behind, she re- ported. This causes apathy - why can't we negotiate at the same time?' Tony Cross, secretary of the Oxford University branch, criti-.

cized the degree to which other sections of the union had sup- ported the hospital workers' strike. To get the new demands, he said, all sections would have to unite. 'We should all now be going out and demanding and getting this wage increase.'

Fisher's reply to the debate contained no perspective for winning the claim-or the de- mand for shorter hours and more holidays also passed by the conference. It accepted the principle of more talks with the Tories and even failed to demand unequi- vocally the repeal of the Indus- trial Relations Act. Yet not a single left wing or Communist Party delegate chal- lenged the NUPE secretary's approach. The issue, Fisher claimed, was quarters and lobbied MPs, seek- ing support. Last Thursday a factory ballot conducted by the union was about the occupation. On the same day a deputation from the occupation committee led by John Jenkins, G&MWU branch secretary, and Mervyn Fiddler, chairman, met officials from the Department of Employ- ment about a possible meeting with management.

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engineering shop steward, Phil Penn, has been cleared of obstruction charges which arose out of picketing dur- ing a three-week strike at Lan- kesters service garage last month.

Penn, panel beater at Lankesters Kingston Road garage, was first arrested on April 6 and charged with wilful obstruction of the footway under section 72 of the Highways Act 1835. This charge was later changed to wil- ful obstruction of the highway under section 121 of the 1959 Act. No reason was given for the change. He was again arrested on Friday April 13—along with his brother Terry-charged with wil- ful obstruction of the highway.

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not whether the TUC should talk to Heath, but what it should say to him. 'The TUC must make it quite clear that it is not prepared merely to discuss whether Phase Three increases should be 8 per cent or 9 per cent or 10 per cent. It must table a whole package which represents an alternative to government policies' The package should include: curbs on rents, interest and pro- fits; tight control of prices with subsidies for basic foods, scrap- ping of rent increases under the Housing Finance Act; the scrap- ping of laws 'which prevent free collective bargaining and which limit the right of unions to re- present their members' inter- ests. These were the kind of de- Heath if there was to purpose in talking to him.

Late yesterday afternoon dele- gates were considering in private session whether to call industrial action in support of members facing action for their court activities during picketing the recent hospital workers' dispute.

After a second meeting and a move by the management to isolate the production workers outside the plant, a meeting be- tween the occupiers and the management was finally held in- side the factory. As a result, the management have agreed to guarantee seven weeks pay calculated on pro- during the duction . six months prior to October while negotia- tions take place about introduc- ing a compensation factor into the bonus agreement. Easter holidays will also be paid. The day shift returned to work yesterday morning. him a wallet containing the strikers' funds. Both were remanded on bail in spite of a police application to refuse bail for Phil Penn and to ban them both from the area of the strike-bound garage until after the hearing. During Kingston magi- the strates' court hearing last week the case against Phil Penn was thrown out because of contra- dictory police and prosecution evidence. Terry Penn was found guilty of obstructing a policeman and fined a nominal f5. of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in negoti.

tions on a new pay structure i he garage and for better rate for apprentices who were being Alliance Public Meetings overnment BARNSLEY: Thursday May 10, 8 p.m. Masons Arms. Speaker: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee). s Press, Tuesday May 8, 1973 PAGE 11

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Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 9 The materialist conception of History Wednesday May 16 Dialectical Materialism- a Marxist theory of knowledge Wednesday May 23 Theory and Practice of Marxism Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m. Given by Cliff Slaughter SLL Central Committee member Civic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Mondays May 14 and 21 The Socialist Revolution In Britain : 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the contradictions of capitalism. Britain and the world crisis. 3. The state and revolution. Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading: Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party.

Marxist Analysis of the Crisis. Problems of the British Revolu- tion (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and Tasks of the Fourth Inter- the national, Communist Manifesto.

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Special Branch is bugged Reformists take 'full part' PAGE 12 Workers Pross, Tuesday May 1 TWO MEN, one a post office employee, are to be charged in connection with the tapping of telephones at the headquarters of the Irish Special Branch in Dublin. And there were suggestions yesterday that the telephones of Government Ministers may also have been bugged. The charges follow the dis- Dublin in a flat covery

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Labour Party is to play a full government. A Belfast conference of the Part rejected the abstention policy of o such as the Civil Rights Association, the Republican the Republican Clubs and Labour Party. These groups have demanded candidates that successful should refuse to take their seats on the new district authorities. Other Republican organizations have called for a total boycott of the May 30 poll. But the SDLP's manifesto says 'must be the new councillors allowed to exert their influence in the newly-created corridors of power. It goes We shall on: not reject the first small advance of reform when it presents itself Stormont MP Mr John Hume declared: 'We are not concerned about abstentionism. We are not going to repeat the mistakes of the 1930s and allow a Unionist misuse of power.' THREE MEN, two from Northern before Ireland, Special Criminal Court appeared Dublin yesterday charged with possessing five tons of explosive. nearly They were remanded in custody until May 22. All three were arrested during police checks in the border town of Dundalk on Sunday. But the charges against the three were unconnected with the deaths of three British soldiers killed by booby trap bombs in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, on Saturday. Altogether eight men were arrested in Dundalk and a further near Bleesington, County two Wicklow, after detectives raided IRA training grounds. part of the The arrests are intensified anti-IRA drive by the 'law-and-order' Liam Cosgrave government. • the Tories' Ulster Whitelaw. fuli reformist backing man gels for his poll plan. day May 8, 1973 cassette recordings and tran- scripts of police telephone calls.

The police raid on the flat also uncovered transcripts of conversations made by senior Special Branch men-including, it is said, one telephone call made by the Special Branch D'S Social Democratic and "a full part' in the new local the Party's 170 council candidates licy of other anti-partition groups

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picketing STUDENTS began the Department of Education and Science yesterday as part of the official campaign for higher They will be there all day, every day' until May 21, after which it will be administratively impossible to put any changes into effect. Jacks, outgoing presi- Digby dent of the students' union, was present and handed in a letter to the Department. He said later that he thought the Department concerned was about its 'political image' -and that the picketing campaign would be successful. said students from all over the country would be joining in. in Dublin Superintendent head, Chief John Fleming. Urgent talks on the spying are to be held at Dublin police The Minister for headquarters. Posts and Telegraphs, Conor Cruise O'Brien, and the Minister for Justice, Mr Pat- in Ulster poll Students picket Ministry

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But sacrifices by workers capitalist system get out help the of its economic crisis are exactly wiet the trade won enders are required to deliver as the only of preventing the class way struggle developing into a revolu- tionary confrontation. this what And is they have do in the secret talks. agreea to The TUC leaders are likely to package deal to the present sonic trade union movement Mater the inviting 'voluntary' programme of participation by legal restraint. backed ware for pione course, return 'restraint' and the anti- price reforms. law Attached to it will Dossibly be cost-of-living threshold agree- rick Cooney, may • be involved in the discussions. Last December a British agent and an Irish police officer arrested for handling were secret information in Department of C3-the Irish police section dealing mainly with IRA affairs. Both men were given prison sentences, but were immedi- ately released and have now left Ireland.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS Staff Association is to appeal against the National Industrial Rela- tions Court decision not to in- vestigate its claim to represent telephonists in negotiations with the Post Office in preference to Union Office the Post Workers. PHASE TWO pay deal for 500,000 civil servants under which the higher paid had to give up some of their fl plus 4 per cent increase so that the lower paid could get up to 40p a week more above the norm has been approved by the Civil Service Department. BRITISH RAIL carriage workers in York walked out yesterday in a dispute shortage over materials. The dispute was in the building shop where production was stopped after three men were sent home for refusing to work on carriages for which no bonus was payable. The rest of the men walked out in sympathy. The 200 men are calling for an inquiry into the system worked in the shop, as they say they are losing money because materials are not arriving from outside suppliers.

THE VOTE by 2,000 Ford wor- kers at Swansea to accept the £2.20 Phase Two pay deal throws further doubt on the call for all- out strike action at Ford's 21 plants by the union side of the national committee negotiating last week. Union officials and shop dissipated the stewards have initial hostility to the Tory pay laws which led to spontaneous walk-outs at Ford plants when first announced. The engineering union execu- tive meets today to discuss the strike call. The full union side meets again on May 17 and will meet Ford's the following day.

ment which allegedly will com- pensate workers for any rises in prices which their held-back wages cannot cover. But this will be as big a fraud as the current Phase Two con- trols which are meant to be as 'fair' in restraining prices as they are in holding back wages.

It is clear that the rate of price inflation will be so high by the autumn that any state controls over wages will inevitably lay the working class open to the most they have serious defeats yet faced in the fight to maintain their standard of living and their basic democratic rights during this crisis of the capitalist system.

Underneath all the Tory soft soap poured out over the week- end about their willingness to discuss every question fairly with

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CORRESPONDENT

THE JOBS of a further 3,000 workers at Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard hung in the balance yester- day, as management met to discuss more lay-offs. These involve the ancillary workers and outfitters whose work is closely allied to that of the shipbuilding steelwork- ers - the men at the centre of the dispute. All shipbuilding at the yard Europe's biggest—has stopped since the last of the 2,500 steel- workers were paid off on Friday.

The 13-week dispute, which led to an overtime ban by the steelworkers, is non-pay- over ment of bonuses. The men re- fused an appeal by boilermakers' president Danny McGarvey to call off the ban. There is speculation Tory Secretary for Vister, William Whitelaw, may inter- vene in an attempt to end the dispute. Stormont MP Mr Vivian Simp- son, of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, visited Whitelaw last night to discuss the situ- ation at the yard. McGarvey ... Thwarted A NEW PAY deal for 26,000 Vauxhall car workers will again be discussed at a joint meeting on Friday. No agreement could be reached when the two sides met last month. The company has offered an across-the-board increase of £2.40 a week, with fringe benefits for hourly-paid workers at Luton, Dunstable, and Ellesmere Port.

They could have two extra days' holiday, if they accepted an in- crease of only £2.20. This offer is within the limits of the Tory government's state pay laws of fl plus 4 per cent.

the TUC, the essential truth of the matter remained clear.

The Tories do not intend to unions to get allow the trade back to free collective bargain- ing, as Commons leader James Prior pointedly spelled out in a speech at Cambridge. The Tory propaganda offensive in case they is window-dressing need to renew their mandate at a General Election. It also pro- cover for the real vides treachery being prepared at the TUC-government talks. must de- The working class deceptions and these nounce demand that the TUC leaders break off all talks with the Tory government and instead start a campaign for its enforced resig- industrial nation through and political action.