Workers Press no. 1071

workers press Preparations to launch Revolutionary Party

MASS RALLY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

THE NATIONAL Com- are currently being dis- cussed in the pages of the mittee of the All Trades Workers Press, was the Unions Alliance has

ATUA

National Committee's called a national rally statement adopted at Birm- of trade unionists at ingham last year. Belle Vue, Manchester, In statement adopted yesterday by the

ATUA

in for July 1, as a further for the preparation July step in the preparations the National for building the Revolu- Committee declared: tionary Party. The further turn in the grave economic crisis This follows the on very caused by the political and successful ATUA conference economic effects of the of 2,200 workers at Birming- Nixon scandal will have ham on October 1972. 22, profound influence on the which launched the cam- inflationary boom in Britain paign. and the policies of the Tory The founding conference and Labour leaders. of the Party will be held in The Tories have laid London at the end of Octo- plans for a corporate state, ber 1973. The basis of the but sharpening the class draft perspectives and pro- struggle resulting from the gramme for the Party, which intensification of the crisis

HOW

LONG

President • Daniel Ellsberg. can the main Nixon stay at the White House defendant, has said he will sue before he is forced out of office both Nixon and the administra- Watergate as result of the tion for their attempts to rig bugging scandal and the whole- the case against him by burglary, sale corruption revealed in the phone-tapping and trying to bribe centre of his administration?

the judge. This question is agitating the The testimony • of L. Patrick entire world bourgeoisie as their Gray, the former Federal Bureau most powerful leader reels from of Investigation head. that he one scandalous revelation to the Nixon last informed July that next. White House senior staff were The latest damaging blows trying to impede the Watergate include: investigations. Gray is due testify length before at the The dismissal of all charges televised senate committee of in the Pentagon Papers case. The inquiry which opens on Thurs- case is estimated to have cost day. the state $2m. Judge some Getting rid of Nixon could Matthew Byrne said the govern- sticky problem, ment's misconduct in prove very the case grave as to offend the however. Unless he can be bribed was so sense of justice. or strong-armed to leave quietly, Nixon will have to be impeached.

This could take several weeks and would only mean exchanging him for the almost equally com- promised Spiro Agnew. Third in line Carl Albert, is 01-720 2000 Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, described as a moderately well-known politician and modest political stature'.

HE NEWSLETTER •

MONDAY MAY 14, 1973

IE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

will more and more disrupt these plans and expose Phase Three of the state pay laws. It is this massive class basis for the launching of struggle which forms the Revolutionary Party. Therefore it is vitally urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- sist the launching of the Revolutionary Party, should be discussed by the largest possible number of dele- gates and visitors to the July 1 conference. Arrangements are in hand to provide appropriate facili- ties for such a discussion at the Belle Vue, Manches- ter, one of the largest as- sembly halls in the north of England. invitations to delegations will be going Y 14, 1973 No. 1071 • 4p

OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

out next week. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and free restore negotiations for wages between trade unions and employers, to join the demand for break- ing off all talks with the government on Phase Three.

The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights is now inseparable from the struggle to build the Revolutionary Party. We believe that the July 1 rally can be an important landmark in the struggle to unite the working class on the basis of socialist poli- cies to create the necessary industrial and political con- ditions for forcing the Tory government to resign.

LEAGUE

DESPITE the tremendous work and sacrifice of our readers and members of the Socialist Labour League, it seems almost impossible for us to com- plete the first £50,000 by May 31. Up to last Fri- day our Fund reached £21,784.95. Only three Socialist Labour League branches have responded so far this weekend: Reading £5; Artists branch £10; YSSS comrades £41—in all £56, which brings our total to 221,840.95. We have 17 days to col- lect £28,159.05. This is surely the biggest test we have ever faced with any of our funds. And this is no ordinary fund. Building the revolu- tionary party is now the most important and de- cisive political task con- fronting the working class.

The discussion which has just begun in the Workers Press on pages 4 and 5 emphasizes this point over and over again. So let us get into the fight. We must make our target. We can make our target if you, our readers, decide to pitch in. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. over ABOUT 200 supporters of the Stoke Newington 5 Solidarity Committee' de- monstrated at the weekend against the savage jail sentences that followed notorious Angry the Brigade' trial. At that trial John Barker, Hilary Creek, James Green- field Mendelson, and Anna all in their early twenties, were jailed for ten years each for allegedly conspiring to cause explosions. At an earlier trial Jake Prescott was jailed for 15 similar charges. years on One of the main demands the demonstration was for an end to the conspiracy laws. At a meeting in the even- ing Angela Weir (carrying the main banner in our picture), one of the four the Angry acquitted in Brigade' trial, said that in conspiracy trials defendants guilty until were proved innocent.

workers press Preparations to launch Revolutionary Party

MASS RALLY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENI

THE NATIONAL Com- being dis- are currently cussed in the pages of the mittee of the All Trades Workers Press, the was Unions Alliance has

ATUA

National Committee's called a national rally statement adopted at Birm- of trade unionists at ingham last year. Belle Vue, Manchester, In a statement adopted yesterday by the

ATUA

in for July 1, as a further preparation for the July step in the preparations conference, the National for building the Revolu- Committee declared: tionary Party. The further turn in the grave economic crisis This follows the on very caused by the political and successful ATUA conference economic effects of the of 2,200 workers at Birming- Nixon scandal will have ham October 22, 1972, on profound influence on the launched which the cam- inflationary In boom Britain paign. and the policies of the Tory The founding conference and Labour leaders. of the Party will be held in The Torles have laid London at the end of Octo- plans for a corporate state, ber 1973. The basis of the but the sharpening class draft perspectives and pro- struggle resulting from the gramme for the Party, which intensification the crisis

HOW

LONG

President Daniel Ellsberg, can the main Nixon stay at the White House he will sue before he is forced out of office both Nixon and the administra- Watergate result the as a of tion for their attempts to rig bugging scandal and the whole- the case against him by burglary.

sale, corruption revealed in the phone-tapping and trying to bribe centre of his administration?

the judge. This question is agitating the The testimony of L. Patrick entire world bourgeoisie as their Gray, the former Federal Bureau most powerful leader reels from of Investigation head, that he one scandalous revelation to the Nixon informed last July that next. White House staff senior were The blows latest damaging trying to impede the Watergate include: investigations. Gray is due to testify length before at the in Te elitanion l pers sea The dismissal of all charges televised of senate committee The inquiry which opens Thurs- on is estimated to have case cost day. $2m. the state Judge some rid of Getting Nixon could Matthew Byrne said the govern- problem, ment's misconduct in the prove very sticky case 'the however. Unless he can be bribed was so grave as to offend sense of justice. or strong-armed to leave quietly, Nixon will have to be impeached.

This could take several weeks and would only mean exchanging him for the almost equally com- promised Spiro Agnew. Third in line is Carl Albert, 01-720 2000 Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, described as a moderately well-known politician and modest political stature'.

HE NEWSLETTER •

MONDAY MAY 14, 1973

IE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

will more and more disrupt these plans and expose Phase Three of the state pay laws. It is this massive class basis for the launching of struggle which forms the Revolutionary Party. Therefore it is vitally urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- sist the launching of the Revolutionary Party, should be discussed by the largest possible number of dele- gates and visitors to the July 1 conference. Arrangements are in hand to provide appropriate facili- ties for such a discussion at the Belle Vue, Manches- ter, one of the • largest as- sembly halls in the north of England. Invitations to delegations will be going Y 14, 1973 • No. 1071 • 4p

OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

out next week. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and restore free negotiations for wages between trade unions and employers, to join the demand for break- ing off all talks with the government on Phase Three.

The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights is now inseparable from to the struggle build the Revolutionary Party. We believe that the July 1 rally can be an important landmark in the struggle to unite the working class on the basis of socialist poli- cies to create the necessary industrial and political con- ditions for forcing the Tory government to resign.

LEAGUE

DESPITE the tremendous work and sacrifice of our readers and members of the Socialist Labour League, it seems almost impossible for us to com- plete the first £50,000 by May 31. Up to last Fri- day our Fund reached £21,784.95. Only three Socialist Labour League branches have responded so far this weekend: Reading £5; Artists branch £10; YSSS comrades {41-in all £56, which brings our total to £21,840.95. We have 17 days to col- lect £28,159.05. This is surely the biggest test we have ever faced with any of our funds. And this is no ordinary fund. Building the revolu- tionary party is now the important and de most cisive political task con- fronting the working class.

The discussion which has just begun in the Workers Press on pages 4 and 5 emphasizes this point over and over again. So let us get into the fight. We must make our target. We can make our target if you, our readers, decide to pitch in. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. over ABOUT 200 supporters of the Stoke Newington Solidarity Committee' de- monstrated at the weekend against the savage jail sentences that followed notorious 'Angry the Brigade' trial. At that trial John Barker, Hilary Creek, James Green- field and Anna Mendelson, all in their early twenties, were jailed for ten years each for allegedly conspiring to cause explosions. At an earlier trial Jake for 15 Prescott was jailed similar charges. years One of the main demands the demonstration On was for an end to the conspiracy laws. At a meeting in the even- ing Angela Weir (carrying the main banner in our picture), one of the four 'Angry acquitted in the Brigade' trial, said that in conspiracy trials defendants were guilty until proved innocent.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday May 14, 1973 Basic rights INSIDE the unions

THE PROSCRIPTION

This, of course, is insult to the decision. The IS, therefore, are the of the inter- We have been tolerant up to now Socialist by the because we thought that the people intelligence of APEX members and victims not of any episodic witch- national group Execu- They casualties the Association of Professional, concerned were mainly a mockerv of trade union democracy hunt. are 1n young and Clerical Computer Staff misguided. Why doesn't include Tc to Produce ene ment the Tory Grantham tive, and campaign government more than a crude

(APEX,

formerly CAWU) conference This nothing mental aeleclives as strengthen bureaucratic attempt to impose category? style corporatism, on Saturday is a sinister blow at the thought control on APEX and sup- Workers right-wing democratic rights of trade unionists Press does not defend government union and collaboration the of in the direction of the drive political minority rights out of some abstract expense ana a step Dress tendency and dissentient love of democracy and justice, working-class living standards and corporate state. opinion basic rights. except which represents the because The IS group was banned ostensibly anti-communist, defence of union democracy is in- eactionary pro- the APEX executive com- because It strengthens immeasurably the neces- Common Market faction of Granthan separable from the struggle to defend sity for the campaign of the Socialist mittee had received complaints that and president Dennis Howell, MP. the unions from the attacks of the IS literature Labour League, the distributed and inter being Was differences capitalist state- and more important Despite our with this re- national Marxist Group defend of the Bristol branch

HIC OCTS

actionary duo, we would defend their -trom the attempts to basic rights and indicts the refusal subsequently, IS formed and that. factional right if any group or govern- them into the structure of the state.

a number of 'action groups'.

of the Communist Party to support it.

Grantham's tried to deprive them of it. reactionary statement is But the APEX If the banning of decision IS the Is is wrong, the aso but a belated confirmatior Similar v we detend the 1s right to oi the speech of APEX general secretary warning: It is a BAD decision. It absolute faction correctness of Trotsky's as political un- decision. exist

WRONG

Grantham of this warning in 1940: It 1S noy Cerence conditionally. action is absolutely preposterous and DANGEROUS decision. 'Freedom,' Rosa *Monopoly capitalism is less and less Luxemburg must be condemned by every British All trade unionists who value their another 'factionalist'-once stated, willing reconcile itself to (TO Ine trade unionist. Said Grantham: independence basic rights should combine in the 'is freedom only for those who think of trade unions. 'Each member of the union is entitled differently.' demands of the reformist bureau- broadest possible faction to reverse to his or her point of view and is it and throw out this reactionary, But this cracy and the labour aristocracy who is not Grantham's point ol entitled to fight for it in a demo- He is favour of factions pick the banquet in crumbs from its anu-soclaust leadersnip. avery Dion cratic fashion, for table, that they become transformed union democracy but it must be fought apparently if they are organized by for within the rules of the union and and misguided' political police before the against the talks and the but young Into lls not by factions, cliques or serious political eyes of the working class.

of the outside certainly not corDolale slalt Hicasules bodies. This is the essence of the APEX Tories. Iranian students Gold barometer' protest Shah's points to storms military moves

THE

RAPIDLY rising

BY JOHN SPENCER

drawing rights and demonetizing OVER 100 Iranian students and Arab and British gold. price of gold is the most 'Yet discreetly graph' commented performance of the sympathizers marched through central London to the important and significant gold yesterday, could very dowever. markel- Saturday in protest against the The activity [on the gold shortly move over the $100 taking Iranian embassy on indication of the depth the Hold shares merrily along points simply the Gulf state of Shah's military intervention in of the economic crisis which holders making based let vouslicss about the dollar solely on paper money with little Dhofar. currencies tep' and false Tory talk and other money following regard increasingly The march was the culmination of a week of protest organ- difficult to take about boom. The price two dollar Another seriously.' devaluations. ized by the Confederation of Iranian Students in Great Britain.

crisis could, once agaln, be rouna same Colo be sao wits on the London market Many of the demonstrators wore masks to prevent identifica- the corner even more force about the talk 'Talks sustained expansion from last week jumped $6.60 monetary reform the tion by Iranian agents who kept the march under surveillance are still Tory on. DuL cruell. to close at $96.95 an and photographed the marchers.

emerged from Heath has no more chance of concrete as In an interview published in Paris yesterday the Shah told the of 20. the Group maintaining the inflationary boom ounce. are still talking blithely of basing magazine 'Le Point' he had bought modern arms so that he can be than Nixon has of putting Water.

truly independent and 'never have to pick up the telephone to call gate back under the carpet. the continental bullion relorm on an expansion of specia.

Mr Nixon for help' markets the was price He justified his decision to buy Gold higher than in London Pantom et enter-bompers iron bars were being traded in Paris

SOCIETY IN G.B

RAMAN STUDENTS.

the United States on the grounds

CONFEDERATION) -

on afternoon the each rriday that though record high level of $99.13 an much as a hospital. it i bulld hospitals having WIThOUT vulne. as f means Will cemen tacl 11 'The $100 mark looks will when casil day there said. reach,' dealer within one be

WE GENDARI

no more nosoildis. only als Not did the Referring to the Arabian Gulf, only

ISC

steeply in there was also the Shah said he had let all the Paris.

VICTORY

increase of the 24. Im Francs-worth know that they STOFes MILITAR metal He said need Wol. ne

AGGRESSIN

TO would take care of the security was traded on rriday compared with 15.1m on Thursday. this of the world part

FASCIST REIA

PFLOAG

that all commercial shipping The gold price he rene real colust nove the Shah intends to barometer of the depth Just how the crisis. self-imposed task go about this As Nixon scandal moves tha sacmonouraled its climax in the United niqué from the Kurdistan towards Democratic Parts announcing holders the murder by of fear that his whetner President assadoills goes or stays, the economic con- Kacl memoer or me party's central committee sequences truly alC The communiqué says that in the allack Darly s local This explains the reluctance of organization Baneh, several the capitalist other party members meala to pudlicize the flight from paper money wounded large number and which is reaching panic peopic roundea up by Ine secrel The proportions. police, Savak. ASTMS will still attend NIRC Nuneaton

BY DAVID MAUDE

jobs fight

IN EASTBOURNE

The In his keynote speech on Sat- executive was instructed In debate on the TUC's 'to 1cll complete v

HONO

secret WIts 1 orles

STERLING

METALS,

the pledged that they co-operation with such poli- Jenkins said he would be bound Mikargo Mr THE ASSOCIATION of Scien- would go on doing so. cies and campaign vigorously by no agreement reached in dis- Nuneaton factory which pro- Technical and Managerial tific, for enhanced salaries. duces for the Wolle conutue cussions l s nature. Castilles Staffs rejected at the weekend it tough with Phase Two of the But yesterday and engineering industries, forty, the again Delegates supported a motion any form of co-operation laws, he said. 00 pay by majority, large sacked 25 fettlers for striking.

deploring anti-working- with delegates such policies, And they would not be satis- out a composite class manoeuvres. They directed The men, who walked out on whether voluntary or imposed fied with the 5-per-cent ceiling motion saying that ppearanc Tuesday last week the union executive to campaign on piece- Heath by unions before he NIR was had been suggested Dy governments. told they TUC for poli- dispute with the remainder vicorous v in toe

WOIK

were impose inconsistent wanted

TOT

Delegates

ASTMS

cies based on rejection of the would be sacked unless they the Three.

IL DONC

undermined state and the redistri- returned by Friday. conference in Eastbourne, corporate how- effective opposition of the move The successful composite ment to the Act' of wealth under workers spokesman for the men told ever, inrew out a move to stop Dullon motion on this issue, carried on the union's executive appearing control. Saturday, reaffirmed opposition Clive Jenkins, ASTMS general Workers 'We iust could r tess. before National the Industrial not accept this ultimatum' double- secretary, attacked the But they defeated an amend- was collarico. Court he duons omer 'Wage

TUC

talk of some sections of the trade calling Twent one restrals ment The uneaton centra branch or tof governed by the Industrial Rela- such as "prices and incomes" union movement, such the mobilize the whole trade union Amalgamated Union of Engineer- tions Act. get rid of this policies, regardless engineering He Workers carried gov- unions. claimed movement to ing has unani-

ASTMS

On introduce against and to calling ware resulaint. Seekil Lilal Laikine ernment ano 1is porces. resoluton leaders claim to have beaten them, are not accepted as a solu- NIRC and refusing to appear be- install Labour government the trades council to mobilize Tory laws several tion to the economic problems fore it, practice its committed to genuinely socialist maximum support for the sacked pay decisions were implemented. policies'. areas of the country. or inequalities of our society.

fettlers it they are not reinstated.

CONCENTRATION

CONDITIONS

GET WORSE

Hundreds political of prisoners in the Long Kesh concentration camp, North- ern Ireland, say they have been denied any visits from relatives since March 14.

Prior to this, they were allowed one half-hour visit each week, which, due to harassment at the camp, cost their visitors almost a full day.

The internees are refusing to submit to degrading search procedures which include the removal of clothing. This is the third time since the concentration camp was opened in 1971, September that the visits have been dis- rupted in interests the of 'security. On the first occasion the Camp Commandant demanded that all internees remove their footwear and any other cloth- ing he deemed necessary before they would be allowed visits.

In the face of strong protest inside and outside the camp, he backed down and 'normal' procedures were resumed. occasion, On the second visitors were forced to undergo similar humiliation. Visits once again stopped. After five weeks of sustained the pressure, camp authorities again agreed to allow visits under conditions acceptable to internees and their relatives. Now, once again, the in- ternees have been denied visits under reasonable conditions.

As the political prisoners alone are unable to alleviate the conditions under which they are kept, they are seeking help to guarantee their basic rights.

BEATING

AFTER COURT

FARCE

Margaret Shannon (18) of Monagh Drive, Turf Lodge Estate, Belfast, was arrested by British soldiers at her home at 3 a.m. on March 6 under sec- tion I1 of the Special Powers Act. She was removed to Armagh prison on March 8 and brought under_heavy armed • guard to Long Kesh concentration camp on April 25 to appear before the British Tribunal. near the She was placed curtain behind which evidence is given by faceless informers against those dragged before what they have denounced as a 'kangaroo legal farce'.

Miss Shannon pulled the curtain aside and saw a person in British army uniform whom she immediately recognized as a Capt Ball. She shouted at him: I know you' Miss Shannon claims that she was immediately set upon by several warders and brutally beaten until she lost consciousness. As a result of the beating she suffered severe shock and a serious neck in- jury. Post Office union leaders have wound up a two- battle by their year 30,000 telephonist mem- bers against the intro- duction of push-button telephone equipment. The equipment-known as keysenders — could eventually kill the job of one operator in every ten. But despite widespread op- position in the exchanges and the Post Office's failure to offer any money as yet, the Union of Post Office Workers has agreed that keysenders can be introduced forthwith.

The union claims that at this stage there will be no change in the cost of connect- ing calls and consequently no reduction in staff. Kim McKinlay, one of the UPW's assistant secretaries for telecommunications, op- posed calls at a special con- terence in February for the introduction of keysenders to be held up pending a 2-per- cent pay increase. It was difficult to get money out of the new equipment, she said. 'Staff savings'—the polite UPW word for loss of jobs—could be brought about only with union agreement.

Yet in a printed special re- port to the conference the executive printed the text of a letter, sent in November last year, in which the Post Office says that 300 telephon- ists and 32 supervisors' jobs could be cut out by key- senders. supervisors' A further 178 jobs could be 'saved', the letter goes on, as a result of revised supervision and train- ing arrangements consequent on the introduction of key- senders. Later in the conference last February Tom Jackson, UPW general secretary, made clear that the executive was quite prepared to give its agreement to these job-cuts in return for extra money for the remaining telephonists. The Post Office, however, has refused because of the Tory pay laws to consider a union claim for lead-in payments of 1 per cent. Notwithstanding this and McKinlay have Jackson given the go-ahead for key- senders' introduction. The formula on which they have done so demonstrates the absolute subservience of the union leadership to the state pay control policy. At a meeting with the Post Office on March 27, says the current issue of 'UPW Tele- coms News', 'it was ... con- cluded that the question of productivity pay aspects of keysenders would need to be government's left until the intentions for stage three of its counter-inflation programme are known later this year' Here the Tory myth that the government is engaged in fight- ing 'inflation', ', rather than in a blatant and ruthless onslaught UPW general secretary, Tom Jackson, w the wages and conditions on of the working class, is pumped out uncritically to union mem- bers alongside proposals for attacking their jobs. Moves to introduce key- senders were first made by the Post Office towards the end of 1970. The union leadership asked a special conference in Decem- ber 1971 to allow introduction from January 1, 1972, but delegates insisted on seeing proposals for a cash increase first. Then, in May 1972, the newly-appointed industrial re- lations director of the Post Office, Kenneth Young, watched telephonist dele- anxiously as gates to a further special con- ference again threw out McKinlay's advice to allow Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37Łp * Problems of the British Revolution.

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Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG Workers Press, Mc ackson, who gave the executive's agreement fo immediate introduction. At this stage the Post Office offering estimated was an global sum of £200,000 for introduction of the new equip- ment. One delegate calculated this meant only about 7p a week. After throwing out their leaders' advice, the delegates went on to demand that any productivity agreement con- cluded over keysenders must maintain existing staff levels.

But the opponents of key- senders left the UPW execu- tive a vital loophole to con- tinue talks with the Post Office, and McKinlay was able February to come back last with a claim that all the con- ditions set by delegates had been met. At the conference tele- Demand for improvements in hospital service Local anger has been arou- sed by cut-backs in the ser- vice provided at Altrincham General Hospital, Cheshire.

The out-patients and casu- alty department have been shutting down at 5 p.m. since April 2 and not opening at all at weekends. Other cuts include the closing of the children's ward. A reporter from the 'Al- trincham Guardian' recently did a 'dummy run' to see what happened to an accident victim who was sufficiently hurt to need treatment, but not serious enough to qualify for the ambulance service, and who • did not have a private car. Press, Monday May 14, 1973 PAGE 3 eement for job cuts. phonists with experience of pilot keysender schemes gave the lie to executive claims that every one who had tried them loved them. One young woman delegate declared that if improvements were not made in the equip- ment the Post Office would have to set up its exchanges in mental institutions-because that's where all the operators would be. She was promptly banned by union •officials from branch speaking to the Press on the subject. It was also claimed that the amount of money telephonists would receive from introduc- tion had gone down to 5tp.

ad Now even that pittance seems to have disappeared down the le- Tory drain. He turned up at the casualty department at 7.50 p.m. and set off to the nearest accident and emergency department at Wythenshawe hospital. At Altrincham bus station he discovered that the last direct bus to Wythenshawe hospital had left at 7.20 p.m.

Incredibly, there was a bus to the hospital at 8.30 but it was not licensed to take people out to the hospital— only to bring them back. This bus leaves empty every week- day night. No injured person would be allowed on it. The only available route in- volved two buses, a ten- minute wait and a walk across open ground. The minimum time possible for the journey by public transport is one hour 12 minutes. • The north Cheshire Hospital Action Committee has called a public meeting for tomorrow to demand improvements in hospital and transport ser- Vices.

TRANSFORMING THE SOC

INTOA REVOLUTIONARY

Extract from the policy resolution adopted unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at the All Trades Unions Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we address you with this urgent call to action: PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday May 14 Extract from the policy res Alliance conference, Birm Fellow trade unionists, con In its place must be elec- ted a Labour government which is pledged by the mass action of the working class to implement socialist policies.

knowing that the pre- sent leaders of the Labour move- ment have no intention of intro- ducing such policies. Indeed, in the last analysis some of them will be prepared to join a coali- tion government with the Tories to head off the working class.

But if the working, class strong enough to force the Tories out, it is strong enough to deal traitors in its own with the midst. This can only be achieved by exposing them in the fight for an alternative socialist policy.

The Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League calls upon the working class to sup- port the following policies to unite the working class against the Tories and the present Wilson-Feather leadership of the labour movement: Here is the policy which the next Labour government must be forced to carry out. 1) A Labour government must immediately repeal the Indus- Housing trial Relations Act, Finance Act, Immigration Acts, Fair Trading Act and all wage control. After the repeal of all 4) Tory anti-working class mea- sures, there must be legislation to implement the Charter of Basic Rights, along the follow- ing lines. 2) The right to work! Capital- ism demands mass unemploy- ment. The right to a job must be guaranteed. This can only be done by breaking the grip of capitalist ownership on the economy. Employed and un- mu employed must unite to insist on a Labour government na- tionalizing the main industries workers' and banks, under control and without compen- sation. Alfred Russell (40) is an Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' shop steward at Gestetner's Totten- ham plant: I'm right against the Tories. The prices of things as they are now are terrible. Working-class people won't be able to run a car soon or have any kind of luxury. You go to work all week and you get no pleasure out of it. You work all your life and you get nothing. That's what the Tories want. Another year and we will all be as good as slaves. You can't take your wife to the pictures or go on a holiday because it costs a fortune. The cost of living has gone up terrifically. It's hit us a terrible lot. We're in urgent need of a pay rise now. ay May 14, 1973 icy resolution adopted unanii , Birmingham, on October 2 ts, comrades and friends we THE TORY governme frontation with the v workers are forced to defend their standard o cost of living. Large sections of thes answer to their fight to General Strike. That is, conditions which will fo 3) The democratic right to strike and to organize in trade unions. Only the organized working class can lead man- kind out of the historical crisis. Every right and every gain won by the working class, every democratic right in Bri- tain, has been won because of the organized strength of the unions and the strike weapon. A Labour government must ust immediately repeal the Indus- trial Relations Act. This fight must begin now by forcing the TUC to break off all relations and with the government mobilize the working class to destroy state control of wages.

4) The right to defend rights won in the past and change the system. All the changes in legal procedures made by the Tory government must be re- pealed. All secret police and MI5 organizations must be dis- banded and fully exposed. The secrets of the Tory adminis- tration in this sphere must be published. All rights to assem- bly, free speech and the Press must be guaranteed. The struggle must begin now. No closures, no sackings, must be the policy of the trade unions. Occupation of fac- tories threatened with closure, The Tories have done no- thing for the working class, but our leadership has been very weak. I think they should call a General Strike. Let's get things sorted out now.

I think the TUC's in with Heath. They side together. On May Day they didn't even ask people to come out. It's not the working class who are afraid, it's the leader- ship. They're not powerful enough for workers to follow.

Wilson's just let the Tories with it. He hasn't get away done a thing to stop them.

I think we need to build a new leadership urgently. We're falling behind all the time.

The Socialist Labour League is something I can believe in.

You can't trust these other parties. They promise us this that and the other every year, but we've got nothing yet.

The League would probably give strong leadership the workers need. I've always been in a union, I've never but been a political party. If you work, you want to get something.

We're nothing. It's getting only the governors who get something. unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at th ber 22, 1972. Is we address you with this urgent call to action: vernment is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con- • the working class. Each day new sections of rced to become criminals — under Tory law — to ndard of living against government-inspired soaring of these workers openly acknowledge that the only fight to maintain a decent standard of living is a That is, the creation of the industrial and political h will force the government to resign.

as part of the fight to bring ernment cut in welf.re bene- down the Tories. fits, in the health service and public spending in all must 5) The right to a higher stan- be revoked. On the basis of It is dard of living. not the nationalization, a crash pro- living of trade standards of of expansion ser- gramme unionists, but the profit sys- the unemployed, the vices to which causes the crisis. tem, low-paid, the sick and the aged must be to ex- The first step must be undertaken as an propriate all the great fortunes absolute priority. The working of the rich, close down the class and the Labour govern- Stock Exchange, place a state ment must take immediate and control over all movements of absolute responsibility for capital and out of the in 'these victims of the capitalist country. system. Nationalization of the basic 7) The right to decent housing.

industries and of all large com- Decent housing is not a luxury; building and in- banks, panies, it is a necessity. People have societies will provide surance the basic right decent to the resources for a unified accommodation at rents they the to living plan improve can afford. Nationalization of standards of the whole people.

the handful of building mono- Workers' control of these, as polies and building societies well as the present national- will provide the basis for a ized industries, will run them in the interests of the workers of new massive programme house building. The disgraceful and consumers. problem of the homeless in Again, the fight must begin the cities must be immediately State control of now. wages solved by census and taking- must be answered by the most over of all unoccupied pro- widespread fight for wage in- perty. to meet creases price rises 8) The international and improve standards. This respon- sibilities of the working class.

means a fight to remove the The working class is interna- Tory government and change tional. We fight for the the union leadership. un- restricted right of any worker 6) The right to health and wel- nationality of any to move fare benefits. Every Tory gov- freely through the world.

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out the Lynch and Heath gov- ernments. Unite in the struggle for the United of Socialist States Europe, the only alternative to the Common Market plans for dictatorship. Withdraw all British troops • from abroad and disband the present standing army. Sign treaties with • all ex- ne- colonial countries for pro- and grammes of equal trade and ust mutual assistance. Break from NATO and all ro- imperialist alliances.

For the carrying out of such ged policies the SLL fights for the up of Councils of setting ing Action to lead the struggle against the Tory government in These Councils every area. unite trade unionists, tenants, unemployed, all political par- ties and tendencies of working class (Labour Party, Communist Party, SLL, IS, IMG, etc.) to fight against the main enemy, the Tory govern- ment. The SLL calls upon every socialist and class-conscious worker to consider this pro- gramme and manifesto very carefully, and to decide now to their inescapable re- take up sponsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the burning question now, not in some remote future. The SLL is determined to carry through its transformation into a re- volutionary party. JOIN the Socialist Labour League and help transform it into a revolutionary party.

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Dennis Stroude lives in Ordsall, one of the most broken-down areas of Manchester trapped between the main road to Eccles and the docks. His house has been condemned for decades. Across the rubble of his back yard he watches the army of builders at work on the new council flats. Dennis is on the council housing list.

Once he wanted to get out of his slum. Now he wonders whether he can afford it. Prices under the Tories already eat up his wages earned at a dock- side cold storage firm. All his money goes on the necessities keep his wife and four to children decently fed and clothed. This is the first time I have really actively fought for socialism, though I've been a all my life-I was socialist Labour through my old man.

I met the League through the Workers Press. I thought it was an excellent paper that.

told the truth, but the big breakthrough was the Pageant in London on March 11. I sup- : I was always aware of pose what basic rights meant, but the Pageant really brought out just how they were achieved— the generation before us had to struggle for everything we have got today. How people suffered for us. It's difficult at work to get how this to people over seriously our rights have been attacked and taken from • US. Many men are happy with a few bob and a pint or two. We have to go out to them and say they won't have that for long, that the pint is based on the unions and their power and it's a power that's being worn away. We have to say this is not the 19th century but 1973.

I put the apathy in the work- ing class down to leadership.

People often agree with you about what you say, but they just can't see a way out. They see no real alternative. We have to say we are the alter- native, that we are the people who will finish the Pageant off and secure rights for everyone by getting rid of capitalism.

I think people will respond because they have no choice.

Look at me. I have four kids.

I live in a slum. I have tried to get out of it but I can't.

I work 50 hours a week and I consider myself fortunate 50 hours are just enough to keep me going. All the blokes I work with are in the same Some run cars because boat. their families have grown up.

But the car cost them £10 a week to run and pay off at the same. Soon they won't be able to pay for the car, it will have to go and then they will begin to realize just how far things have gone. The only way out for me is a council house. But I can't get one of them and even if I could I would have to cut down even more to afford the rent. Some people say it's my fault, I shouldn't have so many kids. But I like kids, it's my right, as a human being to have scene from the finale of the Pagean A of what rights meant, but the Pageant i kids. I would like to have 44 if I could. The decision to do some- thing about this by joining the League is really a culmination of events. I first started work on £l1.50 a week. After a series of rises that we fought for we are on £27. Now that's a big rise, but I'm no better off. It's all gone. It's a vicious circle. The rise in the cost of living is frightening. You just have to work more and more hours to live. You can't break out of the circle by reforms or getting more money-it needs a fundamental change. It's the only way. No one will alter this view now. I have read the Press, the pamphlets and the literature of the League and some Lenin and Trotsky and this has simply confirmed the things I was half realizing. This is what I was looking for. The job now is to go out and make people realize this. I talk to men at work. Most don't see it. A few listen and still fewer you can turn and this is worth it because you are developing the movement.

he Pageant of Working Class History / at Empir Pageant really brought out just how they were This is a hard struggle, of course. One of the first things I have learned is that this will take time. When I first joined the League I thought it would be bingo-everyone 1 talked to would see it the same way. But of course people develop different ways, it's a struggle.

A lot of people of course cry 'communist' when you are trying to convert them. So you have to explain that there is a difference between Stalinism Communism; that the and Stalinists tried to stop com- munism spreading outside the Soviet because Union they believed in the building of socialism in one country, which is not possible. We have to explain that the working class is international, that the struggle is international, that working men all over the unity in their world hind struggle with the same system -me here in this place and the fighters in Vietnam or the workers in America. The other vital thing is the reading of theory. For the first time I am beginning to do this It has amazed me. reading. You suddenly realize that men Workers Press, M 11, 1973. at Empire Pool, Wembley, March they were achieved.' like Lenin and Trotsky were dealing with the very same and problems situations the working class face today.

There is a passage in Lenin's Communism, 'Left-Wing an Infantile Disorder' which I am is very reading now that important. He is describing a pre- revolutionary period. He says that now it is time for the revolutionary movement not to in hold back and participate the movement of the working class wherever it appears. But put out an honest call to the working class to consider where their future lies. This is most important for the League now.

We can't be held back by worries about 'going wrong'.

There is another amazing passage in the programme of the Fourth International by Trotsky which describes the rise of fascism and how every struggle by the working class on rights becomes a political struggle. "- At first I thought he must have been writing about today but then when I looked at the date it was 1935 — it really opened my eyes, because this • Press, Monday May 14, 1973 PAGE 5 11, 1973. 'I suppose | was always aware is the situation today. You are not dealing with the gaffer any more, because behind the gaffer the strike is a Tories. Every political strike. Wages are a political issue, prices are a political issue. This is a funda- mental development on which the movement should rest. But you only realize the impor- tance of it by reading things like the Programme. What we can say about this development is that this is the basic condition for revolution.

People can't tolerate the situ- ation as it is and there is no way out through more reforms, the system is in such crisis.

You have just got to get back to basics. Everything that is produced is produced by the working class. The capitalist depends the workers for on all his value and profit. So if things are getting tight for the capitalist, he is going to rob the working man to pay for the crisis. This is at the bottom of all the developments today.

can't co- This is why we exist with capitalism and remain as men with rights. That is the issue.

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BY CHARLES PARKINS

Twenty - five years ago today the state of Israel was proclaimed. The event was marked a week ago by a massive display of military strength on the streets of disputed city of Jerusalem. Watched from the reviewing stand by 75-year-old premier Golda Meir, there was an impressive military parade with American-supplied tanks in prominence, while overhead an air force fly-past was led by a US-manufactured Phantom fighter-bomber and included also Skyhawks and Sikorski troop-carrying helicopters.

But for many people, the 25th anniversary of the state of Israel will not be an occasion for celebrations. For some Palestinians, the 2 million creation of the Zionist state has meant that they are denied any rights to the country in which they were born. Over a million of them are refugees.

Israels so-called 'freedom' is the Palestinians' oppression.

Under Israeli laws the Arab villagers of Ikrit and Berem were ordered to leave their homes, which were demolished by the authorities in 1952.

Today, over 20 years later the farmers are still demanding the right to return and once again farm their lands. Village Com- The Berem mittee has declared: 'Since we were exiled, we have not ceased to demand to return to our village and our land. We have met with grow- ing understanding and support of Israeli public opinion.

"To this very day, only six families have formally agreed to receive compensation for their property in Berem, while rights still maintaining their in the village. There are 250 families from Berem who wish and live in the to return village. Half of the village lands are still unused and could be worked by us. 'We are willing to live in friendship and as good neigh- bours with the kibbutz and the moshav that work part of our lands.' On December 31, the Israeli authorities renewed the military order which keeps Ikrit and Berem closed to their former inhabitants. The struggle of the villagers continues. While large numbers of Arabs like those of Ikrit and Berem are denied the right to to their homes, some return Arabs are denied the right to leave! The Israeli authorities frequently issue orders to con- fine particular individuals to their villages for political reasons. nday May 14, 1973 Such was the case a few years ago of Halil Toameh, a student at the Hebrew Univer- sity in Jerusalem, who had joined Jewish left wingers in the Israeli Socialist Organiza- tion. (More commonly known as the 'Matzpen' group, from the name of their paper.)

He was jailed under charges taken from the British Emer- gency Regulations, dating back to the Mandate period, which the Israeli government still maintains. After release, he was confined to his home village. A number of Arab members of the Communist and the Young Com- treated in the same way. This sort of restriction all part of the great Israeli democracy about which SO many Labour MPs have been so full of praise! Hundreds of Arab political prisoners are today held in Israeli jails. A number of cases of torture are known to have taken place. On March 5 this year, the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights published a report on the case of Ata Khalil Kimri, a 17-year-old boy being since early last year. held Kimri, who comes from east Jerusalem, was arrested and accused of belonging to an organization of high-school pupils, for which he was sen- tenced to one and a half years in prison. The secret police decided while he was in prison last December that Kimri should be treated as a suspect in an- "crime', committed in other 1971, for which nobody had been caught. This was the re- moval of the Israeli flag from a pole above the roof of the police station in the village of near Jerusalem, Beth-Hanina, by a group of schoolboys, who Palestinian hoisted the flag in its place! Ata Khalil Kimri was there- fore transferred from Damun prison to Jalame (Yagur), where he was beaten. Then he was moved to Ramallah, where he was tortured. His hands were tied behind his back, and he was hung up by them for some hours. Then he was stripped naked and beaten about the genitals. After this, cold water was thrown over him and he was left lying on the floor ner (this was in the middle of winter). Other torture sessions came,; of including forced injections in caused him his penis, which to faint from pain. When he woke, he was beaten up again, and kicked in the testicles.

At another session he was beaten on the feet and hands with sticks. His torturers demanded that he sign a 'confession', admit- Kiar Yona Prison, near Tel Aviv, wher 1969. Above: Arabs detained by Israeli 1969. Above right: Torture victim.

ting to murder, killing a soldier, and possession of weapons. (Not that had weapons any been found in his possession.)

Eventually he broke and agreed to sign, but when he appeared before military court at a Lydda on January 21, he re- the confession, tracted demanded that his chief inter- rogator, who had used the 'Abu nickname Hani', be brought to give testimony at the court. authorities refused, The claiming that there was 'no such person' but the 'Abu Hani is also name referred to in other prisoners' accounts. In fact, an Israeli police sargeant, Rahamin Levi, stationed at Ramallah, had blurted out that he had seen 'Abu Hani' in the room when Kimri signed his 'confession', of Aviv, where 312 Arabs were detained in by Israeli troops during curfew in July but later withdrew this 'admission'. The Palestinian and Israeli Arabs in Israel's jails have been joined within the last two years by a number of Jewish political prisoners. Giora Neu- (18), who refused to mann serve in the Israeli occupation forces, was brought to trial.

He explained that his refusal to serve was not on the grounds of pacifism, but because he objected to serving in an army of oppression. Neumann told the paper 'Matzpen': 'For the last four years, Israel has maintained its occu- pation of Arab territories.

Israel does not only seize pro- perties belonging to Arab in- habitants, but Arab citizens are also subjected to a rule of terror through application of special military laws. Israel terrorist authority acts as a and this is nothing strange to the character and logic of Israel. As for myself, I reject all forms of occupation, even that called "liberal" by Israel.

That's why I refuse to serve with an army consecrating such policy. Occupation and oppression are against my principles and conscience.'

On March 26, two members of the 'Red Front' movement in Israel, Daoud Turki and Ehud Adiv, were sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment on 'treason' charges. The 'Red Front', led by Adiv, who is an ex-paratrooper, and Dan Vered, a schoolteacher, was a lett-wing political movement aiming to organize Jewish and Arab workers in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle, and to work for the downfall of Zionism. The Israeli authorities, as- sisted by the Zionist Press and by the bourgeois Press of the world, have tried to hide the political significance of the trial, and to pretend that it was an 'espionage ring'. But Habib Kahwaji, with whom the group had been in contact, was not a Syrian 'spy- master' but • Palestinian political exile, maintaining con- tact with Arab groups inside Israel which had been driven underground by the authori- ties, and seeking to develop an 'Arab-Jewish Alliance' to wage the political inside struggle Israel. There has been evidence that to help procure a basis for trials such as this one, the Israeli intelligence and security

ty Shin service, Bet, has been making use of agents provoca- to infiltrate left-wing ceut and avocate en turist or illegal tactics, as well el. as gathering names and infor- ve mation, so that arrests could be made. In one case, a man was going ny around in left-wing circles complaining of 'too much talk', rs and saying it was time to take nt up the gun'. Subsequently, his riends were arrested-but he is still free. There have also been reports of beatings and torture in- flicted 'Red on the Front' prisoners. Mrs Felicia Langer, lawyer for one of them, Shauki said after interviewing him at Yagur prison that her ty Client had been beaten. threat- ened with castration and given electre shocks. Besides Ehud Adiv, Dan Vered (who received ten years), and Livneh, and Rami the other 'Red Front' members, he there is group anouser Israeli Jews who will be country's celebraling their 25th year of 'independence' th prison result of their in political activities They five members of Siach, another lett-wing movement, original numer of 80 arrested ne arrested for taking part in a demonstra- tion at the village of Akrabeh last November. Siach (Smol Chadash-'New an Left') fairly is a moaerate mainly composed movement, of students and kibutzniks, which has not really broken is from Zionism ideologically, but rejects the participation of the 'left' Mapam party in coalition ty politics, and seeks to oppose the repressive policies of the Israeli government. Last November, Siach mem- bers decided to hold a dem- onstration at the village of Akrabeh, i in protest at the Israeli authorities' treatment of the Arab villages. Shortly after the Six-Day War of 1967, the authorities had sealed of 5,000 dunams of land belonging to this village as a military train- ing area. As time went by, and the land remained unused, the Villagers began to replant it.

In the late spring of last year, Israeli planes were sent to spray the fields with over chemicals and destroy the crops. There was a public out- this as the news over spread of what had been done.

But the Zionists proceeded to set up a kibbutz, Nahal Gitit, on part of the confiscated land.

This prompted the Siach dem- onstration. The demonstrators distribu- ted a leaflet in Arabic, which read:

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We the undersigned are a group of Israeli leftists. It was with anger and shock that we re- ceived the news of the illegal acts the authorities committed in your village. Believe us- such acts, of which you are victims, us deep cause sorrow and shame. We consider ourselves loyal to the cause of our people and our state, but we firmly refuse to allow that the interests of the state of Israel and of the Jewish people be founded on confiscation, spraying fields or expropriation of land belong- ing to Arab citizens for the erection of new settlements.

Dear brethen and neighbours, we want you to know that are, in Israeli society, there social political forces and which hope for the welfare and progress of both our people and yours, and are firmly opposed to the deeds of the authorities in spraying your fields, confiscating your land, and erecting a new settlement on it. We regard such actions as steps which can injure us as much as you, as they pre- vent and postpone the coming of peace we hope for, and as we recognize your right to this country and your right to live in it as a people, according to conscience and your own without interference. We share your pain and sorrow, and we wish to hold meetings in order to protest express these sentiments.

We hope that these meetings will be a true expression of the feelings of every man of conscience in this country.

Accept our fra- ternal greetings! I have given tle text of this Siach leaflet in full, not be- cause of any particular merit it possesses, but as an indica- tion of its pacific character. It is hardly the stuff of revolu- tion! In fact, in general, while making their protests, these 'men of conscience around Siach • have bent over back- wards to Zionist appease 'public opinion' ', and not step too far out of line. This did not Workers Press, A prevent the Israeli authorities from arresting them, however, and making the above leaflet the grounds for a charge of 'incitement'. On March 11, Col Victor Chazan, head of the military Military tribunal of the Administration of Nablus, handed down the sentence on the five Siach members-Aryeh and Eitan Michaeli, Arnon students from Jerusalem; Yossi Coten and Yitzhak Leer, students from Tel Aviv; and Yuval Golan, member of kib- butz Gan Shmuel; six months each, plus six months sus- pended sentence for a two-year period. Siach supporters might like to believe that the interests of the state of Israel are not founded on confiscation, spray- ing of crops and expropriation of land for new settlements.

The Israeli government knows better! So do the Palestinian Arabs.

In March 1969, Moshe Dayan was asked by students at the Haifa Technion about the ex- propriation of Arab lands for Zionist settlement after the Six-Day War: Dayan, in one of his blunt soldier-settler moods, replied that it had always gone on: "There is not a single Jewish village in this country that has not been built on the site of an Arab village. The village of Nahalal took the place of the Arab village of Mahloul ...; Gifat took the place of Jifta...

-and Dayan went on to cite more. Zionist propaganda has created the myth that Pales- s Press, Monday May 14, 1973 PAGE 7 tine was just an empty land of desert and till the swamp settlers came. But on February 15 this year, Dr Israel Shahak, Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, re- leased a special report show- ing that since 1948, the Israelis had destroyed some 385 Arab villages in the area of the state of Israel. In the Jaffa area, for instance, 23 villages were destroyed. Another 20 were destroyed in the Haifa district and 28 around Lydda. Since the 1967 war, the process has been car- ried into the occupied terri- tories. It is a process of conquest.

Contrary to their propaganda the Zionists came to a slogan, land full of people and created a people without a land. It is on this conquest that the state was founded and it is this which has given it its character; making necessary the oppression, and the mili- tary occupation and the jailings -first of Arabs and now also of Jews who oppose the poli- cies of aggression. 'A nation which oppresses others chains,, also forges its own It is this foundation on con- quest and oppression which also necessitates the big show of hardware on the streets of Jerusalem-expensive both in cash and in the political tribute extracted by American im- perialisin from its Israeli allies.

In common with the Pales- tinian masses and the Arab and Jewish prisoners in Israeli jails, we will not be celebrating the 25 years of the state of Israel.

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A serles by Bernard Franks Part Twelve The Tory pay limits for Phase Two of their per- control manent wage certainly system mean attack the stan- an on dard of living for every worker. Consider the allowed per cent under the £1 plus rule to workers on the follow- ing wages: Present £1+4% wage £15 £1.60 £20 £1.80 £25 £2.00 $35 £2.40 £40 £2.60 The Tory claim that the poorly paid off better Conne they get OCCast of is rub- terms percentages Workers do not part for goods percentages, cash. Less money in pay Tne . packet means less goods Food bought. prices have actually increased twice as the implementing of fast after the 'freeze' than before price it. Still to council are

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Prices and Incomes Board. Unprincipled opposition Its report stated: "We think that the proposed increases of 12s 6d for and I5s tor are too high.' The women Board allowed instead 12s for and 10s for women, men warning the organizations con- cerned to 'prevent the increase spreading trade'. Still existing entir Labon- condemned in Party leadership are those who wholeheartedly support Equally Common acceptable, apparently, are men who oppose entry on completely unprincipled basis, same platforms also from the the fascists. used by In this category the leaders Communist Party may of the nday May 14, 1973 be included. They know nothing of working-class inter- nationalism and instead base their opposition • on the nar- rowest nationalist lines of defending British sovereignty and the 'British way of life'.

Some of the 'Morning Star's' Common Market cartoons would not have been out of in the most extreme place right-wing papers. Today, the Labour Party and TUC leaders entirely condone the new Tory measures. 'Labour Weekly', the official newspaper of the Labour Party, commented on Phase Two: 'In some respects the Heath freeze goes farther than • the Labour freeze and period of severe restraint. But this is tougher action because needed. Inflation has been faster and price rises higher than in any period of the Labour government. The ill- ness was worse so the cure must be stronger.' Harold Wilson stated: We are prepared to ensure that the government gets its Bill through in reasonable time.'

Victor Feather, head of the TUC, thought the Phase Two measures were 'slack on prices' but said that the unions would 'not be looking for trouble'. He is now preparing to go ahead to discuss Phase Three.

A spokesman for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers •criticized the fines saying: "The only way they can make policies like this work is by • getting the co-operation of trade unions.

They will not do it by threat- ening, fining and sending them to prison.' ('Labour Weekly' January, 1973.) Numerous union officials are already falling over themselves to offer yet more productivity from workers if more money is allowed. What workers have left to sell after the previous round ot productivity deals-elimina- tion of tea breaks, speed-up of work and jobs destroyed- is not revealed. Certainly, the Tories are preparing a new round of ex- ploitation, but are not plan- ning to pay anything for it.

Workers in retail trade con- tinue to defend their rights and conditions. Like_the 35 of John Banners' employees department store in west Lon- don, owned by Whiteleys— who occupied the store against the management's threats to close down and sack them— and like the 170 Mail Order and Bookshop staft of the London Stationary Office (Gov- ernment Bookshop) who struck weeks against three changes in their wages agree- ment. Meanwhile, the list of men and women of all industries determined to resist any cut in their standard of living is growing daily. Millions demanding are • to defend their basic action rights, to defeat the Heath government and bring about total repeal of all the vicious anti-Labour laws. In the past, union leaders have always made strenuous efforts to avoid important sec-.

tions of workers taking indus- trial action at the same time so as to avoid anything that smacks of a General Strike.

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lize this great force to defeat we eat, wear and use. to develop into a truly social- Tories, the leaders the union Production and distribution ist system of distribution continue to seek further colla- solely for profit must be History the shows boration with the government placed by production and dis- working class in Britain is emi- which can only bring the tribution for need completely nently capable of gathering the themselves under the control of the work- closer great strength required to con- ers themselves. stale control. test capitalism's right to rule.

workers can only Acuon Dy But history also shows irre- be completely successful when Stranglehold! futably that without a tried the labour movement is purged and tested revolutionary lead- entirely of the Labour traitors. ership such tasks be Labour of the banks government accomplished. socialist pledged policies The construction of the re- must be elected. volutionary party of the work.

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can newspaper reporter, in an exchange with the King of Uganda. 'The Arabs bring you cloth and wire and beads and take you for slaves; we can make cloth and wire and beads — and cure sickness — and we will do away with slavery? It was assertions of this which heralded the kind blooming of the finest flowers imperialism and of British colonialism in the 19th cen- tury. It was men like Stanley, waving the flag of pious Christian zeal, which Living- stone had let fall on his death in 1873, who embodied rapa- cious i obsession with African interior and all it had to offer. And it was this im- perialism which carried in its womb the seeds of crisis today, both here and in every part of modern Africa. In 'The Search for the Nile' (last episode, Monday, May 7, BBC 1, 9.30), the BBC has seen fit to present its own portentous version of the British on the trail in Africa in the 19th century. six-part The last of this drama documentary had, in common with the other epi- sodes, the same one-sided of events, view the same golden tones of James Mason to add a touch of distinction as narrator. Along with some attractive filming on location, it tended to cover the same ground both physically and ideologically throughout.

It had about it the quality obsequiousness sodden of that hangs heavy about pro- the daily doings grammes on of the royal family. Only here we had Richard Burton and his dreary wife, Isobel, Henry Stanley, David Livingstone, Stanley Baker and John Hanning Speke all being given the human touch. At various points in the tale we saw our heroes in their more intimate moments: to at breakfast, in the bath or

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A Birmingham law lecturer stumbled like a babe in the woods into the US industrial relations scene recently-and horrified by what he was found. Attending a conference of labour lawyers organized by the Detroit Bar Association, he was told by one delegate: 'If the employer had enough money I could guarantee to keep the union out for five years.' The lecturer, Norman Sel- wyn, was moved to write about his experiences in the 'Birming- ham Post' last week. puzzled, I confess I was he wrote of his reaction to the US legal eagle's remark.

• "Why would you want to •Because do that?" I asked. that is the way we do things here", he replied. "Don't over you?" reply My negative puzzled him even more.' To further Selwyn's educa- Michael Gough who has some convincli in the BBC series, 'The Search for the Ni supping tea, even confessing to weaknesses (It is rare DOUBT that I fear most', said Livingstone one sunny even- ing in darkest Africa). But mostly we had to en- dure their heroism-persistent coverage of the treks against all odds, disease, savages, heat, flies and the rest; parti- the savages. Stanley cularly knocked off scores of blacks in his determination to show them 'justly but firmly' who was Master. then we returned Now and to London to the august meetings of the Royal Geo- tion, he was told the story of whose staff a big US union decided to organize a union to look after their interests. 'The trade union, he wrote, 'fought its own employees with a fervour and viciousness which would have done credit to any business organization.'

Small shopkeepers continue to be hit by rising rates. Iwo traders in Walkden, near Man- chester, have complained to the Chamber of Trade that their have rates payments gone up 200 per cent in actual cash as a result of revaluation.

Early reports of the effects of revaluation had led to ex- pectations of rate increases of between 35 and 45 per cent.

But now reports are being re- ceived of much higher creases. Local chambers of trade are compiling overall pictures of effects of revaluation. the The secretary of one of them, Mr Bernard Tennant Bolton, says he expects to re- 'massive' number of ceive a appeals against the new assess- menis. • convincing moments as Dr Livingstone for the Nile. graphical Society and others who were in fanatical con- flict over the burning question of the day: where was the source of the Nile? And in this final episode there were frequent resorts to the desolate Burton and his wife as they pined away their days, scorned by society but nevertheless able to keep body and soul together, on their estate in Trieste where Burton was posted and spent days writing copious diaries, anthropological notes and erotic stories and verse, which his misguided wife new English edition of the 'First A Years of the Communist International' ir corporating hitherto unpublished materi from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works"

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burned to the last word after repressed and exploited mil his death lest they should lions at home, travelled to the sully his name. farthest corners of the globe Michael Gough and Kenneth in order to do the same with Haigh (despite the millions more. latter's false beards) unfortunate were the only members of the managed cast who to look anything but ludicrous and had even some convincing Comedy is flourishing on moments. television these days. Mumbo-jumbo much of this On Sunday nights stuff may be, but it is tricked there is the rare treat of three out and dressed up as history pro- grammes in three series. -and as an authentic account On The Buses' takes the at that. This sort of idealism-tales prize for the crudest, worst written and worst acted by a of past glory all forms- in head start. with frequency are recurring It takes place largely in our screens. a bus depot and the In presenting history as the humour adventure, is heavily cockney, or the tele- hero's one man's of cockney, the world, vision conception trek to change no mention is of course made of with lots of jokes about biki- and dia- either the context in which nis lavatories and logue like 'Did you enjoy your he existed, nor of the currents dinner?' and forces which both pro- 'Yes, duced such men. Nor is there thank you - I could eat it for once. mention of what the implica- 'Our Kid' is tions of these events were and a pretty close runner-up, with two moronic are. Brummy brothers and the girl- Stanley,. Livingstone, Bur- ton, Speke and all the others friend trying to sort out who like them came as the first doesn't go to work. trickle of the flood tide of The Ronnie Barker show ('Seven Of One' 8.15 p.m.) is European and American capi- BBC-2, just in case the talists who poured into Africa, on distinction isn't greedy for the resources, apparent, and human, which and is more material such a vast land offered.

The latter part of the 19th tionable. century was the neatest carve This week showed Barker Welshman small up of Africa by the Europeans as a in a that could have been wished and as his dad community clutching dies in bed, for by any democratic capi- who winning racing slip in his the talist. hand-so that the thing has No no noise, not mess, to be wrested from his coffin much blood. Or so it was pre- by and grandson, who sented by the capitalists to son is the fellow capitalists. are beset, as whole their They came under the flags community, with gambling.

of freedom, the All three of these pro- democracy, abolition of slavery and the grammes have in common one brotherhood thing: total contempt for the of man-and class. every nuance of false morality working could be mustered. In varying degrees the com- that edy (if it dignified The oldest capitalist nation can be by such a title) is all drawn pulled out every stop to from playing on the imbeci- and sanctify its glamour ne- farious the lity the working class in activities across one part of the country or an- globe in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s. other. All those taking part speak Of those hallowed and act like morons-and Speke an ambitious mili- the was more moronic, the louder the tarist; Stanley, a firstborn son of pragmatism and the new- laughs. are laced world; They with anti- est capital in the reactionary and Livingstone, well-meaning union jokes, Burton, cynical in content. religious maniac. Nothing could spell mad egotist with literary pre- out do these clearly than tentions. more lay that those But their significance programmes now control of television have not in their individual quirks in consciously and deliberately and foibles but in their ex- the of that juggernaut, chosen to act agents pression 19th century of reaction and repression for British capital- which with the most right-wing govern- ism, not content ment of our era. the wealth produced its own First Five in- led material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume of Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period of its first three Congresses when the post-war reached its peak and then revolutionary upsurge began to recede. It establishes, without fear of con- tradiction, the important role which he played in the the Third workers' International, foundation of this, and'in the formation and early development of the French, German and Italian Communist Parties. At this time the theory of 'socialism in one country" had Stalin still a not been invented and Joseph was second-line Bolsherik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later to pervert and eventually destroy.

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CARAVAN

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site. owners, also were caravan manufacturers. Other site owners are caravan sales- men who will not let anyone the site without buying Ull one of their vans. The new organization also wants an end to cramped and conditions. Some cara- muddy People who take their holi- it only eight vans, says, alc days in caravans are deman- feet apart, and many sites are ding better conditions and drained. Caravans should noL rights. The newly-formed 20 feet apart, Holiday Caravan Action claims Mr Parnell. Yet Club, led by Mr Arthur another complaint that have poor Parnell of Sheffield, many sites wants to fire precautions and that about things outlaw-among other out of three have two sites —eviction without redress no electricity. and excessive site costs and The Holiday Caravan Action rents. electricity, Club wants ade- Mr Parnell One abuse is water, hard roads, Guale One fighting is 'key-money'. showers, baths and washing site demands drying facilities he bays. £20 key money when a cara- sites. van simply hands. Col Clifford Bennett, general Changes can cost £100 merely to site secretary of the National Fede- then another £100 ration of Site Operators, which a caravan, a year in rent. has nearly 2,000 members, says Club also com- The Action that 'a lot of rogue sites give industry of the whole bad plains unfair sales prac- a tices. One caravan owner was name. Subscribe now! Tories tamper with ca

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Name.. Address... Shipowners and employ- ers believe they have been handed a tactical advantage by dockers' shop stewards. And they are grabbing at it with both hands. The advantage, they think, lies in the stewards' agreement to recruitment of "casual', sup- plementary dockers by a firm associated with the big Ocean Transport and Trading group.

Supplementary dockers can be fired at a week's notice by either their immediate em - ployer or the Dock Labour Board. Permanent dockers, who can only be sacked for serious mis- conduct, and then only if their union agrees, fear 'casuals' will used undermine their to solidarity and enforce speed-up.

The official policy of the group of the docks trade Transport and General Work- ers' Union is to oppose the growth of the supplementary which, when the register, Liverpool recruitment is com- pieted, will contain more than 7 per cent of the docks labour force nationally. But Tory Ministers are firmly committed to encouraging it— already and shipowners are moving in to demand the speed- Strikers for union recog nition at Empire Pools in Blackpool are await- ing management's res- ponse to a 'good -will' gesture. They withdrawn have pickets from the premises for a month, starting last Monday, in a bid to get talks going with management, Mayor of Blackpool, Ray- mond Jacobs, has offered the use of the mayoral parlour for management-union talks. The strike began when the management withdrew recog- nition of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Wor- kers, which it conceded in the presence of a Department of Employment conciliation officer some months earlier. More than 80 strikers, many of them women, began picket- ing the premises and attempted to draw part-time and weekend workers into their fight.

The firm countered by giving strike-breakers double bonus, free meals and transport to and from work. Backing for the strikers came from USDAW itself, which gave official support and started paying strike benefit, and from many other sections of the working class, including Littlewood's and Vernon's pools workers from Liverpool.

is over The dispute itself recognition. But the trade unionists at Empire Pools want to improve wages and conditions, their up they think enforced on the dor Speaking to the a ing of the Ship Owners Asso week, retiring chai Beazley described shortage situation as 'ludicrous' There had greater response pated to the specia terms recommende Jones-Aldington cor year and as a resul ship was left lying port. Owners native but to take away from The answer, was either recruitr supolementarı increase in the num manent dockers. The union had be opposer ut might now accept them guarantees, Beazley The register manent just spent f31m on Then Beazley let of the bag 'One answer,' he course greatel vith the labour appalls me is the m idea of letting ship Liverpool be

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where to reduce th traffic moving throu order to flow more into lin aDOB capacily This would me sulciae 'Because turnround of ships congestion, several have during months imposed su to 15 per UD coming to naturally weakens titive position of t "The docks recently merged thr ing companies cargo handling divi has caused labour some to there is absolutely whatever for the ap nage figures which compare At Empire young worker of 21 strike was week, Weekd Hollr rates were time anc rising to lime and Sick Sundays. existent, and two we a year was months' service A trade pools clerk, €18.80 at Littlewoo hours a week: Over at time and a half Sunday work doul paid. the At meting in last Saturday, there for trade using the town as a centre because of Delegates also picket line. the онег от а venue к written to the ma Although have been strikers leave the firm other jobs, there least 40 involved a strike pay. Union officers pickets much very on. says hatte pick withdrawn fo been will be put and management f

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pond satisfactoril workers' demands. can now be n the docks. ; to the annual meet- Liverpool Steam ers' Association last G. C. ing chairman labour heen sponse than antici- he special severance the ommended by ngton committee last s a result ship after eft lying idle in the no auer take their ships ver, Beazley claime recruitment to the register or the number of per- on had been strongly supplementaries, be to ready under certain Beazley understood. vernment 'naturally' n an increase in per- had since it f31m on severance azley let the cat out swer, he said, 'is of productivity abour we've got'. on: 'One thing that is the misconceived ting ships scheduled routed else. educe the volume of ing through the port the bring cargo into line with the acity to deal with ould mean financial of delays in the of ships and bertl several conferences the two past posed surcharges of ships cent on Liverpool; this the compe. tion of the port. has erged three stevedor- oWil aislocation extent. But bsolutely no excuse or the appalling ton- which greet our unfavourably pools firms. the rate for ker of 21 £12.80 for a 40- Weekday overtime time and a quarter, time and a half on Sick pay was non- ad two weeks holiday s granted only afte organized aged 19 ek: Overtime is paid id a half, while for double time is

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delegate Blackpool, a week lay, there were calls unionists to stop own as a conference ause of the dispute. joined the union's north-west officer, Jack Gardner, ccepted the mayor's venue lor talks ano the management. many of the ave been forced and look

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there still are volved and drawing officers are stressing te the withdrawal o dispute remains Jack Gardner the picket has only drawn for a month be put back on ement fails to res- isfactorily to the be freight departments each morning. •Bad time-keeping, idle time practices all restrictive and contribute to this. But it is no use hounding the docks com- pany with destructive criticism.

Good management and dyna- mic, leadership is what is required.' In an editorial comment, the 'Journal of Commerce' spelt out the kind of 'management' and 'leadership' that can now be expected from the port employers in response to this call. There was too much 'fiddling and twiddling', the paper said ed, in typically skinhead fashion.

discipline Tougher was needed Claiming that the 'welt', a system dating from wartime under which dockers relieve the workload on themselves, had reappeared, the paper called for 'an end to this sys- tem of feather-bedding'. It went on: 'If tougher dis- cipline is needed to ensure that dockers do a fair day's work for fair day's pay-then management must get tough.

'This is not something that be done by trade unions; can and enforcement of discipline is not the responsibility of shop stewards. It is a manage- ment responsibility.' Speaking at the annual meet- ing of the Merseyside Chamber of Commerce, also last week, Chamber president R. W. John- employers called son on throughout industry in the area to follow a similar get-tough policy. If the problems of the docks could be solved, many of the area's other problems would disappear, he said. The Chamber firmly be- lieved labour relations on the docks influenced other indus- tries on Merseyside. In other words, employers throughout the area are taking the acceptance of supplemen- taries by the docks stewards as a signal for all-out war on wages and conditions through- out industry. The stewards' retreat before Tory intransigence has been taken as a green light. Clearly there are big dangers ahead.

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TODAY'S TV

BBC 1

Schools. 12.15 Dechrau 9.38-11.35 News. canu dechrau canmol. 12.55 1.00 Pebble Mill at one. 1.30 joe. 1.45 Pets and vets. 2.05 Schools.

•10 Expedition North America. 3.35 Holi- 73. 4.00 Huckleberry Hound. 4.10 day 4.35 Play school. jackanory 4.50 Blue Peter. 5.05 Champion for the King. 5.40 Hector's house. 5.45 News.

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PARENTS AND CHILDREN.

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Weather. 8.00 HIGH CHAPARRAL. Once on a Day in Spring.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

THE YOUNG Socialists Student Societies held their second national conference in London at the weekend. After a five-hour debate on the main resolution, there was still a queue of speakers. The resolution stated, in part: The Stalinist leadership of the National Union of Students (NUS) have done their utmost to keep the fight for struggle away from the grants to bring down the Tory govern- ment. As students face huge increases in rents, prices and cost of books, the vital issue has been to cam- paign immediate for cash an supplementary grant. This has opposed been by the

NUS

leadership. Instead they launched a pro- test action on grants to head off the militant feeling amongst fight students and deflect the from the direction of the Tory government. Only the leadership given by the Young Socialists has provided a way forward for students. Our campaign for supplementary grants has already won enormous support. The demonstration of 2,000 Hampshire students on the issue of supplementary grants and a

CRAWLEY:

Monday May 14, 8 p.m. Council for Social Service Hall, Station Road. 'Stalinism and the Struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. EAST LONDON: Monday May 14, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E3. WANDSWORTH: Monday May 14, 8 p.m. Kings Arms, High Street, SW18. WATFORD: Monday May 14, 8 Hall, wo p.m. Watford Trade Union near Watford Junction Station.

'Stalinism and struggle to the defend democratic rights.

CAMDEN: Tuesday • May 15, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale DUI Road, Kings Cross. 'Force the p.m TUC to break off talks with the Tories'. PADDINGTON: Tuesday May 15, 8 p.m. Prince of Wales, cnr Harrow Road/Great Western Road. 'The trades unions and the Tory government. TOOTING: Tuesday May 15, 8 Cer Tooting p.m. Tooting Baths, Revolutionary Part, 'Build the Broadway, SW17. SLOUGH: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- 'Forward to the ham Road. Revolutionary Party.' SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley 'Stalinism Park Road. and the struggle to defend democratic rights.

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Schools. 10.30 World (London 11.00 Schools. 12.25 Scribble. 12.40 First 1.00 Mr and Mrs. 1.30 Emmer- 2.00 Schools. Doing 4.25 Clapperboard. minutes worth. 5.50 News.

DAVID NIXON SHOW. Guests ia, Donny Har Sylvia, Johnny

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BLESS THIS HOUSE. Entente 8.00 Not So Cordiale. 8.30

WORLD IN ACTION.

9.00 PLAY: "The Man in the Wood'.

With David Hedison, Isabel Dean, Mark Dignam, Jennifer Hilary. 10.00

NEWS AT TEN.

WILD, WILD WEST. The Night 10.30 of the Bottomless Pit.

11.30 ART OF THE CRAFT.

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8.50 FACE THE MUSIC.

9.25 FRANCIS HOWERD.

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PHILPOTT

FILE. The Sport- Part 1: The Hunter.

OPEN DOOR.

11.30 campaign to remove this Tory government won a lot of support from the trade union movement in the local area and laid the basis for a Council of Action.

We are confident that every- where amongst students, there is great determination to fight back against all the attacks of the Tories. This is why we will no longer mc

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday 16, 8 p.m. 'The Crooked Billet,' Circular Road. 'Force the Tories to resign.'

WEMBLEY: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Copland School, High Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.

8 p.m. The Castle, Powis Street, SE18. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.

DUNDEE: Thursday, May 17, 7.30 p.m. YMCA, Constitution Road.

SWANSEA: Thursday. May 17, 7.30 p.m. YMCA. 'Defend wor- kers' basic rights. General Strike to Force the Tories to resign.'

the BASILDON: Thursday May 17. 3 TOT Barnstaple Community 8 p rights. ' defend democratic CROYDON: Thursday May 17, 8 Ruskin House, Road, Croydon. 'Forward to the Revolutionary Party' LANCASTER: Thursday May 17, gle 7.30 Street and the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'.

REGIONAL TV

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WESTWARD.

London. Honeybun. 12.40 London. 12.57 News. 1.00 Lon- Diary. 6.20 Happiness business. 11.50 Epilogue.

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London schools. News Houseparty 12.05 London. 3.00 London. 6.45 London. 10.30 S Day by day. Newski inz farm Frones 1225 Weather. Epilogue. London.

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8.30-9.00 Yr wythnos. HTV West except: 6.22-6.45 as above This is the West this week.

ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 12.04 News.

London. At your service. 2. bout unpart. 6.45 London. 'The Wild Film: One'. 12.25 Big question.

allow the betrayals the of Stalinist leadership of the NUS to go unanswered. At the NUS conference at Exeter, we stood a slate of YSSS candidates as direct challenge to this treacherous leadership. This is just the beginning of a campaign to build a revolutionary leadership throughout the student movement. We must build FELTHAM: Thursday May 17, 8 Shoes,' Felt- p.m. 'Three Horse ham High Street. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights.' red ACTON: Monday May 21, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', High Street, W3. 'Force the TUC to break off talks with the Tories'. LEWISHAM: Monday May 21, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights' BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', cr Wands- 'The worth Road/North Street. economic crisis and the rising cost of living'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'The inflationary crisis and the rising cost of liv- ing'. TOTTENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', High Road, nr White Hart Lane.

HACKNEY: Wednesday May 23, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Mare Street. 'Build the Hall, Revolutionary Party'. ABINGDON: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Above New Top Taxis, Ock Street. 'Stalinism and the strug- gle to defend democratic rights.'

LUTON: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m.

Recreation Centre,_Old Bedford 'Force the Road. • TUC to break off talks with the Tories' Workers Press, N ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 2.00 At your 2.30 London. Today. 6.45 London. 10.30 Romantic Man in a suit- v classic art. case. 12.00 Epilogue. Weather.

ULSTER: 11.00 London. 1.33 News Schools. 2.40 Romper room. 3.00 London. 5.20 Emmerdale Please don't 6.45 London. Monday night. 10.40 Film: "The Shakedown'.

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GRANADA: 9.30

London. 2.00 At your service. 2.30 Yoga. 2.55 London.

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don. 10.30 You pay GRAMPIAN: 10.58 London. 1.00 Ed Allen. 1.38 Schools. 2.40 Cartoon. 2.52 News. 3.00 London. 5.20 Emmer- dale farm. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.05 Strictly Scottish. 6.40 London. 10.30 Romantic v classical art. 11.00 University challenge. 11.30 Odd couple. 12.00 Meditation.

YSSS

secretary Brian Prangle giving the main report to Satur- day's conference. leadership which will stand firm in the struggle for student autonomy, in the fight against the government's White Paper, and in the campaign for cash supplementary grants. In every college and university throughout the country we must establish branches of the YSSS as part of the campaign to trans- form the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party.

Everywhere we must lay the basis for a Marxist leadership in the universities not, as the re- visionists maintain, just by join- ing with workers on picket lines, but by taking up the struggle for Marxist theory in the bourgeoisie's own territory. In this we will recruit way the most serious layers of students and intellectuals into the revolu- tionary, party, where they will strengthen the struggle to con- struct a Marxist leadership working in the class. In the discussion Brian Prangle, YSSS secretary, said they had made a public declaration of war against those who would capi- tulate to the Tory government and those who thought that just by shouting loud enough at them, the Tories would give in.

Prangle said the democratic right to a decent higher education now under attack by the Tories, could only be defended in the common struggle to defend all the basic democratic rights of the working class now under attack. This could only be done by a campaign to bring down the Tory government. The May 21 NUS ultimatum to the Tories would be ignored, and Prangle warned that the June 8

NUS

special conference would be used to try and wind down the grants campaign. It must be bombarded with resolutions and a lobby. 's Press, Monday May 14, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League 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. Jarrow Given by Cliff Slaughter SLL Central Committee member Civic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Mondays May 14 and 21 Socialist Revolution The in Britain : 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the contradictions and the of capitalism. Britain world crisis. 3. The state Reformism and revolution 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 the • Inter- national, Communist Manifesto.

All Trades Unions Alliance meetings

TEACHERS' MEETING

The way forward after the NUT conference Thursday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

Conway Small Hall. Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p)

HOSPITAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Hospital workers and the fight against the Tory government Tuesday May 29, 7.30 p.m.

Norfolk Room Caxton Hall, Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p)

BUILDING WORKERS'

MEETING

TUC must break off talks with Tories! Build revolutionary party!

Wednesday, May 30, 7.30 p.m. Tudor Room Caxton Hall. Caxton Street, London • SW1 (admission 10p)

POSTAL WORKERS'

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Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar Street Rooms Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) BOILERMAKERS' officials and shop stewards in Belfast have accepted an invitation from their leader Danny McGarvey to attend a New- castle summit on Wednesday aimed at settling the Har- land & Wolff shipyard dis- pute. But the stewards have warned that the 2,500 steel trades workers are as determined as ever to win their fight for bonus payments promised in 1971.

The dispute began in February when the boilermakers banned overtime and withdrew co- operation from a productivity and retraining scheme. by Management retaliated sacking the steelworkers, and the yard, which employs 10,000 workers, is now facing closure.

The boilermakers' national executive has called a special conference on Wednesday of the Belfast district committee, full- time officials and shop stewards.

Sandy Scott, steelworkers' convenor, said he welcomed this approach. It indicated that the executive was willing to take the opinions of the men into consideration. 'If the executive is prepared to re-think or come up with any suggestions, we will con- new sider it, he said. A MEETING of 2,000 Liverpool docke after stewards declared a motion accep supplementary dockers into the port ha the Communist Party and others tried lieving that if the supplementaries were could close within 16 months.

day May 14, 1973 'I AM glad to be here, TUC gress of Europe at London's ( right-wing MP Mr Duncan Sa Churchill, and Labour right-w FEATHER... Sowing seeds of European

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

IN BELFAST

'But we are hold out for our just rewards. to determined When asked about the politi- cal implications of the demands which management says are in direct conflict with the Tories' Phase Two pay policy, Mr Scott said people could put whatever interpretation they liked on their actions. So far McGarvey has failed to back his Belfast members and has demanded a return to work.

The dispute is now threaten- ing the finishing trades general workers in the yard.

Lay-offs of these sections have so far been avoided by a special working committee which is try- ing to prevent total closure.

A shutdown of Harland & Wolff would be a major crisis for Belfast and for the Protes- tant working class, whose rela- tive prosperity depends on the yard. So far the government has taken a tough line refusing to intervene in the dispute.

Chancellor Anthony Barber ool dockers ended in uproar yesterday tion accepting the introduction of 500 e port had been carried. Supporters of vers tried to frighten dockers into be- ries were not taken on, the whole port

BY IAN YEATS

; TUC general secretary Mr Victor Feather told the Con- don's Guildhall at the weekend. Seated on either side were ncan Sandys—son-in-law of Congress co-founder Sir Winston right-winger Mr Roy Jenkins.

In the corporatist-style audience were European delegates from the right-wing right-wing MPs like Monday Movement, Club member Mr Julian Amery, Liberal Mr Peter Hain, Stalinist Giorgio Amendola, a member of the Italian Communist Party central committee, and representatives from fascist Spain. Feather concluded: 'I wish your confer- ence well. I look forward to your conclu- sions. I hope we will sow a seed or two which will bear fruit in years to come.

PREVIOUS TUC STATEMENT

He went on: 'And I give you this assur- that we in the trade unions share your ance, purposes so long as they are built on social equity and progress, so long as your Europe is outward looking and free.

But on January 1 a TUC statement on Britain's Common Market said: entry into the "The safeguards which the TUC have called for not been obtained. It is against this back- have ground that the TUC has declared its opposition to entry which is, moreover, taking place with- out the assent of the electorate.'

So who gave Feather a mandate to appear at Guildhall? For that matter, who him a the gave accept the of the mandate presidency Huro. pean TUC? The Common Market is a counter-revolutionary aimed at uniting and conspiracy strengthening the European bourgeoisie the working against class. Feather knows that no government in Europe and progress'. in the contrary social democracy is breaking ss.

bringing and the capitalists are preparing for a showdown with the working class. Not only did he appear at the Guildhall in of the most 1 European corporatism the of some reactionary company political forces the Common 17 but he also called for Market, link social democracy to hands with them in a new 'big Europe'. Relations between nations, said Feather, similar to those were has turned down a further de- and unions em- hetween trade boilermakers for the mand from ployers. Problems could be solved parity with English steel trades through *traditional methods of £6 workers who earn between compromise, conciliation and and £8 a week more than men agreement'. at Harland & Wolff. He 'Those few went on: Anger has also been raised European decision by the Belfast western over governments Social Security office not to pay who by their deny our transgress our com- sacked men unemployment purposes, ethic, should pay particular accepted benefit. They have mon attention to our discussions, for management's claim that the from dismissed for they much to learn men were indus- have them. If they do not learn, trade misconduct. will reject their This has led to outcry ciation i with us. from politicians like the Rev lan Paisley who depend on Pro- and 'Those who have testant working-class votes. influence, authority, or even the of society But so far the Loyalist Asso- within structure of Workers, which has on both sides of the line which ciation need the following in the yards divides us illumination a strong has refused to comment directly and the inspiration which comes the dispute. of such discussions. And on

RECOVERY

operations were still going ahead yesterday for bodies of the last of The

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the five miners killed in the Sea- field Kirkcaldy, East colliery, impor- has become increasingly Fife. Seafield, tant, particularly at Five died and four men more Scotland's largest pit. iniured of the were when part of One the main safety pro- collapsed coal face roof last is the blems in gradient mining Thursday. extreme difficulty of standing up- 1.5 The in gradient of the right on a steeply inclined slope. coalface at Seafield is one of the told the rverine ens engineer coal faces in Britain steepest 'Observer': body is under National Coal Board's and is the stress of gravity the whole time.

limit for working extreme safety Miners flatbed working a seam with mechanical equipment.

don't have this energy problem. Traditionally most of Britain's 'With the gradient mining, coal has been mined from flat- there is always the possibility an error of judgement in hand- bed slightly inclined But been as these seams have ling machinery.. main safety i worked 'gradient' "The other out, mining pro- HEATH ... Mutual interests their peoples need freedom to speak and reason and act as conscience demand.' Shortly after Feather ended his plea for a new big family of Europe, Tory leader Edward Heath warned that the Common Market was a vehicle for serving the mutual interests of its members. In the new language of trade war, he added that Britain's entry must inevitably involve a redefinition • of relationships be- Europe, North tween western America and Japan. TWO HUNDRED Welsh trade union representatives meeting in Aberystwyth, mid-Wales, at weekend reaffirmed decision taken in February to set up a Welsh Congress of Trade Unions despite original opposition from the British

TUC.

It will come into operation on quauter offices in Cardit.

head- 194 with Mr George Wright, regional secretary- designate of T&GWU, who has been appointed secretary pro tem, said: 'Providing we can now secure agreement on minor points with bodies in other trade union Wales, we can say that we have the most effective, created •co- ordinating trade union machine in the history of Wales. 'We intend to exercise a great of vigilance and measure to any further agitate to prevent damage to the Welsh economy.'

He told the conference it was not the intention to act as separatists to the British TUC.

'It is a nation and a country with a separate culture, separate language and separate problems, he said. The longest debate at the three- hour conference was on the name of the Congress. A request had been made by the British TUC not to use the name Congress.

An amendment call the to 'Wales

TUC'

movement was defeated. blem is the danger that if there is a fall, rock will slide down along the coalface on to other men working there' The Dysart Main D22 section of the colliery, 1,600 ft below the Firth of Forth was only opened three weeks ago. At the time of the accident a team of 22 miners was operating two mechanical shearers-one at each end of the 550 ft-long face.

The accident occurred when a 195 ft stretch of roof collapsed, crushing some miners and trap- ping others beneath buckled roof supports.