Workers Press no. 1075

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SHAME FOR SHE

TRADE UNIONISM

INCORPORATING THE NEW

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CE

By Jack Gale THE TUC leaders obediently trooped into Downing Street at 4.15 pm yesterday. The "Talkative Six'-Vic Feather, Sir Sidney Greene, Alf Allen, Hugh Scanlon, Jack Jones and David Basnett-were there to chat with Heath on Phase Three of the Tories' state pay laws. Wages are to be held down while prices and profits soar.

Only the day before union leaders went bowing and scraping before Prime Minister Edward Heath, Chancellor of the Ex- Maurice Barber, Employment Secretary chequer Anthony Macmillan, and Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Geoffrey Howe, more permission for price increases poured forth from the government's so-called Prices Commission (see above).

For TUC leaders the to enter talks with Heath on The Tory paper stressed that Phase Three pay control is to there be "good profits' participate in deliberate slash- while on wages, the government ing of the real value of their has little Not to give. only should rises be smaller pay in members wages. Phase Three than in Phase Two And while this is going on, the but: Labour Party leaders announce *Mr Heath and his colleagues will that their policy document .. will, we hope, resist demands calls whatever for contain no. for and a more rigorous com- nationalization. prehensive control of prices with The "left-wing fight' blown up restricted still further, PrOLE fizzled out in the Press, into food subsidies, the abandonment nothing. Property and profits are further of council rent increases, Social Demo- sacrosanct to the drastic squeezing of pay differen- right and left crats of both tials, emasculation of the already variety. fairly impotent Industrial Rela- But the the tions Act and so on. more Labour and trade union leaders If the TUC won't all accept become, the more aggressive do that, then 'confrontation, how- the Tories get. ever, bitter would surely be better Yesterday's 'Daily Telegraph' than the complete abandonment demanded of economic freedom. At the back all-out onslaught the working class, including his mind, Mr Heath on of must intensified legal control of wages, be prepared for that surely smaller increases, higher possibility.' pay. expanded profits. freedom rents, 'confrontation' The hard-line Tories and a are for prices if the union leaders didn't toe the strengthened in their determi- nation to solve their economic line. the of the crisis at expense The government must continue class by working complete the control of its statutory wages, Wilson failure of Feather, and said the "Telegraph': lead any fight *What the government should against them. be seeking is not so much as tacit TUC Behind the TUC and the voluntary system Cabinet -if not explicit Labour Party Shadow acquiescence in a Stage Three policy stands the Communist Party. The consent to- 'Morning Star' declared on Tues- in which the element of compul- sion will still be dominant.

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THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MORE basic foods are to be in earnings the say that they were 'celebrat- dearer, as are textie nores ing a happy day in we stock and steel. E63.9m, compared with market'. £51.1m in 1972. Bergh and Den • Others with cause for re Jurgens will be allowed to Operating profits joicing included Robertson's • Snot up margarines and cook- 20 per cent-from £53.2m to put up granted permission Jails. £63.8m ina fats by 6 per cent. This put up jam by ip per jar costs, the means more expensive Blue for rising marmalade by 1jp Band, Stork, Echo, Outline, 'Daily Telegraph' announced curd by 1p and mincemeat White Cap yesterday: Cookeen, by 4p. *Unilever appears to have Nabisco can now put up The two main grounds on been quite clever the price Shredded which price increases are pating the sham rise in the Wheat, Shreddies and materials, to be price

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chiefs who went into 10 new break off the with the draft policy document which the talks Downing Street yesterday to con- tinue the talks they have been Labour Party leaders are

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romes. ing which could provide the basis The union leaders be having behind the backs of the mUSC tor an advance in democracy and forced to defend right Above: the trade union movement. free negotiations the living standaras in tas country.

i The engineers' president Hugh and employers, neces It was the Stalinists, advised Scanion (I) and transport union their industrial General by SaTy secretary Jack Jones. Top: TUC Strike which both would create the voted Dert Kamelson.

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Victor Feather and political and condi- secrelary at last September's Trades Union railmen's secretary Sir for making the Tory gov- union Congress and this year's tons Sidney Greene. the National Committee of ernment resign. for formulas which per.

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mitted talks with the Tories to continue.

TROTSKYISM AND

Star' sistently and deliberately misled The 'Morning has STALINISM—a new its readers about the purpose of these talks. series by Michael Banda The labour and trade union senders. wilnue assistance starts in Monday's the Stalinists, are The into a Phase working class in which living stan Workers Press - Order Lory Hap, will caros ano democrauc rents be dangerously undermined. your copy now 01-622 7029 The labour entire and trade umon movement must be moor

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE SHAME FOR EStE

TRADE UNIONISM

INCORPORATING THE NEW

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CE

By Jack Gale THE TUC leaders obediently trooped into Downing Street at 4.15 pm yesterday. The 'Talkative Six'-Vic Feather, Sir Sidney Greene, All Allen, Hugh Scanlon, Jack Jones and David Basnett—were there to chat with Heath on Phase Three of the Tories state pay laws. Wages are to be held down while prices and profits soar.

Only the day before union leaders went bowing and scraping before Prime Minister Edward Heath, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Anthony Barber, Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan, and Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Geoffrey Howe, more permission for price increases poured forth from the government's so-called Prices Commission (see above).

For TUC leaders the to talks with Heath enter on The Tory paper stressed that Phase Three pay control is to there be 'good profits' participate in deliberate slash- 'on wages, the government while ing of the real value of their has little give'. Not to only should rises smaller pay be members wages. Phase Three than in Phase Two And while this is going on, the but: leaders Labour Party announce 'Mr Heath and his colleagues will that their policy document .. will, we hope, resist demands calls whatever for contain no for and more rigorous com- nationalization. prehensive control of prices, with The 'left-wing fight' blown up profits restricted still further, fizzled out in the Press, into food subsidies, the abandonment nothing. Property and profits are of council rent increases, further Social Demo- to the sacrosanct drastic squeezing of pay differen- and left crats of both right tials, emasculation of the already variety. fairly impotent Industrial Rela- But the the tions Act and so on.' more craven Labour and trade union leaders If the TUC accept all won't become, the more aggressive do that, then 'confrontation, how- the Tories get. ever, bitter would surely be better Yesterday's 'Daily Telegraph' than the complete abandonment all-out of economic freedom. At the back onslaught demanded an the working class, including his mind, Mr Heath on of must intensified legal control of wages, be prepared for that surely smaller increases, higher possibility' pay expanded profits, freedom rents, The hard-line Tories and confrontation' for prices a if the union leaders didn't toe the strengthened in their determi- nation to solve their economic line. the of the crisis at expense The government must continue class by working the complete of its statutory control wages, failure of Feather, Wilson and said the 'Telegraph': lead fight company 'What the Seekinge is nor so much a against them. be not so much

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Behind the TUC and the system as tacit voluntary Cabinet -if not explicit Labour Party Shadow acquiescence in- -a Stage Three policy stands the Communist Party.

The consent to 'Morning Star' declared on Tues- in which the element of compul- sion will still be dominant.'

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THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MORE basic foods are to be crease earnings the say that they were 'celebrat- a happy day in the stock dearer, as are textile fibres tulce nonins and steel. £63.9m, compared with market'. £51.1m in 1972. and • Others with cause for re- Heroin Jurgens will be allowed to Operating profits shot up joicing included Robertson's margarines and cook- 20 cent-from £53.2m to put up per This £63.8m put up jam by 1p per jar, for rising costs, the means more expensive Blue marmalade by Band, Stork, Echo, Outline, 'Daily Telegraph' announced curd by ip and mincemeat Cap yesterday: White cookeen, by 4p. to have and Spry Crisp Nabisco can now put up The two main grounds on been quite clever the Shredded price which sharp rise In the price increases are Wheal, Shreddies and materials, price aranteo are Nugget breaktast financlal difficulties and Areal, cereals. ing costs of rav buying forward last permitted to has far Steel producers given But the year the light holst its prices in margarines Increases while green Sinel price •Testie GOal British and cooking fats Is a part of continuing enjoy pro- Keen Untever Group. And price Increases" poration, Guest and Tube this No the

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for an advance in democracy and forced to defend the right Above: trade union movement. negotiations the vre saneaos m das counuy.

i The engineers' , president Hugh neces- It was the Stalinists, advised and employers, LIllls Scanion (I) and transport union their industrial organizer General by Incente Top: TUC secretary Jack Jones. Strike would both create tne voted Dert Sname sonl, WI0 Victor Feather and and industrial condi-

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at last September's Trades Union for making the Tory gov- railmen's secretary Sir tions union Congress and this year's Sidney Greene. of the Committee eminent resun. ivalulal for which Der-

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Tomauas mitted talks with the Tories to continue.

TROTSKYISM AND

has The 'Morning Star' con- sistentv and delberateiv misled STALINISM—a new its readers about the purpose of these talks. series by Michael Banda The labour and trade union of excers. WilEN assistanct starts in Monday's the Stalinists, the into a Phase working class in which living stan. Workers Press - Order 1uly lian, will daras ane cenockac modis be dangerously undermined. your copy now 01-622 7029 The labour entire and trade union movement must be mobi-

Peru and Germany: Stalinists aid PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday May 18 THE FRENCH government will go ahead with its nuclear tests in the Pacific despite a growing volume of protest, especially in Australia and New Zealand. Yesterday it rejected the Inter- competence of the national Court of Justice in the Hague to rule on what it describes as a question of national defence following com- plaints from the governments of these countries. A LEFT-WING newspaper, 'FIB Kulturfront, has accused the Swedish government of spying on left-wing groups and raiding homes to steal docu- ments and take photographs.

The paper, edited by Jan Myr- dahl, published an article which contained the photographs and names of 40 secret agents, the money they had received, and the names of the offices which em- ployed them. an interview with Following the state prosecutor, General Stig Sinnergren, Supreme Commander Swedish Armed Forces, of the told the Press: 'It must be under- stood, gentlemen, that espionage is not a Sunday school. It is a putrid quagmire where dozens of political and military organizations try to tear precious information from each other. We accept information from every source. It is true that we have " tali

THE COMMUNIST PARTY

collaborated with the militar General Juan Velasco to imp leaders of the Liga Comunista, International Committee of th We have learned that comrade member of the Liga Comunista arrested almost two weeks ago by of a savage witch-hunt against Communist Party Press. Sergio Barrio has been moved from prison to prison by his military jailers who have subjected him to system- atic torture in order to force him to sign a fake confession.

His future, like that of other leading Peruvian Trotskyists, is uncertain. The Liga Comunista has been completely outlawed and the military are hunting other lead- the organization. The ers of Liga Comunista printing press has been seized and every right of individual freedom is being violated. The Peruvian Communist Party unreservedly supports the dictatorship, in line military with Moscow's policy in Latin America. For months it has cam- paigned against the Liga Comun- ista, slandering its members as 'agents of the CIA' and prepar- ing the ground for the Velasco police to arrest them. war of slander pamphlet "The The Stalinist by Pompeyo Mares published at the end of openly urged Com- last yeat›party munist members to search for the members and press of the Liga printing who they described Comunista as the 'Trotsko-CIA'. The Stalinists in Peru have openly adopted the despicable role of policemen of the labour movement and are doing the ay May 18, 1973

POSTES

RF Drawing by Heather Holden received information from Israel, and that we have supplied it to the Israeli government.' agents in- One of the chief volved revealed his identity yes- terday in Stockholm. Gunnar Ekberg, pretending to be a left sympathizer, had joined Jan Guil- lou in the Middle East and told him of his role as a paid agent of the Swedish Ministry of Defence.

There is no doubt that the Israeli government received im- portant information from him, , information possibly including about the Black September move.

ment. Stockholm has been one of the most important bases of the Arab liberation movement in Europe.

These revelations show that Sweden, a so-called haven of is not exempt from democracy, the wave of attacks on the demo- working-class cratic rights of organizations sweeping the capi- talist countries. PARTY of Peru has openly military dictatorship of Lt- to imprison and torture the unista, Peruvian section of the e of the Fourth International.

omrade Sergio Barrio and another munista Central Committee were ago by the military at the height against the Trotskyists in the work of police informers for the military dictatorship. NOR Is this activity connned to Latin America. In Germany, the pro-Moscow Party Communist •(DKP) provided the information which the police needed to arrest leaders of the pro-Chinese KDP/AO, the League against imperialism and the Communist Student League. A wholesale police clamp- down on the left is under way in Germany: at least four lead- ing Maoists are in prison and others are on the run. Their 'crime' in the eyes both of the DKP and the Brandt government is that they called for demon- strations against the visit of the Soviet chief Leonid CP Brezhnev. The DKP's role in the German repression was spelled out in the Italian 'Corriere della paper Sera'. Their correspondent re- following ported that, the Maoist's decision to demonstrate, the DKP had "called on the Federal government to act with decision against the Maoists, announcing that for their part they would hold pro-Brezhnev demonstrations. It is strongly rumoured that the Maoists have gone onto the offensive throughout western Europe against pro-Soviet Com- munist Parties or those thought to be pro-Soviet, beginning with the Italian Communist Party and THE Communist Party's news- The is engag- paper 'Morning Star' ing in a most wilful deception of the working class on the question of the secret talks on the Industrial Relations Act between Sir John Donaldson and the Engineering Employers' Federation. The main issue now, as the 'Star' well knows, is not just the Act, but a new danger arising from the inclusion of the Act's penal powers within the state pay laws, and the discussions the TUC formally began yester- day about their implementation under Phase Three. The state control of wages now makes the most fundamental of all trade union rights, the right to negotiate wages freely, a criminal offence. The main demand of the trade union movement must be for the TUC to break off all talks with the Tories and to prepare a class offensive to force the government to resign. Congratulations to the Amalgam- Union of Engineering ated Workers for their boycott of NIRC ('Morning Star May 15), uncalled for. What IS are needed is an outright exposure of the AUEW president Hugh part in the Scanion for his secret talks with the Tories.

These secret talks are the ones that matter. The 'Star' has still not admitted that they have The explanation taken place. simple. The Stalinists are completely behind the decision of the trade union leaders to do deal with the Tory a government.

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Press Is The Liga Comunista's now seized. Brezhnev and Brandt when they met in the French Communist Party. Under this pressure the DKP ended by giving valuable in- formation to the Federal authori- ties' (Emphasis added.) The real meaning of Stalinist peaceful co-existence with capitalism can be clearly seen in Peru and Germany. These actions are contrary to the most basic principles of the working-class and stink in movement nostrils of every class-conscious worker. The British Stalinists maintain ws- The Communist Party not only prefers the reformist, com- approach of the promise peaceful road to socialism', but is bitterly hostile to any stepping up of the class struggle in the direction of a revolu- tionary confrontation. the 'lefts' like The role of Scanlon and transport union chief Jack Jones is crucial for covering up what the TUC is preparing in its talks with Heath—an acceptance of per- manent controls on wages and the subservience of the work- ing class to the demands of Britain's capitalist economy.

In the ever-deteriorating con- of ditions the crisis, this requires corporatist institutions like the Pay Board to keep the working class in line.

Thus the vociferous attacks at time on the Industrial this 1 Relations Act are nothing but an Aunt Sally. The Stalinists are making a big show of opposition of this partially superseded Act so as to take workers' attention away from 'lefts' their and the own capitulation to the TUC right- wing's deal with the Tories. 'Now there should be no talk on the union side of amending the Act, the 'Star' says boldly.

But this is also a complete sham. When Scanlon was pro- posing precisely this as part of a deal with the Tories, the completely ignored Stalinists his remarks. There is a clear need either to get Scanlon to repudiate his Parliamentary Press Gallery and his Torquay conference speeches, or to have the trade union movement disown him.

POLITICAL prisoners in West fr Germany have been on hunger strike as a protest against the strict regime to which they are being subjected. They include members of the Bader-Meinhoff group the so-called Red Army Faction. Political prisoners are com- pletely isolated from other prisoners and are forbidden to take part in any joint activities.

They are kept in isolation not only in their cells, but when taking exercise. Psychiatric methods are used to enforce discipline. Their total isolation from any human contact is reinforced by the refusal to allow them mail or visits-even ey met in 1971 In the Crimea.

a cowardly silence about these events. They have rejected a call for unity of working-class organizations to defend demo- cratic rights in Britain. They re- fused to sign a common declara- tion pledging support to any working-class organization sub- jected to repressive action by the Тогу government and its state machine. The declaration,_signed by the Socialist Labour League, Inter- national Socialism and the Inter- national Marxist Group, read in "Morning Star' will The do neither. It will just keep quiet about the real manoeuvres which are going on to sell out the working class to a corporatist deal with the Tories, and thunder away about a boycott of the court instead.

But even this 'boycott' is a sham.

When the NIRC came to fine first the T&GWU and then the AUEW-and got away with it each timethe Communist Party uttered not a single word calling on workers to break from the capitulatory policies of Jones and Scanlon. There was no criticism of the role of Jones and Scanlon. There can be no serious talk of a fight against the Tory govern- ment's drive towards corporate state in Britain with- out making a reckoning with of the re- the collaborators formist leadership the central issue. The Communist Party is incapable of doing is this because it thoroughly reformist itself.

It is in support of a deal with the Tories but will try to con- ceal this fact with a stream of 'left' words. It is a monstrous deception on the working class to prattle about Em- ployers Federation being dis- Engineering satisfied with the workings of the Act, and presenting this as a victory for the working of class, when the whole the employing class and its Tory government have already launched a far more dangerous onslaught through the pay laws and the treacherous deal with the TUC. from relatives-and by political censorship and • of all books newspapers. In April a decision of the Federal Court of Justice laid down that political prisoners should have a warder allotted to them during exercise periods.

The authorities appear to hope their isolation, that because of prisoners will feel the need to talk and thus provide the authorities with information.

The isolation of political prisoners is not a temporary policy. The West German govern-.

ment under the Social Democrat Willy Brandt intends to treat all a special political prisoners as category with minimal rights.

part: 'In the event of an attack involving democratic rights by on its the Tory government, agencies, we will together organ- ize such public campaigns as are considered mutually necessary to protect these organizations and their membership from such attacks.' The defence of democratic be rights in Britain cannot separated from the defence of these rights in Peru and Ger- many. Do the British Communist Party leaders support the ban- ning of the Liga Comunista, the jailing and torture of its leaders and the suppression of its Press?

Do they favour the banning of the West German Maoists and the arrest of their leaders? Do they support the Communist Parties of Peru and Germany which have acted as police in- formers against other workers' organizations? For its own protection, the working-class movement Britain has a right to know Communist Party where the stands on all these questions.

Workers Press, Friday May 18, 1973 PAGE 3 National Alex Mitchell reports from Front Tokyo's Oxford Street candidate The Ginza claims Powell boost gold-rush ENOCH POWELL has been praised by the National Front assisting tor the electoral chances of their candidate in the West Bromwich by- election. THE GINZA is Tokyo's Oxford Street. But, of The candidate is Mr Martin Webster, course, like everything in Japan, it is Oxford Street the Front's national on a monumental scale. He claims that his status it It is a long avenue aglitter with neon signs. The rich and The the fashionable go there to buy clothing which is adapted from western fashion houses.

lory candidate, There is a new and very lucrative industry developing in wenster the Ginza. It's the gold shop.

When I visited this curious enterprise there was a small They spoke little, like dozen peopie. people facing the dentist's chair. AS we LowarOs Crazy the counter the onlect chear Suside coe graboard their became anti-maligranon, this elec- Counter was allay buying gold objects: bars, tiny medallions coins and other small figurines. 1 de

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assistant moves the tiny felt trays at of gold, customer's request. There is a bit of hoo-haa outulaser Suct object is weighed Times the on he delicate scales stamps... transaction is the celved by Dayllent u on immigraton. rar Irom cool• sums of ip; he sain am going to stoke it vaST oI yen-tens thousands of the stuff. anything Before this week's rise in Voting takes place next the zulu price to more tal Thursday. $100 an ounce tomers were paying up to $110 an ounce. and the thousands hoarding of gold in Volume tomer Pakistanis like him, and One 'Capital': the official the purchase joday. WIll price racing as high as $115, gold Достан minature orcer tnat gold may Ginza trade must be bars, stamps, antique be held as money and made of it must be reaching absurd proportions.

to torm a noara a commercial gamble in the Some keep vote buyers lake •revented Circulalls - her without exering into meant itself golden booty transforming Their

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expectalon safety deposit box •of enjoyment. but most people hide it at They want something therefore. hoarder. which has the asting value makes sacrifice of the prospects This lust for gold began increasing lusts of the flesh to his gold PAKISTANIS will have a vote in next Thurs- ago when interna- rapidly in value because He

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alls callicol its precious or antique char- tional currency speculation Gospel of absten- West by-election-despite day's Bromwich up to the This Bill before parliament this week that will affect Deral un earnest. was acter. to Nixon's decision due of It is an investment. They are out of by Mr Geoffrey Key, their status. This ruling, August 15, 1971, to end their country's there are own Irom circula• the acting returning oficer, has upset National convertibility. dollar they distrust 1cucy occause Front candidate Martin Webster, who said that its future stability. They are

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Shade • conno in mins of such endustrias advisers. The revalued yen, industrial major of Webster had asked for Pakistanis to be removed because Its s• - cared 'strength', in fact the electoral register, claiming they were centres Calci 101 Irom currency money in the bank hugely inflationary currency.

alier Key replied yesterday that according to Home Danie DuL voul avarice the well-to-do who fear because Havanese and the Shited ones ope Ofice withorew trom sell much buy United : States Commonwealth, their status British subjects and could lost was unaffected not without cause ations raw materials-food. further Dorted Jens anon. Take In minerals, oil—is soar- The Bill before parliament this week had not yet this Post ane else- ing, Japan rushing to- received Royal Assent and could not affect the by- year issued a set wards an enormous econo- Millions millions Miss Betty Boothroyd who is defending Labour's mIC CrISIS them were The 4,436 majority and has based her campaign largely well-to-do who are the fear whined v on the of prices, suggested rising yesterday buving gold hope that they Issue that the town's adpalling can escape the repercussions sullaze or doctors ane boom. are of what's in front. dentists could be remedied by the offer of special into stamp financial incentives. Thev are possessed bv.toe TseT around The Conservative David Bell, was pursuing his illusion so eloquently put by Columbus and quoted central mene •I Doomine bran he regretter stores, that the campaign could not last a week longer to Gold is a wonderful been over the country's give 'growing prosperity' is lord of all he ossesses.

thing! Whoever to the feudal instincts of the more time wants. to dawn on the voters ones.

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PUBLIC MEETINGS

MONTY JOHNSTONE

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amalgamation with Warley in the Transforming the Socialist West Midlands metropolitan Labour League into the General election figures: 23,412; G roler Hawkins (C) 18,976. Lab. majority Revolutionary Party

A STATEMENT BY THE LONDON AREA COMMITTEE

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Hull Rents jump Central London THE London Area Committee of Mr Johnstone therefore Sunday May 20, 7 p.m. Wednesday May 23, any public for new tenants free to attend meet- Socialist Labour League the in London's West End 8 p.m. inas and The London Film Secures by up to 25 considers that the letter from per cent since the Socialist Labour League, 'Windmill Hotel' provided permission School, he obtains Lner so-caled Monty Johnstone workers came into operation last meeting it ne so desires Witham 24 Shelton Street Press, May 17) is unacceptable November. to use a tape recorder. West End estate from the standpoint the (corner Langley Street) OT The London Committee Area Partners, Richard and struggle for Marxist principles.

Com- the London WC2 to executive announced tester day that sites Divouses Goole mittee Communist Party square foot be- valued at Johnstone's letter, the poli. Speaker: Roger Smith public debate: 'That door for serious poli- fore the 'freeze were now being of British Communist cies the Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. disposed of at f8 a square foot tical discussion on Pageant Film: Showing the derived from the poll- and cases of E10 a square Party concerning political implica- 'Cape of Good Hope' tics of Stalinism'. 'The Road to Workers' Power' Trotsky's toot and over were also being of the history May 17, 1973 negotiated. struggle against Stalinism

TRANSFORMING THE SOC

INTO A 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, Friday May 18, 1973 Extract from the policy resolution adopted unani Alliance conference, Birmingham, on October : Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we In its place must be elec.

THE TORY governme ted a Labour government frontation with the which is pledged by the mass workers are forced to action of the working class to defend their standard implement socialist policies.

cost of living. We 'pledged i to say socialist policies' knowing that the pre- sent leaders of the Labour move- Large sections of the ment have no intention of intro- ducing such policies. Indeed, in answer to their fight t the last analysis of them General Strike. That is will be prepared to join a coali- tion government with the Tories conditions which will f to head off the working class.

But if the working class is strong enough to force the Tories 3) The democratic right to out, it is strong enough to deal strike and to organize in trade with the traitors in its organized unions. Only the midst. This can only be achieved can lead working class man- by exposing them in the fight for out of kind the historical alternative socialist policy.

an crisis. Every right and every The Central Committee of the gain won by the working class, Socialist Labour League calls every democratic right in Bri- upon the working class to sup- policies port the following to tain, has been won because the working unite class against of the organized of strength the Tories the and present the and unions the strike Wilson-Feather leadership of the weapon. labour movement: Here is the policy which the A Labour government must next Labour government must immediately repeal the Indus- be forced to carry out. trial Relations Act. This fight 1) A Labour government must must begin now by forcing the TUC to break off all relations immediately repeal the Indus- with the and trial Relations Act, Housing government Finance Act, Immigration Acts, mobilize the working Class to Fair Trading Act and all wage destroy state control of wages.

control. After the repeal of all 4) The right to defend rights Tory anti-working class mea- won in the past and change sures, there must be legislation the system. All the changes in to implement the Charter legal procedures made Basic Rights, along the follow- Tory government must be re- ing lines. secret police 2) The right to work! Capital- MI5 organizations must be dis- ism demands mass unemploy- banded and fully exposed. The ment. The right to a job must Tory adminis- This be guaranteed. can only tration in this sphere must be be done by breaking the grip published. All rights to assem- of capitalist ownership on the bly, free speech and the Press Employed and economy. un- must be guaranteed. employed must unite to insist Labour government na- The on a struggle begin muct tionalizing the main industries now. No closures, no sackings, and banks, under workers' must be the policy of the trade Occupation control and without compen- unions. fac- sation. tories threatened with closure, and your tools you haven't got left, any money Say you take a girl out to 30 bob the pictures; that's You might get one night out on the town and that's your Then you've got to sit in.

lot. when I was me at school I'd be all right, but Steve Heading (18), a panel 'A' I've got '0 levels and beater. came into politics and I couldn't levels get an through the struggle for pay apprenticeship. I'm trainee and union recognition at at the moment. Lankesters Ltd. a garage in It's from the In. obvious Kingston upon Thames. dustrial Relations Act and the What was impressed on state pay laws that the Tories me was the way the trade are going to try to crush the leaders i in They've got the union this area working class. completely sold us out. police behind them. The Stalinists wanted us to Our leaders were put there go back to work from the start to defend the rights the and have discussions with working but they class. are We management. saw what completely selling out the Stalinists were like. the people who put them there.

If it wasn't for my parents I think we've got to have I'd be starving. Before alternative leadership was now an 18 I was on 18p an hour. Now which will carry out socialist it's 33p an hour gone up to policies for the working class so I get about £13 a week.

won't collaborate and which Heath said when he got in with the Tories and the that everybody would have to employers. work for their He's It was hard for me to money. very out to the full. League carrying that come to the because Take social life. After you've family think my they are paid out for your housekeeping middle class. unanimously by 2,200 deleg ober 22, 1972. ds we address you with this u vernment is relentlessly pursuing i • the working class. Each day rced to become criminals - unde andard of living against governmen s of these workers openly acknowle fight to maintain a decent standa That is, the creation of the indust h will force the government to resig to as part of the fight to bring down the Tories. 5) The right to a higher stan- dard of living. It is not the living •standards of trade unionists, but the profit sys- tem, which causes the crisis.

The first step must be to ex- propriate all the great fortunes of the _rich, close down the Stock Exchange, place a state control over all movements of capital in and out of the country. Nationalization of the basic industries and of all large com- panies, banks, building and in- surance societies will provide for a unified the resources to improve the living plan standards of the whole people.

Workers' control of these, as well present national- as the ized industries, will run them in the interests of the workers and consumers. Again, the fight must begin now. State control of wages must be answered by the most em- widespread fight for wage in- creases to meet price rises and improve standards. This means a fight to remove the Tory government and change the union leadership. fac- 6) The right to health and wel- ure, fare benefits. Every Tory gov- free 1821 Picketing during the dispute at Lanke the trade union leaders in this area ( Once you've been brought up for 18 years as dormant Labour it's very hard to come over, but the real thing was the crisis I went through at Lankesters. delegates and visitors at th this urgent call to action: rsuing its plan for a con- h day new sections of - under Tory law- to ernment-inspired soaring knowledge that the only standard of living is a e industrial and political to resign. ring ernment cut in welfare bene- fits, in the health service and in all public spending must be revoked. On the basis of nationalization, a crash gramme of expansion of seo- vices to the unemployed, the low-paid, the sick and the aged must be undertaken as an absolute priority. The working class and' the Labour govern- ment must take immediate and absolute responsibility for 'these victims of the capitalist system. 7) The right to decent housing, Decent housing is not a luxury; it is a necessity. People have the basic right to decent accommodation at rents they can afford. Nationalization of the handful of building mono- polies and building societies will provide the basis for a massive of new programme house building. The disgraceful problem of the homeless in the cities must be immediately solved by census and taking- over of all unoccupied pro- in- perty. 8) The international respon sibilities of the working class.

The working class is interna- tional. We fight for the un- restricted right of any worker of any nationality to move freely through the world.

at Lankesters Ltd, in Kingston.

'What was his area completely sold us out: In the near future you'll see how the Tories will try to crush the working class. I don't think they will. The working lat class is too powerful.

The present leadership of at the All Trades Unions Withdraw the troops from Ireland. Unite the Irish and British working class to throw out the Lynch and Heath gov- ernments. Unite in the struggle for the Socialist United States of 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- colonial countries for pro- grammes of equal trade and mutual assistance, Break from NATO and all ro- imperialist alliances.

For the carrying out of such policies the SLL fights for the setting of Councils of up Action to lead the struggle against the Tory government and in every area. These Councils for unite trade unionists, tenants, unemployed, all political par- ties and tendencies of the 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 eful sponsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the tely burning question now, not in some remote future. The SLL pro- is determined to carry through its transformation into a re- volutionary party.

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the Socialist Labour League and help transform it into a revolutionary party. Central Committee Socialist Labour League /hat was Impressed on me was the way the working class is going to try to sell them out as much as possible. There's got to be a powerful leadership to lead the working class and I think the League will do this.

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ons way g to nuch be a d the Mrs Jane Roberton (30) is a The main thing in document that kept jump- ing out at me was that the leadership of the working class has got to be changed. The leadership of the trade unions is not a leadership at all. When unions were formed the aim of leadership was to help the workers get better pay and conditions. Now the Tories are taking it all away, and the trade union leaders are helping them. When you've Mr got Feather hob nobbing with Heath and his gang, how can you have confidence in him?

I can't see that the Labour Party do anything the Tories don't do. They started the legislation when they same were in office. I've always been interested in politics because my family were. We've always discussed «things. Then when I married, my husband got involved with •the League. I went to a central London All Trades Unions Alliance meeting and discovered what the League is all about. I've read quite a lot about the trade unions and how they were built up. Suddenly I be- gan to understand what was happening to the trade unions.

You suddenly realize you can't negotiate for pay. You're just at the government's mercy.

Then when you go to edu- cation classes you start under- standing that where it all is the interna- from comes tional crisis. The capitalists have got to go on and crush the working class throughout the world. When you realize that they have no choice, you get quite frightened. I became involved in the workers' hospital ancillary fight for more pay and started to go to union meetings. When I discovered what they were really earning, I was horrified.

When discovered my who had senior technician, been at University College for 20 years, was earning £17, I wondered how he managed Then I heard all the con- sultants, most of them Tories, going on about 'those damned fellows'. Nurses are notoriously un- political. They don't come up against political groups very often. I went to a nurses' action group meeting and some re- visionists wanted me to be on the stati paper with politics. They would co-operate with any- body. I didn't get anywhere at all. I thought if that's the 'ultra- left', how dangerous it was— with a lot of young nurses there aged 17 or 18 and not having any idea of what it was all about. I think the League is the leadership. only alternative They're pretty truthful about what's going on. They don't Above: Mrs Jane Roberton: 'It's a question of what's right and what's wrong. You can't just sit back and watch what the Torles are doing to the majority of people in this country and do nothing about It. Right: Railways -They were nationalized In they paid 1948, substantial amount and then left the same people in charge.! compromise and they give a clear sort of lead. I thought about joining the League for a long time. Then I realized I'd either got to get involved or get out. Since there wasn't anywhere else to go, I thought I'd better get involved. You can't hide away any- where because you've got to pay the same prices in the shops as anyone else. I can't find anything to dis- agree with in the document.

I think building the party is very urgent. What is there to wait for except and worse from a stronger measures right-wing government. The Tories are fighting for the smallest section of our them, community. I hate I really do. I absolutely loathe them. Industrial Relations The Act, the pay laws, are the most obvious demonstration uf what the ruling class are intending for people. For me at the moment it's matter of principle more than, for instance, paying out money. question oi what's It's a right and what's wrong. You can't just sit back and watch what the • Tories are doing to the majority of people in this country and do nothing about it. 'Nationalized railways left the same people in charge' Mr M. Welsh is a shunter at the British Rail Carriage and Wagon and works, Derby, member of the National Union of Railwaymen: The for the reason economic crisis is that shareholders making

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enough profit. They want more Workers Press, F money. The people in charge know one way of making more money — make the working- class work longer for less pay.

This is happening now when prices are going up but wages cannot. America should be under an obligation to make good every one of their paper dollars in gold or in goods.

Why Common the are Market countries and the US at loggerheads? Why can't they get together? Surely it is bad ion for both to have a trade war?

But even if they did solve this crisis, it would come again.

The shareholders always want to draw more out than they put in. s Press, Friday May 18, 1973 PAGE 5 Our so-called socialists are certainly not strong enough. They • are trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. They should take the banks When they over. nationalized the railways in 1948 they paid a substantial amount and then left the same people in charge. When they developed the all-steel mineral wagons British Rail paid for all the develop- ment costs and then let the job out to private industry.

If you have the same people running nationalized industries they are working for their friends in private industry.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday May 18, 1973

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

'Giving the toast "The King", the chairman said he did so with the mass feeling of loyalty and patriotism as was in the heart of every man worthy of the name of a Britisher. They could not but deplore the lamentable state of certain parts of this country where loyalty to the throne was a crime, but, thank God, in Ulster, the one bright gem of loyalty [applause), they loved and honoured their King [hear, hear]?

The extract is from the 'Bel- agreements our the between Telegraph' the work- fast of January management and 1920. The speaker was Charles force. 'As it is, in the scramble for Payne a director of the Harland Wolff shipyard and productivity, the all the agree- and rumbles of approval came from ments have been tossed aside.

the yard's employees at their further point Workers out earn £6 to that they already annual dinner. £12 less than their English and Such rampant jingoism is not Scottish They counterparts. entirely characteristic would like to see a move to- 10,000 workers at Harland and wards parity but the yard is Wolff today, Hoppe defends himself with still the bedrock of Protestant He says pro- two arguments. working-class privilege in Bel- ductivity targets have not been fast. The firm is the biggest met and adds that the govern- Ireland employer in Northern allow ment would not extra and the jobs are filled almost bonuses because of the Phase exclusively with Protestants.

Two "This dispute law. pay Illusions, however, are being Concerns the gorments pae rudely disrupted. The workers nothing laws at Harland and Wolff be- are says. ginning to find out after over On the pet see con • issue, Hoppe three months industrial also uses the action that when it comes to trol of wages to excuse his they are the class war same responsibility for any increase Great as any other worker in Tory and indeed the Chan- Britain. The Tories and the cellor Anthony Barber has employers want to depress outlawed already any move their living standards and des- towards The parity. govern- their basic rights. In troy ment has also done nothing to Belfast ready they seem to settle the bonus issue. close the yard and bankrupt this verbal But beneath the city economy in the pro- sparring a much more serious cess. attempt totally to undermine The shouldering the men strength in the trade union brunt of the attack the are yards is underway. 2,300 yard's boilermakers shipyard in Harland's is who were sacked for insisting trouble. Last year losses on that productivity payments work-in progress amounted to agreed in September 1971 are £6.78m and Hoppe says loss- honoured. have been They will not be making contracts kicked onto the streets with- until 1975. cleared out dole payment and if they do not give in, management, represented by the Danish fanatic Iver Hoppe, efficiency say they will boot out the finishing trade workers and The future de- shut the yard gates on Belfast.

immediate super-tankers pends on Six The dispute back to goes Fruit Reefer the Island the first rescue operation at the tor 1971 and General Maritime Group.

In the Tories yard. ultra-optimistic Even the brought in Hoppe to pul 'Belfast Telegraph' is forced to H&W back in the black. admit that this firm-which Hoppe negotiated a deal with huge orders with the yard labour force and pro- has also Swan Hunter on the Tyne-is mised £2.50 in bonus OI 'rather enigmatic'. In fact the 1972-rising to £3.50 in July ships are being built 'on-spec Tuly 1973. with the hope that the vessels Boilermakers have seen That be chartered. nothing of this money and can de. pends entirely on the future February they added an over- of world trade and with the time ban to their campaign of chaos on the monetary markets non-co-operation with manage- prospects are not bright.

ment plans. Nevertheless Hoppe ploughs Workers say they were led on with crisis snapping at his to believe that the two sums heels. His stated aim is to in- that could were a minimum crease productivity by 100 per be expected in bonus pay- The govern- ments. They admit output has cent in two years. half the not gone up as expected, but ment owns almost yard and is paying for an ex- this is primarily because of a and rebuilding pro- and pansion vast rebuilding training gramme with £35m in grants.

scheme introduced by Hoppe.

Both the Tories and Hoppe To take account of this, have identified the boilermak- unions negotiated a system of ers as the enemy. contingency payments last The boilermakers are insist- year. contention is, boiler- Our ing on bonuses and will not steward Bobby accept a new scheme of works makers' shop based Measured Johnson that the practice on told me. Time Methods (MTM) without money put at the disposal of the company was for all con- negotiation. The Dane recently pilloried tingencies. One of these has the steel trade workers in been to introduce consultants letter to employees. He talked We maintain at £600 a week. it should also be used to hon- of 'notorious' stewards indulg- ing in '19th century practices'.

are seeing here 'What is the last of the Mohicans in the Phase Two battle,' he said.

'They are refusing to face the realities of the situation.'

These sentiments sum up Tory-employer attitudes. Mohi- cans like Bobby Johnson and his 2,300 fellow trade union- in be destroyed must Tory Britain to save Harland's from further massive losses.

Hoppe and the government know that they must win this battle with the boilermakers.

Other employers are fighting the same war on the Clyde and at Swan Hunter's on the Tyne. The ultimate aim is to break down all pay and craft differentials and harness the entire labour force in sweeping speed-up productivity and' schemes. But the boilermakers must be broken first. The implications of the con- frontation In are enormous. it has been Ulster always • because of the ex- necessary treme political and economic instability of the Six Counties to stifle the independence of the working class with a virulent imperialist ideology.

Whereas in Britain the re- formists and compromisers of the Labour Party were sufficient to hold back the political development of the working class, in Ulster the Tories need men like Carson. Carson, the Orange Order and their political descendants like Craig and Paisley have always attempted to instil the Protestant working class with Sandy Scott, the convenor of the Harland boilermakers, 'pay for a well done. good job that was Top: the Harland and Wolff ship- Belfast's yard showing status symbol, biggest in the crane Europe. The firm is the largest employer in Northern Ireland.

a belief that union with the through British ruling class, the Ulster Unionist Party, brought benefits and privileges.

This was based partly on myth (the miserable conditions and wages of Protestant wor- kers are obvious to all visitors to Belfast) and partly based on fact (jobs and almost all the best jobs go to Protestant- born workers). The class consciousness of Ulster is the Protestant in therefore cut across by a 'loyalist' ideology. But it is not all King Billy and the Battle of Boyne. There is the the genuine feeling that the union brings better wages and relative security. One political result of this complex development is that Protestant tend workers to separate off the Tories in West- minster from the Tory govern- ment in Ulster. Tories in West- minster are bad because they are against the working class.

But Tories in Ulster may, or be bad depending may not, on whether they are defending Protestant privilege, fighting Republicanism etc. Issues like the Harland and Wolff dispute, with its obvious political overtones, ingrained are affront to these beliefs. Here we have a Tory govern- ment and a major employer both Irish soil clearly on standards threatening living which are already well below British averages. Who, the Protestant worker ask, his allies and may are who are his enemies. After all, rights, without trade union ability to without the cam- paign freely for decent living standards, he is as exploited and disenfranchised as the Catholic worker. The political implications of the dispute were crystallized by Sandy Scott, the convenor of the Harland boilermakers. He said his members believed along with the government, that the White Paper proposed by the Tories as a settlement of the Ulster problem has been well received, but that a critical factor the degree of was ambiguity in it. This could be dispelled, he added, and one way to do it was 'pay for a good job that was well done'. fair play for But such workers, Protestant or other- part Tory wise, has no in policy. Their plan in Northern Ireland as in the rest of Britain, is to deprive workers of basic rights and break up the unions as free bargaining organizations.

This is what Phase Two and Phase Three mean. The threat of a closure of Harland and Wolff, of course, presents an acute crisis for the Tories. their At present traditional domination of the working Class Protestant through the traditional Ulster Unionist Party has evaporated variety of pro-union and a the groups are competing for Protestants' vote in the forth- local government coming elections. But all the factions remain ominously silent on the dispute -notably the normally voci- ferous Loyalist Association of Workers (LAW) which has a large nominal following in the made yards.

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has no statement on the merits of the boilermakers' case-though its class position was indicated on May 1 when it came out against strike the protest one-day against the lory pay laws.

The Tory attempt to construct a viable organization to capture the allegiance of the Protestant block in fact is disrupted continually by the crisis which economic directly behind the turmoil at Harland and Wolff. Ultimately Hoppe and the their government rest salvation on the trade union The hope is that bureaucracy. boilermakers' president Dan McGarvey will snatch them from their uncomfortable and dangerous dilemma and get the back before the yard men closes. He has refused to back the dispute and his vilified the yard stewards for ignoring his instruction to return to work.

McGarvey says a return will pave the way for 'sensible and quick talks around the table'.

The exact subject matter of summit, such especially a under Phase Two where wages and conditions are dictated by and the government not negotiated, remains a complete mystery. The crisis has also exposed in the "left' the so-called Northern Ireland trade union movement. The Communist represented primarily Party, by Andy Barr, president of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, has called for Tory intervention and has welcomed a joint union - management working party to prevent further lay- offs at the yards. The CP's role is to cover up for men like McGarvey. The April 21 edition of the CP paper 'Unity' referred to 'one unfortunate aspect' of the dis- the public This was pute. confrontation between Mc- and a boilermakers' Garvey steward. it is 'Surely,' said 'Unity', not asking too much of trade unionists that they should not permit news media to arrange such a spectacle. Any rows or union or be- disputes in one tween unions should surely be sorted out and not paraded before the public' The incident 'Unity' referred to was a TV battle between Scott and McGarvey when the latter dominated the pro- gramme with remarks hostile to the boilermakers. Scott was allowed about 30 seconds to explain the men's position.

'Unity' has refrained totally from criticising McGarvey. It describes the dispute as a 'complicated problem' says Hoppe is 'hiding behind the government' and argues that the main battle is to keep the yards open. This kind of Communist Party behaviour is routine in Britain. But in the Northern situation, it is more Ireland diabolical than usual. CP stalwarts in the north always plead that their main objective is to unite the Catholic and Protestant work- ing class. But at Harland's they have played the opposite role.

Here is a unique opportunity to undermine the loyalist- Tory influence among Protes- tant workers. Workers Press, Friday By backing the dispute, finishing other trade urging join workers to with the boilermakers, organizations like

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Ulster Defence the Craig's new Association and break-away Unionist Party could be placed in an impos- sible position. But instead of adopting this policy, the Com- munist Party Stalinists follow time-honoured role their as handmaidens to the trade union bureaucracy at the expense of the working class. For their part the Republican movement's Official and Pro- visional wings are totally blind to opportunities afforded by the dispute. Most simply ignore it and others fear closure of provoke the yard will Protestant backlash against Catholics. One member of Peoples who had strong Democracy, leanings towards the Pro- visional IRA said an issue of Protestant wages could hardly hold the concern of Catholic workers who faced murder in the streets. Such a statement reveals the political bankruptcy of this movement. First an issue of basic rights is involved in the Harland's dispute, and any person in- terested in the emancipation of the working class must on principle back the boilermakers struggle. orkans Press, Friday May 18, 1973 PAGE 7 Secondly by taking a purely sectarian stand on the dispute, Protestant fears that Catholic workers are hostile to their interests are confirmed, and loyalist influence is strength- ened. Whatever the outcome of the dispute, Harland and the Wolff crisis is only a mild taste of the disruption ahead. The crisis in the capitalist economy guarantees that shipyard wor- kers will face future and more severe attacks. But this crisis offers the opportunity break them to from the loyalist cancerous ideology of allegiance to the British ruling class. This must be done if they are to with- basic stand the pogrom on rights. It would be foolish and glib in the extreme to expect that impact of such under the attacks Protestant workers will towards swing with unity Catholic workers and socialism automatically. It is also easy to propose an ideal solution dreamt up in the mind from the relatively safe enclave of the labour movement in Britain. But there can be absolutely no prospect of challenging British imperialism in Northern Ireland unless Catholic and Protestant workers can unite to rid the on a programme north of Tory rule. The Harland and Wolff dis- pute affords an enormous opportunity to advance such a campaign.

THE STORY OF JACK TANNER

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BY JACK GALE

As Jack Tanner con- tinued his move to the right as president of the Amalgamated Engineer- ing Union during World War II, he was backed to the hilt by the Stalinists of the British Communist Party. The Stalinists did this, for instance, when he told the National Committee of the Engineering Amalgamated Union in 1943: 'In the past, trade unionists have mainly been protective and defensive organizations and, in regard to many matters, quite nega- We must become more tive. positive and constructive in our outlook and approach to the issues now confronting us.'

This was the line put in 'The Story of the Engineers', an official history tive and written by James B.

Jefferys. Jefferys, who was a Communist Party member, wrote of the war period: 'Many of the old signposts of policy in the workshop and in the political and industrial life of the country had disap- peared almost overnight ..

Instruction and training of women, discussions with em- ployers on the quickest and ay May 18, 1973 most efficient way of doing a job, and support for a Con- Minister, servative Prime were only three of the un- chartered and unexplored paths to which the new sign- posts pointed.' (page 249) again Meanwhile, Tanner to the AEU National Com- mittee: 'We need to think deeply and clearly, free from narrowness and prejudice...

our minds have to be adjusted and adapted to the situation.'

But the Communist Party, supporting Tanner and after shielding him from all critic- ism, were to discover that he had developed a momentum of his own and no longer needed them. After the war, Tanner con- tinued on his own path-for a with Communist time still Party support. In the early years after the war, the Party still opposed strikes and called for increased productivity. This was in line with the con- tinued co-operation of Britain, Russia and America in the im- mediate period after the war.

At the 1947 Trades Union Congress, Tanner moved resolution calling for statutory joint production committees. This, he claimed, 'was the test of the movement's determina- tion to face the future'.

Even though profiteers were living off their backs, the and working class still had to in- crease productivity, according to Tanner. The fact that people are living without doing any useful work is having a bad psycho- logical eflect on the workers generally • . . but it is the organized workers who have to share this burden. By 1950 Tanner was the TUC's official spokesman on productivity. At the 1950 Con- gress he declared that it was 'the responsibility of the themselves unions to concern with efficiency and increased productivity. The only way of life' obtaining a better he said, is to obtain the utmost in production eticiency methods.' (Emphasis added.)

It was Tanner more than any other trade union leader who pledged support for the British Institute of Manage- ment (he said it was 'indepen- dent'!) and called on shop stewards attend trade to union and BIM courses on productivity and management techniques. A far cry this from the stewards' independent shop committees which, Tanner had told Zinoviev, would take the place of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviets in Britain!

At the 1951 TUC, Tanner told delegates that 'without in- creased productivity the coun- try is likely to 'Our living standards de- pend on our productivity, he said, 'and the more there is produced, the more there is to be shared. 'How it is to be shared', he continued, "is another matter and we are not discussing that at the present moment.' The TUC, Tanner said, was aware of the danger of a drop in workers' living standards, but 'all demands have got to be met from current produc- tion' He called for training courses for shop stewards in order to familiarize them with techniques, production new time-and-motion studies and new processes. In 1952 he told Congress: 'We are not sticking on the formalities that may be neces- sary to get joint consultation Above: A delegation of trade union officials and businessmen, members of the Anglo-American Council Productivity view on techniques in steel production. Tanner (below left) the was TUC's spokesman on produc- tivity in 1950. on this important question of production. 'We should be prepared to do everything possible to bring consultation for this about because particular purpose, without it, new methods, new systems, new processes, can- not be introduced in industri without very considerable dis- turbances and delay. At the following year's TUC 'Productivity he said: is largely synonymous with jobs' and called specifically for in- creased productivity by the miners. 'In the interests of the whole population of this coun try, plant and equipment must be used in the most efficient and economical manner' By this time Tanner was a pillar of the right not only in the unions but in the Labour Party. In 1952 he became a representative on the

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Board, Economic Planning which bore a considerable responsibility for the rearm- ament programme which had split the Labour Party when Hugh Gaitskell was Chancellor of the Exchequer and had axed the Health Service to pay for it.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

BY TOM KEMP

The Argentine military who have held power for seven years are due to hand over to President- elect Hector Campora a week today (May 25). In the March I1 presiden- tial elections Campora, the candidate of the followers of ex-President Juan Peron, won over 50 per cent of the votes.

This was a big victory for the Peronists and a defeat for the generals. In the period since his elec- tion, Campora has warned the chiefs of the armed forces not to attempt to cling to power, but it is not yet certain that he will be able to take over peacefully. Plans are going forward to release the many political prisoners in Argentine army which put them there.

Campora has suggested that the use of violence against the junta was justified, military but most of his statements have been deliberately vague.

When asked about the choice of ministers and • the com- mander-in-chief after May 25 he said: 'If the Constitution shouldn't 1 use it?, light, why gives that The military have domina- ted Argentine politics and administration for the , past seven years. They hold the levers of power throughout the country. More than 5,000 re- tired officers hold top jobs in Argentinian and foreign-owned firms. Real power is wielded by an inner group of extreme right- wing generals, admirals and top air force officers. If there to be a coup d'etat they will give the orders. They and their friends are already re- cruiting special armed squads, nominally for protection against guerrilla attacks.

May 4 Campora had On discussions with the com- manders-in-chief of the three armed forces at his home. He told them: 'The armed forces have to be subordinate to the national authorities, in accor- dance with the fundamental norms of the Republic.' The communiqué issued after the meeting showed that the military had taken a tough They line. • expressed concern because of recent acts of vio- lence 'by extremist elements with subversive aims. . It ap- peared that Campora had made concessions to them. At the funeral three days before of Rear-Admiral Her- The Scottish National Party claims be to classless-the voice of Scotland. No class-conscious workers are confused about this fatu-

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James Reld, to the fore in Scot- tish TUC conventions. mes Quijada, executed by the guerrillas, the head of the Fleet Air Arm, Rear-Admiral May- orga said it was difficult to resist the temptation 'to put the country in order before handing it over free of guer- rillas'. On the same day, the mili- tary commander of Buenos Aires re-imposed the death penalty. Those who publish guerrilla edicts were made li- able to imprisonment for an indefinite time. A jail sentence of up to four years awaits those who fail to obey an order from military or security forces and up to the military. The generals have not yet decided upon a military coup, although some are known to favour it, including the mili- of the tary boss capital, General Tomas Sanchez De Bustammente; who issued these orders. Evidently feeling his posi- tion threatened, Campora is- sued another statement on May 1l in which he called for a military and political truce to guarantee national unity. He promised co-operation with the armed forces if they would observe it and called for res- pect for the constitution and the principles of Peronism.

The Peronists themselves are split on the attitude to be adopted to the military on the one hand and the guerrillas on the other. The right wing is led by vice-President-elect Vicente Solano Lima and would only amnesty guerrillas who have not taken part in violent acts. There are three main guer- rilla groups now active: the Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP); Mononeros; and Revo- lutionary Armed Forces (FAR).

ous claim of the tartan Tories, but the Communist Party is known to be in a muddle about it. It was the Stalinist-domi- nated

UCS

Co-ordinating Committee which invited party chairman, businessman Wil- liam Wolfe, on to the platform at the giant UCS demonstra- tion on Glasgow Green in August 1971. James Airlie had the task of desperately appealing for 'fair hearing' for Wolfe on that occasion.) James Reid has more re- cently been to the fore in sup- porting the STUC-organized Scottish Conventions, which ar nothing more than a capi- tulation to the petty-bourgeois backwardness of Scottish nationalism--and of which the SNP eagerly took advantage.

Perhaps the Stalinists will say where they stand on the most recent action of Wolfe's colleague, Nationalist MP Don- ald Stewart. He was one of those who voted for right-wing Tory MP Teddy 'law and order' Taylor's Bill to restore capital punish- ment. They have carried out a num- of spectacular attacks, ber executions and kidnappings.

Peronist youth While the movement and left wing wants to amnesty its own guerrillas, they do not favour the release of prisoners belonging to the ERP which is led by Pabloite revisionists who have aban- doned proletarian politics for terrorist adventures. The guerrillas have carried out a number of kidnappings including business- this year, men, politicians, bank officials, lawyers, doctors and military men. Big sums in ransom were paid out to secure the release of some of these men. As part of the deal for the release of Swift Meat-packing boss Stanley Silvester, who was also the British Consul in Rosario, the firm distributed free food and clothing to its poorly-paid employees. The army has established a special section to combat the guerrillas. Some of its person- nel have close connections with the US Central Intelligence Agency. Above: Hector Campora :. Letti Hooded guerillas, members of the ERP, one of the three main groups. In August last 125 ar guer- rillas released of their comrades held in the Rawson prison, In revenge, naval offi- cers shot 16 guerrillas being held in the Trelaw naval base.

Guerrilla activity has been unable to overthrow or weaken the military regime. Nor can it prevent a military coup the generals should decide to block Campora's accession to power. By substituting them- selves for the mass movement the guerrillas, despite their self-sacrifice and bravery, leave the way open for re- the Peronists. What is required in the Argentine is the building of a revolutionary party with its roots in the working class.

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Workers Press, Friday May 18, 1973 PAGE 9 Brazil's role as a junior partner in the imperial- ist exploitation of Latin America has become in- creasingly evident in re- bent further in- cent years. ers are on creasing their striking power. While. the military regime The Press is talking of nuclear maintains itself by oppression, weapons for the near future, persecution and police torture together with Polaris missiles at it has built home, up and nuclear submarines. panopoly of armaments which There is no doubt that this makes it the gendarme of the for armoury is intended use It has recently acquired area. against revolution and to keep submarines, destroyers, super- the area safe for finance capi- sonic planes and other modern tal to exploit. weapons. Brazil is firmly in the grip Foreign capital has been of military dictatorship, flooding into the country to headed by the President, establish branch plants in the Garrastazu Emilio Medici, rapidly growing industrial cen- whose term expires in March The tres. existence of raw 1974. Its main supports are materials, cheap labour and the National Information Ser- denies government which the Higher vice, War School the workers and peasants the and the Armed Forces General makes most elementary rights Staff. They alone will have the Brazil a magnet for the multi- say in choosing a successor, national corporations. Medici stands for re- unless Much of the new modern election. industry which has grown The rules established by the mushroom-like the past over military dictatorship require few years produces for export that the President should be because of the low purchasing four-star general and that of the of the power mass his name can only be released Brazilian people. Just 10 per after it has been agreed by cent of the population receives these top military bodies. 80 per of the cent national Rumour has it that the US income. State Department is satisfied Poverty-stricken and hungry with Medict's record and peasants flock into the towns would like him to stay on for search of food and work in another term. The tame op- and live in over-crowded the Congress position is shanty-towns and slums. unlikely to be permitted to The cost of living has so far put forward a nominee. outstripped that wages the For class and working the minimum wage would have to peasant mass one military pre- increase by over 263 per cent sident is much like another. to enable workers to recover tackled robems chee Their be only their 1958 purchasing power.

the building through There is massive unemploy- of revolutionary party which despite industrial de- ment will sweep away the regime Infant velopment. mortality together with its bourgeois rates rank among the world's and foreign backers. highest. The Brazilian military lead- Below: Brazil's president, Medici.

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Union are doing a major cover- and we don't want to see him embarrassed.' up job for President Nixon. The Watergate affair The first Soviet Press com- given scant coverage and the official line is on Watergate appeared ment the 'Literary Gazette', a that Nixon is a victim of a con- weekly intel- of reactionary forces' in circulating mainly among spiracy the United States opposed to him It relates of the lectuals. some facts but Nixon in seeking a deal with the soviet treats and nothing Union. friendly way says about the political implications.

The has soviet bureaucracy The British 'Morning Star' given Nixon a vote of confidence re- by its announcement of the date ported follows: "The for Brezhnev's visit to Washing- Soviet Press made what ton in June. apparently its first reference to resume o Polish editor said: From the Watergate scandal, with factual chronological our standpoint, Richard Nixon is

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE EMBARRASSED silence of the Stalinists becomes increasingly untenable as the Watergate scandal moved into a new stage with the opening yesterday of the public hearings of the US Senate committee which is probing the affair.

They are taking place before the full panoply of Press and TV and will be transmitted in prime viewing time each evening. The inquiry into the biggest political scandal in American history is being made by a seven- the Senate caucus man select committee in room where Senator Joe McCarthy made his sensational anti-communist allegations in 1954.

Vice-president Nixo The Senate hearing will start with question- the man now head ing of some of the smaller fry from Nixon's presiden- He is expected to be ques- tial campaign staff. Tension tioned in detail about the plot, who organized it and who knew is expected to rise when the about it. The committee chair- fourth witness, James Mc- Senator Sam Ervin man, pro- Cord testifies. mised that it would produce revelations' some startling McCord, formerly of the which had not yet appeared in CIA, was one of the five men the Press. arrested inside the Watergate The Senate committee is in headquarters of the Demo- addition Federal Grand to a cratic Party on June 17 last Jury which is also investigating year. the affair and it does not have

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The Stalinist paper offers its readers not one word of explana- tion for this silence of the Soviet Press. Yet the Watergate scandal has blown the lid off American politics and has begun to reveal as yet unfathomed depths of cor- ruption and skulduggery involv- ing the President himself.

Why does the Soviet Press keep silent if not because the bureaucracy needs Nixon and gives him 100 per cent support? in t The British Stalinists cannot be unaware of the thinking of their colleagues in eastern Europe Ident Nixon In 1954 swearing in as a senator.

now heading the Senate inquiry into the scan power to indict. Its main func- tion will be to bring the scan- dals into the open and sift out which of the charges and allega- tions are true. The key issue will be whether.

Nixon knew about the bugging the cover-up of Watergate and operation afterwards. Testimony on oath incriminating him could shake his position if the witness is a credible one. One of the conspirators, Gordon Liddy, has already been given immunity from criminal charges for anything he may say before the committee. Similar immunity has been accorded to the former White House counsel, John Dean, who is a key witness.

TANGLE

As each day brings new reve- lations it is clear that the Water- gate break-in was part of a wholesale campaign of under- cover bugging carried on by the Nixon administration ever since 1969. Unravelling the tangle and establishing some approximation of the truth is likely to take the Senate committee many months.

According to the 'Washington Post', always the undercover campaign was organized under the supervision of former White House aides Robert Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean and was aimed at radical leaders, journal- demonstrators, student ists and Democratic Party can- didates. Besides bugging and burglary, infiltration, spying and provoca- tion were employed. The Admin- istration had the services of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as of so-called 'suicide well as squads whose missions, if dis- covered, could be disavowed.

SPIES

Squads of professional wire- tappers and ex-Central Intelli- gence Agency spies also worked under White House direction.

• It is now claimed that Dr Henry Kissinger, Nixon's special adviser on foreign attairs, who has so far not been mentioned in connection with the scandal, ordered bugging of three of his aides suspected of leaking secret information. Workers Press, Fr about Nixon's role, but they say nothing to condemn this. capitu- lation to the representative of American imperialism. The bureaucracy is having in- creasing difficulty in explaining to the working class why it is running off to see Nixon, Brandt other and capitalist statesmen and is making deals with them.

It keeps silent because it fears criticism and opposition at home.

The 'Morning Star' connives in this conspiracy of silence which needs to main- the bureaucracy tain its parasitic grip on the workers' states. senator... guess who? Why, Sam Ervin, the scandal surrounding Nixon.

The latest to go as a result of Watergate is the recently-appoin- ted head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bradford Cook. He was said to have deleted the fact that. financier Robert Vesco, whose affairs were investigation, under had con- to Nixon's tributed $200,000 campaign fund from a complaint.

This was probably done on the suggestion of the campaign man- ager, Maurice Stans, and the gift was intended to block the SEC's investigation of fraud charges against Vesco. • It is now admitted that Presi- Nixon dent authorized wire- tapping of more than a dozen of his subordinates following re- James McCord has 'some startling revelations', says Ervin.

ports of B52 bomber raids in Cambodia which appeared in the Press in May 1969. Approval was granted by FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell, then Attorney-General. • In another twist to the affair former Justice Department a employee, Jack Landau, claims that he was asked by Mitchell to make secret contact with two judges in a wire-tapping case. He took them classified information intended to influence them to call for a re-trial. Former head of the CIA, • Richard Helms, is said to have admitted that he accepted a White House request to draw up a psychiatric profile of Dr Daniel Ellsberg, defendant in the Pen- tagon Papers case which has now been stopped by the judge: Press, Friday May 18, 1973 PAGE 11

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Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League 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 Clvic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Monday May 21 The Socialist Revolution in Britain : 3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading : Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party.

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

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Widespread builders' campaign PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday May 18, 1973

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

BUILDING union leaders have entered into private talks with the employers aimed at heading off the growing movement among their members against the spread of labour-only subcontracting-'the lump'.

In its worst form 'the lump' means mobile gangs of wor- kers who pay no income tax, buy no insurance stamps and hawk themselves round from site to site without a union card. anti-'lump' marches the else- They are used by employers where. And they plan to be there break down established to again on June 15 when 17 others hard-won conditions, smash face committal on charges, in- and under- working practices cluding intimidation. mine all site organization. And The most serious legal weapon use of the system is on the being pointed in the Shrewsbury increase. cases is the 1875 Conspiracy and thousands of building Protection of Property Act.

Today cities, But other workers, in most major are strike and demonstrate will as also being dredged up. MPs give a second reading to a striking don this elec- un the Eric Heffer's anti-lump' Bill. St Thomas's trician from Short shrift for the Bill can be Hospital site was bound over the Tory govern- expected from under an Act which dates from The 1361. building employers, ment. heftily Tory In this atmosphere-and with who contribute to have already made 'lump' labour now providing Party funds, an estimated 25 cent of the clear that as far as they are con- per cerned 'the lump' is essential. building labour force nationally -more and more building work- But the issues raised by the ers are being driven to the con- workers' campaign are clusion: the Tory highly the government tially explosive; orchestrating ruthless union chiefs can patch up a tem- against all their rights. strategy porary deal with the employers Yet their like which will let them off the hook union leaders, the leadership of the TUC gener- they will be more than happy.

ally, to put it most charit- are, Faced not only with the threat ably, dragging their feet.

to their jobs from 'the lump', The purpose of the proposals but with a fierce legal onslaught they have put to the employers, against their rights to strike and for informal discussion over the picket, building workers are in a "control' few weks, militant mood. next to evidence of the legal labour-only subcontracting, not Hard will today, abolish it. attack come when want a joint approach committal pro- They men face to the Tories, with at Shrewsbury accused the employ- ceedings an affray, damaging ers, for registration scheme of causing which registered property and intimidation.

under only firms would be awarded public- Workers from London, the Midlands and Merseyside will be sector contracts. The

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mark by tomorrow. So halfway £694.96 our total stands at far which is long way from our overall target of £1,750. Raise as Workers at the crisis ridden can and rush it to much as you BSA - Triumph - Norton immediately. Villiers group are facing If we make a big effort now we know we will complete our target and dramatic cut in wages than this time. More ever big redundancies. month, we need to complete our Shop stewards representing Fund. 2,000 workers the Meriden As thousands of workers face at plant heard of the shock report a new round of huge price in- from management yesterday.

creases, the trade union leaders begin their talks on Phase Three I understand the plans include: turn their backs and completely • An all-round 10-per-cent cut on the fight to defend the basic in wages. rights of their members. alone provides • Redundancies amounting to Workers Press Help us there- possibly one in five of the labour a political lead. fore to raise our Fund so that force. can be expanded our paper • Loss of ten minutes free time throughout every district. Give us allowance in every hour for piece an extra amount wherever you of work and the introduction donation im- can. Post every time studies. mediately to: • Abolition of the average earn- Workers Press May Appeal Fund ings rule for untimed piece-work 186a Clapham High Street jobs. London SW4 7UG The closure of No. 2 plant at Meriden and the transfer of the A GOOD post has pushed the fund up to {22,713.99.

League Socialist Labour branches sent in: Central workers, Oxford £110. London £10; Battersea £9; Keep it rolling in—we're Southwark £12; Acton £11; way behind target but de- Bristol £6; Holloway £1; to fight termined Croydon £18; Crawley £25; every inch of the way. Post all Castleford £4.27; Reading donations to: £5: Aberdeen £7; Brixton £12.50; Exeter £2: Lewis- Party Building Fund ham £13; Leeds £6.20; 186a, Clapham High Street Artists £5; Post Office Wor- £5; British-Leyland London SW4 7UG. kers during the Demons qualification for registration a the employment of should be not less than a certain percen- permanent workers, tage ork- starting at 60 per cent.

Nowhere in the union leaders' proposals, of course, is there any for the nationalization demand building industry under of the workers' control. Yet 'the lump' is merely the most concentrated employers' expression the ot nationalization is attack, and the only real answer to it.

Nationalization is also omit- ted from the policy statement agreed by the national confer- ence organized earlier this year Workers' 'Building Charter', the Communist Party- organization which has pushed itself to prominence in the campaign against 'the lump'.

The Stalinists were forced, by increasingly the militant and political mood of the rank and file, to agree to 'campaign for an

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spares department to the firm's Birmingham factory. Management says these swinge- ing cuts are necessary to get BSA-Triumph out of its financial crisis by cutting costs by 10 per cent. The company chairman and ex- Labour Attorney-General, Lord Shawcross, will visit Meriden discuss the proposals today to with convenors. In the meantime workers will be meeting to decide whether to fight the plan which threatens to destroy wage levels and the hard- basic trade union rights won build up in the factory. The firm is making the BSA labour force the scapegoats for the financial crisis which has hit the company. THE PRICE of gold dropped in London yesterday, but dealers said the gold fever was far from over. The market, one said, was 'still very much alive and could start kicking again later even today. The morning fixing set the price at $103.50 an ounce-down $1.50 overnight, but still well above the $100 mark. At one point earlier this week the London price reached $115 an ounce.

The weakness of the dollar was again in , evidence yesterday: at vowsbury Court Case Involving builders.

end to this Tory administration and a return to a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist poli- ers, cies'. But how this was to be achiev- ed was left as vague as how 'the lump' is to be got rid of.

The way forward for building lies not in reformist workers illusions that the employers are going to help cut off their own right hands, or that the Tory government is going to do work- ers any favours. The union leaders must be told to drop their diversionary tactics, fight in the TUC for the mobilization of the whole work- ing-class movement in action which will force the Tories to resign or make way for those in the unions who will fight.

The alternative, revolutionary leadership must be built in the building unions capable of meet- ing the challenge now facing the members. But already some workers are bitterly angry over the proposals.

They point out that the firm nas already persuaded them to do five days' work in four days the company's per- to boost formance. Top management is hoping that the threat of closure will 'drive the workers to abandon their basic rights. A similar strategy was employed at BSA Birmingham where men agreed to step up production to save jobs last year. But despite the sacrifice man- ..agement closed down the plant throwing 3,000 men out of work after a plan for a work-in had failed. BSA-Triumph workers now have no choice but to fight the proposals and demand the nation- alization of the firm. Otherwise they will face the loss of all democratic rights. one point it lost 1.041 cents to the pound. Inter-bank deals done yester- day are settled on Monday and many financiers were reluctant to hold dollars over the weekend fearing they could be worth much less when the bill has to be paid.

STRIKE THREAT at the key Sterling Metals plant, Nuneaton, averted yesterday when fettlers were reinstated, after dispute over a demand for relief workers. be SHIPYARD stewards will meeting for a third day today with Boilermakers' Society officials in Newcastle to discuss dismissal of 2,300 boiler- the makers over a bonus dispute at Harland and Wolff, Belfast.

REYROLLES, Hebburn, piece- workers voted yesterday to con- tinue their dispute over rates.

Some 500 others have been laid off.

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