Workers Press no. 1082

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HEATH-WILSON

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 26, 1973• No 1082 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE SITUATION is deteriorating for the Heath govern- ment. Attempts by Tory and Labour

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chiefs to cover up the of names people in other the prominent Lambton-Jellicoe affair only are making things worse. Speaking a day after Heath's 'full and frank' statement to the Commons, Mr James Wellbeloved, a Labour MP, said alarming speculation about the scandal was rife Whitehall. This is extremely in grave, he said, 'and it must be dealt with immediately by Mr discretions of a junior Min- ister in Heath's team. Heatn." We all have proof that It is clear that the only the nauond dames are bre thing that keeps Heath in paring biographies two office is the cowardice of of them Cabinet member, whose the Labour and trade union leaders. the open in the next few days. Instead of mobilizing the

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leading wea uny euke. point they are WHere member of the Tory Party exposed being helplessly lives on estates in the divided and utterly Midlands. demoralized. After Heath's hypocritical Wellbeloved Wilson rushed to the res- from statement heard Cue ana unecurvocally Labour leader Harold Wilson.

accepted statement Heath's establishment Press doesn't the Commons Thurs- He praised the discredited conor tie one Time. day *The Times' peers who had resigned and the But sympathy for the statement must paper to say that there only be totally rejected because it are others involved. is shot through with contra During this week most of He then said he would be double tal Street Press Heath collaborate with the Fleet our part. we don't be. the affair ГО 11 in getting referred to a tolai or turet lieve him. ministers being imo icated switened to Heath told the House: highest estimate the Security Commission 'On the information avail- where it could be dealt with four, if you include the in- able to me- and I have beer kept intormed-l Car tell the House that there grounds no for suppos- other Minister Ine That any or member of the public ser-

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ment a DOUT "full and frank' as Presi- dent Nixon's statements on Watergate Let's take one rem evidence which explodes what Heath had to say. On Thursday the main story this ne mest carried banner headline: 'Call-girl dossier other names ministers say, two besides Lambion, who had already resigned. said: *The The article police are looking for two men who may have materia two other minis- ters with the affair. We now know that one of Earl these -ministers WaS ellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal But who is the other? It may be said that "The Times' made a 'mistake' and that its lead was story correct. We don't. believe On tnese grave Issues, Ine

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behind closed doors. But Wilson's most astoni- shing outburst was this: *I can certainly indicate that the discussion with Heath], as far as I will be concerned, will be utterly constructive. This does not mean there will be any carve- up between Mr Heath and myself.' We don't believe Wilson either. We think there has been a carve-up. And the people being carved up are the millions of people in the labour and trade union movement who have suffered almost three years of Heath rule: • Skyrocketing prices re- sulting in a sweeping attack on the standard of living of working-class families.

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TOTAL cuts in environment pro- following the Chan- grammes cellor's announcement on pub- lic expenditure, were expected to amount to £185m in 1974- 1975 and £10m to £20m in the current year. Stating this in a Commons written reply yesterday, Environ- Secretary Geoffrey ment Rippon said expenditure on new England road construction in should be reduced by about £45m; on motorways and trunk road maintenance by some £9m; and local authority roads on maintenance by about £3lm.

He envisaged making reduc- tions on local authority miscel- laneous capital expenditure in England of about £75m in 1974- 1975 by withholding approvals for key sector projects and by total sums avail- reducing the able for locally determined schemes. Rippon added that his depart- ment would be discussing with nationalized transport in- the dustries the distribution of the cuts in their investment pro- grammes in 1973-1974 to pro- duce a total approaching £10m.

MOTORWAY building at Sunbury, Sur- rey, has come to a standstill over a claim for guaranteed bonus earnings.

Cubitt's workers on the M3, who say their pay can fluctuate by up to £15 from week to week under the present bonus system, struck last Friday as national protest against part of the labour-only subcontract- ing, the "lump'. The 300 men involved have decided to stay out to press their bonus claim. Now we're out indefinitely until we get what we want.'

The strikers have suc- ceeded in ending labour-only subcontracting on the site.

Officials of the three unions Involved - the CEU, UCATT and the T&GWU - have been told by management there can be no negotiations until the strike ends. Left: Pickets on duty at the site. Record sit-in WOMEN workers at a Swindon record-player factory yesterday completed their third week on sit-in strike against speed-up. The 1,200 workers involved are at the the Garrard factory on Manor trading Cheney estate. Management has now threatened to lay off workers at two other factories in the town.

workers press

BRITAIN'S OWN WATERGATE CRISIS

HEATH-WILSON

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 26, 1973 • No 1082 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE SITUATION is rapidly deteriorating for the Heath govern- Attempts by Tory

EXPOSED

chiefs to cover up the names of people in the other prominent Lambton-Jellicoe affair only are making things worse. Speaking a day after Heath's 'full and frank' to the Commons, Mr statement James Wellbeloved, a Labour MP, said alarming speculation about the scandal was rife Whitehall. 'This is extremely in grave,' he said, 'and it must be dealt with immediately by Mr discretions of a junior Min- Heath' ister in Heath's team. We have proof that all It is clear that the only the Hallal caesare thing that keeps Heath in paring biographies two the cowardice of ministers of them office is Cabinei member, whose the Labour and trade union leaders. may the open in the next few days. Instead of mobilizing the workers The other prominent per- movement against the Tories, Wilson helps be named them yel leading weren" once. where thev are poll member of the Tory Party exposed being helplessly lives on estates in the weak, divided and utterly demoralized. Nice. After Heath's hypocritical Wilson rushed to the res- from statement we neard Cue ane uncouvocally Labour leader Harold Wilson.

accepted statement Heath's establishment doesn't resc in the Commons on Thurs- He praised the discredited CONor is The Times day. 'The peers who had resigned and Times' the sympathy for But the statement only paper to say that there Must are others involved. be totally rejectea because it dishon thronite nera During this week most of the Fleet Street Press our bart. we don't be. Heath affair getting referred to a total of thret lieve him. being ministers implicated switcred Sanely Heath told the House: fod he you include mate is highest estimate the Security Commission 'On the information avail- where it could be dealt with able to me- -and I have beer kept he House can tell the that there are no grounds for suppos- other Minister or member of the public ser- vice is involved.' Does seriously anyone

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'full and frank' as Presi- dent Nixon's Statements on Watergate Let's take evidence which explodes what Heath had to say. On Thursday the main story this "ine banner headline: 'Call-girl dossier other names two ministers- that is to say, two besides Lambton, who had already resigned. said: "The The article are looking for two police men wno may nave material connecting two other minis- ters with the affair.' We now know that one of Earl these nausters jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal.

But who is the other? "The It mav be said that Times' made a 'mistake' and that its lead otor be leve in- was correct. We don't so. On Inese grave Issues,

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behind closed doors. But Wilson's most astoni- shing outburst was this: I can certainly indicate [with Heath], as far as I will be will be utterly constructive. This does not mean there will be any carve- up between Mr Heath and myself. We don't believe Wilson either. We think there has been a carve-up. And the people being carved up are the millions of people in the labour and trade union movement who have suffered almost three years of Heath rule: Skyrocketing prices re- sulting in a sweeping the standard of attack on working-class living families.

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T LABOUR LEAGUE

TOTAL cuts in environment pro- grammes following the Chan- cellor's announcement on pub- lic expenditure, were expected £185m in 1974- to amount to 1975 and £10m to £20m in the current year. Stating this in a Commons written reply yesterday, Environ- Geoffrey Secretary Mr ment Rippon said expenditure on new England road construction in should be reduced by about £45m; on motorways and trunk road maintenance by some f9m; and on local authority roads maintenance by about £31m.

He envisaged making reduc- tions on local authoritv miscel- in laneous capital expenditure England of about £75m in 1974- 1975 by withholding approvals for key sector projects and by reducing the total sums avail- determined able for locally schemes. Rippon added that his depart- ment would be discussing with nationalized the transport in- distribution of the dustries the their investment pro- cuts in grammes in 1973-1974 to pro- duce a total approaching £10m.

MOTORWAY building at Sunbury, Sur- rey, has come to a standstill over a claim for guaranteed bonus earnings.

Cubitt's workers on the M3, who say their pay can fluctuate by up to £15 from week to week under the present bonus system, struck last Friday as part of the national protest against labour-only subcontract. ing, the lump'. The 300 men involved have decided to stay out to press their bonus claim. 'Now we're out indefinitely until we get what we want.'

The strikers have suC- ceeded In ending labour-only subcontracting on the site.

Officials of the three unions Involved - the CEU, UCATT and the T&GWU - have been told by management there can be no i negotiations until the strike ends. Left: Pickets on duty at the site. Record sit-in WOMEN workers at a Swindon record-plaver factory vesterday completed their third week on sit-in strike against speed-up. The 1,200 workers involved are at the Garrard factorv on the trading Chenev Manor estate. Management has now threatened to lay off workers at two other factories in the town.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday May 26, 1973 Secret diplomacy Rumania welcomes the Shah's Nixon reveals Indo- Trade war bites co-operation US while in-

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$196m trade surplus more exports China deal with CP costs of their own the creasing visit течсете lie inter wre last month is the first for exports to let bates months. It follows sub- though the terms of trade have egun stantial dollar devaluations the ADDRESSING returned prisoners of war at a public less than a year and a half and Javour Hellan

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floating capitalists, such There

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relations jamboree in the grounds of the White House, hee United States capt capital from export the bal- Soures reps trade suc- THE SHAH of Iran is to visit President Nixon spoke of his determination to protect fact ance cess plunging deeper into the red. 2 to which Rumania from June aimed al strategy, was the country's classified material 'from people who steal balance of The last quarter's forcing America's trade June 5 this year, arriving was over notably the Common payments 4C1T secrets and publish them in newspapers.

take $10,000m. and Japan, to there directly after his visit Market He told the cheering audience that had to Tito's Yugoslavia. Sordid diplomacy it not been for 'that kind of secrecy, you Nicolae Ceausescu, the Ruman. ian president, has said he 'awaits men (the prisoners) would still be in Shah's with pleasure Hanoi. This is extremely revealing He an arrival. Sale

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W aN expandf *part the joint concern statement. the relations the between t shows that in Nixon's opinion the peoples, _contribute Lne Indo-China ceasefire treaty could not have achievement better and been concluded on the basis of public nego- world, to dynamize tiations. This puts an immediate question- inter «course detente mark the activities of the Stalinists national plane' who entered into months of secret talks Interviewed by an Iranian state with the Americans prior to the signing of radio team in Rumania, Ceasescu the Indo-China deal. between descriped _co-overalloll the two countries posilve What were they discussing in secret which factor in international relations. they were not prepared to reveal openly? Does be- He went on: 'Relations Nixon's there secret Causes attached to this agreement? if so ecret mean Tween me iwo courtnes l icccl he deeper dub are they? doubt the Rumania The Stalinists in Moscow and Peking whole- to heartedly approve of the President's determin- and my visits to rad wel as protect the secrecy of the Indo-China contacts between rep. alone lu the Iranian Hall leasons

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rescuilalive. prolonged and cowardly silence maintained in the prin- have jected to foreign aggression which Kumaniar government Foreign Watergate affair. econo. contributed developing Turner Greek and oppression Chou En-lai greeting aled of these relations Maka nically both our countries Nikolaos motors Coul palisiva fear the They revelanon or well own crimi- tries and non-interfer- long com he leve stretches right rezos, who nal role in Indo-China which have Iranian - Rumanian co-operation ence. inslaidan offate the paratively bright, hack to the secret causes Another report, will Chinese Today need. Potsdam agreements reached between stain. co-operation indepen- safeguard •economic matters. Churchill and Roosevelt at the end of the war.

government. pointed out production and Scientic official technical and cultural fields.' that the speed up These agreements accompanied nomic delegation led by the Stalinist leader The Rumanian construction our respec- only dividing the world between

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for foreign secret •rOLOCOlS under-secretary reterrea parucularly to tue the Alled powers on tae most cold-brooded Mikha- relations prospects for co-operation nonsens ment De. and cynical basis. lopoulos. the countries, the two periençes desires, our petrochemicals The secret diplomacy of Moscow and Peking These representatives peoples have always held of ine

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exist the colonels military dicta- and China Greek gov. is not aimed at fooling the sup- think opportuniues red- which of great importance involved. ported ernment the each are privy to all

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Torsilo were diner co-operation diversifying is entirely designed to and be. carpet by struggles. gov- on aube. corruse and Rumania, he the fighters in Vietnam, the workers of Chinese Stalinists. trade and sea and alr tray ernment have Tween and the whole of the inter- links are said. Great the United states banquet in the visit. The recently-published pro- national working class. Hall of the People, the Stalinist of Iranian vice-premier LI Hslen-nien can handled The stonine The Stalinists' secret negotiations demon- describes the the bru- and partl- Party praise on Its own no strate their contempt Greeks, regime of the Shah as an absolute tor the basic Dunchore: dicta. cular Interest anti-working-class diner Bolshevism. The first act of the Soviet gov.

and state'. monarchy torship in Athens. 10 Interfere. since some October 1917 he SAVAI security power in at pre- the are the official it describes AccOraIng the was to publish the secret treaties in the Rus- goods to policy as hegemonism "the basic too ol text issued by New po- sian Foreign Ministry safes.

regime's anti-democratic policy News Agency, LI Hsien-nien Chinese and terrorism against the people's the head small and strong bully. Makarezos. Trotsky, the Commissar for foreign affairs the Greek re- movement. introduction the treaties. ing wrote "ine says: all Through efforts organizalon of Europe paid making energetic efforts to 'The have

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safeguard Indepen- of the Creek • overal with numberless and trolling ave entire body ce sacrisce he added, amnesty prison- Phe eshmination the segret diplomacy is the and sovereignty. •ence the ers two is controlling the enure diplomacy fend the peace and elimination in favour this would • the « re countries honest, popular, very actionary and imperialist quarters:

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and develop the eco nol truly democratic foreign policy.' approach of respect for Ras Innulllal. he against any applies with ten times more territorial progressive process. This principle express our suspicion and in- protestors propagates force in Indo-China today.

ciation.' integrity torture, security; by resorting to could not vice-premier Nixon's statement blows the gaff the on the tew criminals liquidation, mutual secre counter-revolutionary role of Stalinism which went on: 'China and Greece and and barbarous means, who threw car- have different soclal has gone of the workers and anybody protesting benine me backs but shared Makarezos said Greece we dolo peasants of Indo-China to conclude a shameful against the existing injustices.'

Makarezos lot of sub- deal with imperialism. common Doing West Bromwich: Tories vote for National Front and now single issue which is giving pay laws, that they THE 4,789 votes cast for Martin Webster, national WAnT leader- entire Labour sterner measures against us this increased support.

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tect the government over Tory Party the right by however, want much more represents a swing to The Tory Party right Lambton - Jellicoe than racial legislation wing supporters. cean understands affair. the Heath government. this. Powell's comment on less than 2, Vo behind that of Tory candidate David Webster's vote-16 the result "Bell They this situation, Doll-was action In which swing to the Mr against the entire what warned held down: could take place Bell received 7,582 more than would happen.' casse Ware. strikes and among Tory candidate got in the General made Snucere Cass fewer than the Ty Id Hales wen. MP for Old. the unions smashed. on wormers, ack transforens Election. Mr bury and workers, the transform- They want powerful John Stokes, Was nore Socialist Some 15,907 votes were force state police aLoN

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into cast outlaw left- Labour Webster. «opalalus Conservative revolutionary party candidate 'Many

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wing organizatons and Im essential. Betty Boothroyd. pose corporatism on the olet Bell. And they follow a seats wide at risk i co the National double shat 8,325 preferred General Election, particu- majority was working class. pattern: • IN THE Westhoughton, Front to the official Tory larly in West Midlands of the the situation the the In this Lancashire, by-election AT

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ultra- candidate. high and leo olael arcas Labour and trade union Post candidates gained

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Cannote sesent to Labour resented 9-per-cent immigration concentration, Webster campaigned Roger protected br Office engineer senders unless the government 4.003 vols Sit 280783 openly Communist Party, con- Stoot held the seat much stricter of immigrant and repatriation their The embarrassment SUTTON and Cheam, tinue criminal majority, the the thoraton contors. with the Tory policy. coverminent over "ou conservative swing to Labour or 1.y pel Lambton - 5000' turned into Webster credited his government. cent. He encouraged was dase one of act o refusal Liberal majority. race campaign for his vote.

The Enoch Powell's right-wing Labour- by-elections

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voters the speak behalf He said 1teg une varlamentary are pending-at Manches.

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anti- to the far right. an Tory candidate because of party are virtually an ad.

and the Isle Race is an issue here— junct of the of Ely, but writs have not Much very definitely candid. more they the other ment. which kept and yet been issued the economic power Webster indicated tions yes- tried to ales say Wad over the Common Market. terday that the National only immigration and not crisis which now directly into politics. race un- Then openly Wiison rront would contest Man• doubtedly the biggest Heath over the chester Exchange. assisted Habitual Tory voters serving notice

LORD POLWARTH, the Tory for the North Sea oil program in the North Sea bonanza, a L LORD POLWARTH (56) is No. 2' in the Scottish Office. He went • Into active politics a year ago 'to Influence government policy for Scotland.' He resigned as gover- nor of the Bank of Scotland to take the £8,000-a-year job. He also resigned the chairmanship of the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance group and as a director of ICI. Both the Bank of Scotland and General Accident have stakes in the North Sea oilfields. His appointment was welcomed enthuslastically throughout the Tory Press. The 'Guardian' said: 'Lord Polwarth's appointment appears to make good sense. He knows Scottish industry and he is to have direct access to the Prime Minister.'

Polwarth Is extremely rich. He is has a border estate at Hawick and keeps a house there that was visited by a distant relative, Sir Walter Scott. ABOUT 2,000 people, includ- ing factory workers, turned out yesterday for the funeral of Thomas Friel (21), shot by the British army in London- derry a week ago. Friel died after troops fired bullets at him as he rubber walked alone, late at night, along a street in the Creggan Estate. . Sparked off The shooting intermittent riots in the former 'no-go' Catholic areas of Derry hijacked in which buses were and temporary barricades erec- Anything you can better, we can do than you! he Tory Minister with special responsibility rogramme, should resign or sell his interests nza, a Labour MP said yesterday.

Robert Hughes, Labour MP for Aberdeen North, told the Commons that Polwarth, a minister at the Scot- tish Office, had shares in three invest- ment trusts which have direct interests in North Sea oil. 'Anyone believes who conflict of interest arises is incredibly Hughes naive, This sorry said. 'It is a very serious matter.

tale throws a beam of light onto the curious morality of the Prime Minister and his government.' Hughes's revelations come in the same week call-girl has forced the resig- as the scandal nation of two of Heath's ministers and only a fortnight after the Lonhro case in which two Tory MPs, Duncan Sandys and Edward du Cann, are involved. Speaking in an emergency debate which he initiated, Hughes said: 'This matter is more serious than the events of the last couple of days, and it is Prime Minister extraordinarily complacent of Tne to accept without a qualm this apparent conflict of interest. 'Lord Polwarth should either sell these shares or resign. The government's handling of this appoint- and the manner in which his duties have been given out, has been totally inept.

'The Prime Minister ought to have come to this house and made a proper statement and explained what this job is all about: To find out what it is on Press statements all about we have had to rely and what we have winkled out in questions and supplementary cuesuons. Hughes produced evidence that Polwarth, a for- share. mer banker, had a major holding in the British Assets who had a 15 per cent holding Second British the Assets Trust. in oil-related companies: he said.

Trust and the Atlantic Assets 'It is a unit trust in which he Trust. All three trusts have sub- small holding stantial oil holdings in the North very which, has a in itself, has a small holding.

Sea boom. 'Undoubtedly if at time His 'Mr Oil' any appointment as such conflict Heath at the interests war announcer a everybody should arise, Scottish Conservative Party con- knows his interests and no doubt he ference at Perth two weeks ago.

interests Heath told the conference Polwarth would 'supervise an in- Gordon Campbell, Secretary of State for Scotland, said a large dustrial expansion com- to be majority of Scottish people pared with vast wartime те- He cornized that Polwarth was the operation'. said Polwarth "ideal man' to be "Oil Supremo'. be by 'task would caryar of officials from various force' He said they deplored the government departments. "petty sniping at who someone The has battled successfully for Scot- decision to appoint followed fierce interests in the past before Polwarth criti- tish cism that the Tories had handed he became a Minister. over the North Sea oil boom "There are too many Jeremiahs the giant oil companies at bar- on the Opposition bench. gain basement prices. He regretted the slighting and In to Hughes's state- reply which lain ment, Tory cornina gone against Polwarth. Sproat, Aberdeen said Polwarth kept Heath had No Labour government. formed of his holdings in the oil Conservative, had insisted that a He said industry. welcomed "divest himself should the Minister's appointment.

'He of all industrial shareholdings.'

exactly the sort of man Campbell's reply is arrogant need' Sproat added. the firmest why reason an in- Using verbal gymnastics, coming Labour government must Sproat attempted to minimize be pledged nationalize the Polwarth's financial North Sea oilfield and throw out interest. the speculators and profiteers.

•It Lord Polwarth was not which was hit by Friel's face, two British soldiers and woun- the rubber bullet, was so badly ded two others Culloville at damaged that it was left covered yesterday. crowds the In the Shankill Road district when escorted re- Thursday Belfast, Protestant church youths mang rioted after a small arms find.

night. Several people were also hurt The shooting came at a time bomb damaged the whor when actotoc WArA Target Bar, Co. Tyrone. with rumours that another youth, Four uniformed British sold- Gallagher Michael Pius (21) and in plain clothes the army, 1orc arracted hi had hear were stopped in an unmarked beaten to death. Eire van incide tha ilac The Roval Ulster Constabulary border vesterday. After question- took the unprecedented step of ing they. were returned the the radio. issuing a denial over north. Police and troops have also In the House of Commons of rubber MP. accused vesterday only hoon hring bullets and CS Wellbeloved, voted gas indiscrimin Mr Tames ately in the Creggan. against the Ulster Assembly AProvisional IRA bomb killed ... Bill The rest abstained, Workers Press, Saturday May 26, 1973

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday May Ray Johnson (26) is a London aircraft stressman and TASS (AUEW) member: I can best explain why I got involved in politics by going over what has happened to me since I left school. I stayed on at school until I was 18. Then I got an apprentice- ship with a company and they block re- sponsored me on lease for university. When I was in my third year at the switchgear factory, it closed down and I was made redundant. Within a week I got a job at Westland Helicopters. But then I was made redun- time dant a second when Westland's closed down. We had the usual kind of protest fight against closure, but the campaign fell flat on its face because there was no leadership given when it was needed. I had a period of six weeks out of work, then I got a job with a bridge building com- pany and I'm assured of work for the next three years. But from what I can see, the same thing is going to happen again. Last year I got married. We started saving about a year we got married before with the object of getting a house.

I thought I was in a certain position, almost a professional who could say I'd got person a secure job, a family and a secure income. But now it seems impos- sible. I don't think I can ever afford my own house. I've saved £1,000 but I need £4,000 to £6,000 for a deposit and that is going to take a long time. living in a flat Now we're that costs £18 a week. What really turned me to the League was through my activities in my union. One of the members put these motions forward all about Councils of Action and at first I couldn't say whether I was for or against. It was frightening really. Then this member put for- ward a resolution calling for delegates to the ATUA con- ference. I went and, of course, that was it. That where was it all started. Eyerything fell turday May 26, 1973 into place. All the troubles I'd been having about jobs and finding flats tell into place. • far as I'm concerned, As there is no alternative for any- body but to unite and fight this government and the ruling class or we're all going to be smashed. The capitalist class have got.

no alternative but to try to smash us if they want to re- tain all the benefits the ruling class have got. The reason why rents and house prices go up is because every capitalist is trying to keep his head in front of his competitors. Their credit system is only increasing the problem of in- flation. We are in this ap- at the moment, parent boom but all this will do is to bring the true crisis nearer to us.

The financial system is col- lapsing. The TUC and the Labour Party are basically reformists, but they can't be reformists in this only society. The alternative now is to build a which represents the party working class. People have fought and died for two centuries for the rights of the working class and they are losing them every day.

Some leadership must fight to get these rights back. We've Jost the right to..

strike and the Housing Fin- ance Act destroys the whole basis of council housing. The National Health Service has been undermined by prescrip- tion charges. If unions operate within the Industrial Relations Act, they are totally ineffec- tive. As far as I'm concerned the League is the only alternative.

I've had experience of the Communist Party. I saw how they operated at Westland Helicopters and at Rockware Glass, and that was completely negative. I don't think the Interna- tional Socialists and the Inter- national Marxist Group are positive in their activities.

They gave support to the Communist Party by going to the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions. only the League It was members in my TASS branch who ever put forward any positive direction for the trade union movement. The others were weak and compromising.

I think it is important_to support the election of a La- bour government pledged to socialist policies, although we won't carry know they them out. don't A lot of workers vote at all or they are con- fused. That is why the League should be built up to take the to. place of the abour Party... pe Above: The Pageant at Empire Pool, Wembley this year. 'People fought and died for two have for the rights of the centuries working class..? and fulfil the needs of the people. I think it is important that the ATUA branches are de- veloped because the leadership of the working class will come from the trade unions. They are directly involved in this crisis. They are going to suffer re- dundancies and see the bosses to improve trying produc- tivity. I should think they would become the strongest part of the League. crisis or conflicts in which a worker is involved without Marxist thinking, he could lose himself and become confused. wasn't political until I I came to the League and I've come to the League because I think I've got no alternative.

I feel very deeply about these things. The Pageant at Wembley brought it all home to me. I was in tears through a lot of it. Workers are not political, but they've got to be talked politically and influenced politically. It will mean tre- mendous discipline for them to do that and for the rty. people, who guide them.

David Gilbert (19) is a Union of Post Office Workers' mem- ber and Post Office engineer in London: 'Labour leaders don't want the Tories out' & first read Workers Press • it being sold after I saw in a pub. I read bits of it, but I treated it as propaganda. I couldn't visualize anything happening as stated in the paper. After a time I went to a few meetings and started taking an interest. In the beginning I

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massive had disagreements with the League, but so far I've been proved wrong. What they told me would happen has come true every day. When I left school I knew I was going to work for a wage and I knew that what- ever I got I wouldn't be get- ting my value. It made me take up the idea of trying to start my own business, but I know that's now not an answer. The League seemed a way it could all be changed.

Looking at problems on a personal basis can't cure any- thing at all. Obviously I disagree with all the laws Tories the have brought in, like the Industrial Relations Act and pay iaws.

They are anti-working class.

The Tories are not what they • claim to be. They say work like lunatics, but when you do you only make their bank accounts fatter. At the moment the Post Office have got a rise-in July -but it's pitiful. When I left my parents and got a place of my own I real- ized how difficult the accom- modation situation was. happened to What my grandparents made me think as well. They are pensioners and what they get 1s disgust- ing. They worked for 40 or 50 years and now they are expec- live on a pittance. of the scale there are people starving and at the other people with so much money they don't know what to do with it. I've only been in the League months, but I think two there's a fantastic opportunity for the movement now be- cause the whole capitalist sys- tem is in crisis. The League has got to change to meet the requirements of the situation.

It's got to turn into a mass movement. They way prices are going up, even the housewife can see there's something wrong with the monetary situation. You can see it in the relations be- tween nations. They can't get monetary agreement. The Labour Party has out- run its usefulness. When it came in there were reforms to be won. It could take the working class forward to some extent. Now it's useless. Then there's the corruption and the presence of the right wing.

If the Labour Party took advantage of the situation it could get a General Strike and get the Tories out. But the leaders don't want to because they know they'd be expected to do something about rising prices and they can't without socialist policies. As far as I can see they are just buffers between the ruling class and the working class.

I hadn't had any contact with the Communist Party until I came into the League.

But I knew Russia wasn't a true socialist state. I knew you couldn't have socialism unless it was worldwide. I had read the 'Socialist Worker' the Morning and Star', but all they seemed to do was criticize and not put forward any policy at all.

Bu the League has a clear policy. They knew what they how they wanted to do and were going to do it. They gave you something to go for. The League show how you the CP cover up. The Sta- linists seem to be splitting the working and class keeping them confused. If we don't Above: Bullding. workers march to a mass meeting during the 1972 strike. Despite repeated calls for a national strike the leadership kept it at a local level. Says Richard O'Driscoll, •. What the union leaders did ... was the turning point for me.' transform the League into a party I think it will be a vir- tual dictatorship by the Tory government. My standard of living will be eroded by the Tory laws and I won't be able to do anything about it. If we don't build the party now, while the working class hasn't had any major defeats, we won't have the opportunity again for ..some decades. It could end up in a third world war when the capitalist countries have to cut each others' throats to survive. The whole history of capitalism is with wars and up- littered heaval, boom and slump. If we let it, that's the way it will happen again. At the moment I can see no future for me and no future for the people coming out of school. You're working for an employer who wants to make a massive profit. He wants to make as much as possible and give you as little as possible.

Another thing that started me off is the fantastic wastage of a system like this—-burn- ing and destroying wheat and eggs. In a socialist state you'd only have production for need.

I think the League has got to stick rigidly to principle.

If you don't stick to principle against all the odds, you be- come just like anything else.

Without it, you'd destroy the objectives of the League. Richard O'Driscoll above, (27) is a London and carpenter UCATT member: 'TUC tried to behind & I saw in the building strike what the union leaders did and this was the turning point for me. That was when I really started to agree with the League. In the beginning I started reading the Workers Press and at first it was too radical for But then the things it m?. Workers Press, S talked about, like the econo- mic crisis, came about. My brother is a reasonably prominent member of the Communist Party and early on if someone from the Party had hammered on my door evening as the Young every Socialists did, I probably would have joined them. But they've got no answer to the crisis. And I read in the Workers Press the way the Russians do deals with Greece and Spain, yet there's no con- demnation in the 'Morning Star'-and it's supposed to be a Socialist paper. I think the TUC are trait- ors. In the building workers' strike last year they tried to do a deal behind our backs.

rs Press, Saturday May 26, 1973 PAGE 5 The Labour Party leaders haven't got any answers to the economic crisis. George Brown was on the radio the other night and he said the Labour Party would be OK, so long as they don't let the 'extreme left' have a say in it.

I've been associated with the League for 18 months, al- though I only joined a few weeks ago. I believe in the policies of the League and I believe things are just going to get worse and worse for the working class. The League's policies are the only ones which can take working people forward. As leadership an alternative I think it's fantastic because it's principled. It never compro- mises anywhere down the line.

I'm a carpenter on 73p an hour for a 50-hour week, but I can't live on it. I put my in this week, but they notice said there might be a chance of Saturday overtime, so I agreed to stay. The 50-hour week is a myth. You just can't live on it. is becoming a city London • for the middle class and work- ing-class people are moving out. Our rent has shot up.

There are four flats in our house and three of the other tenants had to move out be- cause of the rise in rents.

My wife's having a baby so she packed up work. That • hit me on the head really That's why I decided to pack up this job or get more over- time. Nobody could disagree that more than ever before there's a need for proper leadership in the working class as an alternative to Feather and Wilson.

WHILE THEY TALKED BOOM THE GREAT CRASH WAS DEVELOPING

1929 AND 1973

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday May

THEY

WHILE

BY ROYSTON BULL

In September 1928, well - known American economist Roger W. Babson said of the forth- coming presidential race: "The election of Hoover and a Republican Con- gress should result in continued prosperity for 1929? During the same month, Secretary of the Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve Board, Andrew W. Mellon, the most responsible financial in spokesman the whole United States, said: 'There is no cause for worry.

The high tide of prosperity will continue.' In December 1928, the out- going President Coolidge said in his last State of the Union message: 'No Congress has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the pre- sent time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment and the highest record of years of prosperity Coolidge told the legislators they could 'regard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with optimism'.

Commenting on these re- marks in his book 'The Great Crash 1929, John Galbraith wrote 30 years later: 'Mellon was participating in a ritual which in our society is thought to be of great value for influencing the course of the business cycle. 'By affirming solemnly that prosperity will continue, it is believed one can help ensure that prosperity will in fact continue. 'Especially among business- turday May 26, 1973

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men, the faith in the efficacy incantation of such is very great.' Inflation continued un- checked throughout 1928 and early 1929; interest rates rose; and speculative gains on the stock market in property were all the rage. There was considerable talk among financial circles about bringing the boom to an end for fear of its instability, but the majority of business and political opinion wanted the boom to continue. The largest commercial bank, First National City, went out of its way to prevent the boom col- prices lapsing when share wavered in March 1929. The inflationary supply of funds which financed the specu- lation continued unabated.

In September 1929, the great crash. came. The econo- just 12 months mist Babson, after his 'continued prosperity' speech, said: 'Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific •.. factories will shut down ... men will be thrown out of work. .. the vicious circle will get in full swing and the result will be a serious busi- ness depression.' Even though the collapse had already begun, there were still angry voices raised against the dangers of this "pessimistic' talk. But the stock market crash of that month in fact came three months after the recession had set in. As late as the middle of October, after weeks of steady slide, the 'Wall Street Journal' that Mellon's decision to said stay in the cabinet 'did more to restore confidence than any- thing else ... optimism again prevails'. Banking chief Charles Mit- chell of First National City said in the same month:

OOM THE GREAT

'The markets generally are the general prosperity of our country' Economics professor Irving Fisher commented: 'I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher than it is today within a few months.' Thursday October 24 was the first day of a mad selling scramble. Millions were slashed off share values. Eleven well- known speculators had already committed suicide. There was a recovery late Thursday, Friday and Saturday and banker Mitchell declared the trouble 'purely technical.

Eugene M. Stevens, president Continental Illinois of the Bank, said: 'There is nothing in the business situation to justify any nervousness.'

Despite all the incantations and massive Press propaganda saying all was well, on Monday another dis- share values took astrous plunge, this time with- out any recovery. Tuesday October 29, 1929, the dam broke. It was the most devastating day in the whole stock exchange history operations. Millions of stocks were off- loaded and prices dropped like a stone. The market fell relent- lessly throughout the first half of November. Since September, there had been an overall drop of 60 per cent in the value of all shares. Thousands of inves- tors were wiped out. Many businesses crashed and a series of spectacular embezzlement frauds were discovered. The slump really got under way over the next three years and unemployment reached staggering proportions in every capitalist country. The New York stock exchange index,

AT CRASH WAS DI

which had plummeted from 542 down to 224 during the great crash of 1929, went all the way down to 58 by July 1932. By 1933, American economic output was down by 33 per cent from its 1929 level. Nearly 13 million workers were un- employed. On the surface, the great depression appeared as the re- sult of the 1929 stock market crash which followed the un- controlled share speculation and inflation of previous years.

But behind these activities the deeper crisis of capitalism in the imperialist epoch which periodic over- involves production of capital relative to the surplus value extractable from the international working class. Ever-sharpening class strug- gle leading to revolution and trade war leading to world war are the inevitable consequences of this insoluble crisis.

In 1973, the capitalist sys- tem is fast approaching the crisis in its most enormous whole history. The scale of it will dwarf the events of the 1920s and 1930s. For in an unprecedented manner, the capitalist countries have for years been deliberately stoking up the most artificial boom conditions. From 1945 to 1971, this was based on the Bretton Woods system of planned inflation.

When this dollar-imperialism agreement eventually sank un- der its own weight of useless August 15, paper money on 1971, and fixed parities had to be abandoned, the capitalist powers could do nothing from then on but shout loudly that all was well ... and wait for the crash to come. All attempts at international monetary agreement, such as the two Smithsonian confer-

S DEVELOPING

are doomed to failure ences, individual capitalist cor- as porations and • nations step up the fight for survival. • Trade and aid treaties are collapsing all around. Major financial bankruptcies, and, echoing 1929, embezzlement scandals are on the increase. But through all the chaos the representa- and anarchy, tives of capital and their faith- ful servants in the labour and trade union bureaucracies re- peat the old incantations that "all is well'. 'There is no crisis, Victor Feather stated categorically a fortnight ago. "The boom will continue, Michael Clapham, CBI president, assured. 'Britain is booming; economic growth is well founded, every govern- ment minister has declared.

A capitalist newspaper com- ment of the more l on one widely-reported 'boom' stories, British-Leyland's expansion, re- veals a lot. 'The Observer' wrote: 'Lord Stokes spoke last week about a five-year plan that would be "the biggest expansion programme in our history". But he was careful not to put forward a firm figure for the total cost. 'All he did was point out that the largest sum spent in a single year so far was £67m.

"We see no reason why this annual rate should not be com- fortably exceeded," he said.

"This was taken to mean that British-Leyland had sud- denly decided to invest be- tween £400m and £500m by 1978. The popular newspapers dutifully rolled out the cliches about boosts for Britain and massive acts of faith. 'Such euphoric interpreta- tions must be very welcome to the government but are seri- ously misleading-not least because 20 per cent of the

the as romy weisunded bate: American peculiars on all Sire, watch the tapes lust pror 10 the crash in 1929.

Far left: President Calvin Coolidge In everyone that Britain Is booming and th money will be spent overseas.

'As long ago as last January, Lord Stokes made it clear that would invest British-Leyland about £70m this year, rising to around £80m in 1974. The clear implication was that this rate would be at least main- tained in subsequent years.

'There has been no change of plan or stepping up of the investment programme since then. "All this excitement about a £500m boost is a big PR stunt really," says one in- dustry insider. *Spending at the rate of, say, £100m a year should certainly in relation be impressive to British-Leyland's net capital employed of £450m and a stock market value of only £200m. But by most other yardsticks, it is still too little. Le olldge in 1928 regard the present with satista ing and the economy Is well founded. Above: A • "A company that size needs to spend £60m a year just to stand still," says a motor in- dustry economist. •Fiat and Renault spend • about £140m a year, while Volkswagen, Leyland's other main competitor, European has reluctantly had to cut back its programme from £400m to €250m' Two other facts can be added. The value of any mil- lions of pounds Leyland's spend each year is rapidly get- ting less due to uncontrollable inflation. If there was a real expansion programme going many more hundreds of on, millions of pounds would have to be involved. Secondly, the evidence, if anything, shows that British- Leyland is still in a deep finan- ith satisfaction and anticipate the • future • Above: American speculators on Wall Street, n cial crisis and the 'boom' talk is either a prelude to an- other attempted shares flota- tion, or even to prepare the most favourable conditions for a continental merger. Last year's £50m rights issue was an all-time flop. About 15 plants were sold off to raise cash. Last week, British-Ley- land sold off part of its South African capital interests. But company shares still languish at a record low of 33p. But the boom talk is not only a danger to the working class in concealing the grave facts of the crisis from them, thus preventing them prepar- ing for its consequences.

It is doubly dangerous in that the Tories and union trade bureaucrats are using it as a cover for the corporatist deals plo Workers Press, optimism.' Right: Prime Minister Edw with Il Streel, maich the tapes just prior to the crash being cooked at the Chequers and Downing Street talks, both secret and formal.

They reason that in the phoney boom atmosphere, workers won't care too much about who is talking to whom over certain economic matters.

The Conservative 'Yorkshire Post' wrote on the subject of deflating the boom which even economists bourgeois many now say is necessary: 'But the government, now entering the second half of its term of office, is unwilling to do this. It wants to avoid entering the forthcoming talks with the trade unions on Phase Three of its anti-inflation pro- gramme in a period of restraint.

... Similarly it finds the prospect of increased unem- ployment politically hard to ars Press, Saturday May 26, 1973 PAGE 7 nister Edward Heath who has assured the crash in 1929. swallow-as would the elector- ate.' But following French insis- in Paris at the Heath- tence Pompidou talks, the deflation had to start regardless, has with £600m public spending cuts. Despite the economic facts, the boom talk gocs however, on. Yet all the evidence points increasingly the greatest crisis in man's history. The working class must now begin decisive preparations for the mighty class struggles ahead. Its first- task must be to force the trade union leaders to end the treacherous talks at Downing Street and mobilize a campaign instead to force the Tories to resign from office.

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

PAGE 8

Workers Press, Saturday May 26, 1973 Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in western Europe and the growth of Trotskyism in the advanced countries in the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their contro of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has a campaign to once again discredit and distort the begun principles and history of Trotsky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world-wide revolution of the work- ing class. The Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central in Committee of the Communist Party of the soviet Union of docu- 1972 published 'Against Trotskyism', a compendium ments, articles, extracts, speeches and resolutions aimed at dis- crediting Trotskyism and distorting completely the truth about the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. In this series of articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

as his later advice to the Bol- sheviks to time the insurrection for opening of Northern Con- Because of his closer gress of Soviets in September.

proximity to the masses although In the end, he in Petrograd Trotsky was disagreed initially with the postponement of the insurrec- sometimes more correct tion by three weeks, Lenin in than Lenin who was in fact, worked the plan out exile-and later—in hid- which enabled the Bolsheviks to execute the insurrection ing in the Vyborg district on the eve of the Second Congress of Petrograd of Soviets. Lenin, So the according to a foot- charge of 'constitu- authors note by Trotsky to the Appen- tionalism' by the of Trotskyism', dix of his 'History of 'Against the who Russian Revolution' quoted claim Trotsky wanted to delay yesterday, admitted during the the insurrection to coincide Third Congress of the i Com with the Second Congress of munist International that he the Soviets, sounds extremely himself had made 'ultra-left' hollow when levelled against mistakes, especially while the man whom Lenin praised an emigré, 'including for leading the walk-out from during "emigration" his last in Fin- the 'Democratic Pre-Parliament' land in 1917, when he defended a few weeks before the October less expedient of seizure of plan In- power. 'Pre-Parliament' surrection than the one actually Council of the Republic, was carried out' This is obviously an oblique established by the Democratic reference to Lenin's proposal Conference assembly of - an ('Lenin'. to Smilga By David bourgeois and social-democratic 267) Shub. Pelican, p. to reactionaries which was con- organize insurrectionary vened during the period of an headquarters in Finland as well the struggle against General Kornilov's attempt to over- throw Kerensky. The purpose of the 'Pre- Parliament' was to circumvent the convocation of a Con- stituent Assembly and, at the attention same time, distract from the Soviets as instruments of power. The right wing of the Bol- sheviks - Zinoviey, Kamenev, Nogin and others—wanted to continue sitting in this bogus parliament in the same way as they had supported the Democratic Conference in spite of Lenin's insistence that they quit it. Only a minority of Bolshevik leaders—principally Lenin and Trotsky — were in favour of boycotting the 'Pre-Parliament' as a conclusive demonstration of their break with bourgeois constitutionalism and of their determination to seize power and overthrow Kerensky's regime. When Trotsky proposed boy- cott of the Democratic Con- ference he was voted down— but he was warmly supported by Lenin. As a result of their joint efforts, the vote was reversed of. at a later meeting of the Bol- shevik faction. On Uctober 23 Trotsky led 'Pre- the walk-out from the Parliament'. Six days later the Petrograd Soviet under Trot- sky's chairmanship created the Military Revolutionary Com- mittee, the organization which led the insurrection of Novem- ber 7, 1917. Lenin's praise of Trotsky is the most convincing and irre- futable answer to those who of lyingly accuse Trotsky of 'constitutionalism', "Trotsky was for the boy- cott. Bravo, Comrade Trotsky!

Boycottism was beaten in the Bolshevik faction attending the Democratic Conference. Long the boycott!' ('Proletar- live skaya Revolutsia', No 3, 1924.

'The Stalin School of Falsification' p. 12.) The Stalinists will find it impossible to cite a single quotation trom. Lenin giving praise of this order to Stalin!

As a matter of curiosity it is worth pointing out that the only quotation from Lenin used Trotskyism' in 'Against to sustain the charge of 'con- stitutionalism' does not men- tion Trotsky anywhere! Lenin wrote it obviously as a warning to Zinoviev and Kamenev who were opposed to the seizure of and power wanted to postpone it in- definitely and let the Men- sheviks convene the Congress of Soviets at their convenience.

This is the only construction laid on Lenin's that can be terse sentence: • if the Bolsheviks allowed themselves to be caught in the trap of constitutional illusions, "faith" the Congress Soviets and in the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, "wait- ing" for the Congress Soviets, and so forth-these Bolsheviks would most cer- tainly be miserable traitors to the proletarian cause.' ("Against Trotskyism', p. 124. Our emphasis.) Stalin's role in this very crucial turning point of Bol- shevism has for years been obscured by his own official propagandists. But from the publications of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism itself we Above right: Kerensky (left) leader of Provisional govern- ment which set up 'Pre- the Parliament.' Trotsky (above left), supported by Lenin, led the boy- cott of the Pre-Parliament.

can reveal exactly where he stood. After quoting Lenin's out- right condemnation of Zinoviev and Kamenev, the book 'V. I.

Lenin-A Biography' goes on: was Lenin's uncompro- 'This mising attitude. But his atti- tude to these strike-breakers was not supported by everyone.

'Stalin, for instance, without consulting the Central Com- mittee and other members of the "Rabochy Put" ['Workers' Path'] editorial board, pub- lished a letter from Zinoviev in the October 20 issue of the paper containing a completely unsupported denial of Lenin's charges against him. 'Stalin published an editorial note asserting that with Zino- viev's statement [in 'Rabochy Put'] and Kamenev's [in the Petrograd Soviet] "the question may be regarded as settled.

The harsh tone of Comrade Lenin's article does not alter the fact that basically we still share the same views"' And the writers of this bio- graphy add: 'Stalin thus ex- of hibited a conciliatory attitude to the strike-breakers of the October Revolution.' His action, taken four days before the insurrection, was act of political seen as an solidarity with Zinoviev and Kamenev and, fearful of the anger of his fellow Bolsheviks, Stalin tendered his resignation from the editorial board of the paper. The CC, however, re- jected his resignation.

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A Southampton Post Office worker recently received an invitation to take part in a special, internal 'project' looking at the problem of recruit- ing and retaining post- men. The letter was sent to a ran- dom number of workers at the Southampton Post Office by Mr J. D. Taylor, the so-called 'project leader'. It stated in part: 'I have been appointed to lead a small Project Team to find out, if possible, the problems of re- cruiting and retaining postmen in the Southampton area. 'The Project is designed to obtain a clearer picture of the collective and individual views of the postmen's job and con- ditions of employment in Southampton and I have already arranged to get the opinions of the unions as col- lective bodies. 'The Staff Associations have agreed with me that the per- sonal views of members of the staff are important and could have a bearing on how we of improving tackle the task working conditions for both staff and new long service entrants to the Post Office.

'Your name is one selected from the list and I hope you will agree to co-operate in the project. There is no compul- quite sion and you at are decline if you so liberty to wish. The interview will be in the form of a tête-à-tête, quite informal, at which you will be few specific questions asked a and be given the opportunity

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IRISH

ELECTIONS

On May 30 the Tories have called local elections Northern Ireland. These are designed to lend some rag of respectability to the military which imprisons rule the people of the Six Counties of Ulster. All the political groups Unionists and Republicans- have decided after much breast-beating to contest in this farce. Only the Provisional wing of Sinn Fein are absent from the ballot slip. First be- cause they are still an illegal organization and secondly be- cause formally at least they reject the White Paper under which the local government administration is to be set up.

There is a wing of the Pro- visionals, however, who feel that if Whitelaw makes a move to enable them to con- test the second round for the Provincial Assembly, they should respond favourably.

Whitelaw, Ulster supremo. Above: Craig of Vanguard Party. The 'Andersonstown News' a community paper serving the people of Andersonstown, Bel- fast, has its own view of the elections. Here is its report on the 'great race' • (NILP stands for Northern Ireland Labour Party, SDLP for Social Demo- cratic and Labour party, VUPP for Craig's Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, the Republican Clubs stand on the policy of the Official wing A new English edition of the 'First Fiv Years of the Communist International' ir corporating hitherto unpublished materi Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works' from

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Workers Press, Saturday May 26, 1973 PAGE 9 of the IRA and the Alliance the handicap has favoured Party is a pro-capitalist Unionist and Alliance at the group of 'moderate' Unionists.)

of the other runners. expense It certainly seems that Repub- The runners are declared, lican Club has been asked to the starting flag has drop- weight. carry too much ped and the The race Is on. Rumour has it that agents of Local Election Steeplechase Whitelaw the stable have will be run over a stiff course seriously interfered with his with plenty of difficult fences.

training. Since the much fancied Provo The race should provide the Republican (by of Eire out punters with an opportunity Nua) has been warned off the to the form the assess for course, it is thought that some Chase later Assembly in the of the from runners the Apart from this, it is season. Whitelaw stable will take the of little significance. It is prize. understood that PD (Punters Knowledgeable punters Democracy) has urged backers Unionist that reckon (by boycott this meeting be- Master Race out of Bigotry) to cause of the short odds and be past his best and is unlikely the unfair handicapping. PR to surmount the dreaded Yours (proportional representation) 'I gotta horse'. The young colt Alliance fence. sired by Unionist a couple of

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ago is likely to over- haul his sire during the run in. Alliance has attracted con- siderable support from the Marco Aurelio Cardona Pineda small but Malone wealthy (22), who was out of work and Punters Syndicate. had been selling his blood for NILP will probably turn in weeks to support his wife and her usual performance. poor daughter, died of pernicious Lack of breeding has always anæmia in Bogota, Colombia. prevented this game old mare Police said Mr Cardona died from being placed in her pre- in the shabby room he shared vious engagements. The pun- with his wife and five-year-old ters will recollect that the daughter. They said he had NILP was bred at the now sold his blood every week since Bleakly stable. defunct Her April 16 at about £2 a pint to sire was Phoney Socialist and feed his family. He had been her dam was Rule Britannia.

jobless since March. SDLP is a well-fancied colt, Mr Cardona went to hospital certain which is to finish on May 7 because of extreme strongly if he can jump the weakness, but he could not fence. dreaded internment afford the medicine prescribed This young three year old (by and went to bed at home. Broken Pledge out of Moder- Mick) ate has never been round this course before. His training gallops have been well

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covered by TV and he showed good form the

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in recent Referendum Stakes. Fresh from his humiliating The advertisement below, defeat on the southern circuit, clipped from a Sunday news- the young novice Republican paper by a reader, speaks for Club is a completely unknown itself. His quantity. connections 'Second butler and wife re- appear to fancy him moder- very quired for completely but it is doubtful if strongly, nized house in Belgravia. Full the northern course will suit complement of first class staff him better than any the kept including and secretary southern did. Many butler, cook, three assistant, have maintained dailies, racegoers laundress, and nanny chauffeur. that the Republican Club has Butler to act as not inherited the stamina of second with usual duties. Wife his sire Republican, but he has help in kitchen, and to etC., certainly got the same burst of should at least be able to cook speed as his dam Theoretician.

reasonably simple meals. Large Next to Unionist, Republi- bed-sittingroom • With own can Labour is the oldest horse new bathroom and kitchenette in the He We race. has been is provided. are two in around the course a few times family with child expected in before and has proved to have July. We provide first class conditions and expect to pay the same speed his sire as Uncle while Gerry, demon- top salaries for willing couple strating all the stamina of his who will join in to help main- dam Consistent Socialist.

and efficient tain a happy A late entry into the household. race is the ex-carthorse VUPP. This Apparently the wealthy are animal will run in blinkers and born arms and legs, without is expected to perform if it takes 12 full grown people not VUPP is said to be de- well. look after the domestic to great old scended from that needs of two adults and one stallion FTP, an animal baby. which has bred many winners for the Of course, the trouble with famous Loyalist stable. Britain that the workers is Most observers believe that just don't work hard enough.

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kitchen, 9.30 10.50 10.55 9.00 Time off. Weather 1.11 11.35 Doolittle. Exploring Beerier reef.

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May

BERMONDSEY:

Tuesday 8 "Havelock Arms'. 29, p.m. Balaclava Street, off Southwark Park Road. 'Stalinism and the defend democratic struggle to Wednesday

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rights' May 30, 8 p.m. 'Crooked Billet" North Circular Road, Waltham-

CAMDEN:

Tuesday May 29. Labour to power pledged stow. Wharte- •Prince Albert', p.m. to socialist policies'. Road 'Be dale Kings Cross.

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'The WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 30, 'The Castle'. Powis Street, crisis and the trade economic 8 p.m. unions'. Make SE18. 'Fight rising prices. the Tories resign'

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Tuesday

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the cost of living'. and rising SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 30, ACTON: Monday June 4, 8 p.m. High W.3. 8 p.m. Southall ( Osterley Six Bells', Street, Library, 'Stalinism and the fight to defend Park Road. 'Marxism and the democratic rights'. trade unions' rried Dr Nelson who has to deal with wife-in 'A Place to Die' in Indepen- 7.25

DOCUMENTARY:

"The Lost World of the Maya'. Chronicle film about the Maya civilization in Central America. 8.35 SONG OF SONGS. Part 1. 9.25 ASCENT OF MAN. The Hidden Structure. 10.15 from by Georges Feydeau. 11.15 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

1.20 FILM: Sodom and Gomorrah ewart Granger, Stanley. Bake CRAWLEY: Monday. June Council for Social 8 p.m. Services,, 19 Station Road. 'The Tory trade unions and the government. LEWISHAM: Monday June 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road. 'The way for- ward-build the revolutionary party'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 5, 8 p.m. 'Nag's Head', Wandsworth Road. 'Build the revolutionary party'. BRADFORD (Engineers' meet- 5, 8 р.т. ing): Tuesday June 'Engin- Talbot Hotel, Kirkgate. eers and the fight against the Tory government. BRIXTON: Tuesday June 8 p.m. Control Room, Brixton Training Centre. 'Build the revo- lutionary party. DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Avenue. 'Build the Fanshawe revolutionary party'. HACKNEY: Wednesday June 6, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Hall, Mare Street. 'Unite in action to defend basic rights'. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD: Wednes- day June 6, 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, Square. Queen's Build the revolutionary party'.

South Wales engineers clash with leaders

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9.00 Nai zindagi naya Seeing and believing. 11.35 Don't just there. 12.00 sit Training work. 12.25 Picture making. 12.50 Farming. trail: Captains of and jets. 3.15 Filma the 1.30 Joysticks and jets. the Clouds. 4.05 The Con- Everest. .20 Wives and quest aaughters. Part 4.

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OWEN MD. You Don't Get Me.

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Rogers Rangers are determined avenge murdered settlers.

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7.25 Romany Jones. 7.55 Film: Ivan- hoe. 9.45 London. 12.15 Weather. wi.H: 9.30 London. 10.35 Farm- 11.00 Gardening. 11.30 London. áig. 1.00 University challenge. 1.30 In tune. 2.00 Bugs Bunny. 2.15 London. 3.00 Film: "Rhubarb'. 4.40 Golden BOILERMAKERS' leader Dan McGarvey was back at his desk in Newcastle yester- day after failing to end the 15-week bonus dispute at Harland and Wolff in Belfast.

McGarvey flew back to his union headquarters on Thurs- day night, after two days of fruitless talks with the ship- yard management. He will return on Tuesday, with other boilermakers' officials, for more discussions with the management team including Iver Hoppe, ( the Danish efficiency fanatic who heads Harland's.

Failure of the Belfast talks represents the collapse of a round negotiations including of three days of union discussions in New- castle last week. There representatives of the 2,300 Harland steelworkers, whose fight for the honouring of a 1971 bonus deal has led their dismissal, put their case to the union chiefs. consistently McGarvey has opposed the men's action and tried to force them back to work.

But the steelworkers, many of them Protestant loyalists, have stood firm. The dispute is a crucial test of ENGINEERING workers in South Wales are heading for a clash with their union leadership over the whole question of the fight with the Tory government. There is a dispute about 60 workers from the Briton Ferry Steel Company, between Neath and Port Talbot, who- refused an instruction to strike on May Day. The AUEW district committee wants to discipline the men, but on Monday, when the 60 were going to be charged for breach of rule, a letter was read out b" Hugh Scanlon say. signed

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1.50 Train- ing the family dog. 2.15 Sportsworld 73.3.05 Film: Huggetts Abroad'. "The Jack Kathleen warner, Jimmy Hanley. 4.30 Golden shot. 5.20 Scientists.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15 WITNESS MY WORDS.

6.35 SWEAT OF OUR BROW.

6.55 APPEAL.

7.00

STARS ON SUNDAY.

THE FENN STREET

7.25

GANG.

An Englishman's Throne. Howling 7.55

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10.00 OPERA: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail'. Glyndebourne Opera production of Mozart's Price, work with Margaret Anthony Roden, Noel Mangin.

12.15 A COMMON MIND.

shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

Garden'. 7.55 Film: 'Dr Cook's 9.15 Mr and Mrs. 9.45 London. 12.15 Weather. 10.30 Circus. ANS Doris Day. O20 Cartoons. FAS 10.55 Doris Day. 11.20 London. Champions. Farming. Weather. 1.55 2.30 Edgar 3.30 Golf. 4.15 Wallace. Bygones. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Carry On, 9.45 Follow That Camel. London. 2.15 Epilogue.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30

London. 10.30 Citizens' Farmhouse kitchen. 11.00 rights. 11.30 London. 1.00 Too close for 1.30 Randall and comfort. 2.15 Golf. 3.00 Film: The Hopkirk. Incident'. Bedford 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

7.55 Mission' Film: *Desperate 9.45 • London. strength for Hoppe-and for the Tory government. Back in July 1971, shortly after the Tories brought in Hopper as part of their rescue operation for their major employer of labour in Belfast, he negotiated a deal with the labour force promising a bonus of £2.50 in July 1972 rising to £3.50 in July 1973.

The steelworkers have seen nothing of this money. In February of this year, they imposed a ban on overtime on of their already existing top

UNION

representatives at the Silley and Cox ship repair yard, Falmouth, have rejected company proposals scales and abolition of job demarcations. Talks on the proposals have broken down. Yard committee chairman Albert Wilkinson says a solution is further away than ever.

BY OUR OWN CORRI

ing the union executive com- mittee had decided there should be no charges. No explanation was given. A motion that the 60 should be charged anyway was moved, and only failed to get carried by two Instead, the committee votes. decided to write to the EC that they were going to take dis- ciplinary action despite the EC's letter. A reply is now awaited.

The district committee has already taken a tough line with the leadership over another question — the speeches Hugh Scanlon made to the Parlia- mentary Press Gallery and the ...

BBC 2

Yorkshireker, 8.55 Open University. Player League. Yorkshire Jonn Lancashire. NEWS SUMMARY. Weather. 6.45 6.50

NEWS REVIEW.

ABOUT

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WORLD

People of the Seal-Eskimo Winter. 8.15 DOUBLE CONCERTO. Korear Chung sisters London's 9.10 INTERNATIONAL GOLF. Tony Tack LOTUS TEARS. Cold 9.40 Wind from the North. 10.30 M*A*S*H. The Army Navy Game. JOHN DENVER SHOW. Guest 10.55 Lulu. 11.40 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

11.45 UP SUNDAY.

The Harlem Globetrotters are on BBC 1, 5.45, Monday. ULSTER: 11.30 London. 1.00 Explor- 1.30 Piano can ing minds. be fun. 1.55 Houndcats. 2.15 London. 3.05 Lond Women. 3.35 Cartoon. Tarzan. 3.45 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. London. 7.55 Film: 'Up From 6.05 the Beach'. 9.45 London. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess masterpieces.

9.30 London. 10.30 Pipet and friends. 10.35 Untamed world. 11.00 Dick Van 11.30 London. 1.00 Dyke. Farming. 1.25 Cartoon. 1.35 Country 1.55 Golf. "The calendar. 2.40 Film: Adventures of Quentin Durward'. 4.35 Cartoon. 4.45 Golden Flax- shot. 5.35 boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: *I ton Aim at the Stars'. 9.45 London. 12.15 Weather.

GRANADA:

9.30 London. 10.35 11.00 Addams Farmhouse kitchen. 11.30 London. 12.55 family. Saint. 1.55 On the line. 2.25 Golf. 3.10 MCGARVEY : . . Rejected again.

campaign of no co-operation with management. Now they have been put out on the without dole streets, money. Hoppe threatens that if do not give in, finishing they trades workers will be laid off and the yard closed. McGarvey's desperate attempts to find a settlement are being watched with extreme anxiety by the Tories, who fear a major crack in support for their Ulster policies among this key section of the Protestant working class.

Company chairman Michael Turnbull-drafted in by owners P and O to boost the yard's falling profits-has again threat- ened to fix a date for closure unless the unions back down by next Thursday or agreement is reached on a takeover. P&O has told C. H. Bailey Ltd, a ship-breaking concern which has put in a tentative bid for the yard, that its first evaluation is

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National Committee about a with the Tory government deal accepting wage restraint in re- turn for a couple of amendments to the Industrial Relations Act.

They have written to the EC: 'We request the executive to repudiate statements made by the President in connection with the Industrial Relations Act, wages policy, and Britain's entry into the Common Market.'

Before passing this resolution, the district committee wrote to Scanlon for further clarification of the deal he was proposing.

Scanlon replied, in part: •. You will know that the Workers Press, Satu Film: 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton| boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'See The Man Run' . 9.15 Amblin. 9.45 London.

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9.20 Chess. 9.30 10.30 Carpet bowls. 11.00 Sandy don. Duncan sho2s Let 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming. live. 1.25 them 1.50 Where the jobs 1.55 Golf. 2.40 are. Film: 'The Adventures of Quentin Durward'. 4.45 Golden 5.35 shot. Flaton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: Aim the Stars'. 9.45 London. at 12.15 Simon Locke. 12.40 Lectern. Dr

SCOTTISH:

10.05 World War I. 10.35 Women. 11.05 Clapperboard. 11.30 London. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Water dwellers. 2.15 London. 3.05 Film: 'The Wackiest Ship in the Army'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Snorkel'.

9.30

SNP

conference report. 9.45 London.

12.15 Late call. LONDON Country Bus and Green Liné Coach fares are to rise by as much as 10p from June 3, it was announced yesterday. The increases, London say Ltd, are Country Bus Services within the government's prices policy. Adult fares to rise by lp before - 9.30 and between 16.00 and 19.00 hours on Mondays to Fridays and childrens' fares will go up during the same period to the level of adult off-peak fares.

On coaches, there will be in- 5p on most creases of 2p and adult fares, but certain fares will be increased by • 10p. Children's will be adjusted to main- fares tain a rate of three-quarters of the adult fares. LABOUR leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Reg Good- win, has been asked to meet a deputation of 13,000 rail union members who are opposing pro- posed cuts in underground ser- vices. Mr J. Nicolson has written Sir Reg from the NUR's north London district council saying that staff representatives have• been told by management that services will be cut on all lines by 7t per cent in early June due to staff shortages.

not high enough. The owners are said to want £5m. Under pressure from the com- pany the unions have agreed to manning flexibility, ship's crews working on their own vessels and the introduction of outside sub- contractors. Concessions have also been made on the function of the joint negotiating committee. TUC is anxious obtain to resumption of talks with the government, in which I have par- ticipated, and the government should show tangible very evidence of their earnest before such talks are resumed. 'Pressed further as to what do. the government could indicated amendments two which have received so much publicity. 'This does not imply any volte-face, but rather suggests steps the government could take, whilst we would still retain our opposition to the Act.' South Wales . engineering workers are not happy with this explanation. ress, Saturday May 26, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m.

SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

Salford The Angel, Chapel Street Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'The Revolutionary Party and the Working Class'. All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting After Jones-Aldington What next for dockers?

SOUTHAMPTON

Wednesday May 30, 7.30 p.m.

Conference Room Civic Centre Speaker: M. Banda (SLL Central Committee) All Trades Unlons

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'

MEETING

Break off secret talks with the Tories! Force the Tories to resign!

Sunday, June 3, 10.30 a.m.

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Profits rise reflects inflation PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday May 26, 1973 martial Emergency Provisions Bill, heads the perman security commission which will investigate Lords Lambi and Jellicoe. The six-man commission was set up in 1964 after Vassall scandals. Its terms of referen Profumo and amended by Harold Wilson in 1969, empower it to investig all known or presumed breaches of security.

A Lord of Appeal in Ordinary since 1968, Diplock (66), is a Tory favourite for application of the rigorous the rule of law. Majority of the commission's members are civil servants and ex-soldiers built who have themselves a steady reputation for service to the ruling class.

Lord Jocelyn Simon (60), is an ex-Solicitor-General who to the rank of Lt-Col during the Lord Jollicoe. war and served in a special ser- vice squadron. director-general of army require- World war office in War ments, Lord Saville Garner (65), headed II. He was a member of the army Service between the Diplomatic council. 1965 and 1968 after a lifetime Sir Dudley Ward (68), General postings in of foreign service

ADC

the Queen was general to Canada and India and work at 1961 and for three years until the Home Office. after her Coronation deputy chief of the imperial general staft.

Sinclair (80), Lord Robert was director of munitions of He been deputy director office, World War I and military operations, war inspection in

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RISE of 10.5-per-cent in trading profits of industrial dustrial trading profits were up companies is shown by the 16.6 per cent. 'latest 'Financial Times' ana- However, these increased pro- lysis of the trend of indus- fits do not reflect real value, but trial profits. the inflationary crisis of British capitalism. The results This is a part of company ana- world the lysed were those whose finan- which has crisis of capitalism cial year ended between Octo unleashed the most severe trade 1972, and January 14 world history and under- ber 15, ( war in had mined every capitalist currency.

last and whose results published by the end of which undermines been It is this confidence in the entire system April. and hits at long-term investment.

The end pulled resuit was In this context, it is significant down by relatively low profits in profits is that a large drop in the oil sector-they only rose by 5.5 per cent. Excluding oil, in- recorded for machine-tools-

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FROM PAGE ONE

• State pay laws to hol down wages by the threa of the criminal courts. • Laws against the union and the basic democrati rights of the working clas But Wilson has not calle for a political and industri campaign on these issues t d Ulster's force the Tories to resigr permanent On Thursday he rushed t the rescue of the • Lambton and diverted the scandal int bogus deadend calle 'national security. I after the The Labour Party itse reference, has the spectre of Poulso hanging over its head. Th investigate hearings in Wakefield re Lord Lambion. commandant staff college, Cam- and he commanded the berley in Germany and the near army east in the 1950s. sixth member, Sir Philip The Allen (61), has been parliamentary under-Secretary of State, Home Office, since 1966 and among the is that of has held posts deputy chairman of the Prisons fice, Commission.

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closely linked with long-term production plans. The five companies whose re- recorded sults were machine-tools sector showed a combined decline of 39.3 per cent in trading profits. The largest increases were in those sections of the economy most susceptible to the effects, of durables, infiation-consumer such as electronics, radio and television (52.2 per cent); pack- aging (56.9 per cent); hire pur- chase (46.4 per and pro- cent) perty (49.7 per cent). Basic industries like engineer-

THE

Provisional IRA has ad- mitted that 99 of its volunteers have been killed during its four- campaign in Northern year-old Ireland. But Provisionals reject the claim from Mr Whitelaw's Ulster Office, that 123 IRA men have died as 'erroneous'. The Provisionals Dublin: "To date the IRA has suffered 99 deaths in the war with the British. It is the prac- tice of the British army propa- gandists to make claims as regards IRA casual- ties in an attempt to boost the flagging morale of their forces.'

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authorizing in- creases of £1,500—from £7,875 a year to £9,375—in tha salaries of the Comptroller and Auditor Northern Ireland, General for the Northern Ireland Parliamen- tary Commissioner for Adminis- the Commissioner tration and Complaints, has been for approved in the Commons. • SEE Derry funeral p.3. start in a month's time, in actionary character of its which there could be re- rule. to hold velations about a number of The Lambton - Jellicoe he threat prominent Labourites. of affair is an extension Watergate under con- These two cases-Poulson which ditions in the le unions and the Lambton- now crisis piledrives economic emocratic Jellicoe affairare not just through the old ring class. its way scandals. edifices of power. not called They expressions of are All the conditions for industrial a political malignancy which forcing the Heath to body through the runs ment to resign are here. o resign. politic of the ruling class We urge all our readers the and extends even unto rushed to fight and to bureaucratic labour and Tories urgently for these demands: who trade. union parasites andal into hang its decaying onto No more talks with the called Tories. carcass. • Mobilize the political and itself The issue at stake in this strength of the Poulson week's revelations is not the industrial class to make the The morality of the ruling class, working Tories resign. re- but the vicious and re- POST OFFICE union leaders were yesterday in structed to hold up mechanization of the letters anc industry. And delegates to the Unior of Post Office Workers' annual conference slammed the execu- tive's defiance of a similar decision taken last year.

This for the

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reverse leadership, and particularly general secretary Tom Jackson, came in a card vote yesterday ing showed an increase in trad- Voting was 7,112 to afternoon. ing profit of "only 2.5 per cent 6,212. among 30 companies, despite the who reversed last Jackson, increase in paper money, while year's decision within 12 days of textile trading profits were down the conference, defended his 6.7 per cent. with claim that action employment would have resulted High profits in some sectors of if he had not. closely related to the industry, But there was clearly a division inflationary in increase paper of opinion on the executive on money with no backing in value, Harry is indication of this issue. Jones, an an executive member, left the plat- perity but of crisis. form speak against Jackson to The of international crisis from the rostrum. capitalism steadily has grown Earlier, however, the leader- worse since Nixon took the dol- was successful in defeating ship lar off gold on August 15, 1971.

a bid to stop productivity dealing In Britain, this can only mean the Post Office. in intensified attacks the living from the union's on A motion basic rights of London district conditions and council which the working class. would have stopped productivity Post Office pro- deals until the duced a five-year plan setting out improved wages and conditions

WEMBLEY

north branch of TASS-draughtsmen's section of was lost. the Amalgamated Union of En- John Taylor, a representative of London district council, Workers-has passed the gineering said the union must be prepared the following resolution: This branch condemns in the bargain with and to every possible bolt at its disposal. the strongest way 'Your record of productivity is talks between the Tories and the but that cannot Phase second to none, trade union leaders on be said for the wages which your Three. It has only been through members are taking home at the this open collaboration that the end of the week,' he said Tories have so far been success- 'We our ful with their state pay laws.

must now organize policies to deal with the changes We condemn in particular the overall role of Brother Scanlon. Without in industry with an strategy! his co-operation Feather and the At the end of a two-day debate right-wing members of the Gen- during which the eral Council would be unable to on pay, execu- declared with their collabora- tive its intention to go get away We therefore demand the before the Pay Board next week, tion. delegates accepted the Phase Two following: settlement signed 'under protest' • An immediate end to the recently by the leadership.

talks. • A recall of the NEC of the But Jackson did not escape a union to call Brother Scanlon to bitter attack on his policies from O'Rourke, Frank Accrington an order. postman, who called for a united campaign in the division • A divisional stand by the trade union move- organized by the ment against the Pay Board.

against the talks. council A NATIONAL Coal Board plan decided agree and will not to to close two of the oldest pits in this decision in accord- pursue Northumberland-Netherton and ance with the agreed national re- procedure.' Fenwick collieries—with the loss view Mr said there 1,000 jobs, has been Main was an up to agreed formula to deal with such reier dob main, sentral sea.

Main. situations and the miners were general secre- putting their disagreement tary of the Northumberland area on of the National Union of Mine- record at the earliest possible workers, said yesterday: moment. board's decision to close Having received the board's The the collieries at the end of Aug- the Northumberland proposals, Thursday. area executive committee have ust was announced on