Workers Press no. 1088

workers press

WILSON AND FEATHER CREATE SPLIT

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CE

By Royston Bull STATEMENTS by Victor Feather and Harold Wilson have created a dangerous situation which is tantamount to an open split within the labour movement. Such a split aids nobody but the Tory enemy. Feather told the Institute of Personnel Manage- ment that the TUC would accept a Phase Three deal with the government involving wage restraint, even if TUC Congress was not wholly in favour of it. 'In the terms of Chairman He is pitting himself as an Mao, we shall make the individual against the Party.

chicken stretch its neck, The Tory Press went into he said arrogantly. raptures over this stance. Feather has no mandate The London 'Evening Standard' from the TUC wrote: They [the to accept of left] now have to accept that the state control they can huff and puff about wages, just as he and his the big grab as much as they colleagues had no mandate like, but Mr Wilson intends for the secret talks they ignore them when it to have held with Heath. comes to preparing the pros- As Workers Press has that will pectus for power eventually be offered to the plained, the deal cooked up talks is country. for at these secret acceptance of the pay laws In a period of crisis, when in return for the most trivial the Tories are preparing the amendments to the Industrial most ferocious attacks on Relations Act. the basic democratic rights and the standard of living But the pay laws incorpor- working of the class, the ate even greater state con- trol of trade unions than the greatest danger to workers Free from the actions of Act. negotiations for comes of capitalism wages are completely the agents abolished. The lose within the labour movement.

unions all independence the to The trade unions must state. demand the immediate break- The proposed agreement ing off of all further talks would with the Tories about Phase make the corporate Three. state an established fact.

Wilson has openly repudi- All organizations within ated a decision by the Lab- the Labour Party must Executive demand that Wilson be Party to ex- our nationalize 25 the NEC for major pelled from Britain going completely against the companies in when Labour returns to office.

executive's policy. The great rally of trade *The Shadow Cabinet would not hesitate to use its unionists organized by the Alliance the All Trades Unions veto at appropriate at Belle Vue for July 1 now time. It was inconceivable takes on added importance.

that the Party or its leader Workers must build up the would a General go into of both Election this proposal, organized strength on the labour and trade union nor could incoming any the Labour government be movement to create SO and committed.' political -in- necessary Wilson setting himself dustrial conditions to make the Tory government resign.

up with dictatorial powers. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 2, 1973 • No 1088 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Uranium protest against RTZ

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MEMBERS of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Friends of Namibia Committee yesterday demonstrated LinC mark Court decision in 1971 that this occupation was illegal.

exploit the huge low-grade uranium Namibia and already has a contract to supply the Authority. Y JUNE 2, 1973 • No 1088 •

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d Movement and the Friends of outside offices id to protest against RTZ's dec lamibia (South West Africa) is st rital apartheid despite system illegal. RTZ Is occupation was uranium deposits it has ntract to supply the UK Atomic Tinto Rid discovered UK Atomic Energy ONCE AGAIN our post was loaded with welcome dona- tions. It certainly looks as if every single member and sympathizer of the Social- ist Labour League is in action. Up to Thursday May 31 —that is, in 58 days-we raised £41,466.65. £8,533.35 We are now away from the £50,000 tar- get which is the first leg of the £100,000 we are fighting to raise by October 31. So it is really action- stations for all of us this weekend. Battersea £2.75; Dagen- ham £6; Nottingham £83; Doncaster £7.50; Camden £44.90; Acton £5; Lewis- ham £25; Glasgow £284.05; Aberdeen £50; Stockton £37; Liverpool £156.70; Manchester £32; Winsford £30; Bradford £135; Castle- ford £23.75; West London 24/6; Croydon £121; Hollo- way £116; Outer London £293; South East £250; Southall £110; Tottenham £106.20; East London £72; South Wales £110; Swin- don £53.26; Reading £160; Oxford £87.80; Sheffield

£216.10; J. R. £1; J. G. £40.

Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG women WOMEN workers at Garrard's Cheney Manor, Swindon, record-player factory, who have been on sit-in strike for the last four weeks, were locked out yesterday morning.

About 50 women who had gone in to work on Thursday afternoon turned up at the gates of the factory yesterday morning with passes issued by manage- ment. Works security police manned the gates and allowed the pass- holders in one by one. All the other who have been women occupying the factory in a strike over speed-up were refused entry.

At a mass meeting on Thurs- day morning the strikers voted to continue the fight—in spite of management letters sent to each them that striker telling normal work would be resumed next morning. Union officials yesterday con- demned the limited return to work as a management-staged attempt to split the strike.

The women started their strike 4 — after exhausting May agreed procedure.

workers press

WILSON AND FEATHER CREATE SPLIT

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CE

By Royston Bull STATEMENTS by Victor Feather and Harold Wilson have created a dangerous situation which is tantamount to an open split within the labour movement. Such a split aids nobody but the Tory enemy. Feather told the Institute of Personnel Manage- ment that the TUC would accept a Phase Three deal restraint, with the government involving even wage if TUC Congress was not wholly in favour of it. 'In the terms of Chairman He is pitting himself as an Mao, we shall make the individual against the Party.

chicken stretch its neck', The Tory Press went into he said arrogantly. over this raptures stance. Feather has no mandate The London 'Evening Standard' from the TUC to accept wrote: "They [the the state control of left] now have to accept that they can huff and puff about wages, just as he and his the big grab as much as they colleagues had no mandate like, but Mr Wilson intends for the secret talks they them when it to ignore have held with Heath. comes to preparing the pros- As Workers Press has will pectus for power that ex- eventually be offered to the plained, the deal cooked up talks is for at these secret country. acceptance of the pay laws In a period of crisis, when in return for the most trivial the Tories are preparing the amendments to the Industrial most ferocious attacks on Relations Act. the basic democratic rights the standard of living But the pay laws incorpor- and working of the class. the ate even greater state con- trol of trade unions than the danger to workers greatest of Free from the actions Act. negotiations for comes of capitalism wages completely the agents abolished. The within the labour movement.

unions lose all independence to the The trade unions must state. demand the immediate break- The proposed agreement ing off of all further talks would corporate with the Tories about Phase make the Three. state an established fact.

Wilson has openly repudi- All organizations within by the Lab- the Labour Party ated a decision must Party demand that Wilson be Executive to ex- our nationalize 25 from

NEC

pelled the for major in Britain when going completely against the companies Labour returns to office.

executive's policy. The great rally of trade 'The Shadow Cabinet would not hesitate to use its unionists organized by the the All Trades Unions Alliance veto at appropriate at Belle Vue for July 1 now time. It was inconceivable takes on added importance.

that the Party or its leader would a General Workers must build up the go into of both Election on this proposal, organized strength could the labour and trade union nor incoming any Labour be movement to create the government SO political and in- committed.' necessary Wilson setting himself dustrial conditions to make is the Tory government resign.

with dictatorial powers. up INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 2, 1973 • No 1088 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Uranium protest against RTZ

LAVY

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NE Ta MEMBERS of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Friends of Namibia Committee yesterday demonstrated outside the offices of Rio Tinto Namibia Day and to protest against RTZ's decision AtankI mine uranium in the country. Namibia (South West Africa) is still ruled by South Africa through brutal apartheid system World despite a Court decision in 1971 that this occupation was fedal.

RTZ olans exploit the huge low-grade uranium deposits it has discovered in Namibia and already has a contract to supply the UK Atomic Energy Authority. ONCE AGAIN our post was loaded with welcome dona- tions. It certainly looks as if every single member and sympathizer of the Social- ist Labour League is in action. Up to Thursday May 31 —that is, in 58 days—we raised £41,466.65. £8,533.35 We are now away from the £50,000 tar- get which is the first leg of the £100,000 we are fighting to raise by October 31. So it is really action- stations for all of us this weekend. Battersea £2.75; Dagen- ham £6; Nottingham £83; Doncaster £7.50; Camden £44.90; Acton £5; Lewis- ham £25; Glasgow £284.05; Aberdeen £50; Stockton £37; Liverpool £156.70; Manchester £32; Winsford £30; Bradford £135; Castle- ford £23.75; West London £476; Croydon £127; Hollo- way £116; Outer London £293; South East £250; Southall £110; Tottenham £106.20; East London £72; South Wales £110; Swin- don £53.26; Reading £160; £87.80; Oxford Sheffield

£216.10; J. R. £1; J. G. £40.

Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG women

WOMEN

I workers at Garrard's Cheney Swindon, Manor, record-player factory, who have been on sit-in strike for the last four weeks, were locked out yesterday morning.

About 50 women who had gone in to work on Thursday afternoon turned up at the gates of the factory yesterday morning passes issued by manage- with ment. Works security police manned the gates and allowed the pass- holders in one by one. All the other who have been women occupying the factory in a strike over speed-up were refused entry.

At a mass meeting on Thurs- day morning the strikers voted to continue the fight--in spite of management letters sent to each striker telling them that normal work would be resumed next morning. Union officials yesterday con- demned the limited return to work management-staged as a attempt to split the strike.

The women started their strike May 4-after exhausting on agreed procedure.

turning point PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday June 2, 1973

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE NIXON-POMPIDOU meeting in Reykjavik, Icelan the most decisive in the history of post-war capitalism. At st only the future of US-European relations, but also the events inside the United States over the coming period.

The two presidents were plainly separated by an insuperable gulf on trade and monetary questions as they ended the second day of talks yesterday. On Thursday they virtually buried the idea of an 'Atlantic summit' be- tween Nixon and European leaders later this year. The French leader stood out firmly against US proposals link international talks on money, trade and defence.

Despite their attempts to put as good a face as possible on the discussions, the results of the first day's talks were interpreted with extreme pessimism on the money markets, where the price of gold rose Sharply. Financiers and capitalists all over the world Franco-US recall that the previous 18 summit months ago in the Azores was followed immediately by a dollar devaluation. The prospect of another devaluation is causing great tension and uneasiness and has driven the price of gold up to a new record level. It was fixed in London at $117 an ounce while the pound rose sharply against the dollar.

Nixon's desperate need to strengthen his hand at home forced him to try and accommodate his critics who accuse him of being soft on the Com- mon Market. Watergate played a major part in toughening his stance with Pompidou. For his part, Pompidou speaks for the most in- transigent American policy opposition to within the Common Market. He says openly what his EEC partners only dare to mutter under their breath in Nixon's presence. The Reykjavik talks were intended launch a of interlinked series negotiations trade, on mone- tary and other related questions.

But with no progress made in Iceland on relations, the currency and undermining totally trade dollar and reform the world monetary the credit structure of whole elaborate of programme capitalism. negotiations is now thrown com- This, in must have far- turn, pletely out of joint. reaching political implications, The planned negotiations in- making it impossible for the clude the multilateral trade talks bourgeoisie in the main capi- in Tokyo later this year and the talist countries to continue to annual of Inter- rule without the direct assistance meeting the Monetary of the military and the establish- national Fund in Nairobi. of Bonapartist regimes. ment With so much at stake, the The increased role of the mili- failure of Reykjavik the talks tary in the top circles around could be the detonator of a new causing Nixon is alarm allons financial and political crisis, in- Democrats like Senator Proxmire the flight from who has challenged General Haig tensitying paper THE US Senate inflicted on President major defeat Nixon on Thursday when it voted by 63 to 19 to cut off all funds for the bombing of Cambodia and Laos. At the same time it ex- pressed its apprehension that Pentagon hawks will involve US in another Vietnam the for war and open the way military backing for a Nixon dictatorship. A feature of the vote was that 20 Republican Senators ex- pressed their lack of confidence in Nixon by opposing the bomb.

1ng. Nixon supporters will attempt reverse to vote when the Appropriations Bill comes before of both of conference houses Congress. Constitutionally the President could still veto the Nixon with General Haig. Bill and throw down an open challenge to Congress, knowing conscious that this has very. that he Pen- would have strong aggravated the dollar crisis and tagon backing. that Nixon will either have to restore his authority or make The vote reflects the deep way for a new administration.

and divisions in the growing US ruling class which have been But the signs are that Nixon Watergate exposed by the is unwilling to go quietly, or at scandal. all, and will call on every sup- Bankers and businessmen are port he can find, particularly in Iceland, may be Reykjavik, Icelanc m. At stake is not tors protested aga so the course of talks with plac Watergate scanda to leave either the army or his post as Nixon's White House chief-of-staff. The Senate vote against any.

further bombing of Cambodia will be interpreted by the mili- tary chiefs as a direct affront to them as well as to the president.

Nixon planning an 'internal Is coup' under the guise of protect- ing 'national security and savot himself from the threat impeachment? And if this is his response to the galloping crisis, the British ruling class be can far behind? the military establishment where there are generals prepared to intervene on his behalf. General Alexander Haig, a serving general, already his White House chief-of-staff and the Senate vote on the bombing will drive the Pentagon and the President closer together.

, Iceland; Left-wing demonstra- sted against the Nixon-Pompidou th placards referring the to : scandal, NATO and SEATO.

GREECE was yesterday declared regime of regent-premier George I country in a nationwide broadcast decided to abolish the monarchy b Papadopoulos announced that he himself had been appointed president provisional of The decision Greek Republic. follows the mutiny in the Greek navy in which 31 officers and from the destroyer Velos men sought asylum in Italy. The mutiny wide- revealed spread and deep-going anti- regime feeling the armed in forces where a large part of the officer-corps is oriented towards colonels monarchism. The • regime is attempting to legitimize itself by declaring a republic.

In December 1967, King Con- tried stantine to topple the regime of the colonels with his own counter-coup. He failed and fled into exile. Later Papadopoulos took over as regent. Arafat meets Lebanese YASSIR ARAFAT, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organi- zation, met President Suleiman Franjieh of the Lebanon yester- day for the first time since the army attempted to wipe out the Palestine guerrillas a month ago.

Kuwait foreign minister, The Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, was also present and appears to have been instrumental in bringing the meeting about. The situation in Lebanon has remained tense despite the ceasefire which came after two weeks of fighting.

WHAT IS described as a danger- ous constitutional crisis is loom- ing in the United States over the President's refusal to testity before the Senate committee of inquiry into the Watergate affair.

Evidence in secret documents taken from the White House by sacked Nixon aide John Dean III and now in the hands of the committee shows the President counter - insurgency approved operations in the US going far beyond what can conceivably be covered even by the widest definition of 'national security'.

According to Senator Sam Ervin, the chairman of the Water- gate committee, the papers, which Dean • handed to Federal Sirica for safe keeping, Judge 'would be a great shock to the American people If they • were released. 'I interpret the papers as being an effort or a plan to set up an operation to spy on the American people in general, or at least on those who did not agree with the Nixon administration. The result of the operation would be car- ried in a pipeline to the White House.' The papers describe the estab- lishment of what one Senate in- vestigator described as a secret • to 'steal, national police force wiretap, lie and commit other crimes as part of a design to subvert all political opposition to the President'. With this evidence under its belt the Ervin committee may well decide in the next few days 'request' to the President to testify under oath at its hearing.

Nixon is certain to refuse and the result could be a constitu- tional lug-of-war with Nixon tak- ing desperate measures to pro- tect his position. leclared a republic by the military George Papadopoulos. He told the broadcast that the government had narchy by a constitutional act.

A CUTBACK in investment spending in West Germany is needed if runaway inflation is to be avoided says a report issued by the Organization for Econo- mic Co-operation and Develop- ment in Paris. It suggests measures which go beyond those already taken by the Brandt gov- which has already ernment decided that a recession is pre- ferable to more inflation. These include the abolition of regres- sive depreciation allowances and the speeding up of advance in- come tax payments as well as the imposition of an investment tax.

West German bank rate has just been increased from 6 to 7 per cent as part of the credit squeeze. CHILEAN troops opened fire on copper miners in Rancagua on Thursday killing one worker and seriously wounding another. They were escorting blacklegs to the El Teniente mine whose 13,500 workers are on strike for higher pay.

Still the 'ugly face of capitalism' look at Tiny's 'victory' Lord Oil's family keep their shares

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ROLAND "Tiny' Rowland has re- established the £200m Lonrho i the group, pan - African mining and trading company, • as a one-man band. As a shareholder said at Thursday's riotous annual méeting: You can't shackle a man like Tiny Rowland. Rowland's overwhelming victory has meant the ousting of eight directors including Sir Basil Small- peice, the former Cunard chairman and ex-managing director of BOAC. As the eight resoundingly defeated had their men names read out, the packed meeting shareholders booed and hissed. Good riddance', they cried at Smallpeice who sat stoically on the platform.

And as Tiny-'the genius' they to leave, -got up cheered him in their fruity voices. Tiny beamed and waved enthusiastically to- wards the cameras. Now that Rowland has won, it's time to look at what he's won. The 'ugly face of capital.

ism'-to quote premier Heath -has triumphed over the Smallpeices. In March last year the City accountants, Peat Mar- wick Mitchell, presented a report on Lonrho's financial affairs. They warned the company had until September to raise £10m to end short-term indebtedness with its prin- cipal UK bankers. The cash shortage came like a bombshell. Nobody ALTHOUGH he has sold his own shares in the 'Lo North Sea oil bonanza, the Tory government's 'Oil Supremo', ', Lord Pol- warth, has retained shares held by his children and other members of his family. Polwarth, former chair- man of the Bank of Scot- appointed in land, was charge of North Sea oil developments by premier Edward Heath on May 12. The job, according to Heath, would be to 'super- vise an industrial expansion to be compared with a vast operation' wartime He said Polwarth would a 'task force' supervise of officials from various government departments. unani- The Tory Press mously welcomed Heath's decision. Some of the Lonrho shareholders at the Central Hall, Westminster, meeting on Thursday. A bedding and haven tax

ALEX MITCHELL

fiddles of big City interests. lot of humbug Inere was a Press had a clue that the position This is just what is these practices were 'isolated' had so deteriorated. needed'. and unrepresentative. The accountants warned The bank had decided to showed 1 nursday s vOTe that the that not only these stills Ilallasc. Involves commo was (Rowland) 'un- most interesting and ment was practic pert way of suitable for administering stimulating challenge which City, they the are the complex and diversified would not greatly admired. WC Have unluci" that Lonrho has thought Laker muess was come'. that the company had a good The revelations about future'. Lonrho are the most com- The following month the pelling why the dwindling shares took These plans, hailed in the I casulio boost Sandys, City when Duncan

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without compensation and Tory Press, camouflaged the lory mr lor sureatnam and under workers control must Colonial former Secretary, true situation in Lonrho.

became chairman. uncalate bartle demand. vicious boardroom Also onto the strength- underway to get was Lonrho, with its extensive board ory Rowland ened of and his caward Interests in Africa and Arab Con, and MP for friends. the face countries, ugly Taunton, chairman of The effort collapsed with British bank, Keyser the merchant capitalso the week imperialism. sacking Ulimann, Basil Wilkin- Smallpeice Gerber, peice, Dr A. Gerber, W. H. N. The labour son and five others. and trade Wilkinson, R. F. Dunlop and union movement must T. R. Prentice. In the Lonrho mand that it be past year put on the Above: Duncan A Keyser Ullmann spokes- has staggered 11011 Onc

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companies man said Sandys was calamity expropriated without com- to the next resut. excellent choice because he ing in the notorious court pensation and under Thursday's platform 'very familiar with Rowland's the action over те- control by the next Labour African scene and Is a strong

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The 'Guardian' said: resign as 'Mr Oil' or sell of All these share TrIISTO 'Lord Po warth's This is a list of the total have large financial stakes shares. ment appears to make good Briefed by th campiell Prime Polwarth shareholdings: the oil industry. The He knows Scottish Minister himself, Atlantic Assets: Lord industry and he is to have which has apportioned 101 Ship- 6,500 ordinary Towarde ing and carping'. much of its £40m capital access to merrime 5,500 shares; ordinary Minister. 'There drilling opera- shares with other ofshore

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Illally When details emerged of 10,800 tions. serenass ordinary Honces. personal finan- tion benches. Instead also has toward's trust two a stake shares WiTh cial stake in the oil boom, the floated £20m recognizing successes the recently trustees. Lady Caroline Heath vigorously defended Polwarth 15,000 ordinary alla our cunties 10T

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ASSeLS him. Robert Hughes. Labour future arcise all we get is carp- which was established sulares.

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rollar Aberdeen ing of specifically to invest in oil Mirror shares in trust with two said that Heath had treated involved.' trusts urustees his criticisms Polwarth Polwarth said re was Among its first projects in a 'very cavalier' fashion.

the 'ideal man' for the job.

British Assets: Lord the has heen snare in Polwarth 4,000 ordinary wrote Hughes On Thursday, however, of large, Heath. saying that Polwarth the Tory defence collapsed. shares and £700 convertible semi - submersible pipe-lay- reviewed loan stock trust with his shareholdings Polwarth cance parce lor deen Norlo wo trustees Lady Caroline conference sea spite waters. ane nao salished and announced £700 that there did not appear he was selling his convertible this lucrativ to be any risk of conflict trust shares. loan

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the Nort) two trustees. with his new duties. He promised Polwarth CAll total of 17,100 Second British Assets: sistently stated that there In a parliamentary debate shares Lord Polwarth 600 ordinary clash of interest'. Cabinet 'under £20.000'. was 'no worth week arU. 500 Only minister, Mr Gordon Camp- said Hughes ne wanted to get on shares Cane Maut all y refused Hughes with his work 'unhampered shares with two other from Oppo sition on this issue. mand that Polwarth should by a continuing campaign nominees. ress, Saturday June 2, 1973 PAGE 3 n Sandys, MP for Streatham and al Secretary, brought into chairman- of his 'good African contacts'. Below: included Edward du Cann, id, A. H. Ball, Sandys and Sir Basil usts told the Commons last week: 'Anyone who believes no conflict of interest arises is incredibly naive. 'Here is a man who can be identifying onshore development where a com- pany, in • which he has an interest, has a direct con- trolling interest in develop- ment of this kind. 'It is a very serious matter. This sorry tale throws a beam of light onto the curious morality of the Prime Minister and this government.' Trying to put the best face on the abrupt sale of shares, Polwarth said: 'I now have no holdings that could conceivably cross the front of my duties'- the except, of course, interest still held by Lady Caroline and his other trustees and nominees.

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Workers Press, Saturday June 2, 1973

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another one now' Mrs Lena Boyle is a London housewife: the war I gave up • After hope that the leadership of class would do the working anything for them. But when my daughter joined the Young Socialists it When I saw gave me heart. people were there how many and what they were doing, made me interested again.

I was never in favour of the war because, know, as you there has never been a war that wasn't a capitalist war.

MP should Every Labour have opposed the war. It was war and they should Tory do with have had nothing to it. Instead they formed a coalition. My uncle left the over that. Party Labour I've always hated the Tories.

I realized as I grew up that did, no whatever the Tories matter how they gilded it or how they spoke about it, workers shouldn't be in favour of it. I came to believe that what- ever the Tories did we should be against it for it wouldn't be in the working man's favour. Looking the television at and remembering the now propaganda for the last war I think they're heading for an- other one. the manifesto that It was the Socialist made me join Labour League. I may not go 100 per cent with the SLL, but I do go 100 per cent with the manifesto. with electing a agree Labour government, but to do what we want it to do out real socialist carry policies. If they don't do what they ought to do once they get into parliament, we can take them and somebody else away put do it. in their place that can We won't have to worry so much. Socialism by itself is quite It's the capitalist sys- simple. tem which is complicated. It's understanding capitalist the which makes politics system hard to learn. i should be ashamed of my- elf that I haven't read Karl heard Marx, but I've it quoted. read Upton Sinclair, I've Tolstoy, Tack London, Stein- France. beck and Anatole authors tell think these can the something about you power of the capitalist system it has and, my goodness, a power. I've just joined the League and I think of all the parties for it will do the best the working class. if succeed and But they Mrs Lena Boyle: 'I was never in favou bring about a revolution, what know, there has never been a war thal that? For in- happens after Labour MP should opposed the have we had a revolu- returning to Goch in 1944.

stance, say tion and we won without the of other support countries, what could Britain do? The aftermath of a revolu- For time too a certain would take away the freedom of speech. If you didn't do that the people speaking you would against Illayut succeed again and then you'd needolder revolution dictatorship Of course the of the working class would be a different kind of dictatorship than we have now. The work- would benefit by it. ers In a way every government is a form of dictatorship.

Whatever capitalist govern- they just ment Is in give it or take it according to how the working mans pro• gressing. Capitalism has be overthrown if we are to keep the little we've got and get a lot more. If we let this Tory government get away with it, we'll go without. Tory govern- I think this out the ment has only put feelers. There's more to come They're trying to see how vel we'll take it. The tragedy the unions and unal une Mrs Lena boyie: I was never In Tavour or te war because, as you Labour Party have taken pe should have opposed the tar ave arist re ger German refugees 1 ne t'arty now are not like the pioneers.

If they'd continued like them, there might have been more progress. The working man can never really gain anything unless you take the capitalist away system and not only in your own country but world wide.

That's where you stop. What the League is trying to do now should have been done 30 years ago. The first Labour government that got in should have taught economics and socialism in the schools and the universities. If that had been done, I guarantee that 99 per cent would have turned socialist.

It's the only policy for all mankind. Will workers have any diffi- culty accepting the discipline of the revolutionary party! They'll just have to. Once they are doing realize that they without certain things to bet- ter themselves I think they will accept it. Even under the most strict of the working dictatorship class it couidn't be as bad as the horrors they've accepted in the past under capitalism.

has had The working class hundreds of years of struggle -for what? For nothing. The revolutionary party the only way forward.

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the Tories favours is the destruction Pat O'Connor is a shop stew- ard at BSA, Meriden, where over 1,400 workers are facing unprecedented attack on an their wages, jobs and basic rights. The management wants workers to pay for the deep financial crisis facing the firm redundancies, by accepting lowering and by wage-cuts conditions in the factory. Pat told us how this struggle made him realize that the working a revolutionary class needed to lead them: party • I had never heard of ithe SLL or the All Trades Unions Alliance until the BSA- Triumph trouble. But when I did, I went along to a couple meetings. There of was no problem really because what I heard simply made sense. I thought that a lot of people were saying this, but not many of them were doing anything about it. I decided that I would really like to take some part in it. Somewhere you have to make a stand.

The working class are getting and lower by pushed lower this government. One of the best examples is at my place, BSA. The Tories are up to their necks in a deal here and the price of their favours is a complete destruc- tion of wages and conditions.

This is not just BSA. Workers outside in the other industries will do well to be warned that the same treatment is in store for them because the crisis is throughout the Tory system.

The Tories invested in the lame ducks and if they are putting money into them they want the pound of flesh out of the workers in payment.

But how many lame ducks are there in British industry? In terms of international compe- tition there are a hell of a lot.

There can be no concession with this kind of policy. It's a fight to the end. As far as I am concerned that is what we face at BSA. The only answer we can put up against the Tories is the nationaliza- tion of these industries and their modernization under socialism. If the old owners have failed, why should we pay the price? At this stage the unity of the working class is the most important thing, like the SLL policy says. We have seen the workers being split up and go- ing into action in isolated groups. This is useless. It's no defence at all. I think you can get the unity given the leadership. I think the idea of fighting on basic rights is a good one. Everyone is entitled to a job, good a house, a free pay, all the health service and issues that socialism is sup- posed to stand for. I have said, the But as leadership issue is crucial. We have seen over the long years the kind of lead the Labour Party offered. It betrayed the working class on every issue when it was elected last time.

No wonder workers weren't prepared to vote for it in 1970.

It is a big task facing us to get rid of this kind of leader- ship.

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Above: BSA workers leaving the factory after receiving their last pay when the Birmingham fac- tory closed down. Right: Pat O'Connor. There are a couple of ques- tions I would like to ask about the party. Firstly there is the of hire purchase. question This may seem like a small point, but a lot of people are in debt up to their eyes. What will happen to these people after socialism? Will their debts be cancelled-I'm in- cluding people with house mortgages? Will their houses be made council houses and will they get the money of their mortgage back? This also broadens out to the question of small businesses like shop- and so on, keepers will they losé their businesses? The other thing I think you have to be extremely careful about is the name of the party.

There is a big problem here because when you say com- munism people just shy away.

There has to be a lot of edu- cation about this one. I know we are communists, but the issue of Russia has to be thrashed out. The name of the party, therefore, has be to chosen with care. I would like something with Democra- tic and Labour in it.

PAGE 6 Workera Press, Saturday June 2, 1973 Big business is planning facilities available at the main NHS establishments and they to make a killing out of will usually only attempt to the National Health Ser- deal straightforward with cases, sending patients need- vice-and the Tory gov. ing more complicated and ernment is going to help specialized treatment to the it do it. NHS hospitals. Far from enhancing the That is the message con- NHS, private practices have, tained in the report on Private in fact, been a drain on its re- Practice in National Health Service Hospitals presented to sources and the fees paid by parliament recently by the Sec- private patients go, not to the the hospitals. report im- retary of State for Social Ser- plies, but straight to the Trea- vices, Sir Keith Joseph. sury, where they are swallowed One of the most important in general post-war gains of the working up government expenditure. class, established by the 1945 Labour government to ensure 'Part - time consultants 2 that no one need go without able to have their own proper medical attention re- private patients in the same gardless of how much they hospital as their NHS patients, the NHS is now to be earn, with the consequent saving of slowly strangled. travelling treatment is to be time, can devote Health more of their time to both returned to the private sector, classes of patients and deal which will mean that millions easily with emergencies of working-class families will more if private practice not be able to afford the care than were wholly Single they may need, while highly- separate rooms or in paid consultants and private small wards which might be insurance companies can ex- used for private patients can pect booming business. also be made available for The National Health Service NHS patients whose condition itself will gradually be rele- makes it appropriate? gated to providing specialized Just as the nationalized coal laboratory and other hospital facilities for the benefit of pri- industry is regarded mainly as a source of cheap fuel for pri- vate practitioners, while NHS will find the already vate industry, so private con patients sultants tend tr regard the long hospital waiting lists NHS facilities as a means by wards become more lengthen, overcrowded and shortages of which they can provide extra doctors, nurses and ancillary services to their patients and staff become more desperate.

charge high fees for doing so If there The report was based on the were no private practices, the consultants could findings of the House of Com- still save travelling time and Expenditure Committee mons could then devote all their National Health Service on time to whichever patients Facilities for Private Patients, needed them most. which was issued in March While it is true that single 1972. Keith be used for

NHS

that time Sir rooms can At patients if they are sick enough blandly assured Toseph the to really require the quiet and House that the government fully agreed with the Expendi- privacy, in fact this is rarely Committee's done and it is estimated that conclusions ture just under half the total num- that 'private practice operates to the overall benefit of the ber of private beds in the country are standing empty at

NHS'.

He cited several reasons for any one time. this extraordinary statement, 'These benefits would be all of which are worth exam- 3 ining in some detail. lost if no provision were made for private practice in "The provision of facilities NHS hospitals. There would practice then be a danger that the de- for private for enables patients eligible mand for private treatment NHS treatment, but who pre- outside the NHS hospitals fer to make private arrange- would draw scarce profes- consultant, to sional skills away from the ments with a NHS: and in many cases these use (at full cost) the compre- facilities of

NHS

skills would be of a particu- hensive larlv high order. A complete services. provide divorce of public and private They also the practice would create separate to treat private opportunity and medical services for the pub- patients from overseas this country who lic and sectors in those from private which would be detri- might otherwise seek treat- way mental to the NHS? ment abroad. In this way stimulus is provided for prac- There is no evidence what-

NHS

would in this country to that the titioners soever enhance and our suffer if private practitioners maintain were unable to use its facili- position an international as medical centre of excellence, ties. On the contrary, there is the general benefit of the that ample evidence private people in this country? practices would soon fold up if they were unable to use the If the British health service has a high international repu-

NHS.

tation, it is because of-not It is precisely because the spite of-the existence post-war Labour government in the NHS. It was the establish- refused to challenge the power- ment of a centralized, subsi- British Medical Associa- ful which enabled tion (BMA) and the business- dized service which normally men and Tories behind it, and hospitals would not have been able to so did not ban private prac- do so, to set up central labor- tices and establish a full-time atories. blood transfusion cen- consultancy service, that pri- today and occu- able tres, physiotherapy vate practices are NHS facilities on pational therapy departments to use the and develop research into vari- the cheap. felds of treatment ous new such as chemical pathology.

'As things are at present 4 Very few of the private hos- the private patients in pitals have anything like the NHS hospitals receive the Left: Sir Keith Joseph, Tory Health Min same medical care as NHS The private patient patients. has the right to the personal services of the consultant of his choice and may well have more of his time than an NHS patient. But this does not amount to difierent medical care, since the same consult- are charged with and ants accept full clinical responsi- bility for private and NHS patients' The very fact that it is ad- mitted that 'the private patient •.. may well have more of the consultant's time than an NHS patient' speaks for itself. There are two standards of care and it is entirely dependent upon the integrity of the individual consultant how much time and energy he devotes to his non- paying NHS patients. Unless patients, who usually do not know what is wrong with them or what treatment they require, are prepared to complaint-which make a would have to be investigated by the consultant's colleagues —only the doctor decides what he needs to do. 'A private patient will 5 normally expect and re- ceive privacy of accommoda- tion. This is an advantage which is at present available only to a limited but growing number of NHS patients. ...

This still leaves in older hos- pitals a fairly considerable gap in privacy between the

INHS

and the private patient. But in new hospital build- ing the number of single rooms and the arrangement of the other beds in a ward in small groups provide NHS patients Health Minister. He paves th opportunitie with higher degree of p before. this such as the hours and menus, amenity coming enjoyed and be one private which pattern whole to follow? This is such pate be hardly wor as to Of ing. course better for private does not need then to imorove things i wards. It just nee management boards imagination, above all, the func new hospitals with and to provide bette varied meals. And if the more room for NI f things have in siderably, particula newer hospitals, al staffs and patie the private wings. The Report the pages to of question lists. It is estimated approximately dIC people waiting to g pital for a 'non-urg tion. Some of them for month wait years, for • paves the way for booming portunities potu privacy than for and other ways, liberalizing ours and the choice standards or NHS patients are those private patients efits ay the benefits He paves the way for booming private practice for consultants and insurance comp ditions siderable ability. report to the queue the Report that the According Joseph, in 4,883 pay which avclare In other calment, stay in story. It is time. UliC Palent which time be course, which are not fatal, but which may well cause con- dis- fact even produces beds private Sir to Keith were Britain, in patients were bed. patients Pauelts words privale quicker are able IO cent of the about 'the private may well have consultant's] is far from sol Cal Tor sol tha nee by ove aut sial any evic pati affe resi ham in I clair will

Is and insurance companies, at the expense of NHS benefits to the working-class. Right: Hospital ancillary workers show their feelings on the future of private practice.

nce companies, at the expense of NHS benefi solving the massive waiting list problem, but a recent finding gives an indication of the tre- mendous difference in speed of admission which shows the effect 'queue-jumping' by pri- vate patients has: Cataract Operation Tonsillectomy Gynaecological operations Hysterectomy Vasectomy In the long run, however, only government funds to ex- pand the hospital service can solve the problem and ensure that all patients get the treat- ment they need when they need it. The Report goes into some detail about abuses of the NHS by private practitioners, but, without giving any evidence to disprove the allegations, Sir Keith airily dismisses them one by one. Too many beds being turned over to private use without authorization? No more than a 'misunder- standing', says. Sir Keith. And anyway, there is 'little if any evidence to suggest that NHS patients had been adversely affected'. He did not mention the resignation from the Birming- ham Regional Hospital Board of Labour MP Leslie Huckfield in December 1972 because, he claimed, some members 'were willing and witting participants IHS benefits to the working-class. Right: Hospita in a gigantic and all-pervading conspiracy to smash the health service'. Mr Huckfield alleged that all the hospitals in the Birmingham area had illegally treated private patients under the NHS. NHS Patients Private Patients 2 weeks Over 1 month 2 weeks 18 months 1 week 12 months 2 weeks 4 months 2 weeks 2 years NHS equipment being re- moved from hospital premises to be used by private consult- ants? Well, sometimes private doc- tors lend their own equipment to the NHS, thought Sir Keith, and 'management attention can ensure that sensible arrange- ments are made according to local circumstances'. 'Borrowing' of staff in work- ing hours for operations out- side the NHS? 'Such practices if substantial would be within the scope of disciplinary proceedings by hospital authorities.' Dissatisfaction among staff who have to deal with private patients but who, unlike the consultant, receive no fee?

'The private patient pays to the hospital a daily charge which includes all except con- sultant services and this in- cludes an appropriate share of the services of all other staff in the hospital. 'Thus it is within the func-

ANNI

ht: Hospital ancillary workers show their feeling tions of nursing, technical and junior medical staff to attend private patients as part of their normal duties and with- out a fee.' So junior doctors who have to work up to 100 hours a week before they can claim overtime, and overworked and underpaid nurses and ancillary staff get nothing for looking after often highly-demanding private patients. It is true the patient is paying anything up to £20 a day for the privilege, but, as pointed out earlier, this money is taken by the Treasury and not by the hos- pital. Neglect by some consultants of their NHS patients? Sir Keith thinks not. But anyway, 'in so far as the exer- cise of clinical judgement is concerned, it is outside the government's province ..!

The Report concludes that while abuses may occur, the government intends to ensure that when complaints are re- ceived they will be fully in- vestigated and appropriate action taken. But who is to complain? The patient, who probably does not know or who may be too ill to do anything about it?

The junior doctor, who may well jeopardize his entire future by exposing the senior consultant who judges his pro- gress? There is no mechanism for investigating possible abuses, not even the equivalent of the totally inadequate fac- tory inspectorate in industry.

The general conclusion of the Report is that doctors will continue to be able to take private patients and use the Workers Press, work leir feelings on the future of private practice.

NHS facilities for them. Where new hospitals are built the government will look sympathetically' on proposals accommodating private patients. At the request of the con- sultants, the number of pay beds in NHS hospitals will be made "more flexible' , although the government still intends to keep some limit on the number. Charges for private treat- ment will be reviewed at least every two years. And in the meantime, the government is planning slash- ing cuts in expenditure on welfare services. have These already started with the in- creases in prescription, dental ophthalmic and charges, the cutting of school and milk, free orange juice and cod liver oil to babies, and the threats against Social Security pay- ments' to strikers' families. As the world monetary crisis builds up, welfare funds will be even more ruthlessly cut back. The only people to benefit are the consultants with pri- vate practices and the medical insurance companies. They have good reason to be satis- fied with the performance of their friends in the Tory gov- ernment. On the boards of directors of the largest health insurance companies are some of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in the country— as Sir John Part- men such ridge, chairman of the Imperial Tobacco Group, a director of National Westminster Bank, and a participant in the rs Press, Saturday June 2, 1973 PAGE 7 recent tripartite talks between the Tory government, the Con- federation of British Industry and the TUC; Sir Reginald Verdon-Smith, chairman of British Aircraft Corporation (Holdings) and ex-chairman of Bristol Siddeley Engines in 1968, when it was found that they had "budgeted for, and achieved, exhorbitant profits on government contracts and had knowingly charged twice some jobs; Lord Brent- on ford, an along ex-director, with Reginald Maudling, of the International Investment Group, which went into liqui- dation owing £3.5m. IIG was associated with the Real Estate Fund of America whose foun- der, Jerome Hoffman, is cur- rently serving a two-year jail sentence for fraud in the US.

The defence of the National Health Service cannot be main- tained while this Tory govern- is in power. Only the ment bringing down of the govern- and the return of ment a Labour government pledged to withdrawing prescription all and other charges, the aboli- tion of private practices and pay beds, the establishment of the immediate allocation funds for the modernization and expansion of hospitals and the payment of decent wages to all medical and ancillary staffs, and the nationalization industry of the drug which milks the NHS of millions of pounds every year, can ensure to everyone the right to the medical care they need.

BY A SPECIAL

CORRESPONDENT

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

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Workere Press, Saturday June 2, 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. Feartul of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has begun a campaign once again discredit and distort the to 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 Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972 published 'Against Trotskyism', a compendium of docu- ments, articles, extracts, speeches and resolutions aimed at dis- crediting Trotskyism and distorting completely the truth about between Lenin and Trotsky. In this series of the relations articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

PART TWELVE

procrastination in the discus- sion of the foreign trade mono- In the Institute of Marx- at the plenary poly meeting ism - Leninism's 'V. I. of the Central Committee.

'He also dictated letter Lenin, A Biography' — Trotsky Trotsky's to about published EIGHT years in support of speech Lenin's point of view ago — we learn who was on the foreign trade monopoly at the com- Lenin's against ally ing plenary meeting. Stalin on the question of 'In his letter the mem- to bers of the Central Commit- trade policy. On page 533 tee [i.e. including Stalin] we read: Lenin wrote: 'In the of Decem- • "I wound evening have now up ber 15. Lenin dictated a letter my affairs and can go away to Stalin for the information untroubled. have aiso of members finalized the of the CC my agreement with concerning his speech at the Trotsky about his defending Congress forthcoming of of my point view on the monopoly." Soviets, in which he opposed foreign trade Lenin, in other words, anti- cipated retiring and leaving the defence of the monopoly of foreign trade in the hands of Trotsky! This demonstration of con- last. fidence the was not Faced with the alliance of the two revolutionary leaders, Stalin gave in all along the line. At the December 18 Central Committee the pre- vious vote was reversed. This in fact, Stalin's usual was, tactic when faced with superi- or opposition. Lenin, now confined to bed, delighted. He wrote to was Trotsky: It seems we cap- tured position without the firing a shot by mere move- ments of manoeuvre. I pro- pose that we should not but continue the attack, stop It was this letter which sparked Stalin's violent out- burst against Lenin's wife Krupskaya, in which he sum- moned her to the telephone and subjected her to 'un- and threats' worthy abuse because he believed the sick Lenin was being allowed to find out too much about what the bureaucracy was doing.

This abusive telephone call influenced Lenin to break off personal relations with the secretary Stalin general and to alter his 'Testament' to ac- commodate the insistent de- mand for Stalin's removal from his post. But monopoly the of foreign trade and the rude- ness of Stalin were not the only questions on which Trot- sky and Lenin fought Stalin in the closing days of Lenin's political activity. Another very important issue concerned the status of non-Russian the republics which had been established as a result of the revolution and the civil war. It is the triumphant boast of the — professional liars in the Institute that on all ques- tions Trotsky showed 'he was the spokesman of Nowhere is the arrant non- sense of this claim made more apparent than in the famous discussion the national on question. In this debate, whose in the echoes still resound USSR, Lenin's solidarity with Trotsky against Stalin was un- conditional and complete.

For over three decades the Stalinists in Moscow and Bri- tain tried to obscure - nay — obliterate all traces of this discussion and deny that there Lenin and Krupskaya, pictured together in 1922. Stalin's abusive telephone call to Krupskaya in- fluenced Lenin to break off per- sonal relations with him and after his 'Testament' to demand Stalin's removal from his post.

were any significant differen- ces between Lenin and Stalin.

In fact Stalin was consistently portrayed as the 'continuator and defender of a Leninist national policy'. It was only after 1956 that the grisly truth of Stalin's bureaucratic Great- Russian theory and practice on nationalities began to be re- vealed. The most comprehensive report and analysis of these differences was published in the already quoted Soviet bio- graphy of Lenin which unfor- tunately for the authors of 'Against Trotskyism' was brought out at the end of the Khrushchev era. On Monday we will reproduce an exten- sive quotation from this book and make no apologies for doing so not only because it is correct, but because it re- dilemma veals the enormous which faces the revisers of Soviet history and the utter hopelessness of their task masters.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

WILSON BREATHES LIFE INTO THE LORDS

On the surface Harold Wilson is committed to abolishing the House of Lords. He is on record as ronism. He has stated privately on many occasions that he would never accept a peerage. But while all this may point to Wilson being a strict op- ponent of the Lords, we hind in tact, that he is one of its greatest pillars. When Labour was elected in 1964 the pressure was power- ful for abolition of the Lords.

Wilson even introduced a Bill to this effect. But having pas- sed through the Commons, it was stymied by the reaction- ary old codgers in the upper house. Having led his phoney war, Wilson then abandoned the fight altogether. In the re- mainder of his term of office he became the great despatcher of titles to all his friends and acquaintances. It was peerages for the boys. These are just some of the

CORONATION FUN

There to have been seem some strange goings-on be- hind the screen when the Queen was crowned. One of the maids-of-honour, Lady Anne Tennant, recounts in a Sunday newspaper how she (the maid, not the Queen) felt faint during the ceremony.

She continues: "Then when we went behind the Rood Screen the Archbishop of Canterbury produced a bottle of brandy... (!)' Another maid, Lady Jane has another cheery Rayne, little anecdote about the Arch- bishop. The rehearsals, she says, 'were always great fun.

'We had that lovely Arch- bishop Fisher who was an in- ld people who got titles from Wilson: Herbert Bowden (now Lord Aylestone), Arnold Goodman Lord Goodman), Ted Willis (Lord Willis), Jack Cooper (Lord Cooper), Frank Kearton (Lord Kearton), Sir Jack Campbell (Lord Camp- Alf (Lord bell), Robens Robens), Hartley, Shawcross (Lord Shawcross), George Wigg (Lord Wigg), Frank Soskice (Lord Stowe Hill), C. P. Snow (Lord Snow), Tony Greeenwood (Lord Green- wood), Jennie Lee (Baroness Mrs Eirene White (Lady Lee), White), George Brown (Lord George-Brown), Alun Gwynne Jones (Lord Chalfont), Hunt (Lord Hunt), John Sidney Bernstein (Lord Bern- stein) and John Beaven (Lord Ardwick). words, Wilson In other went out of his way to prop up this fossilized institution with a whole range of indus- trialists, intellectuals, lawyers and journalists. As one com- mentator remarked: 'Wilson has given the Lords a new lease of life.' In Opposition, Wilson has credibly funny little man. He was always jumping up and down. One day he caught his foot in his cassock and went rolling down the aisle to shrieks of laughter.' She doesn't say whether the Archbishop had a bottle of brandy on that occasion too.

VERBAL CLASH

Shouts of 'fascist' and 'coward' were hurled across the lower house of parliament in Brus- sels in an incident involving Edmond Leburton premier continued the same routine.

Last week Heath unveiled a host of new peerages. Two of them were attributed to Wilson. One is Sir Desmond Brayley (56), a Welsh millionaire. Why should Wilson be doling out peerages to millionaires? you may ask. It seems, from what one reads in the Fleet Street Press, it is in return for a favour. When he was ousted in the 1970 General Election it was Brayley who put the Wil- sons up in his penthouse flat overlooking Green Park. Two months later Wilson knighthood obtained for Brayley, according to the 'Sun- day Express'. Now the honours are falling thick and fast on Brayley's head. A coronet added to the Kt. It is assumed that Lord Brayley will sit on the Labour benches-somehow represent- ing the labour movement. Just how he will do this isn't clear, especially when his back- ground is considered. Brayley is chairman of the Canning Town Glass Works Limited (the Labour Party.

which led to an opposition walk-out. The clash came when Lebur- ton asked Francois Persoons the French-speaking Fed- of eralist Party to explain what he meant in a parliamentary question referring to 'a special for 1,000 million franc deal Zaire, well known to the prime minister' The premier, who sits as a Socialist, said Persoons must clarify the innuendos. He added make in- that he should not sinuations since he himself had just taken a directorshop in a newly-created bank. 'You are in no position to speak,' he snapped. To which Persoons retorted: 'You are odious.' At this point, Jos Van Eynde, co-president of the Socialist Party, called Persoons a 'fascist and a coward' and when he refused to withdraw the re- mark the Federalists, plus the Party, Flemish Volksunie walked out of the chamber.

Workers Press, Sa incidentally, holds more than £31,000 worth of stock) and a director of the General and Engineering Industries Group.

He is a robust supporter of the military and is still active as an honorary colonel of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

'Who's Who' also states that he is a Companion of the Grand Order of Water Rats.

He combines his business life with a full social one; he belongs to the Eccentric, Saints and Sinners Club and the Bristol Club. On hearing of his new title, Brayley said: 'I am greatly honoured and I will do my best to do what Mr Wilson wishes, which is to do a job of work? Wilson has no right to be handing out peerages to a chamber of bourgeois rule which is totally reactionary in form and content. He has even less right to be giving the posts to millionaires with public school backgrounds who mingle with the military.

• The role of Wilson and the reformists becomes central to all I struggles in which the Press, Saturday June 2, 1973 PAGE 9 Lord Goodman (centre), who got his title from Wilson, takes part in the ermine and gaiters fan- tasy entering the hallowed corri- dors of the House of Lords.

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(Please note date change). Con- Brixton trol Room, Training Centre. 'Build the revolutionary Party'. Paul Newman plays the ambitious pool player Eddie Folson who York with one arrives in New burning ambition-to beat the great Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). 'The Hustler' in BBC 2's Midnight Movie. 10.10 Skippy. 10.35 135 Merrie Zahrain'. 8.00 melodies. 10.25 kar 10.55 Film: 'Bonnie London. are way 11.10 Scotland' 2.30 5.20 Bon- Charlie Chan and the Museum'. London. 6.20 Film: and the 12.20 Seaway. Larzan alla 8.00 Mike Bernie London. 10.30 Parade. 11.10 TEES: 9.15 Wild life theatre. 9.00 Name of the 12.40 Epilogue. 9.40 mind. 10.10 game. Weather. 32.30 London. '5.20 Persu 11.15 Film: Gas bags 10.35 6.15 aders. Film: Tarzan and nee

ULSTER:

10.35 Yoga. 11.00 Sesame Boy'. 8.00 Mike Bernie 12.00 12.30 ungle Survival. London. 5.20 Merrie Parade. London. 10.25 11.10 me Valley 5.50 Partridge 12.35 Lectern. 6.20 Film: of Mystery'. Name of the game. family. 7.55 8.00 Mike and Summer SCOTTISH: 9.15 Exploring 9.40 Berno White London. Parade. 10.10 Curly Take better photographs. 11.10 line. 11.35 Branded. world. Coconut 10.20 Pebbles and bamm Black Be Van 11.05 Jackson Five. graphs. Dyke. 2.00 Saturday 11.30 Dick 'Gasbags'. Bearcats. 12.30 5.15 London. Part- cavarcare London. 5.20 Persuaders. 6.15 Film: 5.50 ridge fam: Bis Bernie. Tarzan the Jungle Boy. 8.00 and 6.50 Film: Deal Dodge City 9.0đ Mike and Bernie. 9.00 10.25 London. 8.30 On buses. London. 10.25 P2.55 Weather. game. Neithe Tine 11.10 Late call. 11.15 Mannix.

12.35

GRAMPIAN: 10.30

Enchanted house. GRANADA: 9.15 Exploring mind.

10.45 11.15 12.30 Pufnstuf. 9.40 Skippy. London. Ron shod friend sky 3 Beete10.35 photographs. Play lake Lucy the Sesame street. 11.35 5.15 show. 5.:5 the limit. game. Catch 12.05 Huck 12.30 6.15 Film: 'Hour of the Gun'. 8.00 Kandy. Mike and London. 10.30 Doctor Bernie. 5.15 ROLL Ode Hopkirk. 6.20 'Escape 11.10 Randall and Large. Parade. Hardy's Chronicle film Robert "The Longbow' has been re- quested by viewers and will be shown again tonight on BBC 2 at 7.25. It traces the origins of the longbow from the late Stone Age to its devastating use at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. Several translations of Contents include: articles from the German Ceylon: The Centrism of Bala Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke Tampoe Italy's New Fascists By a Ceylon correspondent By Stephen Johns April Dictatorship: The Tasks of

LENIN AND TROTSKY WRITING

the Greek Trotskyists....

ON EUROPE

Resolution of the 5th and six International Committee Congress of the Workers statements International League June

LEEDS:

Thursday duane. 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel, 'Forward

ATUA

Conference to the fight to defend demo

DARLASTON:

Monday Head, 4, and June The cratic rights. 7.30 p.m. 'The Nag's 'The Fight Green, Darlaston.

HEMPSTEAD:

Monday

HEMEL

against the Tory pay laws.'

date June (please note 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 5. change), Square. 'Build the revo- 8 p.m. 'Nag's Head', Wandsworth Queen's 'Build the revolutionary lutionary party'. Road. party LEAMINGTON: Tuesday, June 12,

BRADFORD

(Engineers' meet- The Commonwealth 7.30 p.m. ing): Tuesday 5, 8 June p.m. Street, 'The Tory Club, Church Kirkgate. 'Engin- Talbot Hotel, and the trade government fight against the eers and the unions.' Tory government.' of engi- HULL (Special meeting Tuesday 5.

DAGENHAM:

June neers' section): Wednesday, Co-oo Hall, p.m. Barking 'The June 13, 8 p.m. Windmill Fanshawe Avenue. 'Build the Hotel', Witham. revolutionary party' GOOLE: Thradar Hotel 21, e

HACKNEY:

Wednesday June 6, Hotel. 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Station p.m. Revolutionary Party and the Fight Hall. Mare Street. 'Unite in action against the Tories'. to defend basic rights'.

SUNDAY TV

ITV

9.00-9.30 Nai zindagi 9.30 Service. 10.40 Joe 90. 11.05 Funky nava jeevan. 11.00-11.30 Seeing and believing.

11.35 phantom. 11.30 Weekend world. 1.00 12.00 Don't just there. Training

SIL

Thunderbirds. 1.50 Training the family for work. 12.25 Picture marking. dog. 2.15 Sportsworld 73.

3.05 Film: 12.50 Farming, 1.5 Made in 'Little 1.30 Parents and children. 1.55 News Big Shot'. 4.30 Golden shot.

headlines. 2.00 Weather. Along TOse 5.20 Parade. trail. 2.15 Lancer. 3.05 Film: 'People Will

6.05 NEWS.

lake Lary Grant. A lecturer unorthodox methods makes other with

6.15 LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY.

members jealous. Wives and daughters. 5.35 Monaco Grand

6.35 THE SWEAT OF OUR BROW.

Prix.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

6.05 NEWS. Weather.

7.25 THE

FENN

STREET GANG.

6.15 WHILE SNAIL WE TELL THE

Mother Knows Best.

7.55 FILM:

'Brock's Last Case'.

6.50 ABBEY FOR WESTMINSTER

Richard Widmark. A New York policeman tries to find peace in 7.25 OWEN MD. The Love Game.

the country.

8.15 FILM:

'Destry Rides Again'.

9.50 POLICE ONE FIVE.

James Stewart. Manche

BICL

10.00 NEWS.

sherift arrives new In Western town with no guns and a parasol. 10.15 With Christopher Gabie Cook.

Christopher Gable, 9.45 News. Weather. Massey, Maureen Pryor, Gwy- neth Powell. 10.00 OMNIBUS FILE. British Jazz.

11.15 FOREIGN EYE.

10.50 THE EDITORS.

William or arde Daily Mail chairs a discussion.

former editor

12.05 SITTING IN JUDGEMENT

FRIGHTENERS.

12.10 THE

Have a 11.30 Weather. Nice Time at the Zoo, Darling.

BY IAN YEATS

PERKINS Engine Company, Peterborough, laid off 1,000 men yesterday in retaliation against an overtime ban which they claim has slashed production.

More than 5,700 men at the diesel engine plant have beer refusing to do overtime fol nine weeks in support of with ENOCH POWELL, the demand for pay parity workers at Coventry. MP, right-wing Tory has said that future conflict over Massey Ferguson, which owns Perkins Diesel, the race issue is a certainty operates a wages Measured-Day system based in big cities like Birmingham.

Work Peterborough and at In a speech prepared for de- although they are trying to bring in a similar structure at Coven- livery Conservatives in to still paid Birmingham try workers there are night he last piecerates. warned: The two systems are responsible 'Where profound and undis- divide, for dramatic pay differentials.

differences guisable on such a scale as I have indicated, At Coventry top earnings total of city like the population £54 with £32 week compared Birmingham, of an Peterborough. the at At other not merely probable conflict is end of the paid scale, lowest workers at Coventry take home £26 at Peter- £37, compared with borough. AUEW convenor Mr Reg Briars told asking me they not the company to equalize the pay- ments immediately. A MASS meeting of about 2,000 The men will accept a commit- and Reyrolle- men women at Hebburn, yesterday ment to iron out disparities over Parsons, their three- period and consistent with the voted continue Tory pay laws. week-old strike. The management refused to The Peterborough ask men meet the pieceworkers' demands for parity but the evcry ycal, for direct increases in piecework works deputy convenor told me: "This year rates. the determination has from the shop floor. I've come Instead they. offered to con- never known it so strong.

The plant normally produces

GEORGE HENRY

INCE

(35) 1,300 diesel engine units a day, yesterday refused bail on a was but the spokesman said he doub- bullion robbery charge. ted if any had been made this week. to the Old Bailey for Management has been laying lawyer, Robert Flack, said off up to 5,000 men at a time, that Ince had the opportunity to but works leaders claim the be involved in this week's break- only effect has been to strengthen out from Brixton jail. shop-floor solidarity. A crucial meeting with man- Monday agement takes place on

ALL TRADES UNIONS

and the men's leaders are opti-

ALLIANCE

will mistic that management make some new proposals. Central London Up till now they have been unresponsive to all calls even to

'A MANIFESTO FOR

consider the parity claim.

EQUITY'

But last Wednesday a seven- day strike notice by men at

SUNDAY JUNE 3

Coventry the proposal against to introduce Measured-Day Work 7.30 p.m. there after the withdrawn Was for a meeting London Film School company asked with shop stewards. 24 Shelton Street Peterborough workers believe (corner Langley St) this may indicate a softening up opp. Covent Garden Tube of the company's previous tough line, likely to be reflected at their Speaker: Corin Redgrave meeting with management on Monday.

BBC 2

8.33 Open Unieasite: Middlesicket, John laver League. Middlesex Somerset SUMMARY. Weather. 6.45

NEWS

6.50

NEWS REVIEW.

7.25

THE

ABOUT. US.

WORLD

People Seal; Eskimo of the Summer. 8.15

MURRAY PERAHIA.

The young American plays pianist Chopin. LOTUS EATERS. And

VAY. 9.15 THE

Hera Had a Sister.

10.05 M*A*S*H.

ow. 10.30 JOHN DENVER SHOW. Guest Donovan. 11.15 NEWS ON 2. Weather. 11.20 UP SUNDAY. At the Oxford Union.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.30-1.00

London. 2.13 Weather. 2.15 Champions. 3.15 Film: •My Six Loves'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "The Streets of San Francisco'. 9.30 Who do you do? 10.00 London.

11.15 Dangerman. 12.10 Epilogue.

WESTWARD.

As Channel except: 10.30 Sesame 1.00 Talking profit. Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.30 London. 10.30 Farm Weather. 10.55 11.00 World progress. War I. 11.30 London. 1.00 Grasshop- er island. 1.20 Survival. 1.50 Jimmy Stewart. 2.15 London. 3.00 Superman. 3.20 University challenge. 3.50 Golden News. 4.45 Parade. 5.30 5.35 shot. 6.05 Flaxton boys. London. 7.25 Romany Jones. 7.55 Film: "The Third Day' 10.00 London, 12.00 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. _10.35 Farm- ing. 11.00 Angling. 11.30 London. 1.00 University challenge. 1.30 In tune. 2.00 Bugs Bunny. 2.15 London. 3.00 "The Long Film: Long Trailer'. 4.40 5.35 Flaxton boys. Golden shot. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "Where the Bul- Fly'. lets 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 12.00 Weather. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Circus. 10.55 Doris Day. 11.20 Cartoons. 11.30 London. 1.00 ‹ Champions. 1.55 Farm- ing. 2.30 Film: 'The Doctor and the Girl'• 4.15 Bygones. 4.40 Golden shot.

6.05 London. 5.35 Flaxton 7.55 boys. Film: 'Dunkirk'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Department S. 12.10 Epilogue.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 10.30 Farmhouse Citizens' kitchen. 11.00 rights. 11.30 London. 1.00 Randall and -it is, humanly speaking certain.' This latest outburst marks a in Powell's propa- new stage ganda campaign. The Tory who once said he 'thanked God' for uses lurid capitalism usually statistics to excite feeling over coloured workers in Britain.

Now he appears to be anti- cipating possible outbreaks of racial conflict as the economic and political crisis in Britain get worse. Powell added that race trouble would not be avoided by people being nice to each other. sider increases in, minimum earn- ing levels. Skilled offered a men were semi-skilled f2.75, rise of £3, unskilled and women £2.50.

The mass meeting carried a shop stewards' resolution reject- ing the management's offer and asking for Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering Union district officials to be called in.

It was in the wing in which Ince was held, he said. 'His cell door was open and he could have escaped, Flack added.

'This man has spent six months in prison awaiting trial for just about the most grievous murder in the last few years and he was proved innocent. 'But for six months this man

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE

Public Meeting

POSTAL WORKERS'

MEETING

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

Sunday, June 3, 10.30 a.m.

Conway Small Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p) Workers Press, Sa Geoffrey Bayldon and Gillian Bailey in 'Have a Nice Time at the Zoo' In Independent's The Frighteners' series. Hopkirk. 2.00 Sport. 3.00 Film: These Thousand Hills' 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Cool Hand Luke'. 10.00 Lon- don. ULSTER: 11.30 London. 1.00 Explor- ing minds. 1.30 Piano can be fun. 1.55 Houndcats. 2.15 London. 3.05 Women.

3.35 Cartoon. 3.45 Tarzan. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

Film: The Nutty Professor'. 7.55 10.00 London. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess masterpieces.

9.30 London. 10.30 Pipet and his 10.35 Untamed Dick van Dyke. world. 11.00 Dick 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Snooker.

2.50 Film: 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir' 5.35 4.35 Cartoon. 4.45_ Golden shot.

Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Truth About Spring'. 9.50 Car- 10.00 London. 12.05 Shirley's toon. world. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 9.30-10.30 Service.

10.35 Farmhouse Addams kitchen. 11.00 family. 11.30 London. 12.55 Saint. 1.55 On the line. 2.25 Dundee and Culbane.

3.20 Name of the game. 4.40 London. 5.35 Flaxton Boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 'Indeed,' he said, 'were I not certain of motives being my represented if I did so, I would the fact certainly acknowledge that the difficulties are likely to be made greater rather than by the application specialized policy of niceness.'" Powell returned to the West Bromwich by-election where the extreme - right National Front took cent of the poll per after a racialist campaign.

"There actually was an immi- gration issue in West Bromwich The electors after all. were worried about it—to the extent BSA merger DOCUMENTS relating the to proposed merger of the motor cycle interests of BSA and Nor- ton Villiers in the NVT group will be posted to shareholders of

BSA

and Manganese Bronze Holdings on Thursday June 7.

This was their present inten- tion, announced Kleinwort Ben- son, acting for the Birmingham Small Arms Co Ltd, and the Federated Trust and Finance acting Corporation Ltd, for Norton Villiers Triumph yester- day. has been kept in Brixton Prison under antiquated circumstances, locked up for 19 hours a • day and now, during the last three days, has been locked up for 24 hours undergoing a strain which to those of us who have not had barely be con- co tace it, can templated.' Ince's trial will start in September.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Merthyr Tydfil Given by Gerry Healy national secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday June 6 7.30 p.m. Questions and Answers on Marxism, Philosophy Economics and History St David's Church Hall Church Street, Merthyr : 1*72 : Press, Saturday June 2, 1973 PAGE 11 Sylvester. "Women in 8.00 Film: Chains' 9.30 Branded. 10.00-12.10 London. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess. 9.30 London.

Sandy Duncan. 10.30 Bowls. 11.00 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming. 1.25 Let them live. 1.50 Where the jobs are. 1.55 2.50 Film: 'Goodbye My Fancy'. Flaxton London. boys. 6.05 Film: 'The Ceremony'. 10.00 London.

11.15 Aquarius. 12.05 Dr Simon Locke.

12.35 Lectern. SCOTTISH: 10.05 Children 1°Clapns child- Women. board. 11.30 London. 1.00 Champions.

White ship. 2.15 London. 3.05 2.00 Film: "The Geisha Boy', 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Robbery'. 10.00 London. 12.05 Late call.

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 Farming. 11.30 London. 1.00 Exploring mind. 1.30 Master inders P.15° London. 3.05 2.00 Film: Keepers 4.40 Golden shot.

London. 5.35 Flax- boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Life at the Top'. 10.00 London. 12.05 Kind of Living. that nearly 5,000 of them voted for a way-out candidate.'

The 'way-out' candidate was Martin Webster, leader of the National Front who paid tribute for Powell's intervention in the campaign. Powell refused to the Tory candidate support David Bell because of his failure to make immigration an import- ant plank in his programme.

The Front will be further by Powell's encouraged out- They too talk of the in- burst. evitability of racial conflict if coloured workers are not banned from Britain. Builders seek parity METAL WORKERS' union mem- bers struck at four London building sites yesterday over a bonus claim. About 200 men are involved in the strike, which is over a claim for £12.50 a week guaran- teed bonus. They have been offered £3. The strike-hit sites are Mc- Alpine's, at the Temple; Cos- tain's, at Lime Street in the City; Wimpey's, at Victoria; and Willett's, Hammersmith at Town Hall. The men, members of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers, are de- manding payment to bring them in line with Lovell's site at Knightsbridge.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

Wednesday June 6, 8 p.m. 'The Cock O' Th' North' Portway, Wythenshawe, Manchester Registered as the a newspaper at Post Workers Office, Published by Press, Clapham High Street, 7UG. • Printed Plough Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. Circulation: 01-622 7029.

Bread price rise on Monday All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUE

Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.- Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday June THE COST of a loaf is to go up fp on Monday be- cause the Tory Price Com- the mission has allowed flour monopolies to charge more for their bread. The Commission an- nounced yesterday that it had agreed to a demand by the big three, Ranks Hovis Mc- Dougall, Allied Mills and Spiller - French Milling, for increases due to the higher cost of flour and increased labour costs. 'THE DEMAND for the election a Labour government of on socialist policies is the indis- pensable step in preparing the working class for state power because it means above all the break from reformism.' This statement, from the draft perspectives for resolution on the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party, has been proved 100 per cent correct by the action of Labour leader Harold Wilson this week. The proposal of Labour's NEC to set up a holding company to buy into unnamed capitalist was by no means a firms socialist demand. Yet even that milk-and-water resolution, which barely scraped through, was enough to provoke Wilson into publicly declaring that the Labour Party leadership would defy both the Labour Party conference and the NEC elec- ted by it. As this crisis drives the social- leaders towards democratic compromise with the Tories it brings to the fore the opposite question of the ownership of the means of production. The first post-war Labour gov- ernment carried out all the nationalization that was pos- sible within the framework of capitalism. But nationalization is the official policy of trade unions. many Plans for the nationalization of the engineering industry were put forward by the Confedera- tion of Shipbuilding and Engin- eering Unions more than 20 years ago. The engineering industry is cen- tral to the existence of capi- talism in this country. Its nationalization raises funda- mental questions of class power.

has nationalization been at Labour Party and trade union conferences . since the ever party was founded. It is firmly associated with socialism in of millions of the minds workers. It is for that reason that— although the Labour leaders abandoned nationalization the early 1950s and the Con- federation plan was shelved— Gaitskellite right the wing totally failed to persuade the labour movement formally to break commitment to nationalization, embodied in All Trades Kings I Special showin day June 2, 1973 The three firms have a virtual monopoly of bread baking ; and retail all the leading brands.

Joseph Rank, chairman of

RHM,

Mother's Pride, said Nimble, Hovis and others would Monday. Other all go up on brands involved include Sun- blest and Wonderloaf. The increase will swell the already record profits of the declared a monopolies. Ranks massive £15.1m profit for the first six months of the financial year this week. This was almost £4m more profit than in the same period last year. the constitution drawn up in 1918. dis- Today nationalization becomes the vital issue because the economic crisis means that the concrete interests of the work- ing class can only be served by dispossessing the capitalist class. Nationalization of great indus- tries without compensation and under workers' control is a question of power. Today, it is a revolutionary demand.

In this situation, a central task of Trotskyism is to enable the working class to break from reformism. into a Transformed • revolution- ary party, the Socialist Labour League will fight to unite the working class to throw out the Tories and elect a Labour committed government to socialist policies of nationali- zation without compensation and under workers' control. Those revisionist tendencies who the fight to elect a oppose Labour government on socialist policies, are in reality away from the running fun- damental practical and ideo- within the logical struggle labour movement. ov- Under cover of left phrases, they really seek to abandon the working class to the leadership of Wilson, his supporter Michael Foot, and the 'lefts' like Anthony Wedg- wood Benn. They insist that workers can only rise to the level of economic struggles and are incapable of being mobilized • practically against the Tory government. en- But the development of the economic crisis now protrudes directly into politics. Workers' struggles on wages, jobs and basic rights must now take at a higher level of place political consciousness. This means that a Labour gov- ernment forced into office by mass workers' movement strong enough to bring down the Tories would immediately face demands for the repeal of all anti-working class legis- lation and for the seizure of capitalist property. In such a situation, both right and left wings of social demo- cracy could be completely ex- conditions Posed and the created for an enormous development of the revolution- ary party. Trades Unions Alliance Conf ‹ings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pal showing of the Pageant film 'THE F

BY. STEPHEN JOHNS

These increases come on top of figures which show that food are rising three times faster now • than they were a According to "The , magazine of the food industry, things will get worse.

'The Grocer' reveals in a special study carried out by a firm of city stockbrockers that prices at the end of May were 18.3 per cent up on May last year. This means prices are rising roughly three times faster than 12 months ago. At the same time, according to government figures, wages are declining for the first time since the war.

Increases between April and May include 5.44 per cent

BY IAN YEATS

DETAILS of 8,000 old coal- shafts in Yorkshire could be 'hidden in archives, the Loft- house colliery disaster in- quiry was told in Wakefield yesterday. County mines and drainage manager Mr Robert Ditchfield (52), said: 'This is a problem that deserves some consideration now. There could be information in some- body's archive which possibly they don't know about which could be of interest to us.'

Admitting that plans existed showing that some of the old shafts close to the S9B disaster face had been deepened and that a bore hole had been made, Mr Ditchfield said he did not know of them until he was shown the plan after the accident. As the inquiry continues NCB officials will be under mounting pressure from the miners' union to explain why such a casual at- titude was adopted toward aban- doned workings. Immediately after the flood of water into the S9B face, craters in a ploughed field appeared above the workings. On day three of the inquiry, assistant

NCB

engineer William Dobson (59) inrush of told the that after the court water in the early hours of March 21 the Engine Pit, the Bye Pit and the Bull Pit caved in.

he could hear a He claimed "terrific amount of water' going down the Bye shaft and the Bull AFTER a magnificent effort last month where you, dear readers, raised well over our £1,750 target for May, as well as cam- collect our Party paigning to Development Fund, we must now do everything possible during June to match this effort.

We are sure we can. Never • Conference: To discuss de oo Park: Manchester—Sunda'

'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER'

margarine; 7.58 per cent bacon and ham; 3.25 per cent sugar; 18.22 per cent vegetables; 7.06 per cent eggs. "The Grocer' says: "The index of processed goods is likely to reaches its conclusions on number of applications from food manufacturers.' The Price Commission was the board hand-picked by the Tory government to "control' prices.

How well it has been doing its job can be seen from the latest figures which show 45 price in- alone and this week creases NO price reductions. The items going up in price include: Bissell Carpet Sham- poo, Far North Brand Fish and Meat Pastes, Pilsbury scones, doughnuts and cakes, Bowyers Local government workers lob- bied their union leaders yester- BRITISH - LEYLAND'S Cowley, Oxford, car factories came to a standstill yesterday the over company's refusal to promise up- grading to 80 plant attendants.

The men, who start and stop facilities in the as- production sembly factory, have been press- ing since Christmas for a declara- tion that, when the Tory pay laws allow, they will be moved up from the Skilled B to the Skilled A grade.

50 FUND-MAKE EA

before has Workers Press been so important within the workers' movement. At a time when this Tory government is completely Fu discredited, only Workers Press fights every day to expose this crisis of the ruling class and de- mands that they be forced to resign. ss defence of democratic ri Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

'OWER' and songs and scenes from his bacons and cooked hams, Danish Blue cheeses (Kraft Foods) and 'Picnic' fish and meat pastes.

'The Grocer' warns that the outlook is bleak for housewives.

'Food prices are destined to rise with the gradual implemen- tation of EEC regulations on threshold prices for imports and floor (intervention) of market prices for foods.' This is a reference to laws in which the Common Market mean the government deliber- food prices ately has to keep higher than necessary in the in- terests of the millionaire food barons and farming interests.

says The Already between Grocer', British food the gap prices and higher EEC levels has closed from 26 per cent in 1970 to between 10 and 15 per cent now. day as pay talks began on the wage claim of 15 to 20 per cent.

MAINTENANCE workers at the Triang works, Cytarthta, near Tydfil, Merthyr walked out yesterday after management re- fused to admit the works con- venor and 11 other engineers into the plant. Convenor Arthur Jones and his fellow workers were told that they would not be re-employed after the spring holiday because of rationalization plans.

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Put all your support behind our paper. Make a really special effort this month to raise our Fund. Start today. Post your dona- tions to: Workers Press June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG atic rights TUC must break off all talks on Phase 3 Make the Tory government resign! Transform the Socialist Labour League into the Revolutionary Party! 9 p.m. from history