Workers Press no. 1091

workers press Employers in conference hear plan

A WITCH-HUNT

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 1973• No 1091 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AGAINST

BUILDERS

From Stephen Johns A WAR on militants in the building trade is to be launched by employers who are in touch with right-wing organizations devoted to witch-hunting trade unionists. Building trade bosses met yesterday in Amsterdam and went into secret session to discuss what to do about the militants in their industry.

The discussion was based on a confidential report naming militants and their organizations prepared by the Tory-backed Economic League Economic League representative is travelling to the Dutch city to deliver the dossier Subversion the building industry. in Scotland, recently defended the umD nan nterview. The building employers Labour-only ['lump'] heard that left-wing. within the working rules izations were organizing self and employment of new wave subversion attractive verv large in the industry. This was number hard-working aimed primarily against full of initiative. craftsmen lump' labour on sites attacked ralon diso The conference is 'violence organ. and Intimidation ized by the National Federa- in the industry. Trades The Building campaign to destroy of Employers. militancv within the industry is very much part Representatives the general offensive launched like Wim- giant contractors by the ruling class and Tory Cubitt's pey's, McAlpine's and Laing's will be present government asainst al made unions and their members well delegates for the as who sandu be thered to. thousands of small firms in answered the industry. building workers alone, campaign to root out only by the whole trade militants been build. movement mobilized and blacklist union the Tories. bring down the mouse nas ing up for some time among is une way. to tum the employers ranks. the witch-hunt against the witch-hunters. The National Federation has already compiled its own on militants and has reced Home Secretary Robert

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changes in the law Carr Tor which will make entective picketing at sites illegal.

WE'RE keeping the pres-

FUND

The hawks are the smaller Yesterday's post rely largely sure up. contractors on "lump' labour to survive.

in £173.44, pulled which brings Lump' workers are men our total to Todmorden £10.25; South- cally" self - employed, who the £48,427.59. ampton £4: Bristol £11.50; technically Can we reach £50,000 by Willesden £15; London SLL threat they represent a next Monday (June 11)? members' meeting in the industry be. workers Equity members €12. cause they operate in It's to be a hard

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going standard conditions and are Post all donations to: struggle, but we are sure a potential blackleg force it can be done Party Building Fund The National Federation's 186a Clapham High Street Sunderland £10; South- new president Bill Paton, wark £27; Lancaster £9.20; London SW4 7UG small builder from Ayr. NE 6, 1973 • No 1091 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ALL 90 DIRECTLY -employed building workers at the MacInerney site in Seven Sisters' Road, north London, have been on strike since last Thursday over the sacking of shop stewards. Three weeks ago the site was visited by men World's from the End Site, which Cubitt's have abandoned. A works' committee was set up, which had its first meet- ing last Wednesday. At a site meeting last Thursday a convenor was elected and it was decided to enforce 100 per cent trade unionism at the site.

five One hour later bricklayers, two labourers and three scaffolders were sacked-including the site convenor and the labour- ers' steward. The 90 workers are determined to out stay until these men are re- instated.

CHANTING

students prevented a lecture by Prof Samuel American Huntingdon, former State Department adviser on the Sussex Vietnam war, at University yesterday. A spokesman said: university "The lecture has not taken and the professor has place, left campus.' He now the said the professor had an- other invitation to address Institute of Develop- the ment Studies at the univer- but he did not today sity know if he would keep the appointment after yester- day's events. The battle in the fishing grounds around Iceland are climax with reaching charges and counter aggression and charges of the The violence. men In Britain's deep- middle are fishermen. But whose sea war are they fighting? Workers Press has investi- the economic and gated political issues behind the five-part conflict. Our the series starts today on centre pages. You can order copy if you telephone your Circulation 01-622 7029.

workers press Employers in conference hear plan

A WITCH-HUNT

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 1973 • No 1091 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AGAINST

BUILDERS

From Stephen Johns A WAR on militants in the building trade is to be launched by employers who are in touch right-wing with organizations devoted to witch-hunting trade unionists. Building trade bosses met yesterday in Amsterdam and went into secret session to discuss what to do about the militants in their industry.

The discussion was based on a confidential report naming militants and their organizations prepared by the Tory-backed Economic League economic League. representative is travelling to the Dutch city to deliver the dossier - Subversion the building industry. Scotland, recently defended tne lump in an interview.

The building employers ['lump'] 'Labour-only heard that left-wing within the working rules were organizing ILaliums self employment of allu 'new wave auracave verv the industry. This was of hard-working aimed primarily against craftsmen full of initiative. sites. Jump' labour on attacked ralon aisl The conference is organ- 'violence and intimidation' ized by the National Federa- in the industry. Trades The Building to destroy

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Employers. militancv within the industry is very much part the Representatives the general offensive launched like Wim- clall contactors by the ruling class and Tory Cubitt's pey's, NeAtone s. will be present and Laing's unions and their members well delegates as who stand up for their rights of small hrms in Loousalias by Callul ans welca the industry. but bullding workers alone, out only by the whole trade campaign to root been build. mobilized and blacklist militants union movement the bring ing up for some time among This tne the employers' ranks. the witch-hunt against the witch-hunters. The National Federation has already compiled its own militants and has report asked Home Secretary Robert

€100,000 PARTY BUILDING

carr tor chances laW which will make effective picketing at sites illegal.

WE'RE keeping the pres-

FUND

The hawks are the smaller rely largely sure Yesterday's post contractors up. 'lump' labour to survive.

in £173.44, pulled which men our total to Todmorden £10.25; South- "Lumo workers are brings cacor sell - employed, who £48,427.59. In0I- ampton £4: Bristol {11.50; technically Can we reach £50,000 by Willesden £15; London SLL represent a threat Lney next Monday (June 11)? £74.49; nembers meeting workers in the industry be. Equity members £12 cause they operate in It's going to be a hard SUe. conditions and are standard Post all donations to: struggle, but we are sure a potential blackleg force.

Party Building Fund it can be done. The National Federation's 186a Clapham High Street Sunderland £10; South- new president Bill Paton, wark £27; Lancaster £9.20; London SW4 7UG small builder from Ayr, NE 6, 1973 • No 1091 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ALL 90 DIRECTLY - employed building workers at the MacInerney site in Seven Sisters' Road, north London, have been on strike since last Thursday over the sacking of shop stewards. Three weeks ago the site was visited by men from the World's End Site, which Cubitt's have abandoned. A works' committee was set up, which had its first meet- ing last Wednesday. At a site meeting last Thursday a convenor was elected and it was decided to enforce 100 cent per trade unionism at the site.

One hour later five bricklayers, labourers two and three scaflolders were sacked—including the site convenor and the labour- ers' steward. The 90 workers are determined to out stay until these men are re- instated.

CHANTING

students prevented a lecture by Prof Samuel American Huntingdon, former State Department adviser the Sussex Vietnam war, at University yesterday. spokesman said: university 'The lecture has not taken and the professor has place, campus.' He now left the said the professor had other invitation to address of Develop- the Institute ment Studies at the univer- but he did not sity today know if he would keep the appointment after yester- day's events. battle in the fishing The grounds around Iceland are climax with reaching and counter Charges aggression and charges of The in the violence. men Britain's deep- middle are fishermen. But whose sea war are they fighting? Workers Press investi- has economic and gated the political issues behind the conflict. Our five-part the series starts today on centre pages. You can order if you telephone your copy Circulation 01-622 7029.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday June 6, 1973 A whiff of Watergate' in The refers to the article PRESIDENT Georges Pom- the Elysee? 'hypothetical receipt through pidou, whose health has ment personally implicating trance, the president or the premier.

socculalion cancelled his participation 'Let us suppose, says, outside receptions But there wards Lave said that the verson ma cuesuon, the presidential sistent unofficial reports tha!

dictatorship has met with Elysee 'using perfectly legal means, total approval, than palace until further notice.

had paid penny in tas nels receivin- coruso did Informed sources said the cobalt ray treatment. ever 11S. coallul the previous year. Pompidou visibly led by will 6-vear-old

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This obscure hypothesis is and d'Estaing, the Finance lately not attend

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well. developed at length and in the coming Shown become detail. whiff walking. Tunere is also in the ai weeks. In the past lew The his financial scandal Whether or not this has agitation over hans newseasers dave calcu lengthy direct significance head In The for an official statement on health has ally fact that ton oper leads on the headline Could Pompidou's health. less than a tortnight alter ne French announced his deter- Watergate happen questior spokesmen Presidential France?' the Paris news. time mination watertale have Le Monde asks what presidential crisis demon- 'the announce that Pompidou

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Danci considerable strates unease suffered from influenza regime of parties'. such has This hint of a move to- scandal came to light. In a ces. President defies Watergate prosecutor Nixon clamp

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

on evidence CHILE HAS suspended shipments of copper, its main export commodity, as a result of strikes at two of the main mines in the country. The Popular Unity coalition headed by President Salvador Allende called off exports-destined mainly for Britain and West Germany-at least for the month of June.

In the Andean mining of Rancagua,

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

town populalion 130,000, hundreds of troops and paramilitary police were provide White House logs recording PRESIDENT NIXON has refused to the • stréets strikers special chief details of his conversations with close advisers to the Watergate burned barricades in the pre- dawn darkness. prosecutor Archibald Cox.

The refusal has drawn a sharp protest from nearbv b strikers at te r aakay ase ever Teniente Cox, who said he expected to see the logs and rise. pointed out that he had only taken the prose.

shortly after Clasned

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Donce the strike began and the area cutor's job on condition he would be given declared emergency zone was an access to everything.

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Hullal y Culli ul In northern Chile, at least half Nixon's refusal follows the testimony of John Dean workers at the giant Chuqui- the 10,000 Ill, his former counsel, who said he Canad employall: strike least 35 times with the President about the Watergate men, in sympatny EI Teniente the world's Chuquicamata records of all these largest the spee at El Teniente The White House 'log' contains mine has provide Cox with the records conversations. Refusal to led to one death- striker shot assertion that Nixon's seriously compromises week Illilal y

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powers the special prosecutor who failed column workers investigate. to obey an oruci le much to hide and is halt, police said. indicates plainly that Nixon has limits of privilege' to try and keep the bloodhounds out of his parlour.

divi- Within cox s team or orosecutors lucic He sions. ASSIstant General Henry in charge of Water-

PROSECUTOR COX

gate investigation, will himselt be re- buffed by the Senate Nixon's friends committee of inquiry, headed by Sam He hạd Ervin. ocilalol the Ervin recuesico committee to suspend hearings created false THE TORRENT of Water- Smith pro- three months to avoid says for Westgate, including the fits for impairing his case. gate has become so pro- false and mis- publishing Ervin replied that the Justice have fuse that you may leading statements. Department had already overlooked minor, According to the

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it led full year to bill cas nearly of $17.5m of 10 the inclusion but nevertheless influential and bogus C. Arnholt Nixon follower, Senate to play up to the 1972. Behind this camouflage Smith. its role. accounts, Smith and phoney West- converted Smith is a long-lime Rebubli.

airectors •toe WITNESS in

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contributor and owner gate cash for their can yesterday was opened inquiry Diego Padres, a major suit has been filed in the San the waters Sally Court, San Diego, Mrc Harmony, US District secretary convicted Injunction But it is Smith's banking bringing temporary fate bas le Gordon Liddy when suddenly against Smith well which have as activities legal counsel to the appointment of receiver for Securities come To enla re-election com- President's Commission have financial conglomerate. and Exchange mittee. financier accused Smith of looting the The described as 'one The committee is Westgate California rest dil considering assets of the Nixon's oldest friends and poll- speeding its investigations up Corporation, which forward the testi- bringing chairman. presidential election are that Smith In the mony charges sonne OI une InOre last Smith. contributed important witnesses and leaving S50,000®* violated Federal Securities Laws Nixon's re- the small-fry until later.

towards In a complex series of allegedly fraudulent transactions. The SEC election. The latest sensational revela- Watergate nons allall Comecon to consider concern Republican plans establish a call-girl pry of leading Demo- secrets OUl Common Market ties ALLENDE ... Attacking copper miners.

cratic politicians. Farmworkers' shorter week—in 1974 is to lay down future guidelines PRIME MINISTERS of most of group's two-year-old the nine countries in Comecon, East European economic nrogramme economic Prague gration. met in and trading bloc. FARMWORKERS in England and And even that miserable award deputy premier Czechoslovak yesterday for a summit due the was held up until April 1 b of Wales were yesterday awarded a chairman mark new stage of economic Frantisek Hamouz, Tory government's state pay laws their working the Comecon executive, said the two-hour cut in development. Now the 40-hour week will week-from 42 to 40 hours-by talks would 'mark the begin- five days between are thought likely any The talks in econo- of new stage the Agricultural Wages Board.

11118 deal largely with technical Saturdav. to Monday and mic development major item me into shoreet until Till any from Monday to Friday, questions, but one as ine Hamouz said detente farmworkers wanted. the agenda will concern the January on tasks be- Europe had set two come Mr chairman of development speeding its Davies oI closel Te anons Comecon: up mastrom une care SonI HOTe with the Common: Market. Rave them a wage of wordy ahish their which National ther rarmers

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own integration extending Employment Committee, which economic co-operation with Main task of the meeting, had opposed the claim, said European countries. a week. other which is due to end on Friday,

GN CORRESPONDENT

ipments of copper, its main export strikes at two of the main mines in Jnity coalition headed by President exports-destined mainly for Britain st for the month of June.

His funeral was attended by 7,000 people who then clashed with police and troops, hurling firing lighting guns, fires and of several pro-government parties.

Eighty-six people were jailed and policemen were taken to two hospital. At the root of the dispute a claim by the strikers- lies 7,000 of a work force of 12,000— that they were cheated of a pay rise. Late last year the govern- ment granted all wage-earners in Chile a rise of nearly 100 per cent to match the rocketing cost of living. But the El Teniente manage- ment discounted from this a 41 per cent rise the men had been local agreement given under a providing monthly cost-of-living increases. The strikers insist this money must be included in their pay. pper miners. would be taken into award in future pay negotia- account tions. Farmworkers' Union President Mr Bert Hazell said that no claim had been drawn up, but there was still an instruction from the union conference to demand £25 a week. The union would present that claim, he said, 'when the time comes'.

Tories defreeze frozen food prices INCREASES in the price of frozen foods, chocolate, sweets and cake mixes have been agreed by the Price Commission. The price of Quick Frozen Foods manufactured by Birds Eye and Smethurst Foods will go up by an average of 6.08 per cent. The manufacturers say the increases are due to the higher HUGH SCANLON, engin- eers' president, is already 'left' preparing his cover with • which to face his own union members over next week's government - TUC 'talks on Phase Three. The AUEW national com- mittee passed a resolution in April instructing the executive, including Scanlon, to press the TUC not to participate in any discussions with the govern- ment on any form of wage freeze. Scanlon will be enthusiastically taking part in just such discus- sions a week today at Downing Street. Although Scanlon partly cov- ered himself at National the Committee by getting the mover's agreement that the motion did not preclude him from taking part Downing Street any talks, he is still feeling acutely the him from the pressure on branches who want the talks to be broken off. In the latest editorial in his union journal, Scanion tries more "left' words to allay fears of a sell-out. 'We have made it quite clear improvement in that any rela- tions between the TUC and the government must include the non-operation of the Industrial Relations Act.' But what use is this assurance when Scanlon has not retracted one word of his statement to the Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch in March? He said then: "Two amendments to the Industrial Relations Act could offer a way forward for co-opera- tion with the Tory government.'

The two amendments were for a return of tax concessions and an end to private in the Industrial Relations Court. But the essence of the state control of the unions would remain. Scanlon goes on: 'If at the end of it all we are unable to reach a settlement, then we cannot have the same sort of fiasco we had under [Phase Two] Congress be prepared in must the event of failure or rejection to determine what action must be taken by the movement.

'On the basis of the above [action on rents, prices, pensions, the lower paid, etc.] we are pre- pared to go ahead and seek agree- ment, but if such agreement proves impossible then the whole movement must face up to the consequences.' But Scanlon made exactly the same sort of speeches before and during the previous talks with government prior to the the collective abolition of free bargaining by the pay laws.

made similar speeches about the importance of not gasworkers or the letting . the workers down hospital to go defeat because of the crippling • it would deal to the whole blow anti-Phase Two pay struggles. But in the end, nothing what- done ensure the ever was to government's defeat by industrial action, not even when the March 5 Special Congress gave a spe- cific mandate to the TUC to carry out exactly such a cam- paign. And chief among the non-implementers of that Con- Hugh decision gress was Scanlon. refusal of the TUC's The Finance and General Purposes Committee - on which Scanlon sits-to back the hospital work- ers' struggle led to them aban- doning their struggles. of this The consequences betrayal have led to further col- laboration with Phase Two-four unions representing the hospital workers have taken their case to the Tories Pay Board. cost of meat, fish and vege- tables. Sugar and chocolate confec- tionary Callard made br Dowser woon averace 8.7 per cent and cakes McVities made by and Cadbury wake WIl

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4.84 per cent. "Appletree' an apple desert mix made Cadbury will by 7.9 per weDdes rIse cent. All the pri dates changes effective rangle An industrial reporter looks at the Scanion prepares to cover Fisher justifies his trip to the Pay Board general secretary THE COVENTRY Amalgamated Postal Branch of the Union of Post Office Workers has condemned general secretary Tom Jackson for his witch-hunting outburst conterence. 'His insinuations that the Communist Party, Socialist Labour League and tional Socialists were plotting to subvert the union and that these ge unionists are the gIve union, it says absolutely entirely talse and without evidence. that trade union- 'We believe ists have cratic right to engage in political from June Il to July 4. The Commission also gave the go-ahead to International Printers to charge 7.5 per cent more for contractual printing, binding, litho plate-making and process block making.

Johnson and Nephew (Steel) have been granted an imme- diate 1.1 per cent increase in the prices of wire and wire products. And BOC Transhield will raise • their warehousing and ALAN FISHER, general secre- tary of the National Union of Public Employees, describes the hospital unions approach to the Pay Board on Monday as 'constructive realism'.

After meeting Derek Robin- son, deputy board chairman, he said the unions had seen him 'in the genuine belief that the board is capable of making recommen- dations to the government that will solve some of the problems left by the strike. Fisher Both and Charles Donnet, national officer of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, recoiled from the Union of Post Office Workers' descrip- tion of its attitude in deciding to go to the board-'armed neutrality. comment of From later a Fisher ('We are taking the gov- ernment at its word and testing their sincerity'), can be assumed that it is the suggestion that they are in any way 'armed' that they were objecting to. Both men claimed to believe the cor- board was really 'inde- poratist pendent'. Monday's meeting with Robin- son was not the first time union leaders representing some large groups of workers have been in to see the board, Fisher and his told. But they colleagues were were not told the names of their predecessors. It will not be the last time Fisher, Donnet and the other members of Monday's delegation Evans, (Peter Transport and General Workers' Union, and David Williams of the Confede- ration of Health Service Em- ployees) go in. A meeting is to be arranged before mid-Septem- when Robinson is due to ber, report to the government, on mated Postal Branch of the Union condemned general secretary Tom ting outburst at the recent UPW the discussion and campaigns, politics La- whether those be • bour, Communist or Trotskyist.

'We demand the general secre- retracts his state- tary publicly dissociates ment and that he himself from the lurid story in the "London Evening News" of a plot to take over the union. 'Failing that, we demand the members of the executive coun cil publicly speak out in defence ical of democratic rights.'

Workers Press, Wed distribution charges at once by 7.5 per cent. A 4.52-per-cent rise in the price of transport and related services provided by SPD will mean a 7.67 per cent increase to customers who have not had price changes in the past nine months.

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and their Forgings subsidiaries will raise the price of their products by 5.19 per cent. They blame the cost of Common Market raw ma- terials. the question of low After Monday's meeting, Fisher warned that if the gov- ernment ignored what he anti- cipated the Pay Board might tell it on these issues, they could political and major assume social importance. 'We had our strike', the NUPE we've said. 'Now secretary turned to the negotiating table.

But if the government don't listen to the Pay Board, they're for serious industrial heading trouble'

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Monday June 4, 1973 Dear Comrade, In view of the considerable interest in the political differences • between the League Socialist Labour and the Communist Party, the London Area Commit- tee of the Socialist Labour League invites a represen- tative of the Communist Party to debate: 'That the policies of the British Communist Party derived from the are policies of Stalinism'. Awaiting your reply, Yours fraternally, Sheila Torrance, London Area Secretary of the Socialist Labour League. LONDON diplomat David Lee (33), who was put off a ship heading for Lagos last Satur- day, is said to have had a row on board with Nigerians. He was on his way to the Nigerian capital, to take up a consular post in the British High Commission. He is staying for the time being in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, about 1,000 miles short of his destination.

The master of the British passenger vessel 'Aureol' is re- ported to have asked him to leave the ship at Monrovia after the He feared it might row. incite other Nigerians on board.

at home, the British And, is anxious that government nothing should interfere with the visit of General Gowon, State the Nigerian head of state, to London later this month. accompanied by his Lee, family, sailed from Southampton on the 'Aureol' at the end of May with 300 other almost passengers. More than half were Nigerians. Lee has apparently given preliminary explanation to the British Embassy in Liberia and a report is on its way to Lon.

don. The Foreign Office will not comment on the affair until the report has arrived.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday J 'Joining the League- that's only the start' Margaret Alcock (25), a house- wife from Shirley, Surrey, who has two children aged seven and four, recently _joined the Socialist Labour League to- gether with her husband Steve.

She says: I used to discuss politics with my father. We talked Tory about the government and how bad it was even to live on the wages that were being brought in. The Tories ruin your lite for you. They are Just a government for people who are out to make money for themselves. They are not for us at all. We talked about how the Labour government had been no better and something else was needed. So I decided to go one step further and I started to go to some Socialist Labour League classes. I realized that the soon Workers Press was, and still is, the only paper to print the truth about the fights of the working class. In March I went to Wembley to see the Pageant of History which was organized by the Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists. This showed how the working-class struggled to build trade unions and how they were shot by the army while trying to fight for their rights. If they could fight then for what they believed in, and win, so can we. I realized something had to be done. It wasn't enough to sit at home and think about it.

The working class is strong enough to fight. It was the working class strength of the that got those dockers out of prison last year. Then there was the miners' strike in 1972. There was tremendous support for them in the working class. Every- body knew they deserved the money. Again the strength of frightened the working-class the government and they gave way. But they only gave them a little bit, just enough to keep them quiet. The working class can't do everything on their own. They have to have leadership. The Labour Party isn't for the working class. They never vote for any socialist policies at all. They let the Tory govern- ment do exactly what it likes.

The Labour MPs just sit back.

They are getting their money nothing. They are not particularly bothered what the working class thinks of them.

We are never going to change them. The Socialist Labour League says we should return a Labour government committed to socialist policies. We should, but we've got to have some- one else. We've got to be in a position to say that if they don't carry out socialist policies Inesday June 6, 1973

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we can remove them and put other people in. The only way anything is be gained for the going to working class is by nationaliz- industries. Otherwise ing the stamped further we'll just get and further the ground. into I've started to do door-to- door selling of Workers Press and sometimes it's a bit dis- heartening. People say: 'One's just as bad as the other and what good will vou do? going, But you still keep you can't give up. People are disillusioned be- cause the Labour Party hasn't done anything for the working class. They go out to work but and they can't get wage rises the Labour Party doesn't sup- port them. The only way to change this is to build the revolutionary party that will go in and fight for the working class. Workers will respond as long as they can see something being done.

The trade union leaders don't give them that lead. They are not interested in working-class They live conditions. off the working class but don't lead a fight. They haven't got any principles. It's not going to be easy to develop the Socialist Labour League revolutionary into Margaret Alcock. Above: The working party. The job will be to con- It was the strength of the working class vince workers that something prison last year. is being done. For long sO they've seen their rights taken The first away. thing is to convince them that it's going work, that it's just to not another thing to get their sup- port and then drop them. I agree with basic all the things that I've heard about the Socialist Labour League and I'm sure that people are looking for another leadership.

Once the revolutionary party starts and people get to know about it, there'll be big support, I can see a General Strike developing as things get worse.

Neither side is just going to give up. The capitalists have got too much to lose to just say 'All right, we'll step down, you can have it' There won't be a peaceful I don't socialism. transition to believe that for a minute.

Once the working class has gone that far, they're not ing to back down either. working class are the stronger of the two. They are not going to be driven back to bread and water. They are stronger than they 1926. That's where were in the revolutionary party has to take over. step in. It has to They've got to be able to lead the working class through. That's what was missing in working class is strong enough to fight.

1926 when the union king class that got those dockers out of leaders let them down. We've got to

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Af the Pageant of History, Empire Pool, Wembley last March: In the past workers 'could fight for what they believed in and win, so can we.'

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ng make sure that doesn't happen en this time. to People have ng

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sticking up for their rights st p- nOW. There are lots of people who sic think like That is, me. there thinking ut are people IOL Ol like I was 18 months ago. re was thinking then that some- thing had to be done, but l ty didn't know what. I didn't know then that the Socialist Labour League existed.

There must be thousands of e. people like that. The job of to the Socialist Labour League is to get out and bring all these people together. Then you've gol to eaucale them. You can't just leave them in the position they are in.

ul My job, as a new member i't of the Socialist Labour League, is to go and find others.

New as members have got go and push the Workers Press and a tne other things that they stand for. They've got to find out mere about Marxism. Nobody has learned it all. ey I've got to educate myself.

to I've soe can to understand thinis people to them to the revolu- win tionary party. You can't just sit back and rs say 'I've joined, and that's it'.

to That's only the Start mpire Pool, Wembley last March: In the past v 'Unite the working class in a political fight' John Tomlinson is a Hull engi- neer who has a background of some reading of Marxism.

Now he has decided to take an active role in building the revolutionary party. My father was a railway- man and I grew up in a solid working-class back- ground. At 15 I went to sea and what I saw in places like South Africa and the Portu- guese colonies made me under- stand what the nature of society was and the need for a radical change. But it was not until I be- came active that I really began to understand the possibility of changing it. I had read some Marx and understood it, but the main problem was that I could not the possibility of the see working class going forward.

I suppose before I came to the SLL, I was a reformist.

But the past few years have convinced me that reformism is a hopeless policy. We have the past workers 'could fight for what they belie seen all the reforms that have been passed being taken away by the ruling class and the Tories. There can be no solu- tion until we get rid of the ruling class. We have had this spelt out as clearly as it could be with this latest government. On every issue they are driving the working class down-the Industrial Relations Court, the pay laws and so on. But, as the SLL says, we have to ask why they are doing this and it is because of the crisis of the capitalist system. I had always been interested in parties and some kind of political activities, but I never knew how to channel my energies. The Communist Party never really appealed to me. I found it difficult to see the difference between them and the reformists-they did • to have the same not seem view of the communists who be- led the Russian Revolution anyway. I think many workers are beginning to consider similar though the process is issues, not always apparent. I think a lot of people are frightened of changing the system. They are scared of political struggle because they think they might get hurt or their living • stan- dards might suffer. The first thing to learn is that we can't tackle these Workers Press, Wed i they believed in and win, so can we."

things as individuals but as a class—to unite the working class in a political fight, that is the main aim. It is difficult for people to see this because they are con- fused by the nature of the crisis. People fail to see that the crisis is international and the main impact on the British working class comes, in fact, from abroad from countries like America, Japan and their relationships with Britain. I think the first thing that we must do in changing this situation is to make them understand history-the his- tory of Marxism-show how this developed through people like Lenin' and Trotsky and their struggles for socialism.

There is also the question of the working class itself— the history of their own rights and the history of the crisis of the capitalist system. This information gives kind of people an understanding of their position today and what kind of things face them.

But it is a very very slow process, as I said. But i think living as the standard of of the working class gets driven down, people will have no choice but to come forward.

They will have to answer the questions posed to them by the working class-but answer them in action, poli- tical action. ress, Wednesday June 6, 1973 PAGE 5 The situation therefore hangs on the question of leadership. On this aspect I think the SLL has been very good. It is not afraid, for example, of exposing people, so-called lefts like Scanlon- my leader. I used to have a lot of faith in this man but we see he has gone back on several key issues, particularly collaboration with the Tories. There are a couple of things I would like to query. As far as the programme and policy of the SLL is concerned I am in entire agreement. But what after we achieve happens power? Take, for example, a man on £35 or f40 a week. These people ask me: 'What happens to my standard of living' and I don't really have an answer. To my mind we have a good industrial basis for socialism in this country. We will not need a lot of the things we have now, like cars, or so many cars. So I think these things can be cancelled out and production can be used to provide other more vital things. I think the SuL laces a very important period. I think it needs to go forward as it is going forward now-cam- paigning politically in the wor- king class for a new leader- ship. Struggling with workers in a day-to-day sense and spreading the word.

PAGE 6 Workers Prosa, Wedneoday June 6,

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The cod war is more than headlines in Hessle Road, Hull.

This is the back-street com- munity by Britain's largest fish dock where the deep-sea trawlers set out to fish around Iceland and beyond to the Arctic circle. The remote freezing oceans of the world are home to Hull's 1,800 deep-sea fishermen for two-thirds of their working lives. Whether they sail for the fish monopolies in modern freezer ships or in the oldest most decrepit side trawlers, the men risk death and serious injury, and total exposure exhaustion at places like the Barent Sea, Bear Island and Walneeday June 6, 1073 the North Cape. These are the men who bear the brunt of the cod war- the deckies and the skippers who labour 18 hours a day for three weeks to drag the catch from the sea. The fish mean profit for firms like British United Trawlers which owns every third boat sailing in the distant water fleet. But for the men cod fishing is a life of unremitting toil for low wages in appalling conditions. The owners urge them into battle in semi-military style.

There is ciearly only one answer,' says the Trawling Times, their mouthpiece. 'We get stuck in and we carry on fishing. The men behind the trawl- ing companies of course fight the battle from warm offices.

The trawler men fight it on deck. Yet the issue has super- ficially united the Hessle Road.

The trawlermen and their families declare it their right to continue to fish the Ice- landic cod. But things were not always so amicable. Three years ago a strike of trawlermen split Hull's fishing community into two hostile camps. The men wanted money and union recognition. The owners were determined to preserve what they call the 'individualism' of the industry. They foraged inland to trawl- recruit hands to crew ships.

5 One bunch of scabs was ambushed by angry trawlermen.

The owner-Michael Burton of Newingtons trawlers — turned and called the strikers 'gutter rats. The bitterness still rankles.

"They treat us like dirt,' said one staunch unionist. 'But now want us to fight their they war? Such anger is born from the conditions the deckies have to endure. In trawling you stand 17 times more chance of dying than in work on land.

In every year since 1952 more people have been killed on trawlers than down coalmines.

Then there are the disasters.

In 1968 Hull fishermen were stunned by a triple tragedy when three boats went down in the northern seas with a loss of 60 lives. Skipper Phil Gay of the 'Ross Cleveland' gave some indication of the horror death at sea when his trawler keeled over in an Icelandic hurricane. 'I am going over, he radioed.

'We are laying over. Give my love and the crew's love to their wives and families.' Those were the last words he spoke.

There were no survivors. The owners (Ross Foods, now Imperial Tobacco) said it appalling. An inquiry was found that Icelandic some trawlers set sail without radios.

For these risks the basic pay is £19.10 a week. This usually goes to the wives. Then men live on "poundage' — 66p for every 100 Ib of fish. They work seven days a week for the trip which averages three weeks to 45 days. They have an agreed 18-hour working day. In be- tween trips the men get three days at home to rest. The men in the middle are the skippers. They drive the crew in the most vicious rat race yet invented by capitalism.

A skipper's money depends the catch. After entirely the fish is sold and the ex- penses of the voyage paid off they get 10 per cent. Some skippers earn well over £10,000 a year. But some can walk home from the fish-dock with- out even their bus fare. Two bad trips and they are on the danger list-there are two men with skipper's tickets for every skipper with a boat in Hull.

These are the people who fight the cod war. They face the 200,000 Icelanders who lay claim to the sea around their island. The country depends entirely on fish. Iceland is barren voicanic place with hardly any natural resources.

It needs imports to survive and for imports it has got to export and 80 per cent of Iceland's exports are fish. The Icelandic people want control of a natural resource on which their existence de- pends. If the waters within the 50-mile limit are open to a free-for-all, they say the cod A conventional side Above: trawler, the Apollo, docked at Hull. Trevor Scott, a Hull deckie says: 'The biggest dangers are the big freezers. If they from move in and haddock will be fished to oblivion like the herring be- fore them (admittedly mainly by Icelandic vessels). This series examines the true facts behind the cod war and answers the question who is right? First we present the view of the Hull trawlermen and the skippers. Tomorrow we trace the history of the war and investigate why British vessels fish the Icelandic seas. Workers Press, Wednesday

THE DECKIES

Trevor Scott lives at Masset Street in the centre of Hull's trawling community. He has been at sea 15 years and fished through the last cod war from 1958 to 1961 when • Iceland extended her limit from four to 12 miles. 'So far I think the skippers have been very patient about the whole controversy. It's very disheartening to lose your catch and your gear after hour: of hard fishing. I was out ther in the last cod war in the "James Barry" . We were going in the 12-mile limit and the "Thor" [one of the three Icelandic gunboats] saw uS. We were just hauling our gear in—but it was too late. She cut across us and we lost the • lot. 'It went on for a couple of hours. The Icelander called up other ships and they fired on us-five shots over us or in front of the ship. But it's dangerous just to cut your warps [cables that connect the trawl net to the ship]. You could get your head caved in or your back broken when the warps go. 'Where we fish and how we fish is up to the gaffers and the skippers. There used to be a craze for Bear Island, but it's died down now-it takes too long to get out there and back, there's not enough fishing time on the trip. Close to the North Cape of Iceland the weather is a danger. I was out there in the storms when three boats went down. 'You can see the Icelanders have a point. The fish should be conserved. But they used to have a lot of herring and they fished the lot out. But I have noticed it slackening off a bit-you hear the old blokes talking about the shipfulls of fish they used to sell, it's not as plentiful as that now. 'There is a lot more pressure to catch fish. When I started, the quality of the fish and its a big factor. Now size was they are bringing out every- thing that they get from the ocean. 'But we are not the main offenders. We may get out there in a group of three or four and set up a "fish shop".

You try to keep it fairly quiet if you are catching good fish.

Some skippers are OK, when they leave an area they let the rest know. biggest dangers "The are from the big freezers. If they move in, an area can be barren in a matter of hours. They just sweep the lot up. I have been just a fishing Iceland, little fish shop and within two or three hours you can't move for ships. The Russians especially fish in packs of 200 or 300 at a time with a mother ship. When they come they take everything. I think it's a shame that the trawler men—the ordinary deckies-should have to put up with all the danger and the hazards of the sea and have to risk being shot at. 'We deserve far more than we get. I am in the union and I would like to see it 100 per cent. I was in the last strike which was very bitter. We should have more money, not just because of the cod war, but because of the conditions generally. It's us that are fight- ing the war, not the owners.

They are sitting in the office.

Even coalminers get better pay and conditions than us. "The war does not frighten me. It's very serious, of course, but we sometimes have a good laugh about the predicament we are in. 'It's strange, I don't know much about politics but I will be out there in a few days in the middle of it all. I just want to fish and sail with a good skipper who goes out for the fish.' • Press, Wedhosday June 6, 1973 PAGE 7 Skippers are the linchpin of the employers' regime at fish ports like Hull. They are the men who drive the crew in impossible sometimes con- ditions to keep on fishing.

All the skippers' earnings come from the catch. The successful skippers are fêted in the Press. They become local heroes, get the Silver Cod' from the owners and attract trawlermen who want their share of the own meagre bumper catch. But the skippers are also on the treadmill. The owners don't like poor catches and take few excuses. For every skipper there are two other men waiting to take his place.

The so-called 'individuality' of the industry revolves around the desperate scramble to feed the owners' greed for fish at almost any price. Harry is an 'East Iceland' man and the skipper of a side trawler-the older boats who cast their net from the side of the ship and not the stern like the bigger, powerful more freezer trawlers. He began in 1945 on 10s a week and £2 risk money. Now he is at the top of his profession. 'The 50-mile limit would be the end of the side trawlers.

Even in Iceland the first fish is anything up to 16 to 17 days old when you put into port. There is just not the return on the longer journeys. "The Icelandics say this issue is one of conservation. But I don't believe them. Why have they got over 30 boats on order? They just want to re- place our fleet with their own.

The waters will be fished as intensively as before. 'It will come to the point when we are all out of work and our only chance will be to go and sail for the Icelandics.

People say "Get a shore job" But we only know the sea. If we went ashore it would be a job of the lowest grade. I'm not against conservation.

I would like to see an Inter- national Inspection ship to examine English and Icelandic nets for the mesh size. I would also like to see a ban on all boats over 70 feet within the 12-mile limit. 'This would be a meaningful safeguard to the fish. Because I firmly believe there are enough stocks for us and the Icelandics if the regulations are adhered to. I should know.

I have been fishing these waters for decades. 'There is also the question of the spawning grounds. These should be strictly closed for two months-the south west between February and March, and Langaness and the north east from July to August. Why don't the Icelandics agree to this? We skippers are right in the middle. We are pawns in a big political game. The pressure is on us to catch fish. You can be out days in bad weather struggling for the fish, only to see some gunboat cut your warps. The whole catch is gone, your gear is gone and you can do nothing—it makes you really mad. 'When you are an English- man, you are proud to be an Englishman. But in Iceland you are in a huddle, like frightened It's rats. humiliating and shameful. 'My father died at Narvik.

There was a plaque that said he died fighting for freedom oppression. against and But what has this meant for me?

What is this sacrifice worth if we can't make our living?

'Out there you are on your own. You have no friends, only rivals. I come home here everyone calls me by my first name. But they may say other• I'm not things when here because I am a skipper?

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

PAGE 8

Workers Press, Wednesday June 6, 1973 Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in western Europe and the growth of Trotskvism in the advanced countries in the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has begun a campaign to once again discredit and distort the principles and history of Trotsky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world-wide revolution of the work- The Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central ing class. 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 , In this series of the relations between Lenin and Trotsky.

articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

PART FIFTEEN

Fotieva (Lenin's secretary) to Kamenev exists which refers The Institute of Marx- the "pact' between Lenin to ism-Leninism has claimed and Trotsky, showing that the latter had Lenin's accepted though it doesn't men- brief. •Against tion it in It was in March 1923, also, Trotskyism', that Trot- that Lenin dictated his last 'Better Fewer articles, But sky refused on the Workers Better' and 'On the grounds of his own ill- and Peasants Inspection'.

Both these were slashing attacks on ness to defend Lenin's Stalin in particular as the position on the 'National chief representative of the Question' at the Party's bureaucracy. Lenin was, in the words of Central Committee and one of his secretaries, prepar- the 12th Congress. 'a bomb' Stalin. ing against This indicates He never finished his prepara- that they acknowledge Lenin's tions, which undoubt- trust in were Trotsky to fight Stalin during edly aimed at putting an end to Stalin's career the days of his political last abrupt life (outlined in Moshe general secretary and his Lewin's book 'Lenin's Last politically exposing un- Struggle' [Faber Faber] and principled manoeuvres. which quoted yesterday). On March 10 1923, Lenin we suffered another In fact, however, the Institute stroke which confirms from deprived him of the power of that a letter speech. His political life was at an end. What emerges with absolute clarity from the documents and letters now available confirms to the hilt Trotsky's version of these events in "The Stalin School of Falsification' For many decades these documents suppressed were by the very Institute which publishes this now book. Circulation of Lenin's testa- ment or of his last articles became a serious offence and the entire period was re- written in Soviet history books to obscure the differ- paint Stalin as and ences 'Lenin's faithful pupil. It was not until Khru- shchev's secret speech to the

CPSU

20th congress of the in 1956, a speech which did not long remain secret, that the existence of these damn- ing documents was admitted.

Now the Institute for Marx- ism-Leninism is belatedly try- ing to re-enter them in the archives, to enable the falsifiers at the Institute to regurgitate all the lies about Trotsky and Trotskyism. The final chapters of this book consist of resolutions denouncing Trotskyism passed from 1923 to 1927 by various Stalinist Party organizations and trade union and factory bodies. It is difficult to • imagine who is going to be impressed by reading the opinions of the presidium of the CC of the Agricultural and Forestry Workers' trade union in their letter to the Metalworkers' CC in support and approval of the letter of the presidium of the i Metalworkers CC to the leaders of the 'New Opposi- tion'- which is solemnly re- produced here. Knowing that the same which unanimously bodies condemned Trotskyism in 1927 passed resolutions equally unanimously ten years later calling for the wholesale massacres of Stalin's oppo- these documents lack nents, any semblance of credibility.

presumably in- They are cluded on the principle that if you throw enough mud, some of it must stick, though the documents are all based on the myth of Trotskyism created_quite consciously by Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev with the sole. purpose of Trotsky's name blackening and preparing the ground tor the Stalinization of the Bolshevik Party. The book goes no further than 1929 when, the editors inform us, Trotsky's expulsion from the USSR 'thus finally smashed the Trotsky opposi- tion ideologically and organ- izationally' If Trotskyism was smashed *ideologically and organiza- in 1929, how is it tionally that in the next sentence they can tell their readers: 'However, under various guises, Trotskyite ideology continues to harm the libera- tion movement'? Members of the Opposition on 1928. their way to exile in Seated left to right: L. Serebria- Trotsky, kov, K. Radek, M. Boguslavsky, E. Preobrazhen- Srob standin® Belob rodovskys ez: Drobnis, A. Beloborodov, novsky. Like all bureaucrats the editors of this book have learned nothing from history, which demonstrates that ob- jective truth is stronger than all their carefully fabricated lies. the Whatever their wishes, Institute of Marxism-Leninism cannot turn the clock back to the 'Stalin era' they so much loved. Their crisis forces them to attack Trotskyism by every means possible. is That their particular service to imperialism in its hour of crisis. But the lies and slanders this volume is in- tended to sustain have already been discredited even by the liars themselves. The British pupils of the Moscow lie-machine, among them the Communist Party's Mrs Betty Reid and Monty Johnstone, have already tried and failed to revive the slan- campaign of the 1930s der against the Trotskyist move- ment. The book 'Against Trotsky- ism' demonstrates how much international Stalinism fears and hates the growth of revo- lutionary consciousness in the working class and the develop- of the revolutionary ment alternative leadership.

MR ANDERSON AND FRIENDS

'O LUCKY MAN'

FILM REVIEW

BY ALEX MITCHELL

There is in existence a secret society called the Lindsay Anderson man- knows agerie. Nobody where it is or how to join. Its membership is kept con- fidential, but one can draw up a rough who's who of mem- bers. There is Mr Anderson himself of Royal. Court fame, Malcolm McDowall, An- Page, thony Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Dandy Nichols (Mrs Alf Garnett), Sir Ralph Richardson, playright David

INDISPENSABLE READING!

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* Lenin's Last Struggle Available from the Paperbacks Centre, 28 Charlotte St., Storey: producer Michael Medwin and perhaps a score more. There is a common charac- teristic of the membership— are all immensely- they talented people. Anderson is one of the most skilled directors—on film and in the theatre-in Britain today. as brilliant But his work, as it is, is made in an atmos- suffocating self- phere of indulgence. It is as if Ander- and his coterie are out son impress each other. So it to is with the mutual admiration society's latest piece of artistry 'O Lucky Man'. In this production, Ander- himself takes part as son Anderson and the film ends A study of the critical period of the consolidation of the Soviet state. The book examir.es Lenin's irreconcilable struggle against the growing threat of bureau- cracy led by Stalin, and Lenin's collaboration with Trotsky in this task. Despite certain weaknesses the book is a powerful corrobor- of Trotsky's defence of ation Soviet democracy and • his criti- cisms of the oppressive policies of Stalin against the national minorities. Indispensable reading for all socialists.

LENIN'S LAST STRUGGLE

By Moshe Lewin. Published by Faber and Faber. Hardback, 193 pages. Available (see below) at reduced price of £1.50. Gentre, 28 Charlotte St., London, W1 86a Clapham High St., London SW4 7UG with a streamer and balloons party in which all the actors —as themselves—participate.

Sitting in a cinema packed with Anderson devotees from the London Film School, one could hear them saying to there's each other: 'Look, Jasper,' as they recog- etc., nized their friends. miserable, It was such a obscure and introspective end- ing to a film of considerable genius. McDowall plays a young, blue-eyed youth who is child- ishly innocent about the ways of capitalism. The film tracks his odyssey from one catas- trophic and rapacious event to the next. Each episode is linked to- gether by the splendid use of

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What was • Earl Jellicoe's last public performance? We have uncovered this useless piece of information. He opened 'The World of the Vikings' exhibi- tion at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, on the evening of Wednesday May 23.

At this point Jellicoe, the Lord Privy Seal, had seen Heath and handed in his resig- information nation. But this still wasn't public. He per- formed the opening ceremony in the presence of the Swedish and Danish ambassadors whose countries had helped in pre- paring the Viking exhibits.

Workers Press, Wedr the voice and music of Alan Price incidentally, who, played so enthusiastically at the

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Pageant the at Empire Pool, Wembley, in March. Alan Price. Ursula Stuart Mason, the museum's Press officer, told us about this momentous occa- sion: 'Earl Jellicoe was abso- lutely marvellous. He congra- tulated us for having the vision to present the exhibition. He "a real it was scoop" This can be taken either way.

Lady Jellicoe was with him. It was marvellous of her to stand by him.'

ROYAL STABLE

Discussing the royal engage- ment on television the other night, a BBC announcer said: 'Like other young married couples, Princess Anne and her husband will have difficulties finding somewhere to live.'

This wretched arrogance would have fallen like a lead balloon into tens of thousands of council flats and near-slum tenements where young couples are herded into cramped and often unhealthy conditions.

Who says they are going to ess, Wednesday June 6, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: Czech cameraman, Miroslav with director, Ondricek Lindsay Anderson (right). Anderson's work, brilliant as it is, is made in an atmosphere of suffocating self-indulgence. is something There canny about the selection of these episodes. For instance, in one of his early jobs, Mick Travis visits a Yorkshire town in his capacity as a coffee salesman.

He meets the owner of a large shire hotel who invites him into the back for some 'enter- tainment'. They enter a darkened room where blue films are be- ing shown. The proprietor then does the introductions: Travis meets the editor of the local paper, the local taxation inspector, head of CID. the The hotelier is himself the mayor. There is one shot of a short, piglike individual, who bears an astonishing resemblance to leading very well-known figure in the Labour Party.

He has two near - naked women on his knees. The episode is a stinging attack on certain politico- business collectives in the north. There is another remark- ably exploits. He gets in- volved as personal assistant to Sir James, a leading City gent whose giant consortium has huge contacts in Africa.

Shades of Lonrho. He falls into the hands of the church, the secret service, the medical profession, the prison service the and do- gooders. Each experience is a crushing indictment of the system of capitalism. In that the film has much to sense, commend it. But at the point when he delivered could have an almighty, telling blow to the ethos of capitalism, Anderson abandons the intellectual and artistic foray of the previous two and a half hours (yes, the film is slightly over-long).

His tour de force collapses into a rave-in. So it was with Anderson's last film, 'If'. After an insight- ful look at the horrors of public school education, An- derson ended with McDowall blasting everybody down with a machine-gun. It was fantasy and it was nihilist. In 'O Lucky Man' Travis decides not to rebel against the system. In other words, you can't beat the system — it's best just to join in and do your own thing. Let's just indulge ourselves while we can, said the lyrics of the Alan Price song. The film epitomizes the radicalism of these artistic cliques. They might be able to form- ally and brilliantly describe the utter decadence and cor- ruption of the ruling system.

they can't say or do But anything beyond that. At this point they do the only thing possible - they capitulate to the very thing they claim to despise. have difficulties! Immediately the wedding is held, Princess Anne's salary goes from up £15,000 a year to £35,000.

They can probably stagger along , on that. The Queen is also giving her only daughter 'a substantial dowry'-believed reference to to be a art treasures, jewellery and a large sum of cash. And when it comes to the folding the stuff, Phillips family is no slouch. The family seat is The Mount House, a 16th century farmhouse Wiltshire. Phillips, Major Mark's father, is a director of three companies, the most famous being T. Wall and Son, the makers. From sausage Wall's he gets an annual salary of about £10,000. And that's not for stuffing sausages.

With these sort of connec- tions it is just possible that the couple can find some small castle or quiet country man- sion in which they can start the long, hard haul of married life.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednesday June 6, 1973

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ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

CAMDEN:

Tuesday June 12. SLOUGH: Wednesday June 6. 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farnham 'Prince Albert We cedals Wharfedale p.m. Road, Kings Cross. and the revolutionary party'. HACKNEY: Wednesday June 6, Central PADDINGTON: Tuesday June 12, 8 Parlour Room, p.m. of Wales', Harrow 8 p.m. 'Prince Hall. Mare Street. "Unite in action defend basic rights'. Road. corner Western Road. Tories 'Force the to resign. SLOUGH: Wednesday June 6. Return Labour government Centre, Farnham Community p.m. pledged to socialist policies'.

*The economic Road crisis and

TOOTING:

Tuesday June Coting the rising cost of living!

Baths, Tooting WEMBLEY: Wednesday June 6, Tories to Force the Broadwav. School, High Copland resign. Return a Labour govern- revolutionary Road. the pledged to socialist poli- party'. cies' WOOLWICH: Wednesday June 6, LEAMINGTON: Tuesday, June 12, 8 p.m. Queen's Arms' Burraae The Commonwealth 7.30 p.m. S.E 18. Road, 'TUC and Stalinists Tory Church Street, 'The Club, -supporters of corporatism'.

and the government Thursday 7,

LEEDS:

June unions. 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar Lane. HARROW: Tuesday June 12, 8 Forward to

ATUA

Conference Co-op Hall (Small Hall), p.m. and the fight to defend demo- Wealdstone. Masons Avanno cratic rights. ATUA conference' 'Forward to KINGSTON: Thursday June 7, 8

WANDSWORTH.

Tuesday June The Norbiton Hotel', Clifton Farth- p.m. 12,8 p.m. 'Foresters', All Road. Kinaston. 'Force Tories ing Lane. the to

FULHAM:

Thursday June 7. resion. Return a Labour govern- pledged 'The Swan'. Fulham Broad- ment to socialist p.m. 'Force the Tories to resign'.

policies'. way. SLOUGH: Wednesday June 13, HOLLOWAY: Thursday 7. June Community Centre, Farn- 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters 8 p.m. 'Force Tories to Road. 'Force the Tories to resign.

ham Road. the resign' Return Labour government SOUTHALL: Wednesday June 13, pledged to socialist policies'. Southall Library, Osterley 8 p.m.

HEMEL

Monday

HEMPSTEAD:

Park Road 'Force Tories to the June 11 (please note date resign. Return a Labour covem- 8 p.m. Adevfield Hall, change), pledged to socialist ment Square. 'Build the revo- Queen's policies' lutionary party'. Wednesday EAST LONDON: Monday June 11, June 13, 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Circular North Road. 'Stalinism Road, E.3. 'Forward to the revo- and the struggle to defend demo- lutionary party'. cratic riahts'

WALTON-ON-THAMES:

Tuesday

HULL

(Special meeting of enal- The Kiwi. neers" Wednesday. June 12, 8 p.m. New section): Zealand Walton. 'Building 'The Windmill Ave., June 13, 8 p.m. the Revolutionary Party' Hotel'. Witham. 14, BERMONDSEY: Tuesday June 12,

SHEFFIELD:

Thursday June 'The Hallamshire' 'Havelock Arms', Bala. 7.30 p.m. p.m. Street. 'End talks 'Forward the Street. to the West with clava Tories'. revolutionary party'. 8.50 tune. 10.00 rIL continued. 10.45

NEWSKAR WI

surgeon. London

INCE MEETI

LUION:Inursday Road. steele rights' BASILDON: Thursda p.m. Barnstanle Centre. 'Make the Force out socialist

CROYDON:

p.m. Ruskin 'Force Road. esign' FELTHAM: Thursday т. "inree HorSe 'Labour to po socialist or ane ano

WILLESDEN:

Brent I. Higre Hall, Road. the Tory governmer

ACTON:

Six Bells', Build the democratic Defend

CRAWLEY:

Monday Council p.m Mall. 19 Station Roa Tories government industries'. ma o

BATTERSEA:

'Nag's Head', p.m. Road. 'Force Return sign. ment Training Force noon. sign. Return ment pledged policies' DAGENHAM: Tuesd Barking Co- 8 p.m. shawe Avenue. musi natonenze tries' GOOLE: Thursday, The p.m. EXTRA. Weather. 12:35 Northe Haines sda%:30 London ondon. don. 5.25 Cross- at. 1.30 London.

EETINGS

'Stalinism • defend democratic : Thursday June 14, 8 Community ake the Tories resign. government to socialist policies' Thursday June 14, 8 Coombe Thursday June 1 8 • Horse Shoes'._Hi our to power, pledged of national- policies land and proverty'. Thursday June 14, and Trades N W. 10. 'Force government to resign. onday June 18, 8 p.m. High Street, revolutionar party. mocratic rights' i for Social 'Force the ation Road. resign. Labour must nationalize. Tuesday June 19 Wandsworth to unTe to socialist 19, Centre, the Tories to govern- to socialist Tuesday June 19, Torie: Labour government Hotel. Station ary Party and the Fight

Defence fund for builders LAMBETH Trades Council, Lon- don, has voted unanimously to set up a defence fund to assist 24 building workers who are be- ing brought before the courts following last year's builders' strike. The trades council letter to trade union • branches declares: Twenty-four building work- ers are on trial charged with conspiracy to affray, cause an damaging property and intimi- dation. The charges, under the Cons piracy and Protection of Pro- perty Act, 1875, relate to their activities on a union building site. The trial is savage new attack basic democratic On rights fought for by generations of trade unionists. It has been set in motion fol- lowing a series of anti-picket statements by Tory Ministers and the release of a dossier on the building strike by the National Federation of Building Em- ployers. The charges against the Shrewsbury 24 carry the possi- bility of long, periods of im- prisonment. These men need financial assistance to conduct their defence in this vital case and to assist their families.

Lambeth • Trades Council has opened a 'Shrewsbury 24 De- fence Fund' and calls on all shop stewards' union branches, committees and individual trade unionists to give as generously as possible. Donations should be sent to The Shrewsbury 24 Defence Fund, Cavendish Mansions Road, SW12. Hazelbourne

BY OUR OWN CORRE

SEVERAL BERTHS at Tilbury docks were at a standstill yester- day because of a dispute involv- ing forklift truck drivers.

Two giant berths which handle newsprint for many of Britain's among those newspapers were involved. Six ships were affected.

The dispute-over contingency payments — began on Monday FULHAM, London, branch of the AUEW has condemned the trade union leaders' collaboration with the Tory government. In a resolution passed overwhelmingly, the branch declared: 'There is no justification for any trade union leader to go to Downing Street or elsewhere for

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Sunday June 17 The materialist conception of History Sunday June 24 Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday July 1 Sunday July 8 Role of the Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m.

IN CORRESPONDENT

when forklift truck drivers of two of the four major stevedoring firms at Tilbury walked out.

A spokesman for one of the dock firms said all its other were being held on workers • to resume work standby ready the moment the dispute ended.

But he had no idea when that would be. any further negotiations with this Tory government. on the 'This branch Executive Council of the AUEW to demand that the TUC break off all talks with the Tories and mobilize a campaign to bring this government down.' • See Scanlon prepares cover for collaboration, p. 3.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

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 01-720 2000 01-622 7029 A march in Shrewsbury when the

GORDON CAMPBELL,

Cabinet Minister in charge of Scottish affairs, is to be questioned in parliament about the appointment of a political aide. Campbell has hired Miss Anne Max-Muller (25) as his political adviser at the Scot- tish Office. Before this, she was a secre- tary to her father, a solicitor. Campbell is not the first mini- ster in Heath's Cabinet to ap- point political aide. a Peter Walker at the Department of Trade and Industry and Anthony Barber at the Treasury all have aides paid for by the Tory Cen- tral Office. Campbell says that he pays Miss Max-Muller's salary out of his own pocket. She doubles as secretary to Norman Fowler, the Tory MP for Nottingham south, who was formerly 'home affairs corres- pondent' for 'The Times'.

William Hamilton, MP, has criticized her job as liaison officer with the 'The Press. Minister has good cause to be concerned about his image,' he AERO-ENGINE production at Rolls-Royce could be seriously affected within a few days by a call from the Association of Scientific, Technical and Manage- rial Staffs for its members to black the products of a Hereford- shire nickel firm. The firm, Henry Wiggin Ltd, is trying to force a no-strike agreement on its workers, and

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Central London 'Closures of Theatres and Film Studios'

SUNDAY JUNE 10

7.15 p.m. London Film School, corner Langley and Shelton St (opp Covent Garden tube) Speaker: Yvonne Richards Workers Press, Wed

PITAL SITE

th / when the builders were in court Campbell ... Defended Polwarth said. 'He is the worst Scottish Secretary I have ever known.'

Last week Campbell was also involved in the scandal over Lord Polwarth's appointment as 'Lord Oil' in charge of the North Sea bonanza. Polwarth is Campbell's No. 2 at the Scottish Office. When news broke that Polwarth held interest in the North a financial Sea oilfields, Campbell stoutly defended him in the Commons.

He refused Labour demands that Polwarth should sell his ASTMS members at the factory have been on strike for 14 weeks in opposition. A subsidiary of International Nickel, which is Canadian-owned, but heavily US-financed, Wiggin's refusing allow union are to members the right to strike if 'Lambeth Council of Action Sunday June 10 3 p.m. Clapham Baths Clapham Manor Street, SW4 'Break off Phase Three talks.

No Collaboration with Heath!'

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETING

BLACKBURN

'The Peel Hotel' (Town Centre) Thursday June 14 8 p.m. 'Build the Revolutionary Party' ress, Wednesday June 6, 1973 PAGE 11 shares or quit the job as oil supremo. He said that Polwarth was the 'ideal man' for the job. Last Thursday, Polwarth however, was forced to sell his own shares in oil trusts, although he has retained an indirect interest through trusts held by members of his family. Miss Max-Muller's appoint- ment has raised angry criticism from the civil service unions.

William McCall, general secre- tary of the Civil Servants Union, said her new job appeared to have been done without con- sultation. I shall be making some pretty representations, strong added. The unions are particularly indignant about the Tories' poli- tical appointments in Whitehall because it is changing the tradi- 'neutrality' of tional so-called civil service. Since Heath the came to power, he has worked towards making more overtly political appointments to top posts in Whitehall. Under the Tory system, poli- tical aides from the Tory Party are on the Minister's per- who wield staff sonal enormous power and can determine policy.

they do not agree with manage- ment decisions move them to from one job to another. Now ASTMS, after threatening blacking action some weeks, for has called on its members Wiggin nationally • to black all products. The company supplies components not only to key Ros and large suber nor Lucas and a large number motor-industry firms.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

Wednesday June 6, 8 p.m. 'The Cock O' Th' North' Portway, Wythenshawe, Manchester Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office, Published Workers Clapham High Street, SW4 7UG. Printed Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. 01-622 7029.

Film and TV men Another $ devaluation soon?

'Sabotage' denial by Chrysler 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.-9 p.m.

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Ji

BY ROYSTON BULL

THE FILM AND television tec union ACTT reached agreeme the BBC union ABS yesterday tinue their joint blacking of ernment and Central Office of ation advertising material.

On Monday the Industrial Relations Court issued an injunction ordering ACTT to stop its action.

ACTT

general secretary Alan Sapper met Victor Feather who offered TUC sup- port, reportedly, and initiated conciliation moves with Doug- las Smith, the Department of Employment's chief officer.

Pressure is mounting against ACTT from all sides to end the black. A move to reluctantly lift' the blacking on processing COl and government material won right wing and Stalinist support on the executive.

But eventually the argument prevailed, from after support that as in any strike, Sapper, the COI could not be driven back from their plan to make the film division redundant with- out stopping a far wider area of film production. Laboratory technicians, whose employment is mainly affected by the ban on showing govern- A THIRD devaluation of the dollar loomed larger yesterday as the US cur- rency slumped to a new against record low most European currencies. Though the dollar later came off the floor against the franc, mark and Swiss franc, it was clear that the capital- ists have completely lost con- fidence in it. On the London bullion mar- ket their frantic scramble for gold drove the price of the pre- cious metal to S130 an up ounce in early trading. The morning fixing price •of $127 an up $3.25 ounce was Monday's closing price-a on net gain of $9.75 since the close of trading last Friday. said Euro London bankers pean foreign exchange markets chaotic at the of were start business as holders of dollars unloaded them as fast as they switching into other could, currencies and gold. The main demand was for the and the Swiss franc. mark There is now general scepticism about the ability of the scandal- racked Nixon administration to with inflation. deal Each new set of revelations about Watergate precipitates a further round of crises on the brings markets and money nearer the next dollar devalua- tion. The 'free market' gold price is over three times the 'official' price, in actual fact the price at which the United States Trea- sury refuses to sell gold.

All Trade Special shon mesday June 6, 1973 sion technicians agreement with esterday to con- ing of all gov. office of Inform- Sapp Opposed Phad • Three talks. ment commercials, are themselves in dispute over a pay claim.

They have decisively rejectec a Phase Two £l plus 4 per cent offer and condemned their employers for "bringing politics into pay negotiations' Sapper has repeated his charge that the government is behind the television companies' court action. The government is trying persuade the unions that to

BY JOHN SPEN

The fall in the dollar's parity against sterling and European currencies represents a substan- tial real devaluation, though it been formally ack- never nowledged. Since February the dollar has fallen by nearly cent per the jointly floating against European currencies.

CHRYSLER

strikers in Coven- yesterday reacted angrily try against a company bid to split their strike in support of 650 who car - body workers, are claiming payment for a one-and- a-half hour lay-off last week.

Pickets at the gates of the Chrysler car plant at Ryton des- 'pure fantasy' cribed as sugges- tions that they had deliberately produced large numbers of sub- standard bodies because car were angry at being re- they called for work. They pointed out that there had been no investigation into the cause of any faulty work- manship. These suggestions, which fol- lowed the issuing of a letter to tht 4,500 strikers by the plant manager, appeared to have re- on the company. bounded By midday a company spokes- worried that any man, clearly prospect of a settlement had been put in jeopardy, issued a Trades Unions Alliance Conf Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pa ial showing of the Pageant film THE Tickets £1: Available from R.

nues Heath's offer to amend the In- dustrial Relations Act by ban- ning private prosecutions in the NIRC is worth the TUC's agree- Phase Three wage ment to a control deal. ACTT's was one of only three voices raised against continuing the Downing Street Phase Three talks when the TUC General Council last met. The suspicion is that by hit- ting ACTT hard through the NIRC, the ruling class hopes to persuade the union and all on the left, to see more value in a government-TUC deal. Several people in and around the NIRC hearing went out of their way to deny this story.

The dispute is not an easy issue for the right wing in ACTT to climb down over. The destruction of 18 permanent jobs in the COI film division and the hiving off of the newsreel production to outside contractors would add still further to the damaging casualization of the industry.

And the union is already com- mitted to a policy which is the complete answer to the right- wing's fears that blacking govern-

HN SPENCER

From a level of about $2.50 to the pound at the beginning of May the dollar parity has slumped to over $2.58 to the pound. The Tory government is cur- rently boasting that exports to Europe have gone up, but they about are silent exports to America, which are certain to statement disowning an accusa- 'sabotage' tion of implied in yesterday's 'Daily Express'.

'To use that word is an utter fabrication of the truth and dis- of the situation', tortion the spokesman said. THE SPEED-UP drive at British- Leyland brought the number of workers on strike or laid off at its Midlands car plants yesterday to almost 16,000. Oxford, where At Cowley, 12,000 are laid ofi, talks between union officials, senior shop stewards and will management not resume until tomorrow.

Thus the 80 plant attendants who are on strike, because of Leyland's refusal to promise up- grading when the pay laws allow, Conference: To discuss de 0o Park: Manchester-Sunda m 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWE e from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, S ment films will jeopardize jobs in namely, the • laboratories; to nationalize the whole industry, without compensation and under workers' control. This is also TUC policy. As well as revealing the tele- companies' vision fear of • the advertising-black weapon, the court case showed The government-COI is ex- questions tremely sensitive to about why the Melville report recommended hiving off in the first place. • What were the comparative costings which convinced them the film division work could be done more cheaply and efficiently outside. • What was the real situation as to unemployment and casual- ization in the industry. The ACTT has voted unani- mously to ignore the court's order and continue the blacking until the COI produces the figures proving their work can be done better contractors without by using sweated labour or inferior conditions of work. have been hit by the currency upheavals. British exports to the United • States im- extremely are an portant slice of the total ex- ports, though they amount to about two-fifths of the only amount exported to the Common Market partners. This explains the heavy buy.

ing of dollars by the Bank of England revealed in last month's foreign exchange reserves.

In his letter plant manager James Cayton claimed that some laid-off workers were upset at being recalled for work two days before the spring holiday after the settlement of a dispute at another plant. are virtually certain to stay out at least until their meeting on Friday. At Swindon 650 press operators, who are on strike against attempts to put in work- study men and raise production targets, again kept production of Allegro body panels halted.

Allegro • production at Long- Birmingham, has again bridge, been halted by the strike. 2,100 workers are laid off at Long- bridge and about 900 at Swindon itself. iss defence of democratic ri Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m • POWER' and songs and scenes from h ot West, Salford 7, Manchester.

FUND REACHES

£64.47 WE ARE now at our sixth day and nearing the end of the first week for our June Fund. We are beginning to slip behind, so let's have an extra effort before the end of this week and puil our figure right up. There has never been such a political situation as this.

The crisis continues to rage through- out the United States, over the Watergate affalr and in Britain with scandals splitting this Tory government from top to bottom.

While the trade union and Labour leaders remain the obedient servants of the Torles they, in fact, remain the main- of this government in power.

stay Use Workers Press to bulld an alternative revolutionary leader- ship. Action by the working class today must force the Tories to resign. So, put all your support behind our paper. Don't let a day go by without raising some thing for our fund. Post all dona- tions immediately to: Workers Press June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

BRIEFLY - BRIEFLY

POST OFFICE engineers in con- ference at Blackpool yesterday decided after a private session to endorse a £2.98 a week pay claim for their main technicians' grade.

The claim, which is now before the Pay Board, is in line with the government's £l-a-week plus 4 per cent limit to which has been added a 70p a week pro- ductivity payment. The increase, which is expected to be approved by the Board, is to date from July 1 and will affect all the 125,000 union members. COAL BOARD expert yesterday told the public inquiry into the colliery disaster that Lofthouse he would not have signed a plan to develop a pit face if he had known there was danger. Senior surveyor Mr Eric Radclife was answering questions at the in- quiry into the fate of seven miners who died when water broke through the South 9B face on March 21. He wrote: 'A number of men were disgruntled at being re- called because, had the lay-off continued for the balance of the week, their earnings would have been approximately the same as they would be working the re- mainder of the week. 'As a result, during the morn- ing and early aiternoon, dies level of acceptable car was as low as one-third of the scheduled production.' After repeated stoppages for repairs to faulty bodies, he added, the body track had been closed one-and-a-half down hours before the end of the day shift on May 24. Chrysler refused to meet the demand shop stewards for payment for the last 90 minutes, but when they heard this 650 body workers refused to return to their jobs. Later the rest of the factory walked out in sympathy. 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. s from history