Workers Press no. 1092

workers press Phase Three and the Industrial Relations Act

A DIRTY DEAL

IS UNDER WAY

Trade figures show £360m deficit for the first quarter INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JUNE 7, 1973• No 1092 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ROYSTON BULL

A MAJOR campaign is under way to try and trick the working class into accepting the state control of wages under Phase Three in return for 'amendments' to the Industrial Relations Act.

The proposal is a fraud. The pay laws strip trade unions of the last vestiges of indepen- dence and are an even greater attack than the Act. Free negotiation for wages is the most fundamental of all basic democratic rights. Without it there is no real trade To conceal this fraud, a huge smokescreen is being built up by government, Press and TUC bureaucrats to pretend that valuable con- cessions are being offered to the trade unions over these "amendments'. Yesterday's "Morning Star' led its front base with secret moves toware amencing the inaustrial Relations Act have been started by the govern- ment." "The Times' followed suit with: "Government aims to placate unions over the industry AcL Neither in its lead article nor in an editorial on the subject did the Communist Party's say that the these

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amenoments provide cover for leaders do a Sine Phase Three deal with the government.

The Stalinist paper didn't utter a single warning that the government-TUC begin again talks. Which Downing Street next Wednesday, aim to make the state control of wages a permanent thing and in doing sc make the a reality. corporate state The "Star' reported coyly: 'Clearly Tories from pronouncements by nave taken neart union leaders which suggested that they would countenance the Act if it was changed.

They are referring to Hugh Scanlon, engineers' president, and leading 'left' in the TUC, but refuse to name him. In his speech Parlia- tne mentary Press Gallery in March,

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scanion said: *Two amendments to the In- dustrial Relations Act could offer way

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forward for co-operauon WE HAVE a struggle on with the Tory government.

our hands if we are to com- The was that co-operation the first £50,000 by plete discussed at the infamous secret Monday June 11. Old Age Pensioners next lalks mat were colne on between Enthiand the Teaders Age Little Sutton, Birkenhead Yesterday's post brought controls return £1; Dagenham £3; Croydon in £74 which brings the "amendments". £50; Newcastle £15; B. T. total to £48,501.59. The 'Star' won't name Scanlon 25. comment pass on role This leaves us with less his because the part Post all donations to: than £1,500 to raise. Please of the hoodwink Party Building Fund comrades, have one more the WOrKinE cass. 186a Clapham High Street whip round SO that we Party The Communist 1s de. complete in good order. London SW4 7UG liberately covering up for Scanlon exposure

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DraCuICe leading the trade union move- into the corporatist trap ment being prepared by the right wing and the Tories Not once have they • taken Scanlon on his Press Gallery speech, his participation the andack secret LaIKS. these conservative

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NE 7, 1973 • No 1092 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Below: A strengthened picket. Full story p.12

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE CHRYSLER strike at Cov- prolonged shutdown. The men yesterday, embittered they hardened with won't entry alone re- their even talk to picket lines strengthening us. let turn to work, he said picket and the company threatening to off invest- 200-strong picket line cut A at ment. the Ryton factory, where 4,500 Chrysler's threat, which came workers are strike, stopped on in a statement from and clerical staff managing supervisors director and chief executive Supplies of body panels going in. Hunt, Ryton and Chrysler's other Gilbert was that no in- for Coventry factory, Stoke, vestment would be recom- at may stopped by a 24-hour until be picket mended or approved wor- kers had shown they would keep Coventry railhead. at the to procedure and not strike.

Workers the main issue say of in dispute is now whether The divisional organizer the the right to the engineers' union, Frank management have that them off arbitrarily and Chater. complained the lay at like will. threats looked causing and make much-vaunted for Britain in 1973 phoniness of the 'boom' more clearly revealed deflation even more inevitable. is Alongside the slow growth of than ever as nothing more than industrial and the last desperate inflationary new investment the sharp fall in retail trade throw of the crisis-ridden capi- announced earlier this week, the talist system.

workers press Phase Three and the Industrial Relations Act

A DIRTY DEAL

IS UNDER WAY

Trade figures show £360m deficit for the first quarter INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JUNE 7, 1973 • No 1092 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ROYSTON BULL

A MAJOR campaign is under way to try and trick the working class into accepting the state control of wages under Phase Three in return for 'amendments' to the Industrial Relations Act.

The proposal is a fraud. The pay laws strip trade unions of the last vestiges of indepen- dence and are an even greater attack than the Act. Free negotiation for wages is the most fundamental basic democratic rights. Without it there is no real trade lo conceal this fraud. a huge smokescreen is Press and TUC bureaucrats to pretend that valuable con- cessions are being offered to the trade unions over these 'amendments'. Yesterday's 'Morning Star' led its front Danc with decrer moves towero amending the noustria.

Relations Act have been started by the govern- 'The Times' followed suit with: "Government ment. ails to placate unions over tne mausury Acl.

Neither in its lead article nor in editorial an subject did the Communist Party's on say that the

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Prase Three deal with cover for the leaders do a Phase the government. The Stalinist paper didn't utter a single warning that the government-UC begin again Talks. which Downing Street next Wednesday, aim make the state control wages a permanent thing ant in doing sc make the a reality. corporate „state The 'Star' reported coyly: "Clearly from pronouncements by have taken neart union leaders which suggested that they would countenance the Act if it was changed.'

Scanlon, They are referring to Hugh engineers' president, and leading 'left' in the TUC, but refuse to name him. In his speech to the Parlia- mentary Press Gallery in March,

£100,000 PARTY BUILDING

'Two In- amenaments to the dustrial Relations Act could offer way

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iorward for co-vocralion WE HAVE a struggle on with the Tory government.'

our hands if we are to com- The that co-operation was first £50,000 by plete the discussed at the infamous secret Monday June 11. Old Age Pensioners next Lalks unar were cole on between Heath and the TUC leaders; wage Birkenhead Little Sutton, Yesterday's post brought controls in Act for £1; Dagenham £3; Croydon in £74 which brings the "amendments'. £15; B. T. total to £48,501.59. £50; Newcastle The 'Star' won't name Scanlon £5. comment This leaves us with less pass nis To e because the Stalinists Post all donations to: than £1,500 to raise. Please hoodwink Lus taly Party Building Fund comrades, have one more 186a Clapham High Street whip round SO that we The Party Communist complete in good order. London SW4 7UG liberately covering up for Scanlon exposure Dracult leading the trade union move. and the Pore, by the rant wing into corporatist Not once have they taken Scanlon on his Press Gallery ¡cavil his participation the speech, talks, Jack his and SCCret these

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Below: A strengthened picket. Full story p.12

BY DAVID

MAUDE

THE CHRYSLER strike at Cov- prolonged bute they The men hardened yesterday, with are embittered won't entry their let alone re- wicker lines strengthening picket and the company threatening to cut off invest- 200-strong picket line A at ment. the Ryton factory, where 4,500 Chrysler's threat, which came workers are on strike, stopped in a statement from managing and clerical staff supervisors director and chief executive Supplies of body panels 2olne I. Hunt, Ryton and Chrysler's other Gilbert was that for no in. be Coventry factory, at Stoke, vestment would recom- may be stopped by a 24-hour picket mended or approved until wor- kers had shown they would keep at the Coventry railhead. to procedure and not strike.

Workers say the main issue dispute is now The divisional organizer of in the whether Frank the engineers' edi on hat management have the right to Chater, them off arbitrarily and complained the lay at threats looked like causing a will. and make of the much-vaunted for Britain in 1973 phoniness 'boom' is deflation even more inevitable. more clearly revealed Alongside the slow growth of than ever as nothing more than industrial investment and the last desperate inflationary new the sharp fall in retail trade throw of the crisis-ridden capi- announced earlier this week, the talist system.

= Bribery boosted contidence PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday June 7, 1973 Nixon in crisis dollar talks

WHAT WE THINK

Paralysis at Behind the car strikes the White IT IS not 'left-wing ex- ized me Financial plans tremists' 'politically- were realized. (June 5). mouvatea mutants wno are Jules behind the present wave of "If investment cannot industry strikes, but motor raised sufficiently in the their short

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cupiers term, political hatchet-men the will have to be squeezed ou Tory government. of the existing labour force House Coven- -hence the emphasis in At Chrysler's Fisher in Pressed Steel productivity and deals try. swindon and Morris Motors during in Oxford the issues Stage Three.' 'Guardian clear. The (June 5). employers, ‹under of The real agitators in the soluble and ever-deepening factories, are the WHer crisis, are attempting to employers and the Tories.

the THE UNITED STATES administration is holding a series of lorce Cowards hace Chrysler Latc ploitation. The forms of this shop stewards Ult- meetings this week to prepare anti-inflation measures, includ- attack are speed-up, arbit- covere a convanny ourecuve lay-offs and rigid dis- dating from last October ing stringent new wage controls.

cipline. instructing management But the carworkers, whose achieve speed-up and tighter The meetings involve Nixon's top remaining aides, includ- being held discipline. DaVi ruthless clamp of the Tory And the stewards make ing Treasury Secretary George Schultz, his predecessor John pay laws, are fighting back throughout The point that Connally, central bank chief Arthur Burns, budget director For admission that speed- the present attempts to lay and cuts in real them off up wages almost will, Roy Ash and the director of the cost-of-living council John the agreed Suralek we the capitalist been extremely provocative.

Class, Dunlop. need look no further than Yesterday's from the employers and their Hunt, Gilbert managing According to Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott the President Press. director and chief executive, and his aides are actively considering domestic economic measures, official last week a heading recommend including new controls to curb inflation. There is great fear that a third Chrysler until Employers' Federation, toe the line, such dollar devaluation may be on the cards.

Edward Marsh, called for line with entirely In however, is completely without authority 'relentless' productivity The Nixon administration, to impose further controls on the working class and any attempt to do so drive. British-Leyland has tried, is certain to produce an explosion of class struggle in the United States.

uSe launch the new Allegro Nixon and his aides are paralysed and unable to take a firm decision on Their paralysis arises from the depth of the objective political and silent of knighted, pre- establish work-study car single issue. sident ('industrial Contederatior chancebas economic crisis facing the world capitalist class.

Inaustry, demand. permanent presence onune the Watergate affair-epitomized by the White ing that firms wring more shop floor and force up Their lack of decision on output from each individual of Nixon's con- production targets. House oi

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versations with former counsel John Dean Ill-spills over into their handling of The in the Issue just- And here are two Fleet ended economic questions. strike was, Street confidence in the dollar Absence of any COmmCLLS agaln, speed-up. week's laggardly investment attempts Concerted by reflected in the gold price figures: nearly three times the official price).

The

CBI

suggested that hounds to establish a link all the would between the and existing capacity strikers main European currencies. President Georges Pompidou- own kind of shadowy, have to used to its limits future is the subject of considerable speculation-has formally demanded the

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and restrictive consoiracy US take action to prop up the dollar.

abandoned against new Leyland models practices tide the economy over unti At a cocktail party in the Elysee 'Palace on Tuesday night for international failed completely turn stee ins monetary. conference in the French capital, Pompidou told bankers should decide his guests the ceteno tie donar. He said: 'The present tary situation is very worrying. sulualion Cannot last alla the United States should decide defend their currency.' own dollar As the slumps, central banks Eurodean lace unenviable choice. WATERGATE has arrived for the Bonn coalition in Brandt' EITHER they can intervene government, according to all the German Press. It is in the foreign exchange markets ana buy collars lo mallain even worse than US scandal and the Lambton afiair, rate, thus taking into their vaults more depreciated and inconvert- says one leading newspaper, because the corruption ible paper. scandal has hit an already shaky state.

• OR THEY must sit tight and

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

'Bit by bit', said 'Frankfurter Allgemeine, 'astonishing and watch their markets both at home shocking facts are coming to light.

All this must shake con- and undercut by the fidence in political institutions.

Americans. Bank that the ot Seems i What is involved, for yet another of England, for one, has chosen the the first course of action over main capitalist governments, is a constitutional crisis, and a lack of con- hours, which lasl illdy explain yesterday's re- fidence in the abilities the ruling Darte covery by the dollar. problems facing parties to solve the Within the Common Market, them. the

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Willy Brands Seal be thor cia Pellty Luxembourg the alvisions. French Foreign Minister Michel Social Democialle of offered large sums of money to two former smashed chances ally Christian Democratic . Union deputies, a joint reply to the US proposal they would vote against the for a new Atlantic Charter

CDU

He told the Foreign Ministers vote against Brandt cca no concence in April 1972. of the other eight bEc member- community, did The CDU supported by the Christian states that the not exist on a foreign-policy level Social Union has called a for a committee and he challenged the of corruption in the lo investizale cnarres of trying to speak with one voice Brandt government. The vote for the com- to thi United mittee which the opposition certain to states. The joint float of Common no-confidence win, amounts to

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Market currencies - from which the Brandt government. Italy Chancellor Brandt just scraped through ontain are excluded—is endangered by the by two votes in secret ballot. One of the dollar crisis. une lormacI deputies involvce in latest the sharp rise Julius Herr Steiner has Darticulak. chardes. 14x) admitted casting a blank vote.

in west berman interest rates part of Chancellor Brandt's anti- the Br said ittemberg letter inflation weed the is widening the Prime Minister, Steiner said: German Secret Service, said last *Bild Sonntag' that he had gap between malk ana une alli nave never received any _ incen. DM100,000 in other currencies involved. I have never re- seen been either from Social On Frankfurt exchange live man. I only remember him in so turn for voting for Brandt, Democrats, the Free there is already talk of a separate Democrats far as he was once a parliamen- day before the decisive 0200,0 on unor coaluon barmes on tary deputy.' fidence Tor tre

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Federal government, of a finan- the day itself. No amount rearrangement cial or professional nature.

Minister of the Interior, Hans- of currencies within the EEC cạn Karl Wienand,

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faction Dietrich Genscher, confirmed to accused of hay- Last 1 the Spiegel Steiner leader, who conceal the rapid 'Spiegel' that Steiner was been approached the ilau terms offered Steine Common Markets week Drive. regional Contact Wilt trade brought about by the de- news magazine and them denied it and called the allega- officer of the secret service cline of the dollar. that he had also been working tions 'utter nonsense, He could Baden-Württemberg, where he Berlin crisis is out of a double agent for East remember if he had spoken ine economic on his contacts 1972. Aldo reported control and _The concitions since bay steiner. East Berlin. According to Steiner, the West are rapidly maturing for the It is certain that the CDU-CSU of German knew The will this affair transformation the runaway government scandal worsened at the to create Helms, but the former InlO severe Sills. azicca lo mus activilics. weekend

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ree scare and an anu communsi putting huge class battles on the the FDP (Brandt's Liberal coalition witch-hunt in their fight to dis- leadership or nis own party, order the day every

CDU,

had not been informed. and now

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credit and bring down the Brandt party) deputy Horst. Grabert, capitalist power. the told another newspaper, accus.. up one solitary of scrap evidence. Leyland's combine - wide drive for speed-up also lurks in the background of the Oxford dispute. There management origin- ally put forward, but later withdrew, a proposal that all sections in the grade to which 80 striking plant attendants aspired should be work-studied. And there is still in the wind a management plan to penalize all workers when • there is a drop for any in quality or pro- reason . duction. The main cause of the Oxford dispute continuing at present is management's refusal even to give a pro- miser of upgrading, not immediately but when the pay laws allow. Workers in all three cen- tres-and in many • other areas, too-are fighting back with unparalleled deter- mination against this Tory- backed employers' offensive.

If the employers thought that with the union leaders' sell-outs to the pay laws, now was the time to whip in with speed-up, they have had a rude shock. The lesson of all this is obvious; the working class can, and always was strong enough to bring the Tory government crashing down and settle accounts with the employers. Only the cowardice and treachery of its leaders has prevented it from doing this already. The developing struggle in the factories gives added urgency to the building of the alternative, revolution- ary leadership which will face up to this task.

IN CORRESPONDENT

Brandt CHANCELLOR Willy (seen above after his con- fidence vote 'victory') sets out today on i a four-day visit to Israel. It is the first visit by & West German Chancellor In office to the Jewish state.

Brandt will be paying homage to 6 million Jews killed In Nazi camps during World War II. Brandt has also accepted an invitation to visit Egypt, clearly 1o placate Arab opinion and try to maintain Germany's 'neutral' position in the Arab- Israel conflict.

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BY OUR INDUSTRIAL

CORRESPONDENT

COAL BOARD officials at- tempted yesterday to shift the blame for the Lofthouse colliery disaster in which miners died onto seven Victorian records of old shafts. Roland Hollis, deputy chief engıneer for Yorkshire, said that knowledge of a notebook pre- pared by geologist Alexander Henry Green would have made a difference in the planning of the South 9B coal face on which the seven men were working on March 21 when water rushed into the mine. The notebook showed that an old pit shaft near the colliery was 240 feet deeper than the Board believed. At yesterday's inquiry into the disaster at Wakefield, Hollis told Arthur Scargill, Yorkshire miners' leader: 'I think there is one document which would have made a difference and we did not get it, and that is Green's notebook.' Lack of knowledge of old pit shafts has been the defence of the NCB since the men were killed at the face. The opening stages of the in- quiry, however, heard reports from eye-witnesses who had ex- pressed concern about the state of the face and a peculiar smell associated with stagnant water. Local management did little to check out these danger signs.

Spanish plans BRITISH-LEYLAND is negotia- ting for the sale of its holding in Spain's state-controlled heavy vehicle manufacturer, ENASA.

The move involves a Spanish government-backed deal which British-Leyland would take over full control of Authi, Spanish company which the manufactures British-Leyland minis. SCOTTISH Omnibuses of Edin- burgh and seven other companies in the Scottish Bus Group have applied to the Traffic Commis- sioners for permission to put up fares by 10 per cent on single fares and up to 15 per cent on return fares. FORD MOTOR shop stew- ards from Britain, Belgium and West Germany are to establish a permanent joint committee for Europe. A resolution passed at a meeting of the stewards in Cologne this week also says in future joint demands that should be presented for in- creased holidays and holiday pay, a 35-hour working week, reduction and control of overtime, and a reduction of stress. The 'achievement of humani- work', zation of the stewards say, should include measures for extension of job enlargement in production facilities, co-deter- THE CHILEAN government of President Salvador Allende was facing a new crisis yester- day with attacks from the right wing and unrest among the country's most militant workers. 7,000 workers at El Over world's biggest the leniente, copper mine, are refusing to back down after 48 days on strike for Sir Robert links terrorism' with strikes

BY ALEX MITCHELL

MESSAGE

THE

from Sir Robert Mark's meet-the-Press session is that the yesterday Metropolitan police must recruit 'public swiftly to with cope order' And 'public order', according to Mark's all-embracing definition, is handling political or disputes trade and demonstrations and 'counter- terrorist activities'. In other words Mark echoes the belief Ulster Secretary William Whitelaw, that trade allu alc oner ana loe same moine Mark said Releasing his annual report, force the was undermanned by almost 5,000 officers, despite 'the most extensive police publicity campaign ever launched in London'. months 688 left the last six force, thus lex. edin dishosed the number by 172. He that 106 recruits officers left following internal discipilnary action-an average of two a week.

A percentage of these now face crimi- na acto. Turning to public order Mark said th faced the police now 'new onchomeld of okea picket inga nd the lienedi keit.

Asked sad: Cers a que thon development, Mark of numbers. Our iob is to contain it- but not to side with one side or the other. But there has been an increase in the last two vears in the incidence strikes. There must be no attempt at repression.' about of the ASKe• une emereence Sps an pater r se We Mark said: 'It's an emergencs reserve. to All have them for all kinds of reasons.

emet in ean rimed body Any sug- sorts oI arise. gestion is tans etse. It isn t? that of men" however, the Mark falled explall. wide-ranging duties of the SPG. of pla nepothed oi ers baete fouad report persons, outes. seekng missing combating soccer hooligans, aiding CID in Serious house-to-house inquiries, aiding Crime budas, as wen as convalil, Ie- gorted dreg aise. And the Group made arrests last year. the Group's Asked extraordin- about wide-ranging Mark n bner. grinned. In closing conference he asked the journalists the 106 emonasize black sheep oneers WhO naa lelt as result. of public complaints and internal investigations. "The standard of conduct of me salci the overwhelming majority of policemen is better than good.' Ford Euro-stewards of line- Common Market production unites the millauon speeds manning, and no sash the conditions and in order to reduction Bo bofor any Ford and organizations of the retire- desperate measure Class- WUiACI 111% intensitied menl. torcec on r Dv taat Pay, is to be war, soaring inflation and deep- however, ex- going crisis true monetary internationalise cluded from the joint claims.

International collaboration be- working - class rical necessity fo fight hag is, tween workers course, poll- tical necessity to against But the kev ques. sleo orward. capitalist governments tion is the policy and leadership on which it is based aurobe. Without this, nie a sub- committees The British stewards who are European workers will participating in this development leading Stalinists stitute for the real hoht against contain the hilt monopoly capitalism. recentiv collaborated to The Stalinists, in particular, with ee trace vnon leders destroying the Ford wages fight seraizational measures ses 'left' and

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conflict hold because involved working class from with the Tory covernment allu its state pay laws. revolunondv consciousness allu As the ruling class of Europe internationalism. Right wing stirs copper strike a pay increase in line with other demanding the government settle the strike and

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the The strike has led to the sus- nauonalize copper Hilles pension of shipments opposition is copper 1 he also resist. Britain and West Germany which government move to sack 13 Supreme Court judges. earn four-fifths of Chile's national income. to censurt The Allende coalition claims government secretary Anibal for his decision to close strike politically Palma moti- opposition-controlled strikers have beer vared. aOWIl getting strident support from the radio stations for 'inflammatory' opposition Press. The opposition broadcasts. Workers Press, Thursday June 7, 1973 PAGE 3 THE VERDICT in the 'Pretoria 6' show trial in South Africa will be given next Thursday. The accused-two whites and four Africans — face minimum sentences of five years and a maximum penalty of death. They have all pleaded not guilty to a total of 19 charges under the notorious Terrorism Act which gives the police dictatorial powers and a brief to torture and intimidate wit- nesses-In of the style the Tory legislation recent intro- duced in Northern Ireland. The trial has led to wide- spread protest all over the world. SAVAGE sentences of 25 years have been handed down against two coloured (mixed race) Rhodesian men alleged to have brought arms from Zambia into the country. They pleaded guilty to the but not guilty arms charges, to a further charge involving acts of sabotage of which they were acquitted. The two men, Thomas Zerf (27) and Cecil Murtagh were trained as soldiers by Rhod- esia. The court was told they went to Zambia for guerrilla training. THE FIRST visit by a Chinese Foreign Minister since the 1949 revolution began yesterday in Britain. Chi Peng-fei will be here for the next four days for talks with his British counterpart Sir Alec Douglas-Home. After his talks he is due to fly to in London, Paris on Sundav. One of the items under dis- will be a move by the cussion Chinese to set up some form of in Hong official representation Kong. This is opposed by official circles in the colony who fear a Chinese influence would under- mine British authority. Another big talking point will be the proposal to sell China a supply of Harrier jump-jet fighter This deal has been planes. attacked in the Soviet Union.

The Russians claiming are is China opposed to their own aims to establish an alliance with the imperialist at the powers Helsinki conference.

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Workers Press, Thursday June 7, 1973

THE

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GOES ON

The working class throughout the world are at a crossroads' Mr Bill Silverthorne (57), is an

AUEW

member and London What made me take up politics again now? I think it was a more personal reason than most people would have I shall be 58 next birthday- that gives me seven more years to work. My father is still alive and he has been a pensioner for a I could see number of vears. I'd just be in the same position supple- him, getting little mentary bits here and there, of scraping tane barrel and having to do with- out this and that. What it amounts to is that suddenly became crystal clear that I've worked all my life for nothing. rsday June 7, 1973 My father was just a work- ing man and as far back as 1936 I became actively in- terested in the Young Com- munist League. But despite all the revolu- tionary slogans of the Com- munist Party, after the war 1 began to find that was all it was. When it came to getting and to the essentials down establishing a leadership of the working class, they just weren't prepared to do that. They would intervene in little domestic issues in fac- tories and come outside to dish out pamphlets. But when it was something decisive, where it meant leading all the way up the line to establish a socialist government, they just weren't there. I worked actively in the Communist Party and the trade unions up to about 1954. I saw what was happening to people in the 1930s and I thought it was necessary to get something done, I joined the YCL because at that time there was no other party which was putting forward a pro- gramme even faintly resemb- ling working-class needs.

Another factor was that Mosley's blackshirts were very active at the same time. I could see they were diametrically to what the Com- opposed munist Party stood for. I could see they were not for the working class and 1 didn't like their methods.

Apart from them, the Com- munist Party the only was. active party. The Labour Party was there, but that's all you could say about it. It was just there.

had their They probably ward meetings for the same faithful people. They were con- tent to gather a few people about them. They involved themselves in council business, Mr BIll Silverthorne: 'I saw what was ha and I thought it was necessary to get factor was that Mosley's blackshirts (a time. I could see they were diamet Communist Party stood for.!

was really but nothing that going to deal with the major problems. It's the same today. The policy of the Labour Party, if any, is the same as before. It's evolutionary; it's going to slowly go from capitalism to socialism — but that's an absolute farce. The Tories and the capitalists behind them are not going to give up what they've got. They lat was happening to people in the 1930s ary to get something done ... Another ckshirts (above) were very active at the re diametrically opposed to what the peacefully not going to are give up all their millions.

The difference between the Communist Party today and years ago is that it has become even more 'respectable'. I didn't rejoin the Com- munist Party because I didn't think they had anything to offer. If they came out with a policy, it was not the policy Communist Party of oI the Great Britain-it was the policy of the Communist Party of Moscow. The Communist Party is not prepared to lead. Put it this way. If you drop a big stone into a pond, at first there will be waves. But at the end the effect will just die away to nothing. In the 1950s and 1960s I was, active in the trade unions, they are only the indus- trial arm-it's not the whole.

Trade unions can't take the place of a political party.

Belonging to a trade union is not enough. The trade union only deals with things at factory level, it doesn't change It was the Indus- the system. trial Relations Act and the Tory pay laws that finally decided me to join the All Trades Unions Alliance and then the League. I was really heartened by the ATUA conference at Bir- mingham. The people who spoke were a far greater cross- section of the community than

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I'd ever come across before.

There were some old age pensioners speaking. The fact that they had chosen to speak there at all indicated that even they realized there is only one way to change things-to build a party that would take the interests of workers forward.

The Labour Party won't do that. Look at this question of nationalization. They want to take it out of the election manifesto because they think it will be unpalatable. I think people are cynical about nationalization because it hasn't worked as they expected. I'd change the name from nationalization to appro- priation. the time you All have a capitalist system, you're either going to be one of them or one of us. As I understand nationaliza- tion, the state takes over everything, lock, stock and barrel. 'The system is not only full of contradictions. it is corrupt. You've got Nixon and the situa- tion in America ..: Above: ' have no illusions about the Labour Party leaders. They have no intention of bringing socialism in! The Labour Party have de- parted so far from socialism that there is practically no- thing to choose between them and the present government.

I have no illusions about the Labour Party leaders. They have become reactionary. They have no intention of bringing in socialism. I voted for the Labour Party in the absence of any other candidates as the lesser of two evils. When the last Labour government got into office I thought 'Well, this is it, this is the mixture as before. They are just not going to do any- thing Out of the various parties, the Socialist Labour League are the only people who have produced a policy at all.

How essential is it to build the League into a party? I've looked beyond the situation in this country and I see it's precisely the same in every country of the world. The capitalists have created a which is so full of system contradictions that they are fighting among themselves and Workers Press, Th the only result I can see is a third world war. They've got cut-throat com- the United petition between States, Europe and Japan and the only solution if they are to have an outlet for their products is a redivision of world markets. The only way to do that is to have a war.

That will be the outcome unless we do away with the present system in this country.

it's a Tory govern- Whether ment, Labour or Liberal, they are only in office, they are not in power. Behind them stands the capitalist system. The system is not only full of contradictions. It is corrupt.

You've got Nixon and the situation in America and you've got all the scandals here.

The Birmingham

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conference showed that the working class is looking for a party with a revolutionary policy and the SLL puts for- ward a policy like that. • Press, Thursday June 7, 1973

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The is definitely League gaining in strength. Its an up- hill struggle, but any working- class struggle is uphill.

People are disenchanted with the established parties. They that something's see wrong, but they • don't know the answers. That's the great chal- lenge for the League. We've got to establish a leadership. Educating people ir Marxism is basic. It's not ever possible to begin analysing the situation without this. Without it you'd • just have militancy. I've got no illusions about the struggle ahead. The ruling class will even resort to turn- ing troops out against people.

They'll be like mad dogs. They'll try to drag everybody down with them if necessary.

The working class through.

out the world are at a cross• roads. They've either got to go forward or get nowheré at all.

COD WAR: ICELAND IN DANGER

PAGE & Workers Precs, Thuraday Jum

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Trawling is a primitive form of hunting. But today it is carried out with the most sophisti- cated techniques of modern capitalism. where profit As always inspires activity, the fishing game is one of plunder with scant regard for future resources or human need. Of course, everyone agrees with conservation. Meanwhile margins are tight and the fish must be caught. Competition is fierce, both within and be- tween nations. In the north- ern hemisphere the battle- ground is the Atlantic and particularly the seas above the Continental Shelf which pro- vide the rich feeding grounds for the main species. The waters round Iceland, perhaps the most prolific in have become the Atlantic, the centre of this war. The island's 203,000 people make their living from fish, which accounts for 80 per cent of their exports. They have watched with growing alarm the fleets of trawlers return to feed off the harvest and particularly cod, which raday June 1, 1973 lives in massive shoals in the shallow water 50 miles around the island. It is this area-some 220 square miles of ocean-that exploit. Its Iceland wants to fisherman say it is theirs by right - just as the UK lays claim to the oil beneath the Continental Shelf around the British Isles. The other argument is con- servation. The Icelanders say the cod and haddock are in danger of becoming over- fished, primarily by the British and the Germans, who compete for the catch. They have already had one harrowing experience due to the greed of their own trawl- ing fleet. Once Iceland was the world's most important source of herrings (kippers when smoked). the intensive But fishing of the 1950s and 1960s has almost destroyed the species. In 1966 herring accounted half the total Icelandic for landings and 40 per cent of exports. By 1968 the grounds were fished out and the Ice- landic national income dived 17 per cent. There is now a total ban on herring fishing around the island. The statistics reveal Ice- land's dependency on fish and the herring trauma lies very much behind the demand that she control all waters above her own Continental Shelf.

'cod war' cannot be The the understood, however, if focus remains exclusively on Icelandic waters. British trawlers need to fish do Why her doorstep anyway? The distant water fleet, some 160 vessels which sail from Hull, Grimsby and Fleetwood choices, all of have three which lie north. • can fish around the They cost of Norway and beyond to Bear Island, Spitzbergen and the Barents Sea. They can go farther, even 3,000 to 5,000 miles, into the north-west Atlantic to Green- land and the grounds off Labrador and Newfoundland.

Or they can take a relatively short trip north west and sail the 1,700 to 2,000 miles to Iceland. is The pattern of trawling complicated and affected by many variables, not least of all the state of international re- lations. But basically since the war Iceland has been the of the British catch, staple accounting now for around two-thirds of the total ton- nage landed. A graph which plots catches since 1957 (see diagram A) shows the predominance of Icelandic fish (overwhelmingly cod). But it also reveals a pattern. Tonnage landed from Iceland tends to move in the opposite direction to the ton- nage from the other two areas the north-east fishery Atlantic (Norway, Bear Island, Barents Sea, and the etc.) north west (Greenland, New- foundland and Labrador). • 1969 is an extreme example when, for the first time since probably the the war, and first time ever, Iceland was pushed into second place be- hind the Barents Sea as the most productive ground for British trawlers. What happens is that as catches begin to falter in the distant areas, many trawlers play safe and return to the older, more trusted Icelandic grounds. If the catch at Ice- land begins to drop, the pro- cess swings into reverse.

This is a very crude ex- planation and there are other important factors that make Iceland the top ground. Fishing is not all weight of catch. The owners want profit they don't like long and journeys where travelling costs eat deeply into the cash value of the fish. The trip to Bear Island takes at least ten days, there and back. To fish the Barents Sea 17 days can be spent to and from port-sailing times to Newfoundland and Labra-• dor are even longer. Apart from the resulting high fuel costs these journeys trawling time and reduce therefore the possible catch.

The costs, in fact, are often prohibitive, especially for the side trawlers which can only stay out three weeks at a time because of the lack of freezing facilities. Though the freezers can put to sea for 100 days, they are also extremely expensive to run. The upshot is that for the side trawlers, still the bulk of the fleet, Newfoundland and Greenland are beyond econ- reach. Trips to the omic Barents Sea are also too costly in all, but the most favourable conditions. Only round Iceland there- for do the side trawlers put in more fishing hours than the larger freezers. But the general result of this pattern is to concentrate the fishing effort intensely around Iceland. In 1971, for example, 300,000 fishing hours were put

Left: On board a conventional Lack of freezing side-trawler. facilities on these vessels means they can only stay out three weeks at a time. This makes the Iceland waters the only place at present suitable for side-trawler fishing. in in Iceland's waters com- pared with 179,440 in all the other grounds combined. The British trawling inter- ests say Iceland is exaggerating its case. They claim her waters enough fish for all, provide providing agreements on con- servation can be reached. They hint further that the conser- vation argument is a cover for Iceland's desire own to monopolize the catch. Iceland, they point out, has over 30 modern trawlers on order in anticipation of the 50-mile limit. But history is the real judge.

And this shows that succes- sive areas in the north Atlantic have been fished out, some suffering apparently irrepat- able damage because of the fierce national and inter- national battle for bigger and bigger catches. Fish come in what the scien- tists call classes. - Each year after spawning a new class is born. As these fish rapidly mature they reach a size big- ger than the minimum net diameter and start appearing in the trawl. Obviously the more intense the trawling effort, the greater propurtion of the young fish stock wiped out. With the go the possibility young fish of years of future spawning and new classes of fish. The first danger sign of overfishing is a drop in the average age of the catch.. Time and again the vicious cycle has repeated itself. Rich discovered. They grounds are widespread inter- attract national attention. Catches are large and more boats flock to the area. Over the years the larger fish are snatched from the sea and the nets become filled with the younger fish only a year or two from spawning. Eventually spawn- ing stocks become so depleted that the area becomes barren.

Once Britain had no need deep-water fleet. The of a North Sea and Irish Sea sup- plied all our fish needs. In 1913, for example, there were 1,650 drifters catching her- other surface and ring and mid-water species in Britain's waters. In 1965 there were only 66. In 1906 trawlers were taking 800cwt a day from the North Sea. By 1935 this had slumped to 200cwt. It was the intense fishing of the 1920s and 1930s by British and European fleets that forced the trawling indus- try to look further north to- wards the Arctic. After the war, Hull built a fleet of new boats to sail far into northern waters. Greater attention was paid to the north-east waters around Bear Island and the Barents Sea.

British Here the competed with the huge trawler packs which put to sea from out Poland and Russia. The result has been over- fishing. The latest 'Fishins Prospects' from the Ministry of Agriculture fisheries labor- atory at Lowestoft comments: 'Competition is a vital com- ponent of fishing, but there are now obvious signs that re- sources will be endangered if it increases any further. In the north-east Arctic (Barents Sea, Sptizbergen, etc.) the perfor- United Kingdom mance of trawlers in 1972 reflects just how minute cod stock has be- come: The spawning stock is particularly small, only one fifth of its 1950-1959 size and becoming smaller still.' Iceland? But what about This area, above all, provides Britain with the bulk of her catch. There can be up to 100 Iceland's trawlers fishing water-about 60 British and 30 German and the rest from Belgium, Poland, Portugal and the Soviet Union. Catches have always been high averaging around 150,000 tons a year in terms of UK landings. But trawler skippers there is a fishing. One, the captain of Maugham' warned i ago: "Throughout months there of a big revival Iceland grounds danger is again Operating trawlers. do hundreds concentration arounc bandic coasts could in a couple of years The danger signs a •Fishing there. ports that the is now in a 'parlous has been for a decade. smaller Cod landings but the average age per caught. In are of the cent ten years or over. By was aown to 1v pe the figure is a now cent. The decreasing age) vealed figures while the average mains fairly steady ber of fish creased sharply. Britain portion young figures showed that tonnage was 30 countries from waters, the landed was 52.9 pe the total. It Case scramble for will suffer se stocks deed the tonnage alr ged from Icelandic M severely injured futu The 50-mile limit a fatal blow Britain's will the Wa30 of them in over the would not Atlantic omical. One tive would be North Sea, which ienced revival But these heavily fished by and middle and its foreign Extra capacity the once more. The twin evils of ing and massive the trawling within the hallmarks of the mode of production sea fishing. The need to devel sources to provide pr food sectional interests of nation and its capita ing industry. This is antagonism. or ine instead of developme 'cod war. In socialist w stocks would international strict based on agreement friendly nations. probable soluți the mair be to base neares

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grounds. With the la ing methods to nations stripped their We do not, how in an laeal where capitalist maraud ruthlessly profit maximum Socialists are require wer Iceland's own c determine deteout the fear of her slavery or ruin. The principle be will be approach last une morrow we investiga behind Britain. British even will admit danger..of over. Robert Taylor, prize- warned two years the past few re have been signs evival in the east ounds - but the the foreign as they vessels, around the Ice- ts could fish it out of years.' er signs are already Prospects' re- the haddock stock "parlous' state and steadily getting ings are still high, rage age of the illing steadily. Over t of spawning cod was cent and ure is a tiny 2 per size (and lividual fish is re- figures that show catch re steady, the num- caught have in- ved that while UK cent of nnage landed in all Icelandic of fish number the the profit Iceland, suffer severely. In- nnage already drag- elandic waters have ured future fishing. nile limit would be bulk of long-distance Many of these scrapped any- next ten years em in Hull, for ex- 20 years old. the north-east ould not be econ- alterna- to return to the iddle waters of the which have exper- in recent are already by the UK in- middle water fleet competitors would revive overfishing of I evils of overfish- assive redundancies trawling fleet are ks of the capitalist oduction applied to I to develop fish re- provide people with need the ssible price clashes the terests of each big lts capitalist trawi This is the root It means development we get cialist world, fish subject to planning greements between ble solution would the main fleets al richest the ith the latest freez- it would be atter to export fish whose needs

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own resources. live however, but one World. interests for the fish. on re required to ans- I's own demand to own future • fear of economic elaborated t article. But investigate who is 'cod war'

THE NORTH

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FISHING GROUNDS

Ih. Distant Waters Maar ard Middle Waters

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(DENMARK)

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260 UK distant wa 240 A: N.E. Atlantic (Norwegian Cl B: Iceland, 12-50 miles from lai C: N.W. Atlantic (Greenland, N 220 200 180 160 140 120 100 ‹ 80 60 - 40 - C 20 г 1857 1958 1959 1880 1961 Iceland began to consider limits when foreign, and particularly British, fleets started fishing her waters in greater and greater numbers after the war. The de- pletion of the North stocks in Sea was a major factor in this movement. Before 1952 Iceland, in com- mon with all other nations, had a three-mile territorial limit. In the same year Icelandic the government announced its inten- tion to declare a four-mile limit.

This led to the first 'cod war'.

The limit went on in May 1952, after Norway had taken similar action. Iceland said plaice, halibut and haddock stocks were being over- fished. The issue dragged on for four-and-a-half years, with arrests of British crews. Finally Workers Proza, Th

LEENLANO

ENMARK)

nt water fish landings ds of tons) orwegian Coast, Bear Island, Barents Sea) niles from land Greenland, Newfoundland, Labrador) T 1862 1983 1964 1985 1966 1987 in November 1956, Iceland got her limit and UK ships were allowed to shelter in the fiords without stowing their gear as a concession. Icelandic claims over conser- vation were somewhat dubious since she did overfish within her own territorial waters and in 1958 the second 'cod war' began when the government gave notice of a 12-mile limit. This war was more violent. The British Navy was sent in in July 1958. The Transport and General Workers' Union resisted demands that its members should not unload Icelandic fish. In 1960 fishing was suspended dur- ing the second International Law of the Sea conference where a motion to allow Iceland a six- mile limit (favoured by Britain) failed to get the necessary two- thirds majority. The issue was eventually set- tled in 1961 when Iceland won recognition for her 12-mile demand. But the Progressive Party opposition (Communist Party- dominated) refused to recog- nize the agreement and pledged to disregard it if it was elected to office. Press, Thursday Juna 7, 1973 PAGE 7

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1988 1969 1970 1971 1972 In July 1971 the Progressive formed Party a left-coalition government and repudiated the treaty and announced its inten- tion to declare a 50-mile limit.

which it did in September 1972 The first incidents serious began in March this year when a gunboat cut a British trawler's tackle. On March 18 five live shells were fired at the tug 'Statesman' owned by Boston Deep Sea fisheries, major and deployed trawling concern, by the government at a cost of £1,500 a day to defend trawlers in Icelandic waters. More recently trawlers have been shelled but without loss of life. Iceland also claims its gun.

boats have been rammed deliber- ately. Most countries now have a 12- mile limit (the Soviet Union de.

clared one in 1955there was no 'cod war' with Russia!).

The next International Law of the Sea conference is in San.

tiago in 1974. The trawler owners say that if Iceland gets her 50- miles, Canada, Norway and Den.

mark (Greenland) and the other nations will follow suit-so block- ing Britain from fishing anywhere on the North Atlantic Continental Shelf.

REVISIONISTS EXPOSED

BY ECONOMIC CRISIS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Jun

BY PETER JEFFRIES

As against every ten- dency inside the working- movement, class the Socialist Labour League the International and Committee of the Fourth International have sought continually to analyse the nature of the post- war capitalist crisis and to warn the working class of its revolutionary implications. This task has been an in- dispensable part of the work, now reaching a climax, to pre- pare to transform the SLL into a revolutionary party, which alone can provide the working class with the programme and policy to meet this crisis.

Standing against us at every stage of this struggle has been Unified Sec- the so-called retariat'. This is the body which abandoned Marxism when it split from the Fourth Inter- national in 1953. Its leading 'theoretician' is Ernest Mandel. Mandel has been in the forefront in con- sistently peddling revisionist illusions about the nature of capitalism since 1945. No doubt stung by the con- sistent exposures of its re- visionism carried out by the SLL, the Unified Secretariat at last been forced to defend its economic analysis of post-war capitalism. This unfortunate task has fallen to Dick Roberts, leading member of the Socialist American Workers' Party, which is in political solidarity with the Unified Secretariat, although for legal reasons not allowed to affiliate to it. of articles in In a series 'Intercontinental Press' (May 7, May 14 and May 21) Roberts makes though a desperate, pathetic, attempt to defend his political mentor Mandel. Before coming to the sub- stance of Roberts' argument, it is necessary to be clear about the relationship between his and Mandel's economic writ- ings and their politics. For it would be quite wrong to believe that the counter- revolutionary politics of the Unified Secretariat have flowed simply from a 'wrong' analysis of post-war capitalism. On the contrary, it was the abandon- ment of revolutionary Marxism and a capitulation to Stalinism which long ago forced Mandel and his friends to seek a 'new' analysis of capitalism which would justify these politics.

When M. Pablo and Mandel deserted Trotskyism in 1953 the issues were very clear. The essence of their break was that the analysis of the epoch, as by Trotsky in the outlined Transitional Programme, was now 'out of date' . Pablo saw the drive to socialism after the last war as 'irreversible'; but it would not come for many generations. Meanwhile Trot- skyism had to look towards sections of the Stalinist bureau- cracy which, under pressure from the masses, would be reday June 7, 1973 Left: The industrial revolution, Marx e structure, creating thereby the modern v developed almost entirely for war and t 'pro- driven the to accept gramme' and "ideas' of Trot- skyism. In a word, Pabloism was liquidationism. And since 1953 the Pabloites have carried their theory into practice. The Socialist Labour League was established and then built only in continual conflict, at every stage every on question, against the Pabloite movement in Britain. It is from the standpoint of these politics that all Man- del's economic writings must be judged. To take one crucial example which Roberts raises in the first of his three articles. Roberts seeks to defend Man- del's use Before -setting down what Mandel actually said on this subject, let us look at his general characterization of post-war capitalism. In his 'Marxist Economic Theory'-which Roberts takes as his authoritative source- Mandel says the following about capitalism after 1940: 'With the 1940s appeared the warning signs of a third industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution had been based on the steam engine, the second on the electric motor the internal combustion and engine. The third is based on the release of nuclear energy and use of electronic the machinery' Here, in a single paragraph, is expressed the real content of Mandel's total rejection of Trotsky's analysis Lenin and of imperialism. For both Lenin and Trotsky, imperialism was the highest stage of capitalist development.

It was the highest stage for them, unlike Mandel, because 1, Marx explained, was not merely a series modern working class. Right: Nuclear power, n war and the preparation for war which is insep it represented the period in which capitalism had ceased to be a progressive force, capable of developing the pro- ductive forces. It now. con- stituted an enormous fetter on the productive forces which only the working class could remove in the struggle for socialism. In the period of Stalinism, from 1925 onwards, Trotsky showed that capitalism sur- vived only because of the un- resolved crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class.

The starting point for re- volutionary Marxism, there- fore, was this conception of the nature of imperialism and the struggle for revolutionary leadership which flowed from it. Now how does Mandel's conception of a 'Third Indus- trial Revolution' square with this analysis? It is, of course, in the most direct opposition to it. Marx was among the first to understand the implications of the Industrial Revolution which changed completely the nature of economy and society in England after 1750. It was which saw not a revolution merely a series of great tech- nical changes in every leading branch of industry, but a period which broke up com- pletely the old social structure.

For it was modern working class, the grave-digger of capitalism. In so doing, it reflected and pre- pared for an enormous ex- pansion of the capitalist system which was soon to dominate the entire world. It is utterly impermissible, therefore, for Marxists to employ such a term in relation a series of technical changes, but a comple • power, which Mandel tries to portray as a T h is inseparable from imperialism.

to capitalism, not in its period of expansion, but in its epoch of decline and disintegration.

The 'technical changes' which occurred in capitalist economy after 1940, of which Mandel wishes to make such a fetish, were possible only be- cause the betrayals of social democracy and Stalinism from 1920s onwards allowed the capitalism to survive. Of this Mandel says not a single word! Nor does he inform his readers that these develop- ments were bound up almost entirely with war and the pre- paration for war which again are inseparable from imperial- ism. Of course, Mandel's use of the term 'industrial revolution' was no slip of the pen. For the politics of Mandel, like all revisionists before him, forces him to cling to the most superficial indications of what he hopes is any strength the capitalist system have. may Bécause the revisionists long ago wrote off the working class as the only revolutionary force within capitalist society, they must necessarily turn all their economic analysis in this direction. This was certainly the case with Mandel's 'neo-capitalism', m- the stage of capitalism which he saw emerging after 1940.

Roberts may squeal that his been 'misrepre- has master sented'. He fails entirely to why, if capitalism re- tell us mained gripped by the same basic contradictions which Marx had analysed, was it necessary to employ a new team? Wheat, we ask Roberts- "neo- about capitalism'? There is no need to ask C a complete breakup of the old social y as a 'Third Industrial Revolution' was Roberts, however, for Mandel already told 'The has us: capitalist economy of this phase tends to ensure greater stability [Mandel's emphasis] both of consumption and in- vestment than in the era of free competition or than dur- ing the first phase of monopoly capitalism; it tends towards a reduction of cyclical fluctua- the state in economic life' Economic Theory, (Marxist p. 529.) And on the same page: 'The whole system evolves not so much towards uninterrupted growth as toward long-term stagnation ... The practical effect of this increased eco- nomic role of the state is precisely a reduction of cyclical fluctuations.' (ibid, p. 53.)

Here we that Mandel see quite consciously counterposes 'neo-capitalism' to the 'first phase of monopoly capitalism', that is to imperialism which Lenin as 'monopoly defined capitalism'. In other words, imperialism was not the highest stage of capitalism. Imperialism is not the epoch in which the crisis of working-class leadership will be resolved. It has been re- the stage of 'neo- placed by capitalism' in which Trotskyists independent political cease activity and prostitute them- selves before Stalinism. Every conclusion which Mandel drew about the more 'stable' post-war capitalism flowed from this abandonment of Marxism and the struggle build the revolutionary to party. ask CONTINUED TOMORROW

TV Review by Tom Kemp Europa: May 31 'France ... the Events of 1968'.-BBC 2. No one watching this film record of the events in France in May-June 1968 would have gather- ed that an opportunity for the working class to take power was deliber- ately prevented by the Communist Party. Indeed we were well into the programme before the CP was even mentioned, and even then it was never pointed out that through the Confédération Générale du Travail, the main trade union, it controlled the decisive sections of the French working class. The film shots were first- class in conveying the atmos- phere of the time. Although the compilers obviously wan- ted to focus as much as pos- sible on the student revolt, it was clear that this was not only a General Strike of un- precedented dimensions, but that the whole of French society was flung into a crisis in which the ruling class and the Gaullist regime were com- pletely paralysed. The film shows the brutality of the police, kicking and beating demonstrators with unbridled ferocity. What it does not bring out is the way in which from the time when the student revolt began in Nanterre in March until the night of the barricades on May 10 the Stalinist Press was hostile to the students and afraid that its policy of tacit support for General de Gaulle's foreign policy would be prejudiced. We do not see the General himself fêted as a hero by the Stalinists in Rumania while French workers were calling for his overthrow. The first big demonstration in which the workers took part was a result of the somersault by the CP, which saw that mass indignation was growing against the govern- ment as a result of the brutal repression of the students. It then sought to put itself at the head of the movement in order to stifle it and prevent it from in a revolutionary turning direction. A new English edition of the 'First Fiv Years of the Communist International' i corporating hitherto unpublished materi from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'.

THE FIRST

FIVE YEARS OF THI

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Georges Séguy. One No one on the programme of the denounced this and best shots in the film shows move Krivine, the Pabloite Séguy taking the first agree- Alain leader of the Teunesses Com- ment for a wage increase back Revolutionnaires the Renault plant, CP munistes to a evaded it in a characteristic stronghold and a key to the of way. whole development the The strike only began strike. of days Séguy had obviously come couple later when Sud-Aviation, workers in to sell this agreement to the Nantes, had taken over the workers massed the fac- on and locked the floor him. He factory man- tory before Within quickly ager, in his office. a sensed the atmosphere week their example had been of hostility to any settlement followed by millions of work- and before even announcing all over France, not only ers the terms hastened to say that factories but in nothing had been signed In mines, laboratories shops, offices, The scene ends before the and by middle-class many sequel, because went apef donet sign great cry people as well. then The extent and depth of this 'for a and popular govern- explained explosion is never ment', which showed that even We do see peasants joining the without leadership the work- Brittany. But it movement in knew that more than ers is clear that had there been a wages were at stake. firm lead from the working- They their sensed own class organizations, their were looking for and ex- power ample (and they are far from leadership. being the worst-off peasants determined to Séguy was France) would have been in keep the movement to SO- followed in many other places.

'economic demands', called What should have been said but we still see later that the erupted officials had great diffi- that the strike

CGT

was outside the control of the the rank culty in convincing Stalinists at first and they and file that they would have strove and might main to settle for nothing more to bring it under control. As is than a wage increase. said in passing, by the third It is significant that the film week of May, trade union lead- is cut at a critical point ers, employers and the govern- and that Séguy is really let off representatives were the hook lightly. ment closed doors The strength and determina- meeting behind to try to find a way out.

tion of the working class is is The key role in these nego- shown at many points, as of the tiations played by the the complete crisis was Stalinist CGT leaders and par- government. De Gaulle's first attempt to win support after ticularly by its secretary Five red material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume ef Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period of its first three Congresses when the post-war revolutionary upsurge reached its peak and then began to recede. It establishes, without fear of con- tradiction, the important role which he played in the foundation of this, the Third workers' International, and'in the formation and early development of the French, German and Italian Communist Parties. At this time the theory of 'socialism in one country' had not been invented and loseph Stalin was still a second-line Bolshevik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later to pervért and eventually destroy.

OF THE

Price: £1.50, 421 pages. Available from: New Park Publications 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG or the Paperbacks Centre 28 Charlotte Street, London, W1 (Enclose 10p for postage) Workers Press, Th his return from Rumania in a TV broadcast on May 24 went entirely disregarded. At this point the working class had power within its grasp. The economy was paralysed.

The Ministers were turning in small circles not knowing what to do. The army was confined to barracks and discontent was the growing amongst con- script soldiers. Even some oi the police were becoming rest- less as they were bearing the hat. brunt of the unpopularity and contempt which greeted their repressive role. When de Gaulle came back to Paris he found that he could not even put through a call to his army telephone commander in Germany. The telephone operator simply said that she was on strike and not accepting calls from anyone!

All this time the CGT, i.e.

the Stalinists, were in daily contact with Pompidou. Séguy, in an interview in the pro- gramme, claims that the strikes economic only about were questions. He lies. The Stalin- ists tried to confine them to economic questions, as he did himself at Renault. But May- June was more than a General Strike: it posed the question of power and everybody could see that. The CGT could have closed down the electricity, gas and water supplies, cut off petrol deliveries, shut down the Unions it controlled Press. were in a dominant position in all these industries. To use this

PRICES

we reported recently that the Prices Commission had grant- ed an application by Van den Berghs and Jurgens to put up the price of Stork and Echo Margarine and Cookeen fat.

Van den Berghs and Jurgens is an associate of Unilever.

chairman of Van den The and Jurgens is Mr Berghs Frederick Kitchen. Mr Frederick Kitchen is one : of the seven members of ...

the Prices Commission. E. G. The salary of Mr Woodroofe, chairman of Uni- is £47,000 a year. lever, That's £940 a week. Press, Thursday June 7, 1973 PAGE 9 would have meant power revolution, as it well knew.

by Gaulle, reassured the Soviet Embassy that the Soviet Union had no wish to see a revolution in France, flew to see his generals in Germany to win their support.

The middle class, which had largely been keeping indoors for the previous fortnight, was being prepared to come out in support of de Gaulle. The CGT was wearing down the working class and prepar- ing the way for a negotiated settlement on purely economic demands, as Séguy admits.

how, But without this treacherous role, can we ex- plain that de Gaulle was able to make a radio broadcast on May 30, raising the red offer elections as a spectre, solution and win the assent of the Stalinists to this way of preventing revolution. The film shows this change in the climate but the com- mentary fails to explain how it came about because it keeps quiet about the role of the Stalinists. It does not make clear that the settlement made by the CGT was not acceptable to the workers but had to be im- posed by the Stalinist bureau- crats against enormous oppo- sition. In most places the strikes went on for several days or even a week or more.

The situation at the Renault plant at Flins is well depicted, presumably from film made by militants. This was one of the last re- doubts of the strike in which the workers resisted the CGT commands and then had to face an enormous mobilization of the CRS (armed police), which came in in strength to clear the factory. We see the police chasing workers and students across the fields, in the course of which one young student was driven into a river and drowned. The presentation and com- accompanying these mentary fascinating film shots of the May-June events were entirely incapable of conveying their true significance. There was no sense of history, no feel for the working class, no under- standing of the counter- revolutionary role of Stalin- ism. The leaders who were shown, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Sauvageot, Alain Jacques Alain Krivine, Geismar and were revealed as completely at the mercy of events, unable to project any alternative to which could Gaullism break the working class from Stalin- ism. Despite all its weaknesses, the programme could not avoid leaving the impression that May-June was a dress re- hearsal for the European revo- lution and not just a passing episode. But that came out from what was seen, not from the commentary. Have the Tories got a new policy for the 1970s. After the revelations about Lambton, Jellicoe and the mysterious 'third man', a senior Tory spokesman church has urged officials that sex is 'exciting and wonderful. This doctrine was outlined last week by Mr John Gummer, Tory MP for Lewisham and a vice-president of the Conser- vative Party. the Lewisham Addressing Federation of Churches, Gum- mer said that the sexual act had been described as 'the nearest human counterpart to divine experience'. The Rev John Swaffield thanked Mr Gummer for his contribution and the meeting ended after some questions.

NO COMMENT

'At least part of the reason for the Conservative Party's vic- tory in the recent election was the belief that they would pro- mote higher standards of moral behaviour.'—report of speech by Mr Stanbrook, Tory MP for Orpington, 1971.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday June 7, 1973

TODAY'S TV

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Schools. 11.25 Cricket. 9.30 Schools. 10.30 At 9.42-11.20 your selvice Zealand. England New Mr 11.00 Schools. 12.00 1.30 (London only). 1.45 Fanny and Johnnie Benn. Cartoon. 12.05 Rainbow. 12.25 Cradock 2.05 invite News. Witches brew. 12.40 First report. 1.00 Cricket. 4.15 Play Weather. Jokers wild. 1.30 Crown court. 2.00 Blue school. 4.40 Jackson. Crusse. 4.50 General hospital. 2.30 Good afternoon!

Peter. 5.15 Robinson 5.40 5.45 News. Weather. Hector's house. 3.00 Epsom 4.25 summer meeting. Voyage to the bottom of the sea.

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LEEDS: Thursday _ June 7, 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar Lane.

'Forward to ATUA Conference and the fight to defend demo- cratic rights.' KINGSTON: Thursday June 7, 8 p.m. 'The Norbiton Hotel', Clifton Road, Kingston. FULHAM: Thursday June 7, 8 p.m. 'The Swan' Fulham Broad- way. 'Force the Tories to resign'.

HOLLOWAY: Thursday June 7, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Force the Tories to resign.

Return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies'.

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD: Monday 11 (please June note date change), 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, Queen's Square. 'Build the revo- lutionary party'. EAST LONDON: Monday June 11, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E.3. 'Forward to the revo- lutionary party'.

WALTON-ON-THAMES:

Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. The Kiwi, New 'Building Zealand Ave., Walton. the Revolutionary Party! BERMONDSEY: Tuesday June 12, 'Havelock Arms', Bala- 8 p.m. Street. 'Forward • to the clava revolutionary party. CAMDEN: Tuesday June 12, 8 *Trade unione Prince Albert' p.m. Road, Kings Cross. the revolutionary party'.

and PADDINGTON: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales' , Harrow Road, corner of Western Road.

•Force the Tories to resign.

Return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies'.

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7, ment pledged to socialist poli- Cer cies'. • LEAMINGTON: Tuesday, June 12, 7.30 p.m. The Commonwealth Club, Church Street, 'The Tory the trade unions.' Masons ing Lane. ment to policies'. resign'. n- to ment policies'. Wednesday - •Stalinism North neers' June 13, 7.30 Tories'. ∞ d- and the rights' Community agi Mortimer's middle-class suburbia Revill and Geraldine McEwan on BBC 2.

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poli- Centre. 'Make the Tories resign.

Force a Labour government to carry out socialist policies.

CROYDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Ruskin House. Tories to Coombe p.m. Road. 'Force the resign'. FELTHAM: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. "Three Horse Shoes' , High Street. 'Labour to power, pledged to socialist policies of national- ization of land and property.

WILLESDEN: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades High Road, N.W.10. 'Force Hall, Tory government to resign".

the ACTON: Monday June 18, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells' , High Street, W.3. 'Build the revolutionary party. Defend democratic rights'.

CRAWLEY: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Council for Social Services Hall, 19 Station Road. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour must nationalize government major industries'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, Road Nore Hee tories so re Road. 'Force the sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment policies, Pledged 10 BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, 8 Training Centre, Control p.m. Room. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist policies: Pledged to ment DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour government nationalize major indus- must tries'. GOOLE: Thursday, June 21, 8 "The p.m. The Station Hotel. Revolutionary Party and the Fight unity against the Tories'.

Profits-pollution — nuclear power dilemma THE NUCLEAR en- at Speaking at ense Institute Speaking ergy lobby is stepping of Petroleum's summer meet- ing at Harrogate, Leslie said up its campaign for proliferation the of To a macce release of fission nuclear power sta- 'very improbable ashis is supposed to be a tions in Britain. This follows the an- reassurance. What about 'minor Which nouncement by Shell that accident' there intends launching all a medium release of fission £80m nuclear power part- products? Leslie is silent on with the American- nership thieslie said we should com- owned Gulf Oil. Shell is to buy a half stake dare nucleat power with those we cheer- nucleat alvisIon stations in une us. six power fully accepted everyday stations The in the part- life. risks nership hopes to sell we accepted systems in western Europe. 'almost without The decision by Shell, when driving which 40 cent British is per risk of a ceiling fall in wer and 60 ber 'probably greater than that direct result of the world- of meactoraccident to majors ary crisis. The oil power are clearly planning He said that the genera announced That energy viewpoint was that we could Weinstock, the head of the alversily business. not quantify risk

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would take nor group, While oil the companies define the probable lory-created LUn-

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of such their com- an acci- of the Scorences Conserv In cnarge interest in dent. nuclear power pro ramme mercial nuclear But one should weigh such American environ- Weinstock man launched a mentalists have a risk against the risks im- responsibic lor sacking more workers after exten exter- «ecision not inan

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sion of these power systems.

have nuclear big merger of his the group the consumer Ring, aNd tee week Ralph Nader, included cold, starvation and ive years He Is onc dou. social Chaos. DIusa maustry s most rapa- Having presented some of cious capitalists. started legal action against the But stepping up a involved volved 'going 1n Lucical nuclear production. beacon Cleany nose 'The UK must start a new success is profitability only

DARLIS

calm ThaT the power stations have in- programme of nuclear power increases the safety standards stallull

SOUL

alone voluton. and next Labour govern- Ralph Nader lacuallye Dolluuon ano We WhaT type to build. To the extent ment insist that this watch' man, dancers millions of Americans. that it falls to any one man industry be against imme. i calls These fears were violently this decision will from Lu illane 1, Sir Arnold Weinstock and his friends

ODDUSCO

fessor David Leslie, profes- Weinstock' along with the banks and Engineering sor of Nuclear Premier Edward Heath Europe. vic basic industries. New terror trial as 'Laundry' murder Stalinists greet Shah case dropped

A MURDER

charge against IRA man David Wilson (2). over the killing. ot a British army secret agent has been dropped by THE IRANIAN dictatorship led by Shah Assizes. Pahlavi has opened up a new terror trial against the But Wilson, a bricklaver. of left wing. Meanwhile the ruler himself tours eastern Belfast, who admitted possessing with belonging the

IRA

alic Seven alleged guerrillas including a on vine a stolen car. was be sentenced on those charges military court charged with anti-state activities and attempting yesterday. to kidnap the former US ambassador Douglas MacArthur II.

Sapper The agent, One of the defendants, Manouchehr ¿ eliora Nahavandi, is reported to Edward stuart. of to have told the ArasuaW. court that they had no Tyrone, was shot nve times from MacArthur or holding him prisoner.

close range last October while by the ambassador's driver, was merely to get publicity for their driver for acting van the fight against oppression.

•ocus rour sonare Laoa trial is the latest savage act of oppression against those organization collecting informa- tion about the IRA Belfast. who oppose the dictatorship. On March 28 eight young leftists were shot by a military firing The Iranian Communist squad.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

Party claimed they

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exe- cuted because of their politi-

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ALLIANCE MEETING

cal views. But the bloody purge has Central London disturbed Barnsley and eat sta be- tween Iran the Stalinist 'Closures of Theatres and leaders of Russia and eastern Film Studios' Europe. Given by Gerry Healy The Shah has just finished National Secretary a visit Rumania

SUNDAY JUNE 10

to where he fêted the of the by 7.15 p.m. was President Nicolae Ceausescu. Socialist Labour League At London Film School, istate The corner Langley and Shelton St Ceausescu exper- Sunday June 17 ience acquired in the organ- (opp Covent Garden tube) The materialist conception of ization unfolding ana History Speaker: Yvonne Richards relations numanlan - Iranlan Sunday June 24 Lambeth Council of Action Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday June 10 3 p.m. Sunday July 1

CLERICAL

workers on are Clapham Baths at Salford Theory and Practise of Engineering sunke Clapham Manor Street, SW4 Industries over the right of Marxism 'Break off Phase Three talks.

women to equal pay. Sunday July 8 The 120 strikers the Eccles No Collaboration with Heath.'

Role of the tactory Te nercai Revolutionary Party are for

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policy against the at company Employers Fe Engineering

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the Federation, wilo say The Red Lion

BLACKBURN

•Tory that the pay control legis- lation bars Worsborough 'The Peel Hotel' 6-alllilla anything above fl plus (Town Centre) cent. Near Barnsley Thursday June 14 8 p.m.

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lain organizer MacLean that a ES 7.30 p.m. said across- 'Bulld the Revolutionary Party' had the-board claim been shelved to allow "realistic talks' Workers Press, Thi 'doom- (above), America's 'man, last week started court action st companies Involved In nuclear y production. Now Shell have joined up firm Gulf with plans for nuclear is, like the one seen top, for western and the common wish to co- operate in the spirit of fully equal rights will ensure a bril- liant future for the relations between the two countries, to the benent of both peoples, and will also serve the general peace: Of co-operation and cause Ceausescu said Rumania declared solidarity with all people fighting colonialism and neo-colonialism — a principle he does not apparently apply in the case of Iran. The Shah is now getting similar treatment from Stalinist head of . Bulgaria while the Iranian War Minis- ter General Reza Azimi is in the Soviet Union for talks on topics of mutual interest with Defence Minister Marshal Grechko. over the pay laws. But all the company would offer was £2 for men and £1.50 for women. The strike is now official. Barbara Holden (26), a striker from the printing department, said: This is my first strike ever, but we're all sticking out to- It's gether. ridiculous prices going . up the way they are and wages being held down.' Press, Thursday June 7, 1973 PAGE 11 COMMUNIST Party members in Hounslow, Middlesex, have blocked a resolution demand- ing the release of jailed Peru- Trotskyists trom being vian sent to the local trades council and district committee of the engineering union. The resolution, put the to Hounslow No. 1 branch of the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- Workers, ing demanded the immediate release of the Liga Comunista members who have been jailed by Velasco's military junta and the democratic right to free publication of their Press.

This Press must be restored, says the motion. It also demands the release of all left-wing and political prisoners in Peru. The branch decided by ten votes to 25 abstentions to send the motion the Peruvian to Ambassador, the CP members the abstainers. But being among the Stalinists voted to defeat a move to send the motion forward to the trades council and district committee. TIGHTER mesh regulations on trawl nets and closer inspection of catches have been proposed by the United States at an inter- national fishing conference in Copenhagen. The US delegation to the International Commission for the North West Atlantic Fisher- ies proposed a ten-point pro- gramme to limit fishing off the east American coast. Later the 150 delegates are expected to discuss Icelandic fishing and the limitations of salmon fishing. 01-720 2000 01-622 7029 Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office, Published by Workers Claphum. Hirin Street, Printed Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. Circulation: 01-622 7029.

Benn papers over cracks in Labour Party 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 fllm 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday Jum "THERE is no split in the Party crisis' Benn, Labour's Shadow Minis- ter for Trade and Industry, yesterday. Benn, speaking at a conference the City' on "The Future of London's Hilton Hotel, • was making, his first major speech Labour's

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since narrowly approved a 'nationalization' pro- gramme. It is not the number, but the principle of substantial really of public ownership extensions into manufacturing that matters, he said. 'Put this way, as it should be, A PROLONGED strike is now Ryton car factory, Coventry, cause of the hard-line attitude Yesterday the company threatened to stop investment if workers failed to keep to procedure and avoid strikes.

The period over which wor- kers would have to do this was substantial, fairly said in- dustrial relations director Peter Griffths. 'We are not just talking about this particular dispute. We are talking about months rather than weeks. 'We feel that to spend a lot of money without knowing in advance whether we are to use the investment profitably to pro- duce the number of vehicles we want would be the wrong thing to do' company's The US-owned statement, which came less than 48 hours after accusations that workers were guilty of deliber- ately poor workmanship (from American plant manager at Ryton, James Caton), seems cer- tain to inflame the strike situa- tion still further. Already the strikers are in- censed by suggestions that all they are fighting for is 90 minutes' lay-off pay for 600 body shop workers. Men who turned out on a 200- strong picket line at Ryton early yesterday morning stressed that what was at stake was whether management should have the right to lay them off arbitrarily and at will. Picket Ted Watson told Wor- I think the main kers Press: issue is the the company did not want to pay us our guaranteed week when we were laid off due to the recent strike at Linwood. 'Chrysler brought us in and had us working on anything just to justify keeping us in the factory. 'We had inferior body shells to work on in the first place.

for the company Therefore to say we were responsible for in- ferior work is tripe. At first the blamed the super- company vision, but then it rounded on the men. We're not standing for this. picket at Ryton The mass was successful in turning away all supervision. In addition, no clerical staff went in except wages clerks who the pickets allowed in. All Trade Special shon raday June 7, 1973 the case is very powerful indeed.

I am sure that the next Labour government will want forward on these lines, to move Ted, revealed patterns o tinued, revealed inequality' which were 'not un- and the Hill-Samuel- common' Slater-Walker merger had been allowed without any reference to the Monopolies Commission.

Both financial groups had substantial 'contributed very sums to the Conservative Party', Benn said. The Poulson affair and the recent case of a Minister's hold- ings in oil shares showed the urgency of requiring a full dis- closure by all Ministers and MPs is now inevitable at Chrysler's ventry, union officials fear, be- attitude of the company.

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18 FIFTEEN out of the em- ployees at the Italian State Tourist Office in Regent Street, London, came on strike out yesterday against the treatment and attitude of management to- wards them. Trouble started shortly after a new director was appointed year ago and the striker claim that since then they have been treated like criminals with fan- tastic allegations levelled against them, including that of collective insubordination and sabotage of the new director's to run the office attempts efficiently. Many have of the strikers worked for over five years at the office and say that they are now in danger of being sacked.

All are members of trade unions in Italy. Trades Unions Alliance Conf Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pa ial showing of the Pageant film 'THE Tickets £1: Available from R.

of their business interests and connections of all kinds.

He pointed out that delegates banks and other financial from institutions at the Hilton con- assets worth about ference had £95,000m-four five times raised in taxation and spent by the government each year.

'The Labour Party must ask what effect all this power will of have the nature our On democracy, he pointed out.

However, the a fundamental Labour left' proposed change in favour of democratic control. This would involve the election of 'say, 50 per cent' of workers supervisory boards, and onto ADJOURED talks on the grad- halted ing strike which has production at British-Leyland's Oxford car plants will resume today. The 80 attendants from the assembly whose strike plant, has halted all production at the factories, meet tomorrow.

A further 1,000 workers may home today, bringing be sent the total lay-off to 13,000. But so far the company has refused the strikers' demand for a firm promise of upgrading as soon as

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Tones' retreats over the gas- workers and the hospital workers.

In fact, they have done the opposite and either confused these issues or misreported them.

The 'Star' is doing the same thing again on this issue.

And what are these 'amend- ments' which provide the bait in which the Stalinists the trap refuse to discuss? They too are a fraud. Restor- ing tax concessions, preventing private prosecutions through the NIRC and permitting the closed shop are, because of the mighty resistance of the working class to the Act, not matters of life and death to the unions. And these 'amendments' will, of course, leave the essence ol the Act, the state control of trade unions, completely unaltered.

independence of the The unions from the state will remain Conference: To discuss de oo Park: Manchester—Sunda Im 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWE le trom R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, S over 'key prices and control profits. • Benn said Labour would And 'replace' the Industrial Relations Act-he did not say it would be abolished - and terms membership Market Common would be 'renegotiated'. According to him, 'the range of issues on which we are divided the leadership of the (i.e. in Labour Party) was 'a very narrow one'. 'We shall have no difficulty,' he claimed, 'in finding common ground and the debate will help us to do so.' But Mr Benn was clearly con- cerned to paper over the cracks in the Labour Party split and offensive not to take up the the Tory pay laws. allow.

on Tuesday, In negotiations Leyland offered, when the law allows, to pay an unspecified in- crease in excess of the semi- skilled rate which the men now receive. This was rejected. The men, who are, among other duties, responsible for turning off and on all production lines, want to move into the lower of two skilled grades. Besides a higher basic rate, this would give them increased overtime and premium

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abolished by law, and all the traditional activities of trade potentially illegal unionists as 'unfair industrial practices'.

Moreover, these 'amendments' are nothing more than the Tories offered to discuss when the Bill first came out, and which the TUC correctly refused to have anything to do with the on grounds of their total rejection of any state control of unions. Such is the magnitude of the TUC's retreat. The 'Star' says nothing of all this either. It says the Act should be got rid of rather than amended, but it doesn't say that the 'amend- ments' are a fraud. The way is being prepared for the Stalinists to cover up for Scanlon and the 'lefts' yet again in the forthcoming moves for a deal with the Tory government on the basis of: 'Well at least iss defence of democratic ri Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m • POWER' and songs and scenes from h t West, Salford 7, Manchester.

against the right wing and the Wilson leadership , who want no- thing to do with nationalization and socialism. This is a clear abdication by against the Benn of the fight right wing-which has consist- ently supported the Tory govern- ment over the state pay laws, the Common Market, and every anti-working-class policies. The way to deal with the right wing-and the fake lefts-is to Labour government return a committed by the mobilization of the working class to socialist policies, which include national- compensation ization without and under workers' control.

payments. dropped earlier proviso that all workers in the lower skilled grade would have to be subjected to work study before they would even consider the plant attendants' claim. • Press operators at British- Leyland's Swindon car - body factory, whose strike against speed-up halted Allegro pro- duction at Birmingham, decided at a mass meeting yesterday to return to work.

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some concessions are better than no concessions.' This whole 'amendments' stunt is a deception on the working class. What is being prepared is a corporatist trap. There is nothing to be gained from talks with this bankrupt, discredited Tory government except a further loss of trade union independence and basic rights. In the midst of their greatest- ever crisis, the capitalist class has nothing to offer the working class except more treachery.

• Demand an end to all talks on Phase Three or the amend- ments. • Demand a campaign to bring the Tory government down.

• Start this campaign by bring- ing thousands of workers to the great All Trades Unions Alliance anti-Tory rally at Belle Vue on July I. 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