Workers Press no. 1094

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LETTER FROM JAILED PERUVIAN TROTSKYISTS-PAGE 2

Gold and $

NIXON

FACES

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DECISION

BY JOHN SPENCER

A MAJOR decision by the Nixon administration involving the future of the world monetary sys- tem cannot now be long delayed.

The absence of any immediate action by the Ameri- following Thursday can government its cabinet meeting has created a new upsurge in the price of gold and further weak-- ened the dollar through- demanding action to slash out Europe. innanon and openly express- ing impatience his in- Simultaneously Nixon's action. Watergate over posiuon Nixon The cabinet's radically worsened 02 Si with the publication of failure to take action on the inflationary position in the papers showing his ap- United States and the proval of illegal plans to Watergate scandal are creat- burgle embassies, open ing vast divisions within the mail and tap telephones. President's own staff. John Connally, the former Treasury Law-breaker secretary, WhO now a part-time presidential reportedly walked adviser, H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, his InCO toD-level economie chief-of-staff has meeting at the White House former directly contradicted Nixon's wondered to himself: What am I doing here? claim that there was a full nvestigation last year into Attacks the working White Hous involvement in class- -which already have Watergate. No such investi- begun with prices rising at gation occurred. 20 per cent

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vital part of the stra- Nixon demonstrably are a tegy Nixon must adopt to his aw-breaker. rie and meet the crisis. diminished band of suppor- ters have arrived at a crucial But he cannot stop here. An announcement of de. Big business is insistently flationary measures on

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SATURDAY

F THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF

NIXON .

Arrived at a turning point. home front must be accom- panied by a rise in the price of gold and the imposition of trade barriers against America's capitalist com- petitors. This would be a repro- duction at a far higher level of the crisis of August 15, 1971, when Nixon ended the dollar's convertibility with gold. It would precipitate the disintegration of the inter- national credit system which has been developing since the breakdown of the post- monetary system in war 1971.

ATURDAY JUNE 9, 1973

No 1094 4p

EE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Dockers at the glant Tilbury container dock in Essex voted yesterday to take a stand against a supplementary register of 'casual' dockers which would undermine conditions maintained by the National Dock Labour Scheme. Decisive weekend for THIS IS a decisive weekend for the fund.

Yesterday we received £56.59, which brings our total to £48,606.28. Swindon £1.59; Paddington £5; Middleton £50. We must raise £1.393.72 if the fund is to reach our final deadline date of next Monday June 11. Otherwise we will reluctantly have to acknowledge a real setback. In the face of the real efforts and sacrifices which have been made, this would be a blow to what is a tremendous struggle.

Rush every penny you can at once. One big effort and we're there. Post ail donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG TILBURY dockers yesterday voted by a large majority to fight the introduction of dock- workers employed without the protection of the National Dock Labour Scheme. The Port of London Authority want them to accept new re- a supplementary cruits under register outside the provision of the Scheme, which guarantees dockers job security. At mass meeting yesterday.

shop stewards' chairman, David Marks, proposed fighting the supplementary register on a London-only basis. He said only London, Man- chester and Hull did not have a supplementary arrangement.

Therefore, there was no point in appealing to dockers in other ports who had already accepted it. Shop steward Alf Waters dis- agreed. He said the use of the supplementary register was an attempt to smash the National Dock Labour Scheme. He said the Scheme was a national institution and therefore the fight to keep it should be national. Speakers from the floor pointed out that if it was fought on a London-only basis, ships might be diverted to The dockers voted unani- mously to oppose the supple- mentary register on principle and demanded that any further recruitment occur only the trade agreement with unions. In a second vote they rejected the call to restrict the fight to London and voted in favour of a national struggle.

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LETTER FROM JAILED PERUVIAN TROTSKYISTS-PAGE 2

INCORPORATING TI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE (

BY JOHN SPENCER

tem cannot now be long delayed.

The absence of any immediate action by the Ameri- its Thursday cabinet government following can meeting has created a new upsurge in the price of gold and further weak-- ened the dollar through- demanding action to slash out Europe. inflation and openly express- ing impatience at his in- Simultaneously Nixon's action. Watergate position over has The Nixon cabinet's radically worsened failure to take action on the with the publication of position inflationary in the showing his ap- papers States United and the proval of illegal plans to Watergate scandal are creat- burgle embassies, open ing vast divisions within the mail and tap telephones. President's own staff. John Connally, the former Treasury Secretary, Law-breaker who is a part-time presidential now adviser, reportedlv walked H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, his economic into a top-level meeting at the White House former chief-of-staff, has directly contradicted Nixon's and wondered to himself: 'What am I doing here?' claim that there was a 'full investigation' last year into Attacks on the working White House involvement in class-which have already Watergate. No such investi- begun with prices rising at gation occurred. 20 per cent a year— over are a vital part of the stra- Nixon is demonstrably his Nixon adopt tegy must to law-breaker. and meet the crisis. diminished band of suppor- ters have arrived at a crucial But he cannot stop here. turning point. An announcement of de. Big business is insistently flationary measures on the

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F THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF

NIXON . . . Arrived at a turning point. home front must be accom- panied by a rise in the price gold and the imposition of trade barriers against America's capitalist com- petitors. This would be a repro- duction at a far higher level of the crisis of August 15, 1971, when Nixon ended the dollar's convertibility with gold. It would precipitate the of the inter- disintegration national credit system which has been developing since the breakdown of the post- in war monetary system 1971.

TURDAY JUNE 9, 1973

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EE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Dockers at the glant Tilbury container dock in Essex voted yesterday to take a stand against a supplementary register of 'casual' dockers which would undermine conditions maintained by the National Dock Labour Scheme. Decisive weekend for Party Building Fund THIS IS a decisive weekend for the fund Yesterday we received £56.59, which brings Swindon our total to £48,606.28. £1.59; Paddington £5; Middleton £50. We must raise £1,393.72 if the fund is to reach our final deadline date of next Monday June 11. Otherwise we will reluctantly have to acknowledge a real setback. In the face of the real efforts and sacrifices which have been made, this would be a blow to what is a tremendous struggle. Rush every penny you can at once. One big effort and we're • there. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG TILBURY dockers yesterday majority to voted by a large fight the introduction of dock- workers employed without the protection of the National Dock Labour Scheme. The Port of London Authority want them to accept new re- cruits under a supplementary register outside the provision of the Scheme, which guarantees dockers job security. At mass meeting yesterday, shop stewards' chairman, David Marks, proposed fighting the supplementary register on a London-only basis. He said only London, Man- chester and Hull did not have a supplementary arrangement.

Therefore, there was no point in appealing to dockers in other ports who had already accepted it. Shop steward Alf Waters dis- agreed. He said the use of the supplementary register was an attempt to smash the National Dock Labour Scheme. He said the Scheme was a national institution and therefore the fight to keep it should be national. Speakers floor from the pointed out that if it was fought on a London-only basis, ships might be diverted to other ports. The dockers voted unani- mously to oppose the supple- mentary register on principle and demanded that any further recruitment occur only trade agreement with the unions. In a second vote they rejected the call to restrict the fight to London and voted in favour of a national struggle.

TROTSK YISTS: No concessions!

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday June 9, 1973 THIS letter reached Workers Press yesterday from the of the Velasco military dictatorship in Peru.

dungeons It was written by two comrades of the Trotskyist Liga Comunista. Every class-conscious worker will be re- volted by the tortures to which these comrades have been subjected since they were arbitrarily imprisoned.

Workers Press calls on all trade union branches and working class organizations to demand the immediate release of the Liga Comunista members and the restor- ation of their full rights. Protests should be sent to the: Peruvian Embassy, 52 Sloane St, London, S.W.1.

Lurigancho Prison May 28, 1973. Dear Comrades, We have already been 20 days illegally imprisoned by the Peru- vian military dictatorship. Up to of the legal proce- that are supposed to take dures place have been carried through.

The military tribunal that 1S supposed to take has bothered to not even take our and names identity, let alone dared to ask us any questions. This arbitrariness has been characteristic from the we were arrested. When the state arrested security agents uS 1n did so the streets they without any tribunal's order, as it supposed to be by law, and kept incommunicado uS in What amounted kidnapping. Lu a Our relatives were told we were not arrested and that they didn't know anything about us. This kidnapping, which is be- ing practised regularly also against workers and trade union- ists, serves the purpose of mak- time for torturing. ing We were in fact welcomed by fist blows in our faces and stomach and kept awake with- Velasco's police in action during stuc food and under out constant interrogation. be 'cooled' (that is to be mur- Young university students, militants of the Young Socialists, dered), they forced us to sign who had been arrested and tor- 'contessions' tured before us, were brought to We did not hesitate from the or 4 a.m. in the beginning of our arrest in stating a.m. hardly They could clearly our political ideas, in de- walk and had to be dragged by all the military dicta- nouncing Security State tors' violations of democratic agents to forced rights and their attacks as against point bers of the Liga Comunista. the most basic rights of the wor- of arrest, kers and peasants. The second night and after non-stop The assassination of a interrogation recent and violence, of us-Sergio worker's son in Chimbote, and Barrio-had his hands hand- the shots that have paralysed half the body of the Press secre- the back and cuffed was al hung with ropes round his arms of the

CGTP,

Com- tary the stick tied to the roof munist Party-led Central Union, trom denounced ceiling. This torture is known as contirm what we openly in front of our torturers.

the 'roast chicken'. His head was covered with a We condemn and shall fight black mask so he could not re- without the any cognize his torturers. José Carlos military-corporatist attack against Ballon had the fortune of faint- the working and the pea- class fight ing after non-stop tortures, santry, we shall to con- by his struct the alternative leadership checked only constant political defence of the right to of the working shall class, defend the Communist Party have ideas, revolutionary ideas as an independent workers' against dictatorship. organi- With these tortures and addi- shall defend the zation, we tional threats to our relatives to unity and strength of the CGTP.

on his own in carry- AN OFFICIAL of President had acted the burglary, ing out but, that Nixon's re-election committee there was a problem with some has told Senate com- the of the money he had received mittee investigating the from the campaign funds. McGruder that Watergate scandal that he assured him it been had not used for any- lied to cover-up the conspir- thing illegal, but it could be acy to break into the Demo- embarrassing for the President, cratic Party's campaign Bob Haldeman his aide, and director, headquarters. the former campaign John Mitchell. Herbert Porter told the testified Sloan Earlier had lied committee that he to that had poured in SO

FBI,

the Grand Jury the the coffers fast to campaign's first Watergate and the trial period it had not that at one about how $100,000 was paid been thought worth while to Gordon Liddy, send anyone to pick up out to the $100,000 contribution offered leading dirty tricks man.

from Mexico. He said Jeb McGruder, direc- brought by In the the Nixon tor of campaign, Democratic Party last month, him corroborate asked to Nixon's chief- President former that the to story money was of-staff Bob Haldeman testified be used to infiltrate radical that John Dean, the President's groups. counsel, was never asked to official, Hugh Sloan, Another Watergate and investigate never has the campaign treasurer, re- to Nixon about it until spoke fused with the ' along early this year. to go suggestion. Nixon claims that an investi- gation made by Dean during the According to his story, Liddy uring student unrest. As we told our torturers, as soon as we were freed, whatever the means and whenever it hap- pened, we were going back to do the same, to fight also for de- a revolutionary newspaper.

Once our torturers realized that we were not going to give and them addresses names (which anyway we, as doing an "illegal' fight, took care of not knowing) then they sent us to another department, the so-called 'Criminal Brigade'. There, to our surprise, own we were treated by well-known criminals, our jail-mates, with in- greater respect than the finitely 'polite' State Security most agent. Criminals there undergo tor- tures learned from the US forces in Vietnam in order to be forced to 'confess'. The most common ones are the electric shocks in the genitals, the near-drowned in or the straight blows with gun It was only strong pressure TP. from outside that made it pos- campaign had cleared election all administration employees of involvement in the affair. Dean denies that he ever made such a report. Haldeman also said that he may have known before Water- political espionage gate that had been discussed at top-level strategy meetings campaign which took place in the office of the then Attorney-General, John Mitchell. Present at these Liddy, meetings Gordon was one of the convicted Watergate burglars. Documents removed from the White House by John Dean and published in the 'New York Times' show that Nixon author- ized illegal intelligence-gathering activities in July 1970. These included breaking and entering and opening mail. The targets be radical groups and were to 'diplomatic establishments'.

The plan dropped • after was objections from Edgar Hoover, head of the FBl, because it infringed the territory of his own agency. sible for us to be transferred to ment of the class and under the the active pressure of the Liga Com- a regular prison, one where now-Lurigancho, we are unista cadres that are carrying although we are kept apart from on the struggle for Marxism and the other political the of the alter- prisoners and imprisoned union Stalinists native leadership, the are finding every day that their militants, and sent, instead, to share jail with accused treacherous work becomes drugs dealers. harder and harder. Our family members are now 'Stool-pigeoning' does not pay informed and when imperialism and their mili- can visit us. Nevertheless all the Press have tary agents cannot co-exist with kept silent about our arrest and any basic rights of the workers tortures and about the and peasants. suppres- sion of 'Communismo', the Liga The Stalinists here now have Comunista's weekly paper. The to face their own cadres who are corporatist censorship brutally over the facing repression them- Press, radio and television set-up When selves. the Press secretary by the military dictatorship of

CGTP

has the has been shot, proved once again 'effective'. nearly killed, and lost movement Since our arrest, the working of his legs, when hundreds of the peasantry and Class, unionists are being arrested, num- erous of sections the impo- when 'constitutional guarantees verished petty bourgeoisie, public have been abolished 'temporarily' employees and nearly half the school teachers, country, have proven the strength when the main CP-led unions are of the of Trotskyism that policies base threatened and have no conces- themselves on the made then Marxist view sions whatsoever, of transformation of society.

Stalinism 1s hetween sword The and the wall. general strike in Are- quipa, the second industrial town Trotskyism, in the Liga of Peru, in Moquegua, in Puno, Comunista, fights to consciously and Piura, Stalinists Cuzco, demanding the the and force corner immediate repatriation of them to break with the military Hernan Cuentas (the deported dictatorship and their phoney secretary of the Curjone anti-imperialism. general Miners' Union, now probably in refusal to fight for Their Panama), has now been followed independent mobilization of the the General rallying by Strike in Chim- workers, the peasants bote. where 40,000 workers de- other impoverished and manded the expulsion Baca of the population's Bagzu, the dictator's agent in demonstrated by their public re- Fishermen's Union. the fight for the General fusal to This agent, well known Strike to force the military junta 'mafioso', to resign and call General Elec- is responsible for several cimes and a leading cadre tions immediately, and their re- of the state-controlled fascist fight fusal to call and for 'union', the CTRP (Central de Communist Party government Trabajadores de la Revolucion with a socialist programme. Peruzua), has held illegal control confident with the full We are the Chimbote Fishermen's backing of the workers' struggle Union at gunpoint, and with the defence of their basic in open police protection, refusing of and with the backing right hold union elections for five to of the the immense majority years. expelled peasants (75 per cent) Stalinists are now totally The from the land and forced into their cornered. In newspaper, survival, desperate struggle for previously they had free hands Stalinists will retreat, that the pigeon' 'stool the against and be forced to break with the Trotskyists. They, fact, were government. the ones who publicly gave the refusal to respond to Their name of Sergio to the police in the needs of the working class note published in 'Unidad' by will be their burial and with Pompeyo Mares (the author of them of imperialism itself.

pamphlet the treacherous 'The Sergio Barrio and War of Slanders'). Now, under the mighty move- José Carlos Ballon. STUDENTS at Sussex Uni- THE Students' Union at York University has lost prevented a its entrepre- neurial He has been speech by an American pro- censured and dismissed for sell- 'totally war professor are ing a list of undergraduates to an insurance broker unfit to occupy a university Neil Gershon (22), the union's place'. deputy president, who recently demand politics is completed a course, students sent down be has reported to have made £175 from come from Mr Gerald Howarth, Gershon denied taking the deal. the Society a "backhander' director of for said all the and Individual Freedom, the money went to the union's news- ex- paper. treme right-wing group with Monday Club connections. On Tuesday this week a lecture In letter to Sussex vice- Huntington Samuel Chancellor Asa Briggs, Howarth by Professor 500 slogan- the authorities of was disrupted by accused We can see no reason why they making sufficient preparations to should not be sent down. of speech' that 'freedom was preserved. chanting students. Huntington is 'It seems to us incredible that professor of government at Har- vard University and former con- the police not called upon WATe to ensure that Professor Hunting- Vietnam to the US sultant on State Department. ton's lecture could proceed as for Individual Unless the The Society planned. strongest Freedom formed several possible action taken was against reght-wint people who are obviously totally years ago to take up Under the direction unfit to occupy a university place, causes. former director Fred is Sno the situation will become more the society launched a series and more desperate. Peter Hain, 'Bearing this in mind, I hope prosecutions Liberas Young Liberals leader, for that those found by your authori- Stop-the-Tour in the ties to be involved in this out- his part rage will be severely disciplined.

campaign.

THERE HAS been a breathles around the London Stock Exch of months: How is Jim Slater's Crouching over port in the City c each other for the latest medical bul into the City pages. Such a thing w mention detrimental to the shares i conglomerate, Slater Walker Securit But at the group's annual meeting on Tuesday general the silence was broken. An anxious shareholder asked Slater to confirm or deny rumours that his health was failing. Slater (44) bounced to his feet looking suntanned and fit.

I've been looked at for insur- ance purposes and I'm a 100 per cent risk and im in the pink, he said. 'It is my present inten- tion to spend the rest of my business and my natural life with this new company. And I hope the two coincide. 'I've had a holiday in Rhodes and am feeling very fit. I would recommend Rhodes for a break.

Having given some unsolicited propaganda for the Greek colonels, Slater went on to more serious matters. week's Last • 'Sunday Times' carried a lengthy and intriguing investigation of the proposed between Slater Walker merger the fast-moving merchant and banking firm, Hill Samuel.

To read the majority of the City Press you could be excused for thinking that this move was of the most outstanding piece financial broking in a generation.

IRRITATED

It was the 'Sunday Times' criticism of this wisdom that irritated Slater. He told share- holders: I am taking legal advice on it and my comments may • be sub judice. I don't disagree with what seems to be the main conclusions of the "Sunday Times" piece. They are that we make profits by dealing, that business our complex, and that our accounting is conservative.' But as to the substance of the article, he said: 'A lot of the facts simply are wrong' He concluded by saying: 'As far as I am con- cerned, it is a non-event.'

If Slater thought the article non-event, then canny was shareholders didn't. The day after the article appeared Slater Walker's shares dropped several pence to below 200p. And if it is such a non-event, he intimate legal why did action? During the course of his dia- tribe against the 'Sunday Times' Slater said: 'It was an attempt to get at us by innuendo.' This is perhaps the most ludi- Slater's defensive re- crous of marks. For the article was a chapter-and-verse attempt to A SPECIAL meeting of repre- sentatives from all organizations supporting the formation of a Council of Action in the Edin- burgh area will be held on Thurs- day, June 14. Organized by the Edinburgh General Branch of ASTMS, the meeting will be at the Edinburgh Trades Council premises, Albany Street, at 7.30 p.m. In a circular to all trade union

VICTOR FEATHER, TUC

general secretary, told accountants in London yes- terday that the next TUC Congress in September could raise 'the urgent demand' that the Tory government be replaced by a government more committed to policies for 'social justice'. describing what Feather was might happen if the government, in next week's Downing Street reathless debating point in and ek Exchange for the past couple Slater's health? he City clubs they have been askıng edical bulletin. Not a word has crept a thing would be unsporting, not to : shares in Slater's £1,000m financial r Securities. • No reference to

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Monopolies Commission. show how the group works. It these specific carried very charges: 'We have collected hundreds of documents and amassed quan- tities of information about how Slater Walker operates. In exam- ining even some of these activi- ties, we have found further dis- turbing evidence that the profits and assets of the group are more than usually interrelated and, in fact, significantly depend on the switching of major assets from one part of the group to another.

randomly-applied 'Apparently treatment can thus accounting significant differences in make the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts of the group. At the same time, the information available to shareholders in the of this far-flung disparate parts empire, has, in some cases, sharply diminished, and in many branches in the area, Edinburgh General ASTMS says: workers' the "The unity of movement is an essential require- ment in the struggle to defend the basic democratic rights of the working class, now increas ingly under attack by the Tory

BY ROYSTON BULL

cannot talks on Phase Three, offer a suitably attractive pack- age for the TUC to continue collaboration with the state con- trol of wages which is the right- wing's plan. But Feather then confused the issue still further by saying that a change of government would not alter the economic situation, that governments could and come and go but, the economic problems would go on for ever.

Then he revealed his real at- titude to the possible Congress demand to remove the Tories.

SLATER. . . How long wi

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No outcry over Slater's 29 take-overs. more become almost impossible to understand. senior Slater Walker 'Even executives find great difficulty in keeping up with them. In parts of the empire, indeed, subsidi- and dis- aries tend to appear appear at will! The paper warned Hill Samuel shareholders to 'question whether they should become involved at all' in the £1,500m merger.

CRITICISMS

This Press attack was followed this week by adverse criticism of the deal by two members of Labour's shadow cabinet—Denis and Anthony Wedgwood Healey Benn. Both have ask why the merger wasn't referred to the Monopolies government and its agencies.

"This unity can only be forged out of the struggle to defeat the common enemy, the Tory govern- ment, and the election of a Lab- government pledged to a our socialist programme of nation- alization of all major industries under workers' control and with- out compensation, and the total repressive Tory repeal of regislation: 'What we need is greater un- between finance, derstanding and the trade manufacturers problems the unions to see clearly and properly. We do not want a partisan solution.'

By this plea for corporatism Feather again showed that he is hostile to the growing working- demand for action to get class rid of this government. He will, if he can, lead the movement into the trade union corporatist trap of co-operation with the Pay Board, Phase Three and the continued state control of wages in return for some amendments to the meaningless Industrial Relations Act.

Workers Press, S ow long will the smile last?

Criticized Walker's

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inaction over Commission.

Commission for approval. The man who took the decision not to make a referral was none Peter Walker, the other than Trade and Industry Secretary ...

the founding partner in and Slater Walker empire. Slater may have avoided the Monopolies Commission and all the public disclosure that it would have involved; he may times criticisms by his chadas- 'Sunday matic performance at this week's annual meeting; and he may be as fit as a trout and rearing to go. Nevertheless, with the currency markets in disarray and his operation spread-eagled in risky situations, Slater is by no means as healthy as he would like us to believe. We await further developments.

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THE WAVE of price rises affected 198 grocery items this week, Including the most pop- ular brands of washing powder.

But like last week, there were no price reductions. This latest crop of higher prices brings the total creases in the food sector this year to 3,608 according to "The Grocer' magazine. The week's increases include rises in the of Persil, price Radiant, Square Deal Surf deter- owned by the giant gents Unilever company. Unilever's of liquids, range washing-up heavy cleaners (Vim) and toilet soaps (Lux, Knight's Castile, Lifebuoy) have also gone up.

Peabody Foods have in- creased the prices of their range of canned meats, the prices of Britton's salad cream and pre- serves have gone up and Ship- pam's paste prices have in- creased. Other increases include the Kirkpatrick of range sausages and Granose spreads, vegetable foods, cooking oils and coffee.

A VERDICT of murder was returned by a jury at an in- yesterday on Mr quest Frederick Milton (58), a care- taker, who died after the Old Bailey bomb explosion March. The jury had heard that Mr had long-standing Milton heart condition and had suffered a heart attack only hours before the explosion. They were told the explosion have accele- must rated his death and reduced his chances of recovery. After the verdict, the coroner said that a newspaper had stated that the Director of Public Pro- secutions had decided that no further charges would be offered 'against certain he continued, 'as a result of this verdict, when it is transmitted to the law offi- cers of the Crown, it may cause some reconsideration of that.'

The 'Belfast 10' are to be tried in connection with explosions in included central London which the Old Bailey blast.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday June All around them the system is crumbling Doug Thorpe is an en- gineering worker from Hull: I was always a keen trade unionist and previously I shop steward's held have positions. But there was not much political understanding in this-just representing the men against the employers.

A friend introduced me to the Workers Press and I got really interested in what it said. I had always been un- easy about the way things were developing — especially how some of the leaders were be- having. But the Workers Press really opened my eyes. It is the only paper that has come out and exposed the role of men like Scanlon and Jones.

supposed to be They are against people like Feather.

Yet they are leading the talks with the Tory government. It also showed how, when the May Day protests were on, was having secret Feather meetings with Heath. Things developed from there.

I went to some meetings and it was put to me that we don't just by wishing it-we have to do something about it.

Victor Feather: At secret talks while May Day protests were on.

The situation is urgent. We have the Watergate seen scandal, the Lambton crisis and the Lonrho affair-they are all signs of how rotten the system is. This understanding is a big advantage. Before, I could not understand why the unions had failed to have it out with the government, why we had to go on so many one-day strikes and so on, when it was obvious we needed a General Strike to get rid of the Conservatives.

There was something at the back of this-I knew this at the time and the Workers Press gave me the answer - the leadership we have got. That is why there is all the emphasis on building a new leadership.

I think workers will respond to the true socialist party. The majority of them must be in agreement with what the SLL says. The main problem is belief that it can their own be done if they fight for it.

But events are changing this anyway. If my wife was here she would tell you that every

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only possible leadership. The Labour Parti senders nave been tried and tested and they have been found wanting The position in the TUC is incredible-in the whole leader- ship of the unions you could only find three men who voted against talking with the Tories the class can't go working forward with the majority of leaders. Now they all getting are Phase Three. ready for They are like frightened men and all arouna tnem the system 1s crumbling, economically and politically Watergate, the We need a dollar and so on. to explain this to the party leaders The TUC's May Day march in London.

The trade union used it as one-day protest to 'let off working class; one that under- and provide a cover for steam' their secret talks with the Tories. Above: The Socialist Labour Leaque's and is stands not of building a revolutionary leadership in the working class, and a General march. i posea te question afraid to take the lead. Strike to force the Tories to resign.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

It is not a question of any more. it's either us or them M.G. (58) is a member of the Civil and Public Ser- vants Association: was in the Communist I Party of Ceylon almost at its founding. I was a wartime recruit to the Party in 1942.

We went through the war very much left to our own devices as far as reading and under- standing was concerned. It was all very intellectual. Everything was in the head. I came to England in 1958 to work in the film industry. It took me three years to get in, but once I got in I joined the race. It was i boom period and a lot of eclecticism crept into my thinking. I wasn't actively involved in politics at that time. I didn't rejoin the Communist Party I came to England. To when explain that I must go back.

What really shook me was the Khrushchev revelations and then there was the break be- tween the Soviet Union and China in 1961-1962. After this, a sort of Marxist agnosticism crept in. All the knowledge we had and all the books we read had come from Moscow. These shocks were traumatic so that when I came over here, I just let it ride.

But then the rug was pulled out trom under me. Everybody spoke about Rolls-Royce as the first crash, but actually there before that-Metro was one Goldwyn Mayer. One day you stood in a huge complex of buildings crowded with people and then suddenly it was all stopped Up to 1969 British studios were making up to 80 films a it was dropped year. Then down to 15. The thing that really made me join the League was the document 'Crisis'. I thought it was a fantastic document. It seemed to grasp exactly what whole situation is-the the period of galloping inflation we are in. The document thoroughly reflected the whole qualitative change downwards of capi- talism. The reason I didn't join be- fore was because I thought 'I might make another mistake' I had been associated But with the League for about four years. Watching the YS at first I thought this pattern was the same as I had seen before. I thought 'What is the differ- ence?' But it was only because I had not had access to Trotsky's works. The time has come because of the nature of the crisis that there is no time for leisurely learning. Most of the Marxism people in the League have got has not been learnt formally.

What shook me was the pre- conference of the League I had known some of the people who spoke since 1969 and there Mol was a terrific change. and It showed the absolute im- cril portance of being involved in her the revolutionary movement. ove ing It was not that they had sud-

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UP! Molotov, Khrushchev, Stalin In 1934. By 1956 the secret made his speech 'These shocks traumatic that when were so here, ! just let it ride. Above: Civil Servants in their 'It has become clear. The crisis is here. It's happen- athe smiles gone nad revealino stalin's came over first ever strike Is here. It's happen. Civil and Public Services Assocation Pay Campoign opport

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denly become brilliant Marx- but changes the Isls, objective situation had driven them forward. It was failure to these hanges that hell reciate people like me back. In my mind the existence of the crisis is incontrovertible.

doubt in And there isn't any my mind that there is no alter- native to the League's policies.

first I did At really not understand about the other like the IS and the

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IMG. I thought they must have something and let's all get on with the business. But now I have mixed around with some of these people and read their literature I can see that their policies are completely on the surface. They are only interested in galvanizing the working class and running here there and everywhere protesting without drawing the proper conclusions.

What is at stake is the build- ing of the revolutionary party.

Bolshevik Party new s Press, Saturday June 9, 1973 PAGE 5 J necessary because the Com- munist Party hasn't fulfilled its role. It should have been a revolutionary party from the start. Heath is a prisoner of the objective conditions. He has no other choice. It is not a question of sharing power any as happens under re- more formism. This is all over. It's either us or them. I didn't come to the League through struggle. I came to it for intellectual At reasons. first I thought the headlines of the Workers Press were rather strident, but as the situation has developed, the discrepancy has become less and less. It has become clear. The crisis is here. It's happening outside your door. I noticed some : of the nota- tions I had made in my books in 1948. At that time things seemed ahead of their time. But now I can't put the books down. I can't get enough.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday June 9, 19

BY CHARLES PARKINS

To most people in Britain, the idea of war with a little country like Iceland (population just over 200,000) will have seemed, at least until last week, a little remote, not to say ridiculous. Indeed, up until two weeks while the British Press headlined each incident in tse fishing dispute involving British trawlers, the Tory government carefully • gave the impression Saturday June 9, 1973 of 'playing it cool', and not wishing to escalate the dispute by involving the Royal Navy.

The truth is, however, that certain people behind scenes have been discussing the possibility of a warlike situation with Iceland for some time in fact, since before the trawler incidents began. The discussion goes back to the Icelandic elections, when Communist Party and other elements opposed to NATO received a sizeable vote and took places in the government.

The decision close to Keflavik base to RAF planes in retaliation for the Royal Navy intervention is a re- minder that there is more than codfish involved in relations with Iceland. Iceland When joined the NATO alliance in 1949, it was on the basis that there would be no foreign troops or bases on the island in peacetime.

At Keflavik, however, there is a USAF base, with . some 3,000 to 4,000 American per- sonnel stationed there. That's quite a big station for an island with such a small population.

It's not the sort of force that could go unnoticed. And the Icelandic people have a fierce independence- tradition of besides which a sizeable pro- portion of the workers vote Communist or left-wing So- cialist. The Keflavik base is one of the most important strategic bases held by NATO. Its im- portance is explained not by Iceland's meagre resources but by its geographical position. It is from this base in the North Atlantic that American and NATO aircraft and naval forces are co-ordinated in their guard on the Murmansk and Baltic approaches to the Soviet Union. The to look after concern Keflavik, which becomes a concern to keep a NATO eye Icelandic politics, on was shown in a publication last in the Adelphi Papers year series-brought Institute for International Institute Strategic Studies, in London— 'Nordic on the topic Security • The writer, Egil Ulstein, after dealing with the political situation in the Scandinavian countries, says: 'The position of NATO in northern waters is at present further compli- cated by the result of Iceland's recent parliamentary elections.'

Referring to the importance Ulstein says: 'Apart from the defence of Iceland, Keflavik's major NATO function is that of aerial surveillance and re- connaissance over the northern Atlantic approaches.' Because of popular demands in Iceland that Keflavik base close, Icelandic should the government took office with a mandate to review its military "protection' with agreement the United States, under which the base is there. Ulstein observes: ' in Scandinavian it newspapers has been suggested that eco- nomic issues, such as recogni- tion of the 50-mile fisheries limits claimed by the new gov- drems ti might negotiation.

the negotiations.' dients (My emphasis.) This might help to explain why the British government was hesitant about committing naval forces to intervene in the fisheries dispute. Faced with the possible use of the US base as a bargaining counter by the Icelandic government, the Tories must have had to to what give consideration America might have to say about any moves likely to in- flame the Icelandic people's feelings. However, time is running out for the sort of bargaining and balancing act that the Ice- landic government was trying.

Last year it was being said that, despite what had been said in the election, Icelandic Foreign Secretary Einar Agusts- son was not doing much about the base problem. But it was also said that he hoped to have the fisheries issue settled by September 1972. With the dispute still un- settled in May 1973—and the British government becoming more arrogant-Icelandic work- ers are bound to be asking their government will when show some results The Keflavik base ought to be thrown out anyway, not just used as a bargaining point.

Far from providing security for the people of Iceland, it en- sures by its presence that the island would be a likely target Workers Pres sea in or Left: The first mother ship, Hult parts. to 'Orsino' set sail from in She can- 1968. was put Into service ishịng trawlers, to look after following the Capsizing of three the North Sea In 1968. NATO territory, boats in in the event of nuclear war.

port them.' And in the present situation, Icelandic bound workers are the or to observe that the military the

NATO

really be threat they need to defended from is not the big, bad, Russians, but their NATO war in 'allies'- forces of Her -Lne Brittanic Majesty, Sir Alec do. Douglas Home, and Mac- Fisheries. And they do Here in Britain, right-wing and militarist elements have threatens to with been the need discussing NATO bases. act over Iceland. be- At the ginning of this year, the Royal was launched, United Services Institute jour-

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plan, and article by n. p. a. ea nai an with be- largely Croker entitled Ice- land and the Maritime Threat to NATO' year The to be with mainly that was reliably pro- arguing

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the navy, But there are not Chills up a picture of sufficient in setting Iceland? western Suppose the Icelandic people and His grounds for this say that they don't believe in the 'Red Peril' story? Suppose are that the of the Soviet n they tell

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that they of attainment never- don't want any more 'protec- relinquished of tion'? To Well world you know what hap- of that end, the pens to people who say that in Europe is Britain Chicago! And what happened the next Dominican to them in the If this Republic a few years ago, and a little hard with at Suez a few years before that.

Moscow If it far-fetched to seems Vietnam think that something similar for all out mutual going could be launched against

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with in European security pact nation, you might Europe, reflect that at the end of last ture seems year, NATO manoeuvres were Tory held Norway, sta in northern realize based on the scenario, not of with

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straightforward 'Soviet in- tributors. vasion', but of 'elements Beside opposed to NATO' within the for country itself. ing on parti- The history of the last 20- naval odd years shows that when the cularly craft, talk 'Red' escort sub- imperialists of marines, threat, it means that an im- frigates. perialist threat is being pre- . if public pared. to realize which It hon we stan budget not the tear by'n. the 'cod bounds According Croker's how only a theory, mat of behind pect that is show of Atlantic. in the ex- strength, the Red erni plains, need an the situation to the where the 'A glance at the of point map Europe suggests that northern com Iceland is the ideal and, indeed But it I paused from the only feasible site for the this advanced base. article news He goes on to argue: on 'The expressed desire of the that the is in - -now new left-wing Iceland govern- volved-for the first time stre ment to review or terminate its military Minister protection brin agreement with the United Accident, States media mat the represent the doing their job? measure success of Soviet diplomatic efforts Funnily for those in this direction, and could result who in the loss to NATO of the seri Keflavik airbase. Iceland would who. ter. then be left seen internationally tion Keflavik. undefended—a fruit ripe for picking, since it could be the seized by a quite small air- was anxious issue shou borne operation if base rights could not be secured by nego- pres he tiations. the From this picture of a 'Red any aims Plot' to seize Iceland, Mr Croker begi proceeds to declare: •Measures in the interests of their much- safeguard the in Europe' vaunted 'detente island should therefore be a the Stalinists might have to end top NATO priority' NATO bases defending he says, efforts Therefore, up continuing! must be made to persuade the Icelandic government 'that the Whether this will really save NATO military presence should them from an escalating con- flict, however. another not be run down, still less dis- mantled He goes on: 'If matter. It could be that car. these efforts fail, there is tain people in NATO and in grave danger that Iceland will Britain might actually want a little bit of fall nice overseas into communist hands 'adventure' With within a few years or even just now. the crisis they are in and poli- months... tical scandals of the first order Explaining what he means in both the US and Britain,

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by strengthening the presence, Croker says: 'While they might see it as a welcome Keflavik and its aircraft must diversion. be the keystone of any defence We in the working class plan, they cannot do the job be diverted The not Ground forces enemy is here at home. alone. are needed to protect this airbase Stephen Johns concludes and the port of Reykjavik, and this series on Monday. a mobile element to deal with

REVISIONISTS EXPOSED

BY ECONOMIC CRISIS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday June 9, 1973 Part three Mandel's record on the monetary crisis

BY PETER JEFFRIES

In his three articles in Press', 'Intercontinental leading

SWP

member, Dick Roberts is at pains to stress what he claims is the 'dogmatic' and 'sec- tarian' analysis made by the Socialist Labour Lea- gue, as against that pre- sented by Ernest Mandel. all those with any experience in the working-class 'dogmatic' movement know, and 'sectarian' for the revision- ist always means 'principled' and 'consistent' as against their desertion of Marxism OWIl suit the needs of the Stalinist social-democratic bureau- cracies. It is no acident that Roberts should sprinkle his article with such phrases. The revisionists have taken

HOW

over COla pletely the language of the Stalinists who, from the 1920s have maliciously onwards, attacked Trotskvism for its alleged 'ultra-leftism'. Our final two articles will Mandel's therefore examine writings on the monetary crisis.

One of Mandel's edines efforts the time of came at de Gaulle's 1965 proposal for return to gold as the basis of international ine LAlUNC system. Before outlining Man- del's comments enesall the pre sent this pro- posal, let us state of the world money svslem Since August 1971, when President Nixon annolneeo that the dollar was no longer Withjol World exonome backed by trend world economy has been precisely to return to gold as the only means of Ernest Mandel international and pay- Traoe ments. And dollar de- valuation (already since

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that date) and increase in the price (now gold three

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times its 'official" price) marks along that step TOae. crisis, the capitalist system is always, as now, thrown back gold as the only means

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in which its value can be preserved. What did the erudite Mandel to say about de Gaulle's dave plạn? .. there is not the slightest that Gaulle's pro- chance posal will be taken up. would be suicide for capitalism raay June 9, 1973 One of Ernest Mandel's earliest writing: to gold as the basis of the international n to return to a rigid system of money and credit controlled automatically by the supply of gold. Such a system could lead only to a major depression.'

And, on the following page: 'Even a sharp increase in the price of gold ... would not fundamentally alter that situ- ation ... A permanent crisis of international liquidity would ensue, bringing great unhappi- throughout the capitalist ness world.' Here we have complete and utter reformism. For Mandel, capitalists choose the can they have a crisis! whether And no doubt wishing to avoid 'great unhappiness' they will opt to avoid a crisis! Hence a return to the gold standard is ruled out. What rubbish! always, Marx insisted that the laws of capitalist develop- ment were objective, 'indepen- dent of will and consciousness' Capitalism is now gripped by crisis because of its inherent and ever-sharpening contradic.

assert themselves most ment against clearly, both the classes, in the same way as does the law of gravity when a house collapses. Again, no 'mistake' on Man- del's part, but a reflection of continuing, somewhat touching, faith in the ability of capitalism to eliminate these contradictions. This same method is revealed in the article from which we have quoted when Mandel writes: 'Those who advocate returning to the gold standard score a good point when they argue that the present mone- tary system leads to increasing st writings on the monetary crisis came at the national monetary system in 1965.

inflation. This is completely correct. But increasing inflation is the only means by which a capitalist economy can con- grave depressions into vert "minor" recessions. What capitalist government in the instance, United States, for would run the risk of having 15 million or 20 million un- employed for the sake of "fighting inflation" or "going back to gold"?' Now the amazing thing is that Roberts quotes this pas- from Mandel's 1965 sage A new English edition of the 'First Fiv Years of the Communist International' it corporating hitherto unpublished materi from Volume XIII of Trotsky's Works'

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me at the time of French President De Gaulle's (above) proposal for a return article, thinking he is attack- presumably will allow the avoid 'grave ing the SLL! Yet the very week capitalists to depressions' appeared, leading sections it Of course, the SLL has never of capitalist the opinion 1n United States were calling for that the 'old style' suggested standard these deflationary gold be precisely can ever as Roberts, attempt- policies, which they correctly restored, feel absolutely essential, what- ing a cheap distortion, suggests. standard died The ever cost in unemployment, as gold with of 'fighting the advent of imperialism. The the only means return to gold has opened up inflation'. Presumably Mandel and period of capitalist not Roberts are today more stability and expansion, but of san- guine than ever about capitalist convulsion and break- acute For inflation is down. prospects. certainly 'ever increasing',

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

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The date 1947 is not acci- dental because from 1943 until 1947 Stalin pursued a policy of the territorial division of the world with the victor camp of the imperialists which was sealed by the conferences held at Yalta and Potsdam. These agreements led directly to. the betrayal of the revolu- tion in western Europe, in Greece and in China. Under Brezhnev the Soviet • bureaucracy has moved back consciously to Stalin's old policy. But this period was also one in which the Communist Party had Ministers in bour- geois governments and gave wholehearted support to their including policies up to and the war in Indo-China. It is with some relief and satisfaction that Kanapa and his associates re-establish them- selves on these positions on the basis of an entirely phoney analysis of the world situation and the self-delusion that has suffered a imperialism defeat. This policy is expressed in the crassest nationalist terms and with great respect for the foreign policy of the founder of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle, brought to power to forestall a military coup in May 1958. Kanapa looks forward to an association of the Common royal reception from Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin on his recent visit to Moscow.

Soviet Union needs The credits from foreign banks to finance its increasing purchases from the capitalist countries.

There are already five foreign capitalist banks with branches in Moscow and more likely to follow the ex- are ample. Bankers are confident that they will find plenty of business, but are demanding more information about the Soviet Union's foreign ex- change and gold holdings to bureaucracy's establish the credit rating. Soviet Press and TV have been giving extensive coverage to the first anniversary of President Nixon's visit and preparing the ground for Brezhnev's return visit to the US later this month. All point to the fact that economic co- operation will be the main sub- ject of the Soviet-US top-level talks. Talks are being given about 'our States, Reighbour the United on the strength of the across the Bering contacts Strait. While the Watergate affair is soft-pedalled, US in- flation is blamed on to exces- sive military expenditure.

In other words, US capital-m Workers Press, S Market countries with those of 'a wide the Warsaw Pact in co-operation from the Atlantic to the Urals, a phrase made famous by de Gaulle. He attacks what he sees as the 'anti-national policy' of some elements in the present government. He wants them to return to a true Gaullist policy! This means refusing to come with the agreement to an United States or submerging interests and French sover- eignty in a supranational body.

'France must say no to Ameri- can demands,' Kanapa cried. 'She must disengage herself from the strait-jacket of the policy of blocs. Today it is great time to construct a French policy!' Again a clear echo of Gaullist phrases.

The French Communist Party proposes that the Pom- pidou regime should make a non-aggression treaty with the Soviet Union as a contribution to European detente. The concrete steps put for- ward by Kanapa will tie the French working class hand and foot the interests of to imperialism. That is why he vociferously protests, all through his report, that peaceful co-existence does maintaining not the mean social and political status quo in the capitalist countries.

What this comes down to is putting forward a reformist programme for application Anniversary of Nixon's visit to Moscow ism would be healthier if, in of 'peaceful the name co- existence' ', it cut down mili- tary production and opened up broader trade links with the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. There is no kind of Marxist analysis of the capitalist crisis, although there are the routine some circles warnings about which profit from international and oppose tension the detente. As an East German com- it in an un- th mentator put s Press, Saturday June 9, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: The line up of Common Market rulers, the "reality" which the French CP has come out in favour of accepting.

within the Common Market on the lines of that on which it tought, and lost, the last elec- tion with the in alliance Socialist Party and a rump of Radicals. It therefore talks of 'democratizing the institutions of the European Community' and making it independent of the United States. This policy, strongly laced with nationalist and patriotic appeals, is intended to divert the French working class from a struggle to overthrow the Gaullist regime and smash that conspiracy of European mono- polists against the workers, the Common Market. It enables the French Com- munist Party to act as a loyal opposition, whose main differ- ence with Pompidou and Gis- caird D'Estaing is that they have departed from the true Gaullist canon. It is tailored to suit the needs of the Soviet bureaucracy which, while mak- ing a deal with the United States, need a strong western Europe as a counterweight to American power. Not surprisingly the French CP points to the example of the TUC as a model: 'On the trade union plane- where a liaison committee already exists between the CGT and the Italian CGIL— the idea of a wider west Euro- co-operation, rejecting pean exclusiveness which has now become anachronistic, is mak- ing progress, as is shown by attitude of the British the trade union and other trade union forces on the question of a European Confederation of trade unions.' It has now been confirmed that French Communist Party representatives will sit in the European parliament, the Con- sultative Committee of the Council of Europe and the Court of European High Justice. In the light of this statement and the French CP's actions, it only remains to ask John Gollan and the British Stalinists whether their policy of opposi- tion to the Common Market, on nationalist grounds, has not also become anachronistic and when they are going to align themselves with their brother accepting it. parties in The British CP has made many somersaults in the past and unless its hacks are going to tell Kanapa that he is mis- taken about the new period and the need for a new turn in Europe, it looks as though another is due. Moscow has been given wide coverage.

guarded moment: Relations of peaceful co-existence were advocated, not just for today or for tomorrow, but for a long period of history' The Soviet Union is now putting its goods in the shop window to attract the Ameri- can businessman. They include oil and gas, timber and timber products and other raw mater- ials. It is these resources, be- coming scarce in the capitalist countries because of predatory methods, which are attracting the Rockefellers to Moscow.

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As Channel except: Farmhouse kitchen. 10.20 9.55 mind. 10.45 Survival. 11.10 ploring 11.40 Cartoon. 11.35 Gus Honeybun. Bonanza. 12.30 London. 2.00 Epilogue.

12.05 Weather. 940 Piano can be fun. 10ri0g

SOUTHERN: 9.15

mind. At your service. 10.35 Stingray 12.25 11.00 Weather. 11.05 Great Cartoon. guns. 12.30 News. 12.35 London. 5.15 Fenn Street gang. 5.50 London. 6.30 Film: 'D-Day the Sixth of June'. 8.30 11.25 News. Comedians. 9.00 London. 11.30 Man in a suitcase. 12.25 Weather.

Guideline. HARLECH: 9.00 London. 9.55 Hammy 10.10 Sesame street. 11.10 Hamster. Osmonds. 11.35 Tarzan. 12.30 London.

6.05 Anna and the king. 6.35 Film: 8.00. Mike and Bernie. London. 12.10 Weather. 10.25 It takes a thief. ANGLIA: 9.00 London. 9.55 Hammy Hamster. 10.05 Skippy. 10.35 Film: Sinead' 'Captain 12.00 Flintstones. 12.30 London. 5.20. Rolf Harris. 6.05 Film: Tarzan Goes India'. 8.00 to 9.00 London. Mike and Bernie. 10.25 of San Francisco. Parade. 11.10 Streets 12.10 Epilogue. Exploring

ATV

MIDLANDS:

9.15 minds. 9.40 Piano can be fun. 10.10 Skippy. 10.35 Merrie melodies. 10.55 Cartoon. in 11.00 Film: 'Laurel and 5.20 Family alr 5.50 London™ 12.30 London. Hardy 6.35 Film: "Tarzan and the Valley of Gold'.

8.00 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. Parade. 11.10 Epilogue. 11.15 10.25 Name of the game. Weather.

Sesame ULSTER: 10.35 Yoga. 11.00 Survival. 12.30 London. family. 5.50 London. 6.35 Film: Results. 8.00 Mike and Bernie. London. 10.25 Parade. 11.10 Branded.

11.40 Shirley's world.

ALL TRADES UNI

HEMEL

Monday (please note date change), 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall.

Square. "Build the revo- Queen's lutionary party'. EAST LONDON: Monday June 11, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E.3. 'Forward to the revo lutionary party. BERMONDSEY: Tuesday June 12, 'Havelock Arms', 8 p.m. Bala- 'Forward clava Street. to the revolutionary party. CAMDEN: Tuesday June 12, 8 and the revolutionary party.

DUNDEE: Tuesday June 12, _7.30 p.m. YMCA, Constitution Road.

'Forward to the Belle Vue con- ference'. HARROW: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. Coop Hall (Small Hall), Masons Avenue, Wealdstone. 'Forward to ATUA conference'.

LEAMINGTON: Tuesday, June 12, 7.30 p.m. The Commonwealth Club, Church Street, "The Tory government and the trade unions.' PADDINGTON: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales', Harrow Road, corner of Western Road.

'Force the Tories to resign.

a Labour government Return pledged to socialist policies'.

TOOTING: Tuesday June 12, Tooting Tooting resign. Return a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist poli- cies' Tuesday

WALTON-ON-THAMES:

Now June 12, 8 р.m. The Kiwi, Ave., 'Building Walton. Zealand the Revolutionary Party! WANDSWORTH: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. "Foresters', All Farth- 'Force the Tories to ing Lane. resign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment to ABERDEEN: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. The Trades Hall, 24 Adelphi. 'Forward to the Belle Vue conference'. Sinead (pronounced Shinaird) Cusak pendent's thriller series tonight at 9.00.

YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Take better photo- Exploring 9.40 mind. 10.10 rapns. Guns'. Bearcats. 11.09 'Great 12.25 Cartoon 5.50 5.20 Rolf Harris. Film: Popeye. 8.00 Mike Bernie. 7.50 10.25 11.10 9.00 London. Parade. Name of the game. 12.35 Weather.

GRANADA: ›.I5 Exploring mind. 9.40 Piano can be fun. 10.05 Camping and caravanning. 10.35 Sesame street. 11.35 Catch kandy. 12.05 Huckleberry Finn. 12.30 London. Film: _ 5.20 Protectors. 5.50 "Caxambu'. London. 6.35 8.00 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. 10.25 Parade. I1.10 Midnight mystery, 12.20 Seaway. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Wild life theatre.

Exploring 9.40 mind. 10.10 Tom- Scarlet. 11.05 foolery. 10.35 Captain Film: 'Rhino'. 12.30 London. 5.20 Rolf

UNIONS ALLIANCE

day HULL (Speclal meeting of angt AC1 neers' sectlon): Wednesday, "The Windmill June 13, 8 p.m. Hotel', Witham. SLOUGH: Wednesday June 13, 11, 8 p.m. Community Contre, Farn- ham Road. 'Force the Tories to resign'. SALFORD: Wednesday, June 13, 8 p.m. "Kings Arms', Whit Lane.

'Forward to the ATUA Belle Vue conference.' SOUTHALL: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. Southall Library,_Osterley Park Road. 'Force the Tories to resign. Return a Labour govern- ment policies, Pledged to socialist

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. 'Crooked Billet', North Circular Road. "Stalinism poli , 8 and the struggle to defend demo BRI all), cratic rights'.

WOOLWICH:

Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. 'Queen's Arms' , Bur- rage Road. 'TUC and Stalinists —supporters of corporatism'.

BASILDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Community p.m. Barnstaple Centre. 'Make the Tories resign.

Force a Labour government to carry out socialist policies'.

CROYDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Coombe Ruskin House Tories to p.m. 'Force the Road. 2, 8 resign'. FELTHAM: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. 'Three Horse Shoes', High Street. 'Labour to power, pledgec to socialist policies of national- ization of land and property.

LUTON: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bed- ford Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights' SHEFFIELD: Thursday June 14, 7.30 'The Hallamshire' p.m. West Street. 'End talks with the Tories'. WILLESDEN: Thursday June 16, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades Hall, High Road, N.W.10. 'Force the Tory government to resign'.

, Cusak plays a blind student in Inde- 8.00 Mike a d Bernie. 9.00 London: 6.05 Film: To Trap Harris. 10.25 Parade. 11.10 Name of the game.

12.35 Lectern. SCOTTISH: 9.15 Exploring mind. 9.40 can be fun. 10.10 Curly and Piano and bamm coconu 10.35 10.20 Pebbles Black Beauty. 11.05 bamm. Dick Van Dyke. Jackson five. 11.30 12.00 Cavalcade. 12.30 London. 5.15 5.50 London. 6.30 Partridge family. Film: 'Hunted'. 8.00 Mike and Bernie.

9.00 London. 10.25 Parade. 11.10 Late call. 11.15 Mannix. 11.45

GRAMPIAN: 11.15

Ivanhoe. Ron and friends. 12.30 London. 5.15 Sky's the limit. 5.50 London.

6.35 Film: 'Tarzan's Magic Fountain'. Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. 8.00 10.25 Parade. 11.10 Randall and Hopkirk.

NCE MEETINGS

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

'Six Bells', High Street, W.3.

'Build the revolutionary party. Defend democratic rights'.

LEWISHAM: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, Road.

"TUC

New Cross must break off Phase Three talks'.

CRAWLEY: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Council for Social Services Hail, 19 Station Road. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour nationalize government must major industries' BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. 'Nag's Head', Wandsworth 'Force the Tories to re 108 d. sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist mo- BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, $ Control p.m. Training sign. Return a Labour govern- ment to socialist must tries'. Room, Central to 8 p.m. "Labour must government'. "The Hotel. p.m. Road. capitalism'. 'Force the nationalize the Labour must

Peronist president attacks

SUNDAY TV

BBC 1

9.00. Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 10.30 Service. 11.35 Don't just sit there. 12.00 Training for work. 12.25 Picture Britain: 1.305 Athlete 1.55 News head- 1.15 Made in Britain. lines. Weather. 2.00 Along the trail. Nairn's journeys. 2.45 2.15 Lancer. 'Mother Tights', 3.35 Film: Wore Betty Grable, Dan Dailey. 5.20 Wives and daughters. 6.05 NEWS. Weather.

6.15 LET'S TALK IT OVER.

6.50 MUSIC.

7.25 OWEN MD. Into Panic.

8.15 Hawkins, Donad Sinden; ben- Hawkins, Donald Sinden, holm Elliott, Virginia McKenna. Story of a Royal Navy corvette in the Battle of the Atlantic.

10.15 NEWS. Weather.

10.25 GREAT ORCHESTRAS OF THE

WORLD. Omnibus presents The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

11.20 THE EDITORS. 12.10 Weather.

REGIONAL TV

WeatherE 215 Champions 3005 Film: Weather. Champions.. Film: Questions Asked'. Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

Baby'. 9.30 Who Film: 'Pretty 10.00 London. Danger man. 12.10 Epilogue. Weather.

WESTWARD. AS

Channel except: 9.30 London. 10.30 Sesame street. 1.00 Talking hands. 1.10 Chess. 1.25 At your service. 1.55 Acres for probt. 2.15 Champions. 3.15 Film: 'No Oues- tions Asked'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Pretty Baby'. 9.30 Who do you do? 10.00 London. 11.15 Theatre of stars.

12.05 Epilogue. Weather. JUDGES in Northern Ireland are to get rises of £2,000 a year -backdated 18 months to Jan- uary 1972. That amounts to a £3,000 hand out and a rise of £40 per week.

Northern Ireland magistrates are to get a rise of £1,500 a year -also backdated to January 1972. For them it means a lump sum of £2,250 and £30 a week more. Picket at To mark the eighth anniversary of the outbreak of armed strug- for the overthrow of the gle pro-imperialist Sultan of Oman, Arab Committee for the the support of the Revolution in Palestine and the Gulf is stag- ing a picket at 2 p.m. this Oman afternoon outside the Embassy, 33 Hyde Park Gate S.W.7.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Sunday June 17 The materialist conception of History Sunday June 24 Dialectical Materialism—a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday July 8 Theory and Practise of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the evolutionary Part at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m.

ITV

9.30 Service. 10.40 Joe 90. 11.05 Funky 11.30 Weekend world. 1.00 phantom. Thunderbirds. 1.50 Training the family 2.15 Sportsworld 73. dog. 3.05 Film: 'Wonderful Things'._Frankie Vaughan.

4.30 Golden shot. 5.20 Parade. Man- chester Festival 73.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15 LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY.

6.35 SWEAT OF OUR BROW.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25 FENN STREET GANG.

7.55 FILM: 'Hombre'. Paul Newman, Fredric March, Diane Cilento, Richard Boone, Barbara Rush, Cameron Mitchell. In the 1880s of pas- an 111 assorted group sengers assemble for a journey into Mexico. 10.00

NEWS.

10.15

INTERNATIONAL

FOOTBALL.

Russia v England.

11.15 FOREIGN EYE.

12.05 CLERGY AT LARGE.

12.10

ODD

COUPLE. The Laundry Orgy. London.

SOUTHERN:

1.00 Grass- hopper island. 1.20 Jimmy Stewart. 2.15 London. Superman. 3.20 University challenge. 3.50 Golden shot. 4.45 Parade. 5.30 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

"The Long 10.00 London. 12.00 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.35 Farm- ing. 11.00 Gardening. 11.30 London. 1.00 University challenge. 1.30 In 2.00 Bugs Bunny. 2.15 London.

tune. 3.00 Film: 'The Perils of Pauline'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Trygon Factor' 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 Lon- don. 12.00 Weather. 10.30 Circus. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.55 Doris Day. 11.20 Cartoon. 11.30 THE NEWLY-ELECTED pres Peronist Dr Hector Campora, against the People's Revolutio Pabloite revisionist organizatio kidnapping foreign industrialist decision The government's to turn on the ERP is the direct result of orders from ex-president Juan Peron, who is masterminding the new re- gime from exile in Madrid.

Campora himself is due to visit Spain as guest of the fascist regime shortly. Amplifying the old dictator's ultimatum guerrillas, to the Campora said: 'The rules of the game are clear. We have voted in favour of democratic mecha- nisms and they have shown themselves to be effective. Every sector without exception enjoys the great liberty. The repressive apparatus has been demolished and everyone can act freely ..?

Under the military regime, which was by Campora ousted when he won the presidential election, the ERP Pabloites sup- the return of Peronism ported in a joint front and took part with the Peronist guerrilla move- ment, the FAR (Revolutionary

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Central London 'Closures of Theatres and Film Studios'

SUNDAY JUNE 10

7.15 p.m. London Flim School, corner Langley and Shelton St (opp Covent Garden tube) Speaker: Yvonna Richards Lambeth Council of Action Sunday June 10 3 p.m. Clapham Baths Clapham Manor Street, SW4 Break off Phase Three talks.

No Collaboration with Heath.'

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETING

BLACKBURN

'The Peel Hotel' (Town Centre) Thursday June 14 8 p.m. 'Bulld the Revolutionary Party'

BBC 2

8.55 Open University. 1.55 Cricket.

Leicestershire v Kent. 6.45 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather.

6.50 NEWS REVIEW.

7.25 THE WORLD ABOUT US.

Tiger Trail• SILLS. American

8.15 BEVERLY

opera star talks to Bernard Levin and sings arias from some of her famous roles. 9.35 THE LOTUS EATERS. A tiger in Bristol Street.

10.25 M*A*S*H.

10.50 A LITTLE TOUCH OF SCHMILS-

SON IN THE

NIGHT. Harry Nilsson and Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra. 11.35 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

11.40 UP SUNDAY.

Harry Nilsson presents a series of non-rock standards on BBC 2 on Sunday at 10.50. London. 1.00 Champions. 1.50 Weather.

iest Ship in the Army' 4.15 Bygones. 5.35° Flaxton boys. 4.40 Golden shot. 7.55 Film: 'Ada. 10.00 6.05 London. 11.15 Department S. 12.10 ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 10.30 Citizens' 1.00 Randall 3.00 Film: Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Stagecoach'. 10.00 London.

ULSTER: 9.30 London. 11.30 London. 1.00 Exploring mind. 1.55 Houndcats. 2.15 London.

3.05 Film: 'Twice Round the Daffodils'.

4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Spellbound'.

10.00 London. ED president of Argentina, the mpora, has begun a witch-hunt evolutionary Army (ERP), the ganization which specializes in istrialists. Peron. Armed Forces) and the Mon- toneros. Unlike the Pabloites, who are continuing their campaign of kid- nappings, mock trials and assas- sination of military leaders, the FAR and the Montoneros have to make a 'truce' with decided the regime. 'With the electoral victory, we have won a • battle, but the war is not over,' •said in a they joint communiqué. ABOUT 800 delegates are expected to attend today's C National Union of Students emergency conference on grants at London's Imperial College. This is an extremely high turn- out in view of the fact it takes place in the middle of final first and second-year examinations which make or break can a student's chance of finding a job or staying on at college.

It is a measure of the urgency and seriousness with which students nationally regard their fight for increased grants, and for a review of the discretionary awards of the schemes-two main demands in the four-point campaign waged since the begin- ning of the year. But many students also fear that the NUS leadership may have called the conference at this particular time with a view to winding down the campaign it- self. They fear their leadership is accepting actively considering the Tory government's £20 in- crease 'insult'. Workers Press, S YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess. 9.30 London.

10.30 Pipet and his friends. 10.35 Untamed world. 11.00 Dick Van Dyke.

11.30 London. 1.25 1.00 a 2i50 Flim Calendar. 1.55 Snooker. 2.50 Red'. "The Angel Wore 4.45 Golden 5.55 Film only When 6 St.9.50 'Only When I Larf'. Cartoon. 10.00 London. 12.05 Shirley's world. 12.35 Weather. use Ache: 11000 Ad 105 mily: family. 11.30 London. 12.55 Saint. 1.55 On the line. 2.25 Dundee and the culhane.

3.20 Name of the game. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London.

7.05 Sylvester. 8.00 Film: •Man On String'. 9.30 Branded. 10.00 London. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess masterpieces.

9.30 London. 10.30 Carpet bowls. 11.00 Duncan. Sandy 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming. 1.25 Let them live. 1.50 'We will remain in a nOW state of alert and develop forms of organization to allow us to carry on the fight on all fronts until the seizure of power.'

Behind this meaningless verbi- age the 'left' wing of Peronism is settling down to life under Campora's specific brand of the corporate state. The ERP have not abandoned their terrorist campaign.

British Lockwood, businessman Charles kidnapped for a £400,000 ran- this week, is the latest som target. They are still holding Francisco Aleman, Rear-Admiral the former chief of Navy intelli- gence, but plan to release him as as details of his 'trial' are soon published in the newspapers.

their longest-held Aleman, hostage, admitted in a film of his secret trial at the hands of the ERP that the previous military government was a dictatorship and said it was true there had been of political pri- torture soners. The filmed confession was shown on Argentine television This increase-which does not even amount to 50p a week- will nowhere meet the needs of the NUS's 50,000 members, many of whom are now being forced to choose between buying books or eating as a result of the effects of inflation on their already low allowances. This is reflected - in the mo- tions before today's conference which call continuously for a renewal of the grants campaign, for national weeks of canteen boycotts, national rent strikes and demonstrations after the summer vacation. But the dangers are already apparent in the executive's resolutions which maintain policy of discussion with i the Tory government on the tri- annual review of grants and on the £20 offer. Members of the Young So- Student Societies cialists are organizing a lobby of today's conference for this particular reason. 3 Press, Saturday June 9, 1973 PAGE 11 Where me folden jobs Girl! S. Snooker. are. 2.50 Film: 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Operation Madball'. 10.00 London. 11.15 About Britain. 11.45 Dr Simon Locke. 12.15 Lectern. SCOTTISH: 10.05 Children to children.

10.35 Women. 11.05 Clapperboard. 11.30 London. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Shades of puffing Billy. 2.15 London.

3.05 Film: "Papa's Delicate Condition'.

.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys 'Two On a 7.55 Film Guillotine'. Liberal Party con- ference. 10.00 London. 12.05 Late call.

GRAMPIAN:

Farming. 11.00 11.30 1.00 Exploring London. mind. 1.30 Piano can be fun. 2.00 Master chefs. 2.15 London. 3.05 Film: 'Cottage to Let'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Stranger in the House'. 9.45 Liberal Party conference. 10.00 London. shortly after the election victory of Dr Campora. Another ERP captive is police chief Nassif, who was kidnapped nearly two months ago. The promise to re- lease Aleman is interpreted as an effort to bargain with the new regime. The Campora regime is being assiduously by the courted Cuban Stalinists despite the way the new Argentine President is treating the guerrillas. President Osvaldo Dorticos was in Argen- tina for the inaugration of Dr Campora last month. But the conference of the Peronist trade

(CGT)

union earlier this week demonstrated how the Peronist chiefs really feel about their Cuban "allies'.

The conference declared against both 'yankees and Marxists' in favour of Peronism. And when the Cuban repre- sentative Agapito Figueroa, tried to make a speech in tribute to Ernesto Che Guevara, he was howled down and the conference did not allow him to finish his address. They say that all the confusion created in the last few weeks over the date of the actual meet- ing was designed to demoralize students. YSSS members are calling for immediate cash supplements to student grants in order to beat rising prices, in addition to the four points of the NUS cam- paign. 01-720 2000 01-622 7029 Posis orde published the a newspaper at Post Office, Workers Clapham High te Street, Printed Newsdesk: 01-622 7029.

Chrysler under siege Feelings running high for months 'Always a Tory' says Enoch Powell All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUER

Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday June THE CHRYSLER car factory at Ryton, Coventry, lay under seige yesterday. Pickets manned every gate and nothing apart from a few private cars moved in or out.

Pickets were also out at Bagin.

ton dispatch depot and Gusford Green rail head where body panels for Ryton arrive from Linwood, Scotland, and engines leave for Linwood. Shop stewards from the Ryton and Stoke plants met yesterday afternoon to discuss the situa- tion. The Stoke plant is now being picketed to prevent trans- port leaving. Union officials will be meeting Chrysler management at national level on Monday for talks not connected with the Ryton strike, but convenor Roger Roberts thought it likely yesterday that the dispute would be discussed.

SEVERAL MONTHS frustra tough policy from Chrysler ma into the bitter strike at Coventry. Dozens of grievances, add- ing up to a picture of blind pressure of production targets and deliberate provocation, have been brought to the sur- face by Chrysler's allegations of 'faulty workmanship' and its denial of holiday pay to night-shift workers. And in the back of many wor- kers' minds is the thought that the real intention of the US- car, firm may be to en- owned further speed-up in the force pay talks which have been inter- rupted by the strike. Fears that the company might try to use the strike to bring in contractors and extend produc- tion lines, ensured a solid picket line on every gate of the kyion plant yesterday. The production lines, which normally race along at an ex- hausting speed of 48 cars an hour, will remain stopped until company comes to terms, vehicle said Roger Roberts, builders' union (T&GWU) con- venor. 'The issue here is Chrysler's right to stop men working when- ever they feel like it, he said.

'When we gave them an oppor- tunity to prove their case that work, sub-standard there was they would not take it. But even if there had been a percentage of truth in what they said, even high if that percentage was as as 75 per cent, what they have done in stopping everyone would have been wrong.' an engineers' Peter Nichols, union member, claimed the get- tough policy had come into ope- ration four months when ago the firm attempted to impose All Trades Unions All Kings Hall: Belle \ Special showing of the Pag Tickets £1: rday June 9, 1973 frustration with a new get- sier management has exploded e at Ryton on Dunsmore, restrictions on workers' repre- sentatives settling disputes.

'The company has made clear it wants to increase output. The only way you can do that is by putting up the line speed. But . Tory government's under the policy we are restricted to £1 plus 4 per cent in the pay re- view that is now under way. We will be lucky if we take home an extra £2. A sheet metal workers' union member accused Gilbert Hunt, Chrysler managing director, of 'undermining all our livelihood' with his bad workmanship alle- gations. A few months ago Ryton wor- kers had been praised by the management for their work. Now Hunt was doing an about face giving potential buyers of Chry- sier cars the impression they were not worth having. ENOCH POWELL, the leader of the right-wing caucus in the Tory Party, yesterday threw down a challenge to the leadership of Edward Heath. He complained bitterly and sarcastically about the way Britain had been manoeuvred into the Common Market without the consent of the electorate. In passing, Powell made a sly reference to supporting Labour candidates at the next General Election. This ns Alliance Conference: To Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manches the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WOI ickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Wellingt

UNITED I

Ryton convenor Roger Roberts

THE SPEED-UP

offensive by motor employers led to further widespread conflict yesterday and nearly 25,000 workers were stopped. Production was down to 30. br per cent at Perkins diesel en- gines, Peterborough. Manage- ment say they will close the mi plant indefinitely next Wednes- Press as a 'vote Labour' Tory been widely interpreted in the call or that Powell is about to quit the Conservatives. On the BBC radio programme 'World at One' , Powell scotched these with a single rumours declaration: 'I was_born a Tory, I am a Tory and I shall always be a Tory. And today I have made a thoroughly Tory speech.'

as Dick Taverne claims Just represent the 'true interests to of the Labour Party, Powell is now posing himself as the high priest of Toryism. In a speech interspersed with patriotism, nationalism and has other reactionary concepts, e: To discuss defence of de nchester-Sunday July 1: 3 F TO WORKERS POWER' and songs ane • Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Mancheste

IITED KINGDOM

day, putting 5,700 out of work, to try and beat the men's over- time ban in support of £20 wage claim. The Massey Ferguson tractor factory in Coventry, with which the Perkins men want pay parity, laid off workers itself yesterday, allegedly because of the drying up of the supply of engines from Peterborough. In Liverpool, production fell at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant when over 200 press shop

WOI-

walked out in a dispute kers over how much gear could be carried safely on stack-trucks.

At Leyland's huge Maxi- Marina factory, Cowley, Oxford, the day began with 12,000 still laid off due to a re-grading strike by 80 plant attendants. Talks continued, with manage- ment keeping half an eye on by 3,000 toolmakers, threats electricians, and maintenance at Leyland's huge Long- men bridge, Birmingham plant to stage lightning strikes. The crafts- men want a separate pay agree- ment to catch up with higher paid production workers. Powell told his Stockport audience: 'Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is, the highest estimation, my political good For it, any disadvantage and any sacrifice would be a cheap price. 'It is worth living for, it is worth fighting for,' he con- tinued in Churchillian tones.

'And it is worth dying for.'

The key point of Powell's speech came when he was dis- "geographical earth- cussing quakes' of politics. This was when the outer wing of one party found that some which for the single object more im- time being seemed of democratic rights 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m. ongs and scenes from history Manchester.- 594 AC

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This is a decisive weekend. Not only must we complete the first stage of our Party Development Fund, but we also need to give a great boost to our Monthly Appeal Fund. every confidence We have that you, our readers, will do everything possible. As a crisis shakes the United States over the Watergate affair and the economic crisis continues to remain at an all-time high, never before have we been faced with such a political situation. Only Workers Press Is pre- it. pared in any way to meet Help us therefore, expand in every way possible. Go into Post all right action away. donations immediately to: Workers Press June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG all the rest, was portant than procurable 'not from its poli- tical allies and comrades but from its enemies'. A historic case in point, he said, the great Liberal was split of 1886. Sooner than con- sent to the Empire being dis- membered by Irish Home Rule, Chamberlain and Joseph friends were prepared to vote with their lifelong enemies, the Tories. As a result, the Conservative remained Party became and 'the British Preponderant vehicle of government from that day to this'. enigmatic Powell left The unclear whether he saw himself as a reincarnation of Chamber- lain come to split the Tories.

But behind all his guff about parliamentary integrity and sovereignty, Powell is pursuing questions: more serious economic crisis. His speech is aimed at sum- moning the right wing of the Tory Party to end Heath's horse-trading with the trade union leaders. He doesn't want the Indus- 'on trial Relations Act placed ice'. He opposes the closed shop and the weapons of struggle of class — strikes, the working blacking and picketing. He the phoney war to end wants and the clash of class forces to begin. His natural alliance in this attack will be among those who support the Monday Club and the National Front.