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FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN SHREWSBURY

BUILDING TRADE workers on trial for conspiracy yesterday called on the whole working class to come to their defence.

In dramatic statements read out at the end of committal proceedings at Shrewsbury magis- trates' court, they accused the Tory government of launching dirty political trial' *smashing the trade union movement'.

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The 24 accused, who are charged under the Conspir.

acy and Protection or Pro- perty Act (1875), were sent trial at the Shrews- or Jury Dury Crown Court reasto move the case to Mold were This will mean of the will have many give jobs and UD live in Shrewsbury. Deuced the trial and said denounced the trial and We will not be intimida. by the lackeys the Ted It was politically inspired.

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trade and first time by request of the umon moyelcHl people defendants. workIng October country to come to our in and defence.' Carpenter, John another clearly assume a tre. accused, said the the import- mendous It will be decisive charges nad been made atten Defiant the seidi a tradet on mers of the new moods of airing had sent report

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government circles to picket- Lants lo cae Department Mr Murray's defiant words ing and other forms of trade Public Prosecutions. by were ecnoed other *I would like to say to the defendants. Press of this country and Outside the Shrewsbury Dennis Warren said: We the Press of the world and 200 demonstra- Court about are charged tors watched by as many calms but we are the victims of living that the charges put police declared their soli- against are complete scale! conspiracy darity with the 24 employers and the Tory gov- abrication inspired by the ernment, the police and the Contingents included Tory employers ane the courts working shipyard workers from the to stop Party of this country.' fighting Upper wor- Class DeODIC 101 Clyde, bunding social and economic justice.

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Wigan, Birmingham, Swan- sea, Manchester and Rother- ham. The All Trades Uniors Alliance brought a 40-strong delegation from London and 10-strong a delegation from Merseyside.

At a mass meeting after the hearing calls were made for a mass campaign to free the 24 and a general strike to get the Tory government out. . The demonstrators marched off after the meet- ing chanting, 'General Strike, Tories Out!' Another demonstration is to be held in Mold, Flintshire, - on June 26. 4p

ABOUR LEAGUE

MINERS will endorse the statement of Scottish NUM president Mick MeGahey that the TUC leaders should stop negotiating with Heath. But it is not enough to stop the talks. What is needed is the mobilization of the working class round a socialist programme force the Tories to resign. This is left out by McGahey, a leading Communist Party member.

The Scottish NUM conference yesterday called for wage increases ranging from f5 to f13 a week. It wants a €35 minimum for surface workers, £40 for underground workers and £45 for certain specialized grades.

And the South Wales miners' conference last month called unanimously for f50 a week for all men conditioned to power loading and the third wage structure, £43 for day-wage men underground and f41 for surface workers.

Industrial action The conference declared that failure to meet this claim should be met by industrial action.

These proposals will be submitted to the NUM's national conference next month.

But both McGahey and Emlyn Jenkins, who wrote on the wage claim in yesterday's Morning Star' members of the union's national executive committee. This NEC is continuing its talks with the Coal Board on productivity deal tied to output per man shift. The Coal Board is an agency of the Tory government. Yet the NUM leadership is negotiating for a productivity deal which it hopes will be accept- able within the limits of Phase Three of the Tory State Pay Laws-the very subject of the talks which McGahey says the TUC should break bff! McGahey's left talk, reflects, in a distorted way, the pres- sure of the working class which wants a real fight for wages. This involves a conflict with the Heath government as it did during the miners' strike of 1972. It poses again the question of the of the trade nature union leadership. The union leaders, right, 'left' and Stalinist, have shown that they will lead no fight to defeat the government. The central task, therefore, is the construction of a revo- lutionary leadership the in unions. That is the purpose of the policy statement of the Min- ers' Section of the All Trades Unions Alliance, which we publish today on our centre pages. THE DOLLAR plum- inadequate by Euro- meted all-time bankers. to an pean low in terms of marks They have been left yesterday. At the daily alone to fight the flood afternoon fixing at the of dollars in Europe. Frankfurt foreign ex- change market it was

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set at 2.5700 marks. court has found Alex- The previous all-time andre Moumbaris, John low was 2.5750 marks Hosey and four others on June 5. guilty of charges under There has • been the Terrorism Act. frantic rush out of They face dollars sentences and large-scale ranging from five years' buying of marks and jail the death to Nixon's economic spent since President penalty. They were ac- cused of conspiracy to on Wednesday. incite violent revolu- Yesterday the gold tion. price reached $122 in Zurich and at the after. noon fixing in London

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Broth- it was set at $120 an ers, the St Helens glass firm, ounce. yesterday re- Nixon's package of ported a jump of more than economic measures was £15m to £33.8m judged to be completely in pre-tax profits.

workers press this world ... We call on the trade union movement and the working people of this country to come to our defence- INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 16, 1973 • No 1100 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE We are not the Poulsons, Lambtons and Jellicoes of 'Shrewsbury 24' defendant

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FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN SHREWSBURY

BUILDING TRADE workers on trial for conspiracy yesterday called on the whole working class to come to their defence.

In dramatic statements read out at the end of committal proceedings at Shrewsbury magis- trates' court, they accused the Tory government union movement'.

POLITICAL

The 24 accused, who are Charged under the Conspir.

acy and Protection of Pro- erty Act (1875), were sent trial at the or Jury sorews •uny crown come move the case to Mold were rejected will mean of the will have Illally and Inel lods live in Shrewsbury. Deteced the thai aMd said denounced the trial and 'We will not be intimida.

ted by the lackeys of the was polltically inspired.

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trial. We the the Were e. trade and first time by request of the Moccal defendants. working country to come to our expected in October and defence. John Carpenter, another will clearly assume of the said the import- accuscu. mencous polltical It will be decisive Charges bad peen mace aster airing of Defiant the seidi a repoet on mers the new moods of had sent report

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government circles to picket- Lallis lU Department Mr Murray's defiant words Public Prosecutions. ing and other forms of trade by were otter 'I would like to say to the defendants. Press of this country and Outside the Shrewsbury Dennis said: 'We Warren the Press of the world and 200 demonstra- court about are charged the icon or a tors watched by as many everyone but we are the victims of living that the charges put police declared their soli- against are complete darity with the 24. employers and the Tory gov- abrication inspired by ernment, the police and the Contingents included Tory emplovers the courts to stop working shipyard workers from Party of this country.' C'vde. wor- Class bullding social and economic justice.

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Wigan, Birmingham, Swan- sea, Manchester and Rother- ham. The All Trades Unions Alliance brought a delegation from 40-strong London and a 10-strong delegation from Merseyside.

At a mass meeting after the hearing calls were made for a mass campaign to free the 24 and a general strike to get the Tory government demonstrators out. The marched off after the meet- ing chanting, 'General Strike, Tories Out!' Another demonstration is to be held Flintshire, Mold, in on June 26. • 4p

ABOUR LEAGUE

MINERS will endorse the statement of Scottish NUM president Mick McGahey that the TUC leaders should stop negotiating with Heath. But it is not enough to stop the talks. What is needed is the mobilization of the working class round a socialist programme to force the Tories to resign.

This is left out bv MeGahey, a leading Communist Party member.

The Scottish NUM conference yesterday called for wage increases from f5 to f13 ranging week. It wants a £35 minimum for surface workers, £40 for underground workers and £45 for certain specialized grades.

And the South Wales miners' conference last month called unanimously for f50 a week for all men conditioned to power loading and the third £43 wage structure, for day-wage men underground and £41 for surface workers.

Industrial action The conference declared that failure to meet this claim should be met by industrial action.

These proposals will be submitted to the NUM's national conference next month.

But both McGahey and Emlyn Jenkins, who wrote on the wage claim in yesterday's 'Morning Star' are members of the union's national executive committee. This NEC is continuing its talks with the Coal Board productivity deal tied on to output per man shift. The Coal Board is an agency of the Tory government. Yet the NUM leadership is negotiating for a productivity deal which it hopes will be accept- able within the limits of Phase Three of the Tory State Pay Laws—the very subject of the talks which McGahey says the TUC should break bff! McGahey's left talk, reflects, in a distorted the pres- way, of working sure the class which wants a real fight for wages. This involves a conflict with as it of 1972. It poses again the question of the of the trade nature union leadership. The union leaders, right, 'left' and Stalinist, have shown that they will lead no fight to defeat the government. The central task, therefore, is the construction of a revo- lutionary leadership in the unions. That is the purpose of the policy statement of the Min- ers' Section of the All Trades Unions Alliance, which we publish today on our centre pages. THE DOLLAR plum- inadequate by Euro- all-time meted to pean bankers. an low in terms of marks They have been left yesterday. At the daily alone to fight the flood afternoon fixing at the of dollars in Europe. Frankfurt foreign ex- change market it was

SOUTH

AFRICAN

set at 2.5700 marks. court has found Alex- The previous all-time andre Moumbaris, John low was 2.5750 marks Hosey and four others on June 5. guilty of charges under There has been a the Terrorism Act. rantic rush out of They face dollars sentences and large-scale ranging from five years' buying of marks and jail the death to gold since President penalty. They were ac- Nixon's economic speech cused of conspiracy to on Wednesday. incite violent Yesterday revolu- the gold tion. reached $122 price in Zurich and at the after- noon fixing in

PILKINGTON

London Broth- it was set at $120 an ers, the St Helens glass ounce. firm, yesterday re- Nixon's package of ported a jump of more than £15m economic measures was to £33.8m judged to be completely in pre-tax profits.

You know Leonid old buddy, at a time like this you really find out who your friends are.

Brezhnev ... 'It would be indecent to raise Watergate' The Kremlin comes to Nixon's rescue Shah urges terror in Baluchistan PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Jun FORMER Argentine dictator Juan Peron will fly into the Ezeiza International Airport near Buenos Aires next Wed- nesday after an 18 years' exile. A massive crowd of 3 million is expected to greet him. "Peron will be accompanied by the new President, Hector Campora, who went to Franco's an official visit to Spain on meet his chief and escort him home. In line with Peron's policies when in power, Campora has not been slow to place the Argentine firmly on the corporatist road.

The right-wing bureaucrats of the Peronist unions (CGT) have hastened to make an agreement with the employers' federation with the blessing of the govern- support of its and in ment economic policy. 'Act of National Called the Commitment', it is designed to tie the working-class hand-and- foot to the corporate state. It is part of the 'social truce' intended to suppress the class struggle in that Peron did the same way when he was in power and in accordance with a worked out theory of class-collaboration.

of euphoria After the period following Campora's inauguration, political with the release of prisoners and the army taking a back seat, there comes the rude awakening. Many Peronist workers are beginning to wonder what they have let themselves in for. The pill is being sugared by but totally in- adequate wage a minimum wage law. This will do little to improve workers' living have standards which been severely cut by the galloping inflation of the past two years.

Official figures show that the share of wages in the national income has fallen from 47.7 per cent in 1955 to 36 per cent last year. The government fears that wage increases will be followed by still more inflation. A wave of occupations of factories, institutes and admini- strative buildings has been taking place which the government claims are part of the 'national reconstruction' movement. While in some cases the CGT bureau- cracy has been able to prevent things from getting out of hand, there are increasing signs of revolutionary action by the workers. Even the return of Peron, and the wave of enthusiasm which has the planned regime to accompany it, , cannot disguise the reality of the crisis.

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE PAKISTAN govern- ment has launched a puni- tive expedition to the moun- tainous Baluchistan province which borders on Iran. Opposition spokesmen in London say that the regime the intends to exterminate Baluchi people along a "broad of territory swathe on the coast of the Indian Ocean.

The action by President Zulfi- kar Ali Bhutto's regime has run into opposition even from right- wing newspapers, which warn that the area could become a second Bangla Desh. The action is being carried out, they believe, at the request of the Shah of Iran, who has turned Iranian Baluchistan into a vast military encampment to protect the strategic oil routes.

The Baluchis, fiercely indepen- in the dent and long a thorn side of Pakistan's successive mili- tary dictators, in the Shah's eyes pose a permanent threat to his hegemony in the coastal area.

The Shah has appointed him- self gendarme of the Gulf area and has stated that he will not tolerate any radical regimes in the area. He is spending over £2;000m on arms.

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• IN DECEMBER,

B52s when resumed a Vietnamese merciless bombing North strates emphatically the desire of towns, Brezhnev did nothing though he could have the Soviet bureaucracy to make a iu usace mnouell Lana Lo-all missic. meetings with Brezhnev 'will come new pro- widn wouo nave mace mre ratos impossib e deal with imperialism at the ex- both the The reached gress towards reducing burden table have been cemented with the blood oi ąn c c kva cccvàc pense of the working class.

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reaction Brezhnev has told US reporters Brezhnev has nations.' permitted 70.000 Soviet lews to emigrate to Moscow that he does not intend to bring even waiving the law that emigrants political complicity The of the Soviet ISTae .l on President Nixon during any pressures should pay back to the state the cost of their bureaucracy with the enemy of the American I do their talks. not intend to refer to working follows pattern higher education the wosins extending over the past year and a WOrOS oI RoDerI that Watergate matter, It would be com- Soviet … Toe neraio- rioune oletely indecent for me to refer to it.. regime has never before deal that accepted a Lall compelled it to alter its internal law'.

Mr Nixon is one of Vv attitude towards ON THE eve of Nixon's visit to Moscow very great respect,' he said.

Growing pressure on the Soviet economy, in May 1972, it accepted the mining of North enhanced by the arms burden and the threat Nixon is using Kremlin support to detract Vietnamese ports although Soviet ships were from the working class, drives attention both from Watergate and from blocked in for the bureau- them.. AS part of the price inability clacy Inlo tne arms ol imperanst reacuon control the dollar crisis. In his Washington it increase@ its we accoro wa the speech economic measures pressure pressuns in the Paris peace talks nak e cole North Vietnam to make In negotiations over Germany and Berlin JAtes promised the American public that out of the and in the talks preparatory to the callins of the auToderto securite _LOne ference the bureaucracy has come forward with concession after COnCCoSOM. The real face of so-called "peaceful co-existence' has rounded by Pakistan troops an‹ Nouroz Khan, an 80-year-old come plain. on the ranian side of the border tribal chief. Brezhnev will go to Washing- the Shah's forces have stepped up Seven leaders of the insurrec- prepared bigger, make their repression. tion were hanged despite pro- concessions in return for a fur- the mian him par ded in mises Nouroz grain

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Darlamnenl natural for the average worker. about the crimes committed by resources suci Pakistan Air Force planes have the regime in Baluchistan. Siberian gas and petroleum de. along ine posits to be opened up. been and strafing vil- In retaliation Ayub Khan MP Ataullah Mengal, an who Chase Manhattan Baluchi The Bank, lazes alone Coasi west sackeo mne Cnes against Pakistan's Karachi and the Baluchis' herds appointed his own nominees-in whose boss is David Rockefeller, BoOKe punitive expeditions. being confiscated wherever their place. open branch Karl to The new chiefs were promptly army can lay hands on them.

Marx Street in Moscow and its The areas of Marri and Men- after talks with the Shab is ted expedition competitors are not far behind.

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has taken to the hills. resolved Kalat (where majority struggle. was eventually the exception of 300 people des- say Baluchis live) into Pakistan Lalest reDOrLs Amnencar-mosoireo The Soviet Union also pite the reservations of the Khan purging have been arrestea by the gov- anxious to break down the foices, among them 80 and the tribespeople. Pakistan Baluchi leadership com- 1C° children aged five to ten, malune as cummaory ur ao e landed on the coast munists in return tor Us guaran 11 Ul

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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

DEMANDS are mounting for a full-scale investigation of the financing of the World's End building site on the Thames Embankment at Chelsea. Labour council- lors and building workers are dubious about the shock decision to give a £8.7m contract to Bovis Construc- tion, Sir Keith Joseph's old firm, to complete the hous- ing project. The original contractors, Holland, Hannen and Cubitts, Geoffrey Rippon's old firm, pulled out of the housing develop- ment early this year. Anyone who hoped to move into one of the new flats this when they were due for completion has had his hopes autumn smashed by a combination of reactionary Tory councillors and a big building company. another three years before the flats and It will be at least amenities are ready—if the building companies permit.

Not only will that result in unnecessary years of suffering in decaying slums for thousands of workers, but also in rotten, an extra financial burden for all ratepayers. Cubitts - the original con- tractor, since dismissed by the council- build the -said it would for about €5.6m. When estate the flats finally open, the whole scheme would have cost at least £11.2m-exactly double. Yet London's some of worst to be found within slums are the borders of the Royal Kensington Borough of and Chelsea. 4,000 are Over the list. The council, how- waiting builds ever, fewer council Environment, was deputy chair- homes than any other borough of Cubitts' holding man com- London such the in Drake and Gorham, Scull. pany, people who affairs down He only sold his shares 1n there. 1972. November Rippon has demands turned down for a affair. public inquiry into the Construction, Bovis Fee which

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this week appointed by was Kensington council to replace also the building There are Cubitts and finish the CoLlecte No has workers. work been of course, pantil the 1970, 1S, done on site effectively since the which, until again June the end of national building was headed by Sir Keith Joseph, dispute September. last The at present Secretary of State Services. been for the Social men, in essence, have locked out. And what was prob- Cubitts' tender was received ably best organized site in by Kensington council Sep- the in London has dealt a severe tember 1969 and the been contract blow. was time, it anuary 1970. At Besides local Tory councillors, this time, will remem- big names in the Heath cabinet bered, Rippon was deputy chair- Cubitts' are involved in this affair.

of the holding man Until the General Election in company. He denied last week 1970, Geoffrey Rippon, now having anything to do with Secretary of State for the winning this contract.

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SEVEN MEN, including a Roman lasted an hour and a half with reporting restrictions in Catholic priest, were sent for force. Crown trial at Birmingham The all from Coventry, men, Court accused of a bomb plot.

are: They were all remanded in cus- Father Patrick Fell (32) tody. All Souls' assistant priest at Church, Earlsdon; Anthony Outside the Coventry magis- Lynch (36), fitter, of Berks- about 150 trate's court, demon- well Road; Anthony McCormick gathered to strators protest. As (18), an engineer, of Sycamore the accused were led away there Thomas (26), Road: Rush an Weventry Seven: *: were shouts 'Free the of Browett electrican's mate, Road; Herbert Kelly R (28), marched The demonstrators builder's labourer, of Daimler Precinct to the for a protest Francis Road; Stagg (31), meeting. Chetwode Close, driver, of The committal proceedings Allesley; Patrick Burke and last Bo

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Cre Pickets out at the highly-unionized Wo By August 1971 the contract was already six months behind its scheduled • completion date of September 1973. Cubitts began the first of a series of moves aimed at getting more money from the council. A claim was made for an- other £210,000 on the basis of alleged 'labour difficulties' on the ten-acre site. That was only the beginning. By August 1972 Cubitts was demanding £441,000, plus an additional £492,000 for extra brickwork costs. When the national building strike ended, it was apparent to all that one major site in London remained locked in bit- ter dispute-the World's End.

Workers there had in fact returned for one day. Then Cubitts attempted to reduce the standing bonus, making a mockery of the wage Till las (19), an apprentice engineer, of Prior Deram Walk. They, are all charged with conspiring between January and April to cause an explosion likely to endanger life or injure property, conspiring to damage or destroy buildings by fire and conspiring to damage or destroy property without lawful excuse.

Father Fell and Stagg are also accused of taking part in the control and management of the Coventry unit of the

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organized and trained for the , of physical force in pro- use moting a political object.

Workers Press, Sati nized World's End site last year.

rise won in the bitter national strike. Since that day little work has been done on the site. Pickets unanimous in were claiming that Cubitts had provoked them into taking action and they wanted to know why. Everyone was well aware that the men at the World's End had organized nearly everyone into a trade union. Wage rates were good and were setting the pace for the whole of London.

The situation must have been untenable as far as the build- ing employers in general were concerned. • In March 1973 the council was intent on renegotiating the contract with Cubitts, while rejecting the firm's claim for which came extra money to more than flm.

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also making But Cubitts was fresh moves. On March 16 two letters arrived from Cubitts' solicitors. This time the com- pany tried to claim that Ken- sington had repudiated the con- tract by supplying inadequate drawings and brickwork des- criptions. Cubitts dispute, cited a long also another labour as reason for ending the contract.

Kensington given until was March 30 to come up with new proposals. In fact the council took the mi

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Open Monday ' ross, Saturday June 16, 1973 PAGE 3 letters as evidence of a funda- mental breach of contract by Cubitts itself and dismissed the company. It was about this time that Rippon . first rejected a call for a public inquiry into the affair, supported, not sur- decision a prisingly, by Kensington coun- the local Tory MP, cil and Marcus Worsley. In May, finally, six companies, and Cubitts, were invited to tender for the completion of the contract. And there lies an- other tale.

TOTAL COST

Bovis, as is known, won with a bid of £8.7m. Taking the £2.5m already paid to Cubitts, Kensington the total cost ratepayers comes to £11.2m. But Cubitts offered to com- plete for another £7.3m, mak- ing a total of £9.8m. Why was it turned down? Well, Kensington • is going to sue Cubitts for £3.6m, the difference between £11.2m (us- ing Bovis) and £7.6m, the esti- mated final cost of the scheme if Cubitts had fulfilled its original contract. Unfortunately, few Tories at including the lead- Kensington, er Sir Malby • Crotton, believe the council has a chance of making anything what out of will undoubtedly be costly and lengthy litigation. And who will foot the bill if the council loses? The Labour group is still try- ing to find out details of all the tenders made for the comple- tion of the project. So far they only know about Cubitts and Bovis. The Tories have refused to reveal the others. If ever an industry cried out for nationalization under work- ers' control and without com- pensation it is construction. World's End, Poulson, the dossiers Pontefract case, on militantsthe stench is high.

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PAGE & Workers Preas, Saturday June A discussion around the be debated at the A Alliance conference at B ter, Sunday July 1st- 3 p.

THE NATIONAL Com- mittee of the All Trades Unions Alliance has called a national rally of trade unionists at Belle Vue, Manchester, for July 1, as a further step in the preparations for building the Revolu- tionary Party. This follows on the very successful ATUA conference of 2,200 workers at Birming- ham on October 22, 1972, which launched the • cam- paign. The founding conference of the Party will be held in London at the end of Octo- ber 1973. The basis of the draft perspectives and pro- gramme for the Party, which dis- currently being are cussed in the pages of the Press, Workers the was Committee's ATUA National statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATUA in preparation for the July 1 conference, National the Committee declared: The further turn in the grave economic crisis caused by the political and economic effects of the Nixon scandal will have a profound influence on the inflationary boom In Britain and the policies of the Tory and Labour leaders. The Tories have laid plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class struggle resulting from the intensification of the crisis irday June 16, 1973 nd the policies which will the All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- t-3 p.m. will more and more disrupt these and plans expose Phase Three of the state pay laws. It is this massive class basis for the launching of struggle which forms the Revolutionary Party. Therefore it is vitally urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- sist the launching of the Revolutionary Party, should be discussed by the largest possible number of dele- gates and visitors to the July 1 conference. Arrangements are in hand to provide appropriate facili- ties for such discussion at the Belle Vue, Manches- ter, one of the largest as- .

sembly halls in the north of England. Invitations to delegations have already gone out. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and negotiations restore free for wages between trade unions and employers, to join the demand for break- ing off all talks with the government on Phase Three.

The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights is now inseparable from the struggle to build the Revolutionary Party. We believe that the July 1 rally can be an important landmark in the struggle to unite the working class on the basis of socialist poli- cies to create the necessary industrial and political con- ditions for forcing the Tory government to resian. Patricia and Frank Kennedy-They wan Frank Kennedy and his wife Patricia have de- cided to come to Belle Vue. Frank has been an active supporter of the Labour Party. He is still a member, but one of the thousands who are totally disillusioned with the Wilson leadership which fails to live up to Frank's own socialist principles. Now he wants to see a movement that will get rid of the Tories for good. in east Patricia was born Belfast. Her father was a Republican who was killed in the struggle against British imperialism. Frank is a nursing officer at a Stockport mental hospital. He spoke to us first. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? The government leaders have their minds made up. If they made any concessions-on the Relations Act, for Industrial example-it is only because to make a more they want severe attack at a later date.

It is a tragedy for the wor- a movement that will get rid of the Tories.

king class that the trade union leaders keep on going back to collaborate with once more people when they have these made their intentions only too The objective must be clear. definitely one of getting rid of government at the earliest this possible opportunity. The Tories never changed their They spots. are sellsh and arrogant, like the class Their philo- they come from. climb up on the sophy is to backs of the They weakest. try to con people with their concern, but they are still the 'God is who up Love' in the Withington work- house. Now they have us on the treadmill again. Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to get rid of the Tories? I have canvassed many times for the Labour Party. But the record of the leadership During this quite plain. ernment they have never come and. campaigned Stradit oUT. to get Heath out. Really they have done nothing. be said for The same can , May leaders. the trade union Day was a classic example.

good thought there was but it was despite turn out. people like Feather. They gave cucoul arcucul will get rid of the Tories.

ever-the leadership is right- wing. I don't know what they are up to. I suppose they are hoping that this government will be discredited and they will just get back into power.

But they don't want to smash the Tories at this time, even if the Tories want to smash the working class. For some reason they think that playing things this way will benefit them. But they should be very careful. When I went round canvassing for the Labour Party, what was the average response from working class people? 'Oh, the Tories and the Labour, there's nothing between them'. The terrible thing is that you find it hard to disagree. I know lots in the think who movement same way. The best you can say to the working-class voter is that La- bour are the lesser of the two evils-but this is not the way forward, people want a leader- ship. Not the Woodrow Wyatts and the men who want to be millionaires. Are you in favour of building a leadership which will make the Tory government resign? Though I am a member of the

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'The Torles deliberately picked on the Labour Party I am in favour of the kind of leadership that is proposed here. As I have said, I was really fed up with the last Labour administration and I found myself looking more and more towards the left. I found there was tremen- dous disillusion with the La- bour leaders. We should help to build this new party be- cause I really think the ground is ripe. At the time, I can remem- ber how delighted we were when the Labour Party got into power in 1964 after all those years of Conservative rule. But how it crumbled. What Labour could have done in four years; but they failed to grasp the nettle. They ignored public owner- ship, they left the banks and insurance companies, the the big firms to do what they liked instead of controlling them.

They did nothing about the international speculators ex- cept threaten them with empty words. Quite frankly it was failure -and it is an experience I will never forget. Do they realize now that most people see them as no different from the Tories? Something has got to replace this mess.

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' Above: Banners on one of the huge marches th the weakest sections was extremely auto- structure This is almost an invi- cratic. What experiences have tation for the Tories to move you had which makes In. you believe that getting What do you think of rid of the government the TUC's collaboration is an urgent task? with the Tory govern- I think what brought it to a head for me was the way they ment over the pay laws deliberately picked the on and Phase Three? sections-the Post weakest Office workers and the wor- I think any politically kers in the Health service and scious worker will remember so on. this collaboration for a long These people time. They will remember this have never been strike before and period as one when the

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on very conscious of they were -the people who are sup- the hardship their action posed to lead us-could have would result in, especially the fought this govern- against health service They ment but did not. workers. had to be forced into this action and this is exactly what What do you think of the Tories did. Jack Jones' and Hugh I have been committed Scanlon's support for the against Tories anyway. the action in Their passing laws talks with the Tories? like the Industrial Relations I am trying to think of a way Act and the pay laws was a to describe the role of these shock, but it's very much in We were led to believe line with the actions of the people. they ruling class when they are in working class. parti- CrISIS. at Jones- cularly surprised Another issue is the way you hear him talk so often that they have acted on the with such about the passion health service itself-the vast But in working class. practice introduction of private prac- the story is so very different.

tice and so on. I blame Bevin for this. He set up the health What are these men invol- ved in? Quite simply it is the service authoritarian as an There corporate state-this is what system. was no wor- kers' and the the Tories are trying to intro- representation

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S Above: Banners on one of the huge marches through London in support of the hospital workers.

duce- -this is what the talks are about, and people like Scanlon are there Jones and in the middle. There be lot of must people who still think they are of the champions working class—well they don't act like The basic democratic working rights of the class are under attack. How can the working class be united to defend these rights? Is it enough to have protests and one day strikes? Mrs Kennedy: think they trying are drive us 1930s back to the We are going to have again. and the verv une very poor rich-a complete split in society. The latest thing is to the for butter well on give tickets smells this the soup kitchen. They want people to crawl and pant in the food queues just to live —just for a tew ounces of butter. The affecting situation is You would think everyone. this area we live in is well off.

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gage and run the car. It's all Press, Saturday June 16, 1873 PAGE 5 the hospital workers. on the HP-the debt is tre- mendous-you should see the army of collectors around the streets in this area. It is a façade of wealth. Just a façade. I think the main issue is the leadership and what the leaders do. The May Day strikers were fine, but 1 don't think they shook Heath be- cause he knew what kind of men the leaders were. I think the people on the shop floor should all get together. I will be honest, I would like to see a General Strike.

It would draw the army out of Belfast for a start. This is the kind of action to make Heath sit up. Are you in favour of the Belle Vue rally to launch the campaign in the unions for a new leadership? Frank Kennedy: This will be a mass demon- stration of intent by the best forces in the working class. I think it will make the leaders sit up and realize things are not entirely their own way. They will be able not to ignore it. The rally, if it is successful, biggest I have ever will be the attended-all trades unionists should come. As I said earlier, this is their hour.

FOR THE MINERS?

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday June Part one of a statement by the On March 25-26, the ballot of mineworkers went against giving their union executive power to call a national strike in their favour of wage claim. This meant that Coal the National Board's offer of a £2.29 increase, in accordance with the Tory govern- ment's rule under Phase Two, was then accepted. Every miner and every miner's wife knows very well that an increase of £2.29 can- not solve a single problem.

Before the increase arrived in the wage packet, it had already been cancelled by in- out creases in the cost of living.

Food prices, since the be- ginning of the so-called 'price freeze' last November, have gone up as never before. Beef other meat prices have and made it impossible for miners and their families to maintain their previous living stan- dards. All foods were excluded from the freeze and every The 'lefts', Lawrence Daly and Arthur their bluff by posing General Strike or rday June 16, 1973 by the All Trades Unions Alliance.

single item has gone up in price. Together with decimaliza- tion, and now VAT, this has undermined every seriously working-class family. Council house rents, mort- gage payments, rates and hire purchase interest charges have all gone up more than ever before. Those workers who could afford a car find it in- creasingly impossible to meet the cost. Providing à family holiday becomes a financial nightmare. Not a single miner voted against strike action because he thought £2.29 was enough!

only The vote concerned whether by strike action the miners could get more. And in the present situation, with leadership, the the present majority decided that the dan- gers of isolation and defeat outweighed the chances of winning a bigger increase.

Some workers were mysti- fied by the result of the ballot ind Arthur Scargill. Above: Joe Gormley, the r Strike or accept Tory policy, to which in and some of them drew pessi- mistic conclusions. They could not understand why the miners, who led the fight in January and February 1972, and achieved success in the wages issue, voted in March 1973 to accept the rules laid down by the Tory government.

But this vote does not mean that the miners will not or cannot fight the government.

Like all other workers, they cannot escape the effects of inflation. Inflation is a world- wide problem, and the Tory like the capita- government, lists in every country, have no solution to it. In a few short months, sheer necessity will force millions of workers to fight for their lives against a gov- ernment determined to take every basic right away from the working class and its trade unions. In the 1972 strike, not • leader in single trade union the country organized the sup- port of his members for the miners on strike. They were left to fight alone, except that rank-and-file railwaymen, lorry drivers and power workers (and students) found ways to ley, the right-wing president, who called ch the 'lefts' had no reply.

show their solidarity. And then the Birmingham engi- neers showed at Saltley coke depot that they would not stand for police interfering with picketing miners. That was a great turning point in the strike. The Saltley experience pro- • the ved something else. In month before, on January y, 1972, the eve of the miners' strike, the Union of these engineers (AUEW) held its National Committee. Like the miners, the AUEW had had a big wage claim rejected. If president Hugh Scanlon and the 'left' leader- ship had recommended na- tional strike action to win the claim, it would have been agreed. Scanlon recom- mended individual plants cam- paigning against individual employers. It is plain for everybody to see: if the miners, fighting alone, could win their wage demand, then certainly miners and engineers fighting to- gether could have easily smashed the employers, and gone on to bring down the Tory government, whose policy would then have been in ruins. Instead, Scanion and the AUEW leadership decided to leave the miners isolated. They risked a defeat similar to that of the postmen in the previous year, who were driven back work by isolation, thanks to to the TUC, and the collapse of Tom Jackson and the Union of Post Office Workers execu- tive. The miners who voted in 1973 know very well that the had played this same

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role in every struggle since the Tory government came into office. They know that the Tories were preparing new measures against picketing, strengthening the police and and the army. They know that from April 1 the Tory Phase law, making strikes Two against the government norm illegal, came into operation.

Miners know that any strike for wages meant taking on the government. Either the gov- ernment would win, or the government would be forced to resign. Was the NUM prepared for such a struggle? This question must be answered if we are to learn the lessons of the ballot result and prepare for the coming struggle. Everybody knows that in the months from November to February there was no cam- paign, no information, and no preparation for a struggle on the wage claim. If the execu- tive was prepared for a fight, the time to organize it was once again in the middle of winter, before the Tories pre- pared their new laws, at the time of their entry into the Common Market. Instead, the claim was deliberately delayed in order to give the Tory gov- ernment time to work out its plans. The NUM conference in July decided on a claim of £30 for surface workers, £32 for underground and £40 for face workers. Miners' president Joe Gorm- ley took advantage of the fact that conference named these figures only as a 'target' in order to delay even formulat- ing the claim until October 12, and announcing êven before then that it was 'negotiable'.

That means it was not to be a firm demand. Gormley and the executive at the same time pledged co-operation on greater productivity and speed- up. Nobody should forget that between 1947 and 1970, out- put per man shift rose from 21.5 per cent to 46.5 per cent, while 670 pits closed and miners fell from third to 12th in the 'pay league'. Tom Boardman, the Tory Minister, demanded detailed co-operation on production' and the NUM then stated: It is essential that total costs should be kept in line The in- with this objective. dustry has agreed that wage negotiations should be pursued within the terms of the agreed counciliation procedures and, in the event of disagreement, the fullest consideration would be given to arbitration, so as to avoid industrial action if possible? (Our emphasis.)

This agreement with the Tory government, to avoid industrial action, if possible' nd is the key to the total unpre- paredness of the NUM execu- tive for strike action. The November EC meeting put off until December any decision about when negotia- tions would begin. In the course of negotia- tions, NCB chairman Derek Ezra, offered the possibility of an extra five days' holiday.

The NUM executive made it very clear that they would accept the offer of £2.29 if these holidays were added on.

This would enable them to save face and say that they had got a bit more than the government norm. It was only the intervention of the Tory Cabinet, reacting to the worsening international economic crisis, which led to the NCB refusing the holidays, and only then did the NUM executive consider any action in support of the claim. Having received the NCB's reply, the NUM executive met March and decided to ballot the members for per- mission to call for strike action. The line-up of forces at this executive meeting very important and has vital lessons for the future struggle of the miners. It was Gormley, the right- wing president, known his opposition to militant struggle and his friendly rela- tions with the employers and the government, who proposed the motion to reject the offer and ballot the members. The 'left', that means the Communist Party and their supporters on the executive like Parker, Arthur Scargill, Lawrence Daly and others, pro- posed and supported an amendment to have no ballot, but instead to call a national That delegate conference. on, amendment was voted 12-12, and Gormley's casting vote defeated it. The strike ballot went ahead. Now what was the meaning of the amendment of the Stalinists and the so-called left? If a delegate conference had decided to support strike action, their decision would have had to go to a still ballot, under the union rules.

Lofthouse colliery, Yorkshire, scene of This would have postponed action still more un- to a time, favourable the early summer. The fact is that this 'left wing' deliberately ob- structed any preparation of a strike because they are afraid to be in front of a direct struggle against the govern- ment. They had proved this earlier. A Yorkshire area coun- cil decision in January for an the 'left' and the Communist Party carried out no lead to enforce this resolution. This allowed the NCB to build up coal stocks and also to blur over the low wages of miners with overtime earnings. All this was deliberate. On the eve of the ballot, the Yorkshire area NUM was asked for solidarity action by striking hospital workers. They turned down, on the were recommendation of Scargill and the executive, despite the scene of pit disaster in which seven men di fact that miners could well have been entering a struggle where they needed the solid- arity of the whole working- class movement. Is it any wonder that many miners went to the ballot with doubts and confusion about their leaders? Should they vote to enter a life-and-death struggle against a vicious government behind a leadership which had made it red perfectly obvious that they would have settled for a mere five-day holiday? Other miners, seeing not a single alternative policy to beat rai inflation and high prices from Labour and trade union leaders, voted even against strike action with the idea that perhaps Heath's 'anti-inflation' measures should be given a chance to work. It is not the miners who are to blame for that, but the Labour and trade union leaders who created the confusion. Only a few weeks before the n men died. Above: Rescue workers in front ballot, and before the govern- had rejected the five ment days' holiday, Gormley raised the question of General Strike, just alter an executive meet- ing and then in the columns of 'News of the World'. He did not have the slightest intention of mobilizing the miners at the head of a General Strike, but the way he raised the question did put very plainly what the altern- atives were: either you have a General Strike to get the Tories out, or you go along with their policies. 'Pussy- footing about with partial strikes and one-day actions is a waste of time and won't budge the Tory government, he said. His remarks were directed against the 'lefts' and Stalin- Workera Press, Sal in front of a poster advertising a meeting ists, Daly and others. These people shout about opposing the Tories' policies, but they refuse to fight for the united of the working class action to defeat them. Gormley called their bluff.

They did not reply with a single word! They were hopelessly em- barrassed. They wanted to continue acting exactly as if to the they were opposed government, but really accept- ing its policies. They have no socialist alternative to the Tories, so they are resigned to 'getting round the table' and making Tory policy work, despite the Industrial Rela- Act, Phase Two, tions the Housing Finance Act and all the Tory attacks. This is the first part of the All Trades Unions Alliance statement. Part two will appear in MONDAY'S Workers Press.

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AND THE AEROSOL MAN

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BY TOM KEMP

What has a millionaire aerosol manufacturer cal- led Abplanalp (meaning in German 'from flat mountain') got to do with the President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon? Quite a lot, it appears, not- abiy in enabling the President to gratify his desire for grac- ious living somewhat in the style of a feudal baron on a Californian estate. Nixon's castle, sometimes referred to as the Western White House, is in San Clemente and is a ten-roomed Spanish style mansion built for a millionaire property-man who happened to be a Democratic Party staunch supporter. millionaire's After the death, Nixon took a fancy to the place, but it was a little pricey: $1.4m cash with a 24.6-acre estate thrown in.

successful Even after a career as a lawyer and a poli- tician Nixon had not made that sort of money, so he had a problem: how to find the money for the deal. That was in 1969, during his first term, in the pre- Watergate days, when a Presi- dent did not lack rich friends.

It was the cue for 'Big Al' Robert H. the aerosol man, Abplanalp himself, and a strong Nixon man in his own right. If Nixon had not already had an appetite for the opu- lent life of the very rich, he could . have acquired it from his friend Abplanalp — vaca- tions in the Bahamas, yacht exclusive fishing and trips, golfing, the lot. So when Nixon wanted a little place of his own, Abplanalp put up the money in the shape of a $625,000 urday June 16, 1873 1

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loan at 8 per cent. This in- cluded some plots of lana which Nixon did not really want, so he sold them off to Abplanalp. at about three times their purchase price.

Finally some other bits of the San Clemente estate were 'an investment sold off to by Mr company up wiped out which Nixon's loan and the rest of the mortgage on the property.

Nixon now owns the San Clemente house. It appears that this opera- tion cost Nixon only $250,000 in net outlay, plus a little bill H. A worried Nixon. for 'improvements' of $123,154 and the real cash in- volved is estimated to have been only $34,514, which wouldn't buy a suburban villa. These facts did not come out until a local paper had made the suggestion that the original purchase had been made with $lm from the 1968 Republican campaign funds. But even with the explan- ations offered by the White Nixon's castle in San Clemente. Top: / the money for the land - but where th House, the transaction re- mains obscure, including the detail of where Nixon ob- tained the original money to set it going. . Besides getting a sump- house, Nixon also tuous seems to have made a pack of money, thanks to his rich friends. What pay-off do they get? The Watergate affair is dredging many unpleasant ite facts to the surface, like the th te. Top: Abplanalp, the aerosol man and goo where the rest came from remains rather obs strange indulgence of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission to financier Richard Vesco. people No doubt like Abplanalp think that giving money to Nixon, or putting him in the way of making some for himself, is a good investment. For example, it may, have is helped Abplanalp and his business associates to obtain the the charter they needed in and good friend of Nixon. He put up rather obscure... 1971 to set up a new national bank. As for Nixon, having acquired San Clemente for a song, he had it equipped with protective devices for his own and installed a new person electric-heating system and charged it to Uncle Sam, i.e.

the American taxpayer. He obviously dislikes dip- ping into his own pocket if he can find someone else to foot the bill.

ORDEAL THAT HAS NO END

NO SCANDAL MEN

Soviet hack journalist Vasily Peskov recently toured the United States with his col- league Boris Strelnikov and later published his impressions in the newspaper 'Komsomol- skaya Pravda'. No hint of scandal here. In interview with Moscow an Radio, Peskov explained that he didn't believe in stressing these things too much. 'No good can come of dig- ging in each others' garbage bins,' he said. 'It is not that we did not see any of the shady sides, but we considered it our duty to set an example of friendly approach in telling about a country with which bourly relations.'

GUERNICA MYTHS

Most people know that Pablo paint- Picasso's most famous ing, Guernica, was inspired by the destruction of the small Basque town by Nazi bombers in support of General Franco's uprising against the Spanish Republic. On May 5 'The Economist' published a letter by Brian Crozier, best known as Fran- co's biographer, which claimed that the town had been des- troyed not by bombing but had been "burnt by the Reds before being abandoned', quot- field ing from Nationalist despatches. This was backed up by a reference to captured Nazi disclaiming documents, also responsibility, and was accom- panied by the gratuitous charge that Picasso was not the cen- tury's greatest painter but 'its greatest charlatan'. "The Economist' published a poto two weeks later from reply Harold Seive, written from Madrid, which pointed out that 'The "hoary" Nationalist myth that Guernica was des- troyed by its own Basques is today no longer propagated by the regime.' work by a He quotes a Spanish journalist, Vicente Talon, which concludes that 'Guernica was attacked, first with high explosives, then with fire bombs, by the Nazi Condor Squadron based on Vittoria. The operation was undertaken on direct orders from Luftwaffe headquarters in Germany without the prior knowledge of General Franco's headquarters in Salamanca'.

Seive's letter aptly con- 'Can cludes: one have more confidence in his aesthetic judgement on Picasso than in his historical accuracy?'

JAILED FOR £4

A 43-year-old Leeds postman was jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to steal- ing four fl notes. At his trial he offered no excuses for the offences, but his solicitor said that they could be explained as the re- sult of genuine financial hard- ship. The postman had two daugh- ters, aged 17 and 13 and a son aged ten. His take-home wage was less than £20 week. By our own correspondent Brendan McAuley is an ex-internee of Long Kesh concentration camp. But when he was released last year the harassment from the British army didn't end. It began to take a new and more sinister form. Early in November an army arrested him patrol and brought him to the Falls Depot. They asked him ques- tions about people who had been staying in his house.

McAuley was freed on the basis that he would ask his wife who the men were. The following morning at o'clock he was to visit the depot, Fort Monagh, army and give soldiers their names.

If the names were wrong, McAuley was told, he would be sent back to Long Kesh.

And if he failed to show up, the army threatened to raid his home every night until he was caught. ignored McAuley their threats and enticements. On November 30 he was arrested by a foot patrol in Norglen Parade near where he lives.

The pretext for his arrest was a common law offence-fail- ing to have a driver's licence.

He was interrogated about IRA activities and rocket- launchers. In a sworn state- ment to the Association for Legal Justice, McAuley re- counts what happened at the Castlereagh police headquart- ers: 'I was taken from the cell and taken by Special Branch to a large room and men accused of being an officer in "C" IRA since I company from Long released was Kesh. I told them I was not a member of the IRA. "They told me they had five different reports within the last two weeks concerning my activities in the estate, which they said included shooting at soldiers. I denied this and I said that the person or per- sons who supplied the infor- were liars.' mation At this point the interroga- tion took a completely differ- ent tack. The officers said: 'We will forget about you being a member of the IRA, if you clean your slate and ring us if you see or hear of information any.

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When • to help he McAuley refused was sent back to his cell 'to think it over' or five hours About four later he was brought back to interrogation room and the again asked to help in this spying activities. After McAuley replied 'No', one of the officers said: 'Everybody is helping us so why not you?' McAuley's statement went on: "They then said that I could earn some money for Christmas and be able to buy my wife and children things which I could not afford to buy before. I said any money I earned was earned honestly and refused their offer. "They told me meet to them at the King's Hall at 3 p.m. on December 12, 1972.

This would give me plenty of information time to gather about IRA activities. I told them I would not be there. I said they could put me back in Long Kesh as I couldn't care less what they done to me. 'One of the Special Branch men showed me a bullet and "This is for you told me, On December 14, after fail- ing to meet the agents, he arrested. He put was was back inside Long Kesh, where he still remains. The experiences of Brendan McAuley throw a glaring light 10 00nc2ia on the activities of the mili- tary authorities. They have established a network of in- formers and soldiers dis- 1n guise to assist in their terror rule over the working-class communities-Roman Catho- lic and Protestant. Mr Gerald Purdy told 'The Times' that police were offer- ing 'f25 for an arms dump or £50 to £100 for a big one' 'The Times' telephoned When numbers which the agents had left, they found that they belonged offices the military. "The Times' went on: soldiers 'Plainclothes have been working in a number guises in and around Belfast check and keep homes under discreet observa- areas non. Among une covers have been television repair men, window cleaners and shop owners in Shankill Road, where an Ulster Volunteer Force bar was under observa- tion.' A UDA man recounted this Story: 'Last year I arrived home to find a soldier in civ- vies in my house. The soldier was hinted that sympa- thetic cause and to our warned us of a big army raid new Enalish edition of the First Five Years of the Communist international In- corporating hitherto unpublished material Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

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Workers Press, Saturday June 16, 1973 PAGE 9 due that night. checked the information led to the out and found that some him assassination of a arrest or leader-what's €30,000.' of his tale was incorrect. 'He was planted with us to The infiltration of inform- make us move our guns and and ers agents provocateur stuff so the army could catch into the Republican move- us in the process.' ment has been refined by ex- There ample evidence perts' like Brigadier Frank IS Kitson, who was in charge in that informers are receiving large regular sums of money Belfast for more than two from army espionage agents. years. During his tour of duty, The money is usually deposi- Kitson was able to introduce ted in bank accounts in Eng- the techniques that he first Republic or is Kenya, Malaya land or the tried in and handed over in Cyprus. cash. In the House of Commons In British imperialism's fight against the last month Mr Ian Gilmour, Mau Mau, developed Minister of State for Defence, Kitson the theory of 'counter-gangs'; that is to refused to answer a written about the he paid African tribes- question cost to say, public funds of payments to men to roam the countryside the army's informers helping in the same dress as the Mau "The intelligence services. Mau. His agents would then Times' says that informers in lead attacks which would be Ireland ambushed. Northern paid are 'counter-gang' between £5 and £10 a week. While the This seems ludicrously low.

escaped, the Mau Mau groups In Cyprus, would be shot to pieces. for example, senior and Special For his services to imperial- army Branch men were empowered ism, Kitson has been much- to lavish money much decorated. Premier Heath on authorized his appointment as grander scale. Amounts varied from £100 to £1,000 to head of the Infantry Training £30,000 depending School at Warminster, on the where 'value' of the information.

As he educating the next experienced officer of generation of soldiers in his one these days said: 'If terror tactics. stormy urban 'First Five 'national' in- material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume of Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period of its first three Congresses when the post-war reached its peak and then revolutionary upsurge without fear of con- began to recede. It establishes, 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 Joseph Stalir was still a second-line Bolshevik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later to pervert and eventually destroy.

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SATURDAY TV

BBC 1

Film: 10.40 Weatherman. 10.45 Camberwick 8.55-1.55 Open University. 3.00 11.00 Dr Dolittle. 11.25 Bar- Sixth Happiness'. 'The Inn of the reef. 11.50 Cricket. Grand- 1.15 Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jergens, Robert 1.20 International rugby union. stand. Donat. Story of Gladys Aylward, Canada Wales. 1.35, 2.20, 2.50 3.05 2.05, 2.35, China. Racing missionary in 5.30 Reyner British International athletics. games. Banham Loves Los Angeles. 5.05 Beating retreat. Massed of the Royal Marines. 5.35 News.

6.40 WESTMINSTER.

Weather. 5.50 Dr Who. 7.05 NEWS AND SPORT. Weather. 6.15

CLUNK-CLICK.

SATURDAY

REQUEST:

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'Branded'. Alan Ladd, 'Alone on a Wide Wide Sea'.

Charles Bick- Mona Freeman, Murray Sayle's film of The ford. gunfighter Yacht Observer Singlehanded the long lost son of a wealthy Race across the Atlantic.

rancher.

8.10 SONG

OF

SONGS.

8.30

DICK

EMERY

SHOW.

ASCENT OF MAN. The Ma- 9.00 MAN CALLED IRONSIDE. All 9.00 Clockwork. jestic Honourable Men. Cargill 9.50

OOH LA LA!

Patrick 9.50

NEWS.

Weather. On a String' by in 'Kept 10.00

THAT'S LIFE.

Georges Feydeau. 10.40

HUMPHREY

BOGART.

NEWS ON 2. Weather. 10.50 look at the life, times and personality of 10.55

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The L-Shaped Room'. Bogart. Caron, Tom Bell.

BILKO.

11.40

SERGEANT

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5.10 News. 5.15 4.50 Results service. Doctor in charge. 5.50 Rolf 6.35 THE PROTECTORS. Fighting 7.05 FILM: 'Strategic Air Com- mand'. James Stewart, June Allyson. An Air Force reser- vist becomes colonel-in-chief of a squadron of B-36s. THRILLER: 'Spell of Evil'. 9.00 Diane Cilento, Edward De Souza.

10.15 NEWS.

10.25

JULIE ANDREWS HOUR,

With John Davidson, Sid Caesar. 11.25 AQUARIUS. A Plethora of Poets.

12.10 COUNTRY AND THE CITY.

12.15 JIMMY STEWART SHOW.

Pro Bono Publico.

REGIONAL TV

CondoNEL6:30 11.35 Bonanza. 12.30 London. Cartoon. 6.35 Film: 'All My Darling Daughters'. 8.00 Julie Andrews. 9.00 London Weather.

10.30 Parade. 11.10 Spyforce. 12.00

WESTWARD.

Channel except: Farmhouse kitchen. Survival. ploring mind. Cartoon. 11.35 Gus Honeybun. 12.00 Epilogue. Weather.

SOUTHERN:

9.15 Exploring mind. 9.40 Piano be fun. 10.10 At . can service. ft.os "Laure) nray Hardy.

11.00 your Weather. Laurel 12.30 London. 5.15 Fenn Street gang.

5.50 London. 6.30 Film: 'The Man in Grey'. 8.30 Comedians. 9.00 Lon- 11.25 News. Man don. 11.30 in suitcase. 12.25 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.00 London. 9.55 Ham- Hamster. 10:10 Sesame street. my 11.10 Partridge| family. 11.35 Tarzan. 12.30 London. 5.20 Rolf Harrls® ‹The Anna and the king. 6.35 Film: Fighters'. Shark 8.00 Julie Andrews. 9.00 London. 10.30 Parade. 11.10 It a thief. 12.10 Weather. takes

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ALL TRADES UN

CENTRAL LONDON: Sunday June 17, 7.15 p.m. Holborn Coun- Chambers, Holborn Town 'The Hall, 197 High Holborn. for one big entertainment case union.' Chairman Roy Battersby and a panel of speakers from the relevant unions. ACTON: Monday June 18, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', High Street, W.3. 'Build the revolutionary party. Defend democratic rights' LEWISHAM: Monday June 18, p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, DE

'TUC

New Cross Road. break off Phase Three talks, must

CRAWLEY:

Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Council for Social Services Hall, 19 Station Road. 'Force the resign. A Labour must nationalize government major industries'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, В p.m. 'Nag's Head', Wandsworth Road. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment pledged to policies'. BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. Training r0om. sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment to Diane Cilento plays Clara the moder Thriller play 'Spell of Evil' at 9.00.

Hammy ANGLIA: 9.00 London. 9.55 10.35 Hamster. 10.05 Skippy. Film: Their Toes'. 12.00 Flint- 'Belles on London. 5.20 Rolf 12.30 stones. Film: Harris. 6.05 "Tarzan and the Jungle Boy'. 8.00 Julie Andrews. 9.00 London. Streets 10.25 Parade. 11.10 of San Francisco. 12.10 Epilogue.

ATV MIDLANDS:

9.15 Exploring minds. 9.40 Piano can be fun. 10.10 Skippy. 10.35 Merrie melodies. 11.00 • Musketeers'. Film: The Three 12.30 5.50 Lon- London. 5.20 Family affair. Fight For 6.35 Film: 'Tarzan's don. Life'. 8.00 Julie Andrews.

9.00 Lon- Parade. don. 10.30 11.10 Religion. 11.15 Name of the game. Weather. ULSTER: 10.35 Yoga. 11.00 Sesame 12.30 London. street. 12.00 Survival. London. 5.20 Partridge ra8 Came A Spider: 5.50 6.35 Film: Along Results. 8.00 7.55 Julie Andrews. 11.10 9.00 London. 10.25 Parade. 11.40 Shirley's world. Branded. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Martial arts.

9.40 Exploring mind. 10.10 Bearcats. 11.05 Laurel i and Hardy 6005 12.30 London. 5.20 Rolf Harris. Film: 'The Spy in the Green Hat'. 8.00 Julie Contents include: Ceylon: The Centrism of Bala Tampoe By a Ceylon correspondent April Dictatorship: The Tasks of the Greek Trotskyists Resolution of the 5th Congress of the Workers International League

S UNIONS ALLIANC

DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'Force the Tories The to resign. A Labour government Offi nationalize major indus- tries' CLYDEBANK: Tuesday June 19, Co-op Hall, Hume 7.30 p.m. Clydebank. •Fight the Street, rent Act. Throw the Tories out.'

BACUP: Wednesday, June 20, 8.00 p.m. Mechanics Hall (side door). Rising Prices, Force the Tories to Resign.'

DEWSBURY: Wednesday June Textile Hall. 20, 7.30 p.m. 'Forward to the All Trades Unions Alliance conference.'

HACKNEY: Wednesday June 20, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central . 'Labour Mare Street. must Hall, nationalize major industries'.

LIVERPOOL: Wednesday, June 'Fol 20, 7.30 p.m. 'The Westminster , Westminster Road, Walton.

'Defend democratic rights! For- ward to the ATUA conference!'

SOUTHAMPTON:

Wednesday June 20, 7.30 p.m. Temperance Crescent, nr Institute, T&GWU headquarters. SWINDON: Wednesday June 20, 7.30 p.m. Co-op 'Down with the pay laws. Street. Talks must break off Phase Three he modern-day witch in Independent's im: Andrew ame Londoe 10.2 Parades Name of 11.10 Weather. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Wild life theatre.

9.40 Exloring mind. 10.10 Arthur. 10.35 Captain Scarlet. 11.05 Film: 'Zebra in the Kitchen'. 12.30 Lon- 5.20 Rolf Harris. 6.05 Film: don. 'The Spy in the Green Hat. 8.00 Julie Andrews. Name of the game.

9.00 London. 12.55 Lectern.

SCOTTISH: 9.15

Exploring mind. 9.40 Piano can be fun. 10.10 Curley and coconut. 10.20 Pebbles and bamm bamm. 10.35 Black Beauty.

11.05 Jackson five. 11.30 Dick Van Dyke.

12.00 Cavalcade. 12.30 London. 5.15 Partridge family. 5.50 London. 6.30 Film: "High Hell'. 8.00 Julie Andrews. 9.00 London. 10.25 Parade.

11.10 Late call. 11.15 Mannix.

GRAMPIAN: 11.15

Ivanhoe. 11.45 12.30 London. 5.20 Ron and friends. Sky's the limit. 6.35 5.50 London. Film: "They Rode West'. Julie 8.00 Andrews andall and Hopkirk rade Hopkirk. Randall and A kind of living. Several translations of articles from the German Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke lent Italy's New Fascists . ... By Stephen Johns

LENIN AND TROTSKY WRITING

ON EUROPE

and six International Committee statements

ANCE MEETINGS

_19, LANCASTER: Thursday June 21, The Trades Hail, 7.30 p.m. Fenton Street, near the Post Office. CORBY: Thursday, June 21, 'The Corby Candle'. 8 p.m. 'Force the Tories to Resign.'

FULHAM: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. 'The Swan', Fulham Broad- way. 'Trade unions and the Tory government'. p. The staton Hotel. the The Station Hotel. Revolutionary Party and the Fight against the Tories' HOLLOWAY: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Inflation and the crisis of capitalism'. KINGSTON: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Norbiton Hotel, Clifton Road.

'Force the Tories to resign.

ster Labour must nationalize the ton. major industries'. LEEDS: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Peel Hotel, 'Defence democratic rights. Forward to the ATUA conference.' Speaker: Cliff Slaughter. LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, 7.30 p.m. The Trades Hall, Fenton Street, near the Post Office.

SUNDAY TV

BBC 2

8.55 Open University. 1.55 Cricket.

Hampshire Sussex. 6.45

NEWS

SUMMARY. Weather. 6.50

NEWS REVIEW.

7.25

WORLD

ABOUT

US. Mon- keys, Apes and Men.

BALLET

8.15

FROM EUROPE.

Re- volt. Birgit Cullberg's latest Television. ballet Swedish for 9.15 LOTUS EATERS. A Touch of Home. 10.05

M*A*S*H.

Ringbanger. The 10.30 AN

EVENING

WITH GLEN

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11.15

NEWS

ON 2. Weather. 11.20 UP

SUNDAY.

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Walter Brennan In 'To are Have and Have Not' on BBC 1 at 8.15 on Sunday. A COUNCIL of Action has been formed in Edinburgh following a successful public meeting at the Trades Council Club. Opening the meeting, Sandy Wilson, secretary of the Edin- burgh general branch of the white-collar

AST MS,

said 'a twin crisis' in there was Britain today. There is the crisis of capi- talism itself, he said, and there is the crisis of leadership in the working class. It is our task to resolve this latter crisis,' he added.

Wilson explained that the general branch of ASTMS had called the because the executive- -including Communist Party members -of the trades council has blocked consistently discussion of the formation any

20-STRONG

crowd of of a Council of Action. engineers, railway workers 'At a time when all our demo- and other trade unionists cratic rights have been abolished part in a took picket of the felt take 1n law, we we must local police station and court a lead,' he said. house in Shields yes- South Wilson said: We are not set- In solidarity with the terday ting up a left unity organization Shrewsbury building workers. principles. Our cen- to obscure They purpose tral is to unite the were protesting at in alleged methods of working class Its struggle police the Heath 'framing' pickets. against Tuc over call a force the call to During the picket, Press- General Strike to get the Tories men reported to workers out and to create the conditions that one man taking photo- for government pledged election Labour a graphs was not a journalist, socialist to a police but photographer. policies.' Delegates and individual spea- kers from branches of the

AUEW,

CPSA,

UCATT,

the Gorgie/Dalry Labour Party, Pil- tenants' ton association the Socialist Labour the In- League, A

CLAIM

for compensation Marxist ternational Group and against the Transport and General the International Socialists all Workers' Union, arising out of contributed discusson to the last year's baggage-handling dis- which followed. pute at London's Heathrow Air- When the resolution was put will be heard port, by the the the to set up council, on basis National Industrial Relations outlined in Wilson's re- Court in October. there were only two votes port, of which was the as member. General The claim is by member. Services (UK) Ltd. Aviation the The IMG members abstained.

Heathrow-based subsidiary of a

BUILDERS

fully- group of workers. on a unionized General Hospital One worker told me that cur- had reached rently labourer building site in Southampton 19p-an-hour additional bonus. Higgs fear the contractors. The claims that company cur- and Hill want to introduce rently the bonus is maximum 90p per man a week, on lump labour. of top hour basic, for 240 65p per The men claim that a shortage cubic yards of concrete poured of materials and equipment has block and 280 cubic on one made it impossible to reach their yards on another. bonus, which the company But that it is workers claim attempting to change. impossible to achieve 65p an hour maximum The basic rate is bonus. of 21p plus guaranteed bonus there is a If less concrete is poured each per hour. In addition, based the percentage of of man gets a the bonus on amount concrete poured on block, each maximum. but the company wants it vased The that the say on the amount done by each company has threatened to close

REGIONAL TV

Cather: 2.15 11.30-1.00 London. 2.13 Champions. 3.15 Film: Weather. Clock'. 'Rock Around the 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: •Short Cut to Hell'. 9.30 Who do you do? 10.00 10.30 Dangerman. 11.25 London. Epilogue. Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel expect: London. 9.30 10:30 Sesame street. 1.00 Talking hands. 1.10 Chess mas- 1.25 At your service. terpieces. 1.55 Acres Champions. for rpofit. 2.15 12.30 Epilogue. Weather.

SOUTHERN:

9.30 10.30 London. Farming. 10.55 Weather. 11.00 World War 11.30 London. 1.00 Grass- Survival. 1.50 hopper island. 1.20 London. 3.00 Jimmy Stewart. 2.15 Superman. 3. Shot. 4e5 Parade! challenge. 5.30 3.50 Golden shot. 4.45 News 1.25 Romany Jones, 7.55 Film: Flaxton 6.05 Lon- boys. Montezuma Guideline. 'Halls of don. 12.25 Weather. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.35 Farm- ing. 11.30 London. 1.00 University challenge. 1.30 tune. 2.00 Car- 2.15 London. 3.00 Film: 'Zebra toon. in the Kitchen'. 4.40 Golden shot. He was Identified as Police Constable Bill Maughan, who works the photographic department D division. The President of the South Shields Trades Council Mal- colm Campbell said: 'This police photographer who has been Identified demonstrates the dangerous situation facing • every trade unionist today.' Police superintendent Pun- cheon told reporters that the demonstration was well with- in the bounds of legality.

Canadian company. GAS is pull- ing out of Heathrow because of the effect of the dispute on its operations there. The court has joined as in- terested parties unions other represented at the airport. But GÀS is seeking compensation only from the Transport and General Workers' Union. The other unions are unlikely to play much part in the case. the site down if the new bonus scheme is not accepted. In addition, the firm has sent us. letters to the workers saying that work done in recent weeks has not warranted the bonus paid. Convenor Derek Sheppard said 'going through the matter was normal channels'. But there is a general feeling among the workers that the bonus is not the central issue.

One worker said the firm will soon attempt to get trade union- ism off the site by closing the site for two weeks, sacking very- body, then reopening with lump labour. Workers Press, Sa

BBC 1

9.00-9.30 Nai jeevan. zindagi naya 11.00-11.30 Seeing and believing. 11.35 Don't there• just sit 12.00 Training for Work. 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made in Britain. 1.30 Athlete. 1.55 News headlines. Weather. 2.00 Along the trail. 2.15 Ken Dodd. 2.25 Nam Laures he Lancer. 3.45 the Film: Wild'. Clark Loretta Young. Prosecting in uable the Yukon. 5.15 The deepest hole world. 5.40 in the The witch's daughter. 6.05 NEWS. Weather.

IT_ OVER.

6.15 LET'S

TALK

DAVID

• KOSSOFF.

Appeal. 6.45 6.50

SONGS OF

PRAISE.

7.25 OWEN MD. Long Voyage Home. 8.15

FILM:

"To Have and Have Not'. Humphrey Bogart, Laren Bacall. Walter Brennan. An American expatriate reluctant- ly becomes involved with the island Resistance the of on Martinique during World War IL. 9.50

NEWS.

Weather. 10.05

ANDRE

PREVIN.

Omnibus asks the question Who Needs a Conductor?

THE EDITORS.

11.00 11.50 Weather. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Traitor's Gate'. 9.30 Mr. and Mrs. 10.00 London. 12.25 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: 6.15-6.35 Llusern. 11.40 Mike and Sue. 12.15 Weather. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.55 Doris Day. 11.20 Cartoon. 11.30 London. Champions. 1.00 1.55 Farming. 2.30 Bygones. Riptide. 3.30 Tennis. 4.15 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "The Mini- Story'. 10.00 London. 11.40 ver Department S. 12.35 Epilogue. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 1.30 Farmhouse kitchen. 11.00 Farming. Randall and 11.30 Hopkirk. 2.00 Frogmen'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: Forth'. 10.00 London. 'Kings Go London. 1.00 Ex-

ULSTER: 11.30

minds. 1.30 Piano be ploring can fun. 1.55 Houndcats. 2.15 London. 3.05 Film: "The Girl Rush'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Last Safari'. 10.00 London. Chess

YORKSHIRE:

master- 10.35 1.25

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Liverpool given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 17 Marxism and the study of history Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party and the British working class at Stanley Halls Upper Parliament Street 3 p.m.

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 Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m. Press, Saturday June 16, 1973 PAGE 11

ITV

9.30 Service, 10.40 Joe 90. 11.05 11:30 Weekend Funky phantom. world. 1.00 Thunderbirds. 1.50 Brian Connell interviews. 2.15 Sports- world 73. 3.05 Film: 'Viva Las Vegas'.

Elvis Presley. 4.30 Golden Shot. 5.20 Parade.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15

LONG

AGO AND FAR

AWAY.

6.35 THE SWEAT OF OUR BROW.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25 FENN STREET GANG. Mak- ing Whoopee. FILM: Patch of Blue' Sid- 7.55 Poitier, Shelley Winters, ney Elizabeth Hartman. A blind girl is befriended by a Negro reporter. 9.50

POLICE. 10.00 NEWS.

PLAY:

and Ted'. 10.15 "Lorna Brian Blessed, Zoe Wana- maker.

FOREIGN EYE.

11.40

MAN WITH A MESSAGE.

12.25 12.30

THE ODD COUPLE.

The Fight of the Felix. Tennis. 2.40 Cartoon; 2.50 Film: 4.40 Golden 'Promise Her Anything' 6.05 Lon- shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 7.55 'Sebastian'. don. 9.50 12.25 10.00 Dr Weather. • Simon 9.20 Chess master- 10.30 Carpet pieces. bowls. 11.00 Sandy London. 1.00 Farming Let then live. 1.50 Where the jobs 2.40 Cartoon. are. 1.55 Tennis. 2.50 Anything'. 4.45 Film: Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: *A New Kind of Love'. 10.00 London. 11.30 Roman- v classical art. 12.30 Lectern.

SCOTTISH: 10.05

Children to child- 10.35 Women. 11.05 Clapper- ren. board. 11.30 London. 1.00 Champions.

2.00 Niagra Falls parkland. 2.15 Lon- don. Film: 'Where's Charley' 3.05 5.35 Flaxton boys. 4.40 Golden shot. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Sebastian 9.50 Cartoons. 10.00 London. 12.15 Late call.

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 Farm progress. 11.30 London. 1.00 Exploring mind. 1.30 Piano be fun. 2.00 Master can chefs. 2.15 London. 3.05 Film: 'Where's Charley?' 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 'The Courtship of Eddie's 7.55 Film: 10.00 London. Father'.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Manchester given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 17 Marxism and the study of history Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and politica struggle in Britai Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party and the British working class at Black Lion Blackfriars St/Chapel St near Salford Bus Station 7.30 p.m.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

Leicester lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution in Britain: Political tasks facing the British working class. Marxism and the revolutionary role of the working class. Lessons of the history of the working class in Britain. 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the con- tradictions of capitalism. Britain and the world crisis.

3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for demo- rights cratic today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading: Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems British of the Revolution (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, Communist Manifesto. Sunday June 17, 24, July 8 Stockingfarm Community Centre, Stockingfarm 7.30 p.m.

All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUE

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

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday June 16, 1973

FROM IAN YEATS IN COVENTRY

CHRYSLER'S Stoke factory was virtually paralysed yestr day after the blockade of Ryton pickets forced the compa to lay off 1,500 men. Shop stewards and convenors met review the situation and management were expected to l off up to 600 more production workers by last night.

With the supply of engines and from transmissions the 4,000-strong Stoke plant halted, the men's leaders were standing by for word of lay- offs at Chrysler plants at Lin- wood, Dunstable and Maiden- head. "It is very important we win this fight,' joint shop stewards' committee vice chairman, Mr Stoke Frank Lake, said at the picket line yesterday. "With this Measured-Day Work they want you to be robot. But we are not going to go there as slave labour.'

Two weeks ago the American- owned company accused track workers of 'shoddy work' and took 650 men 'off the clock' as a penalty. Said Mr Lake: 'I can't believe they would they thought get away with it. If they want pay- will nego tate it. but iVe they But tiate want FRANK LAKE, Stewards' vice-chajrman Measured-Day Work, we expect to be paid for the full shift.

While the Tory Press crowed Commenting on Chrysler chief with delight over the success of the 'hard line' the Gilbert Hunt's re-election taken by the Society of American Fine Tubes president of company, of Motor Manufacturers' and Trad- Mr Lake accused Chrysler ers, Mr Lake said: treating tresolute contempoticials union with 'All the motor manufacturers a very hard line He said: 'We hoped to bring are taking at the There is trouble pressure on the company to get moment. brewi, Standard and GEC. at Jaguar, Massey Fer- them but far to negotiate, SO they have refused talk to to guson, anybody.' read that 27 per cent of the UK market rand foesink fort is All the men laid off yesterday think that will receive only 65 per cent of competitors of the the reason for the general tight- their normal pay instead of efficiency.' full 40 hours because Chrysler ening up

THE EMPLOYERS'

chief spokesman, Mr W. O. Camp- By Roystor bell Adamson, yesterday de- clared big business's inten- tion to smash working-class resistance to speed-up, wage- 'For too long have invested we cuts and redundancies. too litle, consumed much and demanded too much public The

CBI

director-general expenditure. said: Then Adamson stated the 'For Phase Three we cannot capitalists' political require- accept a return to what the TUC ments: calls "voluntary collective- If be agreement cánnot bargaining" ' , Adamson declared. reached tri-partite talks] is an instruction to Heath This if and parliament that the state control wages do not approve the terms of any must their agreement, 1S duty to The that unmistakable an step in and lay down the guide- the threat employers will lines themselves, if necessary by keep up the tactics aggressive statutory means.' shown at Chrysler and Perkins, Sensitive to the political ex- he went on: these remarks, plosiveness 'If the contention is that in- Adamson added: creased prices are due to indus- 'Rather than a move towards try's shortcomings and that the a corporate state, this process is cure is simply to sit on prices surely better described as a move and profits, this would not be a towards greater basis upon which the CBI would see any future in talks with the government or the TUC. Adamson then spelled it out: 'We cannot agree to profit con- All Trades Unions Al trol as in Phase Two'. He industry explained that must increase the rate of invest- which is still ment, stagnant despite the contrived inflationary 'boom', and that required "con- fidence that will pronts return to a level which makes the fin- of that level of invest- ancing ment possible. 'Increases in world prices can- not be made dis- simply appear' and price controls would he added. have to be relaxed, Registered as the Kings Hall: Belle newspaper Published Workers High 186a Clapham Street, Special showing of the Pag SW4

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THE

FINE

TUBES

strikers yesterday formally

FROM DAVID MAUDE

wound

IN PLYMOUTH

their strike three up years began. to the day after it At a meeting In the Amal- of the strike committee, gamated Union of Engineer- said afterwards: Workers' ing Plymouth 'This is extremely sad an headquarters, the 31 strik- day of think for all us. who have been battl- that we have to ers, congratu- the ing against anti-union late everyone who has policies of the US-owned backed us over the last company since June 15, three but that years, say 1970, made the last the trade union movement find arrangements to new has to learn the lessons of jobs. fallure this our to wịn The meeting unanimously strike. thanked the strike commit- 'One thing is certain tee for their efforts during this has set a pattern In ed yester- dispute the and also the south west. thanked all those the 'No employer will be able in company trade union movement to get with what away he did Where is met to who have supported the in the past. financially action people were afraid to strike and with ed to lay previously blacking. our struggle has Dick Willams, secretary been an example and

PERKINS

diesel engines, who locked 5,700 from out workers their Peterborough this plant week to try and break an for talks have time ban, asked with the unions and to open Department of Employment officials in London today.

This is a retreat by the com- from its talks under duress' But Norman stance. Beckett, shop stewards' chairmap, said it was not certain if Per- kins discuss were prepared to of with Massey- party wages Ferguson, a related company in Coventry, which is the men's demand. are continuing to be laid Men off at Massey's, which uses Per- kins' for but engines tractors, contact has not yet been established between Peterborough and Coventry shop steward at level. and out- Picketing continues side have removed contractors from all equipment the. Perkins Only office staff remain at We're plant. not slave labour work. Negotiations and appeal say their black on Ryton goods over getting Social Security bene- they taking in fits locked-out men means are part for the are the dispute. They have been told continuing. to report back in a week's time

ALL TRADES UNIONS

for stocktaking—a job normally

ALLIANCE MEETING

done by outside contractors.

Issues facing All the signs are that Chrysler is digging in for a long and des- Chrysler workers perate fight to break shop floor the fullest possible resistance to Monday June 18 operation of the Measured-Day 7.30 p.m. system. I think could be

THE ELASTIC INN

said 'But long time,' Mr Lake.

COX STREET

it's a question of who can hold

COVENTRY

longest.' out with the Tories, tried to justify himself in a speech to the con- oyston Bull struction engineers' conference. rank Scanion said the union's and file would determine whether he continued to take part in

TUC

with Heath. the talks But even as Adamson was try. He was answering the previous ing to bolster shaken ruling Communist his bellicose speech to day's statement class with Party miners' leader Mick Mc- businessmen's lunch the Grand Bristol, Gahey that there Hotel, workers' and Peter- with the Heath Coventry for negotiations Dickets in government and that the private were their borough stepping up of the Chrysler talks at Downing Street were a blockade and betrayal of the Perkins factories. (See story this interests of wOr- kers. But it was the Stalinists page.) on

AUEW

This new upsurge of militancy, the national committee which throughout who gave Scanlon the go ahead.

spreading the car industry, is the clearest The Stalinists will only pay refutation of the revisionists and McGahey's call to lip-service to reformists who had declared the organize to 'end the government's working class to be 'defeated' be- reign as quickly as possible'.

of of cause the outcome the They refuse to expose Scan- Under collaborationist role. They prodigious lon's DIes- sure of this rising tide of work- the Socialist refuse to join ing-class determinatio Santon, Labour League's call for the en- gineers president Hugh General Strike to force the Tories to resign. who has led the collaboration ons Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of de Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester—Sunday July 1: 3 the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs an‹ Tickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manches think It's true to say that pay rates have been In- creased all over the area.'

Picketing of Fine the Tubes factory, from which sacked the strikers were over their pay claim, was called off on Thursday. Hermann Welch, chalk- man of the strike commit- tee, said that the reason was lack of support from other trade unionists. Another member of the strike committee, Dave Edwards, said the lesson of the dispute was that the trade union officlaldom must be changed. 'Disputes such as at Fine Tubes must be fought politically, he said. • An analysis of the Fine Tubes strike will appear in Workers Press next week.

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