Workers Press no. 1103

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Workers formed a barricade of cars outside the Stoke plant on the all-night picket before yesterday's meeting.

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

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Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JUNE 20, 1973 • No 1103 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FROM IAN YEATS IN COVENTRY

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post brought in £25 for £100,000 Party our RAGE AND BEWILDERMENT swept car workers at Coventry Building Fund, brings

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our total 201404.87 Tooting branch of the Socialist £15; Labour Southamp- League call for immediate all-out strike action.

Ton A mass meeting of over 3,000 Stoke workers voted not to strike unless manage- ment broke a new assurance not to move materials in and out of the factory for the remainder of this week. Stoke fork-lift truck driver Mr Frank Turner said angrily after the 15-minute mass meet- ing at Stoke Green: I'm dis- Half the men did not gusted.

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what they were voting know for. It should have been every- body out. Stoke Plant *I think this assurance not to Fate 5. move materials in or out for week is a deliberate attempt to split us. Minutes after the news spread Ryton pickets. paint-shop Mr Alan Hewitson said We've been given assurance Inis company Derore: It's another example of break the American tactics to wade umons the 4,500 Ryton Leaders of strike for three weeks, session into maculate T&GWU's coverty nead- quarters. Rumours the picket swept lines that Chrysler's moratorium supplies pointed on moving the possibility of a compromise Ryton. settlement at Rvton strike committee vester- day accepted invitation to top level Chrysler manage- meet ment at 10 a.m. today meeting arranged by committee chairman -oventry, Workers formed a barricade of cars outside the Stoke plant on the all-night picket before yesterday's meeting.

Molloy Salaye are hoping something good may out of it if only we get them to sit around the table All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of d with if doesn't, at least we can take express opportunity our feelings about what has hap- pened nere in the last two days.

the meeting Stoke

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enior steward Mr Dun said the Chrysler assurance might mean they were poised to fresh avenues workers moat at meet ings with Stoke management yes- terday and Monday night, follow- scab allacks and pickets, they claimed it was not their intention to provoke a Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 confrontation. stewards' Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs a

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I think this assurance not to move materials in or out for a week is a deliberate attempt to split us- Frank Turner, Stoke worker We're slowing down again.

Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. of democratic rights ly 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m. songs and scenes from history 7, Manchester.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JUNE 20, 1973 • No 1103 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE I think this No immediate strike at second plant assurance not to move materials in

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or out for a week is a deliberate attempt to split us- Frank Turner, Stoke worker

SPLIT AT CHRYSLER

FROM IAN YEATS IN COVENTRY

PARTY FUND IS SLOWING DOWN !

YESTERDAY'S

post brought in We're slowing down again. 225 our £100,000 Party Please campaign go- for keep the RAGE AND BEWILDERMENT swept car workers at Coventry Building Fund, brinos speed in the areas total up Post Conconse yesterday after shop stewards from Chrysler's Stoke plant failed to Tooting branch Socialist Party Building Fund the Street £15: Southamp- 186a, Clapham High LabouT call for immediate all-out strike action.

London, SW4 7UG A mass meeting of over 3,000 Stoke workers voted not to strike unless manage- ment broke a new assurance not to move materials in and out of the factory for the remainder of this week. Stoke fork-lift truck driver Mr Frank Turner said angrily after the 15-minute mass meet- ing at Stoke Green: 'I'm dis- gusted. Half the men did not

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what they were voting know tor. It should have been everv- *Stoke Plant body out. Gate5. I think this assurance not to move materials in or out Ior a week is a deliberate attempt to us.? split Minutes after the news spread Ryton pickets, paint-shop Mr Alan Hewitson said: We've been given assurances b this company before. another break American tactics to lade unions. Leaders of the 4,500 Ryton strike for three weeks, men, immediate into session WCal T&GWU's The coventry next - quarters. Rumours swept picket the lines that Chrvsler's moratorium moving supplies pointed the possibility, of a compromise settlement at Ryton. avon stake contree vester day accepted Pree Chryne. invitation to meet top manage ment at 10 a.m. today. ranged by the Lord Mayer meeting arranged by chairman committee oventry, Workero formed a barricade of cars outside the Sloke plant on the all-night pickal belore yasterday's meeting.

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Dun- senior oicwalu Simpson Chrvs el COlO Soonee assurance might mean they were poised explore fresh avenues settlement. he told workers that at meel- ings with Stoke management yes- terday and Monday night, follow- Ine scab allacks on and pickets, they claimed it was their intention to provoke a Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday June 20, 1973 Scanlon's talks with the Tories that his wants tee thit ert tac Claiming HUGH SCANLON has thrown down the

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fund is nothing strike gauntlet to the wnole tade umon move- Scanlon's to contuse mne worke Class. ment with his latest outburst at East- union alone could lead the fight back Scanlon — at the bourne the vend mitionsi of class against AUEW conference-blames the working millions of trade aws or une lories class for the TUC's retreat over Phase would hospital workers were made unionists would rally to the call.

specia rotten subterfuge-that unions Two, in the breath says he casé, the TUC would not back any other of fighting The defiant action workers collaborating with the not contribute to a common will continue an above-Phase-Two fund. Chrvsler and Perkin. secuon s clall Iol ana ll countics Tory government. the deal. There that tae wording chass is mare toas fighting . fund was not issue, WasMOL even a cestue o Theas usen of he retusan of aty the pay laws 1972 At the endo of Maaso skars.

class more miners in The working the trade •caron knows iu has been the relusa oi any March, Scanlon made his Tories went seven readv for the showdown with the union leaders to give a lead. The prime weeks WiLDoUt Denu strike pay-and defeated the govern- notorious Paramentary to force the government to resign.

SoccCi lu responsibility this falls on Scanlon ment's then incomes policy.

Press dalles to the industrial Relations with whieh ne sald: Scanlon's aim, along other trade two big- Jones, leaders of the and ack amendments Stalinists, The issue is whether there is the deter- 'efts' the union ane une gest and forward for

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nullant unions. mination to carry out what is required Act could ofer a way help the right wing defeat the moves engineers and the transport workers.

defeat the 1973 pay laws- operation with the Torv government.

towards a revolutionary struggle.

-co- hospital workers were battling When the ordinated action in a General Strike to This was a move to totally undermine the Scanlon for continued co-ove anon against the anti-Phase Two struggle and open the •cate contro ol wares. with the capitalist system and its Tory force tne lory government lo Ies g.

series of top-level TUC committee meet- Not only has Scanlon no intention of lead- wav for the permanent state control oI He virulently opposed on which Jones and Scanlon were such has been wages.

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to any action that would overthrow it ally Then challenged his union's national Tne bromment voltes. • relusca lo Lake ooposed to this development from the with the Feeling that their policy of unity despite us cala ontruson from em, why committee not start. say as a fraud clear instruction Communist Party exposed "lett March Special Congress At September's Congress, Tories. part

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themselves in yesterday's Morning Star Communist tried cover Scanlon and Jones with the The Stalinists kept Stalinist support, would silent. TUC leaders militant-sounding ensurec The question was a fraud anyway. Scanlon colorid. 11101C prevented wịth the TrOM collaborating phrases. government in the long had already beenl akane Danl li 'The TUC talks with Heath are at best a Chequers and Downing Street secret talks with the Tories over Phase neers series of the the and, along could disarm Three of pay laws, auversion. and Live. talks nela subseguenuy ment at critical moment. WOrSt Of course, there are times when the trade Tones and Feather, had spent an amiable SDUKC UIl could lead to TUC deal with they negotiate with govern- lunchtime discussion and WOrKS

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•eyade with must the expense of the workers" Heath a1 But these the Tory leaders atouncil National top ments, Will CDIUyCLD. Development meet. Ihs wretcnea equivocauon Is just anveue.

talks which have gone enerzency mollon sance TaST •conone the Stalinists are pulling. September involve the destruction of the ing, right in tne maaie or tue nospila movement of forces towards an class workers' fight against the government trade union movement. unmistak- 'defeat would mean the of enormous The Tories have removed the right of free where end •ollicai able. To throw puff balls at Scanlon know collective bargaining and imposed state It Leneral vace unionisin WC taking part in the col- this stage control of wish to impose Scanlon had declared. wages. state corporate the the working Scanlon followed this by warning engineers which avolaliol. 101 a corporale slale ll tantamount to helping put the working 'to claim recognize class will have their next pas ost au lis basic ricals

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At lass She tents as Trades Union Con- that we will nevad be lavoive@ ln even this "lefts' and Stalinists voted fight with the government if you insist gress The motion was in the name of the Stalinists sham. on a settlement irrespective of the limits avoid with the lories in order to workers. fores Talks at Eastbourne withdrew a motion which mobilizing the working class in this way.

ol mre oresenl Icalslallull this in order not to embarrass the The

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gave up without a fight and the Scanlon wants his union and own Scanlon. In other words, the Communis releclca

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law. The whole working class to voluntarily sur- Party refuses to demand that the state control of wages became trade render to the state control Heath wages. endless friendly Chars wile union movement repudiates Scanlor This their effect in disarming the working wen he TO OWS IS DOnCY Ol and the policy of collaboration with the do. deliberately refused to lead the engineers class, as they were meant to have Cause 110. Walll their pay at the the delegates into action over "ones. Onv through revolt of the talks with the Torv Further the Special Congress same time as the miners, and substituted were mre only being undertaken so that the forced yn to day of he test an d even token gesture of instead the disastrous plant-bargaining

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move. disarm stoppage' policy. the May 1 Calli workers. Your surteee •ur suurzic. no effort to ment. Finally, Scanlon made turn Elsewhere, he said that defeat for toe ano lae

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unreal co-radle On this issue, all trade start of InonuSLS workers gasworkers would action'. Jones and Scanlon put these up the Mav I stoppage into the hospital their stand. Either General Strike. take tor cor head off the moves to call campaign for a precisely me nas 'the end of trade unionism as Tories and s ho sube Alcal with the refused to criticize Jones' and Feather's know it'. a General Strike. Day not jugation sabotage May OT ane WoKin. Class The responsibility at that time on Jones They then worked methodically to under- aves co corporate state; or for the mass mobiliz.

even this token resistance. The iNoruers Union to strike and by urgrg Scanlon to give the lead ranSDoR an• enclal trade unions to force this endless TUC meetings with hospital oi the the aLION discredited government mne cass was wallne 101 wao absurulcly the Labour Party NEC to avoid making dangerous and clear. They betrayed that responsibility.

anished with VuON leaoers alliul, to resign. Now Scanlon tries to hide behind a new but a plea to the government that if the a sondarity cal Non-govt The grand deception moves to save agenda the lira [Leonid's laugh-in will be nita gestion wich es

BY JOHN SPENCER

arms limitations, which officials said they were 'optimistic"

AN INTER - MINISTERIAL

there would be progress. THE TALKS in Washington between Pre- committee of the non-exis- The Soviet bureaucracy sident Nixon and Soviet Communist Party to seek closer with driven tent Italian government 1s chief Leonid Brezhnev are an organized by its own economic measures taking emergency deception of the people. Brezhnev does not and political crisis. represent or speak for the Soviet people any The stagnation combined Soviet with the agriculture, more than Nixon does for the ordinary people Talre to neel nausicl of the United States. ning targets, has forced Brezhnev and the unes capital investment

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Brezhnev represents the privileged caste of ON aoLOdu. bureaucrats which usurped political power from Last redi States. Nixon is the year's pur- the Soviet workers under Stalin.

LeNOl for the moment, of the world's largest chases iron leader, drot caused Canada ane Ausu aild and richest imperialist power.

USSR with a very large balance- deficit time Brezhnev claims that Nixon 'won the confidence of-payments is lagging behind of the American people when he was elected for a (heao orcs Wien mousty and his line in international relations the planned targets. Party second term onn unesu merits profound respect' WILe is one tlal The opening up of the Soviet US Nixon's line in international relations, in fact. Union to capital encaneers is outrightly and unashamedly counter-revolutionary the nationalized property rela- of ot monopoly the foreign bloody vears his alr force has blasted and rolve

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bombarded Indo-China even trade ana noW TaHo C ana all Tn en ConcuesLs bombs on the Cambodian workers and peasants.

Brezhner won full Fleet the October revolution. obscene antics of Street praise yesterday. Nixon actively maintains and supports a string , despite all the More important. non in ponucs and crucut. of military talk about peaceful co-existence eclatosos a OUNC each other's 'peace-loving' quali- Brezhnev visit only tem- Mediterranen LatiMidderic, ast, Stalinists, the porary reprieve for the President.

ties when Brezhnev arriver 11011 Mediterranean, Middle the White House. But behind the imperialism cessions

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Lallivl continued- Africa and Asia. Had the hearings. ensure peace with world capital- phrases the with the most explosive testimony noneved vicala" Camsuad Democlals sald ism. Among his client states are tion counter-revolunonary hearo une THOuay Gue fascist Spain, the colonels' Greece blows against international this week- —Nixon might well have On the allowing the contrarv. That working class. claimed they were sabotaging the big western monopolies to nibble DIazI, llall, essential - and energy Democrats aane a roe oy cercosv secrecv mineral and Duolicans SoCHa at the MATOa cicol, anti-communist dictators. Brezh- been defended by NIXOn himsel leader has resources siDerid Cal. In fact the Soviet the grounds that otherwise profound 'merits says whet their appetite for more.

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already Kenan issed oh Watersate would be impossible. respect'! Will encarea make issue not cannot peace- The summit has been carefully What ther with neds various Nixon discredited by the would, the talks. fully, they will plan and prepare extensive scandal and is fighting prepared in advance by Watergate before Jeft to take by force. tOlG newsmet secret negotiations between Soviet office pasic Moscow, be 'completely indecent' Dallit and Nixon's envoy

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next cove nent as his former aides turn against to mention it. newspapers at the politburo's Henry Kissinger him. ported the Nixon-Brezhnev talks Brezhnev looks on Nixon with luxury hunting lodge at Zavidovo Pre- without spelling out Nixon's line in domestic affairs 'very because on the Volga. areal respect -which they usually lakes stent's iane -revealed taken a realistic con- „une oul- and At these talks basic agreement order estadiso do by putting a swastika in and secret surveillance approach to relations structive of was reacreo packart concentrated, Watergate- countries the evening deals to be signed in Washington, Al brief item in was betweel OuL LWO passing them pacts newspaper consistent dnu olanncu allalk vnl era o1 COn- among ventO nevelde Canzalulis. anu lo Conni basic democratic rights. frontation to an era of negotia- simply reported the Soviet leader farming state Co-oDeraliul, Ulll nations". States tions between the of the search, • undersea had arrived The postponement surveye. CUl- for talks with 'the US President'.

tural exchanges and taxation. Watergate during the Both leaders paid tribute to acall ...."!..!"'!",t.si.

Hawker Siddeley mass meeting today over alleged run-down Perkins-Chrysler hard-line Occupation lock-out

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

WORKERS at a missile components factory at Bolton, Lan- cashire, locked out staff on the second day of their occupation yesterday. Hundreds of office and workers turned up at the Callcell near Bolton, Hawker Siddeley plant at Lostock, but they found padlocked and the The the main gale inside the blant. Monday after 2,000 production workers occupation came on aeciaea to lake over tne plant alter a tnree-week alspute.

The stake over a manage- introduce original position, he from skilled workers into the factory's said. skilled milling section. ronasals Will ne put to Convenor David Jameson said mass by shop stewards the occupation had forced man. Lostock had today. Trouble at agement's hand. 'They started Deer ore wise SOme immediately And the milling room dispute took and climbed down was only the spark that caused explosion

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Said Tameson: "This warning to the company. Things floor have been de- shop the teriorating for some time. 'For have been men but have been re- 110l placed. anis meant ..e. terioration of conditions. Engi- had run over the place to do their

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chasing. 'Management decided to put in the semi-skilled men knowing well Wole cause dispute. But we hope we have taught them a lesson, he said. Staff members locked-out of the occupled Bolton plant.

Convenor David Two bosses have close business links

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE MAN behind the lock-out of 5,700 workers at Perkins Engines, Peterborough, is Sir Monty The behind Prichard. man the attack on workers' wages and basic rights at Chrysler's in Coventry is Sir Gilbert Hunt.

On the surface both men would appear to be waging independent separate wars against their work and forces. This, however, is not the case.

The two men have very close business associations, as we shall show Montague Illtyd Pri- chard is chairman and of the director Malaging Perkins Engines Group. The hirm was taken by the Massey Ferguson corporation 15 vears ago and built up into the diesel gest producer engines in the world. It supplies engines for the Massey Ferguson Perkins' boss Prichard. Corest Y odse plus V8 diesels Ford's, engines for Although many of these Chrvsler's interrelationships have not Tne aloe ranges engines for the of brought been torerner be British-Leyland Motor Cor- fore, many of the pickets at Perkins are convinced that Prichard the of vice-

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allalks alc DalL Canadian president concerted campaion by the ot the Massey foreign-owned motor manu- company, Limited, facturers. Toronto, "They are taking us on to subsidiary, ano U K Massey Ferguson (Holdings) break our standara of IlV- Limited. ing,' said one of the shop stewards on the line. 'When main busines rIs older interest the Society taev toreden to close dowi Motor and and move out, we have to 196 these Traders where, from take them seriously The to / ge was woe societv s udys Internallonal vice-president. He still sits situation is such a mystery they could be planning any- important committees thing. which alicki British car industry. The Perkins workers plants-Eastfield, the head se just happens thạt the four Queen Street, Fletton the Society locked none other than Sir Gilbert Walton-have been out following a 22-week dis- Hunt. Last Thursday the -elected him chair- pute which they have council re demanding parity with tor the been Man ol lne SoCIeLy second successive year. the Massev rerguson wor- He Prichard are old kers in Coventry. Their first business acquaintances. eye-opener has 1967 Hunt been the attitude the From 1960 sat on several boards of the Tory Press television. Cano Massey Were said done comradete 'We're Ferguson group with said one outraged Prichard. Was 'They managing director of Masser Dicker. KeeD savind (UK) Limited and £20-a-week Ferguson we want in- director crease. This isn't the case managing joint at all.. We want the man determined Peterborouch vasse rerguson reIKias mood and must not be drawn into a diversionary The other joint managing agement enve fight with Social Security.

director was Prichard! undertakings as to when we Workers Press, Wednesday June 20, 1973 PAGE 3 pied Bolton plant. week to the can reach parity with the tended this five local labour exchange. The Coventry-two years, years hence. men have been refused dole money because it is claimed 'But they refuse to give us any commitment on this.

they are on strike. Men car- said: Press that placards which The says Pri. chard has made concessions 'The only people we are in on this. But where are they?

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with is What concessions? These (Department of Employ- are lies being around put ment). This slogan-suggested by to confuse people. It's part a nearby branch of the Clai- of the psychological war- Union-is totally fare.' mants' Two engineers who went erroneous and diversionary.

to work on Monday at the The Perkins workers are Street de- in dispute with the Massey Queen works cided better of it vesterday.

Ferguson monopoly and the The men were jostled and Tory whose government needed a police out state pay laws prevent the escort of tho Monday payment of anything like the on gates The local com- parity rates being demanded.

afternoon. Amalgamated The Claimants' Union in- mittee of the therefore Union of Engineering Wor- tervention is an kers is derail the dis- investigate the attempt to men's conduct. into something about pute 'We can't let this pass, Social Security when it is •We remem- the for really about fight said one picket. ber Goad and Langston' decent and wages against Picketing has been the Tories' state pay laws.

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A discussion around the policies which will be debated at the Alliance conference at Belle Vue, Manches- ter, Sunday July 1st-3 p.m.

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Com- mittee of the All Trades has Unions Alliance 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. on the very This follows successful ATUA conference of 2,200 workers at Birming- October ham 22, 1972, on which launched cam- tnie paign. The founding conference of the Party will oe nela in London at the Octo- end of ber 1973. The basis of the draft perspectives and gramme for the Party, which are currently being dis- of the cusseo in the pages Workers Press, the Committee's National

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statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. adopted In statement on May 13 by the ATUA in preparation for the July the National conte ence Committee declared: (The further turn in the crisis grave economic caused by the political and of the economic effects scandal Nixon will have the profound Britain inflationary b boom and the policies of the Tory and Labour leaders. The laid Tories have plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class struggle resulting from the crisis intensification of the nesday June 20, 1973 id the policies which will he All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- -3 p.m. will more and more disrupt these plans and 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 facill- ties : for such a discussion at the Belle Vue, Manches- ter, one of the largest as- sembly halls in the north of England. Invitations to already delegations have gone out. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and restore free negotiations 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 resign. Alan Gadsby is a shop steward and chairman of his local Transport and General Workers' Union branch. He is one of the strong delegation of car workers attending the conference from Vaux- hall Motors, Ellesmere Port. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? To get rid of the state pay laws you have to get rid of a law and to do that you have to get rid of the government.

Workers are stilla dazed, they are just starting to feel the full effects of these laws. In the plant people are for overtime desperate to keep the wages up with the rising cost of living. All this is building up the pressure to breaking point. But I don't really think that people have grasped the full impact of the laws. Everyone it's keeping knows wages down, but they don't realize they have completely lost the power to negotiate for their conditions, is, which of course, basic to the whole trade union movement in places like Vauxhall's. Some of the shop stewards live under the illusion, though it is rather a desperate one, that these laws will go away.

But the Tories are not fools, they have brought in control of pay to stay. I read in the 'Sunday Tele- graph' two weeks ago a con- sensus by six top economists on the economic climate in Britain. They all stated that the laws over wages would be a permanent feature of Tory policy and were necessary anyway for economic growth and so on. This is quite open.

This government rests on this kind of legislation.

Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to force the Tory government to resign? My position and the position of the branch is quite clear on this one. We have sent resolutions which stated up that we want our own union leadership to break off talks the Tory government with immediately. This was sent to the TUC.

We got a reply back which 'Dear Sir or Madam'— began this is the contempt they have for the backbone of the movement. We have sent another reso- off demanding an ex- lution planation over the way May Day was handled, why for example there was no man- dating, and why certain lead- not called to order ers were for violating TUC policy. We just got a standard reply de- tailing all the stages of the TUC campaign. All this shows how totally inadequate the leadership is of fighting this government— it is pitiful to watch them sometimes, like amateurs playing professionals. The problem comes further back national level. The local than full-time officials most unions are completely out of touch with the feelings of the rank and - file-let alone the need to give leadership. brings tremendous This problems for the stewards. In some plants I know the stew- ards are only just holding the men in the union, people are so fed up with the way things are developing at the top. In other words, the leaders are inviting a break-up of the itself by their movement behaviour. What experience have you had which makes you believe that getting rid of the Tory govern- ment is an urgent task? There are so many of them it is difficult to single one out decisive. One is that was money. With the present price of land values it will take me ary until the year 2013 to pay for th my house-I've worked it out. I think the price of food and the tremendous rise in the cost of living have also played a major role in my own outlook. The attacks on the unions, through the Indus- trial Relations Act and the pay laws are also of great is importance. Really there no one experience-the policy of this government cannot be separated up. It has been one ent long continuous attack on Alan Gadsby: 'Everyone knows keeping (the pay laws are] down wages, but they don't realize they have completely lost the power to negotiate for their conditions, which is basic to the whole trade union move- ment.. the working class. So far these attacks have been met by protest, but this is not possible any more. Quite honestly, though there was a turn-out on May Day, a lot just didn't want to know. The most common was that one-day response stoppages are no use. At the back of this attitude comes confusion and demoralization -the days of protest opened the door for this. This will change, because the whole situation is chang- ing. It is changing daily; you can see this in the car plants.

But whether people rally or disintegrate into small mobs, trying to protect their own depends sectional interests, entirely on leadership. Are you in favour of building a new leadership which will make the Tory government resign? The main trouble is the con- fusion in the mass partly be- of the trade union cause bureaucracy and partly be- cause of the role of the Labour Party leaders. One thing the Belle Vue conference can do is explain some of the history of work- ing-class struggles. I have al- ways believed that history is one of the most important things taught in schools, the way it is taught puts a lot of working-class children way back in their consciousness, because their own origins are deliberately distorted. The rally will also develop a lot of people on the brink who are just coming along to see what happens. These people will have the proof that there is something being done, that there is a considerable body of people are constructing this who new leadership and further- more there are many workers in their position who are com- towards revolutionary ing politicis. Many workers say to me: I have heard this kind of thing before' and they are quite right to by cynical. But this will show that we are serious and mean what we say.

Above: Reid (second James from left) during talks with the American businessman Wayne Harbin (extreme right) over UCS. 'Now for what purpose a talk with communist goes to businessmen I don't know, says Peter McGowan. Peter McGowan is a shop steward in a Manchester cold store near Salford docks. He has decided to come to Belle Vue with a delegation from his place of work. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? You know straight away that this is impossible. No worker can get the money he wants unless we can get rid of this government. A lot of workers know the laws are there and know the Tories are they there, but they just don't con- the two and draw the nect obvious conclusion that a poli- tical struggle is needed.

Some, of course, do see this, but the biggest percent- age are hoping that the Tory government will go soft-but they are not in a position to go soft. The laws have changed the whole relationship between the men and the employers.

When in the past you went for an increase you might put in for £2 in the hope of get- ting 35 bob after a little bit of argument and action. But today the gaffers have laws behind them-it's not the gaffer you're fighting, but the law and the government, but of course the gaffers are very pleased with the law.

Our company is a part of a very big group. This time into negotia- when we went tions I couldn't believe it. He said he would give us the maximum allowed under the law and that was all he could give us. Bang-that was it, no • struggle, no argument, we had cut if what amounts to pay you take the rise in prices.

Of course the trade union have been working leaders hand and glove with the gov- ernment. They put up nominal opposition and the first thing they do in practice is to come down to you and warn you of the consequences of break- ing the law. What kind of this? The em- leadership is ployers and Heath must be laughing up their sleeves.

Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to make the Tory government resign? As far as I am concerned we have to get another leader- ship. We have leaders in name only. The other day we saw the same spectacle of Feather coming away from talking to Heath. All of them, Feather, Wilson, Jones and Scanlon are the same, they talk one way to the labour movement but act another with the govern- ment. using Here you have men the funds that I and millions of other workers have put into the union for collaborating with the Tories. The Tories have made their shrewdest moves with these talks because they have para- lysed the whole trade union Eventually they movement. and the full-time officials will become the protectors and the bodyguards for the lories. As I said before, in the past, full- time officials might come down and advocate some kind of action over pay. Now they just come down and tell you about the law and how care- ful you must be.' What do you think of Jack Jones' and Hugh Scanlon's support for talks with the Tories? Even a few years ago I rea- lized that Jones and Scanlon were men who said one thing and did another. But to us in Manchester Jones is Transport House, the Crescent IT&GWU.

offices, Manchester]. All they Workers Press, Wedne do is to lay down the law: 'You can't do this, you can't do that' and so Their on. attitude is an invitation for the weakest sections. If you are coming into a struggle and men have been talking, to the full-time offi- cials, they will always use their words for ducking out of a is how struggle. This the bureaucracy work, from the top right down. They could not survive without this kind of machine. The only way I think is for a complete new leadership. The Communist Party and others describe these two men as 'lefts' and do not expose their collaboration. What do you think of this? On the CP in general, it's a party I have never seriously joining, though I considered looking for some have been alternative to what the La- bour Party has to offer. The CP idea of communism, and Russia as an example, does not correspond with my own.

The modern CP doesn't attract me. I have been watching Jimmy Reid. Now' he probably has the interests of the workers at heart, but he is starting to veer off and going to busi- nessmen's functions to talk about politics. Now for what purpose a communist goes to talk with businessmen I don't know. the farty s attempt to pro- tect Scanion and ones is a complete fallacy. Surely they should point out the way these 58, Wednesday June 20, 1973 PAGE 5 collaborate with the men the working Tories and warn class that there is no future their way. But the CP don't do this. Are you in favour of building a new leadership that will make the Tory government resign? The working class is crying out for leadership. It would only need two of them to get together and say no more talks —onto the offensive and they would win the best element on the shop floor behind them.

But the leaders we have now won't do this, so we have to do it. I think it will have to be a revolutionary party and not reformism. There is no other way. When you talk about revolution some people think of dodging behind cars and shooting it out. But it won't this way in Britain happen if you have the working class united behind you. But it's a question of build- ing the movement up in the factories to get people behind socialist policies, to show that this is the only them way. What is the importance of the ATUA conference at Belle Vue? This will be very important.

For every ten people who come they will each tell, say, will three people, and they tell others and the news will spread out. It will put the movement on the map and workers there is an show alternative.

POLICE CORRUPTION IN BRITAIN'S LAST COLONY

PAGE 6 Worker adnesday June 20, 1973 'out the (Mrs , cross fort as ceman kitto "er. WARRANT has been 6 arrest car the for issued British high-ranking ad-on of grace anti-corruption cause ing by the Insp. branch. spokesman Government bland whose day Petri tHo ised her ling be TrP, der has been issucd." was wanted for !Ir Godber the anti-corrup- questioning nd the spoliesman said. -he section investigated under offence without an income oilicial hi: le Traffic chief superintendent chirf popula huge covering peninsula the Kowloon trirt. in 10 Ilonskong the 1963. police in In Hastings police. Colonial awarded the 111:11 mentorious 11a5 ed for dirdal appoint- Polter his Among co Godber, a cottage Elranor ITra fires alone in She said resterday: his wife Jean wrote a month

FAR EAST REPORT BY ALEX MITCHELL

from the hawkers who don't Police corruption is so have licences. rampant in Hong Kong 'You mean bribes.' that it has become insti- 'Yes.' 'They pay a bribe SO they tutionalized. That is to won't be picked up for illegal say, almost every police.

trading?' 'Yes.' man is receiving some 'Have you got a licence?'

form of 'kick-back' from 'No.' the criminal community 'Why didn't they ask you —which, incidentally, is for money then?' 'Because they got money another institutional pil- from me yesterday.' lar of the island's affairs.

'When they takes the sim- Corruption plest and most brazen forms.

consider that We standing in When were you street market talking there are some 500,000 street seething of the Two Hong Kong, it can to vendors. traders in be readily recognized that vast uniformed policemen swag- gered past. They gave us cold sums of money reach the police stares before disappearing into each day. The annual total must be a chop suey house. they doing?' I hundreds of thousands of 'What are And this form of asked. dollars. 'They're collecting corruption is petty when com- money really big pared with the involved in drugs, money prostitution and pornography.

The whole British admini- stration is so rife with bribery and extortion that the legis- lature recently introduced an Act giving powers to examine bank individuals' accounts. Immediately prior to the pas- senior sage of the law, ten police officers resigned.

This is the story of one Chinese conscientious young who entered the force in 1968: 'Immediately after I gradu- ated I was posted to a down- town station. I discovered that crimes abounded in the district.

Being restricted in power by my rank, I could only report the crimes to my superiors.

'Each time, my reports were rejected. All I could do was try to arrest those responsible.

Everytime I did this someone would tell me, "Everything has been settled here". I did not pay any attention to this and did only what was right. 'Every time I returned to the station Corporals X and Y would say to me: "Give others a break. We all belong to the same family". But I still re- fused to pay any attention to such remonstrances. 'As a result, my superiors were very dissatisfied with me and transferred me to A.'

(Eventually our hero irritated the next police district and he was framed on charges which led to his dismissal from the force.) He said in a Press interview: filled 'Thinking back, I am with the whole anger at business. At the time I wrote a letter to the anti-corruption branch and reported the whole incident. But the only reply I received was some questions my financial cir- concerning cumstances ... All I wanted was to expose to the depart- corrupt practices in ment the the police force. But eventually report? nothing came of my To combat the widespread scepticism of the force there is a genuine attempt to produce crime detection figures of a reasonable standard. But these are compiled in the most extraordinarily sus- picious way. A favourite stunt by the drug squad is to set up opium den raids. These have a common nickname--they are called 'Cho Hay' raids. These are police-organized opium dens in which people paid to sit around and are smoke, get arrested, charged and fined. The police even pay off the fines. 'Cho Hay' raids are con- fraudulent. Money spicuously and accounts are rarely found and the pots of opium, needles, trays, head rests, etc. which confiscated are usually are unusable gear about to be replaced. Nevertheless, the administra- tion continues to issue annual reports warmly congratulating the police for its vigilance against crime. This year marked the start of a fresh drive by the police called 'The Fight Crime Cam- paign'. For this campaign the administration has colonial produced thousands of hand- bills and posters. time police At the same exhibitions are touring schools and businessmen's organiza- tions to foster confidence and respect in the forces of law and order. Mr E. P. Grace, the district police commander, recently gave a talk on the role of the police members of to something called the Mongkoj Kaifong Association. He said: 'There is still prejudice on both sides and the police are trying to correct that on their part. We are aware of the fact that some policemen, in the of public, treatment the especially the poorer public, do not regard them as their employers and masters. The Police Department is a big organization, and like any such organization, we have our own share of undesirables, but we are trying to correct that.'

In of the immense spite corruption, it would be wrong to think that the Hong Kong police is somehow weak. On the contrary, because it profits so mightily from the corrupt colonial regime, it is ferociously repressive against agitation. all left-wing This extends to the large labouring masses who produce the island's wealth in the textile industry. Any discontent among these enormously exploited workers is put down in the bluntest fashion. In the 1967 Kowloon riots, example, for when workers rebelled against the increased 30 ferry charges, than more were killed, shot dead by the police. Workers Press, Wednesday It is still rumoured on the island that others were shot and secretly buried; there are leaders of the riot still being detained in prison without trial. One of the issues which poked the be de rioting in 1967 the Chinese worker from the San Po Kong plastic flower factory.

He was taken to the nearby Wong Tai Sin police station where he was brutally kicked and beaten. He died before he could make an appearance in court.

An inquest found that he died of multiple internal injuries. Two constables and a corporal murder, charged with were brought to trial and sentenced However, when the atmo- sphere had calmed, the police- men were obligingly acquitter on appeal. Some of the docu- ments in case had in the rs Press, Wednesday June 20, 1973 PAGE 7 commissioner, Mr E. P. (holding baton) who said, 'W have our own share of undesir ables ' Inset: Cutting from 'Daily Telegraph' of June 12, 1973. the meantime disappeared mysteriously. The functions of the police are clearly spelled out in the Police Annual Report, 1969- 1970: 'Hong Kong prospers by its tourist industry, free currency market and ability to export goods in competition with the rest of the world. To provide a fertile ground for these operations to continue there must be internal security and freedom provided by a the law-abiding society.' It can't be more explicit than that! To carry out their wholesale repression of the working class the police are equipped with wide-ranging powers of arrest, detention and deportation.

Under Section 54 of the Force Police Ordnance, a policeman may stop and search, and, if necessary, arrest without anyone who 'acts a warrant, in a suspicious manner, of whom he may suspect of having committed or of being about to commit, or of intending to commit crime'. (My a emphasis.) Coinciding with the Fight Crime Campaign the colonial regime is in the throes of a full-scale recruitment drive.

authorities The now are collecting just about any able- bodied manpower they can lay their hands on to enlist. This the obviously means more criminal elements are finding jobs inside the police force.

Writing about police recruit- ment, Bai Ke Qiang says: 'The police force in Hong Kong attracts thugs and criminals. For them it is a safe refuge which gives their thuggery and criminal actions an of aura pseudo-respectability'

POLICE

Since the riots, the size of police risen the force has rapidly in relation to the size of the overall population. is There policeman . for one every 381 people, compared with one for every 500 in England and Wales. The colonial regime knows its priorities. In the financial year 1970-1971, a budgeted $180m was spent on the police.

$170m This compared with for the Medical and Health Department, $55m for the Re- settlement (Housing) Depart- ment and only $22.5m for the Social Welfare Department.

The working population of Hong Kong are in the most disgruntled and angry mood.

Inflation is devouring the pur- chasing power of their meagre salaries; food prices are soar- ing; new housing is impossible to get and thousands of people are forced to live in caves on the hillsides. Confronting theworking class are two groups anxious perpetuate the corrupt to regime-the 'Hongs', the big trading houses who have been profiteering from Hong Kong since their ancestors launched the opium wars last century, and the Chinese Communist Party, which has consistently argued for the retention of the colony's status so that Peking can continue to amass foreign reserves there. Many workers who didn't the meaning understand of Stalinism have now learnt a bitter but indelible lesson.

As one worker told me: 'We no longer expect any help from the Chinese Communist Party.

They have made a pact with the British imperialists to keep the colony how it is. But this won't stop us. We must break this last colonial stronghold of the British Empire. It can't go on any longer'

RIOTS- FAMINE

HIT INDIA

MRS GANDHI'S GOVERNMENT UNABLE AND UNWILLING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Jun Serious economic and political troubles, marked by violent riots across the country, widespread hunger, strikes and go-slows, spiralling unem- ployment and administra- tive corruption are facing the Indian government. The prestige and popularity of the Congress Party premier Mrs Indira Gandhi have plum- meted only 18 months after victory in the the Indian Bangla Desh war, when her popularity was at its height.

The worst drought in the decade-the second in two years — is combining with mounting economic problems of inflation and unemployment to produce a grave political crisis for the Congress govern- ment. ...Mrs Gandhi is under attack .....

from both right and left: there Ar esday June 20, 1973 have been food riots, a police rebellion in one state that had to be put down by the army and persistent bitter charges of government incompetence.

According to the govern- 'setbacks the are ment natural and temporary, but the planners in the even Prime Minister's office admit that the economy is not de- veloping according to plan.

The right-leaning 'Hindustan Times' blames the crisis on "too much laxity, drift, com- promise, corruption, incom- and debasement of petence standards ... a sad erosion of authority.' It adds: moral 'The people are cynical and impatient The erosion of Mrs Gandhi's position has been spectacular.

A recent local election in the southern state of Tamil Nadu saw the New Congress candid- ate receive only 2 per cent of the vote, a humiliating defeat.

ICk... Two state. governments, in. pe Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, lin have collapsed and six others are in disarray largely because Mrs Gandhi's hand - picked chief ministers had little local backing. central government's The lack of control over the situa- tion was epitomized by the Uttar Pradesh police rebellion in which policemen fought with the army to back their demands for better pay and conditions. Despite the inflation, per capita income had dropped: from the low level of just over £35 a year in 1971-1972 to just under £35 in 1972-1973.

This year the cost of food has nd risen nearly 20 per cent.

Unemployment has risen. at a very rapid rate: though no accurate figure is available it affects at least 35 per cent of the working population today, compared with 20 per cent in recent years. Nearly 40 per cent of the population-about 220 million in people-live below .the poverty. en sa, line, getting less than 40 of rupees (about £2) a month.

Deprivation and hunger are rife in many of the North Indian states as a result of the failure of the rains.

The crisis is not just the result of drought, however.

The government's policies are blamed for what many econo- mists describe as a 'man-made crisis. It is widely acknowledged that the government failed to present an accurate picture of the food crisis last year-a that could have picture thwarted mass hoarding, pre- vented steep price rises and simply resulted in less hunger in a nation of 550 million people. .In a half-hearted and belated effort to overcome the crisis, Mrs Gandhi has set in motion 'nationalization' of the the wholesale food trade in an effort to cut out the middle- man, ensure fair prices and rty..: end speculation. and hoarding. an 40 of grain. This measure, however, is far too little and too late. It is no substitute for a thorough- going land reform and the ousting of landlords and usurers who maintain an iron grip on the Indian village.

Such is the corruption of the Congress regime that its functionaries are incapable of carrying out the nationalization plan without lining their own pockets at the expense of both peasants and the final the consumers. India is the first victim of the international capitalist crisis, which has led to the Slashing of ald programmes, reduced the currency to worth- less paper and forced India to endure rampant inflation.

is The Congress regime unable and unwilling to solve these problems. It represents a bourgeoisie which is tied irretrievably to world imperial- ism in a country which is more ing.. and more. entering. revolution-. ary developments.

VICTIM OF THE COLDSTREAMS

Young boy is carried away after being Injured In a clash with soldiers-an everyday occurrence for the workers of Ulster.

Harassment, arbitrary physical ill arrest and treatment are everyday happenings for the work- ers of Ulster. A typical experience is that of elec- trician John Francis Walsh (21) of Belfast. He was a victim of the Coldstream Guards. In a sworn statement, he re- counts: I was walking down Ross Street with my Gerard friend Fagan at 1.30 a.m. on March 1, 1973 and at the corner of Frere Street and Ross Street we were arrested.. Our names taken. The were soldiers radioed through and then they told G. Fagan he could go, but I was told to get into the Saracen. was taken to Mulhouse Street billet. There I army was taken through a passage- and I had way before got very far I was told to put my hands against the wall (spreadeagled). I attempted to hands wall was struck in the stomach. They (about four soldiers) proceeded to beat and kick me as I lay on the floor. repeatedly was kicked and beaten at the same time being called all the filthy language they think of. I was trailed into the inter- rogation by the hair. I room was asked questions by a man who had an English accent but was not in uniform. He asked me if I was in the IRA.

denied this. The question- ing did not last very long. This man then stubbed out his cigarette and left. was in the room alone, the door and was open could several soldiers see down the passage. One in par- ticular who was stripped to the waist came over to me and together with the other soldiers beat me unto the Young boy is carried away after being ground again. They surrounded and me A this point a gun was one of them, the one with the shoved down my throat sadistic laugh, started to rip this forcibly and was very off my clothes with a knife. painful palate my was I saw the headlights of a car scraped and throat was my and they saw it too coming rather raw. got tablets for and they more or less stop- this later in the hospital.

In ped. This car went on and for fact 1 asked the nurse proceeded on its way. something and she gave me a Later a car came up Bel- tew which seemed to ease the grade Street with two men in although could still pain, it and when the soldiers saW taste the oil from the gun in coming it they towards ran my mouth. the waste ground in Ormond I was taken out to a yard Street, and the two men stop- where shoes my were re- ped and ran over to me. moved and again I was beaten They said they would help and knocked to the ground me no matter who I was. The into a puddle of water. I was men got a knife in one of the made to then walk through houses and cut me loose. Theodore Street, Plevna Street, Then Balkan Street, and a girl appeared with a pair of slacks and the men down Raglan Street the helped me to put them disused Presbyterian Church on. (Credit Union Building). They put me into the car and brought Mrs was tied to the railings me round to with my hands up my back Fagan's house (I had asked them to bring me there and and then they left. I was there for about 20 minutes and then together with Mrs Fagan they brought me to the Royal Vic- I saw them coming back, but was a foot toria Hospital. this time there patrol with them. 1 was examined by a lady

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After this I was given a quick to the wash and brought ward. I just can't remember much after this because I felt very confused and puz- to just why zled as this should all happen to me. I remained in the hospital until Sunday morning. My mother and father took me in Mrs Fagan's car. I home just lay down • on the settee and later went to bed. have since received a note to go back to the Royal Victoria Hospital for a fur- ther X-ray. At 2 a.m. on Monday morning, March 5, they came into our flat (they broke in) and entered my room. They ordered me to get up and dress. I did this. Then I was put into a Saracen and brought to Hast- ings Street Barracks. Here I was examined by a military doctor and my bruises were

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If you haven't decided on your summer holiday yet, assuming you can afford one at all, how about this? A reader has sent us a news clipping about a holiday tour being promoted by Albany Travel of Manchester and Olsen travel. A Pan Am Boeing 707, of Workers Press, Wedi lers an everyday occurrence for the workers of noted. I was further interro- gated and then they tried to tell me that I had not been legally arrested when I was brought to Mulhouse but that one of my mates had seen me going into Mulhouse Street Station and that they did this to me. This is a complete fab- rication and • a downright lie because it was the British John Sloan, who rescued John Walsh from the rail- ings, also made a state- ment: At around 4.45 a.m. I was passing in a car with a friend on the way to work. We heard shouting and I sugges- ted to go and find out what was happening. We came on John tied to the railing of the disused church with his hands behind his back. His clothes had been rip- ped off him and he told us which normally carries more carry 84 spacious comfort to some of the plushest hotels and restaurants. The trip costs £3,150 per head, which is £88 a day. Albany's managing director, Frieslander, says its Sidney not a lot for the sort of people we have in mind'. 'After all, he says, 'most millionaires spend £100 a day on accommodation alone.'

LOOKING

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Poor Jonathan Aitken. First of all he wanted to be a Tory MP. He got a safe seat, but just before the General Election in 1970 he was involved in the Biafran secrets case and the 'Sunday Telegraph'. He had to resign hurriedly. This damaged his chances of becoming a big star on one ress, Wednesday June 20, 1973 PAGE 9 workers of Ulster. army who were responsible for the lot. Dr MeSorley visited me at my flat at lunch time. He noted my condition and will in turn notify Mr P. O'Hare, who is my solicitor. I give this statement to the Association for Legal Justice to use in whatever way they think best. the army had beaten him up.

He looked in a very dirty and distressed state and seemed incoherent speak in an to fashion, but we got as far as finding out that he had been there since around 2 a.m.

All we could think of was to untie him and get him to the hospital, but John wanted to go to Mrs Fagan's house, and so we took him there Mrs Fagan then took him to the hospital. As far as I know John spent three days in the Royal Victoria Hospital. of his millionaire uncle's news- papers. (His uncle is none Sir Max Aitken, other than the head of the Beaverbrook chain-'Daily Express' , London 'Evening Standard', etc.) So rival Jonathan joined the Rothermere Press with the hope of becoming editor, at 30, of the London 'Evening News'.

Failed again. The job went, unfortunately, to someone else.

Disillusioned with politics and the Press, he has now another career - the chosen City of London. He's become 'one of four executives in the chairman Jim Slater's office on the international side'. Now there's all sorts of about revelations rumours shortly to be made that may make life in the Slater Walker group very uncomfortable. And career fails, if this business then there's only one final salvation for the ambitious and wealthy young Aitken - the church.

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ALL TRADES UN

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

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

HACKNEY: Wednesday June 20, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central , Mare Street. 'Labour must Hall, nationalize major industries' LIVERPOOL: Wednesday, June 'Defend democratic rights! For- ward to the ATUA conference!'

SOUTHAMPTON:

Wednesday June 20, 7.30 p.m. Temperance Institute, Carlton Crescent, nr T&GWU headquarters. Gareth Thomas plays Alex Duthie. dep I's new 50-minute drama series 'Sutherla

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9.30 London. 10.00 Hammy Pete Smith. Hamster. 10.15 Lidsville. 10.25 10.45 Rainbow coun- try. 11.10 Supercar. 11.35 Galloping Handful gourmet. 12.00 of songs. 12.05 London. 5.15 Nature's window. 5.20 Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.30 University challenge. 7.00 Police surgeon. 7.30 London. 8.30 Here we go again. 9.00 London. 11.35 Evil touch. TYNE TEES: 9.25 Guilty m'lud. 9.30 London. 10.05 Common Market cook book. to 11.35 London. 12.25 Hammy Hamster London. 7.00 12.40 don. 6.00 Today. 6.35 Mr and Mrs. 7.30 London. 8.30 Who 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 Loague SWINDON: Wednesday June 20, HO Hall, East 7.30 p.m. Co-op Street. 'Down with the pay laws.

TUC must break off Phase Three talks.' LANCASTER: Thursday June 21, 7.30 p.m. The Trades Hall, Street, near the Post Fenton Office. 21, LET .m. Thing day: Bells®.

June 21, 7.45 p.m. "Ring 'Forward to Belle Vue. Build P.l the Revolutionary Party!'

CORBY: Thursday, June 21, 'The 8 p.m. Corby Candle'. Clif 'Force the Tories to Resign.'

FULHAM: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. 'The Swan', , Fulham Broad- way. 'Trade unions and the Tory government'. 1. 2The GOOLE: Thursday, June p.m. The Station Hotel. Revolutionary Party and the Fight against the Tories'. uthie. deputy Procurator Fiscal, In BBC s 'Sutherland's Law'. do you do? 9.00 London. 11.30 News.

five-o. 12.40 Lectern. 11.45 Hawaii bird: 11.35 Last stand. 12.00 10.55 Yoga. Ba bar. Dateline. London. 2.30 Srossroads: 530 London. 6.00 Today.

6.30 University challenge. 7.00 Lon- don. 10.30 Odd couple. 11.00 Lon- don. 11.30 Late call. 11.35 Blue light.

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6.05 Thompson at teatime. 6.35 Lon- don. 7.00 Lucy show. 7.30 London. of justice. 11.00 London. 10.30 Scales 11.30 Hogan's heroes. 12.00 Medita- tion. Several translations of articles from the German Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke lent Italy's New Fascists By Stephen Johns

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INCE MEETINGS

20, 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 lories to resign.

major industriog: nationalize the Labour LEEDS: Thursday June 21, 8 uild p.m. democratic rights. Forward to 21, the ATUA conference.' Speaker: die'. Cliff Slaughter. • 8 HULL: Wednesday, June 21, 8 Witham. Windmill Hotel, 'Forward to the Belle Vue con- ference' LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, The Trades Hall, 7.30 p.m. Street, near the Post Fenton Office.

Queenies' women want guaranteed Food prices up again as CBI warns of pay freeze A GROUP of Mersey- turned up at the fac- side women workers are tory.' on strike at Kroft Sea- Kroft and the other foods because they firms around the Neth- claim they have erley of Liverpool security of employment have set up recently fixed with or any weekly government They employ wage. grants. mainly women. Kroft export Queen- de- The women ies', a type of shellfish, guaranteed manding America. The 150 35-hour week their women, taken on when present 35p hourly rate the factory opened last of September, pay. were pro- 'Even this is a very mised 40 hours' low by today's wage work a week. lar standards' Mrs said But employment has Smith. 'We are basically turned out to be ex- striking for regular em- haphazard tremely and This is essen- ployment. the strike broke out tial with the high rents when the number of and the rising of hours worked a week living. dropped to one or two. The strikers have 'Sometimes used we been backed by the work at 8 a.m. to start General and Municipal and have home go Workers' Union and at 10 a.m., shop ste- donations are receiving ward Marion Smith from other workers as said on the picket line well as strike pay. yesterday. Work in the plant is at 'Some girls used to standstill due to spend 40p on bus fares black of Kroft's Sea- food products through- only to find there was Women at the Kroft work when they out Merseyside. TWENTY-ONE companies have been given permis- sion to raise prices by the Price Commission this week in one of the longest lists so far released. Some in- creases will be as high as 20 per cent. Seven of the companies are food manufacturers.

Kraft Margarine goes up 7.2 per cent. Findus Frozen Foods will go up. So will biscuits and confectionery products manu- factured bv Associated Biscuits. Beecham's PLT lemon juíce will go up 9 per cent.

BY JACK GALE

Animal feeding stuffs manu- factured Beecham Agricul- by given the go-ahead for further tural Products go up, in some (the shirts will cost 2 advances 13 per cent. This is cases by has Pardley, cent more) and so certain to lead to dearer meat, the cosmetic manutac. particularly pork and poultry.

turers. Board is to Reed Paper and Mars confectionery will go up But up prices of all its paper d Mars by more than 9 per cent. Bars will cost fp more and be products, except news- print, by 8.3 per cent. This is in 5 per cent smaller. Corona soft 7-per-cent addition rises drinks will rise by up to lp per to granted under Phase One. bottle. Both Reed and Bowaters are

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applying to put up newsprint again-only last month prices and they given permission for The increase on sweets were drinks is the first significant and one such increase. The state-owned Freight-liners officially-sanctioned inroad on transport company has been per- the much-vaunted 'price cuts' in- mitted to raise its charges by troduced in Barber's budget.

been 5.5 per cent. Carrington Viyella has

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IRISH television journalist, 'Build the Revolutionary Party' Mr Kevin O'Kelly, appeals in

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Dublin High Court today against a three-months' pri-

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son sentence he received for

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contempt of court during the Preston trial of former IRA leader Friday June 22, 8 p.m. Sean MacStiofain last Nov- ember. The Windsor Castle adi. Egan Street Republic's -the 'Build the revolutionary broadcasting network-refused MacStiofain as the to identify party man he had interviewed for a radio news magazine programme.

Registered as newspaper wet the the three He was sentenced to Post Dahli had imprisonment, but re- months High Press. Clapham Street leased immediately on London.

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Printed Press am High Street 01-720 2000. Mr O'Kelly was the first Irish Newsdesk: 7029. 01-622 journalist for almost 40 years to of be sentenced for contempt the Kroft Seafood picket line.

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... Tough Ph Three warning. Five Guest, Keen and Nettle- folds subsidiaries - Firth Cleve- land Sintered Products, Pneu- matic Automatic Control Equip- Exors of James Mill, ment, Special Products and standard Bolt and Nut-will increase their prices between 2.5 and 9.4 per cent. The Unilever subsidiary, Syn- thetic Resins, will raise its prices 9.5 per cent.

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court. The sentence led to wide- spread protests throughout the Republic. A 48-hour strike by RTE colleagues closed down the station. MasStiofain was convicted of being a member of the IRA and is now free after serving a six months' sentence. MR GERRY FITT, leader of the Northern Ireland Social Demo- cratic and Labour Party, was meeting Mr William Whitelaw, the Ulster Secretary, yesterday to ask him to release about 50 detained IRA suspects-but only because they were 'moderates'.

Before the meeting, at West- minster, Mr Fitt said: 'These men have given up all the IRA, if associations with they ever had any' He said the 50 had broken all the rules imposed by the IRA regime among the detainees at the Maze (Long Kesh) camp.

Workers Press. Wedne The Jeyes Group can raise the price of its disinfectants, washing- up fluids and bleach. Jeyes Fluid can go up 20 per cent. non-electric Prestige carpet sweepers will go up, and so will products of Glacier Metals and Sun Printers. Meanwhile, as more and more upward leaps in the cost of living are announced, the bosses have demanded strict state pay laws, unrestricted profits and no free wage negotiations. It was vital, the Confederation of British Industries claimed after seeing premier Edward Heath on Monday, that profits should be a high enough maintained level to sustain investment'.

RESTRICTIONS

But Phase Two of the state pay laws would have to be fol- lowed by 'continuing and pos- severe restrictions' on the sibly real incomes of the working class, said CBI Director-General Mr Campbell Adamson. Economic growth, according to the bosses, involves cuts in con- wage increases and sumption, might have to be lower than the 4 per cent £1 plus permitted under Phase Two. Unless the unions and the public were made aware that the end of Phase Two would not mean a substantial relaxation of control of wages then, state Campbell Adamson said, later would reach discussions an 'unpleasant situation'.

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LEAGUE LECTURES

given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party and the British working class at Stanley Halls Upper Parliament Street 3 р.т. 3s. Wednesday June 20, 1973 PAGE 11

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Barnsley Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary Socialist Labour League Sunday June 24 Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday July 8 Theory and Practice of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m. Leicester lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Soclalist Revolution m 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 cratic today means rights working-class preparing for power. Sundays June 24, July 8 Stockingfarm Community Centre, Stockingfarm 7.30 p.m.

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LEAGUE LECTURES

Manchester given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and politica struggle in Britair 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.

DANGER OF SPLIT AT CHRYSLER

Stalinists let Scanlon talk with the Tories PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Jul THE £1,500m MERGER be- Slater Walker, the tween financial conglomerate founded by Jim Slater and Cabinet Minister Peter Walker, and the Hill Samuel banking group is off. The surprise announcement was made yesterday by Mr

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ment had not collaborated in the use of hired thugs responsible for the incidents on | Monday night. The shop stewards said they separated had deliberately the early-morning raid at Stoke from the dispute at Ryton. Monday, Throughout Ryton pickets at stoke were harassed by staff cars persistently attempt- ing to break their lines.

Three were run down and one 20-year-old worker is in hospital with injuries to his back and head. News broke in Coventry yes- Dunstable security terday that Terry Walker-Spiers Mr guard was too ill to operate on after having his pelvis and legs broken by scabs who drove three lorries from Stoke to the truck plant on Monday night. Three other lorries were found abandoned in a field near Ryton.

Some 520 workers at Hills Precision, a Chrysler subsidiary, were threatening to strike yes- terday after management insisted they work materials brought into lorry. which the plant on smashed through picket lines.

Half the labour force has been laid off. It is in the face of this un- precedented determination to force Chrysler workers to their knees that the Stoke stewards yesterday recommended no fur- ther action. Said one picket: 'Chrysler are trying to split us and weaken us. They've done it before with one shift against another. They've launched an all-out attack on the trade union, but instead of stand- ing up to them the stewards go in there and concentrate on the one issue of what happened to the millwright. A mass meeting at Linwood, Scotland, yesterday also voted for a recommendation against immediate strike action. Combine shop stewards are determined to go on with their policy of blacking all materials to and from Ryton and forcing Chrysler to lay off the majority of its 29,000 UK workers on full pay. As the Ryton strike committee met yesterday, pickets said they had been stabbed in the back and would not be satisfied with anything less than the complete shut-down of Stoke. Overnight the pickets strengthened and workers cars used to barricade all entrances to the plant. incidents on Monday, Atter staff workers have been banned from taking their cars onto the

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Crisis in the Motor Industry

COVENTRY

MONDAY JUNE 25

7.30 p.m. Gosford Park Hotel St. Georges Rd/ Northfield Rd nr Chrysler (Stoke) plant

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Sunday, June 24, 10.30 a.m.

The United Services Club High Street South nesday June 20, 1973 Slater following two days of.

bruising comment in the City pages of the Fleet Street Press. When the merger was dis- closed in April, it was hailed as the greatest event in Bri- tain's financial history.

Both Slater and Hill Samuel chairman, Sir Kenneth Keith, took vast advertisements in Yesterday's mass meeting of workers f THE PERKINS dispute-in which 5,700 workers are locked out—goes on unless the company gives a pledge of pay parity with Fergu- parent company. Massey son, deputy works convenor Mr Jeff Cain said yesterday.

The Peterborough company suspended production last Wed- nesday after 12 weeks of indus-

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EXECUTIVE council member of the engineers union, Reg Birch, challenged continued talks between the union chiefs and the Tory government at the union's national conference here yesterday. Party and left' Communist delegates backed a composite motion calling for withdrawal from dealing with the govern- ment on any prices and incomes policy, but gave Hugh Scanlon, Frelimo man FRELIMO vice-President Marce- lino Dos Santos said in London tic yesterday that the Mozambique guerrilla war against the Por- tuguese was gaining in strength, but the biggest obstacle now was the support given by the western powers to Portugal, South Africa and Rhodesia.

Dos Santos said the Portu- guese colonialists were mainly La newspapers to explain what a brilliantly conceived deal it was. Suddenly, following revela- tions about the business prac- Walker and tices of Slater questions about its real asset the deal has collapsed on the eve of Thursday's on talks which would have sealed the marriage. workers from Chrysler's Stoke plant.

trial action cut production by 70 per cent. On Monday Per- kins' chairman and managing director Sir Monty Prichard offered to set up a committee with union officials to discuss the question of parity once govern- ment pay restrictions were lifted.

But Mr Cain said: 'We have been told by our national offi- out in front every day. Issues Perkins such as Chrysler and forcing thousands of work- are ers into action to defend their basic rights. Workers Press is the only daily paper to explain the en- ormous economic crisis that lles behind these struggles and in this way to prepare the working the union's President, the back- ing he needs for continuing the talks. (See What we think page 2.)

Len Brindle, convenor of the bus and truck British-Leyland factories said it in Lancashire, "ludicrous' to suggest that was Scanlon should not attend the further talks. But he said that there should be 'no deal' with any govern- ment which seeks to take away right of the the democratic worker to determine what price his labour will be. Brian King, the delegate from Hull, said in moving the main resolution that there should be man evasive about his acting as agents for interna- capitalist interests in tional southern Africa and Portugal's links with NATO and the 600- year alliance with • Britain, just celebrated in London by the ruling class, helped to British maintain the reactionary regime.

But Dos Santos evaded a about the kind of question people he was appealing to for support in Britain, such as the Labour Party leaders, who per- I - convenor cials that this does not alter the position one iota. The company is merely rewording earlier state- ments. is still quite 'Our position clear. We want a commitment of pay parity before we agree to call off our industrial action.'

• See Chrysler-Perkins link-up page 3.

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Cliff Roberts, Liverpool dele- tate, call the "total confronta- with the government. Birch told the 69 delegates: 'If they [the Tories] set them- selves against this machinery of the working class... if they are saying to us that we are criminals, we should not speak to them at should put them into all. We Coventry' He added that there should be no debate with the government and no commitments. Birch himself, however, is mit some Labour MPs to act as paid representatives of Por- tuguese interests in parliament, and the Communist Party, which justifies Kremlin foreign policy treaties with Portugal and other reactionary regimes.

The Frelimo leader merely said that the differences with friends should be sorted out by discussion, whereas the differ- ences with enemies had to be settled by weapons. THIEVES have broken into the offices of the solicitors in charge of debt-collecting in the Poulson bankruptcy case. The break-in comes on the eve of next Monday's resumed hearing into the bankrupt empire of Mr John Poulson.

A spokesman for R. C. Moor- house and Company, the solicitors instructing Mr Muir Hunter, QC, said: Nothing significant has been taken from the files. I'm not prepared to comment further.'

might Asked if documents have been photocopied, the spokesman added: 'Nothing has happened. I am not prepared to say anything more Mr W. D. Simpson, a partner in the firm, said later: 'There has been a break-in but it has been a minor affair.

As far as I am concerned this incident has nothing to do with the files and nothing to do with the bankruptcy.' Literally hundreds of files on the Poulson case are kept at Moorhouse's office in East Parade.

Many were collected from Poul- ..son's former office in Pontefract as early as January this year and their contents have not yet been made public. The Poulson case took curious turn this week when Scotland Yard issued a special statement which stated: 'We will not be in a position to submit anything to the Director of Public Prosecutions for at least a year' completely contradicts This the statement made by Sir Peter Rawlinson, the Attorney-General, in parliament last week. told Liberal MP Rawlinson John Pardoe that the preliminary report of the fraud squad would 'soon' be with the DPP. If it found to be justified, he was would begin said, proceedings within a few months. But on Monday Scotland Yard made Rawlinson's statement non- sensical when it said: 'The first stage will purely be a precis of what has happened up to now. Investigations have not been completed by a long Certainly the first stage way. could not be used as a basis for prosecuting anybody? At best, this means that Raw- linson and Home Secretary Robert Carr have been misleading parliament. The departure of the former Home Secretary Reginald Maud- ling, the involvement of Andrew Cunningham, who is a member of the Labour Party's NEC, and dozens of Labourites in the north-east, the banning of the 'World in Action' film and yes- terday's surprise break-in adds to the stench surrounding this affair. busy trying to persuade striking British-Leyland plant attendants • at Cowley to accept the manage- ment's terms to end their strike.

EARLIER the national committee came down narrowly in favour of the principle of nationalizing the major industries without compensation. Although delegates unanimously instructed the union executive to be principles insist that the embodied in the Labour Party's programme and mani- election festo they were clearly divided on the issue of compensation.

The amendment which inserted the no-compensation policy into the successful motion obtained a majority of only five-37 votes to 32. While taking no open stand either way on this point, foundry section secretary Bill Simpson, this year's Labour Partý chair- man, urged the conference not to adopt 'far out' policies.

The conference went on to call specifically for the full national- next Labour ization by the government of the banks, insur- ance companies; drugs industry, oil and the land.