Workers Press no. 1104

workers press Engineering delegates' rebuff to Phase Three

SCANLON BARRED

FROM NO 10 TALKS

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

BELLE VUE

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history

DAILY ORC

HUGH SCANLON was yesterday in- structed by his union conference here to pull out of the current TUC talks with the Tory government on Phase Three of the state pay laws.

After a four-hour debate, which Scan- lon himself insisted should be sharpened up to a point that there's going to be no ambiguity, an amendment approving the engineers' president's attendance at Down- ing Street was defeated by 35 votes to 33 with one abstention. A composite motion declaring continued opposition to any form of wage-restraint and calling on the trade union movement *to Members of the Chrysler All Tr workers' negotiating com- mittee were locked in day- long negotiations with the management in Coventry yesterday. Seen entering the talks at the municipal buildings are (l. to r.): Frank Lake, chairman of AUEW stewards; Albert Demaelly, NUVB convenor; and Joe Molloy, chair- man of the joint shop Special s stewards.

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ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OI

FROM DAVID MAUDE

IN EASTBOURNE

withdraw from dealing with the government on' any prices and incomes policy' was then carried by 39 votes to 30.

At this point, Scanlon announced: *This means I do not attend the talks.'

Throughout the debate, which spread over two days, Communist Party and 'left' speak- ers fought to interpret this composite meaning Scanlon could continue taking part in the TUC-Heath talks. But Scanlon himself challenged the AUEW All Trades Unions Alliance Conferer Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: 1 pecial showing of the Pageant film THE ROAD Tickets £1: Available from R. Smit THURSDAY JUNE 21, 1973 • No 1104 • 4p

TTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

delegates to make a clear decision about his He said that if a particular attendance. amendment was passed, which simply 'em- phasized' its opposition to wage restraint when dealing with the government, then he would attend. This crucial amendment to let Scanlon again go to Downing Street was supported by the right and the centre.

The Stalinists, faced with the issue despite all their efforts to avoid it, had to vote against. On Monday, the Communist Party mem- bers and supporters had deliberately dropped a motion, demanding the end of all the talks, in favour of the composite.

Yesterday the only delegates Scan- to oppose unequivocally lon's participation in the talks were two engineers' section men from the north east, Andy McKay and Jackie Crystal.

Arthur Scott, President of the technicians' section, said that if the motion carried un- was amended it would mean the union should set an example and not go to talks. Then, under from pressure Scanlon to state clearly the im- plication of his motion, Brian King the technicians' delegate from Hull stated: If the Presi- dent is to align himself with the policies of the union as an indi- vidual member should not take part in talks with the Tory government.' Jimmy Hamilton, the Glasgow delegate, expressed a typical view of the Stalinist and left' group- ings. It was difficult for him to accept that discussions and talks should take place, he said, but that's the stage we're at and we have to accept that. from Andy McKay, South Shields, however, insisted that 'acrobatics' there should be no or 'riding of two horses'.

It was not for the TUC to solve the economic problems of the Tory government, he said. If at the end of the day there was even half a compromise deal between the Tories and the TUC leaders, there would be no return of a Labour government.

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Today on page 8 we print a second letter from Monty Johnstone of the Communist Party. A five- part reply will begin on Friday.

MRS KATHLEEN HOSEY,

whose son John was yesterday five years' sentenced to jail under the notorious South Afri- can Terrorism Act, said yester- day she was deeply shocked and appalled at the savage sentence.

She appealed to the labour and trade union movement in Britain to demand the with- drawal of investment from South Africa and the release of all political prisoners. • See page 2. of democratic rights y 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m. ongs and scenes from history , Manchester.

workers press Engineering delegates' rebuff to Phase Three

SCANLON BARRED

FROM NO 10 TALKS

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

BELLE VUER

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

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history

DAILY ORC

HUGH SCANLON was yesterday in- structed by his union conference here to pull out of the current TUC talks with the Tory government on Phase Three of the state pay laws.

Atter a four-hour debate, which Scan- Ion himself insisted should be 'sharpened up to a point that there's going to be no ambiguity, an amendment approving the president's attendance at Down- engineers' ing Street was defeated by 35 votes to 33 with one abstention. A composite motion declaring continued opposition to any form of wage-restraint and calling on the trade union movement 'to Members of the Chrysler All Tr workers' negotiating com- mittee were locked in day.

long negotiations with the management in Coventry yesterday. Seen entering the talks at the municipal buildings are (l. to r.): Frank Lake, chairman of AUEW stewards; Albert Demaelly, NUVB convenor; and Joe Molloy, chair- man of the joint shop Special g stewards.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDA

ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OI

FROM DAVID MAUDE

IN EASTBOURNE

withdraw from dealing with the government on' any prices and incomes policy' was then carried by 39 votes to 30.

At this point, Scanlon announced: "This means I do not attend the talks.'

Throughout the debate, which spread over two days, Communist Party and 'left' speak- ers tought to interpret this composite as meaning Scanlon could continue taking part in the TUC-Heath talks But Scanlon himself challenged the AUEW All Trades Unions Alliance Conferer Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: 1 pecial showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAL Tickets £1: Available from R. Smit THURSDAY JUNE 21, 1973 • No 1104 • 4p

TTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

delegates to make a clear decision about his He said that if a particular attendance. amendment was passed, which simply 'em- phasized' its opposition to wage restraint when dealing with the government, then he would attend. This crucial amendment to let Scanlon again go to Downing Street was supported by the right and the centre.

The Stalinists, faced with the issue despite all their efforts to avoid it, had to vote against. On Monday, the Communist Party mem- bers and supporters had deliberately dropped a motion, demanding the end of all the talks, in favour of the composite.

Yesterday the only delegates unequivocally Scan- to oppose lon's participation in the talks were two engineers' section men from the north east, Andy McKay and Jackie Crystal.

Arthur Scott, President of the technicians' section, said that if the motion carried un- was amended it would mean the union should set an example and not go to talks. Then, under pressure from Scanlon to state clearly the im- plication of his motion, Brian King the technicians' delegate from Hull stated: If the Presi- dent is to align himself with the policies of the union as an indi- vidual member he should not take part in talks with the Tory government.' Jimmy Hamilton, the Glasgow delegate, expressed a typical view of the Stalinist and 'left' group- ings. It was difficult for him : to accept that discussions and talks "but should take place, he said, that's the stage we're at and we have to accept that'. from Andy McKay, South Shields, however, insisted that 'acrobatics' there should be no or 'riding of two horses'.

It was not for the TUC to solve the economic problems of Tory government, he said.

the If at the end of the day there was even half a compromise deal between the Tories and the TUC leaders, there would be no return of a Labour government.

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nference: To discuss defence of de Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 IE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs an m R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manche

£100,000 PARTY

BUILDING FUND

YESTERDAY'S

brought post £8.40. £6.40 from Leicester and £1 from

OAP

Mr Johnstone from Renfrewshire and another £1 from OAP Mr Kennedy from Manchester. Many, many thanks to you. With the cost of living so high, we do appreciate the is being great sacrifice that made for our Party Building Fund. So come on comrades let's give our total which nOW stands at £51,413.22 a big boost before this weekend. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG.

TROTSKYISM

AND

STALINISM

Today on page 8 we print a second letter from Monty Johnstone of the Communist Party. A five- part reply will begin on Friday.

MRS KATHLEEN HOSEY,

whose son John was yesterday jail years' sentenced to five under the notorious South Afri- can Terrorism Act, said yester- day she was deeply shocked and appalled at the savage sentence.

She appealed to the labour and trade union movement in Britain to demand the with- drawal of investment from South Africa and the release of all political prisoners. • See page 2. of democratic rights y 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m. ongs and scenes from history Manchester.

Mobilize for nationalization PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday June 21, 1873 THE CALL from the AUEW confer- phrases and high-sounding but enforced. To remove the pro- resolu- of the ence for the nationalization can ignore. perty from the property-owners eaters major industries In 1971, the

AUEW

national confer- means bringing down the Tory gov- without compen- sation given banner headline ence passed a resolution declaring: ernment whose central function is 'This National Conference treatment in yesterday's 'Morning instructs to protect that property.

Star' is meaningless without National Executive Council to sup- It means committing the Labour

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mobilization of the working port the right to work as the most the Party leaders to legislate nationali- classR bring, down the Tory important in the struggle figure ir aspect zation without LU Labour against this Tory government.

and under workers' control said in measures government pledged to implement Since then the which those leaders union leaders have have just yesterda permitted the Tories to affirmed that they will not sall poncics. legislate carry The engineers' union has been the Industrial Relations Act, insti- lories I pass- of It means, therefore, ing resolutions tute state control exposing these wages while cause th leaders before the working class and for years. And specific plans for thus breaking haul strike pickets before class from the nationalization of the German adopted by the reformism courts. Ing industry were printed Above all, despite a multitude of revolutionary policies re- Contederation of Shipbuilding and Mrs All Engineering Unions than 20 resolutions the one quoted, quire revolutionary party. more 'Stern' workers who official wish see such po- ago up no night Whatsoever ycal's ~ ana remain pul through a policy, against the but have licies carried should join with government,

VUL

her husbar openly collaborated with it.

transforming the Socialist Yet the Wilson governments of 1964- face Labour League into the revolution- Meanwhile miners, dockers, engineers, Mrs 1970 did nothing to Implement unis this ary party car workers, builders, hospital work- ycal. at a nidea and. the even enerver the We raised the question. ers, gasmen, teachers and many urge them to come to the All what other sections of the working class Trades Unions Alliance Conferenc Simpson, Bill current chairman of former Labour Party and general have been allowed to fight isolated, at Belle Vue, Manchester, on July 1 Lne Lambton, piecemeal battles against the em- to discuss the defence secretary foundry section ot democra. of The the AUEW, said yesterday that he ployers and their government.

tic rights and the building of the 'For Policies must be not only voted on, 'happy' revolutionary party. tips? was with the amendment calling no be- Ior compensation cause conference had made it clear that could interpreted with some flexibility'. The flexibility with which union leaders seek apply conference to is resolutions well known. But the rapidly-worsening economic crisis of capitalism little for 'flexibility'. The such workers must either tight or accept the corporatist plans of the Tories which will away basic Lake TOe democratic and living stand- rights ards won by the working class over 200 years. Today nationalization the vital facing the issue working class, concrete interests can only whose be served by dispossessing the em- A NEW WAVE of scandal is about to break over the Nixon cabinet ployers. Thus, the call for nationali- zation without compensation engulfing Melvin Laird and Dr Henry Kissinger, two men so far largely demand. revolutionary untouched by Watergate. Laird was brought into the White House as question of power. The working class can no 'Mr Clean' after the departure of Nixon's top advisers.

satisfied with empty words, according to the economic crisis in the United States. New Daily News', Key government decisions were investigators from the Secu- people with concealed made by rities and Exchange Com- vested interests the grain HUGE CREDITS have been Britain-because it was feared mission are looking into companies. mobilized by the United States become à neavy accusations that he tried to burden on the other member subsequent inquiry and other Market Al Common staged by the administration out- countries. intervene in a stocks fraud the governments to support right lies told, were witnesses The fact that the six have now investigation. dipped into their support were nol rectured fund Laird is said to have acted and Nixon government demonstrates the 0aTh The cal culc it chase d Now on behalf of railway tycoon, urrency ano Cuss has been

AROICOLL

in the Italian banking system.

Edward admit the Ball (80), who government fell last week.

criminal fraud. According possibility accused of masterminding rumour an pay The new scandals of wave scheme' share 13,000 million lire in foreign could hardly have broken Lie ane unere was manipulation. currencies to various international rush of panic selling. Huge sums worse une asked the US Court documents, according to organizations, but Nixon the is under temporary Federal Reserve Board to make 'News', i show ThaT Cully. from the foreign role the case was discussed vy alertale near There were rumours that the Brezhnev leaves indicating Bank InOS Unti Bank of Italy was about to fail Washington. and that Guido were exhausted. reserves

YESTERDAY,

Christian Demo- resend er as said to have But sooner is Watergate Was Mariano Kumor Dressendorfer, said have off the agenda, than LIal Icalici Wan To bolster the existing $5,670m summoned 'actually made calls other scandals start to raise their The presidentla. phone on reserves the US palace to take charge of a new heads. Italian currency behalf of Ball highest coalition slightly and the EEC between them have TO eves or the sala contributed credits totalling lett of Andreotti's recime to have been acting for Laird, $3,050m. who was then Defence Secretary HIHAVY Gemand tor thel west These credits German mark has driven it to the or commitments The charges are a savage blow "tunne) which the will complete v exhaust the Com- of the In Nixon. put enormous

COURT

Haifa, Israel, mon Market's short-term $1,630m in six cumencies de only beared pressure midird to join ate state for currency support to maintain their parities. It yesterday convicted the son of a midst Watergate The now pulling thẹ other operations United States Communist revelations. member up with it against the sent $1.250m. Israeli Knesset (parliament) and But as Nixon plays host to The special fund was estab- trading collar. losing Stalinist anotner ew on charges of con- six EEC lished by the countries advantages. Soviet chief Leonid tacts with a foreign agent work- scandal is even more serious which are jointly floating their The break-up of the joint float ing for the Arab guerrilla organ- emerging scandal over would deal a powertul blow to currences. LilC ization Al Fatah. Italy was excluded from the the cohesion of the Common float Market. The found joint last year- was three-mar Senate investigation into Rami Livneh (27), the huge wheat sale to the Soviet the Union has Mr S. Levenbraun. last uncovered use israe ycal Communist Party, Maki, and bungling, sard of concle Mali also guilty of incompetence, corruption and perjury pussess newspapers bubusned severe damage to both Nixon and THE PRICE of shares in Inter- the Allende govern- overthrow ment in Chile. his aide Dr Henry Kissinger.

Tele- and naulona. "Helennone Spiro graph Corporation Vice-President has dropped ASIeW has acted virtually, as a public preliminary report role SIX MEN known as the Pretoria by half in the last six months on relations man for the firm. played by Kissinger. the New York stock exchange.

sentenced South were ITT is also under investigation American farmers lost out Alrica, yesteraay to prison terms 'Business Week', a widely read • Watergate prose. between five and 15 years heaviv in the sale while the big financial magazine, reports cutor Archibald Cox, the Inter- Terrorism Act. under the corporations - who were tipped five mutual funds-the American nal Revenue Service and Mr off in advance - - made African large rOUI moeN wind equivalent trusts-and ustice Department. Justice Wessels Boshoff said had ot unit profits. two large New York banks sold speculator rises in

ITT

been trained in guerrilla activities Huge subsidies profits-from $63m to $476m in were paid to and millions of ITT shares between theretore pulley the USSR for buying a product last eight years- are said to were January and April. Chines Treason. they desperately needed. each sentenced to 15 years' capital credits. Recently ITT plotted with the gains, share manipulation and In this food Alexandre Moumbaris turn sent prices Central Intelligence Agency to sales of assets. rocketing added to naturalized Australian of Greek.

CALL GIRL Norma Levy, a key igure in Britain's vice scandal, aid in an interview published resterday she voted for the Tories in the last election 'be- ause they are my best clients' The interview appeared in the West German Weekly, 'Stern, which also rinted a double-page photograph of Ars Levy in bed with a man.

said the picture was taken hrough a hole in the bedroom wall by er husband, Mr Colin Levy. The man's blanked out. Mrs Levy, who 'Stern' said was living t a hideaway rented villa somewhere on asked Mediterranean coast, was • Britain's about with vhat she talked Minister, Lord Air Force, ambton, who resigned over the scandal.

The magazine quoted her as saying: example, he gave me investment Mrs Levy claimed Lord Lambton recommended that an elec- she buy shares in tronics firm, it reported.

invested a few hundred 'I pounds. I don't know whether shares have the gone up or down.' She added. The Levys, interviewed at the villa which 'Stern' three-room rented for f70 said they had a month, told the magazine they would not be returning to Bri- according But Sakowski, in a editor Norbert statement yesterday, they were prepared to meet Scotland Yard detectives anywhere else in the world. of in- A British commission is • call-girl quiry probing the affair' which also led to the of Britain's Lord resignation Lord ellicoe, Seal, Privy to establish whether security risks were involved. 'Stern' quoted Mrs Levy as saying: I had as a regular client a well-known Duke who is one of England's richest men.'

'Stern' Levys said the had travelled widely since they left Britain to avoid the police and the Press. In Casablanca, they disguised themselves with veils and long robes to look like Moslems, and Munich they hired Mer- cedes 280 saloon, which they still had with them. Asked about her political Mrs Levy told views, 'Stern': 'Last time I voted for the Tories, because they are my best clients' In her opinion, politicians had a right to undisturbed an private life, and she regretted that the two Ministers had to resign "because of her, 'Stern' said. But her husband, asked what he thought of the affair, told the magazine: 'an elected , Poli- tician should not do such things.

He could leave himself open to blackmail? by the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The two were the last of six Jews to be found guilty of be- longing to a spy and sabotage ring alleged to have been oper- ated by Syria. Earlier this year four other Jews, including a for- mer paratrooper, Ehud Adiv, were sentenced to long prison terms. French parentage, who was found to have assisted banned African National Congress (ANC) supporters into the Republic as part of a conspiracy to create revolution, was sentenced to 12 years. John Hosey (24), Dublin born, who has spent most of his life in Britain was given the mini- • of five years for bringing mum in false documents. He has been given leave to appeal.

£6.5m shares deal joins notorious list QUESTIONS are to be asked in p ment about how a City baronet his friends pulled off a £6.5m s coup. Harold Lever, the Labour MP, hi a millionaire, is asking the Tory go ment to set up a Department of ' inquiry into the affair, Already the department's investig are looking into Lonrho, chaired by fo Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys, the Real Estate Fund of America, Minister, Reginald Maudling.

IN THE City of London, Sir Denys Lowson is a big shot.

Baronet Sir Denys has more than 20 directorships with major British and inter- national companies. He became Lord Mayor of London in 1951 at the time of the Festival of Britain. He paraded through the City streets in his golden carriage and rubbed shoulders with royalty and visiting celebrities.

side was his Patricia, 13 years his Strathcarron. She was fêted in women's magazines as Lon- don's glamorous and youngest- ever lady mayoress. Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson • was born 68 years ago in Stratford-upon-Avon, the des- Scottish land- cendant of the the Lowsons of owners, Westlaws, Perthshire. Offices He was educated at Winchester and Oxford and called to the bar. He holds an inordinately large number of public offices and the following is just a ran- dom but representative selection.

Member of the Royal Company of Archers (Queen's Body Guard for Scotland), Church Commis- sioner for England, Life governor and almoner of St Bartholomew's Hospital, past vice-president of the League of Mercy, former Master of the Worshipful Com- pany of Glaziers, former Master of the Worshipful Company of Loriners, former Master of the Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers, past United Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England, vice- president of the St John Ambu- lance Brigade, ex-governor of the Honourable, Irish society, former president of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, life governor of University College, Dundee, and of the Royal Shake- speare Theatre, High Steward of Stratford-upon-Avon. Overseas His overseas honours are also He is measured in sackfuls. Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands), Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Dannebrog (Denmark), Knight Commander, with star, Royal Order of St Olaf (Norway), Knight Commander of the Lion of Finland. When he lists his public offices, Lowson leaves out the most important of them all— the chairmanship of the National Group of unit trusts. National was once Britain's largest money-gathering institu- sked in parlia- The central figure in the : Sir Denys Lowson, a former baronet and i London. Between June an £6.5m shares last year Lowson and his fel controlling bought a ur MP, himself Group of Lowson had founded in the ment of Trade bought the shares at between each. 's investigators In January this year, only aired by former later, Lowson sold the Natio • Sandys, _and the Triumph Investments Gro America, whose paid a staggering £8.67 a shi • deputy Prime words the value of Nation:

BY ALEX MITCHELL

At the Plaisterer's Hall dinner Sir Denys Lowson with the premier of British Columbia, the Hon David Barrett (I) and the High Commissioner for Canada.

Below: At the same dinner, the

TUC

Victor general secretary Feather with Mr Percy Lovely.

tion in the unit trust field; it has subsequently slipped as the more and publicity - conscious тасу individuals have come on the scene. One of his competitors is the Unicorn Trusts run by Edward du Cann, Tory MP for Taunton and former Tory Party chairman.

Du Cann received his training in unit trust management while serving with Lowson. Luxury Lowson has become a million- aire on the strength of share dealings. He lives at a luxurious estate called Brantridge Park in Sussex where he enjoys his fav- ourite sport-shooting. He has another fabulous asset of the world's -he owns one largest stamp collections.

He is a lavish entertainer and hosts many of the City of Lon- don's big affairs. Two weeks ago, for example, he was host of a dinner given in honour of the premier 'socialist' of British Columbia, David Barrett. It was held at the Plaisterers' Hall and the guest list veritably shrieked with reactionaries.

There was Lord Boyd Car- penter, recently appointed chair- Civil Aviation man Authority; Sir Burke Trend, to the Heath Cabinet; secretary Sir Dennis Greenhill, permanent head of the Foreign Service and the man in charge of the security services (M15 and 6); the Earl of Bessborough (the former Fred- erick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby), a former Tory Minister and e in the £6.5m deal is from £500,000 in Jun a former Lord Mayor January 1973, a leap n June and September Just how much Lo nd his fellow directors this astonishing deal interest in the thought to be consider f Unit Trusts which ed in the 1930s. They It was Lowson, his i t between 62p and 63p who bought up the st chased them from the Trust and the Nelsor year, only six months the National Group to Shareholders in th told of the transaction ments Group. Triumph 8.67 a share. In other The who man of National had risen National shares is Mi and Carel AlV director; de Wet, the ambassador for the racialist republic of South Africa.

Also mingling with these 'dig- natories' was none other than Victor Feather, general secretary of the TUC. In his speech Lowson paid a generous compliment to the TUC leader. He referred to Feather's 'outstanding success' when recently spoke to the Australian Society luncheon. 'He's got his heart in the right place,' said the Feather • is persistently con- with Heath, Common sorting Market bureaucrats, bankers and Press lords. And as the ruling class makes millions in share deals and other speculations, the working class has to suffer the consequences of state pay laws.

Feather and the other TUC leaders, like Hugh Scanlon and must be forced to Jack Jones, break off all talks with these people. Answer They, must be mobilized to force this hated Heath govern- • ment out of office so that in its place can be elected a Labour government pledged to socialist policies including the nationali- zation of banks, insurance houses and basic industries. That must be our answer to the Lowsons, Lonrhos, and Slater Walkers of this world. FOOTNOTE: Lowson's family motto is: 'God gives increase'.

Workers Press, Thursday June 21, 1973 PAGE 3 00 in June 1972 to £6.5m in adventurous Triumph Investment of the 3. a leap of 1,200 per cent!

Trust. The National group controls funds estimated to be around £120m. It is the much Lowson collected from country's fourth largest unit trust com- ing deal is unclear, but it is pany. e considerable. John Roberts of the 'Investors Chronicle', wson, his family and associates who made first investigation of up the stock at 62p. He pur- deal, said: Somewhere I discovered f6m from the First Reinvestment had changed hands and I wanted to know he Nelson Financial Trust. why? ers in these trusts were not So will millions of workers whose ransactions. standard of living is being obliterated by £8.67 Heath's Phase paid for the Two state pay laws with res is Mr Tom Whyte, head its derisory £1 plus 4 per cent.

Road Transport will the strongest The London we use blacked Stewards' Committee methods to have them Shop London and will

(T&GWU)

has Issued state- in east we colleagues in the ment following incidents during approach our docks to black them also.

the Chrysler dispute in Coventry. Our members will not work This committee is concerned with such scabs will we nor and angry at the news that permit work to be carried out hired for the firm which used them.

thugs have been used workers' against pickets out- Ap to derman the firm should information that would side the Stoke, Coventry, plant help anxious of Chrysler's. We are be phoned in to Eric Rechnitz, to discover who these people Road chairman of the London are. Transport Stewards' Shop Com- If and when we find out that mittee (T&GWU) they are an London firm, east at 01-986 3406.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday June A discussion around the be debated at the Al Alliance conference at Be ter, Sunday July 1st—3 p.r 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 are currently being dis- cussed in the pages of the the Workers Press, 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 National the conference, Committee declared: The further turn in the economic crisis grave 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. Tories have laid The plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class • from the struggle resulting intensification of the crisis day June 21, 1973 he All Trades -3 p.m. will more and mor these plans Phase Three of pay laws. It is this mass the laur basis for struggle which Revolutionary Party Therefore it urgent that these n opments, which the aunchine Revolutionary be discussed by ti possible number gates conference gates Arrangements ar to provide appropr ties for such at the Belle Vue, ter, one of the sembly of England. delegations gone out. The ATUA those workers, end the state pay restore Tree for wages unions and join the demand ing off all government on Ph The fight for th of basic democra now insenar: the struggle Revolutionary Party We believe thal 1 rally can be an landmark in the unite the working the basis or r cies to create the industrial and pol ditions for forcing to resian. es which will Unions le, Manches- and more disrupt and expose the state is massive. class forms ary Party. is vitally these new devel greatly as- launching of the Party, should sed by the largest of dele- visitors to the nents are in hand appropriate facili- a discussion Ile Vue, Manches- the largest as- in north Tae Invitations have already UA calls upon all who want to tate pay laws and negotiations between employers, demand for break- Ian Meyers is typical of many young workers. He lives with his wife at his father-in-law's. A private house is beyond their in- come and the council list is very long. Ian is a foundry worker who had to leave Teesside to secure employment. Even this has alluded him. His foundry employed 200 workers three years ago, less than a quarter • work here of that number today. Do you think it is possible tr get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? These laws on wages were really brought in to smash the working class. If one section of the working class go in for a pay rise, the Tory govern- ment must resist. • If they don't it would create and all other example an workers would follow in de- manding their won increases.

So politically the Tory government is bound to resist all demands. It is an issue on which they have staked their own future. Anyone who thinks is living under a otherwise terrible illusion. The working class have not entirely woken up to this yet.

You can talk to some people who don't even know there is a freeze on. At our place we are going to have an increase, but it will be the fl plus 4 per cent. To me that's a cut in my wages, considering the cost of living.

Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to get rid of the Tory government? You have to take a man like Wilson as an example. If the victory working class won a Tories by forcing over the them out, they would find themselves on top of a volcano.

They would face a working class which is far stronger than they are. They don't want to release these forces, they are of mobilizing the frightened working class. I have always voted Labour, because it's the only party for working people, but the the leadership is definitely working against the interests of the working class. You only have to look at their performance over Lambton and Jellicoe to see that they did nothing to push the Tories over the brink.

It's the same with the TUC leaders. They are just feather- ing their own nests and getting on with their concerns at our expense. It's been just one big col- laboration. Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but they do it for nothing. I expected them to act this way though. It is obvious they are dedicated to the capitalist system. They are not trying to break the capitalist system— just trying to patter on.

In the meantime, the capi- talist system is trying to break uS. What do you think of Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon's support for talks with the Tories? These people are described as left wingers, but I can't see that. As far as I am concerned, they don't have a record at all.

Take the engineering in- dustry. Over the last few years there has been massive redun- dancies at my place. The labour force has slumped from 200 to 30. Despite these incredible there has been sackings, no nationally-led campaign real, against the sackings. The employers have been quite blatant. While the going was good, they got money from the government for investment, then they used this money to make a quick profit. There has been no real long-term planning in the industry, but the unions let them get away with it.

The right wing of the TUC are right behind the Tories.

There is no doubt about that.

But the left, like Scanlon and Jones, follow on behind-the working class get almost no say at all. The Communist Party and others confine their struggle to trade union questions only.

They don't fight on the political issues-that's relegated to the far distant future. I started getting suspicious of UCS before I came into contact with the League. It a fantastic struggle by was those shipyard workers, but I began to get suspicious when the work-in began to fall off and lads began to go down the road. Now I think it was a comn- plete sell-out. But I don't blame the men. Politically I would say the CP put forward a reformist position. They seem like a left addition to the Labour Party, th not at all the party the workers need in this situation.

What experience have you had that makes you think getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent necessity? from Teesside. I come used to work in the steel in- men being made redundant.

There were ten people to every •job at one time, the dole queues are massive. They say new jobs are com- ing to the area and they are building a new complex which will employ 10,000 people. But the people who will get these jobs are the ones left in the industry because the plant they work in is being phased out.

It's all push-button anyway.

There aren't the jobs there used to be. On top of this you have the crisis brewing. This will bring really massive unemploy- ment back. It's a question of getting rid of the Tories or going back to the dole for workers in a place like Middlesbrough.

Are protests and one-day strikes enough to defend the basic rights of the working class? The true leadership of the working class should always work towards calling a General Strike. The occasion to get rid of the government this way has come several times. The miners struck last year, the jailing of the dockers, and May Day. The need for such a struggle is desperate. We have seen the Lambton-Jellicoe affair and the way these Tories behave. They have resigned, but they're laughing. Lambton a £15,000 owns house in Durham and he retires in luxury. A worker goes into poverty when he is jailed. I believed in one-day never strikes. They just put off the day of reckoning. Are you in favour of building a new leadership which will force the Tories to resign? The building of the party and the Belle Vue rally is not just a trade union task; it's some- thing much bigger. The working class have to fight on this situation or they me will be beaten. And if they are beaten they will go back to before the industrial revolu- tion. They will be serfs again.

we get 5,000 people to If rty, this rally, the word will spread to thousands more. It will be the start.

Paul Kelly is a Liverpool worker now fighting for his re-instatement at a Liverpool plastics factory.

He was fired for reading the Workers at Press work. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? No, the issue of wages raises politics. It was even the case under the Labour government in 1968. We were out on the buses for more money and the Labour government were re- fusing. I myself thought that the main demand at the time should have been on Wilson to carry out proper socialist policies for the working class.

Anyone now who says wor- kers can defend their living standards without fighting the government is a sheer fool.

The workers in Liverpool have always been great be- lievers in militancy, they say stick together, stick it out and we will win. A lot of shop stewards are to blame for spreading this kind of atti- tude. But this militancy now works against them, I think it's a big block, instead of taking them forward it takes them back, because militancy alone cannot defend the rights of the workers—that day is past. The formula of stand to- gether, beat the boss, doesn't work any more because the boss has got the government behind him. Do you think the Labour and trade union leaders want to force the Tory government to resign? These people are traitors to the working class. To my mind are in it for their own They have never interests. really led the fight against this government there are many occasions when they could have brought them down, one that still stands out in my mind was the vote over the Common Market, where Jenkins and the rest were allowed to break ranks and save the Tories. They have not been disciplined by the Party to this day. The TUC are exactly the same. They are leading the working class into a corporate state. None of them want to system-they talk buck the left but act right. What do you think of the talks between the TUC and the Tories and the role of so-called lefts like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon in this collaboration? I see it simply as them selling out my own basic rights. They are sacrificing my standard of living, so their behaviour con- me directly. Jones says cerns he has 'passion' for the wor- king class, well when I hear a man say he has passion for me I keep my hand firmly on These talks wallet. my are dipping into my wage packet.

I get the £l plus 4 per cent but what's that to me? It's a rise in wage cut, with the rents and the cost of living.

The Communist Party and others describe these people as lefts' and cover up for their collaboration. What do you think of this? anti-revolu- The CP are an tionary party, their whole aim in line with Moscow is to keep this system going. Right now you see Brezhnev palling Nixon who's in the with middle of the greatest crisis of American capitalism, no- thing could express the rela- tionship better than this.

Workers can see that some- thing is wrong with what thev think is communism, but they understand can't really it politically, they with the go myths and take a general anti- This is very communist line. unfortunate for the revo u- tionary movement, but some- thing we have to go out and explain. So far much of the struggle against the Tory government has taken the form of protests, one day strikes and so on. Are these adequate? It's not a question of them being adequate, the they are waste of time. one day strikes were just a show, and things back then went to normal. All that happened is that the Tories got annoyed and the men lost money. Whenever the working class looked like going beyond pro- like over tests, the jailing dockers the and the miners the leadership usually strike, acted to head the movement off-this shows how genuine they are about the opposition to the Tory government. The only possible step is for all General out action, a Strike, all trade unionists who all about the future care at should be working towards this perspective in their own Paul Kelly: Whenever the working cla organizations—what else protests. like over the jalling of the d going to shift this government (above), the leadership usually out? this how genuine they shows government.' We either beat them, or Workers Press, Thursday June 21, 1973 PAGE 5 they give us the beating of What is happen- the century. ing now is that employers are provoking strikes, like at Chryslers, on their own terms ready to smash the working class. It's best to be prepared for this and build for our own action. The other form of protests has been the way union lead- ers have confined pay battles one section only-the gas to workers, the hospital workers and so on, knowing full well that on their own they would be defeated. This is almost deliberate. Are you in favour of building a new leadership to force the Tories to resign? This is the only possible alter- facing working native the In class. the boom period when there was money to pass on a concession the re- formists had a role. But things radically altered, have the crisis has transformed these people into the direct mes- senger boys for the Tories.

This has put the new lead- ership right on the agenda. We know the Labour Party leadership are inadequate. They were in last and time they could have passed social- ist policies. But this would challenge have meant a real to capitalism and they ran.

General is only by a orking class looked like going beyond of the dockers and the miners' strike Strike and a new leadership Ily acted to head the that the working class movement off_ can go ey are about opposition to the Tory forward in the period of crisis.

THE WORLD'S MOST OIL HUNGRY ECONOMY

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday June 21, 19

FAR EAST REPORT BY ALE

If you ask any Japanese businessman what single question haunts him most, he will probably reply 'Oil'. For one of the contradic- tions of the world's third powerful economies- most after the US and the USSR— is that it has stockpiles of oil And be- for only 45 days. cause d provides 70 per cent nation's energy, the the result of an oil stoppage would be clearly catastrophic. The industry country's massive would be forced to a stand- still in six weeks. Whereas the US and the USSR have their own oil re- sources and access to politi- amenable of cally sources supply, the Japanese, the third the largest oil consumers world, have to rely exclusively on imports. In 1971 Japan depended on hursday June 21, 1973

ORT BY ALEX MITCHELL

imports from the Middle East 84.7 of the fur per cent though Middle annual total, accounted Eastern crude oil for only 46 per cent of im- 1950. To lubricate ports in these supply lines the Japanese government is engaged in an impressive campaign to make friends with the oil sheikhs.

On: Minister after another is seen on Japanese television tumbling off aircraft to greet cloaked sultans hiding behind sun glasses. There was even a that the holy rumour holies, Emperor Hirohito. would comport himself to the Middle East as part of this goodwill seasoning. the bowing But along with Ministers has gone a good deal of hard cash. As the Keid- anren, the Japanese CBI, says review in its economic 1973: 'There is a rising inclination to go a step further than the of mereiy de- practice past and to pending imports, positively in participate petroleum development pro- jects in various parts of the world' One such scheme is the Iran Japan Petrochemical Company (IjPC) capitalized, at $50m.

The project involves the con- of a petro- struction giant in Iran. The chemical plant Japanese equity is being put up by Mitsui and Company Limited, Toyo Soda, Mitsui Toatsu Chemical, Mitsui and Japan Petrochemical Synthetic Rubber. There have been other re- cent examples of the Jap- intervention in anese Middle East: • In early January the jap- bought a anese oil industry 22.5 per cent interest in British Petroleum's (BP) rich offshore field in Abu Dhabi, paying a twice staggering $780m, about much the previous as as bidder. @ In April a delegation from the Japanese Petroleum De- velopment Corporation visited Saudi Arabia and offered a $500m deal under which the Mitsubishi conglomerate would build a huge petro- chemical complex in return for 200 million barrels of crude oil over an extended period. Japan • In mid-February, Line startled the oil world by to pay $2.38 per agreeing barrel for top quality Abu Dhabi oil, considerably higher than the price western companies had just agreed to pay the Abu Dhabi regime. In the same deal Japan Line tied up 730 million barrels of crude oil over eight years--most of Abu Dhabi's output over the next few vears. In May the first Abu Dhabi was discharged in Japan oil from the 160,000-ton 'English Bridge' The Tokyo Press boasted: 'This is the first-ever shipment made by any ol ex- without the porting naton of a western oil intermediary Japan Line, the conCErn. biggest nation's oil tanker operator, outbid major wes- tern petroleum importers for the direct purchase' These deals indicate that the Tapanese are preparing to 'go it alone' in the Middle East oil race. During a visit to Tehran in April, International Trade and Yasuhiro Industry Minister Nakasone made clear that Japan would not join a consor- tium of oil-consuming coun- tries. He told Iran's Finance Minister Tamshid Amouzegar would that Japan help the country's five-year develop- In Iran plan. return ment would continue oil supplies 'on a stable basis. (About 40 per cent of Japan's oil consump- tion comes from Irar.) Japan's unilateral dealing the leading member of with

OPEC,

the Organization of Petroleum Coun- Exporting has caused cries, an outcry from the US cil 'maior: The Washingter Post' said recent'y: come ap- is denised, the lkei- proach hood is an all out scramble for Middle-East oil resulting in the doubling and redoubling of prices in coming years?

The State Department's top energy planner, Mr James further: Akins, 'The went bidding is already starting.'

When asked why they re- fused to join a US-sponsored oil consumers' summit to pro- tect their common interests, a spokesman for Keidanren said: 'All the blame is being put We are not the only on us. people causing a disturbance.

While the Americans talk of they multilateral plans. are trying to grab the market for themselves. What have we done is self-protection. ioint While launching in the Midcle East. schenies Tapanese big business is step- search for oyl it ring up its south-east Asia to frantic proportions. The aloter: of explose co licentes has been wildis irresponsible and corrupt busi- Whole chunks of land ness. and sea have been carved up the highest bidders among Japan, fighting for its with economic survival, willing to pay almost any price to search for the liquid gold

INDONESIA

Standard Oil Company's 50- per-cent-owned affiliate, P. T.

Stanvac, has acquired a 2.8 million-acre corridor block in southern Sumatra. The venture, in which three Japanese com- panies have a 20 per cent in- terest, is being operated under a production-sharing arrange- ment with the Indonesian gov- ernment oil corporatic- Two big deposits of natural been found in c"th cas nav; Suma ra bị Mobil Oi Indo- Tle cumpany has esti- resia. be mated it will able to supply Japan with 5 million tons of liquified natural gas each year. Five major Japanese firms have expressed interest in joint participation with in development a company project to get the gas from the ground, pipeline it, pro- special cess it and carry it by tankers to Japan. The fleet of tankers alone is expected to cost $975m. The country's oil production is currently at 1.2 million barrels a day—most of it go- ing to the fiercely competitive Japanese. Sales expected are to soar over the $1.000m mark by the end of this year. There are 48 oil companies for oi! and looking Las the archipeligo Throughout This search has already cost and 5720m expected consume a furthe: $500m the next couple of years. The ch hurt is rot without cost!!

Mobil recent'y failures. sui- rendered 1.1 million acres in Strait of Malacca the after drilling a number of dry wells.

Workers Press, Thursday

THAILAND

Since applications were first made in 1968, nine foreign oil companies have now secured offshore oil exploration rights in the Gulf of Thailand. These vast tracts of sea and swamp have only a gambling chance of yielding oil. To attract companies to the area the Thai regime reduced royalties from 12.5 per cent to 8.5 per cent. Nevertheless, competition for the lots has been fierce and ailegations of and forth. Anons i Meer bribery have been lot holders are: • Unioni Thailand, wai!:? ship with the Soutar As.a Petroleum ..... pany. Urion O1i .ut. "dary of the Cain riCar: pany of California will hcart- quarters in Los Angeles The kers Press, Thursday June 21, 1973 PAGE 7 Japanese petrochemical Left: works that refines crude oil im- ported from Middle East. Far left: Emperor Hirohito—planning goodwill trip to the oil sheikhs?

Petroleum, Southeast Asia Union's partner in the con- cession, is owned by Maruzen Oil, Nippon Mining and Dai- kyo Oil Company, all of Japan.

from substantial Apart holdings in the gulf, they have some 12.6 million acres on the Korat Plateau. Their first off- shore well was inconclusive at 8,000 feet. Continental Oil Company (CONOCO) of Thailand has a 50-per-cent partnership with Mitsui Oil Exploration Com- pany Limited of Japan. Cumu- lative expenditure by the joint venture has so far amounted to about $3.8m. Amoco Thailand Petroleum Company has a 50-50 partner- Explora- ship with Idemitsu tion Company, a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary. About SIm has been spent in pre- liminary drilling surveys; 1n earnest starts next month.

In the past four years a of si total billion has been spent in the south-east• Asian oil hunt-much of it Japanese.

'Half that amount,' according to oil specialist Andrew Berry of the Singapore branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank, 'was expended on non- recoverable failures.' For the fact remains that, despite all the optimistic fore- casts and Press headlines, the South-East Asia 'play" has disappointing. been bitterly There were enthusiatic claims that oil production would now be 4 million barrels a day. In fact the figure is less than half this from both on and offshore wells. A recent United Press Inter- national (UPI) survey con- cluded: 'Oil economists for American banks helping fin- the industry see little ance hope of dramatic new dis- anything coveries leading to like a doubling of production.

The Says Andrew Berry: boom in offshore oil is over.

It's a viable business, but on a select basis.' Even at full production by the rosiest predictions, south- Asia can't produce east enough oil to ease the reliance of either Japan or the US on Middle-East oil. Kenneth Merkey, oil R. the First National expert for City Bank in Singapore, illus- trates the point by citing the fact that single counties in Oklahoma have more oil wells operating than in all south- east Asia combined, and yet produce US still can't the enough oil for its own needs.

The US imports 3.5 mil- day now lion barrels to a meet its 15 million barrels day requirement and by 1980 imports are expected to rise to 12 million barrels a day.

As for Japan, which im- ports all but a fraction of the 4.2 million barrels a day it the south-east consumes, Asian discoveries have meant only fractionally less reliance on the Middle East. For example, almost 90 per cent of oil imports came from the Middle East hive years ago, while today the figure is 84.7 per cent. Although about 15 per cent comes from south- east Asia, the realists in the Japanese oil industry frankly is admit that there little chance of this 15 per cent growing significantly larger. Which brings us back to the strife-torn Middle East..

The area is rapidly becom- of horrific pro- arsenal ing an portions in which and war civil war is only a hair-trigger away. It should be remembered oil and iron that it was the boyco: importa by the Uni- Australia 10 States. 3; tain, Holland ard drove one 15:: sandal world "'.: i quarter of a japanese ", : Hirohit: arackel 2% "1 Harbour, such-case Malaya, Burma, S :apore, the Philip- anes, Indorasia, New Guinea and Australia.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday June 21, 1973 Workers Press today prints a further letter from Mr Monty Johnstone of the British Communist Party. (Johnstone's first letter appeared in Workers Press on May 17, and a reply was published on May 22, 23, 24 and 25.) An unrepentant defender of Stalinism—as his letter shows—Johnstone is a hostile oppon- ent of Trotskyism, which in Britain is represented by the Socialist Labour League, a section of the International Com- mittee of the Fourth International.

Nevertheless, we accord him the right to express his views, just as we exercise our right to answer him. This is something the Stalinists have never done. At no time has the 'Morning Star', nor its predecessor the 'Daily Worker, ever extended to Trotskyists the right to answer the stream of lies and abuse poured out on them by Stalinism.

We challenge them to do that now. We challenge the 'Morn- ing Star' to open its pages to a Trotskyist, in the way we have opened ours to Johnstone, the Stalinist.

We shall begin a reply in tomorrow's Workers Press.

Your four-part reply to my Î7) fails to brief letter (May refute a single one of the facts adduced there to set the record straight. However, not being prepared to admit that you are mistaken on any point, you try to divert the discussion to whole number of other questions, from ranging the Communist Party's opportunist mistakes in 1947 (admitted and corrected in 1948) to the pro- cedure for handling resolutions at Communist Party congresses (on which you exhibit the most lamentable ignorance).

I trust, therefore, that you will allow me to bring your readers' attention back to the Hungarian Rajk, Com- Laszlo of objective fact that points executed In munist who was are at issue. 1949 after a frame-up trial.

* * * (admitted be state to and Sinyavsky and 1 Daniel workers' state, although You Moscow Trials. totally deformed one that carried out ignore my repeated public of Rajk the judicial murder condemnation of the trial and but 'the burnts racy a ner agents sentence of these Soviet writers privileged appar- (see the transcript of my state- separate from it! ently

BBC

television on ments on * * * November 19, 1967). Flying in 3. The 1969 Communist Party the face of the record you Congress. Completely disre- blandly assert in both text and that all that my garding my assurance 'attempt caption to the Congress delegates from dissociate' myself from their imprisonment 'is not only dis- branches calling for a funda- mental analysis of the invasion ingenuous, but very uncon- of Czechoslovakia will testify vincing! to the utter falsehood of your What is really disingenuous 'inside' report is your article's statement that anonymous alleged efforts myself to about my to I had confined persuade them withdraw single oblique reference to the to [pre-war Moscow] Trials in an their resolutions, your 'reply' quotes at length from this very statement', when obscure in 'Corite' de- report! fact Trotsky my voted a whole section of many * * hundreds of words to demon- 4. Public debate. Your argu- strating why they should be mentation makes it abundantly revised. clear that Slaughter's allegation Communists would * * * that the public debate 2. The Rajk Trial. Realizing not entertain witi the SLL/YS, which I re. that your original extraordinary futed, was indeed quite assertion that I still supported mis- this trial cannot be sustained, leading. The YCL explained officially that years you state that the demned is state in the correspondence to which you refer, that it was anxious as a frame-up 'do not take us hold debate than the official posi- to such a on further Trotskyism, but could not of the Communist tions the title Trotskyism agree to Parties'. and Stalinism' with its impli- Not a word of self-criticism, would be let alone of apology, for having cation that we the defending Stalinism in position. totally distorted my same way as the SLL/YS would Instead we are offered a vulgar Trotskyism and quite un-Marxist play on be defending In his letter of April 2. 1969.

words try to convince us to the YCL national secretary did that it was not the Hungarian Stalin signing a death warrant. Communists died at the hands of Stali offer a second debate with you on the Stalin question. This compromise was rejected from your side on April 29, 1969.

Nor was it taken up the next in response to a year when, student socialist society in- vitation for a Communist-SLL debate, the proposal was put forward from our side for two consecutive debates on Trot- skyism and Stalinism respec- tively. It is not clear from the loose and ambiguous phrasing of your recent artiçle (May 25) whether you are now prepared to agree to two such con- secutive debates—or whether you continue to dig your heels for on the one debate politically unacceptable title of 'Trotskyism and Stalinism', preferring to block the pos- sibility of public confrontation on major political themes.

* * * 5. Trotskyists in the Labour Party. It is just not true that the measures against Trotsky- ists in the Labour Party were 'begun by the British Stalinists ... in 1954' with two articles then in World published News', as is alleged. A reading of 'Tribune' and 'Socialist Outlook' for 1950 shows that measures were actually being taken already at that time in the Labour Party against Trotskyists and those associated with them in their activities in Socialist the Fellowship (proscribed shortly afterwards) and around 'Wandsworth programme' for the Labour League of Youth.

My information is that the suspension of the Yiewsley and West Drayton Labour Parties, against which Gerry Healy spoke at the 1950 Labour Johnstone provides himself with a s of Stalinism-so he can go on, all the mor Party conference, was part of this process, with which Com- nothing to do. munists had Far from being a 'principled defence of Stalinist fellow- travellers in the Labour Party in 1950', Healy's speech makes it quite clear that it was not to such 'fellow-travellers' that he referred, but to people whose opinions 'may, from time to time, coincide with those of people who are classed as fellow-travellers' , but many of whom he pleaded, were 'loyal members of the Labour Party and have nothing whatsoever to do with the Communist Party or any of its organiza- tions'. Such a coincidence of views between Trotskyists and those dubbed "fellow - travellers' occurred on the Korean war and the colonies. But here again Healy thought fit to play to the anti-communist gallery (or platform), remonstrating with the Labour imperialist leaders at the same conference: 'It is very nice saying that we all have to fight against Moscow, but by lining up with American we are handing imperialism over the colonial peoples on a plate to Moscow." (Con- ference Report, p. 117.) * * * 6. SLL Conspiracy Theory. It would be utterly sterile to communist fights' "behind 'sham the scenes' manoeuvres and junior agents' (whether aged 'special 14 or 16). This sort of stuff, as you know full well, does itself normal not lend to methods of verification, and debase and only to serves envenom political debate.

If one proceeds from the of being that th a liberal cover sorry I the more, supporting the bureaucracy.

theory of SLL's conspiracy politics, I sup- working-class pose it is logical to place such the a construction on con- troversies in other socialist organizations and the on activities of their members (though one is left perplexed as to what their motives might be). But this method really reaches a new apogee of absur- dity, when my attendance at a public SLL lecture on a subject into which I am researching is construed as a 'shady enter- prise' designed 'to provoke a scandal'. When Cliff Slaughter —thanks, no doubt, to super- X-ray effective from eyes Bradford to Poplar, or perhaps of his own to the services 'special agent' in my con- fidence!—asserts without offer- ing a shred of evidence (and quite wrongly, as it happens) that I was carrying a concealed tape recorder. (But then, what agent would be complete without one?) And when the whole object of this opaque operation turns out to be ... to enable me *to produce [my] tape record- ing as proof that [I] had not Comrade Kemp's disrupted first lecture'! It is true, happily, that the SLL does not state enJoy power. But its paranoid sus- piciousness towards others on the left represents precisely the kind of attitude that went with the vilification and liquidation of so many honest Communists in the Stalin-Vishinsky period.

It would appear that Cliff Slaughter has not broken with the agentomania of that time.

He has merely transferred it to other quarters. Monty Johnstone

HIGHLAND HISTORY AND THE

PROTEST THEATRE

the Stag, and the The Cheviot, Black, Black Oil'. By John McGrath. Performed In Scotland by the 7.84 Theatre Company.

The latest fad among the theatre-going intelligent- sia of Scotland is this 'Ceilidh play' about Highland history. It has been performed since reportedly to early April, rapturous receptions, at a con- on What ference Kind of Scotland?' organized by the magazine Scottish Interna- tional' in Edinburgh; in the university towns of Aberdeen and Sterling; at the Scottish National Party conference in Oban; and in various towns and villages in the north and west of Scotland. To undertake this venture, McGrath formed a Scottish section of the 7.84 Theatre Company, the name of which derives from the fact that 7 per cent of the population owns 84 per cent of the wealth. 'The Cheviot... ' is about the Highlands of Scotland since the brutal clearing of men from the land to make way for profitable sheep in the early l9th century, anc subsequently for dear-forests to serve the sporting require- ments of the Victorian aristocracy. The play is an uneasy mix- ture of serious historical and political documentary and satire on the one hand, and jokes and Gaelic music hall sentimentality on the other.

It has some good moments, such as the dialogues between the improvers' who ruthlessly carried out the clearances - James Loch and Patrick Sellar; and a song attributed to Lord Polwarth, ' "I am the Lord of the Oil, Said He."' It uses some excellent docu- mentary material, such as the reply made to the Duke of Sutherland when he visited his depleted estates to recruit fresh forces for the Crimean War: 'Since you have preferred But its analysis of the rela- tionship between the present and the past is based on an idealist conception, the very opposite of a dialectical grasp of history. surface, a What is, on the progressive, anti-capitalist and thoroughly noble play leaves its audiences with nothing but a few good laughs, an oppor- tunity to join in some of the songs, but with the reaction- ary illusion that 'nothing very edifying can be learnt from history', which is how Engels described the idealist view of history. The parallel which the play makes between the Highland clearances and the effects of so-calied oil boom the on established patterns of life is unhistorical and abstract.

Marx analysed the 19th- century clearances in 'Capital' and elsewhere as part of his struggle to lay bare the objec- tive laws of development of capitalism as a particular stage the history of human in society. Fundamental to this analysis was the scientific demonstra- tion of the revolutionary role of the working class. Starting from the defence of the basic principles and theo- retical gains of Marxism against revisionism, as the necessary reflection of, and guide to, the practical struggle to build revolutionary leader- ship, Lenin developed the Marxist method through his demonstration that capital- had entered its ism final, imperialist phase in which the choice is historically posed be- tween fascism and world war, and the proletarian revolution.

The defence of the method of Marx and Lenin by the Trotskyist movement in strug- gle against Stalinism and re- visionism has enabled it to analyse the present situation and understand that what has now occured is the complete of the break-up post-war inflationary boom and the end of all stable class relationships.

This understanding is the essential starting-point for genuinely progressive-that is, scientific-grasp of any aspect of this present crisis, including those things which the capital- ists and reformists are desper- ately anxious to paint as the 'good sides' of the situation, such as the North Sea oil boom. But McGrath and his co- thinkers seem more concerned establish their socialist to credentials and the sincerity of their intentions rather than to use the theatre and their own talents in the objective struggle for the revolution.

Reference to Brecht cannot conceal the fact that The , far from chal- Cheviot ... lenging the ideological assump- audience, tions of the establishes a thoroughly cosy atmosphere in which players and audiences are united not as opposites in conflict, but as individuals who a group of about the evils of protest capitalism without anything really being disturbed. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 371p • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p • Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG It is not surprising therefore that, despite the much stressed reference to Scottish capital- ists being as much to blame for the ills of the Highlands as English, the play received a standing ovation at the SNP conference. This conference marked a decisive swing in the direction of a puritan crusade to purify capitalism dissociating by Scotland from what MP Don- ald Stewart called the 'moral corruption' of England. Thus McGrath and his associates, despite their socialist intentions, find them- selves transformed into an adjunct of a reactionary, bour- geois movement which striding rapidly in a neo-fascist direction. ' The 'Scottish International' magazine, which organized the "The conference at which Cheviot ... ' was first per- is an intellectual formed, forcing-house for this trans- formation of the 'progressive' middle class into its opposite.

It is the meeting-ground for all writers who will proclaim their good intentions to work for a • better Scotland-from liberals, nationalists, Stalinists to Gaelic • and revisionists, poets and Catholic priests.

They unite in a common hostility to the Marxist science of the class struggle and to the revolutionary movement of the working class. of the A recent number magazine (VI, May 5, 1973) made a great point of attack- 'Workers ing the analysis in Press' of the book by journa- list Jack McGill on the UCS struggle. The aspect of the review singled out for the nervous humour of 'Scottish Interna- tional's' editor was our high- lighting of McGill's evidence of the preparations made by the Tories to use the troops in the event of civil war break- ing out on the Clyde. The bringing out of the realities of the crisis in this is anathema to those way sections of the middle class who are rapidly retreating from the real tasks of the present into a reactionary with sections of the unity capitalist class, their agents in workers' movement, and with the methods of thinking which they encourage. McGrath's latest attempt to 'to take the theatre the people', ', for all its noble in- tentions, belongs to this tendency. The conception that art can be taken to the oppressed masses by some sort of auto- process, separated nomous from the struggle for the pro- Made where? Cotton prints bearing the label be 'Made in Israel' may soon arriving in African countries, as a move by South African capitalists to get around the boycott of their goods. Mr Benny Weinstein, lead- ing a South African delegation to an economic conference in Jerusalem, told a Press con- ference that a South African company—which he would not name was planning to set up a £400,000 textile factory in which would import Israel, raw materials, and export cot- ton prints to South Africa.

• • and also, to African countries which at present deny access to South African goods. Workers Press, Thu John McGrath-latest attempt to take th letarian revolution - which was the illusion of playwrights Wesker in the like Arnold period of the boom — today becomes openly reactionary.

To sustain it McGrath, un- like Wesker, has turned not to the working class and the trade union movement, but to the diminutive remnants of the Highland peasantry. If the Russian Narodniks of the late 19th century had some excuse for their Utopian turn to the peasantry as the force which could bring about socialism, the same cannot be said of Scottish socialists in 1973. It is no coincidence that much of the research for 'The Cheviot ... ' was done by Ray • Burnett, not long ago a leading member of the Inter- national Socialism group in Scotland, and proponent of the IS brand of protest politics.

Burnett writes in the pro- gramme some reactionary rub- bish about the lessons of the land leagues and crofter resis- tance to the troops sent in to enforce evictions in the 1880s and later. He implies that a combina- tion of militant resistance by the crofters and parliamentary pressure can save the people of the Highlands from the power- hungry oil moguls of today.

Before taking to the heather with claymore and dirk, the crofters will do well to re- member that the same Mr Burnett was four years ago the first member of the IS to wel- come British troops to the Israeli Minister of Com- merce Haim Barlev said that Israel had reservations about companies being set up there to get around the boycott of South Africa, but he did not think these would apply to the textile plant. Textile firms were singled out for mention as exploiters of African labour in recent exposés in South Africa. We are offering no prizes to readers who identify the authors of the following complaints: 1. The man who said that a tiny group of revolutionaries' had set out to destroy him and that a small group of men were working . 'night and day to of destroy the spirit co- operation in the college.

'A group of sociologists within the - was prepared to use sociology as a Press, Thursday June 21, 1973 PAGE 9 to take the theatre 'to the people'.

Bogside as a 'peace-keeping' force. Burnett now appears to have retired to the Highlands to preach his unstable blend of adventurism and reformism.

Talented artists like Mc- Grath can contribute to the struggle for socialism only in determined conflict with such people and by devoting their creative abilities to the task of building the revolutionary party. The 'Pageant of Workers' History' presented by the Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists, at Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 11, was an historic demonstration of the party's need and ability to harness such talent. A future Scottish 'version of this pageant will have to in- clude an episode on the clear- • because they playea a ances crucial part in the formation of the Scottish working class.

Beginning from the revolu- tionary requirements of the working class today and from the scientific study of history developed by Marxism, this will make an important con- tribution to an understanding of the revolutionary traditions of Scottish labour. It will require artistic talents such as MeGrath and the 7.84 company undoubtedly possess.

But it will be done in con- flict with the method which is leading them rapidly along those paths of reaction, which are paved with the best of intentions. means of overthrowing the -and as a training ground for the complete overthrow of society? 3. 'It is a fact of observation a small, energetic and that exceedingly loudmouthed group of students and teachers in the higher educational system is dedicated to undermining and eventually taking over that system.' 4. The man who diagnosed the boycotting of classes and sit- ins as the work of 'a handful of trouble-makers who sit on in institutions of the steps higher learning waging psycho- logical violence on • the over- whelming majority of students'.

ANSWERS:

1. Mr John Mcintyre, Principal Technical of Peterborough College. 2. Mr Terence Miller, Director of the Polytechnic of North London. 3. Mr Terence Miller (again).

4. Mr: George Papadopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece.

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Resolution of the 5th Congress of the Workers and six International Committee International League statements 21, GOOLE: Thursday, June 21, 8 LEEDS: Thursday June 21, 8 Station Hotel. •The Peel Hotel, Boar Lane. p.m. The p.m. •Defence of Trade Unions Revolutionary Party and the Fight and democratic rights. Forward to against the Tories'. the ATUA conference.' Speaker: HOLLOWAY: Thursday June 21, Cliff Slaughter. uild 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters HULL: Wednesdav. June 27. 8 Road. 'Inflation and the crisis of Windmill Hotel, Witham. p.m. 21, capitalism'. Forward to the Belle Vue con- ference.' KINGSTON: Thursday June 21, 8 , 8 p.m. Norbiton Hotel, Clifton Road.

LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, Force the Tories Hall, 7.30 p.m. The Trades Fenton Street, near Post ory Labour nationalize the major industries'. Office.

Coventry toolroom workers win- No let-up on Perkins picket line FROM IAN YEATS lI A SPECIAL recall conferen room-related stewards is to consider ways of backing 2.

strike for 12 weeks. The decision came at a meeting committee on Tuesday night.

DOUGLAS SADLER, shop stew- Incentive from Chrysler. THERE HAS been no let-up in the determination of the 5,700 workers, at Perkins Diesels, Peterborough, to fight for parity with fellow workers in Coventry. Picketing is being arranged on a carefully-prepared rota basis and the lines are being respected by lorry drivers.

There has been no further attempt by blacklegs to enter the works. On Monday two men went to work, but they have since changed their minds. But to read the Tory Press you would think 2,000 had gone back! Jeff Cain, deputy convenor at Perkins, said yesterday the stew- ards were always willing to re- enter negotiations with the man-

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One issue particularly incens- ing the Perkins men-apart from the refusal of the labour ex- change to pay dole money-is the full-page advertisement which Perkins chief, Sir Monty Prich-

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ESSEX branch of the Mon- day Club is to defy the expulsion order just passed by the club's national execu- tive committee. Essex chairman Mr Leonard Lambert declared yesterday the branch would 'carry on as normal'. Lambert was expelled from the national membership of the club a few weeks ago for refus- ing to withdraw an invitation to National Front chairman Mr John Tyndall to address the branch. Lambert told branch members: 'We will institute court action if the executive committee attempt to interfere with the running of the Essex branch.' He attacked Mr Jonathan Guinness, the club's chairman, who successfully moved Toolroom pickets question a van dri plant in Coventry. Transport and General Workers' Union has instructed its drivers to cross picket lines. claims their "The

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members are not in dispute with GEC, said Mr Sadler. He added: 'We've tightened things up recently. This week we've stopped everything going in and out. Our incentive came from the Chrysler men's block- ade at Stoke. ITCHELL in Peterborough ard, took in the local "Evening Telegraph'. In the closing paragraph, Pri- chard says: 'Without a resump- production, tion normal employees, the community, our customers and suppliers all suffer for no purpose. The decision to resume normal production con- tinues to rest with the employees and their local representatives.'

This is a colossal misrepre- of the facts. As Mr sentation Cain points out: 'We are all pre- pared to work 40 hours. But we have been locked out from nor- mal production by management.

What's Prichard talking about?'

Nor is the community 'suffer- Prichard says. Many trade unionists I spoke to said that they fully supported the Perkins fight.

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the expulsion of the branch at Tuesday night's meeting. Lambert said: 'This is the most of outrageous form political chicanery I have ever seen. Be- fore the meeting started I have been told that four new, pro- Guinness members were co-opted onto the executive committee to form a Guinness majority.'

The split between the national leadership and the Essex branch began when the executive asked for a list of the branch members to see if there were any members of the extreme right-wing National Front. Essex and a number of other branches refused, Lambert said.

So far support for Essex has come from North • Kent, East Midlands, Yorkshire and Birming- ham branches. Lambert spearheaded the witch- hunt of the Young Socialists' summer camp in Essex last year.

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• van driver entering the GEC Stoke 'We think GEC are taking a tough line, like all the other It could even be a employers. directive from the Tory govern- ment. It's all part of the state laws. pay 'Really I don't think workers any good in isolated can do groups. It's the duty of the TUC to mobilize the labour move- ment against this government and the pay legislation? 'If they win at Perkins we will all be able to campaign for better wages. Peterborough has been in the backwater for too long. Ian Yeats reports from Coventry: More than 300 men have been laid off for the second week at Massey Ferguson, Coventry, be- cause of the lock-out at Perkins, Diesels. Transport and General Work- ers' Union. shop steward Mr Peter Wooldridge said: 'I think they are taking on Peterborough because they have not put up a fight in the past. 'Next year it will be tougher for us to get something out of this company. Last year we did not accept Measured-Day Work, the management has said but it they discussed at the want next negotiations in April.

'It was not until the 11th hour.

backed down last that they April and they are getting ready for next year's fight now.

"The Peterborough men are asking us for help, but we can only give them moral support because of our lay-off agree- ment.'

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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 p.m. ss, Thursday June 21, 1973 PAGE 11

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Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the 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 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. Ine tight tor demo cratic riahts today means preparing for working-class power. Sundays June 24, July 8 Stockingfarm Community Centre, Stockingfarm 7.30 p.m.

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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.

Trotskyists put on trial PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday June 21, 1973 THE PERUVIAN military dictatorship has begun court proceedings against the leaders of the Trotskyist Liga Comunista who were imprisoned at the beginning of last month and savagely tortured. Latest reports from Peru say that preliminary against José Carlos Ballon hearings and Sergio took place on June Il and 12.

Barrio They were charged with plotting against state security, against the and the law of the the nation, constitution freedom of the Press. The final charge levelled against them is 'outrage to the nation and patriotic symbols'.

These charges are cynical even by the standards of the Peruvian junta, which has confiscated the Liga Comunista's Press, taken away all its basic rights and subjected its members to torture in plain violation of the constitution. These attacks by the Peruvian military regime have the full approval of the Stalinists. Our picture shows Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos relaxing General Juan Lima with the Peruvian Velasco Alvarado during his recent tour of Latin America. Cuban doctors recently amputated Velas- co's leg. RESOLUTIONS and letters of protest from work- ing class organizations demanding the release of the Peruvian Trotskyists should be sent to the Peruvian Embassy, 52 Sloane Street, London, SWI.

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Hawker Siddeley's Bol- THE 80 PLANT attendants ton factory ended yester- who have been on strike for day with workers claim. almost three weeks closing all ing an 85 per cent victory production at British-Leyland after a four-week dispute.

Cowley, Oxford, plants at At a mass meeting of 2,000 voted by a majority of 13 to engineers, who produce missile return to work on the offer components, a shop stewards' recommendation rejected a week ago. to return to work on Monday was accepted offer to the men-who The with only a handful of votes were claiming to be upgraded against. from a semi-skilled to skilled B The dispute at Hawker Sid. -was 2p an hour when legisla- and a joint investi- tion permits gation into their jobs. The decisive of point the of meeting the intervention Was Reg Birch, the AUEW executive BIG DANGERS face the member, who strongly recom- mended workers at Gestetner, Totten- the offer. decision ham, following the He said the AUEW executive of the shop stewards com- had discussed the dispute on Tuesday to argue Tuesday and would give full sup- mittee on port the future if the pro- their pay claim under the posed investigation did not pro- Phase ' Two provisions of the duce results. government's pay laws. Birch's the appearance at This reversal of their is a surprise; he tra- meeting was of previous position non-recog- velled from the national confer- nition of Phase Two. ence at Eastbourne to make his On May l there was a total intervention. shut-down workers followed as the call for a one-day strike and The dispute had caused the extreme dissatisfaction there was lay-off of some 12,000 workers.

TUC because everyone with the knew a one-day strike would not be enough to defeat the govern- ment.

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7.30 p.m. Sid Harraway, Stalinist sec- Gosford Park Hotel of Ford convenors' retary the said that the St. Georges Rd/ committee, Issue one of the conference was not Northfield Rd determining the personalities nr Chrysler (Stoke) taking part in committee meet- plant ings. Eddie Marsden, the secretary of the construction of section

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and also Com- member, said that munist Party Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. he himself had been opposed to Civil Aid Centre (small hail) going into talks in the first place.

of But, he added, the mover Great Oaks the resolution had made clear that the resolution in no way intended to stop the talks.

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Jackie Crystal, from Prudhoe, Sunday, June 24, 10.30 a.m.

said that when he voted for the motion he would be saying 'talks The United Services Club have had got to cease High Street South believed this to be the force of the motion carried at the AUEW

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

deley's plant at Lostock, near • Lancs, Bolton, concerned decision by management to put semi-skilled workers into the milling section. After workers occupied the plant on Monday the firm agreed that the men should operate under the jurisdiction of setters in the milling room. It will be up to skilled men to make sure they do not do scab work. The deal is to have a six-month sid- trial run. The factory gates were resolutions condemning the state- ments of Hugh Scanlon that the government had won on Phase Two and that he would be pre- pared to accept pay laws and the Industrial Relations Act with some amendments. A claim was put in for £5 and other benefits which challenged the pay laws. However, because of the continued collaboration between Feather, Scanlon, Jones which has and the government, resulted in many settlements of £l plus 4 per cent over the last few months, the works committee have set their course for accept- sed ing a Phase Two deal.

engineers' section conference in April. Conference then went on to oppose all forms of incomes policy under any government.

Speaking after the debate, a slightly shame-faced Scanlon said: I not only disapprove, but am in disagreement with the de- cision, but my job is to give effect to it.' He • would not say what he thought the likely effect would be on the remaining five of the TUC negotiators with the Tories.

After the debate, Jackie Crystal Workers Press: "There told shouldn't have been talks in the first place. I felt when we left National Committee in April that there would be no talks, but we've there Now taken were. the right decision-although there was a lot of attempting to avoid the issue. N JOHNS in Manchester reopened by cheering workers at 2 p.m. yesterday marking the end of the first prolonged dispute in the factory's 36-year history.

said Convenor Dave Jameson after the meeting: 'The most important result of this dispute has been the soli- darity shown by the men. 'Sectional grumbles have been in this fight. This is forgotten time the factory has the first got together in this way.

We as stewards hope to keep this spirit alive and gó forward.' Acceptance of the_pay laws only strengthens the Tories and management will probably now home their advantage by press attacking the workers in other ways-for example, through the bonus scheme. This will mean speed-up. The management may also pick on individual shops and seek to isolate them, thus divid- ing the factory. Last year the work force was reduced by some 350 people. The reason given by the manage- ment was the effect of Nixon's economic measures. Gestetner's main overseas customers are in the United States. The new measures now being prepared by Nixon must hit sales even more. 'Some delegates were trying to make it an issue of Scanlon's integrity. Personally I hold Scanlon in very high regard, but I don't go down on a prayer mat. The decision had to be on the principle of whether we talk to the Tories, and I do not think the that members I represent want This development is a great victory for the strength of the working class, shown so vividly in the determined struggles of the Chrysler and Perkins workers against the vicious attacks of management. It is an important blow against the whole record of collaboration between TUC leaders and the Tory government over the past eight months. But it is only the first step of many. The next important stage is the

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CHRYSLER had not changed its demands that no negotia- tions could take place until the 4,500 Ryton strikers went back to work, the company's UK managing director-desig- nate Mr Donald Lander warned yesterday. 'But we are prepared to discuss a basis for negotiations', he said leaving after summit talks • Coventry's Labour arranged by Lord Mayor Mr William Sheridan after only an hour. But a strong bid to reach a settlement clearly being was Donald Lander, Chrysler UK director designate, managing made and the two sides went into session for the separate second time at 4.30 p.m. When the two sides had broken for lunch, T&GWU district sec- Mr William. Lapworth retary revealed that the morning had been . spent trying to establish intended whether Chrysler a deliberate provocation by employ- ing contractors to break picket lines last Monday. 'If they did there is not a cat in hell's chance of getting the men back to work, he said.

Transport and General Workers' Union conference next month.

Jack Jones, the other 'left' pillar of collaboration with the Tories, must also be instructed to quit Street talks and the Downing take up the fight to defend basic rights. The great anti-Tory rally of trade unionists at Belle Vue, Manchester, on July 1 called by the All Trades Unions Alliance must now become the focal point for developing the movement to all collaboration with the end Tories and instead mobilize a campaign to bring down the Tory government. . The working class should be warned that the struggle against the Tories cannot be left as a.

fight: over conference paper resolutions. The AUEW leader- ship must be made to go into action in defence of basic rights.