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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 23, 1973 • No 1106 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Sunday

BELLE VUE

July 1 3 pm - 9 pm

ATUA RALLY

-SUPPORT

BUILDS UP

THE BELLE VUE rally called by the All Trades Unions Alliance for July 1 has become a vital development in consolidating the growing strength of the working class to throw back the offensive launched by the employers and the Tory government against basic rights. New treachery is being

BY ROYSTON BULL

prepared by the collabora- tionist wing of the labour the Wilson-Foot-Jones attack.

concessions wilatever and trade union movement.

quired- -before the situation gets Their real obiect is to head off out of hand. Their hopes for a corporatist any moves by the working class towards revolutionary Con- It is these developments which deal with Heath were struck with the lories Ironlalon verify a hundred times the

OYCE

a blow by the AUEW con- Socialist Labou correctness ortne League and ATUA campaign in ference barring Hugh Scan-

WITHDRAWAL

defence lon from further Downing which reaches a new stage

FISHES

at the Manchester rally on July 1.

Street talks. This is more likely than ever following new difficulties The Labour Shadow Cabinet

CONFRONTATION

created for the Tory government has discussed approaching Jack by Scanlon's enforced withdrawal Jones, transport workers' from the Phase Three negotia- the key role leader, to play There can be no compromise Hons October the Party's con- coming terence in getting the proposal Coupled with the new surge Tne ConTrontatIon Either the working class is going price rises, and une inevit decisive defeat deal a nationalize 25 major com- ability of still further steep food, and force panies taken out of the Party's increases especially 1 ones ana employers. the government out of office, explosive situation is building up programme the next else itself suffer an enor- for the autumn. Local union officials clinched a deal between shop stewards and election. mous setback. Knowing this, the labour and Chrysler management representatives Council House, 22200 secret terms to end the month-old dispute Coventry, yesterday. The

TOUCHSTONE

will be today. Above Deputy mayor Dennis put get a urm come to the Deue vue raly maSS full report of this berry rontrees some one stewares..or a new move in the dispute, see page 12.

the Michael Foot, leader or tne Deen un with Jones to help kill the All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights passed by nationalization plan, Party maTonty Lne and now a touchstone

BELLE VUE

in the infighting which marks the the leadership rocking CrISIS reformist party. Jones, appears, He has been putting the himself argument orward That Lne nauonanzation diverting. attention from things which he considers pensions, much more unportany tackle the If ones asree conference on new benall or the Wilson-Foot alliance, will be Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

along the lines that workers want Special showing of the Pageant film THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history pensions and not about national- TICKETS £1: Still available from 186a, Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG Coaches will be leaving from slindon, Red ting and oXordon, Portsmouth, Southampton, by Anthony Wedgwood Benn tor The arguments being Swindon. Reading Or telephone for details: 01-622 7029 taking over the companies

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 23, 1973 • No 1106 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Sunday

BELLE VUE

July 1 3 pm - 9 pm

ATUA RALLY

-SUPPORT

BUILDS UP

THE BELLE VUE rally called by the All Trades Unions Alliance for July 1 has become a vital development in consolidating the growing strength of the working class to throw back the offensive launched by the employers and the Tory government against basic rights. New treachery being iS

BY ROYSTON BULL

prepared by the collabora- tionist wing of the labour the Wilson-Foot-Jones attack.

concessions alci and trade union movement.

quired- -before the situation gets Their real obiect is to head off out of hand. Their hopes for a corporatist any moves by the working class revolutionary It is these developments which deal with Heath were struck with the lories verify a hundred Ironialon the

UYCL

a blow by the AUEW con- Socialist Labour correcuess or mie League and ATUA campaign in ference barring Hugh Scan-

WITHDRAWAL

defence basic lon from further Downing which reaches a new blast at the Manchester rally on July 1.

Street talks. This more ke daer following The Labour Shadow Cabinet

CONFRONTATION

created for the lory governmen has discussed approaching Jack by Scanlon's enforced withdrawal workers' Jones, transport from the Phase negotia- the key leader, to play role There can be no compromise the Party's October con- coming Coupled with the surge 11C W Either the working class is going getting the proposal price rises, and deal a decisive defeat to nationalize 25 major com- ability of still further steep food, and force panies taken out of the Party's increases especially 1 orles ana enroloyers. the government out of office, explosive situation is building up programme the next else will itself suffer an enor- for the autumn. clinched a deal Local union officials between shop unem stewards and mous setback. election. ( House, Knowing this, the labour and Chrysler management . representatives The Coventry, yesterday. The secret terms to end the month-old dispute All trade are as anxious unionists are urged

TOUCHSTONE

will Deputy put mass meeting today. Above: mayor Dennis to the Belle Vue rall be as tne ruine cass to come corporatist deal between on July where these matters full report of this berry the and the Tories- will be discussed new move in the dispute, see page 12. unions Michael Foot, leader the oI been li LouCE with Jones to help the All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights nationalization plan, passed by Party one-vote and now a CACCULIVe

BELLE VUE

in the infighting which marks the leadership rocking the Crisis rerormist party. Jones, He appears, svin- has been putting himself orward the argument nauonalizallon diverting attention from Taines pensions, which he considers If Jones tackle the conference on behall or tne new Wilson-Foot alliance, will be Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

along the lines that workers want Special showing of the Pageant film THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history pensions and not about national- ization. {1: Still available from 186a, Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG

TICKETS

being leaving from all areas and trains from London, Portsmouth, Southampton, The arguments put and Oxford Anthony Wedgwood Benn for Swindon, Reading

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Salurday June 23, 1973

WHAT WE THINK

Desperate $8,000m booster MR the Tribune group of tand der, Lira needs of the "Tribune' of Labour

SPEAK

group that of Wednesday's ports Labour Shadow Cabinet meeting 'inaccurate mis- and generally leading'. It 'utterly false' Foot, that he

UP, MR

says had 'questioned Mr Benn's motives'. more support hardly the But that point. Were reports that Foot had accused Benn being responsible for bad publicity false? nationalization, true or Did he not sav that Benn's

FOOT

nationalization call was 'less than help- 'rocked the boat'? Michael opinion undoubtedly is firms to tnat public calls or named FRANCE and West Germany yesterday came to the aid of the nationalized are damaging to election chances. Italian lira by granting the Bank of Italy a credit facility totalling 'Tribune's' front of Deakin On lune 8 he Wrote or dinarces page that cabours preachint policy statement and other right wingers in $1,000m. Each country is contributing half this sum. The credit is was "first-class' and that public calls for socialist policies vision and Aneurin Bevan, and democratic scope'. He root additional to funds totalling $1,900m made available to the Italian But me come damaging to Labour's election wenl WeTe the highly-publicized discussior chances? central bank earlier this week by the Common Market countries.

so-called 25 companies. As capitalist economic crisis the have above said sens, only for the remals true ine sider indispensable in On top of this, Italy specific reference is left in the working class force the union ThIS order and re- confront has absorbed or and this break another was one leaders to talks with

CORRESPONDENT

their and solve me most scrous reason, my jue me out. why that mobilize the $1,150m from the United urgent problems,

TOT

should be he Tories class to force the Heath government relerence States. to his new coalition partners the constructive 'Nothing would suit the better', resign. of the negotiations part the will Foot claimed, than discussion This The Bank of Italy's own campaign to involves a how canal gold and foreign exchange which companies should lilail Labour government pleagea to socialist "L'Avanti'. necessary. Tine policies centred on the nationalization reserves amount Party's praised HoW While the Communist does this claim that calls of all basic industries, land, banks specific indicated that $5,674m, and Rumour, and total and Ine support nationalization *suit Tories Party cements its the hnance houses. unael workers sum mobilized to back the The vocalists were ready lo boat differ from Rumor's the the and without compensation.

join in the munist Party's Italian class coalition, it ignores the Curicanous The to $8,724m. brazen attacks of the fascists.

'TRIBUNE' AND SCANLON

weekly magazine 'Rinascita Yet Half the Italian central an hour after mid- bank is now so suspect Macaluso: night on Wednesday a squac Ludl the currency hardly afraid of swooped on has are not from the Bologtor motorway restaurant near low new strong and authortative THE 'TRIBUNE' group level of MPs is now Scanlon's predecessor as President of it reached at the end into the burst rapid right- MaST week. Twenty The encineers union was the On Monday the Bank of the 'Mottagrill' restaurant in Sued Lee programme. One of these is winger Lord William Carron. Before raised punitive Minister Power that held by minimum the post was another the workers who had refused Colonial Secretary under Wilson. right-winger ack lanner renolne Tale

LOOK

other emergency steps When Lee to serve rascist leader coralo was

SOR'S ITSI

Both Canese worked

VOOTOUST

confidence, Almirante in lightning government 1964 his picture trengther against the left wing in the strike last Monday. Tribune crisis the lira peared on the page of and the Labour Party. Carron, in and a 'lett-wing' certan Torce anen as evlucice 0l Wildl Catholic. Dal LIcuidl. Was •concalet centre-left government throwing leaflets signed the was. everyone now ernment powerful anti-communist, ano Youth Front

FUAN,

Mariano Rumor under- the knows, that, government to carry of the right-wing Gaitskellite beat through a single the fascists two of the socialist measure leadership Lakc savast allaLks out. against the Tribune working class through whole- class, workers Wild Loe working He regularly 1 horee DONCi decisions sale had to be taken to a nearby prepared the way for Heath to win which conflicted with his own right- in the first three the 1970 election. Already, hospital. wing views. The two injured men were Now urged Hugh Scanlon months of this vear. Fred Lee

LIC UNI

llab Now the 'Tribune'-ite Lee calls on Scan- of imported foods has gone Giuliano Grefori (20). a ignore democratic decision Dal. TRe does Tribune stand fon teps, Carron's footsteps. up. by per cent. As the and Dario Poli (52), a the AUEW's conference Two and continue Where does of food rockets, waiter. policemen were attend Giuliano Grofort Down- oil are man beaten by ing street Now that calls for meal. couter «so muca. Lalks between wencers policies are the being consumed. meeting being opposed post leaders to gibre 'Tribune'-ites, 1ory ministers attack, the wor- 'No other President

AEU

do they "package of measures to halt preparing government - - provided that has demo- or are that declared ever interpreted the of this dennition does not hide cratic decisions,

ACIS

DOWELS

Was pro- would days Both Foot and and. 1 crease never serve National committee in this way. sald waliskerl duction and will present this 'En the contrary we member of the fascist party. Lee. "Tribune' must speak up. Fanatic' general is ranged Pamplona strike against Paris working class challenges

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

Spain's PM GENERAL MARCEL BIGEARD, a fanati- cally anti-communist parachute officer who played a leading role at the debacle of Dien Bien Phu, has been appointed military com- THE SPANISH industrial town of Pamplona mander of Paris. The appointment was announced as 20,000 Navarre has been virtually paralysed for the last week WORKER at French capital demonstration in by a General Strike which is spreading to other parts for mass defence of individual liberties.

The march was of the province. followed by violent clashes in the Latin Quarter between left-wing students and armed police.

The strike is the first seri- demonstrations and clashes with Bigeard's selection for the key military post ous challenge to the new cabi- ine ponce. in the capital is interpreted as a preparation for net of Admiral Luis an even more savage clamp-down by the forces Carrero Two seriously workers were of order. Blanco, who took injured on Tuesday when the as ovel charged He takes command of the armed forces within General police crowd Prime Minister from Paris itself Franco earlier this month.

strikers from the Imenasa plant and in tne Inree surrounaing depart- ments Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-St-Denis, Val-de- Over I Pople have been 4CH Marne. The post is one of the At least 50.000 arrested, whom have most important in worker Navarre are .on strike and been held. une coveramcal s counter usurce Pamplona they include 2,000 Bigeard's military career spans almost every The same day the civil gover- the war French has in the from Authi cal nor Cot Navarre nilotshed

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35 'Potasas the defeated lactory, • The decrees. He said he would take last ycals. Was alilly de Navarra' chemical plant, 1,000 1940, fought with de Gaule's forces the possible AIrICE measures workers from the Superser nrmest 1944. refri- and then 945 hated into France the strikes and From 1953 he Indo-China, eviet Minh Follow. gelator laclory and sanne shopkeepers faced th cafe-owners number from the Imenasa metal where captured by the hat they he 'the Was gravest pen- plant. in The the fall of Dien Phu. lties' if they joine the stop. came Algeria, where he commanded sub® Despite threats from the civil page. and later a school of governor and the efforts of the •arachule But the pressure is now grow- versive warfare. police, the spread strikes nave ing from local industrialists to offices banks, petrol stations panions Bigeard supported parti- in anger, his blue eyes take on find him unbearable Motor and public transport enterprises.

Iberica to come to terms him 'Algérie Française' in the gon brilliance of steel. the enemy fears and the with the strikers 1960 and forced into tem- of almost The strike began in solidarity terrupted ears never knows how Was The management are said to He 200 porary have renrened. ever lignung use him. with workers . sackea Irom down their have backed from returned to command him mystical view the It seems that President Pom- the Motor Iberica engineering regiment in the army, of his comrades, of death. pidou has at factory. The sackings the parachute last found a use were nanscent stance offered to take back most of the African Republic, this sor: of Central WiLl LO1 • •esuny waose culinal on months Len sacked men. came general brigade danger never carries any head stuffed reaction- sion at plant which finally ne the Senegal and then supreme com- him combat and mysticism. has picked resulted in total walk-out in However, they are still refus- on ary French forces half of of the in constantly tells with out the the second last month rist tutoie- head of the ing to re-employ the 17 repre and The of order ranged against the underground valarascar Kennon. parachuust sacked sentatives In his book 'The Battle of ment which Jacksto only the the arise french working class. themselves in a church in Pam- Workers Commissions who were Dien Bien Phu Jules Roy des- word "Brother" become But plona draw attention to sacked with the rest of the plant.

workers must Bigeard 'the religious: not and the following cribes the situation. "compromise' vclawcu Dy

DISCOTO S

re. lengthy innocence toughness jected and "Learn to look death in the his and the strikers. The recore day strikes began in many of the fanatic. His gentleness hides bloody career the main land- factories of the city's industrial Navarre Employers' Association his going where men belt. Friday, with impatience; mask- marks an almost tens of has urged the runous go to Un

UILLILCL

like face can suddenly light up men love him, many of his com- of series thousands on strike there solve the conflict quickly.

acicals. were

Councils create dumps. £6.5m coup to be probed LOCAL AUTHORITIES de- berately let schemes run down "problem" and turned them into liberately allow some council areas. As the stigma grows only housing estates to decay the weakest and most desperate into problem areas so that people are prepared to go there.

Many authorities keep black poorer people can be dumped lists of what they called 'anti- the Royal Institute in them, social' tenants. British of Architects was 'Clearly there are some people told yesterday. nobody would like neigh- as And many authorities keep bour, but in defini- general the black 'anti-social' tion is lists based on subjective and unjust decisions which are secret tenants, it was said. withheld from and even coun- Mr Tom Woolley, an architect cillors, he said. in Glasgow Corporation's en- Authorities graded vironmental de- improvement medium, partment, told the institute's fair, poor-and refused conference at the University let of To Stirling: people 'better' to areas MOve than their grade. 'A particular scheme is dirty, "The only way tenants can not because of the tenants, but classification because of official neglect.

escape this is by bribery, which is not unknown, has its 'Every council town or by refusing to move until they schemes like this where the get an acceptable offer of poorer people are dumped.

house they want to live,' Where 'Local authorities have deli- said Mr Woolley.

THE

GOVERNMENT

asked being to THE GOVERNMENT has beer. allegations that Norma shares in bought forced to instigate a Companies tion Industry the on Act inquiry into the £6.5m share of Lord Lambton, RAF Minister. deal carried out by Sir Denys Mrs Levy, the Lowson, the former Lord Mayor whom Lambton visited Maida Vale details of London. her share-dealing to Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Minister for West German 'Stern' this week. Trade and Consumer Affairs, will an- She said: 'He gave nounce the names of the two inspectors tips for the money next week. And he advised me to Under Section 165(b) of the Companies shares in an firm. I Invested a couple Act of 1948 the government has power hundred pounds to appoint investigators where it appears Lord Wigg, there are circumstances suggesting: master General (i) that its business is being conducted Wilson government, has with intent to defraud its creditors or the down question creditors or any other person otherwise for a fraudulent or or unlawful purpose or in a Learson a barones, raao roon 68 manner oppressive of any part was born 68 years of its members or that it was Avon, the descendant of the formed for any fraudulent or Scottish landowners, the Low- unlawful purpose; or sons of Westlaws, Perthshire. His "(ii) concerned that family motto is: 'God gives in- persons with its formation crease.' or the man- affairs have agement of its in connection therewith been guilty of fraud, misfeasance other or misconduct towards it or to- wards its members; or have not beeth siven am eme is "(iii) that its the informa- affairs tion with respect to its which exich they might reasonably is chairman of the Lowson/ National Group of Unit Trusts, the fourth largest unit trust out- fit in Britain managing £130m worth of funds. September Between June and last year Lowson and his family interests bought a controlling in the National. National They purchased shares at 62p each from two the First Reinvestment trusts, Nelson Trust and Financial Trust. Lowson is also chairman Lowson Share - selling of these trusts! brought coup. At the time, shareholders in told the

TINA

Tears

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Lowson had the that bought National stock at 62p each.

In January this vear Lowson sold his controlling interest in National—a 70 per cent holding -to Triumph Investment Trust. The selling price was £8.67 a share. words. other the shares In Lowson bought for 62p in June SHIPWORKERS at Cammell 1972 he sold at a 1,200 per cent Laird, Birkenhead, were threat- higher price six months later. the yards if In the transaction Lowson was ening to occupy climb paid about 6.5m for the National.

management not Guardian' reported yester- down in a recognition dispute yesterday. day that Lewson is 'unmoved by the gathering his storm over work was done in the Little companies.' vards all day talks as urgent What's a £6.5m share coup to Sixty-nine took place. stagers Lowson? His which elected empire ex- stewards who were in directorships of 20 tends to the boilermakers' union. But the and includes a web companies with management-in agreement of -claimed that the stew- the TUC- investments in private and public companies believed to ards had to come from the Gen- is he worth about £200m. and Municipal Workers' eral Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Union. A typical 'dump' street in the East Midlands.

is whether the statement Investigate Mrs attributed to Norma Norma Levy Levy that she purchased n the avia- shares in the avionics the advice industry on the advice of n, the ex- Lord Lambton has been noted. • prostitute What steps have been . In taken to ascertain whether • details of such advice was given by to the Lord Lambton. If It was, magazine whether it was related to Information which became gave me available to him in his ney market. capacity as under-Secretary me to buy of State for the Royal Alr electronics Force?' a couple of The question will be ans- wered on Monday, Interview In the 'Stern' Pay- in the Mrs Levy boasted that her nt, has put clients included ambas- lon asking sadors, industrialists and ONLY one of Scotland's six morning pa yesterday-the Dundee Courier', owned b Dundee, which is a non-union shop. The 1 is a hold-up in a cost-of-living rise, due Two pay laws. The other five papers - the 'Scottish Daily Express', the 'Daily Record', the "Glasgow Herald, the 'Aberdeen Press and and "The Scotsman'— fournall did not appear. statement issued by the A Scottish Daily Newspapers Society said that the Glasgow 'Evening Citizen' and the Glas- gow 'Evening Times' would not come out again yesterday 'in the face of escalating union dis- ruption'. A two-year agreement was made with the printing unions in July 1972. This contained a provision threshold relating to the retail price index. Because of the index's move- ment, the second stage of the due for imple- agreement was mentation a month earlier than of the first 12 month the end period. NOTTINGHAM'S morning paper, the "Guardian Journal', failed to appear for the third day running yesterday because of an inter- union dispute over the intro- duction of a method of plastic plate-making. Pickets were again outside the newspaper office and the manage- ment said that they had behaved 'more or less peacefully'.

A meeting between the National Graphical Association and SLADE (Society of Litho- Designers graphic Artists, En- gravers and Process Workers) has been organized for Monday.

Emergency editions of the sister paper, the Evening Post', being produced still and are circulated despite the pickets.

Workers Press, Sa bankers. 'Politically I'm Conserva tive,'_she said. 'I voted for Tories in the last elec- tion because the Torles are my best clients.' orning papers was published owned by D. C. Thomson of op. The fortnight-old dispute ise, due to the Tories' Phase

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Artists' Union will stage a demonstration and full membership conference in London this weekend. The key item on the agenda at today's Imperial College conference is the Tory government plan to attack art education. The Artists' Union, which is proposing to affiliate a union, major white-collar is making the campaign against art school cuts the centre of its present work. A leaflet being widęly distri- buted by the union declares: Two policies have signalled the end of the expansion art colleges and the beginning of decisive change in their nature. For art students and for part-time teachers these policies will have disastrous consequences. the Pooling "They are Delaney Committee Report on staff-student ratios, and the introduction of the two "A"-level entrance require- ments for Dip AD Colleges.

Both these measures are administrative decisions taken by the Department of Educa- tion and Science.' When the recommendations are implemented, the use of part-time art schools 'will have become his- tory, the union says. And it adds: 'The introduc- tion of "A" level requirements will arbitrarily restrict candi- dates still further than is already the case and will act directly against the working- class applicants. "The Artists' Union is firmly against both policies and pro- the most poses to put up determined and vigorous op- position to any attempts to implement them? At today's meeting the union will finalize plans for its campaign to stop the govern- ment cuts. The leaflet sets out the general guidelines for the de- bate when it states: 'We will demonstrate by our actions in the colleges that the cuts are simply not implementable; by uniting with other workers we will gain enough strength to defeat the cuts as a policy.

"The Artists' Union consi- ders that winning the support of the working class to counter the attacks on education is essential.'

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday June A discussion around the be debated at the A Alliance conference at B ter, Sunday July 1st-3 p.

THE NATIONAL Com- mittee of the All Trades Unions Alliance has called a national rally of trade unionists at Belle Vue, Manchester, for July 1, as a further step in the preparations for building the Revolu- tionary Party. This follows on the very successful ATUA conference of 2,200 workers at Birming- ham on October 22, 1972, which launched the cam- paign. The founding conference of the Party will be hela 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 press' committee's Workers was ATUA National statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATUA in preparation for the July 1 conference, the National Committee declared: The further turn in the economic crisis grave caused by the political and economic of the effects Nixon scandal will have a profound influence on the inflationary boom in Britain and the policies of the Tory and Labour leaders. The Tories have laid plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class struggle resulting from the intensification of the crisis urday June 23, 1973 nd the policies which will the All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- 1-3 p.m. will more and more disrupt plans and expose these Phase Three of the state pay laws. It is this massive class for the launching of struggle which forms Revolutionary Party. Therefore it is vitally urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- sist the launching of the Revolutionary Party, should be discussed by the largest possible number of dele- gates and visitors to the July 1 conference. Arrangements are in hand to provide appropriate facili- ties for such a discussion at the Belle Vue, Manches- largest as- ter, one of the sembly halls in the north of England. Invitations 1o delegations have already 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 lo resign. Terry Button (34), works Coventry, cian. He is office repre- sentative for AUEW (TASS) and a member of the negotiating union committee. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws with- out getting rid of the Tory government? No, it's not. The Tory govern- ment are put there to do a job for the big businessmen. and the employers. Without the they state pay laws couldn't survive. The monetary crisis can only be resolved in the long term by intensifying the ex- ploitation of the working class.

This is the only way they can their value back money. The laws effectively pay stop the working class carry- ing out a fight to defend their interests, and in this way the Tory government is driving its living standards down. Do you think the Labour and trade union leaders want to force the Tories to resign? No, they don't. The only sort policies that the Labour Party can carry out is to try and institute social reforms. But they can't do that any more. They serve big business just as much as the Tories.

If they got back into power, they would either have to carry out directly anti-working class politics or the whole thing would break up. They were talking the other week about nationalization and there was an immediate crisis inside the party. To put them into office would be to expose them as people unable to carry out any kind of socialist policies.

Would you like to see a movement built which would make this govern- ment resign? Yes. The Labour Party is un- able to take us forward. They can't face up to nationaliza- tion, which is the basis of any socialist programme. They are no longer leading the working class. We face a ruling class which can't grant any more conces- • sions and we have no leader- ship. The issue of building a • leadership is first on the new agenda. What experiences have you had that make you believe getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent task? To start with we can only get £l plus 4 per cent on our wages this year and the cost of living has risen a lot faster than that. I am not married, but I'm still finding it very hard. I ought to be able to save, but I can't. With the cost of petrol, I have to think twice about going on a long Journey and I can't buy as many clothes as I'd like. We're in a position where our democratic rights are being taken and away living standards are going down. What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the Tories over the pay laws and Phase Three? The TUC are certainly not carrying out policies the work- ing class want. The people I speak to are completely opposed to the Tories and they want a leadership which will fight against them. Talking to the government is scandalous. They're really only in a position to give way to them because the Tories can give nothing because of the crisis they are in. Talking to the government at this time means that some- how or other they are going sell out. Because of the to crisis the Tories have no room for manoeuvre, there's nothing they can give to the working class. So if there is going to be any compromise, it's going to come from our side. What do you think of the role of leaders like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon in the colla- boration? They say one thing and do another. That's obvious. But 1:40M Terry Button (above): The TUC certainly not carrying out pollcies the working class want They want a leadership which will fight against the Tories! there's no middle road now.

It's the Tories and the work- ing class face to face. The Communist Party and others describe these men as lefts and refuse to expose their collaboration. What do you think of this? It takes them out of the revolutionary camp and puts them altogether straight into the reformist camp. The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. What can be done to unify people in defence of these rights? Are protests and one-day strikes enough? Protest doesn't do anything.

You can stand up and protest all day. Unless you actually make some concrete attack such as a really effective strike you're not going to get any- where. Words don't hurt any- body. A one-day strike doesn't really hurt anybody, because the employers can afford to lose all that. All it does it publicize the issues. What do you think can be done to build a new leadership? Join the Socialist Labour attend conferences, League, work for the party, sell the Workers Press, leafiet and talk to people and at the same time try to train myself in Marxist theory. Are you in favour of a mass rally of trade unionists to build this leadership? Yes this is the right time to call it, and if we are going to build a new leadership, we've got to really broaden out our support to get as many people as possible. I think we shall get a lot of young people be- cause they are very frustrated dead-end with the kind of situation we are in. They're looking for new. ways out and for a new lead- ership. There's no doubt about that.

Mick Riordan is an AUEW shop steward Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? No, definitely, no. It's pretty obvious to everybody that the Tory government are despe- rate to keep a rather shaky economy going and the only way they can do that at the moment with the strength of the working class is to smash them. It's a case of we smash them or they smash us. Now with the scandals that have been coming out it's pretty obvious that the government is up to its ears. They are crumbling. They can see it, we can see it, and it's the strongest that are going to inherit the land. The stan- dard of living of the working class has got to be driven down with prices, rising as they are and wages held static.

I think the immediate strug- gle is not to better ourselves but to maintain the standard of living we have already got —or perhaps I should say the standard of living that we had before the Industrial Relations Act and the state pay laws.

These laws were brought out to smash us-it boils down to that. I think the government re- alizes the united strength of the working class and their out to smash it. Do you think the Labour and trade union leaders want to force the Tories to resign? They are up there where they are and that's where they want to stay. They are probably just as scared of the working class as the Tory government are. They are the bureaucracy and they are out after their own interests more than they are after ours. I personally have experien- ced this-the union leader- ship going out of its way to condemn shop stewards' a convenor as a liar. During our recent dispute they assured us that nothing could be done unless we capitulated first by going back to work. In fact they want to keep up the numbers in the unions but they don't want anyone whose going to stand up for his rights. Would you like to see a movement built which would make this government resign? Oh yes. It's got to happen, there are no two ways about it. I think it's the duty of every member of the working class to make sure that such a movement is built. What experiences make you believe that getting rid of the Tory govern- ment is an urgent task? The experience I have gone through Lankesters at shown me that the Tories will call in the police to deal with any militants that might emerge in industrial action. The employers are using the government's state pay laws to increase the profitability of the firm at our expense. In fact the whole legal system now seems to be bearing down on the worker, the ordinary man in the street, whenever he stands up and fights for his rights. What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the Tories over the pay laws and Phase Three? I think it's disgusting. The ex- ample that stuck in my mind the May I strike, when was the TUC leaders made the call for nation-wide stoppages.

Tens of thousands of workers were marching and the lead- ers were at No 10 talking, they didn't even have the de- cency to come out on strike with us. I think every union should take the lead making committee AUEW and ban their leader- ship from any further discus- sions with the government.

What do you think of the role of the leaders "like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon in this collaboration? My opinion of them is that they are just 'left'-talkers with no intention of putting their words into think action. being Scanlon's barred from the Downing Street talks is going to embarrass a lot of the leadership in the unions.

For the past six months now we've had to put up with the local leadership in my of them Com- area, miny munist Party members, almost hero-worshipping Hugh Scan- Ion. Now we have the policy- making of committee the union turning round and tell- ing the leadership that they are wrong which I think will cause acute embarrassment all round. The Communist Party and others describe these men as 'lefts' and refuse to expose their collaboration. What do you think of this? I think the Communist Party are perhaps left-talkers but at Mick heart they prefer the status May 1 strike, quo. I think talk and no stoppages. action are their stock in trade.

Birmingham, al DS

GENERAL

STRIKE

TORIES

GROMITTEE

Riordan. Above: 'The example that stuck in m 1 strike, when the TUC leaders made the call Tens of thousands of workers were ingham, above] and the leaders were at No 10 t Workers Press, Saturday June 23, 1973

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The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. What can be done to unify people in defence of these rights? Are protests and one-day strikes enough? All the Absolutely useless. protests and one-day strikes do is completely alienate the working from taking class positive action. The only way to bring them down is an all- out total General. strike-a organized General properly Strike. What do you think can be done to build a new leadership? It is important to start at local level, for all trade union members attend their to branch meetings and to rid of the reformist, revision- ist and Stalinist leaders and replace them with a proper socialist leadership. Are you in favour of a mass rally of trade unionists to build this leadership? The important thing is to get everybody possibly we can there. Get them there and get them talking and by talking to them convince them that our policies are right. In the same way I was convinced by attending the Blackpool con- ference of Young the Socialists. I think the conference will mind was the luck in my the call for nation-wide demonstrate the solidarity of marching [as in the working class in the fight t No 10 talking ... against Tory oppression.

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

Regent Street in Lon- don's West End is a very fashionable and expen- sive area. That's why it is chosen by many com- panies as 'an address of convenience'. For example, a company whose headquarters are in Wapping simply rents a mail- ing address which looks very impressive on the firm's note- and to prospective paper clients. It's a way of investing in respectability and prestige.

One organization that has itself into booked No 243 Regent Street is Brief Infor- (BIS). In mation Services March this year it commenced operation by producing the first of its news sheets called 'Building Workers Brief'.

No 1 was a tatty, backers Issue , Saturday June 23, 1973 :: " four-page document witch- hunting Communist Party members in the building in- dustry. It began a diatribe building workers' against militants by saying: 'At a time when strenuous efforts are being made by our and building union leaders employers to work out a fair and acceptable pay formula, political extremists are again trying to stir up strife?

The clear aim of the circular -with its talk of 'our union leaders'-is to mobilize right wing and backward sections of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) and the Transport Workers Union and General (T&GWU) members to accept the Phase Two and Three state pay ceilings. The whole exer- cise is Tory-inspired. The only "political extremists' in the industry are the Tories • and their big financial • backers like McAlpines, Bovis, Cubitts, Woodrow Taylor and Wimpeys. It is their state pay laws which have legislated away the basic right free to wage negotiations; it is their police squads who are breaking up picket lines; it is their secret police surveillance which is preparing show trials against builders (the Shrewsbury 24 is the first test case). A footnote in the BIS bul- letin says: • "Building Work- by the ers Brief" is published building operatives of BIS, a group of professional, tech- workers nical and unskilled concerned with the social, human and environmental problems of the labour side of industry, and who are also members of their relevant trade BIS iS financed by union. donations from individuals, charitable trusts, trade union bodies and sales. If any reader or she, has infor. thinks he, which would be of mation write, interest to us, please and if any reader can take out a subscription, that too, will be more than welcome.' This week I phoned Dr head of Leslie David Stone, Management Computer Systems and Personnel Limited, who runs an office at No 243. He admitted that BIS used . his address for mailing purposes.

He said BIS was a registered company. When I said I could find no trace of it at Com- panies House, he said: 'Well it is probably a registered trade name.' I pointed out that if anyone phoned to ask for BIS they were told it was in the hands of a 'Mr James'. Who is 'Mr James'? 'That's right,' said Dr Stone.

'When receptionist says that Mr James people isn't available but they can leave a message. Then Mr James gets in direct contact with them.' So somewhere Mr James actually exists? 'Yes, he does. But it's none of our business really. We like to keep it all above board here.' BIS is a faceless organization of undisclosed aims and un- known financial backing. Its immediate purpose appears to be to trade union snoop on and militants create the con- ditions for a witch-hunt in the building unions. While BIS is getting into the right-wing operation, Economic League is also pre- paring to mount a campaign against site militants. On June 4 Economic the League's 'Two-Minute News. Review' declared: 'The building industry has become a major for target subversive agitators who, judg- ing by the growth and nature of their operations, are cen- trally directed and well financed. In view of this it is essential that companies be- better informed come even about the plans of the in- dividuals and organizations involved. That is why we have decided to issue periodically a special construction industry edition of "Two-Minute News Review"! The red-baiting activities of Economic the League are In April 1970 notorious. construction newspaper re- ported the following: 'A remarkable service to be revealed contractors can this week. Building contractors may ring Major Newman, an executive of the Economic League, and be told whether a prospective employee is a troublemaker. The arrange- ment is known in some quarters "clearance". of the trade as inquired A contractor who about the service was told that a list of people who have been known to cause trouble was being kept? Earlier this month Mr Harry Welton, member a Economic addressed League, the annual conference of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers in Amster- dam. The subject of his lecture was 'Subversion in the Build- ing Industry'. He said he had given evidence to House of Com- on this mons committees matter. He particularly empha- sized the activities of the Building Workers' Charter group. He described the Young Socialists as 'Britain's largest Marxist youth movement'. As these well-heeled influential campaigns go into action, the Tories themselves are throwing all their resources into the onslaught on workers' rights. After a six-month police investigation, 24 building workers were charged under a 19th century Act against conspiracy. When pickets have gone to Shrewsbury to protest against the trial, they have been met by massive police intimidation.

The roads into the quiet Shropshire town have been blocked and police barriers and dogs have been used. Our eagle-eyed photographer spotted a cameraman taking pictures lens with long camera from a high-up window during the committal proceed- ings on June 15. Who was he? Who was paying him? Where are his pictures now? And photographers were operating last week on the Chrysler picket line--and they weren't from the local Tory Press! The police are now spending vast sums of money obtaining photographs of pickets and their militants as part of national effort to collect in- formation for the new National Police Computer which opens next year. Workers Press, Saturday Far left: At Shrewsbury on June 15, a camera strating builders from behind a curtain. Above at Shrewsbury in April. Centre: At Neap H amongst policemen. Above: photographer between picketing dockers and police. Top Richard Briginshaw, the general of the print secretary union NATSOPA, said earlier this year: It is fair to assume, on the basis of years of experience by the general labour and trade union movement, that tele- phone-tapping is a habit and a general procedure by govern- ment agencies. It is as certain as can be that the telephones of every major trade union in the country are permanently tapped by some process.' But behind the cameras and the bugs, the state is arming itself the more lethal with stuff: Special Patrol Groups the in now roam streets civilian clothing carrying guns; CS gas has been distributed in considerable quantities to all major police stations, parti- cularly those with large urban working-class populations; CR known as 'fire gas', has gas, been tested satisfactorily and is being manufactured on a large scale 'for use in the United Kingdom'. ers Press, Saturday June 23, 1973 PAGE 7 1 June 15, a camera spy photographs demon- ind a curtain. Above left: The police turn out Centre: At Neap House Wharf, last year, Above: The Neap House battle rs and police. Top right: May Day, 1973.

In denouncing the plans of the ruling class and its attack on democratic rights Workers Press is virtually a lone voice.

The Tory Press, which howls in indignation about the pic- tures taken of Lord Lambton in bed, says nothing about the spies and narks who pry into the lives of workers and their families. When the Socialist Labour League called for joint a declaration in defence of basic rights, the leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain turned it down. Next Sunday (July 1) the All Trades Unions Alliance will stage a national conference at the Belle Vue Zoo Park in Manchester to discuss the defence of democratic rights. The thousands of workers Britain from all who over attend this conference will be powerful contrmation that our 'lone voice' has reached a wide and determined audience in the British workers' movement.

FORWARD TO BELLE VUE!

MUNTY JOHNSTONE:

'TRERAL' APOLOGIST FOR

STALINIST BUREAUCRACY

Trotskyism and Stalinism: Stalin's "British Road to Socialism'. Part two of a reply by Cliff Slaughter to a letter from Mr Monty Johnstone.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Juni Trotskyism and Stalinism: Stal Monty Johnstone says we demand 'Vishinsky-type confessions' from him. But what about his own record on such things? When Rudolf Slansky and 13 other Czecho- slovak Communist Party leaders were framed, tortured and executed in 1952, Johnstone wrote: 'Slansky, former general secretary of the Czech CP and 13 associates [now referred to by the same Johnstone as "honest communists"] were found guilty of spying and sabotage for the US and its satellites. 'These people unwillingly [?] confessed their crime in the face of the irrefutable testi- mony of fact, documents, and the evidence of witnesses ..• Such activities can and must be rooted out in this and other countries wherever this takes place.' (Challenge'. Young Com- munist League newspaper, Jan- uary 10, 1953) The origins of the Slansky trial, and Johnstone's reaction to it, are intimately bound up with another point made by Johnstone in his latest letter.

Dismissing our condemnation of the opportunist policies ot the CP in 1947 as irrelevant, he asserts that they were 'corrected' the following year.

Once more we are up against the vital question of the con- nection between the Kremlin bureaucracy and the policies of the Communist Party of Great Britain. How did the "correct' its opportunist policies of 1947? By 1951 it was discussing the first draft of 'The British Road to Socialism', the definitive state- ment of British Stalinism, a rejection of the revolutionary path to power through the destruction of the capitalist state. Instead, the 'peaceful parliamentary road to socialism' was advocated. This openly reformist poli- tical programme was drafted and insisted upon by Stalin personally, as was revealed by leading CP members in 1956.

It is still the Party programme, and is enthusiastically sup- ported by Monty Johnstone.

Johnstone apparently wants condemn the frame-up to by executions carried out Stalin, but accepts the policies written by the same man. In Stalin's left hand is the axe, to be deplored (30 years later); in his right, the pen that drafted the 'British Road to Socialism', to be worshipped, then as now. Further, it is important to note that the groundwork for this programme was laid pre- cisely in Harry Pollitt's book 'Looking Ahead', from which our quotation was taken! There was, ot course, no 'correction'. What happened was that, after the onset of the 'Cold War', heralded by Churchill's notorious speech Fulton, Missouri, at the Stalinist bureaucracy made a Tr urday June 23, 1973 sm: Stalin's 'British Road to Socialisn turn in its foreign policy.

It had collaborated directly wholeheartedly in the and pacification and reconstruction of capitalist Europe, above all by disarming the working class.

Once this was accomplished, imperialism began its war pre- parations. It was at this point that the Stalinist bureaucracy estab- lished its 'Cominform', an in- ternational apparatus of CP leaderships to conduct an in- ternational 'peace' campaign. Now the middle and work- ing classes had to be united on single issue of peace the (mainly through the Stockholm Peace Petition). It was because this question now predomin- ated that Pollitt and the CP their slavish switched from support of the Labour govern- ment and 'British industry'. They responded directly to the needs of the Stalinist bureau- cracy. Far from opportunism being 'corrected', it took even i more craven forms, with all the Party's activity subordinated to 'broad fronts' like the British Peace Committee. If in 1948 the British Stalin- ists had 'corrected' their Stalinist policies of 1947, as Johnstone claims, how does he explain that he himself and the whole British CP leadership supported all the policies and measures taken by the Mos- cow bureaucracy in the period immediately following? When Yugoslavia was con- demned as a fascist country and blockaded economically, what did the British CP do? Did not Johnstone initially support Klugman's book 'From Trotsky to Tito'? 'ocialism'. Part two of a reply by Cli The Trotskyist movement made a princ workers' state against Stalinism, des Yugoslav leadership of Tito (above). To The British CP supported the trial When Laszlo Rajk was executed in Hungary in 1949, then Slansky and his comrades in 1952, what did they do?

They published millions of words supporting these actions.

They vilified who anyone defended the innocent victims.

The Trotskyist movement made a principled defence of • by Cliff Slaughter to a letter from le a principled defence of the Yugoslav despite our differences with the bove). Top: Slansky (lett) and Gottwald.

trial and execution of Siansky in 1952.

the Yugoslav workers' state against Stalinism, despite our differences with the Yougoslay leadership of Tito. And now, when Johnstone pleads that he recognizes the criminal these nature of actions of the bureaucracy, how are we supposed to of respond? The Soviet bureau- r from Mr Monty Johnstone.

Cracy and the official CPs have themselves 'rehabilitated' these men, i.e. exonerated them of criminal chargs. As we have pointed out in earlier replies to Johnstone, he is no different from them. Indefensible posi- tions are given up in order to fight revolutionary • Marxism more effectively. Every time we come back to the same question. Johnstone wants to discuss the policies of the British CP and its inter- national counterparts entirely separate from those con- sequences which have become indefensible. That the trials and judicia.

murders were part of much greater historic consequences —blows against the proletarian revolution all over the world continuing the isolation of the Soviet Union—he wants to obscure, because he supports the policies of Stalinism.

The questions of 'objective fact' referred to by Johnstone (he means by objective facts certain • questions he would like to abstract from their political context and meaning, and have them dealt with according to the criteria of the bourgeois judiciary and liberal conscience) in relation to the witch-hunting of the Labour Party bureaucracy aré, once again, actually directly related to the political history of to which we have Stalinism referred.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

Fawning and scraping at the feet of President Nixon this week was Leonid Brezhnev. It was a disgusting and contemptible attempt by the leading Soviet bureaucrat to give Nixon's administration a semblance of authority. Here was Brezhnev helping to prop up the imperialist-in-chief who once described communists as 'a bunch of rats'. Nixon added: 'When you go out to shoot rats, you have to shoot straight because when you shoot wildly, it not only means that the rats may get away more easily, but

NIXON, THE ANTI-COMMUNIST

Mr Greville Janner, Labour MP for north-west Leicester, is getting very hot under collar about the treatment of 'our' diplomats in Libya. British diplomats, their families and other British residents are "seriously being harassed' according to Mr Janner. It is absolutely intolerable and contrary to all civilized usage that they should be treated in this manner, he fumed. 'We do not treat foreign diplomats or residents in our country in this way and there is no reason why our people should be so treated abroad.

What on earth has happened to cause such fury? Why, it's simply that President Gaddafi, well known to be a fanatical Moslem, has extended Libya's •total ban on alcoholic liquor to cover foreign diplomats.

Fish Critics The Soviet fishing fleet has been strongly criticized by the People's Control Commission for falling behind the targets set for it in the current Five- Year Plan. Too many vessels are lying idle and last year up to 30 per cent of working time was taken up with repairs. Much time is wasted by trawlers waiting to discharge their catches onto factory ships.

Time wasted in these ways increased by 10 per cent last year. There were many reports of dozens of trawlers waiting in the north-west Atlantic to dis- charge catches. In the Far East there were complaints of lack material for pro- of packing cessed fish.

EFORMISM ON THE CLYDE

REFORMISM ON THE CLYDE

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ines the records of the men who led the struggle, James Reid, James Airlie and Sammy Barr. Price 30p, 128 pages, illustrated.

Available from: New Park Publications 18Ga, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG or the Paperbacks Centre 28 Charlotte Street London, W1 (Enclose 10p for postage) Fawning and scraping at the feet attempt by the leading Soviet burea prop up the imperialist-in-chief who rats, you have to shoot straight be you make it easier on the rats.' AL In 1946 the Californian Republicans produced a raw young lawyer to fight for the Whittier division. Richard Nixon was to oppose a long- standing reactionary Democrat, Jerry Voorhis. The commentators thought the result was a foregone con- clusion—Voorhis would walk in. But the campaign took a distinctily dirty turn when arrived Lieutentant Nixon from his previous job of re- negotiating contracts for the US Navy. A series of debates were organized between the candi- dates. At the first of these word jousts, Nixon supporters handed out leaflets which . de- clared: 'A vote for Nixon is a vote against the communist- its dominated PAC with gigantic slush fund.' This was a reference to the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), run by Sidney Hillman. During the debate Voorhis vigorously insisted he nad not sought and did not have the endorsement of the PAC. But Nixon leapt to his feet, drew a paper from his pocket and read a report in which the Los Angeles chapter of the national PAC recommended that the national group en- dorses Voorhis. Dramatically, accusing Nixon thrust the document into the hands of his opponent. Voorhis was dumbfounded. He later issued a statement saying that while he cherished the support of labour, he did not have and did not want the backing of the California

CIO.

Voorhis' denials were thoroughly sincere. But the damage has been done. Nixon barged into the cam- paign making accusations about 'lip-service Americans who front for un-American elements, wittingly or other- the feet of President Nixon this week w iet bureaucrat to give Nixon's administrat chief who once described communists as ' aight because when you shoot wildly, it r rats ALEX MITCHELL reports.

wise, by advocating increasing federal controls over the lives of people'. The red-baiting reached its climax three days before pol- ling when Republican head- quarters issued a statement accusing Voorhis of 'consis- the Moscow- tently voting PAC-Henry Wallace line in Congress'. (Wallace was the head of the Progressive Party).

It went on to declare can- didate Nixon to be 'a man who will talk American and at the same time vote Ameri- can in Congress... and fight in and out of Congress to ideals perpetuate American and American freedom.' Nixon's other big pitch was to war veterans. He was pic- tured in uniform and otten introduced 'the lieutenant as commander'. Oozing insin- • cerity he would tell his audi- ences that he would 'preserve our sacred heritage, in the name of my buddies and your ones, who died loved that these might endure' Nixon completely outstung and outmanoeuvred the Demo- crat and won by 65,586 votes to 49,994. 'Our campaign was a very honest debate on the issues, he said. There was a curious footnote to this, Nixon's first political race. 'New Republic' The re- vealed six years later that a number of telephone calls had been made to people accusing Voorhis of communism. Nixon has always insisted he knew nothing about the calls. Congressman Nixon threw himself into his new career with the sort of enthusiasm which people noted. His 'fav- ourite work' was as a member of the small subcommittee that drafted the notorious Taft Hartley labour laws which imposes outlaws strikes, cooling-off periods and secret ballots. But it was not until 1948 that he emerged on a national scale over the case of a man called Alger Hiss. Nixon first met Senator Joe McCarthy in 1947 at a 'cheese Workers Press, Sal week was Leonid Brezhnev. It was a di ministration a semblance of authority. Her nists as 'a bunch of rats'. Nixon added: " ildly, it not only means that the rats may party' for newly-elected Re- publican congressmen. friendship flowered on the basis of McCarthy's rabid anti-communism and Nixon's urge to use this bandwagon to make it to the White House.

Nixon's tactic was success- ful. He hounded Hiss to a chorus of cheers from the re- actionary Press. In a televised interview in 1952 he boasted about his witch-hunting tech- niques: 'Let me describe the room for you, because it is here that can see the communist you conspiracy in action... twist- ing and turning and squirming evading and avoiding.' Nixon, who is today show- ing a certain amount of twist- ing and squirming, also re- vealed his utter contempt for judicial process the during these early days. On Decem- ber 15, 1948, a Federal Grand in New York indicted Jury Hiss for perjury. The first trial took five weeks and ended inconclusively. Nixon and three other members of the Un-American Activities Com- mittee accused Judge Samuel H. Kaufman of bias towards Hiss and demanded that 'his fitness be investigated' year later, at a • second Hiss was convicted. trial, Herbert Hoover sent Nixon a telegram saying: "The convic- tion of Alger Hiss was due to your patience and persistence alone. At last the stream of treason that existed in our government had been exposed fashion that all may be- in a lieve.' And when he was nomina- ted in 1952 to be the vice- presidential candidate, General Eisenhower said he was 'a man who has shown states- qualities in many manlike ways, but has a special talent and an ability to ferret out any kind of subversive in- fluence wherever it may be found and the strength and persistence to get rid of it.'

In a filthy campaign against Adlai Stevenson, Nixon said: 'In my opinion his actions, his statements, his record dis- qualifies him from leading the Press, Saturday June 23, 1973 PAGE 9 was a disgusting and contemptible rity. Here was Brezhnev helping to added: 'When you go out to shoot rats may get away more easily, but Above left: Alger Hiss, the man Nixon hounded and brought to trial and eventual conviction for "Un-American' activities. Right: Nixon in 1960. He was the most virulent espouser of the cold- war. United States and the free nations in the fight against communism at home and abroad.' He barged into the head- lines claiming that the Demo- crats had failed 'to develop an effective programme to meet the activities of the fifth column in the United States.

'Communists infiltrated the very highest councils of this administration, he charged.

His rhetoric reached a peak in this memorable diatribe: "The Republican Party has some faults. But one thing can be said to our credit which cannot be said for the.

party in power. That is, that we have never had the sup- port of the communists in the past. We have never asked for that support. We do not have it now, and we shall never ask for it or accept it in the future. 'And for that reason a Re- publican administration, we can be sure, will conduct a house-cleaning thoroughgoing of and fellow communists travellers in the administrative branch of the government be- cause we have no fear of find- ing any communist skeletons in our political closets' Nixon elected vice- was president and became the most virulent espouser of US imperialism's cold-war poli- la- cies. On his election as President ral in 1968 he extended the bar- barous Indo-China to war Cambodia and intensified it in Laos. In the US he enlisted the resources of the CIA and the FBI and eventually his own secret police to harass and in- timidate his opponents. That Brezhnev consorts with Nixon, a man only inches away from criminal indict- ment, shows the utter de- generacy of the Soviet bureau- he cracy.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday June 23, 1973

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9.40 Exploring mind. 10.10 Arthur.

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STOKE-ON-TRENT: Wednesday, June 27, 8 p.m. "The Sea Lion, Town Road, Hanley. "Force the vard Tories to resign.' CAMBRIDGE: Thursday June 28, 8 p.m. Mawson_Hall, Forward Mawson off Mill Road. Road, to ATUA Conference on July 1.'

FELTHAM: Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m. 'The Three Horse Shoes' Street. The struggle for High the Revolutionary Party' LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, The Hall, 7.30 p.m. Trades Street, near the Post con- Fenton Office.

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The new pay deal is expected to put to a ballot of Triumph's 8,000 workers as soon as Pay Board approval has been granted. Many stewards and workers are wondering how both Jim Griffin, the AUEW district pre- sident and convenor at the Canley Works, and Tom Healy, the AUEW district vice-president and convenor at the Radford Works of Triumph, can be party to a recommendation so obviously British-Leyland's of part declared Measured-Day Work re still emerging from Argentina es which erupted at the mass rally nt General Juan Peron on Wednes- though they have in the past collaborated with the ERP who are supporters of Pabloite revi- sionism. Still other reports say that the shootings may have been the work of right-wing Peronists who have their own reasons for spoil- ing the carnival atmosphere of the General's return. Monde' the According to 'Le shooting was caused by differ- ences within the (Peronist) Justi- cialist Movement. 'From the early morning', the paper said, 'fights between young militants broke out and trade unionists along the fringes of the aero- drome. "The two antagonistic groups were fighting for control of the demonstration: it was, in the words of their incompatible slogans: "The socialist father- land" "The Peronist versus fatherland"' According to 'Le Monde' cor- respondent Philippe Labreveux, ment. What is certain is that far from ushering in an era of social peace, the election of Dr Hector Campora and the return of his General Peron, have patron, opened up the rifts in the Peron- ist movement which has for nearly 18 years been dreaming of Peron's come-back.

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AUEW

National Committee, of which Griffin is a member, and the Coventry district committee are opposed to moves towards MDW.

The Coventry district com- mittee sent out the following its meeting circular after Tuesday, June 20, 1972: "This DC instructs all con- venors and shop • stewards not to negotiate productivity deals or agreements under any circum- stances and to opposé any moves towards Measured-Day Work in with all possible vigour accordance with the national policy of our union.' Bremen shipyard wages strike FIVE THOUSAND engineers be- unotficial strike gan an on Wednesday in Bremen's Vulkan Shipyard, in West Germany. Workers are demanding a monthly wage rise of DM70 (£10.60), and an extra month's payment a year. MERSEYSIDE bus services in Birkenhead and Wallasey were halted yesterday by an unoffi- cial strike by 160 maintenance workers at two garages. The men came out on strike the previous Friday in a dis- pute over staffing levels. A ser- vice had been maintained until Thursday and the sudden stop- page of all buses yesterday was because of refuelling problems.

Workero Press, Sa The ma ek'& 'Survival story shows the In the South American jungle.

foot. London. 7.55 Film: don. 12.25 WeatheCartoon. 10.00 Lon- GRANADA: 9.30-10.30 London. 10.35 Farmhouse 11.00 kitchen. Addams family. 11.30 London. 12.55 Saint. 1.55 On the line. 2.25 Dundee and the Culhane. 3.20 Name of the game.

4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Follyfoot. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: The Vic- tim'. 9.30 Branded. 10.00 London. IN ondon. 20.Chess arpsterpieces: 10.30 Carpet Sandy 11.30 show. London. 1.00 Farming. 1.25 Roving report. 1.50 Where the jobs are. 1.55 Snooker. 2.50 Film: 'She's Working Her Through College. Way 4.45 Jim Grifin going against union policy.

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Liverpool 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. Press, Saturday Juno 23, 1973 PAGE 11 hows the search for a lost inca village Golden shot. 5.35 Follyfoot. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Rhapsody'. 10.00 London. 11.40 About Britain. 12.10 Dr Simon Locke. 12.40 Lectern.

SCOTLAND: 10.05 Children to child- ren. 10.35 Women. 11.05 Clapper- 105 2.00 11.30 London. 1.00 Champ- ions. Sun pictures. 2.15 London.

3.00 Film: "Love the Dole'. 4.40 5.35 Flaxton boys. Golden shot. 6.05 London. 7.55 E.05 Late 'Third Day'. 10.00 London. 12.15 call.

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 Farming. 11.30 London. 1.00 Exploring mind. 1.30 Piano can be fun. 2.00 Master chefs. 2.15 London. 3.05. Film: 'Left, Right and Centre'. 5.35 6.05 London. Follyfoot. 7.55 'Four For Texas'. 10.00 London.

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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 capitalism. of Britain and the world crisis.

3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for demo- today cratic rights 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 political struggle in Britain 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.

Car deal: Vote PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Jun panca

FROM IAN YEATS IN

A SETTLEMENT was agrees union officials and managemen talks at Coventry yesterday month-old strike at Chrysler's I Chrysler's Industrial Rela- tions Director Mr Peter Grif- they were quite fiths with the settlement. •He added: 'I think there's a realization that we been have to live together after we resume work.' Transport union district secre- tary Mr Bill Lapworth refused to disclose the terms of the settlement. He said: "The grievances that have been reported to us and for which the came out men have been resolved by the for- mula agreed with management this afternoon? He said it would be put to a meeting of shop stewards at 9 a.m. today and then to a mass meeting of the Ryton strikers on Stoke Green at 10 a.m. Union officials had suggested a new round of secret talks in an Ilth-hour bid to end the strike by 4,500 men. Convenors and shop stewards were summoned without warning from their beds to a meeting at the Council House. Union officials from the trans- port, engineering and sheetmetal workers' arrived with unions convenors and shop stewards by the rear entrance to the 14th- where Wednes- century crypt, day's abortive 16 hour marathon was held. A high-powered Chrysler team led by Industrial Relations Oper- ations Director, Mr Tom Derby arrived at about 1.30 p.m.

Mr Lapworth said the idea for talks had emerged by mutual agreement after officials went to the Stoke factory to discuss what would happen on Monday. Then the seven-day manage- ment agrement not to move sup- plies across Ryton picket lines expires. Hours earlier the company had announced the shutdown of pro- duction at all five major ÜK plants from i Monday morning. At Stoke yesterday 2,000 men laid off this week were told to for to work Monday report stocktaking, but another 2,000 will be laid off. At Hills Precision, a Chrysler subsidiary at Canterbury Road, radiator Coventry, supplying grilles dashboards, and 250 workers have been laid off.

At the 6,500 strong. Linwood plant in Scotland, where Imp and Hillman cars are produced, 1,700 men in the press and unit machine shops will be laid ofi from Monday. At the Dunstable van an 600 men have orry factory, been sent home.

- ATUA MEETINGS -

Crisis in the Motor Industry

COVENTRY

MONDAY JUNE 25

7.30 p.m. Gosford Park Hotel St. Georges Rd/ Northfield Rd nr Chryster (Stoke) plant Speaker: Alan Thornett deputy senior T&GWU steward at Morris Motors Cowley, Oxford (in a personal capacity)

DUNSTABLE

Sunday, June 24, 10.30 a.m.

The Unitad Services Club High Streal south urday June 23, 1973

EATS IN COVENTRY

agreed between convenors, agement after three hours of terday which could end the ysler's Ryton plant. with the glant car firm traced

POLICE

have and had sub-contracted middleman who the the picket- the job to an east organized at London outfit. busting operation Detective Chief Ins- Chrysler's engine plant, Alfred Horobin but they have refused pector the interviewed to name him. had director and He is the director of haulage of the drivers in- a haulage company at one volved in the clandes- Chesterfield in Derby- operation. tine shire. Police are now seek- Mr Percy Brown, Ing two other drivers in assistant Chief Cons- Londom table of Coventry and the area said in- 'whose names are not Warwickshire, known'. ( formation from the David • had and John Chrysler company Walker, who run led them to the man. haulage firm In He had dealt directly small Shop stewards committee leader Mr Joe Molloy yesterday accused Chrysler of attempting to intimidate his men into voting for a return to work at today's mass meeting at Stoke Green.

He said: 'That is what they've been doing along-intimidat- all ing and frightening people'.

Chrysler have pushed vigor- their return-to-work ously for proposals to be put to a mass meeting in the hope that it might go against the leadership.

Said Mr Molloy: "There is no of that at all: Chrysler chance are throwing in all their cards to try and frighten us into decision wouldn't normally we make, but it won't work. 'I anybody can't going see conditions which will back on when they came be worse than Molloy, We can't accept mass out. punishment.' stewards shop The strikes by APEX workers for equal pay at two Stockport Electrical Instruments factories In of after Manchester show no signs weakening who four weeks. The strikers, mainly women, mount a 24-hour picket, seven days a week have accused management of intimidation In the use of security guards with dogs at night.

However, dockers and airport workers, say the pickets, have agreed to black all SEI goods.

The SEI factories are part of the giant GEC combine.

plies key THERE CAN be no talks with compon British-Leyland 300 striking toolroom setters at Washwood shop stewards say it British-Leyland's a matter of days b Heath, Birmingham, plant unless lay offs take place. accept job-evaluation, the men management has said. Management are : stockpiled componer The demanding men are a promise from British-Leyland to a major clash with over pay this summ negotiate on their claim for pay parity with electricians at the Company officials Birmingham factory. claim outside the 1 said they will not Yesterday all production at 4 per cent norm. the giant axle and transmissions plant was halted and 3,000 men And they have discussiol were laid-off. this year The 7,000-strong works sup- tied to the question east London, long for them to reach Stepney, ( these tentative facts in admitted two days ago they had been offered the case? £500 All the information more than. to been ob- break the picket fine. could have tained directly from the They got three loads a hole cut in management at least through before they four days ago. the fence After all, It spotted by was were Chrysler who were pickets. pay. As the trailers broke ing for this violent, lines, attack the cowboy through on pickets were allegedly pickets. assaulted with an Iron The conduct of the bar and missiles. police is dublous that Leslie Huckfield, The dithering by the Labour MP for Nunea- police is wholly inex- plicable. ton, has called for an Why has It taken so inquiry. PICKETING will continue throughout the weekend at Per- kins' Peterborough diesel-engine factories. The company maintained its the 5,700 workers lock-out of yesterday. It made no move to restart talks with union officials, despite a hint on Thursday after- noon that it might be prepared do so the to after examining stewards' the shop of terms rejection of a return-to-work formula. Jeff Cain, deputy convenor, "They've said said: there is no useful purpose in talks and as know that remains far we as their position. 'For our part, we'll be fully of the involved in picketing right charman through Saturday and Sunday.'

at Ryton. as ever duction of Measured-Day Work all to components factories throughout the plant. and present the majority of rds say it can only be At of days before further production workers are on bonus incentive scheme and they successfully resisted all nent are said to have have attempts to bring in job-evalua- components ready for with the unions tion. The toolsetters' has his summer. strike y officials have already come at a bad time according to some shop stewards, who would consider any have preferred united fight ide the Tory fl plus against MDW later this summer.

ey have warned that A mass meeting of the strikers discussions must be Thursday voted to stay out on and to meet again in seven days.

question of the intro- FOOD PRICES rocketed up again last month according to the official price index released by the Department of Employment yesterday. The increase of 1.8 per cent between mid-April and mid-May brought the rise in food prices since the Tories came into office to 36 per cent. On the official statistics alone, which are controlled by the Tories' own governmental machi- nery, Edward Heath's fraudulent election promise in 1970 to 'cut the rise in prices at a stroke' is shown up as a vicious deception.

The full retail price index has now risen by 9.5 per cent since this time last year, according to the Department of Employment.

This means that the Phase Two pay norm of £l plus 4 per cent, worth about 8 per cent on average, is cutting' the standard of living of the working class.

As Workers • Press has re- peatedly pointed out, the state control of wages is in effect the state cutting of wages. Acquies- in the pay laws by the cence TUC is acceptance of a declining living standard for the working class. month's main increases Last were in potatoes, other vegetables, meat, bacon, petrol, clothing and footwear, and higher rents for some council housing. Tory government is If the allowed to stay in ofhice, the working class will be driven down further and further at a faster and faster rate.

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THIS IS our last weekend be- fore the end June and the of to raise most main opportunity of our Fund. Let's do everything virtually to possible, therefore, by this complete target our coming Monday. The decision of the AUEW Scanlon to break off to force talks with Heath has put a spoke in the Torles' major wheel. Workers Press must be used to develop this fight throughout the other unions. Instead of co-operating with state pay laws, trade union leaders the must be class to make this government resign. So help us step up the cam- paign to ralse June's Fund im- mediately. Try and raise extra amounts to give total our boost. Go Into action this week- end. Post all your donations to: Workers Press June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG

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