Workers Press no. 1112

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WEST GERMANS REVALUE THE MARK

GRAVE NEW CRISIS

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE

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THE WEST GERMAN mark was revalued by 5$ after several days of frantic speculation on the Europ The revaluation is certain to intensify the conflict Common Market and disrupt credit relations inter Immediately the price of

BY JOHN SPENCER

rose by $1.50 to gold $123.25 an ounce on the Common Market central London market, while the banks have another spent $1,500m dollar fell to record low in a vain attempt to maintain the mark's parity far levels in markets as EEC float. within the as Singapore and a way The mark has been Beirut. repeatedly revalued and gold price rise The was August 1971 the since contrary to prior expecta- dollar's value against the tions and indicates that the mark has fallen by almost revaluation has solved mark 45 per cent. nothing. The decision to revalue from taken Despite assurances was at surprise Bonn, mortal blow meeting of the cabinet called it is for the joint float Com- by social-democratic of chan- mon Market currencies and cellor Willy Brandt yester- common make the day morning. must agricultural policy, already The new rate for the mark under strong American at- -defined not in gold but in so-called 'paper gold' special tack, almost entirely un- workable. rights- 0.310. drawing -iS The previous rate was 0.294 Common Market The SDRs to the mark. governments will now more Rumours that a devalua- and openly resort to more tion was imminent caused violence to meet the enorm- demand the big for class battles which very ous West German on must result from the break- currency Bundes- Thursday and the of the credit superstruc- up bank bought 2,200 million and the intensification ture European marks-worth of trade conditions war currencies in a single after- both and outside inside Europe. noon. Announcing the revalua- will lead The revaluation Press conference tion at a to big failures on the Euro- the in Bonn after cabinet money markets, which in- Minister meeting, Finance volve some of the biggest Helmut Schmidt said the banks in Europe. remain in the mark would The Bank of Italy was Common Market joint float narrowly saved from bank- at its new parity. ruptcy earlier this month by He said the Bundesbank the infusion of some $4,000m had to buy European cur- from the US and EEC cen- worth 4,000 million rencies tral banks. marks during the 12 past Since then the main days to support the margins TING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 30, 1973• No 1112 • 4p

F THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

1 by 54 percent yesterday e European money markets.

conflicts raging inside the is internationally. which the countries taking float had part joint in the agreed to adhere to among themselves while floating together against outside But the central bank had not intervened in the same dollars the way foreign exchange market and had intention of doing so, Schmidt added. Schmidt told the Press conference the inflows of European currencies had West forced Germany its domestic protect econo- mic stability by revaluing.

Bonn had never considered partners abandoning its in the joint float- France, Bel- Denmark and to nonbur gium, Holland, Norway and countries, Swedenhe claimed. In fact, despite Schmidt's reassurance, empty re- the valuation of the mark 1s a death-blow to the joint float any plans for mone- and to tary union within the

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demonstrates conclu- sively that the mark cannot carry the burden of maintain- ing the credit international

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system and financing world trade. On centre pages Speci The paper mark, backed our by paper SDRs, is in no way from today - Quotes betwe substitute for pre- 1971 dollar which was linked Marx, Lenin and Trotsky and to gold. Editor on trade unions and the Yesterday's decision must destroy any lingering traces revolutionary party. of this illusion once and for all. THE BIGGEST and most

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open organized in discussion ever To facilitate discussion, defence of basic democratic been sound equipment has rights will be held at Belle Vue, installed in the arena 15 Manchester, Sunday trom on Every different speaking points. p.m. to 9 p.m. will of the auditorium section Shop stewards committees have Its own microphone. all over the country have been

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delegations to go from electing their factories. docks, sacesards, As a curtain raiser, a film will and other places mines. be shown in colour of the great work, in response to the invita- Pageant of history labour per- tion from the ATUA. formed by hundreds of workers and actors at the professional Empire Pool, Wembley, on

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workers press

WEST GERMANS REVALUE THE MARK

GRAVE NEW CRISIS

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE CUNFERENCE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER O SATURDAY JUNE 30, 1973 ! No 1112 0 40 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

HITS EEC

THE WEST GERMAN mark was revalued by 54 percent yesterday after several days of frantic speculation on the European money markets.

The revaluation is certain to intensify the conflicts raging inside the Common Market and disrupt credit relations internationally.

Immediately the price of taking

BY JOHN SPENCER

walcerne coltunes $1.50 part in the joint float had gold rose by to agreed to adhere among $123.25 an the Common Market central ounce hoating London while the Wilte MarKel nave spent together against outside dollar fell to record low vain attempt maintain the mark's parity currencies. levels In ' markers central bank had within the EEC float. Singapore and but Ine away The mark has been tue salle Beirut. repeatedly revalued and buy way to colars on the The gold price rise Lore no shantone and was 1971 the contrary expecta- intention value against the colars and indicates has fallen by almost schmidt added.

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so, mark revaluation has solved per cent. Schmidt told the Press nothing. The decision to revalue the inflows of meeting of the cabinet" Europea West taken had Despite assurances from currencies Bonn, blow called Germany for the joint float protect econo- ot com. soca cenocrac Chain- Its domestic mon Market currencies cellor Willy Brandt yester- mic stability by revaluing.

day make the morning. Bonn had never considered accura poncy, a reddy ne new rate tor the mark abandoning partners under strong American at- -defined not in gold but in float-_France. Bel. The one entirely so-called 'paper gold' almost un- Holland, uxemburg workable. non-EEC TCOES--1s Denmark and two The previous rate was 0.294 The Market and Common Norway countries SDRs to the mark. governments will now more Sweden-he claimed more openly a devalua. Kumours ThaT In fact, despite Schmidt's for are demand card violence to meet the enorm- the empty reassurance, re- demand _ous class Dancer mark valuation of the 15 d must result from the break- yest vernan currency death-blow to the ioint float up of the credit Thursday and the superstruc- bunces. and to any plans for mone- bought 2,200 million within the EEC. cure ana une Inteusicalloll tary union European marks-worth war conditions Site stops over sacked spark p.12 trade demonstrates conclu- both inside and currencies Europe. noon. sivelv that the mark cannot carry the burden of maintain.

Announcing the revalua- The revaluation will lead the international credit ing tion

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press al a conterent to big failures on the Euro- Bonn after the cabinet and hnancing world money markets, which in- Minister trade. Finance of biggest volve some the Hicculls On centre The Schmidt said paper mark, backed our He mul Dalks in burobe. SDRs, mark would remain bv paper The no way. today — Quotes The Bank of Italy Common Market joint float substitute for the pre- was narrowly saved from bank- 1971 dollar which was linked its new parity. Marx, Lenin and Trotsky ruptcy earlier this month by to gold. He said the Bundesbank $4,000m the infusion of some on trade unions and the had buy European Yesterday's to cur- decision must US and EEC cen- from the 4,000 worth destroy lingering rencies ally Laces revolutionary party. tral banks. 12 during the past of this illusion once and for marks Since then the days to support the margins all. main

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and most open Great organized ever To democratic defence basic sound equipment has been rights will be held at Belle Vue at 15 installed the Sunday from 3 wannester. response speaking • Teren p.m. to 9 p.m. section the auditorium will have Its microphone. own Shop Crouches All ong over the country have been to Belle delegations from

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to go docks, shipyards, inen tactories. K As a curtain raiser. g tim wil and other places shown in colour of the great Vue rally In response to the invita work, Pageant of history per- tion from the ATUA. of workers and professional actors the Empire Pool, Wembley, on Sunday

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March highly sophis. Some N Two special trains are going the film to be projected simul- from London direct to Belle Vue taneously on two 10 or July 1 another from the problems Southampion and the West arena. vewing in a circular Country. Coaches will be towns other throuch.

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Trade out Britain. unionists making their own way 1o the After "The petral and with rally will be welcome sion,

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Senator hits White House PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday June 30, 1973 THE DECISION of the Pompidou regime they have the been action against striking Ligue Communiste is part Lip watch strikers at besancon.

AN APPEAL to all sections of the of a co-ordinated attack on democratic constructional Fos workers rights which has direct for against Peugeot and Renault car- lessons British Labour and trade union Signs multiplying since the national fascist union, backed by big have been movement to oppose the ban on March election the rovernme to the money from the employers, called the Fifth Republic Confédération Française Travail, is returning the Pabloite Ligue Communiste style Pom- establishing position fac- of Bonapartist Durest TuiC. Ilal came yesterday from Gerard factories where it is strongly implanted, such as the Chrysler-Simca plants, parties, Vergeat, a former member of the parliamentary government.

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He had already made it clear at the time organization's political bureau.

against members or order trade unions of the elections that in the event of and particularly against immigrant a victory for the left-wing parties, he workers. In an interview with the Workers Press of would appoint own Telephone-taoping, bugging, the use he said the ban, imposed on Thursday choice regardless of the wishes of the spies and agents provocateurs cabinet, should be the by the Pompidou electorate. labour movement has reached a high European labour move- indeed, has The of the as the pitch in and, be- concern of the political role rrance ment as a whole. Defence of the Ligue defender of the bourgeois social order come The

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is being increasingly emphasized. The ment has made it clear that it does not against these attacks was a General to abandon these practices. On of the notorious intend of international solidarity, he question contrary, it s all the time trying Sale. units in the Algerian war, to head the to make them more en cent police He described Paris garrison is a sign of the times. further sinister development has been had raided the Ligue's Paris headquarters the encouragement of racialist discri- Companies Repub- Dai a lillilal y Thursday following an been busy mination carly calmer securite ve even aLLaCKs breaking strike pickets and beating against immigrant workers anti-lascist aemonstration allu other left-wing organizations. The demonstrators. there million in France. 0,000- In the last weeks lew ате over strong demonstration was against a racialist La boyall Ordre Nouveau. came • • • been Dacoalcu Two police cars blocked the entrance where headquarters cul-de-sac THE BOURGEOISIE of Europe is Black Marias drew up in pre- 'There were 100 and profits. Letters sent the Communist for this purpose to -60 uniformed CRS and 40 in

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Dan comes forces being the International the Internationa Socialists police 1n ritali reinforced Our guards-who specially equipped with 'some of the Marxist Group pro- for half -kept them premises an and powerful posing a joint campaign in the up-to-date weapons working hour, but after consultation on the telephone attacks une Class

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SLalt decided it was useless to resist further, interference. Com- They Dena Ti Vergeat said. include a rife with greater pene- munist Party John Gollan refused trating, power than the Armalite, the they broke When the police moved in have anything to with this .cam- US-made Smith and Wesson revolver in the book- down doors. destroved shelves the Walther and situation shop and even The France behind walked over the keyboards In Where being manu- pistol. Ine new uk gas 1s typesetting machines. The plain- smokescreen of words about defend.

our factured 'for use in United King- Communist two sacks democratic rights A perfected apparatus

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ay dy of terror, papers and documents which thev no rarty rerusea to give any enol to stop usine une ex•erence galnea in vistel, doubt hope to try and make a frame-up.'

the fascist meeting, is in line with this is being prepared for use against the treacherous position. The 25 people were on the premises working class. Despite separated arrested. The women The tact that we The attack on basic rights which has been were from the Ligue Communiste and its under i were released after details of their for some years is intended to Britain, Inter- co-organization the identity had been taken. weaken. une in advance. GrouD MarxIst In the way to the police station they wer Not resist these at every allacks mental political differences, we call stage is to assist the class enemy.

ubiected to the loulest ant-semiuc abust upon the to fight by "For told them: you we Recognizing these dangers, the Socialist against Pompidou's "he police ban CYCLy should reopen dewryamps Labour League initiated a campaign Toe allu Wve see ms on as "You are international Vergeat January 20 last aiming to prepare the parably with the campaign for the were charged class in this said. At the police station working country resist defence democratic rights in this with illegal possession or icalls.

LIlC catalios Haue by country. provisionally Thirteen were Pierre released and only member former SCLe political oureau. was detention. During the search police had rifles which two uncovered said had brought vereeat been Intore hey offsidentitled man.

the offices about week Internal disciplinary measures THERE WAS a sensational climax to the Senate nave been taken arainst bers who failed to remove them Watergate committee hearings on Thursday when a from the premises, Vergeat said. Republican Senator denounced White House attempts the 14 The charges against members to intimidate himself and others taking part.

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the Republican Senator Lowell years imprisonment. in an impassioned outburst.

Weicker said that rumours had been spread that he had misused already has an Rousset, campaign funds, was considering becoming a Democrat and was eight-month suspended sen- a disloyal. Republican. tence over Soul. could serve an even longer term He loudly applauded Nixon's hold overhis jail. when he said: "There are going party taken nas a neavy blow since the Senate committee pro- Attempts to hire halls for to be no more threats, no in- Dean's evidence protest ralv against the ban had timidation, began. no innuendo, no Cecullis been obstructed by was aware of the autori- working through the Press to showed tr and when hall was finally the cover-up at least as early as ties go ahead and destroy the cre- Socialist municipal- September. ottered by dibility of individuals. The asked if the President ity Just outside branch of executive govern- meeting banned out of had advance knowleede or tre was ment wants to meet the stan- break-in at the Democratic Party hand. dards for it Dean said that if set by the headquarters, The wide- ban has evoked American people' 'Bob' Halde- White House alut France. •rotests Weicker claimed that he had man had such knowledge, though the Communist Party vould have been passed along to has not condemned it. the support of the other Repub- the President. He told the Senate lican senators in resisting White Vergeat said the CP had re- House in repudi- pressure committee toat me dao redorled the Ligue daily do is assumption eas vert mainee mom abuse ating the Communiste in its articles about and his assumption the and ban be- He also launched a blistering feared the impact attack on a White House memo- Speaking Lause WiLe Haldeman and Nixon on Septem. unese events on us members mo the

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the factories and in intellectual ber 15, that he did not said the intention circles. ing John Dean, formerly Nixon's keep notes because it would have incriminating for the Pre- who been counsel, was principal sident. Avonmouth yes- in the week's hearings. witness A new aspect brought into the terday boycotted a French cargo Dean was the master-mind behind the Water- international open ov ure meannes UnIS week ship as part is the extent to which the White author, •rotest House involved in black- was nuclear tests. Nixon has refused to listing harassing before represent White House political opponents the counterer lo dangerous. The Watergate and a spokesman position'. said someone close to thus only attempto to subpoena him break-in appears commented: senate committee constitutionally always thought statement Illegal Wally priate'. White House operations master-minded from from was 01-622 7029 Senator Weicker said tha White House statement. Nixon's sanctum. Although at the moment French capi- alism cannot do without these workers administrative devices are used to hol over their heads the threat that they will be sent back to their countries of origin if they do not behave them- selves. Racialist attacks on immigrants have increasingly frequent. become Every- thing is being done to keep the immi- grants in a ghetto and to divide them from the French workers. is no accident that the meeting of It Ordre Nouveau, the pro-Nazi right-wing group—whose origins go • back to the fascist movements of the 1930s--which gave a pretext for the government to called ban the Ligue Communiste, was Not only did the over immigration. government permit the meeting, but it gave it massive police protection.

The Communist Party, which two days held all over before had meetings France purportedly 'in defence of de- mocratic rights' issued no call against the fascists. When I1 left-wing groups were banned in 1968 after the May- June event, it did nothing to wage a campaign against this threat to basic rights. t In the Common Market the European bourgeoisie has lined up in a reac- tionary coalition to attack the working class. The Communist Party of France is shortly to join the' European parlia- ment in which the Italian Communist Party is already represented. Those who have illusions in the Stalinist parties and work in co-operation with them should be warned. The Brezhnev visit to Nixon, at the very moment when Nixon's administration is totally Watergate discredited by the scandal, and the agreements made be- tween the Soviet bureaucracy and the American ruling class, leave no doubt that the Stalinists are totally committed to the defence of the bourgeois social order. communist Party members who genuinely want to fight for the overthrow of capi- break with this policy. talism must They can begin by calling on the leadership to say where it stands on the ban on the Ligue Communiste and on the proposals for a joint campaign which Gollan rejected two months ago.

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to testify had submitted the special to committee Watergate prosecutor Archi- id that an bald Cox evidence of possible viólations of him would White House inappro- Federal laws against hindering inquiries governmental by aid that he threats.

Eddie Noonan is a shop steward at English Elec- tric, Kirkby, on Mersey- side-part of the Wein- stock GEC empire. His own plant suffered dras- tic redundancies when Weinstock rationalized engineering electrical with Labour government money and reduced the 12,000 workers at Eddie's factory to 5,000. Do you think it is pos- sible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? The state pay laws are the major prop of the Tory government.

You can't get rid of one without getting rid of the other. No amount of coffee and swill- tea ing at 10 Downing Street will away this legislation. Fea- wash is dedicated to ther the old formula of 'let's negotiate', but Heath has taken away the table.

There are quite a few in the asking what the working class trade unions are coming to when we have a situation where the government has taken away the

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most basic right-the one of free independent negotiations.

If the working class stand by and allow this situation to con- tinue and develop they will be slaves. They will be in a position where the master comes down to them and he will call the tune and the working class will have to dance to his tune. Workers need to stand up and be counted. There is only one issue facing us all, do we agree with the state pay laws and Tory dictatorship and do we get rid of them? What do you think of the TUC collaboration over the talks with the Tory government? There is no leader or official in trade the union movement coming forward and mobilizing against the Tory government. general attitude is 'Well The lads, we know it's all wrong but nothing there you can about it for the time being'.

In a way the officials of our movement are turning into in- dustrial policemen, because the thing they say accept 'for the moment' completely destroys trade unionism. In a way it's a very short- sighted policy. Many of them perhaps would like to stand back and see the militants tamed, but the militants and without the men who fight every day to keep the trade unions alive, these offi- cials would do nothing. I find there were a lot of lads who want to do something about it, but they are being held back by the general attitude of the leadership and the lack of tight at the top. I think many people are now beginning to look on the TUC leaders as nothing to do with the labour movement. They are re- mote from the rank and file. They spend the • bulk of their time with businessmen and the Tories in secret and select com- mittees, driving to this and that function in their big cars, dining with the government.

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What do you think about the role of men like Scanion and Jones in the collaboration with the Tories? The 'lefts' are difficult to under- stand for a lot of the working class. These men can speak to a gathering of workers and con- demn the enemy, condemn people like Victor Feather, but go out spend most of their time and rubbing shoulders with these right-wingers. They have a great opportunity.

"To hell with •They could say Feather. Let's take a lead against the government'. But they do not. Hugh Scanlon is my own leader and I am very union pleased he has been pulled out • talks. I agitated against of the him going there in the first place.

I think now that Jones should follow, and then they can form a powerful block of union-the bulk of the militant and indus- trialized factory workers, against this government and its policies.

But to me the 'lefts' seem to express very little faith in the working class by the way they behave. They seem to think that Downing Street talks offer a way forward instead of the power of the membership when mobilized.

Do you think protests and one day strikes are enough to defend the basic rights of the work- ing class? This is the typical approach of the officials. At the very most they are prepared to engage in protests. But the whole purpose is designed to enable the work- ing class to let off steam not to develop the fight against the Tory government. Beyond that you get the real right-wingers in the TUC who work against all the decisions taken by even the TUC. They are quite blatant about it.

At the congress these next people should be out of the movement altogether. It's amaz- ing that at this stage of the Tory when the working government, class is in such great danger, that this type of leader is tolerated within the TUC. The leaders as a whole do their utmost to isolate the work- ing class by calling one-day strikes that they know are futile, and letting groups of workers be picked off one by one. But there are a lot of people learning from this-especially on Merseyside, which was high a point protest strikes and demos. They go out on one-day strike, this is fairly solid, so they go back and analyse the situation.

The Tories are still there, in fact they have grown to tolerate such attacks and even see the value of such harmless protests. Many workers get demoralized from this position, but others that a real challenge see needed, that the day of protest is over. I have heard the argument that first you get a one-day strike and then build up to something big- ger. But I don't accept this. In areas where the one-day strikes have been successful, there has not been this kind of follow up.

There are those workers who don't want to go on strike any- way, that want to let someone do the fighting. But there else are others who can see through the one-day strike. They want to see a real lead being given.

It's the lack of leadership, both in the trade unions and the Labour Party that forces the working class into the position of abstaining or voting for the Liberal Party. I would like to say some things about the Lib- eral Party. These people are real reactionaries. They are Tories to the core. The workers are not voting for something new when they vote Liberal. It was, after all, the re- of the Liberal Party by jection the trade unions at the turn of century that gave birth to the the Labour Party. Workers Press, Saturday June 30, 1973 PAGE 3 Press has been For the past few weeks, Workers publishing a discussion around the policies to be debated tomorrow at the All Trades Unions Alliance conference at Belle Vue, Manchester. This is the most important step in the preparations for transforming the Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary party and creating the conditions to force the Tory govern- ment to resign. The founding conference of the party will be held in London on Sunday November 4. The basis of the programmes and draft perspectives of the is the

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National Committee's statement party adopted at the successful ATUA conference of 2,200 workers in Birmingham on October 22, 1972, and the discussion that has gone on up to the Belle Vue rally until the November founding and will continue conference. Now that the Labour leader- Act, the jailing of the dockers, ship has incapable of the the trials proved pay laws, against defending the basic rights of the picketing, Common Market, the fathered which it, the rent Act, the massive prices workers should draw the conclu- increase-all parts of the sion they need a new party, spiracy to deprive every working- leadership-a of his or her basic new revolutionary class person leadership. This is the Heath had no mandate or great rights. of the permission of the working class lesson history of our times. to do this and for it he must be I can give you one example of removed. the need for a new party.

When Weinstock took over the com- Are vou in favour of bine, he did it with government building a new leadership money handed over by the Lab- Party. Then our sacking started and we were up in arms get rid of the Tories? on Merseyside. The man responsible, Anthony The only way is to go out and Wedgwood Benn, came up and explain to the working class that asked the workers him on the if they maintain their allegiance green-what was he going to do the present leaders, whether to —he MP, their was a Labour it's passive or not, all their basic man. rights will be taken from them.

He just said he didn't know.

We should also explain it's no That summed up the compele bankruptcy of the Labour leaders.

use going Liberals and people like Dick Taverne. These The answer to that question is are just off-shoots of the nationalize GEC. major Now Benn talks about nation- alizing 25 establishment when firms. But he had his crunch comes. chance when he was in what firms I am optimistic over the And they are going very be? Lemonade possibilities. don't think the factories, to or the big stuff that we really want?

British working class will go on accepting this situation.

What experiences have The younger generation espe- cially will not accept what their you had that make you fathers and forefathers put up The think getting rid of the with. working class learns from So experience. the new Tory government is an party will be built in the course of these urgent task? major class struggles ahead. The experiences come the n The Belle Vue rally is the pre- paration for this essential task.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday June Among Tory papers, the London 'Evening Stand. ard' is hard to beat for its 'unbiased' opinion survey. A recent poll ' investigated' how diff.

cult it is for old age pensioners to buy meat with prices rocketing the way they are. The 'Standard' was follow- ing from • up comment Harold Wilson: 'More and more housewives, and espec- are priced ially pensioners, out of fish as well as every kind of meat.' said his wife was Wilson "I'm for Heath' at a 1970 election meeting In Bexley, one of the places visited in the 'Standard's' survey. almost in tears after seeing a little old lady moving around noting shop and prices leaving 'clutching finally pathetic little plastic package of two slices of meat loaf.

Reporter James Irvine be- gan: "Today I made my own inquiries into the plight of pensioners His first stop was Bromley, a very wealthy sub- urb of London, which always returns a Tory MP with a large majority. It was Harold Macmillan's safe seat. I questioned a number of pensioners Most shopping. were reluctant to tell a stran- financial about their ger situation, but widow Mrs Elsie Masters said: "] buy rday June 30, 1973 meat, usually stewing steak or lamb chop. Fish is very dear, but I sometimes have a bit of cod" 'Others also said they were still having meat, but some admitted that they bought less now because of the price.'

But not one word from Irvine about what the private means were of any of these "pensioners'. He called at Bexley, an- other wealthy suburb on the edge of London. The MP is Tory leader Edward Heath.

Irvine found that the borough offers cheap meals, including meat and fish, to those who need it. An official told him: 'We don't find pride is a problem: It is not significant'.

Earnestly seeking the truth about the plight elderly, and no doubt bearing in mind the old woman found starved to death in Manches- ter recently with her stomach full of cardboard, Irvine jour- neyed on . . . to Sevenoaks, a fabulously wealthy country town in Kent with, of course, a Tory MP, Sir John Rodgers.

Irvine reported: 'A poorly- dressed old lady, living on own, had just bought a her quarter-pound of liver. She "I manage quite snapped: well on my pension. I don't know anybody who never has meat"! He failed to say what kind of pension she was living on, or whether she voted Tory.

Determined to get at the real facts about old folk and malnutrition, Irvine consulted Tesco's, the big capitalist chain, who, it supermarket 'have just carried out seems, a survey to see if old people are avoiding meat, which very quaint way of putting it. 'Among branches ... wait for it ... 'those at Herne Bay and Bournemouth, which have a high proportion of elderly residents". The fact that a good per- centage of these special resi- are retired colonels, dents bankers, duchesses, and the seems to have like somehow escaped Irvine's attention.

Herne Bay is part of a rich Tory constituency. Bourne- both mouth has two

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Tories with huge majorities.

It is one of the richest towns ak in all Britain, thanks to the retired millionaires who settle there. Irvine continued: 'A Tesco official told me: "We did not find any downward trend in meat buying by the elderly.

I find it slightly difficult to Mr Wilson's understand statement"' Armed with the statistics of beef sales in Bournemouth, the good bourgeois can ease his troubled mind. Concluding his fearless in- quiry, Irvine ended: 'I could find any reason why a not pensioner should completely give up eating meat and fish.

If you do, please tell your local council's Social Services Department, and it will be rectified'. Just like that! 'Evening Standard' The also did job on the a Chrysler car dispute. As a tailend piece to a story headlined Two work- defy Perkins pickets' ers which itself ignored the 5,698 of the 5,700 workers who did not defy the pickets, the 'Standard' reported the crashing through the Chrysler picket lines at 2 a.m. of with picket-busting lorries, one man assaulted and other pickets injured. This very important story was run without any headline, an inside page, and with on nothing to draw attention to it whatsoever. Other papers the following morning were forced to make it front-page news because of the serious new situation it had created. Many reports sharply critical of the were American-owned management 'gangster' tactics. for their The next day, the 'Stand- ard' led the front page with 'Let's stop this car violence —Mayor calls peace talks'.

When violence is done by the capitalist class to work- ers, the 'Standard' does not want to know about it. • a reformist When mayor calls on workers to forget the injury, turn the other cheek, and love the boss, the 'Stand- ard' promptly makes it the front-page news! Below: Chrysler workers survey overturned lorries, spliling out 'black' engines which were sent crashing through picket Ines.

'WORK THE MEN

A Lancashire reader has sent us a clipping from a local newspaper of 1913. Farmworkers in the area were then on strike for higher wages, the intro- duction of overtime pay (after 14 hours a day in the fields!), recognition union, of their and shorter hours on Satur- days. The farmer-employers' atti- tude reflects the 'good old days' to which present employers look back with much nostalgia. (EVENTS on local farms took a new turn this week when labourers issued were by with an ultimatum the farmers' association. The move is the latest in a long dispute and more over shorter hours money demanded the by WOrKeIS. At a meeting held last Thurs- day, Mr T. Ramsbotham, chair- of tarmers spoke council, the against actions men and sug- tne gested a firm stand against their actions. With regard to shortened hours Saturdays it was on agreed that the men should be 'tit bit' but the given Inls farmers refused point blank to Workers' recognize the Union saying it existed only to disrupt conditions now existing many farms. on The men would turn out very happy if left alone to their task.

The demand for more money was turned down point blank Above: Strike meeting in Lanca- shire, 1913. Farm workers won half - holiday Saturday, 6d an hour for overtime work and union recognition. after shouts of 'robbery'. It was reasoned that old men were not worth as much as the young so that over a life time in the fields the money paid to labourers evened out a fair deal. was added that farmers could ill afford to be 'splashing out on wage increases for a menial task. Potato farmers claimed they were up to three weeks behind with cropping and that men who could not work should not be paid, and as for over- time pay, the men worked less after 14 hours and yet they wanted more money. The farmers' meeting also noted the 'grand living condi- tions' enjoyed by farm workers.

And yet, the meeting felt, the men follow their union leaders towards a life of tur- moil and strife after such happy years. The farmers said they hoped that the men would, at the last, make the right decision. But at Liverpool today, the men remained firm against the masters who they said were trying to treat them like a gang of 'woollybacks' and fool them into making a settled claim of little value. The union standpoint was quite definite on the problem.

Men would not return to work until all their demands had been met and they were happy.

Leaders claimed that farmers wanted to work men until they 'dropped', for little or no money.

STALINIST LIES, BASIC RIGHTS

AND HISTORICAL TRUTH

Correspondence between Jack Gale, News Editor Workers Press, and George Matthews, Editor 'Morning Star'.

Correspondence between Jack On May 17 and June 21 Workers Press printed letters from Mr Monty Johnstone of the British Communist Party. A reply to Johnstone's first letter was published in Workers Press on May 22, 23, 24 and 25. His second letter was ans- wered by Cliff Slaughter, Central Committee member of the Socialist Labour League, in Workers Press on June 22, 23, 25, 26 and 27.

Monty Johnstone, as his letters show, is an unrepent- ant defender of Stalinism and a bitterly hostile opponent of Trotskyism, which is repre- sented in Britain by the Socialist Labour League, a section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. we granted Nevertheless, him the right to express his views in our paper, just as we exercised our right to answer him. the something This is 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 challenged them to do that. On Thursday, June 21, News Editor Jack Gale our George to Mr wrote Matthews, editor the 'Morning Star' as follows: 17, On Thursday May Workers Press published a letter from Mr Monty John- tone, a prominent member of British Communist Party. the We understand you were preparing to publish that letter •Morning Star' under in the the mistaken impression that it would be refused However, in the interests of democratic expression of opposing political views which are of importance to the work- Workers Press not ing class, only published Mr Johnstone's first letter but also a subse- quent letter from him. The second letter appeared in our paper on Thursday June 21.

We are prepared to publish the views of anyone concerned the problems of with the working class. Had we received a letter from yourself, it would have been given the same at- tention. Cliff Slaughter, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League, has now drafted a letter on the subject: 'That the policies of the British Communist Party are derived from the policies of Stalinism'. Cliff Slaughter's letter is the same length as the one from Monty Johnstone which we published on June 21. Are you prepared to publish 'Morning this letter in the Star' , as we published Monty Johnstone's letters in Workers Press? We await your reply. Matthews' reply reveals once again that the Stalinists continue to deny freedom of in their columns expression to Trotskyists. The reason is simple-they to do otherwise. are afraid The mountain of lies piled up against Trotskyism and Trotskyists over almost half a century by the Stalinists cannot stand for a moment against honest criticism. Thus, the Stalinists have to make 'n Jack Gale, News Editor Workers An exposu By W. Wainwrigl the most desperate excuses to justify their refusal to grant the same rights to Cliff Slaughter as Workers Press gave to Monty Johnstone. On June 22, Matthews re- plied to Comrade Gale's let- ter as follows. Thank you for your letter of June 21. Monty Johnstone wrote his letters to you because you printed a series of lies about him. With regard to the letter which you say Cliff Slaughter has drafted, but which you do not enclose, we have no in- tention of giving him a free hand to tell lies about us in our columns. That Stalinists should com- plain of Trotskyists telling lies about them a monu- mental inversion of historical truth. Accordingly Jack Gale sent George Matthews a second attention letter, drawing his to the political writings of his colleague, 'Morning Star' assistant editor William Wainwright: Thank you for your letter of June 22. I note that you consider Monty Johnstone to be entitled to space in Workers Press be- cause you claim we told 'lies' about him, but that you refuse to give space to Cliff Slaughter in the 'Morning Star'. You are well aware of course that for almost 50 years a steady stream of Stalinist lies about Trotskyists and Trotsky- ism has poured forth from the Yorkers Press, and George Matthews exposure of Trotskyist disrupt being organised in Britain nwright Left: George Matthews, editor of the 'W colleague. assistant editor, William Wain of the pamphlet entitled 'Clear out Hitle Stalinist Press in Britain as throughout the world. In particular, may I remind you of a pamphlet issued in August 1942 by the British Communist Party and written by William Wainwright, pre- assistant editor of the sent 'Morning Star"? Entitled 'Clear out Hitler's agents', Wainwright's pamph- let had this to say of Trotsky- ists: There is a group of people in Britain masquerading as socialists in order to cover up their fascist activities _• They are called Trotskyists •.. You've heard of the Fifth Column. The Trotskyists are their allies and agents in the Workers Press, Sat atthews, Editor Morning Star'.

disruption of the 'Morning Star'. Right: Matthews' liam Wainwright, who is also the author r out Hitler's Agents' (shown above).

ranks of the working class.

The Home Guard has been taught a quick way to deal with enemy paratroopers and spies. You must train yourself to round up these other more cunning enemies whom on Hitler depends to do his work for him in Britain. This book' is a simple training manual.

It will explain to you the tactics of the strange war is waging in Hitler your factory? Wainwright lied not only about the British Trotskyists but about Trotsky and two- thirds of the Central Commit- tee of the Bolshevik Party which led the Russian Revolu- tion. Press, Saturday June 30, 1973 PAGE 5 Trotsky was a Russian who gathered around him an un- scrupulous gang of traitors to spying, sabotage, organize wrecking and assassination in the Soviet Union •.. They wormed their way into import- ant army positions, working- class organizations, even government posts. They plot- ted with the Nazis to hand over large tracts of their country once they had weak- ened it sufficiently to make its defeat quite certain are Hitler's Trotsky's men men. They must be cleared out of every working-class organization in the country.'

Wainwright then stressed that Trotskyists must not be permitted their to express point of view-a position to which you clearly still adhere: 'Be on the alert for the Trotskyist disrupters. These people have not the slightest right to be regarded as workers with an honest point of view.

They should be treated as you would a Nazi. Clear them out of every working-class organ- ization.' Finally, Wainwright ex- plained: 'What to do with the Trotskyists', in a clear appeal to misguided workers to silence and physically assault Trotskyists — a tactic which Communist Party members sought to carry out vigorously: 'First: Remember that the Trotskyists are no longer part of the working-class move- Second: Expose every ment. Trotskyist you come into con- tact with. Show other people where his ideas are leading.

Treat him as you would an open Nazi. Third: Fight against • Trotskyist who has got every himself into union branch, local Labour Party or Co-op. Expose him and see that he is turned out.?

These, Mr Matthews, are real lies! William Wainwright has never retracted a single word of that pamphlet, which every honest worker and com- munist now knows to have been a tissue of lies from beginning to end. Yet your distaste for 'lies' does not prevent you working alongside William Wainwright every day of your life. This simply reveals you as Stalinist moral humbug a anxious to appear as a latter- day liberal. What has changed is not the desire of Stalinists to lie about Trotskyism its and historical role in fighting for the principles of Leninism against Stalinism—both before since the Khrushchey and revelations of 1956—nor their wish to isolate the Trotskyists by unscrupulous and dishonest methods. What has changed is their ability to get away with it.

We repeat our request that you print the letter of our Central Committee member Cliff Slaughter, thus extending to him the same facilities of democratic expression of views within the workers' movement as we extended to Monty Johnstone. Matthews' ability to live with lies is documented. The real reason for closing the columns of the Stalinist Press to Cliff Slaughter, as to any other Trotskyist, remains a fear, not of lies, but of truth.

We repeat our challenge to the Stalinists to publish Slaughter's letter. We know that if they continue to refuse to do this, many people with- in their own ranks will begin to question their restons

TRANSFORM THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

INTO THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday June 30, 1973

MARX

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of ex- change and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeoisie and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society. In these crises a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity-the epidemic of over-production. Society sud- denly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.

The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, which they they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by forced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons -the modern working class-the proletarians.

The Communist Manifesto 1848.

LENIN

The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the 20th century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realize the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the 'lower classes' do not want to live in the old way and the 'upper classes' cannot carry on in the old way that the revolution can triumph. This truth can be expressed in other words: revolution is impossible with- out a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and the ex- ploiters). It follows that, for a revolution to take place, it is essential, first, that a majority of the workers (or at least a majority of the class-conscious, thinking, and politically active workers) should fully realize that revolution is necessary, and that they should be pre- pared to die for it; second, that the ruling classes should be going through a governmental crisis, which draws even the most backward masses into politics (symptomatic of any genuine revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the work- ing and oppressed masses-hitherto apathetic-who are capable of waging the political struggle), weakens the government, and makes it possible for the revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it.

•"Left-wing" Communism — an Infantile Disorder', Volume 31 of Lenin's "Collected Works'. 1920.

Workers Press, saturday June 30, 1973 PAGE T

TROTSKY

The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a

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historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat.

proletarian revolution has The economic prerequisite for the already in general achieved the highest point of fruition that can be reached under capitalism.

Mankind's productive forces stagnate.

Already new inventions and improvements fail to raise the level of material wealth. Conjunctural crises under the conditions of the social crisis of the whole capitalist system inflict ever heavier deprivations and sufferings upon the masses. Growing unemployment, in its turn,

BASIC

deepens the financial crisis of the state and undermines the unstable monetary system. Democratic regimes, as well as fascist, stagger on from one bankruptcy to another.

The bourgeoisie itself sees no way out. In countries where it has already been forced to stake its last upon the card of fascism, it now toboggans with closed eyes towards an economic and military In the historically-privileged countries, i.e., catastrophe. innoce where the bourgeoisie can still for a certain period permit itself the luxury of democracy at the expense of national accumulations (Great Britain, France, United States, etc.), all of capital's traditional parties

DEMOCRATIC

are in a state of perplexity bordering on a paralysis of will. ...

All talk to the effect that historical conditions have not yet 'ripened' for socialism is the product of ignorance or conscious de- ception. The objective prerequisites for the proletarian revolution have not only 'ripened', they have begun to get somewhat rotten.

RIGHTS

Without a socialist revolution, in the next historical period at that, a catastrophe threatens the whole culture of mankind. The turn is now to the proletariat, ie. chiefly to its revolutionary vanguard. The historical crisis of mankind is reduced to the crisis of the revolu- tionary leadership. Transitional Programme adopted by the founding conference of the Fourth International in 1938.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday June By ROYSTON BULL Jack Jones leader of the Transport and General Workers' Union lobbied Labour leaders to per- suade them not to sup- port the May I stoppage for fear of turning it into a General Strike. For months, and without making any secret of it, Jones has been going around saying: 'We must head off the revolution? Jones is pushing the most ideo- reactionary corporatist logy within his own union by his policies for co-partnership with the capitalist class in industry as permanent a solution to the class struggle.

Hugh Scanlon, the engineers' president, has made himself notorious for advocating • a corporatist deal with Heath accepting the Common Market, th the pay laws, and the Indus- trial Relations Act in return for some trivial concessions.

It is an utterly false jibe to accuse the Socialist Labour League of calling Jones and Scanlon enemies of the work- ing class, or the main enemy instead of the ruling class. No such thing. What Jones and Scanlon do i represent is the most effective expression of bourgeois- ideological influence within the workers' movement. They have

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done the things listed. Workers Press has not made them up. Because they talk 'left' and make militant gestures from time to time, they are the valuable prop formism. They provide a price- 'left' cover less for une most reactionary moves by the TUC, such as thẹ secret and now Tory talks with the open about continuing governilent the state contro of wages into Phase Three. Workers kept isolated These actions are not errors, the of but deliberate moves convinced reformists, totally hostile to revolution. The Communist Party's sup- Scanlon port „for Jones and is the hallmark of Stalinism's counter-revolutionary role.

Ramelson challenges the the 1972 SLL's position on building workers' strike and the 1973 miners' pay dispute. But it was the Stalinists the role. played reactionary They allowed the building union leaders to avoid calling a national strike. Even now, the Stalinists are still trying to fob the building workers off with a policy over the 'lump' will keep which from a them away decisive confrontation with the ployers and the government standing behind them. A selective strike campaign employer against one means another long haul which will not lead to a decisive con- clusion, but which will exhaust and fragment the men's deter- mination to fight, just as happened in the pay struggle.

What workers are asking is isolated long why repeat strikes, such as those by miners and bullding workers in 1912, to win gains which have since been eroded by inflation (and from being prevented are repeated by the pay laws) when a General Strike by all workers could, in half that Joe Gormley, right-wing president of the out how Gormiey's statement of aimed directly at the Stalinists and 'lef ers strike of 1972. The Stalinists allow to avoid calling a national strike.

time, get rid of the Tory government responsible for workers' difficulties? It was precisely this question that was in miners' minds in 1973. What made them ballot against strike action was not 'reactionary role' the of the SLL, as Ramelson has it, but the miners' grave doubts about the chances of defeating the government in view of Jones' and Scanlon's attitudes to the General Strike and the Com- munist Party's dogged support for their positions, echoed by the Stalinists on the NUM executive. What miners' president Joe Gormley said about either declaring a General Strike or else accepting Phase Two was generally correct, as has been borne out by the facts, what- ever his motives for saying it.

The real disservice to the working class was not Gorm- ley's words or their being prominently reported in the Workers Press, but the con- fusion sown by the Stalinists, well documented, that Phase Two could be, and was being, beaten by pure militancy. This deception completely disarmed the working class. put as victory It was not the Workers Press 'parading Gormley as a hero' (untrue) which 'immobilized miners and the provided ammunition to the right wing in the railway and other unions to follow the miners' example' as Ramelson the has it, but dressing up by the 'Morning Star' of the gasmen's defeat as a partial victory. Following the NUM execu- tive meeting, Workers Press said: 'Gormley makes a stand then runs away' and stated: 'Gormley is clearly walking away from a repeat of last year's mighty strike by the miners' and 'Gormley, a pro- minent member of the Labour Party executive, quickly ex- plained the reasons for his own less than full-hearted call to arms'. Workers Press concluded: 'Having stated the case clearly, the reformist leader then failed on the crucial test. What kind of leadership will he and his colleagues give to the working class in such a confrontation • mi with the Tories? Answer:

NONE:

The front-page article the same day said: 'At the end of the miners' executive, right- wing president Joe Gormley said the union was postponing any pay action until after the March 5 Congress. 'It's either a General Strike or nothing, Gormley said.

'So he is telling the miners to hold off for a month during which the Tories will be blast- ing against the gasworkers, hospital workers and lorry drivers day in and day out in the capitalist Press' The next day, Workers Press wrote: 'Into this situation Joe Gormley, the miners' president, lent of the NUM. Workers Press pointed t of 'General Strike or nothing' was s and 'lefts' • Above: The building work- ists allowed the building union leaders ory has injected "blunt some talking". 'Gormley is a notorious right winger. 'He has said that the situ- ation facing the trade unions is either a General Strike or nothing. His statement is aimed directly_ at the Stalinists and 'lefts' like Lawrence Daly on his own executive as well as the TUC. 'He is whipping them into line in anticipation of the collapse on March 5' The charge 'parading Gorm- ley hero' vintage as is Stalinist falsification. gasworkers' strike, On the the 'Morning Star' wrote of being 'crucial concessions wrung from the Gas Corpora- tion' and its editorial stated: "Their industrial action has made a considerable dent in Heath's fraudulent incomes policy.' A seven-week strike in order to win a few odd coppers above the Phase Two norm could be calculated to decide all right- wing union leaders that it was not worth the trouble. The refusal of the Com- munist Party to utter one word of criticism of the TUC, or Jones and Scanlon, for their not offering to lift a finger to help the gasmen despite all 'left' talk about how the important it was to do so, convinced the miners and most workers that a complete sell- out over Phase Two was on the way. And so it has turned out.

And the betrayals are still continuing with Phase Three talks at Downing Street, which the 'Morning Star' has deliber- ately covered up for by calling them an 'error of judgement'.

Acquiescence in Jones and Scanlon's collaboration with the Tories, with permanent apologies editorial in the columns of the 'Morning Star' will not be the end of the matter; things will, and have already, become much more serious. Eventually, it will lead to a complete capitulation to the right wing and the corporate state. Already, because of further surrenders to the pressure of bourgeois ideology operating in the labour movement, a number of trade unions have ing begun witch-hunts against on militants. And now has come the final bitter irony, the persecution of the Stalinists themselves in a union where they could not have gone out of their way to be more placatory to the reformists — Tom Jackson's Union of Post Office Workers.

The post workers' leader has accused the Stalinists of plan.

ning a left-wing takeover. It isn't true. But the pattern of capitula- tion to the right wing and reformism has been often repeated in Stalinist history and always with disastrous results to themselves and unfortunately to the rest of the working class well. as Hitler's Germany is only the famous example, but most there are many others. The Communist Party is all set to repeat the pattern in Britain in 1973. The con- be just as • could sequences grave as Germany 1933. The crisis of capitalism is forcing the Tories inexorably towards the necessity of ruling through a corporate state. These developments make a challenge by the working class to the Tories for state power unavoidable. The defeatist politics of Stalinism must be eradicated from the workers movement.

This challenge must take the form of a demand for an end with the Tory to all talks government and instead mobil- ize a campaign to creáte the necessary industrial and poli- tical conditions to force the discredited Heath regime to resign from office. These demands must now become the policy of every trade union.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

'Every effort is made to ensure that applicants are well-balanced and able to cope well with stress. There is no room for the "head- strong" type, or those that are liable to overreact to any difficult situations' You might be pardoned for thinking that the above description is re- cruitment material for nurses. Or preachers. It is in fact an extract from a New Scotland Yard circular on the development of the Special Patrol Group, the sin- of the ister armed branch police. Would the Yard describe Pcs Stanley Conley or George Burrows as unlikely to 'over- to any difficult situa- react tion'? On February 20 last Conley and Burrows, both top SPG men, raced to India House in Strand, London, where they shot and killed two teen- Pakistanis, Mohammed age and Basharat Hanif Hussain Hussain, cousins from Wat- ford. Conley, who has since been proclaimed as some kind of 'hero' in the Fleet Street Press and by the coroner who inves- tigated the two deaths, told reporters: 'I don't think my hand was shaking too much. It couldn't have been, could it? My shot went where it was aimed. I caught him straight through the heart. 'When he fell I thought nothing but relief. It wasn't until five seconds later I real- ized his gun wasn't real. I went up and took it off him.

He was still wearing his mask he was still alive. He and didn't say anything, but he looked at me and he looked surprised.' Meanwhile, another

SPG

member was having a slightly more difficult time coping with the situation. He came out of the High Commission sup- ported by two colleagues.

They helped him to a wall. He leaned against it looking pale.

Then he was sick. This weak-stomached fellow is clearly not the type of 'well- balanced' individual that the SPG wants. It is to be hoped that he has since been re- moved to helping old ladies cross the road! Meanwhile, more detailed information about the SPG has surfaced. It was first under discussion as early as 1964, the year the Wilson gov- ernment came to office. Accor- ding to the Yard statement: "The then deputy commis- Mr Douglas Webb, sioner, CVO, OBE, asked the research and planning branch to study the possibility of a group of uniformed officers using their own transport and communi- cations that could be organ- ized for preventative patrolling of estates subject to hooligan- ism and housebreakings? police order calling for applicants was published on January 26, 1965, and it be- came operational on April 26, 1965—with the full approval of the then Labour Home Sec- retary, Sir trank soskice.

Its inaugural strength was 96, including four inspectors and 12 sergeants. Today the organization has than more doubled its strength to 204 and that's a conservative figure given by the Yard. head of the SPG The throughout its eight years' his- tory has been deputy assistant commissioner, John Gerrard in charge of A the man department operations. It also boasts a superintendent, eight inspectors and 18 police ser- geants. Backed by this consider- able authority, the SPG has developed into a roving, free- lance organization with wide- ranging powers. In his annual report, the new Police Com- missioner, Sir Robert Mark, said the SPG's duties covered 'missing persons, combating soccer hooligans, aiding CID in house-to-house inquiries, aiding Serious Crime Squads, as well as combating reported terrorism'. went out of his way Mark to dispel public anxiety about this outfit, nicknamed in the Yard as the 'Cent • Commitment'. Il s an We've got to have kınas ol reasons. 1 emergencies arise. . tlon that it is"an. of men" is nonsens the same them in the Yard Press "There "Special" about They are portomel ong policeman's job tion of the perty and the detection of Yet the stu ca. out at any time of night and in less th More than 200 arn Ists, in and out of civilian clothes be deployed can gencies'. Average age of S is 31 years and ave of service is bers are expected t 24 hours a day, se week. •If any officers c tain the professio high standards they asked to Press release says. This means ot the group s m out each year-on They operate fro of London: headqu Hounslow and the Whetstone, are Balham, Caledoniar 1972 the in "14 gaged ments' mature and 166 oth this, according to t ordinary mere doing an ordinary job'. We don't The Dru 1S force whose known and countability The defence zero. democratic rights o class means th ing outfits s of these working class insidious he 'Central London emergency reserve. to have them for all easons. All sorts of es arise. Any sugges- t is "an armed body ; nonsense. It isn't. theme is echoed release: really nothing this group. merely ordinary ordinari mostly walk- reets for the protec citizen and pro- the prevention and crime' SPG can be called , time of the dav ol an hour. in less than 200 armed special- d out of uniform, in othes and unitorms. in 'emer- age of SPG officers and average length Mem- years. ‹pected to be on call a day, seven days a officers cannot main- professionalism and of the group asked to leave, the that one third get enDers one in three. erate from six areas : headquarters is at and the sub-districts Leytonstone aledonian Road an‹ SPG was en 14 divisional assign undisclosed 166 other jobs. Sell ding to the Yard, poncemar. ordinary policeman's believe it. secret strike duties un- for its actions is : rights of the work- means the exposure that the can alerted e oen this corrupt upt ruling class Workers Press, Sat There recent get- was together in Whitehall to dis- cuss home loans. The official statement said that the minis- were Patrick present ters Jenkin, the Treasury_ Secre- tary, Paul Channon, Housing Minister, and Geoffrey Rippon, the Environment Secretary.

As a Cabinet member Rippon is the most senior minister, but his name came last. Why is this? Is Rippon losing favour because of some misdemeanour? Also noted the other day that Rippon has quit the right-wing Monday Club. Many West night-goers are End wonder- ing if this will extend to other areas of his club life, _namely Annabel's and the Berkeley Square. Tiny paragraph tucked away in the 'Sunday Telegraph' the other day caught my eye. 'Yard report on Fund' it said enigmatically. Turned out to be a reference to the marathon Scotland Yard's inquiry by Fraud Squad into the collapse of the Real Estate Fund of America. Reginald Maulding, the un- fortunate ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secre- tary, was the first president of this amazing organization.

It was run by Jerome D. Hoffman, serving two now • an Illinois prison for years in fraud. The crash mortgage occurred in December 1970 apparently an "interim' and police report has just gone to the Director of Public Prose- cutions. It just makes you think how hard-working and mercurial boys at the Yard really the are!! Give them another couple of years and the whole thing might be wrapped up...

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Press, Saturday June 30, 1973 Domestic As reported in a previous in 'Notebook', episode one 4 'Assassination' the Radio series was cancelled at the last minute. It was the episode dealing with the mur- der of Lord Cavendish in Ireland. Now the BBC bosses have again decided to shield their customers from revolutionary activity. Last Sunday's BBC 1 television repeat showing of the film on the life of the poet Shelley was cut by ten minutes.

The original film, broadcast last year, showed Shelley in Ireland in 1812 pamphleteer- ing for Irish freedom. It also an English showed him market distributing tracts protesting against the appall- ing living conditions in the new English industrial cities.

Both these scenes were omitted on Sunday. Instead the film was allowed to sink accumulated weight under an of domestic groans. There's one law for the work- ing class and another for top Tories. A worker can only get £1 plus 4 per cent under the state pay laws. But Edward du Cann, for- mer chairman of the Conser- vative Party has had a rise of £360 per week. His salary as chairman of the Cannon Assurance Com- pany (formerly International Life) has risen from £7,000 to £25,000 a year. now chairman Du Cann is of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee. The House of Commons authorities refused to allow a Labour MP to table a motion about the matter, although they had permitted one phased exactly the same terms about the proposed salary to be paid to Don Revie, Leeds United's manager, if he had gone to Everton. Tourism sunshine, Enjoy the the beaches, the ancient Buddhist ruins. Thus the posters entreat tourists to savour the attrac- tions of South Vietnam. Yes, South Vietnam! This grisly billing is finding some success in two countries -the United States and Japan. Already a wave of ex- US army officers have been seen combing through the de- vastation with wives and kids.

'Gee, Pop, this is a gas!'

The Japanese are less osten- tatious. They wander about picking up war mementoes which fetch fantastic prices back home. Here's a sentimental little you up. Poor story to cheer Louis Freedman old was at home one day wondering what to do with himself when the postman arrived. In one letter was a cheque for £3,000. It was the repay; ment of a debt which he had long written off. What would he do with the money? Mr Freedman decided to buy his wife aracehorse. Lovely gesture. It won more £30,000 in stake money than —which no doubt helped to cheer their lives. It's up chickenfeed to the Freedmans, of course. His hrm, Land Securities, is Britain's No 1 property-owning group with assets of £1,028m.

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12.10 hallengs. 37 Film. Sport. Pias London. 3.05 Flim COVENTRY firemen are days, sists _ of two nights, one rest day, then facing a threat to their days, two nights working conditions under rest days reorganization of re- 'We would gional council's fire bri- clearly be losing days over period if gades into metropolitan Birmingham areas. system. A STRIKE by the 30 clerical staff the union executive Pete Murphy, chairman is attempting to force man —25 women and five men—at the of the Conley branch of ballot through

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in all nve the explained why Jerby factory of Prestige Limiter regarding statione there deep apprehen- Birmingham method as triggered a white-collar cam sion among Coventry hire- "In addition would men. paign for equal in the East also lost i in our pay We leave. have 21 days 'Basically, Midlands. WC Walil whick includes three stop on the auty system We prior and after The who have been on strike have achieved This also days women, fire since Monday, stations were indignant to learn Or 17 days which includes twc picket line Thursday's attack • Stourbridge on the days after holiday. We would therefore and West Bromwich. Salford Electrical Instruments.

The 100 'Our duty system con- strike per solid. Many Lose e are negotiating two days' holiday sists of three days, three been at the ones nave Tuned back nights of the technical and supervisory section of the and then three days days four extra Engineering Union Workers rest. We work nine hours or expected days and 15 hours on nights.

the granted. We would lose

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Celica WOrK. union) East Midlands "The Birmingham well ‹cienca system over a three-week cycle con- the method. object government • collective gaining. If we are prevented from getting a free having law Call b says we can nave. clearly companies can reduce the WOMEN WORKERS at a Burnley car-components factory are male-female differential by one- fighting a management speed-up bid. They say the owners of 1973. This Lulla allioullls the factory, the big Joseph Lucas group, want to increase their Prestige. But the come only awarded 50p towards production quotas by almost a third.

pany, equal pay. The dispute is at the group's 'We for the extra Eastern Avenue factory, where taking home an average of £1.50 £1.20. Our members are resolute.

200 women on a week less than previously. walked They back until Thursday in sympathy with 34 the complies with the unbally others who make switch-gear would make no oficial comment government. t govern- The r British-Leyland's Morris but confirmed there was dis for ment-they will have to stick values. pute ove piecework with it" Marina. 22 On Wednesday day-shift Mr Gillivant strike strikers management

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combine, at After internal The following Leicestershire, next morning factory-gate meeting, it was saic negotiation figure was that there discontent Negotiations also dead- But thev are and that locked Barford plant of it is Phosically impossible to do Belton, British-Leyland at near over wome were •TeC

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being treated like schoolchildren they All the women say that Lincolosure There immediate talks the Swiss-owned British Manu- are naving to do more work 1o1 facturing Research, Grantham. less money. Some claim they are involving une elstoc secretarie. of the engineers' union and the and Municipal Workers. General Home Office picket over Allan Robinson, ot ine Amal. amated Union of Engineering yesterday Lull been reached which, in the opinion o

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of the People's Rhodesian the officials, would have allowed release will picket Democracy a return to work while investiga ZOuD the surrounding The Home nice 10ohv " In pro- non or tae joo in question look Michael Far the jailing of place Farrell's case. But difficulty in contacting the Farrell 'Michael Farrell has been PD's Press offi- strikers apparently prevented the deliberately singled out, cer, was imprisoned for taking outcas makine maer recommen Niesewand, victimized part in illegal march'. to be dation yesterday. It is expected because of the sharpness of his the strikers leaflet being be put Monday. attacks on the system.' r compares tae campaiga lor Workers Press, Saturd Follyfoot. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 London. 6.05 London. 7.53 Results. 7.55 Film: The Bo • Ainna Karenina'. 10.00 London. 10.00

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Farmhouse Kirchm: Another 11.00 Addams ploring 11.30 Film: Shore' fun. 2.0 family Cartoon. 12.55 12.50 The Saint. 1.55 of Golf. 3.10 Car- Follyfoo On the line. 2.25 3.20 of the 4.40 Name 'The toon. game. Follyfoot. Golden shot. 5.35 6.05 10.00 L 'The Coventry area com- mittee has voted unani- mously not to take part in any ballot to accept the Birmingham method. 'It would be a farce be- cause the Birmingham method is also used in Dud- ley, Solihull, Wolverhamp- ton, Aldridge and Sutton Coldfield stations, which clearly outnumber Coventry and its fellow brigades. 'Coventry firemen have threatened to take militant action if we are forced to accept the outcome of the ballot. 'And finally, under the Cunningham Report into firemen's pay and conditions, the there was a national rate for all fire brigades and future on the London rate. Birm- ingham, which had a £1 plus rate, had it absorbed. TEACHERS and school students will march on Dul- London, wich College, south today to protest against 'the inequalities of the education system'. The protest is being supported by the year-old National Union of School Students. The organi- zers say: 'Dulwich College is reserved exclusively for the rich.

It has more facilities and better teachers than the nearby Kings- dale Comprehensive, even though Kingsdale has more school stu- dents than Dulwich. 'Both purpose: Kings- serve a dale to "educate" future workers into their accepting roles in society, Dulwich to educate future members of the ruling class, professions, etc.'

Some Dulwich students have joined NUSS in an attempt to expose the inequalities. 'Some of them struck on May Day and have been victimized. There has witch-hunt against been the NUSS, one of the organizers said. Saturday June 30, 1973 PAGE 11 ondon. 7.55 Sylvester. 8.00 Film: The Bounty Man'. 9.30 Smith family.

0.00 London. SCOTTISH: 10.10 Children to child- 10.40 Women. 11.10 Clapper- 11.35 Film: The Huggets Abroad'. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Golf. 1.50 Film: The Secret of My Suc- ess'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Flax- boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: Here to Eternity'. 10.00 Lon- lon. 12.05 Late call. GRAMPIAN: 12.30 Farming. 1.00 Ex- loring mind. Piano _2.00 Golf. 2.50 Film: "The Gift Golden 5.35 Follyfoot. 6.05 London. 7.55 Dame'. Hunchback of 10.00 London.

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Ellesmere Port Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday July 11 The materialist conception of History Wednesday July 18 Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Wednesday July 25 Theory and Practice of Marxism Wednesday August 1 Role of the Revolutionary Party at Civic Hall Ellesmere Port 7 p.m.

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Urges union chiefs to break conference decisions Wilson lifeline to Phase Three talks EuTE PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Jur

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR

LABOUR LEADER Harold aid of the Tories-pleading government must continue. H conference of the colliery ov Council negotiating team sho its full part in the talks.

THE ALLENDE regime in Chile was faced with civil war yester- day when two army regiments revolted and clashed with guards the presidential palace in at Santiago. The rebel troops brought up tanks and artillery and Sur- rounded the palace. Tension has been rising in Chile for some weeks and there have been many rumours of a bid for right-wing power. Allende and his Stalinist backers have opened the way for re- by their treacherous action policy which has lost the support of large sections of the working class. Cash crisis hits Peronism THE NEW regime of Presi- dent Hector Campora in the Argentine faces a budgetary crisis little more than a month after coming to power.

The budget deficit for the financial year is expected to exceed $3,000m, more than twice the previous regime's estimate.

Finance Minister, Jose Gelbard 'One told provincial ministers: great effort from the whole of the public sector will enable us to meet the challenge of a deficit which represents 12 per cent of the gross national product.'

He proposed the stock austerity remedy including cuts in govern- ment expenditure and also in of goods consumption private like furniture and other cars, durables. But provincial representatives claimed cuts would cause serious harm to the economy in their areas. The budgetary difficulties will make it impossible for the new Peronist regime to carry out its election promises. BUILDING workers at the YMCA site, Tottenham Court Road, struck London, yesterday in support of the site electrician, Patrick Fuller, who has been made redundant without any reason being given. Mr Fuller is known to have spoken out on several occasions

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WE'RE really shaken. Our fund seems to have been forgotten. Swindon branch has sent in £1. But apart from that not a penny piece. What is the answer com- rades? There has been a hard and a good fight up until now. We need to com- turday June 30, 1973

E OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

Harold Wilson yesterday rushed to the leading that the TUC talks with the tinue. He told the Douglas, Isle of Man, liery overmen's union that the General am should not be inhibited from playing No ban should be placed on the inclusion of union leaders who could play an essential part, he added.

Wilson did not directly mention the decision the Amalgamated Union of

OTI

Engineering Workers last week to bar its president, Hugh Scanlon, from taking any further part in the talks.

Nor did he refer to Wednesday's vote Harold Wilson takes the Feather line on talks.

by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and TUC to Engineering Unions to press the call off the talks altogether.

But these were clearly in his mind. words. Wilson over was delberare setting his face against the official policy of 2.5 million engineering workers and calling for DETAILS have emerg- continued class-collaboration.

ed of a British Even Wilson's undercover force which were designed to confuse and behead the squad commander with is operating in Northern anti-Tory the Military Reaction Force, mass refected in the ATEW and CSEU votes.

Ireland. It is called the charged attempt- Military Force Reaction ing to murder three civilians The unions' not be allowed to be steft Case Belfast last year. and its members travel to unscrupulous , or be The prosecution misrepresentation by the government', he said.

around in civilian vehi- that Williams 'If after the fullest consultations the gov- cles in plainclothes. Thompson with sub- continue ernment Stories secret machine gun from pass- costllid and workable rectinener group's been three unarmed have Caro the responsibility will be clearly placed where more Inan circulaling belongs-upon an obdurate and ideologic- but court case Road bus year, ally-possessed government.

Belfast evidence Williams a more In fact this definite mitted of the tortuous, picture of its modus which tricky argument is a lifeline for operandi surfaced. worked

SOOCH TO HO

Sgt Clive Williams (26), In unmarked cars in areas What the Labour leader is really saying is that chiefs unless union continue the talks at Heath's the Dicasure Tories will he wustified in hlam ing. the working class for government came power, lies flation. So they must continue with ine ana mer sosten talks if possible, strike and nowhere else. and. a deal with the Tories. Wilson attempts to kick dust Wilson places himself at the in these faces, and help workers' of a right-wing head conspiracy the a sordid deal 1 lies Halse the working the ax allist Cass CaSS With aid of the TUC leaders. when this govern- the point ment's policies lie in ruins He told the colliery there visible proof that they 'It that hope Illy can be forced to resign. neroname rean wu nor be l full Besides showing contemot for hibited from playing their the betrays ins hatred and tear, the negotiations about part in betrays hatred and fear Three, Stage that bar unions and of the actermined sureles will be placea on tne inclusion ol Chrysler, Perkins and trade union leaders who can play Diesels relerborough, workers have been called for Monday.

an essential part in these talks.'

other battling the rocketing living and National officials of the engi- cost This is a charter for the Tories unions socca us mine lactories. liccills aull will ve ne move Every working-class family of the labour movement and the from the company. the responsibility for imposition of the corporate state. knows that Just over and a half weeks repudiated by 36-per-cent rise be

LIC

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the Perkins living, imposed since Inis trade unionist. plants and locked out 5,700 workers. This followed an overtime ban to back a parity demand. Deputy Jeff Cain said picketing continuing al the gates and the lines were being respected by lorries.

The question of cleaning contractor who was breaking the picket WOlte nave about safety provisions on the considered later. At Massey Ferguson's, where Relations with management , 2,500 the workers are paid more.

have been deteriorating gener assembly men will be lala of on on some time, Monday while the annual stock- he claims. taking gets underway. i here al c shift Fuller is not alven his already 750 day and night job back on Monday, he strike lay offs. Supplies from Perkins have nearly dried up. will continue. Patrick Fuller

T. BAILEY FORMAN,

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He said he saw a man carrying a revolver stand- ing at the terminus. Another man opened fire on the car and when Williams returned fire he saw two of the men fall. He fired a burst of ten rounds. He was acquitted on the attempted murder charges but was found guilty of maliciously wounding. THE TUC's Downing Street team—minus Hugh Scanlon— held a five-hour crisis meeting yesterday decide further to in the light of the policies engineers' union ban on Scan- lon's further attendance and the relentless rise in food prices. Victor Feather refused to meet afterwards and the Press the TUC issued •brief statement a stating that details of their pro- on the whole range of posals 'further clari- issues had been fied' and they would be getting in touch with Downing Street in the next few days to arrange a further session with Heath.

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