Workers Press no. 199

Polish scabbing in

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

More Midlands lay-offs as

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

DEPARTMENT

Em- ployment and Productivity omcials stepped in yester- British-Leyland day Coventry's trom Jaguar plant swelled the number of Midlands car- workers lad on because of the shortage of Joseph Lucas electrical com- ponents. hat me increas plies won cam and plastics for to the weeint of the mase shutdowns threatened by the end of the week Cose ors workers are can- ere- 690 Worker поди. productio being maux- hall's is hour-to-hour ared truck mini Production cut put at on wages mination through productivity dealing Grading plan at Acton? STEWARDS at the subsidi meet con hey say, it get rank and file workers

WEDNESDAY JULY 1, 1

THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

Colartwig - Gaynia

PRAND CEM

"roisht payoble by Charters" WHEN ARE the leaders of the British Commun- ist Party going to break their despicable silence and denounce the international strike-breaking activities of the Polish Stalinist government?

A week ago we asked John Parti secrelar Gollan 'Morning and George Slar ealtor Matthews declare their •DosItIon Ine Royal dockers Polish cement imported

"POLISH COALING & TRADING C. TO. *4.

IntO the Irish Republic

TRANSPORT

General during the nve-monti strike ou workers a docks yesterday Cement Ltd in Drogheda rization gens and Limerick. They have remained silent. Lord The Workers Press now be impleme sec Mor lading for the My nee Top: Kevie mere teny Thompson at 8 a ton.

until it wa sections of portworkers. begin- Theodorakis bill of lading of the France that denounces Stalinists

SPEAKING

the Camden Tor on Monday •exiled Betrayals of the ink at

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

Donegal, Eire. ACCORDING to the latesi of the French weekly Profitable Dob- Observateur, rinin. the Kussian Ambassadol Washington, has already Movilison, delivered the Soviet reply bought th i a the th 'peace plan' for the Middle hast. described with treachers leaders about for some weeks, is not a regula remember in sent use, red cent has no facilities for should be prose paper that Theo- he following lines Erith str reasone ventuallyntior tories occupied in 1967. Ponce and he sabsh 19aower that developed atte Nasser, on his side, would

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Stalinists back anti-Market Powellites their to dimen and destro, European Forced back among the trade union leader: guards suppone of the Tores involve wAfter rik weeks one E3-an are known to be Powell sug Tory govern is maint posed cor role this setlemle i for and hones Brigade

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Devlin date

BY A WORKERS PRESS

REPORTER

With tion t dock of the national 14 strike, the national por offered which mes dockers would get no at all. Erith strikers demand "jobs not redundancy' Engshave been threatened.

workers aref are now on strike 700 with, some a hom plant there on Mondaypany The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. £1000 June Virtual military dictatorship Appeal Fund tops £1,071

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•yorkers rres: Appeal rund BRITISH TROOPS clamped down an iron 186A Clapham High Street London, SW4. cordon in the working-class districts of Belfast and Derry yesterday, restoring a temporary and Work-to- makeshift 'peace' for the first time since the fighting broke out in Ulster on Friday.

rule at Traffic and people enter-

BY JOHN SPENCER

ing the Ardoyne, Bally- Westland and Bally- maccarret that nobody in N Ireland had murphy districts of Belfast

ENGINEERING

workers any real revances. were subjected to stringent He said the BBC's from Westland Heli- security searches and 'Panorama programme: copters' Hayes, Middlesex, Virtually the whole of the thousands of troops ringed reform site took the day off for now the main trouble areas. through law, the second time in three Lunk evervone will apree that But the military calm can- grievances weeks yesterday after an there are no reall hide the fact that Ireland by anybody at 11 a.m. report-back meet- brink this time.' a devastating civil war. near ing on negotiations for raulkners tacule his fellow their f4-a-week pay claim.

The rovocative jailing not shared ou servers, his Bernadette of Reginald who voted brutal behaviour yesterdays rect day that the British troops overwhe minay IOrCe Week production end in Derrv and Belfast have Cut-Dack they return split today country Into

LWO

Ther harmony could rates, working armed camps. neither to rule and banning overtime.

prosperity Further peace, ProvoCaLions order was re- protest are nOW the or a t being stored, he warned nanned

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spark 22- off a shooting war not only in Home Secrétar: Maudling the North but in the South as Stormont per-cent reduction talks James Chichester- remiet Unionist Home Affairs Min- skilled claim, dark. yesterda Faulkner night ister nounced ar would mean an over dit loss fil He also met Lieutenant Monday earnings of 8s 3d. army Coc in reland General Freeland, expected to dis.

SLIDISCL

Torms or tear-eas ana une Dos- Sibit or usine water-cannon mark rioters an in- with delible dye for later identifi- They were also thoutht likely to discuss the possibility of establishing suspected camps Pools

SPLIT DANGER

devel- oping appears to the deepeking under class

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

500 Catholic workers IT SEEMS that Wearside churchmen have not Har- triven. out of apparently been slow to learn from their St Helens col- Wolff's predomin- lana anu shipyard antiy rrotestant leagues called in during the Pilkington strike.

Monday arternoon aner toreats This time the clergy has would that they

SOOT

they stayed on the premises. seen fit to intervene in the Sandy Labounte steward strike of fitters and main- Scott-holder of the MBE for at Doxford his 'peace-keeping' efforts last tenance Co eat the breath an Alemet premier and Sunderland shipbuild- ing group. Scott said The strike entered its 17th "hopeful" normal Monday every Week alter Slides working meeting decision. teponed worker could be restored.

yesterday's Workers Press, People convicted of riotous productivity behaviour disorderly chairm Wearside of the church lace scattlines under committee on one years imprisonment Bill the aDorovee yes crady Rev taylor, alies the antonist been even romancace Stormont parliament. his Dress

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also informed that sunderland may become stormont nas 'ghost town'. the Home nice In LODGOn newsheet issued that it intends to begin arrest- parishioners of whom ing on suspicion and detaining shipyard without trial under the Special calls for ballot Powers Act. laying This Act gives wide-ranging "irresponsibility the officials. aspend what civil liber- 'Sunderland could easily be- ties exist in Ulster. come a enost town ne

DNO

hecause the present

DECISIVE

orders for ships could be with- drawn by shipowners looking ; demand To all intents and purposes elsewhere world wore force which dictatorship built by

HUTY

is depend- considerably ine mutary orced with fresh troops It frightening that the are the strikens have probably dealt a most decisive force in 1ata bow to the ruture poten te station were clean could stop the sackings and oh the Oranges preserv warned it Cannot be terr Order to stage omcials or Mrs as they do not employed Halile

LILOURI

work the conditions and closures nave which brougr rationalization of the ship- smsee our camole areas ke for special Jerrys booside strike' carry the vote tréatment. He had no words of advice and of the demand the withdrawal redun- 150 men

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those nut concession dancy issued at like the Chichester-Clark. leaders was carried Newels Chemical and Insula- unani- Une Vrange Urder nas agreed Colad to the nemor Washington mously. small who will parades scheduled However, Submarine Cables in Belfast over the workers still protest the fact Fear sals to the Tul 12 ye still me against union chat bus tares have again beer talk who Sunderland's Increased better corporauon mansport bruene per cent The big July 12 marches, acceptance 'Ol some red'un- To e tota rise to cou in three years. and most of the so-called against the The ways church, and

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ahead as proposed sackings. press, are indeed mysterious.

refore, however.

workers press Polish scabbing in More Midlands lay-offs as

D.E.P.

steps into Lucas strike

BYA WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

DEPARTMENT of Em- ployment and Productivity oncias stepdea in yester- British-Leyland day workers trom coventry s swelled the Jaguar plant number orvicanas car laid off because workers or the shortage or josepn Lucas electrical.com- ponents. а вете пері officials. he ncreas But it has for a 49-a-week • y the ma to the point Close on 10,000 Lucas the three- factory. hall's is now Dunstabile have production Production cut Lucas refuses to settle. The Formans Road strikers anotner par hombined with determinati de liush through productivity Grading plan Acton? at

STEWARDS

CAt subsidiary who has submitted 3 56 fo ® be in exist factory's ill-feeling and-file work convenor stated amite had beel include negotiate wages

WEDNESDAY JULY 1, 1970

*HE NEWSLETTER

• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

Collartwig a Garnia Av I = - Repablo of Ireland

PORTLAND CRIT

GINAL

Trict Derable by Chintana!

WHEN ARE the leaders of the British Commun- ist Party going to break their despicable silence and denounce the international strike-breaking activities of the Polish Stalinist government?

A week ago we asked Party secretary John 'Morning and editor George Star' Matthews declare their position on tne Royal dockers scotch

I POLISH COALING & TRADING CO., LT. "40

rosh cement imborted Irish Republic into the Devlin date Poress fion dockers her during five-month General strike of 750 workers at dock yea Royal group Cement Ltd in Drogheda

BY A WORKERS PRESS

the and Limerick.

REPORTER

They have remained the threatened otice work phase silent. Press dece i crisis before which pr s the Polish gov- Tom Thyll to Motile Abbes Ye ince maide out to by all Moville imporier Henry Thompson at ce a toe.

sectians of portworkers. : of scab Theodorakis after that denounces the April Stalinists Polish takers would Bet no benefit brand Portland emall was exporte

SPEAKING

o a meeting agency en Warsa боак доска Mikis Thea A months ate he over in class of the Geck work.

or thent Landed as ent April 2 t Moville, C

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

Donegap. Fire. the ACCORDING to the latest Profitable Issue ot the wrench week v 'Nouvel Observateur, Dob. thompson call named or rinin, the Russian Ambassador Importer wasnington, na. alread delivered the Soviet réply to US 'peace plan' for the though th price for cement in the frisi Middle Bast chi to the Fem to atack or Greek the Worker about tor some week. should be propose stars d facilities the polo in declarations on normally by occasional coaling Erith strikers den vesse There 'eventually' terri- tate somet Terent cupied in 1967. •black' and that scab Nasser. on his side. would

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: of the major Stalinists back anti-Market that the strikers were forced artiste velante squad Powellites cement and destroy

AS TALKS

zation ofod ropean their loads. Market, attention of Britain Forced back orkers are now on strik Anthony Barb behalt® 170 workers from At strike peks the man Shut gon were analy tore to men the third attempt are known to be towel sup * but wants the te plant there on Monday tied in resharest min Greenwich Amalgamated Engineers Go Tolling workers or astead and Richard, Briginshaw to the dangers of this organi working-clas AGE FOUR COL. g The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. E1000 June Virtual military dictatorship tops £1,071 fund our total * This yesterday's paper. oversight tor which u are sury. with the Together maxi at Mon. nincent collectoni dav evening coibic meeta well over he topf1.071-and at th of writing there is still in hand. figure in our issue of announce final Meanwhile, please give our devoted readers.

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thanks Hund. man to all our Post a donations tod Workers Press Appeal Fund iron BRITISH TROOPS clamped down an Clapham Hish Street

HOOA

London, SW4. cordon in the working-class districts of Belfast and Derry yesterday, restoring a temporary and Work-to- makeshift 'peace' for the first time since the fighting broke out in Ulster on Friday.

rule at Traffic and people enter-

BY JOHN SPENCER

ing the Ardoyne, Bally- Westland and Bally- maccarret that nobody in N Ireland had murphy districts of Belfast

ENGINEERING

workers any real gaevances. were subjected to stringent He said the BBC's from Westland Heli- 'Panorama' programme security searches and copters' Hayes, Middlesex, 'Virtually the whole of the thousands of troops ringed reform site took the day off for procramme now the main trouble areas. through ano the second time in three tolnk evervone will agree that But tee e fact that treland grievances weeks yesterday after an There are reall not hide the by anybody at Il a.m. report-back meet- brink this time' near now ing on negotiations for a devastating civil war. Haulkner's tactle ontimism The their £4-a-week pay claim.

jailing not chated other Bernadetteehaviour servers, including his tellow aot Reginald who Yesterday's voted bruta the force British troops overwhe minev over WeCK- cut-back drastic pr and Belfast have nroducton ena In Jerry return today split the Conne

JETO

There armony could so rule and bannings vertie.

day rates, working armed camps. neither prosperity Further provocations- stored, he warned. This is protect which are unaouoteary was lea ther improved heing manned • coule Spark rise with ni a chonting war noti one Home Secrétar: Maudling the North but in the South had alks Chichester- James times;

WOIK

Unionist Home Affairs Min- skilled Clark, yesterday claim, many Faulkner overal. Joss in ister would mean Lieutenant- nounced Monday night earnings of 8s 3d army CoC in N treland. reeland, General cuss even stronger forms of tear-zas and lie bus sibility of using water-cannon mark rioters with delble dye tor later icentit. cation. thought were aSO likev to discuss the possiblity of establishing military intern- camps suspected persons.

SPLIT DANGER

The big danger now devel- Ulster that working class

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

workers were 500 Catholic IT SEEMS that Wearside churchmen have not driven of Har- been slow to learn from their St Helens col- rot Walte leagues called in during the Pilkington strike.

ionady allernoo. This time the clergy has | They they staved on the premises seen fit to intervene in the Labourite bitter seward Sandy strike of fitters and main-

MBE

Scott- efforts last at. Doxford his 'peace-keeping' Tenance men Chichester-Clark in an preempt ater prenter and Sunderland shipbuild- to heal the breach. ing group. said Scott The strike entered its 17th later was 'honeful that normal SaTe Monday's 15% working conditions for every reported decision, worker could be restored.

Workers Press yesterday's Pennie convicted of Motous relent disorderly now hehaviour face minimum sentences The chairman of the church committee on Wearside affairs, approved soster day Stormone parament! James Taylor, har Unionist majority been given the his Sunderland may becoins S Home Dance i London Home 'ghost town' issued hat it intends to begin arrest.

of whom parishioners many Ine on susaicion shiovard without trial under the Special are workers ballat an calls for a secret Powers Act return to work This Act gives wide-ranging irresponsibility shop the government to powers to officials. suspend what tew civil aber. ties exist in Ulster.

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drawn by shipowners looking ; demand To all intents and purposes else were ships built cictatorshin now have their xists in Ulster work force which is depend- The military. considerably able. that reintorced with tresh troons dealt a are the most decisive force in the situation there. He did eit of Sunderland: sackingett Potentialourse, men- They have taken up a clear could stop. and tho preserving the wight tion the prosperity' warned cannot be not they do to of the Orange Order to stage the officials or MPs 10 per cent

WIDO

provocative through the marched the unemoloved in conditions aren areas. and have Catholi~ which we work?, closures througr nit amid singled out Catholic areas like of ship- rationalization the Bogside special vote the yards. carry tréatment. strike and demand He made words oadvice withdrawal factor! redun- concession closures, Chemical 150. issued dancy Chichester-Clark. leaders Newels War hington veekend carried agreed wals ion Company mous v. er, Jubmarine Cables who wil add to the unemploy However, in Belfast over the next ment rate place face fight workers Nor did he • nnotect the hact days the officials rew part re- stis mal union that hue taras have noan Keen hearsals for the Tulv 12 Bovne talk Terms anniversary. redundanci pay' corporation transport, bringing 'berter and acceptance redun- the total rise to 200 per anma The big July 12 marches dancies' instead of organizing in three years. most of he so-called re- all-out fight against the The of church, and calsals a dead proposed press, are indeed mysterious.

efore. however.

PAGE TWO

MY KNOWLEDGE of Ned Kelly, the Australian folk hero is limited. He came from Irish stock who were deported to Australia, he fell foul of the English police in Vic- toria and became a wanted man with a price on his head. He wrote an extraordinary letter protesting his inno- cence and finally shot it out with the police single handed, clad head to foot in a suit of iron which he made for the purpose. He was hanged. Such information is con- tained also in Tony Richard- son's film 'Ned Kelly' - pre- cisely that and no more. On Kelly's side Richardson attempts a sym- pathetic portrait, that is to say he is on Kelly's side. In some sense it is refresh- ing to see a film which gives no quarter to the police and authority. Richardson is with the outcast and the rebel.

Yet the film leaves merely an impression of perfunctoriness, of shallowness. It slips by at the regulation number of frames per second, in stunning colour, but as someone once said of Holly- wood, there is less in it than meets the eye. The Australian landscape is always swirling in mists, the lens catches only bloodshot sunsets or sunrises, driving rain and at one point snow. It is the effect that predominates.

The characters merely tell the plot to each other. They are recounting history and not really living it for us.

No relationship between the characters is explored. They say simple lines to each other which are merely devices to push on to the next bit of "filmic' action, whether it be horse-stealing, a gun fight or a dance.

'NED KELLY'

starring MICK JAG directed by TON

RICHARDSON

It has really then the intel- lectual content of a series of TV commercials, spectacular in many ways, but completely uninvolving. If you read Kelly's letter, and I am relying on memory here, even though parts of it are quoted in the film, a com- pletely different kind of Kelly emerges from the one that Mick Jagger plays and Richard- son films. It is a passionate, rich and semi-literate outcry of indigna- tion, hatred and contempt for authority and the police.

Kelly was obviously a man absolutely rooted in the tradi- tion of Irish struggle, with all the heroism, colour, ingenuity and adventurism of his past.

'I have been wronged!' he cries. I give warning!' he threatens. He has an inspired insanity, bred out of oppression and hatred, that can drive him to take on the English police single-handed. It's his fanaticism and wild improvization that makes him interesting, not simply as a figure from the past, but as part and parcel of a tradition of Irish rebellion that to this day is being fought out in the streets of Belfast and Derry with all its heroic weakness.

Opportunist In this sense Richardson has a completely opportunist rela- tionship to his central hero, and his choice of Mick Jagger for the role reflects this.

He seeks to give a con- temporary relevance to Ned Kelly by emphasizing the anti- authoritarianism of the modern protest of youth. He chooses the personality and history of Jagger to do this for him in one leap and it fails abysmally, not because Jagger is inadequate as a performer.

I would defy any actor to give a comprehensive perform- ance because the possibility

'NED KELLY'

ing MICK JAGGER rected by TONY

RICHARDSON

simply does not exist in the script or the treatment. All the characters are ani- mated shadows that. move across the screen and no more.

To reduce Ned Kelly to a figure of pop protest is to mis- cast history for purely modish, opportunist reasons. Richardson's inability to grasp the true significance of a Ned Kelly is not so much in question here. For that he would have to be a Marxist and at this his- torical moment there are few creative artists who have that understanding. I am not there- fore concerned with crimes of omission. Middle class But more important is a certain mood among the middle class that this film represents. It's the kind of confused irresponsibility from the side lines, glib provocations to adventures, a sort of petulant 'damn them all'. This mood was very clear amongst middle-class political tendencies throughout the elec- tion. And it is dangerous.

It is dangerous in N Ireland and it is dangerous here.

As a tendency posturing at this moment on the left it has direct social and economic links with the frustrations with monopoly capital and state authority that the petty bourgeoisie on the right are now voicing. In a sense what both fear are organized working-class action and discipline. The rebel posturing at one moment in a changed crisis situation can easily be trans- formed into its opposite, some form of idiot socialism, look- ing for the great man to put it all right. Available from NEW PA The failed adventures of today are the preparations for tomorrow's retreat.

WORKERS PRESS

By Brian Moore Leon Trotsky Where Is Britain Going? Available from NEW PARK ON, SLIT 186A Clapham High St., MANY READERS will have Nicholas-ox been struck by the similarity clearer or Labours between the statements of Mr Harry Nicholas after last football House Wednesday's Party the carpet. So stiles, please T needs on polling Executive and Sir Alf Ramsey very on his return from the World Cup the following day. provided " he that skill and necessary enter AnD Played with re ominations campalen had LaCOD- don't think we can learn Brazilians. anything from the seams competito the one hought the constituencies coan it had ever been declared was Sir ALF Nicholas outside pist

NICHOLAS

It is fair to say that England IT IS JUST 20 years since the Korean war broke out in 1950. y the Chinese Red Arney, later joined by the Chinese the against ara United Nations, The Britich labour imperialism people and the Chinese Revolu- As the Cold War began to ho n be one expesieure for which ive, a major bringin ment to victory in You might ent of 19451951 would deal a recent series in the Socialist (May the Trotskvist movement on pre.

issue. cise v supporters who agreement the KOREAN WAR: Missed out led by Haston, decided that Soviet Union the was y had workers' mistake which 'state capi- with the reat anti-imperialist later corrected, they Fenner Brockway wel Spring to the fore lished an editorial According to this line, there.

in the Korea fore, supporting magazine the conflict betwee on drink deer for the unc 1970, 15, with its usual mperialism. Cliff was giving ver devotion socialis this principles, eft' reacone for taking a neutri tries Now avoid the question altogether. was very comfort. line €8,000 a year he gets as indus- IT'S A bitter blow to lose and an Aner at in his former another flat in his former adviser to your job at the age of 55. It Courtaulds. constituency. comes even harder if you had before Workers Press When Courtaulde chairman readers s cash Lord Kearton's salary was an- of la cha been getting a salary keep poor atter destitution, £3,250 a year. stil ha. o reassure vou: ne finish, for Mr George No wonder memoirs to advance Brown thinking nromised ling £20,000. Not white to other executivec that his ¡aguar In fact he the meantime, might So maybe Rrown is homeless he be able to scrape along on the on the bread line after all haste worry ahout his fat near

Wednesday July 1, 1970 productivity deals offer period and the If available re- sources of nature, and that for more money greater there is other source of no output — isn't this a fair value on the earth. enough bargain? The worker himself has no wealth or property. He has 'commodity'

WAGES

and which are not never only one can sell, and that is his have been controlled by the he quantity or value of the goods ability work, or as Marx to called it his labour power.

produced or by the produc- Marx showed that the value tivity of labour. The view which the employ- of a commodity (an item pro- ers and the ruling class have duced for exchange rather than put forward on wages is that personal consumption) de- they are a logically worked out pended the of on amount 'fair' return for labour used to produce it.

system giving effort expended. show that He went on to The old has been under capitalism, labour power saying used for generations, fair itself was commodity pro- day's work for a fair day's duced for the market. pay'. Labour power It is used with equal gusto by the employer running Like any other commodity, sweat shop rock bottom On labour power has its price. This the employer in a wages, to price approximates to the cost factory trade unions where upkeep of the worker of the have forced high relatively and his family. The worker wages. hopes to sell his commodity, Even where workers were his labour power, for as much forced to work 14 hours a day as possible, the buyer, the em- for a few shillings, living in ployer, aims to pay as little as grinding employers poverty, possible. have used this saying just as The real value of a workers' confidently. is the sum Kapital', labour power Marx, in 'Das the value he produces during out that wages are pointed hours of work. But the means of his simply a exploiting employer will pay him only a of humanity the vast majority proportion of this; the rest is in order that a tiny minority the employer in the taken by should live continue to in form of surplus value. luxury and wealth far beyond Some of this surplus is used the wildest imagination of any by the employer for re-invest- working man. ment in order to lay the basis He set out to show that all for future surplus value and wealth is created by the work- the rest is retained for personal ing class, using the tools of the

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socially accepted standard pre- vailing at the time and place involved. But the employer still sets out to pay the worker as little as possible within these limits, this is the reality of wages.

It is from this struggle be- tween the working class and the capitalists that wage levels are set. After the employer has hired the worker he sets him to work, but as far as capitalist is concerned it is no business of the worker whether his labour is used to produce ten or ten thousand items, the wages are paid for the hire of the labour-power for the day or the week and what the em- ployer uses it for is his own concern. This may not seem to be the case with piecework payments; after all, the worker is paid by the unit, which is apparently equivalent to being paid ac- cording to output. In fact, the arrangement is wage not a of the number of product items produced, but of the continuing struggle of the workers against the employers -to revise and re-fix the price-.

per-piece. The worker struggles to get a price which will, at the very least, give him his keep when the payments have been added The employer up. keep this attempts to price down to the minimum subsist- ence level for the worker and the maximum profit for him- self. The arrangement where the worker gets a day's keep in re- turn for a day's labour is very convenient for the bosses be- cause the level of labour pro- ductivity is such that the worker has soon turned out the value of his day's keep.

i.e. a day's wages. The rest of the working day is entirely for the employer's pocket. It is totally unpaid labour. In fact, the story about the 'fair day's pay' (the minimum that the boss can get the worker to accept) for the 'fair day's work' (the maximum amount of labour he can squeeze out of the worker during the working day) is the greatest confidence trick of all, far greater than that of pro- ductivity deals, which are just one form that the struggle for surplus value takes. But surely the machines themselves produce value?

WE SAY NO. No value can be produced by a machine.

But, you may then • say, a machine can churn out masses of commodities in the course of a day, surely it is producing value ? This can only be answered in the following way. Machines do not grow on trees, They are produced by labour. Therefore if a machine is turning out commodities which have value, that value is not being created by the machine, it is created by the of the workers who labour work the machine. At the same time, it is true that a small part of the value the machine passes into of each product as 'wear and tear' of the machine. In other words there are, in a sense, two types of labour power used to produce a com- modity. There is the labour power of those who made the machine that is used in pro- duction and the labour power of those who service and oper- ate the machine. Marx placed the investment industries - those that made machines, and not commodities direct consumption - in section two in his economic schemata, and the industries that do produce commodities for consumption section one.

You may think that all this is irrelevant to the question of productivity, Measured - Day Work, etc. But here we must turn to the role of crisis, which as was shown in earlier article is the real reason behind every productivity swindle. If you ask why there are crises under capitalism, the answer will be found in the theory of value, wages, etc. To be specific, that part of the theory of value which explains the tendency to the falling rate of profit, the most basic con- tradiction of capitalism.

Marx showed that as time went by there was a tendency for every capitalist to invest proportionately more in machines than in labour. But since surplus value can only be created by living labour, the rate of surplus value from any given amount of investment has a corresponding tendency to fall as time goes by. This is a regular series on 'Wor To counter this, and to maintain their declining mar- gins, employers struggle to get i. on from each worker an increas- ing amount of productivity.

Productivity and all related systems are all a part of this struggle, which also results in a drive to monopoly in order to invest ever large sums of money to maintain a given amount of profit. Finally the contradictions of the system lead to enormous recurring crises of 'over-pro- production' which lead to massive attacks on the work- ing class and wars of destruc- tion as the system fights for survival. The slump in company pro- fits in the first half of 1970, which occurs in the midst of the most profound crisis the capitalist system has ever faced, clearly shows the re- lationship between the crisis.

and the falling rate of profit.

How do productivity deals fit in with this? ONE OF the basic aims of productivity deals is to com- bine intensive methods of working with modernization and automation to bring about hüge increases in output.

this situation the em- nual .. The deathly hush which over the whole works leaves workers when operating the only view with of around 4 to 5 per cent- ployers can horror any from the effects of existing wage sys- apart tems which promote the illusion national pay increases. that pay is in any way tied to The second ploy, that under the new system wages are tied output. to productivity, is another de- This only applies to ception. piecework, but also to con- When workers have in- ventional time-working, where, creased output they will be although workers may be paid of the in- told that only part only for the hours of attend- crease is due to their extra they nevertheless do not ance, labour, the rest being due to blind themselves to the amount new machinery -and new of work they are coins, (and methods. the amount profit being example of this is seen An made) and consequently de- from decision of the PIB the mand new basic rates in keep-

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on the wage claim. ing with the work done. The PIB's report admitted that It is the aim of the busi- productivity had risen by 10 ness consultants to wipe out the concluded that per cent, but memory of the traditional sys- they could only allow a 3f per tems of payment, and especially cent rise and not the 6} per the worker from add- to stop cent asked for. This was because : would up how much he have earned if piecework rates "The incréase in productivity were still operating. is due to a wide range of fac- BY

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ries on 'Work Study' and new payment methods in industry.

The new sytems are intro- tors, including notably, capital duced: investment, and it is not pos- sible to ascribe particular i. on the basis that the old of share this continuing in- methods of payment were crease the direct contribu- 'unscientific', to that many tion of the workers? anomalies existed as well as It has been a main argument faults which made it many of government departments, entirely impossible to take managements and consultants previous levels of produc- that they are unable to separ- tion for as basis new in ate the increases produc- levels. which are due to mod- tivity ii. on the basis that the new and those due ernization, to scientific systems actually effort made increased the by tie wages to productivity.

workers. The major 'unscientific sys- Of not! No such course tem' under attack is now 'wage separation is possible drift'. This is where the suc- The level of productivity in cessful workers' struggle in the any modern working process 1s factories win for the group, or combin- based on a unity and even for the individual worker, ation of the productive forces above the payments over and - including the workers who negotiated rates. nationally operate the process Prices and Incomes As a would it be pos- way In no Board report payment-by- on group of sible for workers results explains: without acting modern "This effect is particularly and machines equipment to marked where new piece-work the produce goods in same rates or work-loads have to be and tolerance quantity, detail frequently; negotiated fairly currently attained. against a background of strong Similarly, whatever may be the union organization in possibilties future the in workplace and of high employ- socialist society, it is totally it tends ment, impossible for inevitably at present induce a steady increase in the machines to act without their actual hourly wages paid human Even 'auto- operators. This creep' matic' machines are not yet 'pieceworkers' able to themselves was found bv the PIB to bring maintain (replace and damaged about in many plants an an- repair electrical faults, nual rate of earnings growth parts,

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vhich settles eaves the bt of the signif- ed by the etc.); they must be serviced continually by large numbers of maintenance personnel.

Th understanding of this in- divisibility is usually brought home sharply to the employer when workers totally, or even in part, withdraw their labour.

The deathly hush which settles over the whole works leaves the management in no doubt of the significance of the role played by the workers when operating the machines. But in any case where have the machines-the 'capital in- vestment' mentioned by the • PIB—come from, except from the workers themselves ? Everything has come from their labour in producing com- modities, thereby creating value. In this sense the entire increase in productivity can be said to be totally due to the working class and to no one else. In fact, 'the experts' know very well the discrepancies in their argument and when pressed to define what they mean by increased produc- tivity, explain that they are referring to that which is due 'greater effort' by the to worker. To them, this would appear a safe way of holding . down payment, as any human being is only capable of raising men- tal and physical effort to a limited extent. The scientific equipment needed to measure the physical effort associated and mental with any activity occupies a volume of several hundred cubic feet and cannot be strapped unobtrusively to the back of the operative, even supposing for one moment he was willing to accept such an imposition. Physical But without such equipment it is impossible to have any clue whatsoever as to how much physical effort (use of muscles, chemical energy, con- to mechanical energy) verted or mental effort is involved in even the simplest operation.

To what, then, are wages really tied in productivity deals?

They are fixed according to time study, or more specifically to the rating scale. This is the measure of opinion of the consultants of how much effort is being used by the worker. Mathematical formulas have been invented by which the amount of move- ment the worker makes in one minute can be compared with a 'standard minute', which is consultant's the estimate of how much movement should have been made in the time.

On the job this is usually reflected in each task being given a time in which it must be accomplished. With an in- centive-bonus scheme the pay- ment is based on an ascending scale of performance. With Measured-Day Work a fixed target level must be achieved for the payment of a basic wage to be made. And how are the payments which will be attached to the consultants' formulas decided?

As in the case of every other system of payment, by the struggle between workers and employers to fix the scale of payment according to their re- spective and entirely opposing needs. In other words, 'productivity' wages, as with all other sys- tems of payment, are not re- lated to productivity, but to how much the employer thinks he can get away with paying.

When workers' performance figures are associated with a 33g per cent bonus, it means that any production level at all will be translated by the con- sultant's own special brand of mathematics into a payment level somewhere on this scale.

Continued next Wednesday.

REPORTS from Prague confirm that the Husak wing of the Czech Communist Party leadership is losing its battle to prevent the trial of former secretary Alexander Dubcek and his supporters.

Justifying Dubcek's recent expulsion from the Party, Sunday's 'Rude Pravo' switched the line of attack away from his alleged 'mistakes' and 'opportunism' towards breaches of Czech law. Editor, Miroslav Moc — a

BY ROBERT BLACK

well-known 'hard line' critic

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of Husak -made the following chaviolation. sacking from his post as Am the state od terenare that persuaded to declare that Turkey the statutes ; bassacor make for the "moderates long ideological responsibilly Israel was ended. speeches upholding the honour and organizatonal disruption.

and Dubcek's for- These two documents would tor a two-laced pollcy; 1geo. Husak. logical capitulation; lack be sent to the then United Seeki protect himself Nations lack of firmnes: and the mission from pressure, the UN negotiator Jarring permitted disruption bitterly attacked the Dubcek would be restarted. leadership (of which he was a socialist society To convince the Israeli gov- national Dart) speech to lcavy Central Committee last week- ernment to on aiong with this economy: resDonSIDnTy phe 1967 from tiers of Moscow would guarantee end. Israel. For he the first allied reations with the sovie Union and the fraternal com- If this opportunist account 1s accurate. munist parties of the socialist Nasser's trin to Moscow Is to implying the secure his agreement. ion counter-revolutionary Was consciously witn torces? And so, while sending Imperaust-sorred TorCes

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arms The restoration to Egvot under strict Russian in Czechoslovakia. control, Double edge and even little aid to the Arab guerrilla Sinister the Moscow bureau- This attack has a double enire single against edge. That this new attack marks Husak President a victory tor the filtra-stalin.

Svoboda Dubvery forces Bilak and UP Indra, lined hehind with linked can from the Whether this betrayal be carried through or not de- the pends the political leader- Soviet invasion and for several ship the liberation Arab months atter. de- weird cenate is want veloping in the columns of the to observe the Czech Stalinist long as it restricts itself boov wants to wreck ano 01S - merely to ultra-Stalinists step rupt our socialist system, then challenge their Dubcek he must not be offended. As Arab ruling class, it will campaign Gottwald [the old Czech forced Husak to endorse Stalinist leader who come the accomplices of the o said sed of traitors. exousion om une rarly ana come Lu say, from the tr tree" Strik the violator the all down Ine welkal

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JEAN-JACQUES Servan Schreiber, the million- aire demagogue Gaullist crushed the candidate at Sunday's by-election at Nancy, in moved Lorraine, has rapidly into his attempt to create a 'third force' in French politics, based 'Europeanism' and promises of reform. Before setting off vester- through w Germe-da dav three day trID where Social Democrats and indust will meet series cable Mayore. the 1963 Presiden- centre tial election. He has joined, like the other deputies of his Radical socialist Party. venerre s barnamentary croud. Forty French assorted mariamentarians ta ve undertaken support ChIS campaign develop- ment Nancy and Lor- HOr the "progressive crusading which with himself, Servan disguise intention Isonist Party. Com- isolate French THE ANSWER to the Tory government is to organize the working class to force it to resign, Although he failed to take Communist Gerry Healy, Socialist Labour League national

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cates. WIll able into make inroads the The Tory government labour movement, and pre-

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must come into head-on pare to sabotage it, the his collision with the work- with ing class. This is un- ing notice that if the British clear avoidable. workine Class comes out true rights, they take 'It must seek to re- protest tor Is the sure to the same working Liverpool and the London solve the problems posed inlerests well.' Class Inal Lives DOlLICaL by the economic crisis e Dow

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the workers could expect the cowardly right- and union leaders. UNION officials were meeting The trade union leaders, of the ing its British now represen auves he added were talking land. When the Tories bring Steel Corporation 100 _Londor left', they always with a DUl Saracens and tanks into the act night attemnt vidéd the inemse ves cattle the lo-dav-nio chrike hooside agains! wav out. 2,100 engineers and elec- cades that the persecuted Faced with tricians Corporation's Catholic workers have they Corby, Northants, plant. to erect, they are also serv- attack say- 'You can't fight the govern- ment. vou must wait for an opportunity to change it at

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defeated, but only if the clear, on what to do. elections, the The who the Powel in have door ernient coalions at the locat reached no leaders, and in trade right-wing evel. of their propaganda machine The Unionist Party is torn W1l the wish between the nOT TO

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were manoeuvune and tne stalinists. turb the centre..ett am d the give the government tene Com. hlandishments the demonstrate munist Party. hacking the strike. Socialists Umbria and Tuscany the It is this, far more than the hold the balance pportunistic cajoling of Lombardi, he left Stalinists which pres inte urging Ning 1 Communists Socialist Party to coalition with the and imperils the coalition. there and offer an respect- search with the Christian Democrats lave one starnists exclucind The Social Demo. condemned Dubcek's ex- nOW mats and the Renublicans.

the regions where the politica Party. arithmetic makes it possible.

from taking Har position in support working is change European and class against Stalinism, concession communism in Italian 'public class building in support opinion. if the seneral see deed n This is the obverse of their the trade union attempt to hold the struggle demands for reforms With falls in productior Within responsible and nara?

being reported from many mentary channes even while ectors of industr the strike Pierre Lambert of the French emplovers are putting the been denounced by Trotskyist Organization their foot down and preparing politician in the for class war. coLa Malta, leading figure in the Liberal rient - wing Minister

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Yet the unions are demand- 'The working class can de- Wednesday, July 1, 8 p.m.

ing massive reforms in health feat the Tory government' Trades Hall, housing an c transport. (or ABC cinema, Union St) gether with tay cuts and curh the prices of basic com- modities. The rank-and-file are eager Thursday, July 2,

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to fight for the full demands Flowing Bowl Thursday, July 2, 8 p.m. have Social-Demo and they forced the Catholic trade d Thursday, July 2. Nor ropes Hal Hear sly *? Ravaror Speaker: Tom Kemp Socialist Labour League national secretary G. Healy speaking to the Caxton Hall meeting.

'We are not afraid of this had met in conference re- Tory The old cently, he added. government. back in Downing gang are "They are the first elé- St and we are getting ready ment in the building of the to deal with them politi- revolutionary party - the cally. Fourth International--in Comrade Pierre Lambert Europe. of the Trotskyist Organiza- 'The hour has struck for tion, the French section of the Fourth International the Fourth International, assistant Newly - elected stressed the favourable in- national of the sécretary ternational situation for Socialist Labour League, building the Trotskyist appealed Sheila Torrance, movement. for a collection at the meet- In May-June 1968, the which raised £304 12s ing, French workers had shaken 9d.

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organized by the Socialist Labour League

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and the Young Socialists, calls upon the whole labour move- with the ment to act in solidarity. as a vitally urgent duty, British working class of Ireland against the occupying the Chichester-Clark Tory Unionist government, and troops, the Tories at Westminster.

Six deaths and hundreds of serious casualties have already resulted from the actions of 11,000 British troops, who have been given orders to shoot on sight.

Maudling has sent 3,500 reinforcements. These troops are there to impose 'law and order' in the same way the Tories intend to impose it on the British working class.

They are using the religious divisions in N Ireland in the same way that they hope to use racialism in Britain. The fight for solidarity with the workers of N Ireland and for the withdrawal of British is essential part of the troops an We demand: struggle to defeat the Tories.

• Release Bernadette Devlin now! She is in jail only because she rightly fought against the Unionist regime. Her imprison- ment is a brutal attack by the ruling class of N Ireland and Britain against all those who want to fight the Tory enemy.

Release all political prisoners in N Ireland and repeal the Emergency Laws. • Release Frank Keane from Brixton prison immediately, and reject any extradition order from the Dublin police.

Demand the release of all political prisoners in Eire.

Stop immediately the police and Ulster Defence army, Regiment attacks on workers of N Ireland. Immediate with- drawal of all British troops.

capitalism to its founda- tions, Comrade Lambert said.

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"It the fault of was not the French workers that they did achieve vic- not The movement of the tory. working class was dislocated by the traditional leader- ships and by the centrist and revisionist groups which plaved the illusions of the youth! The present Chaban-Del- appeared mas government added. but stable he in reality the movement of the threatened working class more and more openly the Stalinist and Social-Demo- bureaucracies which cratic propped up the regime. E Europe, comrade In Lambert pointed out, work- ing-class forces were organ- izing for revolution. 'They are organizing to fight the Stalinist bureau- cracy, which has once more welcomed the rise to power Toryism in Britain; he of said. In the USSR itself a new Complete form and send to: communist opposition was developing. Summer Camp, 186a Clapham High St, *It is finding links with Lenin and Trotsky; it has Please send me details of Summer Car refused de- to capitulate persecution." Name spité comrade Lambert said. Addreas i Communist and Trotsky- ist militants from E Europe Wednesday July 1, 1970 South-West engineers still on wages offensive WORKERS at three Devon factories are continuing their fight for wages despite management attempts to frighten them with threats of the sack warnings of closure and a lock-out. the Nati -should be unions benefit. paynis vul Directors' pay ebberikers militaney has not of the NSMIT informed Halliday recent deny he went any that in the 55 cach the 395 employees First dispute sine tim expert miner pendine * The company wondry were looked d Scabbing

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