Workers Press no. 214

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• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 214

WEDNESDAY JULY 22, 1970

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• If army or blacklegs move meat supplies

WEWILL

STRIKE

TRANSPORT

leader Jack Jones went out of his the docks dis- pute inquiry in London yesterday of his desire to see Phase Two of speed-up the Devlin -say Smithfield men scheme implemented on the docks. chaired by Lord rainy who headed ino uest

BY MARTIN ZARROP

Into mee seamen's that strike. the caim. is part of an attemot to mod.

SOLIDARITY action with Britain's dock workers ernize wages in the industry just as the industry itself is to be taken by Transport and General Workers' has been modernized Union members at London's Smithfield meat market.

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The union's district organizer Mr Len Smith, Smithfield's 3,000 meat porters and delivery drivers, told Workers Press day: or any LEN SMIH aGWU leader of the Markers sov porter le dock of md drivers: u me cockers naot swuck wow, tacy would day one later on the implications of Devlin.

soliday with of years ers with soldarity ....... Birkenhead

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dockers are Metable

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vigilant have b touch foodstuffs handled by statement

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Markets UNEASE ABOUT the union leaders continued under the its chair. to grow underneath the apparently calm surface Ta Wont Rolls strikers US lines ot the seven-dav-old strike here vesteraay.

Anxious rank - and - file refuse shop Cos it an ere be are call for ban quesuonin? Tyne stewards at a Birkenhead British meeting yesterday Been dockers on overtime revealed fears of a 1ng compromise formula being cargo are firm patched together in Lon don which would give ALL Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association Merseyside no- branches throughout the Rolls-Royce combine are being dockers at N° Shields thing. asked to ban overtime in support of the 900 DATA dock™ members on strike at the nrms parkside plant woulded ye ne ment a fish card from a tramir Coventry. frigeration system had broken

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e durationa the ships for sores sorts, about

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unloading rio can at to contract out. so tar taken were

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LoW E what Lor members outside agement provoked the dispar vic vine to she much the warehow. Spare agen it praed * poved dr nied no its These cos ine actre refused to lift their Payne now W1ll since last weel i Will so But don't think we said bad a last seck i workers dollars. nuiry at this stage. comment must prepare accordingly.

Seamen Claims

TORIES PREPARE

African students march ly would have pon the mpication lodge and abaded an atone against Tory arms deal applauded pay claim handled at phe martet sin • or meal Dockers mea m see who told a rest

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sept while the THE NATIONAL Union of Seamen yesterday sub- oneson the employers e yester mitted a claim or a suD stantial pay increase for failed; her sad it in 1967 and sales to S Africa is members. said. cent increase and anti-union laws. union Britain has inquiry force retil at weas another executive, the meeting wa und the WIll. easy The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. July £1000 At the onening of Appeal Fund the inquiry yesterday, the chairman, Lord Pearson (right), and reaches Mr Will (left), member of the Commission £355 10s 8d madusual Relatons and ex-secretary of The Natonanin of Mineworkers. IT IS still tough going. Yester- day's brought £34,

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£644 9s 4d t0 leave us raise by the end ot the month We know that a cunstantin number our which on course burden those home. can and will overcome this dificultv if we swing into posting all donations at once London, SW4. Mid- Ulster

BY JOHN SPENCER

voters said-leaving the way open for change in mood on the part of the the modernization still not inless the consolidated rate Jones' evidence was followed by Died Irom docks secre represented heart about Tim O'Leary LarV his friends' moderaizauon the making that the emplovers are assum.

emnlovers were ing too readily are in the bag.

job impossible.

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Miss Bernadette Devlin's political

WAY OPEN

STRAIGHT GAME

from her Armagh What we are saying is that were announced ves aight, he added. the game terday by the guarantee re ano win. straight, istry of Home Affairs. the are expected to stand

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adapted to take into They accoun up clear that and responsible Mid-Ulster standby time. overume actions to con- holidays by being mered Into dis- entranchized. men enrecuvery the minimum daiv wages he *T know the emplovers well The Ministrv statement said that she they ave me he owed one

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their word and I will take it.

• a week ny memherg I am not approved I'm a Britisher constituency with this agents at which

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nd I don't want to embarrass will be discussed' o al the who've 110L

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industry allowed to use these meetings SInCe the bloke who's means encasing any more to the mont Than general nontical controverst

AND PHASE 2

receiving other leader and vet I'm lead- nersonal letter ing this strike.' the provisions tace prison rules.

WASTED PLEAS

if any matters in Ulster TWO HULL dockers tell can be our reporter their views O'Leary's pleas were but general political Runt employers' leader wasted on controversy'! on the strike so far. Cer Termin on resist Tonge stressed their Transport Union and Denied Tony basic rate increases. General Workarg In addition this Miss (T&GWU) steward: Devlin is still denied the right Jevlin (This strike ahcolntoy hindered gotiations to get alectione in narliamen: solid in Hull. We hardly on behalf of her constituents are the national basic rate. increase need spect the each a she has not been allowed leave prison to be sworn an Mr in forward with 'Acceptance the claim mission to come or easinges make the a compromise ofter, comnromise ofter hut ever accompanied are cer. ruling-class justice tain it would he hu increases conter. absolutely plain. ence swings over and you get piece rates would remove 10,000 for acceptance incentive on the men's troop: proceed with drafted in to protect the free the officially for the com the Grangemen Stage Two parade. Ramundatto Marin denied elementary rights prevent who voted for and Liverpool will ernization and improvement of London collidiy reject anything a se and their own wages structure and go the oneration of the narte attack along with them. The doct amnlayera working class. clearly determined anita evedores and resist the dockers' claim The campaign in the Dennis McCann, unions the end. and the tactories con- Amalgamated stevedore: They have the backing Dockers (NAS&D) steward: tinue until she is released and rightful place to rac har think the strike is ahout

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parliament. Phase Two of Devlin. The leadership will lead an for ncrease the basic rate €20 and this

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• tO automatically lead improved piece rates in to give an increase to the That will kick the nhonet right into touch Phase Two Nhen employers offering f the are a week and VOll in meetingc. wo know thora'c nothing in it want to from Hull crewards walked out with them its hecause the Communist Dapty ruontad to avolude th Ploy Taine happened Man- Thie chester where wouldn't

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Manchester to take nart in the meeting this notion which had unity. fennardige? antional are following Lord ThaT General Anto needs get in Union Although shop Cratani readers not chan atariante Press the authority receiving Workers regularly. The cost is 8s 1010 official hands so that the T&G for ten issues for the fortnight.

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• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 214 • WEDNESDAY JULY 22, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

If army or blacklegs move meat supplies

WEWILL

STRIKE

leader Jack Jones went out of his way to re assure the docks dis- pute inquiry in London yesterday of his desire to see Phase Two of the Devlin specu up -say Smithfield men scheme implemented on the docks. the He told inquiry, chaired by Lord headed 1966

BY MARTIN ZARROP

strike an attempt tom, d.

claim, SOLIDARITY action with Britain's dock workers inst as the industry itsel just Inausty is to be taken by Transport and General Workers' has been modernized' ployers aerusal to arusal to rant the Union members at London's Smithfield meat market.

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The union's district organizer Mr Len Smith. leader Smithfield's and 3,000 meat porters delivery drivers, told Workers Press byester bande won't touch any meat or any Market's S.0UU would have over a number of years, he Birkenhead

MARKETS

SOLIDARITY

dockers are ALL WORKERS at Lor Sprai had and vigilant

SLITTER

T&GWU shop steward Mr John Brand told Workers Press yesterday: 'If troops are used to pu

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

backles labour used. The troops are not mem bers of the Transport and General Workers Unto UNEASE ABOUT the union leaders continued Rolls strikers to erow indemean ae dovarenuiv call sullale official, of the seven-day-old strike here yesterday.

US lines shall recommend statele Anxious rank -and - file the refuse call for ban orestonne

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Tyne the Lon- stewards at a Birkenhead British R dockers meeting vesterady morn- on overtime ing revealed fears of a compromise formula being cargo are firm patched together in Lon- ALL Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association •On would alve TYNESIDE dockers held two branches throughout the Rolls-Royce combine are being no- Mersevslae cockers meeting Shieldst dad thing. asked to ban overtime in support of the 900 DATA firm's Parkside plant in members on strike at the companies irelude E clear astever do asked it te ome will be Coventry. State duota ste are told on it lot b Dasic BATA members worl

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the duran or the stile shouts about ATA members'

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management might sub were measures so far taken were We 19r50 or Prie did to the what Mr Dor- Strikers feel that the man- i warehouse Be it threaten die Smite tol African The strike is important for the Workers Pr refused to lift their sanctions ova Views about Wil P strike since last week in to every factory ves by Roll Muse prepare acondicombine inquiry at this stage Seamen Claims

TORIES PREPARE

African students march one later on they w lodge 5 her doted inh wei against Tory arms deal pay claim

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Money was nine evidence to THE NATIONAL Union Pota vocal engle a BritishR ot seamen yesterday sub mitted a claim for a sub- Ferguson plants peekers. * racianst 'Rolls-RO stantial pay increase for arms ales to 5 Arica failed; he sadit in 1967 and its 54,000 members. anti-union laws. yesterday reciated toa decaration of war bye One read Britain has an But if we stand firm, reject comespite the obs premies of July 1971. and against the troops, we can

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. July £1000 At the opening of Appeal Fund the inquiry yesterday, the chairman. Lord reason any did reaches Mr Will Paunter (left, member of the Commission or E355 10s 8d ndustrial Relation alonal Unk of Mineworkers. IT IS still tough going. Yester- day's bh 8644 9s 4834, raise by the end of the mod to ase know that a suosala num Der our readers OT places course additional those of us at burden We can and will overcome this difficulty if we swing into action right away. That means DOsung all donanons ar once Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. Mid- Ulster

BY JOHN SPENCER

voters claim was "risking a change said—-leaving the way open for scheme's In Mood on the nart The the modernization still not in lace consolidated basic rate dockers which, the claim dealt with Jones' evidence was followed could bring a oh the plea riends me represented i that Lease the employers assull- employer. were ing too readilv are in the bag.

iob impossible

LIMITATIONS

Bernadette Devlin's political

WAY OPEN

STRAIGHT GAME

work from prison Armagh "What we are We tr he added. terday anne can! • made istry of Home Affairs. straight." by the should be stand "We are Aynecter to Mid-Uster voters are to cis- industry clear that the and make standby responsible for the actions of being merged into asking myself tinue effectively wal know The maimum dally Ware. The Ministry employers well statement said allowed one give that she will be individuals, they

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word and | will take it their

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weeks members "I'm a Britisher. NOt which quarrelling with this countru agents af constituency

CONTEMPT

and I don't want to embarrass matters will be Accusen the fail me i the announcement Ryrt people all the who've added that 'she not

FOR INQUIRY

led this dock industry all wed tonuse these meetings senera means 1926 the • the engaging right political leader and yet I'm lead- controvers

AND PHASE 2

receiving letters older personal the provisions ing this sinke outsiee prison rules.

WASTED PLEAS

if any matters in Illster TWO HULL dockers tell fought out any can But O'Leary's pleas views terms but 'general political our reporter their were wasted on emnlovers Header on the strike so far. George Tonge wh Tonge stressed who Fee, Transport Union their to resist Tony Denied Workers' basic rate General addition (T&GWU) steward: vitally important, he Devlin is still denied the right said. "that Devlin (This strike absolutely • the ask guestions in narmenı Two negotiations hehalf of her constituents hindered increase need any pickets at this stage.

che he national basic rate expect the Pearson leave prison to be sworn mission to come in as an MP. 'Acceptance the claim measures make the compromise offer, but even we are it com accompanied cer- docks delegate confer. tain it would be, by in creases would remove ence swings over and vou piece rates drafted in to protect the free for arrantance the any in centive the men' c will continue nar to nroceed with the im. officially unless the emplovers plementation for the negotia.

Orangemen Com concede the claim on the basic tion of Devlin Stage narade Rernadette would thus deniedi elementary wonte represent those who voted for and Liverpool her. solidly reject anything else and This is not an Ulster issue Hul! wond go but an attack on the whole along with them. Cock emplovers working determiner he campaign in the unions National dockerd claim recict the the factories must tho and COn-

(NAS&D)

steward: They have the backing of tinue until she is released and strike is about takes her montin! nacA

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parliament. Phoco Two of Davlin. 4lhe dockers' militancv is there if the leadership will lead. We must 1 300 rate f20 and this

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must automatically order mnroved niece rates in do give al rounde increase to th give will kick the nhoney ''hot Phase Two right into touch.

When offering £35 a and they you meetings, we know there's nothing in it Hull Blue" Union rep- dockers Tot 118. want to know why resentatives were turned away from meeting rom Rail from idAs Dress Communist It is because Party wanted to evoludo the "Rlne" Inion Man- honnanadam chester where they wouldn't "Blue» Uncon from Lepthe allow

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What is the pool system? AS FAR as the employers are concerned, the present set-up industries of fixed in many employment, of worker take a job for being able to life, with pension rights, etc., is not the best system. would the They prefer cheaper 'hire-and-fire' system. would prefer to That is, they take on at all times exactly the number of workers needed to cover the work and to be able to sack immediately any workers surplus to their needs.

They have not been able to operate this system for three main reasons. (1) Relatively full employ- ment over the past period, with the in many cases, shortage of skilled labour, has meant that an employer has been cerned to hang on to all his labour force, even during a slack period. specialized (2) With many has proved It processes cheaper to retain workers who know the work rather than have to constantly re-train. The enormous shop-floor (3) strength developed dur- ing this period, enabling the working class to resist sackings and to fight for the right to work. has This stopped the operating the sys- employers tem they would like. However, government continue to experts this method and present developments in dock work and with the electrical con- tracting industry Joint Indus- try Board suggests efforts by the employers introduce "LO of 'stand by" sys- some form tem are still being prepared.

Under this, workers who could not be kept occupied even with the operation of the flexibility and mobility pro- posals, would get a retaining wage (retained by the indus necessarily by the try, not class is that some union lead- firm). ers and militants are playing Although during the early government along with the of this pool part scheme, and instead of waging setune up system the government may all-out struggle for the an make the employers pay a con- right to work and against all tribution towards cost of get- closures and sackings, are try- ting it started, and although a ing to divert the struggle into relatively high stand-by wage one for better redundancy pay- may be paid, once the scheme This is a complete ments. and thou- is well entrenched fraud. sands of workers are _ on the Even if an increase of a few pool, the government and extra pounds is achieved, of employers would adopt a com- is this when the what use pletely arrogant attitude.

prospect is one of permanent The stand-by would be cut unemployment? dole-level and the to near Although at some stage it is money for it taken from the correct to fight for proper pay- direct contribution worker's deducted from wages. workers when leav- ment for Also, in all probability, this pool system would apply to skilled workers which the employers wished keep to available. The rest would simply be on the dole. What about redundancy payments? Don't they see you over until you get another job? THAT IS what you are sup- The posed to think. redun- scheme has dancy payments the govern- been set up by the impression ment to give that it is all right to get the because you get a lump sack, over until sum to carry you you get the next job. also fits in with pro- This 'Socialists believe posals for 're-deployment and that in a higher with various re-training phase of Communist schemes. While a few workers society each person enough to get may be lucky would give to society a payment which is useful, the what they are able vast majority will get no bene- in the way of work fit at all. and production and should receive what For example, workers who sacked for refus- his or her needs leave or are require.' Right: A ing to work the new methods worker in a Belfast or speeds, or refusing to move textile factory. on to other plants or jobs, or workers who are simply forced ing or retiring from a firm, to out by the low rates of pay, substitute this for a struggle high cost of travelling to work, for the fundamental principle etc., get nothing. of the right to work, is a be- Only where employer an trayal of the workers declares that he is sacking you cerned. because the job is being wound up, or eliminated, will You mention that retrain- payment be made; (also for some short-time working or ing schemes could be a lay-offs). swindle like redundancy The employers, if allowed to payments ? But l've get away with it, will use all of methods to make heard of workers being sorts job unbearable, in the hope of able to get other jobs forcing workers to leave this training. through their accord, hiding own behind their sacking Surely it widens your no 'guarantees' to avoid redun- scope for finding work. dancy payment. What's wrong with that? The danger for the working • - I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address THE QUESTION is not whether a few workers may work.

be benefiting at the moment from the scheme, but what is its over-all aim? The passing of the Indus- trial Training Act by the Labour government followed by the setting up of industrial training centres, has been given a good deal of publicity In the press and on the radio and TV and in trade union journals. As just stated, a part of this may be to encourage workers to feel that getting the sack is not too much to worry about.

This system is also expected to prepare workers for the flexibility, interchangeability and mobility proposals, as even the employers realize that the workers cannot simply swop from one skill to another instantly; also such training, if it is to fit in with government planning, must encourage workers to accept work study.

In fact schools are being set up as part of industrial train- ing schemes specifically to spread work study methods.

For example the Construc- tion Industry Training Board opened a special work-study school in May 1968 to run courses for management, sup- ervisors, foremen and trade unions' officials. According to the specialist Work Study' this magazine school • . . would add substan- tially to the work-study courses available and thus play a specific role in the con- struction industry But there is another pos- sible use for training schemes.

Suppose the government were to succeed in • closing down a large section of the mining industry and thousands of miners were out of work. This pool of unemployed would still not constitute a threat to the jobs of the other workers that the government want to attack, if the miners say engineers,

WORKERS PRE88

BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

10 we said above, these were unable to do engineering As schemes are simply a plan to work. Only when the miners have extend unemployment. been trained in this new trade payments and Redundancy can they be used as a big stick re-training programmes are not which beat the with to concessions measures put accepting engineers into working forward to aid the lower standard of living, speed- class. They are entirely a part up, etc. the of the overall attack But in general, they would right to work. be no more than a threat.

Inasmuch as they appear to They would not get the jobs have favoured they aspects, are that much more danger- because engineering would give prefer- employers ous. ence to a worker who has been for in the trade some years We know that women rather than employ with one have always been badly only a few months training.

So the ex-miner would still paid and have been put low down on the grading scales, but won't the gov- ernment's Equal Pay Bill put this right? WHAT THE Equal Pay Bill involves is a speed-up system cut-back in working and conditions specifically aimed at women workers. Socialists believe that in a Communist of higher phase society each person would give to society what they are able in the way of work and pro- and should receive duction what his or her needs require.

This is certainly not the way capitalism operates. The employers compare everyone's output with that of the fastest 'heavyweight' work- ers and pay out accordingly.

just about get a ' w If the workers from wage the wages struggles th then women will get less disabled workers living wage, get still less, while trainees and The apprentices get a pittance.

basis of the Equal Pay Bill is as follows: Men and women in a con- be rated by job cern will be out of a job. Under this evaluation, in most cases the schemes principle, re-training women will be 'proved' to be would not be for training than the but training for at a lesser rating employment, men. unemployment. In order, then, to receive the men they will as pay Does this fit in with selec- have to increase output (speed, tive Employment Tax? intensity of labour) by a set the job- amount defined by Wasn't this supposed to evaluation consultants. workers out of push At the same time, women offices and shops and will be expected to give up all into engineering, etc.? restric- protective practices, tions on excessive hours, and THAT'S RIGHT! But at the shift work-in the name of same time 'equal work'. as these workers from services and distributive Clause One of the Equal trades were to be 're-deployed', Pay Bill states: extensive productivity schemes "(5) A woman is to be regarded worked for were being out as employed on work rated and rationaliza- these trades, as equivalent to that of tion programmes were planned if, but only if, any men for these very industries that her work and their work to have absorbed those

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have been given an equal workers. of the value, in terms As we know, such schemes demand the made on mean a huge reduction in the skill, worker in effort, labour force, or greatly decision and other factors, increased production by the undertaken study of number workers. exisane with a. view to evaluating They are certainly not designed in those terms the jobs to absorb an influx of workers done by all or any to be who have spent years in a of the employees in an • different industry, completely of undertaking or group when training is pro- would undertakings, or vided. have been given an equal value but for the evalua- According to the Reddaway Report on SET the tax reduced tion being made on a sys- different employment in retail tem setting trade by 100,000 jobs and in values on the same factor for men and women.' wholesaling firms by 30,000.

Page one of the Bill makes it quite clear that the rating decision must be made ... as a result of a job-evaluation exercise'. Another statement, this time in the White Paper •Produc- tivity, Prices and Incomes Policy after 1969' also shows the relevance of equal pay as follows: "As with low-paid workers, generally women workers are, in many cases, used less effi- ciently than they might be.

Indeed, low rates of pay have in the past reduced the incen- tive to use women's labour more productively. Surveys in many industries have revealed the opportunities for re- organizing women's work so greater as to raise their productivity.

'And if these opportunities taken this in itself will are cover at least part of the cost of introducing equal pay.'

Already the 'experts' are preparing to cash in 'on equal pay. For example, a group called Women in Management has recently held a course aimed at securing '... better utiliza- tion of the country's woman power'. The classes were held at the offices of PA Manage- ment Consultants Ltd. We can say that the Equal Pay Bill—if it ever comes about under a Tory govern- ment — aims at a political attack on the working class by: (1) allowing employers oppor- tunities to intensify the labour of women workers, (2) putting a system of work study, namely, job evalu- ation on the statutes i.e. to introduction make its compulsory in law, (3) encouraging the relaxa- tions or otective, pari- cularly those on shift work, overtime, nightt work, hours of work and Sunday working laid down in Clauses 39 to 48 of the Factories Act 1961.

What are all these joint works councils? Surely these that ensure employers don't get away with anything? Wednesday, July 22, 1970 are the subject of an agree- JOINT consultation schemes deceive ment betwen union and set up to the the employers may not be dis- thinking he has worker into cusse righter see the joint consulta- cussed in measures tion works committees. cussion over being taken by a company.

What is a joint industry In fact, the entire power in any firm rests 100 per cent boardi? with the employer. Joint com- talking mittees are simply THIS IS an organization set shops which can do no more up by joint agreement between than 'recommend'. and union leaders employers record, direct and Also, any project agreed or to control, discipline the labour force of even discussed by such a com- claimed by a particular industry. mitte can employer to have the seal of Workers the in industry representatives workers' would have to hold a board upon it. membership card to get a job.

In many cases their terms of Their record of previous jobs, grade, will- reference are limited to help sickness, lateness, ingness to accept flexibility and ing with the introduction mobility, attendance and level productivity schemes greater kept and efficiency, or to 'promoting of militancy, would filed, probably in a computer a spirit of co-operation'.

In most cases, matters which for reference The Equal Pay Bill involves a further speed-up and cut-back in the already atrocious conditions suffered by most women workers. Below: a scene from the same textile factory in Belfast.

MORE THAN 28 leaders of the Black Panther movement have been killed by the American police in the past couple of years. Several hundred other front- are in jail, many rank members not found guilty nor even tried, but kept there by judges setting bail so high that defendants can- not meet it. In April two Negroes were released after spending two jail trial years in awaluing robbery murder and charges. They were released because the 'discovered' that two prosecution other men committed the crimes.

The outcome of the famous Chicago Seven trial was that the accused were found innocent of ended most charges, but all for with shei long terms, along their defence lawyers, for Lauren R. Watson, the defenc so-called contempts of court.

The judge who was so care- fully selected to conduct this trial but whose blatant racialism, The City versus Laurel caused and partiality reaction July 18-21 i deep worry in bourgeois legal and 74- governmental circles, was year-old Julius Hoffmann.

BY FRANA C.

He who was the same judge i ordered Panther Bobby Seale bound and gagged during his trial, supported action suddenly film Supreme Court justice Hugo surprising that cameras have been allowed into Black later. American and an courtroom In the New York trial of 13 trial of a Black Panther should had Panthers the judge to be for all shown on television adjourn the proceedings until the to see. defendants promised to behave "The R. Lauren 18-21 in- to attempt reassure; an old need but a new Meanwhile, in this land of real form. ustice much admired by Judge Mr Justice Melford who lives in a house * Salve Trunch lives has handed vicious sentences ano And the fact that it has be- accusator words to the some necessary make the come to students arrested after the indeed attempt in this way Cambridge demonstration against revealing of the desperate plight the Greek And we junta can of the legal system and the expect more of the same. and interests whose property Clearly all is not going at all is formed to protect. smoothly for the beleaguered We are authentic international bourgeoisie.

shown an record at faithfully abridged Their myths are being revealed length of four-day trial in of their daily reality Colorado. shot Denver, and they lash out more actions in March 1969, before the pre. wa their backs get closer to the sent wave of repressior reached its much publicized high point, it's much more disgusting and and was produced by the closest disgusting and United States has more thing the detail this National ducadonai Television.

service, ferocious than public sketch conveys, it's perhaps not

are • as exercise'. "Produc- tivity, Prices and Incomes follows: efhi- e' ciently might be. the tive to use women's labour the for re- opportunities itself will are pay. Women in recently held a at securing of tion BY Pay Bill-if it

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ment by: (1) tunities the to 10 labou (2) puttir study evalu- ation make its comp (3) encol relaxa- tion of tions cularly those shift on night work, work Sunday laid dowr of What works councils? Surely we said above, these nes are simply a plan to these that ensure d unemployment. employers don't get away dundancy payments and with anything? ining programmes are not ssions or measures put working ird aid the to They are entirely a part le overall attack on the to work. smuch as they appear to they favoured aspects, hat much more danger- e know that women ave always been badly id and have been put w down on the grading ales, but won't the gov- nment's Equal Pay Bill It this right? IT THE Equal Pay Bill ves is a speed-up system cut-back in working a itions specifically aimed at en workers. cialists believe that in a Communist phase of er ty each person would give ciety what they are able le way of work and pro- and should receive on his or her needs require.

is is not the certainly capitalism operates. le employers compare one's output with that of astest 'heavyweight' work- nd pay out accordingly. just the ton' workers wage from t get a living then wages will get less en wage, disabled workers till less, while trainees and The entices get a pittance. of the Equal Pay Bill is llows: Men and women in a con- job will be rated by aluation, in most cases the men will be 'proved' to be a lesser than the rating en. order, then, to receive the will they pay as men to increase output (speed, sity •a set unt defined uation consultants. t the same time, women be expected to give up all ective i practices, restric- on excessive hours, and the name of work-in al work'. lause One of the Equal Bill states: ) A woman is to be regarded as employed on work rated that of as equivalent to any men if, but only if, her work and their work have been given an equal terms of value, in the the demand made on effort, skill, worker in decision and other factors, on a study undertaken with a. view to evaluating in those terms the jobs to be done by all or any of the employees in an of undertaking or group would undertakings, or have been given an equal value but for the evalua- tion being made on a sys- different tem setting values on the same factor for men and women.' Wednesday, July 22, 1970 Wednesday, July 22, 1970 consultati deceive system the pool barats Ce employment were would TIon unis tion works committees. operalea Dy lt would be of in age to the employers inasmuch What is a joint industry (Enslave the worker pe

THIS IS

ComPICtel needs of production; all (2) would control discipline the force fixed at a level the can to have the seal of a particular industry Board; (3) ivauld single outal. militants representatives (4) weaken trade unions , will- further lateness, monity end and era. organizations detence and cho dency, on to promoting, the working classed tying level schemes the needs men lo for eden. i a computer kept would a spirit of co-operation'.

(5) e repare t hot wat woul In most cases, matters which inevitably Boards come under government super- inrouen such bodies as Prices the and incomes Board ment and Productivity. beve looments in these direc nons are mow Takine orace mu contracting electrical industry where aim is replace shop stewaras in g that directives the board are carried out. You show that employers are working to an over all government policy, but does this apply everything? For example, some tirms are end demanding an overtime oIne firms are demanding that overtime worked Can't they make up their minds?

THE

POLICY

through overtime should be eliminated plus overtime be done in eight i double- only, Man fewer ane noure paid at overtime rated column The legal light-fantastic MORE THAN 28 leaders of the Black Panther movement have been the by American police in the past couple of years. rankeveral mbeundred nor even two Negroes jailer Lauren R. Watson, the defendant The City ve sly n R. Watson (BBC : 8-2t inclusive year-old Julius Hoffmann.

BY FRANK CARIWRICHI

are of the everyone's intentions Sorris have been allowed American courtroom will Most liberal motives: on television with permission Imin real egot keen "The rison until such a counse assure; an old need but a new i admired by rudea Meltor Stevenson who the in he be cambridge demonstrati more of the sat homed to proted. interests it A Negro, cord are a they abided nd for eludi hare being reven soon and her saleir backs set closer to th constant background, and it's minst disgus

BBC 1

3.00. 10.40 a.m. Watch with mother. 10.55-1.00 p.m. Cricket. 1.45 News and Commonwealth Games. 1.53 Grandstand. The British News. weather. 4.55 'The Gillette Cup semi-finals. Athlectics, boxing and cricket Happy Age'. Film from France. 5.15 Tom Tom. 5.44 Abbott and Cos- tello. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00

LONDON.

wid. 335 GRANDSTAND. The British Commonwealth Games and Cricket.

6.15 Gillette Cup semi-finals.

THE DOCTORS.

6.50

HTV

7.15 BRIAN RIX PRESENTS. 'Clutterbuck'. By Benn W. Levy.

8.45 NEWS and weather.

LABOUR PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST.

9.00

HTV

FROST OVER AMERICA. David Frost talks to Orson Welles.

9.10 10.00 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GAMES. Boxing.

24 HOURS.

10.30 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GAMES. Boxing. Cricket Gillette 11.05 Cup semi-finals. 11.55 Weather.

REGIONAL BBC

session 10915 es nor: a11.57 All regions as BBC 1 except: Maes a mor. essaon. Midlands and E Reporting Scot. Scotlandi.51 New.5, region weather. 6. 0-6.15 Seene eather N Ireland: around six, West: 6.00615 You weather 1,57 region, South and West: 00-6.15 Wales today, weather Heddiw weatner.

BBC 2

11.00-11.20 a.m. Play school. 4.10-6.30 p.m. Gricket Gillette Cup semi- finals. 7.30 NEWS and weather. LOUIS MALLE'S INDIA. 'Reflections In a Lens'.

8.00 Praetorius and

WILLIAMS.

plays Bach,

8.50 JOHN|

Guitarist dar, Albeniz. Joker:

LABOUR PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST.

9.00 OF THE WEEK. Mantovani and his concert orchestra.

SHOW

FANNY CRADDOCK. Cheese and wine party.

10.00

'CORTEZ AND THE LEGEND'.

Reconstruction of the adven- 10.20 of Mexico surrounding Hernando Cortez's conquest from 1519-1521. Octopus. NEWS and weather. 11.15 LINE-UP.

11.10 K.IК

ITV

2.00 p.m. Racing from Sandown Park. 4.17 Tingha and Tucker club.

4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Anything you can do. 5.20 Freewheelers. 5.50 News. don. 'THE SAINT. 'Interlude in Venice'.

6.02 7.30

CORONATION STREET.

8.00

IT TAKES A THIEF.

LABOUR PARTY BROADCAST.

9.00 TALES OF EDGAR WALLACE. 'Man at the Carlton Tower'.

9.10 10.00

NEWS.

London. NEAREST AND DEAREST. 'Two Pennles to Rub Together.

10.40 From Fairfield Halls, Croydon.

PROFESSIONAL

WRESTLING.

11.10

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

11.55 a.m. LAND OF THE RISING SUN.

12.10

REGIONAL ITV

As channel except: 2.00-4.15 Puffin's Midniant weather France. 210M sie ther 6.30. Dools Day. The crisis is indeed deep so As I write the outcome has but the measures to reassure are been made clear, new tried. But the crisis is precisely verdict is not of total is ine fast. within the ranks of the bourgeois Much more fact is the itself. that such a programme should and then be looking Its pantomimes are tired and its brutality discon- For under the guise of real of more its own as certs it conflict lies a show-trial. The becomes more open. bright and lawyer is little comfort We draw from that of very skilled in his use of court his client's interest. course. routines in The prosecuting attorney is not especially punitive and in no way even boorish. The judge is a delight: Mid- clearly a liberal, In Germany in the early 1930s pretty, tolerant. there were similar squirmings graduate of Harvard Law School, and heart-searchings amongst the Denver's only liberals in all the professions.

woman Some acted courageously and The courtroom is friendly and selflessly in n attempting stall navitooparine British wave fascism. are tha formality witnessing familiar divisions now charade, proceedings the US. a comprehen. Here too there were hearty and civilized manner. the nrotecte filling correspond- ence columns of 'The Times' for the Greek atter protest But the students sentences. want to isil inct the come No, we reliance Everyone plays the game and, can put no the defendant doesn't outaged on thA consciences to defend, everything goes the middle-class dons, upper lawvere or hroadcastard We mercy and we've seen, it's hardly nonaynent na The reality look for no comnascion from the thot court's of the system which has Draconian measures are employed slaughtered now, as they always have been, nuAt hundred million workers in this subdue militants. century and which daily trumped-up charges, the Antarc killings and the of genocidal war against the mass arrests Workers people of SE Asia. International the World leaders at the The historv of the labour beginning of this century in the States are marked hu nunitive movement 1c an obvious comparison with illegal and to- sentences, arrests authorized killings. No day's legal pogroms. Where en liberalism raises liberalism television soft-sell can alter even that or change the necessities of its voice the ing and quick to react. the situation. We think all we have kinds of rights; standing in the * dock as the judge tells the jury what to think, however, can make you wonder. Take the case of Supreme Court judge William Douglas. staunchly has defended constitutional rights for citizens has made attacks and effective use in his book •Points The 12 good men and true the Declaration called in to put the gloss Rebellion' of are of Independence in its guarantees on proceedings redress 'where And. although it's true that a violent sub- pile high and most conceanc con totall spokesmen rep- vert the course of "justice' for elected the establishment'. one trial. the known hundreds of class to sympathize years the young radicals, has struggle and is not long thwarted.

against the environ- The programmes have been a glimpse destruction gaining focainating 11cat11l ground with and, of the processes at work, new rapidity, even carefully worse still of deanne still, recently so haralice thAT obscured them. anthology similar The reaction was an attempt parliamentary proceedings would group of Congressmen also be most welcome: the talk- to ing shop on television could be impeached, action him Vice-President magnificent revolutionary Agnew and only just thwarted.

education in itself.

WORKERS PREES

REFIGH

a special Paisley's graph'. rushed 0 Twelfth is this cerned y colour Boyne ( 4324.5 801-635 Scene West.

channel o " colour channel 41 as 15 ad 1225 Weather 3) black and whit SY dayd. 630-6.3 Report Wales Might Hor 2:35 Romper do plete and one tun i the basi. be able 310 Music hal. S0.0 7.30 Lond and Asia to Bieley Catholi the Britis

LENIN

Palace, Petrogr • the differen Here tion of Amon were als

Wednesday, July 22, 1970 the

DOOL

system TV emp ovment also

BBC 1

tion. Enis would operatea oy t Cricket. • 1.45 News and 1 11S 10 40 a m Watch with mother.

10.50-1.000.M. Commonwealth would weather 1.53 Grandstand. i ne britisi age to the employers inasmuch Atnlectics. boxina ana Happy Age'. Film from France. 5.15 Tom Tom. 5.44 Abbott and Cos tello. would 5.ou news ana weamer 6.00 enslave the worker to thi . The British Commonwealth Games and Cricket.

GRANDSTAND

6.75 neeas or producuon (2) even red BRIAN RIX PRESENTS. 'Clutterbuck'. By Benn W. Levy.

would (3) would single out

LABOUR PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST.

militants FROST OVER AMERICA. David Frost talks to Orson Welles.

RITICH COMMONWEALTH GAMES. boxing.

weaken the (4) 10.30

24 HOURS

unions further GAMES. Boxing. Cricket Gillette

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

Cup semi-tinals. 11.55 weatner.

theworking ce class by

BBC

needs

REGIONAL

them (5) for stade repare the . 8.15-8.45 Baes a mor: 11.57 All regions as BBC 1 except: for state control Scotl weachorting Scot- unions boaras would inevitably Comt a around six, covernment supel 11.50" News through the such Prices and Incomes Board ввс 2 ment and Productivity. 11.00-11.20 a.m. Play school. 4.10-6.30 p.m. Cricket Gillette Cup semi- Developments in these direc tions are now taking place finals electrical contracting the Ns and weamel

LOUIS MALLE'S INDIA.

Reflections in a Lens'. 8.00 industry where the aim 1s Praetorius and with replace Guitarist plavs ShoD stewards 8.50

WLLIAMO

whose board representatives 9.00 Tuncion wil be WEEK. Mantovani and his concert orchestra.

9.10 mat Tne aurecuves CRADDOCK. Cheese and wine party.

boara are carrica our.

AND

THE LEGEND'

Reconstruction 10.60 Hernando Cortez's conquesi Mexico You show that employers NEWS and weather. 11.15 LINE-UP.

are workine to an over 11.10 government policy,

ITV

but does this apply everything? For 1 Sandown Park. 4.17 Tingha and Tucker club 2.00 Racing 00 Crossroads. 4.55 Anything you example, some firms are can do. 5.20 Freewheelers. 5.50 end to demancino 'TUE CAINT Intorludo in Venice'l while overtime omel

CORONATION STREET.

firms are demanding that

IT TAKES A THIEF

worked.

LAROUR PARTY BROADCASI

overtime EDGAR WALLACE. 'Man at the Cariton Tower.

Can't they make up their

NEAREST AND

minds? 10.40 • Pennies to Rub logerner

POLICY

12.10 Prices througn 1 be els, is

ITV

Incomes boara

REGIONAL

overtime should plus ours only an warkine wes *Day rofitable hours paid at bovertime rates The crisis is not been ite the has indeed deep s measures reassur mad clear verdict is not the test Mach itself. made and then nantamita tired brutalitv certs shon mort own as bright DeLores dery skilled int little comfort We I ins cienses interest from that of course ly punitive and in no way everhe judge is a delight: thirties, pretty, clearly a liberal ere were smithe say mings te Denver's she indee Crase formality in, the defendant expect and keish daily" century

BANK CARIWRICH

omparison with t are of the beyone's intentions the Most riberal motives: auren America. ir Take Supreme ut a ne Mat he case was chosen weets its guarantees nake bee redress establishment: resent youngst the environ- authenti gaining rapidity an age married a young and attractive constant action Television.

WORKERS PREBS

HTV (West) colour channel 61 as above except: 4.23-4.25, 6.01-6.35 Scene West.

HTV (Wales) colour channel 4l as above except: 11.55 Y dydd. 12.25 Weather.

HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white service as above except: 6.01 Y dydd. 6.30-6.35 Report Wales.

2.00-4.10 London. 4.25

ANGLIA:

4.35 Romper room. 4.55 Newsroom. 6.35 6.00 About Anglia. London. 7.00 Ghost and Mrs Muir. Crossroads. 9.00 7.30 London, 8.00 Marcus Welby.

9.10 Music hall. 10.00 Lon- London. don. 11.55 Reflection. ATV MIDLANDS: 2.00 London. 4.02 4.40 Women today. 4.10 Peyton Place.

4.55 London. and Tingha Tucker 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 6.00 ATV today. 8.00 Avengers. Branded. 7.30 London. 9.10 Music hall. 10.10 9.00 London. London. 11.45 Who knows? weather.

ULSTER: 2.00-4.05 London. 4.30 Rom- per room. 4.50 News. 4.55 London. 6.35 Viewfinder. 6.00 News. 7.00 Jokers _6.05 wild. 7.30 Crossroads. 9.00 London. 8.00 Marcus Welby. 10.30 From Music hall. 10.00 News. glen to glen. 11.00 Wrestling.

Enchanted louseparty 25 Matinee. 4.55 London. 6.00 Calen- 7.00 dar, weather. 6.35 troop. Jokers wild. 7.30 London. 8.00 Saint.

9.10 Music hall. 10.00 9.00 London. London. 11.45 Weather. Encore university

GRANADA:

1.35 London. 4.10 News. challenge. 2.00 Short story. 4.40 Tingha and Tucker.

4.55 London. 6.00 Newsview. 6.30 Big valley. 7.30 London.

Octopus. Baron. 9.00 London. 9.10 Music 8.00 hall. 10.00 London. TYNE TEES: 2.00 London. 4.10 News- 4.40 4.15 My three sons. room. 4.55 London. 6.00 Today at Paulus. 7.00 Jokers wild. 6.30 Survival. Court martial. 9.00 six. 7.30 London. 8.00 hall. 10.10 Lon- London. 9.10 Music don. 11.55 News. 12.05 Epilogue.

BORDER: 2.00 London. 4.13 News 4.40 Tingha and 4.15 Freud on food. 4.55 London. 6.00 News. Tucker. 7.00 6.35 Crossroads. 1, 0 London 300 MuSiC 8.00 Baron. hall. 10.00 9.10 Music London. London. 11.55 News, weather.

London. 4.17 Sondon 6.00 2.00-4.10 6.25 London. Summer scene. 'olice call. 6.30 Raw deal. 7.00 Joker 8.00 Man in a wild. 1,30 London. suitcase. 9.00 London. 9.10 Music hall.

London. 11.10 Gateway. 11.45 10.10 Late call. 11.50 Two-shot golf.

4.25

GRAMPIAN: 2.00-4.10

London. 4.55 London. 6.00 Handful of songs. News, weather. 6.10 Mad movies. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Tokers wild. 7.30 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 8.55 Police London. London. 9.10 Music hall. 9.00 news. 10.10 London.

PAOR THARE

REFIGHTING old battles is a speciality of the Rev lan Workers Press notebook Paisley's Protestant Tele- graph'. The current issue, rushed out in time for the Twelfth in patriotic blue ink, is this year not only con- cerned with the Battle of the Boyne (1690). Loyal speech dele le 13, 1970 Thy misersed as been

PROTESTANT

the historic toe Lister Protesta ts, but or chris

BLESSING

Paise is the sever any mule

FOR

directy is more see her and order and the figh

POWELL

Less doriest symapthy for those Blessed DES WILSON, described in doners without eitner nomes o 'The Times' as a 'dynamic' 'whizz-kid revolutionary' has resigned as director of Shel- are ter. the national campaign tor the homeless. the Council is to long tie go and home fai a talent 'rebels' collaborated tabou

ANOTHER

prominent per- ories in introduci sonality who has taken rather longer to gain recognition for his talents, is Mr Michael they hand know weat his right hand Foot MP. Labours had elected to the sher le as tor airies shall one state declares esparliament I am not opposed to a court of forgotten inherit that to tame by help By from Des Vison trough the Revolution the earth s of capitalisn • i Fier sold our roo o one or ted by there Tauride delegates But he spoke

LENINGRAD S

walace headquarters or une Petrograd Soviet in 1917, was outline Ev programme e the picture of week of a the scene last different type of gathering.

* Leningrad World Federa even people a diferen Among 2,000 delegatess nascester a zonists, and all. 'Morning were also there. Where Lenin once stood 'Aurora'

PAGE FOUR

Sheffield Rehabilitation attacked forgemen say no to Husak regime productivity enty instis see made oricial defends torture out until methods The alecd scabbing in the plant.

increase. er productivity sought cent CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S 'Rehabilitation Senates' have again been sharply attacked by Prague Radio. Set up under Dubcek to expose the faked trials Busmen face and purges carried out by the bureaucracy after 1948, their inquiries now pose a serious threat to the Husak regime, which draws many of its cadres from Stalinists computer deeply implicated in the Irame-ups or Gorwald and control The radio broadcast complains: 'It is known that in some cases their approach in

BY BERNARD FRANKS

dealing with applications was insufficiently responsible and that there was a patent endeavour to rehabilitate crimes when the computer oftenders had been condemned. Unprepartment, ate

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Transport. confession

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

initially or the scheme ( And unrian restrictions

WE WILL

in the agreement with the (2) the

STRIKE

Special (3) the he-signintlowanne

• FROM PAGE ONE

every sarage Monday (4) hoint before the trike starter Justified relief

MARKET

TALKS

Ministers sery was very paid for

BEGIN IN

negalye. i duty. Price stoppage Computer

BRUSSELS

shold bal or pease think Which tried to a medale midic st the day trom each Brussels, Tuesday-Britain six the dutieumbers Market countries met here eadover, today to open their first looks stike ory the capi detailed talks on Britain's slike Dy bid to join the European Economic Community.

WEATHER

re noiding country to ransom, but what SE London harber met the Cool. Max. • ЖС (66г).

MDW

uny intervals. min their let sing since nortation! cool. Max. 1rc (68) strike Trand: Co Class 10% thunderol, Mat. 16C (613, spreads ered

SPY-IN-

to carry them out

THE-CAB

officials proposed a 1!

SHELVED

Seamen

ALL TRADES

pay claim increase air a basis

UNIONS ALLIANCE

or negotiatior *supror tie dockers Decat the strikers The Shipper Nederation 174 per cent rise Inder the terms of the 1968 93A SCOW: Woodsidey, medions to leering rnard Feran Charlese

LATE NEWS

Modernization means extended to full strike we anxious ships and carriers, automation, na asemen ameeting ordering dear pair and Derby yesterday Recall the Centre Warning to MPs louse of Com ward wike sage Houst particularly at Sious rece 5. 1864 Ca negotiators • he vare the alle might' Progress Printed by F nd widespread issuspeed-up understanding on curb- lace, l

WORKERS PRESS

abovobod fa seys reases? is holding ory governmen .... Justifiable i her, basic rare is foste higher worker wa sadoed by very man: heyes get Ell Is 8d plus Thest should hay think everyone come people official organizec touch the meat. Price rises ad rise and und yet of last 'even before Seein of main 4 e "There's abs usely blow against ple stro use troops to break defeat the Tories' attacks.

Brand between

POLISH

LEADER IN

PRO--STALIN

CAMPAIGN

FOLLOWING the lead of the Soviet Stalinists, the Polish literary weekly 'Zycie Literackie' has given careful approval to the current pro-Stalin campaign in Moscow. 'Recent contributions by Mikhail Sholokov and army commanders,' it says, have shown up calumny alle- as gations that Stalin had been ignoramus an as a military leader. who: followed the events of the war on a school atlas? Concluding his remarks on the man who wound up the Polish Communist Party in 1938 on the grounds that it taken had been over fascists—nearly all its leaders were shot in Moscow during the purges-the author of this article writes: 'I believe that in the fore- seeable future memoirs and research will move from the subject of the war to a more varied level. Indication 'The placing of Stalin's bust among the busts of other lead- ers can be another indication that the activity of a man cannot be analysed by look- ing at him exclusively either from above or below. This article, written by Polish Central Committee member Wladislaw Machejak, is highly significant. As is the case in Moscow, the these remarks indicate of ultra-Stalinist growth forces within the bureaucracy as it attempts to crack down on the various opposition in groups developing both intellectual and working-class circles. agreements [i.é., Devlin Phase Two] are vitally important and necessary. The ports must be modernized. he added that the Later, £20 claim made was more difficult by the 'apparent wide repercussional effects' it would have throughout the industry.

*If these vitally important modernization agreements are going to be held up by nego- tiations over an old fashioned time rate,' he said, 'it seems unreasonable.' The inquiry adjourned until Thursday last night after plea for government closing restraint from Jones. He told Lord Pearson: 'We are worried that the goverment might press into operation troops which would exacerbate the situation and create tension . 'Really the men are seething with discontent with anxiety. 'This is not a selfish appli- cation-not a desire to boost the total of all earnings dockers.' Wednesday, July 22, 1970

SAIGON

ADMITS

'TIGER'

CAGES

BY A

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

HAVING first denied their Saigon regıme calsicucc, announced yesterday that the intenas @Dolsul *tiger Con caled cares SonI islane. barbaricheld These dungeons, which have antl imperialist fighters captive for young Czechoslovaks, in a courageous public

THREE

UD To seven vears. are 'new disciplinary replaced by letter, have raised their voices against the political cells'. counter-revolution and the preparation for fresh purges. and Karel Sling, Jan sons of Otto Siing, the Brno Party Secretary who was framed and hung in the 1952 Sansky trial, together VIk, Jan witn whose father was "Trotskyism' demned for in the 1950s, have used their constitutional right of petition send a Party protest the Presidium, the government and parliament. It is shocking to see,' they write "that n vere ałter țhe "traitors f trials the so-called and seven the illegal acts al c asalll petrated .. ne can calm once hat 1! was : question ot the erroro certain indivi- anà țaț duals, but on this argument worth are fresh political trials one ao e nude che tact taat thev are integral part policy ot the the Party.' The three denounce the cynical Dersher- bureaucracy's of tion families their

SOVEX STRIKE ENTERS 10TH WEEK

victims: 20th une centur" suDDosed v sociaust and cıvi-

WORKERS

Sovex Ltd, that Bro. Baker, district secre- people 17 e0 state. volng Erith, delivered a sharp re- the Bilermakers' kept out of suitable work and buff yesterday Society, has stated sacse te irm split their ready are aLICIIPLs week-old settle the latest presentls sunike Middle 5s 10td. unanimousi would colunue Une the Bro. Baker is still on holi- tornase unt the Ages had returned. offer ment cive a Satistactory cav. the meeting was told. hut in regard to the claim'. the mente niler.

CRIMES

makers at the meeting signed Mr White, They clearly grasp that it is, managing dired. letters has out for the above all, of the sent less than. Stalinists which last each in- claim. in weCk dividual striker which Financial running working class and the forces

SUDDUTL

make out averase entn. into unousanos oi Dounos who derena . soclalisi 'has ines are alreadv high nOW heen recerved the 1 nt present Durge rate demanded by the strike committee - including the catastrobiic consecuences tor strike committee. from Vickers Crayford ratiokingnder CS(0 the the young Federation which represents half of generation. such has also been floating a story award recently won there. young people turn socialism •. int is true ahat yo 1 you have beer democratic socialst movement ane make it impotent Kilt tron that. very AaSIy. an anti-socialist movement can tereat of We think that threat new ahe carates Stalinist-backed of Call Dalsis provocauon une oress ane radio we are not so naive as to government tınk that our protest can hal híc avzncąe Hıt ua n wish to have to say to day that we knew

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

and kept our mouths shut.

PAUSE

ACCORDING to an article in the Moscow In this bold and principled paper 'Trud', a member of the Syrian Com- statement contained munist Party has been tortured to death in Stalin why Communists task other Syrian have the prison and comDiete been arrested. Dolucal cictatorsnin It must be remembered unese ihree volng men nil that, while the to chame all those who unne C.P. leaders Syrian prefer to keep silent on the crimes of Stalinism in Czecho- Communist Party banned, the government arrested waslingova, Sling's widow who opened includes of one its British Con discussion in Sudan In the members, Minister of Party Communist Communications Faisal. crimes ('Why dic i happen?' 'Marxism Todav'

ABDEL

Khlek Mahinuh Madership refuses to Mav 1969). Parts banned Sudan. He is now in the nosition denounce ot helonoino to an adminis.

his return from exile in muridering isabessi of his for vicvalallols on frame-ups Czecho- new valro. slovakia, known CP members Irame-us in WAlCn Te salnists wi tryto drown cit in the nresent sudanese the nolitical revolution presses • 'anyiety at this nerl onvernment. and the recime and silence through hinod is firmlv supported by the secuuon. terror those who now speak Sy a aresdeeply concered 'Progréssive people Stalinists. over these events eople hoj Coalition: ath in trendiy 'Little chance that events developing which might be of mortgage still haggling the UnITe rate cut' imseriaist tore sand TrV S patrouc GIULIO Andreotti, the right- wing Christian MR FULLER OSBORN, Chair- Uncritical charged by President the Bulding Societies mar renégotiating A ssociaton. TorecasI uTE e ne tanıste have hance nt morłarae pates be.

uncritical backing the ing reduced this year. Syrian regime since merged fron ole circulated the HA tola a ondon nreco page secret document to the conference that officers vacterdat: Democratic, Social elL-win? ally hrictian there seemed no likelihood of 1966. Socialist and Re beins ree cent and starsa 1 5 per investors' rate public for discussion support has been the maintained through all as the Sol t emoc paler some tax concesion for bilina- "This failing fartina strnggec withın look slender means the ruling Ba'ath 'Socialist" are rates mist remain at ot pse that soclelles,

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tne shonla have no dealings with cent.' Party at re- the Communce The only way the rate could working gional or local level. pad bry sare was aither 1963. the amount tax Fear At this point, the right- societies behalf of The Socialists, however, feas wing Ba'athist 80000ment investors or by their for electoral ( hides began killing 5 000 borauon tax. or a combinatior they tie menule ts.e their entire nolitical t the Iwo But rate Tltıre their reactionar Soviet bureal- lowet mortoage remained friendl national te lows „ †he conrse ITSe T regime, which alition. with the Aref stimulate house purchase,' he sonere th sisere b said. rén aced Kassem definite worth noting that Mr Fuller said that if the Socialist ine current trend were sustained, the Maceow renort was not might lend capitulation capenu rise to re pores of ai luse „k ą ın The societie: Party €1,800 millior this year com- Pred with £1,544 million in government •DuismOl in circes close to journal. A narentti.