Workers Press no. 215

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nCT 29 1970 workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 215 PRICE 6d. Dockers must be on guard Stalinists July £1000 support Appeal Fund for Pearson rises to instigate dockers £402 3s 11d SHEFFIELD Young Teach-

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fighting What Lord Pearson Mid-East determined that we shall make our target on time. us with 8597 16s 1d to inquiry sell-out Post all donations to: Workers Press Appeal Fund to the US proposals for NASSER'S reply 160a Clapham High Street Middle-East London, SW4. settlement was expected to be issued last night. Reports from Cairo, Moscow and Jerusalem all indicate that the Egyptian

T.U.C.

leader has been persuaded by the Soviet leaders to begin serious discussions on the plan.

Birmingham, also pledged is suspect Yesterday's 'Al Ahram', chiefs

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

semi-official Cairo the pillars" which newspaper, published the ignore Andreotti fails had text of US Secretary territories State Rogers' message to ITALY plunged into yet an- Egypt proposing a cease- troops other nolitical crisis vesterday while negotiations fire when the attempt by Christian seco enough begin. Zionist By an Industrial correspondent 'Al Ahram' emphasized the Iorm a new coaltion collapsed.

BY JOHN SPENCER

What We won't move perishable

RESPECT

LORD PEARSON'S committee of inquiry into the national docks strike is the spearhead of a israe edents guestion a secure thinh: Tory attempt to strangle the dockers' fight for goods-S'hampton dockers question a £20 basic wage. occupied Why United 'Nation: Those dockers who have lingering illusions about the inquiry's purpose. or wno unk it is enougn to that 'wait and see' what comes out of it, must think again.

And no strike? 2 ne te examine me causes -Arat sue the termination and circumstances' of the dispute.

but it can ony masses give a juaicial gloss to the governments anti-working fald Maudlings ar class strategy against the Council cockers. backed Mo visit y Army This strategy certainly a yesterday on leaders decision uarantee to kee snub yesterday from under control, in threat and the imperialist Like Lord Pearson's inquest to Hull A mass "Nobage,

BARGAINING

This me which he ba gain.

Driftield near Hulle + Band escape the ew become intensified. fication one Parn A rod genu pilater in the

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BYA WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

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DOCKS

Westland AS TACK TONES and Tim O'Learv were decame whether to ask strikers to move perishable foodstuffs

PROFITS

deal tied meeting of Southampton dockers yesterday, a mass (above) voted unanimously against such action.

SLUMP

with strings Workers press Docks Board

RUMOURED

pared today that igned by ransport beal beer an old fashioned time and theoduciate On eve of L.P. conference end mitt deal. Its pa! cargoes after the men' steward explained "in dor, the boned sat on crociai afterwaves sent in to the from ae if the tied to string open the way to speed-up muniors and some ayin

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stimateople, agreemen Strikers threatened union claim of 820. no the National Pieces Been like genes replity. The cost is ronmen from tea i time receiving Vorten sees for the or he cost 8 the strike, Warning sam mast meting with injunction But one docker, Mr Dougla hardly surprise, Corisers i Press gave a clea

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

tradestland have to tok whos doing! • -- weeks Jobless soars I would like to take out a special subscription for ditterent • Mrmployer CP member who let tor a around pe fint phot Name. (poved and a stewards- momention i the clue ite entrances being prete sinG employment Address.. normally 45" Cheste strike! siy entrates be falls to its lowest point durie honour mose workers in There • eastone hesitation nstruction sites have be police on Tuesdayict with

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nat 29.1970 workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED PROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY |

NUMBER 215

THURSDAY JULY 23, 1970

PRICE 6d. Dockers must be on guard Wider Stalinists July EIUDU support Appeal Fund Pearson for

PISES 10

instigate dockers £402 3s 11d SHEFFIELD Young WE ARE fighting on. Com have carried the following Lord Pearson Mid-East ou as o ime ahi make Yolne Tetie esemeyd sell-out inquiry rost all donations to: Workers Press Appeal Fund NASSER'S reply to the US proposals for a 186a Clapham High Street, ae asmpany sefer ta til settlement was expected be vidale-cast LOД00д, Dw4 issued last night. Reports from Cairo, Moscow and Jerusalem all indicate that the Egyptian

T.U.C.

leader has been persuaded by the Soviet leaders to begin serious discussions on the plan.

chiefs Yesterday's 'Al Ahram',

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

Is suspect Cairo the semi-othcia! which newspaper, published the sted ignore Andreotti fails withdraw text ot Us Secretary of tertitories oc lesitimate State Rogers' message to ITALY plunged into yet an- Egypt proposing a cease- restle had troops other political crisis yesterday eThe sec ond monte is vized while negotiations wnen the attempt by hristian begin. Democrat Guilo Andreotti to anst bese By an Industrial correspondent form a new coalition collapsed.

'Al Ahram' emphasized the ry ole ine Taken in Moscoe

BY JOHN SPENCER

What General We won't move perishable

RESPECT

LORD PRARSON'S committee of inquiry inte tur Tores- the national docks strike is the spearhead of threat to use • troODs prove umunca yes- think Tory attempt to strangle the dokers' fight for goods-S'hampton dockers In fact, according to Con a £20 basic wage. Why teriories al inose dockers who mave incerme musions abom without the inquiry's purpose, or who think it is enough to be ie hansall territories must wall and see what comes out or Il, must think agaın.

strike? The inquiry was sedau a im venets, ic examine the causes ana circumastasces ol une alspute. but it can oniy determi ine isali rom yonste give a judicial gloss to the government's anti-working- *Desinald Madine Soverment class strategy against the pation, becomes a major issue dockers. Army e Tren fared by l he tainl trenselves refuse a nd uns istakabie sone wit trae threat d the imperialist powe: only strengthen Like Lord Pearson's inques Jerusalem he reaction to Hull I to asse up being force

BARGAINING

portle be con inensire he ber sani bome tens cupied at a few must now of such goods. Tarson's 1966 report la he Zooeis so are particil.

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

starting made the his presente inquiry

DOCKS

AS JACK JONES and Tim O'Leary were deciding Westland of his cr ination of th whether to ask strikers to move perishable foodstuffs on Tuesday.

PROFITS

yesterday, a mass meting of Southampton dockers deal tied (above) voted unanimously against such action.

SLUMP

with strings of the Devlin spedu

BRITAIN'S

at t statly sun be ports suled be FE in profits last year. The British

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CLASY

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PAGE TWO

THE FACT that most major shipyards of the capitalist world have full order books can in no way be seen as a shipping boom and a consequent glut of jobs for seamen. The opposite is the case.

Modernization of world ship ing now taking place should b looked at in the same way as modernization of the docks and mines in Britain. Combined with new systems of working, the new equipment meant a continuous there bas jobs decrease. The great incentive to hit out to an even greater extent at the in the is implicit seamen employers' crisis. Big initial profits for the first in with the new methods and a buyers' market on ships as the shipbuilders cut profits to the minimum to win more orders, quickly changes to a cut-throat war among the shipping opera- more and tors themselves as more of the established firms fight for a slice of the chief shipping routes.

CUTBACK

Five main shippiare detestry shipping industry which are contributing heavily towards a continuous cutback on jobs. These are: 1. The replacement of conven- tional shipping by container vessels, monster bulk carriers and so on. In many cases, this means one ship doing the work done previously by five or six. Automation aboard ship. All loading, steering and engine oom activities being carrie n by automatic control sus tems. 3. Faster turn-round of ships in port. This adds up to more trips each year ships. 4. Changes in the concept of ship-repairing. Instead docked for repairs, being 'flying squad' repair gangs work on the ships while at sea. Reductions in the number of ships laid up at any given again fewer time, means ships needed. Rationalization of the crew's 5. work. All individual positions disappear and each member of the crew becomes a gen- eral purpose worker who must carry out any duties in engine room, deck or catering assigned to him. During the latter part of the 1960s, these developments have moved from the experimental to the operational stage, and are spread through the expected to majority of the world's great shipping during the next five years. Just some aspects of the appli- of these trends are as cation follows: A ship is launched at E

MODERN SHIPS

The increase in the use of oil coupled with products, the of the Suez Canal, has closure led to the development of the than super tankers of more 200,000 tons in the 1950s 50,000 tons was usual). This has meant that one ship, with a compliment of 52, trans- ports the same amount of oil as previously carried by five ships with 41 men aboard each. Two hundred such super- tankers are already at sea, or on order. More and more container ships are being built as special- ized cellular vessels are and being increased in size, and the invention of the collapsible con- tainer reduces the amount space taken up in returning empties. The number of container ships in operation throughout world is around 300 (in 1968 it was 50). A more recent development has been the lighter-aboard-ship system (LASH), by which a sea- going vessel carries barges which can be dropped off directly at the outlet to inland waterways.

This type of vessel is specially constructed with an internal con-

SEAMEN FACE DOCKERS

kind in the world is the 138,370- and a lift to load veyor system and unload the lighters. ton Japanese tanker, 'Toko Maru'. The first of these ships, the This ship incorporates a com- Forest, built Nor- Arcadia puter system which links directly way for Central Gulf Lines, was to a special radar set enabling put operation in 1969. tracking of ten other ships Another new type of vessel is the simultaneously, giving the course ten-deck car carrier. and speed of each. loading and With sideport The will give alarm computer moveable, decks actually some at the possibility of collision and this ship can carry up to 3,200 will give instruction for avoiding cars. danger. The computer also fixes the ship's position from US naval satellites; carries out direction

CAR EXPORTS

fixing based on automatic calcu- from bearings lations compass 'Laurita' The Norwegian-built and and from weather, wind is the first of three such vessels controls loading current effects; to be built to carry car exports and unloading of ships, i.e. con- Europe and Japan to the from trols pumps, valves, pressure in USA. It made its maiden voyage the oil lines and monitors the in January this year. oil level each tank and the in countries, the pos- In several draught of the ship. sibilities of using nuclear cargo of hips to give a knot or two speed and to reduce fuel-

TRACKED

ling time are being considered.

Stresses and strains of the The W German research ship itself are tracked and powered nuclear ore carrier, details of cargo movement given.

Hahn' 'Otto has been in opera- The computer is also linked 18 months and will go tion for to the engine room where it until 1972 before re-fuelling with (main and watches engines the second reactor Its top core. and checks tempera- auxiliary) speed is 17 knots. ture and pressure. Warnings of and correction faults given measures typed out. It can also take action auto- matically in a crisis, slowing the changing pumps, engines, etc. All such actions it reports to the In it engineer. any case. automatically scans engine- instruments and logs the results. One other job that the be carried out makers claim can is the medical diagnosis of ill- ness among the crew. Symptoms of any illness may be fed into the computer, which then Biles the of the sickness, and nanne recommends the treatment.

this will Presumably, cut the demand for ships' doctors.

The computer is said to be able to out all carry the above operations simultaneously and requires moderate know- only ledge of computers to operate.

The 'Toko Maru' has a crew of 36. but future ships of this type are expected to operate with only 15 men.

LOADING AND

UNLOADING

Ship operation is, of course, port, opera- separate trom tion and the rationalization of dock work which brings load- and unloading time down from two weeks to two days or less adds enormously to the per- of and time the ships Centee seamen spend at sea. For example, it is estimated ship is loaded that a container is launched at Birkenhead and discharged 30 times faster and conventional vessel than so spends about 80 per cent of its working-life at sea, compared France 40 cent for con- Japan and are also with only per considering building experimental ventional ships. nuclear merchant ships, while W Also, the last word has not second Germany is to build yet been said in this sector, as such vessel. This is likely to be experiments with direct ship-to- 200,000-ton tanker bulk or shore moveable conveyor sys- tems are being conducted which could lead advance on to an of the use cranes to

AUTOMATION

handle containers Whereas many of the develop- ments outlined so far have been

SHIP REPAIRS

fairly well publicized, particu- larly for their spectacular size, The towards mobile unusual design, or to mOVe relation mentioned the repair gangs already containerization, technical by a Dutch firm made has been changes that taking place which 'flying squads' of supplies aboard ship are less well known.

board a ship skilled labour who Radio navigational systems, work in port, and сед. including the of transmission during the voyage, repairing from US Navy satellites, signals faults or damage. can now give positioning accu- which only If it is work can of one-tenth nautical TaTe be done in dock, they at least mile; automatic and electronic do much of the preparatory as control has made it possible for work as possible. of control the 'SS Colum- For example, the room. bia' found to be needing compressed was 'Laurita', On the of the some tubes in Volkeswagen renewal air from enaines is ship's starboard boiler. used to power tools, hoists and A work squad was put aboard ramp winches. But probably the the ship biggest step yet taken is the use at Amsterdam, con- Philadelphia,

USA.

of the computer to analyse and tinued on to work completed in some cases control many the vessel steamed aspects of the working of vessels.

route while boiler only. The most advanced vessel of its on the port Thursday, July 23, 1970

WORKERS PRESE

inadequate return on capital строуса

BY BERNARD FRANKS

so marked tanies

KERS' PROBLEM

for in nostry should tal m the ited that the Indestrid L With

ATTACKED

nich the every singit measur take to hold added: ever, terences Lord Rochdale foreig seen and pres serious The same issue of the union's The Encounter Bay container ship Marite Noard which on it's maiden voyage to Australia.

ates tha mate see on or throwing men as long as numan beings 45, 00 0°2 this meet with cargoes across throwing 100,000 ha in hang compared with 150,000 union's Execu- ratings) uncil. ip is semes theory e a continuous fall in the or AS omn number e the manager number of me regard is ore- becomegemeni on a

REMORSELESS

production- place laid Al heath and be con Bone preparation ese stant da ving and 25 of steam, incorpo- men ost wages and los be

GENERAL-PURPOSES

a break the states that ase the seshen

MANNING

5 an attempt to establish Got was iced employers at been workers who nually backed by the government. and discipline

ACQUIESCE

as repared chale Reports and Merchant sts of the Communist Party play На і ко со со 1 100 a supporting role. Recent articles by CP seamer Morning Sta TUC-which dis nstead, the Some of the crew of the Queen Elizabeth during the 1966 Seamens' strike. National Union of Seamen.

a burden the he battle wa ime and at bachdo ust how big is this cut- He shown in the tact hat control of the seamen en will part pare in ther A The a Brian manies on the men can services averaip every teal developments make This plished by 1978. • che ous git for tights the their k steward, where harrie • a revo- built and Then for the redundancy Working 02 this abo teeper cent into

JUST OUT

cannot be unervis capitalism, it Instrose ratingstner

SPECIFIC

INTENSIVE

this run. Scottish mente under ti Contrac were bought ment specific on operations: ne same situation also exis pressure to enterine the Australia route prent The hip- e on more Container the aet making ned, the thi seamenaly aim release full duty ease fere in the ings a) By using awtonation, utt workers, replace them. rushing tror part of the shanother in ime-and-motio ationalize Yeorking day of the Since 1390, mosese ser- d) To introduce stronger, sternes than replaced the elect of t "Inis agreement also regures is adhered to. that e) To mash the organ iake and Toba: clapnam 'Petty officers and ratings

Thursday, July 23, 1970

LAST MONDAY

order to provide scientists with was some interesting photographs and the first anniversary of a bagful of rocks. man's first steps on the To which one can only reply that the United States govern- moon. ment was quite willing to invest the cash (and the aerospace America's National Aero- were just as willing Coroomons providing take it) that it nautics and Space Adminis- was an American who had held tration celebrated the event the camera and carried the bag. If the 'bleep' of the 1957 in a way that has become Soviet Sputnik was a shock for all too common over the last the US ruling class, the 108- minute orbit of Yuri Gargarin four years-they sacked yet April 12, 1961 was the signal another 900 members of the for any attempt at a controlled staff programme to be thrown out of agency's and space the window reduced it to below the One Congressman, James Ful- ton of Pennsylvania, convinced 30.000 level, the lowest since that a Soviet moon landing was 1963. imminent suggested 'a blue pro- Overall, is ject, to scatter blue dust so that space manpower the moon will be red, white and down from its peak of 440.000 in 1966 to blue', 144,000 and the NASA President Kennedy budget has been reduced from sent the following directive to his vice- $6 billion a year to the current $3.4 billion president Lyndon Johnson year's cut by on April 20: over half in real terms because 'In accordance of inflation. with our con- versation would like you as * Chairman of the Space Council to be in charge making overall survey of where we stand The first of in space. anniversar Apollo-ll's successful flight finds the US space programme 'I. Do we have a chance of beat- cut to

NASA

the bone financially and ing the Soviets hu putting a is forced to look back on a year laboratory in space, or a trip the which although producing around the moon, by or successful Apollo-12 mission, was rocket the dominated disastrous and back with man? journey of Apollo-13. there any other space pro- For the which space programme, gramme promises record the year 1970 will go on dramatic results in which we the he year when capitalist could win? economic crisis, which had '2. How much additional would already begun to show itself from it cost? the of America's earliest days '3. Are we working 24 hours a finally took race for the moon, day on existing programmes. toll in demoralization and why not? If not, If not, will 1TC and produced just negligence you make recommendations one damp squib. to me as to how work "The Economist'. commenting speeded up. be NASA's A's pete makes '4. In large boosters on building mention recession but should we put our emphasis on nuclear. chemical or liquid 'The as good fuel, combination Americans wete or of trouble as inviting they these three? When all-out bid to '5. Are we making the maximum made an get to the moon without any clear pro- effort? Are achieving we in their minds about gramme necessary results? what to do when they got there. I have asked Jim Webb, Dr No nation invests $24 billion TV

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'I would appreciate a report on this at the earliest possible moment.' The need to beat the Russians whatever the cost became underlying principle behind the US space programme. Now came the opportunity for the corporations to aerospace cash in. Jim Webb, the then NASA administrator, had the final word on which company would gain the lucrative contracts, in particular the plum prize for the main spacecraft series. * In November 1961, Webb announced that North American Aviation would get the main contract. North American had proposed a total cost of $400 million, one-ninth of the actual final cost! It was not until 1967-six years later after the fire that burnt three astronauts to death in a 'routine' ground test on the ANGLIA: 2.00-4.10 London .4.30 News- room. 4.40 4.50 Flipper. 5.15 Plupp. London. 6.00 About i 6.20 Anglia. Arena. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Film: "The Rains Came'. With Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power and George Brent. 9.00 Never mind the quality, feel the width. 9.30 London. 11.00 Man in a suitcase. 11.55 Reflection, MIDLANDS: 2.00 London. 4.02 Women today. 4.10 Peyton Place. 4.40 En- chanted house. 4.55 dati 6.35 Cross- 5.15 London.

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WORKERS PRESS

Apollo craft-that first manned Webb admitted that he had over- ruled Source Evaluation the Board who had rated the Martin- Marietta Corporation higher than North American. The reason is not difficult to understand. In fact the mechanics simple. were Webb owed his position in NASA and his wealth to Sena- Kerr, Robert the most tor powerful man in the Senate and chairman of its Space Commit- tee. Kerr had thrown his weight behind North American on assur- ances that the corporation would build plants in Oklahoma, his home state. Naturally, there was something in it for him. company leased Kerr's own some of its unused land to NA at a price. In the book, 'Journey to Tran- quility', Fred Black, NA's lobby- 'ist in Washington who clinched the deal with Kerr, throws some light on the sort of wheelings and dealings that were involved as favours were freely given and taken and everyone got their cut.

THE FUNDAMENTAL

importance of apartheid S Africa to British imperialism has been shown once again by a number of events in July.

Amons these is thriguette of arms for Africa, "working paper for the Tory government prepared before the elections and the discussion on S • Africa • by the US Secretary of State, Rogers.

'WORKING PAPER'

On July 11, the daily papers reported that African repre- sentatives at the United Nations condemning a 'working were paper' which they alleged was prepared in February 1970 for the future Tory government.

they claimed, This paper, advocated that the farce Rhodesian sanctions should be ended'. (Did it ever begin? The African UN did statesmen at not ask.) The paper also is said to have contained the following remark- able statement of basic policy, usually hidden from the workers by the hypocrisy of the British imperialist state: 'Politically a first step would be to restore relations based on the recognition of mutual inter- est with S Africa'. (Our empha- sis.) The fact is that the Wilson government did not introduce sanctions against apartheid S Africa, through whom Rhode- sia continued its foreign trade; that various contacts with Smith were made through Vorster under the Wilson regime and that these trade and 'diplomatic' the lie to British moves gave sanctions against Rhodesia.

There has been change no now that the Tories are power. There is a basic continuity of foreign policy and the reasor is that without S Africa, Britain whose giant capitalists own s Africa, could not exist as capitalist country, whether under Wilson or under Heath.

FARCE

Not only have sanctions been a farce, but the ending of dip- lomatic relations has been an equal farce, for real relations have continued, either through the unofficial visits of unofficial envoys like Alec Douglas Home, or through Vorster himself.

Now Smith has visited S Africa and one report ('Daily ofice inack remembers and we played some ummy. Thei • to wilte a bottom telephone took and from drawer Bank President. called the "He told him customer that $h80,000k With instructed the bank to e Farmee 10 per cent or the stock in toe State merchants Dank stock secure makes these Economist ing. Bis kind But not its money. cannot he on $3.4 billion a year, Tuncedi demora- engineering groups and the four windup and scattered to

LOSI

Apollo-14 expect, try again ShiloTra moon's February and next 'KEEP LEFT', official paper He win betrayal king das f Young Socialists, the 'Reformism, leads the way for all youth class All 24 w we detune and it peace- Toryism who hate tion, says the ditorial. Ill lac is most probable that the balance fight for socialism. and reac- will or the snacecrafts on order be used in the development of a On the front page of its July/ Youth play major would pinead*- out, its role the fight Young neant building the shutie lau poli- Force Tories tha l resien!'" "There can no longer be ans billion this is almost certainly provides the rallying It is clas too low. call for the thousands of young against class and the only solu- The plan is to launch a space people moving into politica tion is a revolutionary socialist shuttle for first time, moti- action the weeks to would -man COn- one.' station. the Tories and all they SpaCI This month's so man a fights 3a ton di • he Coung over ad it drive to build new ranches a mass anti. up by rally at Alexandra Palace 14, 1971' is the Apollo. Pictures recruitment It should be added that North lett's' 21.000 outside schools teams factories American has already got in show and The election of a Tory govern onl streets ground drive big forward to make now ana young people Apollo-13 leaders fascowrist over people revolutionary youth movements says Apollo-11, after 4he first semblance of an American ment. None of us, it warns, begins snace the emerge predict. necessarv funds will not be forth- town from and Southern regions. Eagle by the employers and the govern- the lunar surface only one year ment who both preferred • to risk Particularly imnortant the National the economy to smash the trade report from it would br unions. Simmance and Left' the tan edit hen socialist General Bieton period. The uth Arm- slow in before strong's footsteps.

NOTICE

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AFRICAN SERVANTS

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ENTRANCE IN LANE

WHITES

NON-WHITES/

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WAITING ROOM.

• NON-EUROPEANS &

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WAGKAMER.

which hac hesyu investments in colonies, both in W and E Africa Malawi's Banda is an open sup- Botswana® Swaziland Rontucton odiunate of the Anala.

Roar dictatorchin over S Africa.

Tuly 11, 1970) says and necessary semi-colonies, Not only this, but the African Telegramh' leaders quite anenly. nationalist Zombia talks between it and Tanzania Kenya, led to of the US states have with and Heath- approach (sic!) to the overall strategy of this white made thannah Dratoria! There is nothing in this anti-apartheid done All the these was and Inde Wilson merely a smokescreen to obscure merely being continued under fraud to African or domination by apa ro IS eath. such discussions. neid imperialism.

NATIONALISM

WHITE BELT

ANGERED

cher for the An to apart under objective apartheid, governments defendine. upholding, strenathening the imperialist masters, but also thain cami nonnis! cAmunnte

I TH

INTERNATIONAL

Birmingham Young Socialists have & special survey of the Black Country, They describe . the back-to-back, gardenless slums of the working class in towns like Wolverhampton, the closing factories and the grow- ing unemployment. It is these conditions, they say, which provide the basis amongst some sections of white workers for the growth of Powellism.

Editorial board member Maureen Monaghan turns the spotlight on young school-leavers and the problems they face in finding jobs under a Tory govern- ment. There are, she says, a total of 550,000 unemployed-the highest figure for this time of the year the 620,000 since 1940-and young people who are expected to leave school this summer 'face a difficult time' In an interview with a young dock worker Keep Left' pin- points the feeling that this present struggle more than is just a wages fight and opposition to Devlin, but a fight against the Tory government and the ruling ClaSS. * For the benefit of its readers "Keep Left shows just who and whet the Tories and the ruling class really are. title The ruling Under. the faice are a whole selection of pictures. showing the chinless wondery at "play'-boating and racing, . with their. top hats, well-fed flowered dresses, and belles. On. its World News pages the paper features two special reports from its own correspondents.

One is from Italy on the eve of what would have been the general strike and the other is from Ulster where 'Keep Left's' reporter was able to bring back first-hand impressions of the the working problems facing Class. The success of many of the Young Socialists' sports activities is well-reflected this month with plenty to suit all tastes.

Winston Fuller writes briefly on cricket's domination by the ald school tie, Mick whilst Burke explains the popularity of five-a-side football. There are excellent photographs taken by YS members. • In its special series of transla- tions from the Russian of Trot- 'Collected Works' - sup- sky's pressed by Stalin - the paper presents one of Trotsky's Revo- lutionary Profiles, that of G. V.

Plekhanov. There is also an advertisement of the Trotsky Memorial Meet- ing on Sunday, August 23, at Acton Town Hall to commemo- rate 30 years since Trotsky's assassination. The editor's postbag contains some strong opinions about the election of the Tory government, the role of Wilson in opening the door' for them and the tasks ahead for the Young Socialists.

Costing only 6d for 16 pages of colour, photographs and inter- esting, thought-provoking articles, 'Keep Left' is a must for overy who young person wants to join the struggle for socialism. Don't be without your copy order now from 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. Take out a yearly subscription 9s 2d and make sure of your copy every month. covering up their real relations with the apartheid system.

In the time of Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes had the dream of a British Empire extending in Africa 'from Cape to Cairo'.

Rival imperialists, like Ger- many and Belgium, made a mess of this dream, but it is revived in recent times in another sense!

namely, that the two most reliable bastions of international capital, is on the one hand of imperialism as a whole, apartheid S Africa, at the south- ern end of Africa, and, on the other, Zionist Israel, at the north-east corner of Africa.

For imperialism Israel and S Africa" the 'Cape-to-Cairo' are guardians of the two most vital points of the African continent.

It is there end suersins that Rogers other East, makers sent to the Middle are concerned both with S Africa and with Israel in rela- tion to imperialist strategy in Africa. Nor is it an accident that the best relations, however informal, exist between the two most racialistic states in the world: apartheid S Africa and Zionist Israel. The tie-up between the two er on : states is becoming of increasing importance for American, Britain it also * and W European imperialist ts are policy.

WORKERS PRESS

PAGE FOUR

THE DOCKER AND HIS FAMILY

WE talked to Southampton docker Mr Kevin Hayes and his family at a dockers' fete and sports day in Southampton.

The men and their families were relaxing in buy this wil be woo and hey nor what mptones know the sunshine, but they men premic customers with are get a better deal is to all knew of the struggle stick together ahead.

'KIDS GOT AT'

might be the ese kind of bosses som think we will be able to the interested yes, for thinke people gets me a bad ship slogging my gor

HOLIDAY

soutnampion docker mr nevi me soing to go up, they set son Andrew Rosemary, will back us orkink, mey Debbie (6) relaxing at a fet Acton meeting votes for CAV terms Peto may part be te ot tale 'THIS GIVES the management carte blanche for tele-control. It will mean redundancies', was the comment of one worker summing up

Y A WORKERS PRES

the implications of yesterday's vote by workers at CAV's Acton " beyond factory to accept the employers' 'final offer' on their site claim.

Shop stewards' commit- Tory joined the chairman Arthur Mason told the 2,500- strong meeting that ther were recommending accept- Metal Box ance of the offer which gives f2 to men and £2 5s women women for a 40-hour week, back-dated to July 1.

strike This was despite the deci- hue Southcontes

DEVERAL

at name without theury 23e claim on All tactors AEF convenor John Paxman cround at it all actor were the Workers were demandint a 9dan-haue at Metal Box have their already Support A CAV Acton worker makes a point at yesterday's meeting.

support Westland a handful of students throush improved techno- york further claims rales ana stem wa before July l, 197l crosed du picke hine. vacation words,

TELE-

CONTROL

have increased by yearer • The setting up of a joint

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management's to the shop steads and a predic acce yesterdays meetne Stars The CAV malage mosene it work rates called upon to do so brother decontrol me or ites over piece Man hop a than the h press amade their ing system for some time.

producing. the token hoping speed-up Jobs cut accepted at all. strike agement into notations. • "Higher oroductivitv re or me ye have to face It has already been installed f the

AC T LOBBY MPS

There must be no collabora.

LATE NEWS

Members of the Association these hales spect ip on the 16676d to.

LABOUR EC GLOOM

ewara predictea ina pervaded the Labour Gloom coral secretar press Lucrative contract to Harry Nicholas reported of skilled workers replace warheads redundancy it. Many naming or those ol From our own correspondent icers of the Boints never Britain's been fully ex- ACCORDING to a warning an There was no criticism of demanding and remanknown. torpedos State intervention in the it: Vice-Admir: poncy tripedoes faultis missile ships — are also he Detonators in their torpedo tea Stem wages chase stips armed with constitutes Preet Londo parlame acary demandi and

A SERIES OF WOR

cker Mr Kevin Hayes, his wife Andrew (7) and daughter xing at a fete and sports day.

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a Soviet trick to cover the build-up of Russian military and naval strength in the Middle East. This is the background to a statement issued by the parliament's Affairs and Security Com- mittee yesterday. This referred to a 'wave of persecutions, arrests and in- terrogations of Jews in the

USSR

who wanted to emi- grate to Israel'. The Committee said it feared 'a new edition of the show trials of the Stalin era'.

Anti-Semitism is certainly part of the stock-in-trade of the Soviet bureaucracy. But for the Zionist leaders, responsible for the brutal oppression of hundreds of thousands of Arabs dis- possessed of their homeland, to protest about persecution is the height of cynicism.

SUPPORT

As for the 'Stalin era', the Zionists well know that it was Stalin's support which en- abled them to set up the Zionist state in 1948, and that the supply of Czech arms with Stalin's approval was an essential basis for their ability to drive out the Palestine people. Another sell-out of the Arab masses to Zionism is now being prepared, once with Stalinism as the more chief instigator. Meat packers pay strike PICKETS were out at Britain's largest firm meat-processing - Robert Lawson and • Sons Ltd of Dyce near Aberdeen- following a one-day unofficial stoppage decision this week by 1,000 men employed in the factory. The stoppage-a token one over incentive payments - was preceeded by an over- time ban. According to reports, it is believed that the workers had rejected management two offers, one of which was a f2 increase with part paid now and part in November. A second one is believed to have been made offering all the money at once. This is thought to have been rejected with the demand for an increased bonus. The management has been told that if they do not meet the demands, further action will be taken.

WEATHER

London area, SE and central southern England, E and W Midlands, Channel Islands: Cloudy with rain at times. Near normal. Max. 20C (68F).

SW, NW and central northern England: Cloudy with rain at times. Near normal. Max. 19C (66F). Glasgow area, N Ireland: Cloudy with showers. Cool.

Max. 16C (61F). Edinburgh: Occasional show- ers, but a few bright inter- vals. Cool. Max. 16C (61F).

Outlook for Friday and Satur- day: Changéable with showers in most place, but also a few sunny intervals. Temperatures a little below normal. Thursday, July 23, 1970 African

F WORKERS PRESS INTERVIEWS

leaders discuss arms

BY A

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

PRESIDENTS of Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania met in Dar es Salaam yester- day to discuss the new Tory government's policy on arms sales to Vorster's S African regime. The hastily convened meet- Ing netween Kunda Obote and Nyerere comes after several days of demonstrations African against Tory Secretary oreign Home's Commons statement Monday the Inal government was willne aiscuss selling military equip- ment to Vorster. Home's speech to mmonwealth it any underlarine was made to vorster In lact, the Kenyan govern ment under President Ken- not of Banda made not the slightest far Crucis speech. US jets raid N Vietnam US jetfighters attacked mili- tary largets Vietnam vesterdav. spokesman announced This raid follows heavy B-52 bomb in so the around US puppet rces Nang and along the frontier with Laos.

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

BY ROBERT BLACK

SPANISH authorities ordered an investigation yesterday Tuesday's Granada police into sike Force •Tories shooting of three striking building workers.

what has a. reacu been described as Spain's mOST outer violent clash between workers since the and employers end of the livil war 3. police fired years ago, 1110 1,000 construction workers protesting in the southern city against delays in signing a new or thize are Very elem taid: wages agreement.

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of overturned barricades union have Carc - including a police While " eary begged the vehicle-were used by the court to take into account his record of loval service to the workers during the fighting.

chauvinism and his long ser. trace union movement eoua dozen strikers right-wing rade vicen leader, to that of Will Paynter. ne ine he Newsletter, this were arrested. tried was nothin the Pearson that A month ago there were reassure claim did not cut across the also clashes between shameless Devlin negotiations. ranco s ponce ano sevilt the most other ollioing workers. WiO 020 industries, political been out on strike for more precisely this sort working class at a time wher than two weeks. higher basic biggest agreement the tace the lon rates] arrived at which threst from the canitalist state Holiday money Cel- in their history. tainly has not preiudiced pro- In the northern Asturian ductivity agreements'. Closures province, 2,000 miners Later he exnressed the hone are can that is again on strike in a dispute inquiry make that 'this the sort of progress over non-bayment or no- While Paynter was head oi day money. necessary, so that we car the miners' union, pit closures been bitter has were through and question away national basic eage and get on centre several thousands miner thrown strikes the last without year, out any oucial struorle. witn tne matter 100 the month-long opportunities and the future dispute in January, broken of the industry' The CP kept sect guest abou The dockers' fight for the •v porte• rous• coa Paynter's €20 basic wage as it refuses to Just craw Dith in Franco fascism on the histom a rention Shis Spanish working class gives against speed-up now. the lie to those Stalinists scheme. That is why the em- claim is regime overs the ories nro. 'liberalizing' itself, and voked the strike in the nre therefore cognition diplo scribes him simply as former place. miners' leader Will Paynter* A boay all be vin on cherr malc recognition way This their auropean covernments. Ihe paper makes no me of docks secretary they to Leary s orm a Britisher Tit- Tim the Parley to mass unemplov. burst Tuesday's Even as the fascist police ment and and-union saws though • he bake carried out their murderous he cockers resistance hac that mitted par- forced the union leaders into who's more to the right than an absolutely untenable posi- more where on Paris for the resumption other ender The than full links COCKs. with the Instead, it paints a picture the Husak reorme Tories. and Spanish fascism. of O'Learv publiclv exnosing emniovers pay Bargain Decimation which disguises the smallness the dockers' basic earn- Through diplomatic ings: economic links ine hr Deveins of thed st sancie the Stalinist regime one-third Not covering stage content with labour up for Paynter and Tones.

the dock sureneunen

LUICC

consider- Morning now driven off the docks. seen ably shields taken on orate mean Gec. the talist powers. the remaining as well. dockers. When the Paris talks (re- ported on Paris Radio Tues- The chiefs have That is how the Communist Union the Party prepares working collaborated to the Czechoslovakia class to the Tory offen- pushing through this by the scheme as O'Leary pointed sive on the docks. when he asked the in- Interconov Character will 101n quiry: Poland. 'Dockers have absorbed gary as Stalinist ctates The of this handal all changes withou Duroose full diplomatic the struggle. Our fellows commenconne reat has do to the the conceal all this new equipment wild of the Pearson character in- ish working class and out resisting we nave handled quiry, which is nothing more the blood the reduction in the than a Tory fraud munist party force without strikes. Can you countless atrocities since mere is has her ned other industry The only way to fight th completely re TUC opposes At least one member of the inquiry could have done basic without undue mental effort arms sales entire Pearson's right-hand man on out lock. stock the acheme Union Congress

TRADES

committee barrel. reaffirmed National Union Mine chiets vesterony The docks must be nation. William WArTArC to S Africa. cent their onnosition to arms calec Paynter, now of the Commis- contra alized under worter They on Industrial Relations. without compensation to thi plored the action dock owners. British so me u represen- It is only 18 months sinc Above all, it is necessary to UN's Paynter left the Communist national Labour Office after nearly 40 yéars' build Labor, Somalia League and the Workers Prea voting against a motion calling unbroken the to force join He left to tor trade union treedom Tories to resien At the time, CP industrial