Workers Press no. 23

workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 23 • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

LEADERSHIP

Postal vote on Devlin Phase Two

IS DECISIVE

LONDON'S

12,500 Dey- By The Editor malls meeting anal London students march against THE FIGHT against unemploy- brutality and Rhodesia links ment is being stubbornly waged in the car industry. Workers' Press correspondent mittee union will recent weeks the most from University College, threat of sack at the most Nhat is known Dustmen is that thet Cowley, British-Leyland, failed posa Oxford was resisted by a offer of E33 1os. to march series of stoppages and a S the one-day strike. on town The students carried slo and tighter dis unis action nas borne call all on thes truit. 1, which, whiles been hall night-shifts Miners' no abour nat el taking ap to 350 MAn, now in their third wash cademica con vorkers who confidence in assem ty today on the own at are Soutio Africa leaders i corpore tone veek wage a Richard saile Resisted work by re erd tradequate has thocepte for shore * sitemen! reached in betrayal of their when the "and tougher with Ta and calling for resignations

ROOTES

HALTED

provided there is the Contes serbia plan renty s shout strike action it

ESS

necessary. Threat le To grace is at to suct By the foreign editor

BONN

MAY

Pollution could KENYA'S opposition lead- trach win not

RECOGNISE

Odinga, was prelimin mployers on Daced under house arrest is can only take place that fur. rs under any circun

E. GERMANY

on Monday following Satur melt ice-caps by her talk. day's clashes Kisumu, when police killed five dem and wounded at Mile See me brant By a science correspondent 2000 ome redundancy payments THE threat of a nuclear holocaust is now only the ne test departmen A.D. are -of-service groups in spectacular of the most fates that might await us', Rail mileage President according Nixon's adviser on urban of the earth's lowind strike spreads affairs, Mr Daniel Moyni- nan. souls are to i No Rein Theatre che- condom leaders speaking to the North the Atlantic Assembiv in Brus.

overt tor mileage third dimension atter defence elr enorts on dan sels last week he said that terday's ny sign and political work. e may have even less that Repercussions of support of Desperation until 1980 at Netherton, factory opposit both led have opposed this worsening stormed the logical crisis' Ithe crisis from thespo 3ll pre destruction

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German Kenyan embassy, burning por- SUll Young Socialists

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This brought about • for pione drive

GRAND XMAS

INQUIRY

sociali only solution is world Pront

FOLLOWING

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c and line e between tobal sociali committee Communister Heat rise secretary has Saturday, Nov. 29 *Survival

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socialism appoint a court of inquiry.

when capitalism this riterally carton ode content be the N.U.T. leaders make token Canning Town Public Hall sarbon dioxide doors open 12 noo

THE

EXECUTIVE

20000 Can you plans The National Union make something for our Bazaar?

Teachers has made plans from the te yve somelnius cowards our bazaar an for strikes Have vou a ш or grocere unde• re by 7-Ospheric tem selected areas if the cur- to complete claim dor are Help us make this the best bazaar ever held!

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1969 PRICE 6d.

SWINDON

BY-ELECTION

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FRANK WILLIS

Please captact Central Committee Roohas 5a Milton Road, Swindon phoner Swindon 20570

EX-KING

IDRIS TO

VISIT

NASSER

JOSEPH LUCAS'S 12 car components fac- tories in Birmingham, Walsall and Cannock i accept an atato y Chase are expected to be at a complete stand- still today as a result of the continuing strike Nasser of Egypt to visit Cairo. by 900 foremen, supervisors and chargehands.

Since September lived in the has Members of the Associ- ation of Scientific, Techni- Vourla. 110 miles

ATUA

notth or cal and Managerial Staffs, Athens. Nasser's invitation could re-

EVE OF POLL

the men walked out on Fri- flect a rift between Egypt and day demanding wage in- rulers who,

MEETING

the new they first came when maintain the Creases power, were considered sup- differentials between their of the Nasser brand of Arab nationalism. wages and those of pro- duction workers. Prur i Keruday even- ** Speaker: Frank Willis ATUA meeting ing's meeting, they had ig- Young Socialists candidate nored union advice to take in the parliamentary

TODAY

their dispute into proce- by-election dure.

DOVER

Although all 19,000 work- ers at 'Tine Lucas pants were Wednesday, October 29 at work on Monday they wart Wednesday, October 29 pynected to he laid of within 8 p.m. days. 8 p.m. Rose and Crown London Road Swindon Town Hall

MAIN

SUPPLIERS

continues tha atra could shut down the motor industry of within main supplier of starter batteries dynamos,

MOLORS

and wiper motors Witte ectioment The strikers want a sub- stantial and Dal Increase entirel new simicture which them wage. hacie They also aboli- want the tion their nracant marit traits of Kenyatta and his Day' system. and arrest could placing then prelude 'We are all going to faht attacking the government's finich mamhor policies. committee at the eTOUDS the ctrira Kenyatta's move against the weekend. nosed to the nrecent radima onposition 1s Clearly intended to intimi oła Crinan and hic supporters. last wn r tha

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

few have and active imperialist line of the opposition the forthcoming presidential elections in Kenya Rumanian Stalinists to visit Britain Rumanian Prime

TAR

Minister, Cheorahe Maurer Corneliu Ma to Britail will official Labour announced government on Monday This visit was agreed hetween the Labour dovernmenti whar Horpian Minictor Statuar visited Bucharest in Septem- her • 10kQ Stewart's trin was Wilsor Rumanian bureaucracy, follow- the invasion All car, car delivery and components the Czechos ovakia workers are invited to a motor month workers' conference Breach The breach was then Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth arizonar Parant visit to Rumania, and is main-

BIRMINGHAM

tained by this latest move British part. Saturday, November 8 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

NUMBER 23 • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1969

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

SWINDON

LEADERSHIP

INDUSTRIAL

BY-ELECTION

ROUND-UP

Thursday, October 30 Postal vote Hoin in argently needed in the YOUNG SOCIALISTS, campaign for candidate on Devlin

FRANK WIELIS

Phase Two Test SoRtant Centra

IS DECISIVE

Lucas • згоир аоскі foremen meeting some mo is were to fight to By The Editor London students march against THE FIGHT against unemploy.

EX-KING

brutality and Rhodesia links ment is being stubbornly waged

IDRIS TO

a finish Transport and General Work in the car industry. Workers' Press correspondent

VISIT

ceprancill of the come In recent weeks the

MORE

m University Collete

NASSER

threat of the at JOSEPH LUCAS'S 12 car components fac- sack o London to Dustmen British-Leyland, Cowley, tories in Birmingham, Walsall and Cannock Uxtord was resisted by a Chase are expected to be at a complete stand- series of stoppages and a to march has who demon- still today as a result of the continuing strike one dav coke strated there last Tuesday.

visit Cairo. This by 900 foremen, supervisors and chargehands.

action nas borne on town September fruit. since Greek Members of the Associ- been hall 110 ation of Scientific, Techni- miles north of

ATUA

Sandinght-shifts, for Miners no cal and Managerial stalts

EVE OF POLL

350 Nasser's the men walked out on Fri- Men, coe in the too due day confidence in

MEETING

demanding wage in equirements on the or day on athe town hall.

they creases the maintaim demonstration dee

SWINDON

leaders orerentas serween Ther new incentive scheme already of Arab nationalism wages and those of pro- reek ducion workers.

ALTHOUGH

Youts Wales Resisted 'Speaker: Frank Willts Prix To tenurday ATUA meeting Levate rationaly are ing's meeting, they had Young socialists candidate in the parliamentary nored union advice to tak Tuesday's incide

TODAY

Settlements i reached in us putt by-election have already aure. Put dust there their strike

DOVER

ers at one Lalas plants strike. Welsh Wednesday, October 29 see to be hid of win Nottingham in the Natios Wednesday, October 29 Tuesday's 8 p.m. Miner to appear in court later ete 8 p.m. Rose and Crown and calling for resignations.

Swindon Town Hall

MAIN

SUPPLIERS

next oVer

ROOTES

Odinga arrested could shut does nine sec.

HALTED

continuin of stares after Kenya but strike action following Monday's week dia Support 1 prayincrease Threat clashes and are tear leader trees is to ea By the foreign editor ofF 1, ma wormers from

BONN MAY

higher basic wage Pollution could bureaucracy talk about the dream issembly Th of atheir present want the

RECOGNISE

Oginga amerite no behalf ofe bei placed tion of there arrest members under any circum- House

E. GERMANY

well be could on Monday following Satur- pay melt ice-caps by insisting that fur- stances tall We are going to fight wholesale day's reworking oute formulas Clashes Nsuml. the formulas proud to the present regime wnen vonce kulled nve dem- builder of agrement Between the weekend. the bie reto shined onsuators ana wounded ai 2000 оу а всівпсв сотевооповни s of the

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

stockpines i realistic levelop a more THE threat of a nuclear *department ban holocaust is now 'only the i Sovie he test A.D. • So Bad. length-of-service groups in spectacular the Germanyt presidential elections in anya fates that might await us, aste with he anest Rail mileage according President '' October Nixon's adviser urban 969. of the strike spreads affairs, Mr Daniel Moyni- Rumanian service clAnd Mr. Moynihan's pre- han. against the coalitior unemploy

HE NEW

mUnder Stalinists to

SOUTHERN

, union leaders scripat NATO decisiv Speaking the North like Atlantic Assembly in Brus- Bard timen Germai after defence visit Britain sels last week ne sala Whal and political work. stated that West okes stra ele. we may nave even see engish the can chance Siving the Desperation ence of two Germ Position had immediate re

THE

unti 98d because of the Minister, Liver- desperately worsening 'eco- rcussions in Moscow, where Tom West deman all are logical crisis' [the crisis of Britain at he

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destruction. cluding the air, water, soil, • Democrats no soment on Money

MOTOR WORKERS'

Young Socialists

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crisis, 1 nis drive for a sit at

GRAND XMAS

INQUIRY

CONFERENCE

many features; Mr Moy solution is world alistic policy

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intervention announcemen listene between the Sociall ens and comice. *Survival Party secretary Heat rise Communist Saturday, Nov. 29

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means socials appoint a court of All car, car delivery and components which capicalism workers are invited to a motor of N.U.T. leaders make token 1P nobie Hall workers' conference canning Town loors open noon Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth

EXECUTIVE

make some ding for our sur alaza plans National

BIRMINGHAM

Teachers Saturday, November 8 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

surikes ao win the selected areas 11 tie cur vate for credenuals to horarson pay negotiations rent Help us raise the money for our daily paper- al ourawerry rath. backbio Levs. oxir break down. sea taves of ten feet: Conference fee 5s. a persom West

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UNDER the pretext of examining wages and conditions at Smithfield Meat Market, the Prices and Incomes Board has conducted an inquiry into how large sections of the labour force could be eliminated altogether.

Of course, the PIB's report (Smithfield Market,

HMSO,

8s. 6d.) does not admit to doing this in so many words.

It simply describes methods of manhandling and recommends instead the introduction of modern the brisk known pace as mechanized methods of mov- "Smithfield shuffle". ing meat. arrival at the stall, 'On these sides are usually long But, as explained in Work- "pitched" hooks hang- on to ers Press «u. Oc ober 14, ing from the stall rails.

When this a big at- can only amount to meat is unloaded by regular Smithfield work- tack on the checked pitchers, on ar- It Is rival at the stall by permanent ers. employees of the firm employ- known icheckerspitchers, the as Detail at the stalls, meat is "Then, The report gives in some by regular handled employees detail the work done in the of the tenants who are col- market: lectively known as shopmen.'

vehicles delivering 'The meat park at delivery bays Shopmen around the market where the is handled in the first meat There are 1,021 shopmen in place by workers known as the market who carry out a 'pullers-back'. of jobs; 'nightmen' vanely 'The pullers-back work in- who take in, check and record side the vehicles and pull the supplies into stalls, select and meat back to the tail-board stocks and arrange for sort ...the meat is taken from the display; 'humpers' who move tail-board of the vehicle to meat about the stalls for dis- the stall of a market tenant play purposes and for cutting; by gangs of workers known as 'cutters' who cut the meat as 'pitchers'. required by the purchasers; 'scalesmen' who weigh the 'The meat is then carried by 'deliverymen' who han- hand or trucks. Contrary meat, in dle the meat after cutting and might be expected, to whai weighing and heavier often who give the items are 'trainees', Long sides beef the buyers' porter; carried. those aged 18 and over serv- 400 Ibs are weighing up to ing a 13 weeks' probationary the shoulders of carried on full two pitchers who move it at a period before getting

PUBLISHED

here is a letter sent to Antonio Arguedas, by Hugo Camacho, Bolivian ex-minister of the interior, concerning the fate of his brother, the Trotskyist leader Arguedas responsible for Isaac Isaac Camacho. was Camacho's arrest. We are also publishing a letter on the same subject writ- general secretary of the Trotskyist ten by Guillermo Lora, Workers' Revolutionary Party of Bolivia-whose brother was also a victim of reaction.

Mr President, of the letter sent to Mr I am sending you a copy Hugo Camacho. My party is in Antonio Arguedas by solidarity with the text of the letter and underlines the responsibility of the still perfectly functioning apparatus of repression installed in the Ministry of the Interior by the CIA for the cowardly assassination of this union leader and well known political figure.

The aim of this letter is to request that the intelligence service agents in the Ministry explain the circumstances under which Isaac Camacho disappeared.

If this crime goes unpunished, it must be concluded continues to be a means of that political assassination governing. Isaac Camacho is mourned by his aged mother, his wife and two small children. Guillermo Lora, General Secretary of the Workers' Revolutionary Party of Bolivia (Trotskyist). Sir, As it is a certainty that you are going to leave the country rapidly, under the guise of a man of the left, I feel obliged to address this open letter to you.

My brother and comrade, Isaac Comacho, whose crime was in not selling himself to anyone, staying faithful to

WORKERS' PRE

told 'offal boys' 'The unions have us rates as humpers, 18 fa- 16 and that they strongly in youth between vour of the introduction of in- learning the trade. 18 paid at centive schemes for shopmen, At they are full rates for the job they are who are at present on time if doing. rates. They realize that such schemes introduced are would there almost certainly Recommended be a contraction in the labour force. The report recommends 'In our study of the market modern that many of the have been impressed by we methods used at Les Halles the speeds and skills of market in Paris could be cutters, but. for tain except used at Smithfield. of bandsaws the use cut be done Unloading would frozen lambs and some cuts trucks instead of by fork-lift of frozen beef, all cutting is would by hand and carcasses done by hand. be transferred to hooks hang- "The of power-driven a powered rail ing on system could eliminate much saws to stalls and for movement would tiring work and cer- stalls, further between any tainly speed up cutting delays be done movement again to which at the present time im- fork-lift trucks. by pede deliveries after pur- The paper work at present hase.' done by office workers could be done by computer. well As Unknown the Prices and Incomes Board would like to see: 'A streamlined and flexible On this it adds that Swed- ish markets electric labour force adapted to the use which are unknown in expected needs of the market knives, Smithfield. The

PIB

realizes over the next ten ycals vI su. needed. that the changes advocated What is it says, is would change in the flexibility of hours and in- require terchangeability the organization of the of different en- grades. ployers. It notes that: It adds: A savage policeman and CIA agent, Arguedas is now trying to pass as a man of the left. Since these letters were written, a coup has brought a new clique of militarists into power. The generals change; the savage repression of the mili- tant Trotskyists of the RWP and those who, through con- stant struggle, embody the interests of the Bolivian workers and poor peasants does not change.

his class and having been an eyewitness to the assassination of Cesar Lora, was arrested at Siglo XX [the most concen- trated mining area in Bolivia and a principal base of the of the DIC WRP] in July 1967 by military elements [political police under the control of the CIA].

After having been brutally tortured by the second bureau of the army [directed by the CIA] at Oruro, he passed under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Interior [Arguedas]; it is sufficient to say that he was put in your hands. You informed the press on August 9, 1967, that Camacho had gone into exile in the direction of Argentina.

Using your agents the union ranks and in political informers, you then laid a series of false trails to hide the of the incorruptible leader of the northern fate tragic miners' union. The Camacho family and the WRP leadership have patiently gathered together the proof that all the informa- tion you gave was entirely false.

At this point it is my duty to say publicly that Isaac Camacho died under torture, in a special CIA prison outside the city of La Paz. For me, for my Party and for those who read this letter, you were directly responsible for the assassination of Camacho in as much have not proved the as you contrary. Hugo Camacho.

WORKERS' PRESS

'In Paris, the initiative for market tenants, under energe- tic leadership, which operates the mechanical aids as a sin- gle company? recommenda- After these tions comes what might ap- pear to be rather an odd sec- tion which discusses how much more profitable the land covered by Smithfield might be if used for office develop- ment. Broad hint Although the report does not openly advocate that Smithfield be closed down and a meat market be set up out- side London, it appears that treading the

PIB,

while warily, is giving a broad hint in this direction. The reason for this might be that the PIB knows that under the existing set-up of small tenancies and individual firms, placed in Central Lon- don, with its awkward streets difficult parking, that it would be possible to attempt only limited modernization to the level it has described.

with the closing However, of Smithfield and the building of completely new premises on an open site, the most modern full automation tech- niques could be operated with total computer control and perhaps with all the mar- ket housed in one factory- warehouse. Those workers who were still required would operate on a principle very similar to motor car production lines.

Careful Also, methods of conveyer- belt handling, as developed at B. shed, Victoria dock, as well as modern refrigerator- container methods could put even the Paris meat market out of date. Perhaps the report treads carefully because the PIB knows that to go this far would close down most of the existing meat firms. At any rate, the PIB re- commends that the City of London, as the market's au- thority, should assume the leading responsibility for the integrated earnings, the report calls for: 1 A market-wide agreement for carriers' porters; 2 A strengthening of the meat shopmen's agree- ment, including provision for inter - changeability greater and revision of the pay struc- ture: 3 improved regulatiol the sel-emploved be regular collecuon or inrorma- Ll on class The last line of the 53-page report states: Unloading the undertaken would be by fork. One of the PIB's 'speed-up' proposals wou (seen above) through the introduction on the working class on be- half of the British capitalist class. Tobs and past tradi- men, of tions and years of service are swept aside to make way for methods of profit- new making. Brilliant inventions and scientific achievements which Wednesday, October 29, 1969 ' proposals would eliminate hand cutting ntroduction of power-driven saws.

would ease the load and take the drudgery out of work are converted instead into meas- ures for displacing the worker altogether. What the Smithfield men are facing is an extension of the Devlin scheme on the docks. The Smithfield workers must link their struggles with those of the dockers against the government's rationaliza- tion and cut-back plans for the industry. Only the nationalization of all the major means of collec- tion and distribution of goods and materials under direct control of the workers can en- sure that modernization • will be used for the benefit of those workers involved.

Wednesday, October 29, 1969 THE PROCESS of mak- ing a film in this country s long, arduous and, more often than not, frustrating. From its in- ception, right through to the showing on the local Odeon screens, crucial decisions are taken by those outside of the cre- ative process, and such decisions are arbitrary, vulgar and defined by the box office. Hundreds of scripts are written that never see the light of day and as many productions are cancelled at the last minute or postponed.

With the withdrawal • of American finance, the British industry faces a serious re- cession. There are just very few films being made. Those that are tend to re- flect the uncertainty of the situation. Seeing Bo Widerberg's 'Adalen '31' at Academy One, one marvels firstly that such a film is made and financed, for without a shadow of a doubt it would be impossible to set up such a project in this country. * To have taken this script along to the 'money' on War- dour Street might have had comic possibilities. Anything from 'I don't think it's really our cup of tea from some suede-booted, fawn-suited ex- lawyer, to the more forthright 'Who do and down-to-earth think's gonna be inter- you ested in a film about workers on strike?', but little else.

There are clearly qualitative differences between the British and Swedish film industries, or may be it was simply the box success of his film that guaranteed Widerberg this kind of freedom. His next film is to be about the Wobblies - the Inter- national Workers of the World who helped form the basis of American trade unionism. Bo Widerberg establishes himself with 'Adalen '31' as a major film talent. After the soft romantic idyll of 'Elvira Madigan' he has developed a sharp political insight. Yet it would be wrong to see the two films as discon- nected, for his major concern is with human relationships, of love between men and women, but at the same time he is con- scious of an imprisoning de- humanizing social world which inhibits their true develop- ment. 'Elvira Madigan', it In showed itself merely in terms of bigotry and prejudice.

But in 'Adalen '31' it takes the sharp material form of class struggle. * It is the social relations that men enter independent of their wills, it is explicitly the capi- talist mode of production that it, drives men before that defines and limits their lives.

It is inexorable class the struggle that drives them on.

'31' explores 'Adalen and reveals the dialectics of strike, based as it is on a real struggle which took place in Sweden in 1931 in the small town of Adalen. When the film opens the strike is into many weeks. The dockers are resisting a wage- cut. The docks are still, the chimneys smokeless; it is sum- mer, a warm light bathes the countryside, a rich landscape of hills, streams, lakes and flowers. There is a restlessness amongst the workers, but at the same time that sense of leisure that a strike provides them with.

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9.15 a.m. Schools. 12.25-12.50 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye. p.m. 12.55 Ble Carech Chi Fynd? 1.30- 1.53 Watch With Mother. 2.05- 2.50 Schools. 3.45 Representing The Union. 4.20 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Zokko! 5.15 Wild World. 5.44 Babar. 6.00 London-Nationwide. 6.45 The Newcomers. 7.10 The Laugh Parade. 8.45 The Main News and Weather. 9.00 Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party. 9.10 The Wednesday Play: 'The Sad Decline Arthur Maybury'. 10.30 24 Hours. 11.05 Herbert Von Karajan.

11.35 Weatherman. All regions as BBC-1 except at the following times: Midlands and East Anglia: 6.00- 6.45 p.m. Midlands Today, Look East, Weather, Nationwide. 11.37 News Summary, Weather.

Northern England: 6.00-6.45 p.m.

Look North, Weather, Nation- wide. 11.37 Northern News Headlines, Weather. Wales: 10.25-10.45 p.m. Gwlad. A Thref. 6.00-6.45 Wales Today, Nationwide. 6.45-7.10 Heddiw.

Scotland: 2.30-2.50 p.m. Modern Studies. 6.00-6.45 Reporting Scotland. 11.05-11.20 Made In Britain. 11.20 Epilogue, News, Weather. Northern Ireland: 10.25-10.45 p.m.

For Schools: Ulster In Focus.

The youth play in an im- provised jazz group while the older workers practise in the brass band. At home the women try to keep up an appearance of nor- mality; the husband's shirt is white, still ironed crisp and the home is still scrubbed and cleaned. The kids play together, try- ing to fly with cardboard wings.

Yet underlying all their ac- tions is a desperate shortage of money and food. It governs their lives. When one of the children falls from a roof and breaks his leg, the first con- cern is whether it will be pos- sible to afford a doctor.

* When the husband catches a fish and the whole family celebrates with a meal, hus- band and wife, exhilarated by the party, end up in bed and their love-making is spoiled by the danger of having a child, yet another mouth to feed.

In contrast is the home of the manager, tasteful, spacious, cultured, his wife refined and educated, his beautiful daughter back from school in the city for the holidays. For them life continues much as normal; food is plentiful, servants cook and serve. Only in the frowning brow of the manager does the strike express itself. The balance of forces is, at this stage, in a state of truce.

A young striker attempts to frighten the dai 6.00-6.45 Scene Around Six, Nationwide, Weather. 11.37 Northern Ireland News Head- lines. South and West: 6.00-6.45 p.m. Points West, South Today, Spot- light South-West, Weather, 11.37 Nationwide. South and West News Headlines, Weather.

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11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.00 p.m. Expecting A Baby.

7.30 Newsroom, Weather. 8.00 Man Alive. 8.50 Snow! 9.00 Party Political Broadcast.

9.10 Rowan and Martin. 10.00 Know Your Onions. 10.20 Peter Sarstedt. 10.50 News Summary 10.55 LIne-Up. Thames 11.00-11.57 a.m. Schools. 1.40- 2.55 Schools. 4.15 News p.m. By Brian Moore with Peter Schildt • Kerstin Tidelius Roland Hedlund Marie De Geer • Anita Björk Written and directed by

BO WIDERBERG

An AB Svensk Filmindustri Production Technicolor® Techniscope® A Paramount Release The manager's wife still against a militant class con- gives art lessons to one of the worker's sons. And the The arrival of armed troops same youth begins an affair with her to defend the scabs objectively daughter. discounts any liberal com- Class is still promise position. The strikers compromise the re- possible for the bright boy.

now confronting Outside the teenagers dis- pressive power of the state.

They soldiers, cuss sex and horror movies.

taunt the People their own shining mirrors in their eyes, pursue living pre-occupations, their jeering at them, calling Con lives them to go home. normal within the eco- nomic limitations of the strike. But finally the falling profits Export assert themselves. At meeting, the mass orders are the lying idle on strikers decide to march to a docks and have to be loaded.

and nearby town for support The management is driven with banners and a band play- and it is to use scab labour ing the International they set here that the truce ends.

off. The strikers are incensed. arrival they But on meet They hold a meeting and de- head on with the troops, who cide to prevent the scabs from fire killing five and open working. wounding five. violent and panic- It IS stricken response. They docks The road is littered with the march to the and physically throw the scabs dead, there is moment of off No but the ships. mercy terror, the strikers re- 1S shown them. group themselves and, carrying One the strikers, the their dead, break through the of father of the boy, harbours one army lines. of the scabs and binds up The dead are carried home his wounded arm. When the others to the wail of factory sirens.

learn of they smash his That evening the young boy, It, windows and there follows a whose father has been killed furious row between of by the soldiers, finds that the one the militants and the manager's daughter, who young was scab defender. have his baby, has been The essence of the argument abortion in Stock- an is between a liberal viewpoint holm. that surrenders class solidarity It is the final end to class for non-violence and a trust compromise. Art is thing one in official union negotiators and pregnancy another-there frighten the daughter of his employer by mimicking Frankenstein.

Headlines. 4.17 Tingha and Weath Professional fess naotballe teague Cups 11.35 Wrestling. Tucker Club. 4.30 Crossroads. a.m. Late Weather. 4.55 The Sooty Show. 5.20 Sexton Blake. 5.50 News From ITN.

6.03 Today. Grampian 6.35 The Saint. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 It Takes A Thief. and Fucker Tub. i 30 Castle Schools. 1.38-2.55 p.n Schools. 4.17 Th 9.00 Party Political Broadcast on Tingha Tucker behalf of the Labour Party.

Haven. Soot! Show. Blake and the 9.10 Speclal Branch. News. 6.00 Gram 6.10 6.35 Grampian 7.00 10.10 News. Survival 7.30 Steve: 9.00 10.40 Football League Cup.

Labour 9.10 Bewad casea 11.35 Professlonal Wrestling.

eVS11.35 Pro: Tal resting. Jungle. 12 midnight The Papers. fessional 12.15 a.m. Giving and Getting.

Tyne Tees Yorkshire 1.40-2.55 11.00-11.57 4.000, New: Schools. Houseparty 4.15 Headlines. 4.30 Survival. 4.17 4.55 The Sooty 5.20 Sexton Blake. 5.50 6.00 Calendar Weather. 6.3 Hogan's 1o0 The 7.30 Street 8.00 9.00 Broad 9s 10 Special

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The army assemble before attack- ing the strikers. is no confusion in the mind of the manager's wife. And the death of his father and other other strikers em- phasizes for the boy his own class position. All else is illusion. Still stunned and confused, he meets the militant young worker who confronts him with the question: 'Was your father really innocent?'.

He is still unable to answer, yet he clutches the handle of the siren that wails out its lament and solidarity. 'We must have class unity,' says the young worker. "That knowledge,' re- and plies the boy. * By concentrating on human relationships during the strike, by presenting the struggle not in crude black and white terms of wicked boss and ex- ploited workers, Widerberg is able to reveal the true nature of the class struggle. It is the relentless drive of capitalism that locks men in contradiction, that • divides them them into classes, that sweeps aside any idealism, that drives wedges between men women's hopes and and desires. There is no resolution to this conflict until it is fought out and won by the working class, until capitalist property relations are destroyed, until profit is replaced by human needs. * All the options are worked through in this film and re- vealed as inadequate. Although the brutal murder of these strikers brought about the fall of the then conserva- tive government and saw the coming to power of the Social Democrats, Widerberg reminds us that there is still inequality Sweden - that capitalism in still continues. 'Adalen '3l' is a great film, of wit, humour, tenderness, emotion and understanding.

As an event in the film calendar, it demonstrates that Marxism and creative art are far from incompatible. League Cup. 11.30 Professional Wrest- ling. 12 midnight Late News Extra. 12.17 a.m. The Status Game.

Westward 11.00-11.57 a.m. Schools. 1.40-2.55 p.m. Schools. 4.01 Once Upon A Time. 4.13 Westward News Headlines. 4.15 Open House. 4.4 Sobe Gus Honeybun Show.

4.55 The Sooty Show. Sexton Blake the Gangsters. 5.50 versus National News. 6.00 Westward Diary.

6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Treasure Hunt. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 The Saint.

9.00 Labour Party Political Broadcast.

Branch. National 9.10 Special 10.10 News. 10.40 Football. 11.35 Profes- sional Wrestling. 12.05 a.m. Faith For Life. 12.11 Weather. Scottish 11.00-11.57 a.m. Schools. 1.40-2.55 p.m.

Schools. 4.20 Scotland Early. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 The Soothe Gang- Show. 5.20 Sexton Blake Versus sters. 5.50 National News. 6.00 Scotland Now. 6.35 Peyton Place. 7.30 Corona- tion Street. 8.00 The Saint. 9.00 Labour Party Political Broadcast. 9.10 Special Branch. 10.10 News. 10.40 Scotsport. 11.35 Professional Wrestling.

12.08 a.m. Late Call. Anglia 10.58-11.57 a.m. Schools. 1.38-2.55 p.m.

Schools. 4.05 Katie Stewart Cooks. 4.30 4.35 Anglia Newsroom. The Romper Room. 4.55 The Sooty Show. 5.20 Sexton Blake Versus The Gang- sters. 5.50 News. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.30 Coronation Street.

8.00 The Avengers. 9.00 Labour Party Political Broadcast. 9.10 Special Branch.

10.10 News, Weather. 10.45 Football.

11.40 Professional Wrestling. 12.05 a.m. Reflection.

PROGRAMME

Three 'Representing of the Union', , the BBC-I series to educate shop stewards in productivity systems, dealt with the task of 'selling' a productivity agreement to the rank and file. Using the Alcan Works at Rogerston, South Wales, which employs 3,000 workers, sequences were shown in which shop stewards put the new agreement across on the , floor and at a mass shop meeting to the workers. At no time in the film were the shop stewards shown as re- presenting the workers' views to the management. Instead, their job was shown being specifically centred as around the need to take the management's proposals to the members and to fight for them against all opposition. Ray Rowlands, Transport & branch General Workers' Union secretary, and negotiator for the deal, explained the worry he had because, in some cases, the shop stewards did not stand up to the men: 'If you get the shop steward, for instance, who is not as strong as other shop stewards, and you get a militant on the floor, perhaps with a power of argument and a little bit of a bullying method, get a popular him, line built up round the shop stewards will perhaps weaken and instead of standing his ground and arguing out the value of the agreement will say, "Fair enough, if this is how you feel, well, get to the general meeting and throw it out.

And take the least line of resistance, and it doesn't do any of us any good.'

'ADVANTAGES'

Scenes showed stewards em- phasizing the 'advantages'- ex- tra money and holidays-and the point was made by example that the rank and file would have great difficulty in opposing these schemes if the shop stew- ards stood unanimously on the management's proposals. Some scenes portrayed from the mass meeting were, to say the least, of a decidedly odd character. After the main management proposals of reduction in man- flexibility ning, increased and loss of tea breaks were read out, very little discussion followed on the question of how reduced manning was to be carried out, which would surely have been the main concern of any work- ers facing this situation.

'TIDYING UP'

Also, Rowlands' remarks that the mans has deen reduced and that's a good thing' 'some departments are not mak- ing a profit that we would like to see made went entirely un- challenged from the floor. Other arguments from Row- lands indistinguish- were also able from the arguments used or situation: managements in this sort 'All we're doing is tidying up the factory a little bit and stop- ping the tea parties... half of

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don't bother with it, the you that programme hasbeen way'- excuse the loss of tea workers have no alternative but -to breaks-and: to ensure that capitalism works, and 'After the they best do this by previous changes supporting at all times the em- didn't work any harder, you ployers' plans. encourage the acceptance of the new changes. In fact, while it is true that The taking of the vote in a firm workers refuse where then shown, which turned out to increase productivity, bank- to be of the occur and the work- 1n tavour end up on the dole, it agreement. er may is also just as true that where This was the the schemes second are accepted, in- of the deal series to will 'communications', creased profits that with which meat managements will soon be able basically rests on the theory that to afford new, advanced ma- conflicts between workers and and chinery computers, in this employers can be dissolved by a will find case, also, workers correct choice of words. themselves out of a job. Under theory, this the sack of Details of what is possible in becomes contention less if it is called 'redundancy' this direction were shown in the film before the pro- Management stooges which discussed are more gramme, some acceptable to workers if they are of the latest numerica

ON DES

called workers' representatives' and control computor control closures and mass sackings be- machines. comed more onalization they are *rationalization speed-up i called Unemployment organization' and and top-speed unemployment; these working times become less ar- the only alternatives put for- duous and less likely ward by capitalism. to cause dispute if they are called 'stand- But the rapidly rising anger of ard times' for the job. the working class against this confidence trickery and class collaboration reflects a turning

'NEW LANGUAGE'

by the working class to the real alternative, to the expro- A major feature of shop stew- priation of the entire capitalist ard training-a feature now be- class and the end of production much ing made of by unions, for profit for ever. managements and government- The development of the So- is teaching shop stewards to use cialist Labour League the this 'new language of communi- building of the revolutionary cations'. party to lead the working class So far, the central theme to in this task. but still with the A pamphlet written in 1967, relevant policy. by Jack Gale

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LANCASTER

Firemen's pay fight

STRIKERS

'Strings' main issue

FIGHT

TEXTILE

GIANT

before conference By Charles Parkins

THIRTEEN

HUNDRED

and SIleLe proCesS workers from Lansil's, the Lancaster man-made fibre

BY DAVID MAUDE

hrm, tomorrow enter the second week of their strike for higher wages, 100 per CALLS FOR the issuing of cent trade unionism and seven day's strike notice to the equal pay for women. Greater London Council, which mass meeting last would bring the men out on Thursday voted to continue the strike. November 5, will be considered official Trans Union, to by a firemen's delegate confer- Workers' ence in London today. vast majority o them belong. Attempts are being made to sug- MP for aleca ter, last Labour dest miar nese caus are nonvarer solely by the firemen's desire to win attenpted inenr cam lor a to ius. accommoca tion allowance. This is a lie.

n But the Every nreman knows that the torces s, cho ther have e Mondak which pushed them worr 'emergency calls only' since and which are driving towards strike action, run far deeper.

Watched In opening negotiation on last June's Webber report on the London Fire the basis of its Dllgaut On accom allowance modallon proposais - une umon leadership is treaaing a most

FLASHBACK

cancerous bain. South Wales sackings: Slogan insangering ilife amen 1 willbe Prp erry strikecially property- Confed. heads relected in tre as far aen leve underpadl sio san portmone prienie Worker 4. 390 - capitulate on • tucky- For other Noikek his is why there is stron Instead, it suggests that bonus earnings are much concess productivity procedure Council really wants to ma aa redko thie: acely setl she menis demands by our industrial reporter contederauon Shipbuilding and Engineer- unti agreement an hour. Rolls ing Unions nas aven an Refused important concession • empioyers are reru nannara guerrillas management has re- the ona den ship The o ae ae eo hauliey the emolovers over sack procedure in South allows a capitulation fuser tem unti e has 30 ings bonus system Stales, INSPECTORS at Rolls Royce's orero the wales, employers at nationat levehe sultants to devoe vork a schemcon Anstey • mand 20 1 Local Sonted eratios taking officials and 'se taceto matter she takin South rate of pay. the arrangements for training Engineering Employers' All Trades Unions factory The want their 180 mer resentatives last week signec drivers have ceased de. proceaure agreemen Productivity Sockers covering 20,000 workers. furtnel o recomm sacknst worker ma terms

SOUTH-WEST LONDON

'blacked" Monsanto goods" i e ma by a Tuesday, November 4, egotiared en tems will be made bep ae. Student support man potr d 8 p.m. Students Lancaster Horse and uroom Mitcham Road Suspended missed n his Milea tinsu S. African ultra- y have also assisted on ot hie testal present alua- and the posters e emp yens are auDiicaling lc or sudy ap roze "Sinancial support has come hat timee to misint be hatptul to al paroac socie perd p or m i THE ultra-right wing wil t doubo nie te sopres doubt the rul- siaenls willll

BONN

ing South African Nation- cotere aia ote formed alist party nave Bakers reject their own party, to delena the apartheid system from director ot the Solth oale what they consider to oh Plite ai rascia policies "liberal' 'back-to-work' at about 1.00 hamle

• O0 SALT

that Brandt call borders, Aler Her oz: former a D. ncludinsecla Workers' Press reporter ork disputes machinery. THE 7,000 bakery workers th the Listap ou min. support • chat Capitulated on strike in the North- Bread is West have rejected their suk e biker m thesp onded unions instrucgons to re men Irom si turn to work and are con- Managerial staffs nave bet rot the tinuing to press their £20 maintaining Contederaon or sitin n e destructon of tine Atti Kenim captatope mınımum wage claim. committee chairman flour which Mr lim come Lorry, They all thing rauon lalks Cheer, hat® share one CHisis of fresh offers have been that management eciod. ine stopped by ardake as er bet development ao aere basic sage. is accompanying it. Its programme will be based votę of no the negotiating Birmingham teachers' campaign goes Bakers' Union a hew basic cent tor nota ot ais los!

ahead realizins rULLUWIIU une building Iccll on saturdav ucto- Rejected militate ber o lirouch the civ on manais mene'. mireant a inst. coming from pay claim, mereller teachers This has Trades Unions actons. Birmingham young teachers like Max d Commu- uously asking PWednesday October 27 Respectable she same e20 basic wiad Just- said at as the ninspoke to teachers London meetins respect He claimed accepted the the NUT eals positio roblemspecially tee in Averpr Lerpoo rie co feel 'their ac Bbee common with other union much told i permisnt aCohe be workers. only Bining ol the must and will re- bilut after bint h reaset maximum Maximum ent stea thAl Thides à Manchester bakers 'meeting nass ized they were Wednesday, October 29, 1969 Lebanon army hard-pressed in commando battles By a forelgn corespondent THE LEBANON crisis took a dramatic turn over the weekend when Palestinian guerrillas sectors of the country's occupied strategic second city, Tripoli. The conflict between the Lebanese government and British trade the Commandos Wal sparked off last week by Lebanese army attacks on delegation to Palestinian guerrilla units stationed near the Israeli frontier visit E.Germany Arabs all over Lebanor streets the demonstrations against the E735 their government, to tae POLOWNG ast week's talke in london hetween an United States East German trade mission British Chamber that it will be sending a Recognize frontiers trade delegation East Germany in the near future.

TAKE-OVERS

the syril border aeta toea omatic relanid Britain, handi areas, similar comm oThere su no ported by the supportea byl mo andedema ad Counay sal, the two countries. ceded Word War. r tha counry. com pletely Election blow for there relations est Germany. Australian Tories Leadership nastemilo AS EXPECTED, first re- complicated by the sults in the Australian the

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event General Election showed majority over all his rivals.

a big swing to Labour Labour nainy wasi n away from the ruling wsrial areas fr umin their portunity oftant opport hity in Liberal - Country Party peas as tigh as dus. portan 2 Bir- John covernment Many leading members of Gorton. Labour needed to win 21 towards the growiatan Tulie. Stali last Dalurday S elecuon to secure an abso- tint thr urni Jute maiortv in bariament but the hirst returns ( im- dicated that this target was rloser was going to be unlikely to be reached. Two years jail Alliance meetings

BIRMINGHAM

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