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of Mr Jack reformist line Jones, uniike the the opinions of these ruling-class spokesmen reveal Ine real relations of the classes and the nature of the crisis in britain today in the most dramauc way.

shores ada incidentally extraordinary interes The massive leap in wages s for see dile he tribution of the surplus social product. in the emproyers 1348 when the Black Death forced the price of labour far alon its Labourers. 1916 maininse capitalist mar act in order to forcibis hold down cupteds" Tendency 1926 when all the coercive pokers of the see rise. Says the document: used "There has been a persistent compare eithee mages ca Bridency for stages ees to rise faster thes and salaries to Recent devpropments lead to believe not only that Dressly felt, bot also that of cost inflation this Appalled by these prospects and will in asi prob- Mr. Jukes know it oas saying: ahe toresetible fot uner Chancellor, increase in by God they frighten me? (1) signincance or tnese une lower is still inere. AN Defeat still thousands throng to Black ok during annual Frightened sentestics by Jukes their briday really feel abou re years of unemployment, low

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(i) Class struggle and revolution: the example of 1848. In the revolutions of 1848, Marx and Engels took the opportunity of testing their new theories against historical experience. They had claimed to be 'scientific socialists', political basing their pro- gramme on the revolutionary struggle of a class inevitably produced by capitalism's own development. (The Commun- ist Manifesto'). had contrasted This they with the 'Utopian socialism' of all varieties. 1848 was to bring the indus- trial proletariat directly on to the political scene, its force bringing about great actually changes in the state. But the result could only be, at this stage, the bourgeois republic. King Louis Philippe, over- thrown in February 1848, had presided over the rule of only one section of the bourgeoisie, the 'finance oligarchy'. It still remained for the industrial bourgeoisie to 'nor- malize' the relations between the whole bourgeois class and machine. Louis the state Philippe was overthrown in February 1848 by an alliance of industrial bourgeoisie, pro- letariat, urban middle class, and peasantry. The Provisional government then set up could only be a compromise between all the classes which had contributed to the overthrow of Louis Philippe: 'The great majority of its members consisted of repre- sentatives of the bourgeoisie.

The republican petty bourge- were represented by oisie Ledru-Rollin and Flocon, the republican bourgeoisie by the from the 'National' people (the newspaper of the republi- opposition, founded by can Thiers in 1830), the dynastic opposition by Crémieux, Dupont de l'Eure, etc. "The working class had only two representatives, Louis Blanc and Albert. Finally; Lamartine as a member of the Provisional government; the latter had actually no real interest, no definite class, it was the February Revolution itself, the common uprising with its illusions, its poetry, its imagined content and its phrases. For the rest, the spokesman on the February Revolution, by his position and his views, belonged to the bourgeoisie." Marx's analysis of the 1848- 1850 events in France is the history of the dramatic disso- lution of this political unity under the impact of the irre- class antagonisms concilable between its several compon- ents. However, Marx was _com- pelled to explain, by his own theory and method, not only the long-term necessity which eventually prevailed, but also the movement of events, men and ideas which at first sight, ('Marx, "The Class Struggles 1848-1850, in France, 'Selected Works', Vol. Il, p. 199) Fill in the form below and se

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did the compromise How arise in the first place? Why did the historical necessity establish itself only through a definite series of stages and struggles? Why were these struggles veiled in particular types of political illusions and not others? And finally, why did the democratic republic brought forth by February 1848, once the working class was defeated and brought into line, quickly submit to the dictatorship of Louis Bonaparte, borne aloft on the shoulders of the hum- ble peasant? Criticism The main criticism levelled against historical materialism is that precisely such ques- tions are left unanswered by 'ultimate' the stress on the determining character of the economic base. The writings of Lenin and Trotsky on the Russian Revo- lution and the class struggle in this century are certainly complete answer. the most Marx and Engels' However, writings on 1848 own were already sufficient to put pard to this criticism of historical materialism. What follows here is only a series of examples, an introduction meant as to the study of the texts them- selves.* Modern 'political sociology' afford can, course, to neglect the kind of questions dealt with by Marx in 1848- 1851. It takes the groups and classes in society simply as accumulations of certain external characteristics (level of education, literacy, income, occupation, area of residence, occupation of parents, etc. etc.) and then checks against these a more or less impressive series of data about what is 'political called behaviour' normally consisting of votes cast in elections. If 'vulgar political economy' was an apologia for capitalist exploitation, political sociology would perhaps have been char- acterized by Marx as a sort of market research operation for established political parties Whereas bourgeois 'political sociology' devotes itself entirely to the surface poli- *Marx, 'The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Address of the Central Council to the Communist League (1851)'.

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tical behaviour' of the individ- uals in society during periods of relative stability, Marx's theory was, characteristically, tested against revolutionary His sociology of upheavals. class cannot be separated from his "sociology of revolution'.

How does explain Marx the combination of opposed class forces in the Provisional in 1848? He government begins with a characterization of Louis Philippe's regime and the opposition to it: was not the French It bourgeoisie that ruled under Louis Philippe, but a fraction of it, bankers, stock-exchange kings, railway kings, owners of and iron coal works and forests, a part of the landed proprietors that rallied round them-the so-called finance aristocracy. It sat on the throne, it dictated laws in the Chambers, Poli- it conferred tical posts from cabinet port- folios to the tobacco bureau."

The rule of this finance aris- tocracy produced characteris- tic political and social contra- dictions, particularly through its plunder of government finances and control of govern- ment agencies. These accumulated in such a way as to render the finance aristocracy the common object and symbol against which all opposition to existing condi- tions was concentrated. ' industrial bourgeoisie formed the core of the parliamentary opposition, and gradually gained in confidence to oppose the regime through the 1840s, comforted by the feeling that proletariat been thoroughly disciplined by the suppression of the uprisings of 1832, 1834 (Lyons) and 1839.

classes which The other were to appear in the revolu- tionary struggles of 1848, the petty bourgeoisie and the peas- antry, had, like the proletariat, no place whatsoever in the political life of the July mon- archy. Marx summarizes the swind- ling and extortion of the finance aristocracy through the national debt and the financing of state enterprises, and concludes: "The July monarchy was nothing other than a joint stock company for the exploi- of French national tation wealth, the dividends of which were divided among ministers, Chambers, 240,000 voters and their adherents. Louis Philippe was the director of this com- pany-Robert Macaire on the throne. Trade, industry, agri- culture, shipping, the interests of the industrial bourgeoisie, were bound to be continually prejudiced and endangered under this system.' The moral and cultural decay this engendered by 'official' plunder regime of had its own special part in the production of the revolu- tionary opposition: *... the same prostitution, the same shameless cheating, the same mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere, from the court to the Cafe Borgne [the term applied to all cafes of dubious reputation], to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already avail- able wealth of others. (Ibid. p. 193.)

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tive foreign policy dictated by 'In particular there broke out, at the top of bourgeois the finance houses gradually society, clashing every moment solidified national feeling with the bourgeois laws them- against the existing regime, effects of selves, an unbridled display of culminating in the in Europe unhealthy and dissolute appe- the political events of the years 1846-1848. tites, wherein the wealth Guizot, Louis Philippe's min- having its source in gambling naturally seeks its satisfaction, ister, had come out in fav- where pleasure becomes crapu- of the Holy Alliance our leux (debauched), where gold, against the Swiss, and when filth and blood flow together. the victorious in latter were The finance aristocracy, in its 'this this 'raised mimic war, mode of acquisition as well as the self-respect of the bour- in its pleasures, is nothing but geois opposition in France'.

the resurrection of the lumpen- And then, given the explo- the sive internal condition of the proletariat at top of bourgeois society. French nation, 'the bloody 'And the non-ruling sections uprising of the people in of Palermo (January 12, 1848) the French bourgeoisie Marx and Engels had already insisted that revolution is not an unfortunate necessity, a by-product of the transition to a classless society, but is the actual experience by which men change themselves through changing their own environmentyhus producing "communist consciousnes on "a mass scale' cried: corruption! The people worked like an electric shock cried: a bas les grands voleurs!

on the paralysed masses of the a bas les assassins!* when in and awoke their great people 1847, on the most prominent revolutionary memories and stages of bourgeois society, the passions. publicly same scenes were Thus, given a certain level enacted regularly lead of the development of internal which the lumpenproletariat to contradictions in French workhouses and brothels, to society, international events before lunatic asylums, the which at another time might Bench, Bagnos (a prison) have had little effect or even to and to the scaffold. have been used to discourage "The industrial bourgeoisie political could activity, pro- saw its interests endangered, vide a major impetus to revo- the petty bourgeoisie was filled lution. with indignation, the moral imagination of the people was offended, Paris flooded was "la dynastie with pamphlets- Rothschild", "les juifs rois de from the Indeed, it l'époque",† etc.-in which the international level, but this rule of the finance aristocracy time economically, that the was denounced and stigmarised revolutionary opposition's for- with greater or less wit.?

finally completed mation was and fused into a striking-force.

National feeling could only be unified and harnessed in 'The eruption of the general the name of July mon- the discontent finally accele- was archy. Instead, the conserva- rated and the sentiment for ripened by eco- revolt two *Down with the big gang- nomic world events.' sters! Down with the derers! First came the potato blight bad 1845- and harvests consequent †'The Rothschild dynasty. 1846 and the 'The Jews, kings of our time'.

heightening of the glaring con- trasts between the poverty of (Ibid. pp. 196-197.) the masses and the unre- strained luxury of the finance aristocracy: 'At Buzançais the hunger rioters executed; in Paris the over-satiated escrocs (swindlers) snatched from the courts by the royal family? Hunger For Marx, this condition of a sharp reduction in living standards and even prolonged hunger enter as one of the conjunctural factors in build- ing up the revolutionary situa- tion, something which 'ripened the sentiment for revolt' and 'accelerated the general dis- content. Discussions about impove- rishment and hunger as the 'causes' of revolution derive from an extreme vulgarization of Marx's views, and must be dismissed on that count if they are raised as criticisms of Marxian theory. For Marx, the whole pre- ceding social and political development, determined in its main lines by the economic structure, prepares the disposi- tion of class forces which enters into a revolutionary situation. From then on, the move- ment of events is subject to the laws and mechanisms of the political class struggle, and now the developments in the 'economic base' will have effects which are determined in this political framework.

In 1846-1848, therefore, the growing impoverishment enters only secondarily, as a determinant of tempo and a contributory factor: to the heightening of consciousness of already fashioned conflict- ing interests. The second 'economic world was a event' of this order general commercial and indus- crisis in England'; and trial now Marx can describe the actual gathering of the revolu- tionary storm. All the factors he has considered are brought into action in the concrete course of events: The devastation of trade and industry caused by the economic epedemic made the autocracy of the finance aris- tocracy still more unbearable.

Throughout the whole of France the bourgeois opposi- tion evoked the banquet agita- tion for an electoral reform which should win for them the majority in the Chambers and overthrow the Ministry of the Bourse. 'In Paris the industrial crisis had, in particular, the result of throwing a number of manu- facturers and big traders, who existing under the circum- stances could no longer do any. self-c business in the foreign market, on to the home market. 'They set up large épiciers and boutiquiers (grocers and small shopkeepers) en masse.

Hence the innumerable bank- ruptcies among this section of the Paris bourgeoisie, and hence revolutionary their action in February. 'It is known how Guizot and the Chambers answered the reform proposals with a plain challenge, how Louis Far left: Marx and Engels Left: Auguste Blanqui Below: 1848King Philippe's throne burns at the foot of the July Column.

Philippe too late resolved on a Ministry led by Barrot, how hand-to-hand fighting took place between the people and the army, how the army was disarmed by the passive con- duct of the National Guard, how the July monarchy had to give way to a Provisional government." Errors Marx and Engels considered afterwards that they made two errors in their evaluation of the 1848 revolutions. In the first place, they mis- took • the economic crisis of 1847-1848 for a manifestation of the impending collapse of the capitalist system, whereas that system proved beyond doubt to have within it great scope for the expansion of the productive forces, particularly with the growth of United States capitalism. The industrialization of Europe itself had only just • at a later date begun, and Marx asked Engels in corre- spondence the question: even are successful ina we in old socialist revolution (PIbid.; p. 198.) Saturday, August 15, 1970

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Europe, where capitalism has matured, would we not risk defeat on a world scale because of the still unfulfilled promise of capitalism in the rest of the world? At any rate the return to economic 'normality' was the primary reason for the ebb of the revolutionary wave in Europe after 1848, and Marx and Engels found it necessary to fight hard against those elements in the revolutionary émigré groups who urged fresh revolutionary attempts. To these elements, Marx and Engels pointed out that they were ignoring everything gained by the Marxist concep- tion and returning to Utopian- ism. This is connected with Marx and Engels' second self-criticism over their analy- sis of 1848. They admitted themselves influenced by the predominance in French revo- lutionary history of small con- spiratorial groups acting 'on behalf' of the working class or 'the people', a trend per- sonified by Auguste Blanqui.

After 1848 Marx and Engels devoted a great deal more attention than before to the problems involved in the development of the conscious- ness ot the working class it- self, and the kind of organiza- tion and leadership necessary for this development. However heroic, disciplined and skilful the men making up the parties of the type led by Blanqui, and however much they kept the bourgeois awake in their beds at night, not achieve the they could kind of revolution necessary to overthrow capitalism. In this respect Marx and Engels were able to develop, to make more precise and definite, the picture of revo- lution which they had given • The German Ideology'. Insisted There they had already insisted that revolution is not an unfortunate necessity, a by- product of the transition to a classless society, but is the actual experience by which change themselves men through changing their own environment, thus producing 'communist consciousness' on 'a mass scale'. And in the 'Communist Manifesto' they "The say: the working emancipation of class is the task of the work- ing class itself'. The meaning of this principle emerged more clearly from the experience of the 1848 revolutions and the light it shed past revolutionary on history. Groups of the Blan- type tended to be quist isolated from the masses, devoting themselves to their own training and preparation, studying the enemy and await- ing occasion, the propitious instead of sinking roots into the mass movement, studying all the developments in the class struggle, and particu- larly the experience of the working class itself. Not only that, but there would tend to persist in such groups the notion that the seizure of power, the control of the existing system government and state machine, was the political aim of the movement. Marx's deduction from 1848, finally made precise, through a study once again of the actual historical experi- ence of the working class in struggle, in the Paris Com- mune of 1871, was that the existing state machine must be 'smashed', and a proletarian established, dictatorship organs class organs, its guiding principle to prepare its own historical redundancy and dis- appearance through drawing the masses into its work, a change made possible through the economic transformations of socialist construction, which at the same time removed the economic necessity for the state as organs of suppression of one class by another.

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DURING the British dock strike the Tory press went to town on behalf of 'the public.

Dockers, it appeared, were responsible (together with transport and distribution wor- kers) for the grave threat of increases in food prices, es- pecially fruit. Tory Minister Prior visited Covent Garden in person and discovered that apples, es- pecially, were on the costly side. Which prompted him to re- mark (in the best tradition of Marie Antoinette's 'Let them eat cake!') that housewives would be well advised to switch to peaches. Meanwhile his Cabinet col- leagues were getting down to the task of negotiating Britain's entry to the Common Market.

Above (centre): NPD leader Kolley (ex-Hitler Youth). Right: NPD Youth. THE SATISFACTION ex- pressed by liberals and 'pro- gressives' of all hues at the recent electoral setbacks to W Germany's revived Nazi party, the NPD (National Democratic Party) is not re- flected in any great dismay in the ranks of that organ- ization. For Von Thadden and the other leaders of the NPD are quite clear that they are not treading the parliamentary road to anywhere. Having got their foot in the door through the use of the ballot-box, they are also pre- paring a strong shoulder to help them on their way. A commission of inquiry set up by the Hesse State parlia- ment on the NPD has recently published an 800-page report on their so-called 'steward ser- vice'-which has the ostensible function of keeping 'order' at their meetings. The young thugs recruited to the service are trained to- gether under a military-style regime. * Karate and the use of fire- arms are regular items in their Then they are preparation. placed in one of a number of 'groups' (e.g. 'action group', "special action group' or "radio- controlled most of group') which have duties over and above the supervision of meet- ings. Sometimes they wear full uniform and in all cases a helmet and heavy leather belt.

The NPD, they are told, has declared war on 'chaos, dirt, confusion and disorder in the state' They even have al marching-song: 'Helmets on and Visors down-into the mob, Everyone knows it's a difficult job But five minutes later and all is still The stewards have tidied up according to rule Yippieiee, Yippieioo, etc'

BAST & WEST

'Surplus' pears dumped in the Po Valley. The employers' press mained silent on the approach European 'agricultural of ex- perts' to food supply, where price-rigging goes hand in hand with deliberate waste on a gigantic scale. For example: in the last few weeks there has been an above- average harvest of fruit in N Italy-particularly of pears in the Po valley. Though the fruit is produced mainly by small farmers and distribution peasants, wholesaling is in the hands of large operators, a number of them closely connected with Church interests. If prices were allowed to fall and supplies to increase, the main purpose of fruit pro- duction (to provide profit for these gentlemen) would be frustrated. To ensure the operation of little documents a The report number of provocative attacks 27-year-old by these thugs. Peter Schumm, a functionary in the Mainz NPD Federation, has admitted using firearms Molotov cocktails in and attacks on the offices of the W German trade unions (DGB) in the city and in an assault on the Mainz union secrtary.

* Klaus Kolley, head of the NPD 'steward service', was last year convicted of shooting two inthearm demonstrators during Adolf Von Thadden's notorious meeting in Kassel, when police intervened vio- lently against left-wing demon- strators. He got an 18-month jail sentence, which has not yet been enforced. the market on sound economic principles, something_like the miracle of the fishes has been organized-but in reverse !

The fruit is taken from the farmers at token prices - as little as ld a pound. Kolley, who is 39, has warm memories of the Hitler Youth, which, he says, he 'takes very seriously'. And in May this year an- other 'steward', a shop assist ant in Duisburg, was arrested on a charge of forming a fascist organization, the 'European Freedom Front'. He was in charge of a black- list of 'Communist politicians for eventual 'elimination', , to gether with a file on left-wing and 'decadent' persons in jour nalism, radio and TV - des tined for similar treatment.

preparations he was provided And to give teeth to sizeable arsenal of with including a dozen weapons, pistols, two carbines, two rifles and thousands of rounds of immunition. Eauipment to bi borne in mind by advocates o' 'the peaceful road'.

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people from interfering with Some of it is supplied to the the laws of supply and demand public at the usual price- -for it is sprayed (at considerable pears, Is or more a pound.

And the rest? expense) with poisonous dyes to make it inedible. It is removed in lorries and him that hath shall be dumped specially-rented in LO given! fields. To discourage misguided his political

MONSIEUR

Jean - Jacques Centre and own Socialist vehicle,, the Radical Servan-Schreiber, the political Party, with the Socialist Party and millionaire demagogue to run a single candidate.

provide recently entered the The aim is to an who political channel entirely 'safe' French Chamber of Deputies and for middle-class people with a surprise win at the workers who want to oppose Gaullism, and recent Nancy by-election, is to make elec- Gaullism, and to make pressing forward with the direct political employers formation of a 'third force' in within the labour leverage French politics. movement. To disguise these wholly re- declared the French He last spectable goals week - created through his personal mouth- has great the furore round his latest move.

news-magazine L'Exprès'-that he intends to Is this, they ask, the begin- ning of the end for Gaullism?

back a candidate of 'the non- Communist left' against Gaull- the neglected miscellany And Chaban 'democrats' fill the ist Prime Minister of who are licking forthcoming 'centre' Delmas in the political thought of Bordeaux by-election. their chops at the Servan-Schreiber (or J-J S-S) à millionaire's band- forming rides a programme of real re- wagon. they forms, decentralization and As for the Stalinists, democracy'. are aghast at the possibility of which is added To the 'unity of the left' receding even spending of large amounts of further. cash and a chauvinistic anti- While correctly denouncing his demagogy, they only Americanism. can At Nancy he announced, on reply by brandishing their own the eve of polling, a special tired reformist mixture European corporation, includ- ing major W German banks, progress' for the development of Lor- Though Servan-Schreiber did the Communist raine. not reduce At Bordeaux he hopes do so to vote at Nancy, he may collect together the 'parties of in the future. Certainly he will be prepared to mouth any left- the centre' principally the Convention of Republican In- phrases be wing that may stitutions, the Democratic necessary.

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THREE WEEKS ago 40 cloth cutters at John Collier's Lady Lane factory, Leeds, were handed redundancy notices. The sackings—involving almost half the cutting-room labour force-are a direct outcome of the National Clothing Productivity Agreement foisted on clothing workers by the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers last year.

Since the 30,000-strong clothing strike in February, when Com- strike leadership in Leeds consistently munist Party members in the dodged raising the issue of the National Agreement, tension inside the clothing plants has grown, as the employers plan to operate widespread redundancies and wring further rises in productivity.

SLAUGHTER spoke to Workers Press correspondent BARBARA the secretary of the Leeds Clothing Workers Liaison Committee, Mr C Taylor, who is among the sacked 40 at John Colliers.

TAILORING

all John who were already ficial stonnage of mean that they are working a prenarin: to close the factory altogethes would have This Collier'e factories. hac sent to the Executive work harder to been case une numDeI Board. get the same money. first rumoured recuncancies was 55, The management is no doubt ther nrohan v Next Monday miaht †hAre intend to sack another 15.

introduce will be a meeting of all Leed planning to with the system throughout the same officials to hear a report from combine.

IF THE

redundancies go through will vou be able to get other jobs? this | have

WHAT

IS the connection between the present redun- I AM convinced that the 40 dancies February cutters won't jobs except clothing strike? There smaller shops. in much in th no chance they hid chong. because a tese redundancies have to compete with Colliers, , attack whole trade an so thev wil have to introduce organization UnIOn and that means ine emplovers were snaker redundancies. the militancy tne moment Montagne At Henrilari strike WArE Burton's closing Jackson's determined to hit back. factory and transfer ts a smar stuation. or At the same tie which could Burton's that workers malar wages. Hudson Rd. Pilkington's, em- ployers have Burton's workers over sacked all the retirement age are leaving.

militants and their supporters water the recent Prices and Incomes numbering hundreds of The management there claim men. Board Report on the industry.

The employers deter- there ie no connection between the aven more ominousis the two events, but they musi PIR's conspen with the local be getting rid and they union mananaly nosition water without paying backing the supply authorities. out redundancy government which is threaten could that penny Raped money! now see themselves ston Socia SecuriTy Unlike Colliers, where the and sess tar „the familiac strikerc and tax public age going hash the in- averace rebate. for factory dustries into them prenaration in e turn Burton's thev are profit ensure at They want hien concerns. rine TOr older gettina the impossible to live if vou handing hack nrivate workers. strike to prevent workers nwnarchin taking strike range As I see it this is because Containi tha productivity measures advoc- thev intend to go ahead with ated is comparable with any- the introduction worT thing high-speed HOW DO vou see the fighi and Measured-Day within the union? production-line operations. would study, method study, not be able to stand the pace.

OUR MAIN iob evaluation Organization management, and method (0&M). Measured.

this fight WHAT HAS been the effect we have Work. activity, Measured. Day Work at Jobl introduction in the to don hear ronaut toasthor with the cot ting up of a work-study Collier's? In the February strike One bank of the things wa attacked wad rapid

CONTRARY

what to lack of liaison in the unions.

many The cials that anil thor workers think these methods in future there would he full much greater entort establishment National with the mem- and thic Choc loint Industrial Board. where reflected in wages. Thare are renrecentatives AmninuArC men who are actually drawing But here back we are Manla get to- an a than before

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discussion dothar cant hit a by no matter on streets have common problems. no matter how official explana- not tion from the union. thev try. Pollution hard ever producing though ashto tell misting we hund they are The first development of more wore than inder the did redun- supply system. in the offing and companies dancies were Britain dates from tho 10+1 A baifaman on on Fastman avan than they only told u century Knife gets between half the ctomy with arguino per Pair as manseas 2400 At one time all wage in- pol- ропід мю pers an hour at 100 per cent as many lution, open ditches and wells, engineers began looking hu tha donopol mambarchin but the last two agreements pipe clean water into On the old piecework pav- towns hy the ment system in the wa 'for wages includ- sidese production would elm pipes, later tremendous. But our 10s 3a renlaced by cast iron. enabled under February stoppage. got out for The basis of the networt an study Tho work and panies which arose-nine will create a surolus of labour

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tories groun? the streets and exert a strong control ove water distribu.

WHAT

ACTION has been SINCE Tune 1 a new 35-hour- tion 1850s tho proposed to hiaht tho im. hepn mediate redundancies? Hartlenool tendand the the malpractices THE FIRST proposal was for nanies. 'which included cut, time-workers got 14.4 per scheme Supplying over 35 hours This compensate for loss was \ move towards taking such Leeds, earninac necessity from Partiennoe factories wouldn't the The management shhere nront making S per cent the Howavar nanant thic flamed fat Tacted intergate pravailed and against their future The No. 2 branch has passed wage was for later that single public

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FOLLOWING the seizure of the Cambodian Embassy in flague sup Dorters guellild based sinanouk government- in-exile. Ine musak regime has sealed of the building armed nlaced three policemen outside the gates. asketh over ague? rizeme in Phnom Peommunist ins Is Dasea not oniy ol the armed police guard turn Real line One section Husak's officials protect persecution slovakia. the is tch stalinistsical lin Coal up, but no more pay THE Ministry of Technolog Board's Prices ment mand the Pries a Board should not allowed to cressible wage claim. itain from 1,400 in 194 Long service The industry employs 43,90 ser can ther more and aged 55 or record * be Board recommendations, By Bernard Franks force employed in repairing pipes zard is involved ossible 10 per cent si proposed ater establishing skin anly levels responsibility.

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

THE VIENNA Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and the United States wound up yesterday without any firm agreement on how to mutually agree on a missile production curb.

The joint communiqué New strikes issued after the final how- morning session, hit Franco ever, stated that both sides felt confident of regime reaching a final agree- ment. The two delegations will

MADRID'S

building workers resume their talks in Hel- staged a short protest strike sinki on November 2, where Wednesday against the On the first preliminary ex- fining of 750 construction changes took last place workers on the site of the medical faculty building year. new at Madrid University. The fourth session, back inxed for early next year.

Vienna, is provisionally They had come out on strike on Monday in support And this earlier week of a claim for higher wages.

while US officials examined ways and means of The Asturian miners' strike curbing the "a Senate, the edited the United for parity of wages with those States Senate employed the state-run by 52 votes 47 an amend. mining company HUNOSA, is ment to block the building and now in its second week of a new anti-ballistic sys- shows no sign of weakening.

tem site in Missouri. Explosive

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Nixon's supporters in the Senate argued that to block leaflets the building of a new site would take away a bargain- scattered 'chip' from the US ing SALT team in Vienna. S

AFRICAN

police were Vatican- yesterday investigating nve explosions that scattered anti- Vorster leaflets in regime Yugoslavia three major cities. Two of the explosions were link-up in Johannesburg, two in Dur- ban and one in Cape Town.

In each small and case, IT WAS reported from Rome harmless explosive devices yesterday that the Vatican and scatter pamph- were published by banned Yugoslavia have established lets the African National Congress. diplomatic relations at Ambas- level, the first time sadorial So far no arrests have been an E European state has taken reported. this step. Later, more leaflet 'bombs' several weeks This follows exploded, a crowded one of lavish Yugoslav press praise Johannesburg shower- for Vatican's foreign surcel, ing shoppers with anti- policy. apartheid while leaflets, Paul VI The Tito-Pope. second went off in the main well be emul- agreement may hall Witwaters- the city's the Polish at ated by govern- rand University. which has also ment, heen the Catholic No injuries have been re- congratulating of the Church for its 'realism' in ported result European affairs. explosions. undertaking increased output by 300 per cent while making £12,000. The Board found that: yearly saving The Report's overriding is with pre-occupation duced manning and the main means that all This simply iob of the Toint Industrial would removed workers be Board, if it is set up, will be from specific duties and jobs to discuss redundancy. and put in one of six or seven Tory government only pay grades. The wants the unions called in on this so as to get the maximum Flexibility possible reduction in jobs with They would be required to the least possible trouble.

do any type of work assigned Water Supply workers must to that grade. This is closely reject entirely the Report and related to the proposed exten- its productivity measures.

sion of the

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The industry's Unions Trades Alliance to training board teaches aspects build a new socialist leader- of other trades to each worker ship in the unions which is so he can overlap other jobs.

unalterably opposed to the Eventually, says the report, plans of capital. he would be capable of work- ing flexibly the whole range of operations his department. The Report advises that training must be closely such linked to work-study applica- and that this tion on basis management would be better able to fix manning levels.

Also recommended 1S in-

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creased flexibility of inspectors involving the of the merging survey it seems that the level functions of inspection and of claims being put forward is increased mobility of pump mostly within a range equiva- attendants so as to have one lent to rises of between £2 and attendant supervising several £6 per week, depending on instead of stations a man at regional variations is that the each place. 'Our estimate Use of equipped minivans middle of settlements range or mopeds, extension of tele- thus indicated is of the order metry systems for automatic of between 10 and 15 per cent, and use of radio monitoring and in cases many even communications systems be- greater.' and tween inspectors, gangs It is impossible to do justice depots, employers' central are also the figures to examined. within the scope of a single The method of payment article, but the importance of advised is: all these cumulative wage

MEASURED-DAY

WORK

demands is unmistakably clear.

(MDW). The Report makes no They show that the share bones about the fact that this of national income taken | by for negotiat- should be used profits-from gross company ing higher wages in return for financed which investment is fol- a reduction in manning 163-1965 to 13 per cent in -fell from per cent lowing work study'. The bit about higher wages 1966-1968, with further should be taken with a mighty 'quite sharp' fall in 1969. big pinch of salt. The Board's examination of Profits down method authorities using finds that study, certainly This means that profits have have boosts in output failed keep up with occurred. Increases of 100 per national income by a margin cent along with cuts in labour of about 20 per ('The cent. of 20-25 per costs cent are 14, 1970.) Guardian', August recorded. There is no reason to doubt these figures. Productivity uni- Wage increases are this In mains laying, labour pro- versal phenomenon. week the EEC Executive Com- ductivity is said to have risen warned that wages by 140 per cent, and one mission Saturday. August 15, 1970

AFTER SOVIET

W GERMAN PACT

moves to trade deal

BY ROBERT BLACK

WITHIN hours of Brandt's return from Moscow after signing the West German- 'non-aggression' Soviet Pact, preparations began for closer economic col- laboration between the two governments. The first trade agreement between Bonn and Moscow expired after five years in 1963, and, because of differ- ences over W Berlin and other problems, it was not renewed.

Anxious to make use of W German technical expertise, the Soviet government is now thought to be willing to make concessions on a continued western presence in Berlin.

Co-operation Dr Karl Schiller, is to visit Brandt's Economics Minister, Moscow next month to pre- pare a far-reaching trade and technical agreement with the while Hans Kremlin, Dr Keussink, Bonn's Minister of Education, Science and Tech- will be in nology, Moscow on September 17 with a top- level delegation for 12 days of talks with Soviet leaders on technical co-operation be- tween the two countries. The most significant aspect to this new turn in economic relations between W Europe's most developed capitalist power and the Soviet Union the insistence by Bonn was Foreign Minister Scheel in his series of talks with Gromyko that the Kremlin would have to come to terms with the existence and growth of the Common Market. There is no doubt that Scheel's point was well taken, for after 1974 no individual member country within the Market will be able to deal with non-member countries.

The Common Market, ac- cording to the Rome Treaty, will undertake all trade, tech- nical and economic bargaining behalf of each member on state. Attacks muted Since the 'detente' between Moscow and Bonn began, Soviet attacks on the Com- mon Market, previously--and correctiv — described as an anti-Soviet and anti-working- class monopolist alliance, have been muted. Over the last few days in fact, they have vanished al- together. The complete inability of the bureaucracy to resolve the problems of the Soviet econ- omy drives it into the arms of the most reactionary sections of the European capitalist class. Two-month fight

OVER

35,000 Portuguese have been engaged troops during the last two months in a major operation against the Mozambique . National Liberation Front (FRELIMO) in the north of toe colony.

'Paramilitary forces' euphemism for the profes- sional butchers and torturers trained by Portuguese im- perialism-were also engaged, according official com- to an muniqué issued in Lourenço- Marques. al crisis had risen unprecedentedly in the Common Market and had outstripped productivity.

In this struggle there is no room for compromise and very little to maneouvre.

That is why all the attempts of the Stalinists and reform- ist bureaucratsand the state capitalists-to treat this as a purely 'wages' question which can be resolved if the gov- ernment changes existing eco- nomic policy' are reactionary, and are doomed to failure.

Mr Partridge's demands for a 12-month standstill and the Industrial Wages Bill of the Tories are an outright de- claration of political war on the working class. Impotent In this war the trade union bureaucracies will prove as as the so-called impotent 'rank-and-file committees of the revisionists. Only through building the revolutionary party can Marx- ists lead the working class forward to the defeat of Tory- ism and the resolution of the crisis. In the words of Marx we say: Not a fair day's wage for a the fair day's work - but abolition of the wages system!

• Defeat anti-union laws by forcing the Tories to resign!