Workers Press no. 233

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Wages fight needs Crucial meeting Socialist for Birmingham busmen Heathrow stewards reject GAS, but Dangers still face policies to

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

BIRMINGHAM and West Midlands busmen's delegates are attending an important meeting to discuss the carrying forward of their today airport workers fight for a f5-a-week increase and against the management's proposed strings.

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Canadian private- of the destroying draws dangerously near, the trade union leaders enterprise General Avia- What are preparing to beat an unprecedented retreat tion Services (GAS) agency.

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British Industry, the En- tomorrow: just "second 5 for about E3 considered show their feelings at a gineering Emplovers' recent mass meeting. Federation and the Tory about new demands us corement have an amica al decisio to present a solid front of by Kennedy AS fondant to ber the ex f5 all round, intained anly met minst opposition to any increase in real wages - and thei mean to carry this out. no strings! DOCUMENTS just released to scholars by the They have told their the John F Kennedy Memorial Library prove that Hom the that a ne Irish border watch-dog in Whitehall in the US president was considering the assassina- ear that clampdown terms that - say Bradford strikers tion of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

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the governments proposals difficulties, tion, to all industry; in- THE 1,200 workers who have halted all production at th Engineers snould i told the Bangate she nationalized cluding the Bradford factory of International Harvesters decided •and wara so stewards sector. air The transcript, contained in unanimously yesterday to continue their strike.

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY NUMBER 233 TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1970 Heathrow stewards reject GAS, but

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

BIRMINGHAM and West Midlands busmen's delegates are attending an important meeting today to discuss the carrying forward of their fight for a f5-a-week increase and against the management's proposed strings.

Pay talks have been

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proceece or some une govern- and at the beginning of ment has received uly une employers nIST another rebuff to its offer of f2 with strings was threatens plans for undermining thrown out The dared in the locat pres the nationalized air- lines. i more money otine a lible moren A meeting of over 200 s intones me introduc Transport and General was who Shutdown

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reatnrow Airport vester is would mean the 'casu- day voted overwhelmingly in wellnion, Shropshire to conunue uner blacking AS THE PROSPECT of a major political crisis - now in its secona year- returns to work. of the Canadian private draws dangerously near, the trade union leaders hundreds of jobs enterprise General 5,000 workers at thi are preparing to beat an unprecedented retreat or more than tion Services (GAS) agency.

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Tong fran has con awarde challenge of the moderated from the decisive political i they stinend be Even Heathrow and is regarded as Tories. moderate ses reject the nationalized threa id ott aate The out- conteneranon she CAS are to br rking at Britsh Industry, the En force plates e, Gearin workers compo their feelings at gineering Employers' несе on дn0 for setting torernment haye alt united D ta second force be in e's me decision to present a solid front of the expense of the nationalized opposition to any increase corporations. decided l1 Ical waxes and (ney completely rejected. mean to carry this out. DOCUMENTS just released to scholars by the They told their John F Kennedy Memorial Library prove that Irish border nave taken away watch-dog in Whitehall in the US president was considering the assassina- uncertain clampdown terms tion of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

this form of wage freeze date divisions i must apply, without excep- erday's New York reports es oppositsons.

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THE 1,200 workers who have halted all production at s chairman

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al mansly cluding nationalized the Bradford factory of International Harvesters decided meeting ine would need 5100 mil This micin cone ned in unanimously yesterday to continue their strike.

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Research and interviews by STEPHEN JOHNS With pictures by Martin Mayer 'THE FORCE of habit of mil- Old customs are transformed and re- lions of people is a terrible appear in modern force' Nowhere this is rituals. Above the rush- aphorism of Lenin better illus- cart stands out above the crowded square at trated than in the mill towns Uppermill Wakes Yorkshire of Lancashire and (Lancs). at Wakes Week. These longed- for interludes of peace that descend each summer on the Right: The early Wakes dour cotton and wool com- were uproarlous country celebrations. Here we munities; when factories close have a bill of fare for and the air clears revealing the the famous Eccles surrounding fells and moors as wakes. The industrial countryside, instead of real revolution smashed the some irrelevant incon- and rural communities and their traditions but the gruous backdrop to the serious, workers revived the dirty business of making profit traditions of the Wakes in the valley below. In the manufacturing towns of Lancashire Gloomy predictions of the death and Yorkshire. of the are almost as old as the Wakes themselves. In 1888 the 'Stockport Advertiser remarked: the Wakes, the speedy of death which was prognosti- will be cated a year or two ago, upon us in a few hours with full possession of health and vigour' Holiday have, of customs changed. course, Now the excur. aeroplane disgorges its load sion of mill-hands and factory workers in Spain or Majorca. But for most, Wakes still mean mad Blackpool, Morecambe, scar- Douglas and borough the dom desperately into the one or coaches go' on ploughing up the two weeks off work. motorway taking townloads I'm on holiday, out of the mill, boarding northwards the while another and I won't houses. Christmas. I work for the money Blackpool alone receives Proud to spend it hant the bigger and I'm 8,500,000 I save with hands a season and 20 visits much from the times as cash go--that's my approach,' says Mr workers of the northern counties.

Webb Samuel Hyde textile Habits change slowly because worker. work in the grim mill- life and And he's lived through 56 towns that smear the map within Blackpool Wakes and been to miles of Manchester has for 30 of them. changed only superficially since The whole development of this the great industrial revolution.

unique holiday is a warning to Pay low and work. remains think mechanically those who hard and the Wakes survive be- about the working class. still they are the only cause collective respite from the grind- People's habits do not change fit economic toil in the sturdy Victorian neatly to new 1ng mills that have outlived genera- Gress Lace. Customs of old are transformed tions of their owners. modern and re-appear in the Wakes week time, a During rituals of today. precious commodity is in surplus The mass parade along Black- the people cram their free and ---- - I would like information about and send to NATIONAL Fill in the form below

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Too 08291 pool's noisy 'neon-front' is an echo of the uproarious carnivals of Lancashire and Yorkshire that Wakes fathered the modern Week. Then you come across a pic- ture-Uppermill Wakes (Lancs)- poking out above the Edwardian working-class crowd, gathered in the square flanked by the inevit- able black mills, is the rush-cart.

This is a reminder that the earliest recorded Wakes were connected with the re-flooring of the parish church with rushes carried by the villagers in a cere- monial rush-cart. * Though it has long lost its function, the cart still appears in 20th century celebrations.

Wakes in Yorkshire are, in fact, called Rush Week. The nature of the Wakes was radically changed, but not des- troyed, by the most profound change in British history, the industrial revolution. In origin, they were probably coeval with Christianity itself.

Villagers would gather and pass the night together in prayer be- fore certain holy days. But the Legend of St John the Baptist tells how the flock during these Wakes: 'Fell to lecherie and dances, harping, piping songs, and also glotony and sinne, and it turned holyness into cursyd- ness' But despite these admonitions the peasantry refused to be en- tirely devout and the church was forced to drop the practice. But he Wakes continued as a seculas festival of enjoyment. Its rural character was shat-

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Mrs Mary Hammond of Stockport (ri brothers at Blackpool during the 192 course very popular since they were people were content to slt in the she some had never seen the sea before a source of great wonder to them.'

tered by the industrial revolution.

At first, workers driven off the land into the towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, would travel back to their villages at Wakes time to try and piece together their destroyed communities. But capital was now king and the rapacious mill-owners of the last century had no holy festivals or rural sports in mind when they began to close their mills for one week out of the 52. Machines could not go on for ever; they needed cleaning and overhaul. In this respect they were like whereas the operatives, women and children were easily and cheaply replaced, machinery was expensive and hard to get.

So the custom grew that the in the mill should shut down week Wakes Day fell and the em- ployees get an unpaid holiday.

This development together with the railway revolution and the advent of cheap excursion fares, began the exodus to the coast, turning a sleepy fishing village like Blackpool into the Las Vegas of Lancashire. Pre-War Blackpool The petty tradesmen and show managers at the resorts set about the mammon from gathering in the industrial towns with crude gusto and a love-hate relation- ship was firmly establi hed be- tween them and the trippers.

One tale tells of the famous carpet put down in the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Blackpool, by one of the pioneer entertainment managers, William Holland: 'The trippers, people groaned, 'they will spit on it." Unabashed Bill posted the town with his slogan — 'Come and spit on Bill Holland's 100- guinea carpet.' And there was, and is, huge amounts of money at stake in the resorts. Take these two news- paper items concerning Oldham in 1904 and nearly 50 years later: 'Oldham Wakes commenced today, and the saving clubs have been distributing the amount Salford, Manchester: Sturdy Victorian mills that have outlived generations of their owners. of Stockport (right), with her mother anc ol during the 1920's. The sands were ol since they were free... the older to sit in the shelter on the front ...

n the sea before and It was always put by during the year in antici- pation. It is difficult to compute accurately the amount that has been disbursed, but a round figure, that must not be accepted as anything better than a rough estimate, at £100,000 may stated. Savings clubs abound and figures are available from 128.'

Guardian', ('Manchester August 27, 1904), and as the article goes to point out, this was in a on year of depression in the cotton trade. "The local trustee savings banks reported over £500,000 with- drawn for the holiday, and dozens of Wakes clubs in pubs and workshops collected another €400,000' (Article in the "Man- chester Evening News', June 23, 1963, headed 'Thousands off on Elm spree'.) * The Wakes is not the holiday beloved of the middle class, who creep away to their 'spot' search- ing for tranquility usually to find 1,000 more have crept along with them and their boats and cars crammed off the roads and high- seas, destroying their dream of splendid isolation. I was brought up in Lancashire Wakes in and spent many a Blackpool. I remember feeling puzzled when I talked later to middle- class people. Holidays were - 'getting away from it all', 'peace and quiet, 'being on your own'.

But where was the fun in all this? The luxury of spending money on vourself and meeting others?

Their holidays sounded rather morbid affairs to me. Blackpool is not this kind of holiday. It's a mass purge, not a rest. You get rid of your money, forget the factory and push work out of your mind, with the noise, drinking and mixing, singing, laughing that make-up the week in Blackpool. In this respect the workers' holiday is a desperate opposite of his disciplined life on the shop floor. Yet there is much of value in the Wakes holiday — the collec- tive enjoyment, meeting new them friends and feeling with and spending money on, and with, people of your own kind.

worling hours and more leisure lower time have all been fought for by working people throughout Britain. An extension of these gains and desires to give the majority the time to relax and enjoy life around them, must always be one of the great aims of socialism.

Tuesday, August 18, 1970 Some stayed In the towns

MRS HAMMOND :

free-you saw no deck chairs chefren though sometimes the When the tactomes cosec memories of holi- build sand- it was almost pleasant. The air would days were those we spent at and™ on mee nd seats for their parents Pour ptol. remember Perple Many of the older us, three children and rambling parties content sitting were mother hills. my front® watching moors wno,was shelter on the Inlo Une widow, hopping about a double and York- aroune Manchester the tide come in and out. Some are ner at the digs. you wolle du chire come ot tne mimesi the had never seen the ser berore your own produce countryside in the country.

which and it was always a source of landlady would cook and she wonder to them. would provide potatoes

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big intil I was 18 ther we went there was a to a holiday camp sharp-or else The shows weren't fre- on the isie 2s 6d in the Klos. We save of Mar kind of forerunner quenteo much Dv ane workie Co-op and most families would of Butlins case thay cost too much. but to be in for leave ' na if 2s under the clock T01 places song- •allad when they came back. This was got drunk p.m. halis. rented by the big music milk, eggs and bread, after back next publishers on Wert sent tne his was all on tick until it round would come hnat straicht away. binzers I did go away before this, pay-day. crowds and mingle with the the big Entertainment singing the latest ballads trving could Southport One day I was sud- thing WaC it comenne to get people. to buy the song plav the piano, we thought this denls going away. sheets. The big night would went in a jersey The Wakes was also a big Friday we stripe round with + ther boTe Bats u gather the room stayed in ssed to heigh iot and sing with the piano. frugal canyas Was ano cheap, but a privilege to boys with . and meet achion - UD like us. the boys and walk about th The toe deri ket mateck they marched two roundabouts 4 prom. Nhic ron a ren cirr off to a wheel. spot big of interest to the older ones.

the first and last the cold ens playr wad ther Then Now not many 8o to onenec. too dear in that red antranee fos and it was a God.

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free—you saw no deck chairs though then, sometimes MY FIRST memories of holi- would build sand- children days were those we spent seats for their parents. the Blackpool. I remember Many of the older people four of us, three children and content sitting in the were mother who, was war my shelter on the front watching widow, hopping about a double the tide come in and out. Some bed at the digs. You would buy had never seen the sea before own produce which the your and it was always a source of landlady would cook and she wonder to them. would provide the potatoes The bill paid on the was and salty rice pudding at 3d a Saturday morning you left, and day. if there was any money over You had to be in at 10 p.m.

was a big treat for the there sharp -or else. kids. The shows weren't fre- We save up 2s 6d in the quented much by the working Co-op and most families would class, they cost too much. But leave 2s under the clock for they had places called song- when they came back. This was halls, rented by the big music for milk, eggs and bread, after publishers. this it was all on tick until Singers would come round pay-day. and with the crowds mingle Entertainment - the big singing the latest ballads trying thing if could was someone to get people. to buy the song play the piano, we thought this sheets. was great. The big night would The Wakes was also a big probably be Friday when we boy-girl affair. would all gather in the room The girls used to wear silk and sing with the piano. pyjama things - the height of I remember the beginning of and meet up with fashion - the fun fair. It started with the boys and walk about the about two roundabouts and.

4 prom. This was a great source big wheel. high A spot wat of interest to the older ones.

the children's playground they opened. Then Now to it was 6d hot as many go Blackpool. entrance fee and it was a God- It's just dear too for a young family. The prices end to the parents who could eave their kids there and go are very high, it's a big racket off on their own for a drink.

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Tuesday, August 18, 1970 Some stayed in the towns.

When the factories closed it was almost pleasant. The air was clean and young men and make up women used to rambling parties and go off into the hills. The moors around Manchester and York- shire are some of the finest countryside in the country.

MR HAMMOND:

I WAS less fortunate, didn't go away to the sea until I was 18, then we went to a holiday camp on the Isle of Man, a kind of forerunner of Butlins. We have to be in for 10 p.m. and if we got drunk we were sent back on the next boat straight away. I did go away before this, to a camp at Deversdale near Southport. One day I was sud- denly told I was 'going away.

Off we went in a red jersey with a stripe round it they stayed under gave uS. canvas, frugal and it was cheap, but a privilege to boys like us. The one day they marched source. # us off to a cricket match in Southport the first and last I've seen. There in that red jersey, I knew I was poor like the boys around me and I felt it. It was wrong I knew, but I suppose the people who took us only did it out of kindness.

HARLECH.

2.45-4.10 London. 4.25 today London. 4.40 Diane's Women Magic 4.55 6.01 Report. theatre. 6.10 Parkin's patch. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 The Champions: "The Survivors'. With Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bas- The Champions unearth a sin- tedo. ister story Mrs. the Austrian Alps. 8.00 and Mr 8.30 London. 11.30 Midnight Underwater swimming. weather.

HTV

(West) colour channel 61 as above except: 4.23-4.25, 6.01-6.35 Scene West. 41

HTV

(Wales) colour channel 11.00 "s above except: 10.30 Interview. Dydd. 11.30 Dan Sylw. 12.15 Weather. HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white 6.01 Dydd. 6.30- as above except: 6.35 Report Wales. 10.30 Dan Sylw. 11.15 Dangerman. 12.10 Weather. 4.30 News. ANGLIA: 2.15-4.15 London.

4.55 4.40 Enchanted house. London. call. 6.35 6.00 About Anglia. Police Crossroads. Film: "Alaska Seas'. Vith Robert Ryan, Jan Sterling, Brian Keith, Gene Barry. he livelihood of 8.25 Alaska fishermen is threatened. NYPD: "The London. 11.30 body in a 11.58 Reflection. trunk.'

ATV

MIDLANDS:

1.45-3.45 York 4.00 Women today. 4.10 Pey- racing. 4.40 Origami. 4.50 Cat- ton place. 5.15 Cou 6.35 Crossroads.

Boy. 5.50 News. weazle. 6.00 ATV today. 7.00 the border'. Western: "Four guns tolleen Miller. Wotorious Ray Cully, gentleman turned Calhoun, bandit, ( sets out to way. 8.25 London. finds love along the 11.30 Legends of the West, weather.

ULSTER:

2.20-4.10 London. 4.30 4.55 Lon- Romper 4.50 News. room Mona don. 6.00 Ulster News. 6.05 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Tar- Man. 8.50 London. I10.30 Parkin's Patch.

YORKSHIRE: 1.45-3.45

York racing. 4.10 Tingha 3.55 o4,eрa ma and Matinee. 4.55 London. Tucker. 6.25 Nanny and 6.00 Calendar, weather. and the irma 8.30 professor 6.50 Film: •My Friend With Dean Martin, 11.30 All Lewis. London. Jerry our yesterdays. Midnight weather.

GRANADA: 2.15 London. 4.10 News. Origami. 4.55 Lon- Short story. 4.40 6.10 6.00 Newsview. All our don. Laughtermakers. 8.25 yesterdays. 6.40 London. 11.30 Four just men.

4.10 News- TYNE TEES: 2.15 London. 4.15 My three London. sons. 4.40 room. ( Enchanted house. 4.55 6.00 6.25 Where the jobs are. Today at six, 6.2 Film: "Don't Ever 6.30 Joe Petula Marik. Wack Denton's Hanley Leave Me'. grand. fathes on after makes off with famous is released prison, and soon 8.30 London. 11.30 News. 11.45 and daughter actor. Epilogue.

BORDER:

• Telephone sae. 4.90 Ari- 4.10 News. 4.12 Telephone game. 6.00 News. Look- gami. 4.55 London Crossroads. eorge Baker, 7.00 6.35 Film: around. "The Moonraker'. With Sylvia Syms, Peter Arne, Marius Gord Stuart ing. Charles the Civil War. 8.25 flees from Roundheads after London. 11.45 News, weather.

2.15 London. 6.00 Sum-

SCOTTISH:

6.30 Telephone mer Scene. game. 7.00 Movie: War'. With "Love Lloyd Bridg11.30 Late call. Angie Dickinson, 8.25 Lon- don.

GRAMPIAN:

4.25 London. 6.15. Survival. farming news Crossroads. 6.00 Vintage weather. comics. 6.35 6.55 Movie 9.00 London. 11.30 Kind of living.

Rath dial day, August 18, 1970 Mr John Rowbotham and his wife Lynda, both textle workers to Blackpool with their led here are the prices, things ridiculously dear now, especially the rides for the

MRS ROWBOTHAM

MR ROWBOTHAM

WE HAVE come to Blackpool THESE KIND of holidavs ar But y use with mainly for the kiddie‹ when used they get to bed our real holl- e that as as in. Tea day We shout Flike starts. toe cause drink or prices, things are are you can Klacknool always find something Isly deor the kiddies. the and you meet other people like We • beret i someone toe. yourself. will More. mix with cambe, long as they are friendly. sands were and we didn't like mud there This yea sound of that we're I take we's short off first time we're not even been I hope it's OK there yet, ile indi worK all LO One the reasons for this une We days ra rat of now was hecause we weren't cerang boardine Samuel ble. Work is finished and I don't have you souls were freed of course MR

WEBB

WORK

HARD

and play sands were tree Now its a Int more commer.

I'm that's my motto zed and lot more moner now, dav the while is heina spent. here weren't won't get anolner the amusement machines thei Christmas Your narents would leave vOU i have been for the beact 30 years to Blackpool. irst ed Mersary we spe spent first anniversary wife didn't like it at We son the landied, sun Mr Samuel hands and I'm proud of spend ing it- no cany But its changed now the gru day | eemember It very hard to full wept for The nacec you stayed at before Wakes were razily cume like you vourselves. This is what I like I have feeling of relief home Runt Work it was clean and vol were well in frichod people have to go back : to the mill for hace thar fed-you were happy abroad and good luck to them another two weeks. that Towards the end of the wep they were your work through their holidavs if thic ic what von •innkina had me. I work you are welcome — that's no nonet herance money. Donkey rides were all life at all to me. for the money I save with my Blackpool's all right if you have plenty of money to spend.

SHEILA:

BLACKPOOL is all right but you never have enough money; I think it's a bit dear for what it ic shant spend here. got here this mornin morning and horo «hic Na roma hara for o chana.

nato most athas nannle W ¡va to an dancino in tha avan.

ino or for a drink.

ANGELA :

THE FIRST thing wa did war go to the boarding house and eft our rocad then around hora hasn Wolling seeing thinac Riachnan, there the wish you hoe tbe have ike this all the tim

SUSAN

THE THING I hate the most is going back to work. Mandau morning after the the neyt one to come aroundi work don't mind the place I work and be back but it'c getting into oldi that's same awful plenty here and get bored like don't you home But whether you have lepend: money

WORKERS PRESS

Guest I

DAVID

Borsalino' directed by Jace Deray, etarring Alain Delon Jean-Paul Belmondo (Right Paramount Cinema, Londor IN ONE of the 'quality' But the who under Sunday newspapers, nestling comes befo under the serious book possession of the law. reviews, is an avidly-read and he expt column reviewing the latest wise. Both cl thrillers. It's called 'Crime society car Ration'. themselves This is In words it offers the absorption two British middle class a shattering the 'crime f glimpse of itself as it really is.

For mode First their itch for violence, Genet, the hysteria and_extravagance; their hero, in no burning, servile desire to be one crimes for of the 'big boys'; but brought to his enemy, heel immediately by the tradi- his whole el tional sense of propriety, pru- the threat t And on dence, moderation; the civilized rationing of all excess. holds up a i principle of The capit successful for the tify with th middle class is the same as for tionist, the skilled massage - first stimulate, merely spe then soothe. himself. , Of over 300,000 serious crimes for which persons were convicted Pur 91.8 per cent were in 1968, against property. Most of them, of course, were not successful.

And at But whether it pays or not, punishment, crime has a definite power to torical fate thread himself, a s fascinate. It's a shiny into the fabric of class spine. woven society; examining it one can see the For many of the tensions in the rest criminal of the weave. property - Crime directly attacks the Crime can e property of the exploiter, getting tion, where locks to his bars and rule. behind grasp the most sensitive spot of Each par all. crevice in 1 ized larceny Exciting But the contained w resolved thr What makes crime exciting is The task violence but is not to oj not or suspense, something more fundamental—it to abolish e cracks a living fissure in the sick, to put an dead. calm which is capitalism's form. everyday appearance. Crime is a And the all, perpetual opposite recogni private their property. own But at the same time, the aim their own ir of the criminal is ... to fundamental get property! dence. merely introduces More th Crime a further form of appropriation, so middle clas to speak. It turns the criminal classes. It into his opposite. For he starts films and w out as the enemy of bourgeois middle-class wealth, but the more successful such a popi he is as a criminal, the more does *Borsalino he become a man of property.

ones among The lawyer would quibble and Whatever say it is not his property, only have its cri his possession. ally social a DURING the seven-week struggle of 11,000 General and Municipal Workers' members earlier this year, which has now broken out afresh at the heart of Sir Harry Pilking- ton's St Helens empire, thou- sands of glassworkers found themselves fighting not only the but the full employer, force of the union. It did not back the strike and the unofficial leaders later formed the Glass and General Workers' Union. During the post-war period the GMWU has shown a tendency to decline. Following the Ford strike of the Halewood early 1969, officer invo branch was closed when work- ton strike, ers moved en masse into the Liverpool Transport and General Work- ind the g ers' Union. hester off The GMWU was formed just before the 1926 General Lord W of militanc Strike as the result of various the House amalgamations and built up its last membership during the depres- year sion, in the aftermath of work- terms: ing-class defeats which pre- 'The so ceded the Second World War.

have reeel be highly could be q

FATHER TO SON

is shown It developed to its present size of just under 800,000 A mass m a leadership members with which has almost been handed down from father to son. Lord Cooper, the present general secretary, has worked for the union since the age of 20 in 1928. His mother came from the family of Lord Dukes, general secretary of the union for most of the pre-war period. Cooper is a governor of the London School of Business Studies and director of Tele- fusion Yorkshire and the National Ports Council. Cooper's predecessor Lord worked for the Williamson • union since the age of 14. His uncle was Liverpool district secretary. Lord Williamson is a direc- tor (along with former Labour minister Ray Gunter) of Securicor, the guardians de luxe of private property and, of late, immigrant workers at London Airport. David Basnett, the national

Tubaday, August 18, 1970 ano his wie Lvnaa. boin textlie worker , Davla (6) ana Michale (3) come to Blackpool with thel The main thing that has changed here are the prices, thing re ridiculously dear now, especlally the rides for th kiddies!

MRS ROWBOTHAM

MR ROWBOTHAM

WE HAVE come to Blackpool THESE KIND of holidays for the 'last four with mainly when but ye ars for the kiddies children, used they get to bed our real holi- Th starts We * ToFkº come before that as a girl. that has to mail Calne Clangeu are the things are Blackpool becaust nere onces. Cal ridiculously dear now, especi- alwavs find something the rides for the kiddies.

ally and you meet other people like We will We going More- yourself. mix with cambe anyone so long as they Fe friendly. that there didn't mud the solne we're going into a nat tot the I take about four weeks off first time, we've not even been , I hope it's OK there work told sut toeres spor the for this time the tertile One we weren't getting now and have lot was occausc inofficial' holidays rather bording food in the enouen do without. house. ildays tor his mean on the Friday go back there for another two Here they are pictured outside thel home In Ridling Street, Hyde, Bady To the coach to Blackpool the sands were drend of corse

MRWHRR

sands were free.

WORK HARD

and play hard Now its a lot more commer- that's my holi- mill out of the cingen ans aot more mone Gav now. while is being spent. here weren' get won't anotdet the amusement machines then.

Christmas. Your the bets would leave you 20 or I have been going for beach 30 years Blackpool. When I drink and you were happy.

married Margaret we spent our wite dian like it at first, but They still have the savings anniversar CoMs I ate ao st e ot clubs, but we save awn for the she's got used to it now We always go the came week--about £20 ot this goe bording house, but this Whit- on accommodation. I might not landlady died and we sempany l ile leeds dant the were recommended to another don't comd te +, sit orts, company olace Lucky he ea co dara ord to ge the early days were have What Chev want i don' mind snend. Mr Samuel Webb Worked on the tep-wathe ing when I'm on holiday. sten-tather. (Ashton Bros.) Hyde lot of pe ple big- cheap But wouldn't entertain Blackpool, hands and I'm proud of spend Majorca', they in Bit -no swank always Torquay, meet Was changed now. In the back they Bournemouth Kriontor come early days was I remember it terrible him. hut ' sette tor dond did tond was ato they Blackpool. their own fault, iust very hardi to cave money. Ked 6d What I really like about the and there they and breakiast was place is that you meet working for the full you kep wind 6d. The y slams on compan! out factory really the Wakes and vou keer people Friday

TOTE

This is what I like vourse ves nome. hig tee ina re let Work and don't abont tt. it was cer anc vou were we! hinicher people they have to go back to the mill for hace atnar ted-vol werA hanny abroad and good luck to them Towards the end of the wee!

another two weeks. Those that if this is what they want. But you had your their aolidays work pocket me. - that's no to it for the monev I save with my money. Donkev rides were all Blackpool's all rlaht if you have plenty of money to spend.

SHEILA :

RIACKOO ic all mant hıi money; it's a bit dear up bring down ont here thic moming and we'va alreadu enent We came here for a change neonle. We in the even.

ANGELA :

dise anad to the bording Soft house cacec •ano ther heen wallina arane seeing things I like lackpooli thare isne

SUSAN :

THE THING I hate the most work. golng back to it's really awful. I dread that morning Mandat aftar the holidavs and I iust wait for the next one to come around. don't work like place getting bacl into but it's old® awful. rantine that'c plenty Shara' c hers get aan!e haned denend home. But whether You have people should have think holidays. mıch | more ther dn nuny At ama ît the soene s theres traven to dor so toe lo have travel out eniov

WORKERS PRESS

Guest revlewer

DAVID BARNES

Borsalino' directed by Jacques Deray, etarring Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo (Right).

Paramount Cinema, London.

IN

ONE

of the 'quality' But bourgeois who understands Sunday newspapers, nestling comes before books, under the serious book possession avidly-read t the law. What he has he keen reviews. an and he expects others to do like.

column reviewing the latest classes "Crime called It's thrillers. Ration'. the ahe crime for its orri sakee offers artists worde British middle class a shattering For modern French playwright glimpse ot itselt as it really is thief is a Genet. -urst teir itch tor violen ce the calculating his nero. wat desire to be for batna une Dolce at same time Andr antorhe 4 ranis on holds up a mirror to all men.

of all Evidently, principle The capitalist cannot but iden- journalism for successtıl tity with the huro ar the aytor. they rackepe vi sions midde cass 1s the same tor tonist. the merely skiled massace irst suimulate.

Speeded-UD himself. nepersons were con icte Punishment vere not successfu And at the thought of their But whether punishment. anticinating the his- power torical fate walco ne senses niy cread Two smal-time himself. a shiver goes down nIS spine. the of the neave. criminal pro gress rrom smal 1obs thet roberty — but property remains to bigger ones, learning Crime go along. directly Crime can exist only as the excer attacks getting tion, where private wealth is the They k ot the exoloiter. kiee baz nacehe wr but locks rule. lose Each robbery Lepal. crevice far eny ot clars exero A rigged boxing-match back- fires. Exciting contained within Thrive his ridealer 'he task of the working clas Whit maes cr mes exciting if him ch the alize violence is not to open more cracks, but aid of rotten culcnence -they are on their way. cats- something more fundamenta.- to abolish exnloitation-and thus put an end to crime in that cracks a living issure in the sick.

they have they which calm capitalism's ubbin ,vond lnt ogei zei dale class, Crime ia dopearance. the instability opposite perpetua private their divided propertat the same time, the aim between their own individualism and their fundamental lack is ... to property! dence. protec- than any Crime merelt other fo sper f. Tt furns thei croni the criminal are o peak. crimina opposite. starts realth bne enemy wealth, b urimheal, the sore does Aeroest bes chance one nf re of the better ones among such films. property big operator. he lawyer would cuibble an He Whatever chortcomings it mau gets a working-over the battle it is not his property, only have its criminals are emnhatic.

anrougn allv social animals. sacre, arson, bravery and cunning his nossession

DURING

seven-week 11,000 General and strugge ot Municipal Workers' memherc earlier which hac now broken at the heart Pilking- ton's St Helens pire, glassworkers themselves fighting not only full the emplover. but the torce ot the union. nicnot hack tne ctrike and the nc gro țar formed the Glass and General Workers' Union. whe post-homeri od Durins

GMWU

the shown tendency to decline. Following the Ford strike of early fon strnke, id ine sopi ong- ondiai strike is loveds, noried My Lords, no un- branch was closed when work- son of ton sunike. ers moved en masse into the district Transport and General Work- Livernoo orcanizer In their written evidence to of a Man- and dne orandson the ers' Union. Donauan Commiccion checter oficial of the union.

1067 tha union londora mado The

GMWU

1928 formerr much their good' strike Williamson's before the Lord just record 1926 Between rener: of militancy was expressed Strike as the of various 1958 and 1964, the union paid resuli the House of Lords in March Suka. averar p,sear mamharchin durina the denrec.

last vear tha tollowing -less, sion, in the aftermath of work- termc. according estimate, one ing-class defeats which "The than it snent on cars for its ceded the Second World War.

anarchy we be e rece reeently can oncials witnessed and The

GMWU

has always contagious. closed-shop

FATHER TO SON

could he quite dangerous if it strived for agree- with emnlovers. is shown to be paying divid- mentc the + devenner to ite nrecer A mass meeting of Pilkington glassworkers last May undar cim e 111c+ 00 00 momhard wuith „Jandarchin which has almost been handed down from father to son. Lord Cooper, the present general secretary, has worked union since the age of His mother came 20 in 1928. from the family of Dukes, general secretary of the union nerioc.i Cooper is a governor of the London School Business Studies and director Tele. National Ports Coun cind Lord Williamson worked for the union since the age of 14. His Liverpool district secretarv. Tond Willioman io dinoo talang with former Labour minister Gunter) Securicor, and property immigrant workers London Airnort David Rocnott they take over the city in a series of bloody scenes. At the summit, all the rich pickings are theirs. Like capitalism itself; they have come dripping with blood into their property. Belmondo and Alain Delon, as they move up the ladder, blend more and more into the social of the rich, donning circles dinner jackets and moving easily in the casino and the cocktail party. They are on familiar terms with the police chief. The leading local politician- who lacks nothing in realism through his vivid resemblance to President Pompidou-makes his peace with them, as he did with the gangsters they have removed.

They remain thugs, but they travel first class. And, above all, they acquire the social graces.

Much more could have been made of the film. Under Jacques • Deray's direc- tion Belmondo and Delon are not stretched at all. Their faces are almost unemployed. they Only because (and especially Belmondo) have the ability to express, without any apparent expression, a whole mood and situation, do they come alive. The bosses have been happy to agree to this state of affairs, being well aware of the union leadership's record. As Brian Woodward, an official of the newly-formed Glassworkers' Union, com- mented: 'They [Pilkingtons] have had a happy relationship with the

GMWU

for years. A closed shop can be a good thing, but in case it was a our thing' This type of agreement was very much in the minds of the Labour leaders when they were formulating their pro- posals for trade union 'reform'.

In return for 100 per cent trade union membership, the union leaders were intended to

PAGE THREE

As soon as the pair can afford it they adopt permanent cigar- smoking. The brown cylinders be- come part of their faces.

In whole sequences - during violent gunfights - they seem to communicate entirely by laconic waggling of the cigars. Satisfying The colour is rich and satis- fying. Marseilles comes alive as a Mediterranean Chicago. attention to the heroes. Slavish Inevitably, there is a new- found luxury, but you always see the muscles under the hide.

There used to be a school of criminologists' who held that criminal (and other) 'types' could discovered by phrenology (analysing the shape of their skulls). What congenital burglars (defined by their bumps) got up before the appearance of to private property was left un- explained. 'Borsalino' is a film to knock such theories on the head (so to speak) once and for all. It is not a great film, but much better than the usual run of gangster movies. discipline militants, using the of the sack which threat would follow expulșion from the union. The Tory government could overcome its hatred of well the 'closed shop', in order to strengthen • its proposals boosting the authority of the union bureaucracy. The GMWU also supports the collections of union sub- scriptions by employers. The reason given to the Donovan Commission is in line with its support for the 'closed-shop' principle. "There is no need, in the interests of maintaining mem- bership, for shop stewards to demonstrate hostility towards management as a method of convincing members of the value of trade unionism.'

ELECTIONS

Elections in the union are at a minimum, The branch administrative officers replacing branch secretaries since 1965--are full-time offi- cials appointed by the general 'after consultation'. secretary This applies to all officials, who serve a probationary period of two years before being elected to the job for In addition, under union rules, the National Executive Committee can prevent any candidate standing for office i it considers that he is not 'capable of discharging effi- ciently the duties of office'.

The explosion in St Helens, however, is not just an isolated struggle against an employer 'unshakeable' and union an bureaucracy. To view it in this way is to plump for the 'pure' trade union solution and to court disaster. The fight for democratiza- tion of the unions today takes place in a period of capitalist crisis and working-class offen- sive-a political clash which is shaking the labour bureau- cracies to their foundations.

The fight for Marxist lead- ership is therefore at the centre of the glassworkers' struggle and the rejection of non-political syndicalism.

WORKERS PRESS

PAGE FOUR

More Glassworkers' CzechR arrests: leaders speak trials soon? Out A NEW SERIES of arrests, about a Lord kingson. Chairmant Mere Pilkington Brothers glass monopoly, 'The Times', April 10.) slovakia, WORKERS PRESS TALKED at the weekend to workers of st Heens. on who to Lord Harry's dismay, smashed his com. pany's record of 144 years of industrial peace in Szechoslovakia and its determined seven-week strike for a decent No derains were sten te Dasic wage carner los year.

The dispute destroyed sackings the Pilkington and 'Fraud' Daleralisin loosened the family's Instead, it presented those squirearchical over arresteral con mese rim hold the from their town Bezement nad Windle Cull y scal By Stephen Johns Hall, near St Helens. poet tod i stated ow. St Helens militants hopi "The G&MWU. After this infom a pubith. would be hat thi слалріс.

G&GWU'

the and sad to is in their onion he dearters Hopes Annived embezters so wile you are Sand I know a lot win eise complaine must glass factories. not and are with him al It Pin tons are crush all milit would they

WEATHER

must i will Be verted o roaches to the m •in the past man Encouraged mament deducted to eo to a mass meeting it Would greate the Tories and from the Cowley Hill works.

i dues shone said peace sti 'Here unanimously s defeat this union is solidarity. return * righ rain in under They

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Nasser's acceptance hard a i plan' casatisfaction defence of US 'peace the

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MOLASS STRIKERS

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'FATE UNKNOWN'

egistered. Published By Worke The report Salah Shabib against tot ready giving Build See, London, In y to. The Pilkington Members of the G&GWU committee 'We have talked of takın back begin shipt strong, men Support d Trom osur varkes aye greth bost ers I. om blacking Nered anot her L or pick ame bac. looker was worse in the tutsoing , ching voi s throug week® so Ca for the C iSMW th th. these Dia

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PROTESTS GROW

May betmen Midile E0 unnar lar United iNations desting. ans Tuesday, August 18, 1970 Argentine unions reject wage offer

TRADE UNION

leaders Argenuna nave rer ected -ver-cent ware inerease

: TOT

all workers in private industry.

was reported Aites -general of the tary General Confederation

(CGT)

Labour commente!. necrettaov. once Toe have working class s demands been rejected.' Trade union leaders insist that cost-of-living in- creases already eaten up the 7 per cent nered Big setback The rejected was in- otter to cover the tended from September next January. rejection union leaders is a big setback

TOT

of Presiden1 covernmen which no Derto stevinaston bitterly anti- Guster The class Ogania military worzino months ago. dictatorship two CIA 'plants' in Athens Brian Woodward, WU committee: Derek Greenough, Gerry Caughey and prison

TWO

OF Arab released seveby guerrillas the Greek militarv iunta last weel entrant in. nave stated that us mem hers ot the central telligence Agency - tried t information from then extract while they were in Athens prison. They told a weekend Prese THE GREEK military junta yesterday released 70 conference coere placed in jail with killers political prisoners held as 'dangers to public security' since the April 1967 coup.

criminais the 'Agents CIA wer. also The Junta announced a there „ge! Informann found them out of us, hut • we week ago that 500 Com- ists must continue to demand and refused to talk to nut all them une release Dolluca munist Party members in prisoners in Greece. while re This incident underlines all would be freed. any once again close collabor- maining vigint against Stalinist lead- attempt of the the Athens between Soay, and whee reste ased on ership to do a deal with the dictatorship FridayR and ar the in A arens in ex- mintary and Tene in exchange for the re- spy Phe next o ew day i! notorious UN-im Demails1 ease of prisoners. svstem. The claims covernment there now onlv 600 are no l. Franco- prisoners tical heing hed a risk to the regime. hut the colonels' opponents insist the Algerian figure is much higher would not have wide protesed against the re- released

• FROM PAGE ONE

oil talks nort Dressions. All these snort re nia nuf Socialists and trade union.

ach in its ow ness today, RECENT DISPUTE between Algeria Condktance nuer the The frustrations caused by the Socialist Boumedienne government's tapie sip decision increase be siphoned French s 4d pri policies professionals iden- with individual agreed to heroes. From being a source Both sides have talks

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over not just discin ine nrotessional taxation. but the future of the largely the situation, if not hopeless, sport is becoming an occa- for the blind release rrench-owned Algerian is certainiv serious . industry as a whole "hA main tactors seen The The export likely limit current agreement . performance the next Catina trom nv vos politicians and nothins four months are: prices signed just before the removal anguish political and economic helpless cries of

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