Workers Press no. 234

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

NUMBER 234

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1970

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Nationalized industries New MDW drive ahead as Mersey checkers' suspension leads to Tory 'smash B-Leyland Dockers' strike divisions and grab to merge on black' glass WORKERS in the nationalized industries must prepare to meet a two-pronged attack from the

BRITISH-LEYLAND

Motors yesterday nounced a merger between its Austin-Morris and Pressed-Steel Fisher divisions, forming what the Because of the central-

BY MICHAEL BANDA

company claims is the largest manufacturing unit ized serve as in Britain. Which would these industries and their basis for concerted financial dependence £1,000 August assaut on the workers in the Treasury the Tories the private sector. deliberately picked nave objective them "anti- unis was th Mr Rober Appeal Fund tions with the Confeder bridgehead inflationary' A MASS meeting of 1,000 Birkenhead dockers heads stands at industries, in particular with yesterday voted almost unanimously to strike Lord Robens after four checkers on the Victoria dock were His plan £215 17s 60 the Prices and the • Ind. e Prices and in m 'cleared out' (sacked from their job) when they indud enthusiastic refused to take part in loading a total is expected as a result of the cargo of Pilkington Fibreglass.

£784 2s prices and tAugust 31. spokes men Company The strike spread to the Liverpool side of we of planned factor that is aneks the Mersev vesterdav atternoon and brought a think total of 16 ships to a standstill by tea-time.

Pal this here. dockers week and more modern fac- Stalinism

BY JOHN SPENCER

minimum decided to black' Piking- ahead of Stepping up the campaig increases to gallop ton's goods until the 600 waSeously concerned by men sacked at the com used beneat pany's St glass Helens and from at plane a Bit piant ten davs ago achieve immediatoli full reinstatement. aad beidenly to their wives deat group under sentence of e Transport and eneral hanges on, Sig4 Street, Palestine General

• PAGE FOUR COL. 1

nion voted at its ndiing Pilkingto union rights. If side racy Trotsky Memorial Lectures oncrease the price of the bas they fooled on Themiet ared yal positio answer of thi Pastin Teared can so demand to Monday, 14 September sections at wakes it a sion any miners' leader who ignores creato in 1 43, opening the ace ories' plans is courting "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' i also We workers Pilkiniton partialt industri Bants on Mer received Mersey Monday, 21 September ind industrial plants seysiue. workers is reinstated with full "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' home- landing Waste-heaps lying near Pilkington's St Helens sheet-glass plant satisfies the late Mr

BEAVER HALL

Driver

GARLICK HILL

the Czech Uttermill ace of serener More right-wing Near Mansion House tube N.E. strikers nailed thees water one Admission 2s redundancy starts o p.m. Stalinism in Middle Emin- Collaborate the ho sacked Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) pressures in "The main have a long record The breakaway union threat to make inst the, Arab

SEVENIY

Soviet Ulster Switcher tike test • tried Nati the 1970: Thirty years to get an immediate return to since Trotsky's missed by the management.

dock the

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Indian land seizure acceptance whip.

SOCIALIST

stunt attacked sidered poring the in- are to and will report bac

LABOUR

to daother mass meeting on THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) has attacked

LEAGUE

that the land occupation' movement led by its pro-Moscow a dionis rivals as ta farce'. The Party's leader, A.K. against Gopalan, said the move- Trade war-back to Memorial ment was a publicity stunt Till orkers ocked-ou • appealed on completely reformist THE STRONG SMELL of Meeting tental outpur and act anarchy lines: international trade war is now a source of extreme

ACTON

concern United the

BYA

TOWN HALL

CORRESPONDENT

symbolic cause Leon Trotsky's High St, Acton Pressed grave concern a ex- last words: revolutionary ons of the new I am confident of Excluded again August 23 • satel the victory of the he alice Sunday A pres of the operation to Fourth International Go forward'! Stanis sion 2: will organizers dearests apolice tas soon Group This means: All Trades Unions Forward with the Alliance Conference War on is calm While

MINERS

failure of last Penna and are wel first Trotskyist Keep Loil,- of nom ot Nixon's Sunday, September 6 con-cotton textile exports Chairman: daily newspaper- Danum Hotel ching to

SLAUGHICH

SLI

WORKERS PRESS

vamral commitee). "allies strug-

DONCASTER

tinue to rise as stagnation set.

ALSO: The first public showing of the latest Young Socialists' film— Youth in Action in Tory Preein on the Board hope or open to defend t the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

this year, the between

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 234

.WEDNESDAY, AUGUS| 19, 19/0

Nationalized industries New MDW drive ahead as Mersey checkers' suspension leads to Tory 'smash B-Leyland Dockers' strike divisions and grab to merge on black' glass WORKERS in the nationalized industries must BRITISH LEYLAND Motors yesterday prepare to meet a two-pronged attack from the Tories on wages conditions and employment.

nounced a merger between its Austin-Morris and Pressed-Steel Fisher divisions, forming what the Because of the central.

BY MICHAEL BANDA

company claims is the largest manufacturing unit ized administration which would serve as a in Britain. and their cnese maustries concerted basis 85,000 workers: financial dependence assault on the workers in £1,000 August Tories 1rcasury the private sector. have deliberately picked This was the objective o them 'anti- Mr Robert Appeal Fund Carr's consulta inflationary' bridgehead of British industy and toe A MASS meeting of 1,000 Birkenhead dockers Industry and ti so produces per e Lore obe ng particular with stands at claims tre yesterday voted almost unanimously to strike after four checkers on the Victoria dock were £215 17s 6d 'cleared out' (sacked from their job) when they worker every year. report which refused to take part in loading a

CLOSURES

sa carin thinking hese e2iS 1%5veS Considerable rationalization If hand cargo of Pilkington Fibreglass.

£784 August 31. the the Mersey yesterday afternoon and brought a had to week think: total of l6 ships to a standstill bv tea-time.

The dockers last week irreducible decided to 'black' Pilking- Stalinism

BY JOHN SPENCER

us to deal in doe stress on the ton's goods until the 600 Havelements tor the men sacked at the com- concerned siderations and n pany's glass donatio Helens and the Ministry plant ten days ago achieve sentence Tull reinstatement. raistrict and ittee of death® 186a London, Sigh Street, Palestine all the all man or a planne

PAGE FOUR COL. 1

Workers' last meeting to support the be towed bar on handling Pitkington Trotsky Memorial Lectures declared its pi toe by determined solida feated Monday, 14 September Palestinians Dellayal chief as is courtres "VIsraeli Z "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' articularly ne there bas Stalinists, ny ene Monday, 21 September "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' hey had take Waste-heaps lying near Pilkington's St helens sucel-glass plan

BEAVER HALL

the beneat

GARLICK HILL

Ottermill More right-wing Near Mansion House tube N.E. strikers redundancy starts o p.m. Admission 2. Collaborate sacked Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary' pressures in Thed a breaka way this even-weck threat strich the on

SEVENTY

metal Ulster 1970: Thirty years ion in Charles. McCul- themselves dao

• PASE FOUR COMPS

since Trotsky's 5 resignation from the Pared eered ik 50 son Monday i assassination

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Indian land seizure include les like ame ani

SOCIALIST

stunt attacked save us from the abys

LABOUR

taran cHis coulone mo st in patient to phere THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) has attacked

LEAGUE

the 'land occupation' movement led by its pro-Moscow early equal to the number rivals as 'a farce'.

PAGE FOUR COL. 6

trikers outside The Party's leader, A. K Craig and his supporters al Gopalan, said the move- Trade war-back to res shiches Memorial ment was a publicity stunt Moscow socked appeal tor completely reformist Meeting workers THE STRONG SMELL of anarchy condi race international trade war is lines: been 2 most the now a source of extreme een the resear whole movement is

ACTON

middle the United

BY A

of mense arrest for backing, for the iron fist treat in she name class

CORRESPONDENT

TOWN HALL

inde stow m Leon Trotsky's mike and pave are lo ac. hian st. Acton last words: solve wage -k and the US Trade Bill 1 am confident of Excluded again ment is August 23 probatis the victory of the Power

PRICES

and police rovide esterders refused Sunday ull details of Fourth International tne presen aggs is remains in the US the press Go forward'l includes land most cases ne but by party reclaimed Tor 1567- aggravate the crisis.

S. HENLY SU. BANDAN

1969 or any Come organizers depart. This means: All Trades Unions tows L.15 complet Alliance Conference War on Forward with the talks last - While somparize

MINERS

wever a coved his own first Trotskyist Naxaliten y Nixon's Sunday, September 6 Chairman: daily newspaper-

(SLL

Danum Hotel 1S Naxalbari i Bengal

WORKERS PRESS

contral Committee) High St regions of india land-nungr figure! ALSO: The first public showing of the latest This one to rise as stagnation yield bian dni

EASTERN YORKSIE

Young Socialists film- Youth in Action in not te government, Tory Present of the Board the • econd the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

year,

PAGE TWO

Intensification of Labour- A key to government policy Fridays', he naturally got mas- THE EMPLOYERS have employers, of ten) never permanently turned time is eliminated. capitalismss because was against overtime. As Karl asserting right working 1 ne Aland he pose . the day' Marx pointed out in his the eventually take ex state west atte state i work. work 'Capital, even with Sine anure or moe commun overtime rates at time- ends immediately expel sill doing sense he 1st rarty to The ditty. and-a-half and time-and-a- overtime raynter three or four hours. tion king the important third, substantial profits wate aid are in in isra time. can be made. the 1o put it But the basic policy now is new system nas compressed their theory to eliminate overtime by com- Into existence with capitalism' the ator eat of she res pressing all work into eight major into the (iv) Machines hours - described last • as impose on the workina i the e week finds idea worker labour in a given time. such con- actual unat This brings a huge cut in centrated cannot take-home pay because with alive' labour-power and closer three bers the same amount of work needs the evening turned out, the worker only receives 40-hour payment.

advant is another there nowever power, ale active and lours saved time the acarried mtake thei tion of and maci usually from general policy is me sand even which ickly wi replaces machine work extra tea-making nay have problems diffused over the done. only be solved constitutes immense demanding overtime working, our working hous other they take (v) Tea breaks the words car large time off see fred tais that of orders Innux orten means We breaks is at essential part of trom culung similary, son overtime At the same anne it 1s an absenteeism' as it is callea 1s still employers To temp

CRISIS_IN THE

week-end working immediate answer moving the backlog, and turning sulps roune laster (i) The amount of work done int of reduce done in a das is deceptive. can be seen, more worl working day than in the ten- hour working system. As Karl Marx pointed out about the compulsory shorten- ing of the working day, in his work capital: "he development gives to tne produclive conomy in the means

FACTORIES C

linking day. pores of the Battina bie degree that is shortened working day. "This candensation ur in ta : of a regular series on productivity and speed up.

in areatern to time of re bour the not a casual consideration.

mmense oss to worker. separate and complete as no amount of tea-drinkin natural As well as being a extension, 1.e. auration, laboul Creak Irom worKing Шакс reaction massive complete period, of nxed retresemen 101 10SS 01 a irom operati incorporated question cime t a that the righ so-called axation ut with contains active to I element of work labour, expended adhered to, at a later by work study. defend themselves physically than more porous and mentaly bour or the 1z-nour working against the aay. t alrect anc conunuous Intens®

JUST OUT

mcallon or tach lavour. time increased Mary's i intensity was mainly attained the speed of the machine sing

WILL

giving more machinery workman

PAYNTER

Sermony But as we e can pee, s toe the ing Working exactly what Therefore in 1967 when Will work study, Measured- Da Paynter, at that time National general 1931 set out to do todativity Work and dea. the Union of Mineworkers. as well (iii) Extensive rest being needed on Mond: It havers are g think workers are getting especially Mondays 1932 7 I would like information about

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the workinas in en time. fi..*: ed tenoron and closer Wir: so ei the the employers hope to fix set periods during which work- ers may drink tea. (The proposal put forward at Pressed Steel Fisher, Swin- 1969 dawn, in the firm's agreement was that the use of vending machines be allowed only at times within a one- hour period in each shift.)

Later still, the continuity of the work will ensure that the worker has no time to leave his work-place even for a sec- ond.

JUST ABOUT

DRINKABLE

The tea emitted from these machines can vary from a just about drinkable beverage to an extrusion of an undefined chemical composition which quickly discourages the worker from taking even what right of refreshment are left. Employers are also aiming at breaking from away 'hour for dinner' after won many battles by the organized which working class and became standard practice in most industries. Various incen- tives being offered to are reduce this to 45 minutes or half an hour. (vi) Shift work The introduction of new, expensive machinery inevitably means that the employer will insist on shift-work. He cannot leave such equip- ment idle for 16 hours a day, the weekend. The over or Present drive for shift-working many industries not nor- mally working this way, will if the government and employers get their way, be extended to all industries and services.

This means that eventually the three or four-shift, seven- days-a-week system. In effect, the worker work- ing at greater intensity, will be expected to adapt his life to irregular of work, patterns maybe involving a change of shift each week. (vii) Accidents This intensified working, shifts, is entirely along with destructive to the human men- tal and physical processes.

or Nethied a bord becomed a squeezing out of the maxi- wearing mum of energy, a away, combined with bad liv- ing conditions, worsened travel arrangements, problems over rents and mortgages, prices, incredible jobs security, an burden of worry and distrac- tion falls on the worker and his family.

INCREASE IN

ACCIDENTS

All this in conjunction with the new machines and methods will lead inevitably to an increase accidents. The worker is expected to live only for work and even to become enthusiastic about timing his own job and posting in the suggestions box yet newer ways of enslaving himself to the work process. Finally, although in the early days of time and motion these systems were simply applied as means of intensifying labour, it soon became clear that important 'secondary' advant- ages ensued. That as well as getting more labour from each worker, they also exercised a greater .it expenditure of tension:" measure of control over each has found his necessary to than had individual operative own safety and well-being and time ever been achieved before.

to replace them with conditioned solely by the Under the Labour govern- drive for maximum profits.

ment's prices and incomes this factor has been It is the object of bodies policy changed from a secondary to like the Commission on Indus-

FIGURE 3

LE New 'compressed' 8hr working a primary trial Relations and the CIM to consideration. The real of the consultants' extend this concept into every aim and aspect theories of productive and section of every non-productive work is to put industry and to ensure that the absolute control into the hands soy and disciplining corters of management. and disciplining workers This can be especially on the ques-. throughout seen is taken every tion of 'rest'. firm. The employers are attempt- The theories of 'productive "indirect' workers, ing to completely eliminate the work' etc. periods that the worker represent a monstrous imposi- rest

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IT HAPPENED TO ME.

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WESTWARD.

As Channel. ex o Diary. Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads. News. 4.17 Cor hus honevoun Ghost and Mrs Muir. 7.30 London. 11.50 Weather. Site. Wednesday, August 19, 1970 tion on the working class aimed at brutally driving down standards of rest, safety and protection which have been gained in years of struggle against the employers. It is the duty of Marxist workers at all times to expose and fight any proposals and agreements based on these systems. Where a productivity deal has been accepted and these theories are being implemented the Marxist must at all times fight alongside his fellow work- ers against every new turn of the screws as each system is applied; against cuts in tea and meal breaks, against extension of shift work, against each and every speed-up of a job time, against elimination of workers from the work through over- lapping and against the pay freeze associated with Mea- sured-Day Work and other "productivity' methods of pay- ment.

ALTERNATIVE

POLICY

An alternative policy must be fought for of regular basic in pay without increases up with the strings to keep cost of living, of wide exten- sion of tea and meal breaks and drastic reduction in work- ing hours-— all without loss of introduction of pay—on the any new machinery or 'labour saving' device, this, along with a reduced pace of working can than ensure better any 'guarantee that employers redundancies do not occur.

At the same time he must on all occasions expose the political nature of the attack and show that the only real 'defence' is made in a struggle gainst the incomes policy gainst all attempts to intimi Paid Qvertime, Unpaid rest at home date and penalize workers with fines and prison sentences, any interference in against the trade unions by the state, against the whole concept of productivity bargaining, and for the nationalization of the basic industries, banks and finance houses without com- pensation and under complete workers' control. 8.00 Saint. 9.00 London. 11.45 Reflec- tion. HARLECH: 2.20-4.00 London.

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Wednesday, August 19, 1970 THE BBC-2 documentary 'Christians at War-Two families in Belfast' (Wed- nesday, August 12) con- fined itself, as the title implies, to examining the religious divisions which separate worker from worker in N Ireland. It reproduced all the glib and misleading newsreel clichés which have become tediously familiar since the struggles in N Ireland began.

Made by two distinct pro- duction teams-one of which visited a Protestant and the other a Catholic family in the city-the film conveyed, but could not rise above, the claus- trophobic atmosphere in the religiously-divided ghettoes.

NO EXPLANATION

But it came nowhere near an explanation of the struggles that are racking Ulster. The viewer hoping to learn something on this score would have been left as baffled when he switched off as when he switched on. The unctuous introduction : In Belfast, men, women and children are fighting each other in the name of God'-set the tone. Then we were whisked to he home of Bob Purdy, a Protestant and Master of his local Orange Lodge. He re- garded the Catholics as the • be ta enemy. While his wife had at one time had Catholic friends, she didn't any more..•

A WORKING MAN

Purdy-clearly a right-wing Craig supporter — said rather surprisingly that if he were in England he might vote Labour, being a working man. He criticized the Stormont government: 'It's all right for Major Chichester-Clark up in Stor- mont—he wants to come down here and see it close to' His Orange Lodge colleagues, Chichester-Clark robing up for their July 12 march, claimed the marches were not provocative, 'just a lively tradition'. If anyone tried to stop them they would be tampering with civil rights.

Other scenes showed Purdy's daughter Madelaine singing songs praising the Black and Tans and toasting the Queen.

All good clean Orange fun, ex- cept for the lad who had been blinded by shotgun pellets in a fight on the Crumlin Rd.

And then, 'representing' the Catholics, the Canavans of Bay St, all devout churchgoers, living in just the same tiny terrace houses as their Pro- testant neighbours across the line, hating the British Army, but unable to see any way out.

While no one can deny that confusion is rife among both Protestant and Catholic wor- kers in Bellast, the him gave hardly a hint of the real causes of conflict: the years of de- religious liberately - fostered division, the low wages, slum housing, unemployment and sweated labour that are the order of the day in Britain's oldest colony.

PRIEST-RIDDEN

So while the Protestant workers pictured as were bigoted Orangemen, the Catho- lic workers had to be shown as priest-ridden Fenians.

Much of the 'Catholic' half of the programme consider- ably less penetrating even than the portrayal of the Protestant family—was taken up with an interview of the local priest, parrotting the emollient phrases of clerical obscuran- tism. Alec Robinson, a friend of the Canavans, praised youth fighting against the troops and admitted that he too had thrown stones at the Army, provoking a certain amount of shock from the BBC's discreet interviewer.

INEXPLICABLE

One thing came over very clearly from the programme.

If the events in N Ireland are considered simply as a religious war they become not only inexplicable, but simply absurd. It has been the conscious policy of the press and tele- vision to obscure the roots of the conflict, and this pro- gramme did just that. Without the struggle for revolutionary consciousness in every section of the Irish work- ing class, the employers will doubtless : continue to divide

WORKERS PRESE

Christians at War—Two families in Belfast BBC 2 Documentary Wednesday August 12 Guest reviewer

JOHN SPENCER

An Orangeman's parade (above) and a childrens' playground in Belfast. and rule as they have done for Order and the Catholic Church 300 years. can and will be loosened, as workers come to see the para- mount class interest that unites

OLD FORMS

them against the employers.

This is what frightened Wil- movement of the But the son a year ago and frightens Irish working class, though it the Tories now. And this has to pass through these old why they have to follow the forms imposed by imperialism Army in with television crews is peddling the threadbare myths part an international struggle involving workers all of religious and helping war over the world. maintain the division of the The grip of the Orange workers.

IMPORTANT READING

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

BY ROBERT BLACK

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

PRICE 22: Ed

WHO SAID

that capitalist politicians are insensitive to the day-to-day problems facing the working class?

For shame! Anyone who has followed the tear-jerking saga Wilsons will of the homeless have nothing but contempt for new biased good-for-nothings last moved into a those abode and regained his self- who think that life at the top respect. all and wines roses (or booze and peerages). Of course, it's a mere hovel just three bedrooms, three Caught • the unawares by reception two bath- events of June 18, Harold and rooms and a modest garden— Mary, together with all their price is a little high; and the chattels, were unceremoniously about £20,000 for the 20-year hurled the bleak out onlo lease. of London with streets 3П0- where to go except their holi- But, like so many other un- day home in the Isles of fortunate families, they have Scilly, which unfortunately little choice but to tighten division bell falls outside the their belts and pay up. area. What to do? At the price, can't you expect the neighbours to be up However, good fortune has to much. Just down the road Harold, smiled rudely SU lives former Tory Party chair- dashed from high office. He has Wilson and his wife during the June election campaign.

OPPORTUNISTS

Party is ONLY

THE

Communist the "Morning advertising in Star' for 'capable and

NEED

adaptable Party

YCL

or member' to run the general office at 16 King Street: APPLY Adaptability, more scienti- fically termed opportunism, is certainly requirement for the job. WILL the Tories depose Old after all the pit closures, speed-up, mass sackings, etc.

King Coal? — not the panto- doesn't Anyway, he think mime favourite, the real thing they'll sack him. On the con- - Lord Robens, £20,000-a- second five- trary, when his of office ends term in year head of the National January, he the expects gov- Coal Board, former Labour ernment either to take him on minister, director of the Bank 'shake me for another term or by the hand and of England and one of the warmly say goodbye'. board of Times Newspapers.

If he does have to go away Board job, with only a handshake, it won't His Coal it may be in some Line, though he claims that it appears, though he claims that if danger after what one news- paper called his 'militant anti- you're thinking in terms and policy speeches'. vast possessions so on, I'm not at all wealthy'. Not that he actually criti- He'll still have his director- cized the Tories. ship. And if the worst comes He didn't like the Just to the worst he can always Prices and Incomes Board's toddle off to House of the idea of centralizing the

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Lords and draw f5 day management. simply for turning up. But he After all, the man has been might just about be able to get Ip ratind Te most ungraciars, Earnings Related would be most by on ungracious of them Benefit... to put him out now Robens: Old King Coal

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0oбa5it6T...da Press noteboo Edward du Cann. He man used to live at the Wilsons' shack, but — not surprisingly - found it too small. Also close are those two Tory notorious tearaways Baroness Elliott of Harewood and Ava, Lady Waverley. Nevertheless, in the national interest, Harold is determined to stick it out. And don't think he's the only one with housing prob- lems. In fact, MPs face dilem- mas of which most common people are sublimely ignorant.

Take Home Secretary Reggie Maudling, for instance. He's got too many houses on his hands. Having accepted an offer of one of the ministerial flats at Admiralty House, he is now trying to rent out his former Belgravia residence for £225 a week - £11,700 a year. Such pin-money will help to supplement his wage packet of £8,500, ease the pain at giving up his directorships and relieve the burden on social security.

No doubt, these weighty problems will be the centre of discussion when Harold and Reggie meet in a few weeks time at a social wedding.

Enoch Powell and Lord Hogg, who have also been invited, will be able to bring their grey matter to bear ber tween the whelks and bitter.

We have not been able to verify the rumour that George Clark has been asked to inter- cede on behalf of the social needy in high places. ANOTHER businessman who may be feeling a little less than totally secure is David Spreckley, managing director of Lansmen's Caravans based in Buckden, Huntingdonshire.

His 33 workers hold more shares in the firm than he does, and could, if they wanted to, sack him. A co-ownership scheme at the firm over the past five years, involving yearly incen- tive bonuses paid in shares, had led this somewhat to anomalous situation. It's hardly workers' control, though. Each worker, if he holds an average shareholding, is worth about 4 per cent of Mr Spreckley and his wife — hardly anything to shout about.

But it does give one food for thought. The miners, who had to suffer impact of Lord the Robens' policies over the years, didn't even have that much say in appointing him, and they certainly can't vote him out.

They can't vote him out of the House of Lords, either. He's there for life. BUT THOSE with an eye for a really secure position — with possibly a place in the House of Lords at the end of it — will have got themselves on the short list for the Tory candidature in St Marylebone, London. No less than 438 Tory hope- fuls presented themselves for selection this ultra-safe Tory where the Tory seat, majority is higher than the Labour vote. The former incumbent at St Marylebone was the Right Honourable Quintin Hogg, now Lord Hailsham of St Maryle- bone, formerly Viscount Hail- sham.

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AS BRITISH-LEYLAND shares dipped to their lowest-ever price on the London Stock Exchange, company boss Lord Stokes was putting the finish- ing touches to his announcement yesterday that the Morris section of British-Leyland is to be merged with Pressed-Steel Fisher.

The resultant unit of over 80,000 is expected to give British-Leyland a stronger hand in imposing Measured- Day Work in the interests of 'greater productivity', i.e.

greater profits.

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car manufac-

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The labour force, the com. turers are of course one of will about the though the main sections of em- ng to their own advisors again Times' ployers • to take "Financial eager …the guarantees on redundancy.

(Tuesday). advantage of the election Asked how the merger other words, i the new Tory would affect wage-rates, of Ford Dav claim 'parity government with Mid. pledged cure wage- to find the workers have increasingly inflation and legislate operating much considered on a group basis.

colnDally economic condition: against the unions. WOrSC

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political and situaton which demands political They want the abolitio of As one senior steward com- and leadershin to fight cles mented: 'This means Leyland the anvernment. Day Work has beet where want Intensuv men anve ts all very well tor Most Measured-Day Evans, cowaros national oicer of the successiuv resisted. cars groups of the Transpor sustem simiar to It is not just a question of words and General Workers' Union Hord's- other fighting corporate pay system.' paris: "The Tor giener wade-rater still British- against tnese car emo overs Wage-rates hor examnie the imnencing governme tactories for Ford wage demand of the to influence the facts necent need on ben! workers, rumoured to involve case. leaving VArU consider. some increases of f14 weekly, The facts that Evans, are clash with Scanlon hands of shop and others were 'cool responsible for Well be are vite al and admitting Almost the nenalty cancer. retreating volved in the merger are the and vicing paid ernment backing. what was the first-ever unitec the faced, like all Ford's action by Ford workers. are with dangerous set- motor arms in britain. That waco flerce comnetition from Furo.

back; but to this policy system be 'court negotiated at group or com. with the threat of big restric- disaster pany level. țone on the ! | marrat Tuesday's Pinancial Times • Enso Tomorrow's Workers Press For example, British Ford on Tously based on interviess Tuesday's have aleand report made already contains an important British- talks hetween with motor Incustry s Levland andl stewards bosses. makes verv cear that which start y Inder inec The they are contemniatino a num.

need for a nincined nolitica ware-costs, her nt strikes. hut that they fight the company's aaainst production, impose and necessary Measured-Day Work drive. regard †hACE factory discipline the imposition nuarhandc in Measured-Day Work and Order vour cony now from Droves aunty without factory discipline. our dept circulation -m see increased cost. can save anu advert below. of these British firms, accord 'Certain strikes'

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stand the question of on the Arab Revolution. They directly or indirectly seek- the Zionist, im- ing the destruction of perialist-created state of revolution. but they deny the israel, 'We are determined to turn right of the Palestinians-as this into a grave- country part of the Arab nation--to yard for all plotters. This self-determination. will the country remain betrayal of the The planned Hanoi of the Palestine Palestinians has implications revolution that far beyond the go Warning that Hussein had East. Middle assisted by the Krem- stationed four army brig- Nixon, ades outside Amman, he lin and its supporters in the called upon the Arab people North Vietnamese to carry on the fight against would dearly like to ment, and a similar deal on the Zionism its accom- foist plices : peoples of Indo-China. In its turn, such a deal would that cur Arab sure blows will prepare new nation leave us not agains the working class in alone. capitalist should not the advanced Arafat's warning King countries. be ignored. Hussein Soviet bureaucracy, The plans visit Nasser this to backed up by its minions in Thursday seek his ap- and support for the British and other west- proval Stalinist parties, is pre- crack-down the ern on guer- pared to sacrifice everything rillas. If Hussein can get and working class the Israelis to pull out of colonial peoples have won the West Bank soon, then reach a lasting a joint Israeli-Jordan oper- as with ation against the accommodation im- guerrillas perialism, headed by the 1s certain. appeal for solidarity United States. Arafat's with the betrayed and em- battled Palestinians must be taken beyond the Middle Nationalized ind East. All along, the Stalinists of the British Communist Party

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through first their of all Tories are worried lest 'Daily Worker' and later its be Lord Robens might in- successor the 'Morning Star' clined to pay too high a price - have covered for up to buy industrial peace in the Zionism. the negotiations with They hailed the brutal evic- coming miners and, if necessary, they tion of the Arabs from prepared to take the Palestine and the are carve-up of the remnants of Palestine miners on. between the Jordanian mon- The government's determin- Zionism shared the

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archy and ation l is as NCB's which castigated the 'further blow at imperialist 'weak-kneed' attitude in strin- domination the Middle gent terms: 'We do not think East'. (Labour Monthly', September it right to anticipate in price 1949) increases the outcome of nego- The record of the Labour tiations on a claim of the size 'lefts' and especially "Tri- now impending, except in bune'-is just as despicable.

SO far as it is reasonable for pay Openly pro-Zionist views are at a rate in keeping expounded in this wretched to rise with the nation's reformist journal week after economic week by writers who growth. pose Not accidentally the PIB re- allies of colonial as the port also calls for a strength- peoples. Coal Board's of the In the case of the Stalinists, ening method study branch as well their pro-Zionism has never the of prevented them from de- as increasing powers central- fending the anti-Semitic supervising staff and day-to-day management mounted by izing persecutions by shake-up of the top the Kremlin in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe management structure. But this is only one seas of after the war. They are both pro-Zionists picture increasing and anti-Semites misery and uncertainty. com- - a the bination by While workers in which is no nationalized sector are being means rare amongst oppor- produc- within the labour exhorted to increase tunists tivity and forego their legiti- movement. demands, Now the moment of truth has mate wage the arrived. private sector of industry is Arafat's warning and declara- being actively encouraged to profitable tion is a challenge to every exploit the most socialist internationalist.

sections of these industriés Gol- which are being hived off from We already know where lan, Fletcher and company state ownership. Ulster

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Right at the point where and above all the linical orien building i class, carrying gains British imperialism and minster in 'restorir Ine Madle bast 1s just u beginning Once no we insist thy must mobilized I tate only pod by the sang can a All the trade union leader Portes from i defraud cynically competent under workers control without compensation. This is what

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intertering case". community enough reminder the 200C O1 which arministers area and the public interest' that mod partly as a mandated territory anyone But he did not rehearse his and the gift of ern capitalism is no lines with oil industry léaders the well-being industry's its workers Than It ever Was was saying the size of the present SaDor course profit enable the how much super-companies was Wake dulluls Mr like Shell can or cannot afford Dale. Was SuLl Ces to take revenuve to its workers suggesting Coat career the potenuary cancerous silte Jack Faichney formér the larger latter, chairman the ations. No count recent con Co mhe Ne, expresed the National he reminded everyone: frontations between natives try 'The worker has police helped them 'real- the fear this. that that and est boss many Husualldn granting le patie said during Danner public increased •ispute that an increase wolle

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posals to pull out as 'a namization' implies and early with- blueprint for first drawal US imperialism. defeat in the history of the United States' and Leeds accused the supporters of a withdrawal resolu-

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The Chinese decision Since At a meeting between union of the firms have closed. the and hohn cutters there was strong critic- moment, there ninety ism of the union. Sive Nains lightermen on the unattached through and heavy enorasis Many cutters walked out o guerrilla-held terr. and Ldos. Is bene out ov tie bosses on the meeting dicolst torv in Cambodia. demanded an those "voluntary severance'. with the management over the redundancies

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