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Seamen back RICHARD NIXON has given the US air force a tions now to : she rec for all mace blank cheque to bomb the Cambodian people to be rearmed Workers Fuess, tor all omce glassworkers 186a Clappeal into submission. committee is suppos- phan, Sigh Street, Pentagon official Daniel Henkin, announcing the ac location decision, said: 'US air operations are designed to inter- location What we think dict enemy supplies and manpower that could pose a threat to the lives of US and allied personnel in Vietnam..? Nationalize motors body stabis it is do pist action Military spokesmen ad- mit this formulation can Each regates, he NOTHING BETTER illustrates the thaning to or he even tie used to all yi pradice, Whatever is mean bombing raid on Cambodia elementary right to a job, than the British motor-car industry well as Laos and In the name of private enter stallit ike comed ine case is divided betacen too would be to iss (British-Le Of the sour, the are pare monopolies! The hundreds of millio extracted rectres of car-c decided ast March to hands 'Liquidate' Rank-and-file secretary obers Sotporappealing for Mersey modia, which anowed the - Saly rate on Cavendian ter- revisionists Dangers ahead UPPOK tor the sacked gassworkers fliking Deposed ton's st Helens lactories or the Politi for Rolls came yesterday from the Work not be diceived that

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The result branch of the Liverpool heir interests have beco , and the direc National union of seamen draughtsmen which passea the lollowing Dress Tors Group who mustered at the Hammer-blows resorudon: these press last sea mc to the chin COVENTRY Rolls-Royce joint shop , stewards committee is meeting today to discuss support for the 1,000 design and technical staff who have been locked out by the management over the The meetin note the th past seven weeks.

BY MARTIN ZARROP

chair the hrst. tull meeting of the stewards EL nittee, commented yesterday later issue the this and each this decision on, Draughtsmen's and Allied members terence are sure are were to pransera followinam rechnicians strike 1970 mittee are asking for sup- for going or strikere hit backrab people wanted to was Rised to move from is fe port Dv the backıng' ot 1962 wes 4.8 mit- 1957 to material which would have ovaries her to lion it he to st six mains to. Wall's strike Krabies, • 3 and e2 o or ol been used DV

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Stalinist calls for one kremi core cuches in 'pressure' on Tories FEATURE by Jack

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yesterday's Woddis in 'Morning Star, headed home to th Star" Served to New prospects for peace ing made by and sanity, calls for Be Salim has nee Along to use the trade unionists to con- All Trades Unions Mortin Sar, nor a re deter and nostrike pledge.

nented he on persuading Alliance Conference the Tories to change 1 for the us ease any their foreign policies.

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Palestine - guerrilla movement in danger EVEN EARLIER than expected, talks began yesterday between United Nations 'mediator' Gunnar Jarring and Israeli, Jordanian and Egyptian representatives in New York. All the Israeli objections

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

the level of on rep- Washington, Yitzchak Rabin, resentation and venue said: "We should not be sur- miraculously dissolved over United States prised the recognized the of the weekend. existence Palestinian the element and Fulbright, chairman of the takes it into account even in Senate Foreign Relations Com- Its contacts. The United States is sitting mittee, indicated the type of at a negotiating table - if ] settlement to be expected.

He called US-Israel that term - with a for a

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Fatah which is killing Ameri- treaty to underwrite any cans; with the Vietcong. If agreement reached by the the Americans are prepared to talks at the UN. This would accept that, we should not be guarantee the security and in- dependence of Israel, 'within surprised if they are prepared a Fatah the borders of 1967. accept which is The UN settlement might killing Israelis.' have to be imposed by force, Meanwhile, Amman is sur- says Senator Fulbright. rounded by the 'special units' Thus, acceptance of the US the US-financed Jordan 'peace talks' by Nasser, army. under pressure by the Soviet leaders

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the for way the imperialists to force Arab These were the forcés en- agreement to the permanent gaged clashes in with the of Palestine by occupation guerrillas in June. At the same Zionism. time, Nasser has been arrést- It is in ths context that the ing Iraqi officials in Cairo.

situation of the Arab guerrilla The latest Egyptian diatribe movement must be seen. accuses the Iraqis of working Mainly based Jordan, In with secretly the British— the groups now face destruc- presumably against the US.

tion by the Arab leaders The Iraqi regime, which re- backed by imperialism and jects the plan and has used the Moscow bureaucrats. King Nasser's betrayal Hussein of Jordan open to returned strengthen its own position in home on Monday after three Jordan, can turn days of talks with Nasser. The as quickly against the guerrillas. main issue discusséd was Despite 'left' its clearly the fate of the guer- and ant. imperati probitten antic ma- rillas in Amman. it has Hussein took with him munist pérsecution home. Nabulsi, the chairman of the at National Block, and leader of Its Ba'athist ideology has nothing in common with revo- the exiled Palestine bour- • lutionary Marxism. The geoisie. object was LO The guerrilla leaders have prevent any opposition from been unable to prepare for this. quarter to Hussein taking the grim situation in which action against the guerrillas.

the Palestine liberation move- At this Nasser stage, and ment now finds itself. Hussein want to avoid a clash When the fighting in Amman with the guerrillas. ended with an agreement be- As Hussein returned to the tween guerrillas Amman Yasser and Monday, Fasser. Hussein in June, it was clear Arafat, leader of that the threat remained so arrived in Cairo for discus- long as Hussein's regime sur- sions with Egyptian officials.

vived. But Arafat declared This was his first meeting with that there would be no inter- Egyptian leaders since their ference in Jordan's internal acceptance of the Rogers plan affairs'. on July 23. Now, having correctly de- nounced the US plan

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plot the Palestine There is now speculation, people, Arafat still tries to both in Israel and in Amman, leave a loophole for the re- of an American scheme to establishment of Egyptian aid ditch Hussein and allow Fatah in the event of the negotia- to take over Jordan. This tions breaking down. could be the basis for a settle- So long as the struggle of ment of the Palestine refugees, the Arab masses against im- leaving the entire West bank perialism remains within the of the Jordan to the Zionists.

bounds of nationalism and de- Saturday's issue 'Al mocracy, it is threatened with Sharara', journal of the Popu- defeat and betrayal. lar Front for the Liberation • In tomorrow's Workers of Palestine, stated that the Press, a member of our foreign Jordan government had dis- news staff interviews a mem- cussed such plans with the old ber of the Communist Party Jordanian leader Nusseibeh.

of Iraq (Revolutionary Group) Arafat later described the recently arrived in this coun- report as a 'soap bubble'.

Week-or after first-hand experience Interviewed at the guerrilla movement een 21 , end, the Israeli ambassador in there. Trotsky Memorial Lectures

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Fords, Vauxhall, ral Motors). Of these fowne three are pare nonopoliesned The of million The capitalist he Bres owns for cher sankey and Work not the deceited ants the renter ts 1 concert press the whom these represent. campaign bloody. yesterday 1962 The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 239 • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1970 PRICE 6d. Palestine guerrilla movement in danger Rearming of RUC ahead EVEN EARLIER than expected, talks began yesterday rient- between United Nations 'mediator' Gunnar Jarring and repressions Israell, Jordanian and egyptian representatives in Nev York. being

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

All the Israeli obiections the level of

BY ROBERT BLACK

to thary. Royal rep- RICHARD NIXON has given the US air force al resentalion and i venue miraculously dissolved over ma she color all mand blank cheque to bomb the Cambodian people fo me the med lne weekend omise on the t into submission. the Pentagon official Daniel Henkin, announcing the mittee, decision, said: US air operations are designed to inter- dede ones. e think dict enemy supplies and manpower that could pose a actual rearming lives threat to of US and allied personnel in Vietnam ..: establish Military spokesmen ad- mit this formulation he Hunt Report las Call plannea lor month, Is nded the Ri used any such undertakıng lustrates the anarchy of the capitalis comer bombing raid on Cambodia practice, wherever this mean.

. Yet well Laos and Vietnam. EN Dear the roule mean be torm booted ate on camb dia greased have 80 sorties i lout fight Thick is double the rate of a come to senore right his job. ver to kebitter ms should be readily avai Agnew's or Soviet struggles - the Asia giants of a strategy befor che indoch directed liberation thirds under workers' control. - and Laos at the the 1 Cambodian in and decided last Marche 'Liquidate' Sihanouk 'neutralist' secretary Tokes support appealing for Samodia, which allowed the Rank-and-fle Merse! -Say been liberate on Covenas ter. revisionists the embassy. surroRi for the sacked glassworkers Pilking- Ke Arab Deposed 'THrotskyism is to liquidate ton s st Helens tactories Bor the Pateing the came yesterday from the put shanak and the Liverpool branch of with Cairo National Union of Seamen British Stall royal which passed the following on fly 2, of the Rosen han acceptan resolution: Hammer-blows acres perpetrate COVENTRY Rolls-Royce joint shop stewards'

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articula The cont insists terat a similar committee is meeting today to discuss support for the 1,000 design and technical staff who have bombing raids on eep dip been locked out by the management over the the remained such a preparation tions breaking The neeting, called past seven weeks. so sanato the

BY MARTIN ZARROP

first. full Trotsky s This is the meeting of the stewards ame ai demonstration everything Trotsky detent this issue and Nasser, Draughtsmen's and Allied the Israelis. Technicians' strike com- •error l sf the mittee are asking for sup- eople for the last quarter , Group) The Arab people wanted to was drawn up in period port by the blacking' of unanswers attack did not 8C material which would have Nasser chase to capitulate. Wall's strike unesurd for et

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a second line of pickets tofu mobilize wrote the Transi- When he yes are Trotsky working class for such action.

to entorce this.

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much as a quarter, and finally JUST BEFORE the Gen- and reversed the air- halted eral Election, Labour lines' declining profit rates in that period. Technology Minister Phase three is reckoned to start from Anthony Wedgwood the present time, marked by the introduction at Benn lectured shop 'wide-bodied' jets such as the Boeing 747, and supersonic stewards at the British transport (SST) aircraft like the Concorde. Corporation's Aircraft It is hoped that these air- Filton works on the craft, with pro- ductivity, will perform a func- escalating costs of the 707 similar to the and tion DC-8s (and the VC-10 Concorde Anglo-French and Comet), and reverse the cur- supersonic transport air- rent trend of falling profits.

forecasters' the market craft. optimistic reports are correct, air transport growth during The story was picked up would the 1970s be so great newspaper and by a local that the demand for new air- exaggerated to a point where satisfied. craft could not be The September 1969 edition it seemed Labour was dedi- of the aviation journal 'Inter- cated to cancelling the pro- published details of avia' ject; with the only hope for report compiled since 1966 by the three groups collaborating its continuation was a Con- on the European Airbus pro- servative government. ject, the A300B. They tenfold Most workers are aware of forecast traffic growth in volume the none-too-subtle exertions between 1960 and 1980, and a of the Tory behalf press on friends, probable delivery during the of its but the fact of 3,500-3,800 970s aircraft, remains that Concorde's future 700-800 of the 25,000 including a total of -and that B747s SSTs, and long-range workers employed in its pro- tri-jets, plus 950-1000 medium- duction - is no more certain jets (such as the Euro- range than any other long-term, pean Airbus (A300B) and- -if large-scale project undertaken the government finance is by capitalist enterprise.

available---the BAC-311).

Its viability, in other words, depends not just on ability to Forecast perform to design specifica- tions - and even that seems Despite this, "capacity unlikely-but future on the gap' of 23 per cent of the total of development international required production was fore- capitalism; in particular the cast by 1975. European ability of aircraft if such Of course, a situa- manufacturers and airlines to Concorde tion existed, and against the onslaught survive other aircraft under every of American capital. development would have Overwhelming 'speci- shining future, with no doubts fic weight' of US firms is the at all about its viability.

most striking feature of the It is instructive to contrast world aircraft industry. that report with another article The Plowden pub- report, the April 1970 edition of in 1965, cited statistics lished in the same publication, in which which starkly illustrated this.

a number of contributors from Post-war development of the world's airlines describe the aircraft industry can be the specific way the present broadly divided into three crisis affects the air- financial dependent phases, aircraft each on and lines, hence the advances technological manufacturing industry. enabling airlines to carry more face a of Airlines crisis passengers at a lower cost. excess capacity and rising This predominance is based costs. on a large home market, which In other words, there higher production what Mary described guarantees appears runs and thus lower unit costs epidemic that, in an than the US's European com- all earlier epochs, would have petitors- -putting it in a more -the epi- seemed an absurdity- favourable position when com- demic of over-production.'

peting for export markets.

The Boeing 747 was ordered the As a result, American mid- by Pan-American in the industry shares 60-70 per cent 1960s of the in anticipation of total world aircraft exports need for great productivity to Britain, France whilst and maintain their profitability.

share 14, 12 and 8 Holland Other airlines were immedi- p.c. respectively. ately forced to follow suit to their competitive maintain Stateside position. Coincident with the intro- duction of the B-747 in 1969, Stateside aircraft produc- Pan-American reported a loss tion in 1965 was valued at 80 25 per cent of total world out- of million dollars, com- pared with a profit of 49 mil- while the corresponding put, figures for Britain and France dollars in 1968 and, for lion were 8 percent and 5 percent the first time since the intro- And US aircraft duction of jet air transport, an respectively. exports £400m total between increase in running costs.

and £500m The president of Pan- per year- -three to four times that of Britain and Halaby, said American, eight times the French total.

increased labour costs were for The first phase running the principal the from 1945 on through the loss of profitability, and that 1950s was based the costs in this area are expected on impetus given to aeronautical by a further 70 the war. million dollars in 1970. engineering by It during period (As a of fact he was this matter being optimistic, because that air travel became the was figures published principal mode of international recently show a loss of more than twice passenger transport. of With the introduction his forecast figure for the first quarter of this year.) jet transport aircraft at the beginning was hoped of the 1960s, came It the introduc- tion of the 747 would decrease the of the second start these costs. phase. This development There are no signs that air- was line traffic will increase at the largely based the on over- whelming success expected rate in the immedi- Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707 ate future. The rate of growth which of shows aircraft, success passenger transport finally and irrevocably ensured marked decrease, following the general trend of the US the domination of the Ameri- can aircraft industry over its economy, leading president Halaby to make several scath- competitors. ing criticisms of Concorde.

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Name Address desire to opt out of Concorde, at least a desire to delay the introduction of a new aircraft until a future period of rela- tive stability. By this time a return on the 747 investment should, he hopes, be evident. Halaby criticizes technical of Concorde - its aspects doubtful jet intake and the inaccessibility of components —but also attacks its small size and inadequate baggage its narrow fuselage space, (providing a poor comparison for passengers used to the jumbo jets) and, most import- ant of all, the high operating costs which will lead to higher fares and thus limited ultiliza- tion. On all these points Concorde compares badly with the pro- posed Boeing SST, the 2707- 300. Although initially • mOre expensive than the Concorde the Boeing will be able to operate at a productivity which more favourably compares subsonic jets now with • in operation. If Pan American's marked 21 20 19 18 17 TWA running costs: cost in cents per Increased in 1969 for the first time sinc jet aircraft. The increased efficiency whic trend has finally been overcome by the up wages and other cost ele reluctance to commit itself to a definite purchase hardened into a rejection, other airlines grappling with the same prob- far inferior lems, but with resources, will be even less likely to commit themselves.

In the same article, Mr Wiser, president of Trans- World Airlines, was similarly pessimistic about future pros- pects following the introduc- tion of the B-747, saying that financial factors such as the high unit cost (22 million dol- lars) and the additional expen- diture on ground equipment (a towing trailer for a 747 costs 125,000 dollars, a sum which in 1954 would have purchased ... put this aircraft five or 62-seater

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airliner) ten years ahead of its time'.

So where does that put Con- corde? Popular Also, 'while we feel that the 747 will be an extremely popu- lar aircraft, we know that it comes at a bad time for the airlines - when passenger growth is declining and the operating costs are soaring'.

In a reference to rival air- line Pan American's decision to set the ball rolling by order- ing the 747 in the first place, president Wiser commented: 'Some time ago we made a conscientious decision not to contribute to the over-capacity crisis now occurring among the airlines. 'While this has contributed to our inability to match our competitors in every case, it is obvious that if other airlines had acted accordingly, we'd all be better off.' If only capitalism wasn't capitalism. All the major world airlines airlines are committed to a expenditure in vast capital anticipation of an expanding market, and now find that the market has failed to materi- alize. The total sum committed by the world's airlines at the present time is estimated at $18,000 million. But from December 1966 to the end of 1968 operating expenses rose on average by 17 per cent, while revenue went up only 14.2 per cent. Average profits of scheduled airlines fell from 9.5 per cent in 1966 to 7.4 per cent in 1967, to 3.9 per cent in 1968; and the latest figures reveal that in the first quarter of this year TWA and United Air- lines, for example, lost 39.9 and million dollars 15.1 respectively. Marx This is what Marx says while discussing the tendency, inherent in the development of capitalism, for the rate of profit to fall: 'No capitalist ever volun- tarily introduces a new method of production no matter how productive it may be, and how much it may increase the rate of surplus value so long as it reduces the rate of pro- fit.' In the airline industry, the equivalent of a method of pro- 'cost cents per avallable ton-mile first time since the introduction of the efficlency which caused the downward come by the upward pressure of salaries, ind other cost elements' duction is the aircraft type and the commodity produced change of location. Again Marx: 'Yet every such new method the of production cheapens commodity' Boeing once forecast that the introduction of the 747 would reduce the cost of car- rying one passenger a distance of one mile by 30 per cent, indicating a transatlantic fare of 100 dollars. Marx continues: 'Hence the capitalist sells them originally above the price of production, or per- haps, above their value.'

Five US airlines had asked for a 5 per cent surcharge on all domestic flights within the US. on their 747s at peak periods. The request was refused. was only And the 747 ordered by other airlines when it was feared that Pan Am would achieve a monopoly by the use of that aircraft. To return to Marx: 'There follows a fall in the rate of profit-perhaps first in this sphere of production, and eventually it achieves a bal- ance with the rest-which is, therefore, wholly independent of the will of the capitalist.

• .. his method of pro- duction stands above the competi- social average. But tion makes it general and sub- ject to the general law. 'As soon as the new pro- duction method begins to spread, and therefore to fur- nish tangible proof that these commodities can actually be produced more cheaply, the capitalists working with the old methods of production must sell their product below its full price.' The present re-equipment by the airlines is taking place after a 'balance' was achieved with the 707, DC-8, VC-10 class of jets. Just as nobody, after the introduction of jets would fly in propellor-driven aircraft for the same or greater price, simi- larly the small jets appear dis- tinctly less attractive after the

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experience of a 'wide-fuselage' jet. Because, as Marx put it: •.. the value of this com- modity has fallen.' Many airlines will have to sell their 707s, DC-8s and VC- 10s at a price well below their depreciated value in order to concentrate their resources on the new generation of air- craft. Finally, Marx again: 'In one word — and this appears as an effect of compe- tition-these capitalists must also introduce the new method of production, in which the proportion of variable to constant capital has been reduced.' ('Capital', Vol.

III, pp. 259-260.) The methods by which capitalism seeks to stabilize itself in the situation described by Marx are not unknown to the working class. Rationalization and speed- up, wage cuts, unemployment, the growth of monopoly, price war-this is how capitalist development affects workers, capitalist seeks to as each depress the value of his own product below social average value and still main- tain a worthwhile profit rate.

Crisis All these factors are present —or are clearly developing—in the present airtransport crisis.

In Europe there is no longer a single major national air- craft industry. International co-operation is rife among airframe and engine manufacturers. Co-operation conflicts with the system of capitalist national states whose competition is an extension of the competition in the world market between individual capitalists. Competitors co-operate only when the situation in which they can compete is jeopar- dized. European aircraft manufac- are competing against turers the might of American capital for a diminishing market, and the working class in Europe and America is hrmly resist- ing the onslaught on its living standards and working condi- tions that such a competition entails. Only by defeating the Euro- pean working class can Euro- pean capitalists maintain their competitive position and there- fore the existence of their system. But international co- operation on the basis of capi- talism is only a mockery of what it could be under social- ism. It is estimated, for example, that the cost of co- operation between France's SNIAS and BAC on the Con- corde amounts to 25 per cent of the development costs.

The setting up parallel transporting parts between the two factories, the numerous liaison committees and the strict observance of diplomatic protocol - and the whole incredibly tangled web of bureaucracy associated with the project-shows that under .capitalism international co- operation is actually a step backwards as far as the development of productive methods is concerned. Capital In addition to this, if BAC can raise the necessary gov- ernment and private capital to finance the 311 wide-fuselage jet, it will mean that while co-operating with SNIAS on the Concorde project, BAC will also be competing with SNIAS, who are in turn co- operating with Deutsche Air- bus and Hawker Siddeley, on the A300B Airbus! Such a 'unity of opposites, of combined co-operation and competition is commonplace in the European aircraft industry nowadays. Workers at Bristol should not be surprised if their French colleagues are a little reticent on divulging certain information at times. From a Special C It is just that co-operation share of the market from 17 face with per cent to 43 per cent. They has come face to former and the have the full support of competition, now backed down. The the American government Civil has near future may see many such con- Aviation Board (CAB) since frontations, but on a somewhat the of the Inclusive signing Tour Charter Bill in September larger scale. This tendency to coalesce is 1968 paved the way for their European evident among the growth. national airlines, which have Friction between this formed groups to share organization and the IATA is the costs of servicing the 747.

destroying the carefully con- In America several airline mer- structed pricing arrangements have been announced, on transatlantic routes and gels number forcing reducing the of big European operators to jets likely to be ordered.

cut their rates against thęir will. But there is another yet factor which is likely to accele- And this at a time when the re-equipment programme cur- the tendency to ration- rate rently in progress demands the alization and monopoly among opposite. the airlines and manufac- A University of Miami law turers. And that is the explo- professor has filed suit growth of supplemental sive against IATA in the US dis- carriers and charter operators.

trict court for $280 million on The most lucrative market behalf of passengers on inter- for the major airlines in national airlines, claiming Europe and America is the

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as an international North Atlantic route. cartel. Fares on this route, as on fixed others, are at regular Powerful of the International meetings Air Traffic Authority (IATA),

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was recently a body variously described as of the most described as 'one price-fixing cartel or powerful and authoritarian pri- mutual benefit society, vate enterprise cartels that the 104 airlines which prising world has ever seen.' operate international services.

The authority of this organ- It is obvious that IATA is the way of all ization, which fixes rates that going cartels, 'acceptable' which form themselves on the guarantee profits basis of an expanding market to its member airlines, is rapidly being destroyed by the and agree to halt the normal of competition while growth of operators carrying process and freight on a the market is exploited, but passenger charter basis only. which destroyed immedi- are From 1963 to 1967 the the market begins to ately transatlantic charter traffic contract and some members of tripled, and the US supple- the cartel can see an advantage mental carriers increased their for themselves isolation

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There is no such thing, except in the minds of the middle class, who pine for England's past glories. The possibilities for cheap and unlimited travel that the latest advances in aircraft technology promise can be realized. But this can happen only on the basis of nationalized industry under workers' con- trol, genuinely collaborating a Socialist United within States of Europe. Only thér will the aircraft industry have a future. HARLECH: 4.25 Women today. 4.40 Once upon a time. 4.55 London. . 6.01 6.10 d7.30 London 01045 Report. 7.00 Joker's wild. Weather. HTV (West) colour except: 4.23-4.25 and 6.01- and 6.01-6.35 above Scene West. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 Dyda. "12.15 Weathe except: 11.45 HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and service 6.30-6.35 Report Wales. London. 4.55 Lon- 4.TO Peyton Place. 2. 4 Tingha day.

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THE INEVITABLE

drive by employers to extend working time and to change working prac. tices is reflected in pro- ductivity bargaining by the number of occasions ' that clauses occur in- volving shiftwork, mobility, flexibility and interchangeability of labour. To get a clear idea of exactly how 'these systems act as a preparation for speed-up and redundancies, it is neces- sary to look at them in some detail. In general, five types of shift working are in common use.

These are: (i) Part-time Shifts where workers• do a few hours a day on a regular basis (twilight shifts, etc. avail- able to married women with children). (ii) Night shift. This may be fixed; one group of wor- kers being permanently on night work, or alternate: two weeks on nights and two weeks on days, etc. (iii) Double-day shifts (fixed or alternate). Two shifts in each 24 hours. Working periods are usually 6 to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. (iv) Three-shift working (non- continuous). Rotating shifts operating five or six days a week. (v) Three-shift working (con- tinuous). Three or four groups of operatives rotating to cover 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Wide variations occur. For example, two 12-hour shifts a day, with four hours as over- time are sometimes worked, also split rosters, where wor- kers are expected to work two separate work periods a day (during morning and evening rush hour for bus staffs), and 'hang about' during the in- between period. Advantages of shift work to an employer are: Increased output all round. An employer who goes over to running his factory on double or treble shifts has taken a step equivalent to opening one or two new fac- tories, but without any outlay on premises, land or machines.

only costs are for His materials to be worked on, extra lighting, gas, etc., on and extra maintenance on labour. This gives a pheno- menal increase in profits with very little new outlay. Enables installation of modern machinery. New plant and equipment— particularly computerized or automated machinery and the modern dock system - is of such enormous cost that it is • hours only economical to install and use when working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Enables the using up of old machinery more quickly. If an employer is to keep up with the race for markets, he cannot wait years for his old machines to wear out. At the same time, he cannot keep buying new machinery before the value of the old has been returned through the sale of his products.

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His only hope is to drive the quickly as possible, while at workers. In this way he hopes to afford the latest plant with- out affecting dividends or his Can mean ending of all overtime working. From a worker's point of view, overtime can often be a necessary evil, a way of en- suring a living wage. To an employer it is often too much good money paid away, and at time-and-a-quarter, time-and-a half, etc., depending on when the overtime is done. Better, he thinks, to employ a full shift if necessary at a slightly increased rate. These workers too will have come fresh from resting at home and will not be doing.

additional labour on top of a day's work, as does the over- time worker. Can mean extension of hours worked. On totting up the full cycle of shifts, a worker may find he is averaging a 45-hour week, say, instead of a previous 40 hours on day-work. Also, long stretches of in- tesnive working occur under shift-work. Under one system workers do seven days at 9f hours a day before getting two days off. In general, the employers' aim is to move towards the three-shift continuous system.

This may be done gradually, depending on the opposition from the workers concerned.

Beginning with two-shift working on the introduction of productivity deal, they attempt to negotiate a three- shift system at a later date.

For some firms, of course, three-shift continuous working is not the best method anyway.

This may apply where exten- sive rest or maintenance of machinery or plant is required, where associated processes can- not keep up with the central production line, and where ser- vices are being provided only at certain times of the day (catering, retailing, transport, etc.). In a Report on shift systems of Labour by the Ministry ('Introduction of Shift Work- ing, a Survey', HMSO 3s 3d) published 1967, Ray Gunter, then Minister of Labour, made it quite clear in his foreword that the introduction of this system was in line with govern- ment policy. After explaining that the Report was a summary of a series of investigations by Ministry of Labour officers, he added: Report I hope that the report will encourage those résponsible in industry to pay greater atten- tion to the planning and intro- duction of shift work! This survey covered 19 firms and made some relevant points for employers. For example, it noted that the Factories Act restricts the it is hours during which women and young persons may be em- ployed, but went on to add exemptions are that always available from the Ministry of Labour. i Thirteen firms of those studied had made applications such exemption, which were granted in all cases. The last part of the Report is a survey of two firms. One of these changed from a 12-hour system operating five days a week, to a 'continuous shift- system' warking operating around the clock, seven days a week.

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PART SIXTEEN

The report stated that 'no least 7 per cent, that ... 'a additional potential increase in capacity recruitment was needed': of one-third had been obtained introduction of mech- "The without additional plant, build- anical handling aids and im- ings or managerial staff and conditions proved plant layout enabled that 'in market the existing labour force to be which demanded full capacity used more efféctively.' the management was confident It was estimated that under of 30 per achieving a cent the new system, productivity saving in unit production worker increased by costs'. per at HIGHLIGHT of last week's television was Thursday's '24 Hours' programme on Czecho- slovakia - broadcast on the eve of the first an- niversary of the Soviet invasion. William Shawcross of 'The Sunday Times', author of the book 'Dubcek' published the same day, used a wide col- lection of film— newsreel much of it extremely rare-- highlight the to post-war history of Czechoslovakia and show the political of roots the 1968 'reform movement'.

We saw the Slovak national rising and the Soviet liberation of Prague in 1944, the over- throw of the bourgeois govern- ment in 1948 and the growing Stalinist political terror: pri- soners exercising in the court- H yards of the jails, and Rudolph Slansky and his comrades on trial for their lives. history, The potted inter- spersed with Shawcross's lung- ing comments, led through the Twentieth Congress speech by Khruschev in 1956, the blow- of Stalin's in ing-up statue Prague in 1961 and the death of Gottwald to the resignation of Novotny and the beginning of Dubcek's 'reformist' rule.

The enormous scope of the movement unleashed among the working class and the youth in 1968 abundantly became clear from film shown in the programme. Here was an enormous popu- The Soviet Invasion: Wenceslas Square, P lar which thrust movement Dubcek to the fore but, at the towards the invasion of August same time, far beyond went 1968. him. What they feared more than The pent-up hatred of Stalin- anything the emerg- ism and bureaucracy, else was accumu- lated under the of ence of the Czech working regimes class as an independant force.

Gottwald and Novotny, found expression in the public pillory- The tanks moved in to crush ing of bureaucrats. -forced for this development and reim- the first bureaucratic hegemony time to answer pose publicly for their policies.

over the Czechoslovak wor- Press, radio and kers. television, with removed, As one of the Czech oppos- censorship found beyond itionists interviewed put it: an audience their wildest imaginings.

'The Russians were carrying out their side of the Stalin- In mass demonstration, and Churchill-Roosevelt agreement meetings discussion, the and the youth drawn up at Yalta'-the agree- working class began to formulate their own ment to police Europe against demands independantly of the the revolutionary working class.

While the opposition to the bureaucracy: which a orocess Soviet focussed mortally frightened the Soviet invasion around Dubcek, newsreel film Stalinists and impelled them BY

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Details of wages paid were not given, except to say that the hourly rates of pay were increased, that adjustments had been made to compensate employees for increased re- sponsibilities on machine oper- ation', and that an allowance of 3d an hour was introduced to compensate for shorter can- teen breaks. 'But it was made ceslas Square, Prague made it clear that the Soviet Stalinists' real enemy was the working class. strike in the Workers on factories backed the youth demonstrating in the streets against the tanks. The Kremlin was forced to emony reach a compromise with Dub- cek, whose own politics be- came clear when he accepted the Moscow diktat and set to work to impose it on his re- turn from Moscow. But the Kremlin was not in- terested in a compromise. They wanted to break the working class politically and rob of all political independence.

Dubcek, continually facing both inexorably ways, was el film eased out of all his posts, to- clear that this would cease if a reversion to former practice: ccurred.' The shift system used was four crews rotating over a 28- day cycle. The pattern for one rew was as follows: Seven days at 84 hours (afternoon shift) followed by two days off. Then seven days at 7 hours (morning shift) followed br three days off Then seven days at 94 hours (night shift) followed by two days off before beginning the afternoon shift again. In the detailed report on the second firm it is noted among other things that half the workers interviewed com- plained of stomach upsets, which they attributed to the weekly shift rotating. As most workers know, shift working is not new. What is new is: • The overall drive of British industry to introduce shift- working to sections of in- dustry and services where it is not normally worked.

• The drive to change all existing systems to the 24- hour - day, seven - days - a - week, three-shift continuous system, working or as Gunter explained : *many firms already operating shifts will find it necessary to revise their shift system to satisfy modern social and technical conditions' • To combine shift working with various time-and- motion methods to gener- ally intensify the rate of working as laid down by government policy expressed through the Prices and In- comes Boards. Combination In the engineering industry it is exactly this combination of continuous shift work and the Measured-Day Work sys- that the employers are tem striving to extend. On the docks, too, shift work is now being introduced.

This aim is particularly in- evitable where large-scale mod- ernization has gone on and where millions of pounds have been spent on new docks, handling equip- warehouses, ment and container ships.

The employers want nothing less than flat-out working 24 hours a day, every day of the week. That minority of the wor- kers that receives large sums under the new schemes will find that modernization does not cease at the level where workers feel 'satisfied' with the take-home pay earned, but will inevitably press on to yet greater mobility and flexibility and to 'revision' of existing times and standards. 24 Hours on Czechoslovakia Thursday August 20

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REVIEWED BY

JOHN SPENCER

gether with the other leaders of the so-called 'reform move- ment'. The prisons have begun to fill up again. The foul mixture provocation, political slander and the rewriting of history perfected by Joseph is once again in full Stalin swing in Czechoslovakia. The second half of the pro- gramme consisted mainly of interviews with leading W European Stalinists of various political shades. In an obvious attempt to boost the so-called 'new cur- rents' in Stalinism-like the Italian Communist Party's 'structural reformism' and the right-wing Garaudy tendency in France, Showcross con- trasted the Italian Communist Party's 'opposition' the to All this, of course, in the interests of 'greater produc- tivity'. On the same basis, the wide- spread introduction of com- puters into offices has meant that the employer expects this costly equipment to be used to the full and the trend is increasingly towards shift- working in offices. It is argued by some that the acceptance of shift-work and other systems is usually agreed by majority vote, also that some workers prefer night work and some types of shift working which give leisure periods during daylight hours.

For one thing, most of these schemes are presented at first in a way which allows some advantage to the workers.

Also, the battery of manage- ment, work-study consultants, union officials and even Com- munist Party militants all plugging away at the workers to 'give it a try' can make a scheme seem far better than an existing scheme of working.

But the question for workers is not whether the new set-up fits in with this or that wor- ker's individual preference, but must be-what the employer has planned to get the maxi- mum level of exploitation from the new working practices?

Extended Already in many offices where computers have been in- stalled, extended hours are worked. Many shops, especi- ally supermarkets, are staying open in the evenings and on Bank Holidays. The latest industry to con- sider a major change to com- plete round-the-clock working is the building and civil en- gineering industry. New, greatly improved flood- lighting and plastic weather covers make this entirely pos- sible. An article in 'Construction News', journal of the building trade, in March 1970, looked at the machinery, giant earth- movers, loaders, etc. and ex- plained the economics this way: "The high capital cost and hire rates of the machines are matched by the capacity of their output, but the arithmetic goes into reverse when the machines stand still . .. the continuing poor profit margins and slow rate of growth of most building and civil en- gineering firms in comparison to those in the "growth" in- dustries should be a constant criticism of the way the in- dustry goes on running on the same old lines. Its heaviest in- undoubtedly in vestment is plant, yet it allows most of this to stand idle for the plant greater part of its working life.' But many employers are Rossanda of the 'Manifesto' group invasion with the position of French Stalinists. with a 'human' Stalinism face obviously appeals to Shawcross. He gave sympathetic cover- age to the Italian Communist Party's ultra-reformist policies, implying that the Party ought to be taken into the govern- ment to 'solve' Italian capital- ism's constitutional crisis.

The late Palmiro Togliatti- betrayer of the partisan strug- gles in Italy and the man chiefly responsible for the continuation of Italian capital- ism after the war-received reverent attention. And Stalin- spokesman ist Lombardo Radice, holding forth about socialism, national roads to got much the same treatment.

Rosanna Rossanda of the

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particularly anxious to move away from seeing all work and living in terms of the daily and weekly framework. To them this is purely a conven- tion previously dictated by the necessity of working while daylight was available. Now it is thought possible to break away from this pat- tern. Shift work, spread over eight or nine days before 48 hours rest (or less) occurs, is being 22 hour 'day' Similarly, a 'day' of 22 hours is possible — a regarded as working maximum allowable day of 11 hours with a 'mini- mum' allowable rest period of 1l consecutive hours between working days is possible for lorry drivers under the terms the new Transport Act, though at the moment there is a 60-hour maximum on each working week. The moves to open shops, etc. in the evening and on bank holidays help to engender 'round-the-clock' outlook; in many industries and also occupations the bosses would prefer to have workers on call at all times rather than be on fixed time shifts. Such is the case with fire- maintenance workers, men, dockers and constructional en- gineering workers. workers Of course, some in this way, the already work difference being that at present this is regarded as an 'ab- normal condition' of work re- quiring a higher rate of pay- ment for the inconvenience.

however, The employers, want to move to a pasition where this type of working is regarded as normal and re- quiring no difference in pay- ment from ordinary daytime working. Maintenance workers in par- ticular would cease to be permanently assigned to one works, but would be moved about from plant to plant as a small, highly mobile gang of 'trouble-shooters'. Workers must ensure com- plete opposition to the intro- duction of shift work into jobs where it is not being worked; complete opposition also to replacement of existing shifts by new systems (like the three- shift continuous). The employers must be stopped in any attempt to ex- tend the working week, or to reduce the off-work periods of the day. For the working class, the introduction ne w machines must be the very reason why working hours can be halved—not extended round the clock. • Continued next Wednesday 'Manifesto' group breakaway was also interviewed. The former partisan leader and Central Committee mem- ber said that the Kremlin in- vasion had 'smashed the hope of reforming the bureaucracy'.

But if this is the case, she still and her comrades have to draw the conclusions: to adopt the strategy of political revolution in the degenerated workers' states, which means building independent revolu- tionary parties and returning to the path of Lenin and Trotsky. French Stalinist Jean Kanapa, head of the Party's foreign bureau, attacked Roger Gar- audy, who also featured in the for having 'tried programme, to reconcile Marxism and religion'—an activity in which Garaudy first became promi- nent during his years on the French CP's own Central Com- . mittee. 'You cannot ask our party to stop being a Communist [i.e. Stalinist] Party,' Kanapa said. Absolutely true. Stalinism can only be destroyed by un- remitting struggle to build an alternative leadership in a fight against the bureaucracy.

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Wednesday, August 26, 1970

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'Socialism in one country - Jobs threat behind Pay-cut by kind permission of Daimler Benz strike at cycle plant W European firms 500 workee prant tat Meriden Coventry speed-up plan £400m Soviet war-ord strike over pay cuts.

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trade union oicials signed away the nght against speed- headed up and sackings for 'a substantial increase in pay and monopole: ALMOST 100 shop stew- Daimler-Benz intends extra holidays'.

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