Workers Press no. 250

murder guerrillas workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 250

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1970

As Israeli economic crisis worsens U.S. plots to AFTER A week of fighting in which over 350

COUNCIL WORKERS

guerrillas are estimated to have been killed by

BY ROBERT BLACK

LOBBY DELEGATES

Jordanian army units, tanks went into action in the Jordan valley yester-

MINDERPAI

day. Guerrillas

ANURE

answer 'hawks' The cease-fire between Hussein

NUPE

and the Palestinians was de- Two

PLETE FIC

nounced by the Palestine Libera- TH Organization on Tuesday

NO FUBLIC

night, after it became clear that more it was not going to be observed

SECTOR

GIVE US A

by the army.

MUF

planes 1610-0 Hussein's forces are equipped by the

LIVING NAGE

LITNAGE bR US. Patton lanks, neavy artery sky- two squadrons of F-104 fighter-bombers are known to de in operation, togetner with US technicians. jacked The American sergeant kidnapped by guerrillas in Amman on Saturday was part of this force, as was the ciA man killed in the fighting in the capital in

BY A

une.

CORRESPONDENT

While clarations insu Hose deyon PALESTINIAN guerrillas leclarations cause the gave a short, sharp answel attempts to wipe up the gueria vem emis yesterday to the screams ot the cionist nawks anu the vacillations of Britain's Supplies increased lory government. base against hours away tor it all release hi- act and about 60 per cent Be 1948 and 1967, US SHHKA HUNDRED London connel workers loboled e guerrillas i Robens fears delegates to the luznd lUcin brignton yesterday. Inere at Dawson Field in Jordan.

were cheers as Labour leader Harold Wilson left the morning session, but-while applauding-many dustmen new militancy commented We wouldn't have been doing this a few months back!' Bahrein Explaining ine foobys all ins dus ments leader ess

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORICK

o the desert Esso to man. 'We're IF THE new spirit of industrial militancy abroad of de gates she limit. Foreig drivers' it would be tolberatio Ion sty spread to miners here 10 exclusted. Pricess 'disaster' for progress in the coal industry, said not strikes un- Coal Board chairman Lord Robens yesterday.

strike action firm byrane Zionis o the face of blackm Suppos Histadrut over industry. spent has said it spreads he guerrilla Leila Khaled Interest was a personal bior may don t

RESPONSIBILITY

in me ce as ye: to bear that charges led by minoritis a achieve AKOU v more tanker stard since her capture If maintemance men in Te drivers joined kill profit yesterday Six affected A viv yesterday. the strike over parity rates

• PAGE FOUR COL. 3

Pected by the workers lobb They had not has, saida of pay which began on SIx London boroug

THE

ten year decis Lewisham Tuesday at the Esso ol ewis of 1,140- includ terminals at Purfleet, Essex, Steelmen workers Reflected and stanwell. vidalesex. workers, gardener return Settlement 4a tal of 3i.z mis • Pa com tete standsti have been at unoficia shot he Busine pine Miser M drivers and 150 operators.

30 has were conned be abo Moshe Dan no side a that out park- 1968-1969 said Robert ober mostly yesterday's eepers and road-sweepers

PAGE FOUR COL. 6

Two-thirds Esso. that her aco wishe

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

Shoulde truck work though two othe

CONFERENCE

Worker mian den agreed come m0ae969 and 5, as the coal industr and er as far Romford. result in disciplinary action The Pilkington struggle and the right to strike!

Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws!

'Bedevilled' Big support for Pilkington and be that leg St George's Hall, Lime St

LIVERPOOL

blacking beese work and bonus th Saturday October 3 the tol. ished our that in clie Workers at Rowlinson's • That campons a 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. bulding site in st Helens lascalled combington also added their support to Credences ry, W Wires, sadeshton See, Everp Conference struggle glassworkers' • • That blaring of all miking for neeting in a fortnight's Dy turning rilkingion's glas.

given no indicaten ten products away yesterday. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

102ND TRADES UNION CONGRESS BRIGHTON

open to argument - TUC boss tells Tories Wednesday

CONGRESS

carried composite resolutions this morning calling for cuts in unemployment, guarantees From our Industrial correspondent of the right to work and DAVID MAUDE in Brighton expansion of state spend- TORY CALCULATIONS that the union leaders ing • particularly the 1n development areas. are bluffing in their calls for an offensive wages were parsed These on the strategy are unlikely take more than a basis of an appea to the Torv temporary buffet from the unanimous support economie teav steers away lin incomes re- given this afternoon to a three-pronged wages straint ve month's resolution from the Trades Union Congress 1ICi rise the Lute Heath and his associates, delegates by militan London council workers while fearing the growing of hard policy

IULC

determination of the trade even red ne - into entner acoate cers more tiester union rank and file, know one than dozen speakers draughtsmen's delegate Harry who their friends are. Smith so much as mentioned dole-swellins And if the union leaders rade-unior produc- backed tivity deals: cannot put forward a policy for fighting unemployment Warning how are they going - as To continue to stress pro today's resolution declared ductivity partainine. warned, can only lead to tur -LU. ther unemployment. as he delegates applauded that 'redudan • SECURE higher wages and capitalism are snorter workins nours. it's when restrictions representative: wage bargaining whether 4l c actuatink Hole y legally enforcer some mates getung LAe sack. Cunningham: Rationalization the line, by and to use the purelic sector as However. example public not bad sector

PAGE FOUR COL. 5

rest industry in wage restraint!

THIS WEEKEND

Walter Kendall, was general secretary or the civi and Public Services' Associa- claimed at the : end series of brief, but heated from Brighton their Lusts ull wages talks was not blutt.

Gala ve semeste rena despite the But the talk, despite Saturday 'Scrooges' September 12 6 p.m. Transport and General Wor- Kers general secretary Tack

YORK HALL

Jones, moving successful the resolution, attacked *scrooge

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refused to pay TUC's E16 10s minimum Old Ford Rd, E.2 wage demand: *Even t20, he said, Is a modest figure.' But while complaining that the 1 orles WeIE covering Then elecuon halt intation WItO their attack on wages, he still hoped they would Sunday spond by changing their 2 p.m. September 13 course. Congress uke Secre-

PARLIAMENT

tary heather betore nim stressed that the government

HILL

FIELDS

Urganized by London Region Young Socialists Trotsky Memorial Lectures

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS

IAM CONFIDENT OF

THE VICTORY OF THE

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

GO FORWARD....

1965 THAT MEANS FORWARD TO

THE FIRST DAILY TROTSKYIST PAPER

197O THAT MEANS BUIL

THE WOR

ERS PRE

Feather: Harped on theme 'needs but Corporatel would not get it if it insistec

• CUDS.

Monday, 14 September Pit closures "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' Mineworkers' secretary Lawrence Daly drew attentior Monday, 21 September the arasue

DIL

living closures standards and insisted: Trotsky's fight against revisionism' 'We're intent on the maxi- National CeaS

BEAVER HALL

our claim any

GARLICK HILL

attempt by the Near Mansion House tube Intentere end menDers decce Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s I hope they take action

• PAGE FOUR COL. 4

Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

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

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1970

PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 250

102ND TRADES UNION CONGRESS BRIGHTON

As Israeli economic crisis worsens U.S. plots to We are Talk... but open to no action argument murder guerrillas - TUC boss tells Tories on wages Wednesday

CONGRESS

carried two composite resolutions this morning calling for cuts in unemployment, guarantees From our Industrial correspondent DAVID MAUDE in Brighton oi the right to work and expansion of state spend- AFTER A week of fighting in which over 350

COUNCIL WORKERS

the TORY CALCULATIONS that the union leaders ing — particularly in development areas. guerrillas are estimated to have been killed by are bluffing in their calls for 'an offensive wages

BY ROBERT BLACK

LOBBY DELEGATES

strategy' are unlikely to take more than a Jordanian army units, tanks went into action in temporary buffet from the unanimous support the Jordan valley yester- given this afternoon to a three-pronged wages resolution from the Trades Union Congress.

NE day. Guerrillas

ANWE

Heath and his associates, answer "hawks' riker The cease-fire between Hussein

NUPE

of hard while fearing the growing and the Palestinians was de- life - into

PLECTE

determination of the trade Two nounced by the Palestine Libera- union rank and file, know TH Tuesday Organization on who their friends are.

UBLIC

night, after it became clear that effect more

SECTOR

And if the union leaders it was not going to be observed cannot put forward a policy by the army.

GIVE

planes lor nghung unemploymen Warning are they Hussein's forces are equipped by the going —as

LIVING NAGEST

US. Patton tanks, heavy artillery and today s resouron decared sky- two squadrons of F-104 fighter-bomber —10: are known to be in operation, together • DEcure nigner wages ar horter working hou capitalism I are win wo reconicans. jacked The American sergeant kidnapped by restrictions nel their money guerrillas in Amman on Saturday was enforcert or ntherwise" getting part of this force, ás was the CIA man by and • SCOTCH government plans Killed in the nghting in the capital in mole torte cos

BY A

PAGE FOUR COL. S

June. industry in wage restraint?

CORRESPONDENT

While Jordan's King lary of Ke dilli

THIS WEEKEND

PALESTINIAN guerrillas declarations was ung the rational Civil gave a short, sharp answer yesterday to the screams tempts to wipe out the guerrilla n series of brief, but hea a movement. of the Zionist hawks and Swimming Supplies increased the vaculations orbritain s Tory government. Gala But the talk despite Is Arab is istan he also one caninet wite 196 subsid es Saturday The Gross National 'Scrooges' one third of September 12 6 р.т. prote bandabout 60 per cent Transport and General Wo SEVERAL HUNDRED London council workers lobbied Between 1948 and 1967, US

YORK HALL

Robens fears delegates to the 102nd TUC in Brighton yesterday. Therę at Dauern Field in ordat Since

BATHS

were cheers as Labour leader Harold Wilson leit the Four, members military supplies morning session, but—while applauding-many dustmen Old Ford Rd, E.2 wage demand: Popular Front for Its with the US tne new militancy commented 'We wouldn't have been doing this a few modest figure: he said, is a months back!' to fly to Israel between while complaining that Sports Day

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

the eneser Esso desert airfield near crisis IF THE new spirit of industrial militancy abroad Amman. Israel's spread to miners would be drivers' industry Sunday the This was 'disaster' for progress in the coal industry, said fighters' ve demanded thar th soaring September 13 2 p.m. Coal Board chairman Lord Robens yesterday. strike e Zonist

PARLIAMENT

Tory government stand or and i let or 199- the suerrila Leila Khaled.

Histadrut-

HILL

spreads industry. де overmc Interest was a personal blow

FIELDS

Sine finvolved whether ins

RESPONSIBILITY

hi-jackin for him. charges a mind in well to bear tha sion in her capure of attempt, was hit by a strike ABOU1 200 more tanker unoicial men in Tel hed by militants Or anted by London Kegion Young Socialist!

capture on and achiever drivers yesterday joined kill profit ox anected by the Board n this ir the strike over parity rates

• PAGE FOUR COL. 3

ten bad said a состои ва Without of pay which began 5, 8 m Tuesday at the Esso oil Trotsky Memorial Lectures Steelmen terminals at Purfleet, Essex, refected and Stanwell, Middlesex. milli return Settlement •The substantial

IROISKYS LAST WORDS

clain i of 31.2 mil The Purfleet terminal

IAM CONFDENT OF

which fall who are pen a not at a comprete

THE VICTORY OF THE

Zionist saatetru a major factor bum thic drivers and 150 operators.

so Ease comet boiler

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Prime

GOFORWARD....

council workers be likely to Moshe to- authorized meers a caretake pepark- 1968-1969,

EANS FORWARD TO

yesterday's

PAGE FOUR COL. O

197-XTHAT MEANS BULP

than Two-thirds

THE WORSERS PRESS

negotiatons where eat neat 968-192, miney to dudes oh tho eir action

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

reather, harped on theme LE

CONFERENCE

co get it if it insiste ter as fared. in 1969-1970. Monday, 14 September result in disciplinary action.

The Pilkington struggle and the right to strike!

Pit closures Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws!

'Bedevilled' Big support for Pilkington "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' St George's Hall, Lime St Monday, 21 September of differen Ireds MEETING out blacking "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Bercemork and Saturday October 3 'We're intent on max

BEAVER HALL

nes misere top los Workers National Coal at Rowlinson's 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. building site in St Helens

GARLICK HILL

were also alast neer su stone to Vear Mansion House tube glassworkers' struggle Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s navedo be a blacking of all Pilington by turning Pilkington's glass had givenet Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) away yesterday.

PAGE FOUR COL. 4

PAGE TWO

IN

ICTION

and quotations, and are thus THE Socialist Labour regarded by reformist circles League and the Workers as somewhat daring, even sus- Press constitute, by vir- pect at times, but they are recognized as actually harm- tue of simply existing, less. Their special value is that an insoluble problem for they rovide a steady suppl of political argument. ans a certain species of 'left- an unprincipled atmosphere of wing' middle-class com- and innuendo, gossip about Trotskyist movement, the the mentator in Britain. Socialist Labour League. Some of these gentlemen are This country, they feel with at present grouped together in all their heart and soul, is the International Marxist Group

(IMG),

whose best- just not the place where you known spokesman is Taria do that kind of thing. Ali. The

IMG

has published They regard the insistence this summer an 82-page book- principle, the unrivalled let, "The Credibility Gap-the on politics discipline and for of the SLL', by one capacity of the Tony Whelan. revolutionary work, of Socialist This is Whelan's first public members the Labour League, as something identification with the

IMG,

which offends the comfortable but we learn from the pub- British virtues of taking things lishers' introduction that: one's stride, not getting in . the IMG is extremely enthusiastic, excited or ap- pleased to publish Cde. TW's proaching everything with due the SLL study of and its always modesty, stopping to policies since 1964,' and that, hear the other fellow's point The IMG offers this pamph- of view, and being prepared to let as a contribution to the give one's opponent the benefit discussion necessary for the of the doubt. building of revolu- These accidental are not tionary socialist party in 'virtues', but are the character- Britain.' impressed istic attitudes Further: *This pamphlet English in- centuries on the shows concretely where the the middle class, telligentsia,

SLL

deviated from has the 'respectable' layer of and Trotskyism.. the working class, by a capi- The IMG, like the 'state talist ruling class able to capitalist' group of Tony Cliff develop the technique of com- (International Socialism' or relative comfort promise in IS) has many times prophesied because of its historical with confidence the imminent priority. of the SLL, on disappearance It is therefore quite in order the grounds that we are hope- Party, that the Marxist pro- lessly out of line with the ceeding from the analysis of world, realities of the modern historical forces those which and above all because we prepare the revolutionary over- undertake and throw of the capitalist system, more more back-breaking tasks of a type invite the frustrated must which no reasonable English- wrath of all those who adapt man could stand. the political system of the to old order. Whelan has known the SLL There are in Britain, as in long enough to understand other countries, gentlemen who all that we are not at going to disappear, and he want to live politically by so Trot- helps out the

IMG

with tailoring Marxism and an- line: perhaps they skyism to the requirements of other can

SLL

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that all the hard work is just not worth it. Despite Whelan's promise approach of a "scientific' to SLL politics, he never really gets above this level. We shall show that, where he ventures into political argument, he has to resort to the most element- ary distortion of our position.

This arises in all probability not from intellectual dis- honesty, but because Whelan has never in any way learned to advance from the empiricist and impressionistic method of bourgeois thought to material- ist dialectics, to Marxism.

And this has one cause: he has never at any time adopted the standpoint of building the revolutionary party as the instrument for changing the world, but remains the indivi- dual intellectual making a series of judgements on the movement according to some rational norms. These norms appear to be 'plain common sense, but are really the unquestioned as- sumptions of the middle class, though in this case dressed up with 'Marxist' and "Trotskyist' phraseology.

WORKERS PRESS

C Left: The massive demon- stration to parliament in March 1963 when un- employment reached the highest figure since the war. Below: Young Socialist candidate Frank Willis leads a march through Swindon.

WILLIS

ISTS

TALIS

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tionary organizations should not drive the rank and file impossible tasks (sic), out carry 'characteristic hyper-activism' have, apparently, our 'whole organization only For this reason Whelan feels exists on the basis of driving about the membership at top speed no embarrassment (Whelan's launching a stream of criticisms while they last' of this or that aspect of the emphasis.) work of the Socialist Labour What Whelan and his League, without explaining aisely that the Socialist Labour associates object he himself has why never works in a Bolshevik built anything whatsoever! League itself definite He never at any way: it sets time coun political objectives, based not to the supposed mis- terposes,

SLL

the on the surface events, but on taken perspectives, by him (or the objective forces at work; it results achieved by the IMG and its predeces- fights determinedly build sors?) as a result of having the - organizational resources 'correct' perspectives. His 'cor- necessary to achieve these rectness' (if he was correct) is objectives; its members change we their consciousness in the purely abstract, whereas are talking about perspectives course of making these political actually a guide changes, and do as to revolutionary to the building of the action, i Trotskyist party. geois considers to impos- From this standpoint, Whelan sible tasks. is therefore quite incapable of Whelan can never that all his politics from this standpoint, understanding the of SLL are the standpoint of party mem- criticisms in fact criticisms of its strongest bers fighting to actually get sides. According him, a change in the working-class to •... the leaders of revolu- movement and prepare for the struggle for Marxism power. from What is is remote him. the need for Marxism, for the if dialectical method, one deduces what is 'possible' from what is 'under one's nose', as Whelan suggests to us? The Marxist method is the opposite of Whelan's exact For all series of impressions. his claims to being 'scientific', with his approach compare that of Lenin; who wrote: 'The first and most fund- WE take from his attack amental demand of scientific of of the number examples and of method which makes this con- general research In clusion inescapable. Marxist dialectic in particu- should According to Whelan (p. 32), lar is that a writer link the question arises, 'Why are examine the between of the SLL leaders living in cloud- the present struggle cuckoo land?' trends in the socialist move- and the struggle To this 'scientific' question, ment .. that preceded it for our scientist replies: whole decades? 'The answer... can hardly on the Whelan, contrary, be sought in any personal from dodges about one qualities of the leadership; selected incident or document should we not replace to another, contrasts us with Marxism with demonology. his own norms, defends an in- In fact it is difficult very one of cidental passage from to answer it; most probably, his revisionist notes had as betters the explanation is that their that the SLL had a rapid 1960- recruitment in position than International 1964 was just too much for the class nature Socialism on them. They could neither of the USSR, but that in other understand it nor do any- respects IS is 'improving', etc.

thing successfully with those etc. it recruited; moreover, What an indescribable hotch- justification for served as typical potch! What petty- and encouragement of their bourgeois playing with theory with the rest of the split and politics, hostile to Trotskyist movement. Con- building a movement serious the Fourth Inter- the and serious attention to national been unable, theory and of the history efforts, despite its best to movement! correct the increasingly In- If Whelan were presenting correct course of the Trium- of the SLL from criticism (Healy-Banda-Slaugh- virate a Marxist standpoint, he would and its followers. ter) have ask, the to as same 'We must admit that we article by Lenin indicates: don't feel too happy with What is the of the origin that explanation; it seems SLL's 'mistakes'? What has sound, but too many of the given strength to the persis- details left the are out, tence of this 'mistaken' ideological of the aspects course, and why is it getting SLL's evolution are ignored.

stronger? How should it be Accordingly, we will return combated? the problem elsewhere' to Whelan cannot answer any In other words Whelan of these questions. nothing, and explains it is The policy and programme difficult to see what alterna- of the SLL-what Whelan calls tive there the from iS to very our mistakes-derive 'demonology' he disavows.

principled struggle to develop Indeed, a few later pages Marxism against In struggle Whelan is forced back to such the revisionists, who have now from psychological explanation. Ask- embraced Whelan, and the SLL ing why persists in continuous turn into the its division from the revisionist working class. Unified Secretariat, he answers: The strength behind our from •.. deep in their minds, growth the comes Ie- newed upsurge of the working they believe that they can- class in the of not turn back? present CrISIS capitalism, in generation Similarly, the Workers on which has recovered from the Press, he explains: defeats of the 1920s—and writer 'The present can 1930s. only conclude that the

SLL

To 'combat' this means to leadership, having decided line up with all the middle- to have a daily when they class and revisionist opponents had one assessment of the of Trotskyism whose position situation, unable has are to consistently developed change course, and remained over the last 20 years. This is determined to havę a daily, what Whelan has done, and what may.! his evolution is by no uncans In point of fact, the launch- over. This very 'reasonable' British ing of the daily Trotskyist intellectual will be led by his newspaper definite was rationalism to abandon all political objective set before association with Marxism, the Socialist Labour League at and Young in a very short time the time of the Social- ввС 1 12.55-1.25 p.m. Maes a mor. 1.30 Watch with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and weather. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Adventure weekly.

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cal as 920 londo Lond Lond off its debts. 11.00 Edgar Wallace. 4.55 Day Fy Sty 635 Nºv20 Thursday, September 10, 1970 ists' expulsion from the Labour Party in 1964. Our Conference Perspec- tives Document' of that year is directed towards the coming process of radicalization ot the working class, having to fight through its trade unions, under a Labour government.

From the very beginning, as even Whelan is forced to admit we warned that the policies of Wilson could only lead to betrayal of the working class and would bring the re- turn of the Tories. In accordance with this per- spective, we set course for a daily paper in five years time.

The essential political prepara- tion for this was to turn to the trade unions with . the cadres won from the youth, and to campaign on every political issue facing the work- ing class under the Labour government. At the centre of this orien- tation was our initiative in the whole campaign to defeat the prices and incomes legislation, support the 1966 seamen's strike, and prevent the anti- trade union legislation. No other political tendency whatsoever was able to cam- paign in this way, because every one of them was opposed to our central, Leninist and Trotskyist strategy of build- ing the independent. revolu- tionary party; every one of them considered it 'sectarian' to oppose the Labour govern- ment as a capitalist govern- ment; they all collaborated with the Stalinists to denounce our initiatives in 1965 and 1966 against the Prices and Incomes Bill, against anti- union legislation, and to make the 'left' MPs fight, as pre- mature and sectarian. Whatever Whelan's asides now, to the effect that he may agree with one or another of these policies, he has in- evitably ended up with those who opposed us, because he opposes us on the fundamental strategic question, the build- ing of independent revolution- ary parties. Now, as he contemplates the great tasks being undertaken by SLL members in fighting for the paper, he has to ignore all the political content of this achievement, and cannot ex- plain in any way why, at every stage of the organizational and financial campaign over five years, the League members attained targets which seemed to people like him 'impossible'.

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London. 4.10 News. Short story. 4.40 Enchanted house. 4.55 Forest rangers. 5.15 London. Champions. 6.10 On 6.00 Newsview. 6.30 7.25 Film: site. 'Wonderful Things'. With Frankie Vaughan, Jeremy Spenser. Jackie Lane and White. Comedy Wilfrid Hyde about a Gibraltar fisherman who comes 9.00 11.00 London. London. to Invaders.

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9.30-12.45 London. 2.15 London. 4.05 Newsroom. 4.10 Please Sir! 4.40 Hatty town. 4.55 Skippy. 5.20 London. 6.00 Today at six. 6.30 Police call. 6.35 Sky's the limit. 7.05 Lover style. Something American 8.00 Invaders. 9:00 London 11.00 else. 11.30 News. 11.45 Science and faith.

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BORDER:

London. 2.15 London. 4.14 News. 4.15 Ghost and 4.55 Mrs Muir. 4.40 Enchanted house.

Mr Piper. 5.15 London. 6.00 News. Lookaround 6.35 Crossroads 7.00 'After Midnight'. With Alan Ladd and Wanda Hendrix. After the war an with officer who worked the army partisans in Italy cannot forget the the lives of two of betrayal that cost 8.30 If it moves-file it his friends. 9.00 London. 11.00 Homicide. 11.55 News, weather. 9.30-12.45 London. 2.15

SCOTTISH:

London. 4.55 Forest rangers. 5.15 Lon- 6.00 News. 6.05 Wally Whyton. don. 6.35 High livingith 7.05 Film: "Cargo of Innocents'. Robert Tavlor. Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy and 9.00 London. 10.30 Walter Brennan. 11.05 Festival now. 11.00 Late call. Court martial. GRAMPIAN: 11.15-12.45 London. 2.15 London. 4.20 Freud on food. 4.50 Win 5.15 London. 6.00 News, word. weather. 6.10 F troopeft-Handed 6.35 Crossroads. "The Gun'. 6.55 Movie: With Paul Newman. 8.45 Miss Gram- vian 1970. 9.30 London. 11.00 Man in a suitcase.

Thuraday, September 10, 1970 Cloud- Cuckoo land But let us return to the sub- stance of Whelan's assertion that the leadership of the Socialist Labour League was living in cloud-cuckoo land'.

This seems to mean that in worsening of anticipating a the capitalist crisis and pre- paring for Wilson hand to back to the Tories, we power were in an imaginary world.

In support of this notion, Whelan quotes from certain League documents and Workers Press articles. have indicated As we already, our perspective of leading struggles against the Labour government's capitalist policies was richly confirmed.

Whelan makes great play of the fact that in 1965 and 1966* we warned the working class of the dangers of a rapid worsening of the economic situation and severe unemploy- ment. Now it is perfectly true that the downward trend of unemployment after the peak of 1963 continued and did not level out until the July of 1966.

It then climbed steeply to in February 540,000 1967, and, with some slight varia- tions, has climbed steadily ever since. Every month this year has recorded the highest figure since the war, and it is clear from the August figure that the winter will show a higher figure than 1963. Everyone knows that the effects of a growing trade war from the USA are still to be added. Whose was the right per- spective? That which emphasized 'neo- capitalism' and the ability of the system to avoid the slump and unemployment of the 1930s, condemning the Marx- ists as victims of outdated and sectarian conceptions? Or our perspective, which turned the advanced workers towards the need for political solution to the crisis? Marxism is the science of perspective, guiding the revo- lutionary party of the working class. It is not an exact science, and it is certainly not what Whelan wants, 'a precise, ac- curate analysis' which, by the way, he defines only after the event ! He never, we repeat, points to some tendency — himself?

the IMG? - which actually worked on such a perspective and whose achievements can be listed.

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deserves special Is it possible that Whelan wrath for an attack and the International Marxist on the Young Socialists' candidature Group oppose the carrying of in the Swindon parliamentary the fight on anti-union laws by-election of October 30, into the electoral field ?

1969, he Were a campaign which we wrong to show evidently considers cost-of- to have that the prices and been a major error. living issues for the working- class housewife, for Our decision to contest the example, Swindon must be tackled above all by by-election was of a political struggle against the course taken when it first be- government anti - union known that the right- on wing Labour MP, Noel-Baker, laws? We considered it essential would resign. At that time, to take the politics of this the labour movement was fight into the trade dominated by the union mounting movement in the town, and to struggle threat of against the election to use the impending anti-trade union legislation.

focus this political fight.

The Socialist Labour League We were also prepared if a Young Socialists and the had Labour candidate were to initiative taken the in this adopt the policy of opposing struggle. the anti-union laws, for. the Swindon was a vital indus- Young Socialist candidate to trial Labour centre, ( con- consider withdrawing. stituency and one where trade The fact that Labour the had already res- continually post- government ponded to the political fight poned the by-election, until it against the legislation. finally took place only on Frank Willis, a leading October 30, 1969, five months en- gineering worker and nent member of the All Trades after Wilson had been forced to withdraw the legislation Unions Alliance and Socialist (June 1969), does not alter any Labour League, was named as these facts, or invalidate the Young Socialists' candi- any of these policies. We now have, for example, date, and his policy had as its axis the slogan: A vote for Whelan arguing that Wilson's Willis Hands off means: the retreat on the anti-union laws Unions ! 'proves' that pressure can change the policies of govern- ment.

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In place of N. Matanda's 'Class Struggles in Africa' we publish a short article by our Australian cor- respondent which takes up the theme raised in N. Makanda's articles on S Africa's repressive measures and police state lau.

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N. MAKANDA'S quote exists to shove anybody oppos- ing them into jail. from Alexis de Tocque- The power behind the Bill ville (Workers Press for the Territory is obvious, August 27), that the but this should blind not Australian workers deformities of a govern- to the same, but less obvious, moves ment are best judged in being taken against themselves.

its colonies where they The recent national three- hour stoppage in 'are seen as through protest a against the Federal Budget has microscope, is of rele- been used as a peg on which vance when applied to to hang a further call for re- Australia and its colony, pressive legislation. Prime Minister Mr Tohn the Territory of Papua, Gorton has claimed that there New Guinea. can be no excuse for inciting people to break the law In both places repressive a community where the oppor- law-and-order measures are tunity exists to change the being prepared at full speed, law through the ballot box.

From there but it is in the Territory that we are led to the fact that the Federal full the brute force of National Attorney-General, Mr capitalism is most apparent.

Tom Hughes, is preparing legislation against people Recent proposals to tighten advocating law-breaking - for the law there are so up re- which we can read, trade pressive and so reminiscent of unionists, socialists, and others S Africa that even represent- prepared to fight for atives of bourgeois law have working class, or against any felt compelled to protest.

form government action Among the things planned they believe to be wrong.

the Territory are: police Other in measures, such as penalties for the powers to stop and search invasion of and public vehicles; provide magistrates private places to the detriment of citizens, with power to order 'vagrants' are whose people words or cut from the same cloth as actions are likely to lead to the Territory Bill. dismeder, istrict Attorney - General Hughes to return to their home for specific can speak of the invasion of periods; permit prosecution of private property at first hand.

trespassers who wrongfully A few weeks ago a peaceful remain on land or demonstration of students and premises being after asked to leave; trade unionists marched on provide a penalty of $500 his suburban Sydney home to (£233) or 12-months' iail for give him some factual advice.

those who incite or encourage He had earlier made a crime. statement which put the num- There is also provision in ber of young men who have the Bill to provide controls failed to register for national over public meetings which are service far below the actual likely considered | figure. to lead to disorder (it would appear that (There are possibly thous- the Bill also gives prophetic ands of young men who have powers to its police). refused to comply with the The political ( strength this National Service Act, but the would govern- government is desperately try- ment's hands when a possible ing to avoid prosecuting them.)

leader is ordered out of a city In making a public display or a mine back to his home in of correcting these figures, the the bush, or when permits for demonstrators found in Mr meetings are refused because Hughes personification of a such a meeting might lead to capitalist class rule. disorder (for whom?) is readily When confronted with the peaceful protest he called the CAAn Opposition to the Bill has police, grabbed a cricket bat, come from the Australian and. when the police had Branch of the International arrived, proceed to grab a few Commission of Jurists, whose of the demonstrators by members from are various neck and attempt throw to Australian universities and the them from his garden. University of Papua and New of this action As a result Guinea. six youths appeared in court They suggested that have on charges of trespassing. two sections of the Bill should In an act of defiance they be deleted and 14 others each raised their arms in should be amended, although it clenched fist salute-for which is doubtful if even the changes they were sentenced to 14 they propose would prevent days for contempt of court.

further powers being given to the police. Other signs of fight have come from a political part in the Territory, the Pangu Pati, a mainly formed "black power' movement. and the trade There unions. | is talk of front between united the groups. | But workers threatened by the Bill should not have too much faith in what the trade leadership will do for them if the statements of one man. Mr Albert Maoir Kiki. any indication of official thinking. Kiki, who is described Mr by some as the most influen- tial trade union leader in the Territory is a great temptation had this to say: paving the way for misuse of the laws by the first govern- ment after independence. 'Our benevolent white colonial masters will very likely not misuse these powers, but a ready-made opportunity 'IF THERE are billions of stars, chances are there must be intelligent life somewhere in the galaxy' This argument is often used to 'substantiate' the conten- tion that other civilizations exist elsewhere in the universe and was, indeed, almost the only basis on which the astronomers of antiquity could argue. To a large extent, present theories concerning the origin of life on earth give some substance to these probabilis- tic arguments. Today, it is largely accepted that the formation of terrest- rial life was a process that started with the mixing of non-living chemicals in a pri- meval 'soup' millions of gave rise to the simplest molecular structures, which could de- velop at the expense of the environment. However, simply to base the for life on other argument worlds on the laws of prob- ability is not very helpful. We have to know where to look and even a cursory glance at the night sky reveals to the naked eye millions of stars from which to choose for our examination. Astronomical observation, particularly with the use of the radio-telescope, has given us a fairly detailed picture of the observable universe. On this scale, the distances involved are so immense that it is necessary to deal in light- years rather than miles. As light travels about six million million miles in 1 year, we can begin to grasp the smallness of our own solar system and the immense dis- tances over which our instru- ments pick up their signals.

The moon, our nearest extra-terrestrial neighbour, is a mere one-and-a-third light- seconds away, while a meagre eight light-minutes separate us from the nearest star, our own sun. At the speed of light you can be out of the solar system in five hours, a journey which will take our own rockets around ten years at the pre- sent level. of technology.

The nearest star which lies outside our solar system, but which is not visible from the hemisphere, northern is Proxima Centauri, and at a distance of 4.2 light-years (l.y.)

it is about a million times further away than the nearest planet.

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The stars themselves do not form a uniform pattern in the sky. On a clear night, the Milky Way—a great belt of mainly faint stars - stretches from one horizon to another and, in fact, divides the sky into two equal halves. It has been concluded that our sun is part of a system of around 200 billion stars- the galaxy-which is shaped This disc I.y. across and 1,000 l.y. thick and when look at the we Milky Way, we are seeing the galaxy 'edge on', so that stars seem to pile up along a nar- row band of the sky. It has been calculated that our sun is 'very close to the central plane of the galaxy and about half-way from its centre to the rim. To find any substantial con- centration of matter outside our own galaxy, we will have travel a distance of 1$ to million l.y. until we reach yet another galaxy. In fact, galaxies-sometimes called 'island universes'- appear at fairly regular inter- vals in space at approximately this distance between neigh- bours. However, the picture is not one that be exhausted can simply by thinking of millions of billiard balls clustered in various regions of space and interacting through gravity.

The 'gaps' between the stars and the galaxies contain re- gions of gas as well as 'matter' in the form of radiation fields.

In fact, it is the radiation that we receive from the stars that yields the majority of man's information about them.

daylight is made Ordinary up of light waves of many When different wavelengths. In the centre of this photograph is the i appears in our most powerful optical tele It is one of the brightest objects in the sk Typical stellar spectra. In the negative, bright against a darker

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we think of waves, we may think of water waves where the wavelengths-distance be- tween crests-are measured in feet. However, when we are deal- ing with light, or any radiation, we are dealing with distances which are measured in mil- lionths of a centimetre and the usual unit of length is taken as one Angstrom (IA) which is a hundred millionth of a centimetre. Visible light, which can be detected by the eye or an optical telescope, comprises wavelengths that lie between 4,000A and 7,000A, corres- ponding to deep violet and deep red respectively. Wavelengths below 4,000A are in the ultra-violet region of the spectrum (that is, the complete range ot wave- lengths); below about 100A, in the x-ray region; and below 1A, in the gamma-ray region.

As we can see, the shorter the wavelength, the more penetrating is the radiation.

Wavelengths longer than 7,000A give rise to the pheno- menon of heat and therefore infra-red radiation is also called heat radiation.

WAVELENGTHS

Moving to still higher wave- lengths, we pass into the region radio waves where, on 'long wave', , we deal with wave- lengths of hundreds of metres.

Radio telescopes receive and register radiation over a much wider range than optical tele- scopes and therefore can amass a vast amount of information.

Sometimes the flow of radio radiation may exceed by many times the flow of visible radiation in terms of energy output. Such a case is the galaxy Cygnus A. In terms of visible radiation, the galaxy two insignificant appears as specks of light in our most powerful telescopes. Actually the absolute output of visible light is very great —about ten -times our own galaxy-but the 'faintness' is due the immense to 600 million ly. gap between us.

Yet the flow of radio radiation reaching us from Cygnus A in meter wave- lengths is so great that it exceeds that from the sun dur- , ing, periods of low sun-spot activity! The spiral galaxy M104 in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy is orlented so that we can see It edge-on.

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tograph is the Cygnus A radio source as it erful optical telescopes. At radlo frequencies, objects in the sky-sometimes 'brighter' than our sun. " the negative, the absorption lines appear ainst a darker background.

It is extremely fortunate that this tremendous outpour- ing of energy is not visible!

The visible spectrum alone can give a wealth of informa- tion about the composition of the stars. How? Ordinary light can be split up into its different compon- ents by passing it through a glass prism. As most of us know, this is what happens in the formation of a rainbow, where the rain droplets take the place of the laboratory prism. If we pass the light from a star through a prism, we also get a rainbow, but a rain- bow in which certain "lines' are missing. This is because each chemical element present in the star has absorbed a part of the radiation with a par- ticular wavelength. We may think of this in soldiers marching terms of across a bridge. If they march at a particular pace, resonance is set up in the structure and the bridge collapses. Radiation at a particular wavelength is 'captured' by atoms (although they don't collapse). All the physicist has to do is to study the stellar spectrum and this tells him the elem- ents that are present within the star itself. These 'absorption lines' are usually very strong in the parts of the spectrum corresponding to hydrogen helium, solium, calcium and potassium. Hydrogen and helium are the principal constituents of almost all stars, while the others are present in relatively minor quantities.

SPECTRA

Not only do stellar spectra tell us the chemical com- position of stars, but also their speed away from us and their velocity of rotation. This is because of the Doppler effect, and is fairly dealing commonplace when with sound waves. If we stand by a railway line and listen to the whistle of a fast train as it passes us, we experience this effect. The pitch of the whistle seems to drop as the train goes by. As the sound source approaches, the wavelengths are decreased; as the source moves away, they are in- creased. If a light source- such as a star - approaches, the wavelengths are decreased, and the spectral lines are dis- placed towards the blue end of the spectrum. If the light source is reced- ing, the wavelengths are in- creased and the lines shift towards the red end of the spectrum. When , star, rotates, part of its surface is moving to- wards us and part away from us and this is recorded in its spectrum - providing that its axis of rotation is not pointing directly at the earth. The chemical composition of a star has an obvious relevance if we can assume that these elements will also be present in its planetary system (if any). This is because we know that certain elements are neces- sary as the basis for life as we can imagine it. However, the relevance of the speed of rotation of the star is not so obvious until we examine the possible theories of the origin of our own solar system. • To be continued next week.

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Recession hits diesel sales Drastic cut-back planned at Lucas-CAV MANAGEMENT in the Lucas-CAV combine is

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They claim these are necessary because the US Speed-up 'strings' recession has hit diesel sales and because of the GKN-Sankey components strike.

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Police have been used against the Madrid strikes, arresting militants and those leaflets, and distributing guarding the most important sites. On Monday they attacked a demonstration outside the controlled 'union: overnment- offices Supporting strike the Asturias, In 2,000 miners have struck in support of 15,000 others locked out by the state-controlled Hunosa company in 18 of the region's pits. in Gerona, workers are on strike in sup- port of a wage claim. We are open to argument

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large, remained broadly within the terms of general secretary Victor Feather's call—in his introduction to the economic policy discussion-for a change of Tory and employing-class heart. 'Surprised' 'Puzzled' and 'surprised', he claimed, by the restrictive attitude both of the govern- ment and of the Confederation of British Industry, Feather warned that the continuance of their present policies was 'the one sure way-the one certain way—to make abso- lutely certain that we get neither economic growth nor industrial peace'. again on his And harping theme for this week ('the TUC does not sing one song when Conservative govern- ments are in power and an- other when Labour govern- ments are in power'), he de- clared that if Heath's cabinet gave 'a positive and construc- tive lead' for growth, trade unionists would respond. Agreement 'Of course there will always be arguments between us— but surely we can all agree on one thing, and that is the need to get Britain moving...

'We will listen, he went on, 'and we too are open to persuasion by rational argu- ment.' Of course, unemployment and attacks on wages, tar from being 'misguided and misconceived' Feather as suggested, are the lynchpin of the Tories' anti-working-class strategy. Yet not a single speaker in the debate-from Newcastle- based General and Municipal organizer Andrew Cunning- ham to Belfast sheet metal workers' delegate Bill Wal- lace-came out in favour of against the tap- an attack roots of Tory power. 'Rationalization' Cunningham, 'having lived under Conservatism', warned that 'they mean what they say', but went on to express the belief that 'some rational- ization of industry ... is not bad for us. But it seems somewhat in- congruous that a union which has proved unable to defend the jobs of several hundred St Helens and glassworkers should be the main proponent of a resolu- tion purporting to fight un- employment. And the woolly five-point programme vaunted by Wal- lace as a step to giving us full employment for all our people' did not so much as mention nationalization. middle', a greatly reduced turning circle is achieved enabling a bus up to 60 feet long to operate in city Bus employers' plans, out- lined in a letter to Times' recently by London say deal and arealive schemes Jordan's King Hussein

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the ruling classes tween Israel and Egypt. wards a settlement with the Arab governments. Merge But such a settlement can only be reached by breaking The deepening world crisis the resistance of the Palestine of capitalism, hitting hardest people to Zionist occupation. of all at Dayan's US patrons, The Palestinians are there- creating favourable condi- fore tions for under attack from all the Arab revolution despite the treachery sides. to win, of the Stalinists. Not only the Zionists, but the imperialists, the Soviet So our struggle against the bureaucracy and the Arab Tories, the captors of Leila leaders want them out of Khaled, merges with the the way. colonial revolution in Indo- The Stalinists' attitude China and the Middle East.

to the hi-jackings is significant.

Solidarity with the Arab Moscow Radio remains revolution is the test of completely silent on the every socialist in the British events which have dominated labour movement. the world's press this week, but Prague broadcast a Czech Presday which rears directly agency statement 'acts under to of terrorism international law ..• methods which civilized society refused to accept'. Reluctant Hatred and fear, of the Arab which revolution, threatens strike to at the heart of British imperialist interests in the Middle East, is also the basis of the Tory government's reluctance to deal with the guerrillas over the release of Leila Khaled.

There is a real opportun- ity to unite Jewish and Arab workers in common struggle for a socialist Palestine. yan how cath forar-me be- Dayan Dayan now calls for peace

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AFTER MORE than two years of Soviet occupation, the Czech Stalinists have still failed to draw young workers and students into the organizations of the bureaucracy.

from the A report

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Prague correspondent of

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the Yugoslay news agency tells how 'the greatest braces onet in asons per em- only 12 to problems, particularly in braces cent of Czech youth. high schools, are en- Before August 1968 the countered in the ideo- figure than logical sphere .. The double-about 36 per cent.

teacher and professional

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staff have been throughly sifted this year - many Membership of this body is largely a formal matter.

have been dismissed and This is not true, however, many have been requested 'Leninist You the the so-called to admit their "digres- Union', whose mili- sions of 1968"! the tant commitment to Husak regime is calculated The hatred of the youth , turn the vast majority.

clearly reflected in is most zech vouth against genuit the shrunken membership Leninism. of the mass organizations.

This ultra-Stalinist body, Socialist Youth The which he country s2 euits which aims to win Union', reconstituted after school pupils and university students, has so far won 15,000 vouth to the cause of Czech Stalinism. The Czech Constantmond radio bemoan the inability of its leader- lependence on large num ship to increase this figure, ers of staff and conversios which unprecedentedly f all London's 5,500 buse low in a country where the • one-man operation Stalinist bureaucracy holds state power.

DEVELOPMENTS

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It is clear that privat and public operators do no regard these as final objec- Czech tives, but are constantly on section the look-out for new tech- that despite proves lusak's claims to the con nical developments like articulated buses which can his regime is still trary, isolated enable a further reduction from the vast Czech in the num hers of bus majority of the people. workers. Thursday, September 10, 1970

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

SALVADOR ALLENDE, Stalinist and Socialist supported president-elect of Chile, is claimed to have reassured the Chilean stock exchange chief that he will 'respect private enterprise'.

Yet the from pressure workers and peasants for

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him to carry through the Popular Alliance's pro- Teachers' gramme of nationalization has produced a run on the banks and the export of large fortunes by both wages and Chilean employers foreign companies. TEACHERS' concern Most important foreign about the future of their investors in Chile are the US mining copper companies, £1,250-£2,200 scale pay Kenneco and Anaconda, claim can only have been valued together at nearly $500 million. deepened by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Pledged the Allende also nationalization banks statement issued in re- and sweeping of the reform to the National land, where 700 families own sponse than half more the arable of School- Association acreage. masters (NAS) proposals last week.

DISCLAIMS

In opposition to the NUT's All these pledges are thrown claim for a £5-a-week increase in the basic pay of all teachers, into the melting pot as Allende now disclaims having the

NAS

wants to sacrifice of young any 'Marxist' programme and the interests and teachers low women into negotiations with basic in return for substantial President Frei and the increases for what it calls 'the Christian Democrats for a teacher parliamentary coalition. Mr Terence Casey,

NAS

Despite these retreats, general felt his the secretary, union's claim would be more right-wing sup- acceptable to the government.

porters Alessandri the of 'We are not opponents runner-up in the cresidential the pragmatic approach of the election, remain ready to seize Tory administration, he said. their chance. In its

NUT

the reply Since no candidate more than willing to consider got an the NAS absolute majority, parliament proposals. The "The must choose between Allende statement said: and Alessandri in November.

claim submitted by the teachers' panel of the Burn- The Christian Democrat Committee seeks do ham to protestations of for support the experienced more for Allende, in chorus with the teacher than the NAS policy the peaceful celebrations of could do; SO the argument road' by the Popular Alliance seems to be partly a matter leaders, can only disarm the of degree, not objectives, (our labour movement before the emphasis) but it is a pity that threat of a right-wing the NAS had nothing to say with or without a constitu- on these questions when the tional pretext. teachers panel met to formu- late its claim. 'They are about four months

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late in forward with coming, their ideas and it is regrettable Only preparations for class that the other action can defend the electoral even now teacher organizations have victory, both against the not received either the NAS danger of the reactionaries

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report.' The

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England, structures where the heave showers. Occasional could be proposals discussed Sunny intervals Wind SW strong. Rather and partly incorporated into Лах Central and the NUT claim. Central nor hern Mid- At the July Burnham meet- lands, Channel Islands Edinburgh, ing

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refused Glas N to Heavy the possibility Bright intervals. exclude West, of a Rather cool. Max working party. They went further in saying that any working party plans Outlook for Friday An turday. should Rather only come into force sunny intervals CoOl and showers. after the management's reply had been heard (at the end of September).

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The NUT leaders are not opposed the banded to

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salaries scheme. As they say, it is 'partly a matter of degree

MEETINGS

not objectives'. Their complaint seems to be that the NAS are NOTTINGHAM: Thursday, Septem- disturbing ber 10. 7.30 People's . Workers professional unity, and not Heathcote and press discussing their proposals with Tories' Ficht Tone the the NUT first. The precondition for victory COVENTRY: Thursday, September 10, 7.30 p.m. City Arms, for the teachers' Smith- basic pay ford Way. Significance of claim is therefore to Rolls-Royce DATA lockout'.

new leadership in struggle

SHEFFIELD:

Thursday September against the of opportunism 7.30 the present NUT executive.

46, Norfolk St. London teacher attanke

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE

Trotsky Memorial Meeting

GLASGOW

Partick Burgh Hall (nr Merkland St underground) 7.30 p.m. Le Trotsky's Admission 2s. last words: and the coming 'I am confident of Speaker: G. Healy

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national secretary the victory of the Sunday Fourth International October 4 Go forward'!