Workers Press no. 255

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

What we think Halt Dutschke's deportation No one, not even 'The Times', the palpal it back Rudi insufferable ermin by the Labour gov. Where was the question Tones did a defend precedent undug to But when it is a question of a is lore to crus him Rudiando a cathere Were diferent tune be singing a meanized ladene ment "The Times', Mauding - - it would suspiciously primitive bencher a sacrifial at Rudi This Britain's application posed b removed. Holland scares 'The Times' workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 255

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1970

PRICE 6d. As military dictators take over in Jordan £ 1,000 Appeal now E81 13s 3d 'Defend jobs' Guerrillas call for strike calls alident

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186a Clapl street on Tyne armed revolt

AFOREON

EMersev

LOW PAID

ELSE

THEN RAS

MINERS

BY ROBERT BLACK

Union laws

BY DAVID MAUDE

PALESTINIAN

guerrilla leaders yesterday 'in the called on the Jordanian people to rise in armed New Year' CALLS FOR strike action against unemployment have been issued revolt against King Hussein's newly-installed i-trade this week by trades councils in two of Britain's so-called 'development' military regime. areas. Minis within hours of Sandhurst- sadler. Jobless we State Paul Bryan in the NE Marshal Maiali's tramed. al- The DEa 'Sainsbury jobs further jump from the 605,843 August figure "consultative millary cabinet declaring martial law, outlining raresuman merria orcanvations promise broken' Relations Bill left-wing trade union leaders issued a Welled ive vick Palmeies this strike call to bring down the russeln from beginning fortnight regime. This will be the last stage • the

SAINSEU

left talk, do goo at which welter or rerormist police effect Bill the • Shields Trades C the what the leaders Our hope reads to before of govern. el in the region w able nee entered Isolate Miners marching to NCb headquarters vesterday

ONE-DAY STRIKE

Moscow and Miners firm sored by the Lancashore Federatien of Trades demand the cline of a one govern- Franco swop day strike and lobby of parliament. on £5 Be 'fair' agency offices mein Trades pan demand on wages

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

-TUC plea yesterday enter made could THE SOVIET bureaucracy has taken another lization pletely

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

step towards recognizing the fascist aranco 'WE ARE not bragging. We regime in Spain by establishing an office of the are sticking on feDerates Con Soviet news agency 'Tass' in Madrid.

marined in course of the deal. part agency rranco's press Liberal russiat beepre she tories.

Hoal Board headquarters. USDAW leaflets for shoppers open Will Moscow office in October.

death agony Belt or arch with 3 col Indication class- Bristol

DATA

Stalinist cynical and rene e

TUC

Fealer sai said secretre Partys conte for eh in liberal chairma support for bury to entertain glassworkers' A total of 2,000 Sainsbury workers arer decision to mone conference vage claim show i management has broken 'pressure' atta go thrment. son on the has o m • facture in i2 RISTOL draughtsmen ha

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regime. time. he nonsense reporting nat agreed to absorb redundan the fight of e Civil War in Ap reign policy is dealt wit ome of the 'Act now'

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Rights It was, and remains, Sia lie. exponent

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

Whipped up The second of Two Failure kers member stream must lose their employment Trotsky Memorial Lectures comb: "Trotsky's fight against revisionism'

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

BEAVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

CONFERENCE

Near Mansion House tube Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s cashire mineser The Pilkington

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS

Deleat the struggle and the roposed Tory 'Want something'

THE VICTORY OF TH

right to strike

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

GO FORWARD.

St George's Hall, Lime St

LIVERPOOL

legal

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Saturday October 3

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Lecture given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary' see late news

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

NUMBER

255

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1970

As military dictators take over in Jordan £ 1,000 Appea What 'Defend jobs' now £81 13s 3d we think Guerrillas call for Halt strike calls Dutschke's deportation on lyne farmed revolt

NEEDS

OF & Mersey

LOW PAID

THE MINERS

MINERS

MORE PAY!

BY ROBERT BLACK

Union laws

BY DAVID MAUDE

guerrilla leaders yesterday

PALESTINIAN

'in the called on the Jordanian people to rise in armed New Year' CALLS FOR strike action against unemployment have been issued To use the Labour ment's reactionary revolt against King Hussein's newly-installed POOVERNMOUNT anti-rade this week by trades councils in two actions of their own admini of Britain's so-called 'development' typical Tory military regime. Earlier, within hours of sandhurst- Field Marshal Majali's all- during the Chief Enahoes Tramed serene due time are pete gure 'Sainsbury jobs sinisultative military cabinet declarıng martial law, Palestinian guerrilla organizations and arial Rene propo sides, alread wethe • totals promise broken' den-wine cade unlon readers issued al welled if Vickers strike call to bring down the Hussein thrower shipplan October, Sunning regime This will be

SAINSEU

mend precedent undus to haeop Buttude it is a questionary.

the Ou nize against the cost ro Christmas: Bryan nearing e7000 Isolate 1 in t Miners marching to NCB headquarters yesterday.

Liberation of palestine ta 570

ONE-DAY STRIKE

Moscow and Miners firm › headd on by the Kremlin, Nasser ent conference spon admission of Al Fatheader in a new, more 'left' govern- of a one- day strike and io Franco swop on f5 protection, his achion nowever Their reputation is based not only on the Be 'fair' mertion rades nion agency offices · the Congres demand Rudi ty Minister or on wages Technology John Davies.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

-TUC plea made cold primitive In lact reatnel THE SOVIET bureaucracy has taken another

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

trate teles the fascist Franco Nationalized Industries CoC step towards recognizing

MANDDAD

the closure. 'WE ARE not bragging. We regime in Spain by establishing an office of the

LICE

are sucking l. -of British Industr Soviet news agency 'Tass' in Madrid.

- 3, the rory government their forthcoming wages Franco Part strus fact the committe's dis As deal, ol the 1,000 shi to tine Nationa Coal Board headquarters: Liberal cusseat before the Tories.

USDAW leaflets for shoppers.

will turther open Moscow office in October.

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at with he Civil Ware t develop rational unity people and their outfitting akers suspended eric a *Nase and oli cton at Haverhill en E Anglia on the "n pending talks already 'Act now' xist

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

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"Trotsky's fight against revisionism' most the continuing poverty suffere 'The Times

ALL. TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

BEAVER HALL

in fascist

GARLICK HILL

You'd better not retreat

CONFERENCE

A bid for gentleman-farm Near Mansion House tube shouted upport is made Starts 8 p.m. leader of Chen AdmissIon Li expansion lot ee Agg The Pilkington

TROTSKYS LAST

Defeat the

WORDS

IAM CON

struggle and the

#DENT OF

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THE VICTORY OF THE

anti-union laws

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

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Saturday October 3

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2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. freedom and what is ever Liberal more Times so pra pret mach tro Credentials visitors trom Conterenci Lecture given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) Secretary, Liverpool o.

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hunter.

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See late news

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PAGE TWO

HOUSING

'Rachmanism' THE TORIES will inten- sify the Labour govern- ment's attempts to drive rears down the housing condi- tions of the workers as part of their attack on the conditions of the whole class. The publicity given to Lon- don landlady Mrs Elsie Raum imprisoned

TOT

was merit's head plose them of the property.

Labour's 1965 Rent Act im.

proved little, though om the bankers use building ed dow again existing proper modernization 19Th was a bout the Housing Act the decontral been moderate Jared property, but alone lay.

lated property • put up pee rests as went then Tories Act. cue from nave taken tael by PAUL FELDMAN he most infamous pisse es even for short done so freezing of rents the number The study he period 1969372. its in the icouncils and their ouse rents as he posibly can.

even less convincing than 849% 6 40% E13-ge Tory GLC cent of

BALL

cant pay. : little Tondage is hado ne third or the refashionedrings is fundamentally + Gic will fall Capitalism will not end curios shortate ens the over hortage and squalid conting to end GIC rents or more tha away assot o thy hold its *8 a week show in cease Local authority house building Engels private worker sells his labour before the teneral decria.

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BASE

over Engels Mr GEORGE CLARKE: Try praying Retration from one or by ine lones will act on it wild Smates nicer not des chee Increase, total crowded together more of ces will be . oS498,000 than fall dow built. - 110,00 hoguestion of quests and therefore, 1 608,000 soon in tour years

JUST OUT

housing to cl Added The by the 696,000 housing unfit to live n of all the households in the ares Birmingham expected by changes unfit. Liverpool 550,000 at tie e Underestimates What e solution to the housint ise stic The authors admit these frures formed would

STALINISM

I would like information about IN old see isat t if on terrible

THE SOCIALIST

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BRITAIN

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LABOUR LEAGUE

But this is not the answer.

article her FIll in the form below and send to NATIONAI sources. Yet.

SOCIALIST

SECRETARY,

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

Cond phons

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SWA.

BY ROBERT BLACK

Name Claptrap Address nterest rates the class is and he In capitalist not says. as any society just interested in that. question solved: If rents in period any are adjustment of Brackal tending fall wages will also to and demand, a supply solution tend to fall. which ever reproduces the ques- and therefore is tion itself anew no solution? No solution As an example he cites the Engels examines the capitalist process by which speculators and solution to the housing problem investors, together with govern- TV

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It does not matter whether the reasons are those of public health, the demand for centrally- located business premises or new trafic requirements. Ine result is that the worst houses disappear only to reappear somewhere else, often in the immediate neigh- bourhood. In the Ministry report it is estimated that 135,000 houses in London will be pulled down by 1974. Not all of these are slums; many demolitions will be the result of 'central area tedevelop- ment', or to make way for urban motorways. The law of supply and demand means that whatever is supplied is more profitable than some- thing else. Workers' houses are not as profitable as offices or shops. So houses are built while others are demolished to make way for more lucrative invest- ments and in this way capitalism is incapable of solving the housing question, even if it wanted to. Engels shows how reformist demands, such as the abolition of rented or individual onership per houses, leaves This capitalism untouched. why all sorts of public bodies are prepared to discourse on the subject and why the field is such & rich one for charlatans and charities. The relationship in housing is between tenant and landlord, or house-owner. No surplus value is produced, although the tenant may be swindled into paying more for the property than it is worth. To abolish one part of the capitalist class would still leave the working class exploited by the employing class as it was before. The housing problem is caused by capitalism. The demands of tenants and those involved in a struggle for better housing must be linked with the overthrow of capitalism or they will remain isolated and ineffectual.

The lessons of the struggles of the tenants' associations, many of them led by Stalinists and revi- sionists, is that the leadership prevented them from developing into political struggles.

Diversionary demands were made such as lower interest rates and rents freezing while rent strikes were embarked upon without preparation and in com- plete isolation from the trade union movement. The result was often bitter disillusionment for the tenants who saw their efforts dissipated into useless, blind-alley cam- paigns. The frustrations over housing must be drawn into the struggle to construct the revolutionary party for the overthrow of capi- talism. Demands must be made soday chech nik eat the rasts of the Tenants' questions. associations must be linked with the trade unions in the fight to defeat the Tories. Nationalize the banks, land, building societies and building industry without compensation under workers' control! Force the Tories to resign!

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Thursday, September 17, 1970 THE WORLD Council of Churches' September decision to give financial donations to the African National Con- gress of S Africa (ANC), the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) of 'Rhodesia' and other 'liberatory' move- ments in Africa was a tribute to their collaborationist nature. There was no need for Coun- cil to stipulate where or how the money should be used. It will be used for military by the ANC and adventures

ZAPU.

But these are merely show-pieces of human sacrifice staged by the Liberal-Stalinist IANC leadership to secure Organization of African Unity

(OAU)

and United Nations support. Lives will again be thrown away to show that the ANC and ZAPU are a 'force'. Insurance policy The World Council-especially the United States and W Ger- many churches-would not have given a donation it it was not in certain advance of the reformist, non-revolutionary nature of the recipients.

This assurance has long been provided by the histories of these organizations and their present associations with im- THE EXTENT to which life exists outside our own solar system obviously depends crucially on the frequency with which planetary systems are formed. The argument about the origin of our solar system rages as fiercely today as it did 200 years when the ago different possibilities were first seriously proposed. Any plausible account of the system's birth must take into certain well-estab- account lished astronomical facts.

The planets all lie close to one plane; they all rotate in the same sense round the Sun;

IMPORTANT

READING

price 916

A TROTSKY

ANTHOLOGY

New Park publications 186A Clapham High St. SW4. By N. Makanda perialist agencies, like the OAU, collaboration with the Anglican World Council and Catholic churches. the UN and the As such the decision to hand of Churches itself. over cash was hardly an indepen- The simply donations are which the ANC did premiums on an insurance policy dent one in not have a hand. that there 1S guaraniel itself of the racialist- Having shown a good overthiow boy' of imperialism, the

ANG

imperialist regimes, but was due for a reward more sub- rapproachement between reform- ism and apartheid. stantial the Nobel Prize awarded to Chief Albert Luthuli, was for the same reason World Council backed ex-ANC head. that the 'Biafra' and every other dirty and Rome conference murderous imperialist trick in and including Africa since the The ANC is not alone from United murder by the Nations this point of view. and Tshombe of Lumumba. Without detracting from the unquestionable heroism Not independent courage, and sacrifice of its members and ANC and company most of its leaders in the field, The are World the Popular Movement for the virtually the DarL Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is Council set up through their The Pleiades a 'galactic' star cluster.

LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS

although lumped together they collision is extremely remote "have only one thousandth the and would make the number extremely mass of the Sun, they embody of planetary systems small. 98 cent the angular per momentum of the whole Later scientists who took up system. hypothesis and car- this "hot' tell ried but detailed cal sations These properties us such of of the something about the origin outcome found the Sun 'catastrophe', great the system, because the dis- retinue of difficulty in keeping and its planets, of placed material in orbit billions solar taken together, are from any other massive at all. miles can be considered bodies and In addition, the fact that isolated. Under these con- the involved temperature ditions overall certain pro- would million be over of the perties system are degrees centigrade held out conserved throughout its life. the possibility that the matter would explode rather than

EXAMPLE

condense into planets. Let us take the example of

CONDENSED GAS

angular momentum. Ten years after Leclerc, loughli the angular nomentum of a body is cal Kant proposed that the whole originally gas culated culas, deed and dispayice from multiplying universe Was that condensed into regions of One of these higher density. 'the centre of rotation. became the solar system, which orbiting the satellite — because of its spin - flat- earth has constant angular Then, due tened into a disc. therefore, momentum and, to gravity, the matter coalesced distance from the when its into the Sun and the different earth decreases, its speed in- planets. creases. Strictly speaking, this standpoint of because From the is only approximate explaining the facts, the of the influence of the Moon, all theory of Kant seemed 'cold' etc. the unable to explain why In 1745, the French natural- planets should have the lion's suggested that ist Leclerc system's of the solar share erroneously comet-which he and this angular momentum considered comparable in size of seemed a severe criticism to a star-struck the Sun off- the 'nebular hypothesis'.

centre, started it spinning and tore away matter that became However, Engels in his 'Dialectics of Nature' hails the the planets. The possibility of such a theory as a big step forward fast producing a leadership which is following in the wake of Roberto Holden, leader of the Angola Liberation Front. (The American Central Intelli- Agency approved of gence Holden as 'non communist' long ago.) At MPLA's June-July con- ference in Rome, which, signifi- cantly, was backed by the ANC London, liberal-nationalists its leader, Angostinho Neto, a Protestant, made an appeal to the Pope for the sake of 'greater unity and understanding'.

When interviewed by Basil Davidson ('Sunday Times' August 30, 1970) Neto, leader of a real guerrilla movement (which much more than can be claimed by the ANC leaders) said that he was willing to get 'western' help.

PART FOU

from the standpoint of method.

No longer was the solar system God-given, but matter in motion, coming into being over a period of millions of years in a process of change.

At the recent 14th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Brigh- ton, Professor Fred Hoyle took the nebular hypothesis as his starting point and attempted to resolve the angular momen- tum problem as material a 'sorting out' subordinate to the main process.

MAGNETIC THEORY

Hoyle invokes magnetic theory which, of course, was not developed in Kant's day, and calculates that the neces- sary distribution could have occurred if a moderate mag- netic field has operated over a period of about 10,000 years -a short period in astronom- ical terms. However, even where planets exist, the development of life depends on many other factors, not least of which is the nature of the parent star itself. Putting the stars into some sort of order required a long period of observation classification. The recognition that the light from star contained vital information about its constitution was the key that finally necessary opened the door. Towards the end of the last century, it appeared that stars fell into certain categories according to their spectra (see part 3) and the different types reflected differences in tem- perature. The seven main types were classified in order of decreasing temperature by the letters O, B, A, F, G, K, M. Our Sun falls in the G category.

PATTERN

Meanwhile Russell at Prince- ton and Hertsprung in Europe came upon another striking pattern. They found that the over- whelming majority of stars of a particular type had the same inherent brightness (luminos- ity) and are said to lie on the 'main sequence'. Summing up their results: if a star lies on the 'main sequence', then the hotter it is, the brighter and larger

WORKERS PRESS

He was a 'neutralist' in foreign policy. This puts him in the camp of the West, as 'neutralism' all does. Having said this does not mean that it is in any way the right of American Social European or Democracy to criticize the national movements of Africa, or socialist for the in Europe and the USA to give anything but un- conditional financial, material etc., support to the anti-British, anti-Portuguese, anti-apartheid struggles in Africa. Struggle Where there is a struggle there is unconditional support, critical or otherwise. But where there is a political deal with imperialism and apar- theid in the offing, it is another question. The MPLA and similar armed bodies are at war with Portugal.

All fire to their arms! But the ANC is not at war with apartheid. It is in league with the British Liberals, Angli- cans, the World Church Council etc. It is neither a mass nor a revolutionary movement.

ANC

victims, like those on trial today, have to receive full financial and material support from British labour. But ANC policy, never.

The Popular Front of the ANC with the Liberals, and ZAPU Anglicans and World Council of Churches is an unholy alliance against the oppressed people of S Africa and Rhodesia. It is purely in the interests of a deal with apartheid which can only preserve the cheap labour supply and colossal investments of of imperialism, especially British imperialism, in southern Africa. And now, for a thousand pieces of paper, they are, once again, selling the struggle to im- perialism's ecclesiastical minions.

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thod. it is and the shorter its life- time. For example, a B-type star will be about 17 times as heavy as the Sun and five times as hot, whereas an M- type will be about one-third the size and one-third cooler.

The main sequence is the home of a star as long as its fuel is hydrogen which is converted to helium by a continuous thermonuclear ('hydrogen bomb') reaction.

Once a star's internal heat and pressure build up to the point at which the reaction can take place, it moves on to the main sequence and stays there until the hydrogen in the core is exhausted.

BURN UP

period on the The main sequence must be long if life is to develop. The age of the earth is about 4,600 million years, about a third of which passed before the necessary chemicals for life had evolved.

The big stars burn up so fast that some of them stay on the main sequence for only about one million years, whereas the smallest M-types remain there for more than 100,000 million years. Yet these small stars may be too cool to support life on their planets, if any. During the 1950s, Huang in the United States carried out an investigation into the pos- sibilities of life-bearing planets orbiting the different types of stars and came to the con- clusion that the most probable candidates were the smaller F-types, the Gs and the larger Fortunately, we fall right in the centre of this range!

In other words, if a star is very hot, it is too short- lived; if too cold, suitable planets could only exist in a very narrow band close to their sun. Huang's candidates strike a happy medium. In our solar system, Mars lies just within the zone of toleration, as does Venus. Yet, given a suitable star and the existence of at least one planet within it, there are still further conditions-on the planet itself-which must be satisfied for life to evolve which is in any way similar to that on Earth. • To be continued. Young factory workers read the Young Soc SOUTHERN Ireland may be separated from its northern neighbours by boundaries and government, but the youth of both countries face the same consequences of British im- perialism's iron heel. British troops do not patrol Eire's capital, Dublin, as they do and Derry, but the in Belfast Fianna Fail has its anti-trade union laws and its notoriously brutal police force. The sunny advertisements in the glossy British Sunday maga- zines invite the reader to travel by Aer Lingus and get away from it all down by some picturesque lake. But the youth of S Ireland have a different story to tell.

This is no country of pleasant simplicity and pretty scenery, with all the years of the 'troubles' forgotten. The mark of British imperialist repression is the stark reality. official The unemployment figure of 59,587 — about 3 per cent of the population-does not give a true picture of the con- ditions in S Ireland.

PITIFULLY

Many youth who either cannot find a job or refuse to work for the pitifully low wages oftered emigrate to England. Others, on leaving school, may never have a job-they are not included in the Ministry's figures.

Today the youth in S Ireland find themselves in the centre of a growing militancy on the part of the working class against Lynch's capitalist republican gov- ernment. Such an upsurge is personified in the 21-week strike of cement workers for a £7 increase in wages. Their determination was only finally broken by the actions of the Polish government in export- ing cement to Ireland to help break the stoppage. In the face of such a challenge from the working class Lynch government faced a serious crisis within its own ranks earlier this year - two ministers were sacked from the government for alleged gun-running. In the build-up of these events the working-class youth have surged into the forefront and their movement towards political action has been crystallized in the recent launching of the Irish Young Socialists, sister organiza- tion to the Young Socialists in this which embraces country, both N and S Ireland.

RESPONSE

Led by YS National Secretary John Simmance, a special recruit- Dublin from ing team visited Britain to join the Irish Young Socialists in the building of their revolutionary youth movement.

Outside factories and on the housing estates the response they received was enthusiastic.

The young people they spoke to were keen to help build new branches and work towards the IYS projected rally in Dublin on September 20 Young Socialists which will attended by from all over Ireland. At a plastics factory a group The Young Socialist team recruiting ou

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of young girls-Kay. (16), Tina (14), Ann (15) and Bridgette (15) described typical conditions for youth their age. Because of the low standard of living, they said, the large majority of young people had to work as soon as they were able- at 14 in order to help make ends meet at home.

VICTIMIZED

One girl showed a wage packet days' of f2 for four-and-a-half work on a job which started at 9 a.m. and ended at 5.30 p.m.

only one break of with minutes in the morning and 30 minutes for lunch. 'When you start you are put The foreman is on piecework. looking over constantly your shoulder. 'We have to do seven rolls of plastic a day and sometimes our hands get cut and burnt, the girls said. Recently 15 girls were victim- ized at the factory for asking for trade union organization.

The Young Socialists' recruitment centred most of its work on an industrial estate on the outskirts of Dublin thousands of council houses and little else: Only the Tenants' Association Hall, with its admission of 8s, any kind relief from boredom and frustra- tion. Coming from these kind of n recruiting outside a Dublin factory.

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conditions-dictated through the Lynch government. by the ex- ploitation of British imperialism, chief investor in S Ireland-the youth are searching tor a solution to the problem which has been with their parents and their grandparents for generations.

The IYS has found a ready response to its political cam- paigns amongst the working class who are seeking ah alternative to the platitudes of reformism and the blind alley of Irish national- ism. They have reported good sales of their own paper 'Youth Bulletin', as well as the Young Socialists' paper 'Keep Left'.

CONFERENCE

They will hold their first con- ference in January 1971 and cam- paign around a programme of demands against anti-trade union laws, unemployment and for the nationalization of the basic in- dustries within a unified Irish Socialist Republic. As the only youth movement to oppose the presence of British troops and begin the building of revolutionary leadership to end partition, the IYS fights along- side the British Young Socialists to prepare the working class for the common struggle against the Tories. In this fight they join hands with the international struggle of Trotskyist youth in the fight for the emancipation of the working class from the yoke of imperialist oppression.

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Thursday, September 17, 1970

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