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£ 1,000 Appeal Arab noW E128 15s 110 volved in struggle are to nognace ere soon, * or the Revolution send you roar s 186a Condon, Sigh S What in danger we think Full support tor one-day strike against unemployment TREACHEROUSLY attacked by the feudal pup- THin MOsT important gues pets in Amman and cynically betrayed by the bourgeoisie of Damascus and Baghdad the war of independence Palestinian has now reached its most Council strikes crucial stage. Anyone ng in the Mas the Tu doud-cucko land Fighting bitterly for before union everv hill and wadi from Irbid, the Palestinian guerrillas, sup deadline ported by fresh columns of from Lebanon, monters intimidating now face the full fury If no satisfaction on demands Thare then playere snik and the Jordanian army airforce attacks.

COUNCIL

WORKERS will hold guerrilla the demorization and if anbeen the mos strikes in malor authorities it there is no pro- gress on their claim before September 29, the date fixed for national official action.

of the city only the trive Wednesday that Rank-and-file co-ordinating this nece committee secretary ferry demanded fotal national Wilson addressing council ationalizatio ed the " workers on Wednesday. did on he request heed realle recent one-day set the stage strikes in London. clearly fear against Middle Bast Demands come the portan Background the background sec olomacy contin • Marks Weir pay. yester- he demander neat workers. fire agreement with the that deman весле і с upheaval. Kremlin miss ahead a with Arab Corpun architects unem Showdown a nor prepared tor nevert us with tered a on. unemployed mination but world Stalinism.

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impertausts, wed tea

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vigor ourage and tenacits the's Shields Kirkby But ed the dead rsi of hae

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political test. The Pllkington Defeat the leader Passen A rafat S opetah struggle and the proposed Tory right to strike anti-union laws St George's Hall, Lime St

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256 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970

BY ROBERT BLACK

TUC

general Hostages move secretary Mi Victor Feather seen entering Millbank Tower, London, by Tories yesterday for a meeting with Technology Minister Mr John ballot on government THE Tory yes- Davies. They discussed reaffirmed terday Vickers threat close work with other governments miners' falmer's ship repair yard al concerned in attempts Hebburn on Tvne later this secure the release of hi-iack month. hostages in crisis-torn lordan strike BRITAIN'S 292,000 miners will shut their pits with official union backing for the first time since 1926 if two-thirds of them sup-

BY DAVID BARNES

port yesterday's strike call.

DEMONSTRATIONS and street battles against the They will march against police continued yesterday in Reggio Calabria-in the Tory government committed them wage 'toe' of Italy-on the last day of a four-day general strike •National called against a government decision to place the 'capital' voiced vesterday Board chairman Lord of the Calabrian region at Catanaro and not Reggio Robensthat many thousands of them may Calabria. Daly, 'left'-talking Lawrence and National barricades were set u workers' bitch tree announced The forces DonCe vans attacked with tear ga. order and clos. inurinescores begin on October 12 voung neonle (ver 4i have been arrested. Result The rioting follows similar The result should be known July, when outoreaks was paralvsed for over a about a week CItV later and work week. coule sion soon atrer "The executive calling The root cause is are chronic and upon members to swooor the unemplovinent antion baly said. voting Tor strike poverty of the wole region. including Reggio. But NUM vice-president Sid Italy's regional Schofield made clear that un.

the decision would some emplovment ane mconle nant strenuously resisted. with them. but toe problems ot tav can never so ved Further details of the NCB's even on a regional basis, and contemptuous reply the still less town by town. claim were miners nounced yesterday. Anger Half offer This week's clashes bring The Board offered miners the to workers and middle less than Derve wat they were southern asking: between the class elements agalnsl a Weekens his way to seos any resid al centre-left government's cvni.

went cal neglect of the sour ana nolice brutality and CorruD. that Tnere tion. improvement hetora But they are being exploited strike Geaciine with actata. any hy the region's canttalist noil.

that ticians as a lever for their own this would seriously than rapidly pro- inevitable mere ted against Swindon engineers back Robens vesterdav afternoon A tour-week Strike mean coal shortages hu parit claimed the next

VAST

£20,000-a-yéar NCB chief.

old-weather SWINDON district committee of the Amalgamated Union of after Engineering and Foundryworkers has called on the AEF But there was not the slight- executive council to support national blacking of Pilkington

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est uke inood glass. making the miners a better offer. Ald Chairiten. with other The committee will also be sending a large delegation state board Robens to the October 3 conference called by the All Trades Unions £48-a-wee any sero Trivity Employmen Alliance to support the Pilkington workers and defeat the Minister Tories anti-union plans. Robert Carr See four picture The AEF Walcot No. 1 branch in Swindon has also Dare and article voted to send a large delegation to the conference.

weer's Nih renort. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Don't jump through productivity hoop

BY DAVID MAUDE

UNION OFFICIALS will pull out all the stops today in a concerted bid to end the six-week-old pay strike at GKN-Sankey's Shropshire car-components plant. They met the 120-strong joint shop stewards last night to push for a return- to-work' recommendation at this morn- ing's key mass meeting. Backing down the before government- steeled refusal to meet the strikers' just claim, leaders of all five unions concerned from the General and Municipal's Lord Cooper to the Transport Workers' Jack Jones and Engineers' Hugh the Amalgamated Scanlon- of Sankey's so- -favour acceptance called '£2 to £7 6s', multi-'stringed' offer.

They believe it will yield further pay im- provements following a return.

Strikers' demands that their claim for an across-the-board, 'no strings' increase is given official support have been completely ignored.

This is the sordid reality behind all talk of "an offensive wages strategy' at last week's Brighton Union Trades Congress. Retreat before the Tories' productivity-dealing offen- sive against wages and trade union rights is fast turning into an ignominious rout.

Many GKN-Sankey workers were hoping earlier this week

NLF

that officials union were be- ginning to change their atti- tude the strike after last to Friday's arrogant retusal by proposes the company to negotiate with them directly. new dear Like G&MWU steward Bill Foster, who told Workers Press: 'I think they were dis-

BY A WORKERS PRESS

gusted on Friday— they must

CORRESPONDENT

be seeing now you can't give Sankey's an inch!' THE S Vietnamese National Such hopes have now been Liberation Front representative rudely dashed. Far from becoming at the Paris peace talks yester- more determined to fight it out with day submitted a new series of the firm (and with the car proposals. bosses who have laid off 40,000 other workers an Based on the existing In ten- attempt to isolate the Shrop- point

NLF

programme, they shire strikers), union leaders called for total US withdrawal have waxed more and more from the South and the re- enthusiastic about the virtues moval of the present Saigon of the company's proposed leadership- Job-evaluation scheme. However, the NLF delegate But despite the lack of de- said that if the US agreed to tailed information about this withdraw all its forces and deal touched on in today's those of its allies by June 30, pecial article on page 2, every would 1971, the guerrillas GKN-Sankey worker knows stop attacking them and would that it is far from roses all undertake to discuss the re- the way. lease of prisoners. This new deal has obviously

ADMITTED

been under made pressure from Hanoi and the Kremlin, As chairman H company which is Spencer Killick himself anxious to come to ad- terms with Nixon in both SE mitted in his letter to 'The Asia and the Middle East. Economist' last week, these proposals accepted by national union officials and 'meant some shop stewards Sainsbury award an individuals as from £2 a week to the highest- picket bailed paid pieceworkers to £7 6s to the top craft skilled worker. (Our emphasis.)

ONE

OF And last weekend's letter to the Sainsbury's pieceworkers strikers arrested while picket- from personnel outside the firm's Black- director R. ing S. Aitken stressed friars' factory, on Wednesday, that 'from December 1, 1970, was remanded on bail of £50 all piecework jobs earning less than 15s an hour will be ad- yesterday by London magis- justed to ensure that on stan- trates. Mr W. Ingram was charged dard yield 15s an hour gross car pertormance with possessing. an offensive assaulting police emphasis.) weapon, officer, using insulting words Beçause of sometimes as and obstructing the footway. much 20 hours as week The 2,000 Blackfriars "down' (waiting) time in short- workers have been strike run jobs many pieceworkérs for a week in protest against believe that their pay will rise proposed redundancies at the plant.

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

The second of Two Trotsky Memorial Lectures 'Trotsky's figit against revisionism'

BEAVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

Near lansion House tube Starts 8 p.m. Admission 28

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Lecture given by. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

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pets in Amman and cynically betrayed by the the bourgeoisie of Damascus and Baghdad the independence во прот Palestinian of has war now reached its most Puture retariod Council strikes crucial stage. Anyone in epts inis for Fighting before union Mass every hill and wadi from policy. Aulian guerillas, sup t Palestinian deadline ported by fresh columns of Measured-Day. aa fighters from Lebanon, we militantir ting groups now face the full fury If no satisfaction on demands and fear of the sack the Jordanian army and The sack airforce attacks. Only COUNCIL, WORKERS will hold guerrilla where strikes in major authorities if there is no pro- have been cation gress on their claim before september ly. the ployment- las, e go date fixed for national official action.

1969A4S told a mass of 200 narginally that sate faed Rosalist-led tribeste inbullec Progress proved (with integration Terry committee secretary indussies addressing cared her workers on Wednesday. criticizec Tear ears. The iraqi realien berke in london, one day contice that Demands Meas and for of the one most important. holds a sular poslovenment Background • the background secr iplomacy continue • Men for Airine full-time and day denied that that • should be She made it clear that the Nasser and Hue ein politicat baisie bee crisis and the Jordar lackings Conservativ upheaval. The Krem in Arab Revolution. Showdown that thee were not ared with wages imperial ot

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The Palestinian gainst all this witl indoubted ALl.

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1 0- Trades

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I he mene. political test. The Plikington Defeat the e It exposes not only Al Fatah struggle and the 1965 mune nists proposed Tory - he still ta POWe right to strike anti-union laws refuses later at options ot St George's Hall, Lime St me test radical leations

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MBER 256 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970

BY ROBERT BLACK

TUC

general secretary Mr Hostages move Victor Feather seen entering by Tories Millbank Tower, London, yesterday for a meeting with Technology Minister Mr John THE Tory government yes- Davies. They discussed terday reaffirmed it would Vickers' close threat. to work with other governments Palmer's ship repair yard at concerned in. attempts to Hebburn on Tyne later this secure the release of hi-jack month. hostages in crisis-torn Jordan.

BY DAVID BARNES

DEMONSTRATIONS and street battles against the police continued yesterday in Reggio Calabria-in the 'toe' of Italy—on the last day of a four-day general strike called against a government decision to place the 'capital' of the Calabrian region at Catanaro and not Reggio Calabria. Barricades were set up and oil the roads to poured on block: the armoured way to The "forces police of vans. order' attacked with tear gas and clubs, injuring scores of Over 40 have young people. been arrested. The rioting follows similar outbreaks in July, when the city was paralysed for over a week. The is the root cause chronic and unemployment poverty of the whole region, including Reggio. Italy's new regional gov- ernment will, of course, bring some employment and income with them. But the problems of Italy can never be solved on a regional basis, and even still less town by town. Anger This week's clashes bring to the surface the anger of southern workers and middle- the class elements against centre-left government's cyni- neglect of the South and cal police brutality and corrup- tion. But they are being exploite by the region's capitalist poli ticians as a lever for their own ambitions. Swindon engineers back glassworkers' conference SWINDON district committee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundryworkers has called on the AEF executive council to support national blacking of Pilkington The committee will also be sending a large delegation to the October 3 conference called by the All Trades Unions lliance to support the Pilkington workers and defeat t ories' anti-union plan The AEF Walcot No. 1 branch in Swindon has also voted to send a large delegation to the conference.

ballot on strike will snut inelr DIts will omcial union backing 101 1926 the urst ume since Il two-laras of tnem sup Dort yesterady s sunke call They will To tight their wage Natiorence secretary, datin on dictober ll Result i The ae set hated bed now aboid stop sk on after. executive are "The ort th action, Baly sali Sebut made cies that sa ballot action a Further details of the NCB' contemptuous minerad yes claim. were Half offer miner rapidly jere diz is shots me inevitabil propaganda campe firedain The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Don't jump through productivity hoop

BY DAVID MAUDE

UNION OFFICIALS will pull out all the stops today in a concerted bid to end the six-week-old pay strike at GKN-Sankey's Shropshire car-components plant. They met the 120-strong joint shop stewards last night to push for a 'return- to-work' recommendation at this morn- ing's key mass meeting. Backing down before the government- steeled refusal to meet the strikers' just claim, leaders of all five unions concerned— from the General Municipal's Lord Amalgamated Engineers' Scanlon-favour Sankey's so- of acceptance 'E2 to £7 6s', multi-'stringed' offer. called They believe it will yield further pay im- provements following a return.

Strikers' demands that their claim for an across-the-board, 'no strings' increase is given official support have been completely ignored.

This is the sordid reality behind all talk of 'an offensive wages strategy' at last week's Brighton Trades Union Congress. Retreat before the Tories' productivity-dealing offen- sive against wages and trade union rights is fast turning into an ignominious rout.

Many GKN-Sankey workers were hoping earlier this week

NLF

that union officials be- were ginning to change their atti- tude to the strike after last Friday's arrogant refusal by proposes the company to negotiate with them directly. new dea Like G&MWU steward Bill Fostér, who told Workers Press: I think they were dis-

BY A WORKERS PRESS

gusted on Friday-they must

CORRESPONDENT

be seeing now Sankey's an inchou can't give THE S Vietnamese National Such hopes have now been Liberation Front representative rudely dashed. Far at the Paris peace talks yester- becoming trom more determined to fight it out with day submitted a new series of the firm (and with the car proposals. bosses who have laid off 40,000 other workers in an Based on the existing ten- attempt to isolate the Shrop- NLF programme, point they shire strikers), union leaders called for total US withdrawal have waxed more and more from the South and the re- enthusiastic about the virtues moval of the present Saigon of the company's proposed leadership. job-evaluation scheme. However, the NLF delegate But despite the lack of de- said that if the US agreed to tailed information about this withdraw all its and TOrCAC deal touched on in today's those of its allies by June 30, special article on page 2, every 1971, guerrillas would the GKN-Sankey worker knows stop attacking them and would that it is far from roses all undertake to discuss the re- the way. lease of prisoners. This new deal has obviously

ADMITTED

been made under from Hanol and the Kremlin, As chairman H. company Spencer Killick which is anxious to come to himself ad- terms with Nixon in both SE mitted his letter 'The to Asia and the Middle East.

Economist' last week, these accepted proposals by officials national union and some shop stewards - 'meant Sainsbury an award to individuals as from £2 a week to the highest- paid pieceworkers picket bailed 6s to the craft skilled top worker. (Our emphasis.)

ONE

OF the Sainsbüry's And last weekend's letter to strikers arrested while picket- pieceworkers personnel from director R. ing outside the firm's Black- S. Aitken stressed friars' factory on Wednesday, that 'from December 1, 1970, was remanded on bail of £50 all piecework jobs earning less yesterday by London magis- than 15s an hour will be ad- *justed to ensure that on stan- trates. Mr W. Ingram was charged dard performance they can yield 15s an with possessing an offensive hour gross'. (Our assaulting a police emphasis.) weapon, officer, using insulting words sometimes as and obstructing the footway.

much hours week The 2,000 Blackfriars 'down' (waiting) time in short- have been on strike jobs many pieceworkérs run believe that their pay will rise for a sed ke in protest inst proposed redundancies at plant.

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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21

The second of Two Trotsky Nemorial Lectures "Trotsky's fight agaifst revisionism'

BELVER HALL

GARLICK HILL

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'Most subject is the fattest We made first for a seafront hotel favoured those leaders bv land to weed, and he, the who enjoy the casual atmosphere noble image of my youth is feader prominent boilermakers' was one this year). overspread with them.' For the affluent, suite here (Shakespeare, King Henry 15 gns and

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con. IV.) siderably more. A thirsty gather- can swill back up-to €2 of ing of liquor and beer per head,

THERE

is a side every anel Congress that Britain's Union thA ot nna Trades television and film unions goes unreported by mest raws- found approximately which frantic papers. round of parties mounted by Add to this 15s each for food and industrialists, the press and 10 per cent service charge individual unions for the dele- and the around E3ogrand total reaches powerful both, and gates, insignificant. union dues at say polished With this celebration the off the equivalent toone Every night they meet week's conference hotels to drink, eat subs from a factory of 2,000.

The gatherings con- and chatter We had by-passed the equally.

per- cratting sonalities and the small-talk, by generous parties thrown the never by the British Stee unwritten agreement, same venue renroduced arnoration and The Kritich Oxygen Company. But to satisfy our own curiosity Workers But this calculated risk toured the 50021 was scene on the last night of the Towarder the Brighton Congress how reception was packed with a fair see pick of conference celebrities.

Britain's cantains of labour relax.

At the after- Anniorano receptions and cocktall partles leading malay Communist Dart members drink and lostle of all "lotte' unrelen natlonal press and trades union Ramelson, the Party's industrial organizer, keeps an eye on the flock at Brighton.

WORKERS PRESS

Friday, September 18, 1970 From the Brighton TUC to the GKN strike at Welington Shropshire The Metropole. (?). Sir we work nar selection of depred anile and thi, the 44 20 The leader of one of Britain's of the National Union o ¡KN-Sankey' pouna car-components plant Telford-'the great new 5,000 strikers are concerned.

to ture many ot the who hand substantiall about of shops, facilities for childre sod in the last es month and other amenities Sundays highes bay man hiped. drive for barred and conditions With 0se nor a ging fuel the pute. six-week-oldals or Sa spoke this Coker ate ooms, many factories dustria eno ones. Hill's not a hardes, but the work factorie Central imaginative "Working Family eder such condi done packed houses 'Come up here st might ms proposed tol behind have to take works where mapidly caring a surse mon ides thesist chere lac With drinks and food service the bill of manage know fedays with the at goback he stick our for dear ined the weeks with no something, expect to the Tories GKN strikers i was at Sakeys erages its political appening all over the co hat paying

• 18, 1870 Friday,

BOOK REVIEW

YEVGENNY ZAMYATIN was books. 'We'

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the

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solid, Solse. technically inventive, but based upon the firm principles of the craft. Bolshevik Party former returned member. mus nomelant alter we motorie 'Having scarcely the to the ing edition, 'predicted complete novel, 'Literature Zam Revolution) yatin one the litera The ambiguity and school in Soviet Union. author's indemniteness the the Revolution finds express on in this. o gear hence a society existin 1.000 which centrated in the hands of a ra- regime etere the principle the collective triumph of over one, sum over the unit' (D. 75) is all- Drevaning 'Obiectivity This society is described in the manner hom draws is be render who is not oblectve has ingrained morality. and societyeen By Yevgenny Zamyatin Tis of timent ude. Trans, from the Russian by B. G. Guerner Endless Johnathan Cape, 1970, 30s.

subject them- drescar worter Tables selves to "he othourv Commandments'; each simul- food with a alignment, barging straight ahead, authorities; Trotsky criss-crossing, acting sparing in his criticism of Zam.

contrary novel of considerable 'insularity' Yet he publish able was free to convince us of the convince us of the appeal of our his works. there was tashnica achievement - hat our I no tion of this in the early years of can criticism untortunate vont narrator; here is a mathematician, the eve technical below man ane siss ste pis nothing who clear, threathed superstructure ratonal favourite foundations, sunk in except 'Time-Tables class ap Zamatin's political weaknesses Lamvatin was one of intellectuals in no position to fight self-oblivion. the Stalinists: a vicious campaign "Shies" of elobes the chocked. attrac. launchied. the disturhed. distortion and cranks, glittering ted, entated. fascinated. hu the Russian which bent to right and left, a balanced Stalin Revolution. his • etter torinted of them, he is swayed many Introduction mean shoulders yet. ike blade of a gouging reall with the Revolut i tell impletions tot the Revolution clearly delineated. Zamyatin More imnortant clearly did not the External 'pro builder D-503. have could of only achieved neing was I some of the ideas of insights images stevike Party. construct experiences some fight The One the State', such as mass mocc produce lobotomy formal thinking and rationalism would appeal I to sec- of the middle cas Stalinists, was tinno too risky to allow such material hands the Soviet the ancients. cinna masses their poets could find inspiration • Exile jostling fanlichiv massec and weakness, (p. 26). vaDour artistically, of We. of D.503 he had nothing Unknown whose fixed, rationalistic outlook is that of the middle class under the His rounded, pre-shaped exist- • is a considerable canitalism rounded, and svmetrical centimetres ho zen than the Maternal Norm thanconde of othare who went to the dent came and summa their principled Opposition.

the persecutions scured revolution from which the city is made.

in the face no senting unknown e.

autamnal dictont on the wacter E-330 vl te nime uncerton andts success in count Everything is seen torough the his himsute handc The atavitate o taunt him with ancestry; And it in tactimanu to the and political social crisis, but we re the need iterary time

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WORKERS PRESS

DESPITE the claims of George Meany, the AFL-CIO presi- dent, the US working class is seething with discontent, and no where than more so 700,000 members amongst the of the United Auto Workers. Voting figures for strike 'Big. Three' action against the firms tell motor their story. 90 voted for per cent "93.% General Motors, strike at at Ford, 95 per cent per at Chrysler and 98 per cent of all •Big Three' carworkers in Canada (also covered by the

UAW).

show Returns also some-

UAW

thing else: unlike presi- Woodcock, dent leonard

BOOSTE

Ford and Chyrsler workers couldn't give two hoots for the predicament of their boss.

UAW President Woodcock leaders had argued Union Chrysler would that a strike in tion of Machinists' officials. unfair because of the firm's be He But Jernigan fought back. current financial problems, while the Lockheed helped form Ford have just begun produc- Unity Association, Employees model export tion of rank-and-file group. working for newi designed to clean out the Euro- better factory conditions.

pean market. Union leaders joined with the workers Ford and Chrysler smash down this company would rather clean out their militants' organization. boss. Then Jernigan sacked was does Such militancy not for wearing an 'African' simply from nowhere. spring style shirt. Take Detroit for example, the Union officials refused to heartland of the US historical his Only after take up case. motor industry, and battlefield of he appealed to the National many bloody strike clashes.

Relations Board did he Labour get his job back. Novel Now he was constantly hounded bu his foreman. At the Ford Dearborn One July day in 1969, when assembly the plant, he could endure the devised has out novel longer, Ike Jernigan pulled method for sacking militants.

a gun and shot his foreman dead.

who Workers sick go He then strode into the office the firm to "their sent notes by of the union and killed the local last known address' after they president and another union have been out a week official. often happens that the It worker has changed his address Desperation Ford, notifying he never gets the letter. He now faces the gas cham- When back with ber- with both the union léaders he checks the Ford doctor Lockheed before re-start- and demanding that finds a firing work, he slip the sentence be carried out.

ing Chrysler's Eldon Axle Plant in waiting for him. Detroit recently witnessed a simi- reason? The 'Failure to lar explosion, where produc- respond' to the note sent out tion worker, driven despera- to while the worker was sick!

tion by the killing speed of the work, the foreman's provocations According to one Dearborn indifference, and union officials' militant, up to 100 workers killed two foremen and a fellow have been sacked in this way.

worker. Workers don't forget or for- Chrysler workers cut the calculated humilia- give such story of the incident out of the tions. daily papers and placed it on foremen's desks all over the And, because the union bureau- plant. fight back, cracies The strike against GM gives workers are often driven to Detroit carworkers the oppor- commit heroic but individual acts tunity the to settle their accounts of defiance. 'Big Three' with in ar Ike Jernigan worked at organized way. Lockheed Los Angeles plant for work tempo on The inhuman six Working conditions years. lines combated the be unsafe, the pace of work cannot were by of individual killing and the pay low. terror, acts by the however heroic, but As a Negro, he was discrim nationalization of the car mon- nated against by both the com opolies under the control of those who work in them. pany and International Associa-

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American his with associations various and one thing trade union bigwigs and their presidents, they all have in common-they celebrated Labour Day want wives to be the best, president the by having dinner at the White nation has ever had'. House last week. This dinner cosy marks This is the first time this move to the right by the trade day, honour supposed to the bureaucrats • who have working man, has been officially traditionally supported the feted at the White House. Democratic Party, which Meany says istem falling into the hands The guests included Maritime 'extremists' union president Joseph Curran, economist John Kenneth Galbraith. teamsters president Frank Fitz- simmons, officials from most of the

AFL-CIO

unions-and half Weapon of Nixon's Cabinet.

AFL - CIO

president George Meany and President This move has not gone Nixon toasted each other amicably and noticed by the Nixon Adminis- declared their solidarity tration. on international 'the policy and confidential American way of life'. memorandum to Republican gubernatorial and senatorial candidates, that Champion says many trade unionists 'are among the most conservative elements Meany, said Nixon, was "like in the country today'. a pillar in a storm-strong, full of character, devoted to Nixon wants to strengthen the his church, devoted to his family. trade bureaucrats union as the capitalist class's most - indispen- Meany, when his came, sable in weapon the fight described Nixon as the champion defeat rank-and-file wages mili- of the best way of life 'the sans 13 exemplified by the team- mind of man has yet devised' sters per cent-a-year increase and in giving a run-down of July. won in TV

BBC 1

12.55 p.m Bric-a-brac. 1.00 Watch| with mother. 1.45-1.53 News, weather. 2.20-3.55 Racing from Ayr.

4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory.

4.55 Basil Brush show. 5.25 Ask Aspel. 5.44 Babar. 5.50 News, weatner. 6.00 EUROPE THIS WEEK. A look at Continental life over the past week. 6.20

TOMORROW'S WORLD.

Raymond Baxter science report.

6.45 THE VIRGINIAN. 'Without Mercy'.

8.00 ME MAMMY. Bunjy attends a Camden Town Wake.

8.30 NOT ONLY... BUT ALSO ... Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (BBC-repeat). 9.00 NEWS and weather. 9.20 IT'S A KNOCK-OUT. International final from Italy.

10.35 24 HOURS.

11.05

THE

DISCHARGE OF TROOPER LUSBY. An old soldier pensioned off. 11.35 Weather.

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All regions as BBC 1 except: Williams and Scotland: Midlands, Mid- Look East 600020 8.30-9.00 Current account. lands today. Look North, Ivews. Look North. 11.37 N Ireland: 6.00-6.20 scene around six Nl.37 News, weather. 8.30-9.00 Music for a while.

Wales: 1.30-1.45 6.00- 6.20 water, 2od,0f 30 Marzaret weather: SWest. South, West: Heddiw. South today., Spotlight Bachelor Father. weather. 11.37 News.

BBC 2

11.00 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL. 7.30 p.m. NEWSROOM, weather.

8.00 COLLECTORS' WORLD. Porcelain, model soldiers and door- knockers. 8.30 EUROPA. Looking at the world through the eyes of European television films. 9.00 THIRTY-MINUTE THEATRE. 'The Raid'.

9.30 REVIEW. James Mossman arts magazine.

10.15 NEWS ON 2, weather.

10.20 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP looks back over the week.

ITV

3.55 p.m. Journey of a lifetime. 4.10 Raj. 4.40 Zingalong. 4.55 Arthur!

5.20 If I were you. 5.50 News.

6.02 TODAY.

6.30 PEYTON PLACE.

7.00 MAKING WHOOPEE.

Kenny Everett introduces Bob Kerr's Whooppee Band, which has the Spike Jones' touch.

7.30

GUNSMOKE.

8.00 IF IT MOVES-FILE IT. With John Bird.

9.00

DIAMOND CRACK

DIAMOND.

First part of six-part thriller.

10.00

NEWS AT TEN. 10.30 POLICE FIVE.

10.40

CONCEPTIONS OF

MURDER.

First of famous 20th

SIX

contury murders. 11.10 DR STRANGELOVE OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Stanley Kubrick's blacker than black comedy with Peter Sellers in three roles.

12.40 WHY IT MATTERS. Actor James Fox interviewed.

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4.0Zingalon_ and 4.15 Paulus. 4.30 greetings. the Engine. Crossroads. 6.00 and Mrs Muiriondon Robin Hood. London. Day 4.55 5.21 giants. 6.00 News, (Channels and 6.00 Songs 550 Report. Crossroads. (Channels 10 and 66). 6.30 7.30 Dangermar Sky's the 30 Matinee: unkin 7.00 Sky it .30 London 10.30 Weekend 7.35 8.05 With Seberg and John Gielgud Hawaii Five-o London. .25 10.30 film: "Dark London' 12.05 With Lugos

WESTWARD.

Channel Weather. Action AGus except. 3.58 Honeybun. Diary 6i233 peas d desk. 12.38 Faith 4.40

HARLECT.

Good alternoon. Mad Hood.

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NMU leader Joseph Curran Is greeted by the Nixons at the White House banquet. The bureaucracy would be happy to oblige. George Meany has labelled strikes in advanced capitalist countries, like the US 'out-dated". But, as the auto negotiations have shown, co-operating with Nixon and the employers-while maintaining a stranglehold on the working class—is becoming more and more difficult. . In 1968 Walter Reuther, pre- sident of the United Auto Workers until his death in May, was forced by the auto workers' militancy to break with the reactionary Meany's AFL-CIO and form the Alliance Labour Action with the Team- sters' Union. In fact, Leonard Woodcock, the new auto workers' union pre- sident, did not attend Nixon's dinner. This should probably not be attributed to any principles on To be seen hob-nobbing with strike-breaker Nixon on the eve of the auto contract deadline might well have revealed his class-collaborationist position too clearly. 6.01 Repor 6.35 Cross Weatheran in a suitcase. 12 midnice.

HTV (West) colour channel 6.01-6.35 above except: 4.23-4.25, Report West. HTV (Wales) colour channel.

HTV

(Cymru/Wales) black and white ser- vice as above except: 5.20 Am Y Gorau. 6.01-6.18 Y Dydd. T 10.30-11.00 Welshscene. ANGLIA: 4.25 Newsroom. 4.35 Romper 4.55 Lost in Space. room. 5.50 Lon- don. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 It takes al thief. 8.00 Glamour '70: Luton with guest Kiki Dee. 8.25 London. 10.30 Aquarius. 11.15 Film: "Girl on Approval'. Star- ring Rachel Roberts. 12.40 Reflection.

ATV MIDLANDS: 3.50 Your stars tomorrow. Women today. Peyton Place. 4.40 London. 4.55 London, Crossroads. 7.00 From a bird's eye 7.30 Champions. 10.30 Baron. Midland member. 11.45 Object in view. ULSTER: 4.15 Enchanted house.

4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Lost 5.50 London. in space. 6.00 Report. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Kenny Everett explosion. 7.30 Laredo. 8.30 London.

Friday. Flynn. 10.30 Deadline 11.00 Film: 'Montana'. With Errol YORKSHIRE: 3.00 National exhibition of children's art. 4.00 Houseparty. 4.15 430 Matinee: Lingalong 'A toast death'. 4.55 Land of the giants. 5.5 Calendar he limit. London. 6.00 630 Beverle Hillbillies, 7.00 Sky's 7.30 If it moves-file it. 8.00 Hawaii Five-O 9.00 London. Yorksport. 10.30 11.00 Edgar Wallace thriller. 12.10 Weather.

GRANADA: 4.10 News. Peton Place. 4.40 London. 4.55 Thunderbirds. 5.50 London. 6.00 Newsview. 6.05 Put it in writing. 6.10 Doins their thing. 6.35 Man rom uncle 7.30 This is Tom i0.30 Tones. 8.25 London. Thriller: "The Crooked Web'.

TYNE TEES:

4.35 Newsroom. London. 4.55 Thunderbirds.

5.50 Lon- don. 6.00 Today at six. 6.30 Making Whoopee. Sky's the limit. If it moves-file 8.00 I SDy. 9.00 London. Movie: "Edward, My Son'. 12.15 News. BORDER: 2.40 Flat green bowls. 4.10 News. 4.12 Training the family dog. 4.40 London. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 London. 6.05 Roundabout. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 If it moves-fle it. 8.00 Man in a suitcase 9.00 London. 10.30 Thriller: •Strangers on a train'. With Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker. Hitchcock thriller. 12.15 News. weather. SCOTTISH: 3.50 Your stars tomorrow 3.52 Women today. 4.15 Dan's garden 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Skippy. 5.20 Cartoon. 5.50 London. 6.00 Dateline. 6.30 Makem country style. 7.00 Film: 1.551 'Undercover Man'. With Glenn Ford. 8.25 London. 10.30 In camera. 11.00 Songs remembered. 11.30 Late call. CRAMPIAN: 3.52 Women today.

4.15 Zingelong. 1.25 Rumblie 4.50 Land of the giants. News, weather. 6.10 F Troop. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Preview. 7.35 Garrison's Gorillas. 8.25 London. 10.30 Conceptions of Murder.

11.00 Man in a suitcase. Road report

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Council

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stray are early out to mate foresen loges who want Promises un Despite the claim that the under control', many men meeting called the dust adfastly refused to make of The rawk-and-fl ion that the proe unis wei organized.

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Dundee pay strikers meet today

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As the miners prepare for pay battle, BERNARD FRANKS takes a more detailed look at last week's NCB report COAL MINERS have not seen the last of the attacks on their jobs and This is amply working conditions. confirmed in the National Coal Board's annual report published last week. Earlier this month, the government, through the Prices and Incomes Board, had its say on how the next stage in should take Tallonlallzing Une mines Place. ined in his Nonal report armoured flexible conveyers tnese nave which entional e the outer. vice te guid guid e machine anonyat routes and per cent preciogether, million deced Upper 1 dro Other innovations in -cade en ding 909-1970 e get inter the chan a m exiens, for which adraces transport to horsepower with matic vertical steering sys- che labell be extended he empo se roll field' 1s used to the tu Manpower Investment left or been dise industry, which stand affected by the 500 miners at Bee plays study basic role in bringing abou Notting comments that a significant

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Lawrence Daly, National Union or Mineworkers general secretary, announcing his executive's decision to recommend strike action (see page one story) at ROLLS-ROYCE is pressing draughtsmen nation a press conference yesterday.

ally to undertake 'blacked' work from the firm's strike-bound Coventry plant.

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rs city sus pacin lowing a £5-a- these zer George Hope said to Coventi alone holds big danger bester dadvised offer $2 15 WORKERS at Armstrong Patents factories in Beverley, 1 comekend DATA'S executive meeting on ernesdaier eat Yorks, are operating an overtime ban in protest against an instruction accept this ofetors redundancies caused by a productivity deal.

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meuld weren the present form destroys B'ham gas 10 percent.

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mcials, not And an onto wat give lead And thei cane men are to lose has raked the American • to al warning on strike for nearly two weeks die micells loudy. capaboration the commented and Measured Day The bathgare hoop:»s throug incentive guarantee for

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GEC radar in Take A sem part recom HECKLING from a shar Vietnam? spite of strike testing against rejection Pietna included of no. of Scienc specim dears red tog ive antuate • meetric leading Lead comers, he soducts or, cus st cybernetics expert. Nelson refused informa man be to ne the dece Wolverhampton and heedinmat hide can is in Vietnam. Lovenly. "The Board have not aban- doned the concept of seven- lay working where it would bi o the advantage of particula collieries. As with • the PIB, the NCB moans about the pro- ductivity drop (only a 2.1 per cent increase in 1969- 1970 compared with 9 per cent in 1968-1969). The reason for this gloom is that they are relying on a continually increasing pro- duction rate to make up for the amount lost due to closures and systématic sackings. The Board hopes to ex- tend its 'workers' partici- pation' scheme to include apprentices and other young workers. Encouraged At present, 'encouraged' some adult workers by possibilities of a pit closure to meet manage- ments and discuss how to increase productivity at so- called 'face-team confer- ences'. The Tory government and the NCB have their sights set on coal being produced by an extremely small num- ber of highly-productive, highly-automated pits. All forms of piecework would be eliminated to en- sure increased output does not warrant extra payment.

At the same time, use of and time-study systems round-the-clock shifts would ensure continuous, top- speed running of all machinery. Fundamental While miners have every right to fight for increased pay and shorter hours, this struggle needs to be linked to the fundamental issue: whether capitalism can be allowed to try and solve its crisis by utilizing the ad- vances of science and tech- polesy purely for the pur.

extorting greater pose intensity of labour-and for the decimation of jobs lead- ing to the creation of mass unemployment. Arab Revo

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ties might spark off a world leader, Georges war, Habash, replied : 'Oh yes. But let me assure you, this does not worry us.

"The whole world would stand to lose something in such a war, except for us. If that should be the only way to destroy Israel, Zionist and we would in Arab reaction, fact welcome the third world war.' This statement, made to the W German magazine 'Stern', is already being used by the énemies of the Arab revolu- drive Jewish tion to the workers in Israel behind their own ruling class. Combined Zionism's defeat is a task that can be carried out only by the combined action of Jewish and | Arab workers and peasants. By reviving this dangerous and adventurist Maoist line, Habash is in fact politically disarming the guerrillas and their supporters. His middle-class pessimism on the capacity of the inter- national working class to come to the aid of the Arab Revo- lution walls off the Middle- East liberation movement from its most powerful allies in the capitalist countries. Also implied in Habash's reformist statement is the illusion that the Soviet bureau- cracy (or possibly China) will intervene decisively on the side of the Palestinians against US the Zionists and their backers. Committed Israeli Defence Minister Dayan has stated several times that the Kremlin is committed to a deal with the US in the Middle East. China simply does not have the military capacity to wage such a war even if its leaders intended to. The utmost care must be paid to the problems. and political development of the Tewish working class Ultra-left Habash's ultra-left bragging about the nuclear destruction of Israel will not win lewish workers to the guerrillas' aid, previous state- despite his ments that the guerrillas do not equate Jews with Zionism.

The Israeli ruling class is daily accumulating more workers debts from Jewish to pay for their war against the Arabs. Mrs Meir has asked Nixon and other imperialist leaders worth for a further $800m of credits to pay for US jet fighters and arms. Friday, September 18, 1970

LETTER FROM JAIL

worsen PERUVIAN TROTSKYIST Hugo Blanco, serv- ing a 25-year sentence in the island prison of 'El Fronton', has issued a letter from the military regime's jail refuting the charges laid against him.

The letter was received in Britain by the Committee for Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru.

Last week the authorities took away my typewriter by "orders from above", officers had taken this measure because I used the machine to write "articles on Agricultural Reform and Political Stories".

This action is plainly contrary to the assertions of the government Information Office who state that I am a prisoner for having "killed my fellow beings" (semejantes) and not for having defended the rights of the peasants. I do not believe that they fear that "I kill my fellow beings with a typewriter!" There are some confusing matters in this information which I feel should be clarified. One is the declaration of the spokes- man that police had died "in doing their duty". Does this mean that the defence of Gamonalismo (cruel feudal system) is their duty? It would follow that these police were "people like myself".

Does this mean that the peasants who were massacred by the police cannot be considered as my "semejantes" (fellow beings)?

"Information Service" Why should the which distorts facts and slanders a prisoner im- pose press restrictions? Whilst Blanco his wages fight against the military gov- ernment from jail, supporters of his cause staged a demon- stration recently at the final of the Congress meeting of Americanistas in Lima. Tak erupar insident moan president Juan Velazco Alvarado. The demonstrators clam- of oured for the release peasant leader Blanco. As the police closed in to the Congress arrest them audience formed a cordon around the them and presi- dent was asked to call off the police. President Alvarado 1s re- ported to have told Dr Torero, of Language professor the Faculty of the Agricultural National University, that the looking government was into the question of Blanco's re- lease. The bravery of Blanco and the determination of his sup- porters is in sharp contrast to Hugo Blanco: Typewriter the servile position of the taken away Peruvian Communist Party which earlier this year gave its support to the Velasco mili- Revolution stating tary regime that of important radical number measures' had been intro- duced ! Her security for all these loans is the increased exploita-

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tion of the Jewish working The explanation for this class, and not only donations support was given by. Jorge from the Jewish capitalists in Del Prado, Peru Communist the US. Party general secretary, in the pages of the 'Morning Star', Directed British daily paper of the Communist Party, on May 12 this year. In the Arab world, the The British labour main thrust must be directed refute against the oil monopolies, the ment must such counter - revolutionary Achilles heel of imperialism in action and call the the Middle East. immediate release of Hugo Blanco and The Iraqi workers, to- all the militants now im- gether with those of the prisoned in Peru. Persian Gulf, have be to •

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WEEK: Workers brought into this struggle.

Press publishes two lengthy In Tordan itself, the im- articles by a special corres- perialists have little to lose in pondent on the present situa- the way ot installations and tion in Peru. investments. These the economical

WEATHER

are and political questions dominating the struggles in London area, SE England: Rather Tordan. cloudy. dry. Wind SW Not even the most radical fresh strong. Near normal. Max 19C (66F). of middle-class nationalists Central southern England, E Mid. their can grasp content and Mostly doudu Dry at first, but perhaps occasional rain begin to resolve them. SW. afternoon evening. Wind Only those who base their politics the Trotskyist on England: Midlands. central northern critique i of Stalinism and the Mostly cloudy with out- theory of the Permanent Revo- breaks of rain and drizzle and hill lution, can lead the Palestinian 108 batches. becoming brighter occasional showers. Wind with masses to victory and freedom.

fresh SW local hills. over Near normal. Max 17C Tactical coups-hi-jackings (63F). and the taking of hostages England: Mostly cloudy with outbreaks of drizzle and however important, are com- hill and coastal patches. Wind pletely subordinated to the fresh strong, Wear normal overall strategy of every pro-

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and NW England: Cloudy with rain or letarian revolution drizzle and hill and coastal for liberation the national in becoming brighter with Mid-East. showers. Wind racinna strong gale, becoming w westerly The building of such Near normal. 150 leadership will be consider- (59F) Glasgow i and area: ably facilitated by mobilizing Mostly cloudy with outbreaks of powerful support in the British rain and hill fog patches, becoming with abour movement against the brighter Sunny InTerEs Wind fresh, SW. military dictatorship in N ireland Max 15C Amman and its Tory sponsors sus. wind intervals and scat- in this country. tered showers. moderate Max 16C Near resh, SW. normal. • See Late News 61F)

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUER

Trotsky Memorial Meeting

GLASGOW

Partick Burgh Hall (nr Merkland St underground) 7.30 p.m. Leon Trotsky's Admission 2s. last words: Trotsking ish Revolution coming 'I am confident of Speaker: national secretary, (SL Healy the victory of the Sunday Fourth International October 4 Go forward'!