Workers Press no. 26

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THE FIRST QUESTION Labour supporters should ask themselves is why did the Labour vote drop so catastrophically in what were previously regarded as safe Labour seats. No the how right wing and fake lefts juggle the figures, this con- clusion is unavoidable. There simple an- 1S swer: with the cost of liv- ing steadily rising, the pur- of chasing power wages being slashed and unem- plovment rising. there is a deep dissatisfaction with a

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workers Workers Press that inside government whose econo- the factory supervisors have —members of the Amalga- mic policies being loudly applauded by the been n structed to operale mated Engineers and discipline accoreance bankers. Foundryworkers-were re- with an internal memoran- ground to hand repared Wilson the called to work this week at dum. over to the Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port that ories. Militant stewards This is the political reality, plant, but 3,000 National the memorandum -nien er- fertively cuts convenor how the Union of Vehicle Bulders out of procedure- -must have to think thos been discussed in the old op- assembly workers are still wth tha dic. trichey sesh it of thair unioe.

port was. boye all, the lesson laid off. i though move result Stewards have told the the productivity proposals by olner lour seals where the orevious memoers down on militancy died. in Swindon Francis Noel

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in This state barer resoned states that 'if found consicer nic espanaly ahase in Creaty Decessary to suspera empioy • nercona

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ers) Delne unwine to work

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loca. maintained a discreet silence enced trom work ane anord about such an affront to ed the opportunity to remain e vien foom ene to maine enable over 18 ommitter FIFTEEN Rover-2,000 assem- returned plant district committee office Solhul *Steward to be likewise sus- company's Josine ground. dILel vendeo ane Immealdtely rerer.

complaining about fumes com- red astriet committet No policy booth used for onice tor acoon. arter wOlc unoerseaune une cars he snold return to vant to Labour entered the election une ine hac to ne cout acont memherchin at dc committee licy. All the candi- Cown and men were sent District home say was Rover spokesman reasonable s fuse to return that in hic aninion tha con modest. sensio e ditions sufficiently su sente d int ane andersineoe. ane lidl ne woue be broua to reDre xtractor fan under absentee proce sent them cure the davs immediate v

KENYA

"Tribune'-ites Foot Mikardo justifying support Labou voters to T would be the last man in the world tnat. any- say thing the Labour government goes is pertect.. •nutte all the citiciem of what ha hopn done hy tha government in the Party's name. there has been a solid achievement.'

With these leftish phrases, KENYA'S only opposition party, the Kenya People's he innored the neohieme tha wade workerg ecnecial!

Union, was banned on Thursday. The government radio those threatened with short.

station 'Voice of Kenya' claimed that the KPU had time and unemployment. become 'dangerous to the good government of Kenya' He avoided the increase "1 unemployment which has been as well as 'progressively more subversive'.

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This latest move against the opposition follows the Young Socialists arrest of its leaders and the house detention of Oginga Odinga, Procident Kenvat. ta's most outspoken critic. They were araucad

BAZAAR

Soere Ken Kenyatta's tacked by Strators has proved him- Kenvata defender seit oval Kenya l Canning Town Public Hall form conflicts even within the ranks of his doors open 12 noon Kenya African Rational UnioN. Can you sew? knit? paint?

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ТОГ new autack part of Kenvatta's strategy of give something towards our bazaar ?

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and foreign investors. With Kenya's first elections Help us make this the best bazaar ever held !

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of open hostility to his

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polices.

FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY I

• NUMBER 26

candidate in the Swindon by-election seen on Thursday after casting his own vote.

A.T.U.A.

ELLESMERE PORT

meetings 'Next Steps at Vauxhall, The Fight for Parity, The

BIRMINGHAM

Crisis In the Motor 'The future for the motor Industry' industry' Sunday, November 2 Tuesday, November 4 10.30 a.m. 8 p.m. Three Horse Shoes Railway Hotel Coventry Road, Sheldon Little Sutton MINERS' delegates on Thursday threw out their execu- tive's recommendation to capitulate to the National Coal Board over the wages and hours dispute.

Meeting in London the By Peter Read voted delegate conference by 168,000 votes to 165,000 conference said that if their to reject the NCB's offer to strike them recent one meet the wage claim in full ot their biggest in- then this was while maintaining the 40- surely the way to defeat the hour week exclusive of the hours NCB on the question. 20-minute meal break. The outstanding feature of the recent strike was that all The miners have been justi- the existing leaderships fiably enraged by the refusal worked to secure a quick re- of the NCB to include the meal break in their eight-hour turn to work and sell out the miners' fight. daSoo miners travelled from Only the forces of the All Unions Trades Alliance and coalfields all the to Socialist Labour League the lobby the conference. will continue fought and to fight to build an alternative Jeered miners' leadership. They jeered angrily at the conference decision take the NCB offer to a ballot of 340,000 miners. Miners know that the bal- lot, which will take several LONDON dockers are to weeks complete, is of extend the blacking by the executive to head off and dissipate their cargo handled by non-dock militancy. labour. The executive will not suc- ceed in this because the issue A meeting of shop stewards at stake is not just the 20- and rank-and-file delegates on Wednesday night supported minute meal break. Miners'. resentment has the decision of No. I docks group committee to extend the steadily accumulated over the Labour government's closures ban to ten other emplovers. wages policy and thie Since the bezinning of and low the continued week cargo to be handled by betrayal their own leadership. the Hay's Wharf group sub- Miners who lobbied the sidiaries has been, blacked.

MBER 26 • SATURDAY, NO

Blackbird Leys (Ox- ford) tenants say: is a wage cut

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450 council-house tenants, meeting in Baccom voted which had Parsons, asi ina alled for a

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en train This is due to take place at Mende same time Hays has house in Cagestorm and where. it The daily organ of the +g7 Central Committee of the To Socialist Labour League

RDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969

PRICE 6d. By G. Healy THE COMMISSION on Industrial Relations the eleven-week-old recognition inquiry into strike at the Better Sound Reproductions fac- East Kilbride, is being completed this tory, weekend. Mr Leslie Blakeman, the retreat. It has opened the way for ex-labour relations direc- AEF officials to co-operate in sell-out based on the Com- tor at Fords, is heading nission's findings the inquiry. must not be He spent Wednesday in left The strike will only be won talks with union officials of by mobilization Mass and Mangemend support from the trade unions factory including the

TO BUSI

one smussie trouse manager, Mr. John England.

to nnal victory. AS PREVIOUSLY adver- His after remarks seeing films of the police provoca- tised, today's issue of the British Press uons azainst pickets Inalcale Workers carries W020 _can be expected iron the fourth article in our the inquiry. series on the motor Stalinism industry. (

'PUT OFF'

This can found on be that the scab He thougat exposed labour page two. In view of Wednesday's imited production would be attack on car- actory A reply to Mrs Reid's vicinis anlakonzeu workers by by the the Home violence. *Ultra-Left- It has rather put them off pamphlet Secretary, we have also trade unions tor alone time ism In Britain', brought forward the fifth Mr bakeman said that the article in this series. students who toined the

COMMENCING

Tues- have stayed chould see nage four. exacerbated the day November the Callaghan singles When Workers Press will pub-

CIR

out the Midlands finding Car- lish five articles by will be Mr this clearly Robert Black. They will workers. chairman, heralds Mr John a new govern- appear as follows: ment hacked attemnt TO the CACCOLIVe membe. break ..tneir continuec People's Front and the WHaled Hateds Calon Foundry- resistance to productivity gineering ana Transitional Programme

(AEF),

workers next danic. of the Fourth Interna- week. It is in this context that makes it very urgent tional. "his movement oUr Industrial corres- that tha lahout Wednesday Nov. 5: pondent has interviewed rives support to the East Stalinism in the War: the Kilbride strikers workers with 13 months' indefinite Stalin-Hitler Pact. postpone- experience of Measured- called. one-day Thursday Nov. 6: 3. district Day Work Rootes, Stalinism in the War: the Linwood. committee *Big Three'. Friday Nov. 7: 4. British Trotskyism Today' and inism Revisionism. Saturday Nov. 8: 5. The fight for alternative leadership: The Stalin- ists' record—-and ours.

THE

ten-week-old strike defend the Make sure every Com- jobs and wages Standard - Triumph, munist Party member ers British-Leyland Liverpool, is still solid.

combine. ° nack from now you know receives a on these dates. copy The 1,150 strikers voted the management. nee mod Thursday to stay out. bara ra campeded by cision to court of dispute. inquiry into the ARE Collers the • factory's would make COUrI or moully difference at all to the mens attuce 'Show money' He told the meeting: 'What we want is what we have wanted - some- aways Tand annie 'The management must show the of their COlOUT monev before we return.' The men are not expected Thursday. until next meet again The court of inquiry can, of have course. purpose

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excert to orovide a cover tot ase out o toe strike Talks failure Repeated attempts hu the

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and the Department of #moloyment and Productiviti have failed to find any pros-

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pects compromise could bring management and unions together for talks. victory in this fight particularly important. Pril subscription Triumph (Posted daily) two days workers are in the vanguard E203. 0r three OR ou select 4 a yea £1 for three months I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for s claimed non-dock labour is eins user all over the Dockers cour- fight Name a te dundancies caused by this type of transter or worr The employers are building Address away cargo handiina denote from the doric col no to able to employ weakly organ- ized non-dock labour. Post to: Circulation Workers The No. 1 aroun committes Croanizer Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

is seeking to have tha. hom throughout the artended London docks.

workers press

LABOUR KEEPS DOOR

OPEN FOR TORIES

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

THE FIRST QUESTION Labour supporters should ask themselves is why did the Labour vote drop so catastrophically in what were previously regarded as safe Labour seats. No matter how the right wing and fake lefts juggle the figures, this con- clusion is unavoidable. There is a simple an- swer: with the cost of liv. ing steadily rising, the pur- chasing power of wages and slashed Debe unes ployment rising, there is a deep dissatisfaction with a

PRODUCTION

Workers Press that inside workers whose covernment the factory supervisors have mic —members of the Amalga- policies are being instructed to operate been applauded by the mated Engineers and loudly discipline accordance bankers. Foundryworkers—were re- with an internal memoran- has prepared called to work this week at Wilson dum. conne o never do Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port Militant stewards the which i litical table it plant, but 3,000 National mnemoranaul 18 the fectively the

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conycho. no matter how Intane Union of Vehicle Builders may seem con- out oi brocecure nave those who dis historue to beet leadershid of their discussed in the old op. assembly workers are stil Been fine portunist way laid off. see It was, ve all, the lesson 1hey Turther move to ram accept- from result. through Stewards have told the company's Baker because resigned states he said, consider employ first- lecessary persona Interests

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ee(s) Greece. being 1 be work especialy those in normally The Party sus- local Labour pended from work and afford- maintained a discreet silence

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one ooporunitv to remain ahout such an afront to the electorate. in piant conference room. in.

terview room etc.' enab e nuAr months the

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constituency was virtually in-niant member distmet committee to talk to employ- disenfranchised. Last May the position majority council-and already .. sit FIFTEEN Rover-2,000 assem- returned was Noel bly line workers walked out the Solihull Steward likewise sus- and immediately refer ended district committee used No policy after which acuon. undee aline ha cars. he should return to plant be shut dis- of Labour entered the election Ine acovaint membersalD All down and 500 men were with Stoddary policy. the candi- sent cussion. commitee date could say nome member in attencance Rover said spokesman 'Should employee(s) still re that Swindon nean bee were that in his oninion the con. fuse to return to normal work they are to be suspended in.

ditions were not culicient u understanding and work- definitelv to be dealt unpleasant to prevent ing, but that an extractor fan later absentee proce- would probably be fitted.

the days immediately the before election. enort were made to dress him un as

KENYA

"Tribune'-ites Michael "he Mikardr Ans tered the campaign justifying the kardo betrayals. Swin- aulsort Labour last man in that ally of what all the enticisin na. been cone ov the covermen in tie parv's name there ha been a solid achievement.

With these leftish Vinored the problems of KENYA'S only opposition party, the Kenya People's Union, was banned on Thursday. The government radio The wore workers esnect those threatened with short station 'Voice of Kenya' claimed that the KPU had time and unemployment. He avoided the become 'dangerous to the good government of Kenya' ncreas nemployment which has bee as well as 'progressively more subversive'.

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This latest move against the opposition follows the Young Socialists arrest of its leaders and the house detention of Oginga

GRAND XMAS

Odinga, President Kenvat- critic. ta's most outspoken "hey

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accused government riots in Kisumu Kenyatta's car was at- hostile demon. Strators proved him Kenyatta self defender Hovall Kenya imnerialst interests in His nanosition to landl Canning Town Public Hall form created conflicts even within the ranks his doors open 12 noon Kenya African Union. Can you sew? knit? paint?

been singled this new attack make something for our Bazaar?

Kenyatta's art of give something towards our bazaar ?

Strater lefending rich the Tarmers Have you a tin of grocery? jumble?

and toretan investors Help us make this the best bazaar ever held !

With Kenva's first elections since independence Help us raise the money for our daily paper— lace than eight months away, Kenyatta obviously o en hostity expres fears

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of policies.

FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 26

'The Young Socialists' candidate in the Swindon by-clection agen on Thursday after casting his own vote.

ELLESMERE PORT

A.T.U.A.

meetings •Next Steps at Vauxhall, The Fight for Parity, The

BIRMINGHAM

Crisis In the Motor 'The future for the motor Industry' industry' Sunday, November 2 Tuesday, November 4 10.30 aim. 8 p.m. Three Horse Shoes Railway Hotel Coventry Road, Sheldon Little Sutton MINERS' delegates on Thursday threw out their execu- tive's recommendation to capitulate to the National Coal Board over the wages and hours dispute.

Meeting in London the By Peter Read delegate conference voted by 168,000 votes to 165,000 if their conference said that to reject the NCB's offer to them strike won one of meet the wage claim in full their biggest wages in- then this creases ever, was while maintaining the 40- surely the way to defeat the hour week exclusive of the

NCB

the hours question. on 20-minute meal break. The outstanding feature of was that all strike The miners have been justi- the recent the leaderships fiably enraged by the refusal existing worked to quick re- of the

NCB

include the to work and sell out the turn to meal break in their eight-hour miners' fight. 5oo miners travelled Only the forces of the All from Trades Unions Alliance and coalfields lobby the conference. the major to League the Socialist Labour fought and will continue to build an alternative fight to Jeered miners' leadership. They jeered angrily at the conference decision to take NCB offer to a ballot of the 340,000 miners. Miners know that the bal- lot, which will take several LONDON dockers are to weeks complete, is to of the extend the blacking by executive manoeuvre to head off and dissipate their cargo handled by non-dock militancy. labour. The executive will not suc- A meeting of shop stewards ceed in this because the issue 20- and rank-and-file delegates on stake is not just the Wednesday night supported minute meal break. the decision of No. docks Miners' resentment has group committee to extend the steadily accumulated over the Labour government's closures ban to ten other employers. and low wages policy and the Since the beginning of the betrayal of their week cargo to be handled by continued own leadership. the Hay's Wharf group sub- the sidiaries has been blacked.

Miners who lobbied Blackbird Leys (Ox- ford) tenants say: rent rise is a Te peopl ostheir Aposa, rioked sece ten ncreases directly with short

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Dockers black transferred work none are tore bad The ne south the end of the make place at pose in olderore The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

DAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969

PRICE 6d. By G. Healy THE COMMISSION on Industrial Relations recognition inquiry into the eleven-week-old strike at the Better Sound Reproductions fac- tory, East Kilbride, is being completed this weekend. Mr Leslie Blakeman, the retreat. • has opened the way Iol ex-labour relations direc- AEF officials to co-operate in a sell-out based on the Com. tor at Fords, is heading the inquiry. must not be He spent Wednesday in to fight alone The strike will only be won with officials by the or mass and local management, sunport trom the trade unions factory including the nuch the struggle through manager, Mr. John England.

to final victory. films remarks AS PREVIOUSLY adver- after tised, today's issue of the British fong ast nickers macate Workers Press carries what expected from can the fourth article in our the inquiry. motor Stalinism the sentes

'PUT OFF'

This can be found on He thought that the scab page two. still maintaining In view of Wednesday's imited broductior factory would be antagonized on car- A reply to Mrs Reid's by the violence: the Home workers by It has rather put them off pamphlet 'Ultra-Left- Secretary, we have also ism In Britain'. brought forward the fifth students this joined SerIeS

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Tues- 'should have stayed (See page four.) DICKeLS 4 the day November They exacerbated the away. When Callaghan singles Workers Press will pub- situation out the Midlands findings will be presented to Mir ins CIR inquiry lish five articles by this clearly workers, Robert Black. They will Ferguson, BSR chairman, and a new govern- heralde appear as follows: John Boyd, Scottish ment-backed attempt to member Teopley: Mont and The break -their.. continued *innigamat resistance to productivity gineering Workers AN Transitional ¡Programme early deals. next Fourth Interna- of the week It is in this context that makes

LOIS

it very urcent Tomal industrial our the corres- that Wednesday Nov. 5: movement 2. pondent has interviewed sYbride strikers support the East Stalinism in the War: the workers with 13 months' The indefinite Stalin-Hitler experience of Measured- _postpone ment Thursday Nov. Day Work Rootes, called by the Stalinism in the War: the Linwood. committee serious "Big Three'. Friday Nov. 7: 4. British Stal- Trotskvism Revisionism. inism and Saturday Nov. 8: 5. The fight for alternative leadership: The Stalin- ists' record-and ours. THE ten-week-old strike of the struggle to defend the Make sure every Com- iobs ages of work Standard - Triumph, munist Party member at receives Liverpool, is still solid.

you know a com- al C

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under heavy attan, from on these dates. The 1,150 strikers voted copy mass meeting on Thursday to stay out. They impressed

NOL

by Mrs Barbara Castle's de tO t set court inquiry into the dispute. Mr Bill Moore, the tactory's

AEF

convenor, thA of inquiry would make difference at all to the nen's attitude 'Show money' He told the meeting: 'What we want is what we wanted have - some- thing tangible. "The management Their show the cole return. show colour on expected The men are not Thursday. meet again next of inquiry of co son have can, purpose Course

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except to provide a cover for a sell-out of the strike Talks failure Repeated attemnts by the TUC and the Department ol Employment and Productivity

NOW

Dare tale compromise his compromise could bring management and unions together for talks A victory in this fight is particularly important. Pull subscription Two editions The Standard - Triumph Posted daily) (For any two daye workers are in the vanguard OR vou select £2 10s. for three 24 8 va months 21 for three months I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for is claimed, non-dock labour is being used. Dare having to here: are Name dundancies caused by this type of transfer of The hamployers are building Address depots away docks to to employ weakly organ- Post to: Circulation Workers' Press. 186a Seeking to tar committee •roanze Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

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PIERRE DREYFUS,

state boss of France's Regie Nationale des Usines Renault, recently told a British journalist: 'You are looking at a happy man, the head of a happy organization'. Even the casual observer will find little evidence to justify this remark from the company's market position or from conditions within its factories. Looked at more closely, it is a piece of almost unparalleled cynicism. Like the other French car firms Renault has steadily been losing its share of domestic car sales over the last few years and, although industrial France's biggest concern, it lies fourth to Fiat, British-Leyland and Ford in the European market. Despite its nationalized character, the company has launched the same kind of wage-cutting speed-up and attacks on its labour force as its privately-owned counter- parts. The state take-over in 1945 was, of course, of the same order as the nationalization of coal and rail transport in this country. Ostensibly motivated by Renault's collaboration with the Nazi invasion, it was really carried out in order to break up the workers' councils set up by workers who had them- selves occupied the plants.

In spite of the stranglehold maintained by the Stalinists over trade union organization in the company's major factor- ies, these have always been a barometer of the French work- ing class's militancy. Since May-June 1968, when workers displaced the state for some three management weeks, Renault factories have veritable cockpits of been struggle. Monday's breaking of Renault's Le Mans lock-out, and the four-hour strike ten days ago are only the most recent expressions of the enor- mous discontent amongst the company's workers Wanes LTHOUGH the rate of A exploitation has been stepped up considerably in the last few years, the wage- scale at Renault's largest allows even the plant still most skilled workers to earn an average of only £36 10s.

for a 48-hour week. And these are some of the best-paid workers in a country where the cost of living is an estimated third higher than in rising even Britain . . . and faster! Renault wages are calculated by the month, with workers graded according to their skill.

The management has of late attempted to claw back the 7 to 12 per cent increases granted the the under pressure Renault hopes to earn some £201 general strike through an in- creasingly restrictive applica- tion of this scale. It is this which lies at the root of the present upsurge.

One-fifth of the wages are made up by the prime, a pro- ductivity payment calculated on a quarterly basis and linked to anti-strike provisions.

It is only paid if 'unjustified absences, including strikes, are kept down to a certain level.

For every nine hours lost each week, 20 per cent of the total is deducted. Like those of carworkers in Britain, the problems of Renault workers are through- and-through political. Their to defend attempts and improve their standard of living bring them into open conflict with the Pompidou regime's post-devaluation 'aus- terity' measures. in the course What's more, of this struggle the fruits of a whole period of Stalinist be- trayal in the trade unions come up for review. For the French ruling class, 'austerity' is proving a two- edged against car weapon workers. Still reeling from the sharp increase arising cost-of-living from devaluation, workers now find their wages, conditions and jobs threatened from an- other direction. To add insult to the already injuriously low level of wages, Pompidou has placed a tight squeeze on hire purchase re- quiring a 50 per cent deposit on all goods and the full pay- ment within 12 months. Although Renault is still able to claim home market waiting-lists for its cars, this in no way reflects increased demand. The massive slump in the domestic market has merely been temporarily masked by a lare sapo diver need cars to attempt to alleviate the bal- ance of payments deficit.

Built in the mid-1930s, most of Renault's plants remain ex- tremely outdated and in order compete in international to markets the company is plan- ning a £75 million investment programme over the next year.

Compared with British- Leyland's present £200 million modernization scheme, this may seem a relatively modest sum, but it is four times what the company was spending as many years ago. of The for this, money course, must be extracted from Renault workers. It is this inexorable drive against wages and conditions behind Dreyfus's which lay October boast that the com- pany would produce a million this sell about cars year, 350,000 in France itself and export the rest to earn an estimated £200 million. But it is by no means cer- tain that the company will be able to do this. Markels pluminet have I car manufacturers been coming under increas- ing pressure from Italy's Fiat, West Germany's General Motors subsidiary Opel and more recently Ford. o earn some £200m this year from exports. Many of th

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nours-and si Cost of living high, wages low-'£15 to £36 10s. for a 18-hour week? Exploitation up-'Individual production doubled over the last ten years? workers. The Common Market-'All firms hit... and tariff barriers haven't come down yet?'

Denationalization trend-Farming-out provinces Of cource a lat rel Cronoh companiec the Simca's home market share to Europe and Great Britain mar- fuse to go. 17.4 ket 1o 16.5, Pent 1s 'New recruitment has gone area and Their er cen a small extent. cent, British-Le policy now seems to be to take eyland's 12.5 per per cent. on completely unskilled wor- skilled men on Ford has pushed up its shar cent and rord's it ner cent their level cent over qualification. workes the cama nind and stal Boulogne-Billancourt Durous tos of course vere gaining ground. dangerous them. Henry Ford's recent visit to niant the south-west Paris ahout the 37,000 workers conseguenced Pomnidon may well be an of all this for the company's in the most ancient dintinn of suen mora direct workers. conditions. methods of penetration. French "There's been a big increase Renault's share 'They're trightener of thic has dropped from 28.9 to decentral the rhuthm of nroduction trying soe by yuyinginp newer plants.

all over the plant,' he said.

Alter gen it is doing roughly we used In my denartment Citroen's truinc other same. They to mod- hut nowiteunta 24lathatc labour force with not traditio s ernize. so 0 27 0 cent increase. Some departments have even of strudole higher. 'Both Simca maca harden are really 6Tho faraman are being hit harder than cracking the whip now. Renault by effects of the the Market 'Mact Common And the come toritt houton't straight speed-up. Thev've down yet! •I think foreign comnetition nut citanan they're very Simca very quickly once that workers at the moment and thev Condition want Roulnane. Billancourt nit ott cackingd lona The noccinla plants. There's been included wages aceleration modernizałon n come denar- You' ve and mente i the tract production there got Wa'ro fow automatic almact analice cuctom an recomll, manhinoa linda 'Not many actual sackings production has gone un two to lave taker place so far. three times with the wages What usually hap remaining the same. nenc transfer 'All the companies are losing om markets and of another, orts. Maready che mark d for loreigh Bueyes.

on to attack ower grade scale. compete their workers' another Renault nlant in the Billancourt stop-watch form of work-study has been in opera- tion for some time and super- vision has been tightened up.

The management has made several attempts to stop wor- kers starting work late by docking their pay a quarter of an hour for every couple of minutes lateness. Production reached record levels last year and the in- crease was continued into the first half of 1969. In the last ten years, in fact, individual production has more than doubled-from 5.7 The loading bay at the massive Renault factory at Boulogne- Billancourt to the southwest of Paris. vehicles a year to 12. Yet while the turnover in the same period has jumped from 222 portion to 54 million, the proportion of it going for the company's wages 80,000 workers fell from 29.66 to 26.73 per cent. Commented one maintenance worker: 'It's not only a question of the wages, but of the hours and the work. "They get speed-up through several methods. The most common is when they put on supplementary work during the changeover of shifts-this then gets established for all the shifts. I think we probably do about a car a minute on the track. 'The rate of exploitation is very high. Even two years ago the union established Renault was getting about £850 out of each worker per year. .cent of 'Already 80 per workers are employed in work beneath their qualification. Of course, if they lose their job, then that means they won't be able to get their proper rate anywhere else' In April and May of this over 100 year, there were different disputes arising from the management's reduction in the number of categories on the wage scale. Since the annual shutdown there have been strikes in at least dozen departments against the unfavourable appli- cation of this new scale by the management. 'We used to have a wage- scale comprising more than 100 different categories, ex- plained a member of the CGT.

'Now the management wants to cut this by more than half.

'Some workers thought they would get an increase, but it wasn't acceptable. In some cases they got about a centime (one fifth of a penny). 'The new scale was also used to put some workers in a lower category than they had Some been previously. even went back to the starting-rate, years' despite several experi- ence. 'A strike committee was set up in the maintenance depart- ment and a strike went on for days. There have been two movements in Cleon, similar Flins and Le Mans [three other Renault plants]. 'Our demands come mainly from the application of the wage-scale and the prime.

'The Stalinists make a lot of prime - noise about the they've had to accept the de- mand that it's integrated into the scale with no loss of earn- ings through strikes-but they often use it to determine the length of strikes with the com- pletely false argument that if we only stop for a short period we won't lose anything. 'Of course, the management doesn't take it when the whole factory strikes for no matter how long. They daren't! 'The four-hour strike here complete called a was diversion-so that the Stalin- ists could say "Well, we did our bit but we didn't get the support because others didn't do the same" 'We've got to have a united to fight Renault, movement not only inside Billancourt, but in the other plants as well.'

Saturday, November 1, 1969 By David Maude Fundamental ESPITE all Pompidou's talk about making the workers 'shareholders' in their industries, the company has, of course, refused to settle their demand for a pay scale of £17 10s. to £42 a week, claiming that it would cost £8-£9 million a year. Dreyfus's attitude reflects the government's determina- tion that the working class must be made to pay for the crisis. But the demands of last week's strike were funda- mental: .. A 40-hour week. Payment of the full irrespective of prime, strikes. Parity of earnings be- tween provincial plants and those in the Paris region. Retirement at 60. : Monthly payment of wages. As another CGT member told the Workers' Press at Boulogne-Billancourt : 'After the general strike, these problems are not raised in the way they were pre- viously. More and more workers understand that the basic question is the fight against the government, the question of power.' But here they come up at turn against the CGT's every Stalinist leadershiP in Britain carworkers move into a new stage of the against Measured-Day fight Work, 'penal clauses' and the threat of unemployment, they should study carefully the credentials of not only those right-wing union officials who to accept these want them but those of the shackles, Stalinists as well. We have already dealt with some aspects of their record at Renault. There are others.

It may come as something of a surprise to find militant workers like those at Boulogne- Billancourt fighting for the 40- hour week in 1969. The back- this is important. ground to The eight-hour day was written into the Renault agree- ment before the Second World War. But in 1945 the Stalinists allowed this to lapse under cover of Thorez's line that no worker could refuse to help 'reconstruct the economy'. (Thorez was the then secretary CP and of the French Minister in the post-war coalition government under de Gaulle.) The prime was also intro-, duced at this time, with the agreement of Communist Party members who were collaborat- ing completely with de Gaulle's capitalist government. Fearing that they will now be outflanked by the leftward working movement of the class, they now want this pay- ment consolidated. But have the Stalinists changed since 1945? Hardly.

In equally treacherous an manner, they now 'justify' the wages movement by the vast increase in the exploitation of the working class by the same they employers whose power then helped to stabilize.

It should also be remem- bered that it was these same Stalinist chieftains who May-June 1968 opposed Re- nault workers demanding a minimum £20-a-week wage and recommended acceptance offer, of the government's made in an attempt to end the general strike.

Saturday, November 1, 1969 muniste Last week's demands France's standard of living is assembly Renault's estimated to be one-third higher than in Britain and still lle they Seguin Ine rising. Above : Renault Drolone une Tour -nour sunke much of their workers buy echoed The leers ane shouts market that greeted cowardly their factory at their Billancourt proposalter 18 months before.

from Renagin plant printed in ! October plant eon. 24's brings Violat VUl Party's Workers une communisu … role draw their con- very cleary. clusions about trend three-hour strike io. the denationalization warus IrOn No. factory's WO other points should aepartment practice or tarmine. 'be made in conclusion. recently, explains the getter. Out WorK tactories Where spread quickly sec- exploitation other the conditions tions and the CGT instructed The first is that besides con- are even higher than at Renault all its members to go home.

ditions on the track, low wages itself, and from hours, Renault certain parts With Peugent. then in a joint leaflet issued many other with the Confederation Fran- kers have caise Democratique de Travail For instance the eating alices. joint lant and th facilities. mistake Peugeot is being built it increase in made Despite the the with the allanseleuls if the labour force over few strike was to be the last lo see private company training. 30,000-37,000, mnaennte or nor. vears

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Some components common crease already-over- 'tried the Peugeot more contain cand Kenault are loaded restaurant accommoda- and this orranize me acuon. already • being made Saint. tion One restaurant has without great success because Quen. the north fact been shut. one could count between 1,500 under a Peugeot manager. of the Billancourt factory and strikers. then restaurant workers 7000 tried to minimize the action by themselves work in impossible Al ied ortant feature leaflet five important back go to between Trades sittings Allance s minutes Unions form and nops anu acciac un 1 Cl une stale manacement conterence Will has be a discussion on the French auranon Ine acuion witn rerused change the order car orkers from Renault will their leaders mez-schedule factory alleviate this. Workers the a st week, only the Secondly, indica- prey hope 10 there are union) called workers tions that present a de- support the Boulogne-Billan- state man- tailed the situation court action. agement for very long. in all the major plants. This is the basic programmatic document of the world The death agony of movement founded by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.

1938 the revolutionary Marxists had found it necessary to capitalism lay the foundations of the Fourth International in order to restore workine-class leadersiio aner the dereats nrenared hv and the the Stalinist bureaucracy in control of the Third (Communist) International. The defeat of the German Revolution tasks of the 1923. of the British General Strike and of the Chinese Revolution in 1927, followed by Hitler s victory over 4th intervational the German working 1933, finally ruled out the class in transforming the Communist perspecuive international by internal opposition. 60 pares. I• 5.00 Results Service. restlin Coe stables To Are Company: 19:10

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these tests. changes, traditionally used Cabinet Have announced on Wednesday, reflect development results were alarming losopily. AlIC balance for those who believed intelli- or intelicence tests is a case ithin recent years. over in Doint. designed unfolding of These tests were some inborn 'old I ne lascist and military 'mental develop- develop- pallell. mental guara wno butchered the spanish ment' 15936-1939 mell. tne assist It was found that the tests efficient selection of children Represent heir significant measuring were largely you were middle lo De lainea In une whether class or not. The language sChools and universites talists, managers and profes- used middle the tests and have now finally been pen sionals of capitalism. and working-class sioned off. child What this could Franco generaly see tne Been ning on are that ment' was, no one bothered sense in answering such stupid consider as long as the been the last ten going on LeSS questions. avocalcu lo cul aown cauld- Unce these cimcuities were vears at leas famous 'class uonal wastare removed. the During the 1950s and earl differences in intelligence' dis- 1960s some testers began to appee end Work). if there might have to ask wastage' therefore how Was lilal unistrauon ano the dres unese supposeary scientine in- struments lor measuring men Studies Project simply Inanced tal development were measuring development ine rora rouncauon maxes the western inrough differences Lois cear: common markel. 'As long as the problem dle-class and working-class the of the culturally deprived children. selective. There are unsolved, poten- The answer is that the mid- 0,000 members in the whole tially great scientists, math- dle-class | testers Wno aevisea Dei discounted any political sig spokesman for chalicians, social scientists, inese tests selected this type us members to the Cabinet: ° eithe victory is not for "Opu Dul Ior DeoDe wno DaDDe has no pomical policy Movement members. hours that Only before IRSTLY, can 1 express Delate and congratulations Suard had been demoted, 1,000 • he daily Robin wondertul achievement. guaro nad Black's are Spanish clashed arucies excellent. lascists on the frost had back pages bourgeois theses we get thrown and back tront at us in our lectures and tutor- pages contact any individuals who clings ou is origina, partevil every interested in what we are doing pre-CIvil Press is an outstanding gain for very interested in pro- 1 rotskylsun. theoretical publications want to Intorm vou ot the Critical verv hostile chester Universica. ater sed in the ders any to Franco's plan of restoring the please contact me. after the dictator's rganization eight concealed their We shall be holding seminars Manchester

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7.00 Weathe m. News Review '4.45 The 3, 4. 7.25 The World About Us. 8.15 Peter Grimes: opera in three acts. peter Of The Weetied. Summary. Marxists have always warned that this kind of procedure rough-and-ready plays into the hands of the class enemy. Unless we are conscious of our assumptions they will in- be the assumptions evitably of capitalism. Unless we at- tempt to change society our understanding of it and of the human beings in it will remain a superficial one. The question of the ability of the working class is not to be answered in the class- room. It is not to be answered by the deliberations of liberals and reformers on the educa- bility of the working class, de- liberations they have abruptly ceased now capitalism no longer requires them. By Robert Black Franco now leans heavily on the Catholi favour of a republic.) The obvious shift in power within the regime has created great unrest amongst the frus- trated sections of the fascist-in- fluenced middle class, as they now see the Cabinet openly re- presenting the monopoly and banking interests they joined the Fallange to oppose. This predominance of banking and modernized industrial in- terests over the landed aristo- cracy and the old military lead- ers will not lead to any easing up of the class struggle in Spain.

The appointment of pro- European' ministers in place of the old-style nationalists and iso- lationists (who well have may been making their last throw in the recent series of incidents off Gibraltar) renewed means a drive against the Spanish working class. ONE of Mr Enoch Powell's most fervent supporters is Mr John Hollick de la Taste Tickell, the 35-year-old squire of Whittlesford, Cambridge and landlord of the Tickell Arms. Another of Squire Tickell's peculiarities is the buckled shoes and 18th century knee- breeches he wears while pull- ing ale for clientele. Not that the squire is odd.

They just do that kind of thing out in Whittlesford, Camb. However, even out in that neck of the woods the writ of the dreaded Race Re- lations Board runs--and Mr de la Tasts Tickell (or is it Squire Tickell) just plain seems to have got on the wrong side of it. The incident for which he has been reported occured, he says, when 'a Trinidadian fel- low' arrived late for lunch at his pub with a white girl.

"He said something to me.

I told him that if he did not like the way England was run he could go back to his own country. But this was no more than İ would have told a Scotsman or an Australian in similar circumstances? What is Merrie Englande coming to when a landlord's witty quips (in his own public house, too) can be reported to the Race Relations Board?

Why, some people are even saying that Squire Tickell should be deported . . . back the 18th century where he be- longs.

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The answer is to be found in the 'History of the Russian Revolution': • "Who would believe", wrote one of the Russian generals, "that the janitor or watchman of the court build- ing would suddenly become Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals? Or the hospital or- derly manager of the hospital; the barber a big functionary; yesterday's ensign the com- mander in-chief; yesterday's lackey or common labourer burgomaster; yesterday's train oiler chief of division or sta- tion superintendent; yester- day's locksmith head of the factory?" would believe it?" • "Who it.' They had believe to (Trotsky.) A London teacher on the Catholic church for his support.

The modernizers and so-called "liberalizers' of 'Opus Dei, led by Lopez Rodo, Minister with re- sponsibilities for economic de- velopment and planning, are the bitterest enemies of the Spanish working class. competition Successful in Europe against the giant mono- polies demands now the most ruthless suppression of the work- ing class at home. As if to prove that it was "business as usual', Spanish police opened fire on a demonstration of workers in the Basque city of Bilbao who protesting were against the poisonous effects of industrial fumes in the area.

With the whole of western Europe now in political and in- dustrial ferment, the Spanish working class can take on and defeat the holy bankers of 'Opus Dei. By John Spencer BUT for all Squire Tickell's support, Mr Enoch Powell wouldn't have got very far without the solid resources of the Tory Party behind him.

And here, the resources are really are solid. Even more interesting than their solidarity is their source.

No doubt the landed gen- try, like Squire Tickell, do their bit for the party, but the real heavy brigade where finance is concerned are the boards of the big companies.

Last year, 433 firms be- tween them contributed just over £l million to the Tory Party and associated em- ployers' associations: £544,000 went direct to the Tory Party, £302,000 went to the British United Industrial- ists (anti-nationalization body) $63,000 went to the Economic League and the poverty- stricken Aims of Industry organization was left with a mere £29,000. Not surprisingly a good proportion of this money came from the banks. 20 banking and discount firms (including Enoch Powell's own stamping-ground, the National Discount Corpora- tion) contributed £136,000 to these worthy causes. One thing is for sure. However much it applauds Wilson's attacks on the work- ing class, big business remains loyal to its own party. The Tory Party remains the party of big business.

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GEORGE CATTELL, writing in the Rootes Motors paper 'Arrow', has said that 'the whole concept of Rootes pay and productivity agree- ments began with the opening of the Linwood plant...' Describing the 13- Linwood deal By our month-old 'an "enabling agree- as industrial ment". It sets the scene for the introduction of correspondent work-study etc', Cattell— who has been seconded by Rootes to direct the De-

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and Productivity's Man- power and Productivity Service - explained that this was the approach he was trying 'to persuade you get to about 40 Once years of just can't other industrial organiza- keep up this kind of pace.

tions to make'. We've got a management Carworkers, watch out! "trouble-shooter" the in at He doesn't speak moment. to James Callaghan, speak- mere workers, just puts the screws on the foremen. ing in the House of Com- mons on Wednesday, has He's "sacked" one of them six times in the last week for served unmistakeable notice driving hard enough, and not of new government- another five times. Periodi- backed drive to break all "sacked" cally, he gets him- resistance to productivity self, of course. deals. The deal was supposed to If he singled out Midlands but bring peace to Linwood, carworkers for special attack, there's been more trouble than it because fight ever since it came in. In June their such has had about 1,000 the against agreements blokes threatening to burn the been the most stubborn. place down! Callaghan thus hopes to strengthen the that It would be a madhouse if attempts already being made it wasn't so tragic. to Linwood-type force agree- It's horn-to-horn working ments down their throats.

for f24 12s. a week. Everyone During last year's discus- hates the agreement. Linwood sions the deal, on Financially we're much one steward was told by his off. When 'We're worse was on union's executive not piece-work back afraid of Measured-Day some years i'd £40 with Work'. earn week overtime-now it's £34. His reply, 'It all depends if you've got to work it or not, It would have been £45 on did not deter them from piece-work by because now steamrollering opposition to we'd have pushed it up the deal. meet the cost of living. But this, of course, must be A track worker confirmed the touchstone for every trade that conditions were already unionist's attitude. near-intolerable. In order to install shock- he told the Work- absorbers, ers Press, he had to squat on his haunches and hop with the Speed in working line while at the same time. ‹Taking off the night of the shift's a sign times, on the line commented patternmaker from Linwood's die shop. Already they've been able to get a big reduction in man- power off the line. Mainten- ance mates are also being cut Callaghan

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down. was holding forth in London I was inter- workers at Lin- viewing about their experi- wood ences since Measured-Day Work was accepted there. ‹There are two speeds you work', said sub-assembly steward, 'very fast ... and much faster. Since Measured-Day Work there's been fantastic change in conditions. The dis- cipline's tighter and every- thing's going faster. You've foreman got standing over you the whole time. At the they're moment, cutting out the night-shift 450 line operators and moving other work. The onto Imp schedule's been cut to 400 week-it down from went 1,000 to 600, now this. The line-speed's now 42 an hour, but with the night-shift We used to work on esti- off it's bound to go coming mated times for jobs. They up, of course. wanted system whereby they check progress and chase us up every day, but we fought to throw out Meas- ured-Day Work, work-study, three shifts and the rest.

SEPTEMBER'S output of cars They've not been able to and commercial vehicles was implement this on our section.

the second lowest production In for a month this year. fact they only got the deal through at all by making Ministry of Technology written concessions and figures released this week ing us a £14 a half-year tool showed that the seasonally allowance. Immediately this adjusted output for September accepted they tried to was of 138,000 cars only exceeded impose the conditions. production of March's 119.000 They've shifted the lockers March was the month when right to the end of the shop Ford strike the was taking we can't put our coats on place. SO early and work We have Commercial vehicle produc- right to the horn. Now we've second lowest this tion was got the new absence and late- year at 36,000. ness procedure. Car production was 19 per This is a big strain on a September cent lower than man's nerves. last year when there were also several strikes. I had a bloke next to me the bus other on day Registered

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workers. shackles on Linwood 16 when com ra sur Terea a entative Councils and ore ation changements preven Committees company again yearly Ing a loss the com- from both healer and tre o abide committed росій серолзь market share But Considerable Pa and o sept in c Linwood's f20 million allo As article in this series.

But there is little justifica M.D.W. at Linwood Productity I only see vele meets threat of redundancies 'There are two speeds you work. Very fast... ared at he thi Trade FoR the fourth year in nons Allanes contreces motor em- Rootes succession, and much faster!' this recommended week that no dividend be paid E Press da industria on any of its shares. Sales fell int be rares mil lion, e6 million less than *Deder your copies today!

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Rhe Creek in the Swindon you to ave weak hands ove toratebis is how the way for Al tilsones in olicies XPLAINING the late- the Tory victory was mapped E exactly. 70 minutes d'ater allowed course Young Socialists directe ness and absence pro- s of erich is cedure introduced in Nov- they're cutting down on wha g includes going thi to the to toilet! more and more mere getting considerable think the tot times, yet. year. their discipine and politca truly magnificen to kon motor one i valuable lessons, borned many gon in electons in the com 135. da aaro it soes up to ms from the wid is The die shop at Linwood threw out MDW.

The thes schem baThe deal here ember last year, a young toolroom worker told me and hour and there's beer real move for parity as yells that there had been a big of stewards because You get a • Socialists tightening-up on this since "Tories Yanks,e un too or tas, l me ne has Work was Measured-Day to byed hit pater make tur Yanks introduced Bitter demonstrations at Oxford tenants

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motor snow Turin Motor Show opened wednesdav freezing and seeming accompanied bitter demonstrations indine tigars were damaged their government allies. acetylene lamps Fiat's reluctantly spat and stopped them just Minister respons saee ristorice cartes not site • is not o sells showed that e meeting it.

Mr Parsons size sorident increases, he em pis nationalization in every three was societies crisis ere the ban ers. Biant a workers atte rest ra tes all the other terest they black cos Macholery o and inside ake us pay Saturday, November 1, 1969

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new nationalist government has asked Britain to withdraw its bases at the earliest possible date, it was announced in Tripoli on Wednesday. By Robert Black Under a 20-year treaty signed in 1953, the British available and when Libyan government has military elements take part in facilities in Libya and an various petroleum operations.

A further sign of the vacil- air base at El Adem. lating policy of the two-month- The old regime is its agreement to new government buy new supplies of arms also cancelled con- from Britain—but on a re- tract with the US Chappa- duced scale. company, though the Like qua of these Many army-dominated Libyan Foreign Minister nationalist, regimes, the Libyan govern- made it clear that this was ment walks the tightrope be- not to be general policy.

tween imperialism, the Soviet Joint development of the bureaucracy and the Arab country's oil will reserves masses. Salah continue, Bousseir It may drive a hard bargain ex- 'provided plained, that this with the weaker oil will lead to the stage of ser- will panies, but it not re- vice contracts when sufficient the basic problems of solve technical the Arab -national experience 1n the people- industry becomes unity, poverty and land. petroleum WHEN Black Panther leader Bobby Seale tried to pro- test in court against the violation of his constitutional rights, he was gagged and handcuffed to a chair.

Seale, on trial for alleged complicity in connection with a murder, shouted out in court on Thursday that he wished to ben refed to acts request, store claimed, the court was depriving him of his constitutional rights.

Outside the Chicago anti-war leader Dr Benjamin court, Spock told a rally protesting against the trial of Bobby Seale and his seven comrades (charged with inciting last year's riots outside the Democratic Party convention in Chicago that the disgrace, conduct of the trial was a and 'evidence of how rapidly we are slipping into a police state'.

Seale's case is a clear example of victimization of a Negro and his militant. The US labour movement must demand his comrades' release at once.

Nasser sees for U.S. Steel Lebanon chief

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of largest US Steel, Egypt saw the Lebanese army firm, now faces General Emile powerful new rival. commander biggest steel Thursday in an Japan's two Bustani on Yawatu and Fuji, end the companies, attempt to Iccell government approval of clashes between received series and Thursday for their merger Palestinian commandos on armed forces. the Nippon steel com- the Lebanese into pany, which now ranks second official According an only to US Steel. Egyptian announcement, This could easily be the leaders had sub- of Lebanese prelude to a round mitted proposals that provide concentration in this key in- basis' for ending the dustry throughout all the 'a good conflict. maior capitalist countries.

ADDRESSING an 8,000-strong meeting of his sup- porters, Gustav Husak hinted that the 80,000 Soviet troops stationed in Czechoslovakia since the August 1968 invasion are to remain indefinitely.

camp. The duty to defend it Reporting his eight on common duty.' is also a days of talks in Moscow This thinly refer- disguised with Soviet leaders, Husak duty' ence to 'common was dropped the hint when he greeted with roars of approval from his Stalinist audience, stated: who obviously see the con- 'We said in Moscow that tinued of Soviet presence means of the western border of Czecho- troops as the only privileged slovakia, neighbouring an im- their prestons in and perialist state, is the common positions the party border of the whole socialist state bureaucracy.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

All car, car delivery and components workers are invited to a motor workers' conference Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth

BIRMINGHAM

Saturday, November 8 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Write for credentials to R. Parsons, 21 Strawberry Path, Blackbird Leys, Oxford Conference fee 5s. a person