Workers Press no. 266

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

• FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1970

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NUMBER 266

Wages policy defeated, but Conference support Monopoly still flows in Right-wing Labour capital wiThis Pilkington's conference ing of 600 Pil- paraged the and the and anti-unior builds support No. 2 brancho has ath supporting the com Pay Unions Allianc Pilkington dele Octobe she shacking ot the restraint sent to Nasser Hush-hush drives myth 'selective' wedge for Tories deeper strikes spread MEDICAL SCIENCE has diag- nosed the cause of Nasser's death in party PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' unions yesterday ex- as a coronary thrombosis.

tended their selective strikes to more areas in London and the Midlands. Yorkshire and the

BYHICHAEL BANDA

This is true but it can safely be North-East, too were hit by stoppages.

From DAVID MAUDE said that the conflicting pressure of THE DEFEAT of the Labour Party right-wing's But union away ok sea imperialism and the Arab working class details

BY JOHN SPENCER

WAGE - RESTRAINT

attempt to re-affirm the principle of wage freez- Shadow Chancellor Roy Jenkins and peasantry on this representative of Ar National Union of Public in con- templative mood after his defeat on wage within striking weak semi-colonial and corrupt Callit ing by a mere 288,000 votes yesterday shows that distance of splitting freeze policy. bourgeoisie were just as potent causes strike Labour's 69th annual of his demise. Wilson, Jenkins and company are determined conference here down the middle yesterday. undermine to against cutive-backed unree lo-two trade union Stay out

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strength and rift Jenkin unity. some form of The right wing can this despite demonstrate conference port for the Tories in decIsion Die-cast unashamed such No notice fashion because the And it is unlikely that thes of the preparations swop much more notice Lories ano the death. less retreat of the trade puts jobs and takeover union leaders ages them to do so. in peril assisted By an Industrial correspondent nes had failed to budge

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jobs are respectabletty and portalios danger at Midland Retreat foundry that makes Ford Anticipate Cestor it London desterda Be or col Brielon Trades venice Darls Londor Union Congress. mediately moved pressity or, at partam ine Ailame Contre in lister could erde no Mid-East dealing and this Sick, or bade scher wor all the blood-letting and Saturday's Leviar Party rest ene behind Nixon- Hast be tree cary nre spotosrapas Workers Press of wilso best possible Jenkins constitute his is an unalterable laci inVest predicted Labours lett divisio co Gerry Caughey, a leader Tito junketting penalin and gend of the Pilkington glass. toon if the motion as a elec general Party leaders. en the 10 com see between" workers, replies to points UNITED STATES President Nixon held further talks sonaives of imperialism. Come back Obvious on the St Helens settle- in Belgrade yesterday with Yugoslav president Tito.

'But; protested Jenkins in Wilson's policies stank in the mistris reply, ment made

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workers press Right-wing Labour capital PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 266 • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

Wages policy defeated, but Monopoly and the builds support Pay restraint Nasser drives myth wedge for Tories deeper MEDICAL SCIENCE has diag- nosed the cause of Nasser's death in party as a coronary thrombosis.

BY MICHAEL BANDA

This is true but it can safely be said that the of conflicting pressure rOM DAVID MAUL THE DEFEAT of the Labour Party right-wing's imperialism and the Arab working class

WAGE - RESTRAINT

attempt to re-affirm the principle of wage freez- Shadow Chancellor Roy Jenkins and peasantry on this representative of within striking templative mood after his defeat on wage.

and corrupt semi-colonial came weak ing by a mere 288,000 votes yesterday shows that splitting freeze policy. bourgeoisie were just as potent causes distance Labour's 69th annual oI his demise Wilson, Jenkins and company are determined conference here down that the middle yesterday. undermine to -backed trade union strength and stabet Shadow unity. toned no red conne some To d The right wing can demonstrate this despite conference sup- port for the Tories in unashamed No notice dil fashion because the so because the pro- preparations the the death- lories and mering and less retreat of the trade imperialis leaders should xecutiv has no ages them to do so. They are also he actionsition a no cen had failed to budge the party leaders. Anticipate

ABOUT 1,000

Brighton "Edward Heath Comen Congress. refusal of kne lanur «dents in Great Britain a students in least, con to preslicy use stamic Centre in okeo capital, return Mid-East dealing Scanlon should *incomprehensible. confrontations see n Saturday's marchers wore must be ree Free no bain armbands "of the surprising. behind Nixon- the Te in consoft the and Workers Press • return on their etins or Labours tre and "He paration an ched divisions ir Gerry Caughey, a leader Tito junketting of Labour's left trade union leaders to pioned to carens che lion if the moton was caried Communist Party leadersist of the Pilkington glass. collaboration win de delen class workers, replies to points Visone between the TUC and UNITED STATES President Nixon held further talks Come back Obvious on the St Helens settle- in Belgrade yesterday with Yugoslay president Tito.

sentatives of imperialism.

'But," • protested Jenkins in At a time Wilson's ment made in our shall have to come policies

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this exclusive interview with it has defended ent Victor Feather, the TUC pete free or all. general secretary, last the Battersea North resolution

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Furthering attempts to rost Mr rid, the ing from RAF Lyneham in a British Comet * Executi the plane were two sere meddle ' tase people: its class limits Trotsky and it. released by we Germ vent to presiden Wasser's tuneral document Agenda is are to a ste ace leader of world in represented, his Ara Memorial "African social veneration until it naa bee Bus one-day actions - The EC. Meeting cy and forced French and British capital.

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offer full support generations. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Conference support still flows in ON THE eve of the All "This AEF branch views Trades Unions Alliance with the serious Pilkington's conference, back- implications of the victimiza- ing has come from the tery- tion and sacking of 600 Pil- kington workers. lene section's plumbing shop in ICI's Wilton plant, York- 'Pilkington's management shire, which voted over- has attacked the basic rights whelmingly to support the of workers to a job and to Pilkington workers' fight for strike, in line with the Tories' reinstatement and to send plans for mass unemployment delegate tomorrow's and anti-union laws. meeting. The Thornton Heath AEF "Therefore we support the No. 2 branch has passed All Unions Trades Alliance resolution supporting the con- Pilkington Conference of ference and elected one dele- October 3 and the campaign gate. for reinstatement, including Its resolution was sent to the blacking of Pilkington the District Committee: glass.' PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' unions yesterday ex- tended their selective strikes to more areas in London and the Midlands. Yorkshire and the North-East, too were hit by stoppages.

But union spokesmen were giving away few details

BY JOHN SPENCER

their plans. A National Union of Public Eventually the unions aim Employees representative said: to have 80,000 of their 770,000 'This is rolling guerrilla members on strike. strike tactic of We surprise. There is a 'major to be never give details of the strike escalation' Monday, with on spreads. Councils as can 7,000 in Yorkshire towns out. find that out for themselves 20.000 At present about when their men stop work.'

workers are on strike. Many of the councils, par- Stay ticularly in London, have tried out to use blackleg labour to man in essential such Ambulancemen many of Britain joined the school meals. Darls London shop stewards have action yesterday with over- call the bans, token threatened to out time stoppages 14 of London's 32 and work-to-rules. remaining boroughs if these tactics con- Leicester dustmen's shop Tony steward Charlesworth tinué. Press told Workers that his mén intended to stay out regardress whether their Die-cast of strike is made official. The unions all- want an round basic wage rise of 55s, and have rejected swop the em- ployers' 36s final offer.

Employers' has resistance puts jobs been stiffened by top-level Tory government intervention: Robert employment Carr has refused to allow his in peril department help reach tol compromise settlement. This is clearly an attempt to break the wage fight of Now-paid By an Industrial correspondent of major section workers before the govern- OVER 250 jobs are in ment brings in its anti-union plans. Midland danger at a foundry that makes Ford Retreat vehicle parts. In this situation, the action of Trades Union Congress Ford chartered a plane to Victor Feather, secretary who fly a lt-ton die from the plant has offered his own concilia- Germany strike to after a tion services, is a retreat from mobility of labour over a fight against the Tories.

stopped production. After meeting council men's Feather chiefs today union Yesterday, Ford said they will decide whether to seek a could the give no guarantee meeting with the employers.

die will be returned when the Instead of conciliation from strike is over. Feather, the local authority workers need the of Ford's new support. move is the rest of the trade union development in international strikebreaking and an un- By itself, the of Ford's campaign welcome extension of diverting partial selective stoppages can- existing policy of not win the claim. The full strike-hit production to the strength of thé council continent. be mobilized if it kers must The general manager of the is to be won. foundry Sage Aluminium The problem here is that Products, Wolverhampton - the union leaders are con- said yesterday that the busi- cerned only with putting pres- ness was 'now imperilled' by sure on the councils, and have Ford's action. failed conspicuously to take the Carr has up gauntlet The had leased company thrown down. the die from Ford at nominal rent, he added. Half-hearted Night shifts And their strike campaign is a half-hearted one which At Ford's Halewood, Mer- will down their mem- wear seyside, factory, assembly bers' fighting spirit if it is not workers are to meet on Sun- chaned Lambeth day to discuss their demand The dustmen's to reduce the number of night erroneous decision not to sup- shifts from ten to nine port the strike must be fortnight. to all council wor- warning kers of the dangers in front This demand has been under under the present leadership.

discussion at the factory for After the experience of the • some time. docks strike and the GKN- Sankey The company maintains' that dispute there can be any changes can only be made no further doubt either about national level, the Tories' intentions or about at and adds that supplies are geared to a the union leaders' failure to ten-night system. challenge them.

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Heffer tries to justify

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ERIC HEFFER, the self-styled 'revolutio Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, ini Raymond Challinor His article Forget the 'Perhaps does not accept these as reforms splitters—it's the Labour of and them His Party the left must cap- importance. argument really dangerous because it is set off ture' series recipe for, doing nothing until "revolution" the of plaintive contributions Conics. from 'left' MPs and their So, says Heffer with a routine sneer at the idea of revolution friends in the Communist (it's all right the Continent, Party trying to justify six but British) it's not reformism did work after all. years of servile oppor- Harold We may only be able to offer under tunism this rag-bag of so-called reforms.

Wilson. But we'd never have got them 'realist' hadn't been the for This week, with 'left' MPs. an- other article headed 'The This is humbug. the Labour left and Heffer is simply covering up Wil- Party' ('Tribune', Septem- in the crudest manner for son's treachery. The balance ber 25) Heffer sums up sheet of Wilson's government is the same which now the debate in a legacy of betrayal leaves the basic working-class vein. organizations exposed to the most Tory threat they have dangerous Heffer's new-style "revolution- faced. And Heffer claims ary reformism', it soon transpires, Wilson and his government were doing good. different from ordinary no reformism. But there is worse to come.

'Just look' he says, 'at some cover his Heffer now has to of the reforms that the Labour left flank as well. So he did through, boasts carry government of his record of opposition to and those which parliament car- Wilson: ried through even without official government backing over, the last I spoke at the May Day Rally six years'. in 1969 organized in Liverpool Council, by the Trades which threadbare His exceptionally fact one-day reading: was in strike list makes interesting against the proposed legislation.'

'Wage-related sickness and unem- ployment benefits: the Yes you did, Mr Heffer. You of the National Assistance Board finally opposed the anti-union of the and the development laws-four after Wilson Social Security; Department of and Castle began to prepare Redundancy Payments Act; the bring them in, four years during of 1965, Act giving the Rent which the Socialist Labour League security of tenure; the rent and and Young Socialists demanded rebate schemes; the Lease- rate the "left' fight Wilson's policies, Race hold Reform Act; the ridiculed and rebuffed only to be Relations the Trade De- Act; in numerous Westminster lobbies.

scriptions Act; the development of the hospital building 0IU- gramme and the advancement Abstention health centres; the ending of the with the East of Suez policy, abolition of some (sic) overseas bases and cuts defence The working class finally forced in expenditure. hand and put an your long record of aprincipled abstention over crucial questions.

Short Heffer • TribuneMPS MPs supported the short enough list for six 1966 strike. This seamen' in the years' work, but it gets less and is an outright lie. less convincing when we realize When Harold Wilson brought that: his forward ennertecy bowers of unemployment

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'reforms' to break the seamen's strike, not and Social Security benefits were a single Labour MP voted against.

made in time to accom- Just That how Heffer and the was the largest number of modate 'supported' "Tribune'-ites the unemployed since 1940. THE Redundancy Payments Act As Heffer correctly comments: was designed other- unpalatable productivity 'Such actions can be multiplied schemes and turn unemployment by the score.' genteel into the more Indeed they can. dancy'. After this rather pathetic THE Rent Act and rent and rate fake Tory attempt to up rebate schemes provided new Heffer of left credentials, goes with the they councils defend another of undertake 'fair rent' on to needed to the 'Tribune' group's policy- schemes. and in the process to wOo the THE Race Relations Act merely Stalinists. supplemented the racialist In a passage which might well Immigration Acts, strengthened have been lifted bodily from by the Wilson government. 'British Road to Socialism' the As for the Labour government's he says: policy East of Suez, with its 'It is clear that the attacks on servile support Vietnam tne capitalism... cannot and should but there is no need not be limited to go on. to parliamentary but neither should Heffer's carefully selected short- be scorned parliamentary action Wilson list of the government's as of little importance. "achievements' hardly stands up We have seen just what Heffer to the most cursory examination.

construes 'opposition' Raymond But replying policy- his criteria government Challinor, who claimed "Parlia- are little different from workers' now is not a means outside parliament, who ment reforms', Heffer expect MPs to vote against things for obtaining gets quite indignant: they oppose. I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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evolutionary reformist' Iton, initiated a 'great in Tribune' last month. If you think like Heffer that "in ctandina for these nositions.

occasional abstention adds we were not standing ass Delve m but of abstract. Ine which we have been when and claims policies have opposed the Wilson govern- are advocating, issues. ment on a whole range o. advanced Bioes himselve you don't because But held the away jobs end. *To suggest that there i not Wilson " t is true thai debate that ship of the pared was not the new policies is Seeky she really deny pro- tacts.' good deal much.

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Michael "The truth is" he sums Leader number the contribution made 'that in group the tradi Heffer's offensively patronizing Cabinet. lett-wing stood for the Shadow constituency party intended aines are to cover the a than even after the Hefter agmits, bacte •act that • ribune -Ites the Wilson tha not intena ( "Tribune'-ites still did nothing to for socianst pill dest up no fight comrades like John Wilson. Indeed they remove sup- One is really entitled to ask ported him continuine as Leader He writes during the last re really really tney davanced no allel native. pamphlets articles, Hostile Writing disillusionment books the comfortable will take them chairs of university and news- nolitics entire v'. paper work; he. useful And hoot. their candidate tor ofhices and adds patron- Deputy Leader, was so hostile Pertinence the voting the real struggle is. Yet in the very next paragraph " homegin benches a House or Commons is pre swhe did sequence of events gives highest socialist struggle. sentence ON 'THEY TOLD us the strike would last till next year. We're going to see Christ- mas on these picket lines. but we're fighting for a purpose.

These words from a picket at a hird of a mition strik.

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ers at the General Motors fac- tories throughout the Nor are the strikers daunted by the long queues for strike pay-$30 week for a single and $40 for those with The strikers all know that the mammoth $120 union's will million fighting fund under two auhaucted months' time. In feeble echo of his membership's past thes point, Canied shuto Wark eri wages offensive now dh on be sirens operating, passed Auto leader been passed through without incident. Leonard Woodcock said: But the ambulance giving no he winning fter 'We have to he nrenared to their $1.65-an-hour increase. ploughed into fight. as we warning bureaucracy had old-fashioned way. after the crowds Kut the union workor with money is a bureaucracy. amaceulates thic ctrenath...br cod ne A union without money is a towards their hall going for the smallest demands that it thinks could be Infuriated workers turned crusade.' sold the rank and file and by on the driver of the ambulance action only which carried man Three car manu- Woodcock, of ahout ten teet facturers. day the UAW course, hopes to find some way Yet the next the General 1364 Shop Events of sliding out of the fight long Motors' Framont plant Tohn Tangono romantorc hefore it reaches such a stage that the union leader- Californin toningst intrancidanao can. struggle strikers are having to and the Fremont malice management wage the

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investigated incident already causing thousands 'Berkeley Tenur oficials foundr and ponent sup- failed to pickets plant a MiNauke. at the Smith Cor- for Rohind thic attac ic the car @atec the midniont strike oration - 3,000 deadline on Contamha, 19 fone of thaco duck de Ilgerago •remed take that the rank Promont mon and file will oftha 5500 lahaue fordo howe the initiative to prevent man- break free from their control.

been laid off. moving And this is only one of the The demands coming up pieted trucks from the plant.

39,000s f0 aera Motos from the ranks are for she co General The viciousness of the union main or union leaders to fight- bureaucracy towards the $1.65-an-hour largest manufac- like especiali one and shutting turer ncrease bankrupt Penn leader- all_not MAga nutting down 111C1 one ship on the enot wad Control polluoy hoe hadun log conn the motor manufartirare manitana aynnced at Aramant Donl anaflo

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General Motors pro- handle Ac tho nidhate ronarogatod Cromont formed tha ducts. in the street, after setting light United Action Caucus to fight garbage truck which demands. tha and of nonth nillion men could be laid off leaving Herrera and com rasis Such resistance of to being The General Motors' strike ambulance the that powerful called account cars, having lights and morhood of the TIC Worker aronnized 'ananc Labour Party, end with up policies that were less than socialist?' Heffer cannot bring himself to say that Wilson, Castle and the rest of the so-called 'left', "Tribune' the group included, followed - and follow - policies which are not only 'less than socialist', but pro-capitalist to the core. And his answer to the question is even more evasive. "Much of the old left was élitist in theory and practice, he says. But he has already made it clear he considers the life of a 'left' MP infinitely superior to academics, writers and the 'com- rades in the smaller groups', not to mention the working class.

with baseball bats to force the calling off of a rally organized by the Caucus. These bureaucrats have gone as far as to request the Fre- mont police-who are giving ample co-operation-to arrest anyone giving out leaflets to carworkers in the street next to the plant. Members of the Trotskyist Workers League and other organizations have been threat- ened with arrest when leaflet- ing and ordered to leave the area. The Caucus is fighting to raise the central questions posed by the strike; warning against government interven- tion, exposing the betrayals of Woodcock leadership and the raising the call for a labour a break from the party and two capitalist parties. The Caucus's refusal to compromise on the wages issue puts real fear into the likes of Herrera: .. Woodcock must not sit down at the table and bar- these wages issues gain on because to "compromise on these reasonable wage demands would be a sell-out and the ranks would have to turn thumbs down on this type of offer.'

SPENCE

He adds that: "The second and more funda- mental reason is they abandoned their basic socialist ideas. This was surely not done consciously, but they slid into such a position.

But if the 'old left' slid that way, which way are their latest replacements sliding? Are they not sliding, con- sciously or unconsciously in the same direction? Heffer himself proudly admits that his sojourn on the parlia nentary benches has considerabl mellowed his original outlook.

And his solutions are even more hackneyed and trite.

"This can only be avoided by the rank and file being involved in the control of the party • • In future the arliamentari Labour Party must be kept under greater control by the party conference. Vestige But the party leaders long agc emancipated themselves from the slightest vestige of control by As far as the party leaders are concerned, conference decisions MONDAY night's 'World in Action' programme about the United States Army in Viet- nam showed pretty con- vincingly that the GIs, especially in the infantry where the 'grunts' bear the brunt of the fighting and the casualties, no longer want to fight for Nixon or for capital- ism. They may not want to die for Nixon, but they certainly show courage in fighting their biggest battles against the Army's top brass and its repres- sive apparatus. Disaffection among GIs has the Army with honeycombed of semi-clandestine hundreds organizations, many producing cyclostyled or offset newspapers exposing infringements of rights, racialism by the officers, and harrassment of militants.

The underground newspapers take advantage of the GI's rights under article 381-135 military code, which states that *Unit commanders shall further insure that there is ference with the US Mail and that every individual under his command has the right to read and retain commercial publica- tions for his own use'. At least that's what the law papers like 'The though says, Next Step . . • published among in Germany find it US soldiers prudent to add a warning: this 'You may have gotten paper from a German you didn't know; it may have been slipped under your door; or you may have found it simply lying some- where. This is called "covering Friday, October 2, 1970

SPENCER

How does Heffer propose to change this? All he can say is: This is a question which ha een long debated in the part made to get the balance right 'Balancing' So for Heffer, in any case, it is simply a question of 'balancing' the requirements of the en- against trenched bureaucracy . rank-and-file demands. This relationship, he says, 'is not yet satisfactory. Heffer not only suffers from the illusion that he can reform capitalism, but hopes also to reform the Labour bureaucracy. He and his 'Tribune'-ite allies will do nothing to fight for socialist policies, but they will do all they can to obstruct the building of a revolutionary leadership inside the working class. Such a leadership can only be built in the sharpest conflict with 'lefts' in the 'Tribune' group.

one's ass". We're damned sure the brass is not going to be tog pleased by "The Next Step..

and judging from military policies in the past on such things, we pre- must take measures cautions to avoid their unneces- sary meddling? "The Next Step ' carries reports on the W Virginia dis- abled miners' strike, on black strikers in the South, on racial- ism in the Army and Nixon's investigation team, on the Sole- dad three, who face death in the California state gas chamber. Its editorial comment quite openly takes the line that 'the enemy is at home'. * "The struggle of the working people,' it says, is important to enlisted men because they are the working class in uniform.

be most enlisted will men returning to the working force on the outside ... to jobs that are dwindling in number, to pay- that won't stretch, checks to debts, bills and mortgages up to their necks. They'll begin to struggle because they have to...

'At home when people chal- lenge the very roots of the problem the troops are called out—in the ghetto for instance, like the 10lst Abn in Detroit.

Troods also used against are workers, to break strikes.

It happened in 1941 against workers in California, aviation in 1948 against meatpackers in Minnesota, and in 1970 against postal workers in New York.

'And it will happen again.

Only the collective might of the American working people, black and white, in uniform and out, can ensure that the military is withdrawn from every country in the world, its present command disbanded and its arms placed in the service of the united working people to wrest control society from its present rulers . . "To give that struggle, in the military and at home, an inde- pendent form and a determined leadership-that is the next

- Friday, October 2, 1970

REVIEW BY BERNARD FRANKS

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hostility up to 1920 and increase in the collaboration in the effeces bombardeda zihe editorial 1920s. Up to the time of his death majority of union far leaders. in 1915 from rejecting the predatory and the attitudes of parasitic nature or capitalist war W. Taylor dominated called working the class 'scientific management'. assist the effort by increas- He his SaW work-rationaliza- had opposed tems tion runaamentall tomed themselvest to unionism maintained production oria WeIC realized that collective bargainin with such people, far from would production, danger there. By making be a valuable asset. separate arrange ments with each worker on work.

methods and believed possible balder Taylor Another tactor tavouring 'co.

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this new cott bora great and women. consultants went to tine management in or Labour executive codnea to maintain "participation' tion instaled executive council Not labour cost i by speding: basic premium costs by speeding. onus system saferyond the advised to skilled and to replace resist machinists ower-paid labo speeding and the head

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cieneador the hosiery union Gustave ppeared at Taylor Society meet eventually submitted prouded one superionhich joint studies machines instead of one. seal approval finally placed on scientific Green, Ace President.

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Society of By Milton J. Nadworny Mechanical Engineers. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts 1955 urged

'THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE-

FRENCH POPULAR PROTEST 1789-1820'

By Richard Cobb Oxford University Press willing to do its part. 1970. 393 pages. £4 They So corn nts: Green's pleased with speech which By 1919, the

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THE FRENCH Revolu- tion of 1789 was a bour- geois revolution. It resulted in the destruc- the Tion feudal and ruling class, guaranteed the upper middle- class merchants ana capital- ists that even after the resto- of the monarchy in rauor 1813, 1 their interests would be at the centre of govern- ment policy-making. recognized that class alignments tne • Revolu fall or especially of the rISe for the proletarian revolution to- day. Volution to from describe 1917, after the rise of Stalinism Thermidoria saw of reacuion 1794, 1799-180na- parte's 1 nough tion occurred at an earlier epoch different frost conflict betwe revolutionary upheaval. "Sans-culotte' workers entering the Royal palace of Tulleries in Pa revolutionary middle successiul l that it to movement in rared o to sell in the nurcut 0f equality and fraternity seeking to trans- from abstrac- to hauli the polite tor who actually • une reader vishes to lear equality' Napoleon's threat dictatorship, the popular the classes society lacea Ine new bourgeois regime revolution. Cobb's hook with almost insurmountable diffi- poorly planned, sketchily Imacle class was al tne same time over with a mass of undigested Dired to compromisi macy. class Men trom analy crucile Cobb's book were granted responsible reader BUt the administration; ‚popular poli- author on criueize Cobb assures grounas attempt draw lessons Paris the affairs repeatedly which link it with later working- inal only Chaotic portray Class struggles history! Cobb peak reaction allow as much Thermidor) 1794 was savag sible to individual behaviour and the to popular habit, he explains the reath aresnold century, comparative or about writing about people, rrenca not al that it movements. eckins to establis genera laws.

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the most davanced exponents of equality (i.e. an earlv Semism),

BY ROBERT BLACK

merely e sans culottes in Paris, I not Con and i that culottes movement did Avallable tron New Park Publications malority 186A Clapham High St.. Swa.

populanon obvious trom national Machinists' Union wrote to Green: I am sure we are all glad to know the official spokesman for the American Trade Union Movement is creating such a favourable impression among business men because such in urse cannot fail to reflect itself in many beneficial ways for the welfare of the workers? The left wing of the trade union movement attacked what was going on as class collabora- tion, and, in May 1929, a meet- ing of the Taylor Society which was to have taken place in Charlotte, N Carolina, was post- poned because the southern textile workers were striking against efficiency systems-parti- cularly against the Bedaux sys- tem. With the Wall St crash and the depression years the co- operation schemes crashed too.

Nothing less than direct and wage-cuts mass sackings suited the employers. Union leaders who had sold out again and again to the employers were not the men to provide a revolutionary alterna- tive to the capitalist slump and workers' degradation when it came. Speed-up and staff reductions, the two uses to which Taylor put his original discoveries in the field of work rationalization, have always been the fundamen- tal objective of work-scudy operation under capitalism.

of Tulleries in Paris, October 1789 point that the sans-culottes could not have led a successful socialist revolution, Cobb leads his readers on to accept that the sans-culotte movement was more or less politically insignificant!

The briefest glimpse of the world outside Cobb's prized 'regional' surveys--of the British workers' reaction to the popular triumphs of the 1790s, or the inspiration derived from these triumphs, and the lessons learnt from the Thermidorian reaction by Marxists and other political working-class leaders throughout the following century - reveals the utter falsity of such a con- clusion. It is not surprising to find that Cobb's only useful contribution to the study of the French Revo- lution is a negative one.

The sans-culottes were not the social equivalent of the 19th industrial proletariat: century they included craftsmen, journey- men, shop-keepers, small traders, small peasants as well as a and minority of factory workers, and consequently their political and economic theories were, in many respects, regional and backward- looking. Moreover the sans-culotte undoubtedly movement was linked with the non-political forms of popular protest which occurred earlier and later (e.g. food riots, and desertions from the army, especially after 1795).

Cobb's description of the Thermidorian reaction is per- haps the best section of the book, since it demonstrates the bitter antagonism which the sans-culotte movement had aroused in a government dom- inated by 'farmers, prominent tradesmen and heads of com- and industrial concerns' mercial Such governments, after 1795, produced a police more repres- sive (because more efficient) than the ancien régime, to that of deal with the sans-culottes- 80,000 to 90,000 sans-culottes were soon arrested and many deported. Nearly 2,000 political murders occurred in , 1795, during 'White Terror' tolerated by the judicial authorities. All government Acts which had been passed as a concession to the sans-culottes were rescinded. Popular organizations and societies were suppressed, and sans-culottes were dismissed from administrative posts, having first been disarmed. Most significant of all from a

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When the working class appears to be weak and in no position to fight back, manage- ments do not attempt to hide their and plans "Taylorism', scientific management or the Bedaux system openly appear on the scene to further establish unemployment. In times when the working class is strong, the name hanged and the union leader: are called in to do the work in the name of 'workers' participa- tion in management'. In both cases the system comes under the strongest state patron- age, and so is made into a politi- cal weapon of the capitalist class. * For a while, in Britain, parti- cipation has been in vogue, though only because it is seen the by government and the employers as a preparation for more stringent measures. Books and pamphlets have appeared on the scene to deny all connection between modern productivity deals and past sys- tems. Together with Nadworny, the experts produce books critical of the non-human, non-psycholo- gical approach of the first scientific management men.

However, also like Nadworny, they cannot help quietly admir- ing the early Taylorites and their ruthless methods, assigning them an honourable place in the his- tory of United States capitalism.

class point of view, the long battle of the sans-culottes to establish fixed maximum prices to defend the consumer (i.e. against the producer), was ended by the lifting of all price restric.

tions. In consequence, 1795 was a year of famine for the common people. Why should the middle class have so ruthlessly suppressed the sans-culotte movement, if it did danger to their position political not represent a serious Cobb fails to answer this question, which surely 1S unanswerable. The Thermidorian government which came to power after the execution of Robespierre was less preoccupied with the weaknesses and theoretical limitations of the sans-culottes than with the fact they that, although did not represent a unified industrial proletariat, they did already represent rival economic interest group. * The large producers came down heavily on the small pro- • ducers and the urban consumers because they needed to uphold economic 'freedom' (i.e. laissez- faire capitalist competition) in the face of a collective attempt by the poorer sections of society to defend their own interests.

Cobb may sneer at the idea of 'comparative' history of popular movements, claiming that 'popu- lar history . . can be studied with profit only in very limited, regional terms'. Yet the weight of the evidence in his own book goes over- whelmingly against this conclu- move Tents Marxistherho studies movements develop- ment, is the last person to loök for exact parallels in the past.

But, in studying the French Revolution, he does not attempt all his knowledge to shed of later working-class movements, because to do so would be to wrench the events of the Revo- lution completely out of their historical context. He is thus able to under- stand the sans-culotte move- ment, not as a futile gesture to be described with "compassion', but as the upsurge, in a more powerful form cae er bourgeois revolution, oy the oppresed classes which were eventually to challenge the bour- geoisie indus- itself, once the trial proletariat became differen- tiated in its development from this mass, and therefore able to lead it.

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o the United Nations a SHOP STEWARDS at CAV, Acton, called a Observer, nester dasembly in summons committee meeting last Wednesday to Not saved discuss the redundancy issue.

sic occupy china oI scanion It is reported that From our Industrial correspondent Security Council management has selected would allow them to be 16 workers the retained. factory ately, he added. machines as- all. a single worke strike mus reseted for dismissactions sembly line. Ten of these Is pated on: have two years or less service, so the company Viet peace will avoid paying any- Squabbling Italian thing out in the torm negotiations of redundancy money. cannot coalition faces expected to stagger on token general strike In line with the policy of of earing ent hys before the TODAY'S TWO-HOUR national strike, called steward has said by the Stalinist-led CGIL (Italy's largest union), Bankrupt has been denounced by CISL (Catholic) and UIL Liberation Front proposals.

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