Workers Press no. 267

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

NUMBER 267

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1970

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AT GKN-SANKEY

Demand for one-day strike against unemployment grows October 25 when a co Government tea call for trades more is ad rliament will be dis stop 150 of the unionists All trad A Seven er trade sri to call l on otter l meeting 0. employm Successful con ference's cils to promote this strike?

prevented -day strike, told our maintaining sponsoring Price on B-Leyland Habash's wage rise head car men

BY JOHN SPENCER

determined

KING

HUSSEIN

of Jordan has put a price on the heads of two to fight on Palestine revolutionary leaders. TWO WEEKS before the GKN-Sankey workers of the Popular Bron and Na Democratic alestit fo ended their strike with little gained, the By an industrial correspondent

BY MICHAEL BANDA

employers were ready to concede their demands.

COMPANY howls about mount- Huss HE Ing producuon ossed It is believed they sway with heste says mas rish Ind tride see reposibind wirect intervention of were stopped striking Leyland pieceworkers in 'No Ulster political amousst employers. iste nationalistic ine lory government, have now been eit which was quite pre- prisoners' claims Callaghan Democratic SiDo mate. pared to prolong lee strike and force an un- Supported i there othere a car of rie- No change acceptable settement ton the ree weeks be the GKN workers on they. : repeateals rather than see its non- ADO 28- has Senior T&GWU steward Bob Fryer speaking to-yesterday's strike meeting.

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INCORPORATING. THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY NUMBER 267 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1970 INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY O NUMBER 267 TWO WEEKS before the GKN-Sankey workers ended their strike with little gained, the

BY MICHAEL BANDA

employers were ready to concede their demands.

It is believed they by I want is to see responsibilit stopped were amongst employerss direct intervention of 'No Ulster political Tory government, the And in so far as we, the which was quite pre- are prisoners' claims Callaghan the full On pared to prolong sibilities strike and force an un- empnasis. acceptable settlement GKN seatt was pleased t on the GKN workers Befor rather than see its non- had workerist statutory wage arme capta ost class

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

local the miners. PARTY LEADERS left Labour's Blackpool conference yesterday committed to no basic despite their three highly- poncy Chances reinforces publicised defeats—on incomes policy, mergers woes sat the trade on -and a narrow squeak and conterence decisions Bers ig tiducial dispures tor leaders on the Common Market. fear of exacerbating an mention and yun prison for his political views on hes te i rean ous de biden • One trade en on asted to to justice say sai it if someone

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the company redundancy October 4 ernment (sic) document in its entirety.

of the The daily organ Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Demand for one-day strike against unemployment grows THE POSSumbline "trend' expand the A further series of stor Brade sator Sanche tenders Blackpool t district shack the decision Clydeside favour of this strike. Amalgamated Shields i made is on Tryhesde dave sini The NE Federation of meeting on has already lu une con- cil to promote this scote • one-day national strike lans of Heath elds, secretary a On the Lancastie fied the 1930s con eight maintaining this be involved. further back. Price on B-Leyland Habash's head car men

BY JOHN SPENCER

determined

, KING

HUSSEIN

of Jordan has put a price on the neads

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to fight on Palestine revolutionary leaders. ot Pale By an Industrial corresponden COMPANY howls about mount- ing production held losses sway with yesterday's mass meet- ing of 1,500 British- striking Leyland pieceworkers in Oxford.

rike for tve -ovu or wnom nave now deen ( ontinue the Leyland's forthcoming warned Senior T&GWU steward Bob Fryer spoaking to-goaterday's strike meeting.

agreements. claims that strik already Feeling grows ' These" Closed-shop ting told t. Jean-uran agai for all-out demand by ondent or to Yesterday's ere of tel teachers Council action thil try to aroma liste the Palestine the National Union of Teashers coRogers. closed-shop polic A THREAT that troops may soon be used in London itred of hung over council workers yesterday as their strike newly re-developed factory nationalist leaders She fellers Iron rolled into the West Country and the North-East.

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LEADER OF THE SACKED PILKINGTON GLASSWORKERS

GERRY CAUGHEY

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VICTOR FEATHER—in the interview published in Workers Press seven days ago-says he doesn't think there's anything he can do about what's hap- pened at Pilkington's at this stage; he says he's not responsible. Leaving aside for the mom- ent the inaccuracies in what he told Stephen Johns, there are crucial issues of principle -directly affecting the lives of millions of trade unionists -at stake in the events at St Helens and Pontypool. These concern the two most basic and fundamental rights of the working class: the right to a job and the right to strike.

In both cases the Tory gov- ernment is unmistakably on the attack after only three months in office and if the leadership of the trade union movement can't answer this attack, then every rank-and-file member of every single trade must wake up to one union very simple proposition; he'll have to organize to build a new leadership which can defend these rights. More than 600 men were sacked by Pilkington's - and between 230 and 250 at St Helens and 27 at Pontypoo, remain without work. How are trade union leaders going to set the dole queen ey off the dole queues they can't defend the jobs of 270- odd glassworkers? We in St Helens were sacked for withdrawing our labour in defence of a fellow- worker who wanted to be represented in a complaint by someone of his own choosing —not by someone the manage- ment, the people he was com- plaining against, endorsed.

* At Pontypool, which had 'struck in sympathy with St Helens, the men were sacked for refusing to return to work while we. were still out.

In fact what's happened at towns is that we've both been staked out on the barbed wire an advertisement as against going on strike. At thought this was ton's. But recent events have shown it's starting to hâppen all over the country. Doesn't Feather think this warrants some action? What is he arguing with the govern- ment about anti-union legisla- tion for if they're already allowing employers to get away with this kind of attack on the right to strike? the only thing.! Really, agree with Feather on in his interview in the Workers Press is that he doesn't work at Pilkington's. He says he didn't sign the agreement made at Congress House on May 22 after the A CALL for the negotia- tion of profit-sharing with the employers has been made twice recently in Communist Party publi- cations. August's 'Marxism Today' contained an article by Alan Spence which explained that resistance to productivity deals only modified and did not provide a receipt or solution to the main prob- lem-which was automation.

Held back He saw the present struggle being held back because wages are now tied to production.

"The only way is to nego- tiate the division of profits', he comments. In this situation Measured-Day Work becomes counter, i.e. a bargaining *equally central to the work- "trade ing-class struggle must be, the Fill in the form below and se

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LI

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WORKERS PRESS

lembers of the glassworkers rank-an • committee L to R: Derek Greenough, Gerry Caughey, Brian Woodward

REPLIES TO

VICTOR

FEATHER

TUC GENERAL SECRETARY

and that, tion. ending: o the meeting which ender We ended the strike on th Kut was immediate v even-wee aid, it was hay a matter of even the strike that he understandino that this meet victimized - - along with many ing would take place and see chair the meeting. others tne rank-ana-ule countersigning justice done. committee -wnen 1 gol Dack He had a role to a tay to which ne was not a darcy.

to une lactory. We wanted to make sure the has a chairman every fact everyone that voice of the shoo noor would Phat as ch interpretad questions meeting be heard on alice had been or car wind Cooper we were venera Union Con Municipal my- -he would see elected to ensure this. machine-ting d anu -initialled talled a copy screens, Municipal The General and and-a-half Feathere it us an he sane timery book for the meeting were upheld. Workers' with for a su-bole- shift rank and ele We put our trust in him. whal 1l -von couldn't manage al he was not going to be a party, pawns in a power all without overtime. lidn't Harry wny first It was agreea al unal ing? Why -wed have It was made clear in a tele When i got back 1 was sen congress nous gram been as well, as it turned out!

to training school as if I was a we received trom con there would be no victimiza- gress House-the one we read Stalinist calls for vanishes with the intro automated tech- duction niques, and explains: traditional meet determin- wages has moved from shop floor to the finance as profit sharing therefore, lepartments ana. the shop stewards must ov with it. Sin the shop seva do along. manager's Will

BY BERNARD FRANKS

consultants time when the At a ment and all out war Wo secret that sine exposed fact, Spence paring an until a Measured-Day calls lor ejectior union rights, nothing wages that the employers to by thess industrial readace have themselves not advanceu.

provement of the • talk. tatives' into board meetings, to Many managements of profit-sharing incorporate shop stewards into attemnted complement the employees in a mass management introduction of modern equip.

productivity «Until this practice is estab- prot double talk in an constitute lished as a right,' he adds mittees They know that automatior man. One danger machine must be operated.

will mean a chance to brin about huge reductions in it is all right to First steps Presum: about orces l tact downe sweated labour once profit- mennoncu sharing is in. Schemes are loc cists of dentoried agreement all Stalinist own organizations In many cases these schemes subordinating Coming worker situation themselves which to the productor of the workers vages to swell Bonuses are eatey ovservers at man retaining part are paid process and management con- and board meetnes • the savings made wages hrm's own interest al Demands hundreds of workers Dank ana to re invest in luc the Spence- of -ana unose company. called Institute All this was exposed during -lead, Control- John 195US wnen were launchec longer

LABOUR LEAGUE!

can was measure takin getting a footing in of these are most production for pro When 1 tond that thy Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL improvement of profits. report ised indusies in n

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get a tiny per that is inse ed and to ton The profits centage government against the large handouts for crisis and stagnanon une snarenolders cro-electronics a forces of production is nation- it was circult tor them to job torch also proposes a new shake! parasites serene i hands of micall The Daily says their ranconal

ON GLASSWORKI

IN LAST SATURDAY'S WORK

TUC GENERAL SECRETARY

FEATHER ANSWERED QUES

WAGES, PRODUCTIVITY, L

MENT, ANTI-UNION LAWS

PILKINGTON DISPUTE. TODA

CAUGHEY, A LEADER OF THE

GLASSWORKERS TAKES UP ,

REPLY ON THE LAST POINT.

new starter and told by man- agement that 1 couldn't take ip my old job. I lost about I, a week as a result of this—.

and the settlement was only £3! This happened to a lot of us in the rank-and-file movement.

It was a campaign to humili- ate us on the shop floor. That was victimization-the agrea- ment wasn't worth the paper it was written on; it was broken before the ink was dry.

Pontypool speaks for itself.

Those 27 men are still on the stones. Although the Congress House meeting-the first one, that is — wasn't attended by any of the rank-and-filers from there, it was attended by the local G&MWU branch secre- tary. Jack Cooper told him to get these men either reinstated or re-employed. But it was really all cut and dried. He just asked for re-employment and then accepted the com- pany's statement that there were no vacancies. * A couple of weeks after this, when we could see the victimization taking place and nothing being done about it by the union, despite the asked for agreement, we another meeting. Feather agreed to chair a second meet- ing and invited Cooper-who agreed to attend on the under- standing that we would stop attacking the union. We in fact ceased any such attacks for about a fortnight before the meeting. We travelled 200 miles, at a cost of about £70, to attend— but Cooper never showed up.

A quarter of an hour after we got there—it must have been 6.45 p.m. - Feather came in.

Cooper had telephoned that he would not be coming because our attacks on the union had continued. just not true. This was Cooper was using the fact that people were coming to us with votes of no confidence in their shop stewards - they wanted shop stewards and new new Joint Industrial Council mem- bers elected. The answer from the officials was that we couldn't have new elections until the inquiry into the St Helens No 91 branch - set up in an attempt to counter criticisms which had arisen during the strike--was completed. What they were worried would about was that we occupy all the posts and that

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the people they wanted elected 'as branch secretary and works convenors wouldn't get in.

In other words we were denied proper representation.

How can you work within the machinery of the union, as Feather asks us to do, when this happens? Feather I attacked for accepting Cooper's reason for _without proof. not attending He had given John Potter and myself advice — but only to make the union collect dues on the shop floor, instead of hav- ing the check-off system.

No doubt he'll deny this now. But when we told him we couldn't get the representation people wanted, he was simply unable to answer. I challenge him and Cooper to argue all this out-anytime, anywhere.

He says he's not criticizing anyone. But he was the chair- man, it is his job to criticize.

Some of the Pontypool men went along for a face-to-face confrontation with Cooper, and there were about 12 of the St Helens committee. But we couldn't get paid by face

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Available trom Price 24s post inci. Saturday, October 3, 1970 the union for the day's pay we lost. And half the train fare was paid by the TUC-still leaving us about £30 down.

Some of us ended up having to sleep down in the park until we could get a train back the next morning. Feather is just adopting the the traditional attitude of trade union establishment.

When the rank and file are attempting to break through he takes the side of the official set-up every time. But if he was really con- cerned about the shop-floor workers of this country—who are being let down every day by their official leaders — he would take responsibility.

JOHN POTTER

If 250 men can be victimized without a squeak of opposi- tion from the G&MWU then their affairs it's time were investigated-and, as general secretary of the TUC, that's Feather's job. He should be using his influ- TUC General the ence on Council to bring pressure to bear from other unions change this situation. But he hides behind proce- dure because he can't afford to antagonize the established leadership of a union like the

G&MWU.

* What we're fighting for is reinstatement of all those men who have been sacked by Pil- kington's-and remember, all the Pontypool lads are still of the G&MWU. members members of the There are G&MWU at St Helens who've been re-employed by the com- pany but have lost all their rights under the pension scheme, the Redundancy Pay- ments Act and the Contracts of Employment Act. What are Cooper and. Feather doing about this? We came out for a basic trade union principle-after exhausting possible every channel of procedure. Feather leader of is supposed to be the entire trade union move- ment. If he can't take respon- sibility for that, just what is he there for? We were still inside the G&MWU at the time of the second Congress House meet- ing. We hadn't yet formed the Glass and General Workers' Union. In fact we hadn't even Pilkington's our given con- tracting-out forms until then.

I think it was that second Congress House meeting that decided us. Of course it was a provocation. If Feather there's says nothing he can do—he doesn't think there's anything that can be done--then he's accept- ing that workers can be sacked for withdrawing their labour.

He told Stephen Johns that Tory Employment and Produc- tivity Minister Robert Carr has two hats. If he doesn't change his tune, there are a lot of people in St Helens who'll saying he's got two go on faces.

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Scotlande Yard .00-12.35 Mar ret y Leighton. 4.45 match. series -obberies •None Screen: to the ondon. can With Sinatra Date Frank with 1210 10.00 London. London ss 5.35 Flaxton boys. war hiim London. i Dorothy With Wanther and McGuire Ford This • is a Ton Jones. 11.15 channel 61 and TV (Wales) colour black colour and white A UPnaPTS 12.10 service as aboy above excent: sylw. i eulward.

VESTWARD

45 Farm London 2:30 2.00. 001025 country news. Acre: Weather. profit. TAndon. nawe Farming diary. life 3.00 Randall Hop- 3.55 Match the " Tes and 11.00-1.25 London. 2.15 Big • cr

TADICEIT.

With Deborah Kerr. Tahn Matinee: Sympathr match. Calling and Pidzeon and Drummond' With Wolter game. 12.35 Retlection. ATY MIDLANDS: 12.15 Joe 90. 12.45 London. 5.10 No, that's me over here.

5.40 Legend of lesse James. 6.10 Lon- town. Film: Crowther's don. 6.15 in 7.00 •runny stars Your Face With Au 7.03 Audrey Hepburn and tired not grapher wire sales 9.00 London. 1010ª fashion girl 10 go Paris to Theatre. model. 11.10 Frost, weather. ULSTER: 12.30 Wind in the willows.

12.45 London. 5.10 Flipper. 5.40 Sports- cast. 6.10 London. 6.15 Crowther's in town. 7.00 No, that'e me over here. 7.30 Film: *Shoot Out At Medicine Bend'. With Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson and James Garner. Indian war veterans hunt murder. Frost. responsible for 9.00 man London. 10.10 Theatre. 11.10 11.35 Better

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driving. 12 noon Training 12.45, London Crow- the family dog 12.20 Phoenix five. 5.15 unsmoke. 6.10 London . 6.15 ther's in town. 7.00 No, that's me over here. 7.30 Dentist on the Job'.

With Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Con- Shirley Eaton and Eric Barker.

no inept dental graduate is taken on failing to advertise a firm's 9.00 London. 10.10 This paste. is Tom Jones. 11.10 Human jungle.

GRANADA:

12.15 Stingray. 12.45 London. London.

11.50 Spiderman. Greatest show earth. 6.10 6.15 on Crowther'sin town. 7.00 No, that's 7.30 Tough guys: me over here. "The Ballad of Andy Crocker'. With Lee Majors and Joey Heatherton. Story of a Vietnam veteran disillusioned with civilian life. 8.50 Cartoon. 9.00 London. 10.10 For adults only.

"Bitter Harvest'. With Janet Munro and John Stride. A young Welsh girl is dazzled by the bright light of London.

TYNE TEES: 12.15 Joe 90. 12.45 Lon- don. 5.15 Bonanza: 6.10 London. 6.15 Crowther's in 7.00 No. that's town. me over here. 7.30 Film: The Gambler from Natchez'. With Dale Robertson and Debra Paget. 9.00 London. 10.10 Theatre. 11.10 Frost. 12.10 Summer is over. BORDER: 11.50 All our yesterdays. 12.20 Phoenix five. 12.45 London.

5.10 London. 6.15 Crow- Big valley. 6.05 ther's 7.00 No Foreign EX- that's me in town. 7.30 Movie: over here. change'. With Sebastian Cabot, Robert former Horton and ill St John. A British is blackmailed back agent into the dangerous business of espion- 9.00 London. 10.10 This is age. 11.10 On the house. i1.40 Tom Jones. Love, American style. SCOTTISH: 12.25 Peter. London.

12.30 Wind in Richarditoe Lionheart 15 Crows 5.15 12.45 the limit. London. Crowther's 7.00 NoSword of Sherwood that's in town. over here. 7.30 Movie: Forest'. With Richard Greene and JPzzh|GPY Peter Cushing. 9.00 London. 10.10 This is Tom Jones. 11.10 Match report. 11.25 Late call. 11.30 Film: 'Son of Frankenstein'. With Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone.

SOUTHERN:

12.17 Weather. 12.20 5.15 Cowboy Mr Piper. 12.45 London. in Africa. 6.10 London. 6.15 Crowther's in 7.00 Film: •A Bullet for town. Joey'. With Edward G. Robinson and George Raft. Gangster film. 8.30 No, that's me over here. 9.00 London.

11.20 Name of the game. 11.10 News. 12.45 Weather. Action 70.

GRAMPIAN: 12.30 Wind in the wil- 5.15 Laredo. 6.10 lows. 12.45 London. London. 6.15 Crowther's in town No: Red that's me 7.30 7.00 over here. Movie: Mountain'. With Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy and John Ireland. The American Civil War is drawing to a close but Southern hopes are still pinned on guerrilla raiders. 9.00 London. 10.10 Tom Jones. 11.05 Match This is report. 11.25 Untouchables.

student is interested in the house master's wife. 10.00 London. 12.1( Reflection. 1.30 MILApeD: 1145 London. 2005 1.30 Mr London. Star 3.15 "Vells of Baghad'. soccer. With Victor Mature and Mari Blan- chard. A soldier challenges the rule in the 15th century Ottoman 4.43 Your stars London. 5.35 Forest 6.05 7.55 rangers. London. "The Film: Saboteur'. With Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner and Trevor Howard. A wealthy German pacifist is sent by British intelligence to inter- cept a cargo of rubber during Second World War. 10.00 London. 10.15 This is Tom Jones. 11.15 Saint, weather.

ULSTER:

12.10-1.30 London. 2.15 Survival. 2.45 3.45 Randall London. and Hopkirk (deceased). 4.45 London.

7.55 Movie: "Oceans ll'. With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Comedy thriller about a plot to lift the entire Christmas takings from Las Vegas' five biggest casinos. 10.00 London. 10.15 This is . Tom Jones. 11.15 Prisoner. YORKSHIRE: 11.00-1.30 London. 1.35 Calendar. 1.55 Farming diary 2.25 Soccer. 3.20 'The Radio Cab Murder'.

With Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris. An ex-convict agrees to help the track down police an organization. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: "Topkapi'. With Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley. Elizabeth Lipp is determined to steal a priceless dagger from the Topkapi Museum. 10.00 London. 11.15 Frost. 12.15 Weather.

GRANADA:

11.00-12 London. noon i 12.10 London. 1.25 All our yesterdays.

1.55 Flipper. 2.20 Football. 3.20 Quentin Durgens. 4.15 Survival. 4.40 London. 7.55 Hollywood: "The Forsyte Saga'. With Greer Garson, Walter idgeon. Errol Flynn, Janet Leigh and Robert Young. Soames Forsyte prides himself on getting everything he wants. 10.00 London. 11.15 Frost.

TYNE TEES: 11.00 London. 1.25 All 1.55 Farming outlook. our yesterdays. 2.25 Shoot. 3.20 Champions. 4.15 Stewpot. Pound Mishna Turner 4.45 London, 7.55 Film: «The Prodigal' With. 10.00 London. 10.09 Turner This is Tom Jones. 11.15 Chal- 12 • midnight Two poems. lenge.

BORDER:

11.00-1.25 London. • 1.50 Diary. 1.55 Farming outlook. 2.20 Soccer. 3.20 Saint. 4.15 Making 4.45 London. whoopee. 7:55 Film: •Seven Days In May'. With Burt Lan- caster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March and Ava Gardner. 10.00 London. 11.15 Frost. 12.15 Epilogue. 12.10-1.25 London.

SCOTTISH:

1.45 London. 2.15-2.45 Farm progress. 3.45 Gazette. 4.45 London. 7.55 Men of the west. "Escape from Fort Bravo'. With William Holden, Eleanor Parker. John Forsythe and Polly Bergen. 10.00 London. 11.15 Frost. 12.05 Late call.

SOUTHERN: 11.00-12.05 London. 12.07 Weather. 12.10 London. 1.30 Sara PrOBESPAS 1.45 London. 2.15 Farm London. 3.45 Seaway. progress. London. ohn 7.55 Film: 4.35 News. 4.45 "The Valiant'. With Mills, Ettore Manni and Robert Shaw. Second World War film. 9.30 If it moves, file it. 10.00 London. 12.10 Weather. Action 70. GRAMPIAN: 12.10-1.25 London. 1.45 London. •á Farm 2.15 progress. 2.45 Briefs'. With Movie: Pair of Michael Craig and Mary Peach. Story who about two barristers work for the same firm 4.10 Stewpot. 4.40 Lon- don. 7.55 Cinema: "My Son John'. With Robert Walker, Van Heflin and A mother nearly loses Helen Hayes. her mind when her son is accused of 10.00 • London. 11.15 Frost. treason. 12.10 Epilogue.

WORKERS PRESS

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AT THREE in the morn- ing of September 19 a Greek student, young Costantino Georgakis, poured petrol over his clothes and set himself alight Matteotti in Square, in the centre of Genova. The only witnesses, four street cleaners, heard him shout 'Long live free Greece!'.

ruShed hit to ospital but he terribly burned and later the same day. His death was to reveal tne eAT of the existence or a widespread nel- of his friends Greek ov a number work of spies and provocateurs and police among the other Greeks exiled ot the Creek colone s at work helpers and the threats in Genova. but atter his death uneir with the connivance Greek could not ne found. t was an made against exiles ana of the

NATO.

official return their tamiles at nome. and fascist Greece for military service.

party, the MSI. the Costantino left in his room Despite precautions 'Sigla Costantino Georgakis was taken bu the editors a farewell letter which said in athe father island a, the text of the article and Greek nauve or une -a lallor authorshin had become Cortu, lying between the Greek known to the Greek consulate " After three vears of violence in Rome. I can no longer go on. I don't want to make you run risks on Magazine Costantino's friends behalf, cannot do Genova emphatic were less than act and thiok alive Before the colonels' coup he suicide followed student leaking of this article sub- wrote for a Down with the Greek uch was then banned hv t sequent unreats Dy Ine which military regime. regıme to vicumize nis tamuly will The abolish It he retused to return Three years ago he left Corfu Pardon me if tyranny! events which tollowed con- for tres of resistan of to trian -one main of the you can. firmed their statements. The following day the Italian he found a job The only relative t0 come press published extracts of an for the funeral was his tather. article he had written for a Cuprywhere he went he was Greek anti-fascist magazine, accompanied by Greek diplo- died 'Sigla a'. On the dav betore ne officials particular ne receiver an exnress etter one Giorgio Niakas. In it he wrote of the exist- from Athens-which was read Which is easy enough, to

WAS

THERE

wailing Within the last few months understand. the bange of the ctate radio and gnashing of teeth in and television. and the lace In a profession where the agencies the editorial offices of worst sins no nracin have been replaced. human "materia Moscow and Leningrad bound to alarming Removed wietates last week. rouLne On orders from the high- sing of the lies Steradio and television been est circles a massive purge of lesser noures journalists, editors and radio Novosti removed and in the of polise have emuced mane Been snown the door. In April over and TV writers has been these gentlemen better nrecc to little than carried out during the last Was this vear there literate vegetables. week, shifting hundreds of tumultuous rechufie and To discreet hypocritical which must be added and the press. the fact that in an industry rumps from an equal number is lows the The wind of change essential skill what not well-upholstered arm- directlv Doltical there is naturally an in-built chairs. in the interests of 'efficiencv'.

BIG CUT-BACKS in the Lancaster University's have been announced by building F. Carter. In a report, which was discussed bv the Univer- sity Board of Senate at a September conference in 'grave news rotarred to about the building pro- the for vears 1972-1975'. "70s' building plans, is strong pressure the reduce the overal cost of though anton to university not made by to redistributiversity alls saved behind vice- con- Chancellors' report states: tew • appeared wi Casualties cost programme mained reasonable. This mained le vice-Chancellor's repo lists mediate casualti this can only mean that the of the cut-back: Loans students" academic work will • All new science and tarh hit. very harsh Cuts in buildings sTories are nology buildings, except a new university, situated by a small braced tom students are heavily can Arts teaching facilities for young drama in effect. area number or extensions: increasing and an universitv to working-class you university are eation.

will he some existing library space to That other uses. Tory attack educa. centre tensiodoor recreationinening tion throws a sharp of the student extensions swimming weaknesses more Bradfordis country. noni • A new college building.

cut-back is a serious matter the National All levels Other cuts serious discussion Another likely casualty is ain so cuts. re need the elop a socialist alterna- manuricion of cody fam for students not living on the demonstrate where, made in Make development of a Workers dents is urgently needed

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He never spoke to the press ate him and oppose the Greek dictatorship. face-to-face, but made a state- ment over the telephone from The father forced was consulate the Greek the through his humiliating paces Italian news agency ANSA.

by the fact that the rest of his were still in Corfu. family In it he denied that any pressure had been put on his When, on the day before the the suicide son and claimed funeral (September 23) a group letter made him 'suspect that of Greek students came to the Costantino had been the ViC- mortuary to pay their respects, tim of a method of political they found a photographer by exploitation'. body, who took Costantino's flash of individual photos According to ANSA staff he them. interrupted the to When challenged, he claimed say, aside, 'But what is written to be an ANSA here? making employee, but What are you refused me do?' to show any creden- He tials and rapidly departed.

requested that his He also was later identified as a plain- should be buried in son clothes policeman. private, immediately. But the Greek anti-fascist Details organization set a guard in the where his body was mortuary These damning details, which and organized a lying mass the Italian capitalist press did demonstration to commemor- have the impudence to not conceal completely, were not broadcast by the (state-con- trolled) Italian radio and TV.

that Italian Tre One reason may be transmissions easily be picked can up in Corfu. As Greek left-wing students tendency to overmanning. warned press newsmen conference after the funeral: Not that examples of gross 'Tomorrow you could be put incompetence have been lack- in jail by the same forces that ing- -'ideological leaders' have are strangling Greece. Why do recently been hauled over the write about NATO, not coals for attributing to Lenin you the CIA, the Prometheus plan passages in fact penned by the (the US-devised computer- German revisionists! organized plan of operations wakeh ther colonels used to Obliged take in Greece), of Nixon, is about to visit who your country' We are obliged, though, to (The same Nixon has just disappoint readers who may resumed sales of heavy arma- will hope that present sweep ments to the Greek regime.)

glittering be the prelude to indiscretions from the Stalinist For the same reason, scarcely lie machine news of the whisper of Costantino's death appeared in the capital- has only from purge come French journalists in Moscow.

ist press in the rest of Europe.

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

A LAWSUIT alleging misuse of a radio-controlled water New cash heater system has been filed in Detroit, USA, against an electrical supply company.

controls supplies The system of electricity to water domestic premises. can cut According to the magazine Review' this 'Electrical allowed the, company to reduce consumption during peak demand periods. The water heaters are divided AN

AUTOMATIC

tallying compartments. into device for use in retail stores Supplies to the lower com- developed which has been partment are automatically can enable managements to switched off by radio staff and increase the cut signal from any one of the work of those remaining. However, consumers are com- Each item -say, in a super- that when the market—is fitted with a coded plaining bottom half is switched off, tag which indicates price, half immediately brand, etc. the top begins to heat up, and bills The sales assistant at the are now higher. cash desk passes a pen-shaped It is also claimed that hot sensor over the tage which is automatically 'read'. water is not available when it is most needed-in the The information is passed to early evening. which cash register in- The firm instatist Detroit Edison, corporates a minicomputer.

began water Prices of the items are heaters which can receive added up by the machine radio signals in early 1968.

which issues sales ticket. Now, more than a quarter of The fitted also be are into connore Bile anded to make out sales private homes. audit records Witnesses at a hearing on the and can Michigan accounting purposes by the all information to Public Services Commission central data store for inventry claim that it constitutes an control. of invasion privacy to put This system is expected to control devices in a private considerably increase the home 'without giving the number of customers that can householder the right to be refuse'. ( handled by one pay desk so enabling a reduction in the Britain 10 In recent reports number of staff required. indicate the Plessey Company has developed The sales assistant using the similar system, though this device is also required to pass the sensor operates through telephone across his or her cables and by radio own identification badge each nOT control. time customer's purchases The main emphasis has been have been listed. monitor In this way the number of on use

•ITC

amounts of gas and elec- items checked by each Manage- eliminate the tricity to assistant is known. need for meter readers ments claim that this will give but it has been ad- them an accurate also estimation mitted that the device could of the productivity level of be used to control supplies.

each staff member.

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LIVERPOOL port employers revealed this week a ruthless timetable of economies and redun- dancies to dock workers. If these are not immediately carried out, port chiefs have threatened to close the whole of Liverpool docks.

The government has told the port emplovers that if public money is be spent at Liver-

CORES DENT

pool, all inefficient must be closed storekey easo wairs and and 'everyone and everything possible storekeepers Lucas al it A sac must be got rid of' by fac- and December. LuCas tories at Fazakerley, Liverpool, still Have not received Liverpools series ot emplovment benent. cent of the boards stat will From our Industrial corresponden!

Eapon is to do dies win ere Mope tatione department. stre ging, tal Seized in one North. But the labourers and store redundancies 'departments under C*• Stringent economies in et entorts 'Wè as stewards board co theons ford emselves strike not be Obvious It is obvious that what the a at ran pot on in Black pool a conta want is Liver to copt modena go and bell What the were hoping old he South end of the port and nationalization dize this are TAsday deaded bar labour- leaving the more lucr Por red meli in Liver- "Ye an ene prive pool cannot be bright. Two factors refused for these 48 laboure Ste actors tie aiming that very repeady show should es that in Bos dorks board elected by ship back of none would go bast labourers eases miner on to Appealed Now the period

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would in Intimation ' conferent 'We met. Robert Edwards, have turned mated tha docks might be Council not do so. Alive? indications of the bankruptst

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ture bat sundancies of 200 wat mate indeed conservative esti *orkardo well on. Another Bone bet cutbacks inrous Des uptest the picked ther doomwatch Nonsense warning Recalling that in 1944 th manifeste to include -anc added great victory, Mikardo would receive oria backing.

this. sane deering the back- state K employers to Applause From • y for ause hall. Common Market and a reduc- Heard before this issue, said Eddie Loyden the worget with the rest of have heard all this you td provendon, Lambeth ne deletes to the on albeitar wednesdays officials the expressin

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CEYLON'S pro-Moscow Communist Party is trying to save its face in the new coalition as the economic situation grows desperately worse and the government's reluctance to implement its promises increases. Now that the euphoria has compared with resentatives died down the Stalinists find 91 won by the SLFP and 19 themselves by the Lanka Sama impotent hostages won Mrs Sirimavo Bandar- Samaja Party which forms the in anaike's coalition government.

third constituent of the United They for Front government. The Stalin- are pressing immediate radical ists have only two ministers measures, 20-member including take-over of in the cabinet. Pressure for swifter action foreign banks and plantations, economic front to solve the crisis. on the. came in a statement issued by the

NOT STAMPEDED

Communist Party's central after recent But Mrs Bandaranaike's Connantee plenary meeting. Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Calling for nationalization dominant the partner In interests and of foreign coalition, shows of no signs of Lake House, the take-over being stampeded into any biggest newspaper group in drastic new moves. Ceylon, the Stalinists said the The has government not financial and economic crisis yet implemented all the eco- could only be met by radical reforms promised nomic in measures against the 'imperial- the election manifesto on ist and big capitalist which the United Front swept 30100- polies'. to power last May- -it is very doubtful that it will. ever The manifesto promised No papers nationalization of banks, state control of the export and im- port trade, and the setting up again of agencies to 'guide' planta- tions. But it made no specific commitment to nationalize THERE WERE no newspapers foreign banks or plantations.

In neighbouring India, the for million Londoners two government nationalized In- yesterday as warehouse packers dian-owned banks but found and drivers continued their foreign that to take over would hamper foreign banks unofficial overtime ban in sup- trade, and Mrs Bandaranaike's port of their claim for a 40 government expected to per cent wage increase. make the same assessment.

The men, who are members

TOO WEAK

of Society Graphical the The Stalinists are in any and Allied Trades, have been pressed their leaders case too weak in the govern- by to ment to force a major policy the wholesalers' offer accept 10 12 switch. of to per cent in- with further talks on They won only six seats in crease the 151-member House of Rep- and conditions. wages The Ship-Repair Council's In any case the renort the Minister of adds about the union report to estimates that leaders: Technology the total labour force in the "They recognize, however, that the work available to is down from 33.000-35.000 in 1959-1961 individual and repair con- 24,000-26,000 in 1966- cerns will vary and cannot to 1968 (a reduction of more be predicted, and that than 25 per cent). security of employment and fall-back pay cannot extend The Council calls, for to every man who may be the in- government aid to needed peak to cope with dustry. However, it is made demand' quite clear that this would The union leaders then go towards mergers of the can be relied upon to recog- ship-repair firms and the nize the need for sackings extension of productivity productivity when deals schemes everywhere. enable more work to be The report states that done by fewer workers. "both sides agree to bene- ficial merging' No notion that "The It also notes unions i have expressed In the face of attacks on general willingness en- conditions and iobs the local productivity union leaders do not have agreements which provide the first notion of putting forward a socialist policy of for changes in working practice, on the under basis of nationalization security employment workers' control with an without planned contraction end all speed-up and to of the labour sacking plans. permanent force'. Instead they are only helping Where the guaranteed interested in capi- employment' talism of 'security of out jam, at whatever cost to the work- came in at Palmer's was not apparently discussed. ing class. But only united national strike action can win CORPORATION bus crews in three cities yesterday challenged union leaders' attempts to restrict nationwide action for a £20-a-week basic rate to bans on overtime, standing pas- sengers and one-man-operated buses.

Busmen throughout Leeds staged their third successive Left- Friday strike. A lightning stoppage hit wingers Derby following unsuccess- ful negotiations between the Transport and General leave Workers' Union, the Derby council's omnibus mittee and corporation Italian CP officials. Services half the on routes in the twin towns of OVER A THIRD of the Com- Brighton and Hove munist Party Federation Com- wee also stopped for the the N mittee members in second time in a week. Italian city of Bergamo have 'Mani- resigned to join the festo' group.

LOBBY

They include Eliseo Milani, one of the youngest Commun- Busmen employed by the Party deputies ist in Brighton, Hove and District Italian parliament. Company, Omnibus which operates these routes, The 'Manifesto' group expelled recently lobbied union formed by people leaders at the Trades Union from the Communist Party Congress for official tough last for publishing autumn Tory action against the their criticism of its reformist local council's refusal to line and reliance on parlia- grant their justified claim.

mentary manoeuvre, has since grown in strength. Provincial busmen else- where yesterday continued Almost all its supporters operate officially-backed expelled from, or to have been have left, the Party. sanctions in protest against the employers' Tory govern- While the leaders of the ment-steeled refusal to dis- group denounce the their pay present Increasing Party chiefs, they have made until the present national fundamental break with agreement no runs 1n Stalinism. March. They claim the Party's par- One of the government's first actions in July was to liamentary policy in the im- mediate post-war was tell the bus employers not years 'relied because anything the correct - on of 'substituting upon' instead grounds that the last in- 12 for' the strength of the masses.

crease was less than months away and to instruct at this time, Togli- In fact, them to 'take account of Stalin's atti, on instructions, the national interest in their handed Italy back to capital- individual negotiations'.

employers' ism although the state was near collapse. Nonetheless, the resigna-

INADEQUATE

Bergamo, and the tions in of the 'Mani- very existence As Leeds busmen pointed festo' group, are the signs of out in voting for strike insoluble an crisis within action three weeks ago, Italian Stalinism driven to overtime bans like those 'peaceful' search for reformist, now being operated in most solutions to ever-sharpening towns are both inadequate class confrontations. Tory to meet this attack and in some cases THOUSANDS of trade union- actually assist the authori- ists throughout Italy staged a ties by their cutting wage two-hour general strike yester- and fuel bills without much day in support of their cam- affecting their revenue. paign for wide-ranging social and economic reforms.

WEATHER

The strike was called by the Stalinist trade union feder- Pressure will be high to the SW ation. of Britain. In southern and E England and But workers belonging to Wales. There will scattered the Socialist and Roman showers and sunny periods.

Elsewhere, showers will be fairly Catholic trade union federa- frequent and, But tions instructed not to were will bright or sunny in- take part in the strikes which Tervals. There will be strong NW winds their federations considered in the north. in view of pro- unnecessary It will rather cold over much gress being made in talks with Scotland. Elsewhere, tempera- tures will be only a little below the government on reforms.

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