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MINERS' leaders derided Lord Robens' offer of a pay deal phased "peace' plot over two years as 'utter gimmickry' yesterday in London and rejected any possibility of intervention in their dispute by

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leaders derided Lord Robens' offer of a pay deal phased over two years as 'utter gimmickry' 'peace' plot yesterday in London and rejected any possibility of intervention in dispute by TUC general Toeir Vic Feather. secretary I understand that National Union of Mineworkers' National Executive mem- expresseu men anger au une coal Board chief's offer issued by him at a press conference in Leeds on Wednesday.

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Conference questions to Labour MP Neil Kinnock

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SJ. There has been talk in conference of "line-by-line' opposition to the anti-trade union legislation proposed by the Tory Government. Would It be correct to assume that against national you are strike action taken to defeat this legisiation? NK. It would be correct to suppose that. This is a ques- tion of strategy and tactics.

You say call one-day strikes to defeat the attempts to leg- islate against the unions.

SJ. It would not necessarily be a one-day strike. NK. Well a strike then. I do not think it will defeat the Tories and therefore I do not support the idea, if I thought it would stop them then I would back it but this is not the way they are going to be beaten. SJ. It is interesting to see that Heath has already raised the alarm on the questlon of a general strike. What do you think will defeat their plans— pressure certainly will not.

NK. Let me put it this way.

The whole nature of our par- liamentary system means that the government which has a , majority is unlikely to be defeated save on very parti- cular issues. I think, therefore, that the role of the opposition is to continually draw atten- tion to and ridicule this legis- lation and educate the people as to its reactionary nature.

knows that the Everyone Tories are going to pile into the lobbies behind Heath on this question so it will be campaign conducted the and the publicity it gets before the bill is passed that will base for opposition be the against it. The legislation is rumoured to be an embodiment of 'Fair Deal at Work' but I have my doubts about this. I don't think it is going to be quite as bad it sounds. The as 'bringing the phrase trade unions into the framework of law' is open to all kinds of interpretation. But I think that after the legislation is passed and when trade unionist is the first prosecuted that the full force of the combined labour move- ment will be brought against the legislation. This will mean a new Labour Government— we need this to remove the legislation because an isolated campaign won't do this. I think that the campaign will bring the Tory unions' plans into such ridicule and such nonsense prove them that it will be a critical factor in the defeat of the Tories. So my approach on this is tac- tical.

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Name Address SJ. Suppose, for example, members of your own union Ing, against it. Would you support them? NK. I take a rather negative attitude to this. I would not criticize them for doing • sO. But I think it would be foolish for us to turn a blind eye to unofficial action when it suited us, and then, on other occa- sions, when we deplored unofficial action, to think we could come along and control it. I think on this particular question it would be a matter of criticizing workers not from taking strike action-this only implies tacit support and I am afraid that's all I could offer. SJ. There will undoubtedly be a political campaign on this question. Would you support one that Included Industrial action to force the Torles to resign? NK. Yes certainly. I don't think the legislation that the Tories are proposing is in the interest of the British work- ing people and I think, there- fore, that one is quite justified in conducting any campaign that is likely to bring the downfall of a government that tries to introduce this kind of legislation. So I would certainly support a campaigr —I think most of the labour movement would, not only the left-wing section. SJ. We belleve, on the Work- ers Press, that wage Increases tied to productivity deals, job evaluation and measured day work have directly contributed to the growth. In unemploy- ment through speed-up and labour cuts in the factories.

Are you against productivity deals in principle and, if so, are you prepared to fight for this position in the Parllament- ary Labour Party? NK. No I am not against productivity deals in principle.

I think that correctly handled they are the most successful workers' of increasing way control. 'properly But the phrase handled' is crucial. If we just accept productivity bargaining, job evaluation and measured- work as a swap for a day few bob on the pay packet then we are not going to get anywhere. Productivity bar- gaining must be a trade union strategy with a philosophy of own must approached in this I way e information about

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firmly associate myself with the policy documents and statement on productivity pub- lished by my own union, the Transport & General Workers Union, on this matter. SJ. Another Issue that has been discussed here at con- ference and at the recent TUC congress is the question of high unemployment which, of course, the Torles are encour- aging. How are you going to fight against the growth of unemployment and do you support the one-day strikes called by Kirkby and South- Shields trades councils against unemployment In their areas?

NK. I support the strikes in so far as a section of the labour movement sees them appropriate as the most strategy. But as a general prin- ciple I do not support them.

In my own constituency- Bedwelty in South Wales- there is 9 per cent unem- ployment but I do not think the way to fight it is by one-day straight forward strikes even merely as a way of drawing attention to the problem. I think we need to conduct a very long term political and industrial campaign against unemployment. It is more important that trade union- ists, locally and nationally, continually try to educate people to the waste of unem- ployment rather than applying the more dramatic weapon of the strike. It's not that one is afraid of the strike weapon, it is simply a case of believing that this is not the appropriate way of fighting general or regional unemployment. It won't get results and it's results we want. When I interviewed Victor Feather, TUC general secre.

tary, he advanced a simllar argument adding that pressure must also be put on the Torles.

I pointed out to him that strategy Ilke this did not work In the case of the closure of Palmers ship yard on the Tyne.

Here the government Ignored all pleas to reprieve the closure in an area of high unemployment. NK. I believe that the Tory Government cannot go on for long against a continual cam- paign conducted by the trade union leaders and the labour movement. I realize with a long term campaign there will be sacri- fices of individuals and groups of individuals who will loose their jobs-but eventually we will gain victory on our own terms. It won't be a govern- ment response to short term will • action that secure victory it will be a long term campaign to con-

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vince people that unemploy- ment is an economic crime and a social waste-this can only in the long be done term. Again it is a question of tac- tics and strategy. SJ. Another campaign we have taken up In the Workers Press is for the re-enstate- ment of the sacked and victi- mized Plikingtons glassworkers at St Helens and at Ponty- poolbordering on your con- stituency in South Wales. Do you support this campaign and are you prepared to raise it in Parliament? NK. Well, I think it will be the Parliamentary raised in Labour Party and the people who do raise it will certainly get my support. I think it is criminal that in 1970 we should have men who are sacked simply for taking part in legitimate trade union activity. If we are thinking in terms of industrial relations reform I think a Labour government ought to put forward a bill which makes provision for the prosecution of employers who victimize workers in this way.

SJ. Do you think that the National Executive Commit- tee of the Labour Party and TUC general council should take up Lord Cooper of the General & Municipal Workers Union for doing nothing for these workers. 1 refer not only to the men in St Helens but those in Ponty.

pool who are still In his unlon.

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SW4 progressive unions like my own the 'Tribune' meeting last well night. How are you going to as as regressive unions like Lord Cooper's G&M. defeat the right In the next don't think Parliament and within the Its practical to expect the TUC to exert any Party generally? authority because they haven't got any in this respect. NK. There two ways. One hinges on a process that is Let me put it this way. If beyond anyone's control-that it were my union-which is is that there are a great deal unlikely being in the T&GWU more young people joining the -I would conduct a campaign who are more radically party inside it and protest against a disposed than our elders were.

leadership which acts like this.

That is as far as an MP can The kids that are joining go. the doing it party now are solely through conviction-it has little to do with environ- No mat- ment and education. how, therefore, ter their environment changes their education changes they will be as radical in 15 years time as they are now at 20 years old.

This automatic process will go on and I believe we will see at future conferences resolutions of a more and more radical nature being passed.

You on the left of the SJ. Parliamentary Labour Party The other way is an accele- have been talking about win- ration of this existing process.

the Party ning for socialism Not by fighting pitch battles, for, I suppose, 70 years but and encouraging those you don't seem to have been young-ones to on trans- at all successful. Yet I heard forming the movement in the the same formula repeated at way they are doing now.

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headlines. Good afternoon. 4.40 Pinky and Perky. Mad 4.55 Robin Hood 5.20 movies desk. Ti.4S Faith 11.50 West. 5.50 London. Report 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Crossroads. Film: 'Apache?. Burt Lancaster Tean Apache Feronimo's accept 4 culus the 1.25 Cross. man. 8.30 Londor syd. stip. sPa.Co Wedther: 11.15 a suit- day. London. Friday, October 9 1970 SJ. The Workers Press has been published for a year now with constantly Improved tech- Norman niques and sales. Atkinson, MP, wrote in recent 'Morning Star' article that he could not understand why the Labour Party could not bring out a daily of its own. Why do you think It Is that our movement - much smaller than the Labour Party can do this? NK. To be honest I have only read it three or four times. I don't often come across it in Wales. As far as the design and lay-out is con- cerned it is really first class.

The content I have read has been well written-I couldn't support it simply because I am not a member of the SLL.

Now why you can do it is simply a question that baffles me. Why, when other papers fold up a new paper like the Workers Press can come out, daily, I just cannot as a answer. But I am sure there are les- sons to be learned from your example. Unfortunately the Workers Press is outside the Party because I'm sure we have a lot to learn from it. Per- haps we would then be able to bring out a Party daily or a . trade union national news- paper. But only the Workers Press and the SLL know the secret of their success. The very fact that you can bring a paper out that sells even 10,000 copies a day is amazing to me. It shows we are lagging behind. I suppose there might be that degree of commitment that. says 'well, we'll try it and see if we can get off the ground whereas the Labour Party is always concerned with keeping its books balanced. HTV (West) colour abre except: 4.16-4.18, 6.01-6.35 channel 'Re port West. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 and HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white above service as except: 5.20-5.50 Amoo weishucene1-6.18 Y dydd. 10.30- 4.35 room. room. Romper in space. 5.50 ondon. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads.

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Friday, October 9, 1970 THIS VOLUME brings together some of Lenin's most penetrating writings on the problems of com- munist work in the trade unions. It contains the most important sections of Lenin's classic work on the role of the revolu- tionary party in the trade unions 'What is to be Done?' which he wrote in 1902. This work, always the target by the enemies of for attack Leninism, was directed mainly against the so-called 'economist' trend the Russian labour in movement at the turn of this century. The Economist argued that pure trade union militancy would develop into spontaneously consciousness without socialist the active and constant inter- vention of trained Marxists.

The building of revolutionary leadership within the trade unions is the central task facing British working class. While it would be wrong to mechanical make comparisons between Russia in the late 1890s and early 1900s, and the stage now reached by British workers there are problems common to both illuminated by this book's selections. For Lenin was no worshipper of pure, blind trade union milit- ancy, of the level of thinking and activity that never goes beyond of the day-to-day questions wages and working conditions.

He shows that a revolutionary trade unionist draws his strength from combining and enriching the working-class movement with all its past experiences, general- in the form of Marxist ized theory and developed within the revolutionary party.

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Communist trade unionists, with a strategy for power, armed policies for all equipped with the major questions of the day, become best prepared to fight on such issues as wages and hours. 'What is to be Done?' shows how vital it is not to be swept along on a wave of militancy, acting purely as the mouthpiece for workers in struggle. The revolutionary party, in all its agitation, propaganda and theory and above all through the development of its press,. trade must also conflict with the pre- vailing level of consciousness in the movement. To merely reflect what exists, and what is therefore already rapidly being undermined by development beneath the surface of events, is, in Lenin's words, before spontaneity, to to bow tail-end the working class instead of lead it. • Lenin wrote 'What is to When be Done?' the Russian working class had just passed through an unprecedented wave of strike battles with the employers and the state. But that of itself did not lead them directly to socialist conclusions or membership of. the revolutionary party. Many workers, fresh from the rural areas, were extremely milit- ant on wages but refused to take • the political any interest in struggle Tsarist against the autocracy. Leaders of the party active in the trade unions began to bend to this backwardness, develop- ing the theory that the workers were to fight only for trade demands, while liberals and intellectuals generally were to themselves with the concern political questions. Lenin came out very sharply against this trend, which he rightly presented as a capitula- ideological tion bourgeois to influences within the workers' movement. Stressing that there were only two ideologies - bourgeois and socialist-Lenin denounced those 'spontaneous' who believed in the development of socialist ideology, which he held would only be developed by entering into con- flict with the backwardness workers, as purveyors of capital- ist ideology within the working class. And he was right.

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This theme, of the struggle for theory being paramount for communist work in the trade unions, like thread runs a throughout the entire volume. It is exemplified by Lenin's series of very important articles on the problems of Soviet trade union- ism in the period after the end of the civil war. The so-called 'trade-union dis- cussion' has figured large in the Stalinist slander campaigns against Trotsky. But even the selection presented here shows that more important questions were at stake after the estab- lishment of workers' power than dispute between Lenin and Trotsky over the role of the trade unions. By seizing on the episodic differences that emerged between Lenin and Trotsky in the period leading up to the 1921 party con- gress, the Stalinist editors of this volume obscure the theore- tical essence of the trade union controversy, the clash between the dialectical method of Lenin and the eclecticism and scholas- ticism of Bukharin. Trotsky was perfectly con- sistent in arguing for the con- tinued militarization of the trade unions-what he called then 'shake-up', within the framew orl of the civil war policy of war communism'. But unrest inside theg work- ing class, which expressed itself even in the highest ranks of the party leadership, forced Lenin to re-think the relationship between

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"The Lenin says of his heoretica substitution of eclecticism for the of poli- alectical interday (which and economics ina in varxism). his tneorecal Une one nana the and other, and has gone to reinforce the point. need and it IS headin at cal Avalable from New Park Publications from Zinovier (uho sup ona biaonam nion si.. swa Price z4s oost Incl Price los so post inc 'AMERICAN people would choose the policeman's trun- over the anarchist's cheon bomb.' These words of vice-president Spiro Agnew are typical of the recent stepping-up of the Administration's attack on students. The offensive is taking the form of verbal broadsides and for concrete preparations re- pression. Nixon has urged Congress to authorize immediate federal in- all tervention into Virtually higher education institutions in cases of bombings or arson.

including 1,000 Nixon's plan, an additional hiring of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to take on the students, was finalized at a meeting with Hoover FBI director J. Edgar and Attorney-General John N.

Mitchell. The brutal and cold-blooded nature of the repressions planned 'at this meeting is brought home by the remarks made by Mitchell, who said that if the students think there is repression now, they haven't seen anything yet.

He is also reported as calling academics 'those stupid as bastards that run the schools'.

Mitchell's wife's denial that this statement was made was seriously undermined by her sub- sequent remarks about college authorities: It makes me sick at my stomach. They're a bunch of sidewalk diplomats that don't know the score. They don't know what's going on. They don't have the right to talk . • They are totally responsible for the sins of our children.' If the educators 'would lead the path of Americanism rather • than the path of Communism', she added, all the trouble on the campuses would not have happened. Outbursts These outbursts of the crudest anti-intellectualism and anti- communism are an attempt to politically - backward stampede and the middle class workers into voting Republican by whip- ping up scares of violence on the campus. and Nixon have their Agnew on the coming elections in eye which they aim to win the seven seats they need to win control of the Senate. importantly More Nixon's offensive on the students seeks to isolate them from the work- ing class. The 'red'-baiting and physical crushing of the students opens the door for the same tactics to be launched against the unions.

At the same time the em- ployers seek constantly to isolate the students from the working of the political because class students questions which the raise in however a confused way.

The working-class's political consciousness must be held back at all costs. Nixon and his side-kick are proceeding with this strategy very consciously as was evident from the 90-minute television con- frontation with militant students that Agnew arranged for himself under the auspices of the David Frost show. Agnew said that there was a 'fundamental difference' between student demonstrations and the by construction workers attacks on anti-Vietnam war protests.

Playing to the anti-intellectual- AN UNPUBLISHED report pro- duced for the Labour Depart- ment contends that industrial accidents leading to death and injury may be ten times higher than official US statistics reveal.

Yet official Bureau of Labour Statistics figures already show are killed that 14,500 workers each year on the job. Last year by comparison, 9.414 US soldiers were killed in the Indo-China war. The report, prepared by an ex-Defence Department econom- ist Jerome Gordon, has become a central issue in the current Congress debate over legislation providing for the first federal standards on industrial safety for all workers. Contested The accuracy of the report is by the being hotly contested bill's opponents. According official figures to about 2.2 million workers out of the 75 million working popula- tion each year suffer disabling injuries forcing them to take time off work. Gordon contends that serious njuries not causing significan ime off work may be as high a ism of sections of workers like the hard-hats, the vice-president felt that it was unfair to equate student politics with the 'wave of revulsion' among workers whose labour had created the material plenty that gave students leisure to demonstrate. Agnew's respect for objecti- vity, incidentally, was exposed during the programme to be completely non-existent. Questioned the CIA's on involvement in other countries' claimed "The affairs, Agnew United States is lily white com- pared to most countries in this respect!' • He denied that the CIA had ever toppled a foreign govern- ment, but said, in a classic tongue-in-cheek statement, that the CIA might have 'tried to persuade persons in other coun- tries who might feel oppressed to change their governments'.

'Concern' The Administration's 'concern' with the campus was immediately stimulated by the impending report of the President's OWn 'Commission on Campus Unrest', appointed after the killings of students at Kent State University and Jackson College last spring.

As the Commission drew into apprehension grew in the White House that the Administration might be held responsible for 25 million a year, or about ten times more than now recorded.

International Herald The Tribune' takes up the story: 'Mr Gordon arrived at his conclusions by examining the Bureau of Labour Statistics sys- tem and measuring it against that used in California, which does not participate in the national survey. 'His report said that informa- compiled in California tion "revealed a ratio of ten serious injury reported every injuries for disabling 'On the national level, this means that the current annual level of 2.5 million disabling injuries could rise to 25 million serious injuries, his report said.

'Mr Gordon said that the BLS "seriously restricted survey is and impaired" by the absence of adequate funding and manpower, by an inability to enforce stand.

ards of sampling and data col- lection, and by widely varying definitions of what constitutes a serious injury. 'The report also said that the BLS survey is hampered by the lackof training of survey reporters, and by employers not instructing employees on huw to report work injuries.'

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student unrest by its own inves- tigators. This could not be allowed!

Hence the need to 'pre-empt' the Commission's findings by a campaign to put the blame on 'rebellious students and weak- kneed professors'. A consortium of Nixon's big business friends - including Hobart Lewis of Reader's Digest and Donald Kendall of Pepsi Cola - even collected about $45,000 for a nine-city TV rerun of Nixon's speech last month at Kansas State denouncing student demonstrators. Nixon also took the extra- ordinary step of sending to 900 university top brass copies of an article by Dr Sidney Hook which claimed that college administra- tors had given in too easily to student demands and 'have thereby ushered in an era of intellectual and physical intimi- dation'. In his accompanying letter Nixon said that the article was 'among the most cogent and compelling documents I have read on the question of college and campus unrest', and went on to urge university authorities to responsibility for 'law and take order'. The Scranton report itself is interesting because it reflects the of sections of the US concern ruling class at the fissures begin.

ning to open up under its feet.

'We believe it urgent' the report pleads 'that Americans of all convictions draw back from the brink. ... We must declare a nation cease fire. . •. If this trend continues, if this crisis of understanding endures, the very survival of the nation will be threatened'. Edge of chaos It speaks of divise he Civil deep as any since War'. And again: 'A nation driven to use the weapons of war upon its youth is a nation on the edge This judgement, it should be remembered, comes from a safe and respected Republican, Wil- liam Scranton, a former Penn- sylvanian Governor and one time possible Secretary of State.

The commission concluded that 'Only the President can effectively calm the rhetoric of both public officials and pro- testors whose words in the past have too often helped further divide the country'. Though Agnew was not named in this connection, the finger was effectively pointed enough to draw the counter-accusation from the vice-president of the unfairness' Commission's "total and 'scape-goating of the most irresponsible sort. While calling on students to 'maintain their respect for the of law'. Commission role , the produced a number of absurd palliatives, such as the sugges- during tion that sniper fire clashes should be returned only trained, disciplined by anti- and sniper not as teams at state by a 'barrage of Jackson gunfire'. But Scranton and his care- fully-selected colleagues rubbed Nixon up the wrong way when they urged him to remove the main causes of conflict by end- ing the Indo-China war and alle- viating the problems of the black population. This is exactly what Nixon is unable to do. So he lashes out at his well- meaning friend Scranton who unwittingly raised issues that the Administration is desperately campaigning to bury.

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for a political settlement in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and the immediate 'release of all prisoners of war. There is not even a date in the proposals for the with- drawal of US troops. Can cynicism sink any lower? Less than six months ago, Nixon's troops poured over the Cambodian border to ensure the survival of Lon Nol's puppet regime. Cambodia became an inter- national by-word for imperial- ist aggression. Now he comes forward with a loaded olive branch, posing as an apostle of peace. Support Instant support for the plan, not surprisingly, was forth- coming from the governments of S Vietnam, S Korea, Thai- land, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia and Canada. The Tory government of Heath also voiced its support.

What Nixon wants is a repeat performance of the 1954 Geneva conference, where Vietnam was vivi- sected by imperialism with of the the collaboration Soviet and Chinese Stalinist bureaucracies. A ceasefire would give the United States time to recuper- ate some of the shattered morale of their forces in Asia, and accelerate the so-called.

'Vietnamization' programme.

Above all, it would free Nixon's hands to hit back at reactio the working class in the United States itself. Friday, October 9 1970

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Brutal attack on ill and INCREASED health service charges and inten- sified restrictions Secretary for Health and Social Services Sir the Tory Party's blackpoo Keith Joseph at conference yesterday. ON HEALTH CHARGES, he said: jobless 'We have no ideological objections as such to Char SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS, he said: "Short of a police state we shall never be able to stamp out all scrounging. What we are determined to do is to check it, and, above all, to remove the temptation..

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engaged invasion plan ingers an deserter was ready Support before of a police state THE UNITED STATES and Israel worked for military intervention number out a joint plan supplemen member the repration auring last month's ordan crisis which would all to have been put into action if Syria had not 'The trouble is that over the withdrawn its forces, the 'New York Times' reported yesterday. Accommodation на но та. nade cone Palestine el ora and altogether n to benefits than they at of cose in te have Been recenty. were temporarily housed. King Hussein.

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