Workers Press no. 277

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAY OCIOBER 10, T9rl THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE EVERY trades council, union branch and shop By David stewards' committee must now press home the counter-attack against the Tories and their draft Maude Industrial Relations Bill with the utmost vigour and urgency. Alr president scanion, lop, and This much is clear from the complete failure of yesterday's IN SWINDON the district special meeting of the cabinet TUC General Council to produce any real plan of action for s implications of this at commer and defeating what it de- tress of arenated ittep are also to organize a 24-hour stoppage scribed as the govern- early next year.

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ment's 'mis-conceived is the apin of ehinerent THE SOVIET government yesterday announced and doctrinaire' legis- its detailed proposals for big-power policing of Dustmen lation. the Middle East. regis "registra Toes arount ro ane freds are air angry at But he withdrew the this move would be pre- Somed pore ald sensarized Nations leaders no advantage to either side' • the want a crsation" doing for the Visit ends sometime in the future. thre planned march Poor return proposes to share control.

Guarantees A poor return for the erds express leaders had called ann the Duchess of (which is, of course, their direct in the hope of securito some Kent's visit to a new shopping mmediaite action centre in the town. enousands of connell car don sirike man for e saCroy.

and militarily, and that its agents ine to lit northe under a a densation mod oples in their fight against imperialism face is even a coming . And this we , pathetic agreed to de n sikhts mere eed: now an i a no fin barrassing getting? the Industrial Relation mission on One person who was please ho sad the mike m Hussin in got Bin mittee leaders h of the nationalist, is urina people. The ro-called the final onslaught Congress advance i not me F , fam really down to us now. Tuesday Hussein and Arafat signed an rassir Aralat: Betraval by per

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A retaila ether. three children and paid - married with E-W deals aimed at China Hussein, Toversdays THE RECENTLY concluded Ha china the read toe Hon n e cultural revolu he only as detente with ers I rectine tax Teac and assible ener 1954- type negotiated settle- predicated on the Mao and p in he Chinese Impos concle that othce closes ha than it has today. See page 4 picture.

eveset foreign polidise Nixon's peace proposals by

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

UNIONS representing the 75 sacked St Helens building workers will meet at district level this week to discuss action that can be taken to get AEF president Scanlos, top, and Teneral uneam Jones, above, lobbied after yesterday's the men re-instated. Tuesday bLa. Engineers back council strikes Pikingport glassworkers. child shere turned the town sewage workers ates were also sacked to return. Bournemouth dispute. London, oraack that one riose saders glass plant. Swindon council worker tended se Harry Walker, Nt ated Society ughs if i the Fidays national teached at Woodw told Workerad 30,000 rortsmouth told hir dispute Dustmen Set example to miners Hull march

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Win ALL a success 700 workers marched through mail • said sees.

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repare on at al n support of their pay cla the firm council es and caretakers What cor organized up here said men's demands firm will have i think mares number of demon then attended a corpora- THE DECISION by Barking council to meet a graveyard there tion meeting. their striking employees' claim in full is a Like cattle victory for all Britain's local authority manual workers. in a pen timated thought of com ading dhere his he large- employers today in London.

JLL DUCKERS Struck olitical issue. eva broducti deal or the beerin Plan. The * shrinener the line the glass tycoon Pilking th and ple the working class

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workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE No date set for special Congress TUC evades action on Tory law EVERY trades council, union branch and shop By David stewards' committee must now press home the counter-attack against the Tories and their draft Maude Industrial Relations Bill with the utmost vigour and urgency. Kremlin plans from the den this eree This much is clear assion at London's from the complete discI Big Power Congress failure of yesterday's special meeting of the police in TUC General Council to produce any real plan of action for Mid-East defeating what it de- scribed as the govern- early next year.

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ment's 'mis-conceived THE SOVIET government yesterday announced and doctrinaire' legis- Scan- yester- its detailed proposals for big-power policing of lation. the Middle East. with "registrar atesee mitain trade stranglehold to sumilitar i2 United and Nations armed the General Council The advantages кое не и не не в want a cessation of for the to be vit asedmine retrie untrie Poor return roposes to share contro Guarantees • poor return for the 20 • Stalinisan, es by buildina. d i deled ta quarter ope LOpe of. the nmediaite action. agents Ard penises in their fight against imperth isn It was even a slap in the As always the Soviet bureaucracy poute ite the in his for to crush the ratest an eration Industrial Relations'. suppose some Fished Palestinian masses on the really but to much: Yassir Arafat: Betrayal by pen.

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only legitimate Huss of cheapies in E-W deals aimed at China sister government, tion in the cultural revolu- 47 thi country to do the Populale settle and Hawatmeh, last Chine a price put troops Nixon's peace proposals Soviet foreign policyscredits facing Chipe, than Concentrations of troops, Irish banks may open uth by the treachspec artillery and steadily built up since 1965. Despite the accrediting of Peneloan, ang teal to mee whose deeries are brouish backs to a sociation, so cost imperia. recommended acceptance at a meeting yesterday.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 1970 • NUMBER 277 SWINDON the Amal- mated Union of Engineer Foundryworkers gineering council workerort once a tea also te Dustmen angry at leaders Visit ends planned march Corers expressed indignation or strike ned demonstratio the o. Kenre in itto ta new shopping don we were told b the police •se and they of the strikers retorted a damn sight getting. person e a Colded children and arried with money at the Social Security 3 tax rebates today, see page 4 picture.

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ST HELENS

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

UNIONS representing the 75 sacked St Helens building workers will meet at district level this week to discuss action that can be taken to get , top, and lauwu secretary jones, above, lobbiea alter yesterd the men re-instated. Today fired victimized ilkington glassworke asain tause proposed anti- the town sewage workers Child schoole s as caret avery A further 16 of their work.

• The joined the cleaners Bournemouth ispute Fixingtons sheet glass plant. • contractors to using for the Walkermated Society Wood Press shat that Lanes sake place until Friday's national talks. Ment had 30,000 rorismouth prepared to discuss were Set example to miners Hull march

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tron at all said Mr Walker • workers, recru here in the North. come babe for us. It them thousa number a thaveyard thosed. I's like sion one attended a corpora- THE DECISION by Barking council to meet It is understood that Row their striking employees' claim in full is a ens Co victory for all Britain's local authority manual Like cattle the site workers. ofate to avoat wil pay in a pen overestimatec by the tave to mat he bil should they completion date. building Behind all the local hors seans he employer racert employers today in London.

trading there is Meanwhile St Helens political issue of the Delin Phas were continuing their this clear Two productivity deal. strike remains The ceting ie half-dav workers would be followed foll City Hamass meeting and the the retreat thad maplyer

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demands. minere art dinge Emperores Union said "UDIl menalties for said they would pay sity Mates on ther Under his time treated like cattle in a pen'. would be over.' per cent. Hold out This kind of talk will of

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Feather formula on both sides of Irish Sea Bel-

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from fast's shipbuilding and engineer- have launched ing industries mobilizing aimed at Col Day ul the whole of the Ulster labour movement against the anti-strike laws proposed by the Heath gov- ernment. At a meeting organized by the Ship- Belfast Confederation building and Engineering Unions 83 shop stewards and this week officials pledged their the opposition LU Tory attacks on their unions.

But no detailed campaign of the action was drawn up by union leaders who talked to the Andrew Barr, CSEU chairman, trotted the familiar out now digest of industrial statistics first Feather, used by Victor

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speech general secretary in his at the 102nd Congress. Far more days were lost in Three NUM b industry through accidents, sick- ness etc., than were lost through strikes, said Barr, who ended a plea for full employment with in Ulster. HARRY RILEY, secretary Brodsw prob This would solve the of industrial lem strife National Union of Mineworkers: Ireland he added. Praised efforts THIS CLAIM is completely Main Urwin, speaker, Harry assistant secretary of the Trans- justified, as is acknowledged port & General Workers' Union, by all the people who know praised the efforts of local trade union leaders. anything about working con- The government, he said, were ditions in the industry. just puppets for big business.

The legislation was a move to required, the ardu- The skill the limbs that amputate two work, the haz- had maintained British unionism ousness the

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which still con- ards health for a century. and dangers to life; were the 1871 Act that tinue, These Ine freed things alone require that workpeople from legally- of pay should be binding agreements and the 1906 the rates high as in any other industry.

Trades Disputes Act that pre- vented employers sueing unions for damages arising out of a I, as Brodsworth branch secre- tary, feel that we should fight to strike. emphasized end. He that this was tne the greatest threat that had faced miners are prepared the whole trade The to union move- fight the government on this ment since the general strike of issue. 1926 and pledged that the

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Shied away But the who produces man But despite this bluster, the wealth, the man who does Urwin shied away from the the work, is the man at the bot- question of industrial action by tom of the scale. Ulster workers. Any stewards who turned out The Tory conference wanted in Belfast hear expecting to the to attack unions because it details of real campaign of represented those who have the the Tory govern- against those who do the asallist wealth have been disap- ment must" work. is the man who does a pointed- it's the Feather formula day's work who is important. sides the both of Irish sea as far as the union officials are con- We will get support from the cerned. other unions. Low-paid workers TV

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NUM branch secretaries talk to Workers Press

GEORGE

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branch Main etary brodsworn (yorks) secretary Rouenion (Yorks) branch, National Union of Mineworkers and a member of the Labour Party: ass nor Therminers are united I AM strongly in favour of a strike on the issue of the f5.

Coal Boaid, she Tory beess and There should be no settling decent wage for himself and his for anything less. Tory government. Working conditions, wages saile do govern

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miner has canes We are firing the at a first in the are atro- to loti of the the this been Decause leadershibe no more weak- Labour government, because Wil- weak are very, very slow in covemen improvements attacked son the working casi tor the benent. the monopolists. H. E. PARKINS, secretary of Chesterfield branch of the National Union of Mineworkers: Conservative Party con- Tha ference showed parlia- that the mentary snokesmen of canitalism want to smash the working cass.

THE TORIES' intention to smash the working class will But the were thic strengthen the miners. Industrial action can be used to bring sown They* govern- down the Tory government, but we are striking for a wages and incomes pranced started. the nricec increase. laws. Nowarted Tories started the anti-union the I want to make it quite clear the Pilkington think "trick would They think pre prey inerable.

prepared this is not a bring have supported the down the government though we victimized gass workers bi cal- do want. the Tories out: ing the men back out on strike.

e most y thera the or the lot 600,000 The employed action have bere calling for most vulnerable of the way we have been mond have to expand then en reated in the ation ate ation.

their But The them exe ay where we standow are mıltant because they are not unem- getting the wages. Lord Robens can't take inde. see this political action pendent demonstratio Tories tha even with the people this is a justified case.

stick it ma Houston unemployed confident Neither Lord Robens will be solid for the strike upon rev ingy with the power 1 for: 4. 64-18. 6.01-6.33 enose so therea unprofitabl n unprontable bit is deter bove except for: 5.20-5.50 he halanca chaat o+ +1 interest shonid have relieved from the industry vie industry and mode used Lorde hey will lose on ces tal for one st. st. Mete pr demand of steep

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MIDL Senor a go on on. will also cause this result 550- 6.35. C5058- The government must remove 18.49 1.0 Midle charged to the industay and not to the nation. It should not be the miners' Kent miners con wager to cuffer растаману Ноуля women's prison! OFFICIALS of the United Union Auto are" Warrang prenaring a maior sell-out of the wages fight now opening defeating the up with the car giant General Motors in the United States.

PacKaGe series over sectional issues are bronaht to the fore in! divert attention from the wages haht. Both the company Ten gras to Best these Sectional

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1s: 152 Wome 229-3.40 Name Address Friday, October 16, 1970 FLEET STREET — with the assist- Nabarro and Harold Gurden—was in full witch-hunting flight against the • car and engineering unions again yesterday. Bewhiskered S Worcestershire Tory MP Nabarro-strangely silent since his abortive road-tax scare earlier this year-appears to have found a new hobby-horse.

like his parlier mount. may turn out to be something 50 'fined' told cases Jess than a thoroughbred.

in o the field two years, is also darn yesterday New clause ate-buster is enemy. Horning in behind Fleet St' get me wrong, I'm 'Daily 'Express' and what happened the not 'Mirror' collected Motor saying so-called hard in work and ained' getting it under controlay o at britist mingham, sir al DIl- mingham, wants Not winner don't fines, 179 clause new you whether rial Rela want to know nt's Indus stewards taxed they whether onsultative docu- paid in or there elves paid general union of funds.' This, he told cons orable. Nabarro, Gurden Record wednesday and thei are Fleet St ciener. Fleet St clearl co-thinke record straine. once again set the stop for pract in fk they are onte a practices In fact, to make the water-jump. would inevi- Redundancies Piecework ceilings, tollow piecework ex- plants if plained in yesterday's Workers earnines went com- pletely une operate cress. plants Britain as a means of available for a Mora given schedule defend of work. ng jobs Worst enemy man earns •Daily claims mut workers outside the gate.

pendent Tory could not find a single worker faither the notor leaving Wednescav's shod afternoon shitt who was Ooposea To It. and engineering industries or shut And, as a London engineer- First press conference since war S Wores Tory MP Nabarro. Midland birmingham Punishable His • is dienised wiry such a cine.

if it can that 'anv measure designed †o prejudice imit production productivity or inhibit KITTED out in the uniform of supreme armed forces com- in industry 10 and was cam • punisnable oy tne prodosed mander, the Sandhurst-trained Hussein who rules what's left Industrial Court. of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan gave a press conference Birmingham Selv Oak MP in Amman on Wednesday. Gurden. says who hac of his agenda,

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course was the enforcement of his new leader agreement with guerrilli Palestine Arafat under agreement agreement must be to work, King Hussein told assembled he it would usher in a honed that new era co-existence between the two parties. Welcomed surprise under terms A Commandos will no longer be able to carry arms or hold tary displavs or conduct multary exercises in cites their outside cities a to vie- Cent miners coming off Betteshanger colliery. shift Anothey were be regained respect show forces-the Bed- regular armed ould trooDs who less than month were looting, raping a20 and way [nel through the Palestinian refugee claims to coast and a hotline cua Health to Ariat tem has been run into General for retirement after 30 years' Motor's headouarters in Detroit vice on So pension top so Inal and manage. of the guerrilla attempt split the car helD •oreak movement. bottlenecks that develop at loca young workers, from the regards the agreement as a sell- le Troubleshoot ers

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chiets are playing up the been abandoned bi he held th Hussein's troops are pension while speed the process of local agree down. sort-Decalline on the vital wages Wages struggles in US car fac contined" centre around the tories pressure negotiation of new contracto United by national basis, left the guerrillas to their company. Because of Measured-Day Syria withdrew tate when mention the retreat on pay.

tanks from lordan. Arafat went to Cairo and Inen Severe blow signed the deal with Hussein.

state steer ear simply a side sue o General SAl 0111 the Turning point Motors' this main tight. wage hant would be to the US This the severe bow working was turning-point. But the union chiefs. -with the Blaring fact + fact that cass. which is nohting back in a backing he ICCammunic very tenacious war Party and its newspaper *Daily without relentless, uncompromis- price increases growing unemployment. all imperial- World'-think citterentir the Middle East over the agents 'Victories' Ism's forgotten weter sentimental treachery. ra where 1 the guerrillas are davins * Being bureaucrats and forced a renego shape package i tiation of the national package.

tha likely The same questions of leader- worked Out lat atroit ic нет be a very different to annear in shin and the fight against bureau.

ight. cracy which nosed betort The package the cas arkos, face union chiefs britain to crush the resistance not only Palestinian fight people fighting are demanding incudes auto workers the but for better wages and conditions.

ware demands listed. for their beration.

Friday, October 16, 1970 DESPITE its title, this volume does not contain all Lenin's telegrams and other dispatches of the period. It has this in common with the far more crude forgeries and falsifications of earlier editions of Lenin's so-called 'Collected Works'. First, let us take good note of the fact that unlike most of the previous volumes in this English edition of Lenin's works, No. 44 from the fifth is translated Russian edition of Lenin's works (from volumes 50 and 51.) This is very important, be- cause the fifth Russian edition is claimed by its editors to be real Lenin 'Collected Works'. The reader will search this volume's 615 pages in vain for the document issued to Trotsky by Lenin in July 1919. It reads: 'Comrades, knowing the harsh character of comrade Trotsky's orders, I am so convinced, so absolutely convinced, of the cor- rectness, expedience and neces- sity for the good of our cause, of orders issued by Comrade Trotsky, that I give them my full support.' These lines, irrefutably confirm- ing Lenin's absolute trust in the ability and devotion of Trotsky as a revolutionary leader, were written by Lenin at the bottom of a blank sheet of paper. The space had been left for Trotsky's orders.

SUPPRESSED

There 'are many other docu- ments almost as deadly for the which have been bureaucracy suppressed. Lenin dispatched four tele- grams on August 22, 1918: One to the Penza Guburnia Commit- tee of the Bolshevik Party, two to A. K. Paikes at Saratov-and another to Trotsky at Sviazhsk.

Here, at the strategic gateway to Moscow, the Soviet Republic was fighting for its life (the full details of this epic battle are to be found in the Workers Press Trotsky supplement).

Yet the so-called "Collected Works' omits this vital telegram.

It is easy to see whyl 'August 22, 1918. Sviazhsk. To Trotsky. Treason on the Saratov front, though discovered in time, has nevertheless produced extremely dangerous vacillations.

We consider your going there at indispensable, absolutely once for your appearance at the front has an effect on soldiers and the entire army! On April 10, 1919, Lenin wired following brief Trotsky the message: 'In view of the extremely situation the Eastern grave on Front I think it is most expedient for you to remain there. Lenin.'

This telegram is" álso missing, as are the following: 'May 21, 1919. 'I would insist personally on your [i.e. Trotsky's] going to Bogachur once again, ın order to complete the crush- ing of the uprising, otherwise is no hope for victory• there Lenin' (emphasis added.) 'May 22, 1919. 'I insist again going without fail a on you second time to Bogachur and putting an end to the matter, because it is obvious that Sokol- nikov cannot handle the șitua- tion. Lenin.' 'doctored' But even in the edition, published by the Mos- cow Stalinists, there is ample material to annihilate the anti- the Civil Trotsky sanders of War period. We take but one- the 1919 offensive waged against the white guards of Denikin to the south of Moscow.

STALIN

According the Stalinist to egena, Irotsky drew up a plar which involved the, Red Army advancing through rich peasant the Soviet areas hostile to Regime. The advance was beaten back by Denikin and the whole southern front placed in great danger. Then, the fable runs, Stalin devised a new plan. The Red advance through Army would poor peasant and urban regions where the population could rally to the Bolsheviks. This version, which even been incorporated into holokov's 'Quietly novel , is still' to be Flows the Don', found in thé latest English lan- guage edition of the official his- tory of the CPSU. 'But the counter offensive failed. It began much later than planned, owing to the inefficiency of the war department, which was headed by Trotsky..: (p 323)

EXACT REVERSE

publications of the Earlier Stalin period had been even more categorical—i.e. the Lenin biogra- phy published during the war by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute: 'In the summer of 1919, Deni- kin's army, which had been well- imperialists, equipped the the Red began to press back Army. The retreat of the Red Army was the result of the treacherous activities of Trotsky who had undermined the fight- ing efficiency of the Southern Front. •• 'He had drawn up a plan according to which the main blow against Denikin was to be delivered from Tsaritsyn with the object of reaching Novoros- sisk the Don steppes, across inhabited which by were Cossacks hostile to the Soviet regime. Stalin rejected this plan and drew up his own, which was to blow along the strike the main Kharkov-Donbas-Rostov line...

(PP 156-157) But if we check over the Lenin telegrams of this period (between July and October 1919) the exact reverse emerges! In fact, Trotsky opposed the first plan drawn up by the high command, and fought against its adoption' by the Bolshevik Party Central Committee. Trotsky's conflict with the Central Com- mittee majority can be traced to a certain extent through Lenin's telegrams of this period.

to sastr tiss pad, Stalproved disastrous, This is conceded by Stalin's approval. the editors, who in a note at the end of the volume, comment: "This refers to the plan of struggle against Denikin drawn up by the Commander-in-Chief, S. S. Kamenev [no relation to the old Bolshevik leader L. B.

Kamenev, murdered by Stalin in 1936]. •.. On July 27, 1919, Trotsky sent a telegram to E. M. Sklyan- sky, deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council ONE TRADITIONAL result of a severe down-turn on Wall St is the bringing to light of the financial skul- duggery of the stock exchange sharks. The IOS saga could be shrugged off by some as neme- sis catchig up with the 'wide boys'. But now the stirrings of scandal are upsetting the respectable New York Stock Exchange itself. The NYSE building is being left-wing picketed not by opponents of capital, but by investors who fear that the brokers whom with their money is entrusted are not the paragons of honesty they were once cracked up to be.

For the first time since the scandals of the 1930s a rush of lawsuits has rocked the

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These were triggered by the NYSE's refusal to protect with hard-cash the clients of three stockbrokers about to go into liquidation. 'Perpetual' For NYSE president Robert W. Haack this refusal was just an extension of the 'perpetual crisis' of the past three years in which he has had to inter- vene into nearly 200 stock brokers on the verge of bank- ruptcy. Eighty brokerage houses have already left the scene and more are to follow. The NYSE's own fund for of bank- protecting clients brokers has been rupt exhausted many times over.

Investors are demand- ing that Congress give a similar fund of a $1,000 mil- lion to shore up confidence.

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REVIEW BY ROBERT

OCTOBER 1917 — NOVEM

of ground and fighting in the streets.

LENIN

allowed for street fight- Defence ing only if the enemy succeeded whereas Trotsky's argument was penetrating From recom- the annerent. campaign, was Moscow die i Cated to- converted into white-guard the Lastly another (p 520) Stalinist myth Differences of emphasis over abandoning mi tare spot s- The Wate Trotsky was wards operation. eningrad) best st of the situa the rOtsky's onposition continued -are desperate rear- • te was mont-whie guard action fouent to implement the decision revolutionary cause. -wnien was nis re- 1919, Lenir olutionary du Teen w Septem- wired to Lenn

SLANDERS

one iota "Comrade it st Defence Last night the Council adopted a decision ot the coun cu and sent ur to you in code.

confidence has been see, your plan added] the extent, underwriting the commands! not rejected sout, 29 course, strategic plan dogied revise Lenin's testimony present the editors thorny problen with a

WRONG PLAN

suggests His telegram defend Petrograd was lished ersier Stalin and Thrush- Dan stain. and secured by not Trishes to dies st the bodies opposed ition following excerpt on highest chev. the Denicine d This oftensive against party appears: and Tne state. must this telegram tom Conment mpression therefore to hear was surprise bibilities Written in reply to a telegram I Know here Lashe ich of SePtember 5, Serebryakov of the Central Concil O- , 1919, which in effect proposed altering Defence dater doth lo give credit we previously acooter Dan defend Denikin? (p 518 due. He managed to organize the struggle agalsi retrograd to the military specialists". emphasis aaaea.) During the boom vast specu- lative built through continuous borrowing of steady assumpuon oronT erowEd. The decline in profit rates and the sharn rise in interest brought many rates has these high flying bonanzas like Ling-Temco-Vought crashing down. Similar games Brokers have been involved account—in effect using their customers' money. It has become common prac- tice for firms to use customers' illegally as security for shares bank loans. The NYSE is said not to have cracked down this on shareholders nractice because might panic if they knew what done with their demand it back noney and setting off a disastrous chain reaction! The capital forming the brokers' reserves orten highly speculative, yet appears in the accounts at 70 per cent of market value. Many of the 'high flyers' are now permanentl grounded at small fractions of their one- time peak values. brokers hit some casec by simply such falls have withdrawn their money and left their firms to collapse.

Main Phila- Robert Rob- owner brokers, delphia withdrew simplv InSOR half million dollars and nwn let the bailiffs in a few weeks later. As one commentator put it: 'The practice normal using the customers' funds can Small Investors the holding picket New York the bag if the firm goes under.'

stock exchange.

BERT BLACK

NOVEMBER 1920

After a pause he added in an unhappy, softer voice: "But he isn't one of us all the same! He is ambitious. And there is some- thing evil about him, something of Lassalle" (Russian 1956 ed., Part 1, p 390) In the original version, written before Stalin's slander campaign against Trotsky had begun, we cast intended passage as Gorky 'Striking his fist on the table, he [Lenin] exclaimed: 'Show me another man who would be able in a year to organize almost a model army; yes, and win the esteem of the military specialists.

We have such a man. We have everything, and you'll see • Yes, yes, I know.. miracles. They lie a lot about my relations with him. They lie a great deal, it seems, especially about Trotsky and me.' (1924 Russian edition, p 23) 'They' still lie a great deal about Lenin and Trotsky-but with diminishing effects.

For the epoch of the 'Great Lie'-Stalin's as well as Hitler's -had as its subsoil the inter- national defeats inflicted upon the working class and the colonial peoples between 1922 (the _year of the fascist victory in Italy) and the Second World War.

Generations of workers have now matured, politically, who are free from the debilitating effect of these historic reverses.

It is this new generation of revolutionary youth, that in smashing the grip of Stalinism once and for all, will enable the Soviet working class to publish for the first time a complete and truthful edition of Lenin's -and Trotsky's-collected works.

[This particular volume, useful though it is for the study of Lenin's activity during the civil war, remains a product of what called the Trotsky so aptly Stalinist school of falsification.'

UNDER GREAT pressure from the Nixon Administra- tion, S Vietnam's Vice. President Ky decided not to attend the US March for Victory rally in Washington earlier this month. The whole affair was becom- ing more than embarrassing to Nixon—it threatened to expose further the rotten nature of the Indo-China war and of the puppet regimes that imperial- ism maintains. General Ky is the dirty linen that keeps tumbling out of the closet.

Remember, it was General Ky who remarked in 1965: 'People ask me who my heroes are. I have only one Hitler. ... We need four or five Hitlers in Vietnam.'

Just when it was hoped that everyone had forgotten these remarks, Ky went and accepted an invitation from the Rever- end Carl McIntire to attend the October 3 rally. McIntire then announced that Ky will 'out-Agnew Agnew'. Hide But Ky's and McIntire's connections with Agnew are not just a question of rhetoric and this is what Nixon and the capitalist class want to hide. Ky's openly joining with McIntire 'to tell it like it is' threatened to expose further his corrupt regime. In order to understand part of why Nixon and Agnew went through such histrionics over McIntire's invitation including dispatching Henry Kissinger to Paris to plead with Ky, we should just see who Carl McIntire is. McIntire is a radio preacher in the tradition of Father Coughlin of the 1930s and 1940s. He operates from Col- lingswood, New Jersey, where he has his radio studios, his Bible Presbyterian Church, and the offices his weekly newspaper.

'COLLECTED WORKS' V

By V. I. Lenin Lawrence and Wisha McIntire now broadcasts his programme, the '20th Century , over 600 Reformation Hour' different stations five days a week. He has ample opportunity to United spread the across States his views, which are anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-labour and anti-communist. All of the Reverend McIn- tire's ventures are tax exempt.

Fortunes His beginnings in the right go back around 1936, to although it was not until the 1950s that his fortunes grew.

This was about the time when many big corporations and foundations started pour- funds into ultra- ing large right groups. McIntire has maintained his good relations with various ultra-right figures of the past few decades, such as Merwin K. Hart and Harvey Springer.

Springer and he have exchanged pulpits. As with General Ky, McIntire's associations are international. He has played host in the United States to extreme Protestant the Rev- erend Ian Paisley of N Ireland.

McIntire is an enthusiastic promoter of the 'right-to-work' laws proposed by fascists for smashing the trade unions. He once said: "The closed-shop violates freedom of conscience and the Eighth Commandment "Thou

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shalt not steal"! In 1949, McIntire's Ameri- can - Council of Christian Churches placed full page advertisements in many Ohia papers opposing the Fair Employment Practices Code banning discrimination in hiring. It is not surprising then to see what binds the blood- thirsty General Ky to the Reverend McIntire. No accident It is no accident that McIntire comes forward with all the confidence to fly to Saigon to invite Ky to the US. It is precisely the Nixon and Agnew Administration who are openly encouraging the McIntires with their racial- ism, with the witch-hunts against students and the attacks on the working class.

Let there be no mistake! Behind Agnew stand the Wal- laces and the McIntires and the Kys. This is the real face of imperialism and the capitalist class. This is what is being exposed and would have been out in full display had Ky ven- tured to take his place on McIntire's podium. That is why Agnew, who only a month ago went to Saigon to express his gratitude support and friendship to Ky for his services in Vietnam, now-for his own tactical rea- sons-calls his visit a 'mis- take'.

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BUSMEN

London postponed protectionism. privileged conditions tions for use and assaulted'. produced agallst imported promise 1 mind or th We each country so in too cut are in- unionists to shilly-shallying and prepare for it workers garage * back then an in he Scabs conte. Union yesteraay. Rover 1,400 recalled Monday row over WORK WAS resumed yester- Rover CLEANERS EMPLOYED at Lancaster Univer- sity, who were given notice of dismissal in a row Sorkers and wi where the Acocks Greet weekend working, have now heard that over the dismissal notice has been withdrawn.

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At his meetings, he

A DOVE

attacks student he right to appeal to the hus told she protest, she was so ol the break-up or une two party United system the calls for 'law and order' Supreme Court. States and the crisis of leader- and makes red-baiting ship in the working class.

Mrs rs sagan, who last visited attacks on his more liberal the If he is able to win suppor six vears from government minister ad- political opponents. the privileges 'hard-hats dress the United Nations, first because there lost her US citizenship ¡ne recnnioue is not new- independent working-class Nixon used when was (then British United States Eisenhower's vice-president une carry ano une BaDouT In Tune 1967 she

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in Nixon's very policy was told Out Chauvinistic cancerous weapon citizenship had been appealing for tariff walls ner battle with the workine cass.

restored. banging the patriotic Agnew is drawing drum. Losetner all the forces of US Teacuon

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He also aided the behind a programme of repres- adventurist the sive laws and tighter police the who en- Break-up withoul perspecuve to nont INixon He class and backward se The Stalinists the ackward sections of Workers' Tews onIST vocaust white workers Party, by their uncritica suD- threatened port seiver crime tor the controntationists drugs and their refusal to raise the stucent protest, pornography. issue of a third party based the trade But Agnew's success is not Saturday and Sunday: confusion all create more inside a sign strength. the working class Attack

NO CROYDON MARCH

A anew has been anck to to the weakness. latch prostration and the trade union same the Republican appear Party. Senate the New York he has election ramnalar riolently attacked the Repub lican dicia andr Goodell, openly canvassing the votes backward white workers anu-labour racialist lines.

buckley's tamiv 1c notor. business and lously pro big anti-labour and anti-civil rights wational Buckley's brother campaigned for the legal abolition of the closed shop. This however does not pre- vent Agnew trom solicitino.

and receiving..the cunnont reactionary union leaders lik Brenna Con the And lad New Trades construction workers. Nixon Lne drIV and Agnew reall , have prob. ems. loung workers are no prepared to die in fonger bloodbath for colonia! imperialism. And Nixon knows That why he with- drawing troops from while protecting his back witl his Deace proposals, hic policy and appeals to world Stalinism for support. All these developments are class n the United States, Dose Derore

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working class the urgent need Some of the Croydon lo create a labour Party witr council workers who had congregated a revolutionary programme.

a march yesterday. See story page one.

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

DRAUGHTSMEN at Coventry, Bristol, and Leavesden Rolls-Royce plants were meeting yesterday to decide their attitude to the company's latest offer of between Code tail tober a 7 and 16 per cent pay rise.

Coventry. At -where 3.000 and men trom tha Porcina Ansty plants were locked out refusing Octoher 7 - While udnev • per cent offer the Pritich Tories are engaged the men 14 550 pasin firm to give in moves to shackle the trade increase to draughtsmen of 21 their, Aus- -a 1o per counterparts in indus- fighting ane per cent increase to are draughtsmen of 30 and over.

Australia's arbitration systome Instant to stered in. the words one crease is f4 with a reducins a battered, newspaper 1s cale to f2 5s at 29 and ove beheaded and belittled shell of al Mound Bereas 1 per 10) its tormer sell .... Australian capitalists will standards - although whose living standards he did not now be watchine toe turn must decide wnerder to acceoi make clear. events in Kritain with interest at is od increase Derby, If Heath and his Mr Clarkson speaking branohtsmen Was the shackles Chesterfield Rar- ories can as near or an neustry

WOICE

noldswick and Hucknall have Britain. the unions in has shown its determinatici Draughts- accepted 7 cent. will give greater impétus for members, organize its tor those who want to wrap them this year's annual gathering, Australian ankles once which he addressed. represents more. first trade claim organizations in all all the •The Merel Tenger nice that Australian states. Association of Australia has previous v strings were Australian long been vociferous tied to the otter. Although the demands that battle here is only vage mention arnitration. system been in the offer of, 'future talks to working class the weakened aver recent years should be stepped up. union militancy, it is cer- not battered and be This week it has been at it headed. Working-class again. has firm is insisting action National president Mr J. B there are many tautes a bad weakened anv turtner nauona increase Clarkson claimed. rather won ov araughtsmen should hanniy that te unions were not he naid to their emn ovees currentiv being nermitted ADELAIDE: OCT 14—Port Adelaide ADELAIDE: OCT 14—Port Adelaide t avárice righte without heing respective incréases. nfered called upon to carry out their the Rolls-Royce arrived at Port Adelaide today, but t plusid only receive the sur- "Southampton words familiar to workers without their accictance The tug seamen have voted not t Rolls-Royce made it clear to Birmingham, had been actively involved in supportin when they that the union officials met and the United States of Ameriba of Vietnam said level present talks this them TOr earler Australia) restrict strikes n which visit Australia will not be able means that weer that a retusa to accent economic growth and reduct the otter wolla lead to a total the canacity to imnrove living members lock-out thair throughout the combine. Friday, October 16, 1970 Cabinet crisis

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

ONLY FOUR months old, the Already the chief of the Argentine Cabinet has entered armed forces has consulted with the President, no doubt crisis severe already in- volving the resignation of two urging more repressive Ministers within 24 hours.

course. Certain Argentinian bour- Minister of the Interior geois elements hope for Eduardo McLoughlin resigned economic expansion, be to because of obstruction within embarked on alongside nation- the new government to the alist trade union leaders.

preparation of elections.

There has even been talk of It is evident from the sub- inviting Peron back to the sequent resignation of the Argentine. Minister of the Economy, The military and the right Carlos Moyano Llerena, said wing understand that this, to- to favour economic 'growth', gether with talk of future that the economic problems parliamentary elections, would encourage a and tavour of facing the Argentine demand Greek solutionand from the capitalists an attack masses on the working class.

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Like their British counter- Metal tradesmen employed the Australian building parts, by the Railways Department- workers have a high degree of the lowest-paid of among insecurity, losing many fringe skilled men in the country benefits obtained by workers also struck this week demand- in other industries, and being ing $75 a week (£35), an in- among the first hit during crease of $I0 (£4 13s). slumps. Seamen are also threatening nation level s on level. •Port Adelaide tug crews placed a black national is union ile destroyer, HMAS 'Hobart', when she claiming a $10-a-week increase de today, but the vessel berthed easily and improvement in condi- tions. any warship that An indication of the voted not to tow sea- ved in supporting 'the aggressive policies men's mood has been shown the governments of Australia by recent stoppages of work around the Australian coast. me of the very large American warships In vessels some ports were ill not be able to berth in the harbour.

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