Workers Press no. 293

What we think Pilkington experience a warning to councilmen LEADERS Be so doubte into their dispe with the local-authority. em- ployers as a meulator. i mories anti-union legis Thrileage to be gained inion gained in extremely sharp under bustel. Footers Uni sic Carburettors Malkou back the floodgates lemonstrate, inamni icious witch-hunt agains Alderman D. H. Bridgehouse, leader tinked? force Heath and Carr into retrea yand shop mbine executiv Brepot from moris are hol And mediatoertain It is Kers mobement is tead The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

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plants THE POLISH Stalinists have lost no time in following up last week's London talks between

ANGRY

Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and the Tory The amanded that to 555 government. demand he paid. Their official newspaper 'Zycie Warszawy' ('Warsaw Life') com- Strike of ments that the visit was one Area Mir natony dabber. the signs that Tory Prime Minister Heath looking for an on's natiored execu

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A section of Monday's success Thoresby of the went to the polls yesterday after ful march through Southamp- the most basic working-class rights.

one of the most bitterly-tought con Dy concuma. Lucy were Mr Harper Cold the Typical miners, backed bv dockers and busmen HACKNEY councilmen's strike was made official yester- mid-term election campaigns Workers Press: who swelled the ranks day as the first private contractors moved in to shift United States history- -dominated About "I hiend! will come to this rubbish in tae borough by the law-and-order witch-hunt in the students also joinco lue marca.

A public meeting of strikers But the Polish Stalinists have already ma President Nixon's stirred up by Arand sus елое ви "behalt of Genera for Republican Party. Bans told us. a Taciu steward i waked out mosweet lascism. Overtime bans were being A 11 435 members of And only a few months ago Cement sman detesation Ter

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What think Pilkington experience a warang to councilmen LEADERS of Britain's 770,000 soing a mas yesterda es a mediatorty: em- anti-union legis- Thereage to be gained nich situation service trander used For Trans Unions workers page), onto Thisten why there creasingly man D. H. Bridgehouse trolled Hackney, counti : This Cons unsubstantiated read the stake that leads the Tory government

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were represented. THE POLISH Stalinists have lost no time in following up last week's London talks between

ANGRY

Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and the Tory The councillors attendin! he angry wert demanded thail ther kers government. who demand be paid. inevitable. Their official newspaper 'Zycie th loheieos findo wre the (Warsaw Warszawy' Life') com- Strike ments that the visit was one of 15, w po voded Glyn Wil- the signs that Tory Prime Minister of the union Heath looking for ways to ed That normalize relations with the Soviet reor weed received* Union aift to make good certain most glaring errors' of the Wilson the Me may to donts from yenin to ore tie ia tabariee of the council workers, bar the 9%. s government! tor the vor a th e ear. nont had alpaed it may gone moference Porthcaw] chen cs ne! her supo: io with Dockers back how rectitying the reimeised councilmen sla Strike e mre ome the ast SrK KET CHANSIRE ALMOST 60 million Americans

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A section of Monday's success- went to the polls yesterday after fu march through Southamp- seton spetine cotral ton by councilmen. They were most bitterly-fought one of the Typical niners, who upport th e cout backed by dockers and busmen HACKNEY councilmen's strike was made official yester- election campaigns mid-term 1n Warsaw Radio swelled the Tanks Ca colple of days United States history-dominated ady as une nrst privale contractors movea in to snit 1.500. About li universitv strike rubbish in the borough. I think it will come to this closing 24 and typical move of the students also joined the march.

by the law-and-order witch-hunt che ne o ei o oka But the Polish Stalinists have already made stirred up by President Nixon's of General Republican Party. Bans ths And only a few Plied through official A small delegation

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It also caught some of the strength and real humour, power of the players and there- fore the class of which they are a part. Last week (in the series still' called Armchair Theatre) Wel- land's third play was trans- mitted. I missed the second, but last Tuesday's, 'Say Good- night to Your Grandma' (Thames) was another script which stood head and shoulders above most of what passes for television drama.

It concerned a visit home to the North by a young couple with their new baby. They arrive at his mother's house, semi-detached and im- maculate, to find her mother there waiting too. Some pre- liminary skirmishes between the two grannies leads to the retreat in pained anguish of the girl's mother. She has been defeated in the ruthless struggle for pos- session of the new family and its youth by a well-aimed blow at her religious convictions on birth control. The young husband is the orıze now, in a battle betweer is mother and his wite. The battle rages over tea and into his being manoeuvred into a carefully prepared spontaneous booze-up at home with his old mates-just like they used to do five or ten years ago.

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Welland's play was, precise in, its, blows, but. always com- passionate. The way relation- ships are forced into sterile and twisted moulds, the arti- ficial forms taken by deep human conflicts, and needs in this society,, were all there.

FUNNY

The longing for friendship, for filial closeness, for contact, are so often perverted into crippling pantomimes. Much of through this came the play, often implicitly, behind very funny dialogue. The performances were all very good, especially by Susan Jameson and the author as the wife and husband. A seri- ous attempt had been made too to catch the claustrophobic atmosphere and enclosed space of the house; occasionally, though, it was difficult to catch key lines because of the loose shooting. But an excellent piece. THERE WAS another event of the television week though.

"The Country We Are Making' (BBC-2 October 26) was ostensibly concerned with the destruction of the environ- ment. It turned out, with the Duke of Edinburgh at the helm, to be a plea for the protection of the huntin', , shootin' and fishin' facilities of old England, under the guise of democratic con- cern, of course.

BLAME

'We were blamed for foul- ing everything up, and when it wasn't 'us' who did it, it was 'our fathers. The sewage workers now on strike were blamed for pollut- ing the rivers (tactfully, 200 years of destruction by capi- talist production was forgot- ten) and the climax of the show came with jolly refer- the Tory Prime to •ences Minister's new boat getting some oil on it. For me, the real highlight, though, was the sight of the Duke advocating the need for director of the Rio Tinto Zinc

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Author of the play Coll from 'Say Goodnight ti Marvellous television too • • reaction and distractior disguised as enlightened con- cern. There's a Feiffer cartoon which was issued for the Earth Day celebrations held in New York earlier this year. A hard-faced business man faces a young and naive chap.

The faces remain the same, the dialogue changes. Business Man: Vietnam is dead as an issue. The real issue.

is ecology. Young Man: But what can we do about it? B.M.: We have to control the environment. INTERVIEWED about the decision to expand the Terri- torial Auxiliary and Volun- tary Reserve on BBC radio's 'Today' programme last Thursday, Lt. Col. Colin 'Mad Mitch' Mitchell was wildly enthusiastic. He mentioned the TA's 'civil duties' and elaborated to the extent of referring to their ability to 'back up the police'.

'In these violent times,' he said, 'this is very useful for internal security' Now, what do you think he had in mind? Protection of Aberdeen cattle against rust- lers? Anti-poacher patrols on the grouse moors? Traffic duty on the road to Inverness?

* Mitchell's activities in Aden lead to the conclusion that he was thinking of more directly political action for the TA&VR, which, incidentally, is to have an armoured car division.

He was only revealing a little of what Heath implied in his UN reference to 'civil war'.

The Mad Mitches of Britain see their role more and more involved with preparation for against the working action class. Let's hope he speaks up more often. RUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m. Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance

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PROTEST strikes staged throughout Spain yester- day by the clandestine trade union organizations underline the phoney character of the Trade Union Law before now Franco's puppet parlia- ment. Even the Catholic bishops been forced condemn have the Bill. When all the elaborate Fascist phraseology is chipped away it gives nothing in the way the concessions working class. Genuine trade unions are illegal in Spain. After the civil war they were dissolved and replaced by 'sindicatos' which In all r of the play Colin Welland in a scene workers were compulsorily enrolled. Say Goodnight to your Grandma'.

Some of the key clauses in the 'consultative document' put Carr-style by the Franco regime after four years brooding Bill give an indication over the of its real meaning. Defining, the bodies which within the come law, Article three states: Professional Unions and organizations are Councils having object as tneir Y.M.: But how can we do in represent sociale no contine that? Associations Interests, and Groups of B.M.: We employers, tech- have to control nicians and workers who belong pollution. them. LO Y.M.: But how can we do "They shall be represented at that? all levels by freely elected have to control B.M.: We and will recog- industrial waste. the right to hold meetings speak and act within the limits Y.M.: But how can we do laid down by law? that? B.M.: We have to control Now it, you see now you don't. industry. Y.M.: Oh, you mean social-" Since the law effectively for- ism. bids, all conspiracies to raise B.M.: Ecology is dead as an wages or fight for better con- and issue. ditions, outlaws strikes CABINET PAPERS recently made available show that gathering between the union chiefs and the government during the stormy years of 1920-1921—referred to in the articles by Jack Gale-were always polite and often cor- dial affairs. Ministers were particularly sympathetic with the difficul- ties of the treacherous Jimmy Thomas, leader of the railway- men and spokesman for the Triple Alliance. 'We quite understand that were overruled by the

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conference which de- action, they cided on strike told him. But the lefts like even Robert Williams were treated with true English courtesy. He the secret reports never saw on 'revolutionary organization' circulated to the Cabinet once fortnight, in which his speeches often featured. Churchill While the meetings were proceeding the Sankey on Commission cluded a Strikes (Exceptional - the trick by helped Measures) Bill, never issued, which Lloyd George but drawn to be rushed the union leaders to betray the up miners-quite different kinds through parliament if needed.

of discussion were going on The main feature of this was inside the Cabinet. making it provision an These not only involved pre- offence incite strike strike-breaking 'against the state'. Since the paration Triple Alliance strike would activities, including military action in the event of a Triple have been a 'conspiracy against the state', this meant the Alliance strike. They also in- forces 'unions Workers into the same their employers, freedom law is within the simply an empty phrase. Nor is Franco going to get the sindicatos free from govern- ment control. The Minister for Sindical Affairs, a government nominee, will have the absolute right to sack any functionary or dissolve any organization he sees fit.

He is specifically enjoined by the law to make sure that the sindicatos conform to the "basic which inspire the principles Spanish Sindical Organization'- namely, the principles of the Fas- cist corporate state. Armed with these wide powers, the Minister will vet the sindicatos' rules and regula- tions (Article 23), nominate the LABOUR'S House of Com-press mons front bench is rapidly transforming itself into a kind of unsolicited - and unheeded — advice bureau for the Tories. finger : Wagging her at Employment Secretary Robert Carr after his announcement that the Prices and Incomes Board is to be replaced by a Office of Manpower Eco- new nomics, Shadow • Minister Bar- bara Castle warned: "This is bound to toughen the determination workers to ACTION in Northern Ireland has made men more likely to sign on for long service in the Regular Army, says the Min- istry of Defence. According to army officers, policing duties in Belfast and Londonderry have been good for morale. "The Times' quotes one officer as saying: Soldiers traditionaily, love a roughhouse. After they arrest of the very chaps being received so chummily in the next room. The Bill was never pub- lished, however, the since union leaders were able to hold back the power of their members. One problem with it was that it might have entailed locking up the wrong people.

When the Emergency Strike Committee presented their draft of the Bill to the full Cabinet meeting on March 19, 1919, Churchill urged care in its wording. 'We want to be able to pick and choose who we arrest,' he explained. When trade union leaders hold their talks with Tory Ministers these, days, they might spare a thought about just what these smooth gentle- men are cooking up for them -if they prove unable to per- form satisfactorily in keeping the working class under con- trol.

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And to add insult to injury, of the Executive 'The members Committee, the presidents of the sindicatos and national federa- of Works tions, the Provincial and Services and presidents of the various 'unions' Delegates of the Sindical Organ- and preside the Sindical ization' must 'swear allegiance Over National the Head of State, the Organization and Tne LO Congress (Articles 26 and 31).

Principles of Movimiento the Nacional and the Fundamental Just to ensure that only out- Laws of the Realm'. (Article 49).

Fascists right get top to une been deprived nobody who has No wonder the Spanish work- been in jail of civil rights, or about ers up in been declared 'incompatible Franco's proposals. with the principles of the Movi- Nacional' (Franco's This Fascist law outright Fascist party) only another indication that the can become presi- Sindicato Nacional. dent of the Stalinist and social-democratic perspective of democratic reform has no future in Spain and that This rules out representatives of all the overthrow of Fascism can be genuine working-class parties, all of which are illegal in carried through effectively only Spain. by proletarian revolution.

Carr's press for higher pay increases, proposed office the particularly those work- bastard offspring of her where

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Manpower and Productivity Ser- are low-paid!' vice. Perish the thought! Besides helping Carr produce Presumably it is fear of this favourable pay reviews for dreadful determination which in judges, senior civil servants, army the last five weeks has held back brass, top and other similarly Mrs Castle but every not only low-paid workers, it will in fact other fromimiting member of her the PIB's propaganda carry on finger party from to work for speed-up and redun- Labour councils dancies in industry-without any settle the council workers' claim hypocritical nonsense about keep- for higher pay. ing down prices Offspring 'We have made clear' Carr says, 'the best protection for the Her indignation is of course a consumer both as to prices and wages is to be found convenient cover for not discuss- . in the real implications of processes of competition' ing one came into the Army …LO some action and in Ulster they are seeing it.' Using CS on children gas old men and beating is up tradition certainly in the best of the forces of British im- all over the world. perialism Whether it is as appealing to the men who have do to it, as the Army suggests, is another matter. ticularly hit foreign commun- ists in Moscow. While he spent the next 19 'comrades' said absolutely nothing about him and never once lifted a finger help to

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Nixon Reign of Metalworkers' Free Spanish prisoners demand Vauxhall to sack 300 union chiefs terror on

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Illegal strikes Naxalites accept 12p.c. White-collar METALWORKERS' leaders in

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been uncashed by Baden-Wurttemberg, W Ger called by Gandhi's Congress gor manv. have acceoted an em.

I 'order ployers' offer of a 12.2 per cent pay rise in an attempt to white House reaily played it September Mrs Naxareres uanan avert strike action by tnel total wa 500,000 members. underground The "New Yorke Last march to trade unions votedt struck en demand the W Bensai poriceresed b.

mo or his cut tor 15 per cent defend jobs gine it ante r ths aialay taie introl ste A MEETING of 1,000 students at the School of Industrial reachepprove s besavin abon Engineers in Madrid was broken up by police on the eve be able ts of yesterday's 24-hour strike action called throughout Spain nod of his car atter the border troops on the Chinese by the underground workers' commissions against the Franco recime there int entiyinge eHety ere The meeting was called in favour of an Hackney strike made official

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women locked tl the Selbas DrIsUnCIs Uit DRAUGHTSMEN and other salaried staff at key demands of the Vauxhall's Luton plant yesterday struck for strike. trial" Several students were the day and marched 1,000-strong along the Nationalist beaten about the head factory's boundary road. and body and had to get medical attention The stoppage was the second one-dar , postponed for an the strike in protest at the company's announce- later. conet aor Becale eo ad Sirin fores d poli were ment wnal sov walte-collar workers are lo ve made redundant at the Luton and Dunstable because two of in prepara- o France co ra . is are condieior plants by the end of the year.

Marchers carried Bus crews placards Vauxhalls say Heath's 'civil war' go. DATA say no'. plan curfew

STRIKE CALL

Many of those threat- a reality in Ulster with ened sacking rights. "held during members of the Draughts- men's and Allied Tech- in a convent near 'MUCH HOTTER operations' by the British micians Assoclallon Som the leaders wer conductors and Before the march Vaux- arrested Army in N Ireland were predicted by command- by the police, but hall's ntsleadeawas

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orancn ing officer Major-General Anthony Farrar- secretary Tony Clarke told Hockley yesterday. a mass meeting:

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allow andi sh mpets fith oo the trgm ril tere the sokers Defeat the proposed Tory antl-union lawg the Tory governmen first com- S0 per cent rise ina 237- strike Not budging fares

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8

Israeli tortures effect spokesmam sekd: came

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metalworking management 3.30 p.m.D: Crooksmoor Vestry Hall, Crooksmoor Road,

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budge from decision: WITH CHARACTERISTIC Zionist cynicism, the Israeli government, Plight for the umpteenth time, flatly denied charges of torture and

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15

ArW mos od ngia nd Sit operale workers in this by the vice-president of the General Assembly nasticts or housing and low mages, Gndsgrownd,730 Burgh Lesser Hall, near Merkland Street allowed within nin ust told Werkes Prate company has made The team's report, Cerainy deriadin iss shid: clear. spokesman LONDON: Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, 7.00 p.m.

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