Workers Press no. 299

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1970 • NUMBER 299

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What November Heath-Powell split means £1,250 Appeal we Tory split-s climbs to think £236 4s 50 defeat Bankrupt! ernment splt and divided ove Nores the ime too on The unions THE STRONGEST possible blow case tor under workers' control Strengthen real televisio broadCast Ine DOU S programme. Street, Increased themselves bailed out. dental must act. -which Heath con- charges condemned down the country. Convestment rants adid toe restriction cabinet, it provides

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE CRISIS in the Tory ranks which we pointed Ready to to in yesterday's paper. has now reached a more serious stage with the defection of a number of ride over Heath's policy is not directed Tory Mis, led by Enoch Powell, in Monday's tears for them Heath? debate on Rhodesian sanctions.

§ aimed at Above ling Pouring on thousands more Home's proposal ana approve the Southern Insery. Rhodesia Act 1965 (Continuation) • Order, 1970, Powell told the Commons of his deter- 1r mosu Dasic the to detv Tory leadership if ever In te Ine United states nearly any legislation based on reality the the idlenes the five principles was disease is the same through- passed in the House. out the capitalist world.

his unanity cal doubt about Rhodesia, 'the cerests emphatically: Common Market entry. I can to regen, The Britain

THE

dollars key de again morning arket and was oyansor be emeare the con. el of two dol- 38.88 cents. A scene from last night's ATV documentary on Mr Enoch Powell fight for a decent wage. Arafat aids Militants hamper Wore Teacher a a ders dole queues General Motors Jordanian Inste their bike must night SEVENTEEN hours of deal independers repression talks in Detroit yesterday The rius right a worker ba his open defiance of Heath failed to produce a defin-

BY A HOSPENDENTS

under capit defended a settlement of the ItIve great General Motors strike, now guerrillas were 1926

THREE ARMED

Palestinian to disgorge entering its third month.

If the their arrested yesterday in Amman by officers of the hales in the Tory defences Over 400,000 workers at th Liberation Organization for violating the agree on take to a actories nent signed between the guerrilla Central Com Mage the Congressonal rictions mittee and the Jordanian government.

contract. Hand be raken our of the Under the the agreement, which came Int

UNITY IN

escalation in t Heath's policy, which tac force as from midday yester- Other demands include guerrillas with per-

INACTION?

atastrophe, is t mits issued by Arafat's Central dustry under workers Committee can carry arms in secions of tAmalgamated the towns. Union of Engineering Arafat's men handed over There as ben to estra dy compensat the three guerrillas to tne conflict that which, onl "observer' mission or tomo to to De The British-Leyland combine which Amman, in turn roke on are ne thei not hite is the nverea inen up lo Stokes' Measured-Day Work jordanian authorities. control Cover Then derm Which cannot gir

WORKERS

Aradays that the guerrillas we bankrures a achieved to durat he working electi acking repressions being cubbish Engineering Unions guerrillas Meet and thinea thee 1r hink t attempts to agreement This in a lead trymest Pusseir driver month no continue neportations i stoppage It is the sent Lipt system to 8o0d yesterday. bankrupt

• PAGE FOUR COL. 3

Peter Evans of the frans The daily paper that leads the Tory government PRICE 6d. Tories tell miners

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

FACED with a coalfield battle which may open another breach in their offensive to push down living standards, the government is now considering importing coal to break the miners' strike.

This would an extremely costly policy. There is a world short- age of coal and the price of foreign supplies would be high. As impo weekly needs of weekly nec would up substantial deficit item the balance ol trade, nol to mennon tne DonanZe THer

TTON

abroad to every profit- woule anora grabbing middle-man. for the government there things are, cash. at victory the heels of the council workers would be a soliciell very blow Inel outlaw wage allentors increases.

CONCERN

Then to Her in than ter concert paralysis of industry strike those ns. more import coal than the Day mmmers uneir wouldve world it to the government if it weakened SPEAKING in A berdare. centre of valley town at the the S Wales coalfield, Prince Charles told have visitd owing certain circumstances I can't go down this mine. The trip tHuerarounu was nave taken place Maerov collierv in the kee Rhondda. Men, at Maerdy hast enday. been on strike since More join strike MINERS HAVE ignored the back-to-work call the strike's impact and con- tributed to the miners' of their general secretary Lawrence Daly, the defeat. strike remained firm as more men in Yorkshire It is therefore num- ber he prority and Scotland walked out yesterday in support leadets miners of the £5 wage claim. with megate aereements the transport unions locally In a statement issued from and nationally on this issue Vague • or the s ares appealed for LOne

READ

those UnIon of Dai con. secrets that men to return.

COALFIELD

As the strike total ike oras eached niners

COMMENTS

near half of not handle supplies are no Daly said: on pages 2 & 4 Though the miners' union disunity caused within union The t lan Yeats Workers' the unofficial strike can only (eneral met yesterday in S Wales speaks to narm miners here was, I understand, Welsh miners liscussior strike to return to work ser on foreign coal. will have the opportunity and their area Wales roard's the Coal Jones, T&GWU regional secretary, offer the ballot secretary such that " He added that he expected sale Dai Francis was a mauter ior tae umon s they overwhelm- nationa execut ve he personally would support ing|v for acceptauce dna undu a black. this would be ine best way to demonstrate their feelings.

PRECEDENT

Not weakened a 48-hour There is But which neither defeatist 19357 take-home pau statement, echoed ducatis al five S Wales who ports refused definitely think the could American Robens' to nancle Coal weakened the think the imported was miners don't because nave wOn. strike need be all that long.

cheaper than coal mined in will to for the 3,500 KENT S Wales. Few This was after approaches miners he Boardri ez 78 today More strike against the d that foreign offer impressed by In SLUILAND too lnese provocative statements have accelerate pit persuaded miners trying dockers took this scare a few the tor 1957, surface worked acuon they Will DeLleonansel were certainy respona to a union uranam strike bound much Workers Press vesterdav. call now over ThIs a few, The Scottish

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more decisive issue. 25,0r0 out well. it mignt scare A trom their leadership is needed is a but I think the men will stick.

eported tnal miners Strike. l In YORKSHIRE the dispute ong as the coal board the government general the executive would take total shitt back. strike to 42. In the Doncaster

VICW

the stoppage imports. ¿umaustone, anolner 700 Vane leat there dict would Kent s unree

DIES

advance what Four of Co. votea soldly for strike action do. at the weekend -- Snowdon, biggest pits Westoe are bound. Tempest and Dawaol yall CasinetoR. in seAls and miners real total ort and General Workers' reciting between it and te unions trom york national shire mon sald that the sonou executive a _ tough reception men were penne supported Sulke Day a week. whẹn they meet in London tomorrow Sicily unions call general strike The Coal Board estimates 1,035,000 tons have een lost in bal wation THE three major trade IS Phree m, capitad of Sicily, have Collember 20, aimed at for November aimed at walk-outs started industry interventions by the state and the regional steel lorenz concrete is beginninectricite the pine.

development of Sicily' military electricitv Argentinas governing dictatorsAID vesterday power warned union leaders against ance tore in a series stallons mave

STOCKS

of nationwide stoppages to nress their demands beonomics own that could last for seven Minister had offered a 30 per cent increase in weeks while the gas industry but would not allow has enough for weeks. wage structures until next April.

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1970 • NUMBER 299

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUF What Heath-Powell split means November £1,250 Appeal we Climbs to Tory split-" think £236 4s 50 Bankrupt! ernment split and divided.

THE STRONGEST possible The unions unacr Workes control Help uses 81013 3 74 emerges from Heath's television broadcast thund. Wtars • donations Appeal Street, he told Increased Bailed our: dental must act! charges condemned Combined with the add tot crediants many

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

up shop or bleed to death.

THE CRISIS in the Tory ranks which we pointed Ready to Evine British-Entend combike to in yesterday's paper. has now reached a more orted to be in serious inancial cristo a hecal, he added. serious stage with the defection of a number of ride over Hammatory Heath's at employers directed Tory MPs, led by Enoch Powell, in Monday's dental we weep no tears for them Heath? debate on Rhodesian sanctions.

caused it. Abowelinorcing all, he housands Pouring

SCONE

Home's proposal approve the Southern Rhodesia 1965 Act Order, (Continuation) 1970, Powell told the priving Commons of his deter. defy the mination United Sater pe Tory leadership if ever In the any legislation based on the bitterr the nve principles was passed in the House. Heath's solution is to encour- ' 'the" ecognize Common Market entry reco ity (Conservative cheers The "you as he tes the the ployers, The employers' problems are cot of ta moi be she con- inal level of two doi saved bp talismi will not Bankrupt lars 38.88 cents. A scene from last night's ATV documentary on Mr Enoch Powell fight for a decent wage. • the Arafat aids Militants hamper Work or are fed into i seat hind themsel General Motors Jordanian on the dole queues all reality there wil ern hodest republic in seein.

continu Inse their base must fight

SEVENTEEN

deal hours repression taiks in Detroit yesterday Cade Den failed to produce a defin-

BY A HOSPOND NESS

luve settlement of working-clas General Motors strike, now costs. est upsurge

THREE ARMED

Palestinian guerrillas entero us tore mone rena Presi arrested yesterday in Amman by officers of the holes in the Tory defences Over 400,000 workers at the end his econ on sake to advisers. ment signed between the guerrilla Central Com Outburst mong workers flopped during mittee and the lordanian government.

outraged outburst he Congressional ust be taken out of their one ne Sca terms of the descrip Tinder the which eace on in the cost or lig agreement, came Nixon's

UNITY IN

main preoccupation of US force as from midday yester-

INACTION?

Uther yearetirement demands dav. only guerrillas with Der Even the ultra-right union mits issued by Arafat's Central catastrophe, lizatior Committee can carry arms in benefits, tne towns amater trol. living. Arafat's men handed There over n pensation for the already en backer in that government's Union leaders' three guerrillas bankrupt former owners The conflict that Arab observer weeks party w made a which in turn Stein Amman. the roace the treat Jordantan aulnorities dem Cover They demand: 'Fight sackings Board's recc Any 'firm which cannot give 32.5 pe Should be nationalized ur three suerrill over control in line no defeat the working clacave hen pot Shipbuilding Engineering Unions.' The Tang think the F or fat powe ther be he Boards againse 1abot This in au на на по army rilla or an antorion is being used. WOrK. in tum day aar the Lonist dustmen have sent It is the way forward to sweep will pr bankrupt •

PAGE FOUR COL. 3

and their imperialist backers.

Peter Evans of the Trans.

systell! The daily paper that leads the Tory government PRICE 6d. Tories tell miners

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

FACED with a coalfield battle which may open another breach in their offensive to push down living standards, the government is nor considering importing coal to break the miners' strike This would an extremely costly policy. There is a world short- age of coal ánd the price of foreign supplies would be high. An import of 2.5 million tons — une weeky needs or industri would undoubt ecu pile up sunstanta on the balance denicit item of trade, not to mention would afford to every profit- grabbing middle-man. For the government there are. nowever creater tones al stake man are case .106.000 A miners victory on the heels of the council workers' : 450 m. blow attempts 555 m. outlaw

CONCERN

This prospect is of greater concern to Heath than tha partial paralysis of industry that the strike threatens Even money coal miners their f5, worth the sovernment unweakered SPEAKING in Aberdare, valley Town at lie centre di the • wales coale d. Prince (hares tol An ancience • was to have originally visit a mine this mstances I can't go underground was The trip have taken "Red' Maerov collerv in the Men, at Khondda. have been on strike since More join strike last Monday. MINERS HAVE ignored the back-to-work call the strike's impact and con- tributed to the miners' of their general secretary Lawrence Daly, the defeat. strike remained firm as more men in Yorkshire It is therefore num- ber priority the One and Scotland walked out yesterday in support miners readers with of the £5 wage claim. immediate agreements the transoort inions cal In a statement issued from and nationally on this issue.

Vague hopes

READ

like those union hercuarters LOn of Dai Francis, general don, appealed for the men to return

COALFIELD

Wales secretary dockers the miners that the

COMMENTS

near half the pits labour not handle supplies are not Daly said force on pages 2 & 4 'Divisions disunity nough the miners unot by and the Transport and caused lan Yeats General Workers' union The unomcial strike met yesterday harm miners S Wales speaks to theression was, I understand, 1 appeal for all miners on Welsh miners possible strike to return to work. They have black on foreign coal. and their area Wales reject accept ones. Board's offer ballot secretary T&GWU regional secretary.

the car tnat such guestion next week. Dai Francis He added that he expected was a matter for the union's executive. though would vote overwhelm. personally would support ingly for acceptance and that a black. this would be the best way to which voted demonstrate their feelings.

against, 1s Deln ordered out- Osborne tol

PRECEDENT

uST have to Not weakened 48-hour work here is a precedent o But this defeatist £19, which this testin in S Wales neither week TOr means '1957 the dockers at statement. echoed in the areas five S Wales ports refused by right-wing nor Amcials who €5 could definitely handle American Robens' red-scare appears to think the imported because have weakened the stie need be alt hat long!

don't think will to fight S Wales than coal mined in Few

3,500 KENT

of the 7 8d This was after approaches miners who More strike from who Board's against the miners In

SCOTLAND

too these that TOrAlOn sun. TO s otter impressed ov plies would accelerate pit have this hinster provocalive closures. "T think Rohens is truing to serie in N Scotland eight of Dersuadec more miners men, 20-year-old If the dockers took this scare a few in Betteshanger surface worker action the ten nits were 1o le and contenty read 5 Press Williams the south? ot they were Workers yesterday strike bound. OVel Scottish

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a few, might more decisive Issue scare 29,000 that 25,000 All that is needed is a but I think the men will stick.

call from miners were out Tt's an all-out fight now for their leadership Kent miners. strike. yesterday Lawrence

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*As long as the Coal Board In YORKSHIRE the dispute general secretary, said the and the government keep the spread one more pit bring- executive would take fiaht up, the miners be the total Soul of foreign fighting back.! grave view strike to 42. In the Doncaster Tilmanstone, of Kent's imports. per area the stoppage which He could what there dict id not predict pits three cent with all ten pits idle advance solidly for strike action Four of Co. Durham's seven voted biggest pits still the weekend- - Snowdon. Tempest Westoe Vain Dawdon, The disp dispute total and miners there Pecting between an and te will join Ponion said enat the London ourers TrOm

YORK

said that the London shirt their national reception were being supported men sunke bay a week. meet in London when they tomorrow. Sicily unions call general strike The 1035.000 tons have been lost dor Sicily, tore since un- major trade general strike CaDild. Alread industry 'concrete interventions by the state and the regiona is beginning to feel the pinch. develonment of Sicilv' dictatorship yesterday Argentina's anverning militart electricit Dower stocks of their WarnAd "nine any ccino to third in a series stations ave of nationwide stoppages to MrAce thair remande Hennomics own that conic ast tor caven Minister had offered a 30 per cent increase weeks while the gas industry the but would not allow negotiations enough for over four Choc weeks. wage structures until next April.

PAGE TWO

'IF WE DON'T get what we want we'll push the Tories all the way. The whole country seems to be on the march. There could be a general strike?

Don Bundock, assistant lodge secretary at S Wales' largest colliery - Fernhill and Tower in the Rhondda -gave this fighting mes-• sage to Workers Press on the first day of the strike.

Backed by the knowledge that there are only nine mil- lion coal in stock—— tons or at the enough for five weeks 38,000 Wales outside of the miners marched out on Monday pits with a son- and determination unmatched since 1926. strike has The unoflicial

IAN YEATS

closed 52 main pits and 82 small privately-owned ones.

It will mean stopping The men in the nationalized of coal a week 240,000 tons like are the industries, coal, -most of it needed by the they going people To steel industry and the power freeze first. It's going to be a stations. hard fight.' Miners expect the steel "The Bundock said: Mr industry will have to begin to is affecting us two-and-a-half of living close down in terribly. The £3 we've been and that massive lay swallowed week would be offered offs in the motor industry up immediately. will follow. By early Decem- all electric "power could *I think if Barber had ber announced his cuts before we be cut off. voted on a strike there would been two-thirds have

IMPORTS

majority. It'll mean taking 25s from every family. The tanner break the Attempts to off the is ludicrous. tax with imports coal of strike They're taking it straight back from other parts of Britain or and more with it. from abroad will be resisted 'Chaps are fed up working and unless the National Coal down the pits for so little Board meet the full f5 claim, [weekly gross basic attempts will be made to There £16 5s]. are even pay list of dockers, the support. men working who have had Union Transport the National of Rail- get national assistance to and the waymen live' and General Workers' Union. Struggling along low on 'We've got to win. We can't the miners are angry. pay afford to lose', said Mr Bun- would only Their

COST

dock. the

NCB

million. They 'We are prepared for a long the fact that since point to battle. the NCB intended the war £600 million has been giving in, Robens would have paid to the old coal owners.

offered more. 'After the dustmen's settle- And they are angry that coal is sold to the steel indus- ment I think the Tories arc going to dig their heels in.

try and to ICI at only f2 a

SIR

CYRIL BURT'S claim that working class children are less intelligent than those in the middle class is based on evidence involving the use of intelligence tests—alleged to measure the level of intelligence—or Intelligence Quotient (IQ for short).

Criticisms of these tests intelligence being tests noW been made on used. So if, as is probably the have the case, middle class children are ground that they tend to encouraged by their parents to discriminate against people play with jig-saw puzzles more than are working class child- ot working-class background in favour of people brought well the mine come shown up in a middle-class environ- 'intelligent' than working class children. ment. On the other hand working Perhaps the most important children class on the whole criticism is that middle class probably receive more en- children have more incentives to learn couragement certain the of skills to learn type skills better than middle class which are in fact tested by for children, skills 'intelligence tests'. example, with organizing associated For example: puzzles of the spontaneous games in the jig-saw type form part of the street or with helping to bring TV

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ton while domestic consumers pay £l6 per ton. Bryn Williams, Cwm lodge secretary and joint secretary with Ron Saint of the 12-man unofficial miners' committee, says: 'We have worked for low wages only to give large profits to the capitalist class.

Last year the electricity boards made £100 million profit and ICI £134 million. If these firms payed £l a ton more for their coal there would be enough to meet our claim and still have some over'to give us an extra two weeks' holiday with pay!

Miners stressed that in the past they had been faithful to the NCB and had achieved of the highest producti- one vity rates in Britain. But they had received next to nothing for it. Productivity has risen by nearly 60 per cent nationally and is currently running at 44 cwt per manshift. Mr Bundock works for piece rates as do a third of all • Wales miners. miners Nottinghamshire particularly have shown reluctance to join the stop- page and he commented: 'The Notts men can earn up younger members of the family. But it is skills like these, acquisition of through the which the child learns to do things 'intelligently' that are tested in present-day not intelligence tests. Thus, results of intelligence tests might well lead to the adjective 'unintelligent' being applied to a capable leader of a football team or to a com- petent housewife who success- fully brings up a large family single-handed. Most intelligence tests - or at least the three main ones now in use-contain 'vocabu- lary' items. Lists of words are given of which the examinee has to say the meaning. It is argued by test con- structors that the acquisition of a vocabulary is a sign that

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WORKERS PRESS

BARBER

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AFTER TAX

THE STRIKE

WHATS LEFT?

VOTE

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ACTALTY

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S. WALES MINERS AND

£30 a week because of power of the loaders. Because geology we can't use many We're all in of them here. union and they the same should stick by us. 'Robens is dangling the car- rot of parity for all miners in 1971-1972, but we want f5 now. I think the union leader- will retreat unless we ship push them. We've already had a vote of no confidence in the president.' Fernhill is on the jeopardy list, but Mr Bundock said, don't think the NCB can close any more pits. Merchants can do with 40 per cent more coal. 'With stocks so low I don't see how troops can be used.

They couldn't send them down the pit. They'd be inexperienced and some would get killed. 'If they send troops in it will definitely us. There'd be a riot. If the force to Tories try to use defeat us, it could only bring about socialism faster in this country. "The miners are not the same as they were in 1926.

the individual has had experi- ence of social situations and that this experience must indicate mental ability. While this may, to a certain extent, be true it is well to realize that it is only true to a certain extent. It is a middle class illusion to think that it is intelligent to use elaborate words and phrases where simpler words and phrases would suffice.

The use of the word meta- morphosis' 'change" when would do just as well may indicate that a user has a certain social background, but it should in no way be seen as an indication of intelligence.

As a final example-although perhaps an extreme one — of the class bias of intelligence tests, let us consider a question occurring in one of the most widely used tests: 'Name four Presidents of the United States' (usually testers in Eng- land ask for the names of four Prime Ministers). Now it could well be that many middle class parents con- sider it their duty to instruct their children in the (bour- geois) history of their country.

On the other hand many working class parents un- doubtedly instruct their child- that all politics and ren politicians are corrupt and that, by implication, names and positions are relatively unimportant. Yet by the criterion of this question middle class children are likely to be found more intelligent' than working class children. Intelligence tests Examples such as these con- firm the research carried out by psychologists working with Professor Bloom of Chicago.

Their findings indicate that what is measured by intelli- so much gence tests is not mental ability' 'general but rather whether the individual tested is middle class or not.

(See: Intelligence Tests Show Middle Class Bias', Workers Press, November 1, 1969. Thus the findings of Sir Cyril Burt, based on intelligence tests, do not prove the mental interiority of the working compared with the class middle class. If he has shown that middle class people score higher on intelligence tests this merely shows that middle class people tend to learn some skills better than working class people.

There may very well be skills that, generally many speaking, are possessed by working class people but not by middle class people. (The ability to conduct a successful strike springs to mind!) Again it may well be that some of these working class skills are just as good, if not better, criteria general mental ability than the skills necessary to score high marks on an intelligence test.

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No workers are. I can remem- Labour Party who rule and ber going to the soup kitchen not the Labour government. They must obey the party that my knew and mother never We've got to There wasn't the will put them there. riches. to fight then. But now people come back to the old cloth are better off and more edu- cap. and cated they're all "We'll fight the Tories determined to fight. the way to get this f5. I think 'If we have a hard Christ- the men are prepared to fight mas this year then we'll have harder than before, but better one next. The they need the right leadership.

cost of living is so would high it 'The standing of our unior Christmas have been a hard leaders is lower than that of anyway. Our other leadership. any "The situation is very seri- leaders don't want a strike.

and is ous it getting more 'In leaders struggle are and more like 1926. If there is thrown up and this is what Will eneral strike the Tories happened. Good leaders has have resign. It will to have been thrown up. mean revolution to get rid Cook said in 1924 of the Tories. 'A. J. where constitution inter- the with feres bread and butter

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throw it out. like the two-thirds 'Rules Bryn Williams believes the majority one must be ignored Tories 'are at the end of their stand in the of if they tether'. progress. He said: 'I think they'll go key 'Leadership is the in to the country, but if we get trouble is this fight. The the Labour government same we've become part and parce as last time as well we may establishment. We've of the leave Heath there. Wilson and co-operated with the NCB on Heath the represent same absenteeism and production in people. the hope getting sonne 'Next time it must be the return, but we haven't had it.

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noted, it should now examine Sir Cyril As has been is likely that middle class child- that intelli- Burt's contention gence is very largely inherited.

more encourage- ren receive do working class ment than Here mention we may children to acquire the actual by study conducted relevant intelligence skills measured by Cyril himself. entire Sir The population of a London тесто school of nearly However, the question borough including and end 1.000 encouragement does siblings (brothers were given intelli- here. To obtain a high IQ score sisters) gence tests. Also given intelli- a child must not only have the ability to perform the various were parents, gence tests grand uncles, aunts correctly, it must also parents, tests and first cousins. want to do well. In this connection it is well Statistical those who to realize that intelligence tests administer technique are mostly middle class psycho- that middle logists, and class the data obtained Sir frequently On children are „en. tech- couraged by their parents to Cyril used a statistical Analysis of other middle class nique known as do what arrived the people - particularly those in Variance and at conclusion that 87.5 per cent authority-ask them to do.

due to of the variance was On the other hand working 7.2 factors and only genetic children often class are environmental per cent to brought up to take a cynical (including non hereditary con- attitude suspicious to- and stitutional factors. wards middle class people in 5.3 per cent be The remaining this may authority, and of the variance was accounted reflected in a lack of motiva- unreliability tion to perform efficiently in a for a certain of the tests used. ('Variance' is testing situation. which, statistical term The work of two American roughly speaking, describes the Zeigler and de psychologists, which scores vary extent to who carried out an Labry. from an average score.) of the effects experiment on Thus, according to Sir Cyril incentives perform- on test illustrates this. The if there had been no genetic ances, differences experimental subjects included between those tested there would have been both middle class and working small differences among class children. very the individual intelligence test was found that when It scores. test performance was correct Conversely, if genetic differ- by the word rewarded simply ences between those tested had "correct' middle class children been the only differences and performed than did better working class children. if the tests had been perfectly reliable, then there would have However, when correct been large differences very performance was rewarded by among the individual scores.

a toy of the child's own choice, Sir Curil. and others. have the working class children per- also conducted extensive formed just as well as did the the middle class group. investigations into test performances of Many twins. We are, entitled therefore, investigations have of these the to conclude that scores shown that identical twins (i.e., on intelligence obtained tests having the same genetic twins considered cannot be as make up) who had been reared of reliable measures general apart from each other showed mental ability intelligence more similarity in or intelligence and that any theories that are test scores than did fraternal derived from of (i.e., having comparisons twins twins IO scores must, necessarily, be different genetic make up) who sharply questioned. had been reared together.

Having criticized the use of Both these of study types intelligence tests to determine have been held to indicate that ability general mental we the genetic endowment of an The problem with our leaders is that they are being run today by the Board!

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The miners are concentrat- ing all their energies on win- ning the strike, but they have eye on the Tories' anti- an union laws which they know will be used in the future to smash unofficial strikes like theirs. Bryn Williams said: 'We're going to resist the anti-union, laws. We're doing it now. If miners aren't on their own strike on December 8, then we certainly shall be. "This union bill was started by Labour and all the Tories are doing is implementing it.'

The importance of the ability to strike has been rammed home to the men of coalfield who have the watched their pay drop from the top to the bottom of the wages ladder. Bryn told me that it had come to the point where wages were so low and the cost of living so high that a man may as well not work but live off social security.

He said: 'For many miners its just a toss up between life and death.' Prices have rocketed in the past six weeks alone. Locally butter from gone up 3s 10d to 5s 2d a pound and tea was also mentioned. .25s, 'Barber has just taken Walker is going to put the rents up by as much as 25 per cent, bus fares have all gone up and now the NCB are putting up rents. 'When we've got a capitalist state with 2 per cent or 3 per cent owning all the pro- perty and the rest kowtowing that is not the way to live.

It is not fair that men should different wages. earn They all need the same things and must pay the same prices.

be altered. The Its got to individual contributes more to his intelligence than does the environment in which he was reared. Let us recall ... differ- in "intelligence" ences differences result from in genetic constitutions (and) are large and measurable to extent transmitted from father • to son'. It is precisely at this point that we can pinpoint Sir Cyril's 'original sin' • His monumental in attributing error consists 'differences in intelligence' to 'differences in genetic con- stitution', the real the matter is that differences in intelligence result from the continuous inter- action between genetic con- stitution and environment.

A few examples are neces- sary to make this clear: Let us first consider the fac- tor of hereditary deafness. It is well known that if a young child's deafness is not dis- covered and he thereby finds difficulty in communication, the growth of his intelligence may be seriously affected.

He will be regarded as 'dull' by his teachers and quite pos- sibly ignored by them while they concentrate on teaching the 'brighter' children. On the other hand it may be that such a young child's deafness is discovered early in his life and that he receives sympathy and understanding from his teachers. If he gets fitted with a hear- ing aid and sits at the front of he class, if he is not neglected his intelligence will develop to a much higher level than it would if his deafness had not been discovered. Thus while it may be said that hereditary deafness is a factor which determines in- telligence, of equal importance is the way in which parents and teachers react to deafness.

Emotional upset As our second example we might consider the factor of emotionality. (The term 'emotionality' is used here to denote the degree of emotional upset coinciding with or following a distressing situation. There are very great differ- ences in emotionality among individuals and there is much evidence that emotionality is closely related to hereditary chemical factors minimally in- fluenced by growth and de- velopment. Let us consider the case of a highly emotional child who has been sent to a school staffed by neurotic and un- sympathetic teachers. These teachers constantly up- set the child and fail to show any sympathy or understanding when he is upset. Consequently the child reacts by withdrawing from school life as far as he can and by failing to show an initiative in Wednesday, November 11, 1970 people will change it in time.'

Unlike last winter the S times withs are e cod sion • without the confusion spread by the leadership who behind them drashed is or being dragged just confidence, but determin- ation to win. Said Bryn: 'By Christmas, unless they can find coal from heaven, there'll be a hell of a mess. Once power goes the stuntry will grind to a stand- "They can't use troops to shift coal. There won't be any coal to shift. The stocks won't last five weeks. The dockers won't handle imports of coal if they try that. 'There's not much coal about, but the capitalist class will stick together. They'll denude their own countries to support the British capitalists.

"If Polish coal came into this country it would shock me. I think I'd give up being a small-time leader of men.'

Bryn Williams said that if it comes to it he is confident that T&GWU and NUR men will support the miners, although so far no concrete plans have been made. "The most important thing is for everyone to come out.

We shall be going to Notting- hamshire to get the support of the men there. They are the same as us. They need money. It is a question of leadership. Nottingham has traditionally been reactionary.'

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Commenting on what would happen if Durham coal were shifted in the event of a less than total strike he said: If one ton of Durham coal comes raid Cm we'll tear up the There is no suggestion that the strike will be an easy victory, but there is a strong feeling that there will be no retreat and no defeat. Jack Scamp's settlement with the council workers has been received optimistically because he said it was no good pegging wages unless prices were held. And they point to Robens' statement that there is £67 million available.

Continued on page 4 learning, thus hindering the development of his intelligence.

Let us now suppose that this child had in fact been sent to a school staffed by dedicated and efficient teachers who knew how to handle emotional children sympathetically. In this environment the emotion- ality of the child would not prove to be a great hindrance to the development of his intelligence. take the rate at which dividuals learn to perform different tasks intelligently. (It should be realized that the fastest is not automatically the best learner. A person who quickly learns to perform a certain task does in the long run perform the task as well as someone who takes a little longer to learn it.) The rate at which tasks can be learned can be said to be influenced by many factors and undoubtedly the individual's genetic constitution plays some part in this. Let us suppose that due to hereditary factors a young child becomes easily fatigued mentally. He is able to take in what the teacher says and to participate in • class activities with interest for the first 20 minutes of a lesson, but after that he becomes too exhausted mentally to concentrate any further. He therefore fails to develop his intelligence as he otherwise might have done if his lessons had been of shorter duration with ample break times in between them. (It might be worth mention- ing here tht Professor Bloom of Chicago, who heads an in- creasingly influential school of thought which questions the traditional ideas of intelligence - and intelligence tests, has put forward the intriguing idea that most people are capable of learning anything it they possess both the will to learn and virtually unlimited time.)

These examples show clearly that what is important in the development of intelligence is not heredity as such but rather what particular environmental influences act upon hereditary tactors. Of course, in cases of gross physical deficiencies in brain structure and functioning due to genetic factors our argument does not really apply — no amount of environmental manipulation can develop the individual's intelligence — but since such cases are exceptional they need not concern us here.

Sir Cyril Burt claims that his findings, together with similar findings made by others, show that 'intelligence results 'genetic constitution' from rather than from the environ- mental factors. Waste of time This claim has inevitably led to the further claim, made by many Tories, that it is vir- tually a waste of time trying to improve the intelligence of working-class children. Continued on page 3

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and so on. The rest need to be taught only enough enable to In point of fact Sir Cyril's perform and them to simple nothing of findings show the repetitive jobs requiring little All that his findings have sort. initiative. shown is that the hereditary Empirical method stands out constitutions of individuals clearly: if it works accept it differ widely and that an in- and don't probe too deeply.

dividual's hereditary constitu- tion interacts with his environ- In contrast to the capitalist ment to produce a certain level education socialist system of intelligence. would treat each child as an individual. But this, of course, was Attempts would be made to well known long before Sir find each child's genetic out Cyril conducted his study of constitution and to ensure that London schoolchildren and his intelligence was developed their relatives. to the maximum by providing The purpose of the education him with the type of instruc- capitalist society is which he would system in tion from two-fold. First it must provide benefit most. with its technicians capitalism Instead of trying to answer and its ideologies. meaningless questions like: 'Is Secondly, it must provide a heredity more important than labour force which, although environment?, psychologists it be able work must to will ask such nestion as : produce industry in order to 'What environment types surplus value, should not show specific will interact with be too much initiative or factors in order to hereditary capable of seriously question- produce the highest level of ing capitalism. "whole' development of the person?' For such an education system the concept of an innate and Of capitalist course, in level unchanging intelligence society such educational an unquestioned use of and the approach, at least on wide intelligence tests are extremely would be unthinkable. scale, useful. This is one of the many If of the have their why psychologists 'Black Paper reasons intelligence tests will be should participate in the class way of struggle the side the used to select potential man- agers, technicians, journalists workers. America (assets: $100 VERY SOON, the last of the Fund of million) did not end his close Hoffman's staff of Jerome Hoffman association with the He is International Investors' Group Empire. not allowed sell his 50,000 shares except to will have left their former shes comes are worth 33,00, who Headquarters offices in worth St refuses to take them. Martin's Lane, either for According to the latest 'Private other jobs or to the new HO Eye', Maudling of was guest

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honour at Christmas in Rome. party last year. He also attended sales conference in February.

One man who will be pleased to see them go may be Reginald When he resigned, he made a Maudling, Her Majesty's Secre- that this statement explaining State for Home Affairs. was only because of lack of time tary of for political work, although Until 1969, he had August he still retained his many other of IIG's been President Real directorships, including Dunlops, Estate Fund of America, and as Shipping Kleinwort Bensons doubts are raised about the past and Industrial Holdings. future of well the the as It's not surprising that IIG put Group, he must be getting a little out special leaflet this June anxious. headed:

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Congratulates told in its Hofman First President'. There are not Rome Thursday •that IIG's last many firms who can boast rapid migration had been de- with a Home close a connection cided by that hit its Secretary. Gramco. ( He denied rival, stories Anyway, Maudling has loyally that the Board of Trade was avoided caci in his resignation the slightest investigating the firm. doubt on IIG. Reports that large quantities statement he stressed that, in his of of had been pre- documents judgement, 'Real Estate Fund if vented from leaving Britain were and sound America a good 'pure persecution', he said.

investment'. Maudling's resignation Some people don't quite agree of the Estate with him, it seems. President Real

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DURING THIS month BBC The 1930s the boom for Hollywood' and the years TV are showing five old films gambling industry. Sound movies were new and, with one thing in common- the cinema most Important, the presence of Greta Garbo.

became. the means of temporary into the warmth and All were made in Hollywood fantasy world or whicem the was opposite unemployment, poverty and cold. by MGM during the 1930s So each film has at least one and so they have other things (usually of more) lavish scene glittering, wealthy, comfortable in common. 'high society'. The scripts avoid complexity The 'rags to riches' theme was like the Agony of soul plague. obviously popular with the movie boils down to the question 'Shall moguls, and even where it didn't that?', appear directly there was do this, or and the often agony comes simply from the attempt to portray the very fact that Garbo must decide.

rich people like ourselves' with comparable problems and made in the That they were pleasures. depths of the depression is re- flected Because of this the Garbo films 1n T5..5.55..T1ТТт....06 Workers Dress notebook

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the Institute's Annual Confer- ence. Another fine specimen of The reasons he gave were not Princely wisdom: easy for the layman to follow, •If your children want to alter but they were basically a con- society, listen their reasons sideration of the effect of the to difference in ages. the idealism behind them: don't crush them with a clever As the representative of the remark straight away' younger generation-appointed to and Needs position by himself Fleet St-Charles explained to his audience of aged businessmen Having studied father's that young people 'lack the more technique, по man practical approach of the experi- now becoming of the enced person. world's leading producers of drivel, as exampled by his con- He also mentioned that they cluding remark : were cynical. "Industry in the future should 'All well, said. •But what I take exception o be aware, although I am sure is the is already, that it is for people- negative quality of their attitude.'

to give them jobs and to provide them with their needs.' Profit-seeking The assembled captains of in- dustry must have been pleased to Speaking of the Common- that mainly because near wealth, the Prince remarked: marked the end of the speech and they could get on with their "Many people have guilty boxed lunch. our role an would This imperial power. Some say have provided some that the Empire came about as a consolation for the directors and of profit-seeking vicious their wives, not only taking their motives and needless exploitation minds off the speeches, but help- of coloured people who have ab- ing them to forget the inflation- which solutely nothing for to ary f16 5s 2 week basic offer to thank There is certainly some the councilmen. us. truth in that, but it is a vastly Each lunch box cost £8 10s.

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boom fall within very definite limits.

But Garbo, especially, steps be- yond them. Apart from 'Grand Hotel' (shown on November 1) which is a relatively weak-kneed sentimental comedy, and 'Nino- tchka' a lightweight satire on the Soviet Union, she gives each real emotion, film and power capable of jerking tears even from the most flea-bitten realist.

Ecstatic In 'Camille' (from Dumas' novel Woman "The Young of the Camelias') she plays a young courtesan, stricken by consump- tion, in Paris on the eve of the 1848 revolution. The July mon- archy gave poverty to the workers (of this we see nothing), pros- perity to the commercial middle classes and a second wind of AS SOON as Trotsky arrived on the Turkish island of Prinkipo in 1929, where Stalin had exiled him, he began to seek, permission to live in some less isolated place.

He applied to the social- democratic governments of Germany and Norway-and was refused. Among his many visitors in May 1929 were the Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who argued with him about the vir- tues of parliamentary democracy.

Trotsky told them he had been invited to speak at the Indepedn- ent: Labour Party's Summer School and asked whether, in the event of a Labour government being formed, it would give him a British visa. Webb was not sure whether the government would be strong enough, presumably referring to its dependence on the Liberals.

A few weeks later, Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labour government and Trotsky immediately sent his request. He asked to come to Britain for medical treatment, to continue his studies (he was completing "The History of the Russian Revolution') and to publish the English translation of his auto- biography 'My Life'. Contempt In 'My Life', Trotsky tells with scathing contempt of Home Sec- retary J. R. Clynes' defence in of the decision to parliament refuse Trotsky's visa. Contrary to the expectation of Webb, noW His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Liberals were critical of the decision.

The Cabinet Papers, which are available the Public now in Records Office allow us to see a little of the way the Labour Cabi- net came to its decision. It was contemptible than even more Trotsky had suspected. The question came up at the very first Cabinet meeting on June 10. Clynes was asked to memorandum and circulate this was discussed at the second meeting on June 26. Umpteen were pre- excuses sented by Clynes, including that public expense would be incurred protecting Trotsky against assas- sination, keeping him under surveillance. He comes nearer to the real reason, of course, when he says that letting Trotsky come to Britain might be taken by the Soviet leaders as an. 'unfriendly act... dictated by fear of Com- munist activity in China, India and the East generally and de- signed to shake the prestige of the Third International and the Soviet regime as a whole'.

This last point was remarkable in view of the bitter enmity of Clynes and his colleagues to the the October Revolution and Communist International from their inception. But that was in the days of the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky. Now Lenin was dead and Review by David Bar extravagant luxury to the restored aristocracy. Camille, the level - headed daughter of a peasant, swims in this social aquarium, spending freely the presents that shower on her from her admirers, and heads for a magnificent match.

But the tuberculosis means her life will in any case be feverish and short, and she falls in love with the devotions of a young man, Armand Duval, who is the first ever to be truly concerned for her. They spend an ecstatic summer in the country, but then his father persuades her that, for the sake of his career, she must leave him. So she has to convince him that she is abandoning him for he rich men and the 'sophistica- Trotsky exiled, the interests of British imperialism required more friendly attitude to Stalin's regime. 'Moreover,' Clynes went on, Trotsky's admission could not be without effect on Communist Parties in other countries, notably Germany and France, where his supporters would be encouraged and strengthened.' So this arch-opportunist was anxious not to weaken the posi- tion of Stalin's faction in the Comintern. Even the tiny British CP comes into his calculations.

Sympathizers 'Whatever the decision, it is certain to provoke criticism. If he is admitted the organs of the Communist Party and its sympa- thizers both here and abroad will proclaim his admission as an act hostile to incipent good relations with Russia, while the mass of the British public (sic), who re- gard Trotsky as one of the Bol- sheviks who made the Russian Revolution, will probably repre- sent his admission as "shaking hands with murderers"' The 'so-called right of asylum', explains Clyne, means the right which this country can claim as against any other government to give shelter, if it thinks fit, to any victim of political oppression abroad'. As Trotsky points out in 'My , this means the right to Life', refuse entry to anyone. So much for British democratic rights when the life of a revolutionary is involved. After discussing this memo, the June 26 Cabinet meeting courage- ously agreed to make no de- cision. But the issue could not be brushed under the carpet so easily. There was a public especially in the ILP, which sent a telegram to the Cabinet request- ing that Trotsky be allowed to come for at least one month.

So the third meeting of the Labour Cabinet had before it another Clynes memo. This one reported that a message from Magdeleine Paz had conveyed Trotsky's assurance that he would not interfere in British politics and that he would live in any part of the country the govern- ment wished. Trotsky as o ot ested that, bie a visa going was • granted, the refusal should not be announced until he had.time to find asylum somewhere else.

Publicizing the British refusal might make this more difficult.

Visa refused Clanes enged the Cabinet to announce a decision to refuse the visa without delay and face the criticism in parliament. This recommendation was ac- cepted, but with an addition : Clynes should avoid stating any reasons for the decision when questioned in the Commons.

However, reckoned these men of principle, these high-minded democrats, it might prove im- possible to get away with this.

So Clynes was instructed to con- fer with Lords Sankey and Parmoor to fix up some fake reasons for public consumption.

As everyone knows, Мас- Donald's Cabinet went on as it began. From its refusal of Trot- sky's visa, it set out on the treacherous road that led to the betrayal of 1931.

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avid Barnes Film Goddess

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tion' she knew before. It is in 'Queen Christiana' that the essence of Garbo is clearest.

The result is a separation, On A duel and a final scene (one Brilliantly disciplined acting the romantic films) in purest in brings out that sarace. She is never which she dies in his arms as matter of character. he comes to reclaim her. just but always a woman', In 'Anna Karenina' (from Tol- feminine and beautiful, tender, stoy's novel) she is strong and taut with feeling. child woman who abandons her and This is the real negation of (with no reluctance) her frigid decorative, superficially passive, statesman husband for a dashing vivacious "womanhood', in truth cavalry officer. Crucified an object, plaything and slave.

by society and misunderstood by her family, her lover finally be- Her fascination lies in the fact trays her and nothing is left but that she is glimpse of what suicide. of women the future can no longer the oppressed antagon- "Queen As Christiana' she is the strong-minded Swedish queen ists of oppressed men. who welcomed Descartes to her court and refused to marry any Depth of her noble suitors to provide an heir. It is this that lets her rise Horse-riding through the snow above lines of monumental she meets (anony- banality ('It's wonderful!') giving them and depth micanine that bringing offer the script-writers could never his king. from He is have visualized. dumbfounded when he has to In' her life Garbo was present his credentials his to sober, cheerful and thrifty, shun- mistress. getting ning publicity and all the more of it. She never entered Abdicates the rat-race saleable one female object among others.

This, and the gruelling training But she refuses to relationship become offcia their she had in the Swedish theatre and which make Finally she abdicates to travel acting flexible, subtle and excep- tilled in a duel win, one of her Spain with but he him, tionally confident, means that her best films are ones which Swedish suitors and, grieving but drag admiration of you unbroken, she sets sail alone.

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PRESS AND television have been gleefully pre- dicting that a one-day stoppage called for today against unemployment in the Glasgow area will be a fiasco. In the past week, several large factories in the area—including Chrysler at Linwood, Rolls- 'Czech Singer, and Babcock and Royce at Hillingdon, Wilcox-have decided not to participate.

youth Electrical rinion loc Plumbing ocal official Trades

BY DAVID MAUDE

Black has told reporters that reject thIS nroves workers are bus engineers Larkhall prepared to fight. put forward Nothing could be farther auremote• co amendment callns UnIon from the truth. regime' leaders extenc the Unemployment now affects beyond today and link it with 100,000 fight the Tories almost Scotland- 44 ner cent of the Industrial Relations population - and is Bill, a district -Husak worring committee growing rapidly. refused resentauve It is estimated that even or it and instructed them present trandc wor. carry throuch tne orotest

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kers may be out of a job by Yet policy all-important early next year. In the done can voc

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Party Communist Tory ment. Chancellor Anthonu Secretary Gustav hac Barber's attack on investment admitted that the bulk higure stil higher Control opposed to his Stalinist regime.

In W Scotland, 3,781 people As Oxford

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district A party leader in a factore were made redundant between Young told secretarv Malcolm where cent and Septembe August 11 the local nress this week labour teenagers the Glas to —inree-quarters in when asked comment had told him: British-Leyland's bankruptcy cow area. "They talk don't want to Hit hard us. They don't 'As want the car industry is so have anything to do with us. to the country, They don't recognize consideration Government policy of lat. it under bankruptcies riD amongst "inging Opposition is not conned ownership with Trade andes describes Min- to the factories. as ister John Davies kers' control. Husak spoke of the still will hit em- 'If these enny, they lame-duck' firms people small efficiently, comparavey orcan- niovment in area baracu the larly hard. to do "niversities should allow others Glasgow than the where hittle advance neither - which no more district committee cruiting had been made since the official policy †ha last June, when the member- Amalgamated Engineers and which also backs today's shin stood at 4,000 out of which origin- Glasgow stoppage: total tudent population called 60,000. Dae bol the Confederation tion of Tory He mes till or is he reale Shinbuilding and Engineering at a meeting the newly. ning man any attemot armed 'Socialist Union split Youth'

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them reeling, the miners can district of the von reace flatten chin'c will nr anility to dant for and some cobal to th she W survived this The stoppage was they called af the a meeting of the AEF distric is only because of Tar. committee Fronded ritish hey and Stalinists silence The tewards colonoratior the tunne refuse Mand at Woodside, where ator and's union leader who accept the challenge of these and who continue "England face men recincancy to retreat and retreat. in eral showers" throon ciosure asked the com- Stewarde Retreat mittee to support thair nue. week strike against the closure wal except will Stend may that sikh toil by to other fac- Lawrence secretary

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and the were refused Daly's call striking tories, but the committee de- go back work Instead, cided substitute toker reformist uttérance of utter v Becoming •against unem. loned OHArIng trace to tetrong plovment in general. co-operation When Glasgow municipal government action on halting Scotland. show clearly the hey of this retreat would doub no a repetition

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15

the anti-union laws tha campaigr force the GLASGOW: Partick Burgh Lesser Hall, near Merkland Street thair meier. tion underaround 7.30 p.m. for power through the struggle LONDON: Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, 7.00 p.m.

Speakers will be from the Pilkington Rank and File Committee of the rict-wing domination If the camnaian hu tha Deramher 8 strik. continues along these ritual doomed to eat and wil lines istic

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class task of all delegates to

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tho Novamhar 14 conference

PETTING MEMBER

ie to paranco thic reformic Court trend and demand that the Liaison Committee fight:

BASQUE TRIAL, "

Resign trial of 16 Squeish anionalists To force the Tories to re- Racaue • Carry death ossible whom tane the into tel held in secretary Mi sentences, is to be held in union: cantanno ic campaign disciplinary and make leders fight reliable sources said yesterday • Ale Tue before the chat of the year. • Fight or he right • Conson wasting race and hacic fo of a socialist government

WORKERS PRESS

Warning on Social Security

CHARLES DE GAULLE,

who died on Monday night By ou cuts? at the age of 79, was the most astute post-war poli-

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tician of the French ruling mon esterd class. MA, 5944 1595 a chi two OVER 100 journalists at the Inter- exploited the national Publishing Corporation's and evoluvonary role or stallnisi office in Dorset House, Waterloo, mentary have to • the ful held a one-day strike yesterday in Into protest against cosure nder tee monthly magazine 'Science the Journal'. Walton) assistance, improve nachinery occupanon. he seriou tentist ir science maga ine in Britain. •When 1f reed of 1944: Business Press Ltd State, one Army, one formal was sir loing money.

Workitos Police force.' We are £7,000 in the blac he said. ast three monto:

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Post-war struggles по ва со The 'Science against sen etter dead

YOUNG SOCIALIST

STUDENT SOCIETY

Thursday, November 12, 5 p.m.

Room S401 St Clements Building. is to resign; t the Tories Thend his engrat loaders Speaker: SociAthow, ... Khrushchevi Soviet-Israeli links soon?

the of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli "1iME magazine claims "Before the Soviet government nas begun •Six-Day War talks with israel on the possi isy in Israel, with bilitv of resuming diplomatic a stast of 12s. severed at the time

FALLING

profits and high Went saints to ther detea. 10s this wouldn't be a Clarifying. stroke, Mr Frantis explained: unofficial gainst

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eV od the National into It's a custom of the cales had decided, i was with them." breaker of this ange tor masa- ing economic collapse. workers' victory he said: alter sot aid t in dise But transport not Bryn Divisions SO fier end / the TA co or nice tailed to 1920* defend the ek Were 1934. "The generous from the loc go p troops, although ocal shop:

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No coal Comme Polish coal possi is red in pan, he sad

WHATS LEFT!

can hold out for ever.

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"The remember Christman shoulda ve that doesn't The would have bee where work eyen if the miness Worse off sight of victory. We're 100 backcloth our pay per can rise by 14 per it: •The Nation Securio he They would Wade ence intere unofficial strike! • miners Mr Francis said: I would Like us go to towe on Workers Press onl onche trade union stuBBle. sees Han. My mim 0 10 88t sala: Castle capacily темисть tiations. Bryn Williams she tried to introduce them.

Wednesday, November 11, 1970 By our political correspondent

HAMMERED!

De Gaulle rapidly became A STOCKBROKERS' firm was force, anti- hammered' London • poli- the spokesman for an the on 'third American stock exchange yesterday— reach 'hammering' Europe that was being the " TO 'from the Atlantic to the ket's term for financial failure.

Urals'. F. G." Osborne- The firm, Company: Smith and the Attempts made to is were 'hammered' onl first to be the block the growth of US invest- London stock exchange for France and the ment in and about four years was dominance of the dollar in but announced to be 'unable to Europe generally, western comply with their bargains.

to no avail. The collapse of brokerage houses on the New York stock American' policy, de exchange has already reached epidemic proportions, forcing economic collaboration picket the investors to the Soviet bureaucracy, and a change demanding more series of important agreements stringent control. che's visit to France in 1959.

Mafia be- tween the Kremlin and the inquiry a Gaullist regime led to the somersault Stalinists' famous over Algeria. danger to a statement Following by Khrushchev that the Algerian people should remain within Christian the French colonial empire, CP leadership became the Gaulle's apologists. for de Democrats De close relations

THE DEVELOPING

scandal the great Mafia and important Sicilian of the with both their connections national and Christian local politicians is now Democratic Paris, Gaulle made into substantial threat the Soviet I to contact the government itself. centre-left As inquiries, headed by the Vicari, national police chief of the Mafia into the grip Sicilian politics continue shift the battle from the on there were demonstrations in polling factories the Palermo against the Christian booths, after a bitter Democratic Cianci- campaign, he mayor, mino, labelled by the Parlia- Commission on the mentary of the guilty Matia as one is men. Also involved is Mauro de career. Mauro, a left-wing journalist turned specializing in Mafia investi- out in their millions to vote kidnapped gation, who was down his referendum on weeks ago and almost that would constitution certainly murdered. have laid the foundations of His brother has said he is more anti working- an even convinced he taken was class regime. because he had come near the truth about the death of For the first time in the history of capitalism, a Bona- Enrico Mattei, the head of the state oil corporation (ENI) partist ruler had been defeated the whose personal aircraft with his weapon 0W1l crashed mysteriously eight plebiscite. years ago. also Police known to Experience are investigating be connections De Gaulle absorbed and between the de Mauro case and the escape of the Mafioso applied the experiences and Luciano Liggio, mysteriously skills of the French ruling and often 'warned' impending class in its bitter an case against him for the mur- bloody struggles against peasants both in der of peasant leader Placido workers and France and in the colonies.

Rizzotto of Corleone, notorious Mafia stronghold in But subjective intuition and the island. Under tactical genius were not of the even pressure enough. scandal the factions of the Christian Democratic Party As the recent agreement to openly at war, with set up a Ford plant in France the "liberals' Cat- (such underlines, his bid to counter tanei, head of the Parliamen- US power economic was Commission tary on the doomed to failure. Mafia) prepared to sacrifice the Mafia's men to save their And even with the devoted own political skins. Collom de Gaule the treated collaboration of the But for the leaders of the contempt) labour movement such defec with the greatest ions feed nothing but their he old dictator was throwi thirst for 'unity'. out on his ear by the united Instead of a political indict- iction of the French workin whole Christian class in April 1969 ment of the Democratic apparatus the peddles the Dhe international wereme Stalinist press "left' Christian of the line that working the class, is dead. The defeat of Democrats who have refused the class he so ably repre- to vote sented remains our central task.

PUBLIC LECTURES

Elements of Marxism The importance of Marxist philosophy in the building of the revolutionary party.

Lectures by

M. BANDA

(Editor of Workers Press)

ACTON

BARKING

Monday November 16 Thursday November 12 Oddfellows Hall Monday November 23 Monday November 3( Fletcher Road Co-op Hall, we Ave. Chambers W3. 8 p.m Lectures by G. Healy and M. Banda

NEWCASTLE

Sunday, November 25 Hotspur Hotel Haymarket 7.30 p.m. Lectures by

C. SLAUGHTER

(Central Committee of Socialist Labour League)

BIRMINGHAM

SHEFFIELD

Monday November 16 unday November 1 unday November 2 Digbeth Ha irmingham. 7.30 p.n 7.30 p.m.

LIVERPOOL

OXFORD

Wednesday November 11 Thursday November 12 Wednesday November 25 Thursday November 19 Rotear Bold So, Col pitt st Thursday November 26 Northgate Hall. 8 p.m.