Workers Press no. 304

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

• TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17, 19/0 NUMBER 304

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What A small trade surplus, but we think Inflation crisis A most dangerous E1,250 Fund fraud worsens rIses to £475 1s 50

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

e al chers PresS has terence BRITAIN'S TRADE SURPLUS of £27 million this October Chelsea • the wav will do little or nothing to dissuade world money controllers the Trade from abandoning their suspicions about the health of British he the Labour lefts. ongress economy. Their scepticism about Heath's inability to control dustmen The wine race to inflation without severe deflation will remain intact.

further and defeat Mr Emile van Lennep, Organization for Economic Co-operation and What the neism net of 1 Development secretary general, has declared that conventional taxa- this November fun still out tion and monetary policies can no longer hold down the rate of rottleshe® inflation which has leaped from 2.5 per cent per annum in the period Cose by anana stas 1960-1965 to 5 and 54 per cent in 1969-1970. This applies not only to for bonus Britain, but to all the major industrial countries of the West and Japan.

Behind this escalating the rate or innation hes

TRADE

of massive upsurge The executive Anull supp Saturday's a factoi working class. which has bewildered and

FIGURES

discussion ommittee stunned every economic analyst on the 'left' and the UP Just we kind of sap on thie latter piece. recedented system a THE Board of Trade, an- how- further nouncing millior The intationary spoone visible trade surplus for last month, said that the figures Enot a 24,000 tend or hech The size of the were still anected by online oncome of the a secretl partly after effects of the July opens on page ave this way.

Zelda Curtis dock strike. The Board said: 'Arrears 'Victor Feather that probably small and less than the re maining backlog of exports.

i he terms, Phanging million Sentemher's over he steeat It is a major challenge industry, surplus fol lowed the huge £228 million novement . August dencit. Returning dian eval Workers ofial only by the in Lar

JUIS I

Surplus brougal dool than in on Germany - until ouncing by the dock strike. se para of tea posed legislation on January Some of the last local councill workers in dispute at thei meeting yesterday Fire-drill stunt DUSTMEN in Kensington and Chelsea who distinguished themselves in bitter battles with against Vauxhall strike should one be callera!

scab refuse drivers in the national council per cent higher than the same workers' stoppage are still out on strike.

Chelsea the kensingtor

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

sackings Andried over isto eechrs conference reportage. 171

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Walkers heard complainte

CORRESPONDENT

'Secret

DRAUGHTSMEN

Sausals Luen and ma dorse every comes US bases guncelsal borough. of she conference s in Morocco' plant yesterdar again staged a day of protests against the Bin serene of Toporim MP to make tax-payers The Star A 325 men redundant by the end nined politica sat injiated ratte onesty with myopia ot the year. rates deshones to crea council orkers during Labour MPs Sid Bidwell an tinuou: sand that ail eco Manage and our saying at the babel Brake factory, romboroug egislation But then, we are told, he are being 8 wou • This war borne out yes a- Pound a workers painst as govern dire

TRADE

Ulster troops Trades Council 18 or 'karate' trained NoW this is not the case at man said 1 hear it is an eigen- He and re means of making an arrest?

continuing the stripe. aid that the campaign ea

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BY ROBERT BLACK

ISRAELI Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir and King Hussein of Jordan are conducting secret negotiations, it was revealed yesterday by the New York magazine "Time'.

Together with Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, the two leaders attacked the Palestinian guerrillas as 'a nuisance to both countries' and agreed common fighting strategy them. collaboration Pennamic was also agreed between the ing Deace negotatons representativer other

BY A WORKERS PRESS COM ESPONDENT

Arab states can be expected to tollow' the talks Wher debated in the Israeli parlia- MILITANT MINERS were being urged by their week, them 'left' leaders yesterday to return to work.

was erased from the records and press refer. In Scotland the retreat ences were censored. Rolls was led by miners' presi-

CRISIS

dent Michael McGahey, a polishers Behind the talks Communist Party member, in hoth th crisis who said that he antici- and Israel, and Arah ctatac strike the joint aess the Soviet pated normal working on imperialism the coalfield by Wednes- East deal a Middle dav.

RKINH.RATH

nlicher t three Midlands Rolls-Rova Palestinians. plants began indefinite The of Egypt, The Scottish miners' dele- dele- Senttich miners Teames 911C1 strike was taken in view ioined forces to co-ordinate is out une their approach to the Zion- Mempays week's refusal by the National ists, Saturday's mili- national cance Metal Mechanics, Syria also Syria coup the obvious he men claim that the schen marks offer, and a turn DaV would five them inwer Statio break signs of a In otte and a eek. •them haturpan strike other said Nov. 16 — An McGahey. Lay-offs anticipated official Jordanian spokesmar affected Derby 'We always warned that the report Mo Nottingt sorrel mi denied "Time' there wond unofficia American Leicestershire. artinct at tha come time today thot imo Huscain had were not prepared held secret border meetings to implement Pronosals the Scottish miners with Israeli officials. the and Crisis added negate, The spokesman described Coveniry completely comments ices, plants were were hintern must know that only way aimed at

NOMM

isolation to nreak oilt Zionist officials failed to attend dis- combater to man for the tonnade ranting discension' on other felds and destroy the grip of the right wing in the union. More bread settlement with Israel along tha lines of the IS ineace up 1d

CANCELLED

plan' All of these regimes fear where In S Wales, their own workers and bread-

NOTHAR

Party yesterday either baking company leading positions, 25 peasants nounced a penny rise on large imperialism.

HORIST OT

seek deal with and small loaves. area executive anneated nev Bakeries Ltd, the have canceled wane hoth nrecisely to tree thei Kritish Rank nut to minare in Nottinaham honde for nation gaginet the and Vortching to rally them McDougall said the Hovic masses at home. round the men in the S Wales This is seen most clearly new price would operate from the case Jordan, but applies to every + Arab regime The new British Bakeries Large numbers of miners i and Dayan in line are still fighting on are also In Wales the arged for a large iced with a growing econ and id Yorkshire al the pas Id for small e unwrapped lic and political crisi and Yorkshire pits and in the militant Doncaster area

PAGE FOUR COL. 5

were idle. But Durham the big in Westoe voted return against Mecommendations miners were back at work.

ALLIANCE

treachery of to be broadened into a fight ondemned the strike Feather and Wilsor Tor of militanci government and Thace men he said atreed destroy alliance of the manded a general strike quith tha Toniac on tha need right and left the e this mi got as veil set to curb canitalist inflation sections in Mine- will by halting wages. East Hull' Hull's Labour MP warháre lendarchin now out hecause vou the The miners need with this anvernment. will battle general staff that ha coidl But he avoided all per-

REFUSED

consequences in- molitial volved in such a fight. ma tha lara Men aring But the chairman refused wowth. accept Prade union Teades Tess talk shon that the Panthers for leaders had to take begin a real mobilization Vietnam? critical of the warring pace agains Who bad hes militant-sounding the T lory governmen

S VIETNAM'S

Lib- at National landing from eration Front the told litter o except to criti Rlack Panthar Party it ic will.

Tolannitan antition 'slowness" fight the us anted to master ina affor the opposition to the smallest protests. forces in Vietnam. member section)

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1970 • NUMBER 304 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE we E1,250 Fund rises to £475 1s 5d IN YESTERDAY'S articles on • a day by November 30.

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

leaned by Saturday's con- only BRITAIN'S TRADE SURPLUS of £27 million this October * De 7010 . firm against will do little or nothing to dissuade world money controllers no longer from abandoning their suspicions about the health of British 3 class and defeat economy. Their scepticism about Heath's inability to control The sink rack to But yesterday's 'Morning Star inflation without severe deflation will remain intact.

InIs process a slas defeat such Mr Emile van Lennep, Organization for Economic Co-operation and What political be icio did to Vale eve Novem you Development secretary general, has declared that conventional taxa- expunged from tion and monetary policies can no longer hold down the rate of Post immediately all donations Workers Press Appeal Fund, aride dealing inflation which has leaped from 2.5 per cent per annum in the period 186a Condon, SW4 •street 1960-1965 to 5 and 54 per cent in 1969-1970. This applies not only to Britain, but to all the major industrial countries of the West and Japan.

benino escalato rate of inflation lies the

TRADE

massive upsurge une class, factor working give full

FIGURES

wnien nas dewilderea and every economic stunned UP ana vst or die en and une Just what kind of support this right. latter pomes THE Board of Trade, an- $27 million source of visible trade surolus for last major month, said that the figures Enor as 4,000 fund-ers hich were still affected the defined in Mon- "Times'! alter enects ol lne Curtis dock strike. opens on page five this way: The Board said. Arrears of imports are probably small and less than the re- sa pholee but to maining backlog or exports.

September's £8 million " must be countered visible trade suro us lowed the huge f228 million the strength of the labour deficit, itself pre- cecea Dy a run or deucu ngures broken only by the anan eneral Workers July surplus brought about by the dock strike. Birmingham Some of the last local meeting yesterdkers in dispute at their What the Star' failed DUSTMEN in Kensington and Chelsea whi United listinguished themselves in bitter battles wit strike should one be called.

193: han the same the national counci. remuse anvers period in 1

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

And it dover intole which is gill stay conference reportage.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

they get Workady here rumplaints

CORRESPONDENT

Secret massive ish in the London

DRAUGHISMEN

US bases gineers at Vauxhall's Luton borougt a stalwar plant yesterday again staged f the conference in Morocco' Stay out a day ol protests against une Bun even of Treoran ME management's plans to make At a the Siar combined polec 325 men redundant by the end tax-payers' pepserday of the year. return immediate workers' Norman per Sid on, we were for Dece wards at alrini Bromboroug have voted unani alre so hat at thed the unione " anti-union laws ins out and losing may. JS 'tecl being I ot she Liver tis seth fleet su the Me 17 rancan. inted the redundan their local strike was one ol Ulster troops asking for vo ase death 'karate' trained is council tha As pested as some lepres Bapanese unarmed bat called hikiana ross fermeen brokeaimed means of making an arrést.

of the town's car plants.

striker

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that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d.

BY ROBERT BLACK

ISRAELI Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir and King Hussein of Jordan are conducting secret negotiations, it was revealed yesterday by the New York magazine "Time'.

Together with Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, the two leaders attacked the Palestinian guerrillas as a nuisance to both countries' and agreed on common of fighting strategy them. Economic collaboration was also agreed between the two regimes And, accord- ing Time' 'broader negotiations Will representatives Arab states can be expected BY A WORKERS PRESS COn ESPONDENT to follow'. When debated in the Israkli parer- talks were MILITANT MINERS were being urged by their last week, all mention 'left' leaders yesterday to return to work.

was erased the records and press refer- In Scotland the retreat cuces were censored. Rolls was led by miners' presi-

CRISIS

dent Michael McGahey, a Behind the talks the Communist Party member, both the

GOSS

who said that he antici- and Israel, ArAo states strike joint pressure of US pated normal working on the imperialism and the Soviet the coalfield by Wednes- bureaucracy Middle-

TURBINE-BLADE

the expense of day. Donsters Palestinians. at three Midlands Rolls-Rova plants began indefinite The of Egypt, The Scottish miners' dele- Іскішсь against Libya Sudan have and

JUSI

gates cecision to cao at joinea lorces to co-ordinate strike was taken in ven their approaChturdays min- last week's refusal by lery of Metal Mechanna Saturday's mili- cance coup Syria the the men claim that the scheme towards marks turn and pay would give them

JOWCE

stalus of a break up of the lose ana them between said and f7 a week. olnel areas. Noy. 16 - An Lay-offs are Mcuaney Jordanian spokesman the plants affected Derby 'We always warned and Hucknall in Nottingham denied report unofficial there Time' magazine would Mountsorrel Ашелсан acuon, our at une same ume today that King Hussein had Leicestershire were not prepared ne o secrel border meets Proposal to implement isolate Scottish miners the similar scheme at crisis- have unnecessary The spokesman described company's Coventry added a the only Loach 'completely were blocked at York must know Zoni ca part

NSMM

almed at Fridav wien out isolation break ampaigt oncias tale to attena als for the stoppage reating dissension' cussions. on other fields ana destov une grip or the rigot wing In tae union. More bread settlement to the ta pane up 1d

CANCELLED

olan All of these regimes fear Wales. where com. their own major aine

ANUTHHR

munist Party members are peasants more than either baking company yesterday an- also in leading positions Zionisn or imperialism. area sans red seek small cancelled British bands por action against the precisely free laye bread out to miners in Nottingham said and Yorkshire rally Hovis McDougall tnem masses at home. most clearly new price would operate from roune une men w we• vare

HIS IS

scen pits. the case in ordan,

DUT

November su British Bakeries' Large applies to every Arab regime The new of miners numbers Allied from Algeria to Iraq. prices are still fighting on. une witn Meir and Dayan are also Bakeries~ Will be is lia lot a In Wales the strike re. faced with a growing econo- white wrapped, and mained almost total yesterday mic and political crisis.

is unwrapped. 10d for a large unwrapped and in Yorkshire all the pits Id for small wrapped and in the militant Doncaster area

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were idle. But Durham the Westoe voted returi of the lodge committee and Kent all the coalfield's 3,500 December 8 strike muners were back aL WOrK

ALLIANCE

The of the miners' condemned the treachery o Feather and Wilson. that no down sunKe proves degree men he said agreed or matare aone wilde aole with the Tories destroy the allance of the

SLIIAC

inflation right and 'left' sections in the capitalist you nose or CArD National Union Mine- by halting workers' leadership. Hull's Labour MP out because you will The miners that this government, John Prescot atacked need new said Bill. seneral will battle he But he avoided all per- end and face all the

REFUSED

political consequences declaring volved in such a fight. But the chairman refused parliament And that LeSS LalK SIO! Panthers for take ing on had to ace lion ranked me or bee begin a real mobilization The lead. critical Vietnam? working class against Nany were overnment. militant-sounding speeches leading officials from officials who had not S VIETNAM'S Nationa mentioned arainst the told the rUC's role except to criti bill estrict accept and volunteers are s downcss . opposition to the ny a rawaymen's union

LIC ДIL10

forces in Vietnam. member (docks eMOn une smallest prolcous

PAGE TWO

EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE

DATELINE: NORTH EAST BY STEPHEN JOHNS

'I dislike going down to the labour exchange...

The atmosphere hits you as soon as you walk through the door. You know the moment you go in you won't get a job' —A teenager from Jarrow talks about life on the dole

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fter around we are son complete MENT is the feature of i Tynesiathe labour well below their capabilities. worker North-East's dole the 'I don't think accept the kin thet queues. If you are Sovere Te with this kind of school - leaver without cnemployment in the North: East.

beyond demo- ent. It is clearly qualifications your choice The My Dad if you nee sterdays antide, is enow bedied sea are to soon is the dole or bad pay

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prospects. money If vou have a GCE or two Shipyards ln one yeato grants for training you may get a job, but the and is emo oment you are rorcea student to take is often far below and iod. are is in the teaches. vour capabilities apprenticeships there and The Fear or the sac feck Grassby refered to Shops college. to the unherred an achinese pled up what th Charge of industrial a sit on the committe. the battle he North-East and rest eha nou chatting Tause of phis. is isra leave tand gee erarblems to your them employment Driployers, and the sac really at the situation they face.

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BRIAN MOORE

WILLIAM WYLER'S 'The Liberation of L. B: Jones', is a surprising film. Its form is conventional a direct Hollywood melo- of detail and a scarcity of divor imaginative insight. It is a broad, bludgeoning film, in many ways a pedes- trian work. Yet what is genuinely sur- prising is intran- the sheer sigence of the position it adopts, which is rare in the average Hollywood product.

It is certainly no palliative, it offers no reassurances. It presents merely the brutal out- come of a social situation.

For its director, a highly- thought-of film-maker working always within the limitations of the commercial system, it represents a new turn, for there is a sense of outrage, of to the point of vio- Pence, which he thrusts uncom promisingly at the audience.

The story is set in a small town in Tennessee. There are deep racial divisions and ten- Speech by Trolsky during discussion.

May 9. 1924. at a meeting called by the Pross Department of the Central Com- millee of the RCP (B) on Party Policy in the Field. of Imaginative Literature.

PROBLEMS OF CULTURE

UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP

OF THE PROLETARIAT

Leon Trotsky Available from New Park Publications 186A Clapham High St.. SW4.

sions between black and white.

L. B. Jones is a black under- taker — prosperous, middle- class, a mild and respected among the black com- man munity. He is married to restless wife who holds him in contempt. She is having an affair with a white policeman, and L. ,B. Jones wants divorce. But the naming of the white co-respondent in court is not in the interests of the white community and ruling appara- tus and the undertaker is sub- jected to, first, persuasion - then intimidation, beatings and finally brutal murder at the hands of the police. Uncompromising As an exposé of police methods: of their racialism, their brutality, their corrup- tion and murderousness; their frame-ups, their intimidation of their cynical witnesses, arrests—all of which are ulti- mately hushed up by the local lawyer and mayor - it must stand as an extraordinary and uncompromising film. It is hard to imagine that a film which exposed British police methods with this out- JOAN LITTLEWOOD stands out among the bleak English theatrical landscape like a giant of imagination and .invention. There is absolutely nobody directing in the theatre who remotely approaches her skill, her verve, her wit, her sense of the theatrical. Defiance She is back at the Theatre Royal Stratford after several years' absence with a whole new company and season of plays. Stratford East seems to be in the process of demolition, for the theatre stands as the only living thing amongst empty boarded up shops and houses, and there is more than spokenness could be ever made in this country. The chief of police gets confessions out of innocent victims by giving them electric shocks. The sergeant and his buddy innocent on patrol arrest an black on a drunk charge, then rape the victim's sister in the back of the patrol car as part of the deal to get him off.

L. B. Jones is beaten up by the same two officers, his mouth gagged with sticking and shot through the tape head. The sergeant slits his throat with a knife, removes his shoes and strings the dead body up to make it look like a ritual murder. They arrest two innocents as the murderers.

It is an ugly, bigoted, cor- administration and the rupt film exposes bourgeois justice for the fraud that it is.

In this it reflects the shifts and realignments taking place in American society and it is all the more remarkable that a man like Wyler should have made it. It is a film that is well worth seeing. an edge of defiance in her latest production of Forward Up Your End'. It's a satire set in Birring- ham on the council town bureaucrats and their petty- bourgeois vulgarity and aspira- tions. The fiddling, the racialism, the vanity, the self importance, the money-grabbing and the wheeling and the dealing, parade on stage in the brash extravagant style of music hall, from which she has always drawn a strength. Debunking And if there is something random and electric in her choice of targets, which some- times only reflect a petulance and over-triviality, this is well compensated by the sharpness of her debunking humour. She has a marvellous eye for

WORKERS PRESS

TUESDAY'S

THE LIBERATION OF L. B. JONES

DIRECTED BY WILLIAM WYLER

PRODUCED BY RONALD LUBIN

SHOWING IN LONDON AT

THE COLUMBIA, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE

Oman Hedgepath (LEE J. COBB) questions Willie Joe (ANTHONY ZERBE) about the murder of Lord Byron Jones. L. B. Jones

(ROSCOE

LEE BROWNE)

is roughed up by Willie Joe

(ANTHONY

ZERBE). (

JOAN LITTLEWOOD'S

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the pretentious—-the vulgarity in her theatre, none of that of monopoly deadening bourgeois formality taste that inflicted on all the us with that masquerades under the neon-lit new restaurants and name of 'art'. plastic bric-a-brac, the new ubs with cabarets and phoney Heightened French waiters, strip clubs and provincial orgies- -but there is Her theatre is and raw at the same time a sentimental direct and stylish, not earth- nostalgia in her which can bound by a plodding social blunt her cutting edge. but realism something heightened, compressed and Immediate vaudeville. What she has fought for all In her style of exposition, her theatrical life is that the her insistence direct on On theatre can be meaningful communication with audi- all and immediate experience. She ence, there is a great deal that has tried to bring workers into the revolutionary movement the theatre to communicate- can learn in the propagation with all the has of ideas. She combines skills she vigour derived from music hall and and enjoyment-entertainment in the best sense of the pantomime contemporary word critiques of society, of drawing -with a sharp vision the for world. material on that She has made the are as immediate as a news- theatre a meaningful art again.

paper. It's good that she's back There is nothing mystifying from exile. IN THEIR letter of con- dolences to President Pom- pidou on the death of General de Gaulle, Soviet leaders Brezhnev, Podgorny and Kosygin help to throw fresh light the on counter- revolutionary role of the French Stalinists during the great sit-in strike of May- June 1968. After standard references to who did much the man to revive the greatness of France', the letter goes on: 'Our talks with him during his visit to the Soviet Union in 1966 marked the beginning of an important stage in the history of Soviet-French rela- tions... Then in a reference to Presi- dent Pompidou's visit to the Soviet Union last month, it concludes: "The results of your visit to the Soviet Union confirmed most convincingly the vitality and effectiveness of the course chosen by our countries for effect the putting into great possibilities inherent in the policy ot peacetul co-existence between states with different social systems.' The secret diplomacy of the bureaucracy ensured that the French and Soviet working classes knew very little about the subjects discussed and decisions taken at those 1966 talks. But midway between these two Presidential visits, there broke out in France the largest, longest and most powerful general strike in the entire history of world capi- talism which created a revolu- tionary situation: In fact, Pompidou would never have been able to follow the Moscow trail in the foot- steps of his master had it not been for the conscious, counter-revolutionary strike- breaking of the French Stalin- ists, who collaborated with de Gaulle in securing the evacua- tion of the occupied factories and the holding of elections.

Strike-breaking - as the Polish Stalinists have dis- covered - was essential for realizing 'the great possibilities inherent in the policy of peace- ful co-existence .. So anxious are the Stalinist leaders to their last pay respects their strike- to breaking ally, they raise just a tiny corner the curtain behind which they conduct their secret dealings with the enemies of the working class.

THE

PALESTINIAN

com- mandos who hi-jacked a Pan- American Boeing 747 jumbo jet from Amsterdam to Cairo in September struck better than they knew. Their 'catch' contained the complete plans of the big NATO command exercise code-named Wintex, due to be next March. held The plans were taken off the plane just before it was blown up. The plans were being trans- ported from Brussels NATO to Washington headquarters when the hi-jackers diverted the aircraft. Naturally, the Egyptian gov- ernment, which confiscated the plans after the hi-jack, sent them • back to NATO head- quarters. But, just as naturally, they sent copies to Moscow.

The whole elaborate exer- been cise has accordingly scrapped. A new plan for testing out NATO's command mechanism in the event of nuclear war with the Soviet Union has had to be drawn up. It will reassure all patriots to learn that British Military Intelligence is confident its top-secret codes have not been broken by the Soviet Union, and that NATO senior officers and secret documents have been forbidden in future from travelling on commercial air- lines.

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THE SO-CALLED Militant Trade Union Committee is a shadowy body specializing in blood-and-thunder manifestos published anonymously and without imprint and written in the language of Victorian copies of the poster have been melodrama. sent to Heath, other cabinet The intelligent reader's first the Director of thought MTUC's i munisters. on seeing Public Prosecutions and Mon- handbills and manifestos is mouthshire Police, the 'Mail' that they particularly are a goes on: crude provocation, and the "Two suggested dates have impression is not lessened by been given' - note that the the use to which they are put carefully avoids paper saying by the Tory press. who is calling for these dates S Wales' local Tory news- -December for most paper, the 'Western Mail', is the country, including S Wales, the grateful user latest of and January 1, for the Mid- MTUC's outpourings, in an lands. article designed the to give Why national strike naive reader the impression should be organized separately that MTUC is tied up with different in places on two the December 8 strike call.

days almost a month apart is a The

'TUC

article, headed, question that might well baffle warns about strike inciters' boneheaded all but the most starts with the news that the 'Western Mail' reader.

TUC

has warned members More important, however, is against 'getting involved in the 'Mail's' crude attempt at attempts to incite a general linking it with MTUC's pro- strike'. vocative poster. "This confirmed, was the As is action on he ball the call 'Mail' adds with forced melo- for strike action on drama, *after reports that originally 8 was made by the circulars had been sent to Liaison Committee for the workers in S Wales asking Defence of Trade Unions them to organize a general body which so far as is known strike followed by a revolu- has no connection with the so- tion in which they could take called MTUC. over the factories'. The Workers Press has sup- A copy of the poster, which ported and campaigned 'turned up' at the factory of stantly for the strike call.

Risca Geoffrey industrialist The fact that neither Howells, is reproduced along- the

TUC

Party the Labour side. the December suppurting Headed 'General Strike and 8 call is not news, strike Revolution', it bears the legend as the leaders of both *prepare for Revolution, these Pre- widely factory'. organizations are pare to occupy your known be flat backs before on their It is issued by the retiring Tory clandestine MTUC. the anti- union offensive. 'The 'Mail's' most scurrilous touch, however, is to try and The Militant Trade Union link the poster with plans for Committee in the classic a one-day strike against manner of the the provocateur- Tory anti-union is only assisting the Tory press laws. Directly after informing its readers that to spread confusion. THE USE of aerosol sprays George Taylor and Willard Harris of the University of to relieve the symptoms of Illinois Hospital - were has increased asthma tre- attempting to find out why mendously since their intro- those who get their kicks by sniffing aeroplane glue duction some ten years ago.

among other substances occasionally Undoubtedly, their appear- and unexpectedly drop dead. the market—at first ance on They discovered that mice unrestricted--was completely which were first exposed to the considered an unqualified boon vapour emitted from glue made sufferers to the millions of susceptible them highly to from this debilitating disease.

heart failure if they were then However, it became soon placed in situations of near- apparent that all was not well would asphyxiation, as and to date many hundreds of by asthma encountered suf. asthma sufferers died have ferers. from using the sprays. The experiments were then This was a phenomenon conducted using the aerosol which has remained inexpli- propellent gas. cable until now, but finally- Twelve which mice were -resulted since December 1968- untreated survived four min- these aerosols becoming in utes in a plastic bag without unobtainable in Britain except ill effects, while nearly any on a doctor's prescription.

half of a treated group of 22 However, according to the mice died of heart failure after of 'New current edition only one minute. Scientist, the results of The died when the rest research carried out by scien- experiment was repeated up to tific workers at a Chicago hos- 160 minutes later. pital indicates that the danger- As Taylor and Harris point ous component in the sprays out, no longer possible it s is not the active drug (which to label such aerosol propel- aids breathing during lent gases as 'inert'. asthma attack by widening the They say that the sensitiza- bronchial but the passages) tion of the hearts of mice is high-pressure gas which forces long-lasting 'rapid in onset, the drug through the aerosol and potentially lethal'. nozzle the form of the Similar studies carried out spray. on cosmetic sprays and various Naturally, this gas was sup- household aerosols support posed to inert, that their original findings. taking the no part main function of the drug. Ne to do it is not pos- sible to If the results obtained similar controlled murect, theer the implications experiments on humans, but go they conclude that 'studies are much than asthma- relieving sprays, for the urgently needed to determine pro- pellant is inhaled to some the amounts of these propel- gas degree by all users of aerosols, lent by gases inhaled and whether they entering the blood of patients contain pesti- cides, polishers, hair with asthma, housewives and sprays or windscreen de-icers. others who use pressurized The research workers - dispensers many times a day.'

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a Industry sett ry Mr lann Davies met Pilkington Conference

LONDON

THE SACKED Pilkington's glass- workers were fighting for two basic workers' rights, the right to work and the right to strike, John Potter, secretary of the Pilkington's rank- and-file committee told a meeting of the All Trades Unions Alliance in London. The Tory government was trying to apply Lord Harry Pilkington's medicine on a national level and deprive the whole of the working class of these rights, he said. 'This is why the fight for our re-instatement is central to the campaign to defeat the Tory legislation on unions, housing and Part of the 200-strong social services. audience at Sunday's 'At St Helens we were Pilkington just the first to feel the conference lash, John Potter told a meeting of 200 London trade unionists on Sunday night. outlined He the story of Pilkingtons, how after a strike that won £3 wage increase, the had sacked management and blacklisted 250 men in an destroy the new militancy spreading six St Helens factories. Despite his personal guaran- tee of no victimization, Victor Feather, the general secretary had done nothng of the TUC. defend the sacked men or to fight for their rights, he added.

'But don't we just want your verbal support. We want you to get factories to your But we have pledged ourselves fight it out St Helens, to and fight it out until we win!'

The story of the Pilkington forward struggle brought a great response from engineers, other council workers and workers in the audience. They all spoke of their own battles and proved the truth of John Potter's words when he said Pilkington's sackings only the start of were general destroy campaign the power of the working class. John Potter closed the meet- ing by thanking ATUA mem- sympathizers bers and who contributed to the fine collec- tion of over £61. •We now need money every week. Our members who are John Potter sacked losing their are now earnings-related dole benefit. black Pilkington's glass. . We 'Christmas is coming on and want money each week so. we we want to give the children keep struggle going a party. So keep the money and we want you to take the coming for the fight, he said.

matter up with your own union leaders to demand they do something. Campaign 'This fight cannot be separ- ated from the great campaign that must be waged against the Tory government and the anti-union laws. •First workers must support the December 8 strike against the laws, but only as a cam- paign for general strike organized by the TUC. 'No amount of protest and demonstration will make this The government move. only thing that scares them is the mobilization of the entire working class. Another rank-and-file com- Wood- mittee member, Brian how ward, told the meeting at Pilking- much his struggle tons had changed him. that have hapt Brian Woodward 'The things pened St Helens, in Pilkingtons" as we now call it,

WEATHER

have made me convinced that fight with we we must have got against the diabolical AREAS will system of capitalism that de-

ALL

have sunny spells showersheavy be which his worker of all. prives quent the and ana will fall as snow over high ground. rights at will, and discrimin- Thunder will of ates against our black brothers To e nerver showers. all over the world, he said.

Cloud will increase in SW England and Wales, with more general 'We have been out of work rain later in the day. for six months. will be Temperatures near nor. but it will be rather mal in the l cold in the N Outlook Not down for Wednesday and Thurs. day: Continuing showers or longer periods Temperatures near or a little •We are blacklisted by em- low normal. ployers Merseyside, we On battered and belted, but are the not down on we are Aberdeen ground. like to 'Pilkingtons would see us all nailed to the wall.

shipyard leaders yesterday discuss to vote to 'consultative pro- improving between the unions cesses" and his Department-the first stay out of a series of consultations at Mr Davies' invitation. The meeting discussed pro- cedure for exchanging views FINISHING trades workers at and the Department's policies.

Hall, Russell's Aberdeen ship- The TUC delegation was yard have voted to continue led by general secretary its their second strike into its Mr Victor Feather. local week, despite press scares of the 'consequences' of delays month's

SOTON BUSMEN RETURN

for next launching of the biggest ship Southampton Corporation ever built in the city. yesterday decided to husmen The 200 men want parity end their five week-old strike - a f- with steelworkers in- and return to work tomorrow.

crease - and have rejected management's offer of £3 this year and f2 next. The demand has been dis- cussed for several years, but, as one striker commented, when union officials go South to negotiate, they seem 'to forget about it either in Stone- Registered as newspaper at the haven or Montrose'. Post Office. Published Workers Clapham.w.4. Press. Hish Street, The AEF district committee has backed the strike, but the London. PROb Capham Hich Street. (TU). attitude of union officials has been unclear. S.W.4. London dustman Tony Sweeney speal

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hastrikes for higher wages schoower stati ions and in with 40 percent bein This is just missiles. readership what Meir Tuesday, November 17, 1970 STALINISTS and revisionists have joined forces in the United States to play down the signific- ance of the recent mid-term elections there and Nixon's the idea that campaign

JOUR-DOOR

heralds a turn to the right.

Joseph

BY JOHN SPENCER

Press out-and-out remression. " ranson call the Stalinists ramme for to avoid draw. reNix their best, planing a claiming it was all e "radical who are reluctant to SWP's Acton Stalinist Highlighted orkers and the Vietnam entr

A WORKERS PRI

MANAGEMENT at the Acton electrical plant of Ever- shed and Vignoles has issued a lengthy memorandum in a bia to quell growing anger in the tactory about redundancy prospects. majority of day

• ITALY

redundancy Who hired his assasin. firm Serious issue invoived here, hower This ack mayor es nare the

NOT POLICY

have not ont AS THE Italian parliament resumes its debate on the amended economic 'decree' this week the labour movement's political leaders' are engaged ignoring th in a desperate search for new forms of class collaboration to prop up the regime.

Motors strike and the raid

BY DAVID BARNES

vay workers' wages struggle. The class struggle nowhere and demanded full calculations with the sulace of us rene.

*There is the risk, They point out that though Not aw parties stayed in De

ESSENTIALS

por for the sor Consequences Nenni and the 'lefts' do not tar relindancy shed, on They shackle working

COLLABORATE

while the means of repression hist of volunteers. or their part the Stalinis This creates a dangerous go out of their way to demo so collaborate the same situation, order policies which the em.

mess of reto snathat to discipline Le erring crass orce as we nave today governments Just off the press bhe mi

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