Workers Press no. 318

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THURSDAY. DECEMBEH 3, 19rU THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Swindon TUC runs away as we Dec. 8 Tory 'smash think suspensions Capitalist lifted unions' Bill democracy

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

bends at RAIL-WORKSHOP men at Swindon yesterday forced management to drop its suspension three shop stewards for calling a meeting on the the knees Tory Industrial Relations Bill.

Howells Convenor Ray -just elected to the post THE NEW Public Order out today Bill. passed overwhelm- ot Ama camater enameers and Foundryworkers' dis-

DECEMBER

ingly yesterday by Canadian parliament, has shop trict secretaryand revealed how thin is the stewards Frank Willis and

EIGHTH

sus- veneer of parliamentary wheeler were democracy in a period of pended assistant by the capitalist crisis. general manager for being

ALL IRAUC

South Shields busmen outside yesterday's Transport House

UNIONS ALLIANCE

on the platform of a works- AS TORY Employment Minister Robert Carr October's war Keplacın Measures wnich

RISE DISGUSTS BUSMEN

time meeting. Meeting the country puts the finishing touches to his draft Industrial Minister Prime armed camp. December stoppage. Relations Bill - due to go before the Commons PROVINCIAL company busmen lobbying their have postinen

BY JOHN SPENCER

shown way separatist this morning - the official leaders of Britain's decided union aelegates Longon conterence yesterud) defeat were disgusted by its decision to accept a 33s million trade unionists are in headlong five years' jail. ten pay increase. Make the trade union eaders fight retreat. The Bill also permits altes.

Tories! ernment to resiggo. Force the or ball ctivities for the December born shed, or accept Lionel Murray, TUC As the Tory Receiver moves in days witnoul

TUESDAY

general sec- charge. assistall From Notic an it DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. has told trade Under the pretext of dealing retary, would Mass anger mounts The Lecture Hal buses To 817 105. Wint to arist actorie with unreal unions le Central Hals the strike against the Bill archy. onlowing Westminster 8. to and ick will be or December Overtime ban Speakers 'think again'. G. HEALY (National Sec South He described therm exp that on most repres. League) THORNETT (Deputy • attemot to crusa - enterer! * threatened let French separatist senio steward Morris Mersey lations. ment. Motors. Uxtord) Now the liberals have voted C. CAUGHEY Chairmar Pikinaton's Rank and more perma only bringing File Committee,

T. SWEENEY

(Chairman docks 1 FILM unit comprising mem The T of a soule to geed provide on Committee) legislative Chairman back. ya wenld win. 1 which they their wage-treez WILKINS (ATUA Sec- and strike-oreaking The 8 following a secret balin totaly) had which is aimed the Bill ing on location Lanaalan workins AdmissIon 2s

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Cana daritaine United protest agalist Political SACK THE Board and Elise open the books to port- Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS workers was the message they prepare policial crisis

GIANT XMASBAZAAR

from dockers on berth resolve their economic after berth in Liverpool's ov massive repres sions against ine ment to resign. crisis - torn waterfront ana Or salliza- Yet this is the only way the yesterday. Bill can be stopped. tons first This is what US. President pamphlets" Saturday December 12 Nixon meant пе ге- * ferred to the disease** ready grace as thes Corn Exchange Mersey portworkers Bob Thomas and Bill McNally yesterday: "Open the books!'

and Board worker can muster. Leeds 'Muscle-men'

TORIES

bathe Boards shotguns DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. cent unem-

SPARK

ployment

INEFFICENT

cent for the french behind the scenes

AIRCRAFT

LOR.

are i am enat Together with slum housing at Social Security

CRISIS

tone ure the Tories they NORKERS applying for supplementary benefi

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

t Social Security offices have beer intimidated The Canadian government's given the he tone again. by strong-arm men, _a Labour MP claims in an

THE

article published today. AC-311 airbu practice. socialism inrouen yard's ncern MP alleges "structural reform' of less has were dore, capitalisil Visit Aladdin Tories become As Lenin said, the nearer a country stands to pure on meeting dearly forement and he Terred democracy, the nearer 1 * bring and his is to aictatorsnip. Britain, faced control. Worker a Tory government, pre- vette per sented to the must draw the lessons 7 SOGA restraining n Magic Lamp Me chern read this union's Forein which might mi further of its basic single unskilled met Foretaste trade unions. - Bingo — Books — Raffles — Plants — Can-Can fight to defend these beneat, were given for weeks Toys th This to one 1 cata Bit Britain, nationa Portraits - Xmas Gifts Candy Floss Canada, is the struggle to Recores id that furcer that with YS Boutique • Bottle Draw — - Food Bargains - develop Marxist leader- Babies' Bread strike hardens Instant Photo - Ship to destroy the class allowed sering comphae Straws - Home-made Food - Fruit Clothes - Punch 'N' Judy enemy cere TuS cannot people as scroungers: It Machines - Childrens' Clothes — Alligator's Head - Xmas Decorations - Father Christmas - All the best jumble movement in defence nalusively that s the too unions ist mos overs to ta helled her Teas & Refreshments - Scarves. Hats & Gloves - Hoi the rents or the rio and Stalls - Sideshows ol tne rubiic found

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1970 • NUMBER 318

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What TUC runs away as we Tory 'smash think Capitalist unions' Bill democracy bends at the knees THE NEW Public Order out today Bill. passed overwhelm- ingly yesterday by the Canadian parliament, has revealed how thin is the of parliamentary veneer democracy in a period of capitalist crisis. South Shields busmer outside yesterday's Transport House October's Replacing Employment Minister Robert Carr

AS TORY

Measures Act,

RISE DISGUSTS BUSMEN

Country Prime puts the finishing touches to his draft Industrial armed Relations Bill - due to go before the Commons PROVINCIAL company busmen lobbying their

BY JOHN SPENCER

Quebec union delegates' this morning- the official leaders of Britain's

(FLQ)

Front and were disgusted by its decision to accept a 33s faces its million members Will trade unionists are in headlong ten hye years jall. pay marcase The thila swareamt or bail retreat.

WILBOUT

witho to Lionel Murray, TUC As the Tory Receiver moves in ana aetenuon lays general sec- assistant Chal de. told trade Under the prete relary, las xt or aealn: Mass anger mounts planning. Bill against the two hos-i December 8-10 Trudeau's so-called, October, 'think again'. government LISt He described the more than on imposed the French separatist mo sive warlie Mersey •Try out bon very aid, whitate Now tne liberals have voted of not indermine the TUC's depriving the French wor.

docks legislative harsher The TUC nocial strike ondonn aaaadian working

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

arenada ritain United and Political SACK THE Board and country the cap! talist against open the books to port- campalens are a veil workers was we messarc alne LuCy political crisis which from dockers on berth after berth in Liverpool's the Tory govern Hon, and crisis - torn waterfront Bil ca this is the only way th _yesicrudy. show oth of adieured he cret of the This is what US President waterfr Nixon meant when he re 'opposing' ferred to the FLQ as part international Mersey portworkers Bob Thomas and Bill McNally yesterday: 'Open the books!

disease al mustar Thanadiai atonomy by the domination Harold Muscle-men'

TORIES

near 7 poli chat meant Canada ncally ployment ProteSt

SPARK

behind the scenes the French cut an

AIRCRAFT

at Social Security

CRISIS

deteriorating standards this lit the fuse that gave the

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FLQ's actions. VORKERS applying for supplementary benen

PASTRONG

delegation ront hurt t Social Security offices have been intimidate

CORHGOPONDENI

A Steward represent- the Canadian governments Powell are again by strong-arm men, a Labour MP claims in an Harland and Wolfs • Belfast response nas once once again to disprove given the lie to the Stalin- article published today. London socialism tu road practiceeformist express, Oldham West MP Michael about yard's Meacher artil reform and one the MP alleges leaders end takeorer tales, HaVe and ex presence of a r ieves roled As Lenin said, tue nicalci d ories become. country stands pure devoted spokesma who Calcu democracy, scarce de office overnment and is to dictatorship.

TOOL

control. Workers l1 britain. lacea Minis, To Frederick • Mence make i Can Corfield with a Tory goverument Mid the Commens yesterday.

Action Group must draw the lessons and put will the tight of this, BEA No amount of pressure wil 'doing have livert a capitalist govern- the ›portuniti *four- ment from stripping Cockheed 1-101i the Supple. which 'muscle strike on December 8. d the working cass or its Dast А300B. Not to guaDocks rents and destroyme 118 Foretaste wade umons these disturbed be is grave deer toso, she said at interviews The hoht to detenc This to cole if Catas, Bof Britain, under Labour rights in as ch allowed expected to find a canada. 1s struggle to Statute public development Book develop icauel• Bread strike hardens ship wed shipping cannot just compar she los ini campaign -week-old acad the Department or lhe widest must being oe launched in toe abou Emuleyment hardened • are movement defence rights nf t staying out con wirely Order Bill of the Public

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

RAIL WORKSHOP men at Swindon yesterday of forced management to drop its suspension three shop stewards for calling a meeting on the Tory Industrial Relations Bill.

Convenor Ray Howells —just elected to the post of Amalgamated Engineers'.

and Foundryworkers' dis-

DECEMBER

trict secretary-and shop stewards Frank Willis and

EIGHTH

Bill Wheeler were sus- pended by the assistant

ALL TRADES

general manager for being yesterday's Transport House

UNIONS ALLIANCE

on the platform of a works- time meeting.

USTS BUSMEN

They had called the meeting support the dicanss tor December 8 stoppage. pany busmen lobbying their The have postmen This protes was defeated shown the way to ondon conference yesterday 142, Yores defeat the anti-union its decision to accept a 33s MANCed TO continue the meeting until the suspen- laws! sion was dropped. Make the trade union The money will not be paid leaders fight the until March year. TRADE UNIONISTS in mid- Tories! Force the gov- Delegates meeting at Trans- cheshire co-orcinate ernment to resign! nort House voted activitias for the haramhar strike following meeting tha nian hu 74 40

TUESDAY

South Shields lobbyists told between week Workers the increase DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. council representatives would only bring drivers' basic trom Northwich ana winstord.

The Lecture Hall wage to fl6 15s. Four of the largest factories Wuses to E07 I-S. Central Halls ‚man never Winsford - Metal WArrina Box, Delta Tubes. Tesco (Ware- Westminster house) and

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be Overtime ban out Speakers : following Decemier G. HEALY (National Sec- The South Shields men, meeting of local mass trade unionists. retary of Socialist Labour with their bus col- ford Tracial Couns has called League) kentles thronghout the coln. oficial oe time ban torn ay have been operating (Deputy

THORNS

• all trade untonists in the Senior Steward Morris weeks. area to strike barom hars against the threatened legis- Motors, Oxford) One said: I've only had £12 lation. hasic and f4 rent to nav G. CAUGHEY (Chairman The meeting insisted that thace Pilkington's and Rank 'This means Christmas the strike was on v The hirst File Committee) the question. bringing down the We've had and T. SWEENEY (Chairman no coal A FILM unit comprising mem- the three heating London Councilworkers'

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1aSt and I'm living on tick? the

WAAKO

BeTS АССОСЯТОТ Liaison Committee driver of a 78-seater bus Cinematorraph and le avision Chairman: carried showing Technicians working on £12 15s 8d take-home pay for Memorial Productions Gum- WILKINS (ATUA Sec- shoe 40-hour week. are to strike on Decem- should had 'We her 8 following a secret hallot.

have strike away Admission 2s national waht The unit is at present film- win the f4 3s claim,' he said.

ing on location. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS

GIANT XMAS BAZAAR

Saturday December 12 Corn Exchange Leeds DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. and his - Can-Can Toys — Bingo — Books — Raffles - Plants Candy Floss Records Portraits _ Xmas Gifts Bottle Draw - Food Bargains - Lucky YS Boutique _ Babies' Straws - White Elephant - Instant Photo Punch 'N' Judy - Home-made Food _ Fruit Clothes Machines — Childrens' Clothes — Alligator's Head — Xmas Decorations — Father Christmas _ All the best jumble - - Scarves, Hats & Gloves Teas & Refreshments Docis Hamburaers — Stalls — Sideshows.

PAGE TWO

CLASS STRUGGLES IN

WHILE Anglican Archbishop Dr Michael Ramsey was in S Africa preaching the doc- trine of non-violence to the non - European oppressed, Christian Aid was busy in E Pakistan using charity to cover up for British economic exploitation. In Pakistan, Britain robbed, murdered, starved and super- exploited Muslim and Hindu for centuries. They set one against the other of divide- as part of their policy and-rule, and in 1947 tore what had been one country in two by creating Pakistan and India. As direct result pogrom Punjab triggered in the in Was which half a million people died floods than the this November. Super Searching for exploitation crops amid dead cattle. Having divided India into two states, they continued super- exploit both, the deaths causing apartheid and that the Boers are of tens of millions of people each simply Britain's convenient scape- year. What is of India goal. and Pakistan less of no true 1S Nor, he talked of vio- when where a million Africans Africa, lence, did he mention the violence die each year as a result of the of British imperialism the upon apartheid system introduced by non-European people whom he British capitalists and the British called violence aristocracy in and after the 19th had exercised until they their century. 'infinite patience'-turn the other the British was a system cheek for ever. the created then made Boers blaming them for what operate, and the Plunder of British capital lumpen from the English immigrants working class had been respon- centuries sible for. Ramsey had not said anything Britain 'Christian Aid' is giving money about the fact that it is that today responsible for to selected so-called anti-apart- I would like information about

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'Christian Aid', plus the banks and government, not to mention the army, air force, and navy, to the rescue' in rushed Pakistan. But the £l million donated as emergency aid is only about what Britain takes out of Pakistan in super-exploitation and profits in one week: a crumb thrown back at the victims, robbed over and over again by the aid giver.

Pakistan is traditionally en- titled to a'-thousand times the amount being returned out of the centuries of plunder.

If Pakistan took this back, beginning with the uncompen- sated confiscation of all British assets and repudiation British loans repayments, then the flood havoc could begin to be tackled in a preventive way.

Death by natural disaster is a result not so much of hurricanes as of housing, safety and other social conditions. In E Pakistan hundreds of thousands died in the November floods because they lived in shacks and not houses. They had no real houses because they were impoverished by the activities of the imperialist countries such as Britain, the US, W Germany and Italy. They were impoverished by the taxes needed to repay the 'aid' given by these countries. 'Aid' scientic

LUDALO

The Moscow obelisk In honour of Sovlet space exploration. has bankrupted Pakistan and build made it impossible to dykes to contain the sea tides and save lives. Semi- colonialism Not only fihancially but also Pakistan's organizationally, bureaucratic incapability in the face of the flood havoc is a direct result of semi-colonialism.

This denies industry, the basis of modern organization, to the country. Britain starves Pakistan of industry in order to maintain her own industrial monopolies and to concentrate Pakistan labour in the field of primary production, which is the produc- tive basis of imperialism today.

The result of this starvation of is physical starvation industry and helplessness in the face of natural catastrophes. Few need have died if Britain had not made it impossible for them to have housing, sea-walls and warning systems enabling them to withstand the tidal waves. The real killer in Pakistan, as in S Africa or any other semi- colonial region, is not nature, but impérialism. And Britain remains one of the biggest and most hypocritical mass murderers in the imperialist camp.

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IN FIVE DAYS time, dawn will break over the Sea of Rains and the sun's rays will fall on this desolate sea of lunar rock for the first time in 14 days. As the temperature be- present verlap sites and. or course. returning to thererore earth. Inal Tactor gins to climb from over The fuel problem also of frost, manned craft from exploring.

00 degrees copolared will be operated control scientifically in the Soviet Union and from the mo so and ter, the moon's some three seconds later, exis of rotation is almost paralle Russian will scientists • that or tne earth and the ber

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Con open Whene Lunokhod Will i its solar panels to receive the sun's energy during recharge a spacecraft behind the Apollo missions there is black- moon, extremely useful. and radio However, will such ramme through remain is whiched an soon dangerous and after the Detween unti unmanned Luna-17 ramp of the spacecraft on November

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night has beer by acknowlearca scienusts so as sat with the expedition. everywhere as a major step 101- Should unsand it be a mast rime under together SuCh communications possible is certainly a must in Te the tem ncrease future requires pramme from almost every view- and/or power lunar sources fact, wer rocket technology unar orbit, point. never now dead.) flights if Store data such a pro- * wider To have tear of about a sile Without Lunokhode, bine control programme. lunar moon would also machines, be impos- Commenting on Luna-17's suc- for the cost but Soviet scientist wrote sending such a clo Pravda: astronauts r the moonca: carry out certain experiments bu peopis never Apollo-15 se are data travel then 1nere are stil into the ene er * human beings aren world curred that m radio Safety huma " Not bei an mooncraft can land in Aretomatic the demonstration record achieve where the moon rugged to attempt ments, creative, terrain 1s too landing present. be over the loss worke designers of Soviet manned at Manned a machine. space spacecratt must alwavs factor strictly extra fuel soperatueir task the bents t scientists. carry TOr one satet in search of optimum the areas where man lanain. •Can coal

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With the Apollo-13 fiasco still fresh in everyone's mind, this scarcely-veiled criticism of the American moon programme no.

doubt found its mark. Despite the immense techno- logical achievements of Apollo- 1l and 12, it would be difficult to accuse the Russians of sour 'record grapes. of terms achievements' or 'space firsts', Soviet scientists can list about 20 to date over the last 13 years -from the first earth satellite in 1957 to the first lunar robot vehicle, from Sputnik to Lunok- hod: Here is what Gherman Titov, second Russian in space in 1961, said in 1968 about the Soviet and the so-called programme 'space race': 'Soviet space explorers are moved by one aim: to gain maxi- mum scientific information about space in general, and the planets of the solar system in particu- lar, with the least expenditure of effort and resources. That is why our space research is conducted in such a way, that every new experiment helps to solve some essentially new problem. 'Soviet scientists try not to duplicate solutions already attained. They concentrate on promoting next stage in fathoming the universe by tech- nical devices or by man himself.

"This attitude of the Soviet space explorers precludes their participation space any exploration race' 'Space-race' The myth of the 'space race' was a useful face-saver for US imperialism faced with a series of impressive Soviet 'firsts' in space. - Other myths which faded away during the 1960s were that was all due to captured German scientists' (compare comments on China's satellite launch) and that in any case Soviet electronics was useless. The latter was smashed when it became clear that the Soviet Venus probes were finding their mark from 1967 onwards. The soft-landings of instruments on distant planets required elec- tronic finesse. Many examples since reinforce this, not forgetting Lunokhod 1 itself. for the German scientists, As working on the Vº2 at Peene- munde, the lion's share went to America. As one of them put it: 'The US got the brains; the Russians got the mechanics. Not only did the 'brains' fall to America, but five truckloads of documents covering the Ger- man research into rocketry.

One of the scientists, Dieter Huzel, hid the valuable cache in a mountain cave and dynamited the entrance. Eventually 300 rocketmen and six shiploads of rocket equipment, including the entire contents of the cave were shipped to America. Said Huzel: These contents were of inestimable value. Who- ever inherited them would be able to start in rocketry at that point at which we had left off, with the benefits not only of our accomplishments, but of our mis- of experience. the real ingredient takes as well- No doubt more myths will be forthcoming - anything rather than objective of assessment how, despite Stalinism, a work- ers' state has been able to reach for the stars. The removal of the profit motive has inspiring given an glimpse of the possibilities held out by the planning of resources and production. Following the Soyuz-4 flight 1969, in January "The Times' commented: 'But in the end Russia's greatest strength has been the ability to pursue her many- stranded programme systemati- undisturbed cally, by what others may choose to do...

Whence comes this 'ability?'

There is no reply! However, the differences in the US and Soviet programmes multerow become very marked.

Luna-16's successful earth with its dust return to samples, the 'Economist' remarked: 'It could also mean that scientists will have to rely on Moscow, for the next decade, for all their information about the moon. ... It will be ironic if the answers in future will have to be sought in Moscow.' The point seems to be getting home.

Thursday, December 3, 1970

THURSDAY'S

INTERNATIONAI

AS THE Nixon Administra- policies of racialism and imperial- of soldiers refusing to cross the ism. tion steps up its desperate boraer. 1 nere nave been reports Ivewsweek magazie cases N Vietnam and attacks on Rican must The field. troops to get them into engineers 'prisoner rescue' in Viet- none the ge missions which rescue no and against racialism in the

REFUSED COMBAT

army and at home. prisoners, they are con- ch Vietnam the situation fronted not only by the Now raised sharper. National Liberation Front, militant Negroes missions have destroy' but by the growing demoral- mon symbols of black and white largely replaced by the 'seek-and• GIs. mission. 'New York Times ization of the US army itself.

The clenched fist has, in many explained tol the reporter ared (tardner• The rapid deterioration cases, reD aced traditional morale within the is so low that "a notel we Were supposed dare rigger What and end Army hoth in nartial for failure to salute pro- court perly. concern for the Pentagon, which hundred yards. find us foliage, smoke, has launched an 'investigation' heavy

NEGOTIATE

sack out.' the situation Germany where the Seventh Army is stationed.

'The Times' report continues: 'In the past two

MASS RALLY

thousands American reds ot this Although the Pentagon and the soldiers have used tactic widespread that it Retusal to bourgeois take comhat press to nav conflict within the nas crown so armi need no longer be surreptitious. between chide at that their own "GIs leave their fire bases with imnunity• commanders far that bodit, there were many* the Cam- courtmartialing them will undar morale. mine what remains Farmers urged to link up MORE farmers on holdings JAPANESE engineers are experimenting with revo- which harely nay their wav lutionary methods of tunnelling through mountains will be encouraged to sell out with microwaves and also trying out high-pressure and leave the land under schemes announced by the water jets to crack rocks.

Minister of Agriculture, Mr These new techniques of high- By a sclence correspondent James Prior. et the rai The schemes relax the con- 3,500 shoot the winer research institute Tokvo. ditions under which a farmer lines for neededi Japan's 'bullet trains' which must can qualify for a golden hand- run straight possible and enlarged by more water. shake' - by introducing more theretore cut through mountains up-to-date of developed titute has already assessments Not satisfactory whether a farm can provide officials per said 53 a living for a farmer and ent of the 243-mile new Sanyo one man, working full time.

line, noW under nearly 70 tons per Okayama in atmaenharad etwee Japan Amalgamate on thi south. ernmost island, will pass through Officials Of the 420,000 farms in the that a rock UK. 150,000 cannot reakage speed of over one var 2h011 but ther meet this requirement and should be amalgamated with to keen period of tim othere to form higger. more efficient farms, the Ministry under suet tessure. water treezing "he water method emnious a says. However, proto- exnecter to he 'Cooked' rock

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Officers and NCOs who insist on ordering troops into the field are commonly "fragged"-hit by a grenade rolled under their tente flaps. Blatant racialists are dealt with similarly. 'GIs smoke marijuana freely, realizing that a roundup of pot- heads would deplete the infantry faster than you could say "Hat- field McGovern"! The Pentagon recently released figures on the drug problem in the army, revealing that at least 16 GIs have died this year from overdoses of heroin. Army reports indicate that 31 per cent of US servicemen take drugs regularly, while another 30- per cent have tried drugs while in Vietnam.

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The contradictions and decay of capitalist society cannot but be expressed within its army.

• thinking they Far from are 'fighting for democracy, thou- sands upon thousands of reluct.

ant draftees take drugs to escape the vicious imperialist character of the war in Indo-China.

THE PAY rise won • by workers in the US auto industry after a ten-week strike has dealt Nixon's anti- inflation fight a severe blow.

So severe that on Tuesday the White House condemned the award on the grounds that if follow similar settlements would push, 'costs and therefore price levels even higher'. Nixon took office 'in the midst of the worst financial crisis since 1931' with prices rising faster than at any time for two decades. Last month alone the con- sumer price index shot up at a rate equivalent to 6 per cent a year. With the dollar's purchasing power falling rapidly, profits being eroded, mergers taking place almost daily as a last resort, to stave off disaster and with more and more firms actually collapsing, Nixon is under heavy to take direct steps to pressure hold down wages and prices.

Alarm Tuesday's alarm report from the White House in Washigton said: 'Since initial auto settlements often serve as a pattern for most of the motor vehicle and equip- and ment industry to some extent for the farm machinery industry nearly million one workers may be directly affected by the level of the settlement.'

The report said the increase at General Motors substantially exceeds any estimate of gains in national productivity. It goes on: 'It also raises costs further in an industry where pro- ducers overseas are accounting and growing for a substantial share of the domestic market'.

As the world crisis of over- you can honestly say that you are half way towards even a first study of all the jobs in your authority that should be susceptible to work study?' The Minister said that the new techniques would lead not only to the most 'sensible and efficient' way of doing things, but also to the most 'econo- mical and profitable' ways.

He urged local authorities to make more use of a free advisory service which the government would continue to support- the Local Authorities Management Services and Computer Committee. The work study is expected to lead to increased product- ivity and Page was in no doubt that, 'sound productivity EVIDENCE of the completely bo nature of Stalinist opposition to N and productivity dealing generally 'Morning Star'. First the paper joined the chorus of Fleet St speculation about whether massive redun- dancies are to be announced at today's union-employer talks about 'manpower changes' in the British- Leyland combine in Lon- don. Secondly, however, it moved in subtle talk to foster on a more quicksand illusions about how MDW can be fought. While the announcement of pay-offs in giant's the car troubled Austin-Morris division today is a distinct possibility, such the main purpose Tuesday's Workers move - as Press insisted - would be to frighten the union leaders into betraying the shop-floor opposi- tion to MDW. But to do this, the union leaders would require a big 'left' cover. So their behind-the-scenes dis- cussions with teyland on labour which relations, Workers Press has exposed as going for some months, go unmentioned by the 'Star'. But the paper does claim that backing for what it describes as the 'caution' of Leyland stewards over MDW 'came from a very unexpected quarter only last . week'. The quarter involved turns out to be no less than National worsens production worsens, competition for markets must become more The reference in the severe. White House report was to the inroads made by small-car pro- ducers, particularly W Germany and Japan, the lucrative American car market. Critical The report was also critical of an emergency board appointed to look into disputes in the railway industry and which has recom- mended wage increases totalling more than 30 per cent over three years. ( Unions and management are still negotiating over the Board's recommendations, but the unions contend they are not enough.

increasingly desperate In an bid to hold wage and price levels the Nixon Administration has launched investigation an into the rise in crude oil prices announced by the Gulf Oil Com- pany last month. Oil companies' profits have been falling for some time. The report complained that the average price of major brand regular petrol rose nearly 16 per cent in mid-November at a time petrol stocks were when at a level higher than normal for the time of year. Inflation is hitting hard at the profits of the giant oil combines.

They are concerned with fixing prices in accordance with text book rules of supply and demand. Their businesses are in crisis.

Their profits reflect the crisis of the world capitalist economy.

No matter how high the stocks, inflation will force them to raise prices if they are to hang on to their profits. schemes will pay for them- selves and to spare'. It was, of course, clear from his remarks that the Tory government knows that such schemes need the fullest co-operation and collaboration from the trade unions. In local government, at the very least, the schemes will limit employment opportunities and at the most will create un- employment. Page said that trade unions had a duty to their members and the public to negotiate schemes whereby there could earnings from greater productivity. greater Local authorities had a duty to the ratepayers to ensure that they were getting the best possible value for money. mpletely bogus and treacherous position to Measured-Day Work• ing generally came in Tuesday's By our Industrial reporter Farmers' Union director-general, former Rootes director and head of the Manpower and Producti- vity Service at the Department of Employment and Productivity, George Cattell. at the Industrial Speaking 'Star' Society conference, the claims, Cattell condemned MDW as "a modern form of slavery"!

This is a very dangerous half- truth indeed. As Workers Press reported at eight days ago, some length Cattell's conference speech out- lined a well-developed corporate state philosophy. After describing in what any- one-anyone but a self-blinded 'Star' reporter, that is-would recognize as extremely cynical his ruthless 18-month terms battle to force through MDW on Rootes Motors at Coventry, Cattell expressed a few doubts.

'Slavery' 'Not', to use his own words, 'that it had to happen, but at ;•.? where do we go from here 'What has been created' told the assembled industrialists, union chiefs and 'is a royalty, modern form of the Slavery; Slavery and monotony of the mid-20th century mass-produc- tion system; an imported system from America where slavery, certainly at Detroit, has still to be hnally abolished.' Cattell, who a few moments earlier had been gleefully describ- ing how a DEP team under his had defeated a com- direction munist and pushed convenor through a productivity scheme in a northern engineering plant, was not, of course, much worried by the humanitarian aspects of the problem. .. He went-on-to outline his real.

concern. This was that while 'change of the kind introduced we probably an inevitable stage in the process of applying modern management techniques to sys- tems in which management was essentially amateur, it is by no means the whole answer for the employers. Yet this, in full, is the mes- 'Star' said 'appears to sage the have 'speedily reached

BLMC

workers at Oxford who, at a mass meeting on Sunday rejected

MDW'.

'I confess', Cattell explained, 'that I have now come to the conclusion that systems in which large numbers of people work to pre-measured standards for a stabilized wage and are expected to have no interest beyond the measured task are not the long- term solution to the problems of high-volume production Of 'Star' course, even the knows that it will be a bit difficult for its readers to swallow the idea that such a man is condemn- ing MDW. So it included the qualifica- that *it the Mr tion is same Cattell that the "Morning Star" exposed on June 13, 1967, for the publication, under his chair- employers of manship, engineering an document entitled "Wage Drift, Work-Measurement and Systems of Payment". 'It was a bosses' bible.'

Now this is really interesting, because any exposing the 'Star' did in 1967 was strictly sub- ordinate to its general policy not of opposition to MDW, but of "safeguards'. Writing in the September 2, 1967, issue of the Communist Party's weekly , CP 'Comment', industrial organizer Bert Ramel- his own set up question: son should industrial changes be ignored and changes in wages structure totally opposed?

'No', he answered, 'it doesn't mean that at all... 'Modified' 'Whether "measured day" or "time rates" are acceptable or not will be judged by militant workers as to whether it can be so modified as to ensure that these three basic gains are carried over into whatever new system is introduced.' The three gains referred to were 'a stake in productivity by relating earnings to output, "democratic trade union organi- zation' and negotiation of work- loads and pace of work-all of which, Ramelson well knew, are inevitably destroyed by MDW whatever initial sugar-coating may be conceded by employers to force them through. This remains basic Stalinist policy. That is why Tuesday's 'Star' 'caution' used the word to describe the Leyland stewards' attitude to MDW. But it must be aware that official policy of their national body is outright opposi- tion to the system. British-Leyland workers, take warning! Under cover of a 'clever' but, as we have shown, double-edged —propaganda point, the Com- Party is carefully and munist consciously preparing the ground to return quite openly to its 1967 policy of betrayal.

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Yemen with raids

THE

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DAVID BELLIS is a storekeeper at the Acton electrical plant of Evershed and Vignoles Ltd. A militant mem- ber of the Engineers' and Foundryworkers' Union, he was for many years in the Communist Party, but now disagrees fundamentally with that organization's reformist policies. Here, he talks to the Workers Press about the Charter of Basic Rights, the draft discussion document for the All Trades Unions Alliance conference in Birmingham on December 19.

I've read the Charter of Rights thoroughly I support it and i can say 100 per cent. I am particu- larly in favour of the section on Measured-Day Work. I'm definitely opposed to this They speed-up system. are trying to introduce it in our factory just now- and get- ting away with it ! On section one, I think, of course, that we have every right to a job and to The the right to work. Tories have no business taking the right to away strike, either. It's something that's ours anyway. biggest of have the right anybody because they have Carr isn't giving us any- done the lion's share of thing when he tells us we achieving what we have got will have the tight to join a.

and the rights we have won union - I'm already in a so far. union and I don't need the Tories to give me the right feel Another thing strongly about is the pro- to join. which I can racket, perty The Charter is absolutely see going on in my own when speaks right part of London. All sections the that defending gains of the working class should have already been made. I be mobilized against it. know what these gains mean There can be no question when I contrast my of leaving the Tories in childhood Lancashire In office to run their full term.

with the life of young We have the right, as the workers today. Charter correctly points out, have These gains been to force them out. fought for very, very hard And we must do this. The question of national- ization is very important,

A CALL

for engineering but it must be put across back the in its true concept: not the union chiefs to Labour concept that we did All Trades Unions Alliance's Charter of Basic Rights has get after the war, whereby gone out from the Thornton the owners were better off Heath AEF branch. under the so-called national- ization due to the compen- The branch declares its they support for the Charter as sation payments re- ceived than they were before by the ATUA. drawn up the industries were national- It stresses that 'the de- ized. fence and extension of the In other words, I want to of the working class, gains see Keir Hardie's words ap- won in struggle from the plied - workers employers, is now the most in practice should take over the means before the urgent question of production for the benefit and whole trade union of the workers and not the labour movement : defence boss class. of jobs, the right to strike and organize, of welfare This Charter should defi- benefits, and the struggle nitely become the basis for for decent housing, pensions should a campaign-we and fair prices tied to a ahead with it at once. sliding scale of wages. support it with- out reservation. "This branch therefore calls for the adoption of this Charter by the union execu- tive and district committee'.

ORDER YOUR

and over countless years we just can't afford to

POSTERS

that has ignore the work been done and the gains

TODAY!

made that have been al- ready. The section on prices and rents also extremely im- IS lot of shoppers portant. A and housewives find things have shot up in price over- night doubled in even The housewives some cases. just don't know what to do about it. It just seems that we've got to pay the rises and there just doesn't seem to be any argument about it.

This is a question on which the working class

DEFEAT THE

strength be mobilized must to defend living standards. I feel very, very strongly a TORY ANTI-A about the plight of the old age pensioners. I think they getting definitely the are

UNION LAWS!

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LATE NEWS

UN TEAM ACCUSES

PORTUGAL

The United Nations' investi-.

visited gation team which New Guinea has returned to York with direct evidence linking the Portuguese anot to the recent invasion Guinea. The team is expected to report to the resent Security Council this week- end. The mission is said to have concluded the expedition was and SO well organized equipped it could only have been supported by a major foreign power.

TORY LAND-GRAB STARTS

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W German consul still held.

Strikes as Basque trial opens BASQUE nationalists are holding the W German consul in San Sebastian as hostage for their 16

BY A WORKERS PRESS

comrades who go on trial before a military court in Burgos today. The consul, 59-year- old Herr Eugen Beih!, Mersey Overtime ban hangs was seized by a group of young men as he was anger putting his car into his garage late on Tuesday over power talks

• FROM PAGE ONE

evening. their care warehouses for BA men ben ridiculous that o The same the dockers and Hearter Indignation Ted pare ordered be

SACK THE LOT

fore has att indiemation inside and or de 'This crisis is the Board's the kingt evere too Bilbao, open the Booksf them sa he thought t said ana there nave been big onstrations against the trial.

In Oviedo e Peacers as "I see it in line classes host are ce and o o belon the Made of ave despite arigi Some of the powerworkers lobbying yesterday's talks.

exer me right POWER WORKERS' shop stewards meet tonight to 'Guerrillas of Christ the King. consider the results of yesterday's lenginy pay lalks.

Devlin ban and work-to-rule come into force Two; cesaid. overtime on Monday it the electricity boaras reluse to talst their 10 per cent reply to the unions' demand for a €5 16s increase in average basic rates.

Paris demo The Electricity Council has threatened to impose and report back further price rises if the offer is raised, but the over- time ban and work-to-rule will undoubtedly bring power cuts before Christmas if it goes into operation.

protesting 20ai0 st were on the Paris mar people involved in the pay deal. our workers are Under the 19th-century Public Utilities Act, they Rem is the cost go Toading nave no rent to suike.

WEATHER

and N Scotland

CENTRAL

Another call for will remain rather sional wintry showers tonalick the denize cut tough stand force far, union S Soland, will eland and and mr But with b rant and Aven an endurin malad later on wages S Wales, the Midlands an nost drizzle, but From our industrial cortesponden Public Meeting

THURSDAY,

BEECHAM

Sir Ronald group chattan voice yesterday to the call

DECEMBER 3

Edwards added his 7.30 p.m. for tougher methods against the trade unions.

settled. The fight for workers' Tor. Bill out rights Stalinists refuse

• FROM PAGE ONE

• 'unjustified' the 9 Liven the defend fish basic they have are out of hand ar increases o ost-nandone face land that the Tories

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

toster

MEETINGS

lead sures, Discuss the ly yment blind-all ective for mowed bry Sor the dept at taking o1 caThe deme TUC to a key i clepokesmen Toriese t of snemploy- Thursday, December 3, 1970 shot to boost counts - Vietnam veterans

SIX

VIETNAM

army veterans stated in Wash- ington on Tuesday that civilians killed in Vietnam step the OVERWHELMING evidence has now been number of victims claimed produced that the Soviet government is supply.

by the US army. ing military aid to the pro-US regime in This charge was made be- Cambodia to fight the liberation movement.

fore three-day National inquiry into Viet- A statement lust issued Hall wai callies by Norodom Sihanouk's

SAN

FRANCISCO

police They argued that Lt William Calley and others on trial fo exile Cabinet, bases its allackeu youlls ucmunsulalks outside rarmont note arains!

Tole use accusation on a report saigon dictator vice-resident massacre or March 190° were Ky and assest night injuring in the Japanese being made scapegoats for paper what become general Shimbun' 'Sankei on the hotel, Ky was in- policy in S Vietnam. anti-war November 1. terrupted by "while addressing One of the six, Larry Rott- said soldiers demonsualor The journal carried

WCIC

a mmoinealth Club. meeting NoI Callould of Vietnamese killed leave in bonuses statement ine numbel by regime Minister Mau Sav or Kong, Australia none Soviet Ine bureaucracy Honolulu. pro-US dealings with thi regime in Phnom Penh: Fights various fields which 9. diese say fairs between Soviet soldiers claiming scarcely been killed more affected by the inlan une of the cha other,' he said. Sihanouk era ana 1t con After 1968 "Tet offen- unues normally. sive General Westmoreland demanded more emphasis

MAINTAINED

on 'body counts': •mised before assistance, promised commanding d'etat [of March want more bodies". mainly of Military Command in Saigon which delivery lorries, would call up been Ilas mainlamned since that we dig up "The delivery has not yet colo d'erat. more bodies. 1s DIe- been concluded, the remain- der be up pooles trom craves. shortly.' Here Opened fire we have the clearest possible illustration the of former Another Witness of world stalinismar role Lance Corporal Kenneth world Stalinism. Campbell, told Even Toe that 1968 his bat- their Dress torward with tery new offensive against lated Lon Nol Villares

JUST

SNORED

back its dem uc enlarze• zone the Phnom larderly how Samuel Medical related the Kankin Kremlir destroyed village send militars aid

LOUS

communist; else found Killing aictatorship Party british Communist Was destroved-OuTs. broken leaders cannot evade this goods, «coumed housenoid any longer. and 23 dead civil- dear pigs including young women i ba crang stand children, old men and a few babies National organizer of the Will Inaulry loo ensign exo ained nounce the Kremlin's nosi- the purpose of the hearings: tion or maintain their usual cowardly silence? Finger 'So far and-file should the focus has been member them to make such a on Lt Calley the others who have been made scape goats Our objective is to have a full-scale Inauiry put finger on the Will the policy-makers, civilians and individual who obeying orders. Calley trial, By slapills Nixon and the High Command hoped to silence opponents of the Vietnam Instead, veterans moved by the most contradictory motive now coming the

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

United

UVE.

states testify agains Nixon's ooores the Vietnamese SIve War on KING HUSSEIN of Jordan, on the second stage people. The new revelations confirn of his 20-day world tour, yesterday met Egyptian what many Americans already guessed-that the My President Anwar Sadat in Cairo for talks on LaI Hassacre was no accident.

im- military and political questions. Darl or denperate perialist policy. This marks a sharp improve- ment in relauons between une two regimes. new were under severe strain during the recent Jordan Egyptian Ambassador was in fact recalled to Amman Cairo following the appoint- ICHl extreme wing Wast es Tell as Tordan's Prime Minister. ivow ne is to return Second Annual Federation Some Cairo onservers that following Syria's Conference think decision to join the new Arab Libya and Egypt, Sudan also be may Discuss considering membership. President Sadat

THE CHARTER OF

said he would not extension of the truce curtber Israel without with drama time- with

BASIC RIGHTS

table specifying its Egyptian the The right to a job, to strike and peace lalks. will be under als- between two organize, to retain gains made CUSS On The leaders. to fair prices, to welfare benefit Opinions and to decent housing. Sadars opinions on the Minder Hussein will Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to force the Tories to resign.

bast situalon government readers in raris, bonn, London and Washington when he con-

BIRMINGHAM

tinues his tour. :Sat. December 19

MANAGEMENT

has threat t ened to rd in a bid to Digbeth Civic Hall, Mussel smovare in end four-week-old striké the of 200 finishing trades workers The threat Digbeth 10.30. am by a statement off all accessary For delegates or visitors' credentials send 5s ployees or Ten Dorary basis as trom wednesdav january f to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, if there is no resumptior work by the outfit trades Styvechale, Coventry. that date'.