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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DECEMBER

Behind the Industrial Relations Bill

EIGHTH

Tories to destroy

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

Meeting The postmen have way LiTe laws Make the trade union basic trade 18a•ers ones rorce the cor ernment to resign! Blacklegs'

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. charter The Lecture Hall Central Halle Westminster sions orine industrial melations speakers G. MeALy National Sec FINES up to £100,000 on unions.

union rights Make leaders fight retar or socialst Labour OUTLAWiNG Or Ine closed SnoD.

League t Take December 8 beyond 'protest' (Deputy

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Senior governmen decides. Steward Motors, , Oxford) to 60 days for DEAL courts Pikington's Patiens of workers REGISTRAR e in on rules and conduc vounciworkore

AGREEMENTS

Liaison Committee) for General Strike Chairman wise stated. A. WILKINS (ATUA Sec-

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Ju omer Ur retary

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Comes corredure agreements Im STRIKE LEADERS will face jail and Admission 28

BY MICHAEL BANDA

AbULlUN or rignt to picket a scab's nouse rank - and - file workers' organizations authorised attacks

LEGAL

Cloak of silence ficials of registered unlons unlimited damages if the Tory employers' A MOTLEY ARRAY of reactionary forces is charter published yesterday becomes law.

Dec. 8 on Leyland talks employers No clearer outline of the

EMPLOYMENT

Secretary Heath government's class fight December with lashed-out yes. Robert Car Widespread legal injunctions, the trade war strategy will be ounc than this 'first comprehen- • will Austin-Mor- union bureaucrats are try anti- damndest to Inslustrial cneir •noustral Ke anons "Act in Britain's history", ausible apology for the right relations lector strikes as mignten ana aemoralize ented strike backward workers. Employment Ministe leaders and Robert Carr introduced and poexa of the te bad the Pre and Fund of the Bill. er large scle scion Basques go actions for striker ares subject con used to the w ben the morasingd rder to para abandon t lespite closure threats. union leaded ex Funds held Yet Leyland management is on trial up to ball its new e deltake money on would be Such damages could be un- Austin-Morris division abd throug in the Mint a mistakably Tory

PREPARATION

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these added Car. has double on easing th STRIKES paralysed industries all over the Ine Alu to range tnere

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWBLETUER • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1970 • NUMBER 319 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DECEMBER

Behind the Industrial Relations Bill

EIGHTH

Tories to destroy

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

Mee The postmen have shown the aNiMon way defeat the Mead ers ade unton basic trade gov. ernment to resign! Blacklegs'

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. charter The Lecture Hal centrat Hals Westminster AIN provisions orine Indusural meratiol speakera Q. HEALY (National Soo- retary of Sociallst Labour SINES un to $100:000 on unions.

AEF and DATA members from Elliotts, Lewisham, vote to stop on December 8 League) e-union righis; Take December 8 beyond 'protest' Tor Steward Merry cono creward period up to 60 days for • motors, uxora) (Chairman C. CAUCHeY Make leaders tight and kineton's Rank rile committee. condered to decide on all London Councllworkere' Liaison Committee) for General Strike other untair practical ation nearly WILKINS (ATUA SeC retary) Admission 28 STRIKE LEADERS will face jail and rank - and - file secale of retired ion. attacks Cloak of silence A MOTLEY ARRAY of reactionary forces is unlimited damages if the Tory employers' Dec. 8 charter published yesterday becomes law.

discredit the December 8 stoppage.

on Leyland talks No clearer outline of the While the employers

EMPLOYMENT

December with fight Heath governments class Widespread legal injunctions, the trade war strategy will be found contempt if ist illusions constitutions and amer strike union bureaucrats are try- British-Leyland Austin -Mor SHOr present in deadlock, than this hirst comprenen.

next Tuesday шакс Lsive Industrial Then damnees car plants frighten demoralize strikes as identifiable hear the results Act in Drain's nistory. Minister

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and Macaons i While Docks and Harbour Board. december 8 Feel that • See article on page 3. in against anteat se she tons and the ne it s through BAC sackings i care who has already soon? Some of the Belfast men lobbying parliament yesterday.

Visit Aladdin The Tories is way si chiefs began talks corporation chiels began haul ben paid be since in wage bill hac Mate sill terran sackings * то в піря and his the government. Proclamation eatind a the commons. hould stand on 11 Magic Lamp Disputes Act. While nudicw Dall, stress Belfast Confederation of Any or Mananas, to ant nion leaders or Ondon tes nelso few to Utner no let heavy e to Lon us make Court's poorer to jail unoficial 6 yard had essed fester you side take.

Toys — Bingo - Books — Rattles — Plante - Can-Can Xmas Gifts - Candy Floss • Portraits - Records - contadalon Power men to work to rule Lucky YS Boutique - Bottle Draw — Food Bargains - Takeover, fears have Instant Photo - Bables' White Elephant - Morning sat and - Punch 'N' Judy — Home-made Food - Fruit Clothes week increase in stetards in W basic rat Machines — Childrens' Clothes — Alligator's Head - Xmas Wednesday foreign buyers.

INDEPENDENT

Decorations - Father Christmas - All the best jumble man yesterde Public u thries th century The 12,000 Harland workers Teas & Refreshments — Scarves, Hate & Gloves — Hot month-old ban decision fol- mercilessly exposing reform-

Brilish trade unions developed

PAGE TWO

The Great Transport strike, 1912.

FUFLE

'THE MANCHESTER MARTYRS'

by Paul Rose Lawrence and Wishart, 25s.

THE YEARS

around But work in England itself was by no means neglected, particu- 1867, when the events larly view of the large in num- described in this book bers of Irishmen settleć there.

1867 By tenth the one took place, were of great of population Manchester was importance in Engels wrote: the de- Irish. discovered the 'The Irish have velopment of the British and of life, minimum necessities English working are now making the class. workers acquainted with it' great defeat of After the It was in Manchester that two Chartism in 1848, the struggle leading officers of the movement England, Kelly and in Deasy, for better wages and con- were arrested on September 10. ditions took on a qualitatively Before long, news of their arrest and identification had reached different form. Fenian supporters in Manchester, and, under the direction of an- 'New Unions' the The other American officer, Society of En- Amalgamated O'Meagher Condon, a rescue plan 1851, and gineers, founded in was worked out. the new Trades Councils after On September 18 Kelly and 1860—were able to win sub- Deasy were be moved from to stantial side of Manchester to wage even one the though their leadership was other for their remand. bought off under conditions of Condon was to be responsible for providing successful imperialism. tools and weapons for an ambush. These threw the capitalist economy into a grave financial crisis in 1866 and witch-hunt was prepared. blow Attempts to up non-

POLICE ESCORT

alleged: and unionists were Applegarth, the carpenters' leader, managed, classical oppor- though The authorities, even tunist that he was, to ask for a had been warned about commission of they government likely rescue attempts, made no inquiry into the affair. for the special arrangements This granted, but with was directed prisoners' transport: they were terms of reference horse-drawn Black placed in the trade against union with a small, unarmed Maria. movement. The ruling class was also dis- police escort. The English ruling class were turbed by the founding of the unable to think ahead, but they First International, under the aegis of Marx Engels, to be extremely ruthless and WarA in after the event. 1864, But the Fenians had their fair share of stupidity.

HIS STORY

The entrusted with sig- nalling the that the ambushers And it is ignoring these tur- prisoners were coming forgot to hold the cab he had travelled in; bulent events, which provide the key to an understanding of this the driver promptly went to warn period, that Mr Rose, "left' the authorities, who sent the make labour MP. of Civil the and supporter warders only Rights in Ireland, and friend of tragic arrest of the incident.

the Stalinists, tells his story. However. the van was success- For him. the 1867 events may fully stopped, problem the only be of being that of breaking into it.

seen only in the context Irish nationalism, Catholic reli- One of the Fenians fired at the gion, and middle-class radicalism.

lock of the van killing the police- man who was standing inside However, this is, in essence, his with responsibility for the keys.

story. ish Fenian Kelly and Deasy were removed was founded in me us in ment.

to safety and reached the United 1867. It was dedicated to the struggle Fenians States. But three in- for national independence against volved the rescue, Allen, in the English colonialists and Larkin and O'Brien were arrested.

re- trial and cruited i many of its most dedi- is their execution cated from Trish which provides the main theme supporters United of Rose's book. emigrés i the States, many of whom had fought. in the Ruthlessly the authorities set finding candi- Civil War. to work suitable I would like information about

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Name Address PERHAPS this book's most important theme is the long and bitter nature of the struggle to estab- lish and defend trade union legality. Documents selected to illustrate this subject clearly show the rise of the bourgeois legal -system as a response to the workers' struggle to organize as a class against the employers and their state. So the book should be read with the anti-union strategy of the present tory government very much in mind. The documents help to destroy the Fabian and academic myth that trade union rights were gained in a gradual, evolutionary fashion. They also show that the trade unions did not win complete legal immunity while they con- the highly tinued to rely on dubious sympathies of the Liberal Party and the middle-class radicals. The establishment of a mass- based working-class party - the Labour Party-was necessary be- fore the trade unions could win the rights for which their mem- bers had been fighting for a full century.

CLASS BATTLES

And the Labour Party itself arose only after a series of class battles which went far beyond the legalistic, outlook reformist of the 'Model Union' leaders, based on the skilled workers.

Legal recognition of trade unions in Britain is often dated from 1824, when the Combination Acts outlawing workers' organ- izations were repealed. The 'smashing of the van'. A Fenlan bid to dates for trial. Twenty-two arrests were made immediately, some of them ludicrous; they included a 'highly respectable' surveyor who resembled Kelly, and a Royal Marine on leave, who had been nowhere near the crime, but who was Irish.

THE ARRESTED

What is most interesting, how- ever, is the social composition of those arrested. They were mainly from the labourers and working class, skilled men. Rose, of course, is struck by the numbers of middle-class elements involved — 'The social composition of those charged...

reveals a wide spectrum from labourers to men of some educa- willing to risk their liberty tion, and lives in a cause which was openly revolutionary and akin to treason . .- The agrarian system or personal suffering were there- fore less important than a strong sense of national solidarity with their fellow countrymen captured by the police. However, looking through the list, one is forced to conclusion that the main appeal is to. the working class tradesmen.' and small (My emphasis.) Allen, Larkin and O'Brien - after a trial where. the trans- parent falsity of most of the evi- dence was surprising even for those times of naked class terror - were hanged in public. Rose's narrative concentrates

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This victory is usually at- tributed to the tactical skill of the radical Francis Place. In fact, under the Combination Act of The full legal status of trade merely parliambitary was channels. The inequality of the worker before the law was exposed by barrister Geoffrey Lushington as late as 1867 in his comments on the Master and Servant Act of that year:

CONTRACT

If the Master break the contract : .. the operative may summon him before a justice and recover his wages to the extent of £10 . . • in the event of distress proving insufficient the becomes under the master general statute liable to imprison- ment. 'But at any time he has only to pay what is due in order to procure his release. 'But if the operative breaks his contract the master may sue a warrant for his apprehension under that warrant, the operative may be apprehended in bed, may be denied information as to the cause of his apprehension: and opportunity to communicate with his friends may be manacled, and upon conviction may be sentenced as a criminal to three months imprisonment with hard labour at the treadmill! (pp. 15- 16.) Between 1850 and 1870, a per- manent trade union bureaucracy began to develop inside the so- 'Model Unions' (models called from the standpoint of the employer) which drew their main support from the skilled labour aristocracy'. These leaders attempted to ease the legal restrictions on trade union activity by presenting a 'respectable' image. They were encouraged by the Liberal Party, at this time the main of the industrial party capitalist class, and upon whose good offices they relied for the repeal of anti-union laws.

A Fenlan bid to rescue Irish rebels being taken to tri mainly on the various and sick- ening ministrations of the Catho- lic church, as well as on the genuine heroism of the accused.

But far more important for Marxists, for those who wish to understand the historical roots and development of the con- sciousness of the English working class, is the response of English workers to the trial.

INABILITY

We are not interested, except in so far as it throws light on the complete inability. of English middle-class radicalism to come to terms with the main conflicts in of hese radicals, on which Rose in toe reactior dwells, to the trial. Here is just example from Reynolds one News': "The world now sees that the aristocratic tiger has his old thirst for blood. Our Tory rulers still believe in terror, in torture, and in death. The rulers who have not the brains to devise beneficient reforms, have the heart to shed blood; the men who cannot comprehend how the affections of a warm-hearted race are to be gained by kındly treat- ment and equitable laws, have unbounded faith in the efficiency of hanging as a remedy for sedition.' It is, of course, the pure and unadulterated language of all left-talkers and merchants in fine and fiery phrases; misidentify the

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BY KAREN BLICK

'BRITISH TRADES UNIONIS

Lloyd Evans. The Archive Serie C. P. Hill and G. H. Fell. Publisher 1970.

EVIDENCE

The 'Model Unions' tried to function purely friendly as societies. This apparent in their well union rules. and is brought out in the evidence they the 1867 Royal Com- gave to mission on Trade Unions. The rules of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers insisted 'our object is not to do anything either indiscreet or illegal.

Robert Applegarth Its members were to be of 'good moral character", while the the union 'general usefulness' of lay in its ability to pay sickness and unemployment benefits. (p.

18.) In his evidence to the same Royal Commission, Robert Apple- garth of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners also emphasized the friendly benefits paid by his union.

ASE

William Allen of the impossibility stressed the near of his members resorting to strike action within the framework of the union rules.

ARBITRATION

John Kane of the National Association of Iron Workers suggested in his evidence that

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eing taken to trial In Manchester.

class enemy, in order to mislead -then lay the way for collabora- tion and betrayal. However, Marx, in a letter of April 1870 to Meyer and Vogt, which Rose does not mention, puts the Irish question in its true perspective: 'England, being the metropolis of capital, the power which has hitherto ruled the world market, is for the present the most im- portant country for the workers' revolution, and moreover the only country in which the material conditions for this revo- lution have developed up to a certain degree of maturity. There- fore to hasten the social revolu- tion in England is the important object the International Working-men's Association (the First International).

UNDERSTANDING

17- "The sole means of hastening it is to make Ireland independent.

Hence it is the task of the Inter- national everywhere to put the conflict between England and Ireland in the foreground, and everywhere to side openly with Ireland. 'And it is the special task of the Central Council in London to awaken a consciousness in the English workers that for them the national emancipation of Ireland is no question of abstract justice or humanitarian sentiment but the first condition of their own social emancipation'

DES UNIONISM 1850-1914*

Archive Series, General Editors ell. Published by Edward Arnold, strikes could be avoided if local arbitration courts were set up.

The net gain of this cringing before the employers and the government was the 1871 Trade Unions Act, which, while making strikes lawful, rendered anything done in pursuance of a strike a act, as it had been criminal before. The Conspiracy and Protection of Private Property Act of 1875 did eventually remove the charge of conspiracy from strike action, but reinforced existing penalties against workers who attempted, by picketing and other means, to dissuade their fellow workers from blacklegging. Full legality for trade unions and strikers was, in fact, never won by the class-collaborationist leaders of the 'Model Unions' or their allies in the Liberal Party leadership. (Many of the 'Model Union' leaders were also Liberals.)

'NEW UNIONS'

It was only gained through the organization of the mass of unskilled workers into. 'New Unions' relatively free from the old craft prejudices and illusions in the Liberal Party. The final step in this process was the formation and growth of the Labour Party as the mass party of the trade unions.

Finally, in a period of un- precedented working-class milit- ancy, the Liberals were compelled, again under great pressure from the Labour Party, to pass the 1913 Trade Union Act which permitted the use of Trade Union funds for political purposes with the 'contracting out' saving clause. While Havelock. Wilson of the National Sailors Amalgamated Firemens' Union (which and scabbed on the General Strike of 1926) insisted that his tactics were conciliatory in every Will Thorne of the Gas Workers Union in his memoirs stressed the connection between 'New Unionism' and the struggle for socialism. Middle-class horror at the turn the new trade unionism was taking revealed itself in a letter to 'The Times' on October 28,

BY BILL BOWRING

Surely this is the key to an understanding the events/ of deścribed and the English work- ing class, or at least the most advanced sections of it, did not stand idle at the time of the trial.

A meeting of the International took place which attracted suffi- to be reported in cient attention 'The Times' of November 21. Its proceedings are of great interest, since they demonstrate both the political bankruptcy of the Eng- lish trade union leadership and the great interest and concern, as well as effective action taken by international the working-class movement and advanced sections of British workers. The President, Beccles, con- demned Fenians' tactics the while supporting their objectives; the general feeling among the trade union leaders was that the Fenians could not expect the support of English and Scottish workers unless they gave pro- portional assistance in the 'reform agitation'. Whereas, as Marx so clearly put it, the reality, in terms of the objective needs of the British working-class movement, was precisely the other way round.

And this was recognized among other, more internationalist, sec- tions of the International. Eugene Dupont, secretary for France, pointed out, at the same meeting: • the English working class who blame the Fenians commit more than a fault ... they have the same enemy to defeat - the territorial aristocracy and the capitalists.'

WITCH-HUNT

All the same, this was not the end of working-class action against the anti-Fenian witch- hunt. On November 2, 1867, in a letter to Engels (yet another letter not mentioned by Rose), Marx was able to say: .. The trial of the Fenians in Manchester is just what one expected it to be. You will see what a row "our men" have made in the Reform League. I did everything I could to provoke this demonstration of English workers for Fenianism.' And on November 21 a meet- ing of about 25,000 workers on Clerkenwell Green decided to draw up a petition of protest to the Queen. As was inevitable, given the quantitative insignificance of the Marxist movement at that time and the and weakness oppor- tunism of its English trade-union hangers-on this protest was pre- sented in all the old forms, still aliver defeat of charts after the The resolution read: 'At a meeting of workingmen Friday, December 4, 1970 1897. Commenting the the appeal of Osborne, on a railway engineering strike of that year, 'servant', who being was used it said: in a Tory campaign against trade union subscriptions to the Labour "They fighting for are not Party. legitimate trade unionism but for disguised under that Time and again the history socialism British name. (p. 48.) trade unionism has de- the monstrated that even

TAFF VALE

modest demands of the working class could only be secured The precarious legal standing through class struggle. of trade unions right up to the 20th century Parliamentary manoeuvres and was pinpointed by the Taff Vale Tudgement of 1901 pacts with the "liberal' section of the ruling class never estab- The Taff Vale Railway Com- lished legal of immunity the successfully prosecuted the pany trade unions, as these documents Amalgamated Society of Railway show. Servants for calling a strike and thus encouraging men to break

COLLABORATED

their contracts with the company."

Furthermore, the trade union Damages of £2,300 were paid bureaucracy and the middle-class by the union; the judgement radicals collaborated after each putting huge question mark advance of the working class over the entire future of trade drive the movement back towards unionism, especially its more reformist channels of action and militant wing. methods of thinking. By relaying capitalist ideology into the workers' movement, they blunted its understanding of the need develop _Its in. dependence towards as a cass the struggle for revoluuonary political power. With all those limitations, the formation Party the Labour by the trade unions was never- theless a qualitative political step forward from which the British working class has never retreated, despite all the repeated betrayals of the reformist Labour leaders. The Labour Party's formation John Burns stemmed from the fight to defend the basic organizations of the British working class-the trade The formation of the Labour unions. Party, already heralded by the But today, trade of the Labour Rep- unions can- not be defended resentation Committee by any except the pre- revolutionary vious year, was greatly accelerated by the attack on the trade unions As Trotsky insisted in one of embodied in the Taff Vale judge- his last writings, "Trade Unions the Epoch of Imperialist Decay': Over 50 Labour MPs were elected to the 1906 parliament, . the independence of trade the rapid electoral of the rise unions in the class sense, in just formed Labour Party scaring their relations to the bourgeois the Liberals sufficiently to secure can, in the of the present con- the passing Trades Dis- Slale. be ditions, assured only by putes Act later the year. completely revolutionary leader- she Fourth Intere londer that is, the leadership The Act finally abolished the of law of conspiracy as applied to trade unions and for the first "This leadership, naturally, time safeguarded the right to must and be rational and can 'peaceful' picketing. unions the maximum of democracy conceivable under

COURTS USED

the present concrete conditions. But without One of the book's last docu- ith the Four political the show how the leadership capitalist Inter- Courts national the independence of the Law were still used TO attack the despite the trade unions is impossible.' (From unions, 1906 Act. 'Marxism and the Trade Unions, published by the Socialist Labour In 1909 the Law Lords upheld league, price 3s 6d.) •. this evening a resolution was And the Clerkenwell unanimously passed that as Mr workers met with resist- angry Hardy, the Home Secretary, had ance from the London lumpen- declined to meet a deputation...

proletariat, the 'mob'. deputation should wait upon Their action, though it even the Queen at Windsor Castle had the form of the old Chartist on Friday morning to ask that her movements, had a new content, majesty would be graciously and one which is very much in pleased the forefront of the struggle for aicept P. They wish such memorial herself . Marxism and the revolutionary to distinctly understood party today. that they do not wish to trespass on the privacy of their noble and That is the for struggle an international consciousness well-beloved sovereign: as workers, as the only way hard-working men they hope the among defeat the Queen will so honour them.

to attacks of To- inter- wards their Majesty national capitalism. they have the most devoted affection and In spite of Mr Rose's loyalty.' nationalist-religious maunderings, this is the main lesson of this Such were the depths to which book. the advanced the sections The fight of Irish youth and English working class could sink.

workers against armed British But understanding of the imperialism in N Ireland is in no material cause of such behaviour, way separate from the struggle and of the underlying forces of advanced British workers which govern ' against anti-union laws and cuts the movement of classes in society, is necessary if in their standard of living.

we are to gain any insight into The firing on guns now the the often contradictory conscious- Irish worker, will be turned to- ness of the modern working class, morrow on his British comrade.

and be able to seize opportunities for Without the struggle for inter- intervening in the class struggle in order to be nationalism, there able to can only be defeat and death for the working develop revolutionary conscious- ness among workers. class.

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the number of men who have been fragged is small, but the word itself tells the story'.

Stories of commanders forced to plead with their infantrymen to go on patrol are now legion.

Alsop writes: 'That the whole Army in Vietnam is in danger of going plumb to hell is further attested by a small flood of letters from | Vietnam stimulated by a couple of recent pieces ir his space. A sergeant wrote: 'Leaders, like myself, of small combat units are under enormous pres- sure to do anything "to avoid contact with the enemy"' Another soldier wrote with • bitter feeling: I am a combat infantryman, a draftee, a loser.

"The few times we go to the rear we are treated like scum by the clerks and jerks ... I would rather shoot my commanding officer than the enemy' Officers and NCO's who insist on ordering troops into the field are commonly 'fragged'-hit by a frenade, rolled under their tent Alsop reveals anothér reason for the troops' resistance - the Army's recruitment system.

In effect the Army has been promising men who enlist - as against being drafted—that they will not have to fight in Vietnam.

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Alsop concludes: "There are risks, of course, in an accelerated withdrawal, but the greatest risk of all is inherent in the constant deterioration of discipline and morale in our Army in Vietnam.'

the ax IN OCTOBER this column re- ported Mayor Lindsay's an- nouncement that he would im- pose on New York's 300,000 city employees 'payless paydays'.

: pay cuts, a job freeze and lay-offs to offset city revenue losses caused by the economic crisis. He has begun by axeing 500 provisional (temporary) city wor- kers in the first mass lay-off the city has seen since the Depres- sion. Deputy Mayor Aurelio, member of the city's new "productivity panel, said that more lay-offs were likely. The sackings have cut the ground from under the feet of union leaders who shrugged off the 'payless payday' threat as a mere manoeuvre during pay nego- tiations. (

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Workers League mer to Linden, New Jers against the General N

THE GENERAL MOTORS

settlement has met over- whelming opposition among sections of the United Auto Workers' Union especially from areas such as Tarry- town, Linden, Fremont and Baltimore. More than 20 per cent of General Motors strikers opposed the contract in the final ballot and wanted to continue the strike. UAW president Woodcock is now trying to push through agreements covering thousands of local disputes and to introduce the same settlement at Ford and : Chrysler. have Woodcock's supporters ay swings le axe All their pious reassurances that the conditions of the 1930s could not return have been exposed. More important, the sackings explode the alliance between labour leaders and capitalist poli- ticians like the so-called liberal- Republican Lindsay. Unprecedented opportunities are building for opening up Labour Party and breaking the working class from the two main capitalist parties. For example, Victor Gotbaum, head of District Council 37 of the Social Service Workers' Union, won the council's endorse.

ment for Lindsay's re-election in 1969 the basis that 'this on administration has not laid off a single civil service employee' It is unlikely that there will be a repeat performance.

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been local officials and the Stalin- pleaded for forgiveness for Wood- ists who consistently covered up cocke with due, credit for what

UAW

for him. the negotiators achieved, At the November 14-15 New rank-and-file criticism is justified York regional conference of the these grounds on National Co-ordinating Commit- Such criticism is a cover and for Trade Unior Action and completely fake. TeP Democracy, 'Daily World' said as little as it Stalinist ConTerence leaders fought a motion from the could about rank-and-file oppo- Trotskyist Workers' League which to the settlement. The urged rejection of the contract.

Stalinists try to confine all oppo- From the announcement of the sition to 'criticism'. They are desperate to maintain 'tentative' agreement, the Stalin- an alliance with the "progressive' ist 'Daily World' equivocated, wing of the bureaucracy as the the contract's Womano cement of a broader alliance with adequacies, but adding that even liberal capitalist politicians like Woodcock 'wasn't satisfied' Lindsey and Fulbright. The used paper the formula, This policy, today known as 'We don't want to tell the ranks the 'anti-monopoly coalition' how to vote, even after showing descendant of Stalin's the direct that auto workers will be con- • 'People's Front' of the 1930s siderably off when the worse paved the for Watch way the three-year contract has expired.

victory of fascism in Spain and The *Daily World' virtually Germanv THE DEFEAT in parliament on Tuesday of Eric Heffer's request for a bridging loan to save the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board is a salutary lesson to all those who, like Mr Heffer, imagine that pressure and persuasion will make the Tories retreat.

BY A POLITICAL

If anything, the state-

CORRESPONDENT

from the Tory ments benches in the course of Mersey. It is very important that the government should remorse- the debate showed that lessly allow this to happen, and the that the resulting unemployment government was should be recognized as the first singularly unimpressed fruit of what will befall other by the pleas of Labour industries that accept Pearson- like inflation. spokesmen about jobs in Increase the docks. wages — and be damned! Government spokesmen treated The workers are not the only the whole affair with the same People shortll ted the whip callous disregard that char- insecurity and austerity acterized pre-war Tory govern- the Merseyside. dismantling in their of mento industry in Jarrow. The appointment of a receiver and new management Referring to

QUAT

Tha the anxiety and Mersey Board by the govern- uncertainty which government Tories, ment meant that the action would create in Liverpool, as Mr Dell. Labour MP, pointed John Peyton mockingly would be carrying out the 011t replied: 'cheapest take-over bid in his- tory' and would be ruining

NOT IMPROPER

hundreds of middle-class I don't think that tors anxiety in who had loyally supported these the Tories in the past. wholly Circumstanced improper or to be deplored..

Mr Dell expressed the growing Dismissing nationalization as of dilemma of the petty bourgeois no importance or help to the rentiers succiently: 'health, stability and efficiency of the port, he proceeded to

SAVINGS

the intelli- industry and gence of Merseyside workers bv 'On Merseyside this kind of telling the House that the only investment had been regarded in way out for Liverpool would be same terms that theo with a with for the port to acquire a new local authority and 'reputation for quick turn round put their savings in it. and a first class service'.

"The government should con- Peyton's choice of the Mersey sider the effects on other ports Board shows clearly the intention and on the credit of local government to the authorities. They tha use could not have working class as scapegoats for blow to given a greater savings the crisis. than the Bill. They would not be forgotten on Merseyside. As the 'Daily Telegraph' blurted out editorially on Wad. And what did Mr Peyton have nesday: to say to his erstwhile supporters in the middle-class? it is arionely realistic to come- inflation among other 'He fully realized the serious- policies, relying on the com- ness of the bond-. matter The petitive process. govern- holders, particularly when they ment's refusal to save the Mer- happened to be people of small Docks and Harbour Board sey possessions. "But • a m. major from bankruptcy welcome suc as the of oneration. sign that this policy will be pur- iverpool drifts i to these diffi. sued in earnest. culties, there will be inevitably widespread quite

INFLATION

difficulties" (Daily Telegraph', December 2, Or as the 'Economist' (Novem- 1970.) ber 28, 1970) editorial snarled in C'est la vie! relation Pearson to the renart on the docks: Having cynically exploited middle-class fears about infla- "The port of Liverpool may tion and their anti-social pre- some of its have to" default on judices in the the election. loans and close down Tories some preparing to •„re uneconomic docks the ruin them.

PAGE THREE

THE

Strategit Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) in Helsinki are marking time, with the Soviet negotiators refusing to say if they are willing to cut back the development of their giant SS-9 missiles armed with 25-megaton warheads.

The Russians are particularly eager to prevent the construc- but it is feared tibn of the US 'Safeguard' anti- cow, that

ABM

would place race an missile system, authorized intolerable burden on the recently by Nixon. econ- of omies America and the 'Safeguard' In fact, is a 'thin'

USSR.

which would system, be almost Sources that Nixon suggest ineffectual Soviet against would agree Safeguard reduce or attack, but has been justified on abandon provided the grounds of its alleged ade- the SS-9s are removed. quacy against any attack that The Helsinki negotiations-the Chinese may be able third round of

SALT

which launch in the near future.

began in the Finnish capital 13 present Soviet At ABMs are months ago: due to be mainly concentrated around Mos- adjourned later this month.

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Charter of Basic Rights WORKERS at airports and aircraft factories through- out Britain are now facing a Tory drive to run down the industry and sell nationalized air routes to private On Wednesday the government decided not to back the British airbus project and there are now no big airliner projects being led by British industry.

This will mean big redundancies at BAC plants at Weybridge, Bristol and Hurn in Hampshire.

On the airports workers face a loss of employment to the second-force private airline which will take over routes developed by BOAC and BEA.

This, fear workers at London's Heathrow airport, will be a prelude to wholesale denationalization.

the storm over these Tory At the centre of muves at Heathrow is Michael Davies, an ETU steward. Workers Press talked to Michael about the Draft Charter of Basic Rights which, amongst other things, demands nationalization under workers' control if and seeks to defend all sackings are threatened nationalized industries.

THE

CHARTER

will raise the consciousness of the workers because that it is they will see series of very basic demands protection of for the wages, standard of workers' living working and con- ditions.

ALL TRADES

TINIONS ALLIANCE

These are the very things

MEETINGS

that the Tory government and the owners of industry are trying to erode. Discuss the proposed draft of At Heathrow airport the the Charter of Basic Rights workers highly-. are we have organized and tenham Rd. England pub,

BRISTOL:

Do me Chel: closed shop. Through this method of organizing workers' good wages and

LUTON:

NEU Hous 396 bunstable Red. House, conditions have been gained since the end of the war.

DA GENDA. Marsh Mondareen But that British noW New Rd-m. School capitalism and indeed world capitalism is facing very p.m. Co-op Hall, Acton High s14, 8

ACTON:

Monday, December serious economic crisis, the Tories are faced with the Mondaybert pub ber 1, 0N. Prince smashing Decem task of up labour and of organized reducing all these hard-won SOUTHALL: Tuesday Centre, gains December 15, the airport to at Community Bridge nothing. Tories The are now having to de-nationalize the SW

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ince's Head, December Slapham funce p.m. Prince's Falcon well as illegal- airlines as closed shop, and izing the SE LONDON: Thursday, December the airport workers are very Camberwell Artichoke pub, Church These conscious of this. Green. workers you see have been through big struggles in the

OLLERTON:

The Plough Inn, 70.I. Lessons past which they have won the Miners' Strike' . Speakers: York when the employers and the Sure Cs Tory could afford to give GA CO Santon Dear few crumbs from away p.m. Hall, Paisley the table Now the Tories are hand-

BEA

and

BOAC

ing over business to a private airline.

This

ORDER YOUR

will mean lot of redundancies. Without the right to strike well

POSTERS

as workers in BOAC and BEA will be forced to look for

TODAY!

jobs elsewhere at lower wages. If the government can change the law and transfer routes from thest state air- lines, then they can easily do the same with workers' hard-won rights. But even a whole host of one-day strikes will not persuade the Tories to change their minds the as do. The Communist pretends they will Tories got. must be out of office now while there is a split in

DEFEAT THE

their party between Heath and Powell and only a pro- longed General Strike will achieve this. a TORY ANTI-*, And trade unionists must call

TUC

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NOT SATISFIED

Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, currently

WHEN IN ROME ...

of on a visit to the province general secretary • Victor Sarawak (Borneo) said

TUC

in Kuching that his Feather vesterdar attacked yesterday government was not satisfied' next week's threatened strike Rela- with present army efforts against the Industrial to tions Bill did not combat the guerrillas on the from Rome. think Feather the island. would help the TUC. action It may in fact be helpful to the government,' he claimed, questions after answering of four-day visit guest as Italy's prédominantly Roman trade union confed- Catholic eration CISL.

CLEANERS SACKED

All night staff cleaning at Companies House, a Board of central Lon- Trade office in don, were sacked yesterday by the Strand their employers, Cleaning Company. Registered newspaper the eight of The nine women, Post Office. Published by Workers Transport in the Clapham whom are Press, 186a High Street, and General Workers' Union, Londor s WI Plough Street Lonn (TU), applied for recently union High recognition from the company.

S.W.4. US storm brewing over new Vietnam evidence

BY A

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

A STORM is brewing in the United States after a Dec- ember 1 TV programme ex- posing government intelli- operations against gence civilians engaged on anti- Vietnam-war protests. operations included These surveillance of the Republican and Democratic Party National Conventions in August 1968; eavesdropping including on Senator McCarthy, Eugene who sought the Democratic nomination as a peace eaRr didate. demonstrations Anti - war over the past three years have been under detailed surves)- agents have been lance, and planted as infiltrators: Edward: Kennedy Senator has asked Defence Secretary Melvin Laird for an explana- tion of under what authority was carried out, this work and has described the opera- tions as 'military forays into civilian life' Meanwhile the Vietnam war forces itself into United States political life relentlessly.

The 'veterans' inquiry' into States United crimes, war convening in Washington, has: this week heard a continuous story of barbaric torture and political assassination. Mountain This mountain ' of evidence puts the current court-martial of Lt William Calley for crimes at My Lai in its true perspective. It is absolutely clear that the My Lai massacre was a minute part of the genocidal war against the whole. Viet- namese people carried qut as policy by the US' imperialists.

Mr Kenneth Osborn, 25, a language student, told the 'veterans' inquiry' how as a CIA employee in Dậ Nang in 1968, he had twice been ordered to 'terminate with prejudice' (i.e. assassinate) Vietnamese who had worked* with the CIA. One of these was marked down for elimination because: he had failed to state that he married when he had was work as a CIA taken up interpreter. Osborn also stated that a Chinese woman agent who had with him had been worked shot dead in the street by a US Army captain because she 'knew too much'. Ear torture Osborn further reported that in the interrogation com- pound of the Third Marine amphibious force near Da Nang he saw a marinę officer '... insert a wooden 'dowel into the canal of the ear of a prisoner and force it in little by little as he was interro- gated and eventually it entered the brain and killed the sub- ject - the interrogation was counted a loss. A Marine lieutenant had told Osborn that this torture was used whenever other methods failed. Noetzel, who Mr Stephen served as a sergeant with the Special Forces, said that at the Can Tho camp prisoners were left all night in a room, with an eight-foot long python in order to break their resist- ance. Prisoners were pushed out of helicopters in flight, and others were thrown bound into flooded paddy-fields. Mr Edward Murphy, for- mer intelligence sergeant and CIA liaison officer, spoke of a village where he saw children separated and led away from their mothers, who were then told 'tell us about the Vietcong or we will kill the kids'.

The US troops even went to the extent of returning to the with a bag dripping women with blood, said falsely to be that of a child inside. Lethal place Mr Peter Martinsen, former sergeant and prisoner-of-war interrogator at the American HQ at Lon Binh, stated : "You don't rock the boat in Vietnam, it's a very lethal place to be. Also you feel everybody else is doing it' The intelligence "investiga- tions in the United States are only a mild indication of the inescapable fact that what US imperialism does today. in Vietnam it will do tomorrow itself against US to defend workers. That is the meaning. of the attacks on democratic, liber- ties in every advarced evan- try. Nothing could expose more clearly the unity of the struggle of the colonial peoples: with that of the working class in Europe and America..

WEATHER

APART from the possibility of cloud and rain in the S England and Wales at first, all districts will have showers and bright periods.

Showers will be more frequent in the W and accasionally of sleet and snow in the N. Temperatures will be near nor.

mal. but rather below in the N Outlook for Saturday and Sundayı Changeable with rain at times in most areas. Temperatures near nor- mal in S, a little below normal: in 'N. Friday, December 4, 1970

WORKERS PASS

Hussein Report by

GARY GURMEET

has long history of talk with Israelis KING Hussein of Jordan flew into London yesterday morning for talks with the Tory british governmeal Press incitement as part of his 20-day world tour. at Holland Park Chief aim of the trip is to imperialist comprehensive school threatehed by the Palestinian the paleman ne CAPITALIST press outery about incidents at Holland Park comprehensive school, London, tween Hussein earlier this week had a politically sinister taste.

and the Israeli From some the reDorts allerea for support window - smashing and against com- Holland Park comprehensive school pupils in the school grounds during Mrs Benn's visit moung dopears lal all hell had been Documents 'Madrid' loose unis experl- The Spanish dait mental school. has also had ho pove. ments wie, weekendo school One and Later Netoria izecember rene childrer turies ago. is almost after the end of the - hinten despire the de

INCITED

stated e six loggin: in°

'STRIKE'

Se Dan Rui cking or one or tne 400 Rusk retary, Yet this incident-one of Sun, Henry Russel Dodgyar yesterday's some at the children tie paper to me a s pted ses "Tory what they thought was the the children live. appeared to find what French unions

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

FRANCE'S largest Stalinist-ed trade union the CGT has reached agreement organ:zation Catholic-influenced CFD1 on a pro- wilo une gramme of common claims. They are to ocEn Bill Canadian cost-of-living scale, WARSAW PACH leaders returned home yesterday artet a summit

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repression meeting in E Berlin whose terse final communiqué appeared to gloss over the major issues of relations with Bonn and the Berlin question.

detailed The final communiqué- neil in see tod meeungs. West demands concessions Funds to be Fa people we are a i issued on the eve of the several

NATO

before security conference

CFDT

which opened in Brussels contromeasures back a alinists yesterday-made only the and reform Stalinists and the i to reach agree most general reference to Canadian parliament Munis are there are 'the said this use even n security and the develop- Quebec opening of sion th the the head. have trans peaceful exious to get under way. a class fight. operation in Europe'. The curity wil penitentiary in- No concessions Disagreement Montreal.* The NATO meeting made it Ars rece completely They that the questionership over the Berlin Prisoners will not and cannot terms Berlin remote on trol. develop meterring Pact-NATen discussions cipled glehold powers over rule- "Against working ass measurest background this disagreement been re ne mplate this Bill gas can con statulte this capitalist Belfast Smithfield and -and force yard All Trades Heathrow out

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Not GFR Party, one re Unions Alliance Dec. 8 ted yesterday d by union delegation Dardes, recently stated: as held in Second Annual that Berlin is not forces haven't yet been parepublic Tobi HUNDRED Transport and General Conference leadieues Deutschland, December 8 Discuss maintains 'The GDR that the way among

THE CHARTER OF

the latter • give Chile textile

BASIC RIGHTS

they firm taken over rsed stalinist regimes, aid plans The right to a job, to strike and

BY A WORKERS

the et Unior nota kei told Workers Press: organize, to retain gains made, CHILE yesterday nationalized circle of bureaucrats The to fair prices, to welfare benefits ates over the Benin question since Sep and to decent housing. chairman Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to Soviet press attacks on ormed resident Allend force the Tories to resign.

BIRMINGHAM

musicians and scientists The Sat. December 19 sains are at under ment of solidarity with currently ne otiate Digbeth Civic Hall, opposition writer open his he head of th composer: Unis 'the Nobel generally assume Acade velle Digbeth 10.30. am or Sins hear Sakha alien ideological in- • ot For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s ommittee to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, N Korea Sbeen critical at Styvechale, Coventry. cientic and cultural porce.

made an attack Iamous soviet celist Kostro-