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NG THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 32 • TUESDAY, NOVEN

BY ROBERT BLACK

BRITISH entry into the European Common Market is now being demanded by its most powerful member state 'as soon as possible'.

In his Paris meeting with French officials, the West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel insisted that the Common Market which Council meeting

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'Lessons of the miners'

BY DAVID MAUDE

strike' MEMBERS and supporters of the All Trades Saturday, November 15 Unions Alliance from most of Britain's key car 1 p.m. and car components firms met in Birmingham Hop Pole Hotel on Saturday. Two Yorkshire miners Reports on a wide range of problems facing workers

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in the different plants were discussed-in parti-

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cular the fight against un- employment, short -time working and productivity at two public meetings deals. Fraternal greetings, and a See the film of the first issue being prepared and report on the situation on printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' ine rrench car industry, were brought by workers from Renault and Citröen.

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industry Len lall advisory committee affiliated Trades was set up, based on Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

from Northgate Hall Attending conference St. Michael's Street rank-and-file were S- Levlanda and stewares TrOM Morris

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british - Motors, Oxford; BMC Service Oxford; Pressed- rmingham; Sressed-Steel Fisher, Swindon; Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

Partick Burgh Hall Austin, Longbridge: Standard- (nr. Merkland Street underground)

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trumph, Liverpool; lingborough Speakers at both meetings will be: Motors, Leyland, roans Ford's * KE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Pros Halewood, and SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the Dagenham plants; /auxhall's Young Socialists) tactories at Luton, Dunstable ano cuesmere rort and rom Rootes, Linwood, were also present. came Rolls Royce Massey-Ferguson. Dunlop and Coventry Kadiators The side Car components wasreoresented stewares and workers from Morgan Crucible, and plants - CAV, Acton; Girling's, and

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workers press W. Germans want Britain in Common Market Wha thin The case Bob Rowthorn OUR readers will be familiar With the polllical struggles which the Social ist labour League wages those who seek to revise Marxism. in ot Marxism has bee deke para- he hands of tal e the crudest of th middle-class boiledly stain, by heir Soreed it. Likewise Stalin wn - rentored his n he died his nin boration Poet, Corin ne with Collabo The strome that wing of the Mandal hind by on the teratve revolutionary forced by events to change in a revolutionary Notes on the son took Base analis of the ou Lot their Reading up.

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• TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1969

E.E.C. ENTRY

MEANS ATTACK

ON WAGES

BY ROBERT BLACK

Big support BRITISH entry into the European Common Market is now being demanded by its most powerful member for tube state 'as soon as possible'.

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'Lessons of the miners'

BY DAVID MAUDE

strike' MEMBERS and supporters of the All Trades Saturday, November 15 Unions Alliance from most of Britain's key car 1 p.m. and car components firms met in Birmingham Hop Pole Hote. Speakers : on Saturday. Two Yorkshire miners Reports on a wide range of problems facing workers

GREET

in the different plants were discussed—in parti- cular the fight against un- employment, short - time working and productivity at two public meetings deals. Fraternal greetings, and a See the film of the first issue being prepared and report on the situation on printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' the French industry, car workers were Drouenti from Renault and Citröen.

OXFORD

ten-man car advisory committee amriliated Trades Unions the Alliance is set up m , based Friday, November 21, 8 p.m.

Northgate Hall mair nante the St. Michael's Street conference Attending ank-and-file

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• Leylands British stewards from

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Morris Motors, Oxford; BMC Service, Trans- oxtord: ractor and Birmingham; Pressed- mission, Fisher, Birmingham; Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

(tael Pressed-Steel Fisher, Partick Burgh Hall Austin, Longbridge; (nr. Merkland Street underground) iumph Southall, Delaney Galley, Wel lingborough Speakers at both meetings will be: AKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Pr ca contingents trom and Halewood, Southampton SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the plants: Vauxhall's Nadanham. factories at Luton, Dunstable Young Socialists) and Ellesmere Port and Rootes, Linwood, were also present. Coventry PrOM came Rolls Rovce. workers Dunlop and Massey. Herouson Coventry Radiators The car components side represented by stewards from Morgan rucible, and London, from Joseph Lucas comoine • Lucas-CAV, plants - Liver- ool; Rirmingham: borough Simms Motor Units, London.

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North delegates from West branches of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers

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have rejected the build- ing employers' final wage offer. The delegates had been attending one of many emer- gency regional conferences called by the ASW Executive Committee in the last few weeks to consider the em- ployers' wage and producti- vity proposals. north-west meeting The was picketed by 400 joiners from big sites in Manchester and Merseyside, who had stopped their jobs and travelled by coach to tell the delegates to reject the em- ployers' offer and demand immediate wage increases without 'strings'. The meeting itself was a stormy one. Speakers from the overwhelmingly floor were against the package deal, but at first the platform would rot take any resolutions. There was uproar at their refusal and eventually the rank and file forced the plat- form to put a resolution to the floor: This conference completely rejects the employers' latest offer, and asks the executive committee of the ASW to ask the employers for a larger increase.' This in turn provoked more uproar because the resolution mention of the made no strings, and indeed implied that the strings were accept- able. 'Conned' In reply to the majority of who protested delegates at this resolution, the platform said that if they did not accept it, then they must be in favour of the original offer!

There were shouts of, 'We've fiddle!' been conned! That's a The executive's resolution was passed, however, after a and the storm protest, delegates felt they had been kidded. Meanwhile pickets organized by the Manchester Building Workers' Movement held a meeting outside the conference and then were led a mean- dering route through the back streets of Manchester to a half empty building, which turned out to be the North West offices of the National Federation of Building Trade Employers. They then marched back to the conference hall where another outdoor meeting was held and a decision taken to ask the National Federation of Building Trades Operatives (NFBTO) to take 'any action needed' to improve the wage offer. Many pickets who had travelled from Liverpool and taken a day off to see some action taken must have been sorely disappointed by this fiasco of a march. The setting for the calling of this conference was an NFBTO meeting held on September 11, at which there was reported to be a very division of opinion sharp on offer should are the far-reaching bosses want for resolved: the agreement.' already (See Fig. 1.) Fig. 1. Weekly Wage % Change Over Pre- vious Figure £15 8d. None Current 4.7 Proposed E16 (37d.) Nov. 69 (4łd. +) 4.6 Nov. 70 (4td. +) (4d.) 4.3 Nov. 25. od. (44d. +) (4d. +)

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The employers also offer what they call a fixed addition to the standard weekly rate of wages—a form of bonus. Set out in Fig. 2 are the fixed additions to the standard weekly rates of wages which would make up the minimum earnings level. Fig. 2. Minimum Earni Craftsmen Nov. 1969 20s. 17s. Od. Nov. 1970 30s. 25s.6d. 40s. 34s. 0d. Nov. 1971 addition, The fixed when lumped together with the standard weekly rate, is to be called the 'Minimum Earnings Level', ie. the MEL of joiner in 1971 should be £20 2s. Lew' Lewis: to head off struggle.

As the average earnings in the building industry with overtime and bonus is already over £23, it is clear the 'MEL' would benefit only a very small minority. Added to the 'cash' increases would be an extra one-week holiday at Christmas proposed to start, subject to administra- tive problems, by 1971. The employers and unions fail to mention that workers already receive two paid holidays at Christmas, so the offer is only for three extra days, not a week. What do the employers want for their money? As far as one can gather from what little information the rank and file have been ranch . given, they are demanding wide and swingeing some powers. They ask for: (a) A declaration of inter- availability of labour. Construction workers, of course, have come up against this one many times in the • Weekly Wage Rates Labourers Grade A Rate % Change For 40 Hours Over Previous Figure EL3 IUs. 0d. None £14 1s. 8de 43 4.7 £14 15s. Od. E15 8s. 0d. 4.4 Building workers demonstrate last year against the union leadership's sell-out past, under many different and He could, of course, have equally added that these same union long names, and on well - organized jobs have leaders, when faced by Barbara fought the employers' efforts in this direction. What they want is to get bricklayers do joiners' to work, joiners to do steel-fixers' work and both of them to do Minimum Earnings Level Adult Labourers Adult female operatives on craft processes and adult female operatives on other than craft processes: 85% labourers MEL Sed addi tion as appropriate. their scaffolding and own labouring. (b) Revised bonus system.

This means an end to site negotiations by shop stewards and site committees and handing over of all such nego- officials. tiations to national LIKE the rest of British would obviously The result capitalism, broadcasting mean a drop in bonus earnings.

is in deep crisis. (c) Revised holiday payment scheme. Commercial television com- This means that will panies talking openly men are not, as at present, be eligible about their need to merge; for a holiday stamp when off workers at the BBC have sick. fought unprecedented battles (d) Revision of the National for wages and conditions; and Joint conciliation machinery. This means an end to the the whole outlook for radio 'Green Book' agreement and a is clearly disastrous. big shop attack upon the stewards and site organization In July this year the

BBC

in the industry along with the published document called Broadcasting In of the govern- The Seven- implementation ment-backed Cameron Report ties'. Concerned only with radio proposals. and written in a style of heavy These are just some of the jocularity and statesmanlike proposed changes the em- evasiveness, it was crucial ployers want for their money. step towards implementing the It must be stressed that the drastic of programme cuts, redundancies, and cultural im- proposals in full have not as poverishment planned yet been put to the rank and by the management Corpora- file. the tion for the near future.

What is true for the radio Big attack today will have important im- plications for television to- Even one can see that so, however the morrow, much the building employers are form may be changed. preparing for a big attack on Full of assertions that the union trade organization in 'economies' would enable the the construction industry.

BBC to play a full part in the In the light of this attack of broadcasting pattern let us see how the Communist seventies, it outlined a number Party building of proposals whose effect will prepares workers to defend themselves. destroy to the cem. ATOn blance of public service broad- 'Lew' Lewis, in the 'Morning casting that we have enjoyed Star' of Monday, October 13. up to now. after listing the package deal Firstly the principle of points and correctly pointing "mixed programming' is to be out the "strings', reminds his virtually abandoned. readers that the

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This is the tradition whereby to sell leaders were prepared on a single channel the listener 6d the tea breaks for a an is offered the whole range of if the hour increase, using document- programmes: news, rice is right' slogan, and that aries, plays, music, light enter- strikes only after tainment. serials. sport : up and down the country that range covering all interests and they backed down and the tea

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patronizingly what breaks remained. "brow' refers to as levels. He even goes as far as to say (Patronizing, of be- course, is a danger of the that there only apes have low cause union leaders brows.) accepting some sort of deal the Instead the new channels used further above-mentioned 'strings'.

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ership's sell-out, to the government, over the penny- Castle and the Labour govern- ment's Prices and Incomes Board, agreed to accept a penny an hour cut in their members' wage packets. But no matter-what he has written is still, at least for the 'Morning Star', strong stuff indeed. Does this then mean • that divide the world and its people into neat, air-tight, separate compartments. Radio One will continue as an all-pop network; in time Radio Two will have an all- light music output. Thepamphlet that says Radio Three will also put out 'day-time stream of music •.. and it will now be ex- tended more into the evening.

It Will also (presumably in the late evening) carry some drama, poetry and other cul- tural programmes. So Radio Three continues as a cultural ghetto; simply more impoverished. Then Radio Four, we are assured, will carry mostly news and 'current affairs'. The only problem there is that until and government local authorities find the money for new VHF radio sets for schools and colleges, the present Radio Four will be largely taken up by the pro.

posed expansion of educational broadcasting. But since the BBC has been saying that unless the govern- ment gives more money for educational broadcasting it will not be able to keep up even its present expenditure in this field of £4 million a year, perhaps more of Radio Four than expected will be free for 'current affairs'. The other major change is that the tradition of regional- in broadcasting is to be ism heavily curtailed; instead there to be 40 local radio are stations. Regional autonomy to initiate programmes and develop talent up to national standards will virtually be destroyed. What should be comple- mentary services made are mutually exclusive by the bankruptcy of the system.

'reforms' What these come down to is this: a severe cut- back in work for musicians, actors, studio workers, writers, producers. Over one-third of all countries-as seen through eyes European Television. News Summary, Weather. 11.20 11.25 Line-Up.

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11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.45- 2.53 p.m. Schools. 3.20 Snip and Snap. 3.25 Mad Movies. 3.55 Face Of The Earth. 4.15 News Headlines. 4.17 Paulus. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Junior Show- time. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News From ITN. 6.03 Today. 6.30 The Rifleman. 7.00 The Tuesday Film: 'Silent Dust' with Stephen Mur- ray, Sally Gray, Derek Farr and Nigel Patrick. 8.30 Mr. Digby Darling. 9.00 Who-Dun-It. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 The Struggle for China: Documentary on China 1900-1949. 11.50 How About You? 12.20 a.m. Impact On Africa.

Yorkshire Bo School on The Tige and Tingha and over the penny-an-hour cut in wages.

Lewis and the CP are going to lead the building workers in a militant struggle against the leades employers' final offer? Will they then lead a vigor- ous campaign against the union leadership which, as he has pointed out, is quite capable of accepting the package deal, as he put it, 'if the price is right'. But of course the militant criticism of the union leaders was too good to last. In the concluding paragraph of his article Lewis writes: 'All trade union branches musicians currently employed by the BBC will become re- dundant. Equity • (the actors' union) fears that its members will lose up to 200 jobs a week because of the cut-backs on plays and serials. The Musicians' Union has fought the Corporation and won some concessions. Equity is preparing for a struggle.

For actors, where the aver- age pay between 26 and 30 is £15 a week and the overall average is f12, these cuts are of desperate seriousness.

Many of them are becoming that their dreams of aware doing creative work are simply grist to the capitalist mill of casual labour and exploitation.

For professional broadcast- ing workers, the redundancies, decline in standards and paltry wage offer have had startling effects. Previously sober, middle- class, 'responsible chaps' have been drawn willy-nilly into union action and fights to the point of strikes and overtime bans. Meetings have been called at short notice and attended en masse. 'Broadcasting In The Seven- ties' has been unanimously re- jected in shop after shop.

Angry demands that the public be told exactly what the BBC is planning have been put; furious repudiations of the BBC's claim that it con- sulted with unions concerned about the cut-backs have been published. And behind it all? The unresolvable crisis of deep, capitalism. At present levels BBC radio is just in the black, but by 1974, even at current rates of expenditure, it will be running an annual deficit of £47 million The Queen (above) needs a Her present wage of £9,134 A Tucker Club. 4.25 Katie Stewart Cooks.

4.55 Showtime. 5.20 Magpie. Junior 5.50 News. 6.00 Calendar, Weather. 5.30 Castle Haven. 6.55 'The Man From Del Rio' starring Anthony Quinn. 8.30 NeD. 10.30 The Strustle cor china.

News. 10.30 The Struggle 11.50 Half-Hour Story. 12.15 a.m. Late Weather. Westward 11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools.

1.45-2.53 p.m. Schools. 4.01 Hubble Bubble. 4.13 Westward News Headlines. 4.15 Castle Haven. 4.41 The Gus Honeybun Show.

Showtime. 6.00 4.55 Magpie. Junior 5.20 5.50 National News. Westward Diary. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Star Movie: "Witness To Murder' starring Barbara Stanwyck 8.30 G Mr Digby Darlins. 2.00 Sanders and Gary Merrill. Who-Dun-It? 10.00 News. 10.30 The Struggle For China. 11.50 How About You? 12.15 a.m. Faith For Life. 12.21 Weather. Anglia PS. Schools 4000 ashe Haven. 4.33 o.m. Schools. Indian Fighter' starring Kirk Douglas and Elsa l Martinelli. 8.30 Mr Digby Darling. 9.00 Who-Dun-It? 10.00 News.

10.30 The Struggle for 11.50 China. All Our Yesterdays. 12.20 a.m. Reflec- tion. and building sites should meet and declare their opposition to the latest offer. They should call on the trade union leaders to lead a vigorous (sic) cam- paign, including militant (sic) action'! (Perhaps he wants them to take more money from the pay packets.) So now all is clear. 'Morning Lewis and the Star' are playing the old Stalinist game of heading off the struggles of workers and leading them into the arms of reformist trade union leaders.

Despite repeated sell-out by the NFBTO leadership it is still them and not the Com- munist Party whom Lewis asks lead a 'vigorous' and 'militant' campaign against the employers. Building workers must have no illusions in the trade union leaders the Communist or Party. These people are in- capable of fighting employers. Building workers must organize and demand: • £20 for tradesmen, £18 for labourers now! • No further increase in the differential rate re tradesmen and labourers. • Three weeks holiday at grade A rate. and will have an accumulated deficit of nearly £12 million.

And this without taking any account of the proposed local radio. The government knows that to develop the local radio system will cost at least a further £5,200,000 a year.

Television cannot help be- cause it too is expected to continue in heavy deficit, a situation worsened by introduction of colour trans- mission. Its answer? A 10s. rise in licence fees on April 1, 1971 - after the next General Election-and a few new Post Office detector vans to round non-paying listeners and up viewers. economies So have to be made inside the industry, and as usual will be at the expense of its workers and the con- sumers of its product. Hugh Jenkins, Labour MP for Putney, said in the House of Commons on July 22: 'The BBC has not said pub- licly what they had told the broadcasting unions-that they proposed to cut expenditure on sound radio by between 1l and 14 per cent.' Hopes that broadcasting in the 1970s will see an expanded educational service look slim; the development of local radio inadequate budgets on will ensure abysmally low stand- ards; a constant stream of recorded music on three chan- nels and the occasional play or discussion late at night also hardly sound like exciting prospects. But no one should expect that government inquiries and demands for consultation will make any real difference.

One of the great dangers in that the present situation 15 workers and professionals ware increase, palace spokesmen claime A WEEK is obviously totally inadequate.

Tyne Tees 11.00 a.m.-2.55 p.m. Schools. 4.09 North East Newsroom. 4.11 News Head- lines. 4.13 Paulus. 4.25 Mad Movies. 4.53 North East Newsroom. 4.55 Junior 5.20. Magpie. Showtime. 5.50 News. 6.00 Today Gobs Toda6.35 Castie 6.30 Where The Castle Haven. 7.00 The Tuesday Film: "The Goose Steps Out' Will Hay. Digby starring 8.30 Mr Darling. 9.00 Who-Dun-It? 10.00 News.

10.30 The Struggle for China. 11.50 Extra. 12.07-12.14 Late News a.m. Making Good. Grampian 10.58 a.m.-12 noon Schools. _1.43-2.55 Schools. 4.15 News RM Sean the Leprechaun. 4.30 Skippy.

Headlines. 4.55 Junior Showtime. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News. 6.00 Grampian News and Farming News. 6.15 Out Of Town. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 The Film Stars: "The Conspirator' with Elizabeth Taylor. 8.30 Mr Digby Darling. 9.00 Who-Dun-It? 10.00 10.30 The Purpose. Scottish 11.00 a.m.-12 noon Schools. 1.45-2.35 Schools. 4.20 Scotland Early. p.m. 4.30 Crossroads. .4.55 Junior Showtime. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 National News.

6.00 Now. 6.30 Raw Deal? 7.05 Scotland The Name Of The Game. 8.30 Mr Digby Darling. 9.00 Who-Dun-It? 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 The Struggle For China. 11.50 Late Call. 11.55 The Privileged? Tuesday, November 11, 1969 • No three-year package deals. • No strings. • A bonus of at least 33 per cent on all sites and projects connected with the building industry. • Nationalization the of under building industry workers' control. Building workers must realise that the fight they are having with the employers is linked with the fight of other workers in different industries.

These other workers are also under attack because, in the fight to make British capitalism more competitive, the Labour government and the employers take on the working class and tie its organizations much closer to the state, so that they can enforce speed-up and redun- dancy, as they are attempting in the docks, motor industry, shipbuilding and other sectors.

sectors. Trade union militancy is not enough. Building workers must join the All Trades Unions Alliance and fight to develop a new Marxist leadership within the trade union movement. Only in this way workers defeat the attacks of the ruling class. coming into action for the first will be deluded, dis- illusioned and left hopeless by their own liberal and reform- ist leaderships. The broadcasting unions are far from any revolutionary understanding. This is the central question. A proper desire to protect standards, to defend culture, can never be fulfilled with only good intentions as ammunition.

All kinds of well-meaning people have joined the Cam- paign for Better Broadcasting, an effort launched by radio workers in September during the build-up of the conflict.

But many of these same liberals will end up on . the opposite side to the revolution- ary working class. Lord Hill knows its real strength; a week after the campaign was launched (and whilst negotiations for the paltry 4 per cent pay offer were going on) it was an- nounced that he was to get a rise of £20 a week. Again, on the day before the ABS rejected the 4 per cent offer, Lord Hill was quoted in Leeds as saying : 'An organization for securing better broadcasting already exists; it is known as the BBC and I am its chairman. . .

The fight is against the gov- ernment; the fight has to be against capitalism. It is the fight of all workers everywhere; the fight to over- throw this system that can build hydrogen bombs and run a monstrous chemical and bio- logical weapons programme, but cannot find a few millions for the wireless. IN THE midst of it all we learn that the Queen just cannot manage on £475,000 a year! Two weeks ago we warned readers that all the ballyhoo about over-exposing the royal family on television was just a prelude to even more publicity.

We now know something of what it was about. It is the disgusting, insulting attempt to pass off the suggestion that the Queen is after all a worker and that without a rise since 1952 she must be given more of our money. She apparently made up the 'deficit' from what is laughably called her 'private' income. It's private all right— its extent has never been revealed. But where it came from in the first place has never been revealed either. The only saving aspect of the whole nauseating sideshow was the evident discomfiture of the Labour 'lefts'. After all, it was a bit tact- less to choose just now to re- mind the dustmen, the miners, the car workers, the firemen, the power station workers, the evicted GLC tenants, the broadcasters, the whole of the working class, about just how well off they really are or can ever hope to become under capitalism. For the record-and make no mistake, we're keeping it— here the current are wage rates for the royals as given by William Hamilton, Labour MP for Fife, in a discussion with one Colonel Du Parc Braham on 24 Hours (Novem- ber 6) : Queen-£475,000 per annum.

Duke of Edimburgh—£70,000 per annum. Queen Mother - £70,000 per annum. Duke of Gloucester — £35,000 per annum. Princess Margaret — £15,000 per annum. It's a hard life on a mini- mum wage of £288 per week !

As the song goes, 'Nobody wants you when you're down and out!'

Tuesday, November 11, 1969 decomposition of British capitalism The inevitably leads to the impotence of the trade unions. Only a revolution can save the British working class and its organizations together with it. In order to take power the proletariat must have at their head a revo- lutionary party. LEON TROTSKY (Where is Britain going?)

from the government totalling

SPOKESMEN

of the £30 million, order to from the over in employers, be able to 'rationalize' and Tory Party conference put out of work thousands to Lord Stokes at the of workers who voted Labour and paid taxes to the elected Motor Show and The Labour government! Times' newspaper, are Who exactly is 'acting un- renewing the campaign fairly to other sections of society'? for direct state control of the trade unions. Strike struggles Mrs Barbara Castle and Not only in Britain, but in Northern Ireland and all over Mr Harold Wilson are going Europe, the millions of lower- ahead in this parliamentary paid workers and also workers session with the re-activation declining like in industries coal mining have now of Parts I and Il of the prices thrown their strength into strike and incomes legislation, giv- ing them statutory powers to delay wage increases for four months and to have all wage increases referred to the Prices and Incomes Board

(PIB).

This pressure will continue, despite the withdrawal of the anti-union legislation under working-class pressure earlier this year. It will continue under a Labour or a Tory government because it reflects the direct interests of the big monopolies and banks. The motor industry is to be the main target of the cam- Accepted Not offer. for paign government inter- vention. Already the union 'lefts' leaders, including the like Scanlon, have capitulated struggles which have previously by agreeing to productivity been dominated by the better- Ford deals and accepting the paid workers. 'penalty clauses', but more is The working class is not going to allow the big trusts to come. Lord Stokes, chairman of to go on to bigger and bigger British - Leyland, concerned concentrations of wealth and about his £70 million invest- workers con- leaving power, ment programme at the Oxford demned to the insecurity and calling plant, is openly penury which is always their state control to stop unofficial fate under capitalism. strikes. The British working class The balance of payments turns in the present phase of crisis and the so-called struggle to its own strength in 'national interest' being the factories and to its trade are brought to the fore as unions. weapon to hit at the workers But such is the character of in this export industry. the crisis of capitalism that This is why Aubrey Jones, these economic struggles alone PIB chairman, Liver- said in cannot provide the answer to 27 pool on Monday October the class enemy, who use their 'are not that militant unions economic and political (state) automatically acting in the and create the Do wer for public interest, and indeed conditions new period super-exploitation of may be acting unfairly to other of the sections of society'. Naturally working class. he chose Liverpool to make First they must, smash the his speech. organized strength of the All these proposals are working class. advanced in the interests of big What Trotsky wrote in 1926 monopolies like GEC-English about the British trade unions Electric, which received grants is true for the unions in all The TUC leaders' collaboration with the government on trade union reform' wi seen coming out of a strike meeting last August.

capitalist societies today: decomposition of 'The British capitalism inevitably leads to the impotence of the trade unions. Only a revolution the save can British working class and its organizations together with it. In order to take power, the proletariat must have at their head a revolutionary party! ('Where Is Britain Going?', p. 112.) Either the trade unions become integrated into the capitalist state and work as instrument of the ruling an class or revolutionary leader- ship wins out in the unions and leads the working class forward to the conquest of power. The role of the TUC right- wing leadership under Victor Feather is to try to shackle the unions to the needs of the capitalist state and the mono- polies. Feather and the General Council are trying to do this while at the same time retain- ing a semblance of union autonomy from actual state control. They think they need to be left free for the delicate job of handling their members in the manner which they con- sider they have perfected.

Hence the complex argu- ,ments about the mutual rights and responsibilities of particu- lar unions and of the TUC itself in relation to government departments when it comes to regulation inter-union disputes and all new proposals for legislation and 'trade union reform'. Not defended In these matters the trade bureaucrats are union not defending their members but defending their own semi- independent social positions as trade union bureaucrats. To the extent that the strength of the working class and the emergence of a new leadership. threatens equally the capitalist state and the union bureaucracy, the latter two will more clearly come together, drop their 'differ- ences' and eventually merge totally. the striking miners When returned to work after con- sultations with Feather on Thursday to Friday, October 23 and 24, some commentators considered that the TUC's perhaps being role was rehabilitated. nion 'reform' was blown to smithereens by the blast!

WORKERS' PRESS

unionists who are in struggle.

The reality was of course

TUC

In effect they are collaborat- that Feather and the putting the TUC in were instrumental in stopping ing in better shape for the integra- a strike which was of historic tion with the capitalist state.

importance: it had brought the miners back into the front Implications line of the economic and fear the the Because they political struggle of 1926 revolutionary implications of British working class. the full strength of reared its ugly head! mobilizing The 'left' the working class, they draw failure of the struggle and back from play leaders of the Amalgamated Union this role, counter- of Engineering and revolutionary role of strength- Foundryworkers

(AEF)

and Militant Yorkshire miners lobby their union executive calling for the resignation Transport and the General ening the capitalist state's Union

(T&GWU).

Workers' preparations against the Scanlon and Tones, to carry working class. out any fight against the plans The work of the Communist of the TUC right wing in June Party in the trade unions has was a warning. for years been to pursue an is to 'make the Their line alliance with the like of

TUC

undertaking work', in Jones, Scanlon and Daly of the order to have a case against National Union of Mine- further government action workers. This 'left unity' is in line and legislation. Instead of relying with the Party's perspective of on the of the working class peaceful, strength 'democratic' path break the employers' and to socialism. to government's attacks on trade Such a way does not require these 'left' leaders the organization of the unionism, work- collaborate with Feather and class smash the ing to the right strengthen capitalist state. wing to

TUC

tied as it the against trade On the contrary, is to the system of bourgeois parliamentary democracy, it must fight the against revolutionary mobilization of the working class. That was the secret behind the betrayal by the French Stalinists in France in May- Tune 1968. Stalinism in Britain is now through its line of 'left unity' "lefts' in trade with the the union bureaucracy, consciously and openly collaborating in the counter - revolutionary preparations of the ruling class. political cover Daly, Scanlon and Tones to 'make the

TUC

discipline work', instead of fighting the pro- posals for legislation against the unions. Ten days before the end of the miners' strike, special committee of the

TUC

ns by the blastfurnacemen at Port Talbot General Council met opposite numbers from the Confedera- tion of British Industry.

A joint statement was issued about determination to deal with industrial disputes. It was greeted by a CBI spokesman a major breakthrough' in as industrial relations. Besides the inevitable right- wing signatories such as Feather and Hayday, the CBI was joined in its declaration by Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Legislation was defeated in June, but by October the TUC leaders, left as well as right, dealing directly with are organized big business to prepare against strikes! And those are the leaders supported by the Communist Party line of left unity!

Indeed, the inevitable con- sequence will be direct service Victor Feather. The first to open sign of this is the Communist Party's line on the miners' strike. Obstacle The miners, through strike action, had won the full wage increases demanded by their union, and the obstacle to their winning 20 minutes off the day for 60,000 surfacemen was that this would have offended the government's incomes policy. together with the Taken 27s. 6d. increase it would have meant a total increase of 13 per cent, which was out of proportion with the 9 per r the resignation of Sir Sidney Ford, NUM president.

productivity increase in cent mining. In other words once Robens' offer had been made on the first Friday of the strike, the concern of everyone who is anxious to prevent the working class moving into a political struggle with the state was to get the miners back to work.

The search was on-by the leaders of the TUC, by the 'left' and 'right' of the NUM, both Ford and Daly, by the government, by Lord Robens, and by the Communist Party —for a formula to end the strike after all the fine words about 'principles' on the eight- hour day. The role of the capitalist welcomed by press, 'leaders' who did not want to was to create the im- lead, pression that the miners were drifting back to work There were in fact only very isolated returns o work, and they were short-lived.

They occured because the leadership deliberately con- fined the strike picketing to branch small numbers officials and failed in any way to explain the full scope and significance of the struggle.

It is necessary to be per- fectly objective about the situation this created. Thousands striking miners came into the struggle and soon realized its political implications; their seriousness took the forn of a political hesitancy lying : behind the industrial and class militancy.

The decisive element was leadership, to clarify and develop the political issues in the strike, to turn the hesitant memories of 1926 and the doubts about an alternative to the Labour government into a positive fight for a socialist alternative in the coal industry and throughout the economy.

That leadership was present only at rank-and-file pit level in part of Yorkshire, where the All Trades Unions Alliance was being built. The longer the strike con- tinued, the bigger the prospect of that leadership, working through the Workers Press, being built. But the actual leadership at Yorkshire area level was in the hands of branch officials elected long before the present phase of struggle began, mixture of Labour Party supporters and a few Com- munist Party members and ex- members. Political struggle However firmly they were originally convinced it was necessary to fight on the eight hours, and dis- however appointed they were in Daly, they were at a dead-end as soon as the union leadership refused recognition and the spread of the strike brought 130,000 men right up against government policy. Confidence the NUM Executive was at its lowest ebb and Robens himself had embittered the miners. Feather's intervention was therefore, by all welcomed, sides striking except the miners, who were driven to by the collapse of return leadership. On the promise that Feather would seek to get a court of inquiry established, the return to work was agreed.

Once the Yorkshire area council voted (66-23) to the other coalfields return, followed. What role did the Stalinists play? Their supporters and allies among the strike leaders in Yorkshire along went with Feather's "solution'. It was their way of returning to 'normal' in the union and getting Daly off the hook.

But this bureaucratic man- oeuvring has all the re- actionary implications we have described. Thus the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' for Saturday, October 25-the day the Yorkshire Council voted to return - referred to Feather's intervention in the following terms: 'Yesterday's breakthrough came after five hours of talks between eight miners' representatives and Mr. Vic Feather, the TUC general secretary... Neither miners' president Sir Sidney Ford, who was in Durham, nor the general Mr. secretary, Lawrence Daly, who was unavailable (!), took part in the meeting. 'An independent inquiry could see a breakthrough for the miners. During this sum- mer's British Steel Corpora- tion strike at Port Talbot, it was only after an independ- ent inquiry had reached its decision steel that the workers gained their demand.

'The setting up of an inquiry will provide help to the problem, all sides in When striking miners returned to work after consultations with TUC general secretary Victor Feather, a strike of tremendous historic importance was halted.

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Lord Robens, the Coal Board chairman, would be able to grant the miners' demands without losing face with the government — as he would have done if he had paid it off his own back.' (Our emphasis.) In this article we find exemplified the whole case we have made out against the political line of the Communist Party in the trade unions.

It is impossible to draw any other conclusion than that the best way to resolve strikes today is to return to work with nothing and to have confidence that Mr Victor Feather will organize a genuinely independ- ent inquiry sure to see justice done! Further, if the workers do behave in this sensible not and citizen-like way, left-wing Jack Jones: "binding undertaking'. gave leaders like Mr Daly will be right-wing very embarrassed, leaders : like Sir Sidney Ford will be disturbed, genial bosses like Lord Robens will 'lose face, and the government will be out in front in every wages dispute ! 'Help all sides' To avoid all these things, we must find a solution which, as the 'Morning Star' puts it, •.. will provide help to all sides. This 'Morning Star' article was in fact the 'explanation' of all the manoeuvres of the pre- in which vious three days, the Communist Party and its left allies, together with the right wing and Robens, behind whom stood Wilson, used Victor Feather to get the miners back to work. Once the men were safely back at work, of course, the 'Morning Star' dished up for its bewildered supporters the old left-sounding hash: "The fight for the eight hours goes on', etc. It is not out of the question that the recent show of strength may force a con- cession on the hours. But, as the 'Murning Star' itself said (Friday, October 17), the strike involved all the problems faced by the miners, and brought them sharply up against the political question of the whole future of the nationalized industry. It was this aspect of the struggle which had to be re- moved, from the point of view of the capitalist class. The lessons of this experi- ence cannot be repeated too often. The miners have returned to the front of the class struggle on wages and hours questions precisely at a time when these involve political questions. a struggle against the . govern- ment. This political struggle re- quires the building of a revo- lutionary party which will lead the struggle for power. A central task in building that party is the fight for Marx- ist leadership in the unions.

The weakening of the Stalin- ist faction in the NUM and the loosening of the hold of the traditional right wing, particu- larly in parts of the Yorkshire had been apparent for area, several months and was openly revealed in the recent strike and the preceding Cadeby strike. Politically-conscious miners, like workers in all unions, will be strengthened in their con- viction of the urgency of build- ing alternative political an leadership throughout the in- dustry. There is no substitute for the building of the All Trades Unions Alliance, the Young Socialists and the Socialist Labour League. This is the task, through meetings to expand the circu- lation of the Workers Press, upon which we call all our readers to concentrate.

Tuesday, November 11, 1969

WORKERS PRESS

PAGE FOUR

GENERAL

Government Stewards reject 10p.c. offer

ELECTRIC

WORKERS

declares More power strikes

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FREEZE

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just under 10 per cent. protesting From the end of the year Industrial action of a the statutory 3.5 per coll prolonged nature coverage of Italy's current Soviet limitation on dividend in- than last Friday's 24-hour creases will be abolished strike could well be recom- general and mended when the stewards control dividend meet again to consider the settlement levels will end. results of these meetings.

This was made clear

ELECTRICI

the superinatin They are demanding announcement end of last week from increases of at least

BOUNCIL

Pite man state to a By Robert Black Dian secre- Growing movement tary to the UNITED STATES government officials have confirmed The plectricity council's

3O MILLIANK

earlier reports that the Soviet and US diplomats are The Confederation of British offer has been described as by meaning increases of up to nearing agreement on a Middle-East 'settlement'.

fak several months, According to the same has been source, nna agreement trick. hinged on Soviet acceptance measure which Department proposals. State yest talian state television head Fraud earn enough to react Bine the lone 90 War he in terms of armed struggle.

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MOTOR

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WORKERS

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