Workers Press no. 321

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Forward to 1971

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

STATEMENT

with Workers Press All out Boost sales to tomorrow beat Tories December 8!

TODAY

40,000 workers in Britain's 191 power stations will begin a go-slow and work-to-rule.

Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of workers will be striking and demon- strating against counter revolu tionary and dictatorial measures of the Tory government. Make the union SEVERAL hundred thousand trade leaders fight! unionists will take strike action tomorrow against the Tory anti-union laws.

it the anti-union Force the Tories to resign!

This must be the Why beginning of a con- tinuing struggle Kremlin Eire prison which gathers wants a greater and greater camp - a choe trade union move. strength until. the 'detente'- junta-style move- Tory government is by Brandt forced to resign. move

FOREIGN COYRESPONDENT

Anger WTH THE Curragh mili- les immediatey ainst working tary detention camp being and its attacks is prepared for its first in- mounting. mates, Ireland joins the Why the Soviet anti-Bonn propa- growing list of so-called gande amt is economic he occupies 'democratic' states adopt- methods internationall ing working bling down repression against left-wing of their own and national militants December o is only the beginning. minorites. he man leaders band invoking ficed everything- Briefly A940 * Lynch -aLr stainst the tory Bill. the has without trial wrest joking and ever it ikes Acon chine setters ad suppe shall take called off a two-week struggle Publican Club car on, the nons are - with management government's morrow. this morning. while ray thought Traditions Theck in, ban big overtime drive the eas unjustinable This behaviour is all the most is sen because ne more treacherous because it Heath taft benefits gran entry bid. W Germany's Brandt

ENGINEER

wards Lemand all- service pay. Bartente wit there are rest in those aa angr ficial action Last week, took praised by Paisley and beer Abet poin wary on turn per co-a rabie Britain. Emphasi Toe to deny dae meeting no Bie has bea disturbed B, an at and a tan untonin. added.) en i ong one gross Every scot thou the government's move. MP Conor Cruise i be sorelation scheme O'Brien said: *We have ho reason to trust thrive on disruption, because use exceptio

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certainly

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newspapers and cop the Tory goweenmens the rent legislation. resigns. The alleged target of the E1,250 Dec. the Batrigach endave in w Appeal Fund Ireland). they paring stands at Stalinists change the Reint tharied out atta so mistreaten

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E104 13S 6d Dec. 8 line Batchelor reinstatement Mas nemployment i the fight stepped up Tories re concerned sended to incorporate Worse

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oin the sympathy strike the At the ley will be experi barted miscale have so tai Managemen: problems many The time to fight is now!

What is needed above all convenor mmediately all your donation Terry Deves aunte the wore dee for action in red dai Shefield Maned to work at the bad overtime sainst the Tory 2223 returned to

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PRICE 6d.

DECEMBER

or redundancies

EIGHTH

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

The have postmen shown the way defeat the anti-union laws! Make the trade union leaders fight the Tories! Force the gov- ernment to resign!

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m.

SHOP

STEWARDS

representing 200,000 The Lecture Hall British-Leyland carworkers yesterday allowed a Central as Westminster both their combine's dangerous retreat over Tory anti-union redundancy threats and the G. HEALY (National Sec- plans. retary of Socialist Labour

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

On both counts they Leacue. the breach

THORNETT

(Deputy

SIX- DOINE

Droslamme Lore StoKes to Oscuss tre Senior Steward Morris rationalization. adopted on November the executive Leyland longstanding member of ot the trade the Communist G. CAUGHEY (Chairman mittee. Etheridg the real Pilkington's Rank stewards At 1,000 - strong all- after the meeting that ante meeting in behind the Birming- was run committee i Issue Cuisis company out of T. SWEENEY (Chairman Hall. vyds

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to near ine suv sackines ana its mess. Counci workers' London the tactory closures announced He said that 'this where Leyland's top management Liaison Committee. the government snowle sted s Friday. Chairman: with financial aid'. A. WILKINS (ATUA Sec- Thẻ Etheridge

MEETING

meeuns. retary) went 'was

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ODDosed Instead stewards accepted a to sackings men unless Admission 2s mutual had been reso unon TrON Lne CommIL- 1OnL charman.

DICK

Etheridge, requesting a meet- unions. ing between that sentatives and group chairman under Comply circumstances. a prollabic concern.' Shop stewards leave yester- He doubted whether strikes redundancies would would be difficult thing factories tacing total position concerta serious,

ODINION

that it can be reso ved in

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or three years,' said Etheridge.

statement, Etheridge aph, led Britis criticized the inroads and making manulacturels British

INTO

marKeL. The Birmingham meeting also discussed the • ecember 8 strike call against the anti- laws, but did commend specific any Leyland the

WUTKELS

laclories. There will be some strikes group, in the ang as tar the combine committee is con- they have the support shop stewards, Etheridge. said His Austin Longbridge would stopping. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS Saturday December 12 Corn Exchange Leeds DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. Plants - Can-Can Toys — Bingo - Books - Raffles Records Portraits Xmas Gifts Candy Floss YS Boutique Bottle Draw - Food Bargains - Lucky White Elephant - Instant Photo - Babies' Straws - Clothes - Punch 'N' Judy - Home-made Food - Fruit Machines — Childrens' Clothes — Alligator's Head - Xmas Decorations - Father Christmas - All the best jumble - Teas & Refreshments — Scarves, Hats & Gloves - Hot Dogs. Hamburgers — Stalls - Sideshows

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Forward to 1971

STATEMENT FROM THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

with Workers Press All out Boost sales to tomorrow beat Tories December 8!

TODAY

40,000 workers In Britain's 191 power stations will begin a go-slow and work-to-rule.

Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of workers will be striking and demon strating against come ecolu tionary and dictatorial measures of the Tory government. Make the union SEVERAL hundred thousand trade leaders fight! unionists will take strike action tomorrow against the Tory anti-union laws.

radicalization of ine December 8 or even in April Force the Tories to resign!

* Ve say the Boca This must be the Why beginning of a con- What is needed in tal tinuing struggle Kremlin Eire prison which gathers greater and greater wants a ° do this thei camp - a leader some non strength until. the 'detente'. mobilize Tory government is by Brandt forced to Tesign. must move wow ing cidso

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Anger WTH THE Curragh mili- Labour Party and the nents Mas workers sens Throughout the working tary detention camp being immediately class, against th ahead. prepared for its first in- and its attacks German paine Minster expressed, he et Unio reasons When the British work mates, Ireland joins the to delend the into actio Prime We must support every ti-Bonn propa growing list of so-called st is economic he centuries 'democratic' states adopt- sai he Russians are interested ories could not avoid a ahon the manner of a socrat methods ing repression against left-wing said ops government. and Germany carries weight beRinember 8 is only the multants nauona. minorities. oyers tes ensure invoking tate so, the militancy leaders trade, union Briefly 4940, against the Tory Bill. Lynch a without trial wes ever it likes. London Chine seters aye the univelsily streets with Traditions could be con mansen en demands for staff benefits W Germany's Brandt

ENGINEERING

bonus and long- ncreases e latest to demand all-out

DISTURBED

feel therefore maches cool against the While been action from at the revot min praised Britain a amphole • has their point added.) trade disturbed by can Understanding 'Brien said! Conor Cruise it man those i ente second reason, Brandt despite e government one entires egislation, because

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and normal remains cloistered in mist E1,250 Dec. The alleged asures is a small adical break- nove eat t rig hes that are at seenion the TRA Saor Appeal Fund anti-union laws to a protest.

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Bengal. Indian Home Ministry British sacking the To Darner con apping stands at Stalinists change and her retusat oy

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£104 155 60 Dec. 8 line Batchelor reinstatement Mass unemployment forts a concerned ne pren or sle oral stake!! THE Liaison Committee to fight stepped up Worse amended to incorporate week to extend the oficial six e Strike have so fa times worse roblems was revealed by th This sold in dience bit alad The time to fight is now!

Ten Deveye on si Satur Maintenance men have been the

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The daily paper. that leads the Tory government PRICE 6d. No line on Dec 8

DECEMBER

or redundancies

EIGHTH

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Meeting The postmen. have shown Ine defeat the anti-union Make the trade union leaders fight the Tories! Force the gov- ernment to resign!

TUESDAY

DECEMBER 8, 5 p.m. 200,000

SHOP

STEWARDS

representing The Lecture Hall Central Halls British-Leyland carworkers yesterday allowed a Westminster combine's dangerous retreat over both their redundancy threats and the Tory anti-union Speakers : G. HEALY (National Sec- plans. retary of Socialist Labour

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

On both counts they were League) of the breach complete THORNETT (Deputy the discuss nanting SIx-point programme nro stokes Senior Steward Morris adopted rationalization. on November 4 by executive of the Leyland longstanding member Motore Oxtoro y trade com- Party's execu G. CAUGHEY (Chairman Etheridge said mittee. Pilkington's Rank and 1,000 - strong all- after the meeting that the real stewards' meeting in Birming- was -le committee une

CUISIS

T. SWEENEY (Chairman Was Toe Company to fight the 5.000 sackings and its mess'. Councilworkers' London the factory closures announced He said that 'this where by Leyland's top management Liaison Committee) the government shoule sted mu on Friday. Chairman: with financial aid'. A. WILKINS (ATUA Sec- Etheridge

MEETING

meetin fully retary) went on, "was opposed Instead stewards accepted a to sackings men unless the Admission 2s mutual greement been reso union had reached tee's chairman. • Htheridde. requesting a meet. unions. ing between shop-floor recognize that sentatives and group chairman under company must. be a profitable circumstances. Shop stewards leave yester- concern. He douhted whether strikes day's meeting against redundancies would these would be difficult thing factories facing total position realize far

BMC

Conccluca is my opinion serious.

OUT

that it can he recolved in 1Wc or threyears, said Etterient, Throughout statement. Etheridge British cad for criticized the manufacturers making

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British market InTO Birmingham meeting discussed the December aiso union did not commend specific action workers Leyland factories. will be some strikes ¿ nere the combine committee is con.

cerned will have †hav the moral support the shop stewards' haid Etheridge. plant Longbridge would

SLOODIE

Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS

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PAGE TWO

IT IS a great mistake to think that Mr Heath would not make a good Prime Minister? This was the opinion of the 'Daily Mirror' on December 7, 1969, on the eve of what began as the dullest, most certain, General Election since Harold Macmillan told voters they had never had it so good exactly a decade earlier.

By the spring the opinion polls, soon to be proved showed Heath's popularity sensationally wrong, plummeting day after day. Within hours of the election Gallup gave the Labour Party a 7 per cent lead over the Tories. Most media commentators joined in the disparagement unfavourable com- of 'poor-old Ted' repeatedly making parisons with statesman-like world leader Wilson.

They watched with an amused smile Heath's antics with variously of trying to lose the Enoch Powell who was accused election for the Tories and later of winning it.

But in the teeth of seemingly irrefutable evidence from the opinion polls and against a storm of criticism from broadcasters foolishly thought, and newspapermen Heath stood, as many firm. Time and time again he reiterated his view that his party He reiterated the Party's free-society politics with- would win. out modification and without apology. He referred constantly to the soundings of the grass roots antenna of the Party machine of To most observers all this, in the inimitable phrase 'Private Eye', was 'Grocer Heath', putting a brave face on it.

Then, on June 18, 1970, in the early hours of the morning, pundits and a large section of the pollsters, Commerators. rocked to their foundations by an almost electorate unbelievable Tory victory.

Of course, some people were - There not reeling. were cele- Throgmorton St brations and on Wall St; the Financial Times' Index jumped a record 21.7 points and stock market prices went up by 5 per cent.

Yet observers were still un- of the willing to give much radit to Ted Heath; a misfit Tory Party, the man in the whose father began life work- ing for a builder. To the last they preferred to think that it was Enoch Powell who finally swayed the voters into giving Heath a majority in the House of Commons. But those with longer and more retentive memories might from Heath's have learned performance in 1964, one year before he became leader of the With Powell at a Party conference.

Party in preference to Maud- ling or Powell, and once again from within his Party, on the eve of a General Elec- where there who were many tion. thought it would lose them the 1964 election, refused Butt to back of principle matter down abolishing Resale from Heath had become a con- Price Maintenance. venient butt used by corre- • THE MAN who in Novem- spondents to enliven even the west said copy. is speeches.

was patted on the ber 1961, said Macmillan the back by in were There House of Commons during droning. was always a crucial EEC debate in which, some fun to be had at the his said the Press, Heath gave a expense of attempts to 'display improve. temperate, con- defen- trolled and skillfully With his little boy face and sive, 'political argument; his 'humble' 'decent origins skill, performance of great he and fair', was portrayed, showing Commons his the paternally, by columnists and 'true mettle'. cartoonists as man strug- manfully far beyond his gling • THE MAN who between means. 1961 January August and 1963 forged a reputation as a They chose not to remember 'human computer' and a "tire- that: less negotiator', during months • HEATH was the man who of talks over Britain's applica- gainst fierce opposition, ever tion to join the EEC.

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Name Address • THE MAN who alone of all the Party's influential men was invited by Macmillan to eat oysters at the Turf Club one night in 1959 to discuss the structure of the new govern- ment. • THE MAN who, in 1959, was being described as 'one of the finest chief whips of the *man of century' and as a enormous influence and authority. 'Little known to the pub- lic, a plump and pink- cheeked bachelor of 41 Heath has had a remarkable rise in the world', said the London 'Evening Standard' in February 1958. DISADVANTAGE: Con learnt it all years before.

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And the "Sunday dressed hair a little too charm- be choosing his own cabinet' Times 'He The failure think ingly grey' said: wie ds enormous Heath and as a leader innuence althorıty. HA was Gue

• THE

MAN,

things: advises the Prime Minister inree TIlS social back could hold the House, the feeling only mar ground. his personality and Eden's discusses the business for party during rogerner style and 1956 next week, he usual Suez debacle arter the circumstances in which he rose to power. being a wain or ave vears. one year atter his election 13th When he became the House of Commons in 1959 the Tory Party Jeader dealing 1950. July 29. he did Sir he news coronice alone the basis of a large number earned from false assumptions. The Party was not tooled hv the vicissi thought him fully- ine tudes of Heath's fortunes and put the writing on the wall.

fledged leader. But he was not oralse: 'The rebels he dealt with by October 16, 1959, himself tas with The Times' put it: a firmness not at once Heath had proved the Finance Bill, Resale General burly frame topped Party une orcanizer ine PrICE Maintenance and the face with feast One ciecuon. one Common Market had chin too shown himself an exceptionally many and _careruly sees the car wher Heath Will Constantly compared with Harold Wilson who, of course, unlike Heath, had all years before. Monday, December 7, 1970 able political corps com- brilliant and mander, courage- ous at fighting a set piece bat- already marked tle on ground out. Party leader requires different and wider qualities. As a commander in chief Mr Heath still had it all to learn'.

Doubts about Heath as a leader began big in way about April 1966. Having ditched Sir Alec and his matches, observers Illally looked forward to a Tory vic- under Heath's new-style tory leadership. But failed victory to materialize. The Labour Party was riding the crest of Never- wave. theless, to many people Heath became a scapegoat who as time went on was thought to the inspired and less be less de leader the Party urgently To deal with the crisis so needed its lost national commissions pc to revive plans, th fortunes. and prices and incomes policies th After the Labour triumph raised little benefit upon the Heath had to put up with the nation, but soon, like confetti, added disadvantage of they were to be abandoned. M stant comparison with Harold Untried as a Party leader cr Wilson who, Heath found himself of course, unlike thrown th Heath, had learnt it all years House, to the wolves in the re before. He was of Commons. especi- ca addition Wilson's In there was the ally vulnerable to background of positive tactics and skill and time and th deluge of a legislative activity time again he was smashed to as by the new government which pieces in verbal battles with ce put Heath and his Party quite the then Prime Minister. or definitely in the shade. In addition to this the pub-.

H Labour were determined to lic view of Heath as a failure show that all that was wrong was reinforced by the spectacle th with the economy was a result of widespread his unease at m of Tory mismanagement. leadership members of among at his own Party. But by 1964 the crisis of The issue was fo over production, reflected in confused by their public per-.

fe inflation, had been under way sistance in portraying the fortunes of the Party as being for nearly a decade. se

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of all the 'Sunday Times' dressed hair a little too charm- choosing own his cabinet' The said: wields enormous ingly grey.' failure think as a leader was due influence and uthoriti Heath eat •

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MAN.

one feeling House, ground, is personality and discusses Darty together' during Eden's he business vern- Suer debacle "the usual 105k stances in next week, being whip for five rose to power. after his 1050 When became the 13th House of Commons

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who, in 1959, leader of the Party the 1950. after revolt of 1965 did Geaiing with the rebels The 'News Chronicle' alone basis of a large umber fuel Gerald Nabarro, the vicissi- Aarned trom Chronicle' 'News the tudes of Heath's him praise: put the writing on the wall.

fledged leader. leath "The rebels he dealt with by On 16, 1959, With he ei Times' put it: "The October atter Times firmness not at once annar- Heath had nraved himsets ad Price Maintenance and the noon burly trame topped Party organizer in the General one Election, said: 'One fore- Common Market taCA with lAnct many and carefully sees the day when Heath will chin ton INTAGE: Constantly compared with Harold Wilson who, of course, unlike Heath. had ill years before. Monday, December 7, 1970 able political corps com- mander, brilliant and courage- ous at fighting a set piece bat- marked tle on ground already Party leader requires out. different and wider qualities As a commander in chief Mr Heath still had it all to learn'.

Doubts about Heath as leader began in big way 1966. Having about April ditched Sir Alec and his matches, many observers looked forward to a Tory vic- tory under Heath's new-style leadership. failed But victory to materialize. The Labour Party was riding the crest of a Never- wave. theless, to many people Heath became who scapegoat as time went on was thought to and less the inspired be less the Party urgently leader To deal with the crisis needed to revive its lost national plans, commissions fortunes. and prices and incomes policies After the Labour triumph raised little benefit upon the Heath had to put up with the nation, but soon, like confetti, added disadvantage of they were to be abandoned.

con- stant comparison with Harold Untried as a Party leader Wilson who, of course, unlike Heath found himself thrown Heath, had learnt it all years to the wolves in the House, before. He of Commons. especi- was In addition there the Wilson's was ally vulnerable to background of positive tactics and skill and time and deluge of a legislative activity time again he was smashed to by the new government which with verbal battles pieces in put Heath and his Party quite the then Prime Minister. In addition to this the definitely in the shade. pub-, Labour were determined to lic view of Heath as a failure show that all that was wrong was reinforced by the spectacle with the economy was a result of widespread unease at his. of Tory mismanagtment. members of leadership among But by 1964 the crisis of his own Party. The issue was over production, reflected in confused by their public per-..

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Mónday, December 7, 1970 CONDUCTING annual Christmas con when, background continue he lezdershin CrISIS. acceoted an invitation to appear on the krost show Somebody in the Party may that if he well have thought could survive a grilling from Frost of valuable pub- licity would be gained. It was a brave gesture. Unfortunately when Foreared welle nowarel me before show was because out technicians surike But behind all the seeming neptitude there was a version of Heath that observers and cranes changes the overall obiective climate in "voich ne worked was increas.

nay reveng This Heath was partly ews sum- the med Chronicle when staft writer said of him.

Usually he is shaking with notice that laughter until you the eves. are not so amused as the mouth.' A dynamo This confusion about him. His style his as a mans renected sive ot government. He savs little and listens a lot (n the to he nothing. But underneath is a dynamo It is not because he figure of fun accident that he has survived as Party dependent on the calibre and in the first ever biography of leader. the Torv leader: nolicies ot an individual. rather He is and always has been than correctly relatino them to 'He has not developed the a shrewd. tough. ambitious and the unfolding capitalist crisis.

oratorical powers which might even fanatical politician.

1966 In. - january Angus have expected As Hutchinson the Maude who took to made series one public bas had the advantage platform so young. He is com believing passionately the 'Spectator'. Heath's Detent than inspiring, rather what he was doing'. response was slow, but when it informative rather than elo- came; , decisive. quent. curr was the that observers he was prise to Heath that decisiveness counted of his from elected Party leader. Ever Oxford, as observers were con- political career minute of his time had he cerned and the episode became was reserved, working to thai Heath never spent one more black mark against sharkled and was never OUt. and And Heath standing circumstances, in the form By October, on the eve o But equally they pay tribute the enomic crisis consoired to conference. his : Party annielled tavour nim notions reflecting lisquie efficiency. his persistence and stubbornness bout Heath and Says Hutchinson: 'He was cold and exceptionally frenzied dynamism' crop up not help him- frequently. of his than most more self.: George Hutchinson In the public mind Heath's colleagues. He was alwave a sauc JUNE 18: The Financial Times' index jumped a record 21.7 points.

• Mónday, December 7, 1970 dependent on the calibre and in the first ever biography of sis policies of an individual, rather the Tory leader: ies than correctly relating them to not developed 'He has the the unfolding capitalist crisis.

he oratorical powers which might tti, In: January 1966 Angus expected in some- have been Maude made a series of the public one who took to ler criticisms of the leadership in platform so young. He is com- wn petent rather than the 'Spectator'. Heath's inspiring, Ise. response was slow, but when it informative rather than elo- Ci- But here again quent.' came; decisive. n's. it was the slowness rather than All observers agree that nd of his the •decisiveness that counted right from the start to Oxford, as far as observers were con- political career at ith Heath cerned and the episode became reserved, never one more black mark against sparkled and was never out- 1b- Heath. standing. ire the eve of By' October, on But equally they pay tribute cle 51 the : Party conference, his unrivalled to quiet, his reflecting motions disquiet efficiency, to his persistence of Heath put down about were and stubbornness and onrases ras for consideration on the con- like 'cold technocrat and er- ference agenda. dynamism' 'frenzied crop up he Heath did not help him- frequently. ng In the public mind Heath's self.: George Hutchinson says JUNE 18: The 'Financial Times' inde: CONDUCTING annual Christmas concert final humiliation came in Octo- ber 1967 when, against the background of a continuing leadership crisis, he accepted an invitation to appear on the Frost Show. Somebody in the Party may well have thought that if he could survive a grilling from Frost a lot of valuable pub- licity would be gained. It was a brave gesture. Unfortunately when he appeared there was barely time for the well known "toothy' smile before the show was blacked out because of a technicians' strike. But behind all the seeming ineptitude there was a version of Heath that observers with short memories overlooked. A version which experience as Party leader and changes in the overall objective climate in which he worked was increas- ingly revealing. This Heath was partly sum- med up the News by Chronicle' in 1959 when a staff writer said of him: 'Usually he is shaking with laughter-until you notice that not so amused the eyes are as the mouth.' A dynamo. Heath is a political iceberg.

This' is what has led to the confusion about him. His style man is reflected in his as a style of government. He says little and listens a lot. On the surface he appears to be doing But underneath he nothing. is a dynamo. It is not because he is a figure of fun or by accident that he has survived as Party leader. He is and always has been a shrewd, tough, ambitious and even fanatical politician.

As Hutchinson puts it, he has had the 'superb advantage of believing passionately in what he was doing'. It could have been no sur- prise to Heath that he was elected Party leader. Every minute of his time had been spent working to that end for decade a half. And and circumstances, in the form of the enomic crisis, conspired to favour him. Says Hutchinson: 'He was known in exceptionally well the constituencies. He had visited more than most of his colleagues. He was always a al Times' index jumped a record 21.7 points.

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ristmas concert at Broadstairs, 1965.

willing horse ready to accept speaking engagements up and down the country. 'As a result he knew many of the associations and their officers at first hand.' And, of course, during his long years in the Whip's office he had got to know all the MPs. Heath was by no means an innocent by-stander in the election for leader in 1965. Headed by Peter Walker, the contest was fought in a way which as Hutchinson says, 'left nothing to chance. Ted's camp treated it like a war'.

He was by no means inno- cent on matters of policy either. In fact he was Tory Party policy. No one else had been instrumental in more shaping it. Overshadowed Lord Home had placed the reins of power firmly in his hands by asking him to think out fresh policies for the Party in 1966. He set to work with minute thoroughness and, whether by design or accident, none of the study groups he appointed reported until Home had stepped down. After he became leader, Hutchinson says: 'There were private armies people reporting directly to Heath.'

By June 1970 Heath was master of his Party, despite the devisive activities of its right wing, centred primarily on Enoch Powell. Powell was a stronger personality than Heath and once again Heath was overshadowed as he had been by Wilson. Against the background of doubt about Heath and coupled with the fact that Powell had designs on the leadership, the result was to make Heath look far less than in control.

But as "The Times' pointed Heath's out, disagreements with Powell were not primarily over what he said, but the manner in which he said them.

Powell, of course, was not a Tory renegade sniping from the extreme right. Like Heath he represents definite politi- cal forces. Like Heath he has been thrust forward on the public stage by riding these forces. Heath represents the mono- polies. Powell stands for the small businessmen the mono- polies are driving to the wall and for sections of the lower middle class.

VORKERS PRESS

GEORGE HUTCHINSON

From He also stands for back- ward elements of the working class who are most savagely hit by the high price effects of the monopoly economy. Heath has undoubtedly been influenced by pressure from the extreme right both in the House of Commons and out- side it. But in the main his policies power faithfully in reflect his views over a politi- cal lifetime. As Prime Minister Heath is now doing what he is good at. He is acting not talking.

He said himself this year: 'The attitude of people to- day is that they want fewer words and rather more, con- sidered action.' He may not be inspiring, but there is no doubt he will ruthlessly carry out his gov- ernment's anti-working-class policies. Like Heath himself the tone of his government is one of action not words. Not a week passes without some new and often fundamental announce- ment emanating from one of the government departments.

All may seem quite on the out- side at 10 Downing St, but such announcements reflect the ferment within. Inflation Heath has promised histori- cal changes and no one need doubt that they will come if can have his way. The attack on the welfare state has already begun. The sacking of Lord Hall marks the beginning of the offensive against the nationalized industries. The anti-union Bill designed to silence organized labour in the face of the Tory attack on the working class is well on its way. Perhaps the most confusing Heath's rise aspect to power is related to the circum- stances surrounding it. He was elected leader at a moment of crisis; at a time when the effect of the end of the post-war boom was really biting; when world competi- tion and overproduction reflected in the balance of pay- ments and inflation was bankrupting the British capi- talist class. Heath was peddling his free- society solution to the grow- ing crisis throughout the 1960s, but it was not until mid-decade that the old style Tories represented by Macmil- not against him. The managers of the great corporations, the executives, the men who made industry and commerce tick looked at Heath and in him saw themselves. For a time behind the well- publicized, but inevitably futile efforts of the Labour govern- ment to deal with the develop- ing crisis of world capitalism, Heath and his policies tended to be forgotten. Labour held the promise of being the Party of the future. There were some who thought that the Tories were the cause of the worsening economic situation because after 13 years in office they had grown stale. Labour a new and They even shining hope. had technology and science on their side. Lifeblood Statements from Labour that Britain leaders was on the road to 'recovery' further weakened Heath's position. UTCHINSON's biography his Neither he policies nor were appropriate to recovery. Lacking theoretical any of what was happening, grasp Tory sections of the Party added to the confusion by and Home pushed lan were once again baying for Heath's aside in favour of a man who, blood. St many senses, was the The lifeblood of Heath and George of big business come to his policies is the death of rescue their falling profits.

plight of capitalism. As the In the end his 'humble' world capitalism and of Britain background counted for and in particular has worsened,

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Kremlin All out JIMMY THAKOORDIN was one of the many post- men who led a local strike against the sacking of Post by Brandt

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Office chairman Lord Hall.

Thousands of his colleagues taking part in these

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actions saw the Hall dismissal as only the thin end of portant. and that the ones the Tory de-nationalization wedge.

earned A member of the Luton Post Office Workers' union it is branch and a Trades Council delegate, Jimmy was a countries Labour Party member for two years before fiye years' DECEMBER 8 gives notice crease thei Communist Party membership.

that the Tory government But he now feels that on every important issue the can and will be defeated On Berlin. Brandt saic For the Russians, CP deviates from principle towards compromise and , Berlin is by working-class action. oh thie or the a swing to the right. hou singi lemo ratic ratio 550 the Exposed British working class history trade eve chariot heels of big busi- Charter is basically But it does not make full come December 7 o derstandable hese rights. policies. is us himsy on the because it does strength refuses eathe wh TÚC to defeat the Bill this Beneral eni too orce charter - the anu- Tory government to on law resign the untin mum ine resignation of th Rights save Inl stakes bring great every it become working Inspired by the traditions 1 stainist development ren are which the Torte lengths their men sees on millions battle all over the world.

weathe sat December 0. 197U against ri

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POSTERS

FALLING PROFITS and grave uncertainty for munities for aparnices and

TODAY!

istar tot it the future in two major industries-engineering woritan cy and airlines-are revealed in reports published these winskers hei surprised today. as well as the gov men asked the predicts take, any ernment. The airline industry through- and the out the aat to prepare to vas simist de-natione m They have encouraged the have in store y shown thator routeste wars on

WEATHER

• TORY ANTI-*

UNION LAWS!

Toast Friday restrictions wer need second nia line. 25 per poster Os for 20 FRENCH dockers in all major Street come important Be ernes. personnel and real wages.

PUBLIC LECTURES

beinine workers voday, Elements of DEstIlt the most massive show of force mobilized by Franco mantain Marxism since the end of the Civil War, workers continue their strike against , the Burgos military trial of the 16 Basque nationalists.

unions say in Spain fa deati Since the trial began line ime Drop

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

The importance of Marxist philosophy in the on Thursday, the wave fascism struggle against Franco anjing it horned acts of protest has spread to building of the revolutionary party.

inessons that are have fallen to pre-devalu Italy, workers nay wiere youth and demon- by a Mechanical" En- prosecution element Committee Lectures by C. Slaughter (Central strated the outside member of the Socialist Labour League) hopes Spanish embassy SWINDON and 16. Hotel, Manchester Rd, 8 p.m. Wednesdays.

Rome on Saturday night. EWCASILE: Hotspur Hotel, Haymarket, 1.30 p.m. sunda, severed at one laste a BRIST Thursdays. ursdays bene Der 10 and i, Colston Ave., Bristol 1.

he Buids to anal does not • p.I. the Burgos *lat while milit not is a political fraudral demanc cent near-stagnation 1.3 per G. Healy (national secretary of the Lectures by bassy. Socialist Labour League) alted tor Says Deprover and Hotel, the Polymon, 730 p.m.

tests against the trial. Tuesdays Dece: er b5 and 22 Christchurch, Broadway, 8 p.m.

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luesaays. rayed in saturday rever ed AcroNe Id all 1 Hall, Fletcher Rd, W3. 8 p.m. Thursday.

it as a cynical charade. Pilingts that assworker. - claim by Lectures by M. Banda (Editor of Workers Press) The ilkington so party olice qua dear kept nassive p seen given details d those studying the pay BIRMINGHAM: Digbeth Hall, 8 p.m. Mondays. December 7, led behind their backs. deal *are ar manion branches by 1t ana c1. defence

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'SEVEREOSSES

replacing present

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Examination Measured-Da the report Fierce fighting erupted yes- terday in NE Canadia place over tne next si. to increas che working prani eh! tion of the whole of reported on Derision lions or the of the 250 Chikan onde Ni bank Such a scheme would give oh complo a large wast us prisoners to be raised. Ne of Phive Penh, was under strategy is quite structure refused to sociebrisqueta was everetenat The only thing the cording arrangemention • the first of , persisted in rating the sce 1 trial rur

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performanc Santa Clau Helen: • lone remain sacied ourse the ril head cashier and held ndensed version ' of thể alter eight mot procedure report or re • Belad

TORTURE

tacoile also defence and took off with his sack full workengside this no the pro- which led that strike mmitte Political Bilbac to be sent or money. Monday, December 7, 1970 Eire prison

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prominent government eader ind 'armed conspiracy' agains the Lynch regime.

DEPORTATION

Frank Keane a member of rree group, immediate threat deportation to Ireland to face zun-running, deportation House of Lords It is no accident that tuner concentration reopened his camp within days of the first Tory anti- Bill. Tories since There is absolutely no essen- parts of the difference between same capitalist offensive.

munist Party policies today- The pamphlet draws MuSt tion three conceptions Doncies inenectual rolest to the demand the lifting of Lunch's union leaders treachery in the the des emed cover emergency and the instant laboul release of Frank Keane. nOw Le respone to me rory anti-Tory the proposals. Com- The right led by hall wing, Victor rearnel, does nor bro• ago, they

ALL TRADES

nose to fight the aws. but to the General Strike of May and

UNIONS ALLIANCE

effect stress the dustrial relations' which they If these policies not are

MEETINGS

Feather hopes to defeated and the union leaders forced to mobilize the work- shower of leaflets nets and posit iscuss the proposed draft strice so defeat le Charter of Basic Righ strike February. reaction directed for cal cal ar allsu lne orxanizalons Une Clarence Ra. Caral as Club

CARDIAH

cover up for the right wing by working class. the to Unions restrictine movement Trades Charter of Basic protest acuions anel Token Alliance Rights is set in cons for all out the strikes. all th At all costs. they wat to workers have won substitute these protests tor a struggles. policy past

SUNDERLAND:

concrete to ceteat the defeat the Tory offen- government by mass working- munity Centre sive recures procramme and a strategy for the next "he third concention of how stage of the struggle. to fight the Tories is that of There is no time to lose. Me to beit the fall "The Next Step', o unite the mpaign union who

ACTON:.

movement for a general strike understand the lundamenta to defeat the anti-union laws Decem- and ponucal issues in tois cruciat Torce restonator struggle the ory government the position of frotskyism, of the Socialist Labour League.

utterly unprincipled nature of now group "he Next sten' traces the speak of both sides of five experience months struggle against the Tory gov- their mouth at once home Without the Workers Press of these three campalen to explain. analyst

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opposed conceptions. • DoDulariZe the election of Ever since the demand to make the union it helps forward their political the the Workers general he treblemakers the leaders (nant tor headlin strike to force the Tories to 5,9,5 writing will be no effec that stated on July is on the wall and they know and successful can defeat the struggle working class against the the right- Tories, rory covernment. These stand speeches The Workers Press, as the winerade union leaders ane sharo contrast wth the Labout Inel stalest apologists Damoniet snows. InSISTS leaders attitude The only recent pronouncement of a … nee to torce guarantee firms the belief. expressed the lories to resign successIul revolutionari Peregrine Worsthor strugg e to detend workers

ESSENTIAL

Sunday Telegraph rights from expropria- hasic will tion the Tory new legislation certainly existence It shows how essential the much to cement relations assistance of the trade union dee Siday Workers Press extension of between manacement been get trade unior readers wille Tory anti-union offensive off attacking shop-floor leadership.

Unlike the CP. the Liaison the ground. Committee and the 'Morning Harry Nicholas described the The retreat began on.the the Workers Press does olar the Bill irrelevant acceptance not see its role as a nrotest the cause of industrial the Pearson compromise

T&GWU

annexe (11) Jack Jones and thi revolutionary alter- the Scanlon added his defeatist native to it. edaers- -ensurine voice those the the mentaon • OT Devi response from the went Speed-u0 schemes the actana SLIIKe getting policy docks. lories certain Wol. It was followed almost im- retormist comment -at struggle verhampton-that far mediately nv sacking thousands the new trade union legisla- workers 500 at Pilkington's tion is concerned, the Rubicon will see through the fraud glass factory in St Helens.

200 rally the brotest and of these workers are still out- Workers Press. ('Sunday side defending December 7) strike and the right They general secretary Con- see in- work. ther that the flexible adherence to revolu- Wal has cabitantee The uniy tendency wasee indecision and deteatism only tendency and our determination to con- bureaucracy his tellow. landers ny onen'u has fight attacking December 8 in the a consistent wazea for the reinstatement of these and asking cue stale power TrON Tene members confi workers with a series of con.

put capitalists the onv wa1 special terences ang demonstration. in dence union's Torward To the realization to rally the labour movement their immediate and historical nanonal conterence eariy next in their defence, ae against the interests. vear. treachery of the and the While the right-wing openly Stalinists, refused to lift speeches, threats he the of Barber and the leaders and the cajolery a finger in their support.

implementation Heath will not : frighten us or laws. the 'left' union deter us from this task. ne Next sten detals to of the Pilkington's fight demoralize story. We appeal to all workers a fight that nsisting that nothin and musi Call Call and readers, be and that however, to take won passive their This principled struggle for warnings seriously and resistance will undermine the reinstatement. backed at evert once they are on Trailing behind the Liaison theocalist calisker Press Press statute bank crease the circulation and the and the number suhserthers come League, centre the Stalinists of at the Workers Press as well as struggle because Committee their donations In crense latest flip-flop on the our fighting fund general strike expressed in the the Workers Forward With and syndicalists to defend Press to 1971 and the defeat alson comtees call is of Toryism! MOSt Dasic mens ol worKers Turtner the in struggle

FORCED BACK

The same treachery from the led union leaders to the detea1 the strike, in which left laGWU leaders forced the strikerc back of bree back management's arawing hat frome Heath the Second Annual thought ment got home' lesson

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docks and GKN. Conference With the publication of Robert Carr's consultative document' at the beginning of Discuss Octoher the Tory oftensive prepared behind closed doors the election, came out

THE CHARTER OF

nto the open. It coincided with the coun

BASIC RIGHTS

strike, victory important blow dealt the Torv nians The right to a job, to strike and fighting It proved that the the class working strength ot organize, to retain gains made, back can drive the a lesson which was shortly to to fair prices, to welfare benefits confirmed, negative ror, eir ts chim. miners' struggle and to decent housing. It was the Communist Party, Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to the

C. NUM

collaboration with force the Tories to resign.

which engineered the breaking ot this stre.

BIRMINGHAM

NO DIFFERENCE

Sat. December 19 the This was outcome the Communist Partv's policies co_axistence' Digbeth Civic Hall, which as the pamphlet clearly counter- the same Moscow Digbeth 10.30. am butchering Lenin's For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s hetore the the to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, defeat tha the Chanich Styvechale, Coventry. working class under Franco's fascism.