Workers Press no. 332

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1970 •

NUMBER 332

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Mersey 'Morning Star' excuses Gomulka Mr dock More stewards call for towns General Strike join revolt MERSEYSIDE dock shop aimed stewards

DIOWS

What yesterday Doun Dorl speed-up anu-union payer product tolerat lecisianon we They brodkeivy deal and think Stake e The government's going to come after us like the power workers' said Len White.

man, seen extreme left with colleagues at Lee Green fire station in SE London.

today was made imposto

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

e impossibil Clashes TENS OF THOUSANDS of Polish workers, Working to rule over pay by the stewards, reluse youth, and housewives are now in open struggle attend. eir representatives spread Dutschke: Firemen might against the Stalinist bureaucracy.

signilicant In advance Target of Polish police and negotiating terms Sympathetic troops have been walk out the right ordered to shoot to milestone told at l *Shots and tear gas gen any kill, and tanks are re- wing' if the PRESS US press so that ported to have mown BRITAIN'S 27,000 firemen began an indefinite

THE

WORKERS

down women and 'emergency calls only pay protest yesterday returned children in Szczecin following employers' refusal to up their 5.5 per for Heath's (Stettin). cent pay offer.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Alone eaten the rate

BY PETER READ

TEE

union law where, state do died The Tory government. WITH Prime Minister Heath in Nixon's Camp people gathered to disci No agreement David mountain retreat, the 'New York Times' White ch tondo l the student demonstrations das were demo mara to o worked have been production men there namaste yesterday published an editorial supporting the But chare of Basic ThiS Tory anti-union legislation.

has been reached ent maam of right extremist groups' tened to then the employer.

until reely lated that governmentse When asked of the se nome enabled Centrax We feel that this Charter is British to con 21s OFFER worder remedy trad massive routhput. ny inse and Cecho stepping sKetchiest legal frame would be ye ruthless her will not tainly unh the Slogans attempts supply Terks and waiin the cits o7, the Mere

STAINED

Order a situation of law an The Fater, ill said 10a) The "Times great Rolls blades bed el hanship bens right her buse an ate or ing Impression • setusins to do enthusiastic response "The Springer y arousing the thing Th E1,250 Dec. Heavy weather iress minorities they Doing job Appeal Fund and troops prevented Ceman sees patic Republic.

for MDW talks Anger over needs monstrationsing the midday convenors' lost revealing of all is th at B-Leyland its studence-keeping Albertz Dutschke's £3000 On to his nea tase in 1068 at snary traditions of te British workin t MEASURED-DAY WORK talks at British- volationarat one Leyland's Morris car-assembly plant at Cowley for the authorities convenien have run into heavy weather.

also there were instigated the riots

BY DAVID MAUDE

emer speed-up. Bin sneers and Foul: eaucracy and martins deteries dye talents be No decision hond lie workers. reall

FRANCO'S

lascist cabine . in the streets into th anion teared by Heath him.

met yesterday, but there wa: Disarmed il no news or the or t self: is reported that the arms took Basque INCREASED gas charges for 's for striking s court-martial ended ten days radical The prosecution has de. weak in dead in rhetoric and ago. specially-con manded six aeatn sentence the an also years wilson and editorial company in theis and a total no side the money backer me imprisonment for the accused.

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Liverpool on Monday. ind Crankiewick ou is truly fighting for is lite Indispensable will double to ts consumers

RELEASE THE BURGOS 16!

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well as abor peaty not as

MARCH

NO RECOGNITION OF FRANCO REGIME!

Soviet oil for Spain Foispensable are Small profits They her pail fril stake al will national economic policy.

oheren Assemble 2.30 p.m.

TOMORROW

Coming a Barn, C tighly-profitable However, Heath will need Trafalgar Square he worress ta the hit year, and posti March to the Spanish Embassy against his Bill 16 Basque nationalists being and profits

THE DAILY ORGAN OF T

Prague

SLOVAKIA:

we A

THE

e the Poward of the be ok sier by best confirm- Without the reconstitution of ociety there o dictator ing • hot most most cor cornatou 1 for the working pration in the torm of

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The daily paper that leads the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1970 • NUMBER 33:

ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Mersey dock stewards call for General Strike MERSEYSIDE dock shop stewaras aimed blows yesterday born port speed-uD and anal-union blocked Tand 'The government's going to come after us like the power workers' said Len White- strike comic shed tor en man, seen extreme left with colleagues at Lee Green fire station in SE London.

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Clashes a lo her reported TENS OF THOUSANDS of Polish workers, Working to rule over pay youth, and housewives are now in open struggle spread to attend. Dutschke: against the Stalinist bureaucracy.

In advance CLASHES between Polish police and Employer members of th responsibl committee have been ter Lord Devlin's

LOUDS

the right ordered shoot to Gdansupsk, sat daug kill, and tanks are re- ubmitted posed days wing' if ported to have mown BRITAIN'S 27,000 firemen began an indefinite down women and 'emergency calls only' pay protest yesterday returned children in stewards also SzczecIn following employers' refusal to up their 5.5 per (Stettin). cent pay offer.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

This Baltic

BY PETER READ

1 throu leaders warne report, ugh fron that the THE PUBLICAIIONS of th lovers aralde is not German millionaire Axe ally lobby * of tremen erip ly. to bring down is, soldiers саа вой 45. WITH Prime Minister Heath in Nixon's Camp No agreement gathered to discuss David mountain retreat, the 'New York Times' man, London t Negotiat for 50s. Present amen yesterday the t Phase Ty-type 1 firemens rate wete walk out yesterday published an editorial supporting the ductivity were The Communist Party head- Soing Tory anti-union legislation.

mim of right extremist groups claim has reached cracking the over us into inter wept employers repaid have meani the Springer press to Centrax bombs and flailing with you disc employers unrest Herr Albert all same a anyone 21s OFFER Less any 1956 Workers sala. Czecho Concede 10 reent, the will not Brish Labor monour reduction on tre fees of a calls-bute Slogans supply as ed with hogary The polic

STAINED

worky called an official strike order: a situation of law and me who ruthless Rolls blades see ornal sio parily dam aroused their suse is acing disrupted.

STRIKING

turbine-blade expressi £1,250 Dec oThes town's third shipyard and those who did trive di Doing job Appeal Fund Hon ta she *Which wait ane Anger over needs undertook in quieter times. convenors' £562 19s 1d earlier €3000 official Haechris 1 Kevick neuded the before MEASURED-DAY WORK talks at British- pay off Leyland's Morris car-assembly plant at Cowley have run into heavy weather.

will have

BY DAVID MAUDE

announce losses over the Leyland combine as the forward a whole are taken Hence Leyland's Law aid feder. out to destro.

'submitted te international is fighting ever-Bird eater's denunciations Rights Wider compass Attorney-General, Sir Peter omenting Undoubtedly students No decision and Heath cabinet

FRANCOS

anion stered by opinion im inner cabinet or la purposes.

Disarmed met yesterday, Dur lnere was and district leader still no news of the verdicts Sheffield in the Burgos trial of 16 took special me shares to mis the *re parad nd to tag wins the AEF whose 900,000 ConSu Dasque * on Decem mies and doubtes court-martial ended ten days striking on Easteri Sponses only n-the ago. The prosecution has de- no con mue the corps manded death sentences odenough group week editorial 724 year Wilson also total to give the money back? me proved. Fami increase torpest on Mondaester The spet place with the comment: are imprisonment for the accused the Indispensable

RELEASE THE BURGOS 16!

PAGE FOUR COL. 7

well as abor Meath now on this nervousness.

MARCH

NO RECOGNITION OF FRANCO REGIME!

Soviet oil for Spain Small profits mational economic policy.

The demonstratioe Ad Novorosiok and are ite

TOMORROW

Assemble 2.3u p.m Organizite of Basques. highly-profitable new Trafalgar Square However, Heath will need 125. Shepherd so mine March to the Spanish Embassy and portworkers in France Bush Rd. We workers' have to tlo against his Bill. 16 Basque nationalists being in the last year, and profits

MINERS SPENCERISM

PAGE TWO

& DERBY.

NOTTS.

You are asked to be LOYAL to the Federation ! You HAVE BEEN LOYAL at the expense of your savings, your wages, your domestic happiness.

WHAT IS YOUR REWARD?

Debts, empty hopeless promises, a few

THE COAL-

shillings here ind there, Russian money

OWNERS

DRAGGED from desperately poor

TO A.

J. Soviet workers! and now

COOK'S

CAMPAIGN

TO BRING

A COUNCIL OF WAR!

THE MEN

OUT.

Against Whom Against What?

AGAINST THE INDUSTRY!

YOUR JOBS!

YOUR BEST INTERESTS!

BE MEN, NOT CHILDREN,

and FACE THE FACTS! lieuge & Muggletone. Pretera. Station t. Munshel

SOME PAGES FROM MINERS' HISTORY

BY JACK GALE

THE PURPOSE of the miners' 1926 strike was threefold: (1) to resist a reduction in wages; (2) to resist an extension of hours; (3) to resist district Nottinghamshire, Outside agreements. Bolsover Corkshite Derbyshire But in October 1926. whie the miners were still on Barber and Walker's Bentley Col- strike, the miners' executive learned that district settlements 'Union'. recognized Wales power- were being reached in Nottinghamshire through the agency ally Duffryn lowell of Mr George Alfred Spencer, a Labour MP sponsored by Mining Company the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association.

In the trade union movement, Spencer's pits in s expelled from rea Miners' Federation onference, Kritain but begun organ- Novem bet he had which had broken izing the sits Into a perman ent organization. Preliminary hesitations After fter preliminary hesitations coal

POLICE ATTACKING A STRIKER, 1926

and Dis- Industrial Union- trict miners' The fund sole used Saveler's trison of uhe Nationas negotiating richts in return DensIon •was to pressurize une 1927 Spencers Havelock aDour re auons beine main - WIson ot his can ho tained on a 'peaceful' footing.

close more unior Rv December. the owners had peration with the employers Net agreed not to recognize the Not.

Associa- Sion bad made a Brain with anenamsnire Miners Doltician hmmanuel t E10,000 Spencer's pension fund, in every way: further gift of £2,500 hem build lowed by in April, 1927. oppose the General Strike.

IMPORTANT READING

An interest-free Spencer's Union never renre ented a majority of the miner loan w trim ,shi to

NIMA

from MARXISM and the • receded 15300by f

TRADE UNIONS

Ode Spencer's 4 000 The semade an interest free Derbyshire. Newcastle, organ-

LEON

Wilson, meeting Employers' Spencer and Frank Hodges.

TROTSKY

Collier and officials free recognition icaned tickets and to get oroznızed free car rides Trade unions in the miners to this meeting. epoch of Imperialist NMA membership fell later to complet chimn that the man NMA men mid-1930s, to Rise ahout 4000 hi to rice •contined in decay.Communism again in bee Y and syndicalism. the fact that the employers recog wanted onlv Spencer' c Union TUC organized a ballot of niceuded the NMA m the Dist Union trict dea tes Board. unaer SuDer. solicitors. Available from Spencer and his friends tmed News Part Pam can st. Swa.

spread influence, tael Despite management victimiza.

ferences held were WIlD reac oublished on tionary that employers stale. would like information about Welbeck Col.

I THE SOCIALIST

all period, recuced price thists were

LABOUR LEAGUE

Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address

WORKERS PRESS

At the beginning of 1935 there

NMA

were only seven members at Harworth out of 2,285 men. By the end of the year there were 157 and six months later, 302. In August 1936 the manager refused to see NMA officials over the men's grievances, since the Union was recognized.

HOL

NMA

Active members were locked out and men's grievances -particularly dirt deduc- over tions-increased. A ballot of Harworth miners over which Union should repre- sent them 1,175 for went the NMA and only 145 for Spencer's Union. But the Company still insisted it would employ only Spencer members. Strike for recognition

G. A. SPENCER

By December, Harworth recognitit issued, which were agreed to by strike was on for Spencer's Union. of the NMA. One owner—a cer- Captain Only those men who accepted tain Muschamp-spoke the reduced prices and who for his class: agreed to have contributions to 'We want to adopt the German Spencer's Union stopped out of idea [in 1937. course, this OL their pay were re-employed. 800 fascism). If the meant govern- men lost their jobs rather than ment is to check future trouble it submit to these terms. must put its foot down and put it down strongly. In some Nottinghamshire min- merely to be known ing villages, "In this district we have been as an NMA member was to invite much blessed with very peace the sack. At Annesley Colliery the over last ten This and yeas 200 men were given notice credit to district can take itself would told that the notices smashed the for having national operate unless they joined Spen- strike anc since then have we cer's Union. carried peaceably with the on Industrial Union The TUC talked the [Spencer's] for about ten years. problem, but did nothing. 'The can thank the Hundreds of men driven were Union Industrial for out of the pits for refusing to preventing strike Christmas. a year last join Spencer. Union has This Industrial been the buffer which has prevented strikes in this

COUNTYA

'I am sorry to say that nego- Failure tiations taking place which are the result of smashing may have up the Industrial Union. We to grow hope not' The Harworth management reflected this arrogance, declar- ing that there would be only many pits real trade union- jobs for 350 of the strikers and In ism disappeared. Bilsthorpe Col- that more than 700 would never liery had only 40 NMA members, get their jobs back. Ollerton only 25, Harworth only six and Thorseby only three. Yet, despite this, workers' On their and steadfastness was courage responsible for Spencerism's knees failure grow into national miners' organization and for the Havelock failure of Spencer and Wilson to build a 'non-political' trade union centre in opposition to the

TUC.

The leadership Miners' of the Federation, by with the By 1935 the miners' fighting Contrast employers and with their own spirit was the up-grade once on members, were their knees. and again they voted by They majority of 380,136 to were only too to national get fusion with Spencer's strike for flat addition rate Spencer to wages of 2s a day. organization. was also The leader- eager for this- ship, accepted -on his own terms. however, much less, varying from Is to 5d in The MFGB executive accepted different areas. these terms which included (1) That the agreement Things head Came arrived between Spencer and Harworth Colliery at Bircotes in Notts mine owners should N Nottinghamshire. This village be extended for five years. (2) The land was a company village. That there should be no strikes and houses were owned by the in Notts for these five years.

Company (Barber Walker). The Church was also in the company's (3) That Spencer's Union be pocket since the company not allowed full- to nominate three only provided the land on which time officials to the NA's two. the church, the parish hall and Salvation hut That the Army were (4) Spencer should be built, it also paid the curate-in- president of the fused Union charge £400 a year! for ten vears. 3

BEVERCOTES COLLIERY IN NOTTINGHAM, 1970

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1971. I1 a.m.

ALEXANDRA

Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance

PALACE

GREAT NATIONAL

Wood Green

RALLY AGAINST

London, N22

TORYISM

BOOK THIS DATE NOW!

GENERAL

STRIKE

1926. for a further five years.

However, a special conference the

MFGB

repudiated of the And the MFGB what executive and rejected Spencer's gave amounted to a strike-free pledge terms outright. Subsequently to the Notts owners. ballot vote resulted in huge majority for a national strike to gain recognition and no victimi- zations at Harworth. What happened, The Union Seabs under leadership ignored both the Con- ference decision and the ballot.

police escort The NMA fused with Spencer's Union on September 1, 1937, to the Nottinghamshire and form District Miners' Federated Union.

What became of the Harworth men? Spencer became the perman- ent president of this They had fought on valiantly.

tion until his retirement In June 1937, 16 men and one 1945; woman were charged with riotous the Spencer-negotiated wages agreement became binding assembly as scabs were being

'LAW AND ORDER', 1926

TV SATURDAY

BBC 1

9.35 a.m. Square two. 10.00-10.30 Si dice cosi. 12 noon Weather.

12.05 p.m. Space kidettes. 12.25 EdandZed. 12.45 Grandstand.

12.50 Football preview. 1.10, 1.40 Fights of the week. 1.20, 1.50, 2.25 3.00 Racing from Ascot. 2.10 Cricket. Second Test: Australia v Eng- 3.20 International table tennis: England v land. 2.45, Sweden. 3.35 Rugby league: Leigh v Featherstone. 4.50 Results service. 5.20 Pink Panther show. 5.40 News and weather. 5.50 Dolphin safari.

6.05

IF ITS SATURDAY IT MUST BE NIMMO.

6.45 DIXON OF DOCK GREEN. 'Flle No 7/948732/462'.

7.30

THE ROLF HARRIS SHOW.

8.20

SATURDAY THRILLER.

'Fame Is the Name of the Game'.

With Tony Franciosa and Jill St John. A journalist decides to ask questions about a suicide case which leads to murder.

9.55 NEWS and weather. 10.05

MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.05

BRADEN'S WEEK.

11.40 Weather.

REGIONAL BBC

All regions as above except: Scotland: 5.00-5.20 norte. 10.35-11.05 reel. Python's Monty E Anglia, A North, Midlande flying circus. 11.42 News weather Cumberland Rugby eather. 3.35.4.30 union South, 42 W Te and Ulster 5.05. Wales: 12.05-12.25 50.45.11.03 are Sa506 15 5.20 news. restlits and Disc 11.42 Weather. Sports final. News, the day. weatner.

BBC 2

3.00-5.05 p.m. Saturday cinema.

'Flower Drum Song'. With Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta. A young girl from Hong Kong arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown.

7.10

WESTMINSTER.

7.30 NEWS, SPORT and weather. 7.40

RUGBY

SPECIAL.

1871-1971 RFU Centenary Year series: Ulster v Leinster. 8.20

ONE PAIR

OF EYES. 'The Dreamwalkers'. Idries Shah sums up the everyday lives of people in Britain today.

9.05

CHAMPAIGN

ON ICE.

With Roger Whittaker, Mungo Jerry, Tanja Berg and David Rosaire and his performing dogs.

THE ROADS TO FREEDOM.

9.55 10.30

'BEZHIN MEADOW.

Eisenstein never edited this film and it was destroyed but Eisenstein always kept the first and last frames of every sequence he shot.

11.00 NEWS ON 2 and weather. 11.05

DISCO 2.

MIDNIGHT MOVIE. 'The Last Sunset'. With Kirk Douglas and 11.40 Rock Hudson. A killer visits his childhood love.

ITV

11.05 a.m. RAC road report. 11.10 Music room.

11.35 Toolbox. 12 noon Wind in the willows. 12.15 p.m. Stingray. 12.45 London.

5.10 Forest rangers. 5.40 Ev. 6.10

NEWS.

6.15 SATURDAY SPORTS NEWS.

BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. 'Jethro in the Reserve'.

6.30 7.00

GOLDDIGGERS IN LONDON.

7.30

IT'S TARBUCK.

8.00 HAWAII FIVE-O. 'Force of Waves'.

THE FBI.

9.00 10.00

NEWS AT TEN.

10.10

BEETHOVEN'S

BIRTHDAY. A musical celebration. Leonard Vienna State Bernstein, the Opera Chorus and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with leading soloists commemorate the bi-centenary of Beethoven's birth.

11.40 THINK TWICE. With Russell Davies and Clive James.

11.55 THREE SCORE AND MORE.

REGINAL

ITV

CHANNEL: 12.45

45 London, 5.15 Shane. So Piper. 12.43 London Meat S.is 12020 London. Valiant oper. 7.15 Film: It's Tarbuck the bottom sea. 6.10 With Mills Manni ondon Skele- Witt Robert Risso 9.00 Todd Dale Kichard 10 no To be d 10. 10 Th Marianne done. and couldn't Two insurance Invactigators Africa a sunken

WASTE PE

Journey sunken As 2. Channel 7.55 diamond dredger Bold. 9.25 12.p0r per Faith search 8.25 9.55 Golddiggers Seaner: Paul. News. 12d Weather. ton o.

11.50 ranhit 10.00 London Saturday, December 19, 1970 led into work under heavy police escort. One of these received two years' hard labour, two got 15 months, one got 12 months, six (including Mrs Margaret Haymer) got nine months, one got six months and one four months.

And what reward did these workers receive from their so- called leadership? They were abandoned. The was allowed management to impose its sackings and only 350 out of almost 1,000 strikers got their jobs back. The leaderships of the miners had capitulated both to Spencer and to the employers. HARLECH: 12.15 Skippy 5.40 12.45 Lon- don. of fortune. Hopkirk 5.10 Robin Hood. Wheel 6.10 London. 6.15 Ran- dall and (deceased). 7.10 F troop 7.40 Saint. 9.30 It's Tarbuck! 10.00 London. 11.45 Cinema. 12.15 Weather. HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white service as above except: 6.15-7.10 mised.

ANGLIA:

12.15 All our yesterdays. 12.45 London. 5.10 Ev. 5.40 Wheel of fortune. 6.10 London. 6.15 Gold- 6.45 "Crack in the World'.

diggers. With Dana AndrewsAlexander Knox. Janette Scott. Kieron Moore and below nuclear bomb is detonated the surface of the earth. 8.30 It's Tarbuck. 9.00 10.00 London. 10.10 Ghost and 10.40 Muir. Jokers wild. 11.10 Name of the game.

12.35 Epilogue.

ATV MIDLANDS:

zation okers 12 noon Decimal- 12.15 Joe 90. 12.45 London. 5.10 Wheel wild. 5.40 of fortune. 6.10 London. 6.15 Gold- diggers. 6.45 Legend of Jesse James. 7.10 It's Tarbuck. 7.45 Horoscope. 7.48 Film: "The Douglas, Tony Curtis, ordic Vikings'. With Kirk Ernest Borgnine and Tanet Leigh. warriors. London. Theatre. 30.00 10.10 11.15 Strange report, weather. ULSTER: 12.30 Wind in the willows.

12.45 London. 5.10 Beverly hillbillies.

London. Wild 5.40 Sportscast. 6.10 6.15 Golddiggers. 6.45 Film: The With Stewart Granger, North'. Wen- dell Corey and Cyd Charisse. A fur from the trapper of Canada wastes comes to town. 8.30 It's Tarbuck 9.00 11.10 10.00 Marcus Welby MD. London. 10.10 Theatre. Movie: "The Pigeon', With Sam Montaiban. Ir. 'aran- Pat Boone and Ricardo tic search for a missing diary.

YORKSHIRE: 11.30 Casting around.

London. S.b unsmoke. S6.0 Londons Toolbox. Golddiggenappers. With Duncan 6.45 It's Tarbuck. 7.15 "The Macrae, Corri he effect Adrienne Ton White- ley, Vincent Winter. of two children on a grumpy Scotsman. 9.00 Carol Channing's English tea paral. "0.00 London. 10.10 Term Laurence Olivier. Simone Signoret, Terence Stamp, and Miles. Sarah A schoolmaster is ac- cused assaulting a girl pupil. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 11.25 On reflection. 11.50 Toolbox. 12.15 Fireball

XIS.

12.45 London. 5.15 Lost in space. 6.10 Lon- don. 6.15 Golddiggers. 6.45 New people. 7.35 It's Tarbuck. 8.00

FBI.

9.00 Champions. 10.00 London. 10.10 Film: •Toys in the Attic'. With Geraldine Page, Two spinsters Wendy Hillar and Dean Martin. have locked themselves away from the world. TYNE TEES: 12.15 Joe 90. 12.45 Lon- 5.15 Bonanza. don. 6.10 London. 6.15 Golddiggers. _ 0.4 Film: Canyone Cross 6.45 It's Tarbuck. 7.15 Horoscope roads'. With Richard Basehart Phyllis Kirk. A young prospector has pent years looking for uranium.

9.00 Engelbert Humperdinck. 10.00 Lon- don. 10.10 Theatre. 11.15 Seaway. 12.10 Epilogue. BORDER: 11.50 All our yesterdays. 12.20 Phoenix 5. 12.45 London. 5.10 Big valley. %.15.05 Sports results. 6.10 London. Golddiggers. 6.45 Tt's Tarbuck! 7.15 lA Star Is Born'.

With Garland and Tames Mason. Tudy A band soloist who gets a leading role in a musical becomes and instant suc- cess. 10.00 London. 10.10 Theatre. 11.15 Pursuers. 11.40 Love, American style. SCOTTISH: 12.15 Survival. 12.45 Lon lon. 5.15 Mad movies. 5.40 Whee of fortune. 6.45rS STarbuck. 7.15 Said.

London. 6.10 Gold- singers. Movie: "Peter Hurkos Story' With Albert Salmi. 9.45 Love, Ameri- can stvle. 10.00 London. 10.10 Marcus Welby MD. 11.05 Match report. 11.20 Late 11.25 Film: call. "Curse of the Werewolf'. Clifford Evans and With Oliver Reed. GRAMPIAN: 12.30 Stories of Tuktu.

London. Golddiggers. 12,45 5.15 Gunsmoke. 6.10 Tarbuck. With London. 6.15 6.45 It's 7.15 Movie. 'Lady in the Lake'. Robert Montgomery. Audrey Totter and Lloyd Nolan.

Phil- touchablese dictive sondon 9.00 Un_ touchables. 10.00 11.40 Match report.

Saturday, December 19, 1970

WORKA PRO

ATUA conference today 'Fight for what is ours' will inevitably Two printing workers who

PROTEST.

or a serious the

HOW CO

torce And they union leaders to fight? participated in December 8 campaign to force the Tories be among the major issues to resign and replace them questions the hese are The uD Ior discusson al today's wind up pre-comerence class second annual conference of debate on the ATUA Char- with firmly facing working government committed socialist of Basic Rights to following the December o The AlIrades Unions All fully discussed and amended programme? strike. ance in birminenan. al me conrerence JANETTE HARKNESS is an executive member of the PAUL HUNILEY IS deputy chapel latner al a central London printing works. He has been 19 years a member of Society of Graphical and Allied Trades' 'A' Division and the SOGAT Division 'A': union's chapel mother at a large Glasgow publishing firm Her attack on the 'left' union leaders' failure to support CONE OF the feaching children wide sub.

December 8 oficially at the November 14 conference of the way Stalinist-led Liaison Committee for Defence of Trade chest factory toddeclas to prices on a hid is thes Umas went unreportea lu te communist rarty Mornig Star's report of that gathering.

Where Buildin 8 should be nati No such pontical censorship Is exerted nere.

recent down for the other nationaliza- • Charter. I think is's very generation tions. hat the ric cal what is and : to aemant Recep reds overwhelme Lab think General soGAT menrership. they wil. they may act with take the must mae quires Whilst were bis push! trade proximately the workers' right to used before In ver time casea to see In think the a becomine worried it th to woom a General tanc call for government struggles in the the more aware of the distortions cause of workers tree dom will be The presente to book ter Communist peopaganda. employus" interests look at it The * nooners *Evening whose county to slary home showed and it must be shoned poat men take ine into the press. ris took on she the Charte with everything in We've got to do something We should take European they

VELL

REVIEW

have pen should your wages as pension. Italian workers on for he so back we are notreeting han yotent the whole educa.

the move they done ten o eard THE MURDER of 23-year- comprehenses old Saverio Saltarelli-killed when his rib-cage was frac- tured and his heart damaged police tear-gas shell Dy a hired at

SUNDAY

during a demonstration Milan last Saturdav

BBC 1

warning of the violence lying Nai zindagi-naya 9.00-9.30 a.m. 11.00-11.35 in wait for the Italian work- believing. 7.25-1.50 weather Britain. lade in and the 3.20 Ken Dodd • Diddymen. 3.30 12.15 Weathei member of the ner Communist opposed Tens of thousands marched in Mllan last Tuesday In a demonstration called by the student movement to protest against the police murde _unctime dialogue in st Mary-le-Bow.

of Salverlo Sattarell!. Weather: .00° Far rsity chal ruDDerwOrKerS ratiniatra of mill sent to Paris to investigate a trade delegation.

danis in the tacores

10.05 MINUS.

ano weather. 'Somewhere a Volce is Calling'. Mid-Victorian 1.30 Mr FIAT workers in Turin's; al evening al nome Mirafiore 11-35 Weather. 10T, carol, sane, they managee drop

REGIONAL

ввс the All regions as above except: restrain the ion a demon organ Pozzuoll workers near Naples, chomonstra neic ввс 2 7.00 p.m. NEWS REVIEW and weather.

ROWAN AND

MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN,

PET

8.15 Ine WoRLD Aboul us. ine Living rorest.

on 6. vienna boys unoir. Etalsider NEWS ON 2 and weather FILM NIGHT SPECIAL. Tony Curtis.

11.05 se wai l'acciaro

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I In Milan last Tuesday In a demonstration ment to protest against the police murder Salverlo Sattarelli. Journalists, clothing workers in Tuscany, and railwaymen have also forced strike action on their unions. Alongside this offensive goes sharpening activity and provoca- tions by the various fascist organizations-culminating in the Trieste rioting against Tito's state visit, which was abandoned. Many sections of workers are alert to the danger of fascism, and banners raised on the sup- posedly 'economic' strikes give them a political character un- sought by the trade union bureaucrats. The demonstrations against the Burgos trial in Milan and other cities raised quite clearly the question of the fight against fascism in Italy. The Stalinist leaders have encouraged joint demonstrations 'anti-fascist' . of all parties including the Christian Demo- crats—-but it is the contingents of organized workers that dom- inate the streets. On Tuesday the labour move- ment in Trieste replied to the fascist riots with a march thou- sands There have also strong. been big anti-fascist demonstra- tions in Milan, Turin, Novara, Cuneo and many other cities and towns. It is this inexorable pressure which is breaking up the basis of the 'centre-left' coalition (of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Socialist Party and Republicans). Crumbled The centre-left arrangements in Sicily, Sardinia and the city administration of Milan have already crumbled. The Stalinists wish to use this movement to secure their place in another government of class compromise and betrayal—-but at every point it breaks through the limits 'of parliamentary man- oeuvre and raises the class issues of wages, employment and the defence of the trade unions.

And such erruptions terrify 'the peaceful the advocates of road'. To their impotent bleat- ings about 'structural reforms' and 'a shifting of the political axis to the left' the Stalinist chiefs now add open incitement to the government to move against their political opponents in the labour movement. Communist Party General Sec- retary Luigi Longo this week called on the regime to 'defend freedom and the constitution and break, with the maximum energy, the criminal action of the extremist groups.

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well in the points it makes about the welfare services.

I would express the demand for equal pay for women dif- terently. To me, equal pay can equal The mean misery. demand should not be taken up separate issue- -separating women trom men workers-but as a class issue.

And it is important to fight as a class for the rate for the job. In trade, few women are recognized for their skill. My policy would be to tell the employers that the we. workers in the industry, will make the job-classification.

We should fight for a rate for the job to negotiated by both men and in joint action. In the print industry we were some of the first to be hit by automation, with the development of web-offset We have been plant. under severe attack, but we opposed job-evaluation. This brought home to

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that the craft was disappearing and it must organize into the union Feather after winning the TUC Youth within the industry all workers.

't fight she says now. I am organization for the of workers into a union for getting them understand LO each industry. who are the real people that matter in this These country. This is what the glass- first of all, the are, workers workers tried Pil- do tO at at the point of production; kington's. their wives, children and the old age pensioners. I think they put up a tre- fight. Someone mendous Marx explained how things should write book on the are given a valuation. Pilkington -bringing struggle- What price be put can out the savage attack by the life? To me life is priceless. employers and the To the employer it is a ques- ment, the role of the union tion of whether, on the death bureaucracy and the power of of a worker, the payment of the workers. cheaper than compensation 1s All socialist investment in safety movements should unite, and I tions and regulations for his urge all workers. organizations that believe in socialist struggle to come We saw this attitude together fight to defeat expressed in Aberfan and the the Tory Bill. If win James Watt St fire. we can the fight against this Bill, The Charter of Basic Rights can win brings out these points very anything. A Osservatore Roman week

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this in Equally, it has been authori- daily tatively denied that the official organ of the Vatican- liturgical reforms have involved denied the allegations of wafers for the faithf Communion enrichment Dutch member of parliament that the Church was involved in 'L'Osservatore Romano' starts illicit trafficking of foodstuffs.

by pointing that Mr Vrede- out ling's statistics inaccurate. Mr H. Vredeling, a Socialist are During the last year Vati- Party MP the and a representative imported only 1,239 metric the 'European can Parliament' France)- had remarked tons of sugar (from on the high level implying an average consumption of the Vatican's imports of but- about a quarter of a pound and Common sugar from Market countries. a day per head. life, perhaps, but by They implied, he pointed wepT out, no means impossible for a man consumption of four kilo- of faith. (almost nine pounds As for the butter, the divine day) of per butter for each of tabloid resorts to different argu- the Holy City's 900 or so inhabi- ments. The Vatican has the right, it The implication was that the food points out, to supply not goods were in fact destined for but only to its own inhabitants, profitable re-export-which is a to its employees and dependants violation of the existing eco- in Rome and the surrounding nomic agreements. area-numbering several tens of While it has frequently been thousands in ali remarked (even by priests in And, since the price of butter Holy Orders) that the circum- in the Italian market is particu- ference of Vatican officials larly high, con- it does so, each soul siderably exceeds that of the receiving only few pounds average cleric, this is apparently year. not the explanation. The editorialist ends with a Their girth, it is pointed out, stern reproof to those who '..

Church little and is due to the sedentary life that knowing the the service of the Lord obliges loving her less, seek to find scan- dal at all costs. them to lead. and not to the peculiarities of their diet.

Amen.

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A significant A second letter to Gollan milestone General secretary of the Communist Party

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ol Great britain irom G. Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League.

revolutionary leader- by and stainism Liars and very good reass You Ken am as flers of incidents or capitu the British their lies or reatest HIStoriCa beginning like Ramelson of Stalin 1 on go you Includ- • but inb fact you me of that days not 1sm Sat during tendency nelson are tod Communist Party, you, neitner same class as the Pos did in trans t Stalin premily no mor anti h Stalin. agencipitalist press and similar dealing woak Trotskyis mith ame Charter of G. Healy more. You cannot Arafat erodes Feather nervous guerrillas of General positions THE PALESTINE guerrilla movement is now Strike calls In a serious saluauon ds lls posiuon Is steadily eroded under the constant pressure of King Hussein's torces. Jerash, one of the few guer- illa-contr * heaving AIR Corporations Joint Action 3 the Committee. wnich Speaks Ior ONE-DAY strike action on January 12 would be 'premature', control. najor town under their BOAC and BEA workers, are according to Trades Union Congress general secretary Victor Feather.

all Caledonian/BUA Royalist troops aircraft diverted to Heathrow He told Luton trades council meeting as to attack commando French strike trom watwick Around WAnna on Thursday night that

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on the of basic militia HQ. no workplaces throughnes inquiry muld activity broughout mad power- men's pay. Unions pushed MONe GAS PRICA Ur Finance Minister Mr pushed he rest hate (see as Bo) N Thames the price y 41,000 million Communist MPS have including a minimum and by once of the ca a week for average household o a fresh ver the next for policy Hyen Stree ther hand, pendent on the measures bei passca. THE CAMPAIGN inside the US labour movement for the release of juan Farinas is to be stepped up, following his con- viction by a New York court on charges aris- from his anti-war activities. January 28. • Vientees. wal an behavioly the beative Serve oren indur nade ou hou never refused t вести te war

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state av the United Hospital and Board said eat Duts spita d eight epileptic attacks stress and wory at his acaden and quiet, was cleat el and avoide - exces- might have created makers and called of after two Human nder which fongsh of timer V German deal tor the retex stres with German capitalism. is very policy with al Soviet approval. nanding that the National Peace Action Coalition s . The NPAC would not though several of its co-o personal capacity'. youth or possible opposition to the war and sympathy for the defendant. The prosecution wit- contradictory nesses gave evidence and were forced under cross-examination to admit that no disruption had taken place.

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Farinas told the court: 'There is a war going on outside and in this court- room as well. I take sides in this war, with the auto workers, the rail workers, the postal workers and those fighting the bosses.'

It was also clear whose side the judge was on. Judge Pollack interrupted the pro- ceedings to sign injunctions against the rail strike! Despite the inability of the prosecution to sub-

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against the working class. He warned: "These excesses cannot be justified by anything. Every- one must differentiate be- tween difficult problems of our economy and material standard of the working class, which can, should, and will be dis- cussed, and solved, and the basic interests of the state and nation which nobody has ever any right to. en- danger.' In other words, the whole the bureaucracy's system of power is being called in question by the struggle of the workers, and this cannot be allowed. Hence the news yesterday that an 'unspecified number' of arrests has been made, and the government's announce- ment that the 'guilty" will be severely punished. Ultimatum Kociolek in Vice-premier his speech said : 'Many decisions and de- mands put forward, were sometimes in ultimatum form.

I want to say in all frankness -these are in the majority demands incapable of fulfil- ment, just as it is impossible to reverse decisions already taken.' It is this insoluble crisis for the bureaucracy that explains the violence of their reaction, and which makes nonsense of the complaints of capitalist press and 'Morning Star' alike that the price increases were 'clumsily mistimed'. Kociolek's statement also confirms yet again that the problem is not one of 'pro- vocateurs' or 'hooligans', but one of class struggle, charac- terized by political and eco- nomic demands, by strikes, by demonstrations, by open- air meetings. The combination of the struggle in the streets and in the factories reflects the advanced stage reached by the processes leading to political revolution. There is no doubt that, as in the Hungarian revolution an d the Czechoslovak struggles, youth are to the fore. The bureaucracy is broad- casting appeals to parents to off the streets, keep and is tying the strintse workers that they older are being led astray by the irres- ponsible youth. Blarne Cyrankiewicz persists in blaming the disorders on 'anarchist and hostile forces wanting to disrupt political discipline and the moral and political unity of the nation'.

They were assisted, he said, by people who through lack of knowledge and bitterness heeded their calls' One big question however remains unaswered: how is it that the Polish Communist Party, given undisputed poli- tical authority and state power for a whole generation, can- not compete for the loyalty of the working class with these so-called 'anarchist and hos- tile forces'?! It is this very question which is left unanswered by the Stalinist 'Morning Star' in its editorial yesterday. It asks plaintively: It seems that it was planned Saturday, December 19, 1970 'Bombshell' lie in Ulster tribunal

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THE MURDEROUS role of the Ulster B-Specials in last year's Armagh fighting has been fully exposed in evidence to the Scarman Tribunal. A former sergeant of the ctlon Coalition sponsor the Farinas Tynan told the platoon veral of its coordinators did 'in a tribunal how B-Specials deliberately lied cover death their part in the of John Gallagher, who was shot down in the Cathedral Road area. Ex-sergeant James McWil- liams said that he fired three shots from his .45 revolver and heard a number of other shots. Then someone shouted that a man was dying and there was a call for an ambulance. The B-Specials then held a meeting and agreed to tell stantiate its case, the judge a false story. The guns were virtually directed the jury cleaned and oiled to cover to bring a verdict of guilty, evidence of use. by insisting that simply not McWilliams himself had keeping one's mouth shut stated in the face of vague and at the time he tnal had been on duty in another arbitrary directives street. tantamount to disruption.

Even so, the jury was out He said he was aware that for nearly be- tour hours his men had started shooting fore Farinas announcing without being ordered to do guilty. so, but he believed they fired The Defence Committee on instinct to them- now plans to hold a meet- selves against a hostile crowd ing of trade union sup- Mc Williams' evidence has porters of Farinas to widen dropped a bombshell into the support in the labour move- Meetings proceedings. being ment. are held and funds raised Earlier, the tribunal had throughout the country. been told by the platoon's sub-district command- An former appeal is planned to the US William Court Appeals. Murray that he of ant Both the Socialist Workers believed Gallagher had been Stalinists Party and the shot somewhere else and have refused brought Cathedral Road to mobilize to support for this victim and that the B-Specials were of the class being used as a scapegoat.

war. towns in revolt to readjust (?) wages with the words, 'We say as well Y We? as prices- but while the price And just who is this increases were immediate, Polish the Just what do the changes (?) were to be workers owe Messrs wage to you, delayed Gollan, Ramelson and com- 'Was it inevitable that the pany, who have always covered and and justified price wage readjustments every crime should separated? Was be it their bureaucratic oppres- sors? right to time the price in- creases for the immediate pre- In the way you, the Christmas period?' British Stalinists, have de- Was there ever more fended the bloody history of and crawling the Stalinist craven sub- whole apparatus servience Poland, Russia to bureaucratic In in and authority? everywhere else. Ihousands of workers And betray the are you in mass action on basic issues.

struggles of the workers in They are shot down dead the capitalist In countries, SO the street. What should be vital to the interests of the done? Polish workers. Your Stalinism is thus part Claptrap and parcel of the shootings, the tank charges, and the arrests now being perpetrated The authorities should be against the Polish workers. advised to 'time' their attacks better, so as to avoid upset- Not alone ting these "backward' workers with their minds set on en- The Polish workers are not joying Christmas. It is on the basis of this They will know how to alone. reject the feigned 'support' that sickening claptrap the right-wing and anti-communist 'Morning Star' says: for the groups eager restora- 'On the evidence so far tion of capitalism, and to wel- available, many will conclude the of - the that come support errors were made. Russia, millions of workers in *Many ?' And what, Czechoslovakia and E Europe does the British Com- pray, who stand behind the cour- munist Party conclude ? ageous protesting intelligentsia.

ErrOrS .• • They will know how to Are no conclusions to be welcome the support of the drawn that such 'errors' cause revolutionary struggles of the mass bloodshed, mass arrests?

Europe, Do not such 'errors' indicate workers in America, Africa and Asia. something about the nature of The Stalinist bureaucracy, the political system ? by its political methods, al- The 'Morning Star' piously ways brings fresh danger to concludes: "Their [the Polish the Communists] past conquests of the arguments and working class, but the crisis discussion are about the best of Stalinism today results from way to conduct the affairs of the rapidly a Socialist society.' growing strength of the international working It is not a socialist society class. ironing out its problems. The Kremlin Stalinists deformed workers' will be discussing at this deformed of a privi- state, the op- very moment the sending in pressive control of Soviet armed forces to leged bureaucracy battening suppress the Polish workers.

on the working class and For the working class to be collaborating with imperial- able smash Stalinism and ism against the workers in to to build the alternative revo- _the capitalist countries.

lutionary rational is the The transition to social- Fourth International now ism in these countries de- absolutely and en- necessary pends on the political revo- tirely possible. lution to overthrow the breaucracy, with rule by the Long live the political workers' councils, workers' revolution of the Polish workers ! management of the econ- omy, a revolutionary foreign Down with the Stalinist policy, and the abolition of bureaucracy! bureaucratic privileges. • For the socialist revolu- How can the British Stalin- tion in W Europe and 1sts point the way for the Polish workers, any more than America / for the British workers? Forward to the United They head their Socialist States of Europe !

editorial Xmas in the slums - by Glasgow MP

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of Glasgow Replying to the debate, the families will have to spend joint, parliamentary under- Christmas surrounded by rats, Scottish state, dampness and other infesta- Office, said tion said Gorbals MP, Frank that there were McElhone, in speaking the glamorous solutions to solve Commons yesterday. Glasgow's exceptional prob- Slums in Glasgow are four lems. The government, he said, is times worse than in any other not going to base its housing city in Britain, he said.

programme on a set of targets, These housing conditions pulled out of the air which it are a major cause of dysentry has no hope of fulfilling One type-Flexner dysentry— 'The question is, can 'Glasgow can now be called build houses where, and when, disease' because its spread iS they are right cost needed and at the in the complete contrast rest of Britain, he added.

The to Younger's answer McElhone called the is obviously on question not. immedi- With government to act unemployment standing at 620,000 the Tory in Glasgow 'because ately be government is digging in its they appear to me to frozen in the ice of their own heels for a long hard winter indifference. of attack on the working class.