Workers Press no. 402

workers press The daily paper

HOOVER

that leads the

MAY 3 0 197

fight against the

INSTITUTION

Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

• SATURDAY MARCH 13, 1971 • NUMBER 402

21p (6d) THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE No concessions to TUC pleas Man What What are A new Tory in the think troops hot There are doing in none SU seat blind as rebuff® N Ireland? Fight Rolls those who Lord sackings will not see THIS QUESTION faces all workers as the Delacourt-Smith capitalist press and all parties in the House of

ALAN

JOHNSON'S

inter- with strike Commons continue the outraged outcry against transport uni Jack pub- the killing of three soldiers on the outskirts of of March East Kilbride decision Belfast on Wednesday night.

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Troops are in N Ireland to per Unionist asks tuate the rule of the retormist laeologs vided work BARGAINING days are over - the ased nigh Sarah unemployment trade unions will not win a single con- Hannigan low wages and bad housing that nothing could prevent cession from Tories intent on ruthless, The con the mod baste st be multe and that it could democratic rights. open class warfare. (Post Office Buthe In this situation E1,250 March TUC chief Victor Feather's de- engineers' expect casua per cent economic can expect otherwise. mand tor > Stalinist Thurs- secretary growth was dismissed on Fund day by Heath: first wage demands attacks must be drastically reduced.

IN TODAY'S

stands at General These demands; said Heath, were 'caus- workers ing employers to slim their labour force.

le present situation £343.93 people might Strike eiThin in Belfast relation call continued: The army

BY JOHN SPENCER

in the pri are working das icks of a broken bombers,

U TRA- EFTS'

the workma das another for With nie of th Communist *ultra Prices Bert Ramesson told nize Bert Ramelson Mr lane debate also toc Commis, Heathsaid e day in the House of con school ol economics He said that some sections exclusive Scottish munity di of ed the is oree. The TU POEU explain Scotish soldiers are Dangers supporters, he said. end in a bit re presen Fears op lead she ss, sestead ss

NOT

workers, providing

DISCERNING

Lord Delacourt-Smith tor yesterday's The your or their ability in one may one a copar

SHOP FLOOR

at Rolls-Royce, Street. Kilbride, voted yesterday to fight redundancies arise. From here on all the at the Scottish plant by strike action.

During their wars in India recome hought

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

• takes Rolls- WW frontier. miltant

ALL TRADES UNIONS

But the form of actior beey M. Ironist straws at left- 280,000 KovCe workers un Dillalli,

ALLIANCE

continued who until now nave ap peared to massive y accept in ted Vister De4,0ce the hirst wave ot sackings resentative from announced by March 18 the dimen on Monday. the 190g a Kita meeting

LOBBY AND

invited to 'the" • that voiment The Tory government

DEMONSTRATION

class and theor situation", think fit. ing policy. Force the TUC to call a General Strike to make the Gymnastics Ibride s The SLL needs Tory Government Resign! • demake these votel syr weens to face th your help Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, sigton and Baby hay 9 a.m. Swansea decisive. Demonstration-Assemble 2 p.m. outside Fairfield Tory government am Ford men gainst the re halls, Croydon. Millions of wo March—2.30 p.m. through Croydon.

fight on Dike Wal Meeting-3 p.m. Top Rank Suite, London Rd, Croydon. son, Rolls-Roye cor a General Strike to not oy single trade unionis Ings. parity with Midiand" fo Compulsion workers. not in orde Communist party tonine to so it is he at are oh •We are not Alexandra Palace r

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i readers nel Sit-in by UPW telegraphists * Peeso dail these covered bocan no intention Howe tor sates with manage.

of work production into and of coveri attempt Bans Are look a on the wones entitlement Pore ondon o demand or lad power Electra House's 1,200 also. of Social Security benefits Roll all the com Derby aunte sing Til her i support trike ocialist Labour Leagu sal tries Barnoldsy 186 Lonson, 5Wa Sic Kill the Bill in These measures are leause.

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workers press The daily paper

HOOVER

that leads the

AAY 3 0 1972

fight against the

INSTITUTIO

Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 13, 1971 • NUMBER 402 2łp (6d) THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE No concessions to TUC pleas Man What What are A new Tory AVe in the think troops hot There are doing in none so seat blind as rebuff N Ireland? Fight Rolls' those who Lord sackings will not see THIS QUESTION faces all workers as the Delacourt-Smith capitalist press and all parties in the House of

ALAN

with strike Commons continue the outraged outcry against pub- the killing of three soldiers on the outskirts of Standard' of March East Kilbride decision Belfast on Wednesday night.

example

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

nteresting Troops are in N Ireland asks Crisis and poutical consin.

to vervetuate me rue or cne economic Lory unionist government BARGAINING days are over — the Sarah hased on a divided working Until recently both Jones and class, high unemployment, AUEW presi- Hugh Scanlon, trade unions will not win a single con- low wages and bad housing.

Hannigan dent, cession from Tories intent on ruthless, even in mot base chion till and that he col ang chase from seven- open class warfare. democratic (Post Office exte casualies amone must £1,250 March TUC chief Victor Feather's de- engineers' occupation eater vise mand for 5 economic Stalinist Coul growth was dismissed on secretary) Thurs- Fund of State for the Are during a debate Ominone o lay by Heath: first wage demands attacks must be drastically reduced.

IN TODAY'S

stands at General ing emp dyers no sian Heitha bour pace- These demands; said Heath, 1 Trend Tenan saviol workers £343.93 All the cups of consumed at Strike hange Micha whisky at 6 1 this for sovernment is spling out.

press civilians in Belfas relation to ro Hearton call

NECE MAN

seat will se • Thre are hasten De he me will noe re role of al Which is above the I told Lion part in the paraly also took position don School Commons, Heath saide day in the House of inter- Liked the he scorts Regiment ment, then it is antid to so sure вороте с ad ange! Rangers a bitter strike no Workers Presi

NOT

Bakendy as much argo of industri

DISCERNING

Lord Same Core ormand, Yesterday. David Watson House of have

SHOP FLOOR

Rolls-Royce, Rail offer Kilbride, voted yesterday to fight redundancies aliste now 9p.c. in Ind at tne scotsh plant Dy strike accol.

This is the first sign trade

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

UNION LEADERs represent

ALL TRADES UNIONS

would take mad oft ten thes

ALLIANCE

govern with the Britist Reine the er Docto March 18 Receiver on Monday coin herald in We needay

LOBBY AND

against workers in NPreland.

DEMONSTRATION

inued its compulsory sack whatever means situation', Force the TUC to call a General Strike to make the The SLL needs Tory Government Resign! your help Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 9 a.m. Swansea Demonstration-Assemble 2 p.m. outside Fairfield Ford men Halls, Croydon. March-2.30 p.m. through Croydon.

Socialist fight on Meeting-3 p.m. Top Rank Suite, London Rd, Croydon. Speakers from the All Trades Unions Alliance.

The fight to make this gov- for party with Meand Car

LIVERPOOL TRADES COUNCIL

Compulsion 'We don't a so demo from was in a efforts to defea

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Sit-in by UPW telegraphists a lared, but the • no mentor use for with,

DEMONSTRATION

intentior strike not takee m The Post Office Capralise a sumption. were taking place *there is absolute the The are seven of demand or peo inters stor As Marx poiproducti Luct it means Kill the Bill Street,

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INTERNATIONAI

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British and French bases in the IMPORTANT questions West. are raised by the trial of That is why it is so important male nurse Ekehard Weil for socialists to cut the ground from of these unaer tne in W Berlin this week. fascist demagogues by demanding the unification of Germany.

Ekehard was sentenced to This will only be achieved by revolutionary working- six years imprisonment after class action all the time defend- being accused of shooting a E Ger- made ing the gains Soviet soldier guarding the many after the war when the old landowners and industrialists Russian war memorial in the who backed Hitler were expro- and the estab- city last November. priated economy a nationalized basis. lished on First, within days of his If the Red Army were only there to defend these gains, then Weil succeeded in arrest, accepted its presence he escaping from a police escort by the E German working class. down a subway entrance..."

But its rule 199 then the when open June was only due to his own workers of E Berlin, and then stupidity that was caught all Germany, rose in revolt against their Stalinist rulers. The incident caused a political One of their demands main the city, and forced rumpus in was for the unification of all Ger- its Social Democratic Mayor and an end to the regimes words about of Adenauer the West and police negligence. Ulbricht in the East. But like the Doece in force is The Red Army, after several Berlin force many, days of Kremlin hesitation, notorious for its right-wing moved in to ruthlessly crush the extremist views. uprising. Weil is unashamed neo- an Banners Nazi. He told the court he did not actually fire the two shots which hit and wounded sentry The leaders of imperialism Tscherbak, watched Ivan Ivanovitch

OUT.

with folded bought the rifle which did the secretly the Stalinists approving shooting. for checking the movement before it spread to Germany. The actual shooting, he said, carried out by an ultra- was While Germany remains called the 'Euro- right group divided, 'Euro- like the pean Liberation Front'. Liberation Front' will pean thrive. was, he added, 'a necessary deed as it demonstrated in what Significantly the group uses the posterin is ma so vied and especi- phrase "Soviet imperialism' ally Berlin is in. imperi- bandied about by business Ger- has this groups anti-communist many', he told the court.

like country- only 'International Socialism', for claim one they Weil's statement is revealing to be Marxist. on several counts. This organization took to the It shows how anti-communist, streets in August 1968, after the and obviously fascist-inspired Kremlin invasion of Czechoslo- are able groups, to involve con- vakia, with denouncing backward banners fused, youth in their called 'Soviet imperial- exploiting the divi- waat activities by ism', which blended well with indiansmare end or the Germany by imperialism Maoist 'Soviet posters Nazism': last war. Tories, and there were several Slogan such demonstrations, would not be in the least embarrassed by such Neither company. are The Trotskyist movement has right-wing emigré groups from E always insisted that the divi- Europe, who also employ similar sion of Germany was a reaction- terminology. far which, from measure undermining the basis of fascism, The Soviet Union is not an could give it a new lease of life imperialist country: Imperialism by nourishing German national- can only develop in the mono- ism. poly of capitalism and the demands capitalist And this, of is DrivaTe pre ownership of the main cisely what happening. The production industry, land, these leaders movements are transport, the banks etc.

not really concerned with Ger- that is a slogan they None of these conditions exists to whip up support. use in either E Europe or the Soviet Union. Nationalism used to estab- is lish a basis for among small farm- fascism the Stalinist bureaucratic repres- middle class, which requires in sion. moments the police, civil ers, servants of crisis the direct intervention and the like, just as Hitler used of Soviet troops, is not imperial- it in his struggle for power.

ism. Then the It reflects the of propaganda was pressure turned imperialism against the Versailles on the tacon mically treaty, which robbed Germany of more backward of StaTes one-fifth of its territory and par- Europe. celled its colonies out among the To identify one with the other victorious imperialist powers. is not only theoretically wrong. Today it is the Soviet occupa- disarms the working class in tion of E Germany and the US, its struggle against both.

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Saturday March 13, 1971 by John Crawford Computers were, above all, an dropped by Civil olicy is to be Seventy American development. Service and local authorities. per cent of the world's machines The impact of recession on the US, and about the are in the industry excel- boom-time par tured propor or manufac- lence was signalled by the sharp firm, International one drop

IBM

profits in January Business Machines. In two days, IBM stock last year. For, despite the image of the fell by $5m. The 1970 sales of individual whizz-kid designer this giant show a 22 or went on TO per cent drop on 1969. programmer, was ultimately vast expenditure on research and Control Data actually recorded development decided the on its computer opera- conquest of the rocketing inter- tions, and like other firms, began national market. to lay off computer staff.

Over a No but IBM could have one thousand software firms survived its two major disasters reported have of CONe flop of the 'third US -the genera- business in the during

STRETCH

tion' machine 1970. vears ago. and the mistaken deci.

wait for monolithic sion not Shrinking integrated circuits in the 360 first brought series. a tew In an years later. effort to win a bigger share of the now shrinking mar- No other firm could have gone ket, National Cash alone announced it with its language, to 20 per

FORTRAN

and forced other CenT December. US aero- firms to stay in line. and in military space production Even the other five surviving orders had already hit the com- US firms- -Moneywell, National puter firms. Cash, Univac, Control Data and Now the recession many RCA-can hardly keep up. industries other makes life Honeywell now comprises the nightmare for the whole indus- computer interests of General try. Electric, which recently got out Last week, we mentioned the of the game. dangers of reduced orders from All these firms must maintain the chemical industry. European and other international Added the this must be the subsidiaries and associations to world's airlines. CrISIS survive. Plans massive schemes for reservation systems Sales have now been shelved. Last year the effect in Britain Outside the US. nearly ali was slightly offset the by soft- formed by merging nearly boom caused by decimal- the former British lization, but this is now finished.

computer firms, has anything like the The one hope for ICL in this resources needed, without climate is its link-up with

CDC

the recession. Compagnie and Internationale But while IBM annual sales are pour l'Informatique. But this is $7,500m Honeywell $860m, and unlikely to save the British firm ICL manages only $314m. from bankruptcy except by ending its independent existence Research and development expenditure shows the in a complete merger. relation- ship of forces:

IBM

Meanwhile, spends the expected $500m, Honeywell $119m,

ICL

'fourth of computers generation' $36m. large-scale integrated cir- using cuits and laser memory units, is No wonder then that ICL is postponed indefinitely. widely talked of as the next Rolls-Royce. Like Rolls, Such it used quite feasible technical to have considerable govern- developments blocked are by ment patronage. the exploitation of science for But, the Tories private profit. few weeks agor ese any nritish announced

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Stephen Johns talks to Lord Delacourt-Smith, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineers Union Saturday March 13, 1971 J. WHAT do you think of the action of the Union of Post Office Workers' national executive in calling for an end to their strike in favour of a court of inquiry and what do you think are the implications of this for your own claim? I THINK that the course the UPW executive took was the best one for all their members in the situation that had developed.

We cannot, of course, say until the court has reported what the effects of the UPW strike have been.

Our position is that last autumn wertold the Post Office that we were convinced that when our current agreement expired on July 1 this year there would be justification for a substantial increase.

Since then we have had exchanges with the Post Office directed to ascertaining on what facts the negotiations on the claim should We have based. been discussing with the Post Office what changes have taken place in the engineering and electrical fields.

We have also been discussing with them the results of measures we have taken to increase productivity.

In the current month we shall get down to negotiations with the Post Office and discuss what conclusion can be drawn from these facts. After the UPW strike one can see that there will have to be some very hard bargaining with the Post. Office on our claim.

J. WILL YOU be prepared to lead your members in a strike similar to the one UPW members have just been through? D. THERE ARE two points I ought to make in relation to this.

First we as a union have not been averse to arbitration.

We have made extensive and regular use of arbitration procedure for a good many years. The second point is that while under our union rules the execu- tive council has the power to call on the members to take industrial we did discuss at our annual conference some years ago acuon. just what types of industrial action the membership were prepared to contemplate. The executive of that day put a report before the conference in which they distinction drew the between industrial action of specified duration- -that is duration specified in advance- -which would be primarily undertaken as a demonstration, to show the feelings of our members, as against what we described as coercive industrial action; that is to săy industrial action undertaken with no time limit and designed in itself to produce a change in the attitude of the employer.

The general feeling was that we should expect the union lo rely on demonstrative industrial action and not normally embark on coercive industrial action.

J. ARE YOU saying here that after what we have seen happen to the UPW you will only strike for a certain length of time to show the feeling of your members and not to stay out until you win your claim?

D. I THINK it would be very risky to try and forecast how our negotiations will develop. All i can do at this point is to indicate the kind of action which our union has traditionally taken.

In the course of negotiations one has to review the situation as it develops and take into account the attitude of the employers and the attitudes of your own membership as reflected by the members of the executive committee.

I don't think we can judge yet what the effect of the UPW strike has been. Naturally at the moment people are drawing rather depressing conclusions and the Post Office and the government are congratulating themselves on a great victory. But in a few weeks time things might look rather different. For example, in my view, the final outcome of the action of the power workers has been rather different from what it judged to have been when the Wilberforce court of inquiry was first agreed, if this is not too Delphic an utterance.

J. A THING that concerned many UPW men during their strike was that there was considerable working done by strike breakers at exchanges where your mem- bers were at work. Don't you think this kind of action weakened the UPW men and, therefore, weakened your chances of winning your claim? D. YOU HAVE to remember first of all that we are two quite separate unions. What we did in the case of the UPW strike was first of all to remain in close contact with the UPW throughout the dispute and respond in the best way we could to the requests they made to us. €10,000 from our own general We also gave them financial help- fund- -and, of course, our members made substantial contributions of their own. At the same time we made it quite clear that our members must do no work that would otherwise have been done by

UPW

and not to involve themselves in the consequences of work done by and strike-breakers. All this involved considerable vigilance solidarity by our members.

There were those who believed that the Post Office Engineering Union should have engaged in all-out strike action.

But it is a little difficult to see how this can be justified.

It is one thing to do everything to maintain the effectiveness of Lenin with his wife Krupskaya

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West: 11.27 land. sW, South, All regions as above except: Weather. North. NW. Anglisa d Midlands, Wales: 1.25 Farming in Wales. 2.30 Westmor. Stephen Johns talks to Lord Delacourt a strike by a sister organization, but another to call upon your own members and ask them to involve themselves in industrial action of indefinite duration-again without a strike fund-in a situation where it is not their own pay claim that is at stake.

J. BUT WASN'T your own pay claim at stake. One of your members, at a rally, said to me, 'If the UPW lose their claim we stand no chance of winning our own'.

You are separate unions, but you work for the same employers responsible to the same Tory government. If the UPW are held to 8 per cent or less surely you stand no chance of winning more than 8 per cent?

D. OF COURSE there is a relationship between the success of one union and all other unions, especially if unions are associated with a common employer as we and the UPW are.

But one still has to judge. the situation at any one time. I will be better able answer this question when we have had our discussions with the Post Office and also seen the final result of the court of settlement into the UPW dispute. J. IS THERE a figure on your claim?

D. WE ARE seeking a substantial increase.

J. OVER 8 per cent? D. I WOULD say it will be over 8 per cent.

J. WHAT is your attitude to the speech made by Hugh Scanlon, leader of the engineers, when he said recently at Eastbourne that the Tory government wanted to smash the postal workers as part, of an overall strategy to pick off one section of the working class at a time and hold down standards.of living?

D.

THE UPW,.

right throughout, 'sought to treat the strike as a dispute with their employer the Post. 'Office. In so far as the gov- ernment got involved and the strike became political, this was not UPW leadership. by any desire of the On the other hand it is clear that much more could have been done by the government to produce a speedier and more easily agreed outcome of this dispute.

The Secretary Employment, Robert of State for Carr, could but he court of inquiry early on in the dispute, have set up didn't choose to do so. I don't think there is any doubt that there was a desire by the government to see the dispute prolonged to a point where the of the UPW would become exhausted. I think the government has made it abundantly clear that it is concentrating the public attempt to de-escalate A review by Robert Black

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Post Office union chlef Tom Jackson greets Lord Delacourt-Sr elacourt-Smith, General Secretary of the Post claims. This means that it is trying to ensure that public sector awards are settled at figures lower than the previous settlement.

This is clearly an unreasonable and profoundly unjust approach.

Despite all this we are going ahead to secure a fair settlement for our own members on the merits of the claim we are putting forward. J. SO YOU agree with Scanlon's point that the gov- ernment are trying to deal with workers a section at a time in order to depress living standards.

D. WELL, this is what they themselves have said in so many words. J. IN THE light of this don't you think that it was a mistake not to draw your members out on strike. If this is the government position is it right that trade unions should sit back and let it happen, especially if they work in the same field? D. IF THIS is the line you take where in fact do you stop? Are you really saying that in any particular dispute the interests of all workers in all industries are involved and therefore they should themselves get involved. This wouldn't be a view that I could agree with. I think we have to see how things develop in the next few weeks. Don't let us jump to conclusions about the results of the UPW effort.

There cannot be any doubt that the fact 200,000 people went on strike for so long had an effect. So don't let's draw conclusions from a dispute that has not yet reached its conclusion.

J. WHAT is your attitude to the TUC's recommended Relations Bill and campaign against the Industrial particularly its rejection of industrial action?

D. WE HAVE not considered the TUC proposals as a union, but my own view is that. the TUC General Council right in its 1S recommendations. influence the most important things my is to public oI

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the Industrial Relations Bill, to explain to ic opinion against the public that the Bill will not produce the benefits they have been led to believe it will produce. It is also important for the whole of the trade union movement to develop closer contacts with its political arm, particularly the Labour Party. J. THERE HAS been a lot of talking and protest, even a one-day national strike, but this has left the Tories totally unmoved. Do you think there ought to be a prolonged General Strike to defeat the Bill, force the government to resign and re-elect a Labour administration to repair the

IN THE PERIOD

bitter about of after argument Stalin's brutal collectivization world counter-revolution policy). Lenin's his first that followed In patron Lazar Kaganovich, Stalin's hench- death in 1924, Stalin's man in the Ukraine. elbowed the supporters But of Khrushchev's one aims in the book is founders of Bolshevism main blame many of Stalin's crimes a side in their rude -and his own failure to oppose scramble for power. them on Kaganovich's brutal he has to say very this side of his early about Khrushchev, like so many There of his ilk, sensed that Stalin of shortage material to back up Khrushchev's was the man to back. In case, and he makes good use of For for his it. example: return patronage, 'His behaviour disgusted they gave him total support me, and it disasted others. too. He all his political against was nothing but lackey. All Stalin had to do was scratch opponents — real and Kaganovich behind the imaginary. send him snarling at the Party. *Kaganovich used to throw Khrushchev he claims back his chair, bring himself up 'recruited' Stalin's inner to his full height, and bellow: Stalin's circle by Alliluyeva, •"Comrades! It's time for second wife (she known have either been killed by Stalin to tell the people the truth. Everyone Party have committed suicide in the keeps

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Trom Weather 00 4.05 2.30 Sur- 10 Soccer. Cartoon. 2.00 Farming. Golden the Danton. Bobs Night vival park chot 4.40 him. 4. 5 Runnes ord Delacourt-Smith at the February 21 TUC rally in London.

the Post Office Engineers Unic damage done by the Tories and legisl programme? D. I THINK we have got to be very careful abo this country believe, and I think they are right, should be governed by the party that has been el ballot box. But I also think that in a democratic cour should not try to force legislation down the throa of the community-as they are now trying with By influencing public opinion and by seeking to unsatisfactory this Bill is I think we may make sor No doubt the government will insist on bringi bearing the title Industrial Relations Bill-onto: But it is still possible to get important amendmen also to make so clear to the public the injustice i will be less effective if it is passed than if peopl quite reasonable. Amendments to Bills are secured in all sorts often produce amendments of their owr ments satisfied that a strong enough case has been ma opinion on a particular point. Often back-benchers who start to say an amendment would be reasonable. Very many Bills have been changed and even past because of the views of Members of Parli responded to public opinion.

But I cannot remember one important piece o has been changed or withdrawn as a result of indu The government are a pig headed lot. But if th guide, they have already had to think again about the closed shop. I can't see how they can get difficult situation they are in over the closed shor some very substantial amendments to the Bill.

'J. ARE YOU saying that mere amendm would be a victory? D. I WOULD not regard it as a complete victo went through with important amendments I wou some satisfaction. But the Bill, as a whole, is completely on the most charitable thing you can say about it is th dous irrelevance. Most of all I think that public opinion shoul understand what a harmful piece of legislation it i If this kind of situation is produced, the gover less able to use the powers the Bill may give them statute book. It is always a mistake to think that with a pi like this the battle is over when it reaches the stat But I think the overthrow of a government by is a profoundly mistaken course of action to take.

that the present government is trying to exploit of the trade union movement and the failure unionists to appreciate the significance of the gove They may as a result of this be able to win victories, but I am quite sure they will prodt back-lash that will work ultimately to defeat them talking about Lenin and Lenin- ism. • 'We've got to be honest with ourselves. Lenin died in 1924. How many years did he work in the Party? What was accom- plished under him? Compare it true.) with what has been accomplished under Stalin! • "The time come to replace the slogan Live Leninism' with the slogan *Long Live Stalinism'"? The downgrading of Lenin which took place after his death Stalin's vicious was reflected in campaign against his widow, Na dezhd a Konstantinovna Krupskaya, who for short a time sided with the Left Oppo- sition (its Zinoviev-Kamenev 'Old Bolshevik' wing) in the struggle against Stalin. Khrushchev revealed in his of "secret speech' how Lenin broke off all relations with Stalin after he had insulted Lenin's wife over the telephone. Here, of other of wheat Lenin learn examples of called Stalin's 'rudeness, spite and dis- loyalty' towards the Party and its leaders: 'Stalin had very little respect for Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya and Maria Ilinichna [Lenin's sister]. 'He used to say that he didn't Golden shot. 5.35 London. 7.55 'Rhapsody'. Film: 10.00 London.. London. 11.15 Tom Jones. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 London.

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11.00-12.00 London. 12.10 London. 12.35 Communica- 1.25 All 1.45 our tors. Farm. yesterdays 1.55 Robin Hood. 2.20 Film: 'The Lady- billers: 3.45 Alec Guinness, Cecil Manni. Football. 4.40 Golden Parker. shot. 7.55 Film: shot. 5.35 London. "Edward My Son'. Spencer Tracy.

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BYA WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENI

INDUSIRIALDI

we woula be la worse or From our Industrial correspondent by doing this th ne Conted or- Gener said s

WEATHER

CLOSURES announced by the British Steel Corporation are the surest sign of the headlong Council in Durh ill be the course towards economic slump. Five plants are serio man they did not, to close, making 2,600 men redundant. They join that by setting high •Possibly we may tais side 600 already sacked in the past fortnight.

very short said. so serious are the losses in the steel industry that

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Pakistan these announcements are A series of lectures certain to be followed by Marxist economics and least another talks on 5,000 sackings in the next tew the crisis weeks. Other plants will crisis be shut down. The revolutionary party whole investment The programme of the industry and the working class

A CLUAK OI

Olcia secrecy surrounded fakl stan President yahva LITTLE JUBILATION was emanating from Stalinism and Trotskyism £1,000m new costing Khan's movements vester. the Congress Party camp following Mrs Indira day ris toe ropared to as he now abandoned. All starting at 8 p.m. Gandhi's landslide victory in the Indian cial soen several Shave been General Election.

BY ROBERT BLACK

n si cou counting of votes 'These la test

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third day Tuesday March 16 of mini- ane case om yeste 284 Congress. nom secial services ind tl Tuesday March 23 sanshaw Hent, Wear b CambSration) ing chuld tessone that But Prospects nahi. Given by Tony Richardson or deal besines- In otnel dicate exactly th do not exptato as India reforms frem rs sandiis

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new government. Sunday March 21 otlyyimes sudes taken ess, wtich Sunday March 28 oi sott usice and tome hamhRoadherreys Roa meraced with this justice 10031 Given by Michael Banda orno basic tatos of the world nust

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Strike

CROYDON

Promises Monday March 15

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Drawn Monday March 22 inis goticad Monday March L ndustria action hon at ого re was tc Robin Ferons of a few inkenins Given by P. O'Regan

SOUTHALL

None so blind vednesday Mareh 22 Mrs Gandh! egime of crisis 18.n eatnees „A soc Sounall Given by Robert Black

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gandh Proposed was non-political. Monday March 15 masses, Trades Union Club, Crescent Rd, Luton esse arte th conoriey she sought... alven by lony kicnarason

BEXLEYHEATH

Monday Mareh 25 ordr exock, Towedy: April Given by Peter Jeffries 3& 4

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Wednesday March 24 Room 3a, Umales St, 4 London Union Given by Michael Banda employment, Khrushchev remembers; From payu three

MAKE THE TORIES RESIGN! DEI

THE GRAND HALL, THE SP/

Soaches leaving from all areas. Cost is approximately {4 o Sant krushey ane me dance on dalur For further details contact YS National Secretary John SI SW4. Tel. 01-622 rese Londo: On the contrary! : contnued Saturday March 13, 1971 Bukovsky appeals for jailed opposition

SOVIET

writer Vladimir bukovsky nas sent a letter psychiatrists western asking them to take up the cases of oppositionists im-

BY JOHN SPENCER

prisoned Soviet mental EVEN WITH two former cabinet ministers opponent the Bukovsky on the platform, the Trade Union Campaign himself was after Against the Common Market attracted only 50 'The New Class by the Dugoslay the people to its meeting in London on Thursday class Dy writer Milovan Diilas He spent the next year and night. a half in a Leningrad 'mental The campaign is part of home' highly-suspect alliance Rebuff Barbaric which stretches from the In his letter, he refers to Stalinists of the Commun- other

OOOOS TONIST

who are

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ist Party through right- undergoing the same treatment: Pyotr barbaric wing Labourites to the Feather's talks with Heath was Grigorenko, the real need and to ooscure extreme right of the Tory delay the preparation dvorskaya, Party. Vladimir deteat the fory But Heath Fainberg, some- Victor On Sunday, will discussion thing from the says Bukovsky, Trafalgar well Known taking part Accordin: ght-wing their initiatives for detence speakers will include Tory Square which Torn Telegraph': Soviet the outcome of Union'. night's mee Nabarro between is adequates poo tot the • 10 Cabinest Ministers and Richard Body, together Kremlin, ane trade union leaders at 10 Downing with Air Vice-Marshal Dor was that Mr neate rol with his Bennett, speaking alongside esunication with the it com- established a line Butes dy forwarded Michael McGahey, Stalinist pages acuments Ine With the TUC Snecial Con.

Dresident Natonal cases. He says Union of Mineworkers and ference against the anti-union laws due on March 18, Ernie Roberts, Discuss assistant unions ed tes vote for general secretary of the en- committed to I will be very grateful to gineers' union (AUEW). trial action against the study this you it you former Peter Shore MP. a Thursday: communique Wilson said whiz-kid: opinion on 101- Thursdav he had changed his to a continuing exchange mind about the Common of views'. this matter and Market when agreed after you consider it possible to

1IIS

Was realized that entry would Heath had Feather place " on toe acenda tor dis appalling bargain'. uncertaln terms that cussion the next inter particular, said, national congress of psychia- covernment nriorities are to would bad effect of payments and wages and Have trists. Bukovsky's unemployment. ine balance directed peal, "our national prosperity.

As the movement though defeat the Tories is in fact, a

'THREAT'

TUC

leaders working-class enure Douglas Jay, once Wilson's movement. collaborating and his com- unicorenko President the Board ment in preventing that at Illas. rades must released Trade a also said . the Market movement rollsucceeaine. once threat 'national Feather - Heath The TalKs sovereignty' and the postmen's defeat ar Stalinist speakers at Thurs- complete con rauons or the day's meeting PRIME MINISTER Suleyman usea extreme y correciness of the decision Demirel's Turkish Chauvinisac ame ant working hebruary government zes nima em from to armied Alexandra Palace, to build the ollowin entry. revolutionary party in Britain now transforming Mrs Mary Abrook, from the 1 The Labour of London and West- Socialist CitiAC resignation came little minster Trades Council, party said more than four hours after the aim about calledmby the T Genera country s Chlets

TUC

cull y WOrKerS unreatened take over Day, from the continent. government if •a new cabine May with the aim Immigration Bill savs able to meet the country's de.

that Tories Commonwealth immi resI and bringing in a grants are alien to our way of The government of Premier LaDour cov- lifeBut Common Market entry ernment bleeded heyman Demirel has and hold ball ta series st anti-unior aws. re- would allow and storing all cuts, and legislating people coming The Charter of Basic Rights areas where the wares lower arehe added that the domin- Police shoot Puerto the Common Darter Market was W Germany. couldn t achieve by two world what Rican students wars they could well b achieve through the com- mon Market.

SAN

JUAN

killed in used o ene toman for Prand Stalinists raised the three and demand that instead of Com. they students for Puerto Market aemand Universits mOI entry there Puerto Rican incependence should all-European De demonstrating against US «Commonwealth Island conference, pro security Thursday A merica - ic said, which 'had nosal. thay rule of the island. very popular growing already been welcomed by 24 Police amongst young workers and moved after Euron terments clashes broke students. out on the Germany, Spain and They to use this cam- Walll palen to get closer to sections of the British

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oppose the Market for their own reactionary reasons.

is McGahey That alongside anti-working- class we Talse perspecuve uniting the revolutonarv Struggles all Socialist Pe nited workers in nont tor Socialist states of Europe based or THE FRENCH airline dispute entered its fourth overthrow West and the week yesterday without any sign of a break in against the deadlock. the East. The country's three main Air France,

UTA

airlines- lock-out i after pilots staged a three-day strike

SUD-

port of demands for higher pay. All aLlelDIs Con Young oromise have tailed. with olots turning down the ates management offer by a 72 per Socialists cent vote on • Thursday night The proposals- not made turned days 11th Annual by rebre the pilots sentine navigator conference and radio operators decision means thal the three companies' 160 air- remain on the ground inarc at a cost of about €750,000 a dathe airlines estimatem they lost around since the cvenue alsDute becal The managements have they stated that down Wonid rathar indefinitely than concede pilots' wage which, they claim, would drive them to bankruptcy Class tensions The drawn-out and bitterly fought nature of Un t dispute renects general sharnening OT Case tensions in krance government the Pomnidan owns France and which A 1r

EN! DEFEAT ANTI-UNION LAWS!

Air-Inter) the right. French me 1,000 uniformed

LL, THE SPA, SCARBOROUGH

pilots 2100 roximately £4, including bed and breakfast, fare, conference staged steni ance on Saturday evening Orly demonstanor

ATT.

etary John Simmance, 186a Clapham High Street, London, DOrI vesteroat nrotec . Tel. 01-622 7029 against continued shut. Gown OT NrAnCeS threA moin airlines.