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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

TUESDAY MARCH 16, 197

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE we think On the one hand in editorial after of hired gamut and Ford workers were in Dowr yesterday ina l below) (below jump to it!' (The luncheon meeting win Primi Minister Edward Heath. The cass Indestrial Re men were kept well away from Ford by the police, bu

BY MICHAEL BANDA

Yet on the other ne would certainly nave neart their chants echoing up th famous street. Later BEHIND every arrogant fory Minister there aides' gathered general cats rich idler and a stands a nervous, rarity now! sticker as li swept past. foreman. That is the most charitable thing that Ford "It's threats said about call Minister RuDovacul Robert Carr's diatribe mdiinationarys aralist une umols. who yesterday re-

WAITED

For "The Times', peated his Sunday allegation.

lunch was a timely meet- RUfOMOBiLE of-misrepresentation of.the Bill, said on a BBC radio could well be the last suPPoRt programme. chance Britain has of con I am not frightened by this M.K. foRD

STRIKE

saidean business?, would have to work and

SUPPORT

the l Times ordiadroves First blow was stre kon March 1 by the engineers.

of Britain as ridiculous.

Then came the long drawn- out post strike The or March 1 cal shut Greek trial take what he opens seriously heart. very Yesterday AL befour Aren® *The palatable truthy tha It is one thing tout it is a REDUNDANT Rolls-Royce workers at Derby yesterday visited the first of the special Depart- against an undefeated and Employment centres Victor ment of opened In the working class. town to cope with the 2,000 workers who have lost their jobs at Derby plants.

his or on baded fort their time raticious today, union leaders wi Aviation Minister pathies To says cake to a leavertisements and dundancy notices to 4,30 for crisis talks or bones in disconny: ms The horsed here neede AS PAKISTAN President stain the imag into yanva Khan flew Sunday's Dagenese meeting Dacca yesterday for crisis responsibl talks Muji- with onelki bur Rahman, the Bengali marier calls for E Pakis canent e Opposition ahmion Bengal old E Pakistan's hat may o, Said Melieve: the Bill's crities as a whole. ever read extin- heir to a ruthless, anti-uni ty inal rora lis t What or be throne back in his face. To be aT briand this se, anes but siture. surely an considerably more Bengali mands i must be antined not addressed to the worked This dis the prosur least the y in ti nd State election

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MARCH 16, 1971 • NUMBER 404

APPEARING

THURSDAY

WORKERS PRESS

will be appearing as usual Thursday, with special articles dealing with the next step in the fight against the Industrial Relations Bill and with the relevance of the 1871 Paris Commune to the struggles of the working class today. The paper is not affected by the token strikes called for that day.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

A FEW MINUTES of your time, sir. This plea went out to Henry Ford Il yesterday from Jack Jones, leader of Britain's biggest union. In a letter to the car king, the general secretary and of the Transport General Workers' Union, which organizes roughly

PARITY

half of the Ford strikers, said that he would cancel

FOR

any commitment to meet Mr Ford.

FORD

Jones said that the unions were genuinely interested in early settlement of their

WORKERS

an £15 parity claim. a passage which Jones could hardly mean to be serious, he told the car chief that he should explain to Mr Heath the 'difficulties' the "legal situation' in the United States has caused the Ford and company Pari others. 'How much better it if would be, wrote Jones, voluntary comprehensive LARIN of agreements could be con- cluded.' WaGES oF The gimmickry of this BoRD Now approach is too obvious for words. Ford went to lunch with Heath yesterday mainly to GANY Pas? hear the Tory Prime Sagar dee Minister tell him that the N9688 - Crak 001 labour situation in Britain, that gives the car chief so much be pain, would soon cleared by the Industrial Relations Bill.

IN TOUCH

Tones is Tack also in correspondence with Mr suggested Heath. He has that the Prime Minister Leonard Woodcock meets president of the United Auto Workers of America, for talks the Ford Glasgow on dispute. In with these antics, from Ford buses workers plants lobbied Downing St yesterday and met the top with the chant: "We're boss stop bluffing either, Henry! not We Nation- We want parity! want A ONE-DAY strike by Glas- While the car chief was inside No. 10 with gow transport workers yester- eating Heath and his top three day brought all bus and lieutenants in the Tory underground train services to union - smashing team, Martin Finan, a Dagenham a halt. resented worker, said he for these his The recommendation men discussing the livelihood. the action came from and General "The profits Transport we make for Union district Ford Workers com- go directly to finance mittee after earlier rejec- the Vietnam war, he said.

an tion of a £2.50 claim. *I think Henry was hoping John McGarrie, a driver at Dagenham would vote to go Ibrox told Workers back. Instead the garage, vote was Press there had been criticism stay and we will of the district committee there stay out the question of for not calling all-out action.

parity is still out there in 'Some front.' men raised that we should have been out on the Eddie Dix, a body-plant Thursday stoppage against the worker at Dagenham, said anti-union laws, following that the Ford-Heath talks exposed those who said the the recommendation of the T&GWU, but this was opposed strike did involve not by the district committee.

political issues. In my opinion these are the Perhaps Jones should take same questions. We are facing a tip from these men, quit • council here who are a Tory letters and writing start opposed to our claim. fighting. Shipwrights to hear peace plan

PLATERS. AND

ship- wrights at Cammell Laird's, Birkenhead, who have been Structural Workers, on strike since Friday, are want an "book on' extra 4p an hour for work- being asked to ing with today to thrashed eace hear pro- special high- posals by quality steel. out and the union management The company has decided over the weekend. to defer laying large 560 The members numbers of other workers men, of the Amalgamated Society in the hope that the strikers Boilermakers, Ship- will go back after hearing Blacksmiths and the proposals. wrights, The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government 21p (6d) Centenary of the Paris Commune

IN THURSDAY'S

workers press ON THURSDAY (March 18)—the 100th anniver-

JEFFRIES

sary of the Paris Commune-PETER writes on its significance and the political lessons it holds for today. £1,250 March Appeal Fund stands at £403.38 WE HAVE 16 days to the end every trade unionist to lobby of the month to

TUC

raise the the in Croydon this final total. After a good start Thursday to demand they call we must not drop back. General Strike to make the The Tories certainly are not Tory government resign. Price increases retreating. of Don't sit back in this fight.

all major food items Help us raise all the money Unemployment rocketing up. you can for the Appeal Fund is growing at an alarming this month. Collect an extra rate. amount towards our May Day The government only Appeal Fund of £3.000. Post not encourages these attacks, but every donation immediately to: at the same time prepares legislation reminiscent of the Workers Press Appeal Fund, corporate state. 186a Clapham High Street, The Workers Press calls on London, SW4.

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Lessons of the post workers' strike Tuesday March 16, 8 p.m. 'The Old Plough, Kilburn Lane, W.10 (near Harrow Rd) Wednesday March 17, 8 p.m.

Unitarian Church Hall, Effra Rd, SW2 (opposite Lambeth Town Hall) Speaker at both meetings: G. HEALY (national secretary, Socialist Labour League)

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March 18

LOBBY

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MEETING

'The Greyhound', Park Lane, CROYDON (opposite Fairfield Halls) 2.30 p.m. Chairman: Bill Hunter (Lucas/CAV shop steward) (Morris Motors, Oxford, deputy Speakers: Alan Thornett senior T&GWU steward) G. Healy (national secretary SLL) Also other speakers from the All Trades Unions Alliance

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APPEARING

What Carr sees TUC losing_grip

THURSDAY

WORKERS PRESS will be 18 Mass movement Thursday, with special dealing next step in the fight against the moustra Reatons of and with the relevance of the Fleet St 1871 Paris Commune to the struggles WOrKINg class today. The paper is Kow-tows affected by the token surikes called or tual day to Ford I Can you spare worries O VOICES could be h vesterdav's i Henry Ford iI.

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a minute Tories the US toors babectly Fos vesterday Don From the 'Sun'-crossed Daily (below) yesterday Henry? Sketch Wnen car baron henry rora l left) went to below luncheon meeting with Prime Minister Edward Heath The Were kep well away

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

from Ford by the police, but

BY MICHAEL BANDA

Yet on the other hand, most he would certainly have were forced - A FEW MINUTES of your time, sir. This

BEHIND

arrogant Tory Minister there every plea went out to Henry Ford Il yesterday street. Later one prestin t 515, 000 aldes' cars gathered a rich idler and a general from Jack Jones, leader of Britain's biggest stands a nervous, sticker as their six-reeksold: union. foreman. sweps past ay strik In a letter Like athofor hunch yested day.

cing, That the most Which l charitable thing that be said

PARITY

threats Cal half of th Employment Minister said that he would cance

FOR

Kobert Carr's diatribe any Ford. commitment to against the unions.

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FORD U.K.

of distortion has STRiKE situation Caused the paper said. Exploiting inherent So arse Weaknesses Teard to Co vine Brtie, Leghand fusall to a the deteas do the i-union 5, mim L225 Bores con- Howe only cene lass rance chimic obvious tir Torashave The ord went to lunch with against the unions. First blow Minister But the first workers' blow ne Industial March 1 by the engineers.

struck on Do trition as ridiculous: 'hen came the long draw

IN TOUCH

LOOL OLLIN

Jack with und ady is radional Tended working clas for ais on that Plea to stop Glasgow Greek trial antics, lobbied opens buses Rolls' sackings Downing t. he tre ester dea hant: yes red or plotting stop Time third militancy. Nation- alize Ford's parity. It is one thing bluffing. to stand u! sews for British car od beas A ONE-DAY strike by Glas- news REDUNDANT Rolls-Royce workers at Derby chis witt thin car insate No.d eating yesterday visited the first of the special Depart gow transport workers yester day brought bus and all Calling Trades ment of Employment centres opened in the press athe underground train services to case for a bit or l o town to cope with the 2,000 workers a halt. and Paul Tsountos, 23, a clerk lost their jobs at Derby plants.

- Or bedched forth his veno their dam watcuous. int Anion enders i Genera and Rolls Fredrick Corfield SP Union Khan goes East cautious and resp a 8250 chan first Nicholson withdraw i be for crisis talks redundancy notices to 4,300 Rolls' workers. ress there had been criticis The parity is stille question Likes tored to co so he ented Jnion of Engineering Worke

AS PAKISTAN

Mr Carr done so en place-the se " to custain the image into sectations hav hould have been out Dix, a body-plan a Ford-Heath' ponted nu-sion stoppage ag Ben further den exposed those after protesting to acrest ahe Far fred, Kove-towurst it re RB211 lisastrous engine pro- Pohere's a arlier calle foi ons, We ate facine tan to defy central gov bucket Perhaps Jones should take buct of money it mild al these me start tịp fron Oppasition • are claim who are This is Confederation of : Engineering Unions of the he Birs cries had ever read from sessin lor as a whole. Shipwrights to hear peace say that Ford Il is the guished. anitalia ruthless, anti-an coun- tributes 80 per cent of the plan thrown Graham back in mis tace. Same headline government's taxes. with the newse headline- ing To be Tons an this servants company chiefs • Tobook one tratup an hour for work United struggle Boyd, special hig Rahman yester ey executive thes quality steel. encesar acted enlaterally bet Torie Khan in Dacca, or over the weend. umbers or the wake remine tramm administre Fords. feel Itica o back atte ogramme of t Socialist rogur Leagu decision making. the

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wrights, The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government 210,160 Centenary of " C- the Paris Commune

IN THURSDAY'S

workers press ON THURSDAY (March 18)-the 100th anniver- of the Paris Commune-PETER JEFFRIES sary writes on its significance and the political lessons It holds for today. £1,250 March Appeal Fund stands at £403.38 WE HAVE 16 days to the end trade unionist to lobby every the month to raise the the

TUC

In Croydon this final total. After a good start Thursday to demand they call we must not drop back. a General : Strike to make the The Torles certainly are not Tory government resign. retreating. Price Increases of Don't sit back in this fight.

all major food Items Help us ralse all the money are rocketing up. Unemployment you can for the Appeal Fund growing at an alarming this month. Collect an extra rate. amount towards our May Day The government not Appeal Fund of £3,000. only Post encourages these attacks, but every donation immediately to: time at the same prepares legislation reminiscent of the Workers Press Appeal Fund, 'corporate state. 186a Clapham High Street. ( The Workers Press calls on London, SW4.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Lessons of the post workers' strike Tuesday March 16, 8 p.m. 'The Old Plough, Kilburn Lane, W.10 (near Harrow Rd) Wednesday March 17, 8 p.m.

Unitarian Church Hall, Effra Rd, SW2 (opposite Lambeth Town Hall) Speaker at both meetings abour League)" G. HEALY (national secretary, Socialist

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE

March 18

LOBBY

Force the TUC to call a General Strike to make the Tory Government Resign! Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 9 a.m.

MEETING

'The Greyhound', Park Lane, CROYDON (opposite Fairfield Halls) 2.30 p.m. Chairman: Bill Hunter (Lucas/CAV shop steward) Speakers: Alan Thornett (Morris Motors. Oxford, deputy senior T&GWU steward) G. Healy (national secretary SLL) Also other speakers from the All Trades Unions Alliance

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for maintaining a slander on IN

HIS

1956 Secret honest communists, unprece- Speech, Khrushchev dented in the entire pistory makes no direct refer- the international workers' move.

ment? the Moscow to ence that Khrushchev here Trials and the murder touches on a very sensitive nerve leaders British for the of the of Lenin's Central Com- Communist Party. For he goes mittee. there had been He explains why: Just repre sentatives of the fraternal com- Party Con- before the 20th parties when Bukharin and the summoned the Rykov, other gress leaders of the people were tried State Prosecutor, Comrade and sentenced. Rudenko, who had been "These had representatives gone home and testified in then involved in many of the their own countries to the justice cases during the purges of of the sentences . This most certainly the the 1930s. with the leaders of the case asked him: "Comrade British Party. After each I'm Rudenko, interested in the jubilantly trum- massacre, tney trials. Tell me, how much peted their praise for the butcher open Stalin and heaped slander on basis in actual fact was there for his made tortured, defenceless the accusations against victims. The pro-Stalinist D. N. Pritt, churned out a whole book on the Zinovier trial proving that Lenin's closest comrades had been in league with the counter- revolution nearly all their poli- tical lives. considerable proportion of the British Stalinist was press devoted to articles and resolu- tions upholding the trumped-up charges at the Moscow three trials as shining examples of Soviet justice. To this very day, not one of these slanderous attacks the on Bolshevism of and the pioneers leaders of the Russian Revolution has been withdrawn. Everything far still stands as Bukharin as Gollan,. Pritt and company are concerned As Khrushchev himself says: Bukharin, Rykov, Syrtsov, 'We Lominadze, Krestinsky and many, didn't discredit Want TO well known the fraternal Party representatives other to the Central Committee...?"

who had attended the open indefinitely trials, we 'Comrade SO Rudenko answered poned the rehabilitation of Buk- that, from the standpoint of harin, Zinovier, Rykov and the judicial there norms, was no evidence whatsoever for

CON-

I can see now that our deci- demning or even trying those sion was a mistake. It would have men. been better to tell everything. "The case for prosecuting them Murder will always out. had been based on personal con- And so will historical truth, as fessions, beaten them the Stalinist leaders of the British under physical and psychological Communist Party, many of whom torture [these were the judicial engaged actively in the anti- norms' observed by Stalin during Trotsky slander campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s, are discovering.

great purges]... 'Nevertheless, we decided not Khrushchev's ans stence on to say anything about the open rehabilitation of those Pallai trials in my speech to the 20th Bolshevik leaders killed under Party Congress... Stalin jars harshly with the What was Khrushchev's reason official version of Party history Fourth International

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This suggests that if the work is genuine, it is being used to back up those arguing for such a policy in the Soviet Union.

For example, this is what Khrushchev has to say about some of Stalin's main victims: 'Almost the whole Politbureau which had been in office at the time of Lenin's death was purged .. At Lenin's side, Zinoviev and Kamenev gave worthy guidance to the Party. •When the government moved to Moscow, Zinoviev stayed in Leningrad ...And Moscow had been entrusted to Kamenev.

'Yet these men were in now the dock as criminals and were soon to be eliminated as enemies of the people! 'Stalin's purge of the Party swept from the oppositionists in 1938, 1936 to the rightists in when Rykov, Bukharin and other leaders of the people and the Party [note - not enemies, but leaders, of the people!] were brought to trial. "It is fitting that these men should be called leaders. Take Rykov, for example. He became chairman of the Council People's Commissars [Soviet "Prime Minister'] after Lenin's death.

S AFRICA 50 YEARS A

THE PRESENT con- troversy over Wasp heli- copters for the S African Navy recalls a revealing incident of just over 50 years ago. In the spring of 1919 the African workers of Johan- nesburg and the Reef, en- couraged by the revolutionary workers' struggles in Russia and throughout Europe, were mounting a courageous fight against attempts to tighten the Pass Laws, which were being used systematically to break a wave of miners' strikes. Thousands of men threw away their passes and openly invited CHILEAN peasants who recently seized farm land in the S Valdivia region have restored it to the old owners following a wage settlement.

Interior Ministry under-secre- Daniel Vergara tary said last week that some 2,000 peasants gave the land back after owners agreed to pay the higher wages demanded by the farm-workers' union.

WORKERS PRESS

A review by Robert Black

PART FIVE

Stalin's 'He was a man of merit in the Soviet of rule, preparing his atta everything he coul eyes of the Party and a worthy which can be found in 'A Short military leader History of the Communist Party representative of Soviet power.

OUL

'We he shot. the Soviet Union', published helped hil was siderably by destro had in Moscow in 1970, and now on 'As for Bukoar Bukharchik, Lenin him "our sale in English language ver- of our executive called an Party leadership Communist Party his "ABC of Communism" was a sion in British of Marxist-Leninist tific intelligentsia. wis- bookshops. "The blood bath would have thought that dom for the entire old genera- One shortest of short his- hot frenzy in 19 too, brought to even the added.) trial and eliminated... tories could find room for an Lenin's Party 1937—the year Khrushchev aptly call meat this account of how Constitution', period the of the was destroyed. the Instead, we discover the fol- cratic in the world mincer'. Not the latest official lowing: vear or une second and military purge: 'Socialism created favourable conditions for the development as open invade the Sovie of democracv in the Poland had been whole and within the Party' (This passage is dealing specific- ally with the years of the great Unlike the leac Stalinism, Khrushc purge.) Stalin pu "The introduction of the 1936 that the purely Soviet affair Constitution signified further democratization of the Soviet had a profound of whole course social and state system. struggle in the 193 'In December 1937, elections It time

USSR.

.. The elections considered St we the world politic demonstrated the strength and of democracy how much Khrus vitality socialist 'anti-Stalinism' his and the Soviet people's support 238) his footsteps for the Party! (p. of class-collaborati It is of this very year, SO undreamed of by t 'strong and vital' in its 'socialist Second democracy' that Khrushchev of the the English Fabian

CONTIN

Rykov 'In the late 1930s Hitler was

YEARS AGO

attempt to break He wanted the temporary loan ordered in arrest in British aeroplane and pilot manding the racialist law. They were sub- of a by *together with a sufficient supply military jected brutal repression themselves explosive and smoke, police and white vigilantes and bombs, and flares' to more than 700 were arrested.

be 'held in reserve fire against Gearing mainly for demonstration pur- S. M. Makgatho of the African poses and consequent moral effect keep his m National Congress wrote: Reef, possible the the *They driven like cattle, should they become out of hand.

in the Ree were mounted added, The rec policemen 'Ministers, he 'desire trampled by under their horses' hoofs, shot at to make it clear that the machine not show will not be used against the white bombs and and some white volute is. men and women are their population of Johannesburg.'

used,

OUT

graves as a result of their refusal doubi any Governor General, Lord 1 ne to buy any more passes.' Buxton, IntentoR. repiea by return, agrec- send a plane manned by The African government ing the benefit A. hastily prepared to repress Lieutenant Gearing, are mora potentially revolutionary move- Royal Air Force flying officer present-day seconded from the 17th Mounted ment. Some of their preparations these ever have light newly- Rifles. come to in the Libera Ministry opened British Air understood,' Buxton Lloyd Geo archives. 'that Lt Gearing's services wrote. Buxton are to be utilized only in connec- th was in On April 3, 1919, the Dominion tion with any native dis- serious which bro premier F. S. Malan wrote not to and that he is Insurance. Tur oance. Governor secreT motoute be requested or required to use He had Capetown General in asking for with mus aerob ade m conciliation British aid in view of the labour Connecuun any European disturbance.'

awarded th difficulties at present existing in the end of Gearing could use his bombs Johannesburg and the possıbılity of serious trouble'. and Lewis gun only if expressly strike. But peasants in areas bordering of Valdivia, a 17-year-old peasant nationalist: when a hand grenade Valdivia are still refusing to sur- was killed 200 other farms exploded in his pocket. render some In this v the government Chile's Reports say he was acting ' Marxist ' President Salvador a guard on a ranch seized by Allende Allende took power last autumn of peasants. on programme agrarian allalks UL of rich lar reform. side with Rather than e Chilean The Allende is government This gor the rural poor, the gov- land clear v embarrassed br the has accused the Chris- socialism which now taking seizures, tian Democratic Party, which vacillates on a violent character as the rich capitalism holds the balance of power in landowners fight back. of parliament between Allende's rIg. and backed ul In the Concepcion area North coalition the right-wing Tuesday March 16, 1971 TV

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Tuesday March 16, 1971 Soviet minorities fight means Defeat of bureaucracy visited all these bles

THE STALINIST

Russian Nationalism counter - revolution im- itself DOCu history facet of life in the Soviet

FINAL PART

Union. trom cuture and

BY ROBERT BLACK

education to the family. Impact nownere brutal than in the atta bro. cosmopolitans without more historian as a нарушо, тио най spnere or nanonal poncy. should These, Jewish doctors abroad hostile to Russia. on the of 14 was Prech mamenists, t of whom the Kazakhs by the theory of the e nations of at mene ore azahhsta entered the Clashes Chis done or hai mad And so, escape on the said • By and erne enol demoracy Soviet Union, and clashed several i against economic develop. Glowing terms Lessons opportists of Will Those inhuences ted the Tsao.

gressive here aren pret a by stalinis ever took Superiority content Not Theory of russian radar super develops te to the represen. Pre the Grigoreak s national repression in the Soviet ng for his courage and MUnders.

FETE

the British Brion of the egotiation one colonial peoples Union, Asia * any retores leades pany Trotse are completely and whole- leader, paigning thinly Empire having Concluded.

THEATRE REVIEW

BERIUL! BRECHIS MAN IS MAN

Playing at the Royal Court, London

REVIEWED BY BRIAN MOORE

A PARADE DE

CONFUSIÓN®

Geola Brown (Widow

BERTOLT BRECHT

expressions of the dialectical view of the demands of the 20th Man succumbs i diways arouses his remains, century. fixture to this day, the most important When Brecht talks of the dramatist of the Cer- actors demonstrate century. discussion any on Marxist theory of theatre must i won me veil never give meaning to begin with him. In grappling with an understanding dialectical materialism, which serves alone seeks to comprehend the con- Galilec tradictory process of history and finds in these contradictions the dynamic occupations and the new ones that are te for changing the world, Brecht had satisfis co production of one Brecht play to find a theatre that could reflect

TATE

and illuminate these processes.

achins and weakneseb ot web of collusion between actor and audience.

BEL

the Alexandra Palace to said ca true meaning.

PAGE THREE

mination policies were flouted in Prague, August 1968 FOR THE LAST four to five months Ampex (Great Britain) Ltd, Reading, the British section of the large American computer component and clec- tronics firm, have been consistently reducing their labour force. The rapidly falling number of workers felt that their jobs were in jeopardy and last Friday the management confirmed their fears by sacking 140.

The remaining 70 think that by May they too will be made The canteen is closing in May and since it is the only redundant. place for miles you can get something to eat the men feel more redundancies are imminent.

The British section of Ampex was founded nine to ten years ago to meet the growing demand for specialized electronic and com- puter parts as well as tapes for computers. They have had several contracts with the British and French governments as well as with the major computer firms.

The steady decline in the rate of profit has meant that many firms have had to cut back, if not cancel, their programmes to their systems as the installation and maintenance of such expensive equipment has been to costly.

There are indications already that the programming and systems analysing profession are feeling the pinch as salary rates have reached a plateau and the number of vacancies in this field are being reduced. Firms such as Ampex Ltd, and other suppliers are thus being forced into the position of closing down three of their four fac- tories, reducing their labour force from 400 plus to a mere 70.

There is no union in Ampex and therefore the wages have remained at an abysmally low level. Semi-skilled workers take home £16 to £18 and no action has been taken to fight the redundancies. another is in ed dant and oder workers have been fole hat all major firms will not employ men over 45.

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Worried Forces of the Steel workers demand Tories

• FROM PAGE ONE

signi canpose as it but, political General Strike to fight opposing the Bill. As Mr Carr clarified it: revolution section of willers on thei STEELWORKERS will ill be better protected redundancies redundancies in fight Marek i ho les hare Ine Industry, say rank- Bled us wit and-file trade unionists to staring out , break uncontent id ne tri in Sheffield. o"T think With 3,200 redundancies the BSC gain strength already announced by the accompanied mendation on this British Steel Corporation

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

to eat the r and 5,000 more to come Explicit govern- weeks, tew the killed that on and r Confederation t is Tay es are feated they see the attack as part In the Carr was very explicit the and 35s of the fory government's offensive against the whole WITH THE 24th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party now only see i way workers in working class. two weeks away, a profound political crisis is developing inside all fail-back the ruling Stalinist bureaucracies.

tim the are tryincially tie one weeke shin are! employers

BY ROBERT BLACK

Top Czech 'hardline' like this wil dvice Invon of Engineering: Stalinist Vasil Bilak

WORK-SHARING

denicies issued two letters llas s RiT

OPPOSITE

to Party officials warn- The fear IAN HARTFIELD, an apprent the cibelie othing in ditions attack ing against the dan- ' grin to pare redby dae Labour n Botherian, told he Balic s in to gerous situation on Poland. Poland, No antonion neighbouring atioks of tins policy. to private hands. se res undancies which he described as police shat "counter-revolutionary.

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

In the first letter, Bilak A series of lectures officials about nir some no mated t Bris th steel Marxist economics and Stukes that were breakin TWENTY - THREE - year parts shop steward for second parts of the rolana and icalization that now the crisis letter, sent two days later or warned Working class and youth. viet sa"Managen The revolutionary party arenes in force in en vorking-class action er Not alone and the working class General Strik Fish hase re lan Hartfield These redundancies. intil the Tories resigi think the Czechoslovakia Stalinism and Trotskyism

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MEETINGS

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me entice the rece empereism throws as againse postmenes strike and Tuesday March 16 ined industries.' against Lessons of the postmen's Tuesday March 23 StrIKe. Fanshaw Venle Whear baCag Station) Chamber: the most favour. Stalinists receive he issue of food prices. condition: Given by Tony Richardson neine had to sta WANSEA: Wednesda lub. Alexes Road orking Men skyism. reduced them

SW LONDON

Decembhit the ve backlash from Sunday March 21 textile city of Lodz Sunday March 28 Oil countries Claphan Road/lefreys Road Encourage press concessions Given by Michael Danda post A LETTER from a postal worker would retreats, Bourne en published in yesterday's Morning

AUN

Star' has revealed the growing Thursday March 18

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

Thursday March 25 strike turmoil caused in the Communist Steyne Ra (oft Horne Tane), Acton, W3 struggle on the political front,

EM AGENCY

Party by the defeat of the seven- Given by Cliff Slaughter week postal strike.

WEATHER

The letter, which casti-

CROYDON

Co-op Nail, High Ma, c. 27, 8 D.m.

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

gales une postal workers Monday March 22 leadership for refusing to CROPOSkin House Come 23: prices Monday March 29 Workers Pres when we inter- horton Heath Pond political, is an indictment i working ass SE England at first. Top brass hid *trade non Is the strike political? Given by P. O'Regan or men uke Maurice suvies so a nast the come -a leaaine oralinist ana Vietnam atrocities custerdar contentia

SOUTHALL

hunder une cnairman or me unlot of Post Office Workers- drach working das i Lt-Col claims wno promoted (nO Indian enter i to lal. politics' line in the dispute.

Cred monitely before the nationalization proposal.

Given by Robert Black mitted a new A US Lt-Col yesterday filed charges against two the ministers officers of concealing atrocities com

LUTON

Sectional Tripodescribed a superior mitted in Vietnam. Sunday • March 21 their struggle against Stalinism.

also takes the 'Star' AEU House, Dunstable Rd, Luton contends Methiary Given by Tony Richardson ta Mai allowing should be . РУ

SCARBOROUGH 1971

severn ont

BEXLEYHEATH

the Col. the working Monday March 22 very relevan uest the •class to defeat. ior 'adviser' to Monday March 29 vorkers political Now are Lord Bender Broadyay Young April onclusions if the essenc and Franki 'But *down he met US and S Viet Given by Peter Jeffries ty pol teal confent is denied Socialists Herbert, who served or 3 & 4 Direct challenge

W LONDON

11th Annual My Wednesday March 22 shies in the y CP me Room 3a, Unaler 5t, I London Union conference riognd during Randon: tortures challenge to Bert oficial is primaris service the Party Given by Michael Banda Vietnam stalinist strategy in the trade Relieved union movement Si Which would to mo

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