Workers Press no. 405

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 1. 191 NUMBCH 400

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Lesson of Heath-Ford meeting Fund stands Centenary of at £413.50 Is Beat the Bill this a Tiot with General

OR IS IT

POLICE

PROVOCATION?

See page 4 the Paris Commune

IN TOMORROW'S

workers press Strike What we think

APPEARING

More troops

THURSDAY

A grim

WORKERS PRESS

BY MICHAEL BANDA

or I resign AFTER HENRY FORD'S top-level warning with Cabinet ministers, meeting how can the Stalinists argue any not a fected Rolls-Royce action that protest more can -Ulster PM strikes called they have talen move the employers to move the Decision government? " Companies nie ot the firm has postponed rora's contemptuous re there r

BYA WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

jection of jack jones path

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Wider how he likes stating etic letter how the ULSTER PREMIER James Chichester-Clark trade offered told his Tory masters in London yesterday that action call greatly concerned to make stated aper he needed more autocratic powers to smash by unions to be held before friday the revolt of the working class in N Ireland.

Line-up political

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

and Keports Inal preparation or ten- Clark, now

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

the company under extreme UNION leaders and rank- righ

PUBLIC MEETING

trade if 50 Lessons of the post General strike deteat the lory mausulai Confederatineer- aid, workers' strike Relations Bill. seekinis also have said they vinels suppor active spect enl wednesday March 17. 8o.m en the government Unitarian Church Hall, Effra R SW2 opposite Lambeth Town Hall Before the he has done. meeung G. HEALY (natlonal secresary, Socialist Labour League) crop a which ived. In st ross

ALL TRADES UNIONS

subtle Vister.

ALLIANCE

Cordoba ence serve to dei

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man'sue while the engineers, settlements March 18 ve ters 'Profitable' explodes Presen

LOBBY

campaign only' hands of police. tre British do a proble again pressure Force the TUC to call a

REVOLT

SECOndS trial entire Ver Petrol rationing General Strike to make the sesters workers a by Tory Government Resign! if embargo Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 9 a.m. so an is rection F has developed before they are al Miners' secretary Daly is enforced murdered.

MEETING

which will be put to dele- Croc General spot snipers. - controlled districts te "The Greyhound', Park Lane, CROYDON Nationalize BRITAIN will be directly affected by Libya's (opposite Fairfield Halls) Police reported 300 arrests, oil embargo threat if its proposals on new oil 4.30 p.m wounded anothere Ford's say There car prices are not accepted. dustrial actior •Paras: Balan Thoritis Moses, tord, deput Representatives G. Healy (national Also other speakers from the Al rades Unions Allance secretary of the 300,000.

Labour MPs i s they trop hero the to broke off PreciNe lesion 2o vote after arenal keed ine was petie means

LIVERPOOL TRADES COUNCIL

for the TUC document.

LOBBY

RB211's future still Mistaken to protect their own profits.

of Special Trades Union Congress In chicense ind T think Reserves at Croydon hen he uncertain Mr Dala. THE GOVERNMENT has

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arty nemet by Britain's targe Special train: Tickets £2 return no positive received Butist is more serious than sponse erica Locked's company

MASS PROCESSION

spokesillan Strike and this has been me over But as Britain

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

RB211 contract and it The Pripiyed in addition to since himan Banel Fave

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the anti-union laws. demnity Rolls-Royce ento be introduced, hairman * Has win capital to enable work on Is a recan airlines and na Work

DEMONSTRATION

producing coun resentatives of the American acies terms. intimidated into signing ring lour weeks from March y reroritores it claims. sompany die as and the Thursday March 18 abandoning the dosed sni any pro as eptiuses n short, all t FIVE HUNDRED workers at ASSEMBLE: Islington Square, Liverpool 10.30 a.m.

Aircraft stever sarbride m de the 4300 Join the demonstration ion of thi main sone of 20,000 Kill the Bill drive announced by the Receiver

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Lesson of Heath-Ford meeting Fund stands Centenary of at £413.50 Is Beat the Bill this make targe For a Mort Hey Foo a riot' with General

OR IS IT

POLICE

PROVOCATION?

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IN TOMORROW'S

workers press Strike Immediately to : = Press London, SW4.

APPEARING

More troops

THURSDAY

A grim

WORKAR PRESS

BY MICHAEL BANDA

or I resign AFTER HENRY FORD'S top-level step in the fight warning meeting with Cabinet ministers, Paris how can the Stalinists argue any affect strikes catted for that protest action -Ulster PM more can that day my trap teave falle move the employers to move the Decision It is government? postponed Ford's contemptuous

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

jection of Jack Jones' path- railwaymen eStA Wider how Raiw ULSTER PREMIER James Chichester-Clark The govern Lace luvolved until told his Tory masters in London yesterday that action call arcally concerned маке when a success or lne rora orcan smash he needed more autocratic powers to redundancies by unions Ization must also oven the held before Wriday. the revolt of the working class in N Ireland.

eyes of all workers to the and manager I sinister nottical line.un any сол- Clark res under extrema and government that

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

in preparation for the In- right in agreement dustrial Relations Bill.

PUBLIC MEETING

rad UNION eaders ana rank- Will threate to resig it 50 Unionist absolutely ana-ne acuvists wrougu- have anc mosical hase DIllalll room contecture troops mily industrial cent more Lessons of the post nor nown mo me brovince He is also understood to be workers' strike The done bod -ab- to interr Wednesday March 17, 8 p.m.

ethodorocedure and wor force the government cuaise. And this, G. HEALY (natlonal secrepey, Sociallet Labour League) therent ben and

ALL TRADES UNIONS

the way April 2 mea

ALLIANCE

try sh sei ains intationary vase ment's "tough They favour greater use Cordoba ashanese bit out a Is ranging granted bai engineers, 52259 March 18 explodes But viewed a Press in that, Workers Nichotson'S pressure only

LOBBY

a problem for the British over monte again Force the TUC to call a

REVOLT

Petrol rationing rationa izatio General Strike to make the see wakes and the firm' Tory Government Resign! if embargo Lobby the TUC meeting-Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 9 a.m. The point is th t ty me hod Miners secretarv Dav is enforced insurrection.

MEETING

Units of the Argentine army which planes few love o "The Greyhound', Park Lane, CROYDON BRITAIN will be directly affected by Libya's Nationalize snipers. (opposite Fairfield Halls) oil embargo threat if its proposals on new oil 2.30 p.m. Ford's say prices are not accepted. SPeles: Bill to Let hose tord, deputy Might the complicity these, Roberto Levings- *yester di Ain do pair on the Ki trade Unions Allance Labour MPs bain, allow 20 waters Were Kid' the present price embargo

LIVERPOOL TRADES COUNCIL

the Libyan to vote hundreds more in Britain

LOBBY

to the original buses bad • to t 30 Paour MPs yes RB211's future still Mistaken to protect their omen prober 'I think is to Dec of Special Trades Union Congress In this sense one Derby Rolls- Roen he said Nicholsor right Reserves al croyaon uncertain : of a Libyan em- Tory Indus. THE GOVERNMENT has the is promi i think ine impar Special train: Tickets £2 return rial Relations Bil received no positive • rates Buthist is more serious than poemerica Lockneed s employeer British nato

MASS PROCESSION

defeated * General

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

America over RB211 The Receiver in addition to contract and

AND

\ll that nas so lar De ng history of bitter indu he extended ockhee demnity on towards the trade Rolls-Royce be Detroit, and urge the and tsuit atraid ot unions capital to enable work on

DEMONSTRATION

coun- Day, ves not have ME and gesentatives of the And rican.

the engine to continue for four weeks from March 5. Thursday March 18 union chiefs, chlet sip COMPare Bicepting, in short, all the ASSEMBLE: Islington Square, Liverpool 10.30 a.m.

Remand Take the destroy • trade Join the demonstration withdrawal too goodwer ants the interests of the special or esti Bes woke is topen 0 no Ford Kill the Bill told yesterday. redundancies at Derby.

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ROLLS ROYCE ROLLS ROYCE RO

A VOICE over the loudspeaker will summon a dejected group of shop-floor workers to the 'office' at Rolls-Royce, Derby, today. There they will get a short note from the Official Receiver-'You're fired' it will say. The same evening these 520 men will tell their wives that within a week they will be on the dole, joining the 1,450 staff and technical workers sacked in the first wave of redundancies last Thursday.

The rest of the Company's workers will view today's events with mixture relief and trepidation. They have escaped this time, but next week or the week after ...?

The cloud which gathered over Derby on February 4 when it announced that 'dealings in Rolls-Royce halted shares on the London Stock Exchange this morning' has grown/ blacker and blacker. Now the company's 20,000 labour force cling to a desperate hope -the RB211. If that should go. ..? John Sutton, manager at Derby employment exchange, simply shrugs his shoulders: It's not a thing we think about,' he says.

'We say no news is good news and carry on trying to fit men into jobs.' Like Jarrow The existing redundancies at the Rolls-Royce plants which employ one-third of the town's working population nave nedr doubled Derby's rate of unemployment from 2.8 per cent to 4.5 per cent. If Lockheed e driven ento the streets of th government's deal on th RB211, about 10,000 men will be town. 'It would be like Jarrow, and Jarrow very, bad you know, Chapman, a radial driller at Rolls-Royce.

'They're all sweating it out on the top line in there,' he added.

Redundancy? What does that word mean for the Rolls-Royce worker used to the security of employment at Britain's premiere company. It means the end of years of careful prosperity. It would mean eviction from your Rolls-Royce home if you occupied one and it could easily mean pulling up your Derby roots and hawking your labour round the country searching for work-your family in tow. This has already happened hundreds of technicians- for newcomers to Derby, but settled in the town and happy with the companv. Take Jim- -he's a technical author who was working on the RB211 maintenance manual until last Thursday.

Now¡tis biggest concern is for town. the move will mean in their education.

In one way Jim is lucky; he may get another job.

Older Rolls-Royce workers will not. They have resigned themselves to living without work until they die. of the initial collapse The shock on rebruary 4, is beginning to wear off. The ruthless way the first redundancies were carried out has been a big factor in this.

The workers read on March 8: 'As Official Receiver and manager I am not by bound contract of employment with the company nor by any agreement between the company and the trade unions.'

The way the redundancies have taken place has, in the words of official, book of rules one union 'ripped-up the agreed between management and unions'.

Skilled men have been fired while 'dilutees''..

-unskilled men doing skilled men's jobs-have been reprieved. In some Case that the 'last first principrincipat out' has been claim in, boy breached and the blue-eyed operated in its place. 'The contract' Thes. tactics by the Receiver have tended to start arguments between groups of workers and increased the level of suspicion.

Clearly if the 'Royce' at Derby to fight for men are going they themselves be their jobs and win must not allow to divided. The complain, have done 'nothing'. No unions, the men visited them, talked mass national ohhcials have them at them informed of that meetings or kept day-to-day events affect their very lives. And they are right. Union opposition to date has been abysmal.

The delegations have trailed see the Tory chiefs of the to Labour MPs have wailed in parliament. aviation industry. all varieties have argued capitalist economics with 'Leaders' of Heath and his henchmen. The latest gimmick is the court case launched by the Associa- tion of Scientific, Technical Managerial Staffs halt the and to redundancies by order of a Tory judge.

Understandably with this leadership Rolls workers Derby at have not begun in any to fight the sackings. organized way But as one older worker warned men.

'Even the most apathetic worm can turn'. The catalyst of change may well be the 'the contract, which in Derby means the RB211. If this goes workers either fight or accept an express ticket to the dole. But, then, the question remains how will they fight?

sums wrong? 8o on arguing with Mr Heath that he's s got his Will they Will they on pleading with the gonsequencesand total go government cash because of the 'social total to give collapse? Will they travel across the Atlantic and ask the American government to prop-up the British aero-engines after that same government has decimated its own aero-space industry?

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Tories-'they don't give a damn forany Rolls-Royce workers'

AN ON-THE-SPOT REPORT BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Rolls-Royce house in Derby Rayed en office and been sick! was sick. I could have gone outside the themselves would be out of workerned when he came to work was that he Fighting will the language it than vat a Bernment that speaks n Bho, Covetry and at all Dir nash Ratorce Hillington, clover then ban eventually made foreman I thought I was in he gide hed taken back terrible punishment an over make ely are domes damper and its es Chapman, 51-year-bl Bul belted Goes walive for the hars gim in my life last ear.

and buy a car. 'They're all sweating' with him at Derby for 2 old shop floor worker. He's been to so fice ths axes to bot alen on him. But he's worried enough all Swerine in sared top line there (the tactory), ne says, they re in There is up his or eng for in the factories is like living at the a dis ral tered ever him the san his life of Derby. it will de value st affect forcise te affects the whole to the smaler shopkepers it the worst came no the worst Rorice and was greeted by foreman a one da foreme for seven hesite as an asian he re as in the 19 relindance and dee a d Che other on the dotes he earned about 846 a week. On Friday he will be was prisoner of war in a Japanese camp.

when you lose a ta may to live for ithis ounoreand. But 'I was sick' The collapubt is ate made worker eft on eir sive enough.

one of the actories inse foe house right outside the gate of Mood. But and his wife, et me out says dive, they are with and three et so on the stree not was very very bad you know, I remember. arrow here and arrow tie of length of service any and was one of them 10.

with the have Some of them have been there for 30 yea dave sais in their eyes. cah see it oved with, Be it el you is not pleasant to team no nee fee weeks has been, "Well get it over with all?'s not very pleasant to see things like that, not pleasant at nat you are one of them 4,300 workers' jobs have been lost.

20,000 more are under the axe if the RB211 dies. Wednesday March 17, 197

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Sacked Rolls workers will no longer be able to afford to live in such houses as these- -and will have to accustom themselves to inhabiting houses such as those pictured below. LARGE COMMUNITIES on both sides of the Atlantic stand to suffer if no agreement is reached between Rolls- Royce and Lockheed over the RB211 contract. Marietta, a suburban area 18 miles NW of Atlanta, is deeply involved in the fate of the Lockheed TriStar. Rolls-Royce had in- tended to provide the RB2I1 jet engines for the aircraft until the company ran into financial difficulties last month.

More than 31,000 people worked in the Lock- heed plant in January 1970. Now the total has been slashed to 21,000. Part of the problem originated with unforeseen costs incurred in developing the C-5 military jet transport—-largest aircraft in the world.

But the biggest jolt came with the Rolls-Royce crash. The Lockheed plant makes the tail assembly for the TriStar which is completed by the parent Aircraft Corporation at Lockheed Burbank, California. Any problem that affects the parent corpora- the offspring. tion hits News that the Burbank plant had laid off 6,500 workers last month caused repercussions-but not a panic--in Marietta.

Lockheed is still America's largest military con- tractor. It had hoped that TriStar would open the door for a healthy slice of the commercial aviation market-especially if the Vietnam war looked as if it would come to an end in the next year or two. The Marietta plant has thrived on war. As the Bell Company's bomber factory, it produced the Enola Gay, the B-29 used to drop the first atomic bombs on Japan in the Second World War.

While Rolls-Royce workers are being dismissed by the thousands, Marietta has tried to keep its head up and look to a better future.

But money is getting short now that Lockheed, which bought the plant after the war, is in financial trouble. One former Lockheed engineer, Brad Chatfield, who operates a small antique shop, says: Marietta, there is a Lockheed psychology. People tend to get psyched out and they don't buy cars and they don't spend money. They hold back and that makes it worse!

The slump in car sales began about three months morning money relied ey send pose de I think morning They had heard the news from England!

Others are more optimistic.

They claimed that located in Marietta, Cobb County, is not as dependent on Lockheed as many people believe.

Mr Ernest Barrett, chairman of the Cobb County Commission, says he sees, 'No serious effect right on the county's economy. now' *If Lockheed were to close, he adds, 'We would feel it real bad but not nearly as bad as it would have been five years ago. Other industries moving in in recent years have meant a lot.'

Huge signs along the new inter-state highway between Atlanta and Cobb County proclaim: "Come to Cobb with confidence'.

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Wednesday March 17, 1971 THE narrow, parochial on the working class and poor peasants for support, but made no political concessions to them.

outlook that Khrushchev "ghost and Party in fact tight ted state (or his Soviet writer') displays in this more in the years of collectiviza- and industrialization (1929- tion book was also a charac- 1933). These administrative, bureau- entire teristic of the cratic methods had their counter- the Kremlin's foreign caste that came to power policy, which based itself increas- between ingly on under Stalin's leadership.

manoeuvres rival imperialist powers, using the working class of the capitalist 'Socialism in one country' threaten and pressurize states to was not just Stalin's pro- the working classes into Soviet with the bureau- but the political gramme, cracies. expression of a whole philo- While Stalin together with Bukharin -allied himself with sophy which dominated the the the rich peasant against following Bolshevik Party working class and against Trotsky, the International pursued a policy the double hammer blows of of with reformist collaboration Lenin's death and the tem- trade leaders (like the

TUC

General Council) and porary defeat of the revolu- bourgeois nationalists in the tion in Germany and the rest colonial world (Chiang in China).

In each these alliances of W Europe. case, led the working class to defeat, Further defeats in Britain (the and strengthened the imperialist China Soviet Union. 1926 General strike) and of the enemies (Chiang Kai-shek's massacre of When Stalin broke from Buk- the Shanghai workers April harin in 1929 and launched his the be- 1927) only strengthened collectivization pro- Khrushchev's lief among gene- the entire International gramme, Union ration that the Soviet was forced to swing to the ultra- way, un- had make Ils ownl left with him. aided. to socialism. His reformist allies of 1926 and The revolutionary role were by 1929 being denounced potential of the western working 'social fascists'. class and the colonial peoples practice written ofe paid service to, but in Banned Together with hundreds like United-front be- agreement him, Khrushchev's as tween reformist and communist loyal Stalinist prospered in direct to fight fascism were the defeats of the Darlies proportion all, could banned (after there imperialist working class in the be no united action by com- coumunes. munists with 'social fascists'). In We find, in these writings, Germany this policy led directly British echo of the General to the victory of Hitler.

Strike, the Chinese Revolution, Then in 1935, as the new pri- the rise and victory of German vileged layers up by inrown lascism, and the titanic Stalin's industrialization battles in Spain and France.

gramme began to congeal, there the came turn towards the Historic front', 'popular policy which involved class-collaboration be- tween the parties of the working All his energies during this class and so-called "liberal sec- historic epoch were concentrated tions of the ruling classes resolving the internal crises in of the Stalinist the capitalist bureaucracy, on main states in conflict with Nazi Germany. beating back the challenges to mounted by Stalin's leadership Stalin took the Soviet Union the Trotskyist Left not only League of Nations into the Opposition but the right opposi- (dubbed 'thieves' by Lenin tion of Bukharin and Rykov.

kitchen') and signed a military with leaders of French pact the And side by side with this imperialism. vicious factional struggle (in

GPU

and The social foundations of this which Stalin's not was the final openly reformist and, in practice, argument, Doltical counter-revolutionary policy, arbiter) there developed the defend well understood by the bureaucracy's struggle to most astute bourgeois economic foundations- comment- its own the nationalized property rela- tions created by the 1917 revo- the Soviet Union report on lution. London published by the Royal But fearing the of of International Affairs movement Institute the masses as much as the threat stated the at from the right, Stalin defended "The development internal of these property relations re- DY Russia is tending to throw up actionary means. "bourgeoisie" of and managers officials When the rich peasants (Kulaks) who possess sufficient make them highly the privileges staged

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content with the status quo...

regime, the bureaucracy leaned and Bolshevism THE TERROR of Bolshevism shown by ruling-class circles at the end of the First Woild War was tremendous. Discussions in the Cabinet were frequently about how to combat the menace, especially among return- ing soldiers. I doubt whether the panic was much allayed by the following letter, ter, circulated 1918, circulated secret memo to the Cabinet and to in the Cabinet papers at the Public found Records Office. Tory MP: omary ideasent of be is what might There This alled revolutionary on of the War. is an alled of the long duration • opinion, is that every brass band in the countis my opinion, should be let loose as often as possible, and to of letting flag-waving-—one form off Cean. 'I also suggest the early release- even starting now on a small scale-of men who have got more than two wounded stripes.

Directly Germany caves in, parading in all the principal towns in celebration should take place- in short everything possible should be done to work up a high patriotic feeling from the results of victory.' Tot surprisingly, another memo appears, this on from these ideas Sir Alfred Mond. describins 'insufficient'. Rather more was needed to stem the revolutionary tide. The ruling class found it in the treachery of the labour leaders.

In the hall of. columns, Moscow It is possible to regard the various purges as part of a pro- cess by which all who desire to change the present state of affairs are being rooted out.

'Such an interpretation lends colonato the belief that there is Russia lutionary period over, and that henceforward her rulers will only seek to conserve the gains which the revolution has brought them.' Khrushchev's rise to power and privilege inside the Party can only be understood against this broad setting of Stalin's political counter-revolution. himself, could Krushcher, only have been dimly aware of the role he was playing in the early years of his political career.

Each of these important stages in Stalinist policy passed Khrush- chey by far as their inter- SO national implications were con- cerned. deeply involved in Though implementing each internal policy decision of Stalin, he makes no reference to their international consequences until he reaches the Stalin-Hitler pact of August 1939. Although the International was officially 'anti- pursuing its fascist' Popular Front policy right through to the summer of 1939, Stalin had begun to sound out deal with the possibility of Hitler much earlier. The military purges of June 1937, which wiped out a section of the Red Army leadership favouring military agreement with France anticipated Stalin's pact more than two years later.

But for Khrushchev, who was at this time excluded from the ruling clique around Stalin, the of the pact was a bomb- news shell. And here too, he is very frank about Stalin's policies and motives. Official Stalinist his- tories refer to the pact as simply of 'non-aggression'. But one Khrushchev thought differently: It was very hard for us—as Communists, as anti-fascists • • to accept the idea joining forces with Germany. (Emphasis added.] Paradox It was difficult enough for us accept this paradox to our- selves. It would have been im- possible to explain it to the man in the street. "Therefore we couldn't admit outright that we had reached an agreement on peaceful co-exist- ence with Hitler. 'Co-existence would have been possible with the Germans in general but not with the Hitlerite fascists... Not only was the Soviet Union terribly compromised in the eyes of millions of workers all over the world as a result of Stalin's deal with the butchers of the German labour movement, but it also enabled Hitler to prepare for his future invasion of the USSR.

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OM HE SEVERAL commentators on the 100th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall have talked about the notorious conser- vatism of the authorities of that institution. Usually, they have referred to the recent cancellation of Frank Zappa's pop concert. But long before the infant Zappa had uttered his first lyrics the Albert Hall had clashed with The Nazis gained most from the trade and economic agree- ments which followed the sign- ing of the pact, as Khrushchev admits: 'According to the treaty, we were supposed to give the Ger- mans a certain amount of wheat, oil, and other products. We made our deliveries punctually.'

all The Nazis, on the other hand, did everything they could to slow down the deliveries of the goods to the Soviet Union.

Another side to the Stalin- Hitler pact kept secret by the Kremlin its collaboration was with the Nazi Gestapo after the partition of Poland. Conference There have been claims that Stalin's NKVD (successors to the GPU) met Gestapo leaders for a conference in Krakow, some time in 1940. Though Khrushchey does not refer to such a meeting, he does the workers' movement - and lost. It was in 1918, as the wai ended and revolutionary ideas working class. George Lansbury's Herald', then the leading left.

wing paper, was about to re- appear as a daily. The Albert Hall was booked for a mass rally on November 23, ising a series of false names. Bu Albert Hall managemen found the real purpose of the meeting cancelled the and booking. Lansbury appealed to Prime

WORKERS PRESS

A review by Robert Black

PART SIX

him by of NKVD described to mention the activities Serocer scene I. A. Serov, boss in the Ukraine, -who later added to his notoriety • "There long lines stand- are by carrying out Stalin's order to outside the where ing place deport six Soviet national minor- people register for permission to ities to central Asia: Polish territory. 'Serov's duties required him •'When I took a closer look I contacts with the shocked to have was to see that most Gestapo. A Gestapo representa- of the people in line were mem- to L'vov used tol bers of the Jewish population. Tive come official business. ... •"They bribing the Ges- were I don't know what sort of tapo agents to let them leave as the network the Gestapo had in soon as possible to return to their Ukraine, but was extensive. orginial home.. The cover [i.e., pretext] for this network was an exchange agree- Bribes German- ment whereby people on occupied territory who wanted to their homes the return to in Comments Khrushchev: former Polish territory now 'The Gestapo agents were Soviet troops were occupied by eagerly acceping the bribes, get- and allowed to do so. shipping these ting people straight to the gas Rut there was as a cnsd.. There was nothing we able traffic in the other direction chambers. could do to stop them. fact as well, that speaks for volumes the repressive could 'Nothing we do policies of the Stalinist and these yet revolting scenes the Ukraine. regime in took place on Soviet - ruled territory! Khrushchev goes on to relate Bid to discredit THE PROBLEM of the Tory daily 'The Scotsman' is how to keep up with 'The Times'.

the latter paper the recent series of articles in Following it could "The Scotsman' felt not Revolutionaries' entitled 'The entitiethe Sassenachs to outdo it in witch-hunting.

make So it sent a reporter to see what he could dig up to flesh creep. wasn't very successful. Scottish middle-class wave of •The current article last Thursday bemoans: As an Scotland by'. political violence has so far passed of the attempt to confuse the movement In a desperate Tories with the of the antics Scottish working class against Scotsman' turns to the testi- "The middle-class anarchist groups, unnamed 20-year-old male model.

mony of an gentleman described how his equally unnamed This young group had planned to blow up an even less identified Edinburgh bookies' offices in Glasgow. rob building and to for cash to enable him He also asked 'The Scotsman' to ga. comrades since he had to India to take refuge from his former agent for the Special Branch. become now and the police told He didn't get money, is weve. He is any rather fanciful. "The Scotsman' We know of this man. rubbish Having filled up half the article with this "The with Maoists, Scotsman' and with the goes on INTeRTIATC ever-obliging Spartacus League. These people allow "The Scotsman' to introduce the word 'Trotskyist'.

feature. But it was, apparently, duff for a leader nage the best the paper could do as its contribution to the campaign fight for revolutionary politics in the to discredit the growing movement to defeat the Tories.

Minister Ilovd George, who, of This did the trick. The power course, said he had no power to workers were getting ready for a at that time and Then London intervene. over Day working class took a hand.

the Minister of Labour, the would Cab drivers said they former printing trade union leader, later a Tory, G. H.

later refuse to take anyone to concerts at the hall and bus drivers said Roberts.. power to intervene after all.

they would drive straight straight past it. After a candle-light they couple of The tube men would not stop at S Kensington the Albert Hall people concerts, Roberts' station. took recommendation and the 'Herald' rally took the electricians took place Then pulling the a week later on November 30 action. out main black Typically, Lansbury had Ram- fuses and threatening to out the if say MacDonald as a main speaker, whole of Kensington the •Herald' did its and he was loudly heckled by not get a left-wing and jubilant audience.

meeting.

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Danger of deal in E Bengal

EAST BENGAL'S

bourgeois nationalist leader, Sheikh Rahman, Mujibur met Pre- sident Yahya Khan in Dacca yesterday for crisis talks over the rift between the country's two wings. Earlier, Rahman had modi- fied his of campaign non- collaboration with the military authorities in E Pakistan.

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Thousands demonstrated past his Dacca residence on Mon- day chanting slogans night, for independent Bengal an and 'Yahya beware'. Some of the McCarthy

CORRECTION

of Russian Part Five Tuesday's Nationalism in contained two paper errors: Column four, paragraph six should read: 'The liquidation of Lenin's national programme, long be- fore accomplished in practice, was given theoretical justifica- with this speech.' tion Column five, paragraph two, should read: stand full square for 'We the right to self-determination of all the nationalities oppres- sed by the chauvinist Kremlin and this applies with clique, equal force those East to European states still occupied by Soviet troops [i.e., E Ger- Czechoslovakia, Hun- many, gary and Poland].'

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

A series of lectures Marxist economics and the crisis The revolutionary party and the working class Stalinism and Trotskyism All starting at 8 p.m.

E LONDON

Tuesday March 23 Fan Can Avenue Wear Bachin Station) Given by Tony Richardson

SW LONDON

Sunday March 2] Sunday March 28 Claphams curre load Given by Michael Banda

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Wednesday March 17 Wednesday March 24 Inda, Featherstone sa, Soon all, Given by Robert Black

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MEXICAN gore neat rested eric or of enemies of Engineering night. The group had been trained one-day strike Korean government, by the N against the Industrial Rela- calimed Vargas, to impose tions Bill. regime arxist : Lenini exic THURSDAY'S national and newspapers London evening will not be produced after all.

In spite of attempts by the Newspapers Publishers' Asso- ciation to et exemption fo Fleet t engineers, th the Registered as newspaper at the Workers Pukliched oy Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4. Press Ltd. (TU) Street, -ondon S.W.4. Carthy family and friends at the front of Monday's protest march. Wide call

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whole of the working people in Britain.' FROM THE Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, assistant general secretary ERNIE ROBERTS said that the TUC recom- mendations 'mere were obstacles' to the working pf the Bill that employers and the government would easily overcome. The AUEW was the first to call out its members on official strike against the Bill and it will be leading Thursday's stoppages while Croydon its delegates at vote against the TUC docu- ment. Correct 'I don't think the Bill or the laws will be defeated without industrial action. It is quite for correct the working class to take indus- trial action for political ends because they are faced with a Tory government that is taking political action for industrial ends. 'The AUEW has given a lead on this front far, SO but we can't go on standing alone. • 'All of the trade union movement must be involved.

The TUC leadership should make it quite clear that workers are prepared to use the ultimate weapon of in- dustrial action including the General Strike.'

EDDIE MARSDEN,

the secretary of the general Constructional Engineering Union, said that his execu- tive 100 were the Tuder cent against recom- mendations as they existed.

'We believe, contrary to the General Council's docu- ment, , that the TUC should instruct all its member unions not to register under the Bill. 'We are also, of course, against No 7 of the coun- cil's proposals which in effect rules out industrial action against the Bill, he told me. 'We feel that it is now an urgent necessity for the TUC to lead the whole of the movement in industrial action against this vicious

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Lessons of the postmen's strike. SWANSEA: Wednesday March 17, Swansea 7.30 p.m. Working Men's Club, Alexander Road. EDINBURGH: Thursday March 18 Railwaymen's Hall, Restal- 8 p.m. rig Rd, Jocks Lodge. NEWCASTLE: Thursday, March 18, 7.30 p.m. Connaught Hall, Blacket Street. LUTON: Friday unstable Road.

March 19,8 p.m. AEU House.

SHEFFIELD:

Sunday March 21, 7.30 p.m. Vestry Attercliffe Hall, Attercliffe Common. "The crisis in steel-fight the redundancies!'

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Sunday March 21, 7.30 Workers p.m. Press Rooms, 46 W Princes St, St George's Cross.

ACTON: Monday March 22, 8 p.m.

Co-op Hall, High Rd, W3. CROYDON: Thursday March 25, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Rd.

WEATHER

ALL DISTRICTS except SW Eng- land will have showers and sunny intervals. Over N England, N Ire- land and Scotland of the some showers may be heavy and pro- longed with hail and thunder and snow over high ground. Over SW England it will be- increasingly with come cloudy rain later. Temperatures generally will be near the normal for mid-March.

Outlook for Thursday and Friday: Rain and strong winds spreading from the SW followed by showers and sunny spells. Temperatures near normal.

WORKERO PRESS

Wednesday March 17, 1971 THE employer's offer dried the splained thas a shey of 9 per cent pay in- creases for railwaymen met strong opposition from many workers yesterday. For large sections of the

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marched VOTING in the first round of France's municipal Monday night. claims elections reflects growing polarization between the working class and the Pompidou regime.

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BY ROBERI BLACK

local election held under the Fifth Republic, voters have grouped themselves They are che bar bones of arouna me countrys two mant London. main parties-the Stalinist-

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