Workers Press no. 60

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 60

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1969

PRICE 6d. T.U.C. Vietnam resolution

STOP WILSON'S VISIT TO NIXON

Glasgow boilermakers sav:

ANTI-COMMUNIST

Mobilize labour movement At their quarterly meet THE Birkenhead branch ol che ted by a tre mai January visit paign resolution i trade

AGREEMENT

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What marchers gegi ine Worke? mo imant

HOOVER

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MAR 17 1971

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BY ROBERT BLACK

WITH PREDICTABLE servility, the Stalinist 'Morning Star' yesterday reproduced the TUC cringing General Council resolution on Vietnam under the headline TUC leaders' solid abstention American atrocities. oe nae deste. Approved unanimously-and it is evident why- ms main sector runs : Building Briefly

ECONOMY

'It is now clear that the war in Vietnam by Vorstpher involves the civilian population, in their homeland, in the deal against possibility of such abhorrent and inhuman incidents.

No room for winchever side wey may De muale, wildlever unel owa bonucal convicaons may de ana waerever taey may poesie wiep Barly re este backs "Ilhe declaration ot the us government that suci yesterday rawal of the Labour Whip policies intentions incidents do not contorm to their mhd Nation t its alliance with lead the General Concil to hope

M.D.W.

illusions Nomineed position con titelt will not be limited to Teas ene im ta at wene pot il recognized ien erat per pose drive pursuit material ends serve the in ai ateal satem ene tie deals of the free world. ment that the government s nemens aboul 1 suggested

THE WAGES

the future given some rude economic were aeal bv leaders or ine lauona snocks Dy pudncanon ol tne ucloder producuor Hederation bul cing eos sainst wases Te Vieramese people with the barbare e ihe ontel figures and the latest OECD report on the Trades Operatives the Vietnamese people with British economy. worge tinad of betrayal. in Vernam! ( arecies are nov part of and do not anise from us poie Bv an Economics reporter "Cve retiens hea sari outi cal that th sest derm tno trom apan and recent mions had by strikes, th accounted for e 'strengthened the prese or the ideals of the tree world (emphasis a-ted).

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nave ai aen rer. auruml Voting was 289 to trement from Westminster.

govern abou ma rets Others should Fasta ned frome and launched its war on the Korean His task ine signs edam une by workers and peasants. have done ce cht Nish Tran Thet Free world ideals the same squeeze. rising ossible to e sery he interna tonan wosk in other exporting countries.

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INTERVIEWED

Michael Mullen cret haes her Perd resa thies onia statemens sia interted ito co rece the Theli nadra ma ained , sTone dme, 's would berea ved ilede Festin as and the stalinist. a tersl the in des dral aron -sion in the Uetea Sates- isat before ment's demonstration. nd ma etreat-as intensive competition he poun tay a rough policy. ing. can be expected next year, M ath io wipe The wo lae reino sile tor prostrate Tories it worn ant tae Gold situation Wiss restons She masi, anti-communist -Morning Star felis ance of soaem of tits deit other the some

TOMORROW

did. My confused plo mont to have risen since e honer besmesos leader rel Playwright "he illusione of the Labour December norenber figure

DAVID MERCER

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TEL

Deactly who, trade union isos

BY DAVID MAUDE

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 60 • FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1969 PRICE 6d. T.U.C. Vietnam resolution

STOP WILSON'S VISIT TO NIXON

Glasgow boilermakers say:

ANTI-COMMUNIST

Mobilize labour movement

AGREEMENT

What

HOOVER

MAR 17 1971

think A

BY ROBERT BLACK

Hoa of the labour and trade WITH PREDICTABLE servility, the Stalinist Wiso January, Y9701° America in 'Morning Star' yesterday reproduced the TUC cringing General Council resolution on Vietnam under

LIVERPOOL

and Foundrywor the headline "TUC leaders' solid "No" to be abstention American atrocities. dISLICE CO Approved unanimously-and it is evident why- its main secson rums a Building Briefly

DISCIPLINAR I

Corwich®

ECONOMY

'It is now clear that the war in Vietnam by its nature involves the civilian population, in their homeland, in the Christopher positever deucey deal ment in wednesday initiated, No room for incomes policy debate. political may be and they may She TO SPLIT Earlere ested to thesire backs "The declaration of the US Schoolmasters real of the Labour Whip. governical incidents their nice with illusions

M.D.W.

veneral Wlal mvesusalon and took limited to the Will not be proceealnes walch the Fess hers in th fight Ior thi Us autoriues now nave in nana, out will extena to tne genera purpose ol the war. and to the question or wetne drive matter serve Turther pursuit •Can i the material ends or ideals of the free world....

REASSURING

government statements about rembert this resolution is an . reader litant trade unionist Pleador of the balend economic Morning old future were given the some and minist to rade leaders of shocks by publication of the October production rcuciation figures and the latest report on the the Operatives irades British economy. worst kind of betrayal. Feared pen enr Ming ploy in used am. Although most of the fall the employe By an Economles réporter he said continually disturbed ale terent hard out cal i tne industrial production Japan He added that trom and 1,0Ye- between ce index for October can cussions accounted for by strikes, thi inker mee strengthened most favourable interpre- teachers i vote cachine devi abol and has brought the Ism ahis mote crude, cold-war language of: "оттид- tion still shows stagnation.

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UNION

defenders of retor Free world ideals' the same relaxation 'squeeze. that this o he cold Norwood M.P. Danger The increas Temporary that the improvement ta te case dance, That thousand a l or it satened dis intended in co seen th bereaved relatives disclosed atrocities. Any militant trade unionist, faced every day with the cession in eate on and rule cons hill orac tea of those gust.

by a tough policy. Gold situation shelicates to core or ter * The communistar sol.

TOMORROW

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DAVID MERCER

the official price of 35 dollars the General Council members.

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Stalinism gold action sand price system reamings big as in revealed frain on the balance of pay- foreign reveals itse hand of Stalinisr All-London Transport strike re now wa stand nember of the British com Jones seeks 'peace' I said etat ese gards caused e-election peri who have threatened formula at a public meeting • he Ministry o Exactly who, trade unionist:

BY DAVID MAUDE

is re this broad See the film of the first issue being prepared and avert the broad that the National Unio printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969° Coxin aims che supPort London's trans- TraVel le

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of visual colapse in a state seen kept in the dare about Sunday December 21, 7.30 p.m.

However the busmen's Industries Exhibition Centre Carver Street (behind City Hall) Speakers But interests bout state are asso concerned BlI Th opens mintic se tuture Jones MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) port Minister Mr Fred Mulley.

trial espect to a for a resolution SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the the Bean a made on me or Workers.

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Young Socialiste)

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Mr Jack Jones, vno instigati

PAGE TWO

HIRE-AND-FIRE disci- Measured - Day pline, 'scabbing by Work, agreement, fines, re-de. loyment, closures, sack. ngs, wage-freeze, grading mobility of labour and shift work are all to be found either directly or by implication in the en- closed docks productivity agreement rejected by London's dockers in mid- November. The most likely outcome of this week's preparations by the port employers for new talks with officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union would seem to be a new wage offer for these same terms. But, as the Workers Press reported exclusively-more than 24 hours before the deal was published-on November 4, it is 'a blue-print for far- reaching attacks on jobs and conditions . . . "almost a carbon-copy of the Measured- Day Work deals the car bosses want to push through"'. Its proposals are aimed en- tirely breaking the at organised strength of port- workers and cannot accepted at any price. The purpose of the agree- ment-as stated on its first page-—is to promote efficiency, operate to introduce and mechanization and improved working methods and to im- prove wages and conditions. A careful reading of its 12 pages will show what this amounts to. The deal has the following eight main aims: 'Back-door'

M.D.W

THE SETTING of a fixed wage with no extras, tied to the un- limited right to increase pro- ductivity through a combin- of 'modernization' and ation time - and - motion methods. what Measured-Day This is Work is all about. The introduction of the fixed wage in place of piece-work payment that the ensures massive increases in output- and profits-brought about of through the use new methods will not be reflected in the wage packet. Time-and-motion systems make certain that the docker is working flat out every second of the day. Involved here is an entirely method of sly, underhand introducing MDW. While its basic principles are laid out on different pages of the agreement, no mention is made anywhere that it is Measured-Day Work that is being put forward This 'backdoor' introduction shows that the employers are quite clear as to what sort of vicious speed-up system this is. But where are the union officials on this? Nowhere have they exposed this fraud or explained the full implications of this agreement, or of the MDW system which is leading disputes in to major every section of the motor industry.

The relevant passages in the agreement are: • On the Fixed Wage: Page two, clause five states 'This wage structure will incorporate the modernization allowance and be paid on the understanding that it includes an allowance for shift-work and also that all additional time-rate payments, for any reason whatsoever, are dis- continued.' Weekly payments are given in the rejected deal as £33 10s.

for category 'A' dockers and £25 for those assigned to category B'. Even if the employers raised the 'A' figure to £37 10s. or even £39 . • remember, it would be a fixed time-rate!

• Time-and-Motion: Page 6, clause 16 states: 'This involves agreement the application of modern techniques of method-study work-measurement which and will necessitate the implemen- tation of training programmes and appreciation courses for those employers and employees who need to familiarize them- with selves such methods. attending such Employees courses will be paid the basic weekly wage. 'Information arising out of the application method- study and work-measurement will be made available to the review committee and the arbitration committee' The tie-up between the above two clauses is dealt with in clause 13, on page five.

Paragraphs ii (a) and ii (f) state• "The terms and conditions in this agreement require em- achieve a satis- ployees to factory level of throughput', and 'When an employee regularly fails to work at the accepted speed he will be subject to the disciplinary provisions of the Jockworkers scheme 1967; by agreement CLAUSE 13, headed 'Obser- vance of the conditions of service contained in this agree- ment', includes the following: 'Where an employee refuses to work and his action pre- vents other men who are willing to work from working on that job it is agreed that: (a) replacements • may be put in if necessary and available or (b) the remaining men will continue to work. 'Should the employer deem (a) and (b) impracticable the men will be redirected to other work." Acceptance of such a clause would mean that the em- payers unidented to officials union enforce 'scabbing' during dis- putes. This clause has nothing to and couraging 'scabs'. Clo in l THE CLAUSE headed 'dis- cipline' contains only the statement that:

THOI

tionec "The parties recognize that princi employees and employers are more disciplinary subject to the have provisions of the Dockworkers' in th Employment Scheme, 1967: work. Sin sections However, the Lord quoted above on not working izatio fast enough also amount to Lond‹ discipline clauses. of St The agreement also adds wharf that if the employer is not canal satisfied with a worker's per- Mark formance, he can call on the as 'ra union officials to instruct him mens' to get a move on. Clause 13's tugme paragraph ii (b) states: is Ha Mo If an employer considers an men employee is not achieving a Thi satisfactory level of through- the cr put the employer will consult ling 1 with the employees represent- tion i • atives.' told 1 If the efforts of the official ivity as acting supervisor are not a their success, the employer can then gethe take the worker before the highe joint arbitration procedure and 'Lo committee's plus 'the arbitration decision will be binding on Port' both parties'. 'Be OUGH NOT directly men- ned cuts- nciples Since the hrst stages ra Devlin's

COCKS

(moaera ton' were has St Katherine: anc mens lobs. ine latest to g Hav's wnari shifted by fewer More cargo :

WORKERS' PRES

article about the closure an of Hay's wharf, 'a number of wharves are closing, smaller too.' After commenting that thousand tave to be ofered voluntary more men severance', it went on to report that 'a suggestion from employers that a number of "ineffectuals"—men who have not yet accepted • voluntary severance but who are not capable of doing dock work- should be compulsorily severed with compensation will not be accepted by the unions'. This is the result of Devlin's first phase. If the employers were to get the upper hand with the second, more closures would follow almost immediately.

(The closure of the Surrey Commercial Docks is being discussed at present. The Port Authority of London recently denied a rumour that it is considering the immediate shutting-down of the India and Millwall group.) Who would be next to be 'compulsorily severed'?

FINES FOR TIME-KEEPING

DEDUCTIONS for lateness are given in the agreement as: 'Up to 30 minutes late. Loss of half-an-hours' pay at the appropriate rate for the shift in question. "30 minutes to one hour. Loss of an hour's pay at the appropriate rate for the shift in question. 'More than one hour. Loss of pay for the shift in question. The productivity agreement demands the flexibility of labour-gangs, such as the one on the left at Tilbury, would be reduced in number and the militants weeded out.

IORKERS' PRESS

'Persistent lateness, absent- eeism or unauthorised absence hours, it is during working stated, will be subject to the disciplinary provisions of the Employment Dockworkers' Scheme, 1967: THE EMPLOYERS are taking their drive towards seven-day, round-the-clock, three or four- shift working in stages. proposals Their present simply aim the at getting of shift-working principle accepted everywhere. If the employers were to get the upper hand they could always enforce changes at a later date. The relevant clause states: "The basic working week (Monday to Friday) will com- prise 35 hours, including 3% hours meal-breaks. This work- ing week will be on a two- shift basis. First shift-7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

(including 45 minutes break).

Second shift-2 p.m. to 9 p.m. (including 45 minutes break). *Apart from the meal break of 45 minutes in each shift, employees will be required to work from the agreed starting- time until the finishing-time of a shift.' The bit about the basic working week being 35. hours rubbish. Were is so much these terms agreed, dockers— as well as having to change and wash in their own time could be asked to do certain other tasks outside the 35 hours (remove or replace return mechanical hatches, gear, shift cranes). the dockers At this rate, would find themselves back near the 40-hour week. THE AGREEMENT demands complete mobility and flex- ibility as required by the employer, including: Movement em on este within a guit, int ding thi to-quay and quay-to-ship.

so from dishangings and vice-versa at any and con- ırrespective be re- paragraphs aim effect gives the employer a gang at any time unis enables Icauc umber of gang For example, instead of started on tour gangs being four jobs first thing in the nonned to jobs could be one gang would do all four jobs in turr Full flexibility can also be used to split up militants or break up which are complaining about conditions.

THE INTRODUCTION

of modernization combined with speed-up methods brings about such enormous increases in output that any system tying wages to productivity would mean being made continuousy. large payments

BERNARD

FRANKS

In order to forestall this, the employers try to change to a system of payment in which the output, profits made or the cost of living have no effect on the wage packet. The worker is, in effect, being told by the employer 'once we've paid a fixed sum for your ability to labour, what we do with it or what we make on it is none of your business'. As we can see from the graph, the traditional methods of payment and wage bargain- ing, especially when backed by strong organization and the ability to back demands with strike action, have the best chance of keeping up with the cost of living. Under the new methods (incentive bonus tied to work- and Measured-Day study Work), rates-though often begun at a slightly higher level than traditional-soon below a living wage. £37 10s. or even £39, in other words, would make little difference to dockers in the longer term. It is being argued that new demands for a rise can always be put in at regular intervals and they can be fought for on a 'militant' basis. But the employers are bank- ing on the terms of these agreements to break down militancy and stop rises taking place. The Phase Two deal is thus in line with the Prices and Incomes Board's most recent recommendations for product- ivity bargaining (published last week). It is entirely a product of the government's incomes policy over the last three years. Friday, December 19, 1969 If it is signed, hordes of work-study consultants will invade the docks. Permanent work-study de- partments would be set up to time each job and to fix time- standards for every action.

The level of 'standard per- formance' decided by the time- and-motion people would be tied to the fixed payment and to the disciplinary procedure as outlined in the agreement.

But even this would not be the last word. Devlin Phase Two aims at preparing the way for Devlin Three-more closures, Phase more discipline, more refined work-study methods. The National Ports Council already examining the various 'predetermined motion- time systems' where times are taken from a standard times manual which has been com- piled by backroom 'experts.

At the same time, the employers would use latest technical developments —lighter-aboard-ship (LASH) vessels and container-carry- ing Jumbo Jets'-to prove that competition was increasing and dockers must make even greater concessions. employers Already, many modernization are using to make inroads into the concept of registered dock labour.

The attitude of the current of gaggle Transport and General Workers' Union officials in keeping quiet on the real aims of Devlin and using a postal ballot shows that no real fight is going to come from this direction.

Similarly, the British Com- munist Party, which, with its own daily paper at the very outset of Devlin was easily the organization to best-placed expose it, has never at any time analysed the situation or led a campaign against the scheme. Instead, it organized diversion for better redun- dancy payments' a higher selling-price and 'no-sacking guarantees'. As the government has now published its White Paper on nationalization, presumably everything is now • alright as far as the CPGB is concerned.

as the dockers In fact, know, everything is far from alright. The Labour government's 'nationalization' plans are aimed solely at extending the work of their Devlin scheme and at centralizing modern- ization and manning control.

At the -same time docks like Felixstowe, many con- andother tainer terminals depots are to be left in private hands. Unlike the Communist Party, we say: Nationalization under workers' control of all ports and associated industries!

A basic increase in wages with no productivity 'strings'! • Unity of all ports against the Devlin scheme!

No 'competition between • ports'! • A fight in the unions for alternative socialist an fights on leadership which these policies. Since the introduction of Lord Devlin's docks 'modernization' London has seen the closure of St Katherine's dock, Abbey Wharf, London dock, Regent's Canal dock, Dundee Wharf, Mark Brown Wharf, and the Surrey Commercial docks (seen left) is due for closure soon.

Friday, December 19, 1969

LUKÁCS

'The wrote Historical Novel' in 1936- 1937, at the height of the Moscow Trials and in the period when the Popular Front with alliance and middle-class liberals being de- radicals was veloped by the Comin- tern. He had been Minister of Culture in Bela Kun's revo- lutionary government in Hungary in 1919 and, after its overthrow, had become a member of the Comintern in the early 1920s. He played a prominent part in the 'Bolshevization' of the Communist Parties that took the form of a bureaucratic removal of all opponents of Stalin within the international communist movement and that, because it involved the artifi- cial and enforced development of young Communist Parties, of these beheaded many Parties. Organizational Lukács succumbed politically Stalinism, in that he saw to as a series of or- Bolshevism tasks, ganizational not as above all a problem of the theoretical development of Marxism and its application to the specific problems of dif- ferent countries. He followed every twist and turn of the Stalinist line al- though he was more intelligent intellectuals and than many writers who became mere ser- vants of Stalinism. 'The Historical Novel' is a product of this Popular Front period and very much in- ferior his 'Studies in to European Realism'. It is not only that Lukács gleans world literature for all those writers who can be

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10.05 Italian Cinema: 'La Efida' (The Challenge) directed Rosi with by Francesco Rosanna/ Schiaffino and Jose Suarez. Westminster At Work. News Summary and And in line with Hegel, he looks for those 'personalities' whom he sees as making his- tory and for whom, as it were, history and the conflict of classes exist. Although he constantly pays lip-service to historical mater- ialism, he turns Marx and Engels back to their on Hegelian head. This is the supra-historical law of fictional development that he announces in the early pages: 'If any form of knowledge pretends to be absolute, ignor- ing the dialectical character of the merely relative, i.e., in- of the is inevitably falsified torts the picture? Compromise He softens and compromises the dialectic into being not the conflict of opposites through which development takes place, but into the mere relatedness objects in which gentle and Utopian pro- gress takes place. The development of con- sciousness takes place not at the sharp point of conflict be- tween theory and practice, but as an approximation to what is and always has been there in objective reality. In other words, although Lukács claims to treat litera- historically, objective ture reality does not develop so far as he is concerned, but is given and fixed. Perhaps his long section on clarifies Shakespeare best Lukács' method. Shakespeare wrote on the threshhold of the English bour- geois revolution-at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. His work spans the transi- tion from Elizabeth's to James I's reign. The period of Elizabeth's reign seemed to allow some compromise between the Crown and the rising bour- geoisie, but the enormous de- velopment of capitalism dur- ing her reign prepared the even greater clash between the two classes that came to a head in the first half of the 17th century. Shakespeare, like many writers, hoped to find a middle way in this clash, but found that there was none. On the one hand, he roman- ticized chivalric feudalism in like Hotspur in characters 'Henry IV', though the over- blown and overstated language implies his criticism of the dreamy and historically expir- ing aristocrats. In later plays he softened this into the idealized portrait of the passive, spiritualized and historically unsubstantial aris- tocratic Cordelia. On the other hand he dis- liked the 'new men', the re- presentatives of the capitalist class, exponents of realpolitik like Bolingbroke, unimagina- tive and, so far as he was con- cerned, treacherous. He recognized that there was no way out of the revolution- ary clash that was to take place in the middle of the 17th century as a result of which bourgeoisie was to take the political power. He was extremely sensitive shifts taking to the social place at the turn of the cen- tury and that affected all layers of society. If his greatest work is in the tragedies, that is because he sees the downfall of the aristocracy as tragic. Acute The conflict is inevitable and Shakespeare recognizes that the Lears of the world must perish. He is the most historically and artistically acute of all English writers. Lukács though, seeks to transform Shakespeare into a type of early liberal, accept- able to the many liberals that were incorporated into the counter-revolutionary work of the Popular Front. This is how he characterized Shakespeare's writing : "Therefore Shakespeare states every conflict, even those of English history with which he is most familiar, in terms of typical-human opposites; and these are historical only inso- far as Shakespeare fully and directly assimilates into each type individual the most characteristic and features of a social crisis.'

tells alonly in the sentence The very essence of Shake- speare's art is that there is no between the 'human being' (in Lukács humanitarian terms) and the social and historical forces that create him.

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Everything is falsely God-given, 'human nature'. com- partmentalized Lukács' Because he looks on litera- in world. ture and art as illustrative of a Later he writes that Shake- pre-existent reality, he fails to 'is historically faithful grasp literature as one of the speare and authentic because the ways in which man struggles human features absorb the develop his to consciousness of world most essential elements of this the and develop great historical crisis'.

weapons to control it. Lukács always writes of a Lukács' 'The Historical 'soul' Novel', for all its apparatus of human human 'features' or a human 'nature' historicism and praise of con- that pre-dates the whole of creteness, presents literature as man's history. very pale reflection of an Hence Lukács tries to see abstract process. the whole of literature It is, above all, as a philo- in terms of how well or badly sophical idealist that Lukács a work illustrates this pre-con- could strike his compromise ceived, and it must be said, with the Stalinist bureaucracy.

THE TITLE of John Gollan's Communist Party "The pamphlet, Common Market: why Britain should not join it' is already a programme. Instead of presenting a policy for the working class of Britain and of Europe to fight monopoly capitalism and the ruling class, Gollan sees the question as one of loss of national sovereignty and thus of the ability of a British government to 'ad- vance to socialism'. Beginning with the theory that each country advances to socialism independently, the whole approach to the European Common Market is made one of loss of sovereignty.

Even from this point of view Gollan writes his pamphlet not on the basis of the actual struggles between the different national governments repre- senting the ruling class of each member country, but from the documents of the texts and Common Market itself. Integration The supranational apparatus, But they cannot solve their bureaucracy of the Com- the problems in this way. mon Market, has not yet by any means superseded national They only carry the conflicts to a higher level. sovereignty. Brought together, by Nor is there any sign, in the too, fear of the working class and near future, that real and by the the non- effective steps will be taken pressure of political capitalist of towards eastern or STated even Europe, thev are, nonetheless, economic integration as set incapable of their out in terms the vague resolving Treaty of Rome. differences or of really unify- ing Europe. In fact, it is not this bureau- cracy which is the main danger National for the working class, but their own ruling class and employers.

It is therefore not enough to It may Gollan he true, as conclude, Gollan, that with that 'the logical exten- puts it, "The Common Market and its sion of the EEC idea is for a institutions the are monopo- single West European capitalist lists' dream and the monopo- state which in all aspects of lists' creation'. policy, foreign and military as When Gollan considers the is centrally well economic, arguments about Britain's entry controlled in of the interests from he does SO typically the super-trusts'. national standpoint: will it or will help it not overcome Bitter 'Britain's plight'?-will it be in 'the interests of Britain'?— But the differences between will it help the economy to national the sections of the grow faster? European ruling class, as well Some of the 'authorities' he as between the big monopolies the Common like quotes against in fields motor cars, Market chemicals and from this point of electronics, are like William Pickles deep and bitter. view are, on the and Douglas Jay, ex- The Common Market in- treme right-wing of the Labour stitutions, far from constituting Party. a ready-made framework for some kind of 'super-imperial- They, like Gollan, fear that entry into the Common Market ism'. are a cockpit of struggle for the long-standing historical will mean 'the loss of control over Britain's economic future'.

rivalries between the ruling class and big capitalist inter- ests of the European states.

Law-making They fear, like Gollan, that Limitations parliament would lose many of its law-making powers to These ruling classes and Common Market bureaucracy monopolists forced establish institutions like the and its supra-national institu- page 18 of Gollan's Common Market because tions (see the pamphlet). developments in technology and large-scale economic What a pity it would be for the organization beat against 'the mother of parliaments', limitations of the old state what revisions of The British frontiers which are part of the Road to Socialism' would be of capitalism. social relations necessary!

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'THE HISTORICAL NOVEL'

By Georg Lukács Penguin Books 469 pages 20s. By Dave Spooner Market, 'anti-monopoly' forces education. socia services and on a non-class basis. pensions petty- bourgeois Utopia. Coat-tails having assumed Ut course, this. not difficult Gollan ap- When quotes Gollan to say what * or int provingly from constitutional done Instead under- on the she po vers he has. mining British sovereignty and h tied himself to the ideological the nower of narliament and giving control over the contain of the bourgeoise vital areas There is not grain policy, which entry into Marxism this vamoniel. Market entails, Common have might never WrIt- ten . With slight paigning, the ensure thai moder lions it could power is used under imprin entirely Fabian Society or 'Tribune' alternative economic policy in In obedience to the needs of Dillain (p. 27 the Soviet Gollar oureducracy But to quote this sentence a big point about the makes is to reveal the whole concen.

nepd tor 'a hrm systen tion which underies his pam- security based phlet. understanding between the and This is a concrete applicatior anap pact vy est countrie of 'socialism in one country Soviet Warsaw the (une a reactionary, nationalist -and. Union and its Fast European petty-bourgeois allies) and the opening up of which East-West trade. a matter Wine fact. has nothing to do with But these recipes for con- socialism understood are just as illusory as fusion as Marxists. the rest. Answer Monopolies belated The all-European Security There is a was supposed to include Pact right at the endi all states, irrespective of their trade social systems. in olner words.

Europe the monopolies would continue western to rule in half of Europe.

salu lo be une real answer To the common Market How can the big monopolles But where has Gollan been and the European bourgeoisie Referring to the powers the all these vears since the sign accept this peaceful co-existence'? Common Market would ing of the Treaty of Rome?

take over, Gollan walls: With these Gollan does not tell us be- Doesn't he know that there vital powers in the hands cause this part of his pamphlet are mass Communist Parties in Commor Market, France and Italy, both inside he control what direction of contracts muci. tne has previousy writter aDoul economic me ane runchoning control the role of the mammoth inter- powerful trade union virtually Britain wollid national monopolies. Tederations. cease to exist. Has he forgotten • the exist- What the bureaucracy evi- In other words the tune of the dently has in mind is a peace- World rederation ence economic counter-programme ful co-existence of Irade Unions to which they demanded the belong? be impossible Warsaw would the once we and COMECON. Isn't he able to tell us one were in the Common Marrat' thing about the struggle Liquidation these and Programme trade unions against the The co-operation mon Market in a pamphlet And he goes on to add : European states irrespective of pages pandering the liquidation 'At have the nationalist sentiment? social systems. oresent power to compel parliament to military blocs ano Une The answer 10 NO. because diversion change government policy.'

resources now used for armaments to hous- more then to ittle in ara sing This is certainly a pro- Commue st good, social- -- a Parties France democratic. retormist DrO. and Italv have confined them.

aramme anticipating measures towards socialism, se ves to vernal criticisms and not even by capturing a parlia policy actualy live-and-let-live with the Com.

mentary majority, mon Market. pressure on barnament Such a programme, in the Pitiful imperansm. comination ot tne nie mono Perhaps they are waiting for polies and the use of the state Britain to 'of the that power and ist the powerful organizations class and Britain. France Italy, under the leadershin of Tohn not only onsolete. can them the and counter-revolu- actionary courage they need to tionary. it! The fight against the Com.

All that can be said in con- mon Market on this basis can clusion is that this is a pitiful only be a sham fight. effort which exposes once The French and Italian Com- the CP's theoretical more munist Parties have bankruntev and boltical mis. in this for over a decade leadership. way existen accept in practice the The Market common •Cat exictence common only be fought as nart ot th Market and work within it.

class struggle Britain and internationally which puts To make the gestion f he "sacrifice of British sovereignty' the working goal leading the central one is to avoid the class to bower cavitals class issues which are involved.

countries and in the statec It means that the Commun- East Europe and the formation Collan • Cunnorts right-wing Party enter of a United Socialist States ist is prepared Lahourite Douglas Tav's Europe. 'of anti-Common amance arauments against entry.

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WORKERS PASS

Lightermen still fighting threat

THAMES LIGHTERMEN

yesterday • to jobs week-old strike continued their against the use of non-licensed labour to do their work. come you workers- By our industrial reporter the majority of London's nentermen are now in Boilermakers volved and there is grow-

ANTI-COMMUNIST

no Conceston port. back students' Wednesday's re- AlLer

AGREEMENT

jecuon by tne their union's recommena- campaign after ation to return to work.

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support the visit, though many employers threatened to ship Australian But cases hack 100.000 With from this policy by supporting New racialist attack Zealand dairy coprd not roduce reso the support Bothe British nare anxious of the s artedal ver

THE

LONDON district committee series of Boilermakers has Society of for non- Amalgamated support the campaign unanimously. agreed to the Soviet bureaucracy. launched by West Ham College of Technology's against Lightera Leonardr Young Socialist Students' Society against racial- Contacts New factor ist attacks on overseas students from the college.

constered subs diary easie By a Workers Press reporter Mr E. Burke, delegate to In the seelsinko negotiation The been the district committee, said It see well be exponents the charudents heretics durance of turi stronger ed.. had It has led taind ascist rure include air over Eurora. report of the situation in London fa Bor here au entirely new Orcular approximately The Gollan line of opposing you members-to be sent out eariv next week. hey key d defended the come also stated that imperialism Attack O visited need ne miy-opened Emergency in the Sovie So, Mikhai tract London, ton a resolution passed et Smirnovsky. probably Shot the only subject inter mad Ior alscussIon eir struggle against Stalin Been said the first letter Militancy * Geolan and compan boling remen unionists to support and constabbin agreements th and me thi. ires employ licensed wo and Stalini solidarity,

KEEP LEFT WEEKEND RALLY

Vietnam General attack elzed by the Morning Star.

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a crculation of the labour movement today.

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MEETING

Dee 2. Phase Two proposers, employers' Tory govern. East India Hall, East India Dock Road, ent following in London, E.14 which the United Sintes. slump in Abstention 2.30 p.m. Saturday, January 10 • The resole in is warning to tarte nican its people Young Socialist National Speaking Contest

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This could easily be inter-

DANCE IN THE EVENING

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LONG JOHN BALDRY

a bad abo recalled sue Prison sit the Com evolutionas ton. East India Hall 8 p.m.-ll p.m. to these treache sons bea The Stalinists, FILM MAKING AND ThE Principled opposition to I.C.I.

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DEMONSTRATION

LETTER

Tensing leadership minice homical industry

SUNDAY JAN. 11

ASSEMBLE: Speakers' Corner (Marble Arch), that the employer 2 P.M. Oxford Street, Regent Street,

MARCH:

via productivity deals ally Trafalgar Square past Downing Street.

Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych, nationalization of

MEETING:

will workers' control 4 P.M. Detalls from 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4 cas a pointed our by the Yours fraternally, reset London: Tickets for the whole weekend 12s 6d ICI worker, Wilton.

THE CIRCULATION

Britain of a lengthy analy- Russian societ written by a young intel- lectual and writer Andre Amalrik raises certain im- portant questions. was released alter a snor his latest ant no action appears to have against him. red bye shough each thei not *defeated suckims com ho itside Russia vork draw royalities on it. Washes hands indivi- he the . mus mign * deserve Then i might a said effec sia de question one very e dissenter their Fer cionary ande neronto and UPPOSCu

ZIONISTS

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WEATHER

England: Maximum Central Southern England: or snor Maximun scheris 5 Cold. Friday, December 19, 1969 CZECHOSLOVAK parliament has passed

THE

new laws imposing two-year jail sentences for those accused of 'insulting the republic' Another law will em- power factory managers—

HUNGARIAN STALINISTS

no longer elected by the as under the workers

ESTABLISH RELATIONS

Dubcek government ousted last March-to sack work-

WITH FASCIST SPAIN

the spot for alleged slacking.

WAS

innounced broadcast stated, which had These new laws Spanish been pursued for the last Radio on Wedne night that Hungary has permanent much of the emer ten by the Spanish GaV gency legislation decreed after established consular government. August's demonstrations latest news is com- with Spanish on the first anniversary of the fascist government Soviet invasion. 20, Collective for Like all the _ previous of" Security the Husak Dressive acts Pact. regime, the main blows announcement necessity, it involves Of tailed in these new laws claimed that the new agree the closest relation with the directed primarily against step "Cared ment was a signincant ary dictatorships reece, rulers or Tie most reaction. in Europe, Openins the not only in with Soviet Union-a policy, the Spain. applied to Kreo serve upation and thosi serve Tne covernment anobarty eader

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SLID.

Builders

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condemned +h • deal roundiv and called for the rejection of all productivity strings. country sites All over the stopped work for the day against the deal. deal Immediately The was Federa- BRITISH industrialists as a whole are less stened the National Trade Em- hon Kuiding ployers announced its de- enthusiastic about the advantages to be gained claration of war, with a state ment from Britain's entry into the Common Market policy which immeade clear al than they were in 1966. implemented by member firms This is the conclusion

BY TOM KEMP

which can be drawn from a

MDW

big report produced by the The NFBTE's offensive is to Confederation of British workers Continent- for fail headed Measured: Daye onger paid Industries. holidays, Work. rexuldl While the balance of indus- bonuses, The NFBTE statement out ances, elc. lines the trial opinion is still in favour.

that closer look is now heing subject to a grading by skills the disadvantages Resist demands taken entailed. For each grade, Which ic t Some industries, such advantages which "The determined shaibst entry have come down dustrialists hope e National against altogether entry rembers

CBI

largely them upon Joint Council. commit them- maney in thorik hopes maide working-class at thi allows the so mainte sta of industry sections experts roam hope that freer on the stimulus to growth, and access to wnat full im- they assume will be a rapidly.

thus the higher profits. growing market will make closer Wita

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The possible to expand trade and pean market would make pos standard wage means profits. that the sine basic wage unaer un understood nee will also agreement Sharp competition that entry mean wond maximum ware Tne sharper competitive struggle job-evaluated grading scheme oth in the European enaoes bonuses to be cut ou that Britich industry will the British market altogetner quire heavier Now exposed to still sharper com- as never hetore the petition from often most under- Haye task betore building worker: better equipped and investing aken in recent years. of a new is the construction higher leadership which will union Tough times reiect all attempts employers to In or out, British capitalism ex ped night file faces tough times in the years ahead. does, however, panace for nary The its ills and building construction calculation of the costs be panacea supplies industry under work.

adoptin added. European-stvle now has few if any adherents the els contol value and Common A oricnitural ot the liy hoth ot which are this mill Stumbling block Adoptior Agricultural biggest sembling blocks to Britains present enthe CBI estimates that this cost the 400 Wolid nayments come a year, a good deal less than suggested by other calcu- lations Fundamental changes Would be agricultural equired in prece. Value Added Tax vould have the effect of rais ing the nrices of almost all non-food items The report foresees, not un that workers would demand higher wages to meet the inevitable increases in the living also press

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