Workers Press no. 642

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

MONDAY DECEMBER 20, 1911

BER 042

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What we think 'Priv: and I

PAUL TOO

AS YAHYA RESIGNS IN W

DOUBLE-life the two of the weapons satirical magazine. Nobody in the Is group na Poor incle In its latest ie be there Foot double her aly AWAMI LEAGUE leaders in Dacca have launched a campaign the disarm Corsal, te Private, Eye, and

BY JOHN SPENCER

Desh. Mukti guerrilla army in Bangla And answe article ends the the Bahini fighters have been ordered to hand CURRENCY REALIGNMENTS agreed at the over all weapons other than rifles and all Buste mode in me 1s policemen and former policemen in the Washington Group of Ten talks this weekend Mukti Bahini have been asked to report are a major victory for America's trade-war for duty in a bid to restore law and order.

strategy. These latesu Exiles in embassy vigil the campaign moves in The US has made limited concessions, but the power the European and Japanese capitalists have been Desh December Dalabld forced to rillas, who have a strons capitulate on a grand scale to lne Americans' demands. socialist elemen l Fund needs transier A wam The dollar price of gold League administrator: raised from $35 And the US is still de- Who do not intend ounce manding alter the $524.30 by tundamentally including capitalist rela- of the August tions in the country. Saturday make it much Free Laborate win that all nate to the nast but wee politica effectively 11 per cent. prisoners The Japanese yen is to be Yahva Khan

PRESIDENT

a government is assed oes up 12.6 ner dollar pai also culinced. Sales in the sale 186a Clapham condon sta THE AIR war over N Viet- and Laos of hotting the ester so showed Float strike When Mukti Bahie Inter actio countries reraft installationast rillas surrounded because currenciese to Hoar hreatened to open fiery WITH ALL the pro Sister is transfer to be bloodless of the him they eroild do sured reaper on thin fore hese terhat the vigil outside the Spanish is i there was some is co ver The worke integral part in the de war.

PAGE FOUR COL. 9

• It is quite another the

MODIFY RAT

What the deal will mean

CALL BY

Labou

BY IAN YEATS

for exports ends crisis in the esonume kith and kına at i she 67 den the hish "determined by rates adversely incils. operations lans on the eve of Commer British Chamber larket entry nerce announce esterda e though is raid as sar course If by 4.6 the

WELL BEYOND

it bre open ever h must wrap Tom send Tere fled to find a kins wel art of the realisment

• STAGGERING

andadconomic figure was we has risen bo the mis willis dollar, lanes sed and metr Barber has been finessed.

German industry 'Private Eye' and Paul Foot "rth chis gutter journal is After wi in brip him peop Walden. trade w tarred Wer is, we can,

CALL BY TUC

The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government aul Foot is gutter journal is "state capitalist group- him with the 'left' cover he as yet not from Bernadette sin desperately needs to cong Devlin, MP, who activities it brings him in con- tinue Te- alnulla people cently expressed a very prin- the reactionaries of Greek St, home of the 'Eye". cipled position in relation William to the IRA. the director of Tony Clift and the Is group That brings us to the latest are consciously assisting the like Brian unprincipled double role of 'Eye'. Foot, just as they remained race anion acers. This contains an item which "birds'. silent about why they sup- of the Pro- names the head double-life ported the sending of British •Mr visionals as Seamus troops to Ulster in 1969.

O'Bloidboaith' and goes on › most recent issues Foot has been stomaching the to savi full-page reactionary bilge 'Our appeared slan- shows 'Eyé* about per cent think four vears. That's a feat of some politi- photograph of the

IRA

as sub-normal well medical- cal-as who around Tearnered

MOTORS

20 accomplishment. captioned: 'All bombing and shooting But as the 'Eye' swings further people.' -loin the We searched in nals'. It was the sort this and further right. how long vain In which could week's 'Socialist Worker' will it be before even Foot's to note any disapproval of this reac- give in? cast - on Intestnes of Cummings of slander. None appeared. On the other hand the inter- penetration of 'Private Eye' fact, This week's Is sheet. in about the is handed over to a front- and 'Socialist Worker' page tirade against the Con- now so complete, that every- on? Did Foot resign right over corde by none other than might swing Paul Foot. It is together. attack on the IRA ? Perhaps *Socialist entire rehash of more than we can look forward score of articles which the launching of an the weekly rag of tirely new Conger in ande radi- Was root has carned outtor Eve'. cal' publishing The • Worker' Yet this in with 'Socialist that not corny old story was heard from the "Socialist Worker' provides Eye'. Another

DATA

official sacked

DRAUGHTSMEN

at the Lancer Boss plant in Leighton Buzzard, Beds, the third enter week of official strike action the victimization of one over of their members. Office-committee Alex man sacked just three Fraser was weeks after his election to a the technical section post in of the AUEW in his office.

The his management say dismissal be- nececcary cause of economic recession.

DAVID MAUDE

But the men point out that up to his dismissal they nadi been working unlimited over- SHOP STEWARDS in the British- had taken Time and te nem on six contract draughtsmen. Leyland combine have not been And the basis of last-in consulted about the company's first-out given by management because members was wrong move for a new procedure agree- with charter cervice were not chosen. ment with union leaders. The sacking follows the set pattern of long, official strikes, They are by happy with no means the Engineer- instigated after Friday's soundings about a possible re- ing Employers' Federation York their intention of placement for now-defunct made plain engineering-industry procedure, imposed breaking the aramantsmen's in 1922 after a national lock-out.

Only last week, draughts- Fears that Leyland is after an even more men at the Rugby

GEC-AEI

advantageous agreement thic tima were plant saw committee member heightened at the weekend by reports that Bernard Pearce finall sacked the their union executive Department of Emplovment mav recorr because Industrial Relations Act if further the talks next month fail. series of one-dav strikes for Under the Act, the new National Industrial nic reinstatement. Relations Court has the power to impose a They have now implemented and a work-to-rule overtime model procedure in the chine if it con siders there is a threat to profits or to the and get his job ban to try back. economy. At Leighton Buzzard AUEW Secretary Robert Carr would Employment divisional organizer Eric Win- ask the court to order an investigation first terbottom has held talks with by Inductrial Relations Commission An the management and now says headed by Len •Dodger' Neal-the former the redundancy official turned labour sentine ment norter anainlan and there is nothing he can do director of British Rail.

about it Following Friday's preliminary talks Levland's Berkeley Square headquarters, union leaders said they would not tolerate a Ford-

STRIKE FOR

atla national arment. considerable

JOBS IN

And under from the combine's pressure

SYSTEM

30.000 manual workers, they

SCOTLAND

have rejected' plans for a cen- hody to dis. tra negatatino cuss issues such as wages.

THE

SCOTTISH

TUC

has Early however, o be balanced by con- been asked to stage a token they did respond to threats of ons from industry-pos- strike throughout one - day Levland chair- sackings from Scotland as the first stage of pration toy ar man Lord Stokes by trying to ikely super-rating what is called a progressive sell their members the idea of ip Wade writes: Instead campaign unemploy- plant-level investigation of the remove the ment once and for all. to causes of disputes. who have decided to Though a majority of the The resolution demanding despite wide. senior stewards went along the strike was put forward by TUC has the Ayrshire co-ordin- with them at that stoop tha joint 2 to anagda in tat an- idea got a cool reception in ating committee against unem- time-wasting ployment at a rally in Kilmar- the factories. good reason for There nock on Saturday. believe is spee on. the About 800 marchers anti-union law is being raised assembled in Howard Park to Democrat electors last frighten the now to union hear a tape-recorded message similar but even hate intol from the Labour leader Harold greater concessions. of Wilson. post compromise is Hut no res audience four timac but only When the de- possible on the central issue up five votes in yester- over which the national pro- manded a General Strike to party end Tory rule, James Milne of cedure talks broke down: the abstained for the the STÚC said that the time emplovers' right change time amid hectic nego- to when the trade may working conditions without come s with other parties to consulting the unions. minion movement may have to compromise candidate. us that method. left-wing bloc remained will need the Industrial Rela- Guy Stobbs, of the miners' in cannon of francesce union, workers to Astract one not called on who 397 just as a threat in the back- the miners in their support won forthcoming battle.

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY DECEMBER 20, 1971 • NUMBER 642 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Behind the Big Ten' talks

PRIVATE EYE

What we think Trade war 'Private Eye' and Paul Foot

PAUL FOOT

suicide

AS YAHYA RESIGNS IN W

with this gutter journal is 'state capitalist' group- left' cover he him with the We' sonde his actives con Hand in cently expressed Si home of the se of Greet co the potion Internationa 30 cia 1a8t* Cliff and the tige out Thaybrings us to the latest joint weapons Mamen the nerd, 9 so-called tren e ud birdsders, does this double-life Where Nobo raised ra pact threat to Foot's involvement Foot has been stomaching th nary about som ts deeply that 99 pe esear hisko Thats a tea working-class views. guerrillas accomplishment. and shooting he sear socialist er is The me of she comrades ma AWAMI LEAGUE leaders in Dacca have mis very 13 sheet, in tact disarm the launched a campaign

BY JOHN SPENCER

guerrilla army in Bangla Desh. Mukti swing Bahini fighters have been ordered to hand Perhapshe e than he launch no of an end CURRENCY REALIGNMENTS agreed at the over all weapons other than rifles and all has churned out for the Eye policemen and former policemen in the Washington Group of Ten talks this weekend Mukti Bahini have been asked to report cer sprovide are a major victory for America's trade-war for duty in a bid to restore law and order.

strategy. sunese lates Exiles in embassy vigil Another Union moves in the campaign to The US has made limited concessions, but snatch the nower trom the European and Japanese capitalists have been Desh Bangla December forced to capitulate on a grand scale to the who have a strong

DATA

law in Americans demands. ransfer it Awami Fund needs The dollar price of gold official US been raised from And still nas do to an uncer ano une the t524.30 by lundamentally Leyland cent surcharge sacked rela- Cabilalsl properly imposed August tions in the country droppid. Saturday the + has teren de over

DRAUGHTSMEN

her the third Buzzard, Beds, enter procedure strike Saart of the pas and shall Free or their memberzation of on all • man Ale knew just three hat to th wrangle after tee encal se political weeks of the AUEW in his office.

prisohrig be dismissa cause of economic recession

DAVID MAUDE

Pio this dismissal they hac SHOP STEWARDS in the British- amount i go can and Leyland combine have not been extra Веские тествет consulted about the company's

ERE TA AL DRUS!

Sales ately to: move for a new procedure agree- Workers Press The in the gold phic America's ment with union leaders. trading only St0,800г hapsible, ork with about s made draughtsmen's imposed breaking yesterday withi did res mashington dea reports of the 9th man saw countie member Float reports a whoseer bena Year mail When Mukti e the inter- have been It cannot be interpreted as rillas surro Hote like ties efused to continue b will now be ing the quisling ne-day strikes their new rates agai Stench of 1922 Inder the Act, the new National Industrial Threatened to open hic.my elations Cous the power to impose There are noa ry and set is d s thore is a threat to profits real trace back. WITH ALL the props hack is At Lengton Buzzard AUEW is in on the backs of the trade terbottom as held tall onion and laksur una rader They erild assured the management and now says oh the battie marke stage nect of arts ale thing fuse these do it, the about it solldarity were sentenced to de strike against their tions page integral par

STRIKE FOR

style national agreement.

of the trade par

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another now that air

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Six prepare rat negotiatin, body to di worker What the deal will mean

SCOTLAND

CALL BY TUC

asked to stage a toke FOR BRITAIN, the Wash- have to be balanced by con-

BY IAN YEATS

for exports the погону ст 195 published tributions from industry throughout i Was was: instead first stage mani once and totallmploy tabling the Pres who have a a Since August sterling has 'floated' vara complaining that nce, they call revaluation tax al rates in ves ang Wirites e the discussion with them. pock on Saturday resul this would on the eve of Common The W Germans are try. Market entry. With the ought declined over the last hol Democrat electors last only raises

WELL BEYOND

He • it only mande en me Mine he done See therefore ice of British picked up five votes in yester: abroad co nomic

• STAGGERING

Well. come may have to ust that menod. an is likely ma and lapa ore disastrou on work miners even at threat in the back- miners e sheir Soriooming bather Japaneses are alread set twinine a band to his Barber has been finessed.

votes. nanulacturers are

Workers Press, Monday December ^ 971

PACE TWO

'ROOTS OF THE RIGHT'

A series of readings edited by George Steiner in Fascist, Racist and Elitist Ideology.

ALFRED

ROSENBERG

of the thai advemeht and leading philosopher had a big inluence Ine Linking Hilter. when the Nazıs tok party's ideological became Minister Occu- pied Tried letties Nazi vuremoere witn ouner was hanged October 1946. but in the intro 5 anti-Semitism tion, first right-wing trom the who believed that by Tom Kemp Kevoluuon was a lewisn Dot.

1919, former Vinburg called i sarist called

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Soon taking up these works, for the extermination extritine right writings from a point the ol ine ewisn people theorists of which is directly opposed to that Delne Issuea Rosen berg and Hitler never steiner and other editors Cape under the general eaitor- ut such : demand on paper. war are Marrian. - wno. Di Ine way ship of George Steiner. nev simpl to carry it proceeaea of, or hostile able. they pracuice. were Each T be treen male socialisy o English tion sociol to naking Rosenberg drew theory also faund in these writhes the Rhought" cases, have which, cases, not translated before, Of course they contre with or have been out of print the seen the them and abhor tor some ume. they the coi which belleve ther tones wine like Whatever the nterary merts of theorie have. But they do not begin from Houston Gobineau their authors the sublect matter.

a haleilalst slanapolll. which Chamberlain it notine ese. makes taem teal- That would mean taking sides.

the superman and the mil ous ana unpleasant redulg means mion and fascism cat They are not addressed to the masses. nignly iterate ›eople believe that they elong to an ente aterible Steiner calls the authors elltist.

Racial theories something and scarcely racist and totalitarian areamers explicable in rational terms.

have offered angers de- to liberali and East can be for be super ding the ste gramme has come nea class hiand alive it must be studied.

eyed master race origin- leadershin revolutionary which party based upon Marxist theory: ated in N Europe, or perhaps that is the lesson of German and some lost Atlantis. Italian history. they begastone corit sos are a Actually tnese arom there The answer to counter-revolu.

the spread out ear v lecay. Certainly they provid tion is revolution. Age, to léave traces in various an alternative programme- of the world. In this respect -whIch part readily Steiner and his friends seek a osen discredite defusionise third wav. a wav in which cani.

tasm continues to exist. and the nocracy bourgeoise remains une runne end of the Class. order. But as long as capitalism exists the feeling for a homeland' aim is to conserve how lascist procramme does re- ever barbarous the means which and thus main alive. earth wandered the they condone or to which their demolished using cannot he usurv and traud to estah- doctrines lead. rational science, lish the economic power of his arauments ice of alving forces, in a con European rightists have gener- lace. forces, that is. ally more been more articulale, he Nazı Dartv could not have Which lead struggle 01une Class to the victory of the come to power uniess it was able lead to capture the support of millions vorking class philosophically on Are same ritist books in the series The three A tred Kosen berg, 'Gobineau: , Setted and racialist toundations. how- ever French Right (from de Maistre looking for an' ideology in spokesmen may disguis the fact it could assert itself when the old to Mauras in nypocrucal up-ser.vic!

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The Stalinist Crisis THE Communist Party's policy in N Ireland re- ceived an unexpected endorsement in the pages of 'The Times' the other day. came from Maj-Gen It Lord Monckton of Brenchley, who wrote to the editor to complain about Senator Edward Kennedy's call for the withdrawal of British troops. Monckton is a big noise. A former head of the Rhine Army, he is director of the Anglo-Portuguese Bank, Ran- some, Hoffmann, Pollard (machine tools), the United and General Trust and Modern Investments By JOHN SPENCER Ltd. At his country home, Bertie House, near Maidstone, he farms In "Times' reader any case 400 acres and indulges jumped to the over-hasty his pas sions for hunting, cricket and clusion • that the Stalinists gardening. the tavoured immediate of British forces, Woddis drawal He should know a thing went Uite two about Stalinism, because he served as military 'The question of the of adviser to the 1954 Geneva Conferences British troops, in our opinion, Korea and Vietnam. be need cannot isolated from for a decisive change British in He that "It is fact— government policy. The troops, WOLe acknowledged by eminent politi- after all, are only one of the Republic of Ireland the instruments of government policy itself- -that British troops were their withdrawal, which -and. N Ireland 1969 sent into in we urge, must related to protect the Catholic minority that make the changes of policy from Protestant extremists withdrawal possible. "The present role, which in- To put it crudely, the more cludes protection of Catholic and withdrawal of British troops is Protestant communities alike, as principle as far as Woddis of the CP leader- rest ship is concerned. It is subordinate to their main strategy of applying pressure the Tory government change to its policies. The Stalinist conception of the 'peaceful road to socialism' represents the army not the as of repressive instrument the capitalist class, but as a 'super- class' responsive the will of the people expressed through parliament. On this basis, Woddis says: 'Our Party links the question of withdrawal of troops with the question of an immediate end to "The withdrawal of British troops internment and the use of British Is not a principle for the troops for repressive purposes leadership.' other they purposes be used for?]; the introduction well as police action against the - Westminster ot Bill of Rights for N Ireland; and the

IRA

Provisionals their cam- Daign of indiscriminate violence, developed later and as a result of this campaign. 'Inevitably unproven, it never- theless the remains view of responsible men of all shades of in Britain Ireland and 00OT (including the Communist Party) that the withdrawal of troops the could present time only lead directly to infinitely more and worse horrors and violence.'

The letter must have or it King St something dilemma. It's not often the Party's efforts achieve public recognition high On other places. the hand, for people It doesn't do posing 'communists' to get back in public patted on the by military peers. In the end the Party decided to wheel out Tack Woddis.

head of its international department, to 'explain' where the CP stands on the guestion of Britis dis dis.

Woddis surprisingly not challenge Lord Monckton's that the troops were Jack Woddis *to protect the Catholic sent in minority'. This the Party's creation of safeguards against own position at the time, along with discrimination and repression the various revisionist groups.

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lan Yeat: THE TORIES are reach- ing down some very sinister weapons from the shelves of their anti- working-class armoury. Bourgeois pundits have said for a long time that the prob- the unemployed lem with literally, shift- that they are, less. Upper Clyde Ship- When builders was first hauled up onto Tory the knackers yard slipway, Secretary John Davies saw Trade 5,000 difficulty for the men no threatened with the sack.

"They'll have to move,' he said.

'There's plenty of work the lower Clyde.' This *let-everything-find-its- thinking own-feet' - beloved of undoubtedly Enoch Powell of underlies the super-charging employment an- the servIce Secre- nounced by Employment tary Robert Carr last Wednesday.

Once they got the old (cloth labour exchanges operating cap) like the Brook St Bureau or Man- power, woe betide the man who says he won't move. Shake-up for the This is the promise by Minister of State for Employment Paul Bryan to give the shake-up top priority.

This is what he means by describing the reinvenated an effective instrument vice as of manpower policies in modern employment conditions'. Tory As yet another trap around the springs into place throat of the working class. the TUC, whose members have been invited to take part nOTA national manpower council to will doubtless advise the service, go out of their way to welcome it as a great step forward.

This isn't the only sinister development. There has also been Rothschild Report the scientific research. Lord Rothschild is Edward Heath's special adviser the on streamlining of government departments. His report issued last week came down heavily in favour of cost control of all basic scientific research carried out on the basis of government grants.

Rothschild claimed that gov- of control research ernment

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Child West 1.35 Persuaders. 2.10 Katie Stewart. 2.30 This week. 3.00 Country Waled 4.25 visit 310 All about ridina 340 Runert Rear.

355 Matinee 6.22 Y dyda. Tea break. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY. Bill Grundy. 6.20

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dials Boxing. 8.00

THE ANIMAL

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CHRISTMAS.

Sidney Terry

CARRY

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The 11 25 Rarhara Shellev. Rohort. AvrAc curse of the leopard afflicts a family.

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don.

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1.30 Sara and Hop 'Peace 3.10% ing. 35 Horo- Moren. per News Women. ) News, weather on 800 Day by day. sea. 5.5 H1.1S 6.45 London. Weather. 2.35 1235 It's

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all vours. 3.10 Datelme .00 Diary, 6.20 Workers Press, Monday Decembe S. African contract labourers in their barbed wire compound in Ovamboland where at pre- sent a strike against working conditions is taking place. The strike has implications that reach far beyond the immedi- ate complaint against working conditions. South Africa organized It method Is this Bas are rexping agon st. super-exploitation the Ovam- Earlier this the Inter- year Court by Gary Gurmeet of lustice, Hallulldl Heel In e declared Africa's presence the terri- tory illegal.

SOUTH AFRICA'S

act labourers live. Below: But Balthazar Vorster's apart.

and racialist repressive regime has too much herd faces its stake SW Africa able government listen 5 humanitarian ges- biggest challenge for from a bourgeois court. tures decades 9,000- in the current confrontation une his bring government strong Ovambo strike in work ops SW Africa. and break the strike Africa already moved , For the first time since Pulsiut labull. observers believe to be army men brutal five police activity in civilian clothes. years ago, African workers ternative driven to work for inter- Sharpe course, would be another ville and a massacre of Ovamb national companies virtually strikers. Vorster in chains - have defied the so far displaying any open military involvement. police state and struck in Windhoek and Walvis Bay. Ovambos Could of undoes underground guerrilla activity.

The strikers, many years, Was

•TON

N. African ovambo and Une le stronenold or the sy the end Organization Many Cemenana ceople c vicious contract-labour members scheme opened by ellen operated Africa capital return to their homeland.

police terror. strike could paralyse une deported overut 20 The already country than wider impli far about of the immediate with plaint against working conditions.

1.UUU

vack lo tner nomeland. • But this based the labour- For on has only hardened the strike.

schem the an In Katatura, slavery- prosperity new v-nuit -IS toe situation is tense. workers, TOWASnIDS Alrican lare mime ane nuustriai coll- cerns in une country. The Ovambos living. The scheme has been at the there are hunger The aisO pro- Centre previous refuse to the food tim llegal in terms tests. This prepares nowever. Wales. General Sai law. armed pistols, of S Africar place truncheon: riot political climate ape and sealed it increasing coupmen nave rounded the a est exist: reachon off completely. above except: 6.01. labour Without cheat came into being when Ovamboland, industrialists could natatura the authorities decided to demol- little with lilt ish an older location Wind. potentidi hoek which ppened be too near to the 'white area'.

1%: Wythnos. 8.30 Come apartheid regime 12r the used the labour The has scheme i2.Ts Weat township inhabited divided into form indirect rule the in sections, each one bush the there clinic and Includes of from contract kecruitment compound the 5.30 Rome rOomoons Lest is a laulonal musulu labourers from the N ave Earlier this year the police Hon. called semi-government reanized

SWOOR

A ПS.0S

agency the arresting After Labery Association. 800 Ninety-two them

MCIC

agency by either detained sell Dack oyers various of Ovamboland! while In e ovamboland Test tribal areas D What we need is h were torced to continue work -with the help of i menswing ate this age Triball enters men for would be nothing new work in the southern mines and Ovambos. factories.

SWAP

words of Selection on left publication, the system has a which triba the discretion of the duced lalls chiefs. were one amone monaditants o Once selected the camps: ale Hitlers concentration then graded into three violence, desperation and moral • categories ones to Freewheelers, of the ted as obis its thad sec- heavy industria work. ondland finally rotests. light industry work treated as objects those beings numar tuls domestic work. Hallulal ur callen leda. worker recruited degeneration suffering anel scheme has to carry unneare or elsewhere. an identification disc around the 2: 3.00 Ca the grade and neck name of the person. 1.50 All ou The contract then lasts about nine months, after which the yarder must his his emplovment. how- Cooking, Towards crer nas WOrK the He fumble can- emoiover s concitions. 8.00 organize or ask for better not. 4o New conditions. challenge. Ovambos not On allowed their families with them They must the industrial ES 305 0353320 cult centres alone and stay in special settle- ments. There is little an Ovambo can do chane dives. Cites pances which activity concerning identiticatior News. power passco keeps conned te suudre Ines or ine settle. ment he is allocated to. slaved in whee wage for worker enslaved is €5 month. The minimum labour University challenge. contraçt Order from NEW PARK PUBLICA

ALLUSLEY

over 10p per shift (working High St, London SW4. udy) onday December 20, 1971

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Free and obscene SINGING obscene songs can be a dangerous business--if it is in the Soviet Union and if it is over the air. radio ham in Kazakhstan has just been sen- tenced to two years detention for such a lapse. As someone said, the freest places in the Soviet Union are the labour camps—he will be able to sing whatever he likes there. They are also the most obscene of places. Importing priests FIDEL CASTRO'S conciliation remarks about Catholic the church during his Chilean tour were not made by chance. A general reconciliation is taking place between his Cuban regime and the church. being Priests ordained are for the first time again since Castro took over. To remedy the foreign shortage, another 150 priests have been allowed into the country. The church was closely linked to the wealthy Cuban ruling class and the Batista Most regime. priests fled or were expelled after the revolution. The church itself paved the way for a reconciliation by giving the regime its tacit support, accepting that it is likely to last for some time. In other Latin American countries, where reactionary regimes are earning popular con- tempt, or are likely to be over- turned, the church is adopting a more discreet attitude than had in Batista's Cuba. Earlier this year a number of priests caused something of an uproar in conservative circles by giving up a whole day to cutting sugar cane. Practising Catholics are said to be a small part of the populationt but they include a number Castro's comrades-in-arms from the Sierra Maestra days. However, Castro can do with the support of the church both in Cuba and in other Latin American countries. The reconciliation helps to define the nature of the Cuban revolution and shows that it is not an export product. Dirty work

SOME DIRTY

work has been going on in the lorry factory in the Polish town of Lublin. Seven people have been arrested charged with embezzlement.

It appears that private enter- prise still flourishes in Gierek's Poland for the accused include 'private producers of spares' and their crime was overcharging the state plant. ternational Fourth International

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lan Yeat THE TORIES are reach- ing down some very Sinister weapons from the shelves of their anti- working-class armoury. Bourgeois pundits have said for a long time that the prob- unemployed is lem with the that they are, literally, shift- less. When Upper Clyde Ship- builders was first hauled up onto the knackers yard Tory shipway, Trade Secretary John Davies saw the 5,000 no difficulty for men threatened with the sack.

"They'll have to move,' he said.

'There's work plenty of on the lower Clyde. This "let-everything-find-its- of own-feet' thinking - • beloved Enoch Powell undoubtedly of underlies the super-charging the employment service an- nounced by Secre- Employment tary Robert Carr last Wednesday.

Once they got the old (cloth labour exchanges operating Cike the Brook St Bureau or Mans betide the man who power, woe says he won't move. Shake-up for the This is the promise by Minister of State for Employment Paul Bryan to give the shake-up top priority.

This is what he by means describing the rejuvenated 'an effective vice as instrument of manpower policies in modern employment conditions'. As another Tory yet trap springs into place around the throat of the working haves been the

TUC.

whose members have invited to take part in national council manpower to will doubtless advise the service, go out of their way to welcome it as a great step forward.

This isn't the only sinister development. There has also been Rothschild Report the on scientific research. Lord Rothschild is Edward Heath's special adviser the streamlining of government departments. His issued last week came down heavily in favour of cost control of all basic scientific research carried out on the basis of government grants.

Rothschild claimed that gov- control of research ernment

TODAY S

PROGRAN

BBC 1

1.00 No peace on earth. 1.30 Along the river. 1.45-1.53 News and weather. 4.15 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory.

4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Asterix the Gaul. 5.44 Magic roundabout. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 LONDON THIS WEEK.

6.20 ENTERTAINING WITH KERR. 'Poulet Cote d'Azur'.

6.45 ASK THE FAMILY.

7.05 Z CARS. 'Collation'.

7.30 BEST OF BAXTER. Stanley Baxter with guest Selena Jones.

8.00 PANORAMA.

9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

9.20 THE TROUBLESHOOTERS. 'We and Them'.

10.10 THE SPINNERS AT THE PHIL.

10.40 24 HOURS.

11,15 SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS.

11.45 Weather. ввс 2 11.00-11.25 Play school. 7.30 NEWSROOM and weather.

8.00 ALIAS SMITH AND JONES. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe.

8.50 CALL MY BLUFF.

9.20 HORIZON. 'The Periscope War'.

10.10 THIRTY MINUTE THEATRE: "FOOTPRINTS'. Daphne Slater, Terence Longdon. 10.40 NEWS ON 2 and weather.

10.45 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

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All regions as BBC-1 except: North, weather. Look Look lan Yeats purse exercised through the strings is necessary because the some research harmful to been could be society. But government depart- ment the hest hoet aspects research are what harmful? Of course not. The Tories are moving towarde policy using research instrument government. Finally, and predictably enough after trial, a group tha Tory lawyers es are dietion demanding new to of the laws mind'. at this point that the It is mover ance and pornography turn blatantly general legal assault on freedom of expression. The Conservative Lawyers' Society say the laws ther want 'would control displays of books, posters and publicity pictures, ances and nim shows. television theatrical perform- New wider categories of public indeceny and onscenitu would he created to cover any- 'grossly offensive to the thing public at large' 'which grossly affronts contemporary community standards of decency'. Above: The compound where African contract labourers liv Wide enough to At wark while the white foreman looks on.

include vir. tually anutning critical of what the ruling class regards as decent.

West 6.22 Report V

ITV

Child and the Killer 1.35 Persuaders. 2.10 Katie Stewart. 2.30 This week. 3.00 Country visit. 3.10 All about riding.

3.40 Rupert Bear. 3.55 Matinee.

4.25 Tea break. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 News.

TODAY. Bill Grundy. 6.20

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THE

ANIMAL

WAR.

Thousands of animals being are slauahtered in F Africa 9.00

CARRY

ON

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Sidney Terry James, Scott, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Charlec Hawtrev Hattie lacauec Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Frankie Howerd.

10.00

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Prono 11.35

FILM:

'CAT

GIRL'.

Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres. The

ATY

2S ANDS:

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4-3:00

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News. London. London 0 progrest 6.00 5. Su London. ITV, 9.00 p.m. Bernard Bresslaw in 'CARRY ON CHRISTMAS'.

day. 6.25 Bugs Bunny. 6.4

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TYNE TEES: 3.05 Pied pip CHANNEL: 21% Mam so 393 Freewheelers: 5.50 12.00 Late call. Workers Press, Monday Decemt S. African contract labourers in their barbed wire compound in Ovamboland where at pre- sent a strike against working conditions is taking place. The strike has implications that reach far beyond the immedi- ate complaint against working conditions. South Africa of's is this organized method super -exploltauon tne ovam- bos are fahting against Earlier this the Inter veat by Gary Gurmeet Cour meet- natna! ot Justice. Africa's Hague declared the presence in the tory illegal

SOUTH AFRICA'S

act labourers live. Below : Balthazar s orse ms cha- Kut racialist and repressive heid too *able Africa government faces its biggest lister challenge for nullanllaridh pes- lures Irom boureeoIs court decades in the 9,000- the confrontation, curren! his strong Ovambo strike in covernment could oring start work in industry TrOODS SW Africa. and break the strike. , For the first time since mover AtrIca •ha c • brezy which nutcice army men brutal observers believe to be police activity five in civilian clothes. years ago, African workers other aherner Sharpe -driven to work for inter- course, would be : another and massacre Ovambo national companies virtually strikers Vorste: llas nes tated in chains - have defied the in displaying open military police state and struck in Invorvement. He knows that for decades the Windhoek and Walvis Bay. Ovambos have heer the centre activity o1 underground guerrilla from was, stmkers. main Windhoe N, African the stronghold of the SW Guamhaiand the are demanding an end to the People's Organization. Many contract-labour scheme are still capital by operating under great to their homeland. illegality and return pressure piaced bv ponce terror. The strike could paralyse the The has far wider impli- already country. covernment has deported about of the strike cations than immediate com- the with 1,000 others. leaders, along Dant acanst workie corduors back to their homeland. But this For based on the labour- has only hardened the strike.

contact sereme-an oven

TONU

Katatura, the newly-built 0 saver -s Tne prosperity toe shiati on is Anse. townships African large mining and industrial con- workers. cerns in the country. The Ovambos living there Tha scheme heer th e are also centre many previous pro- hunger Thet strike refuse to This however prepared eat the tond Oi S A isan) Strike, illegal in Police Wales minina! ahicinle terms pistols. truncheons takes place armed with law, • cene td riot and sealedur- ponucal cumate or increasms rounded the area except: and reacuon completely. off 1 thespr: 6.02 Without cheap labour from Katatura came into being when Ovamboland industrialne could authorities decided to demol- enormously little with tha potential mining rich wealth . older location near Wind SW África. hoek wnien happened to be tod So near to the 'white area'.

the apartheid regime the has labour ing. 12.15 Weather® into scneme divided the form of in direct each by sections Tule bush. ethnic and labour Recruitment trom contract it. 4 D Cartooi • a national institu- thace arpad live. tion. police Freene feom. carle: vear the organized

SWOOI

the arresting vambo comnound African Labour Association of them Ninety-two either detained ( or back agenci na1d various Ovamboland while emo overs .into of Ovamboland forced to continue areas and trihal were work -with the help of this stage A sillial swooD al -pick out able-bodied men would be nothing new to the act ries in the southern mines and vanac. words

SWAP

publication, Whe system has is left entirel: the triba duced many Y amo ng in trabitants of of the discretion chiefs. found Once selected concenuauon camos: violence, S0 os: 139 Rone desperation and moral the physically ones ancon industrial work; ne ot the basic tacts is that ondly, pet le are tre bednas binde ans Inaustv work. ers a onty domestic work.

human inhuman recruited and suffering Hveru wor eY eration through the scheme has to bnheząą nf ecawhar: an identification disc around the grade and then for asts which about nine months. atter must return to his The worker homeland During his employment, how Lews Toar ds ice conditions. He can. orzanize or ask tor netter conauons. are families not (vamhoc ON allowed to bring their them They with must the CES: 3.05 Pied piper. 3.10 centres Bolivia Lukacs and stay in special settle.

melis There is little nvmn ba do change the cirrumctonnad in which he lives. Intense activity concerning identification keeps confined power men she is mocated to. miles the settle- A verage workel ware TOr ens aved. „in tne suctem ic li minimum contract labour University challenge. Order from NEW PARK PUBLICA Hiah St. London SW4 Monday December 20, 1971

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Free and obscene SINGING obscene songs can be a dangerous business--if it is in the Soviet Union and if it is over the A üir. radio ham in Kazakhstan has just been sen- tenced to two years detention for such a lapse. As someone said, the freest places in F the Soviet Uniort are the labour camps—he will be able to sing whatever he They are also the likes there. most obscene of places. Importing priests FIDEL CASTRO'S conciliation remarks about the Catholic church during his Chilean tour were not made by chance. A general reconciliation is taking place between his Cuban regime and the church. Priests are being ordained again for the first since time Castro took over. To remedy the another 150 shortage, foreign priests have been allowed into the country. The church was closely linked to the wealthy Cuban ruling class and the Batista regime. Most priests fled or were expelled after the revolution. The church itself paved the way for a reconciliation by giving the regime its tacit support, accepting that it is likely to last for some time. In other Latin American countries, where reactionary regimes are earning popular con- tempt, or are likely to be over- turned, the church is adopting a more discreet attitude than it had in Batista's Cuba. - Earlier this year a number of priests caused something of an uproar in conservative circles by giving up a whole day to cutting sugar cane. Practising Catholics are said to be a small part of the population, but they include a number of Castro's comrades-in-arms from the Sierra Maestra days. However, Castro can do with the support of the church both in Cuba and in other Latin American countries. The reconciliation helps to define the nature of the Cuban revolution and shows that it is not an export product. Dirty work SOME DIRTY work has been going on in the lorry factory ir the Polish town of Lublin. Seven people have been arrested charged with embezzlement.

It appears that private enter- prise still flourishes in Gierek's Poland for the accused include 'private producers of spares' and their crime was overcharging the state plant. ternational IRK PUBLICATIONS, 186a Clapham

Workers Fress, Monday December 20, 1971

PAGE FOUR

CONCORDE STRII

BY DAVID MAUDE

BRISTOL union officials meeting today to discuss the pay strike at Rolls-Royce's Patch- way aero-engine factory are expected to call for talks with the company's full board.

Shop stewards representing the 6,800 workers from the factory will also be meeting at the Patchway labour club which has become the organizing head- quarters for their struggle for a cost-of-living increase now in its seventh week. If they accept the talks do so move, they will Ray Gardner, chairman of without enthusiasm. For the factory's shop joint of sizeable majority stewards' committee, is sure the Tories have had and both stewards and rank- are still having considerable and-file workers now influence over the company's appear convinced that of the dispute. conduct the Tory-appointed board 'When we started, local of Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd management claimed they were able to negotiate, has dug in for a long he told me shortly before fight. Friday's mass meeting. 'Now 'What's there talk to we know they've no power about?' Jim Witt, a young to negotiate independently engineers' - union member, at all. asked after an overwhelming He and other stewards vote to stay out at last give a blow-by-blow account Friday's mass meeting. of the strike which solidly 'All we've had so far is backs up this view. deadlock, deadlock, dead- Faced with the rapid lock- maybe, of —no, no, no. interim, erosion an pay increase of £3 'You can't expect anything phased agreed last year, they sub- mitted a claim for £5 based the rocketing cost of on FINANCIAL support for the living. Bristol strikers, who are On August 3. the com- officially backed now by pany rejected the claim out their unions, has started to of hand at a local Con - come in in earnest. ference. Rolls workers have sent So the six unions each Parkside £500 from in chew went away £137 from Coventry, and They all their next move. Bristol Post Leavesden. decided to nress to a Office workers collected national conference at £100. York, which was the final Donations can be sent to: of the stage engineering Bob Underwood for industry's procedure 11 Greendown avoiding disputes. Troopers Hill slipped But time by St George the workers became in- Bristol 5. creasingly impatient. With disputes the pro- cedure due for termination any case in mid- else. The people who December, they decided to appointed our directors are try and force Rolls' hand. the people who pushed the Industrial through Token strikes Relations Act.' For strikers like Jim, the officials reports of union At a mass meeting on Ernie Brown and Vic Ryan September 4, it was decided proved to ban all overtime in the to Friday's meeting the Tories' involvement in factory and stage a series of token stoppages on the dispute. Those Brown described how in Friday afternoons. talks lasting until 2 a.m. working the Friday night eight days ago, local man- mini-shift would also stay had dropped the agement away. The plan-slightly modi- chief obstacle to an agree- clause that 50p of fied by i shop stewards to ment: a £1.50 offer be prevent a total shutdown- its must Sep- offset against whatever rise went into action on tember 6 and lasted until is agreed next year In engineering nationally. halfway through October. 17, after six He went on to report that On October the following day the Rolls half-dav strikes, the com- directors had instructed its pany asked for talks. of up to fl local men to reinstate the Increases offered in return for clause. were complete acceptance of both productivity strings and the full principle that the

AN APPEAL

TO

ALL OUR

offset amounts would be

READERS:

against any national agree- Ask your Public Library to take ment. Workers Press had been a copy of All sanctions force lifted by the labour We would like to ask all our to allow these negotiations readers to help us expand the to take place, but at a circulation of Workers Press. 6,000-strong mass meeting One thing you all can do is- on October 22 the com- ask your Public Library to take pany's proposals were almost a copy each day. All requests unanimously rejected. to: Ray Gardner explains that Circulation Department the £5 had claim originally Workers Press been submitted on the basis 186a Clapham High Street: of a clause in the August London, SW4. 1970 agreement providing Telephone: 01-622 7029 for talks further about

LATENEWS

NEWS DESK

ISRAELI chief of staff Lt-Gen Haim Bar-Lev warned that if 01-720 2000 Egypt rénewed fire it might lead to total war on both the

CIRCULATION

Egyptian and Syrian fronts.

01-622 7029 Tel Aviv meeting in firing was renewed, Israel had • military two objectives to prevent the enemy from gain- any territorial advantage ing and to reach a speedy cease- fire. He saw three possibilities at pręsent. The first was purely theoretical and involved the possibility of a peace agree- The chances for this 'ment. were close to nil, he added.

The second involved a con- of the ceasefire and tinuation of third resumption E rest although it had no chance of winning. His speech follows recent war-talk militant from Presi- dent Anwar Sadat.

TRIKE IN SE

increase if there was an 'abnormal' rise in- the cost of living. that Management argued despite their traumatic bankruptcy earlier this year -an abnormal occurrence if you like-they had shelled out the increases due under the old agreement. But the money from Con- corde was not coming in fast enough, costs were shooting up and the com- pany would face a massive increase in its wage bill if engineering unions' the national claim was success- ful. The £l was the most they could afford. Co-operation What really incensed the October 22 meeting was that the offer was not really £l at all. unskilled workers it For would be only 80p and for semi-skilled 90p. And the company's pound of flesh would be full co-operation with activity sampling and work - measurement, with negotiations after six months further productivity on concessions. The of prospect any increase in further these negotiations was extremely nebulous, besides since demanding off-setting the made clear the company 80p-fl only brought was forward from a rise it had for already budgeted in April 1972. Local management was given notice that the labour force would begin working to rule on October 29 un- less a more acceptable offer was made. With 24 hours to go, the management called in offered stewards and £1.50 them across the board. They claimed this was the limit of what they could afford. 50p would have to be offset against whatever was agreed nationally. The deal would have to run for year with full CO- in pushing up operation productivity. It was rejected. Hurried consultations then took place with the Rolls board, who stood firm and instructed local manage- that insist ment to no further improvements would be made and all the strings must stay. The following Monday (November 1), electricians and boilermen found that broken supervisors had their work-to-rule. Some groups of pieceworkers were simultaneously that told their earnings that week would be cut back to the national fall-back rate. By 8.30 a.m. the produc- tion and service departments walked out - to be had joined hour later by an the development and test sections.

WEATHER

IT WILL be bright at first with some showers in the NW, but it will become cloudy and rain will spread from the W later. Winds will be strong to gale force in many areas and it will continue rather mild for late December. Outlook for Tuesday and Wednesday: Continuing changeable with rain at times in most places. Temperatures near normal. Desh

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This remarkable exchange army, "may. be snatched

LARISSA

thir grasp by

DANIEL

Ae Ind ke government.

BACK IN

RESISTING

MOSCOW

Reports BY 1972

CONCORDE AT RES1

Mukti Bore. l, pisted her vil term • The for ce there h a0 tetrar: kement describe Orea more dint bria Daniel, himself se die avia more bs rote. more

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

1968 in Red Square

THE SIX

Basque fighters who young were sentenced to death a year ago this month by serving Gen Franco's dictatorship are their Daniel on o te under conditions which are terrible, sentente. even by the standards of fascist prisons.

world-wide storm 1 Mirs protest narrowly bestroy heir strengce. and strength vy nule Indian Army lead the death sentences on the 'They are hunge s reported as good slanty t dictator is eveneen he cannot bring We'll whim of the official most toosely in. in his ain davn. out agony Paleaway. bears this our.

hem to see their families ma the 1 workm Commissions strike board, he claimed isons ise divided by angu ished from with only six votes against.

again— really. ion the battened nd the battlefield Shumal and sou Knownh cach other board US dockers mas beent the same dead- mace temse De 12) doco teniet and the

COAST

WEST

longshore- other intellectuals ir have voted by an ten lears at Patchway. whelming ummed up: ba fie tor position por tane 'of hua vally when thi Deik to lange.

NO CONTACT

there a bepo ple who same nacl sane 80-day h are peia inco ordered by President Nixo

NO PRIVILEGES

ea ursi, our to toesant said Heath sad hat the under ine lall-naruey. Acl dire tore picar pisonis one hey thre allowed no books, letters hath to dan b nule doub allowed out the heir c trade unionist told allowed union officials nakomi diepion asunci Redd aly half the ration by the Pakistan regime. criminal siened to break down thei Manwhile in W Pakistan General Ty Franco and es w seined

EARNINGS

tuation asperat loss of the E. esc na svanes spen. Croat crisis 47,d capitalists and whole now hir ub drilL 'still not continent melting pot. extreme The forces released by the Indian and the W Pakisani ferul serenty, the day t governmenls Bangla Desh montis unies action had ben Ба%, plete ! go on *o President Tats has so The on onhe s salisc neigentr d. Each sub-continen being searched she he ate meen ed denards of the Bengale workers and peasants. must now con was silf nor hight

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

WORKERS from the foun- Make the Tory

LONDON:

Tuesda. section of Babcock resign! 21; 8 p.m. and Wilcox Ltd, Renfrew. • Sth4. Alfred Herbert's St, Ovambos Glasgow, will meet agair Aelurn a Labour goverl tomorrow to decide on a ment. pledged tu restore full pledged to socialist policies policy fighting BRIT AN'S ladies Mas ine- and repeal all now .out employmeat ing aown une numder an closure of the foundry and laws arainst the unions. n the nounced a trading loss ine loss ot 380 lobs to On Friday 2,000 workers the firm youth welcome. Capital stopped tor two hours in siret. Discus t o ser cent shane il protest at the closure. by mausuy Alfred Herbert nts for the year meeting which struck a October But al day followed the foundry sec- ne bolide 7.30 п.t troubled engineec- substantialis lIOnS Marci dove i Golden Reges eelcomed workers and yo utt treet. also has Discuss mani- A they re in fan- res unes stered decision -328,000 loss in the siumonths cial difficulties. Socialist Labour League Atter • chairman Sir Richard 1922 in Ulster Special Course of lectures erbert fell 33p on the following ATUA Nationalfling of the pacteion to prepare for tho •Earlier

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