Workers Press no. 643

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

• TUESDAY DECEMBER 21, 1971 • NUMBER 643

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Reid prepares Pakistan crisis deepens December E1,250 Fund; New Year Puppet Five days climb-down to raise £437.82 at UCS WE ARE almost there. bla sere has of US

BY STEPHEN JORNS

su. This EXAMINE these two statements by James Reid, UCS leader devoted exponent policy of peaceful munist Party's co-existence with capitalism.

of th plans He said on October 16, facing a mass Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto moves in Rush all Dece Worn As Pea Fund.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO, the puppet of US imperialism, has been shoved into the breach as president of the now bankrupt and defeated state of Pakistan. As ne moved into runjab house, Kawarpinal, to receive delegations trom the armed forces, Crowas gathered outside chanting 'Down with capitalism' and strike 'Up with socialism'. n8 Hang wany of demonstrators gathered in Karachi shout thr Yah the W Pakistan Askha the + Renegy, promised him the tall about L,0uu su Bhutto, University of California, samated ote tour div Add to and co. Braces of adore Hull pay included giving every peasant sace pan now rest in oler mausties shipyard CLYDESIDE The dons negotiating staginor his tremely limited. don't want ed in the sicaly Ulster tortures Bhutto stalk of a to know 'ended'-claim Royal Navy frigates. THE ALMIGHTY dons of be reached until well into the 'DEEP-INTERROGATION' methods used by troops in prospered nd Vanya Khan AyubKhal Raced with abandone our universities have a Ulster had stopped before the Compton report on army 'union' called the Asso- brutality was published, army chief Sir Harry Tuzo of ciation university claimed yesterday. Teachers. Christma You bed of miita call it a ite bomb t appar claim! Thanother and on London et hi on the TUC. capered. to affiliate carried a so rema mane mini to me t Turn a Countie kend. Angela Davis formula see page a picture The talks s net The of BanglaDes govern Ongenda Wa almea al report for Antila Davis Caden stipal gres talks pruit thratio for sheer Divis he was Dr pance, One com Astor

• PAGE FOUR COL. 7

Birmingham, It is very dangerous to pick US army Which many of us know ver routed in Laotian army George a in america or Cambodia suffers defeat AS THE American puppet tar masan and other US secrether of reels in Cambodia army havent tran from defeat to rout, the US chief of staff claims not par forces have his accom- no serious Both laid mecesty or the dane, y. have noted enate Disnea mme mission Lees whote down for them in Indo- Belfast notices in China. were given to us: sions visioner race on RAY men Sarday rible wakeat with the he ones. eneme defea * Den as an han 1 Cano dia make als convictednally it see th19 Jon Bateso forces in nd Martir abundantly clear. satellite state The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Rhodesia Washington team will agreement all be white "acceptability' the Smith-Home deal on Rhodesia rested a tormet judge, husinessman three press conference was Rhodesia. No African llb included. wouldn't be able vouldn't be that committed, said. Sir Maurice Dorman. tormer covernor Trinica! 'We're all going as uncom- chairman Pearce, the and Press Council tormer ampeat lucee The commission will race

BY JOHN SPENCER

Salisbury Tanuary and will take two opinions TERMS OF the Washington agreement on million wilbe hea realignment amount to a 'thieves' currency headed by charter for the big American corporations.

half- Pearce I Delow wItn Harlech (l) spectacles.

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Their immense holdings overseas were bought will accompany him. with paper dollars in the post-war years when the dollar was regarded as as good as gold'.

Yet the dollar is now devalued by cent per against gold-and the Euro- With these Collars the Amarican corporations haugh.

pean bankers and govern- • bricks and mortar. plant and ments are left with piles of paper which can no longer eation erate competition exchanged for value in factories European gold form. capitalists. Since 1945, US corporations

HIGH AND DRY

Craneral Motoro up However, people who investments overseas. They every took them dollars in exchange capitalist are leti high ano сти labour In grant hodar cheaper dollars rushed such access to overseas market.

Siting their Açia and latin America. and stop gold at ste The book of these value selling central bankers ounce investments at the end $78,000m exceD! want stands Auer President NIXor eight times Tha claced the and window amount and hanna fat August even the centra the dollar held in Fort Knox. bankers have been forced on- In Europe these the 'free market' for gold. investments $24,500m Vixon' decisior almost a third of this sum the $3 ounc Id price bs 338 in Britain. nowhere comes ned. what be required would AGREEMENTS allowing restore the dollar's gold back- imin Berliners to cross the Berlin COvAr Wall were signed yesterday.

dollars in circulation overseas.

the gold price would have Vicitors will he able to erase aised like into E Germany for up to 30 days a year during amount world ducting trade special arcumstances and entirely of gold. on the • turning emergencies. the clock hack netor. It is, quite Warn Rolls stewards simply, impossible.

NO. 1 QUESTION

Yet despite all the Americ- ans' efforts to keep it off Groupe agenda, gold is Guesuor With currencies In turmon and with the prospect snate ot camnetitive tradino marthare and the Wachinaton terms too there will increasingly intated

BY DAVID MAUDE

aper money reliable Da De CONCORDE engine workers from Bristol will travel longer basis for Internationa trade all over the country during the next few weeks seeking hecalse nivers and sellers backing for their seven-week pay strike.

longer that will get role for that anodd Under these circumstances Shop stewards from the it cannot be long before firms Patchwav. Bristol. Rolls-Rovce countries begin which niant enginec demand payment in for the cuneriot ctorter their rather eighth week vesterdav by currency Already International laying plans for the the Monetary fund is is financial sup: retsina Their aım arrent cattlemant the in dollars. This trend must blacking nort work from Bristol spread. The US has no intention of "We want make Shre re-that g the "gold window apprunne nauc the ful farte already of the dispute. Rav Gardner obtained the stewards chairman told deal gives them a fly. Workers Press the ington the meeting. ing start in war trade hold all the corde and Ray Gardner They 'One of the things we. will the a have dictated verv favourable make particular point terms to their trading rivals Rolls-Royce 1) It have The directors were appointed Tories after

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intervened engineering giant's shock twice prevent our cost-of- bankruptcy earlier this settlement The unvaluation of Furo. Many pean and Japanese convinced gives the their inter- competitive edge over all its the dispute vention Was tian army rivals. government-inspired. €1.50 overall I1-per-cent AHoT rame at cline the monie cr va zen goine claim nine days ago. However, one that He f ers defeat Rolls board provoked avnartina easier. while Euro. big that Sop of the award whatever American market against is made in national pay talks time, the rtillery firms have intro- Tuith a mango nt Vecterday de pgation. wen bout 16 miles duced their Train Horce an out from Dotehwo to Walter hampton, Derbv. Nottingham the chean into and klina tham to damnots writi Next week they will visit the European employers from almost all London Manchester, Leeds inside their own tariff walls. Plain of Tars, tiong on Southampton They besin 95 which about miles 9n д will ruthless The stewards foom Viantiano holdings again this Thursday The Minister said govern- still surplus plate arrangements for nicket squeeze more thant laccor from factom value the workers ino the chanting Christmas Europe. tha period and into the New Year.

capital is now preparing anti-tank gunners. In eight days' time, leading tealt for trade war Some of the US planes stewards from elsewhere death against its rivals. the ristol for a travel ment troops were also shot SEE PAGE FOUR. Dis down, he said. abled fight Ford closure.

Ino men.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY DECEMBER 21, 1971 • NUMBER 643 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Reid prepares Pakistan crisis deepens December £1,250 Fund; New Year Five days Puppet climb-down to raise £437.82 at UCS of US

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

EXAMINE these two statements by James Reid, UCS leader and devoted of the Com- exponent munist Party's policy of peaceful with capitalism. co-existence re said on ectober lo. lacine a mass moves in Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto meeting at Clydebank:

BY ALEX MITCHELL

ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO, the puppet of US imperialism, has been shoved into the breach as president of the now bankrupt and defeated state of Pakistan. As he moved into Punjab house, Kawalpinal, to receive delegations from the armed forces, crowds the Hull have gathered outside chanting 'Down with capitalism' and strike 'Up with socialism'. Troyas of demonstrators gathered in Karachi shout Khi caled or the a door valya i am to be brute no the e trom about 2,000 the Amal-

THE

CLYDESIDE

shipyarcine franian govern don't want Ulster tortures talk of bankrupt ran of alrearine pet to know 'ended'-claim angal Navy frigatorder teachy are, to be THE ALMIGHTY dons of 'DEEP-INTERROGATION' methods used by troops in universities have a Ayub Khar Our 1 Ulster had stopped before the Compton report on army 'union' called the Asso- brutality was published, army chief Sir Harry Tuzo ciation of University claimed yesterday. leachers to preme t coinuedi Christmas call it a the kesman sid For example, a couple of years car wint a sein site bo in tot tion to submit a pay claim!

the Lanubi Paralk soberien Durham at the weekend Tuzo's claim on interroga- ormula (see page And Ba DaY Sunday talks at to ki Within two mu forge to read Was see Wanted on of Comptont конемая во mas a protestined Tut aso revealed that the Preserve capitalist interests in the most outstandingin, 1s being enlarged US army routed in Laotian army Cambodia peace to to the This e shen. lapse reactio suffers defeat before pocko spoke in mate Late MERrY, backed AS THE American puppet other US Belfast in Vietn Laurie napp sume or as oned army in Cambodia reels trom deleat to rout, tne US chief of staff claims ot the miston Television Tearstaph and not part torces nave accom- respective serious plished the mission laid * ave armed energ their in bees more repl down tor them in Inao China. neats paper exploded it vere given to missions There ta moreland troops in Vestmorelan haven't i a case. She crucial a Pacese Party sang from the ly James pa Bangla se and warn be i An 1, 19e Desh as an Indian the est this faced 130mm penalty death abundantly clear. convalica. The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Rhodesia Washington team will agreement all be white 'acceptability' the Sil be me. on Rhodesia "tested' by a former Tory businessman Tuare. three Tormer colonial a presserdanference is London esterda No Adriapinwill be opinion will he n Rhodesia. 'We vouldn't be able t find one that rouldn' Sir said former governor Were al nine smal mitted persons,, added the chairman Pearce, head Pres: Council former appeal wil! arrive

BY JOHN SPENCER

sune CommisSIon Salishurv months to and will take two TERMS OF the Washington agreement on assess opinions tha million Africans currency realignment amount to a 'thieves' It will be headed by Lord charter' (belon with half Pearce for the big American corporations. Lord' Harlech spectacles). Their immense holdings overseas were bought will accompany him with paper dollars in the post-war years when the dollar was regarded as as good as gold'.

Yet dollar by per devalued cent With these dollars, the against gold-and the Euro- American corporations bought bankers and pean. (covert- • bricks anci mortar. biant ments are left with piles of enlinment which are shill vert paper much in evidence and operate which can no longer be direct competition with exchanged for value in the European gold form. cantalsts. Since 1945, US corporations like General Motors and

HIGH AND DRY

Oil have Standard They However, ll people who investments took their exchange part of to every come the left dry. capitalist world seeking are nOW ana labour and In March 1968. the holders of by naner dollars rushed such Europe, siting plants was forced to introduce Asia and. Latin America the at stes and stee The investments at value book end. these to all gold ounce except stood at over $78,000m resident • vear shee eight the near y times closed •gold window gold backing amount

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even une cental held in Fort Knox the nar hanker have heen forced on. alone these the tree market tor and investments totalled $24.500n Nixon's decision raise a third of this sum , $3 an ounce the gold price by in Britain. restore the dollar's gold back-

AGREEMENTS

allowing ingn Rarlinare to proce the Berlin the order cover Wall were signed vesterdav.

dollars in circulation overseas Visitors will be able to cross the gold price would have raised something like into E Germany for up to $280 ounce. 30 This would amount to con- during ducti world special and circumstances gold, turning emergencies. back DeTore World Rolls stewards imnossible. simnly.

NO. I QUESTION

Yet despite all the Americ- the ane arnate to baan it of Group of Ten agenda. gold is still the number-one With and with prospect spate devalu- compenitive America. tracing Washingtor nartners nnd the terme too AnArAuc there wil increasinglv movement

BY DAVID MAUDE

out : of paper money into gold.

Inflated money CONCORDE engine workers from Bristol will travel reliable longe trade e buyers and sellers all over the country during the next few weeks seeking because that backing for their seven-week pay strike.

they onger certait will get value for their goods the TIndar Shop stewards Patchway, Bristol, and countries begin which makes nant engines ingly to demand tor the chineriet. started their gold rather vecterday International laying plans for the campaign.

Monetary Fund is retusins Their aim accept of accounts settiement the blacking dollars. nort nils ns trend must work from Bristol spread The US has no intention of 'We want make sure re-opening the 'gold window'.

the full facts evervone knows they have alread TAlLot of the dispute, Ray Caraner obtained through the tha chairman told deal them I a fly- Workers Press after the ns ves meeting. They tract war hold all 'One of the things we. will Ray Gardner The cards and have dictated very fouauroble make particular point terms to their trading rivals.

the directors The directors were appointed (1971) Rolls-Royce Ltd have

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tha Tariac attor 4 ha to pres Ning Chime? angingopina giont'c cost-of- The Makruptcy ce earlier this year. nuation. Many 6,800 strikers pean and Tapanese currencies convinced their gives Us a considerable tha dispute competitive edge over all its was ian army government-inspired of €1.50 came overall 11-per-cent An niter revaluation once to settling the men's f5 gangin cans that IIS firme will fr ers defeat provoked tho Dolle hagad eynorting easier while furn breakdown in talks by. insist.

nan! and nace l fait onset t inst whatever dea more difficult to penetrate the American market. pay talks. the same in national time. the artillers Auced their with a range nf have intro- delegations went about 16 miles. duced Wolver Trojan Horse out from Patchwav to cheap Derby, Nottingham into homaton HurOne Government froons fough all day long but had finall and Swindon anino them to camnate with Lions almost will visit is on a tee Next week thor the uranan amalaura farm Leeds London. Manchester, Plain n of Jars incide thoin anym tariff walls on and Southampton. They must begin which about The ruthlecs rationalizatior from Vientiane again this their order The Minister said govern- plete arrangements for picket squeeze more surplus ment losses were "VeN from the workers the Shrawing hagwu' inclucina two na. Christmas Europe. thronahout the tion airpaoft chotiown he capital is now preparing period and into the New Year anti-tank gunners. Ta pinht Jane, timo landina itcat US Some of planes the stewards from against its rivals. dontr called in to aid the govarn. Rolle empire will travel to Bristol for a combine combine meet-

SEE PAGE

FOUR. Dis- mant troonc wara ne shot ing with the abled fight Ford closure.

down. he said.

PAGE TWO

Workers Press, Tuesday December 1. 1971 heview an yeals Eddie looks out at a rotten EVER SINCE he played world. He decides to liven it Alan Sillitoe's Notting- up and advertises himself as a private eye. ham 'hero' in 'Saturday discovers he That's how Night and Sunday Morn- brother William is gun- He's hired by his ex- runner. ing, Albert Finney has fall guy to girl friend as rub out a girl 'they' need as a tended to make a certain hostage. Eddie turns the sort of film. tables. They take the fall and he calls the cops. of The mixture satire Life may be hopeless, but at and light-hearted. irreverance least there's honesty left.

characterized "Tom which While it lasted, Eddie the Jones', Two for the Road' clown became Scarface Ginley, Charlie Bubbles' and are terror of the waterfront, mobs buster. The raincoat, the gun, very much in the ascendant bodies the close shaves, in in 'Gumshoe. bath. offers 85 minutes "of It Paralysed amusing and enthralling non- guaranteed give the nation's box offices a Christ- During the brother action, mas bonanza. William puts the black on him at the nightclub, he's on But it is not just entertain- Eddie decides gum- the dole. Albert nonsense about ing shoe is a better game than dole Finney his clowning way through the kind of tedious queues. experiences most of daily The drama over, he goes are forced to live with. home. But But not to "The Broadway' It is also phantasy. phantasy of a different kind to or the dole. His last act before that which he created on the the film ends is to clamp his stage in 'Billy Liar'. third man trilby firmly on his head. There Billy dreams of what Gumshoe is definitely the he can do to society. In 'Gum- dreams only of game. shoe' Eddie ways of accommodating him- would be easy to dis- It miss 'Gumshoe' as comedy.

self to it. In this respect, and regard- It is more than that. 'Gum- less of all other merits, The break-up of capitalism shoe' is perspectiveless.

is shaking the foundations economics and art alike. The Gun-running 'Gum- retreat into fantasy in is a symptom of that shoe* break-up. It was directed by Stephen Bourgeois paralysed art is Frears with the screenplay by unavoidable abyss beforé the Neville Smith. of revolutionary change. Finney plays Eddie Ginley, caller working a bingo Also . .. man's club called, significantly, Broadway'-the success "The cliché of all time. WORTHY of comment is "The Again, significantly, he is 31 Air We Breathe. It is about past what he might pollution. -one year and the regard as his prime- the slaughter of Apparently prospects are not good. birds and fish and the maim- There might be a chance to ing and of human polsonne build himself a spot as a comic beings has all been caused by club that for 'our greed which 'we must at the except Eddie (as for most of the learn to curb. others who do it for a living) This is an offensive film.

clowning is an empty mask.

If anyone's greed is respon- His brother William (Frank sible for the wanton mutilation Finlay) is 'successful' and mar- of our planet, it is that tiny his girl friend (Billie ried • of capi- self obsessed group Whitelaw). talist thieves who, for genera- It turns out the success is raped tions, have men and without regard based and or on gun-running scruple for anything but pro- drugs-peddling. All business is fit. business to businessmen. would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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end MANY SOVIET laws, The report calls for an discrimination the pracused including some concern- of the smaller against nationalities in the Soviet Union ing basic rights, are not deported to remote WATe made public, but are for places during World War II. The still the internal use of gov- Crimean Tartars have been permitted to return to their ernment departments. homeland. other viola- It also attacks of human rights-the free This allegation is made in tions and circulation of information a report presented to the academic freedom and books, censorship. for the Soviet Committee for the ending of the It calls by Rights of Man, set up of incarcerating odious practice perfectl sane oppositionists Academician A. D. Sakharov, mental hospitals. Others, it savs. of the Soviet H- who have completed their prison 'father sentences are still held or penal- bomb, and other prominent ized in various ways. Chalidze All these oppositionists. pracuices, breaches of the says, constitute Rights of Man. These rights are Circulated by the 'Samizdat'- restricted by administrative regu- underground publications the lations as well as by laws which duplicated which circulate in are not made public. report was typed form the a well-known scien- by drawn up founder N. Chalidze, Committee CISt. member of the Committee. for example, that While noting that there had This means, Soviet while the civil code guarantees an improvement been the to choose legal policy after Stalin's death, citizen right where he lives. this right is nulli- to criticize the report goes fied in basse practice by the internal of human violations a many Similarly, svstem. rights which still take place.

Soviet citizens do not have the the change to It attributes right to leave the country.

tactical flexibility' in the Chalidze declares that in the greater face of international opinion and past five vears a great deal scientific the recognition that activity has been carried out in and industrial progress requires the Soviet a high degree of creative free- the Rights of Man. dom. This has been largely due to the Committee of which he is a This is by no means the whole member. has known It made of the storv. political trials and has protested But no doubt the Committee against i of violations human members have their tar out contrary carried Monter to Soviet public law. make a full-scale attack on the know calls osci He calls citizens having bureaucracy. violations further the details and to protest They hope that note changes can be wrung from the publicly to the authorities.

Whatever the limitations of the authorities by an appeal to intel- inside and Committee's approach, Sakharov, lectual opinion out- Soviet Union. including Chalidze their side the supporters the United Nations. have carried on courageous However. the report is inter- fiaht against the bureaucracy's illegalities and malpractices.

esting tom of the growing opposition The way is being opened for facing the bureaucracy and a broader opposition movement working for the overthrow of the damn ite torm for manoeuvre. bureaucracy.

GOBINEAU: SELECTED POLITICAL WRITINGS'

Edited and introduced by Michael D. Biddis. In the series 'Roots of the Right'. General editor G Steiner.

Jonathan Cape. Paperback £1.50.

By Tom Kemp

DE GOBINEAU

ARTHUR

(1816-1882) was one of the first to try to place racialism on a scientific basis. His major work, the the *Essay on Human Inequality of the Races, extracts from which bulk of make up the this volume, provided vital ingredi- ents for Nazi racial doctrines and was used as a textbook.

Gobineau himself came from impoverished bourgeois an family which had attached its fortunes to the French monarchy and assumed the noble particle de' to which it was not entitled.

Arthur added the phoney title of 'Count' for good measure.

His career was that of the wanted to create an effect both as a literary man and in the career of a dip- Influence enabled him to lomat. embark this, but he was barred from the ambassadorship to which he aspired. such stuff were snobs From and élitists made. Gobineau abhorred revolutions which brought the people into streets. He lived under the ThA witnessed shadow of 1789 and the events of 1848 and 1871; he hated them. His political works are social apology for as well racial snobbery and for leaving things as they are. Drawing on a new interest the origin languages, on developments in anthropology, ethnology and other infant Gobineau tried to SCenCes explain history in terms of race determined by Races were innate and unchangeable quali- ties. The Ayrans, and more parti- cularly the Germanic race, were superior to all others, he main- tained. Gobineau retained Genesis: he believed that all men originated from one couple, though he was disturbed by doubts. some How the white, black and yel- "races' low evolved then

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obscure: he spoke of mental influences and 'cosmic forces' and passed on to consider racial inequality. Of this he had no doubt at all and dilated on it at some length, creating a whole series of stereo- types. among the white races 'the So, beautiful than Italians are more the Germans the *In fist English strength of the are superior to all the other Euro- One won- nean races and so ders why so many British boxers, heavyweights, end especially the canvas! her To The drace as Chinese, he called As for the The Arvan race as the authority of a one-time another. British Commissioner in Canton such scenes involving Jews as this approve the following gem: 'The Chinese are a people whose a result of intermixture show single erate as history does not with other races. It was fighting attempt at social revolution, or outward losing battle with last the alteration and N forms of power. In his opinion redoubt Germany conservatives Europe. described they are best he nation of steady 'In this last area', says, of the of Mao! Not to speak 'are the last remnants Shades of the Taiping who rose in revolt Aryan element, doubtless very eroded and withered, not many years after the book distorted, still not completely van- appeared. but İt is this nonsense about the quished.' stood nothing but 'superiority' white Outside of the of and the inferiority of the blacks decadence, a human hotsam of which cross-breds, yellow men and yellows hac

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dipped into most eagerly by later (apathetic, gluttonous, prone to obesity) and blacks (animal, dull Nazis racialists and which the mental, faculties, violent).

•particularlv admired. This was the basic idea upon For the highest and purest type walked which the Nazis seized for their of man who has ever the earth was an "Avran' whose conception the superior of race and the justification pristine virtues are hact ran. tinued by 'the Germanic race'.

for enslaving — and if necessary autarminating ll inferior races. Gobineau admitted that there are no pure races, but some are For this is the ultimate horror of racialism. purer than others. Even the It is true that Gobineau did white race had tended to degen-

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of Nazi rule invariably expressed racialist ideology in one form or yan race as depicted in Nazi sculpture. Above: Quite typical were Jews as this one taken from the film 'Jud Süss'.

What the Nazis did, as they not directly preach such a pro- formulated their ideology, was to fact he believed that gramme; in the that the process which development of modern say Gobineau regarded as inevitable civilization would lead to inevi- could be reversed. table degeneration. A situation would be reached, They set out to reverse it as the he suggested, which would result process saying German capitalism. triumph of mediocrity in the all fields. The Ayran race was *Everyone The will share the sad dominate the world. inferior peoples were made to be heritage in equal measure men will all resemble each other.

ruled and ensas or dangerous, if they superfluous Their size, features and bodily were habits will be the same. They will consigned in millions to the gas have the same amount of physi- chambers. cal strength, the same instinc- The fact that unpleasant 1S tive urges and abilities; and their is much racialism today more general level will be revoltingly virulent and dangerous than low. was in Gobineau's day, although Gobineau felt could not man rests on the same foundation calculate the number of centuries of fantasy, pseudo-science and which would separate him from prejudice. His own guess was obliteration. In open or concealed forms it about 4,000 years of inevitable remains central to rightist think- degeneration and decline.

ing, a basic defence of the estab- It is easy to dismiss Gobineau's lished order and intended as as fanatical nonsense of barrier to the assumption were it not that the Nazi regime power by the working class.

took him an honoured as pre- cursor and that racialist and today adhere to tascist groups

TOMORROW:

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The International Committee and the struggle for power On

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a political itinerary power Marxist theory and class consciousness

REVIEW

Stalinism, Liberalism and British History

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Workers Press, Tuesday December : • 1971 Eddie looks out at a rotten EVER SINCE he played world. He decides to liven it Alan Sillitoe's Notting- himself as up and advertises a private eye. ham 'hero' in 'Saturday he discovers That's how Night and Sunday Morn- brother William is gun- runner. He's hired by his ex- ing', Albert Finney has girl friend a fall guy to as rub out a girl 'they' need as a tended to make a certain Eddie hostage. turns the sort of film. tables. They take the fall and he calls the cops. mixture The of satire Life may be hopeless, but at and light-hearted-irreverance least there's honesty left.

characterized "Tom which While it lasted, Eddie the Jones', 'Two for the Road' Scarface Ginley, clown became Bubbles'. and 'Charlie are terror of the waterfront, mobs The raincoat, the gun, very much in the ascendant buster. close shaves, bodies in the in 'Gumshoe'. bath. of offers 85 It minutes Paralysed and enthralling non- amusing guaranteed to give the sense Christ- nation's box ofices a brother During the action, mas bonanza. William puts the black on him he's at the nightclub, SO on But it is not just entertain- the dole. Eddie decides gum- Albert nonsense about ing his shoe is a better game than dole Finney clowning way kind of tedious queues. through the most of us daily experiences The drama over, he goes are forced to live with. home. "The Broadway' It is also phantasy. But But not to phantasy of a different kind to or the dole. His last act before the film ends is to that which he created on the clamp his stage in 'Billy Liar'. third man trilby firmly on his head. There Billy dreams of what he can do to society. In 'Gum- Gumshoe is definitely the only of game. Eddie dreams shoe' of accommodating him- dis- It would be easy ways miss 'Gumshoe' as comedy.

self to it. In this respect, and regard- It is more than that. 'Gum- less of all other merits, of capitalism The break-up shoe' is perspectiveless.

foundations is shaking the of The and art alike. economics Gun-running fantasy in 'Gum- of that shoe' is a symptom break-up. It was directed by Stephen paralysed Bourgeois art is the screenplay by Frears with the unavoidable abyss beforé Neville Smith. of revolutionary change. Ginley, Finney plays Eddie caller at a working a bingo Also... man's club called, significantly, Broadway'- -the success 'The cliché of all time. WORTHY of comment is 'The Again, significantly, he is 31 Air We Breathe. It is about -one year past what he might pollution. his prime-and the regard as Apparently the slaughter of prospects are not good. and fish and the maim- birds ing and of human There might be a chance to poisoning beings has all been caused by build himself a spot as a comic that for 'our' greed which 'we' must at the club except for of the Eddie (as most learn to curb. others who do it for a living) This is an offensive film.

clowning is an empty mask.

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attributes greater 'tactical flexibility' in the Chalidze declares that in the and of ace of international opinion past five years a great deal that scientific activity has been carried out in the recognition requires the Soviet Union on behalf of and industrial progress free- high degree of creative the Rights of Man. largely due dom. This has been to the Committee of which he is a This is by no means the whole member. It has made known of the story. political trials and has protested doubt the Committee But no violations human against members have their own tac- rights carried out contrary to tical reasons for not wanting to Soviet public law. make a full-scale attack on the He calls citizens having on bureaucracy. such knowledge of violations to details and to protest They no be what from hee that further the поте publicly to the authorities.

changes can Whatever the limitations of the authorities by an appeal to intel- Committee's approach, Sakharov, lectual opinion inside and the Union, including Chalidze and their supporters side Soviet the United Nations. have carried on courageous to fight the bureaucracy's However, the report is inter- against esting and illegalities and malpractices.

important as a symp- being opened for tom of the growing opposition The way is facing bureaucracy and a broader opposition movement the greatly narrows down its room working for the overthrow of the bureaucracy. for manoeuvre.

BOOK REVIEW

Establishing the racialist

'GOBINEAU : SELECTED POLITICAL WRITINGS'

Edited and introduced by Michael D. Biddis. In the order series 'Roots of the Right'. General editor G Steiner.

Jonathan Cape. Paperback £1.50.

By Tom Kemp

ARTHUR

GOBINEAU

(1816-1882) was one on a sorentic basis His inso first to try racialisin and was used as a textbook His wanted man end in the Do which he aspired. and elitists made. such stuff were snobs which Brough oned reple ines hadow of of 1848 and 1871; he trengerman fist other British boxer the The for race de depicted in Nazi sedipture. Able ulte Typical were Art during anch sc. Tes in oving Jaws as his one taken from elem a s not ndie thy fact ach erate other reces it was gitan believed tha cration would tead to pie hate matth civilization table degeneration * or as sorman apolites or ling he su situsted, which would resed sue estempl of mediocrity in master rid was Everyone will share the sad an insam but decadence, which the Nazi alich te od separate im trie pseudo-science ultimate races prejudice. It is true that Gobineau wer by the working class

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in the clothing industry A Special Correspondent examines 'method study' and speed up in the clo and textile industry are used Flow charts

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and process the tasks of map an closures destroy • thou- operator in terms of five head- Inspecuon, Operation, sands of clothing indus- Transport, Storage and Delay. try jobs, a recent 'Little The report claims that 'such a chart useful trying 1S when Neddy' report advocates (for assess example) stitching operation involves methods new working tion on the part of the operator.'

that will lead to further String diagrams are explained as which thread Plaus reductions. pinned out to trace the move- ment of workers or materials about the factory. 'Work Study in the Cloth- ing Industry, produced by Rearrangement Clothing Economic the Development Committee These are said to enable the method- work-study officer to decide

(EDC),

examines of whether series operations and time-study study sys- involving operatives unnecessary movement about the tems. factory floor. Mentioned as well are multiple activity charts which a series of case ends with detail the simultaneous actions illustrating studies how output number operatives increased and jobs cut machines within a period. has been fixed work study back by use The information gained from the some companies. charts is used by management to rearrange the work-place and the The EDC booklet quotes from work. publications Neddy previous which state that it is possible to industry the In any time productivity jacket, 'unnecessary increase saved by reducing trouser and shirt manufacture by not movement course, 65, and 48 per cent respec- given to the workers as free tively. time. Instead, it is used to give operatives some of some- part one else's work to do as well as their this own. In way, Method-study worker be sacked or 're- derived and and his her or work spread short paragraphs look at among two three Two others. of output ways increasing and mechanization new techniques-fusing, welding, and Hand motions laser cutting cloth. But the of the report is concerned bulk with methods of increasing

OUL-

the put without need for major The EDC report lists some by the capital outlay employers of 'principles motion economy. -by making the operatives work These are methods which work- faster. study practitioners apply to keep hand worker's movements down to minimum distances The section dealing with method-study examines that motions can be made more for collecting information about often and as part syste- ol a existing working methods.

matic continuous process.

Leeds' clothing workers during the February 1970 strike 12.55-1.25 Coloín a sylfaen. 1.30 Joe.

1.45-1.53 News and weather.

4.15 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Vision on. 5.20 Harlem globetrotters. 5.44 Magic roundabout. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE. Your region tonight.

6.45 TRANSWORLD TOP TEAM. Luton v New Orleans.

7.05 Z CARS. 'Collation'.

Belinda Lee, 7.30 FILM: 'DANGEROUS EXILE'. Louis Jourdan, Keith Michell. Six years after the French Revolution Louis XVII is taken to a Welsh isalnd.

9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

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11.15 REFLECTION.

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8.00 INTERNATIONAL TENNIS. The Masters Tournament.

8.50 JUMBO IN THE OUTBACK. Wheelbase special.

9.20 CASANOVA. 'Golden Apples'. Frank Finlay.

10.20 THE CODEBREAKERS. 'The Lucy Ring'.

10.50 NEWS ON 2 and weather.

10.55 THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST. Sounds of today's music.

REGIONAL BBC

AlC Woes: 5.20-5.44 weather:645 ept: Telewele. 6.00 England: Nationwide. Look Not, ot Midland: Nation- Wales 49-7.05 today weaken 6.45 Heddiw. wide. sw. st, Scotland: 6.00-6.45 weather. Reporting 10.10-10.40 Nort Nationwide. 10.10-10.40 North Hall show carol Capital folk. 11.22 (Leeds). NW ga camera Anita. Contact The wertner wal 6.00-6.45 Scene around (Midlands). re and. so. weather Ning 10.10- Peninsula NAtionwide. nesta 11.27 the Whews. weather. the clothing That is: • Both hands should begin and complete their motion at the same time. should not The two hands be idle at the same time except for rest periods. • Movements of the hands should be opposite directions and symmetrical. • Rhythmic movements are essential to produce smooth per- formance. • Materials should be deliv- the point of as to ered use as possible. The report warns that to offset resistance to a new method from fear it of cut in earnings is helpful if the level of previous be guaranteed for earnings can a specific period'. So in return for huge increases in from the output operatives, the 'guarantee' employers that won't be cut for a while.

Wages Time-study- also called work- measurement—is examined as a for analysing existing system times for operations and setting *standard performance new times for the work. The book- let claims: which a worker is estimated to It is generally accepted that for the be working too fast or too slow many operatives in at standard performance level.

clothing industry the sum total of The booklet admits that 'this is stitching time is only one-and-a- half hours each working day, the largely subjective it depends of the work- rest of the time being spent in on judgment study officer'. work handling of such material, bundling and on. In other words, it is sheer The report explains how opera- guesswork. tions are broken up into their component elements, each ele- As an example of how this is ment being separately timed and used, an operative might be rated. Rating is the method by timed as taking two minutes for

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As Channel except: 8.30 Mike and Ber nie. Bavic 3.55 Honeybun. Gus News. London. 11.30 News. 11.40 Farm 4.20 a job, but in the opinion of the time-and-motion she is man, working at 10 per cent below according normal rate. So to him, the actual for the time operation should have been only 1.8 minutes. Standard performance is said to be 'equivalent to a man walk- ing over level ground and unladen at a speed of four miles an hour'. How a comparison is made between this and trouser- stitching other operation or any in the industry is not described.

Each company using time- study is expected to develop of relaxation allowances table to cover such items as 'personal needs, energy, output, posture, motions, visual fatigue, thermal and atmospheric conditions and other environmental factors.'

Tightening up In fact, one of the essential management methods of speed- ing-up work is to take away the time actually needed by. workers for rest and to replace it with their own supposed scientifically worked out relaxation allow- ances. These are not real rest periods -ten minutes, 15 minutes etc.- in which no work is done, but are tiny amounts tacked on to the basic given for each time element of work. The first thing that happens when employers set relaxation allowances is that any existing other breaks disappear tea or and all other temporary stop- pages-going to the lavatory, etc.

-are tightened up.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

pouress. 12.10 Weather, It's all HARLECH: 2.35 Sesame st. 3.50 Looking 4.15 at. Tinkertainment. Youn&Report 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Gul- liver. 5.20 London. 6.01 West. 6.08 6.35 Report Wales Film: "The Texican' Audie Murphy 8.00 Mr and Mrs. 8.30 Mike and Bernie. Vest as none except: 6.0r:

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ANGLIA:

2.00 Mr Piper. 2.25 Sea- 3.15 way. Randall and Hopkirk. 4.10 Bygones. 4.35 News. 4.40 Anita in jumbleland. 4.55 Bush boy. 5.15 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 London. 7.00 Film: "The Gunfight Dodge City'. 8.30 Mike at and Bernie, 9.00 London.

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Fireball XL5. 2.15 Great train race. 3.10 Yoga. 3.35 Horoscope. 3.45 Women.

4.10 Room 4.40 222. Anita in 4.55 Secrets jumbleland. of the 5.20 London. 6.00 Today. 6.39 London. Film: 7.00 "High Noon' & Bernie 9.0 Klon- Gary 8.30 Mike and 9.00 Lon- don. speaking. 11.30 Personally Weather.

ULSTER:

4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 6.00 4.55 Bush boy. 5.20 Lon- 6.15 Character. don. News. 6.35 London. 7.00 8.00 Gunsmoke. Deadline. Mike 8.30 and Bernie. London. Colour 9.00 11.20 me White. YORKSHIRE: 3.15 Pied AD0S News. 3.20 Matinee. 3.45 Yoga. 4.40 Sean 4.10 Women. the lepre- chaun. 4.55 Bush boy. 5.20 London. Van Calend 7.00 weather. 6.20 Dick Van Dyke. Film: *Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado' Howard Duff.

8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 Lon- don. 11.30 Communicators. 12.00 Weather.

GRANADA:

3.45 Cooking Price- News. Origami. 4.10 Towards wise. the 2000. 4.40 4.55 5.15 London. 6.00 Newsday. 6.50 buses. Film: Doctor in the House' Dirk Bogarde. 8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. 11.30 Branded.

TYNE TEES: 3.10 Pied piper. 3.15 Garden indoors. 3.45 Women.

News. 4.15 Room 222. 4.40 Paulus.

4.55 Rainbow Country. 5.20 Lon- 6.00 Today. Terror in don. 6.30 Dick van Dyke. 7.00 Film: Texas Town' Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot. 8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. 11.30 World of my own. 12.00 News. 12.15 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 3.30 Enchanted house.

3.45 Crossroads. 4.10 Dateline. 4.45 Cat in the hat. 5.20 London. 6.00 Dateline. 6.20 Hogan's heroes. 5.50 Film: "The Partner' Secret Stewart Granger. 8.30 Mike and Bernie. 9.00 London. 11.30 Late call. Workers Press, Tuesday Decem by Tom Kemp

MIXED

REACTIONS

have Pompidou showed aversion the Resistance. towards followed French writer left and reference was out Maurice Clavel walking out of prompted Clavel's hasty studio departure trom the and. a live showing on TV. He. was from the. of millions of screens French TV taking part in a regular pro- viewers. of gramme in which two opposed subtle interpretation words is involved. Did Pompidou views presented with the Resist- display aversion ance when he said I hate all that accompanying films. business', or only to its exploita- Clavel's film evoked memories of the Resistance and the Libera- Clavel is an erratic character tion, linking the early hopes of who has displayed sympathies for Gaullism with the 'contestation' left-Gaullism well in the as past of the students in 1968. as for the leftism' of 1968 vint- He is by It included shots of the age. no means a revo nor does he accept any Maoist Le Dantec lutionary, laying wreath responsibility to the working on Resistance shrine after his release from prison. He was the subject of It ended with an appeal to the blatant censorship piece people not to take power, but to intended to conceal Pompidou's out (literally to take the speak absence of any kind of Resistance word). record. Clavel claimed that his con- The right-wing has press the debate, entitled tribution to Clavel with charged irresponsi- French had society guilty?' IS bility childishness. and been censored. The commentary quoted from President The Communist Party paper Georges Pompidou's interview censomanite, " while deploring the in the 'New York Times' censorship his maga- programme, zine. calls his action a 'provocation The 'he his with English text said that made barricade Pompidou had lived through the microphone'. German occupation as a the French CP teacher course, without much difficulty. He went do not like Stalinists to see cismo say: 'As for the romanti- anyone taking up a challenge the Resistance, the which they have manitest v heroes both real and self- refused on behalf of the youth. - I Their hostility to Clavel does not proclaimed hate all that business.' have a principled basis, but stems Clavel's text claimed that from a guilty conscience.

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OF This seven part serles by MICHAEL BANDA which appeared in the Workers Press is now available as a pamphlet. Order from New Park Publications, 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4. Price 18p Includ- ing postage. Tuesday December 21, 1971

PAGE THREE

The true Chinese God FRIEND of the late Martin A Luther King, Hosea L. Williams, of the Southern Christian Leader- ship Conference, has just spent four weeks visiting China.

The Negro leader said on his return that he had not run across any racialism in China. He told the Chinese: I love America and I want that clearly understood. I love America for two reasons. It's my home and I it's think Chinese reactions have not been recorded. Williams said that he 'found in China more religion revealed No it's not Mao in the everyday life-style of the Chinese people than I find in the everyday life of my fellow Americans. told the doubt He • по astonished Chinese that the edu- they gave their children cation was basically religious-and he did not mean worship of Mao.

Williams found a few faults in China, too much regimentation and individual incentive. He claimed that he returned a better Christian, more than ever convinced of the need for love and non-violence'. In other words he intends to continue to prevent the growth of revolutionary feeling amongst black Americans. Rail disaster THE LATEST attempt to put the - American railways on a paying basis is going full speed to financial disaster. Started last May with $40m in subsidies and $100m in loans from Congress the National Railroad Passenger Согр, or Amtrak, is looking for some more public money to keep going.

of Amtrak was to The idea attract passengers back to the ailing railways by offering better brighter . trains and services complete with style airways hostesses. But fresh paint, new upholstery and pretty • faces have not made the Amtrak lines financial It is thus asking Con- success. gress to throw more good money after bad to save it from bank- ruptcy. Computers in crime IT HAD to come; a Californian computer expert is facing trial charged with picking a rival's electronic brain. Hugh Ward, an employee of the University Computing Com- pany of Palo Alto is accused of stealing $25,000-worth of secrets from Informations Svstems De- sign Corporation of Oakland.

Police said Ward used the special telephoned dialling code of a San Francisco area firm which rents space in ISD's com- puter. This number enabled him to gain access to the information stored in the machine. He then linked the ISD com- puter to his own computer and transferred information, police said. He has pleaded not guilty. IDS has filed a $5m civil suit against Ward's stealing the information. Knotty legal point: is Ward's computer an accessory. No Maoist support has

THE ALBANIAN

press printed an article said to be by the General Secretary of the 'Polish Communist Party, a Maoist group. It attacks corrup- scandals in the time of tion and which culminated in Gomulka the shooting down of workers in the Baltic towns last December.

It claims that "The revisionist leadership led by Edward Gierek is pursuing the old policy of restoring capitalism and strengthening the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie'. It concludes by saying that 'A repetition of the December events on a national scale is becoming increasingly inevitable'.

Polish workers who reject the bureaucracy are not likely to look to the Maoists for leadership in view of their adulation of Stalin and it is unlikely that the 'Polish Čommunist so-called Party' has any support inside Poland.

Workers Press, Tuesday December 21, 1971

PAGE FOUR

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THREE HUNDRED assembly workers have been laid off by Massey-Ferguson in Coventry as part of the tractor firm's drive to increase productivity. The shock news came just 24 hours after the announcement that Coventry's dole queue had reached 7,698 in December, 2.4 per cent up in one month.

The management has large CAV shop also threatened numbers of sackings un- less stewards make pro- steward ductivity concessions and abandon work certain practices. under sack For the December pro- gramme of increased work- content the stewards are threat 19 demanding extra men, but Massey's insist there is more than enough labour to do the additional work.

SHOP

STEWARD

Arthur programme has now The Mason is in danger of being been delayed several weeks sacked from CAV's engineer- of the stewards' because ing plant in Acton, W London.

stand and has meant over- 135 of the production Mason, Amalgamated an tractor. Union of Engineering Workers' Now the company has member, has been told by the taken the model out of pro- personnel officer company's duction for two days, result- that his absenteeism was 'caus- upsetting ing in the lay-offs. ing concern' and development work.

ACCUSATIONS

It is usual practice for Torn to be warned by his local In a statement issued to convenors, Massey accused foreman at least twice before bad the assembly men of management stéps in. demanding workmanship, But in this case there has too much labour for new work and a general lack of been complaint from his no co-operation. own local supervisor. Workers were threatened However, it is understood with unemployment if they that the personnel officer did not abandon these prac- 'under pres- claimed he was sure' to resolve the matter.

tices. Massey-Ferguson is now Some shop stewards believe moving into a general attack that Mason is singled being on workers. The sacking of out because of his opposition staff workers at the Banner the shop stewards' to joint Lane factory is part of their committee, who have accepted offensive. the tele-control monitoring Draughtsmen planners system on the site.

DATA

members-employed for the months The convenors' hostility eight ago to of has introduction Mason been apparent for plant working lay-out are under some time. Recently one said 'committee redundancy notices, which the must reserve take effect at the end of the the right to approach manage- people who had about year. unsociable habits'! A

DATA

representative Press told Workers that action would be taken if the Complaint notices were not withdrawn.

would not But he reveal would be. what that action against lay-out is for a The new de- changed track system Snowdon signed increase produc- to Massey-Ferguson is tivity. desperate for more output dropped the de- per man to meet clining world market for agricultural machinery. by sack- LORD SNOWDON has And only mass won ings can output per man be his Belli- wrangle with Ray increased in a situatioen of sario, the unofficial royal Yesterday trade recession. photographer. the National Union of Journalists rejected Bellisario's complaint ...But no against Lord Snowdon. The union's complaints com- houses mittee refused to accept Bellisario's claim that Lord had successfully Snowdon BRITISH RAIL are planning prevented him from getting £15m development in the press passes to the Badminton centre of The horse trials earlier this year.

Glasgow. the St ject, centred on Enoch station, will include a Take-over traffic-free shopping precinct, three 250-bedroom hotel, office blocks and car parks for could kill 3,000 vehicles. Glaxo jobs I'll go to jail over SHOP STEWARDS at a Glaxo •subsidiary in Liverpool have that a takeover bid warned milk-MP by the rival drug firm Beecham's could lead to mass redundancies. GEORGE THOMAS, former Labour Secretary for Wales, The stewards, who repre- 1,500 told the Commons yesterday sent about workers, he was prepared to go to jail Employment Secretary Robert have sent telegram decision to defend the of Merthyr borough counciliors Carr asking him to 'remove the continue supplying free threat' by Beecham's. to posed school milk to seven year olds.

takeover bid is The de- His outburst came Welsh plored 'in view of the anxiety Tory clash with the Secretary, Peter Thomas, who and uncertainty caused par- ticularly in this area of high is also chairman of the Tory unemployment. Party.

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through his labour power, creates the very self same capital which exploits and persecutes him, Socialist Labour League national sec- retary Gerry Healy told a 600-strong audience in London on Sunday. and always ism always will be. 'Man is trained within capi- Giving the second in a talism in how not to look at the real movement and change, series of three lectures on which is material reality itself.

Marxism, i comrade Healy 'When we look at the move- of events between the ment said man was engaged in and the present we are past grappling in a dialectical way a struggle against nature, with contradictions. "Thoughts are much not so but was prevented from our thoughts as the product of matter in motion. In order to getting down to the real become conscious of essence one must relate our thoughts fight by the capitalist on to the source, which 1S the his back. capitalist system and the class struggle. history of capitalist 'The production is the extraction of 'Man cannot solve one major problem today unless he makes surplus value for reconversion capital the social revolution, he said.

and then money which is used for the extrac- 'But,' he said, 'the capitalist tion of more surplus value.

class does its utmost to main- 'The capitalist buys labour tain the illusion that capital- for which power wages are Disabled workers fight Ford closure

INTERNECE

FORD workers at Thur- rock, near Dagenham, are to fight plans to close the plant and transfer its parts supply division to Daventry, Northants. - 450 The workers have told the been to shift to Dagenham plant. main But most of the Thurrock workers moved there first in the place because they were unfit and not able work at Dagenham. to Most of them are disabled and would find the Dagen- ham pace impossible. Now have de- the men cided to fight the closure and press for fresh work to be brought in.

A REQUEST

that legal pro- ceedings should be now insti- tuted ex-police Ser- against Harry Challenor, geant was rejected in the Commons yes- terday by Sir Peter Rawlinson, Attorney-General. Challenor, who had been accused planting evidence ot on suspects, was found unfit to plead and retired from. the police force in 1964. Mr Arthur Lewis (Labour, West Ham N) claimed in his that Challenor question was now fully recovered 'and for considerable time has some been back in full employment'.

Sir Peter said; 'In 1965 the then Law Officers decided no proceedings should be taken against Mr Challenor. I don't intend to alter the decision of my predecessors. dock labour scheme

BY DAVID MAUDE

employers have used the slump HULL PORT employers are the in trade passing through trying to build up 'a reserve port to place 53 men there. pool of unemployed labour According to the Transport like they had before 1967', and General Workers' Union, claim local union officials. the Hull employers are re- used peating the arguments Notices returning 15 tally- by their opposite numbers in men-all with more than five Liverpool and London about years' the Cervice - TO the need for attached. compulsory register expire Tanuary 14. ceverance to the pool Their return Major change was reluctantly agreed by the port's union-management Dock This would require a major Labour Board following a the 1947 Dock change decision by Brown Atkinson Labour Scheme and a complete their Ltd to give up steve- reversal of no-redundancy doring activities in the port. pledges given by the employers Just over two montan age, during the 1967 decasualiz- the bankruptcy another ation. company swelled the un- 'And we've got the wrong attached pool to 38. Now the government power at the commented movement,' one

T&GWU

official waterways

WEATHER

yesterday. The National Dock Labour Board has made provision for A TROUGH over N England to 185 up voluntary redun- will move southwards during dancies the Offers in port. the day. have been sent Sond excite mill out to every with docker the port's 4,500- on mostly sunny periods, apart strong register. from scattered showers in the far N and W. But the deadline for these runs out on December 29 and Scotland, N Ireland and N England will have SO far - with unemployment some at first, but it in the town already above rain in places the national at 5.2 will become brighter during average per cent-there is no sign of the day. The remainder of England a rush. and Wales will be cloudy wtn Officials of the Board they will rain and drizzle in places but admitted yesterday reader ex be 'very lucky to reach the dry, brighter target'. pected to spread slowly during the day. will be mild Talks agreed It but temperatures in At national level, however, Scotland will be about normal.

have openly chiefs Wednesday and Outlook for agreed to talks about relating Thursday: Blustery showers the size of the register to the in the NW, followed chiefly changing labour requirements.

by period of pro- more This could be the start of longed rain spreading to all condition attempt to an ATe. dockers into accepting what Temperatures near or above the union's leaders have for normal the N, generally in some time been discussing mild in the S. privately with the employers: abolition of the 1947 scheme.

London lecture well attended

BY IAN YEATS

procreate more hostle to the worker. Ulster Labourite delegates led by Brendan Halligan (I.) In London yesterday.

are the produce ne Spanish workers Toys that prode day. i cripple Gerry Healy condemn Poles' Healy explalnea value ruture Investment (non-belg).

the mind blackleg coal expose and perspires hic A HUNT was going on in a he me ten was talked at London borough yesterday for foem of no SPAIN'S Asturias coalfield is still simmering lead paint What call with anger Polish government's collaren it sumcient quantities blackleg shipments during are consumed. coal the recent Irish nurses: Withdraw troops Health inspectors launcher enders sinke Banker shop Though most the search for toys

CORRESPONDEN*

are now back at coated with lead paint. been there have WOrK due ma these last sporadic stoppages in sup- port of the demand for looked health inspector or them in every shop higher wages and trade tara at a round no

INTERN

he danger cart

BRITISH

The check shaved matte t check showed bade malism 0 dangerous

JUSTICE?

relation: states. oNceking's cannot believe, they Polish

FOR

10 their a manil, and • Shipment to are in dividual in later lite.

NORTHERN

UCS

LRELAND

leading climb-down

TRAGE ONE

London rotardo delegation gredith principia to: Without guarantees. terre will years. scist regime on acese the Those when te Stalinists • ol ids must continue, statement, Reid Janee he c ivan n void to pointed to get say with of Spanish work in stue I theil oned as accuse sources, was He is strust in dan si Bank union caves lest in the tievel ot world indiate in to 7 per cent his resign is more pertinent than ability of Britain's big con to be held in camera. expected

UNION

leaders have Revival of crease on beat of pano

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

Japanese

MEETINGS

further strengthening the Tory pay Make the Tory militarism

TESIED.

TAPAN rinance Ministe Labour govern- for 8 per has decided to increase mill- ment pledged to restore full 2arp expendin the biscal most froDetails of the settlement employment and repeal all

LUTON:

Decem- laws arainst the unions. illus- Most of anti-union Act against stalinisn swing in the trade unions the Japanese in force by February or Baths, ANUA Manic need to boent polices. Discuss BRACKNEL 7:30 Discuss VAnd me emorcemel Been 2,1: We Christ. of the closed-shop unlawful Tuesdad

• PREVENT

unregistered ATUA Manifesto Asian moyed Workers a Seen ot contract during youth welcome.

BEXLEYHEATH:

to From that date, then, ore industa Triany Sung no action seans t socialist Labour League and the Special Course of lectures following ATUA Natlonling or the decision to prepare for the

SUNDAY JANUARY 2

Historical Materialism today

BEAVER HALL, GARLICK HILL

(Nr Mansion House tube) code ith the oss almor 7 p.m. the sanese given by ment, are dearly. G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) th republic of Croatia. ventures in Asia. newspaper