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IRELAND: BACKGROUND

Famine and JACK GALE continues the history of class struggle in Ireland. THE TERRIBLE Irish famine of the 1840s devastated the country and brought class antagonisms to a head.

after and orine one cod reland generally, : Fenians some account of its ill a letter to Marx: «T never thought that famine could have such tangible reality Ireland is covered with ruined cottages. Whole villages are devastated ou has family emigration rand famine, "his state alairs Is clearances: continual oppression into an utterly impoverished people.

and leadership thr Young Ire read speci y strength whole the revolutionary the to rest evictos and sen 15.

John brides, export od d not supply an answer corner or re see meera meddles eternally Enelish and admit Catholics i preston of this Relief parliament and some offices.

*Then came the o say that be v seen so reful agitation arbines, baconsts and nationhood or her, Disaster Ireland by 15500 that the tact came nounced Daniel comel and scared. Charles Stewart Parnell: used the militancy of the Fenians and the Irish masses as bargainıng counters for an allance with the Gladstonian Liberals.

know as The Soup questiog is the land. a mightier * ct. The name speaks ionat these were excep- yean this 1 Daniel O'Con- Restricted achiever own as the Young Ire- Young Brean mor instance, they somed with Pay and Fence Mitchel' • all in act pere monsted relain tr to through demonstra Great Faminement of Louis Pipe in ranchrow was the deall Connell 10t E3, 185, letter to Marx, May 'Four 6. 167.18. 2. C • Re 19th Cere ard Labour 1785-1850*, K. B TowPalities of Repeal, Police troops fire on advancing Fenians at Tallaght, Co Dublin, in the 1867 insurrection. In this way the Fenian uprising was brutally put down. Fourth International (I would like information about

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a political itinerary 25p power Marxist theory and class Address Stalinism, Liberalism and British t O'Connell and a number of Irish and landowners in peers an organization called the Repro- duction Works Committee to channel relief into Ireland dur- ing periods which they described as 'imperial calamities'.

When Daniel O'Connell died 184 neart was to be con- leaving in. instructions that his veyed to Rome (!) the Repeal Organization staggered for on only a short time under the lead- ership of his son, John. The Young Ireland leaders, however, clung to a nationalism which rejected revolution time when the people were arm- ing themselves ready to fight.

At their conference in Feb- ruary 1848, they defeated Mit- specifically declared chel and that there was harmony of landlord interest between and tenant, and that all their activi- would be henceforth ties restricted to parliamentary cam- paigns. Meanwhile the Pope of Rome was also doing his bit for the cause. In 1847 Pius IX sent a private letter to the four Irish arch- them counselling bishops to *the work for preservation of peace and order in the coun- try'--and obligingly provided the British government with a copy.

Cowardice Then, following negotiations with British emissary, Lord a Minto, Pius issued an edict to all Catholic clergy in Ireland to activities restrict their to spiritual affairs and not to involve themselves in secular matters (such as the starvation and murder of their flocks).?

Helped by the cowardice of the Young Ireland leaders poP and with the blessing of the the British government moved into action. Warning placards appeared all Ireland and 8,000 troops over were sent to Dublin. Mitchel was arrested and sentenced to 14 years' transportation to Tas- mania. With Mitchel's departure, the remaining Young Ireland leaders disarmed the workers and peas- even when they came arm ants in hand to free those same leaders from arrest! (Some of the moderate lead- ers were also exiled, but were given plenty of opportunity to 'redeem' themselves-one such, Charles Gavan Duffy, became the Prime Minister of Victoria, Aus- tralia.) Thus the Young Ireland move- ment collapsed. The next stage in the devel- opment of the Irish movement was the formation of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood' (known as the Fenian Brother- hood) in 1857. The first impulse for this organization came from America, where many Irishmen had emi- grated and were reinforced by many who had been exiled to Australia. Determined The Fenian Brotherhood john its inception at O'Mahoney and James Stephens, administered oaths, procured This military arms and drilled. section was the Irish Republican the first commander of Army, which was General Cluseret, later to be Commander-in-Chief of the Fédérals in the Paris Commune.8 Fenian Movement was The linked from its inception with of the most determined one working class struggles in Irish history-the fight of the bakery workers for a 12-hour day and the abolition of night work.

(Karl Marx, in 'Capital', quotes from the report of the parlia- which mentary commission investigated this dispute: "The committee believe that work beyond 12 hours has tendency to undermine the of the working man, and health to premature old SO leads age and death, to the great injury of families of working men thus deprived of the care and sup- port of the head of the family when most required.') Fenianism thus became pow- erful among the workers in the Dublin, such larger cities as Cork, Wexford and Waterford. In fact, branches of the Inter- national Working Men's Associa- tion also flourished in Dublin and Cork until after the defeat of the Paris Commune. Because of its links with the working class, Fenianism was hated, not only by the landlords and the employers, but also by the Catholic clergy and the mid- dle class, both Protestant and Catholic. Eng- Moreover, the » absentee lish landlords were being joined in greater and greater numbers by the so-called 'gombeen men'. The Encumbered Estates Act of 1849 had created a new class Russell Papers, 7. See the PRO 1847 and 1848. 8. See John O'Leary, 'Recollec- tions of Fenians and Fenian- ism'. of Irish speculators from the cities who bought up land to sell or rent at a profit. found them- Irish tenants selves not only owing rent to the old landlord, but frequently paying heavy interest on loans from these new speculators.

The engendered bitterness throughout Ireland by these conditions led to the Fenian up- rising of 1867, which was brutally put down. After this, Fenianism driven under- was ground but continued as a secret organization engaged in terrorist activities. The 'official' Home Rule organ- ization, however, continued-first of all in the guise of the Home Rule League, led by a Protestant lawyer, Isaac Butts. has accurately Butts been described as a scrupulous respec- ter of the forms and dignity of the House of Commons (whose) appeals to English opinions were tactful and restrained', while his organization was moderated and inoffensive body aiming at a moderate and inoffensive mea- sure of self-government for Ire- land.' Desperate By 1879 the leadership of the Home Rule movement was in the hands of Charles Stewart Parnell. Parnell used the militancy of the Fenians and the Irish masses as bargaining counters for: an with the Gladstonian alliance Liberals. But Parnell was in control only of the movement in the House of Commons-not in Ire- land. He had, for example, no power the Land League, which over was formed in 1879 to assist ten- and ants to resist rack-renting to fight for tenant ownership of the land, although he became its nominal president. Parnell lived in fear of the Land League which he was sup- posed to be leading: As Lyons "The very says: gravity of the land crisis was enough to him give pause. Davitt and other responsible leaders might counsel peaceful but who could tell measures, how far a desperate and desti- tute peasantry might go? 'Might not the land agitation become in grim earnest what it be called-a land was soon to war? 'And, if so, what place was there for a parliamentary leader in a convulsion of this kind?

9. "The Fall of Parnell', F. S. L. 12. : Lyons. Top: Starving peasants attack a potat of 1846. Above: A battering ram be 'Might he not either lose con- trol of the land movement or else be swept into illegal paths which would cut him off once and for all from constitutional methods? 'On balance the risk of letting the movement pass into other hands was probably greater than the dangers involved in putting himself at its head. "10 "great Irish patrio, yet another Thus, Parnell - sought Home Rule as part of a bargain, his side of which was to hold back the Irish masses. As Connolly points out: The rising tide of revolt in Ireland compelled the Liberal Party to give a half-hearted acquiescence the demands of the Irish to peasants, and the Home Rule- Liberal alliance was consum- mated."" The 'half-hearted acquiescence' Gladstone's Land Act was 1881, the much-vaunted reforms of which were soon undermined by rising prices. The 1880s were bad through- out the British Isles. In 1886, unemployment rates rose as high as 22 per cent in some industrial areas and there in industrial cities were riots throughout Britain. In 1881 the Irish Land League called a and its rent strike leaders, including Parnell, were gaoled. The same year, the Sec- retary of State for Ireland, Lord Cavendish, murdered in was Phoenix Park. Evictions Parnell, however, signed the 'Kilmainham Treaty' by which he secured his release from Kilmain- ham Prison, was allowed to re- in return, enter public life and, undertook to use his influence against outrage and intimidation in Ireland."2 the position of By this time, Irish tenants and farm labourers was desperate. Bad harvests in the late 1870s were compounded by cheap agri- cultural imports into Britain Between 1880- from America. 1882 there 200,000 were over recorded cases of pauper fami- lies; over 7,000 families evicted; and 6,000 convictions for 'agra- rian outrages. 10. Lyons, 'The Fall of Parnell'.

11. James Connolly, 'Labour in Irish History. 12. See Hammond "Gladstone and the Irish Nation'. attack a potato store during the famine ttering ram being used in an eviction.

One account of some cattle being seized from a tenant in arrears reads as follows: 'The forces of law were represented by a sheriff, half a dozen Property Defence men, 40 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and 50 soldiers— all armed to the teeth-and a resident magistrate who appéars to go about with the Riot Act pasted in the crown of his hat ready for an emergency. "The tenant and his friends looked on with the appearance of deadly hatred and would have murdered any one of us if they could. la Revolution But the official movement was moving further and further away from the masses. Although the Irish constituencies returned 85 nationalists to Westminster in 1885, Parnell refused to support the Land League's 'Plan of Cam- paign' to force rent reductions. Parnell, in fact, the set up Irish National League, tightly controlled by the inner circle of his Parliamentary Party, in an attempt to undermine the Land League and to impose on the Irish movement a middle-class, respectable' character in close alliance with the church.

But despite the collaboration- ist policies of • their official leaders, the Irish masses fought on. Landlords and their agents were executed, evictions resisted, rents withheld, people who accepted tenancies of land from which others had been evicted "boycotted'. word were (The "boycott' into existence came after this treatment was meted out to one Captain Boycott who took over such land after an eviction.) Riots spread throughout the countryside on such a scale that agents of the British government reported fearfully that revolu- tion was imminent. Even Queen Victoria, who never set foot in the place, was moved to complain: "These Irish are really shocking, abominable like any other people - not civilized nation'." 13. Irish Crime Records quoted in "Coercion and Concilia- in Ireland, L. P. tion Curtis. 14. Joan Haslip, 'Parnell: A biography.

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IRELAND: BACKGROUND

Famine and JACK GALE continues the history of class struggle in Ireland. THE TERRIBLE Irish famine of the 1840s devastated the country and brought class antagonisms to a head.

= Fenians after the famine inges could give a grapnic account of its effects, and of the condition of Ireland generally, in a letter to Marx: I never thought that famine could have such tangible reality.

'All western Ireland is covered with ruined cottages. Whole villages are devastated. "This on of affairs isi famine, emigration and Engels for Dublin, the towns - Tenans i sour cha of Ireland- towns Italye France pleaser Pawsion to resist evictions and rent rises.

officials country uld be dificult to under- crops to railways to supply an answer to the proble of are to be seen in every corner i Danie with everyhing and ther so-called self. trace overame be nees went on to say that he to This contion had ad moral and peaceful agitation brought Ire many conce thereby loses all. Disaster clubs + The reached in peak in 18i when Charles Stewart Parnell: used the militancy of the Fenians and the Irish masses as bargaining counters for an alliance Act, know 2s eve is the land i a mightier Ace name se tional mhese were excep. was in Daniel Restricted Confederation ander known as the Young Ire le Most Young O'Brier -regarded cont which would include tor ndowne they foined in 1500 repeate milton, 'Minister 6000) leclared because it 5. Ourned from Miso-15 an was me sa vere exported from reland res quarters ourna Ireland ndustrious habits'? Parliament was the Dend, all Or el sot Great Famine' B, els letter to Marx, May •Four 2. 3. Sames Caland: 1785-1850, S. B. To politics of Repeal, in the fath Cent ard Labour Police troops fire on advancing Fenians at Tallaght, Co Dublin, in the 1867 insurrection. In this way the Fenian uprising was brutally pur down. Fourth International (would tike information about

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• The struggle for Name 25p poWEr Address O'Connell and a number of Irish peers and landowners in an organization called the Repro- duction Works Committee to channel relief into Ireland dur- ing periods which they described "imperial calamities'. Daniel When O'Connell died leaving that his heart was to be con- instructions veyed to Rome (!) the Repeal Organization staggered on for only a short time under the lead.

ership of his son, John. The Young Ireland leaders, however, clung to a nationalism which revolution at a rejected time when the people were arm- ing themselves ready to fight.

At their conference in Feb- ruary 1848, they defeated Mit- specifically declared chel and that there harmony of was interest between landlord and tenant, and that all their activi- ties would be henceforth restricted to parliamentary cam- paigns. Meanwhile the Pope of Rome was also doing his bit for the cause. In 1847 Pius IX sent a private letter to the four Irish arch- bishops counselling them to for 'the preservation of work peace and order in the coun- try'-and obligingly provided the British government with a copy.

Cowardice Then, following negotiations with a British emissary, Lord Minto, Pius issued an edict to all Catholic clergy in Ireland to their activities restrict to spiritual affairs and not to involve themselves in secular matters (such as the starvation and murder of their flocks).?

Helped by the cowardice of the Young Ireland leaders, and with the blessing of the Pope, the British government moved into action. Warning placards appeared all over Ireland and 8,000 troops were sent to Dublin. Mitchel was arrested and sentenced to transportation to Tas- 14 years' mania. With Mitchel's departure, the remaining Young Ireland leaders disarmed the workers and peas- ants even when they came arm hand those same in to free leaders from arrest! (Some of the moderate lead- ers were also exiled, but were given plenty of opportunity to 'redeem' themselves-one such, Charles Gavan Duffy, became the Prime Minister of Victoria, Aus- tralia.) Thus the Young Ireland move- ment collapsed. The next stage in the devel- of the Irish opment movement was the formation of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood' (known as the Fenian Brother- hood) in 1857. The first impulse for this organization came from America, where many Irishmen had emi- grated and were reinforced by many who had been exiled to Australia. Determined The Fenian Brotherhood, led O Mahoney and James Stephens, inception John procured administered oaths, This military arms and drilled. section was the Irish Republican Army, the first commander of which was General Cluseret, later to be Commander-in-Chief of the Fédérals in the Paris Commune.® The Fenian Movement was linked from its inception with determined one of the most working class struggles in Irish history-the fight the bakery of workers for a 12-hour day and the abolition of night work.

(Karl Marx, in 'Capital', quotes parlia- from the report of which mentary commission investigated this dispute: "The committee believe that work has beyond 12 hours tendency to undermine the health of the working man, and leads to premature old age and death, to the great injury of families of working men thus deprived of the care and sup- port of the head of the family when most required.') Fenianism thus became pow- erful among the workers in the such as Dublin, larger cities Waterford. Cork, Wexford and fact, branches of the Inter- In national Working Men's Associa- tion also flourished in Dublin and Cork until after the defeat of the Paris Commune. Because of its links with the Fenianism. working class, was hated, not only by the landlords and the employers, but also by the Catholic clergy and the mid- dle class, both Protestant and Catholic. Moreover, the 'absentee Eng- lish landlords were being joined in greater and greater numbers 'gombeen men'. by the so-called The Encumbered Estates Act of 1849 had created a new class Russell Papers, See the PRO 1847 and 1848. 8. See John O'Leary, 'Recollec- tions of Fenians and Fenian- ism'. of Irish speculators from the cities who bought up land to sell or rent at a profit. found them- Irish tenants selves not only owing rent to the old landlord, but frequently paying heavy interest on loans from these new speculators.

engendered The bitterness by throughout Ireland these conditions led to the Fenian up- rising of 1867, which was brutally put down. After this, Fenianism driven under- was ground but continued as a secret organization engaged in terrorist activities. The 'official' Home Rule organ- ization, however, continued-first of all in the guise of the Home Rule League, led by a Protestant lawyer, Isaac Butts. been accurately Butts has described as 'a scrupulous respec- ter of the forms and dignity of the House of Commons (whose) appeals to English opinions were tactful and restrained', while his organization moderated was and inoffensive body aiming at a moderate and inoffensive mea- sure of self-government for Ire- land.? Desperate By 1879 the leadership of the Home Rule movement was in the hands of Charles Stewart Parnell. Parnell used the militancy of the Fenians and the Irish masses as bargaining counters for: an alliance with the Gladstonian Liberals. But Parnell was in control only of the movement in the House of Commons-not in Ire- land. He had, for example, no power over the Land which League, was formed in 1879 to assist ten- ants to resist rack-renting and to fight for tenant ownership of the land, although he became its nominal president. Parnell lived in fear of the Land League which he was sup- posed to be leading: "The As Lyons very savs: gravity of the land crisis was enough to give him pause. Davitt and other responsible leaders might counsel peaceful measures, but who could tell how far a desperate and desti- tute peasantry might go? 'Might not the land agitation become in grim earnest what it was soon to be called-a land war? 'And, if so, what place was there for a parliamentary leader in a convulsion of this kind?

9. "The Fall of Parnell', F. S. L.

Lyons. Top: Starving peasants attack a potat of 1846. Above: A battering ram be 'Might he not either lose con- land movement trol of the or else be swept into illegal paths which would cut him off once and for all from constitutional methods? 'On balance the risk of letting the movement pass into other hands was probably greater than the dangers involved in putting himself at its head.'° Thus, Parnell Irish patriot Vet another 'great sought Home Rule as part of a bargain, his side of which was to hold back the Irish masses. out: "The As Connolly points rising tide of revolt in Ireland compelled the Liberal Party to give a half-hearted acquiescence to the demands of the Irish peasants, and the Home Rule- Liberal alliance was consum- mated.'" The 'half-hearted acquiescence' Gladstone's Land Act of was 1881, the much-vaunted reforms of which were soon undermined by rising prices. The 1880s were bad through- out the British Isles. In 1886, unemployment rates rose as high as 22 per cent in some industrial areas and there riots in industrial cities were throughout Britain. In 1881 the Irish Land League called strike and its rent leaders, including Parnell, were gaoled. The same year, the Sec- retary of State for Ireland, Lord murdered in Cavendish, was Phoenix Park. Evictions Parnell, however, signed the 'Kilmainham Treaty' by which he secured his release from Kilmain- ham Prison, was allowed to re- enter public life and, in return, undertook to 'use his influence against outrage and intimidation in Ireland.'? By this time, the position of Irish tenants and farm labourers was desperate. Bad harvests in the late 1870s were compounded by cheap agri- cultural imports into Britain from America. Between 1880- 1882 there were over 200,000 recorded cases of pauper fami- lies; over 7,000 families evicted; and 6,000 convictions for 'agra- rian outrages. 10. Lyons, 'The Fall of Parnell'.

11. James Connolly, 'Labour in Irish History. 12. See Hammond 'Gladstone and the Irish Nation'. attack a potato store during the famine tering ram being used in an eviction.

One account of some cattle being seized from a tenant in arrears reads as follows: 'The forces of law were represented by a sheriff, half a Defence dozen Property men, 40 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and 50 soldiers- the teeth-and a armed to resident magistrate who appears to go about with the Riot Act pasted in the crown of his hat ready for an emergency. "The tenant and his friends looked on with the appearance of deadly hatred and would have murdered any one of us if they could."13 Revolution But the official movement was moving further and further away from the masses. Although the Irish constituencies returned 85 nationalists to Westminster in 1885, Parnell refused to support the Land League's 'Plan of Cam- paign' to force rent reductions.

Parnell, in fact, set up the Irish National League, tightly controlled by the inner circle of in an his Parliamentary Party, attempt to undermine the Land League and to impose on the Irish movement a middle-class, 'respectable' character in close alliance with the church.

But despite the collaboration- ist policies of • their • official leaders, the Irish masses fought on. Landlords and their agents were executed, evictions resisted, who rents withheld, people accepted tenancies of land from which others had been evicted 'boycotted'. (The word were 'boycott' came into existence after this treatment was meted out to one Captain Boycott who took over such land after an eviction.) Riots spread throughout the countryside on such a scale that agents of the British government reported fearfully that revolu- tion was imminent. Even Queen Victoria, who people — not like any other 13. Irish Crime Records quoted in 'Coercion and Concilia tion in Ireland', L. P. Curtis. 14. Joan Haslip, 'Parnell: A biography'.

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crisis turning its attácks onte American workers, DANY SYLVEIRE reports on the chaos and pessimism of the Pabloite YSA as revealed at their recent convention. HOUSTON, Texas was the at the majority of sessions not than 500 present. ToTA WeTe scene of the Ilth Annual There were hardly any black or Convention of the American Chicano (Mexican) youth present.

maintain its rightward Young Socialist Alliance.

YSA

turn the leadership had to The

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-by threats of expulsion is the youth suppress and disciplinary measures- of the revisionist movement opposition of the Socialist Workers' any kınd in Party, convention. which is in political sympathy Thus the left-wing, which had Pabloite 'Unified with become increasingly vociferous Secretariat of Fourth the recent years, was silenced International'. throughout the 1971 convention. Holding alliance's Most the usual of the main reports and discussion centred attack December 2X- anuary conven.

Houston they what was described as tion in meant on "sectarianism'. could also have

SWP'S

meeting in leftism' of the support campagin Where the 'ultra- for Mayor of Texas- -thus had enab- lefts' been cynically brushed ling them draw local off, this time the YSA leadership to DreSS coverage. convention itself And the was dominated by the fact that 1972 is election year.

YSA

The election gave the for considerable grounds pessimism, however. would successful in channelling people away from we be mass actions

MUSE

smaller prepared for demon- will drop inactivity, said national into his unite at reber Andy Rose in political report This pessimism flows from the of total lack of analysis any Nixon's August 15 in measures this, the period of the greatest économic crisis in the history of world capitalism. The ÝSA has turned away completely from the thrust for- of the American ward working class, reflected in a call by trade union leaders for General a Nixon's Striké against wage freeze. : Rightward Instead it will be orientated The YSA has completely sub- forces towards the attracted to Party the Democratic through merged itself into every right- in its youth intervention con- wing, petty bourgeois ferénces. issue the YSA has On every tendency. turned to the right. Its national-executive resolu- "Strategy was faced with constantly having tion for Black to confront them-exposing their Liberation' states: real fear. 'Pan-Africanism represents to-

YSA

Chicano Mirta Vidal. day and not only the cultural Liberation Director and national of social linkage African- Americans to the African executive member, was unable to con- confront the theoretical issues in an indication of the tinent, but internationalism of her reply to the discussion on African- the Chicano struggle. She left the Americans. the platform after the first five 'It represents the solidarization of oppressed African-Americans minutes. The

YSA

and the whole with the of struggles African 'Unified Secretariat' people and people of African are now un- for able evade the complete liberation to descent from of their of explosion impérialism and capitalism.

revisions Marxism. The end of 27 years of 'Pan-Africanism can mean the boom now the real linking of the of exposes up struggle nature of this epoch of capitalism black Americans for liberation its death agony. with the struggle of Africans for in make a turn to liberation. However to he right the YSA has to attempt •It mean developing e cover its tracks in order revolutionary on TO maintain any kind of credibility.

Américan continent Therefore it holds up its facilitate the destruction of aistory-the past relations of th American imperialism, this being

SWP

with rotsky-to prevent the best way speed the to African revolution.' any challenge from the ranks to from The YSA has completely sub- its sharp move away Trotsky and all that he fought merged itself into every right- tendency for. wing, petty-bourgeois The leadership also now begins of around it in fear and to talk about the class struggle hostility to the working class.

and the which agenda working class, Three-quarters of the previously was not even part of given completely to wac aver discussion on women's liberation, its vocabulary. Fhis attempt to do a balancing gay liberation, the election cam- act cannot succeed for very long.

paign and nationalism. The YSA cannot bring behind This complete abandonment of Trotsk vism Marxism and Trotskyism now hanner complete degeneration and right- plunges the YSA into irrevocable ward turn to gay liberation and crisis. several taking, which Attendance down by drug on was 1970 resolutions were put forward. several hundred on the at New York. With the American working and convention class about to come on to the the Houston gathering was also scene in massive struggles during 1969 smaller than the conven- 1972, the crisis in the YSA must tion at Minneapolis. At its height those attending come to the surface as never hefore. numhared under 700. but inct The delty oaper thai beds the fight agalnat the Tories. £17.12 for 12 months (312 Issues) £8.56 for 6 months (156 Issues) £4.29 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Pross'twice a wook the rates are: £1.32 for 3 months (24 issues) £5.28 for 12 months (96 issues Fill in the form below NOW and send to : routation Deot. Workers Prec 186a Claphem Mlah 8t., andon. Swe ----- - - I would like to take out a aubecription to Workers Press. vaya requirad

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Or Full aubecription 1six days) for months. Name Address Amount enclosed I Lawrence Daly is the first miners' chief to lead an official pit strike since the General Strike of 1926. He and his executive are facing the hardest political battle within the labour movement since the days of the 1920s. Here he tells STEPHEN JOHNS how they are facing up to this challenge.

STEPHEN JOHNS: The industrial action from other unions I'm thinking in strike has begun on an terms of a General Strike.

unprecedented note of LD: I could not envisage bitterness on the part of short-term struggle ending the miners, the NCB and successfully for without the support of the other the Tory government. unions and that is why we made the Everyone has will be pressing for that when point that this is a show- we expect to meet them tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday).

down with the government On the other hand if there is and its pay policy. In the of weakening support light of this how are the from other unions we are still reasonably confident. miners going to win their Although it will take some struggle? for the reduction time longer Daly: Well the supplies to make Lawrence in coal its the economy -but miners are certainly angry and impact on bitter miserable offer nevertheless the government, at the Coal the miners' action. will be that the Board have by compelled to yield. But natu- made. We are all convinced rally we would prefer that the that this is a result of a direct from struggle is a short, sharp and instruction the o Boveeir ment in pursuit their victorious one. restrictive wage policy. We are ST: Do you envisage the defeat determined to that government yielding on this policy and we recognize there- strike without it being fore that this is not only a turned out of office? National battle against the I think it is conceiv- LD: Coal Board but against the government. The withdrawal of able that the government be the latest offer Coal compelled to recognize the by the Board has intensified the feel- justice of the miners' case as a of bitterness and has consequence of supporting ing resulted in actions from other unions and every area, where direct action of the mine- have been held, the meetings workers, necessarily without giving a unanimous rejection of them to the wage offer. reaching the stage turfed of office, being out ST: I want to back go desirable though that is.

to the example of the post- SI: If the men who started off government also make it indeed their nine-week strike with they did in 1926—that they a feeling of. solidarity and to- are determined to smash the miltancy. According miners as an example to all their ow. leadership they other workers, would were forced back because you TUC and other unions yourself feel it necessary to the escalate the action and call did not give the help that the trade union move- might have been expected. on ment to unite in industrial You are facing an even greater political battle. What action to get the govern- ment out and defeat it? help are you looking for from the trade unions and LD: Yes, indeed this has the TUC? over the ques- bien of ti view Industrial Rela- LD: We are seeking with tion the assistance of the TUC the tions Act from the beginning.

It has also been my view, as I co-ordination of all workers said in my speech at Birming- and all trade unionists engaged ham, on the question of unem- in the transport of coal or fuel that could be used as a plovment. There is one slight substitute to coal.* We difference at the want moment will that these supplies whether there be any change of policy the not moved so that there due to will be development of the virtually overnight situation effect of the eco- as the NUM is con- paralysing as far that cerned it's difficult for me to will compel nomy board women forward coal say. But at the moment every that the with very much bigger area has agreed should offer. miners ensure that these arse supplies es ones ST: In this kind of battle hospitals. people's homes, it's going to be a defeat for old and aged pensioners SO the government or the on. It would be difficult on the miners can you envisage one hand to do that and say at this without support or the same time that the hospital staff should come out to sup- *The TUC in fact refused to Nevertheless I port our strike. favour, if the co-ordinate transport unions would be in government displayed a deter- to help the miners. BBC 1, 9.20, Play for today: "Still Waters'.

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9.38 Schools. 12.55 Tresarn, 1.30 The Herbs, 145 News, weather.

Tackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Dr Dolittle.

5.44 Sir Prancelot. 5.50 News, weather. 6.00

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THE BRIGHTON BELLE.

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9.00 NEWS, weather. 9.20 PLAY FOR TODAY: Still Waters'. Margery Mason, Bryan Pringle, Richard Pearson.

10.15 EUROPEAN SKATING.

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11.55 Weather. N Ireland: 1.00-1.25 Close- Il regions as BBC 1 except lee 230.250 Schools 6.00 down. 6.00-6.50 Scene 6.50 Wales 6.50-7.15 around six. 11.57 News, today. Heddiw. 7.15-7.25 Tom and weather. Week Eneland: 6.00-6.50 Look North.

8.00-830 Terry. I 11.57 Weather. Midlands today, Loo Look East. week out. Scotland: 2.30-2.50 Around Points West, today, 6.00-6.50 Report- South West, Scotland. Spotlight weather. 11.57 News. Scotland. 11.57 News, ing weather. mination to hold fast tool the cratic control do workers' control? Is it time offer which they control, they indicate they are deter- the miners and their leaders workers mined to smash to call demanded us, control the whole trade union in the pits? upon and labour movement to esca- LD: I principle agree 1n late industrial action to a point with the democratic control of where it would be possible to the industry, or workers' con- defeat the Tory government.

trol if one cares to use that phrase. In practice the miners' SJ: I want to go on to union is not even back to the the question of nationaliza- 25 stage of demanding what they tion. Un vesting day 1919 demanding were in years ago there were great which, although it was called and hopes aspirations over workers' control, was actually What do nationalization. of 50-50 scheme control think nationalization has meant for the miners?

between the employers, who would be the state. and the LD: Nationalization has representatives of the unions I the form of highly taken a am not satisfied this joint con- centralized and bureaucratized trol is the right answer to the structure that to every miner problem. The miners' union so has been a disappointment. On challenged far has not really hand the other no miner- at the structure that was estab- least no miner in his senses— effective lished in 1947 where would dream of going back to control remains with the man- the days of private ownership.

agement. So while the miners' the What we feel is that have the union not got to miners have not been given the stage of working out an alter- full benefits they have put in, of control, native system of production, in the We think this has to come. past 25 years. That's why the should have a system in which are so determined to miners the miners- -with regard to the gain an improvement in wages interests of the of the rest conditions, but secondly and working class will have whole are questioning the decisive say in their day-to- of the nationalized structure day working lives and in the Industry, recognizing that it is conditions which affect their really a form of state capital- long-term conditions and They are insisting on the ism. security. socialization of the industry SJ: Would you be in fay- control with democratic at of the Labour Party our every level. adding to its programme for SJ: When you say demo- the nationalized industries, Oakdale colliery, S Wales. Miners leaving the pits as the strike begins.

TODAY'S

PROGRAMMES

ввс 2 11.00 Play school. 6.35 Rosla and After: for teachers. 7.05 Open University. NEWSROOM, weather. 7.30 8.00

EUROPA.

Young people in eastern Europe. OF THE TOWER: 'Power in the Land'.

8.30

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Tames Maxwell as Henry VII.

SHOW OF THE WEEK: Tony Bennett.

9.20 10.10

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CINEMA: 'The Mind of the Child. Michel Tarrazon.

LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

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1.10 Painters. 1.40 Schools.

2.32 Yesterdays. 3.00 10.20 Schools. 4.10 Houseparty. 3.10 Tea break. 3.40 Yoga. Mad movies. 4.40 5.50 News. 4.55 5.20 Magpie. Origami. Atom Ant.

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CROSSROADS.

'RETURN OF THE SEVEN'. Yul Brynner, Robert 6.55

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Fuller, Warren Oates.

SEZ LES.

8.45 THE NEXT WAVE? Today's college revues.

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EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS.

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7.00 Dick Van Dyke. 3.40 Tea break. 4.10 House- Film: •Barbados Quest'. 8.45 Cartoon. 4.23 4.30 London. 11.50 Living and 90. 5.20 4.55 Joe Crossroads. growing. Magpie: 5.50 News. 6.00 Day By* 6.30" Junkin. 7.00 • A Pair of ATV MIDLANDS: 3.10 Yoga. Briefs'. 8.45 Film: 3.35 Horoscope. 3.45 Women London. 11.50 South news. today. 4.10 Family affair. 4.40 12.30 12.00 British Museum. Rupert. 4.55 Lift off. 5.20 Weather. Magpie. 5.50 News. 6.00 To- 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 day. 3.40 Newsroom.

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nose. 8.45 London. Film: The with the cold 3.45 Women today. 4.10 Rupert. 4.25 Tea break. 4.55 Nes...0 5.29 Magpie. 5.50 News.

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10.20 Schools. About Anglia. abroad. 4.15 6.20 Arena. 6.35 Crossroads. 3.50 Holidays Workers Press, Thursday January including the mines, a pro- posal to introduce workers' control? ID: It depends on what is meant by workers' control. The technicians as well as the pick and shovel miner claim that they are workers. Some of the people who move from the coal face on to supervisory jobs claim that they are work- ers. It's a question of working out a detailed scheme under which all those who are con- tributing to the production of coal and its distribution have the democratic right to decide the policies for the industry.

Some people call it industrial democracy, some people call it democratic control and some talk about workers' people control. In my view it's not to advance workers' enough as a slogan. I think control sooner or later that we have got to work out in detail an alternative scheme of control which retains democratic deci- sion making in the hands of the workers in the industry.

SJ: You would want to a Labour government see doing this? ID: I certainly would. Tomorrow, in Part Two of this interview, Lawrence Daly answers questions on produc- tivity in the mines, coal imports and the Industrial Relations Act. • strike begins. Tinkertainment. 4.30 Cross- roads. 4.55 Huckleberry Finn.

5:20 London. 6.01 Report West. 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Sky's the limit. 7.10 Film: wackiest ship in the "The London. 10.30 army'. 8.45 Gallery. 11.00 Skating. 11.15 Weather. HTV West as above except: 6.18-6.35 Sport West. HTY Wales as above . 6.pt: 5.20-5.50 Dibyn-Dobyn. 6.18 Y Dydd. HTV Cymru/Wales as HTV Wales. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 Schools. 3.38 Grampian 3.40 news. Dick Van Dyke. 4.10 Yoga. 4.40 Origami. 4.55 Rainbow country. 5.20 London. 6.00 Grampian news. 6.10 Leslev 6.35 Crossroads. Blair. 7.00 Film: The Last Hunt'. 8.45 London. 10.30 British Museum.

11.00 Skating. 12.00 Evening prayers. ULSTER: 10.20 Schools. 1.40 Schools. 4.00 Yoga. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Forest rangers. 5.20 Lon- don. 6.00 UTV reports: 6.15 Tommy. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Dr Simon Locke. 7.30 Film: "The Shark : Fighters'. 8.45 London. 11.50 What's it all about? GRANADA: 10.58 Schools. 3.40 Another world. 4.05 News. Here's Lucy. 4.35 Once a time. 4.50 Arthur. upon 5.15 Magpie. 5.50 News. 6.00 Police Newsday file. 6.20 Péyton Place. 6.55 Film: "The truth about spring'. 8.45 London. 11.50 British Museunt.

YORKSHIRE: 11.00 Schools.

2.33 Face the press. 3.00 Pied Pipers. 3.05 Matinee. 3.35

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ursday January 13, 1972 Fraud tops the charts - THE FASTEST growth sector of Britain's crime business (and the economy?) in 1971 was fraud. 'The amount of money involved was enormous and it is more prejudicial to the nation's eco- type of nomy Fraud Squad a senior officer said the other day.

It is forecast that within a decade fraud would top the crime charts. Last year the 85-man section of the joint Metropolitan and City Company Fraud Department dealt with 280 cases and had a record number of • • rests.

the fraud' But it seems . game has become more sophisti- cated over the years. In earlier vears the main Fraud Squad business was to investi- 'fiddling books' the by gate hitherto honest businessmen try- ing to prop up failing concerns.

In 1971, however, the trend of 'professionalism' continued, with more criminals planning ahead taking legitimate over businesses with the intention of defrauding. Last • year Scotland Yard smashed a number of gangs specializing in 'long-term frauds' where companies were obtained use their good names to get to delivery of huge quantities of goods to overseas addresses or to provincial warehouses. Anyway, the efforts of the nation's money-guardians has apparently cost the fraudsmen a in profits during the year, drop from £3.25m to £2.2m. Mao should watch out MEMO to Chairman Mao: if a stooped old man wearing pebble spectacles appears on your, door- him step begging entry, turn away. It could well be Lord Thomson Fleet, of the multi-millionaire newspaper baron. Thomson owns 'The Times', 'Sunday Times', Western and 'Scotsman', Mail' 'Belfast Telegraph' to name just a few. In Toronto last week Thomson here is no limit to the bene unnerving speech: opportunities in Asia.' He said he had never been invited to China but added If I were invited I would jump on the next plane' The business opportunities in a country of almost 800 million people were almost beyond imagination, he said. Many visit to Moscow in the early 1960s. He frightened the life out of Khrushchev by putting in a bid for 'Pravda'.

Calendar news. 3.45 Women today. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Origami. ( 4.55 : The Lone Ranger. 5.20 London. 6.00 6.55 Film: 'Houdini'. 8.50 Calendar. 6.30 Smith family.

London. 10.30 Yorksport. 11.00 Skating. 11.50 Drive-in.

12.20 Weather.

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Schools. 1.40 Schools. 4.05 Origami.

4.18 Puffin's birthday greet- ings. 4.22 Nanny. 4.50 Joe 90.

5.20 London. 6.00 Channel weather. 6.10 What's news, on where. 6.15 Farming news.

6.20 Sports. 6.35 Crossroads.

7.00 Film: 'No name on the bullet. 8.15 This is your life.

8.45 London. 11.50 British Museum. 12.20 News, weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except: 3.55 Gus Honeybun.

4.18 News. 6.00 Diary. 11.45 News. 12.15 Faith for life.

12.20 Weather. SCOTTISH: 11.00 Schools 1.40 Schools. 3.30 Once upon a time. 3.45 Crossroads. 4.10 Dateline: early. 4.55 Bush Boy, 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News. 6.00 Dateline: Thursday. 6.15 A Place of her own. 7.00 Film: "The George Raft story'. 8.45 London. 11.50 Late call. 11.55 Peter Sarstedt special. TYNE TEES: 11.00 Schools.

2.32 Face the press. 3.05 Pied Piper. 3.10. British Museum. 3.35 Newsroom. 3.45 Women 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Origami.

4.55 Captain Scarlet. 5.20 6.30 London. 6.00 Today. Tournament. 7.00 Film: "Aban- don Ship'. 8.45 London. 10.30 Sportstime. 10.55 Police call.

11.00 Skating. 11.50 Drive-in.

12.15 News. 12.25 Yours faithfully.

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Workers Press, Thursday January 13, 1972 No say for Ovambos, but Pickets out

NOTTINGHAM

Strike cracks for 'political show-down' racist slave- ALL MINERS hate OLDER miners are held in a kind of strikers' determined effort to win and special reverence in mining towns, and stitten their resistance to sell-out.

the pits-those places Filing from the Nottinghamshire and they have a special story to tell.

where men crawl like They tell of endless struggle with the Yorkshire coalfields,

WADE

animals and lives are and JACK GALE talk to some of these old owners of the pits, of Black Friday labour scheme taken cheaply. 1921 and of the betrayed 1926 General men-and one of the younger strike Strike. also the leaders. mining village

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tney every slag neaps are a perpetual reminder oi the main ractol

STRIKE

in people's lives.

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a milena coacine

BY JOHN SPENCER

- DAY FIVE

Stewards OVAMBO contract labourers in SW Africa, whose solid strike has crippled the country's commerce and industry over the past month, will agree not be allowed a direct voice in negotiations to River Don end the contract-labour system.

militancy maisons of their se packs and se louts facuses she miners -and the A spokesman ror toes hive-ofi S London African government ecause output attitudes. Pretoria Here two of them talk to Workers Press.

Tuesday that the contract-

SHOP

the town hall stewaras at It's a battle River Don steelworks Sheffield have recommended strike looms government acceptance or briusn steel to the end, say authorities in Ovamboland.

Corporation proposals seen other men doing. ALL 1,200 members of the hive off part of the nation-

'LACERATED'

National Association alized dant to the orivate.v- Local Government Officers 20-year men owned Firth Brown's. in Southwark, SE London, The Ovamb labour ers at Shethad wen have endorsed a resolution "system which v the knee from the area's social- MARTIN WALSH, from colntry proud to work in this lacerated service workers calling for colliery, has Coventry Miners from Ollerton plt, Notts, on picket off- worked in the pits for 22 Found miveation of the a one-day strike. Today they aos at the locai conco gement des

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ycais. would not The sistem no hot virtual miners But we really work in the workers pits. of can't afford to lose' eduction with a grea 400 mi Beat of 'had ationalization. The Ariane gorar entes piedged full suppond thentryhen God help this toogeans BITTER memories - and y the sweal

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been retire yesight running off his forehead.

igh grim determination to win 'And remember I'm drawing own a national level as 3enior in more about -form the message older noe 1C Wright, Parman onte miners have for the strikers Frank.

'FAIR PLAY'

and Hetero Howarth of today. His friend Percy Bond, no according the Castleford are laceo a barrage or ques fair etween at we foi at as pit in tar entor mirte-stift morein to se e Protes n. clearly-graded structuomotio could be closemelting working ore dificult to get, they say out from men have already Carbon-brush

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e o BIC men have pleaged their support to the miners' Monday January 17 porary victory. strike back. strike. should stand out for the ful

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meeting of the Central to stop it out of my 1971 financial year. used Sunday January 16 watese just couldn't ca Powell hits Histo on Testa sa carry o (Nr Merkland St Tube Stn.)

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