Workers Press no. 667

What we think Rhodesia can split the Tories BAR To premier worsens u the ons piracy. tea at his • 300 ст great ecile her gained le Royal Albert Hall th reeken backed settlement would id the waite racia exploitation frican labour in Rhodesia

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

THURSDAY JANUARY 20, 1972 • NUMBER 667

ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN BI!

Birth cylind for a e preadin pay and disputes ate peace on the procedure The British-Leyland com- too cared: for here Ciders both tir withdrawing the claim January El.250 Appear Fund £479.65 needed in 12 days Be won by toring can

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

AN ORGANIZED campaign is being mounted Workers Press i Street 186a London, w470G. verywhere chind to break the 12-day-old national miners' strike.

wared on two tronts. ta campaign aimed weakening miners determination and dividing there wherd he talk rursuly, Hote rested to the the miner bet cetinand. nan enquiry. Grateful

FROM IAN YEATS IN S WALES

And A THOUSAND S Wales lorry drivers threw 'Seather for shis 1971 their weight behind the miners yesterday after Ebbw Vale Pickets at bound for stopped coke DICKeLS so on the picker. steelworks leaving a British Steel Corporation Gormley

BILL WILLIAM

dump at Margam Abbey, Port Talbot.

&GWU stewar se take otherwise, ransnort and i General

VIVIAN STATION

Crass Hotel Workers' Union shop stew- Bill Williams said:

MARGAM WORKS

None of our drivers prepared picket lines. The meeting Coat Band opportunity chiefs and increase the pits for E13 a week leaders to sell but mine Valley dys st ke aid die to have th branch of the T&gwe last drivers nigh stop wherever they saw elor Tait "The Ebbw 19000 men on the re in, they will go to a W Drayton NUM Was recrets told mine celiveries checked coke is PICKETS on duty at the NCE font gainst the miners where Kirkby, Giddeser Drayton blockaoke man Biant LEYERFUUL trades councI fighting to pro- docks ate edicta The coats to take away domeste estimate Punchline men will Janhere will be three central stose issues. 'My door is open, is wide Mone odethe highest in They should in me ta, This is the hac all unions to black coal.

• Suppert for the miners" lorries AT Castleford, Yorks, pickets About the send of • Soare for the reder about the absence that the coal is going the feart of London. General We are not wishin may led by stoppage Son or he the enga 11 that the the Pierhead. )n the possibili of a mass mission or humiliation.' Vickers' jobs cut at Crayford rich pokesmen can com repared REDUNDANCIES at Vickers' factory this week. armament factory at no monted by could yesterday's the his to di the month involve the pany eir dar sent around ome

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Jobless areas back YS

D MAUDE IN BIRMINGHAM

attacked committee

CSEU

withdraw their claim for with talks Leyland tollow- ing their decision tear Dasic rate increases 50-year-old York en - ployers' procedure agreement. Committee secretary Eddie MOUNTING support for McGarry said after the These had been started the feeling without reference the the Young Socialists combine's shop stewards, earn- 'Right-to-Work' campaign the committee from Tyne- ac come in would be increased by local demanded an side one of the highest nroent bargaining meeting with union leaders trade unemployment hactories where areas and Hugh Scan- union organization was lon on the subject. the country. strongest would be encour- aged South Shields Trades Council the expense he has

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others'. support and

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financial anonal

SUDDONE

well

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all Ine a Culties needled ton The maren. The Council sent appeal to all the labour Late we area to ave support ane organize a welcome ror The marchers Revrolles Parsons in Hebburn, workers in the turning shop have the paign Have 10p levy to help They will also campaign todav'e Shop stewards meeting for the rest of the factory to do likewise. No Unich of Union

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

sending

SUPPUIL

the and are premier Garfield Todd FORMER Rhodesian CISTrICE committee alve SunDOrT and his daughter Judith were in prison yester- Draughtsmen's and day after being snatched from their family Technicians' Association ranch on Tuesday night. the mously and pledged financial Their arrest was part

EEC

of a wave of repression assistance.

¿ISU

the Torwardca resolution to across Ine sunder and rader the Smith regime which and anxiety district committee. and police sent troops Sunderland has the high- strikers in the against unemployment in Afriçan. township ntry o 1 branch over $ Monomapata near Gwelo.

AUEW

South passed One young African died for support resolutIon crisis 'Right-to-Work' paig™, local and several were inured The can- nolice and troons moved in.

and mas called to the townships to suppress the tradec demonstrations the and Tyne AUEW district

BY JOHN SPENCER

Smies regite. settlement with the committee to give the march both financially delegations to

RAYMOND

BARRE,

African workers in Gwelo welcome deputy head of the Common General Strike on he Newcastle East ETI Sunday aheaded British com Market Commission, has so leed its pons •nas by warned it would be danger- diesel. Pearce prepared to visit the has assume the Decem-

OUS

passed a resolution of sup- ber 18 international deal on and The to caned the strike forced currency realignment send commission donation. establish monetarv equilib-

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night-shift workers rium. Power Untain pen amnesis DraKes. points be have nust voted to icy tackled immediately, says Salisbury, two members Themse ves )t week eact is to another crisis commission were told averted. marches in sup- uncertain terms toal pothe factory mas just been of the campaign. the deal was not on. The need for form dollar convertibility of four-day week They spent more than an the func- demand hour en sure normal ecause the terms explaining vehicle tonine of the internatona for to 500 Africans. who voted Monetary Fund. brake bodies. unanimously to reject them.

• The question of the Amhis The crowd roared 'No, No', too are raising Students commissioners put can navments denicit. support and nance. was unlikely to be elimin In N London the College the terms. ated by currency re- re- of Further Education has alignments raised €10. The revolutionary insurge all semere in the next against Smith and his white The London Film School minority support has fund- embarrass- and is organizing a Pearce com-

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impartial

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hey quested Smith exnlain the Todds were arrested. 'deep "They ernressed concern' that the Rhodesian government had felt make the had as duty the arrests satisfy We will be marching from political activi- that norma

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ties were being nermitted. suppression To a mass rally a EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY on MARCH 12 of peaceful

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nresumao counts us mal political acavity sina Tapere and ol leagues haue not seen hit considered) (reasonable to protest about this. add the Smith Accommodation. dintotorchine dithen ties nis co-thinkers in S Africa are facing Africas mass Cooking equipment by the movement working class. Tinned food • Africa) still progrèss despite Finance talks vesterdav between St cavernment and the Ovamboland Brass/jazz bands council. Please tick box where applicable.

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JANUARY 20, 1972 • NUMBER 667 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Talks, scabbing, police What Car stewards back miners Organized we and national pay claim think Rhodesia

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN BIRMINGHAM

can split efforts the Tories bine Brewardey land come to the t king insisted Engineering Unions reinstate expected to break Union leaders for her critic from Janwary ElZSU Appear Fund £479.65 needed in 12 days strike backed

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'settlement but De wran by forcing this Ton out of sounded the white recalist opposinon

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AN ORGANIZED campaign is being mounted 7864 London, SWA 7UG. to break the 12-day-old national miners' strike.

everywhere Rhodesia. Waged on two fronts, the His potion t miners' the shared in Rhodesia. acterminalon Steel Victor S. can Bank. What the Besture Do Mandesian terald: to gone mon intervenes i get going talks mined the omising nickel industry is Lorry drivers freeze stillborn' the Welsh coke supplies Africans welc ine notorious Grateful

FROMAN YEATS IN S WALES

"thanked" Seather for so A THOUSAND S Wales lorry drivers threw Andrew Donlop (Min ste their weight behind the miners yesterday after 18 dyehea te Me managed pickets stopped coke bound for Ebbw Vale British Steel Corporation leaving a greenworks dump at Margam Abbey, Port Talbot.

e Charis Transport and General Hoe al

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Workers' Union shop stew-

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cerbated by the uprising bIll willams Sala.

MARGAM WORKS

are None or oul arivers prepas picket lines. through lorenared. rovide the Pearce the She moment. and Thens there boo conflict will not the pits for Eis a week. miner a the miners 'There was some confusion miners' • NUM leaderst taken of to have thie be

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Prehe Tot nation of the hated Heath At thE pickets. a he House on useday we as only the invite W Drayton All Merseyside to mm, only will to 10 NUM Wai Seanets c'eliveries secrets told that no bing at Union the join dockers' strike cho was to say that to we would sing checked PICKETS on duty at the blockspokes man giant icket Las decided to hol the whole working masss and Workers works said: estimate "The luaders Punchline will be three central to either one union or issues in the strike: the board to comed in This is the lan.

• Support for the miners' figures details But after this ivered are • Suo are face bie ronic jobs problem in th he Port of London. From ling

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• Sun or the the senpa- Vickers' jobs cut at Crayford

REDUNDANCIES

at Vickers factoe letter ekso about The debate arks id in, remove yesterday's . com- pany circular

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The daily paper that leads the Tory government Jobless areas

D MAUDE IN BIRMINGHAM

attacked committee withdraw their for talks Leyland follow- Claim basic rate increases of their decision Lcal £6 50-year-old York Une ployers' procedure agreement. amittee secretary die MOUNTING support for These had been started McGarry feeling Young the Socialists meetins Inal une without relerence 'Right-to-Work' campaign WaS Tre 8a0 1 10 comomnes

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stewards. ings between different plants the committee sale. has come in from Тупе- would be increased by demanded an urgent bargaining side one of the highest leaders trade where MCCLInk WILD ractories unemployment areas Tack Tones and Hugh Scan- union was the country. on on the su olect. strongest The re-affirmed South Shields Trades area DeLLeL expense Council has given its unani- The its oppositon to measured- others'. support dav work. and organiz- Tinancia ational support needed for all the

RHODESIA

the march. June Connels sent appeal to all the labour anc trade union organizations and organize a lose r the colle Parsons in

WULKCID

shop nave unan Calm ai0p levy to help have introduces financi- also canvali shop tactory Hebburn No 2 of Union workers are

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

sending support nancia and are asking the Tyne district committee to give FORMER Rhodesian premier Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith were in prison yester- Draug day after being snatched from their family technicians' socialiou ranch on Tuesday night. the

AUEW

Las mammous. Their arrest was part marco ane beocee wanca assistance.

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of a wave of repression forwarded the resolution to the country, 1n Sunderland' which the Smith regime Council DATA's NE anxiety districi sent troops and police the high- against strikers in the African township of over $ the Gwelo."

AUEW

I branch' Monomapala near South wields has Dascer a resolution support Une young Atmcan aled TOr crisis and several were injured Right-to-Work' cam- The police and troops moved in- has called to the townships to and

AUEW

demonstrations settlement with the 1 OrIES note regime. i suboort bull luaucial

RAYMOND

BARRE,

allu lo olesons to African workers in Gwelo welcome Tine marchers deputy head of the Common began a General Strike on The Newcastle Fast STU Market Commission, has has also pledged its support.

sunday as lue Dalisa coll the Houns beaded LOrd warned it would be danger- Pearce prepared to visit the low Trades has ous to assume Decem- The city. passed the trion ber 18 international deal on port for campaign The forced the will strike currency send reanenment commission …TO cancells establish monetary equilib- trip. night-shift workers гОГЛ Power At an open-air meeting in brakes

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Three be voted to ev 150

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mouth. have Umtali. mues ta knother diate is e says, then see end of the themselves the kight

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members another crisis the commission were told averted. in sup. the deal cert no uncertain terms that the The tacters campaign. not on. need ror some TOrI just been of collar convertibility four-day week than an nev spent more

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ensure the normal Tune- demand hour exn aining the terms Decause of the International 500 Africans, who voted commercal Monetary Fund. unanimously brake poses. roared No, • The question of the Ameri- raising The crowd Students ton are payments deficit. This suin N London the College and finance. when the commissioners put be elimin- uve terms. has by and res likely The revolutionary upsurge was against Smith and his white The Film School in the Te chickse minority full supremacisi rew montas. Bas voted •rovine a serious eliudilass Oranan?

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raising event this week. ment tor une Con mission, sent Rhodesia đeại with runner-stamo Smith under

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

the guise probe into its acceptability.

urgently Smith todds explain were why the arrested. They expressed deen make commission arrests itselt sallsly We will be marching from that norma boltea alvi

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ties were being permitted.

The military suppression a mass rally i MPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY on MARCH 1 of peaceful demonstrations presumably counts as по1-

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mal mord Peacal and his cole Pearce and his col- vans, seen fit considered) this. to protest about reasonable niTe Smith To add The dictatorship's difficulties, his Accommodation .. co-thinkers in S Africa Cooking equipment Luciscires workine Class • Tinned food The amitia (S strike Orical is Africa) still progress aespilt Finance .. talks yesterday between une African government and the stooge Ovamboland Brass/jazz bands council. Please tick box where applicable.

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Miners LaTher hange ruin alas on and membership and hen tener puducations of the move with t se sancer It defined the Trotskyise Post are no indications t that Trotsky espered to contic bel are apparently prepared t Tum had trem intie Know- simply i s ind Bly of Sowing ene was passi parties as the Jobless revolution class Financing youth follows brief histor ron its formation t in the

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Workers Press, Thursday January 20, 1972 by Tom Kemp

BEFORE

deciding to prosecute the leaders of the Trotskyist Revolu- tionary Communist Party for their part in organiz- ing the Tyne apprentices' strike in 1944, Home Sec- retary Herbert Morrison presented to. the War Cabinet a six-page printed document about the movement. This forms part of the Cabinet papers which are open to public inspection at the Public Records Office.

It is clear that the memoran- based inside dum was upon information - a police plant in the organization as well as a study of its literature. Entitled "The Trotskyist Move- Britain, was marked ment in it

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dated 13, and April 1944. Appendix gives bio- graphical details about the then leaders of the movement- -Tames Ritchie ('Jock') Haston*, Mildred Edward Grant, ( Lee, Roy Tearse. Atkinson, Heaton Harold Lee and Ann Keen. Appendix B gives the Programme of the Revolu- tionary Communist Party. The document begins with paragraph which says that Trot- skyism is based upon the teach- of Marx and As ings Lenin. was that time in alliance Britain Stalin, there wonder with Is nu "Trotsky's that it opposes doc- trinaire views and Stalin's real- Lord Morrison, photogra ism'. The British ruling class and its hangers-on found Labour always Stalin 'realistic'. After all, he tions'. It was precisely this that while they murdered Trotskyists, 'blood, and tears' sweat, toil sent them to jail. Churchill and his henchmen The document goes on to say: were most afraid of. 'The Trotskyists regard

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their ends, it continues, 'by cam- paigning alongside the workers on the issues which Financing most closely them, such as wages, and social employment condi- In the next section there of * Haston, a renegade from the follows the a brief history Trotskyist Britain Trotskyist movement in now movemenT 1929; Educational of from its formation in Director the account of its leaders; its organ- Subscribe! The dally paper that leads the workers press fight against the Tories. £17.12 for 12 months (312 issues) £8.56 for 6 months (156 Issues) {4.29 for 3 months (78 lasues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week 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 : Circulation Dept., Workers Prose, 186a Clapham High St., London. SWA. - I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press. Days required

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A discreditable pamphlet was being circulated by the Com- munist Party at this time called 'Clear Out Hitler's Agents'. This accused the Trotskyists of being supporters of the Nazis. Again, the government, would which have been only too happy • to find some connection, is obliged to say exactly the contrary.

Leadership The policy and methods of the Trotskyists, the War Cabinet was told, appear to be dirécted 'rather to stir up class feeling among the workers than to have any direct effect on the war'.

The real problem, as far as the Churchill government was concerned, was this: "The main object of Trotskyist policy is to stimulate and focus discontent and obtain the to leadership of the group of militants thus formed. The party seeks not only to take the place vacated by the Communist Party as the leader of the normally discontented but elements, to attract to itself the larger body workers who, while of not yet ready to take up a militantly anti-government attitude, are their employers, suspicious doubtful of the sincerity of the government's promises of post- war reform and tiring of the industrial truce and the leaders who seek to enforce it.' One is inclined to say 'well said!' to the anonymous author.

The War Cabinet hardly needed to be informed that the Com- munist Party had vacated its place as a leader of working- class militancy. It was told, how- ever, that the CPGB had been 'annoyed' when the Trotskyists formed the Revolutionary Com- munist Party'. Miners About the only reassuring aspect of the whole business from the point of view of the guilty men in Whitehall, who anger of above all feared the the working class at the end of * the war, was that the Trotskyists " were small in number and had few resources. This the writer of the Memo- randum had from inside know- ledge. He was thus able to give - Thi the ages, brief biographies and even the medical histories of the by sa main RCP leaders. He was parti- cularly worried about the possi- bility of growing influence among (8)• • › ternational

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(Facsimiles of Crown-copyright records in the Public Records Office appear by permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationary Office class had alea ys feared the miners.

a amal and boated e main or is that the 1r0sky achieved a big danger, at least ne rarty s poncy al tual u potentially. abour to Powe Antidote ana post war ov that p mate paper at the movement as soon as pos.

into the arms o. the contess Danger Memorandum that with too conclude. Although is a forecast by saving; rise to the Leaders mentioned had! •The Totose disco attaching desire to hit out at sche employed had orions departed the which they their sentenced to a year in jail.

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ON JANUARY 1, 1947, many the mining town saw Jonathan Fenby, miners' lodge marchine to unt pithead, union banners flying Reuter's correspondent in Paris, and bands playing. Inis wa Vesting Day, when Britain's looks at the finance-crippled coal mines were taken oul of the hands of the owners French press. and, as a notice proclaims a every pit, held by the National Coal Board on behalf of the IN 1913, France had 500 daily Nation'. newspapers. Today it has less The reached eupnolla than uv. bizarre when right- miners' Sam 1971, "No longer watson proclaimea. cert one the bench for working are we lation increased by 25 per cent.

Coneration of mie is date an seven head Europe nationalization of Ly umiliation th the hands of capitalis Profits They had worked under the i si crisis newspaper Pompidou : 'Press must President manager drive safety e and healt precautions 360,000 copies a day. Grant matte has Шаке We come in ined testere this promise was a fictior grant Nationdization the ile ate 1946 revenu taken away pages avering policy, i got an material and not to advertising Clement Attlee: his government had a job keeping tisers and advertising agencies. the working class under control.

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11.55 over for them still counted as part of the massive burden of debt placed on the miners' backs.

Particularly for some of the older mines, nationalization was a wonderful way of getting rid of a heap of junk at a juicy price.

But heavier financial even burdens had to be borne by the colliers. In 1947, a quarter of the coal produced still being cut was with hand-picks and about the same proportion conveyed in tubs hauled by hand by ponies. or Only a tiny percentage was power-loaded. About 700,000 miners worked with 77,000 electric motors. The NCB had to undertake a massive investment programme. But investment had to be financed by borrowing, and the miners had to foot the bill for repay- ments and interest. Interest charges and compen- sation were not the only way capital continued to suck the miners' blood after 1947. Even more important was the pro- vision of coal at low prices. Without this assured supply, the boom would have by-passed British capitalism completely.

A closely-guarded secret was the differential price-structure, which made it possible to make the domestic consumer subsidize private industrial customers.

Pay-off first ten years For the of nationalization, the was 'production at any cost'. Miners moved up from being one of the worst-paid groups of workers— their wages had been held down during the war at their 1939 levels-to being among the best.

But this was only a fraction of what the employing class would have had to pay them if miners held back by the had not been union leaders. With the Stalinists of the British Communist Party well to the fore, Labour and trade union leaders were loud in their ex- hortations to the mineworkers the to 'make nationalization work'.

Absenteeism was condemned as a dreadful crime; more produc- Mining tion was demanded constantly.

And then, in 1957, came the all the pay-off. The opening up of Middle East oil had already pro- vided a keen economic rival for the coal. With the 1957 recession, the climate the industry In changed rapidly. Within a matter of weeks, the was big drive to recruit miners gave way to plans for pit closures. In handed the profitable Midlands coalfield,

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Once again, pit villages became ghost-towns, as men had to leave the older coalfields to look for jobs. In the next 15 years, the total number of miners dropped from 700,000 to under 300,000.

For the NCB was able to take advantage of the recession and the conciliatory policy of the union chiefs to speed up the turn to power-loading methods at cut-price rates. In the past 15 years, output per manshift from 25 cwt to has gone up cwt, while the miners 45 have fallen steadily down the table of earnings. Will Paynter former CP member and former NUM secretary: managed to prevent any fight against pit closures. The role of Will Paynter, who succeeded fellow-Stalinist Arthur Horner as NUM secretary just in the industry as the decline began, was vital here. With the meagre cover of a few gestures of the

NUM

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PAGE THREE

Your briefcase is showing ONE OF the key figures in the base talks probably Malta IS being given more than customary attention by the security men.

NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns accompanied British Defence Secretary Lord Carrington in the hush-hush talks with the Mintoff government. But the North Atlantic defence chief has had his security reputa- tion rather dented recently.

Luns apparently rather was careless with his private papers during his 15 years at his pre- vious duty as Dutch Foreign Minister. A government spokesman said the Dutch Cabinet regretted that were able unidentified persons Dr Luns' to • private peruse archives, which were 'scattered about in the Foreign Ministry in The Hague. According to unconfirmed re- Dr Luns left behind 21 ports, crates of private documents.

Press reports allege that the documents included correspond- ence with the royal family and foreign politicians all allegedly Cabinet's done without the knowledge. Alarmed that such delicate matters should be revealed to Amsterdam the hoi pollot, one newspaper said sternly that the 'obviously pro- private papers hours of amusement to vided active persons whose certain curiosity was stronger than their good manners and respect for great [!] statesmanship'.

Luns' predecessor in the NATO leadership could also be accused of a similar carelessness in his private affairs. Paul-Henri Spaak, also ex- premier of Belgium, once lent back the now- his prestige to defunct Real Estate Fund of America, which is being sued by investors for $10m in losses.

The company's first president was British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, whose lawyers have asked a New York court to drop his name as a defendant in the case. Accounting for the festivities WE HEAR officials of the Trans- port and General Workers' given rapid Union aré to be tuition courses in French so they can talk to their opposite num- bers in the country's union federations. Suggestions that the courses imply preparations to accept British entry into the Common Market at the end of this month are denied by the union, though not very enthusiastically.

However the T&GWU's 50th anniversary celebrations this week showed that there is one field its leaders could do with a bit of tuition in: maths. For no one, it appeared, had any idea what the function was costing the union. estimate The most precise newshounds could extract from Norman Willis, the in man charge of press relations at the Jack Jones T&GWU's London headquarters, was 'not all that much'. And then there was Jones. You'd think the general secretary would know. But the furthest he would chance his arm was 'not very much from the central funds. Why so coy? you might esk.

Well, perhaps it's because the day's celebrations in the royal Festival Hall, London, will have set the union back at least £40,000. The breakdown is something hall, like this: hire of £1,200; free lunch for 3,000, £6,000; coffee for the same number, £600; loss of earnings, £30,000; and transport at say £2 average per head, £6,000. 'A lot of the cost, claims Jones, 'has been met by shop stewards' committees' But he did admit to stumping up the hire of the hall and most of the food costs from central funds-still leaving them some £8,000 out of pocket. Which is a lot for a couple of snatches of Welsh male-voice choir, a dash of folk group, a couple of short films and a potted history of the union which said the 1926 General Strike was 'perhaps not a victory' ... and then passed blithely on.

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BY JOHN CRAWFORD

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1booo over for them still counted as part of the massive burden of debt placed on the miners' backs Particularly for some of the older minderful taylor Beeting rid of nationalization was a heap of junk at a juicy price.

But even heavier financial burdens had to be borne by the colliers. In 1947, a quarter of the coal still being cut produced was with hand-picks and about the same proportion conveyed in tubs hauled by hand or by ponies. tiny percentage Only a was power-loaded. 700,000 About worked with 77,000 miners electric motors. The NCB had to undertake a massive investment programme.

But investment had to be financed by borrowing, and the minets had to foot the bill for repay- ments and interest. Interest charges and compen- not the only sation were way continued to suck the capital miners' blood after 1947. Even more important. was the pro- vision of coal low at prices. Without this assured supply, the boom would have by-passed British capitalism completely.

A closely-guarded secret was the differential price-structure, which made it possible to make the domestic consumer subsidize private industrial customers.

Pay-off For the first ten years of nationalization, стУ was 'production at any cost'. Miners moved up from l being one of the worst-paid groups of workers— their wages had been held down during the war at 1939 their levels-to being among the best.

But this was only a fraction of what the employing class would have had to pay them if miners had not been held back by the union leaders. With the Stalinists of the British Communist Party well to the fore, Labour and trade union leaders were loud in their ex- hortations the mineworkers to to 'make nationalization work'.

Absenteeism was condemned as a dreadful crime; more produc- tion was demanded constantly.

And then, in 1957, came the pay-off. The of opening up Middle East oil had already pro- vided a keen economic rival for coal. With the 1957 recession, the industry the climate in changed rapidly. Within a matter of weeks, the big drive to recruit miners gave way to plans for pit closures. In the profitable Midlands coalfield,

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Once again, pit villages became ghost-towns, as men had to leave the older coalfields to look for jobs. In the next 15 years, the total number of miners dropped from 700,000 to under 300,000.

For the NCB was able to take advantage of the recession and the conciliatory policy of the chiefs to speed up the union turn to power-loading methods at cut-price rates. In the past 15 years, output per manshift has gone up from 25 cwt to 45 cwt, while the miners have fallen steadily down the table of earnings. Will Paynter former CP member and former NUM secretary: managed to prevent any fight against pit closures. The role of Will Paynter, who succeeded fellow-Stalinist Arthur Horner as NUM secretary just as the decline in the industry began, was vital here. With the meagre cover of a few gestures of protest, the NUM leaders fight managed to prevent any ' against being pit closures mounted. Lessons Today, the boom which ended for, miners in 1957 has finished every section of workers.

for The Tories take on the miners as part of their in open battle, attack on the entire trade union movement. In building a revolutionary party to mobilize the working class and force the Tory govern- ment to resign, the bitter lessons of coal nationalization must be learnt. The great expectations of 1947 will be fulfilled only on the basis of workers' control at every level of the nationalized industry. Thursday. 6.15 Cartoon. 6.30 Who Film: do you do? 7.00 •Fantastic Voyage'. 9.00 London. 10.30 Sen- Edward Kennedy. 11.15 Late ator call. 11.20 Cinema.

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PAGE THREE

Your briefcase is showing ONE OF the key figures in the Malta base talks is probably being given more than customary attention by the security men.

NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns accompanied British Defence Secretary Lord Carrington in the hush-hush talks with the Mintoff government. But the North Atlantic defence chief has had his security reputa- tion rather dented recently.

Luns was apparently rather careless with his private papers during his 15 years at his pre- duty as Dutch Foreign VIouS Minister. A government spokesman said the Dutch Cabinet regretted that unidentified persons were able Dr Luns' • private to peruse archives, which were 'scattered about' in the Foreign Ministry in The Hague. According to unconfirmed re- ports, Dr Luns left behind 21 crates of private documents.

Press reports allege that the documents included correspond- the royal family and ence with foreign politicians-all allegedly done the Cabinet's without knowledge. Alarmed that such delicate should be revealed to matters the hoi polloi, Amsterdam one newspaper said sternly that the 'obviously private papers pro- of amusement vided hours to certain active whose persons curiosity was stronger than their respect for good manners and great [!] statesmanship'.

predecessor in the NATO Luns' leadership could also be accused of a similar carelessness in his private affairs. Paul-Henri Spaak, also ex- Belgium, once lent premier of his prestige to back the now- Estate Fund of defunct Real is being which sued America, by investors for $10m in losses.

The company's first president Secretary British Home was Reginald Maudling, whose lawyers have asked a New York court to drop his name as a defendant in the case. Accounting for the festivities WE HEAR officials of the Trans- port and General Workers' Union aré to given rapid be tuition courses in French so they can talk to their opposite num- bers in the country's union federations. Suggestions that the courses imply preparations accept to British entry into the Common Market at the end of this month are denied by the union, though not very enthusiastically.

However the T&GWU's 50th anniversary celebrations this week showed that there is one field its leaders could do with a bit of tuition in: maths. For no one, it appeared, had any idea what the function was costing the union. The most precise estimate newshounds could extract from Norman Willis, the in man charge of press relations at the Jack Jones T&GWU's London headquarters, was 'not all that much'. And then there Jones. was You'd think the general secretary would know. But the furthest he would chance his arm was 'not very much from the central funds'. Why so coy? you might isk.

Well, perhaps it's because ihe day's celebrations in the royal Festival Hall, London, will have the union back at least set £40,000. The breakdown is something like this: hire of hall, £1,200; free lunch for 3,000, £6,000; coffee for the same number, £600; loss of earnings, £30,000; and transport at say f2 average per head, £6,000. 'A lot of the cost, claims Jones, 'has been met by shop stewards' committees? But he did admit to stumping up the hire of the hall and most of the food costs from central funds--still leaving them some £8,000 out of pocket. Which is a lot for a couple of snatches of Welsh male-voice choir, a dash of folk group, a couple of short films and a potted history of the union which said the 1926 General Strike was 'perhaps not a victory' ... and then passed blithely on.

PAGE FOUR

Workers Press, Thuraday January 20, 1972

MINERS' STRIKE

DAY 12

PICKETS DELAYING COAL LORRIES AT THE FERRYBRIDGE POWER STATION YORKSHIRE

YORKSHIRE

Local leaders afraid

DONCASTER

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MOIRA AND ARTHUR TATCHELL: TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY OUT

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PICKETS from Clipstone and Wyndham and of s talking to the pit lodge secretary, the chairman of the local social club The lads in control would ana tne ex-chairman or me oglore and Garw authority. day spent a do better than NCB WYNDHAM and Western

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collierv is almost a show wages. and com pit. Fully mechanized, the mine made fim last year nasty and is expected to notch up flm in 1972. Lodeth had told me miners weren't helpe will nor be closures ware to make The by thers on collier I first to pu a wore force is in the ph el, said to the approval of his mates: title bitter Sovere of relative prosperity. e Tories We're Insult better tha be NCBo much need But the affluence in But de don't think 1 stablerker Jin • is cal and nier homes, i Bin: the polities of mao not red conier tom. challenged

LATENEWS

Want, in

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held us beak all alone, fas with S be widespread a

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mender have she. Tor pixes the viting i 01-720 2000

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unanimous Mr Tatchell St Roor ~ Wales 01-622 7029 placed cloudy during the 10.00 1gi, 730 p.m. The dieg specially in the rea generally not e authority police do always my my work, bl Outlook for Friday mine any gove onger pe. Mainly tas Community con well soi but frost inland at night.

ats Comm until thei поле it's • The Boys on the are the problem. old on to it. Athletic Club From STEPHEN JOHNS IN SCOTLAND A BRANCH by branch cash appeal throughout the engineering union is to be launched to keep the Plessey occupation at Alexandria, Dumbar- tonshire, going. The spirit of the Alex- vide permanent jobs for all Hugh Scanlon the big left ight. But look goin hes ure e berore ure occu- andria workers, now in pation But enes'. shon steward nont.

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what Tack Green told me. nationa] engineering ight the their 19th week of sit-in, GOnA ahandoned claim The men. „ е are SUSDICIOuS remains unbroken. In fact and left the ot one inguiry for soace localities the Argyle site from an ex- attendance at the gate- Bladden ahe Tories h mus.

employee of the company- must house behind the huge to estabish Dis sty ll fred.

Plessey iron gates of the Argyle Tem men around nod in agreement. After weeks works has increased since Stretch support from the engineering execu the New Year. des teea teorker cire (though and •ome or the Scanion

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unofficianen have position. Tipe anes miade tel his team The rebuffed have patted them approaches allb head) the ful-time une have local management to cunudnt mn rune

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union bureaucrat is not dit their earnings-related bene- most popular figure. one small employer into the NT. SIte Front line Jack Green has to make 'We stick to our point- £18.45 stretch Lne week that the company must pro- Teed Cano ciotne wite Ine Flessey workers anc and five children. men The Hicher-Kendiy Kirkby, Liverpool, are Robert Gallagher—£8.80

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the front line of battle.

trom the abour Hxchang: Yet and £5 national assistance union leaders, the has just had a £40 elec- who weep and wail about anxiety tricity bill. offensive have done nothing to help them Howimis he going to pay win. cannot pay it? 'Simple over $ it ps. Robert Asa s B attack the As the stick this right to work grows they fight out, their anger at th manoeuvre desperately confrontation with indolence crisis avoid a and "TUCe leaders the government. union CrOWs. At Plessey some of these lesson home. John Freel, a veteran of begınnıng alc

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the sit-in who has Workers have turned SInK £12 a re-decoratéd the gates with cown an orer or al The stac lati ve nee ne iob because week part-ume new socans. it '1972, canita!. proniem won d ne lintar to men conditions—1932', no money, com- savs must ne tackler on with '1972, reaes one 210 - mented: oinhal| scale tutther out'. orles proclaims monetary disruptions were we heard about another. "Yes to be avoided. These points only emphasize workers press ponem posibie ne present among LiCHl

READERS' MEETINGS

cuisis ended Moot Editorlal Board Conference Room Civic foreign central banks. Discuss your JOHaKOC. Southampton America's Ideas expanded TOr The holdings of

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Wednesday January 26 r aola ly ee r adical situation will not • •.m

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altered if the price Lower Hall raised as proposed by $3 to January 20 Town Hall Thursday Brixton wsx nn qunce Brixton SW2 7.30 p.m. The end of convertibility ie already interfering with

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which can longer TrATA accept dollar payments as an

MEETINGS

altehe ive the Make the Tory government regulating international main established to police the recicn! 1944 Bretton Woods system. Return Labour govern- he recent currency ment deareo to restore nul Dans. anmente wiil certainv not ano o ment ano renei ail elimin łe America'c naance N LONDON: (Please note aws arainst the unionsi of payments deficit. To do this change * 27, Thursda! Washington must bankrupt

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Thursday p.m-Support Europe 20, 8pm. Ruskin anuary Coombe currently re cemane Rd. House. the down : miners'. ing that MulUDe Croveon uDDOrT „ tne tariff walls and open its miners. to US goods. markets KIRKBY: Thursday January January 27, 8 p.m. Room Market in witn commoni 20, St Chad's Hall DPP NeW Crose 5t hpm. dustry already teeling the colc 'Right-to-Work campaign'.

wind Bieht-to-Woro campaien. receccion. tne

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European employers are in hlircca1 mood to make further con- Sociat Centre, Brownley Rd, SLOUGH: Thursday Fanuary ceshe next step could well be Wythenshawe. p.m. "The devaluation makers' Langley. 'Right-to- an even larze. WILLESDEN: Monday an Work campaign'. dollar, aimed under- at Trades and Tne Wil- curline amencas compentors.

Monday

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lesden NW10. and Barre's third oroposal. oinhaqcton o tacke move. housing'. Parliament St ments wta le eri speculatial, capital, LIVERPOOI• Mondav Tan Lecture Hall, P-miam Brown uary Museum What he terms only thi peration *Right-to-Work cam- tendencies

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neoda Small capitalism, Clapham Manor 'The General Strike Various national economies.

Ríchí o won k desnite a nlethora of exchange Wednesday

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LONDON: Luesdar February Wharfedale Rd, contro e and nareers re en Tast Fam Town Hall, last 1.8 p.m. tirely at the mercy of these Albert' off men. Ham. 'Right-to-Work cam- Righ to-wok can Cen King's paign'. Socialist Labour League Special courses of lectures in line with declaonid estulonary pabr & conference to Magilligan Lecture Room 1 lgbeth Hall, Digbetl nees But ahe nee cooperer newly-opened BIRMINGHAM, 8 p.m nees Magilligan internment camD conomies and Polic some re ore teAngoArs * The N ireland Civil Right: and Politi oi the con , issued details

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which théy camp 2a0 Historical Materialism today accommodate up to Car outs are smaller than Mid-Hall A h ose St George's Cross Kesh and have Voodside Hal Long LASGOW. 3 D.n sinea bar c s ea esco of one pot boiler tove in outgc ene thut

NDAY JANUARY

light each and sential Marxi switches • hụt has a tolerara entrance.

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There the Each Economics and Politics fiéld end. The only other facilities ir are washrooms and each cage ar given by Kesh, the toilets. G. HEALY (SLL national secretary tong camp is watched over by four gun towers with searchlights.