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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26, 1972 • No 672 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

YS JOBS CAMPAIGN MUST

TRADING STRIKE FOR UNION LAW

SIR GIVEN

TUC-TORY

6 PER CENT

ANSWER COMMONS PLANS

YS MARCHES

REJECT TORY

FEATHER

DEAL ON

Teaching

DANGERS

WORKHOUSES

OF 1926 report

MINERS

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under

WARN

By DAVID MAUDE fire TORY ARROGANCE towards the million jobless rolled out from the government benches sored James commission in waves during the House of Commons debate report on Teacher Education ge a in criticis i" ran into on the latest unemployment figures.

trom Police force organizations yes- Summed up briefly the workhouse message terday.

KIRKBY

VICTOR FEATHER of the TUC was locked in through Edward Heath The first major inquiry into ot • premier and emplovment training Secretary Robert Carr was: if you agree to work secret talks yesterday with the miners leaders S Wales teachers off

WOMEN

harder, faster and for less wages we may consider нетіль Но Joe Gormley and Lawrence Daly.

finding you some kind of job.

picket line sideould

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The which jigsaw lower-grade It is the third time in a behind their emerged from week That reather nas

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words was of desolate dor launched a fresh imitative.

mitory towns tor the work less with the only alterna-

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Tand borat tive bleak training camps feedings in and women dangers that big yesterday IN KIRKBY on Merseyside WHy is it that ultra-productive Feather, head uncle is agreement on one other awards in higher educa Laccolico Issue - everyone 1s againsu ünemploymen deepl to dishmend the 1 orles. The second development in training and Dip Somer, said Heath

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call in a BA (Ed.) halting coal, an, coke oi. deer for university cond herder 'these 8 tide ost will be a pose even more important vitone gradualts. for a deal • National He Industrial Reia return for not using the divisions • Tories, prehensive niversity a co Young Soclalists' Student including schools as But why should Feather be Soclety The programm Minister Edward Heat Prim already made cea administreport

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THURSDAY. JANUARY 2I

CONFRONTATION: POLICE OFFICER TRIES TO PERSUADE

PICKETS TO LET OFFICE STAFF THROUGH LINE

engineering neatre

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Use anti-union University College, Gower St, ization Cor more conservative hands. mitance and file od WC1 James' recommendation for A 100-STRONG miners' picket yesterday turned bility of investment responsi- law against away 200 members of the Clerical and Admin ° Dm abloimproving present staffing industry therationalization it future istrative Workers' Union from the National speakers Coal Board headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff.

right ing bal pointe ep the think-

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26, 1972 • No 672 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TRADING STRIKE FOR UNION LAW

SIR GIVEN

TUC-TORY

at so ahead aim 1054 it negected th The wet.

DEAL ON

djourned until February Teaching report

" MINERS?

techers orcanizatons yco terday. VICTOR FEATHER of the TUC was locked in • inquiry into secret talks yesterday with the miners' leaders institu- Joe Gormley and Lawrence Daly.

ower-grade It is the third time in a that education launched a fresh initiative teacher reorgance As his desanoeuvres Britain's • the 18t is Diplon na-year dangers that trade union movement, refuse other awards in higher educa- minersovernment every s and Dip call together the transport union hing pra in a coke and onl halting degree. de tee will bany casins Teachers th the the sere profession. The NUT calls for a com- * Wicks Of education. should Feather Minister Edward Feat him.

Then can Use anti-union handro in law against shipe in the rationmproving present staming rep the think- builders-Neal using or a number of BUILDING employers yesterday urged by sent irested education Len Neal, Chairman of the Commission on Industrial Relations, use

KREMLIN

Industrial Relations Act to breach meeting to ta Moc prevent disputes on their sites ES

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Feather is poses against

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an

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well be may year when meets. and Czecho-

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slovak Jan fund enters yesterday one trade recogni- will note® announced their Neal's £1,036.32 tion of Bangla Desh after than a month of ployers should more about speculation unel intentions towards tne new state.

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has e ne arushment or tende noticial about the employers, George Tonge: Sheikh thuccesseGace, for ril-bein covoronly. • PAGE FOUR COl 1 The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

YS JOBS CAMPAIGN MUST

ANSWER COMMONS PLANS

YS MARCHES

REJECT TORY

FEATHER

DANGERS

WORKHOUSES

OF 1926

MINERS

WARN

By DAVID MAUDE TORY ARROGANCE towards the million jobless rolled out from the government benches in waves during the House of Commons debate on the latest unemployment figures. Police force Summed up briefly the workhouse message through

KIRKBY

Heath of premier Edward and Employment Secretary Robert Carr was: if you agree to work S Wales

WOMEN

harder, faster and for less wages we may consider finding you some kind of job.

pover statios in tse rein picket line

BACK

emerged team ing Heath sacked the behind thei e Lab-

BENDIX

words was of desolate mitory towns for the work with the only alterna

SIT-IN

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IN KIRKBY on Merseyside ultra-productive low-nald there is agreement factories. everyone is against bandishments 10 the usual , There Unemplo deeply ghest unemployment in Er sive development in training'.

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RIGHT TO WORK CAMPAIGN

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

ICE OFFICER TRIES TO PERSUA

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ROGER SMITH

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Workers Preas, Wednesday January 26, 1972 IN THE private sector of British industry, no com- pany has wielded the jobs axe more brutally than 1964 Sir Arnold Weinstock's Atomic Research Establishment General Electric group. REME Workshops Since the GEC-AEI mer- APV at Point Pleasant ger four years ago, a total of Brabys Charlton Castor & Barber 35,000 jobs have been cut Dorman Long, Battersea throughout the £580m com- Down Brothers bine. Edward High Vacuum have Kenworthy Engineering The massive sackings been done in the sacred name of LTE Charlton Repair Depot 'rationalization' and 'corporate Gaston, Marbalx, Battersea the restructuring'. Every time GEC giant devours another off- Martell Press shoot in the electrical industry, Oakey & Co. the capitalist press praises Wein- Parkinson Cowan stock's business genius. Sykes International Signals Profitability Weatherley Ollgear 1965 Of coure, the Tory scribblers are only concerned about seeing British Railways at SE 1

GEC

maintain its high profit- ability. When the annual figures Hoovers, Streatham were announced a few months Otis Elevators they were not disappointed. ago. Richmond Sausages GEC made a profit last financial year of £81.8m, rise of more UGB, Chariton than f10m on the previous year.

Wax Papers In that same financial year 1966 8,347 workers were made redundant. Aldous & Campbell Hypower So Weinstock's acumen boils B.R. Polnts & Crossings down to simple formula: cut Hearsons the work force and drive up pro- ductivity with those who remain.

The wide- redundancies are spread throughout the group. They include at fac- cutbacks were given for this year, a man- in Manchester, Liverpool, tories agement spokesman warned that Woolwich, Syden- Kilbride, there would more on the ham, Blackheath, Walthamstow, The world way later in the year. Willesden, Chertsey, Wembley, St trade recession, backed by the Cray, Ben- Mary monetary chaos, playing Haverhill, fleet, Harlow, with orders, the spokes- havod Chesham, Rugby, W Bromwich, man said. Aldridge, Crossheath, Witton, Winsford, Wythenshawe, Ashton- hardest hit One of the areas Under-Lyme, Middleton, Hir-

GEC

is SE London. closures Bangor, Liverpool Colne. During the last four years the and Newton-Le-Willows. company has shut down major Woolwich, Blackheath plants Merger and Sydenham. Now the axe is poised another Weinstock over Century Works at factory, the The combine's jobs policy Lewisham. into operation within came of the Labour months Closures of the ment's approval merger between the two electrical giants,

AEI.

The figures for

GEC

and A group calling itself the SE the past four years are: Clo- Action Committee Against Unemployment 1968... 12,635 redundancies sures and Rising has published list showing 1969... 12,590 more than 100 firms which have 1971... 8,347 in the closed down in the area These closures past seven years. And already, in the opening have accounted for the loss of weeks of 1972, the company has (See table). about 100,000 jobs. announced 3,074 redundancies.

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Aides.... AEl workers lobby at the closure of the Woolwich division in 1968 Gabriel Wade Cathkin Laundry SE London has been hit by a phenomenal number of British Oll and Cake Mills, Erith have been the shutdowns at Woolwich, Parsons, Erith enham and Blackheath. The closures have led to about asken a namdera 100,000 redundancies. Dairy Produce Packers Hunter arous Mildwater & Sons Heinke Falkner Green Jones Tate & Co. A. H. Gadsby A ,000 Woolwich (final closure W. Mackle Wwin a raruner SE Gpt. Sydenham Domestic Coal Projectile Engineering, Battersea London Spinning Co. r. T. Pililvant, Brixton Hasearca a Moustal AEl Super Tension Cable Dept.

Vari Electric Iratalgar engineering 1970 1967 Temple Press Associated Motor Cycles Avos, Vauxhall 1969 RACS Commonwealth Bulldings Brand & Co, Vauxhall departments Hllger & Watts i. w. beacn, Londor G. Mason Crosby, Engineering Mobil Oll Co. Cornwall Press donnson a Pallios. Chariton Cementone 1968-1970 Johnson & Phillips, New Cross Dawnays Blue Bird Laundry Lampson Paragon RAF Kidbrooke Caste Laundr 1971 Lovibonds Brewers 1968 J. Sainsbury Greenwich, Phoenix GA Harvey, Heavy Construction Whart and other depts. 988 Blackheath, Sydenham G8 Coo ent

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Greenwich Power Station J. Bibby, Wandsworth Freemans Mall Order Co. redundancies Dewrance Preming| Hoe Crabtree- redundancles due J. Feaver South London Pleaters to transter to another area research, mounted as a class. ably algent must why toea! politics. the abysinally •dundansee a with area the mildest of protests. Pressure port entire working Right to work leaflet issued the group now The first contingents will leave on February 5 and fur- ther the groud. Employment for Minister March I2 Wembley action jobs and government March 89 employment. right so Work. support And ine central theme Or Cae Son or Se Lion. Only this politica form the spure This challenge or the righ *Right-to-Work the The thieht tot work nemployment--the Tory government. political

P HEATH AND OCAL SECCRITY

Your lational Insurance vamper Dear Sir or Madam, 19 !arc!: 1971 in. connection with o he Medical Board which the prescribed disease imoim as neunoconiosis (1) a loss of faculty has resulted from 20 per cort lor the (2) the extent of the disablement resulting from the loss of faculty i to be a seced 20 14 Liarch 1972 17 March 19|- period from... This is a provisional assessment The findings of the Medical Board are summarised a Collu Conditions taken into account by the assessment i Pneumoconiosis Eftect of above conditions- Undue breathlessness on exertion Conditions neither due to nor male worse by the act deat or presence g": by the assessment xtent of the disablement for die poid folling tire pre•" Disablement Pension of 1.70 is padle 00: 0a1! 0?101: 7%.

Information about payne of... " Trade Union or Ass!! details can be sent in b d CHILE'S right wing has taken heart from its by-election recent suc- cesses to prepare a legal coup' to bring down Pre- sident Salvador Allende's government. The Christian Democratic and National parties which have a majority in the Con- gress and the Senate have already forced one minister to resign. They are

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expected to use the same tactics against other minis- ters and even against Allende himself. Legality been stirened by Frened ley the front har return the Chilean| •Dollties ot Chris. former President, man vemocrati Supported bv the acuardo rrel. Central gency intelleence some necessites gether from with many nich is rumourea to nave 19l big time to time. * Othe goe sument the county prepared Ost oppressed laos or the meet advantness. The layers further moSt oDDressed possibilities tor advance along the peaceful road landless Doouanon. une The opposition's tactic at pre.

nave now deen closed. mae mani entangle the govern- sent is to • block Allende and it use ment more and more the legality details bourgeois egality force Chilean to resign. policy which its character Jour will have or nationali further nationallza- the tion and to embarrass through ernment and alise botrees ed e-holders will, the addition, few Allende have for legality in the state and the army.

Tha ame respec from prevents the İllend Popular pressures world Unity the mper falling These coltion from holdina confidence of the working class and winning further support.

debt right. through its control of the press and other media. has been going. Negotia intend to able to make serious bropaganca gains, mpressing espécially and 12 European creditors

USA

omen, middle-clas people and bourgenis narties have of Chile majority in both houses of par- foreign Latin issue ОГО- mament. Acting within the law, which rid o reforms, Wage nationalization by rises prices way for & military take-over.

Who are the Tories' friends?

This Ilst below Several manage ment names emerging pro- of 1 rich United industrialete passes a ho portion or a Tude to one Torre pro propaganda organiza tlons.

COMPANY

DONATION

£10,000 to British Unted Industralists; £756 to Tory Plessey Decca £5.000 to BUI. ritish Electric Traction 25,000 to BUI; £300 to Aims of Industry 4,000 to BUI; £1,000 to Economic League Spark Holdings £5,000 to Tory Party. Acrow (Engineers) Portland Cement Rugby 00 to BU Joseph Lucas (Industries) £12,000 to Tory Party; £500 to Aims of Industry.

HAROLD BEVERLEY was 100 100 per cent, he k knows he's the pad. gist said his died, Hemsworth cecretary lungs NUM branch in Yorkshire were solid and stuck from 1951 until the pit they be hod closed In chiselled away in 1071 thot hic ain time he reckons that well cage.' was Harold took me to see nur 1 mar wara clacci. the pit was all fied as pneumoconiosis that's between 2 percent to 3 per cent of the manual workers there. trailing abbut that hasn t bee ays Harold onesis he cans got man's HUAn pneumoconiosis Went to Finderipas Hospita some of it 'offset". Hospita 20 weeks. wages lower gradi cent conial security form hut but he got Sheffield per cent off-set.' That pneumoconiosis cenarate from bronchitis and bronchial- fust he same, the later eel- just the éases few years and 115 or my lings hat so many ; back-dated to February gone now And left? Sa, in 19 they But have to and 1969 they two yeld me Id had it for awake, HUna then disability money is cut by it and our ailere is you've 0131 again ant But once a man's ele man!a rating. He goes seen disability of reaction do cent set? could hardly gasp out the these men card. she told me o wok for words but tere thanaht thana ™a a me, there's told hes freauently government. care don't anth if a man's or Labour, someone worse. because whether it'a Always

to turn the clock back of US from India A BIG CUT in foreign aid to India which will aggravate already economic an tense has emerged as a situation consequence of the major Indo-Pakistan war. As the Anderson Papers show, was determined President Nixon from punish the start bourgeoisie for its Indian with So how the jobs go: a handful temerity going to war Yahya Khan by ending all aid. container in a few seconds at Gladston the food This includes Public provided under THREE WEEKS after Law 480, which have been a life- line in periods of bad harvests.

his appointment as Minis The high-level discussions ter of Transport on June minuted in the documents 23, 1970, the Honour- leaked showed how the Administration columnist Anderson able Member for Yeovil, sensitive to the fact that was John Peyton, found him- such 'aid' was good for the Amencan economy by removing self closeted with one of surpluses which would otherwise the most powerful figures have harred peores on the es depressed and domestic in British shipping. market. Sir John Nicholson, at that However, this is of small com- fort Indian government time president of the Cham- the which, making virtue of ber of Shipping, is not known necessity, is now saying that in future it will get along with less for beating around the bush.

with aid. As other under- He quickly told Peyton what developed much SO- he and his friends wanted called on strictly taking the commercial basis, from the new Tory govern- form of loans at interest, which, falling some cases, are now ment. due for repayment. What Nicholson meant by In fact, in India's case about that port employers this was one-third new loans went to should be given powers of hire pay off old debts so that the and fire in order to whip the dockers into line and main- tain their profits. of the Within month Nichol- with Peyton, meeting leading and other son employers had started port talks with Jack Jones secret and Tim O'Leary, general secretary and docks officer of the main portworkers' union, General the Transport and Workers Union. The other participants were George of Tonge, chairman National of the Association Port Employers and a direc- of Hay's Wharf, and Sir tor Crichton of Over- Andrew seas Containers Ltd and P&O.

In with an interview Workers Press February Mrs Gandhi on 23 last year, O'Leary, who is the national •docks union's day could be foreseen when re- officer, claimed that the, pur- payments would actually exceed of these talks *to pose new. credits. So much for. inde- some line where the on pendence from imperialism cel employers were going, and to which the national bourgeoisie defend how should claimed to have achieved.

we ourselves'. Although some Indian spokes- This was not the employers' men claim that aid is impression, however. necessary than before, the state Later Peyton of the economy hardly bears this in the year out. In fact it is not so long ago was to be told that Jones was that the Indian Finance Minister.

quite prepared to discuss the Y. B. Chavan so disturbed employers' ideas, long as by the situation created by about them nothing was said Nixon's August 15 measures in public before Phase Two of Washington that he few to Lord Devlin's docks moderni- plead the International with scheme had 'bedded Monetary Fund for more aid for zation down'. India and other underdeveloped Briefly, the ideas under dis- countries. The cost of cussion were these: million refugees from Bangla Establishment of a go- Desh and returning them home, between body between together with the of individual port authorities and war with Pakistan the can only aggravated have the problems government charged with since then. Dependent upon the drawing up and implementing sale of primary products, whose for the industry's strategy prices are falling because of the development. world slump, the Indian 2 Steady reduction in the economy is no state do 1n to without foreign aid. number of port employers The Indian bourgeoisie is now -provided there sug- was no complaining about 'arm-twisting' gestion that businesses might by the United States, but it has be bought up compulsorily.

never complained in the past. 3 Replacement of the 1947 The luxury living and corruption which it is dock labour scheme, with for notorious, in the midst of indescribable its of statutory guarantee lot foreign, to docks jobs, by 'normal in- poverty, owes d including especially, American dustrial agreements' policed aid. the industry's joint by nego- The cutting off of this source tiating committee. of aid hastens the day of reckon- Jones' warning about pub- the Indian ing in sub-continent lic discussion of these a whole, of which the mass send o- Desh posals, which the upsurge in Bangla gives October 1970 were in Peyton's only a foretaste. BBC-2, 8.10, Man Allve: The Foreign Legion

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will strike against SU.IUu coCkers . Although they the threat to jobs in Britain's six key ports will be back in work tomorrow, none of them can now be certain the stewards estimate 6,000 total dock be declared No The 'is going to be a watershed in the docks' Times Yet when Workers Press warned that the crisis arcued. 1971! — Was on te waw-l vantard - We accused ow mne ransoon ane Genera workers unor necore of inspiring 'rumours designed create eeinos unrest'. Here DAVID MAUDE, , our industrial corespondent stopas the background to this accusation and to today's handful of men loaded this 20-1on ds at Gladstone dock, Liverpool . . .

cargosmpe I want to thank you all for your help and co-operation in 1971 which has made possible the achievements I have described, and to give you encourage- ment for the future. You know my belief that it is most important for everyone who works for the PLA to know what is likely to happen and why.

Only in this way can each of us contribute our best to the PLA's success.

I therefore hope you will study this letter carefully and give it much thought.

The PLA management will, as always, consult the trade unions, port users and other port employers on precise measures to be taken.

Director- General the end of the yeardesplte phase two of the Dowlin the PLA creular to 8700 cockera tellno thom inar 2,000 cr the in ore ary. To do the reported andrew Crichton. chairmar Ine mer employer. mel official, Tim O'Leary. Eton- Overseas Contalners 1o on atd. T&GWu secretary Jack Jones • H1 nanaging director of P&o took 'left' leader of Britaln's biggest vera chit Pearson incuirv ne was as 'the most right-wing bloke on talks the union.. T&GWU leaders... the docks'. ouas nt attached pool at present.

employers to examine ahe inb th roup in a tairv polisne preparilo lu cait. labour', was appreciated by t said. have and The employers, no intention of course, Crichtor absorb with men nave They the union leaders ing labour. month after ie the quite . sent return tor delibe

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powers to Poa rsork inguirt the ry into number viously expected-by ditions But', policies discussed basic pay dowI London spokesman the windmila said London TYCon: Southamptor of a new phas you carry modernization e NDLB are Preston- fa to atha union June the ey Docks and Hat strike men is ip the redu te onts to 6,000 are under big will be considerabie dangers docks present, situation curme oficial unaon menting their 303, mil, philosophy on the docks with out the stered By January 1971, Cmdre in the approach the

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Workers Press, Wednesday January : Royal group of docks each meat-carcass Individually both off and on conventional Dermod Jewitt, chairman of London's ocean trades em- ployers was calling for 'some form of compulsory severance of dockers who were con- sidered unfit. year labour Through the forces were whittled down all over the country by various means and the number of em- ployers was being reduced in line with the Nicholson plan.

In Bristol, for instance, it was announced in February now four that there were main firms where there had been 30. Four hundred of the port's 2,000 dockers had left the industry. Towards the end of that month, the Chamber of Ship- came out in the open ping the employers' proposal with of an intermediate body be- tween the government and in- dividual ports 'able to shape a broad and detached view of what needs to be done and to achieve rationalization of the facilities and services'.

Desperate Meanwhile the London em- ployers were conducting a desperate campaign to claw back some of their losses on Devlin Phase Two. After seven months of the scheme, P&O chairman Sir Donald Anderson complained that productivity was down 20 per cent on the export side and 33t per cent on imports.

Anderson's Crichton, man- aging director, was one of the participants in the talks with Jones. . By September, Joel Payne, the chairman of the employers in the port's enclosed docks, had come forward with an ul- timatum to the unions: either help us get rid of 800 light- duty men or you get no pay rise this year. At the end of the month Peyton produced a White Paper called 'Financial Policy for the Ports', the basis of the Harbours (Loans) Bill which is its House of soon to enter Commons committee stage. into This incorporates simple 'lame-duckism' an im- portant prong of Nicholson's suggested attack. Watershed It proposes to strengthen the National Ports Council, an influential but toothless plan- ning body comprising both employers and union men, by giving it the power to police the conditions on loans made to port authorities. Peyton cautiously agreed at a press conference that labour might be at stage brought some the purview of the within

NPC.

But immediately after pub- lication of the White Paper, *The Times' let the cat out of the bag: it called for abolition of the 'increasingly anoma- lous' dock labour scheme.

These are just a few of the reasons why 1972 is a water- shed year for the docks. ployers week, Last national em- chairman George longe, another participant in the secret talks with Jones, denied that he had asked the inquiry government for an into the running of the dock labour scheme. • Such a demand must come sooner or later, however. The groundwork has been as well prepared by the employers as it ever can be. But like the Coal Board's the miners-calling attack on into question all the post-war gains of workers in the in- dustry-this attempt to turn the clocks back call must forth a massive and : deter- mined response from all sec- tions of workers on the docks.

Today's strikers are in the first skirmish of historic a battle; they are fighting not only their employers, but their union leaders as well. nesday January 26, 1972

PAGE THREE

Very odd meeting CITY Hall, Sheffield, the was scene of a curious meeting last weekend. It was convened by the Com- munist-controlled district com- mittee Amalgamated of the Union of Engineering Workers.

Speakers included James Airlie of UCS, Ernie Roberts of the AUEW executive and Jock Kane, CP miner. The theme was the right to work. As the meeting got under way a speaker from the floor asked about the engineers' national pay claim. Why had it been abandoned, thus isolating the miners? George Caborn, another CP-er and chairman the meeting, came down with a heavy hand These questions were out of order, he declared, and anyone interrupting with such queries would be put out by the stewards. Definitely an odd way to conduct a meeting on the right to work, don't you think? The great escape farce YOU'VE heard the great Long Kesh escape' story? Well, here are a few more facts the British press has not yet revealed.

At 5 a.m. on the morning of Thursday, January 13, internees at Long Kesh were awoken rudely and each man was drag- ged between two soldiers across the slippery ice-bound com- pound to the dining quarters.

Mindful of other mass swoops on the camp, the men feared the worst and decided that another 'riot' was about to begin.

The soldiers, however, seemed to have other things on their minds that particular day and left the men sitting quietly in the hall. Later the men were allowed to to their huts and return found that some of their hobby works had been 'borrowed'.

Next day they were some- what surprised to hear that they had apparently been preparing to launch just about the biggest 'escape' in the history of esca- poloy. "Tunnels', 'replicas of Thomp- son sub-machine guns', "spades', the press screamed, had been found Internees' relatives say firmly that the manufacture of toy guns had taken place quite openly in the camp over Christmas as pre- internées' children. sents for Many had been taken out of the camp under the noses of the guards without exciting any comment. Said one woman: '*When we go up to visit, it's difficult enough to get in. I can hardly see anyone getting out. The press were shown big holes in the concrete in front of the huts. They have nothing to break with, let alone the concrete noise it would make anyway.'

One other point. It would seem that the so-called "seven' 'Maidstone' escapers from the their somehow multiplied in swim across the estuary. At least 16 turned up in Belfast after- wards! Prize joker

THE

MAN

who awarded Edward Heath his £38,000 statesmanship European prize was Herr Alfred Toepfer. Herr Toepfer is generally known to be one of the richest in W Germany, with an men income in the region of five million Deutschmark a year in profits from his many business and banking interests. Toepfer has three large properties North and South of Paris in addition to places in Germany. He also has offices and houses in London, Paris and New York. After the prize-giving ceremony last Friday, Toepfer invited 250 guests to a banquet in Heath's honour. Apparently during the feast, he humourously (?) confided to Heath that if he wanted to send half-a-million of his unemployed to Germany, they would be very welcome. Big joke.

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to turn the clock back of US from India A BIG CUT in foreign aid to India which will aggravate an already tense economic emerged as a situation has of the major consequence Indo-Pakistan war. As the Anderson Papers show, President Nixon was determined punish the from the start Indian bourgeoisie for its See how the jobs go: a handful of n in going to war with tenya Khan by all aid. contalner In a few seconds at Gladston Yahya the no This includes food sur- provided under Public pluses THREE WEEKS after Law 480, which have been a life- his appointment as Minis line in periods of bad harvests.

high-level discussions The ter of Transport on June minuted in the documents columnist 23, 1970, the Honour- leaked by how the Administration showed able Member for Yeovil, sensitive to the fact that 'aid' for the John Peyton, found him- such was good American economy by removing self closeted with one of which would otherwise surpluses have depressed and the most powerful figures prices lowered profits on the domestic in British shipping. market. Sir John Nicholson, at that However, this is of small com- the Indian fort to government time president of the Cham- which, making virtue of ber of Shipping, is not known saying that in necessity, now future it will get along with less for beating around the bush.

aid. As with other under- He quickly told Peyton what developed countries, much so- called 'aid' he and his friends wanted strictly basis, taking the commercial from the new Tory govern- form of loans at interest, which, are now falling ment. due for repayment. What Nicholson meant by In fact, in India's case about was that port employers one-third of new this loans went to should be given powers of hire pay off old debts so that the and fire in order to whip the dockers into and main- fine tain their profits. the Within a month of Nichol- with Peyton, meeting leading and two other son employers had started port secret talks with Jack Jones and Tim O'Leary, general secretary and docks officer of main portworkers' the union, the General Transport and Workers Union. The other participants were George chairman iOnal Association of of the National Port Employers and a direc- of Hay's Wharf, and Sir tor Andrew Crichton Over- seas Containers Ltd and P&O.

In interview with an Press February Workers on Mrs Gandhi 23 last year, O'Leary, who is the union's national docks day could be foreseen when' re- officer, claimed that the, pur- payments would actually exceed of these talks 'to pose credits. So much for. "inde-

MCW.

get some line on where the pendence' from imperialism employers were going, and to which the national bourgeoisie should defend claimed to have achieved.

see how we ourselves' Although some Indian spokes- This was not the employers' claim that aid is less men before, impression, however. necessary than the state Later year Peyton of the economy hardly bears this in the out. In fact it is not so long ago was to be told that Tones was that the Indian Finance Minister, quite prepared to discuss the was so disturbed Y. B. Chavan employers' ideas, as long as the created by nothing was said about them Nixon's August 15

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in public before Phase Two of to Washington that he flew to Lord Devlin's docks moderni- the plead with International had 'bedded Monetary Fund for more zation scheme aid for down'. India underdeveloped Briefly, the ideas under dis- countries. maintaining The cost of cussion were these: million refugees from Bangla Establishment of go- Desh and returning them home, between %n. body between together with the expense Pakistan individual port authorities and the war with can only have aggravated the problems the government charged with since then. Dependent upon the drawing up and implementing of sale primary products, whose for the industry's strategy falling because prices are of the development. world slump, the Indian 2 Steady reduction in the economy IS In no state do number of port employers without foreign aid. The Indian bourgeoisie is now -provided there was no sug- complaining about 'arm-twisting' gestion that businesses might by the United States. hut it has be bought up compulsorily.

complained in never the past. Replacement of the 1947 The luxury living and corruption 3 for which it is dock labour scheme, with notorious, in the midst of indescribable mass its statutory of guarantee owes a lot foreign, docks to jobs, by 'normal in- poverty, including especially, American agreements' dustrial policed aid. by the industry's joint nego- The cutting off of this source tiating committee. of aid hastens the day of reckon- Tones' warning about pub- ing in the Indian sub-continent lic discussion of these a whole, of which the mass e dro upsurge in Bangla Desh gives posals, which by the October 1970 were in Peyton's only a foretaste. BBC-2, 8.10, Man Allve: The Foreign Legion

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Jobs in Britain's six key ports. the threat to will be • Dae I Shop Gertal what me Tuture collulate to 6.000 men-10 per cent of Total docks -Col• •e bymia-yeal 197? is going to be a watershed in the docks:. No one declared exhoria last Workers Press warned that the crisis ansport and General of designed create feelings rumours our Industrial correspondent unrest. Here DAVID MAUDE, reviews the backaround to this accusation and to today's stoppage. loaded this 20-ton whie at Londons Roval •roud Gladatone dock, Liverpool ...

cargo-ships. Dock bosses struggle I want to thank you all for your help and co-operation in 1971 which has made possible the achievements I have described, and to give you encourage- ment for the future. You know my belief that it is most important for everyone who works for the PLA to know what is likely to happen and why.

Only in this way can each of us contribute our best to the PLA's success.

I therefore hope you will study this letter carefully and give it much thought.

The PLA management will, as always, consult the trade unions, port users and other port employers on precise measures to be taken.

Johan hurch and of the your despite phase toro of the From the ple the union's loading Gual ofticlal, TIm Told secretary of Overseas Ltd, contamer managing director or pau

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union national will show June of the Mersey Docks and Har- nder iis aock labour scheme 1s. as they put it recently, rank-and-fle back of the em always at th With Devlin for futhless ployers' minds'. their private attacking today's pressure suth the MIDSES intentions came stoppage meeting last speed-up; nevertneless. indeed oleary nimser told socked or me in to dangers considerablt Ine us in rebruary unar me em crisis. une lories deran imple situation. since isi ock labour scheme e docks with on the ste id don, sinche real point is that they By January 1971, shall the Cmdre approach

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Workers Press, Wednesday January Royal group of docks each meat-carcass Individually both off and on conventional Dermod Jewitt, chairman of London's trades ocean em- ployers was calling for 'some orm of compulsory severance who were con- of dockers sidered unfit. Through the year labour forces were whittled down all over the country by various means and the number of em- ployers was being reduced in line with the Nicholson plan.

for instance, it In Bristol, was announced in February now four that there were main firms where there had been 30. Four hundred of the port's 2,000 dockers had left the industry. Towards the end of that month, the Chamber of Ship- ping came out in the open with the employers' proposal of an intermediate body be- tween the government and in- dividual ports 'able to shape a broad and detached view of what needs to be done and to of achieve rationalization a the facilities and services'.

Desperate Meanwhile the London em- ployers conducting were a desperate campaign to claw back some of their losses on Devlin Phase Two. After seven months of the scheme, P&O chairman Sir Donald Anderson complained that productivity was down 20 per cent on the export side and 334 per cent on imports.

Crichton, Anderson's man- aging director, was one of the participants in the talks with Jones. September, Joel Payne, By the chairman of the employers in the port's enclosed docks, had come forward with an ul- timatum to the unions: either help us get rid of 800 light- duty men or you get no pay rise this year. At the end of the month White Peyton produced Paper called 'Financial Policy for the Ports', the basis of the Harbours (Loans) Bill which is soon to enter its House of Commons committee stage. into This incorporates simple 'lame-duckism' an im- portant prong of Nicholson's suggested attack. Watershed It proposes to strengthen the National Ports Council, an influential but toothless plan- ning. body comprising both employers and union men, by giving it the power to police the conditions on loans made authorities. to Peyton port cautiously agreed at a press conference that labour might some, stage be brought at within purview of the the NºC. But immediately after pub- the White Paper, lication of 'The Times' let the cat out of the bag: it called for abolition of increasingly the anoma- lous' dock labour scheme.

These are just a few of the reasons why 1972 is a water- shed year for the docks. Last national em- chairman George Tonge, another participant in secret talks with Jones, denied that he had asked the for an inquiry government into the running of the dock labour scheme. • Such a demand must come sooner or later, however. The groundwork has been as well prepared by the employers as it ever can be. But like the Coal Board's the miners~calling attack on into question all the post-war gains of workers in the in- dustry-this attempt to turn the clocks back must call forth a massive and : deter- response from all sec- mined tions of workers on the docks.

Today's strikers are in the first skirmish of a historic battle; they are fighting not only their employers, but their union leaders as well. Inesday January 26, 1972

PAGE THREE

Very odd meeting CITY Hall, Sheffield, was the scene of a curious meeting last weekend. It was convened by the Com- munist-controlled district com- mittee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Speakers included James Airlie of UCS, Ernie Roberts of the AUEW executive and Jock Kane, CP miner. The theme was the right to work. As the meeting got under way a speaker from the floor engineers' asked about the national pay claim. Why had it been abandoned, thus isolating the miners? George Caborn, another CP-er and chairman the meeting, came down with a heavy hand.

These questions were out of order, he declared, and anyone interrupting with such queries would be put out by the stewards. Definitely an odd way to conduct a meeting on the right to work, don't you think?

The great escape farce YOU'VE heard the great Long Kesh 'escape' story? Well, here are a few more facts the British press has not yet revealed.

At 5 a.m. on the morning of Thursday, January 13, internees at Long Kesh were awoken rudely and each man was drag- ged between two soldiers across the slippery ice-bound com- pound to the dining quarters.

Mindful of other mass swoops on the camp, the men feared the worst and decided that another 'riot' was about to begin.

The soldiers, however, seemed have other things on their to minds that particular day and left the men sitting quietly in the hall. Later the men were allowed their huts and to return to found that some of their hobby works had been 'borrowed'.

Next day they some- were what surprised to hear that they had apparently been preparing to launch about the just biggest 'escape" in the history of esca- poloy. "Tunnels, 'replicas of Thomp- son sub-machine guns', "spades', screamed, had been the press found. Internees' relatives say firmly that the manufacture of toy guns had taken place quite openly in the camp over Christmas as pre- internées' children. sents Many had been taken out of the camp under the noses of the without exciting any guards comment. Said one woman: 'When we go up to visit, it's difficult enough to get in. I can hardly see anyone getting out.

The press were shown big holes in the concrete in front of the huts. They have nothing to break with, let alone the concrete noise it would make anyway.

One other point. It would seem that the so-called "seven' from the 'Maidstone' escapers somehow multiplied in their swim across the estuary. At least 16 turned up in Belfast after- wards! Prize joker

THE

MAN

who awarded his Edward Heath £38,000 European statesmanship prize was Herr Alfred Toepfer. Herr Toepfer is generally known to be one of the richest men in W Germany, with an income in the region of five million Deutschmark a year in profits from his many business and banking interests. Toepfer has three large properties North and South of Paris in addition to places in Germany. He also has offices and houses in London, Paris and New York. After the prize-giving ceremony last Friday, Toepfer invited 250 guests to a banquet in Heath's honour. Apparently during the feast, he humourously (?) confided to Heath that if he wanted to send half-a-million of his unemployed to Germany, they would be very welcome. Big joke. The Editoraworker»s Caphar

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with of four yards or reach by machi chiefs have UCS WORKERS STATED THEIR BASIC DEMANDS WHEN THEY LOBBIED THE TORY PARTY CONFERENCE IN BRIGHTON.

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SPLIT WIDENS BETWEEN (1. tor.) AIRLIE GARVEY nordy arte to order 1,027,000 Bengal of saving the four yards. Once sion from the liquidator mean bidder for on from the their loyalty to Bangla i dare waid like to see. • This is what will be Party of bangla Dom Cosen Shipbuilders munist Party Kremier in alman s following will ague government. "Together mass National Peoples sion builders tinue with Goes followed Clyde Rat and ane • meanin as So Bashani, head "to Clydebank determination position of mad our insistence tour marks cack to the early But they have not yet made weekend. Shock short-time Milk Jury selection in fiddle at Albion Motors knelt before him tike a feudat Harrisburg trial claims a nance THE FABRIC of the Scot. entee their third e Brital Nader economy and f9 lisintegrate.

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Republic stern follow yas Tasks in two-day sub-continent Meany *Before uniformed sure i to be at vid 180B Clapha 50% street, London CAIRO'S main streets near Liberation Square were the scene of pitched battles between Egyptian police and stone-throwing students again yesterday. The students have been r agitating at the sit-in for Madrid the past week for renewed war with Israel and the abolition of press censor- students ship. The fighting started riot police inad saved 2,0000 clubbed students protesting out of Cairo's main square. Police ordered students who AT SPAIN'S Madrid univer- regrouped side clubs in streets used sity, police and around the square to disperse, batons to disperse students but they refused to go and for the second day running police then waded into them as they attempted to stage with truncheons. rallies demanding wider academic freedom. About 500 students throw- iny stone wed come natests On Monday riot police- police and some arrests some on horseback-beat men were made. with and women students Earlier, in pre-dawn clubs after they had

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swoop, police drove students been ordered the out out of the square with tear biology faculty. gas. On Monday night the suspension of 4,000 government banned all demon- students medical at the strations and urged students faculty for taking part in to disperse quietly. classroom walk-outs The students had been the latest round of disturb- huddling around a monument in the centre of toe souare since Monday afternoon after police broke up street demon- strations demanding the Canada air of release 1,500 students arrested in police raids on their university sit-in at 3 a.m.

controllers that morning. Riot police with sticks and shields blocked all entrances strike on to Abdin Palace yesterday held where talks were being Egypt's between CANADIAN air traffic con- Anwar Sadat, and leaders trollers have voted overwhelm- student and professional ingly to continue a week-long bodies ou the internal situ- strike which has virtually ation. paralysed air traffic in Canade.

delegation from the Canadian general students' union along The Air Traffic with representatives of the Controllers Association, said judiciary, press, trade unions, tonight that of 1,600 members.

1,390 voted against a proposed traders and teachers armers, are taking part. settlement and 247 wanted to it. The accept settlement would have raised their wages

RULER

of the Gulf state of and reduced their working Sharjah was found shot dead andyesterday hours. inside his palace Controllers. after his cousin 18 fol- are government They attempted employees. have been lowers staged an strike since last Monday, When on coup. troops searched the halting non-military following the most palace flights in Canada. surrender of the rebel group, Sheikh Khalid Bin the ruler, Negotiators for the union Muhamed, found dead was and government agreed to a with four other people. 27-month contract which His former ruler would have raised salaries by cousin Sheikh Saqir Bin Sultan, 17 per cent and cut working with an armed party overpowered 34 a week from hours to the guard and seized the but ratification by the union's palace in a surprise attack on rank and file was necessary Monday afternoon. to end the strike. workers press

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