Workers Press no. 678

workers press

MINERS FACE

BY AN INDUSTRIAL

REPORTER

BIRMINGHAM

carworkers yesterday staged the first full- scale sympathy strike with the militant miners. labourers Storemen the SU Carburettor drivers at plant in the city walked out yes- terday morning and warned they will do so every Tuesday until the Tory government settles the miners' claim. The 100-strong walk-out shut the factory. By midday all 1,000 production workers were laid off.

Workers at SU's - a British- were in Leyland subsidiary the first to November 1970 strike against the Tories' Indus- trial Relations Act. Now the men and women who make carburettors and petrol- pumps for all Leyland models are in the front line again. SEE PAGE 4. Sharpening situa- tion.

DOCKERS

BLACK SHIP AS

DERRY PROTEST

BY A CORRESPONDENT

THE AUSTRALIAN Seamen's Union in Melbourne has blacked the British P & O liner 'Canberra' (45,000 tons) in protest against Sunday's killings in Londonderry.

Assistant State Secretary of the Union Roger Wilson said he had been approached by the Union's Irish-born members.

*We decided to ban the "Canberra" because it represents a shipping line that is owned and controlled in London, he declared. The 350 disembarking pas- sengers were being ferried ashore in lifeboats. • The whole of Ireland will come to a halt today to mark the first of the funerals of the murdered people by British troops in Londonderry on Sun- day. All BEA flights to the Irish Republic were suspended yester- Aer Lingus ground day when at Dublin, Shannon and Cork refused to handle British aircraft. Technicians at RTE, the national broadcasting network, will black out all programmes except news programmes to- day. • In Dublin telephone engineer- ing staff have refused to co- operate with 'any agent or em- ployee of the British government.'

Other unions are planning to boycott the movement of British goods. • Dockers in Cork and Galway have refused to touch British cargoes and Fleet St newspapers —'Daily Mirror", , 'Daily Mail' and 'Daily Express' - were not un- loaded at Dublin airport because of their biased coverage'.

Sir Charles Taylor and Six other Tory MPs have tabled a motion in parliament expressing admiration 'for the conduct of British troops in Ulster who under provocation have great maintained the best traditions of the British Army.'

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CENT

BY ALEX MITCHELL

BERNADETTE DEVLIN,

MP, said yesterday that the British working class has got to under- stand that the Rossville massacre in Londonderry is one and the same thing as the miners' strike in Britain. She said: When miners get hit by police on the picket line, it's no different to getting bullets in the back in Londonderry.

WARNING B

'N Ireland is only the train- ground for this country ing In an exclusive interview with Miss Devlin said Workers Press, Newry would speak the she at anti-internment rally this Sunday.

'I agreed some weeks ago to I will be there. speak,' she said. "The British soldiers are rifles. notches their putting on They're hoping to get another 15 at Newry.' described Miss Devlin the minutes leading to Sunday's up massacre. I was on the platform speak- ing when I heard the first shots.

Then Saracens drove some into the firing Shots square away. rang out over our heads. We had 20,000 people with a right to march their own country, with a right to demon- strate in their streets. 'There was gun in the Both removed area. IRAs had their guns lest any of their own people should be provoked when 20.000 were on the streets. A few young people threw stones and lumps of brick at the army and that was all they had.

*Nobody told us the death penalty had been imposed for illegal demonstrations in N Ireland. "The paratroops of the British drove their tanks straight towards people who had their backs to them. They were firing and within ten minutes 13 people were dead. *The army claims people were sniping from the Rossville flats. 12 Those flats are storeys high. There 12 dead bodies are in Altnagevin with morgue How do you fall broken bones. 12 and break storeys not any bones? first reaction dis- •My was belief. Thousands of people just dived for cover. When we finally cleared the later, there square ten minutes 13 people dead. were It was a peaceful, unarmed meeting.

It is completely untrue that "The people had their backs to the paratroopers went beserk. the British army. They behaved they as were "There 20,000 of us. We The ordered to behave. opera- outnumbered the soldiers by five definitely didn't get out of tion The only way the army one. hand. Nobody can say one could show its superiority was to two soldiers went beserk.

It was shoot people in the back.

carried out absolutely efficiently.

"This shows you just how the They were under orders.' law works-you can be peaceful, Referring her and to attack on unarmed in the majority, Maudling House of Com- in the but still be shot down. That's mons on Monday afternoon, Miss your democracy for you.' Devlin said: "The British paratroopers, 'One blow Maudling with the against full backing of the Minister, won't bring down the Tory gov- Prime Minister the Not if we all hit Defence ernment. him. of and the entire What do is British Tory got bring government, we ve to down the Tory government.

coldly murdered 13 people just to show they could control N "The offensive against the Ireland. working class in this country is *They talk to us about peace, the same as the murder in Ulster.

You can see the development of democracy and freedom and we are sick of hearing them. I had the Tory mentality in both to speak to people and say: "Yes, They places. are resorting to I rang the hospital. Your hus- sheer naked force. band is dead"? *When you move bring to Miss Devlin nailed one of the down the Tory government the lies creeping into the capitalist British army will move to bring you down with a gun. press reports. •

RUARY 2, 1972

No. 678 4р

JE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

IG BY BERNADETTE DE

BERNADETTE DEVLIN ADDRESSES AN O

• HAMMERSM

*When we held the picket lines in 1969 the police kicked us. Today they are kicking the miners on the picket lines.

Tomorrow they will be shoot- ing to kill 'To end the army murders Ulster we've got to bring British imperialism to an end. And the best way to do that is to bring down the Tory government.

If we don't they will go ahead and shoot more people. Miss Devlin was contemptuous of Maudling's call for a tribunal to investigate the massacre.

'We don't want an inquiry at all. Why should we? We know who is responsible. The Tory government is responsible for murder. That's all there is to it!

She concluded by declaring: "I say if for nobody's sake but the 13 dead people in Derry, bring this blasted Tory government down.' • See p 4 for more eye-witness accounts of Sunday's massacre.

TE DEVLIN MP

SES AN OVERFLOW MEETING OUTSIDE

AMMERSMITH TOWN HALL ON MONDAY

Foreign News 2 Miners' history 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Clive Norris on the 6 & 7 Right to Work Liberia 8 Stalinist crisis 9 Tom Jackson on Post Office jobs 10 TV programmes 11

workers press

MINERS FACE

BY AN INDUSTRIAL

REPORTER

BIRMINGHAM

carworkers yesterday staged the first full- scale sympathy strike with the militant miners. labourers Storemen, and drivers at the SU Carburettor plant in the city walked out yes- terday morning and warned they will do so every Tuesday until the Tory government settles the miners' claim. The 100-strong walk-out shut the factory. By midday all 1,000 I workers were laid off. production Workers at SU's — a British- Leyland subsidiary — were in the first November 1970 to strike against the Tories' Indus- trial Relations Act. Now the men and women who make carburettors and petrol- pumps for all Leyland models are in the front line again. SEE PAGE 4. Sharpening situa- tion.

DOCKERS

BLACK SHIP AS

DERRY PROTEST

BY A CORRESPONDENT

Seamen's

THE AUSTRALIAN

Union in Melbourne has blacked the British P & O liner 'Canberra' of . Assistant State Secretary the Union Roger Wilson said he by the had been approached Union's Irish-born members.

'We decided to ban the "Canberra" because it represents a shipping line that is owned •controlled in London, he and declared. The 350 disembarking pas- sengers were being ferried ashore in lifeboats. • The whole of Ireland will come to a halt today to mark the first of the funerals of the people murdered by British troops in Londonderry on Sun- day. All BEA flights to the Irish Republic were suspended yester- day: when Aer Lingus ground at Dublin, Shannon and Cork refused to handle British aircraft. • Technicians at RTE, the national broadcasting network, will black out all programmes except news programmes to- day. • In Dublin telephone engineer- ing staff have refused to co- Other unions are planning to boycott the movement of British - goods. • Dockers in Cork and Galway have refused to touch British —'Daily Mirror', Express' 'Daily - were not un- loaded at Dublin airport because of 'their biased coverage'.

• Sir Charles Taylor and six other Tory MPs have tabled a motion in parliament expressing admiration 'for the conduct of British troops in Ulster who under great provocation have maintained the best traditions of the British Army?

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CENI

BY ALEX MITCHELL

BERNADETTE DEVLIN,

said yesterday that the British working class has got to under- stand that the Rossville massacre in Londonderry is one and the same thing as the miners' strike in Britain. She said: 'When miners get hit by police on the picket line, it's no different to getting bullets in the back in Londonderry.

WARNING B

'N Ireland is only the train- ground for this country? ing In an exclusive interview with Miss Devlin said Workers Press, would Newry she speak the at anti-internment rally this Sunday.

'I agreed some weeks ago to she said. 'I will be there.

speak,' 'The British soldiers are rifles. putting notches on their They're hoping to get another 15 at Newry.' Devlin described the Miss minutes leading up Sunday's massacre. the platform speak- on ing when I heard the first shots.

Then come Caracens «roye firing Shots the square away. rang out over our heads. •We had 20,000 people with a right to march in their own a right to demon- country, with strate in their streets. "There was not a gun in the Both

IRAS

had removed area. their guns lest any of their own people should be provoked when 20,000 were on the A streets. few young people threw stones and lumps of brick at the army and that was all they had.

Nobody told us the death penalty had been imposed for illegal demonstrations N in . Ireland. 'The paratroops of the British drove their tanks army straight had towards people who their backs to them. They were firing and within ten minutes 13 people were dead. 'The army claims people were from the Rossville flats. sniping Those flats high. are 12 storeys are 12 dead bodies There in Altnagevin morgue with по broken bones. How do you fall 12 and break storeys not any bones? •My first dis- reaction. was belief. Thousands of people iust dived for cover. When we finally cleared the ten minutes later, there square 13 people dead. It was a were peaceful, unarmed meeting 'It is completely that untrue The beoble had their backs to the beserk. paratroopers went the Beirish as British army. They behaved they as were 20,000 of us. We ordered behave. The opera- outnumbered the soldiers by five tion definitely didn't get out of to one. The only way the army hand. Nobody can say one or could show its superiority was to two soldiers went beserk. It was shoot people in the back.

carried out absolutely efficiently. "This shows you just how the They were under orders. law works-you can be peaceful.

Referring to her attack unarmed and in the majority, on Maudling in the House of Com- but still be shot down. That's mons on Monday afternoon, Miss your democracy for vou' Devlin said: «The British paratroopers, 'One blow Maudling arainst with the full backing of the down the Tory gor won't bring Prime Minister, the Minister Not if we all ernment. hit him. of Defence and the entire What we've got to do is bring British Tory government, down the Tory government.

coldlv murdered 13° people just to show they could control N "The offensive against the Ireland. working class in this country is "They talk to us about peace, the same as the murder in Ulster. You can see the development democracy and freedom and we of are sick of hearing them. I had the both mentality to speak to people and say: "Yes, places. are resorting to the rang hospital. Your hus- sheer naked force. hand is dead" "When you. move to bring Miss Devlin nailed one of the down the Tory British a viver ment the lies creeping into the capitalist move to bring you down with a gun. press reports. RUARY 2, 1972 • No. 678 • 4p

JE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

IG BY BERNADETTE DE

BERNADETTE DEVLIN ADDRESSES AN O

• HAMMERSM

"When we held the picket lines in 1969 the police kicked us. Today they are kicking the miners on the picket lines.

Tomorrow they will be shoot- ing to kill.' "To end the army murders in Ulster we've got to bring British imperialism to an end. And the best way to do that is to bring down the Tory government.

'If we don't they will go ahead and shoot more people. Miss Devlin was contemptuous of Maudling's call for a tribunal to investigate the massacre.

'We don't want an inquiry at all. Why should I we? We know who is responsible. The Tory government is responsible for murder. That's all there is to it.'

She concluded by declaring: I say if for nobody's sake but the 13 dead people in Derry, bring this blasted Tory government down.' • See p 4 for more eye-witness accounts of Sunday's massacre.

TE DEVLIN MP

SES AN QVERFLOW MEETING OUTSIDE

IMMERSMITH TOWN HALL ON MONDAY

Foreign News 2 Miners' history Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Clive Norris on the Right to Work 6 & 7 Liberia 8 Stalinist crisis Tom Jackson on Post Office Jobs 10 TV programmes 11

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday Febr

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

SENIOR finance ministers an of the European capitalist expressed concern over the rap international monetary situatic American representatives in l They told US delegates to the top monetary working party of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that President Nixon's large bud- get deficits and 'easy money' policy were undermining the recent Washington currency realignment. They pointed out that since December 18, when the Group of Ten countries agreed realignment to devalue the dol- virtually none of the large lar, pool of dollars held overseas has moved back to the US. The Europeans say this is chiefly because interest rates in the United States are maintained lower than in Europe, discourag- ing dollar-holders from repatri- ating their funds. The American delegates-led under- by deputy Treasury Secretary Jack Bennett — were firmly opposed to any increase in American interest They rates. argued that the rates must stay low to encourage US industry.

Nixon anticipates a $38,800m budget deficit for the financial year ending June 30 and a fur- ther $25,600m for the following year. On Monday, his aides went before Congress request record $50,000m increase in the Federal debt ceiling to a limit of $480,000m. As far as Nixon is concerned the Washington agreement simply another way of making Europe pay for the economic crisis. His Treasury Secretary John Connally said yesterday that

CONNALLY: OTHERS

CRITICAL

foreign nations tended to criti- cize US domestic policies when they found themselves in a good economic situation. 'But they do it on the assump- us and tion they can pick on we won't pick on them,' he said.

Nixon and Connally are out to prove them wrong. • GOLD soared above $48 an ounce in London yesterday for the first time since the two-tier was introduced in 1968. system The price reached $48.10 at the afternoon fixing more than 60 cents up on the morning fixing and 85 cents above the over- night level of $47.25. The latest 'free market' level is $13.10 above the 'official' price of $35 an ounce. aday February 2, 1972 ters and central bankers pitalist countries again • the rapidly deteriorating situation when they met ves in Paris yesterday.

..PRINCE JUAN CARLOS TAKES T

GENERAL FRANCO, head of Spain's fascist state, has warned of 'subversive ele- ments' who are influencing young people in Spain as a means to achieve their objec- tive of 'dividing the Spanish people'. Speaking at the opening of the 12th National Council of his National Movement-the only permitted in political grouping Spain-Franco said these forces not miss any ways of intro- 'do ducing their activists among young students and workers'.

His statement came less than two weeks after violent clashes between students and police at Madrid: university and severe student disturbances in other parts of the country. With Prince Juan Carlos of wil AFTER two days' secret talks with his main Arab allies, President Anwar Egyptian Sadat is set to fly to Moscow for discussions with Soviet leaders. He spent Sunday and Monday in conference with Libyan presi- dent Muammer Gaddafi and two top aides of Jaafar el-Numeiry, the Sudanese dictator. for more Sadat is pressing Soviet arms following American decisions to sell Israel more Sky- hawk and Phantom jets. He plans to spend thiee days chiefs talking Soviet Moscow before travelling to Bel- grade for discussions with presi- dent Tito of Yugoslavia. One of his chief concerns is the growing demand in Egypt for to drive Israel military action out of the territories occupied in 1967. Sadat has for months been blustering about attacking Israel, making without single real move towards war. His bluff was called last week by students in Cairo, whose mass demonstrations calling for action against Israel sparked riots in the capital. Thirty alleged riot 'ringleaders' are in prison, and Sadat has said

'SUBVERSIVES'

INFLUENCE

OUR YOUTH

-FRANCO

STAKES THE OATH AS SUCCESSOR TO

FRANCO

Bourbon-whom he has desig- his successor-sitting nated as him, 79-year-old beside the told members the General National Council their job was to help the government act to preserve the fundamental princi- ples of the movement. 'Our political action must be creative, conscious of new cir- cumstances and dangers offered by the historical acceleration of our times and the threat of materialism', he told them.

Franco reiterated that Spain would continue to be governed under a one-party system.

'Not only are we not enemies of freedom, but we hope to be at the vanguard of its defence,' he announced. 'But that vanguard demands her - virtues, and courage, energy more than concerning ourselves of with excessive formalisms.'

they will be brought to trial.

One of Egypt's leading left- wing journalists has warned that the students will march again.

Abdel Rahman el-Sharkawi, editor-in-chief of the magazine 'Rose el-Youssef', said the students were determined to purify the nation and would not deceived by political be manoeuvres. He said Egyptians had not for- the earlier student gotten how protests in 1968 were put down by gunfire. In one of the most outspoken comments yet on the 1968 riots-heavily censored at the time-Sharkawi accused late President Nasser's followers of torturing student leaders in con- centration camps. The students have support from a section of the _ruling Socialist Union, Egypt's Arab only political party. party's One speaker at the weekend discussions said the questions raised by the students were in everyone's mind.

THE TIMES THIRS™

FOR MORE KILLIN

BERNADETTE

DEVLIN

was absolutely right when she drew conclusion from the Londonderry massacre: the Tory government is preparing to use the same naked force against the British working class. Anyone who doubts this should read yesterday's editorial in 'The Times' , that sober spokes- man for ruling-class opinion.

It is a remarkable example of the Yet cold-blooded calculation of the British ruling class when it interests decides are threatened The Times' After the 13 murders, Says. the least useful thing ••• the government could do in the face of the Derry tragedy to chop and is to appear change its policy' This can mean only one thing: intensify the répressions, up the killings. As The Times goes on: "That policy is to bear down on increasing

IRA

with the severity until the point is reached at which serious dis- cussion can begin ... Increasing severity! Let every every trade Irishman and unionist in Britain remember words, which will those repeated and acted upon long crocodile tears after all the for the 13 dead have dried away. are people calling them- There sélves socialists who advocate a solution by collaborating with the Westminster and Stormont governments. These governments are represent- atives of the capitalist state machine. The job of that state machine is to protect the capitalist social order. It does this through a monopoly of force. It consists of bodies of

IRANIAN

COMMUNIST

TO DIE

A TEHERAN military court has pronounced death sen- tences on four members of an group of communist alleged A sentence of life guerillas. imprisonment was passed on another. Three of the death sen- tences—on Mehdi Savalini, Bahman Azhang and Hajian Sepelleh--were commuted to life imprisonment, and the life sentence on Ghassem Arzpayma was commuted to 15 years imprisonment. The remaining death sen- tence-on Saiid Alemian—is to stand. The five were among 23 charged with anti-state acti- vities.

SADAT: MORE ARMS

MORE FOREIGN NE

HIRSTS

ILLINGS

armed men: armies, police and jailers. the The army units who committed murder in the streets of Derry last Sunday are these bodies of arméd men. Starting from these basic princi- Socialist League has always fought in Labour the working-class movement for the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland. Yet even now, after the Derry massacre, the Communist Party calls only for the immediate withdrawal of the paratroopers and the confinement of other troops to their barracks!

Full withdrawal is to await the passing of a Bill of Rights for N Ireland. This is absolute betrayal of the working class. It asks people of Derry and. Belfast, and the miners of Britain, to support the right of the army the police to keep • the and kind of law and order which the ruling class requires.

This means leaving the ruling class free to carry out the severity' increasing advocated by 'The Times' On page one today Bernadette Devlin MP makes an urgent call to the working class in Britain to bring down the Tory government. Workers Press completely sup- call and we will this ports work in the factories and on the streets with all those who fight for it. ont It is for this very purpose that the Right-to-Work marches, beginning from Glasgow next Saturday, have been planned.

The fight for the right to work, the miners' strike, and: the Irish workers' struggle, all have united aim: make the one Tory government resign!

NO MORE

GUNFIRE-

MUJIB

SHEIKH Mujibur Rahman has told members of the Mujib Bahini that he does not want to hear any more gunfire in Bangla Desh. More than 50,000 freedom fighters of the Mujib Bahini have been pouring into Dacca since Sunday and their leaders claim to have surrendered 70,000 weapons with another 30,000 yet to come. Among the weapons surren- dered were rifles, automatic fire- arms, mortars, recoil-less guns, rockets, mines and grenades.

Sheikh Mujib has assured the freedom fighters that a law has been passed to try collaborators with the Pakistan army and has urged that the law be allowed to take its course. But this disarming of the free- dom fighters can only endanger the victory of Bangla Desh and capitalists reassure landlords that their position will remain fundamentally un- challenged.

MUJIB: ARMS SURRENDERED

IGN NEWS PAGE 11

The survey ship Yarrow's are a part of Upper Clyde yard—once

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGO'

I work for a shipyara, That's doon by the Clyde, The name of the shipyara, Fair fills me with pride, It's called Eric Yarrow's And it's sae dear to me, He allows us ten minutes, For a wee cup of tea.

THIS GROVELLING

verse appears in the cur- rent issue of the Yarrow 'Newsletter'-the propa- ganda sheet put out by management of the Clydeside yard that boasts the title "The Warship Builders of the World'. It does not reflect current feeling in the yard. On page the apparently philan- two. thropic Sir Eric Yarrow hints heavily that his 3,000 hourly- paid staff will face the dole if they don't end their strike and get back to work pronto. Management has already closed down the yard and suspended the boilermakers—one third of the labour force-who agreed last Friday to call off their strike.

The remaining workers-in the finishing trades-came out the day before. MILITANT shopworkers will union in be calling on their May to campaign for a TUC- organized General Strike against the Tories. Other demands to be voiced at a three-day: conference in Eastbourne will include: indust- rial action for a £25 minimum expulsion and the of wage, Labour MPs who voted with the government for British entry in- to the Common Market. Policy-makers for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers will also be asked to change its rules so it can come off the Tory register set up by the Industrial Relations Act.

A SW London resolution says are bullding for S Afric & one of the vessels !

per Clyde Shipbullders -has orders for 11 sh seven for the Royal Navy.

• GLASGOW

The reason for this seemingly illogical back and forth is rooted in the rivalries between the two sections; rivalries that have been used to avoid united action.

The boilermakers are demand- ing an 18p-an-hour increase against offer of 3p plus a an consolidated 6p-an-hour bonus.

The finishing trades want 15p.

Strike action flared almost two weeks ago when the boilermakers rejected company guidelines for Their decision a package deal. union advicethe was against vote, in fact, followed weeks of shop stewards pressure to on step up the fight for their claim.

The finishing trades held their meeting at the same time and voted to strike if the offer-not yet detailed-turned be out to unsatisfactory. This they did last Thursday. The following day the boiler- makers were persuaded by shop from stewards under pressure the union's district committee to call off their action.

yard remains shut But the because of the finishing trades' strike. The boilermakers' vote to re- turn is really an attempt by the committee district to get negotiations going with Yarrow's.

But by ending the strike they have also kept the boilermakers apart from the striking finishing that the Heath government has 'flagrantly abused the authority vested in the parliament élected in July 1970'. • It had no mandate to create a million unemployed, cause a 10-per-cent increase in prices, enter the Common Market or impose internment in N Ireland.

The Tories must be replaced, through a TUC strike, with a Labour government pledged to repeal the anti-union Act, restore welfare services, cuts In nationalize industry under workers' control and end un- employment. Central London Hairdressers are the authors of the call for 'the full strength of the member- ship' to be used to win £25.

• vessels held up by the strike. The for 11 ships worth £82m, Including trades workers. This divide-and-rule tactic has a long history. In late 1970, when the current wage settlement rate of 14s 4d was negotiated (15s 4d for finish- ing trade welders), the weiders struck in opposition to the boiler- makers' claim for parity. They had always been the highest paid in the yards and wanted to re- main that way. This encouraged another group of boilermakers-the caulkers— to declare independent action and eventually the rest of the steel-making trades were sus- pended. Meanwhile the finishing trades negotiated their own deal. Ihis was the signal for the boiler- makers' leaders to get their men with the argument that back what the finishing trades got would be the starting figure for the boilermakers' claim. However, the company had different ideas and made it quite clear that it wanted one skilled rate throughout the yards.

Belatedly the officials asked the boilermakers if they now wanted to strike. But after one drawn-out unsuccessful long, men accepted the action, the original offer. The irony • is that the 1970 debacle is now being used to keep the steel trades and fitting- out men apart. The platform argued at Fri- day's mass meeting that there would be no repeat of 1970 when the finishing trades 'negotiated out increase' This led to the argument that the should and strike be ended negotiations begun on the claim.

Meanwhile the finishing trades -who were encouraged to strike boilermakers' because of the action-are left isolated.

"tactics' Yarrow's These allow to deploy the maximum pressure against each section to force the others back to work. Apart from Sir Eric Yarrow's threats on unemployment the company "Newsletter' also con- tains a lengthy eulogy of the Act. This, Industrial Relations says the anonymous author, set 'national standards' for good industrial relations, "safeguards' those who conform to them, 'protects' the individual and provides 'new methods' for settling disputes. If the labour force continues to fall for the divide-and-rule argument, Yarrow's may feel just confident enough to use the Act with full force in the yard.

Workers Press, Wedneaday February 2, 1972 PAGE 3

EMPLOYERS

TO POCKET

£200m JOBS

LEVY

Less than six months ago Carr the principle Was Tenerena that company refused 11 its employees, least TORY hatchet-man Robert should be _IoCe• o on training or others unde! Carr is now preparing to dis- the of redistributing all

DYSLCL

the levy money form in the member the present indust- grants to those firms with propel training schemes. rial training scheme, his de- But the discussion docu- parment revealed yesterday.

new ment issued yesterdas by the Department of Employmen Having imposed wage-cuts poses to abandon the on British workers, established ColUSOL levy, «omoton i orovider the Industrial Relations Court an" essential shock treatment to smash the trade unions and which led major change sent joblessness past the the attitude oi large

SCULON

million the 'Employ. of Britsh irausty to systématic Walk. ment' Minister plans to end training'. compulsory levy system LINe that a lot of train- conniming which forced industrialists ing that used to go previously cough up £200m a year to be will take place. apprenticeships and spent government is planning to spenc improving job skills. £35m more on state-run training schemes by In place of this system— The £35m is about the amount organized industry-by. on that the Tories expect employers basis and administered Inausuy will pocket the Training instead of spending InCusttial But this is likely to Boards—will be purely voluntary on training. prove a wild underestimate.

training schemes which employers will be Ice o cc ace extra not. Thousands won't, y calcull ot them is one of the biggest swindles particularly industries because it puts indirectly there still lot of small alc responsibility L.w-vave firms such enceenc used solely to rest directly that building construction. on employers. Cheapskate employers will With the Tory's regressive tax pocket millions of pounds policies, that means spreading yet profits while hündreds extra more burdens the workin class SO the tulousallus

WULKCIS

Icliai capitalists without skills and without jobs.

profits can directly increase. AVne country can have This aso CoaT the on what was aDoul-Lum inferior industrial training formerly a bi-partisan policy by system. and Tory industrial yet anther direct Once again the Tories' hatchet- Liaille cash handout to the government s WULK NES eXDIC DooRr in. political constituents-the Con- this workhouse government less servative businessmen who hated quickly forced office, from Britain compulsory levy exacted per will be UNS WayaNs head of their work force.

to ine walk Ages

HOUSE PRICES SOAR

HOUSE

PRICES

rocketed last £5,000 at the end of 1970, rose before by €1,000 more than during yeaı even nuce 1971. crease demand which will result from the Tories' Housing For the modern type of exist- Finance Bill ing house, the avelare maccast was 22 per cent (5 per The average in crease aCrOSS cent in 1970) and for the older zhe cor cent co newr houses h aS type of house 18} per cent (8 cent compared with peI the

COLL.

per LAlt previous vede A es nices so amed ern eze png Nationwide Building Society an- houses have nounced yesterday. cent in the southern region com- This means that the price of 54 per cent for Great parca will selling for Britain in the last five years.

averare nouse,

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

Make the Esign government Tory rebruary 9, 8 p.m. Room 1l, Ham Town Hall. Hạm. Support miners. Force Tories resign. Return a Labour government

LUTON:

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claim. Unemployment and the capital- Wednesday

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PAGE 4 Workers Press Wednesday Febru

MINERS:PART 2

I REMEMBER vividly Robert Smillie describing to me an interview the leaders of the Triple Alliance had with David Lloyd George in 1919. The strategy of the leaders was clear. The miners under Robert the Transport Workers under National Union of Railwaymen under Thomas, formed the most formidable combination of wor- in kers the history of Great Britain. They had agreed on the de- mands which were to be made to the employers knowing well that the government would be bound to be involved at an early stage.

And so it happened. A great deal of industry was still under war-time control government and so the state-power was im- mediately implicated. Lloyd George sent for the Labour leaders, and they went, so Robert told me, "truculently determined they would not be talked over by the seductive and eloquent Welshman". • At this Bob's eyes twinkled in his grave, strong face. "He was quite frank with us from the outset," Bob went on. "He said to us: 'Gentlemen, you have fashioned, in the Triple Alliance of the unions repre- sented by you, a most powerful instrument. I feel bound to tell you that in our opinion we are at your mercy. The army is dis- affected and cannot be relied upon. Trouble has occurred al- ready in a number of camps. We have just emerged from a great war and the people are eager for the reward of their sacrifices and we are in no position to satisfy them. In these circumstances, if carry out your threat and you strike then you will defeat us.

'But if you do so,' went on Mr Lloyd George, 'have you weighed the consequences? The strike will be in defiance of the government of the country and by its very success will precipitate a consti- tutional crisis of the first im.

portance. 'For, if a force arises in the state which is stronger than the state itself, then it must be ready to take on the functions of the state, or withdraw and accept the authority of the state. 'Gentlemen,' asked the Prime Minister quietly, 'have you con- sidered, and if you have, are you ready?' "From that moment on," said Robert Smillie, "we were beaten and we knew we were."- Aneur- in Bevan " 'In Place of Fear'. Lloyd George day February 2, 1972 This was not Black Friday of April 1921. This was two years earlier when the miners' leaders had a ballot vote be- hind them of 615,164 to 105,082 in favour of a strike.

Instead of leading a strike, they joined the government's Sankey Commission and allowed the miners to be deceived and betrayed by • false promises of nationalization. The role of the Triple Alliance leaders was thus clearly seen long before the April events of 1921. It was this cowardice, as well the end of the short-lived as post-war boom, which encour- aged the employers and the government to go over onto the offensive against the miners and the rest of the working class.

By December 1920, unemploy- ment stood at 6 per cent of the labour insured force (nearly • 700,000); by March 1921 it was over 1.35 million; by June it was over 2.17 million. By, 1922 over 1.75 million people in England and Wales were on Poor Law Relief. Under these circumstances, the government proceeded to control the mines. This involved a drastic cut in miners' wages. The 'war-wage' of 3s a shift, the Sankey increase of 2s and the 20 per cent gained in 1920 would all be swept away, since these had been granted under government control and government had declared the that the private owners were not bound to them. In fact, the employers went further and in districts some wages of certain grades were halved. Appeals of the miners' leaders to the government for a subsidy to maintain wages were rejected out of hand. In S Wales the getting highest-paid men were £2 Is 3d a week and labourers were reduced to 30s. The employers' strategy was to post notices throughout the coal- fields saying that all existing contracts of service were ended.

In fact, this meant that unless the miners agreed to work under savage wage cuts, they these were locked out. Government control of the pits ended on March 31, 1921, and a million the day over next miners were locked out. On the same day, the Emer- Act (passed only gency Powers five months earlier) was invoked and troops were sent into the coalfields. Machine guns were set up near pit heads. Troops were brought back from Ireland and camped in readiness in London parks. A By December 1920 unemployment stood volunteer 'defence force' was re- cruited. Miners' Federation of J. The Great Britain's Executive Com- mittee decided to ask other organizations take strike to action to assist the miners.

A conference of all the union executive committees that made Workers' the Transport up Federation and a special dele- gate meeting of the NUR both declared for action in support of the miners, and strike notices were issued on April 8 to take effect from midnight April 12.

Both the railway and transport leaders, however, claimed a part in the negotiations and their aim was directed not against the em- ployers, but towards pressure on the miners to send the pumpmen back to work (without these employers' men, the property deteriorating). was The miners' leaders, in turn, gave way to this pressure. On Monday, April 11, the negotia- tions began between the govern- the employers and the ment, miners' executive and at the very outset the miners' leaders agreed to a wage cut of 2s a shift.

Because of these negotiations both the NUR and the Transport Workers' Federation postponed the strike. However, the govern- ment and the employers refused to budge and the strike call was reissued on Friday, April 15.

Other unions came to consult with the Triple Alliance about even wider action. These in- cluded ASLEF, the ETU, the Post Office Workers and the Railway Clerks' Association.

On Thursday, April 14, the National Joint Council of Labour (the Committees of the Labour Party, the Parliamentary Labour Party and the TUC) also resolved to support the miners. The Triple Alliance, supported by hundreds of thousands of other workers and the organized bodies entire labour of the movement, was heading for a direct clash with the employers, the government and the state.

The Lloyd George coalition government could be defeated and forced to resign. The day before the strike Frank Hodges, the Miners' Federation secretary, addressed a meeting of MPs in the House of Commons. The next day, the newspapers reported that Hodges was willing to accept a temporary settlement on a district basis. As a result, Lloyd George in- vited the miners to further nego- tiations, which they rejected, since they were totally opposed to district settlements. The other Triple Alliance leaders thereupon urged the ent stood at 6 per cent miners to accept Lloyd George's they refused, offer and when J. H. Thomas-the railwaymen's leader-announced that the strike was off. The miners had been deserted and betrayed. Left on their own, the miners stuck to their demand for a national wages board and the employers still insisted on district settlements. Meanwhile, state forces moved in and a wave of arrests strikers and sympathizers occurred. The government offered a temporary subsidy, but one which was tied to wage cuts of up to 3s a shift in May and 3s 6d a shift in June, with district negotiations. This rejected by the was miners' National Delegate Con- ference and by every district.

An appeal for support to the Executive Committees of the Triple Alliance unions met with no response. The lock-out con- tinued until July 1, 1921, when the miners, alone, had to lett concede defeat. The young British Communist right at its birth, party, was pitchforked into these struggles.

1920, On October paper 'The Communist warned: 'Should the miners be defeated in this struggle, then it will not their own weak- be because of ness so much as because of the treachery and betrayal by official Labour and the desertion of their colleagues of the Triple Alliance.'

Throughout the whole crisis 'The Communist' conducted a campaign under the slogan 'Watch Your Leaders. marked contrast to its present-day epigones who crawl behind the trade union leaders and are 'surprised' by every be- trayal, the young British Com- munist Party was prepared for Black Friday and sought to pre- vent it by a principled struggle the treacherous trade against unions' leadership. In the course of this, 'The Communist' alleged that the question put to Hodges in the Commons was a plant arranged by Hodges and I. H. Thomas.

The Communist Party of 1921 moved swiftly after Black Friday and expelled Robert Williams, secretary of the Transport Wor- kers' Federation, for his part in the betrayal. As the Communist Party warned, the miners' defeat was followed by defeats and retreats right along the line. At the be- ginning of 1922, the Engineering Employers' Federation locked out all AEU members and delivered ultimatum to the 47 other an unions in the industry because the employers were demanding the sole right to say when over- time should be worked. The Communist Party called for the lock-out councils, which would also mobilize the unem- ployed. It demanded a special mobilize

TUC

conference to action by the entire working class. It fought the timid

AEU

leadership which refused to call out the apprentices and its mem- bers in non-Federated firms. It called for an extension of the to the power stations struggle and the sewage works. Although the engineers were defeated, it was this struggle which won the Communist Party great influence in important sec- tions of the engineering industry.

These developments were taken seriously by the very Russian Bolsheviks., Commenting report that the Wales on a Miners' Federation had decided by 120 votes to 63 to affiliate to Third International, Lenin the wrote in a letter to Tom Bell (August 13, 1921): What is important is- (1) To create a very good, really proletarian, in this part really mass Communist Party of England, that is, such Party which will really be the LEAD- ING force in all labour move- ments in this part of the country.

'(2) To start a daily paper of the working class in this part of the country. "To start it not as a business (as usually newspapers are started in capitalist countries), not with big sums of money, not in the ordinary and usual manner-but as economic an and political tool of the masses their struggle. (Lenin in 'On Britain', p. 563.) (All emphasis in original). The British Communist Party, until its degeneration under Stalinism, was striving to build this kind of movement is doing as the Socialist Labour League today. The Communist Party then, and the Socialist Labour League today, sought the road described by Trotsky in 'Where is Britain Going?': "The Communist Party can only come to the head of the working class in the measure that the latter comes into irre- concilable • antagonism with the conservative bureaucracy in the trade unions and the Labour Party, only by a day in and day out denunciation of its conserva- tive, anti-proletarian, imperial- monarchistic, istic, lackey-like role in all spheres of social life and of the movement.' class (Trotsky 'Where Britain is Going?' p. 129.)

CONTINUED TOMORROW

REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

DISCUSSION

ON THE

ALL TRADES

UNIONS

ALLIANCE

DRAFT

MANIFESTO

On November 6 last year a national conference All Trades Unions Alliance decided to adopt a draft manifesto to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. Since the conterence a country- vide discussion has been initiated in League branches, in the ATUA, in the Young Socialists and among Workers Press supporters.

From today until the Right- Wembley to-Work rally at Pool on March 12, we intend to carry a full page each day devoted to your comments on the draft manifesto. We have received more than 100 con- this tributions to vital discussion. Now we want at least another 100. n February 14, 1971, 4,500 workers vote Workers and their families, youth, students and the un- employed are all invited to join in this discussion. If you haven't got a copy of the draft manifesto write to Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch.

RAY ELLIOTT

NUVB convenor at Ford's, Croydon. I THINK the second clause in the Draft Manifesto is the most important of all. couldn't go up to many You people in the street and say this government had a mandate. They wouldn't know what you were talking about. The Tories illegal are an and the right to government strike and organize is being taken away from everybody.

We're losing all the gains the working right • class have made down the line-from pensioners to housewives. The only way you can get a higher standard of living is to get the wife out to work. But why should woman with two a or three children have to go out to work in this day and age?

We're losing welfare benefits well, especially free school as milk for the kids. Within yourself you believe you should have these rights, but you don't know where to go. If it came to a campaign to oust this mob (the Tories) and to do it the only way was through revolutionary activity I'd go towards this. We know there are traitors in the Labour Party as you say in ers voted for the transformation of the : I disagree with clause three. Wilson's idea of throwing a fire- work and then dashing in and putting it out again. They go so far and then they retreat.

We seem to have back-tracked from the proper Labour policy of looking after the working class. We need someone who will have a go. The Common Market is bound to make us worse off. It means that welfare benefits, the right to work and with the In- dustrial Relations Act the right against your em- to organize ployer will be taken away. I think the Draft Manifesto is good, but very putting it into practice is another matter. It's a question of how far you're pre- pared to go.

GEORGE SHERRINGTON

USDAW member at Dista Products Ltd, Speake, Liverpool.

I think the Tories were elected because of disillusionment with the Labour Party. Since coming into power they have acted, as the Manifesto puts it, to destroy working-class organization and to get into the Common Market to join forces with their Euro- Dean colleagues. The Labour leaders, and even the trade union more SO, leaders, have failed to provide a leadership against these correct atacks. I would like to emphasize that the trade union leaders are parti- cularly responsible as they are our own direct leadership.

I agree with the aims of the Manifesta-but to put these things into effect is another matter. I feel that workers will only come to support such ideals as these after some big confron- Workers Press, Wedne i of the Socialist Labour League into th tations. It could make solidarity claims others and bring on affairs to a head. I think the SLL is correct to put forward such policies as in the Manifesto.

TERRY BUTTON

DATA member, Rolls Royce, Coventry. I THINK the decision to enter the Common Market means that capital investors can freely in- vest capital in any part Europe which promises the best return. The tendency will be for more mergers of banks, and insurance houses. Fewer be people will blocks of controlling bigger capital. This in itself is' a bad thing. It means half a dozen people could be ruling Europe.

None of this is in the interests of the working class. The deci- sion to enter Europe must be opposed. The Labour MPs who voted with the Tories should be expelled from the Labour Party.

A European Common Market?

. Only a socialist one as far as I am concerned. It is clear that the Manifesto is going to fulfill a great need.

The present leadership of the working class is no good and must be discarded. The reformist and Stalinist leaders make no attempt to remove the capitalist system. All they do is exist with capitalism. They help the capitalists oppress the workers. Their methods of approach effectively dam up the attempts of the working class to shake off the capitalist regime. The Socialist Labour League is in a position to become the leadership of the working class.

188, Wadnesday February 2, 1972 PAGE 5 e into the revolutionary party.

It must fight to achieve this.

The Workers Press must keep the working class informed of all developments of the struggle.

It must provide facilities for dis- cussion through correspondence columns and give a lead in all struggles.

KEN FRASER

Cutterman at Muglemoss papermill, Aberdeen. THERE is very little I can add to the Draft Manifesto. It all seems to be there. I was at the Alexandra Palace rally On February 14 last year where the decision to launch the revolu- tionary party was taken, and I shall be coming to Wembley Poal. I think a new party should be built. Where I work there has been a lot of complacency about the Tory and government most people seem to think their own jobs there are safe. But there's beginning to be a real hardening.

of attitudes. Rising prices and rents are changing people's views.

The main difficulty in fighting the Tories is the leadership of the labour movement. This is the main thing dealt with in the Manifesto. We were in for an extra 2s an hour last year, but the SOGAT leadership accepted 6d. We were angry but nobody saw what to do about it. But low wages are Tory policy now. There have been a lot of shocks over the last period- Rolls-Royce, UCS and so on. These have had their effect on the way workers think every- where. As said there's a hardening attitude to the Tories, Manifesto is the pro- and this gramme I agree with.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wedneaday February 2, 1972 Workers Press, Wodnosday February 2, 1972 PAGE 7 a reference to sat Topon. venn- were losing their When Clive Norris is telling jobs, manage- would suddenly say: ment upon. ment you about unemployment, he 'Things are much worse than thing political completel War knows what he's talking thought-lt' li have to be squashed. he said aDOuL. 1 AlS WaS set of redundancies time_one of work for He's n been out after another'

FRANTIC

six n tohshe Tast time he went Cit he wedk fore When down dole they said to Vickers 'Look Norris, abal 2,300. The not the slightest ing uce of work Lucaiice

LUCIC

your line coming company production; 1 nat same aiternoon the depu- qualified Clive basedl CaCalE " He tation went to the House Iully run down the hydraulics . and draughtsman. worked Commons to see local MPs and divisions; commercial Vickers Armstrong, Swindon, for MI closed down Ridley, during the day studied the who man division; college in the evening for exactly master plan up drive radiation become five years to qualified. 'butcher' Upper Clyde Ship- dav he got his ticket. the anineers. year, lor the nrst time very day apprenticeship O1S Ridley arrived late and slightly anybody remembers, the com- pired and he became a trades- piany hasn't taken on any appren- flushed after a long meal. Everv.

man, they fired him one Was bene tranncas Dollte I got my apprenticeship papers One of the unionists said: 'But Clive believes that hand and notice one if unemployment worse 1ll.y the other,' Dolnters are inere Is gol Clive says. It is a dar could become 0 e a cœoe dovțdv another Jarrow? wu never torcer, Because he comes from was This shattering experience strong saw going on around him. labour tradition, The immaculately-suited Ridley didn't demoralize Clive Norris *Ob, What, powi- the injustice his • Swindon youthful angered by dịd turn enthusiasm into pessimism.

o vury a sillai Luw. Clive saas. i used to shink how of about 100,000? It will laliuli forged another link in his oniy pe a ulue atow. development notica •ac a mem theynt okel blinm oreadent us.

It was this clear expression of ber Socialists. And bang rodeo se can ike being the of the today Clive of the didn't like to which purred Cliv Socialists' extend the fight for the right which is campaign organizing nation-wide march scc

WULK

WULA

I could see there was no waging Vickers axalnsl unempoynncul lot people were Une me single, ln vbc working their guts out and thi fight inside against layabout dundancies. That would be , like

HISTORY

Rolls-Royces. I didn' throwing snowballs th round il fight like what was going on It was a nas whole For the first t. His first intro- taken throughout the towards politics Young • lve bmee working class against the govern.

family duction to the Socialists Live s alstor ncaL. with "The creation of mass riveted working-class occurred quite by accident unenn. politics. He bought of the YS ployment is a pontical act oi the _a copy Both long- ruling class and as such must be parents 'Keep Left', and then newspaper, nembers of the : Labo action by the décided of the _altere one working Party and retains regular mneenias. Tories distant today using reandfather who held the distinc- back mei it e ICreiCc "Looking mass unemployment as a weapon pretty terrible meeting,' people "There were nhat few to try and divide non or stanaing Iot parlament mn adidn"t anu naumuadlt London, there. But want the workers consttiener rulin blatant WOrKCIS, WOrKs . into a docile, slave when the casc matter. cass uimnee regarded such an act labour force.' remember that what was On last year the said abso- the me The W ao When about Vickers sacked Clive lutely spéaker ompan. forrise n corect fromo his £23-a-weel years were what described une sacked the state moved capitalist system is all about.'

now treats Clive like a beggar the ated perspiirs Clive's asociation with the lancuare plannets designated YS had its stormy . gives him £7.85 a were wcus At 16 Clive completed his 'O a few weeks' time this will be periods. levels and decided he wanted a cut f6. 'I remember after the French On this sus Clite if ex cted job. parents t CLive General DULKe Widy ha ta. ce decided clothe himseit. rent, and stagnat- ever tung seemeo to ing. Around the end ot the vert university. won- 8%; the I got fed up. I decided that wha out series of and I most wanted to do was oLal LCL as alli a Dictid which Clive was a 00 drug saa t vickers cnemneelnz. and has cvickers close became romeny Involved relationship powerful the

WILD

out-and-out careerist. v den we decidea on a march working-class community emphatically "Then the redundancies started we al agreed that Swindon it wouldn't simply be a "protest- the acalt.

KNCW

the march. not in onr became coristent clas. robo ar wàs ex- in Lord Beaverbrook's with key caps Plant plaining the working to ministry Spitfires jobs. what Socialist Labour going was the begging manuiaulullb marching right across League and the alll balcaslcı Y' They both tell the trath or thr -irom Beltast. Glas- HiLel

LIC

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VCIO.

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WOLK.

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WULACIO.

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WCIK

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Teno cerutanon to ane thetr noicies. Clive this there compani Norris, inemploye hocv that attet any omcer group write oi the would be no The then draughtsman aged 22, would the foyer the head of the contingent the 50 as they ment. Everytime Clive suggested leaves for London from accept Glasgow.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Febru IT WAS entirely appropriate that Evangelist Billy Graham should be one of the guests of honour at the inaugur- ation of President William Tolbert of Liberia. Tolbert made a presidential speech which Graham himself would have been proud of. (Perhaps he wrote it?) In a 6,000-word inaugural address Tolbert called for 'a new pace and fresh priorities'.

He declared language reminiscent of Madison Avenue rather than Monrovia: 'New directional signals must emphasis in- be flashed, new stilled, new dimensions fixed.

"Motivations must be not activated resentment, by ardent hope, honest labour (1), unimpeachable integrity, liberty and love' It amazing was during this speech that Tolbert laid down the theme of his administration: Total involvement in our sus- tained upward thrust for higher heights.' If you can imagine it, there stickers are now posters and Monrovia plastered all over urging the citizenry to join in this crusade of 'total involve- ment in our sustained upward thrust, etc., etc' It is worth noting that the oath was administered by none other than Tolbert's eldest brother, Senator Frank Tolbert, acting president of the senate.

And another brother, yet Stephen, heads the wealthy and influential Mesurado shipping which is responsible for group registering more ships than any other country in the world.

(The Liberian "flag of con- venience' enables the world's shipping magnates to operate their with minimum tonnage safety regulations and pay slave labour rates. It can be confidently predicted that 'clean' Tolbert's will permit government the shipping registration business to continue without interruption.)

Nepotism has been con- spicuous feature of Liberian political life since the country became a republic 150 years ago.

(Liberia was originally founded to provide a home for freed slaves anxious to return from the United States of America.)

Five families virtually control the country - the Tolberts Barclays, Shermans, Coopers and, above all, the Tubmans. The late president, who died last July, was William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman. In his obituary in The Times' Tubman was eulogized as 'one of Africa's elder statesmen. At his death he was an international figure who had played an im- portant role in Pan-African con- ferences'. ', the paper added. At his funeral the churchmen were 200-deep in leading Tub- man, a strict Methodist, to his resting place. The procession was led by four major societies to which the pious Tubman belonged: the International Order of Good Templars,_ the Odd- fellows. the United Brothers of Friendship (a society which " no white man is allowed to join) and the Masons. The choir sang 'Abide with Me' and, according to a Reuter report. women wept openly in the street saying: 'Where will the come from his authoritative book on In Liberia, Richard West takes a more jaundiced view of the late president's legend: 'A devotee of day February 2, 1972 cigars, the fair sex and whisky, a cornball, cracker- glad-handing, barrel philosopher, he is like a of a southern stage caricature senator-blackened.' Tubman's led extravagances him to build a palace for him- self costing f8m—about half the national budget. Throughout his lifetime Tub- man shared with his vice-presi- William Tolbert, a deep dent, hatred of communism or independent working-class organizations. Not that either of them had much to fear from the leadership 'unions'. The of the Monrovian head of the local 'TUC' is Shad Tubman, son of the late presi- dent. And Shad just happens to Miss Wokie married to new president's Tolbert, the daughter. So it's one big happy (very prosperous family! Shortly after Tubman's death, affirmed that there Tolbert would be no departures from the old ruling order. Not if he could anyway. He told the stop your president nation: will act for himself under the guidance of direction and Almighty God. I have resolved to serve my God and nothing will prevent me God makes continuous appear- in Tolbert's political ances Recently he visited a rhetoric. man in jail and told him: 'I love and God loves you, but as you chief executive it is my duty to sign your death warrant.'

The man was then taken out- side and hanged. Thus capital punishment restored to was Liberia. At the same time, Tolbert, a Baptist minister who claims not or drink, has made to smoke public declarations that he wants to fight 'inefficiency, graft and corruption—a malignancy which this society cannot afford'.

While Tolbert sermonizes and moralizes, the mass of Liberians wretchedly The remain poor. country's trade surplus of $81m in 1969 dropped sharply to $64m in 1970. fact Another not generally broadcast by the gov- ernment is that food imports have gone and there is a large external debt still not paid.

The economy has functioned in the most bizarre capitalist fashion. There are no exchange controls whatsoever. Its currency is US dollars-and the recent devaluation can't have helped matters. The other main feature of the economy is the so-called 'Open- Policy' which Tubman Door introduced. Under this, foreign were invited to enter companies the commercial, industrial and farming life of the country with a completely free hand. The most incredible of these capital invasions was made by the Firestone Company many years ago. In return for a multi- million dollar loan to get the country out of the red, the Fire- obtained' stone tyre company sole rights to exploit the rich rubber industry. Until ten years ago the com- pany virtually 'owned' Liberia. Now this ownership is spread among capitalists from Sweden, W Germany and Italy, although the dominant banking position is still in US hands. In his inaugural speech Tolbert reaffirmed the Open-Door Policy.

Defying the very logic of capi- talist exploitation, Tolbert_ told his audience: "The Open-Door Policy has contributed in con- siderable measure to the growth of our trade and commerce. It has improved balance of our payments and generally enhanced the economic development of the nation? (!) With this sort of free-wheeling approach to the country's wealth, it is no wonder that a recent magazine report the new on administration carried testimonial advertisements paying tribute to Tolbert's genius. For example, the Glaxo sub- sidiary in Monrovia took a quarter page saying: 'A healthy people makes progressive a nation - Partners with the Liberian government in the nation's health programme.'

A Pan-Am advert said: 'We've been fast friends with Liberia for over 25 years. We've watched Liberia grow into one of the Top: the late President Tubman.

most modern states in Africa fir Watch chains and top fact it's one of the most back- hats. Be- And Involvement in ward]. we're proud to Iow: Tolbert. Total say sustained upward thrust for that Pan-Am have had a hand ir that growtn. noer ne nis The First National City Bank of America also took Congratulations say: wishes President and government' 1 olberi hic while Firestone also added their 'congratulations. big caption half-page acrOss Une rurestone proclaimed:

'GROWING

WITH

LIBERIA

LIBERIA?

which be added-- might Tell that rubber workers to the make on Lne antadons WhO profits for the US giant Not, of course that the plight Tolbette. these influences

WOIKCIS

He is reputed to spend much of the day reading Bible.

'Soviet Weekly, the Kremlin's English-language propaganda magazine, is serializing extracts from a recent article in the Soviet publication 'Kommunist'. The article is a lengthy attack Trotskyism Dy veteran on • We Stalinist Boris Ponomarev.

have already noted this column the main points in his attack. He tries to create an Trotskyism amalgam between and Maoism on the basis of the distortions of both grossest positions. Ponomarev is an experienced anti-Trotskyist Stalinist and a falsifier of long. standing. As a member of Stalin's central com- mittee at the height of the 1937 he played part in purges launching the campaign of slanders against the old Bol- •shevik Bukharin which culmin- ated in his show trial and execu- tion in Moscow. The gist of Ponomarev's attack in the 1930s was that the old Bolsheviks "agents were fascism'. In his 'Kommunist' article, he implies that Trotsky- For a million Polish families, finding homes can mean an eight-year wait, even after paying a large deposit. Today, 27 years after a war which reduced major cities to rubble, Poland is still grappling of building with the problem homes for several million people.

The country's leaders have promised house- to step building by 6.5 per cent this year, but the Communist Party 'Polityka' has warned weekly against hopes that queue for flats will shrink quickly.

This year the government decided to give preferential treatment to workers in priority industries, such as engineering, in distributing new flats.

The decision, said 'Polityka', was based on economic necessity but would disappoint the "co- operative formed today queue by 1 million families. 'It would be much better if social and economic needs did not violate normal distribution uf flats, if these needs were not other people's expense met at and did not deepen the com- munity's into division social Classes based on having or not having a flat,' it added.

The distribution change is ism is an agency of imperialism.

Thus, he says: 'The monopoly eagerly publicizes Trot- press skyite slogans which link pseudo- revolutionary phrasemongering with the vicious Sovietism. most anti- Ponomarev's article is chiefly interesting because it demon- the Kremlin's growing strates fear of the Fourth International and the international revolu- tionary movement. That they should choose 'Soviet Weekly' as vehicle to publicize Pono- a ran marev's attack is also significant.

Presumably they were unable to persuade the crisis-ridden British Communist Party to pub- licize Ponomarev's crude slanders through its own press. In the heyday of the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, such campaigns were given extensive coverage by the British Stalinist press. The present Communist Party leadership in Britain has never renounced its support for Stalin's crimes. They undoubtedly sup- port Ponomarev's anti-Trotskyist campaign. Yet they dare not say publicly for fear SO crediting themselves still further part of a plan by Stalinist leader Gierek to appease the Edward workers' his against anger bureaucracy. But it is calculated to anger as many workers as it appeases. Gierek, a 58-year-old ex-miner, in December to came power 1970, 'in the aftermath of bloody street battles in Poland's northern ports. High on the list of demands put forward in the December riots were higher wages, better housing conditions and more consumer goods. Gierek has since said that the country went to the brink of out-and-out civil war in 1970 and has drawn up fine-sounding plans to overcome the chronic housing He problem. promised 1,075,000 homes by 1975. His plans were endorsed by the Communist Party's Congress two months which said ago houses should in future be bigger and better than those built so far. Prior to the December riots, under the rule of Wladislav Gomulka, apartments were often skimpily finished and the amount of floor space allotted to each person was steadily reduced.

To make matters. worse, the in the eyes of thinking workers.

"Soviet Weekly', in any case, can hardly be regarded as the ideal publicity medium for Ponomarev's lies. For one thing, the magazine is an official propa- ganda sheet for the Soviet gov- ernment. For another, it has just announced the winner of first prize in its latest competition the prize is a holiday in and fascist Spain. The winner is Eric Savage of Winsford, Cheshire, a builders' labourer on the Bass Charrington site at Runcorn. He is a member of the Communist Party and an enthusiastic apologist for Stalin- ism. His was the 'first correct random, to be picked out at answer thousands from entries to the contest. On February 26, he will be boarding the "Alexandr Pushkin', a Soviet luxury liner, for a 14- cruise to Las Palmas, Casablanca and Gibraltar. unions have repeatedly appealed to workers and trade unionists in other countries not to lend support to the Franco dictator- ship by holidaying in Spain.

The combination of anti- Trotskyism and relations with Franco speaks a lot louder for the Stalinists' real politics than any number of articles concocted in the Kremlin. rate of house-building actually declined in the late 1960s, although demand was rising as post-war baby boom came of age.

This development under Gomulka has since been verbally condemned as a major mistake.

It dashed the hopes of millions of Poles who paid large deposits to co-operative associations in the effort to find flats.

were told They they could expect a flat after five years— three as a candidate co-operative member and then another two.

But Warsaw's Jerzy mayor Majewski says eight years is now the average waiting period for a co-operative home, which most tenants do not own but occupy on long leases. Young married couples with children normally jump can ahead in the queue, but Polityka' said that for every nine couples who get married at present, only six flats are being built.

One thing is certain - the bureaucracy suffers not at all from the housing problem-they are always first in the queue.

And it remains to be seen whether the Polish working class will be satisfied to live on Gierek's promises for very much longer-especially those without a home to call their own.

Workers Press, Wadnesday Fobruary 2, 1972 PAGE 8 When Jean de Lipkowski visited sunny Greece last week all was definitely not sweetness and light. Two home-made bombs were taken out of the garage at the house where he was staying, and underground organizations made abusive attacks on him.

Lipkowski is secretary of state for foreign affairs in the French government. He was visiting the Greek colonels to talk about 'mutual economic matters', touching mainly on the possibility of French investment in Greece and the country's relations with the Common Market. Relations between the Six and Greece have been somewhat on the cool side since 1967, when the colonels took power in a coup d'etat. However, the country is still an associate member the European Economic Community. It is due to achieve of full membership, appropriately enough, in 1984.

Fun-lovers in the White House press corps are already splitting their sides as some of the details emerge of this month's Nixon family visit to China. particular source of mirth last week was the itinerary of A the US President's wife, Mrs Patricia Nixon. She will need shots of curare in her face-muscles if she is to sail through some of her engagements dignity. with any Shanghai's industrial exhibition, While her husband views Mrs Nixon is expected to be taken to the Ching An children's palace to make first-hand acquaintance with the political van- guard of China's children—the 'little red guards', aged from six to 14. No doubt she will enjoy their singing, handicrafts, embroidery, model-making and paper-cutting.

, All good first-grade stuff.

She will also like the performances of the folk dances of China's minority groups, and just about stomach a little girl with sparkling eyes and pigtails reciting the poem 'Chairman Mao's works are like sunshine'. After all, it takes all sorts The real strain on her White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nerve- centres will begin when she has to listen to recitations of the latest industrial production figures and watch children singing and dancing the mini-ballet 'Little truck drivers go to Peking to see Chairman Mao'. - The coup de an American nickel-arcade feature: children firing machine-gun at a mock American aircraft which hurtles earth- wards if the child's aim is good.

Merv is at it again. Bishop The of Southwark, Dr Mervyn Stockwood, has espoused the cause of commercial radio.

Or at least he has become a director of a putative radio station which will burst into pre-recorded song and ads if the Tories' Sound Broadcasting Bill becomes law.

A Labour supporter and bosom buddy of Opposition Chief Whip Bob Mellish, 58-year-old Merv seems anxious to let it be known his salary will go to charity. His own charity-the Mervyn Stockwood Society.

The company is appropriately enough called Radio Capital.

'He had an unerring intuition for power and business ..

. He has the greatest press empire in continental Europe .

• He runs his paper like a monarch'-'The Times', three years ago, on W German press baron Axel Springer.

It's worth remembering what the paper had to say on April 15, 1968, because Springer's prestigious 'Die Welt' newspaper has now announced a joint venture with "The Times'.

The subject 'European unity'.

And few things could better illustrate the real meaning of this hoary old slogan than the pact between these two reactionary papers.

Let's just look at what Lord Thomson's organ thinks it's get- ting close to—in its words of 1968: 'less agreeable in the grip which the Springer press has on the German mind are its ex- treme conservatism and its anachronistic refusal to abandon cold war attitudes at a time when the trend in W Germany and Europe is moving in the opposite direction.'

And Springer, the man whose vicious witch-hunt of the Ger- man student left was followed by the shooting of Rudi Dutschke, hasn't changed. Nastiest lunch we've heard of for some time will be held The Industrial Society tomorrow. holding 'New 1S Action Lunch' at which their director, Iohn Garnett, will talk about 'management priorities for the 1970s and the action needed now to make the best use of human resources'.

If you can manage to stuff yourself with duck liver pate at the Connaught Rooms and listen to this lot, you're braver than we are. The brochure advertising this beanfeast also says: 'He will consider, in particular, what management can learn from the attitudes of companies in the white blue-collar and field; from the policies of unionized and non-unionized firms; and from the activities of behavioural scientists, management development specialists and industrial relations practitioners.

What a mouthful! And the lunch should be too—it costs f8 if you're a non-member of the Society and a mere f6 if you're a member. Who's invited? The brochure says For directors, senior managers and trade union officials'.

PAGE 10 Workara Proca, Wednoaday Fabruary 2, 1872 ON DECEMBER 9 last year, the leader of Britain's 200,000 Post Office workers, Tom Jackson, startled a special conference of his union with the words 'We must co-operate with management'. Last week Post Office chairman William Ryland forecast an £80m increase in the corporation's expected deficit over five Today, in the second part of an exclusive interview, Jackson talks to DAVID MAUDE, our industrial correspondent, about rising joblessness and the prospects for his members under the Tories.

DM: Since Tories the are pressing ahead into the Com- and his members? community Market, which will in- mon Or does he look at the social crease unemployment well over say, unemployment, and million aspects, the and raise prices, 'I must hang on to every General Election say: without a or job that I've got'. This would do you not think a mandate, make the industry totally anti- are justified trade unionists in quated the that it organizing extent to bring about the could not provide for the com- government's resignation?

a munity proper service at proper price level.

TT: I

prefer the miners' to see struggle being a wages battle as for poorly paid, people who deal and I would like to with Raise wages the sphere in industrial albeit there tremendous are political connotations. But I'm not seeking some If that happens people will sort of confront- barricade-type stop posting letters and we'll lose that those who ation. think jobs anyway. that sort of confront- say that For us, it's not a question of possible, is winnable, in aulon hanging on to the jobs we've got the present circumstances, do because at all costs, we're going working class a disservice.

to increase Post Office wages as What I'm really is much as we saying can. don't believe you force can Every increase in wages means government to an election on the either an increase in prices or a and basis of trade union action and if the reduction in service, win at the ballot box. public don't in want reduction they -and believe Therefore what is the altern- don't-then it means increased ative? The alternative is to bring prices. the government down and take over. Now you reach a point of price increases where the amount of DM: Has the announcement traffic drops, as a result of which of a million unemployed in any lose jobs you actually more by way affected the policy of the than you resisting mechanization Workers Union of Post Office would gain by preventing it.

bargain- towards oroductivity ing: that you should I don't want to a Post see Office which is a kind of negotiate productivity, asking coolie system when the rest of industry cent of the money technologically streamlined and wearing work? people white remain in coats to work. I don't want to see our fellows bloody humping great parcels don't want to see people about. I sorting by hand if it's possible to sort by machine. You might regard this as but being totally confused, as TI: Well first of all, we've just said at the beginning, every trade in defending 7,000 succeeded union leader has got two duties.

getting rid of the pro- iobs by posals which the Post Office put National Users' Council for reducing the size of the postal service. I suspect now that their fore- jobs lost by 1978 25,000 cast of His first duty is to his mem- is also out of the window. bers. that the and to ensure Technological change is not decisions he takes right in are but desirable. onlv inevitable, relation to his membership. He There's very little vou do can has a social duty-but this is of of the but about parts service, secondary importance. in sorting offices it is possible to What people don't apparently which introduce mechanization that executive councils realize is reduce of does the size the of trade unions are not some sort labour force. of wall of working-class great solidarity but themselves This is fairly slow process,

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happens representative of sectional self. not something that We could interést. overnight. certainly it. without physical achieve any DM: How have redundancy—although to the can you productivity dealing in nation a whole there would as which and be a total loss of jobs. neriod both William Rvland describe as one Every trade union leader is in of economic downturn and still this dilemma. What does he do? claim to avoid redundancies?

Does he do that which he re- being good for the TI: What you've got now is what, gards as

POEU

I hope be a temporary will phenomenon - high unemploy- ment. you look at the history of If the Post Office from probably the turn of the century it's of a steady rise in traffic, steady rise in labour and steady costs a rise in the number of people employed despite the fact that deliveries have been cut and so on. we've This is because better working conditions for our people, we've got shorter hours and so on. I would be glad if we could hours, offset shorter against productivity, but I suspect that my members want money rather those circum- than hours. In stances one offers advice-but in the long run one takes decisions.

If our people want money, they are seeking as a conscious and deliberate act to reduce the total number of jobs available.

If the Post Office is allowed to go on in the way it's going at the moment, trafic will turn down not through the economy being slack, but because there is no future for a service which has continually got to increase its prices. We are in competition with telephones, telex and other ser- vices and somehow we have got circumstances in to produce which we can give to our mem- bers a decent standard of life and good working conditions.

This means some decrease in the total size of the labour force-albeit spread out-rather than a sudden one like the one hat, we've just resisted.

DM: Aren't you with this line of argument placing your mem- in a trap? On the one bers hand you base your policy on hopes of an economic upswing, on the other you throw away fight for working-class ownership and control of the economy because-as you said earlier-you're opposed on industrial action principle to to force the Tory government's resignation? T): think you fall into a trap in believing that it's possible to bring down the government and through trade union action then, by using the ballot box, return a Labour government. l think that's a trap and that you do a disservice to the working class by persuading people that this is possible. Within system Now, given those circum- work within the stances, system. I know that as far as the Socialist Labour League is con- cerned this'll be another brick- bat to throw at me. • I believe that the system as it stands at the moment can be changed. I would like to see it changed through the ballot box.

I want to win the next election for the Labour Party. I want to win the next eléction for a Labour Party that has moved to the left. If you bring down the govern-

NICIDY

mausuud acuon. would the reaction be Think some sort of neo-fascist govern- Icall And that has far more dangers than for try- Tre wordne cass win through the ballot ing to box politicizing members your through strikes, doing what you are able to produce the circum.

stan peophe eel the anei ves conot themselves your people : com- mitted to a leit policy-a policI designed to give gréater control better industry workers, give social benefits, reduce the worst excesses of bronts I believe all of these things are possible. But I think the theory that can destroy the government by industreat action and then g( to o og wn s lnle ț‹ succeed. In fact I'm sure it won't succeed, the long and that run it will broduct mnnlely worse government than we have at the moment. That really is the basic differ ence between me and the SLL

TOMORROW

We will continue with from contributions miners to the discus- sion begun last week : "The miners and the Tory government'.

arrest SOVIET security police have sociology teacher arrested a Vaclac Sevruk, and questioned about 100 other people in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, as part of a nationwide campaign against suspected dissidents.

Sevruk, in his early 30s, has been held suspected un- orthodox Marxist views, rather than nationalist activities.

Those questioned are suspected of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. This charge carries of seven a maximum sentence years' imprisonment for a first conviction with the possibility of five years' further exile in Siberia. This latest report of KGB (se- curity police) activity follows house searches during January in Moscow and Leningrad. were Twenty-one people arrested earlier in January in the Ukraine on suspicion of national- ist activities and several former inmates of labour colonies in the Mordovian complex - where many of those convicted of "anti- Soviet' crimes serve their sen- tence - have recently been questioned by the KGB in Lenin- grad. The current crack-down follows an authoritative article in the Communist Party daily 'Pravda' which warned of the dangers of dissidents. sittin THERE SEEMS little hope that Italian coalition Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats and Republi- cans can be re-formed, despite the efforts of ex-premier Emilio Colombo to patch it up. Ex-President Saragat, head of the Social Democrats, demanded to know whether the Christian Democrats have decided to force a General Elec- tion rather than try to solve the present political crisis.

Although the Christian Demo- the largest party in crats are Italy, it is highly unlikely that an election would enable them to do more than form a minority gov- ernment unless they called upon the Centre-Left parties to help.

In that case, the new govern- ment would be just as unstable as the one which collapsed just over two weeks ago. The two main problems facing any government would be Italy's ailing economy and the pending referendum on divorce. It seems that the Christian Democrats will only co-operate with other parties on condition that any Divorce Bill is SO watered down as to make divorce virtually impossible. I would like inforn Fill in the form below and

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This message is likely to go down well with Feather, even if he does not say so publicly, since the only real alternative to co- lines is a operation en these fight to force the Tories to re- ond sign and take their eniry plans with them. Despite the TUC's official op- to entry, Feaiher position wil! tomorrow morning meet the vice- president of the Common Mar- ket Commission, Wilhelm Hafer- kamp. A fu "nier trade union offic.al in W Germany, Haferkamp will also be meeting members ef the ind Labour Shadow Cabinet during out his four-day visit to Brirain.

Meanwhile Union Accident, an insurance company with whom 43,000 motorists were insured, were contesting a High Court move for its compulsory winding up. For the Department of Trade and Industry, counsel Peter Mil- lett said that the application was being made primarily on the ground that the company lacked the solvency margin required by law. week, to over 1,500. The men will lose their jobs from today and will receive one week's pay in lieu of notice.

week's Last dismissals for 'economic reasons' were made by which General Motors Holdens, sacked 1,240 and by men, Chryslers, which sacked 57.

Meanwhile, the Building Association of Western Trades Australia yesterday urged British construction workers not to go to Western Australia. BTA President T. Butler announced that over a 12-month period 3,000 building workers had left the industry because of its instability. In a letter to the National Federation of Construction Unions in Britain, the BTA declares: "The BTA, consisting of the and brick- layers, plasterers, painters' carpenters and plumbers' unions, is united in its warning to building trades- men in the United Kingdom not to leave their own country, to Australia where to come building industry is in a very unstable position? Workers Press, Wednesday February 2, 1972 PAGE 11

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FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN LONDONDEF

Council in Rhodesia has dis-

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• HATRED is. sociated itself from the recent riots and from the actions of beginning to replace militant, banned African as the uprisen Sorrow organizations. people of Derry piece to- signed by Mr statement gether the full story of Edison Sithole, and lawyer detainee who the former the bloody Sunday ANC's National Secre- Publicity Čouncil's massacre. tary, announces the independence

ZAPU,

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of Eye-witnesses testify that and

FROLIZI

(Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe). of the half-hour slaughter, Clearly afraid of being left 13 and when at least men behind by the 5 million Africans boys were killed, was deliber- the ANC it claims represent, ate and planned army murder.

which includes several After reading scores of released has state- detainees, warned ments, inspecting the site of the the Pearce Commission of an killing and talking directly 'inevitable' bloodbath if the to people involved, I am convinced terms imposed the are on that this is right. Africans. Meanwhile, Rhodesian Internal Four facts main damning Affairs Minister Lance Smith has emerge: declared that the majority vast • The soldiers went in to kill.

of Africans the settle- ment terms and that those who • The troops used less than the them *a small min- oppose are usual quantity of gas and rubber ority of rabid, militant, nation- bullets the rioters-they against alist hooligans' who will be not appear to have wanted some of permitted to succeed. the crowd to within Tenan Despite Smith's statement, shooting distance. delegation from the colon-man The army • did

TUC.

not launch a African which says it has normal 'snatch-squad' raid 14 affiliated and repre- sents some 60,000 workers, this • Soldiers accompanied by rejected Saracens the settlement went onto the

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waste before the Rossville St terme ground

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Assemble Greendyke Street off SALTMARKET 12.30 p.m.

JOIN THE MARCH THROUGH GLASGOW

RALLY 2.30 p.m. Woodside Halls St George's Cross Trade unionists, Young Socialists and other speakers

MARCH TO LONDON

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TO COMFORT A DYING HUGH GILMOUR

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flats without riot gear, but with guns and automatic weapons at the ready for killing. There were no shots fired by so-called gunmen before the slaughter. Only one account I have read admits to any gunfire at all by priests have IRA. Seven the testified that there was no shooting at the army. I talked to a Derry leader of the official IRA. He said: 'There definitely were no snipers who opened up first. If they had, they would not have missed the troops. As far as the official and provisional IRA is concerned it is strict policy not to fire in a riot situation.'

Soldiers shot down totally innocent people. No fire at all was directed at the alleged snipers in the flats.

All of the people killed and wounded were on ground level. Most of those killed were shot through the back as they fled.

Others were murdered as they went to help victims. Scores and scores of eye- witnesses prove these facts.

Here is one: Susan Porter (17) of Cramore Gardens saw Hugh Gilmour (17) and Bernard McGuigan meet their deaths: I looked out of the window and saw about six young fellows walk out from Lisfannon Park waving their hands in the air when the army opened fire on them. They all fell to the ground.

*About minutes later two another young fellow came from the flats towards Lisfannon Place with his hands up in the air. The army fired at him and he fell on the ground. People round him pulled him to cover.

...We left the houses and two more bodies were lying by the phone box. One I know to be Hugh Gilmore the other was covered up and I was told he was Bernard McGuigan.' I heard the even more harrow- ing story of John Liddy, 27, an ex-member of the Ulster Defence Regiment. He was tape-recorded after he was released with a broken leg from Strand Rd police barracks.

Often weeping uncontrollably Mr Liddy told how he had to watch while one badly-wounded man surrounded by three corpses pleaded for help. 'One of them raised his arm and beckoned for help but we ... (weeping)... we tried to get across but the gunfire was too heavy' These stories and hundreds more now being collected on the Creggan Estate and in Bog- side expose the press lies over this bloody atrocity. In the Catholic areas of Derry last night people laughed at the panel picked by the Tory gov- "investigate' ernment - to this crime. No one need tell these people that Sharpeville came to their street on Sunday. THE NATIONAL coal strike firmly in the shadow of last Si sion in N Ireland. When Tory Employment Secretary Robert Carr washed his hands, of any further government initiatives last week, he declared war to the death › on Britain's 280,000 miners. From now on the Tories will throw every trick in the book at the miners to try to divide, smear and weaken them until they are beaten back to the pits empty-handed. Spitting and clawing in their crisis like wounded tigers, the Tories are smashing down on every section of the working class forced to fight for its rights and living standards.

With recession tobogganing downwards out of control, the Tories can no more give money to the miners than they can give jobs to Ulstermen. Already 20 miners picketing at Clipstone colliery and two at Edwinstone, Notts, have been arrested and charged with ob- including two NUM struction branch officials. At Kilnhurst colliery, Rother- ham, Yorks, five miners were arrested when fighting broke out as pickets talked to under-oth- cials trying to get to work.

And as the strike goes on and bitterness intensifies, police increasingly to are being used intimidate pickets and to escort scabs and strike breakers across the lines. But far from weakening the miners, every new twist of the Tory_knife has deepened their hatred of Toryism and hardened their determination to meet the government's challenge blow for blow. And each new twist brings cries of sympathy from other sections of the labour movement.

Pickets have been strengthened throughout the country. Not bag of coal is leaving the pits.

Not a load is being driven from open casts. Not a cargo is landing at the docks. And from Monday, the miners' stranglehold on Britain's fuel and

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power supplies extended to the power stations. Now denied both coal and oil, they are set to grind to a halt within a matter of days. the TUC and indivual While trade union leaderships refuse to raise the demand for full physi- cal support to the miners, rail- lorry drivers and waymen, dockers have lined up solidly be- hind them. Throughout the 13 divisions of the coalfield the call has gone up this week for TUC chief Vic- tor Feather to stop acting as a page-boy between the govern- ment and the NUM and mobilize the trade union movement's 10 million members behind the miners in a General Strike.

The 200,000 strong Civil and Public Services Association has called for 'all possible support I strike enters its fourth week f last Sunday's bloody repres- to the miners' and raised the slogan: 'Their battle is ours'.

in their journal A statement 'Red Tape' said: 'The lesson of the miners for is all unions that responsible trade unionism will get them nowhere and that co-operation government's policy is a waste of time • wages 100 storemen at British- And Leyland's component factory in Birmingham staged aone-day strike yesterday in support of the miners and agreed to repeat it every Tuesday until the strike ends. Donations to the miners' fight- ing fund continued to pour in with a cheque for £1,000 from

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Years of concessions and co- operation under both Labour and Tory governments, and now the savage attacks on living stand- ards by Heath, stand behind the miners' no-compromise stand. And 18 months of Toryism, which has taken milk from children and bread from families made the miners' mouths, has fight for a living wage the fight of the entire working class.

It is clear that however many pits the Tories threaten to close and whatever the réluctance of their leaders, the miners will not give in. The British Steel Corporation warned yesterday that without coal its Corby plant would close at the end of this week and a 1,000 men would be laid off.

The Miners' Strike and the Tory government

DENABY

Denaby Main Hotel ('The Drum') Denaby Main, Yorkshire Thursday, February 3, 7.30 p.m.

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