Workers Press no. 687

workers press

GENERAL STRIKE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

THE Young Socialists' Right-to Work has won CanDals mendous support rom tne ing class in Britain and N Ireland.

Money has flowed in from trade branches, councils and shop stewards com- mittees. port to launch this urgent fight for jobs has come from ordinary pCODIC 1 Ou Ve generously to keep me young un employed marchers on the long marches to London. The Glasgow contingent today enters SeCond

WECKORR

road. On February 19 two more con- mans the And now that police intervention has indication

SWCCDIUS

DOW CIS

been proved inadequate-as in the con- desperate they are to crush the frontation at Saltley coke depot, mingham—the next stage of the offen- sive will be British troops.

a RooF of the industrial Relations At aero showed Employment Tory ministers yesterday stunned parliament by introducing sweeping regulations to close the resolve of the government when commenting or of British industry with down huge sections The massive clampdown on the power cuts. minutes announcing use of electricity is the severest in peace time.

extraordinary ster wanted called Court what TrOn W. O. Campbell CBI, the organization of big business, 'It also has to be realized that if the inners are altonge conut as a minimum, here s the recommend of figures economic future of this country.

enter the sixth week With the miners about to severe increases in the once or coal wit the all the effect that would have on the future size of Cane by, the conditions are building up for the industry and the whole economy.

a genera ouike Tee ben she inque in ports is tondin The establishment of a court of inquiry to examine findings ume wnen TeDOLLS the pay claim is nothing more than a judicial government, backed by a hysterical Tory press cam these vicious It buys time for the Heath will try to intimidate and stampede the trade union leaders into acceptance.

cabinet on two tronts • It permits the extension of the state of emer- And just as in the the leadership abandoned workers suike harsh and punitive introduce months ago is that power cuts. The fories thinking behind this and accepteda compromise climate of opinion hostile dangers exist for the miners. The weak link and the remains the

TUC

other trade union leaders. It the dispute towards the date of February crucia 28- when the Industrial Relations February Act comes into operation.

other gave a taste oL ПОЙ working class ov the state emergency But the isolation of the miners from the rest of the trade union movement was irrevocably burst in But it will be exceedingly severe Birmingham • Thursday when the E Birmingha undoubtedly. many people, perhaps district of Amalgamated will be laid off. that millions Engineering Workers estimated 50,000 called out an engineers to join pickets to close down Saltley coke workers must now sumer mu unat ms govern ment can proceed to drive back the miners.

depot. Now is the time for resolu- bombard Congress tions House and other

LAUC

headquarters demand FEARS of a second Aberfan hit Manager of the Dyserth moun iny experience ine repeated a N Wales village yesterday after tain experience repeated limestone and boulders Anson described the rock fall as Enrousaour tae Country. rOCKS TrOM catastrophe' by caused quarrying catastroDne crassed The government has no elec- the rock face which into the local school and scores toral mandate wage-cutting unfortunately not foreseen for attempting to starve ol nouses. Mr Primary-school nedamastel section workers into sub- Five and six year olds at the R. A. Koberts wno nad watched Ysgol Hirradug primary school horrified hori, said. the rocks crashed miSSion had to be treated for shock and cannot help In fact, won- Heath's election mani festo in 1970 promised a lower from living glass after the dering if 01

CULS

We are cancer incident. another Aberfan.' ing unemployment and Better Tomorrow' is perfectly constitutional, IMPERIAL Chemical Industries is planning to dump 90,000 gallons of therefore, the Has. arsenic waste from its Severnside plant into the Bristol Channel mid- everything workers to pos way between Gower and Ilfracombe.

sible make this government It will contain up to 2 per cent pure arsenic.

resign. RUARY 12, 1972 • No 687 • 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

To demonstrate the full scale tingents will set out from Liver- pool and Swansea to converge on support for the campaign in the Workers Press has the rally the Empire working class, mass at list just Pool, Wembley, on March 12.

compiled a containing some of the organizations which The widespread, overwhelming have given moral political or support in the working class is support. vindication total Young Socialists have organized This list does not contain the a campaign which is both timely and absolutely necessary.

thousands of working people who As the Tories take away men's made personal donations and to them the Young Socialists away their wish to pay thanks. The mood of the march it, and • The list begins on page 2, but, everyone associated with that the Tory government, those through pressure space, responsible for the have to be continued on Monday.

huge unem- ployment, must be of See page 3 for the Right-to-Work DuL • OuL office. diary.

LOBBY AS DOCKS STOP

A 24-HOUR token strike closed employers' representatives -WaS port of London yesterday as Now deadlocked. second 16,000 dockers stayed with "independent' away tribunal an from work in against chairman will be convened protest to growing unemployment in the decide the case. A strike could industry Tilbury, national about 100 called if the menemployed by т. Wallis, Smith Coggins dockers' leaders demonstrated Ltd- outside the hearing of an appeal are returned to the pool.

In Liverpool, 125 by men against being dockers who returned to the port's unattached walked out on Thursday claiming labour pool. extra pay for impedance of piece- The four-man appeals work earnings decided to stay on mitteetwo union men and two strike.

workers press

GENERAL STRIKE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER & SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIA

THE Young Socialists' Right-to won Work campaigr mendous support from the work.

ing class in Britain and N Ireland.

Money has flowed in from trades trade union branches, councis and shop stewards com mittees. But most of the financial sup port to launch this urgent fight from ordinary for jobs has come people. generously to keep the young un- employed marchers on the long marches to London. The Glasgow contingent today enters Is week road. On February 19 two more con- Tories introduce these The fact that the And now that police intervention has indication of

DOWCIE

been proved inadequate—as in the con- desnerte they are to crush the class As we have frontation at Saltley coke depot, Bir- fight whole Tory strategy, Common mingham—the next stage of the ofien- the towards joining barucular. MatKel sive will be British troops.

Secretary and Tory ministers yesterday stunned parliament Robert Employment of CarIndustrial Relations Act. also showe regulations to close

ANTON

by introducing sweeping. the resolve of the government when commenting on of British industry with down huge sections the court of inquiry. The massive clampdown power cuts. on the the he Within minutes of announcing inquiry use of electricity is the severest in peace time.

the took then telling te cardoranaly sco 'independent' court head of the caled. Mr W. O. Campbell Adamson, CBI, the organization of big declared: business, It also has to be realized that if the 'What is here really is the battle for on to recommend sort of economic future of this country.

uner de lake coul do a minu With the miners about to enter the sixth week have to be severe increases in the price or coal witt millions likely effect that would have the future size of Tine army standing by, the conditions are building up for the industry and the whole economy.

a General Strike The big test will come in ten days' to The establishment of a court of inquiry to examine ume wien pay claim is nothing more than a judicial cover government, backed by a hysterical Tory press cam- vicious plans. It buys time for the Heath try to intimidate and stampede the trad cabinet on two tronts union leaders into acceptance Tenutus dispute towards the crucial when the Industrial Relations Act comes into operation.

TUC informs us he yesterday Trade and In the commons luesady. MeANWAHA bureaucrats were at the Department gave campaign against the ployment yesterday - should be declared a public holiday!

working class. He warned that power by the state or emergency would cut producuon In But the isolation of the miners from the rest many factories by up to 50 per cent.

union movement was irrevocably burst ir trace He continued: 'But it will be exceedingly severe undoubtedly. many people, perhaps be laid of. Davies is saving that Engineering Workers called out an estimated 50.000 engineers to join pickets to close down Saltley coke workers must now suner in oraer that nis govern- ment can proceed to drive back the miners.

Now is the time for resolu Congress tions bombard and other demand- union headquarters FEARS of a second Aberfan hit in limestone quarry th D. H.

repeated a N Wales village yesterday after limestone quarry

CALICH

fall as boulders and from Anson describec use rock catastrophe' caused quarrying 'catastrophe' crashed in the rock The government has no elec into the local school and scores toral mandate for wage-cutting was of houses. for to starve Mr attempting into sub- Five and six year olds at the R. A. who had watched section

WOLKCIS

Ysgol Hirradug primars school horrified rocks crashed mission. had to be treated for shock and cannot help Heath's election mani- WUll festo in CUIS TOn lying pass arrel we . are In aanger ol incident. another Aberfan.' ing unemployment and Better Tomorrow' perfectly constitutional IMPERIAL Chemical Industries thereers to the is planning to dump 90,000 gallons mass arsenic waste from its Severnside plant into the Bristol Channel mid- workers do everything pos way between Gower and Ilfracombe. sible to make this government It will contain up to 2 per cent pure arsenic.

UARY 12, 1972 • No 687 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

tingents will set out from Liver- To demonstrate the full scale campaign in the pool and Swansea to converge on support for the Workers Press has the mass rally at the Empire working class, compiled Pool, Wembley, on March 12.

list containing just a some of the organizations which The widespread, overwhelming moral or political have given support in the working class support. vindication total that the Young Socialists have organized This list does not contain the a campaign which is both timely and addresses the names and absolutely necessary.

thousands of working people who As the Tories take away men's have made personal donations and to them the Young Socialists jobs, they take away their right to live. wish to pay thanks. The mood of the march, and associated with it, is • The list begins on page 2, but, that the Tory government, through of will those pressure space, responsible for the have to be continued on Monday.

huge unem- ployment, of See page 3 for the Right-to-Work must be put. out oflice. diary.

LOBBY AS DOCKS STOP

A 24-HOUR token strike closed employers' representatives was the port of London yesterday as deadlocked. Now second 16.000 dockers stayed tribunal with "independent' away ant from will be work in protest against chairman convened to unemployment decide the case. growing in the industry. national strike could be Tilbury, called if the men-employed by At about 100 dockers' T. Wallis. Smith Corgins leaders demonstrated Ltd- outside the hearing of an appeal are returned to the poot.

being In Liverpool, 125 dockers who men against returned to the port's unattached walked out on Thursday claiming labour pool. extra pay for impedance of piece- The four-man appeals work earnings decided to stay on com- mitteetwo union men and two strike.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Fobruary 12, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

THE AFRICAN National Council has replied to lan Smith's charges of 'intimidation' by 'Gestapo detention accusing his regime of methods'. It feared that it would be outlawed.

The ANC called on Smith

IN E

his charges to substantiate that it is linked with terrorist

EUROPE ...

organizations abroad and that it had organized a campaign of intimidation to get Africans POLAND and the Vatican may reject the proposed Anglo- shortly conclude a agree- Rhodesian settlement. Catholic according to ment Warsaw. circles in A new 'As far as Smith is concerned,' round of talks is to be held in 'any person the statement says, Rome in April. who disagrees with the govern- The Gierek wants regime who has a black skin ment and church recognition support tor been intimidated.' of the Oder-Niesse frontier with The ANC claims that about 250 Germany. The church wants being held Africans are without of concessions on questions trial in Rhodesia. buildings, the press and religious and cultural associations under

MONEY

its control. speech to Warsaw Pact IN A defence ministers and military Socialist

DENIAL

commanders, German Unity Party boss Erich Honecker

NATO

still warned that was and dangerous that constant The ANC's deputy chairman, vigilance was necessary to Banana, the Rev Canaan dis- the machinations of im- thwart closed that is compiling its perialism. dossier of own intimidation Chinese of He accused the which would be presented the hands of playing into im- Commission. He the Pearce through their perialism great- denied that the Council was chauvinism and their from getting outside or ideology that hostile is to had ties with banned organiza- Leninism, by and particularly tions. with the their combination United States'. challenges The ANC statement E Germany generally takes Smith all to brosecute strong line questions of im- detained 'since he claims to have proved E-W and fears relations evidence of their illegal actions'.

of deal the consequences any Two right-wing parties of the over Germany which the Soviet white colonists who oppose make over its bureaucracy may Smith held joint meeting head. which they decided to

IANOS KADAR,

the Hungarian into a Unified White Opposition Communist Party leader, arrived to tight acceptance of the settle- in Moscow for talks on Friday. ment terms. They expected to concern They have rallied considerable steps for closer economic inte- the European whites who think gration within support from common market, COMECON. that the settlement must be embodies The call for European rejected because Conference, black eventual rule. Security which majority Speakers of meeting the main immediate aim at the Smith Soviet diplomacy, is also expected denounced scathing in discussed. to be CHILEAN President Salvador Allende has warned of ing the blocking in US banks of dollars deposited by the state copper corporation.

$230,000 About has been blocked following a court action Venezuelan by the Braden Copper Company, Kennecot, which subsidiary operated the world's largest funeral riot underground mine in Chile.

claimed the Allende that of inter- action was a violation Vene-

STUDENTS

in Caracas, He said that the national law. zuela, fought armed national 'answer must be to work more guards at the funeral of a pupil and to try harder' in a speech to at a technical college shot by city of workers in the industrial sniper some days ago. Concepcion. also referred to the Allende Chanting anti-government made to attempts being slogans the students gathered debts, finance Chile's foreign behind the coffin in the city £1,625m. which are put at over National guards seized If the which capitalist countries the coffin and escorted the par- Chile's crediiors refused to where it ents to a cemetery was negotiate on the debt repayments, hurriedly buried. the consequences could be very Angered by this action, the The US is the biggest serious. students amok and full- creditor. ran scale riot developed in which 120 negotiations break If the will be unable down, Chile students were arrested and at dozen off borrow further to finance least carried on stretchers. This is the climax of essential imports, including pur- and supplies a wave of student which chase of machinery to maintain the efficiency of the has been going for 18 on months. copper industry. would sur-

TOTAL SECRECY

round the talks which he will be having in Peking after his on February 21, arrival there President Nixon has announced.

No agenda for the discussions would be issued beforehand and about little would be known them until the final communiqué.

It was expected that they would last much longer than summit talks usually did because with wholly new relationship China had to be worked out.

The meeting would, he said 'mark a watershed in relations between the two governments' but 20 years of hostility could not be swept away in a week of discussions. Nixon said that he expected the new era to be one of nego- confrontation tiation, not or conflict. He refused to armed US what the say response would be if China askcd for American aid. Making these points at an impromptu conference, press Nixon insisted that he did not intend abandon President to Thieu and S Vietnam.

LIN PIAO

A CHINESE official has con- firmed, in a discussion with the French parliamentary mission which returned from Peking last Tuesday, that Mao Tse-tung's heir designate Lin Piao has been removed for political reasons. He denied the story that Lin had been • killed in a plane crash in Mongolia. He said that Liu Shao-chi was_living in a com- mune in N China and was 're- turning to true Marxism-Leninism on the basis of experience.

BHUTTO

GETTING

TOUGH

AS A WAVE of labour unrest President sweeps Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is showing his teeth. Announcing a new labour policy he said: 'Strength of street will be met by strength of state.' A General Strike was called against yesterday to protest reported killings of non-Bengalis in Bangla Desh. A similar strike last Monday resulted in street riots in Karachi. Many factories have been closed down by strikes and the in locked their management offices. Dockers_have been on strike and in Hyderabad, even the police were on strike for two days. Announcing his tough measures, Bhutto said that siege and arson had apparently become the order of the day. There is growing opposition to the regime of martial law which Bhutto inherited from Yahya Khan, but which he refuses to give up. Opposition extends into his own People's Party. The new labour policy is intended to buy a period of calm by promising workers participation in management, a share in profits and new pro- for airing grievances. cedures Workers would be guaranteed rights, Bhutto claimed, certain added that they be must requirements of Pakistan's indus- trial development'. He means they should not be incompatible with the interests of the country's wealthy capi- talist class, to • which Bhutto belongs. THE SHOP STEWARDS' co-ordinating committee at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, GLASGOW, have donated £100 and wished the marchers 'the best of luck'. The men of Plessey, who staged a five-month occupation of their closure-threatened factory at ALEXANDRIA, voted full support and donated £15.

The workers at Fisher-Bendix, on MERSEYSIDE, also gave a massive vote in solidarity with the march.

stewards at Chrysler Shop sent f5. Men workers—has (UK),

COVENTRY,

engine the night shift at Power Brakes donated £100 to the plant,

LONDON,

who factory in are campaign. four-day week, working •have for 50p This is typical of the support voted levy vender man of the week till the now coming in for the marchers.

each Shop march. stewards at Decca,

BAT-

TERSEA, are paying £50 to spon- Car component

LIVERPOOL,

workers two marchers and sending

CAV,

Fazakerley, their hundred Rey- have sent £20 and the sister fac- banner. stewards rolles, HEBBURN, shop Lucas Industrial, has sent tory, -representing over 3,000 men- £10. are organizing a 10p a worker

LONDON

factories rallying levy throughout the factory and behind the include campaign €20 have from shop sent Morgan's, Trico Folberth (£5), stewards' funds Gestetner's, Battersea (£10), and AUEW stewards at the Lucas N London. Sovex (ERITH, Kent)

BIRMING-

factory, Shaftsmoor, shop has stewards' committee HAM, sent £20 and have organ- sent f10 and is organizing further have ized collections which SO collections. far totalled a further f50.

Woolwich Stone Manganese lished support cor the march b.

BELFAST dockers have AUEW shop stewards are also collections and organizing their broadsheet and 3,000

USDAW

the

TROWIT

and joint strong NUVB branch in DUBLIN meeting at Sainsbury's has agreed has voted support and financial 25p all members to a levy on The secretary of the assistance. each Sainsbury's at week. Painters' Union

LONDON-

BLACKFRIARS

in have also DERRY has also issued a state- donated. ment of support. Shop Sangamo stewards at The national BMC Joint Shop Weston's,

ENFIELD,

collected Stewards' Committee (British- £14.71 and shop stewards at Lan- Leyland's Austin-Morris Division) N Acton. dis and Gyr, sent £2. declared has for the march as Rotafinish factory stewards General Council has the of the

HEMPSTEAD,

Herts,

HEMEL

of Cinematograph, Association contributed £3.35. Television and Allied Techni- Factory support from the rest cians. of the is in.

ALEXANDRIA

Factory after factory through- Plessey's, in land the has sent resolu- Dunbartonshire of the was one OUt and Many tions donations. are first. They joined are noW by sending delegations to meet the Plessey's BEESTON in Notting- marchers as they reach their area.

hamshire where shop stewards A mass meeting of 2.000 work- taking factory collection, ers at the N LONDON Firestone sending a delegation to meet the Tyre and Rubber Company voted marchers and electing ten dele- to buy 50 tickets at fl each for gates to Wembley Pool. Empire Pool, the Wembley, rally Workers at British Steel Cor- March 12. The on joint shop TOLCROSS foundry in poration's stewards' committee at ICI HUD- Scotland have sent £3. Support DERSFIELD is planning ways of has come in from the MERSEY- money and is sending a raising SIDE Kraft workers, recently on delegation on one leg of the strike against victimization. march, as well as sending a dele-

LIVERPOOL

Dista Products gation to Wembley. stewards are in favour of the

ICI

stewards

WILTON.

at campaign and so is the KIRKBY Teesside. collecting are money shop stewards' liaison committee.

from the 10,000 men employed Shell Star,

ELLESMERE PORT

there. shhe factory meistee at sum.

stewards have sent in Car workers are gathering sup- £5 has come from Ford's, port. rie Clothes, LEEDS, is organ-

BASILDON,

£7.34 and from izing a collection.

LANGLEY.

Ford's, Leyland SHEFFIELD the joint shop Motors' shop stewards' committee Firth. stewards' committee in LIVERPOOL has sent £25. The stewards' Brown's and the shop joint shop stewards' committee at at Arthur Lees Steel- committee Ford,

HALEWOOD,

has passed • MEADOWHALL, are sup- works, a unanimous resolution of sup- porting the march. port. T&GWU 5/104 branch at The The OXFORD 5/60

T&GWU

Export Packing

BAN-

Services, branch, representing 6.500 work- BURY, has sent £25 as well ers at the Austin-Morris car-body an order for seven tickets for the Cowley plant at has allocated Wembley rally. Support has also £25 to be spent locally to assist from the joint shop come in the marchers from Wales. stewards' committee at that fac- SU Carburettor stewards have A collection is being taken tory. sent £10 and shop stewards Square at the D factory,

SWIN:

Rolls-Royce, Ansty, COVENTRY.

DON.

are also the march supporting The Steel-Fisher Pressed 300 as are stewards at branch of the T&GWU at SWIN: British-Leyland Tri. DON (3/612), representing 1,300 Coventry Sver

SOLIHULL,

umph, has sent f5 and prom- members. Birmingham; shop ised further help. stewards' committee are sending Building workers also are delegates Wembley ten to the rallying round. Cement workers rally and Vauxhall

NUVB

shop at the Cunard International Hotel stewards

LUTON

at have site, in HAMMERSMITH are to donated £25. hold a collection and men at The works committee the at

CROMWELL

ROAD.

Laing's. Austin-Morris

LONG-

plant. London. site have collected £7.56

BRIDGE,

Birmingham. has also The •works committee at the declared for the campaign.

World's End site, CHELSEA, has Shop stewards at the Alvis sent £25. factory

COVENTRY

in have Resolutions of support have unanimously decided to hold a Fisher- been received from the collection factory they and are Bendix

MERSEYSIDE.

compiling a list of members who

LIVERPOOL'C

ASW

branch. will provide accommodation for labourers' is to organize section. the marchers. site collections. Workers the on Alfred. Herbert Ltd. COVEN- Drury

SKELMERSDALE

site.

TRY.

shop stewards are raising have decided on a levy of 50p per funds the factory. At BSA, in head.

BIRMINGHAM.

where big AUEW branches and commit- redundancies occurred last year, tees are enthusiastic for the cam- the convenor has undertaken to paign, on a nationwide scale. It get a contingent unemployed would be almost easier to list youth to meet the main march.

those engineering branches which Support has also come in from have not supported the march, the

OXFORD

5/55

T&GWU

than those which have! branch, covering the Austin- Morris assembly plant car at • The list. including

AUEW

and T&GWU branches and trades Cowley. councils.

1/667 T&GWU, DAGENHAM,

will be continued branch- Ford -representing 5.000 Monday.

DAY FIVE-Dumfries IN HIS Workers Press inter- view the veteran Hunger Marcher Claude Currie said a march takes on a political life of its own as it progresses down the country, overcom- ing hardship and difficulties.

At Dumfries this is beginning to happen to the Young Socialists' march. We'd been walking all day in the driving rain, but the youth entered with great determination, roaring out the anti-Tory slogans with all the breath left in their bodies. • vital develop- This is a very ment. What you have on this young workers who march are have been isolated from working- class politics because they have been forced onto the dole by Tory policy. In their areas they express their hatred of the Tory by isolated acts of regime defiance. they have become part Now of a fighting force with enormous possibility in the struggle to I witnessed one example this last night at Thornhill when one marcher, who had made little contribution so far to the political spoke-up firmly in discussion, defence of the aim of the Right- to-Work campaign. He attacked the ideas of in- dividualism. He'd been on the dole three years in Glasgow. The march was for the whole of the unemployed and all the-workers, because it was to force the Tories out. What was the use of in- dividuals going there own way in this fight—we'd get nowhere like that. These kind of private political go on all the time discussions now. The barrier between the socialist politics has dole and been broken down. The next step is to turn this new political into the outwards experience communities we working-class pass through. the march into That's why the rain was Dumfries through different. The youth needed no shout the encouragement to one of them fact In slogans. manned the loud-speaker and led the chanting-this was a decision to lead politically. To seek out first impressions, -I talked to the newest recruits on the march, Billy Jamieson (20), a miner at Killoch pit and Tom McGill (18), unemployed. They ioined the march in Cumnock.

Billy: I came along because as a miner on strike I feel the aim with of the march fits our in the miners' struggle. It's interests, the interests of the unemployed and the whole work- ing class. *I read about it in the local I was interested right paper. away. I think you can build a movement in this way by going through the towns and get people who voted Tory away from the Conservatives and get others who abstained to take an interest in socialism. I think there is a great chance of an election before this govern- ment's time is up because Heath every promise he broken made. 'The situation is so bad under this government that there a lad who works beside me at has six "highers" the face who "O" levels. He would and nine like to leave the mine, but there's no jobs. If it's like this for him, what chance does the lad with no certificates stand. 'One thing is important, above all. We are not marching for our own rights but the rights of everybody who doesn't believe in the Conservatives.' His friend Tom admitted that he did start out on the march with some uncertainties: 'But once going, I we got started enjoying myself. Passing through the towns meeting all the working people, the discus- sion which I listened to, I take them, all in and learn. I'm learn- ing about the war between the workers and the Tories. "The welcome we have got did us proud. They were fantastic

HE DEMAND

THE

RIGHT

10%

HORK

from the ordinary working people.

I get restless on the dole. I want to do something about this situ- ation and government. Marching and having and dis- meetings cussions is better than being trapped at home with no money.'

The second miner on the is a more ex- march, Freddie, perienced Young Socialist: "The answer to the question why I march is simple. The fight of the miners and the Young Socialists is the same. There is no such thing anymore in the working-class struggle as a battle outside the one to bring the government down. This is the key issue that every leader in trade union movement the dodges. "The development that takes place with me comes through meeting other workers and sounding out how they feel about the struggle. The message you get is always the same-they want the Tories out. That Polmaise miner was right when he said to the Workers Press that the union leaders were riding a tiger -and what a tiger! 'The biggest danger in the strike now is the deliberate cam- Workers Press, Saturday February 12, 1972 PAGE 3

GLASGOW

KILMARNOCK

CUMNOCK

SANQUHAR

THORNHILL

NEWCASTLE

AN NAN

DUMFRIES

"CARLISLE

IN Carlisle, the Tory Education Committee and the local Labour bureaucrats are presenting a united front of hostility to the Right-to-Work marchers who will be in the town tonight and tomorrow night. So are the churches, the YMCA, the Salvation Army and the Quakers. They have all refused point blank to provide accommodation for the unemployed young WOr- who kers have marched from basic Glasgow in defence of working-class rights. originally The marchers were offered assistance by the Carlisle Young Labour Party Socialists but they changed their minds as a result of a witch-hunting cam- paign launched by the Party's NE regional leadership. Spearheading this witch-hunt, which has, of course, been taken by the capitalist up press, Labour's regional organizer Ron Evers and Sunderland MP Gordon Bagier. Bagier was one of a small band of Labour MPs who iunketed. Greece 1969 to in shortly after the colonels' coup. His trip was paid for by a private public firm hired relations by the Greek dictatorship. Evers and his right-wing asso- ciates were instrumental in expelling the Young Socialists from local Labour Parties before the 1964 General Election.

They were expelled because they fought for socialist policies. Carlisle Labour MP Ron Lewis opposed the march. He has also preacher and is a Methodist lay a member of the National Union of Railwaymen. Despite the witch-hunt marchers had already been offered the use number of local halls by of a people in the area. But the final decision rested with the Educa- Committee. Director of tion Education L. Charley wrote: "The Education Committee have considered the application by your organization for the use accommodation at a sleeping school or community centre hall the nights of Saturday and on Sunday. 12th and 13th February.

The Education Committee dis- cussed the application very fully at their meeting last night and paign by some union leaders to resolved that no school or com- should isolate the miners. If they munity centre premises doing this and be made available to the succeed in the miners are defeated, the working marchers.' Carlisle's vicars and priests had class will suffer a big blow. They is up to us to stop them.'

had similar response. 'no room at the inn' for the This. I think, is a fair cross- marchers. of the march. The section But march is winning their represent political opinions tremendous backing from in- breakthrough. We are planning and trade dividual workers Carlisle on big discussion at unionists in Carlisle's factories. all the experiences so far.

Twenty-six individual offers of Naturally the advance so far accommodation have already has not been made without con- come in from workers in the flict against and both physical and the marchers are town theoretical obstacles. confident they will absolutely Before closing the column throw the witch-hunt back.

must Day tribute to the Transport Unemployment in Carlisle Workerd Union and General stands at 37 per cent and 1,608 committee in Damfries. district town's workers of the are on have They been our guardian the dole. The brewery, state through the Tory shire. They recently denationalized by the excellent Thornhill paid for the is now threatened Tories, with accommodation. Tonight they closure. have quartered us in a local Right-to-Work 'campaign The church hall. rally is holding tomorrow Dumfries nieht in Carlisle's City Hall at The youth have thrown open their discotheque 7.00 D.m. Socialist Labour League free to the marchers who are national secretary Gerry Healy energetic enough dance. Young Socialist leader to and of We stop Glasgow Tomorrow it's Annan. from the march John out of this town- will be speaking and the three miles Barrie again the guests of the T&GWU ‹The documentary play English who have promised us a meal.

Revolution' is being performed.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Februar

THE FIGHTAGAINST

UNEMPLOYMENT

PART 4

BY JACK GALE

By August 1931, the Labour Government was in deep crisis. The General Council of the TUC made it clear that it would refuse to accept any cuts of wages, dole or welfare services. The pressure of the working class made its way through the unions to the Cabinet. It caused a split there on the question of the proposed cuts. On the other hand there was the Liberals and Tories.

They were now backed by the bankers who refused to co- operate unless the cuts were carried through. An emergency Cabinet meeting was called on August 21 and the decision was unanimous for a programme acceptable to the Tories.

The Cabinet agreed to ask the opposition parties if they would government support on economies of £76m, including a 10 per cent cut in standard rates of unemployment benefit. The leaders agreed but opposition said the bankers must be con- sulted first. The Cabinet then met again and agreed to ask the bankers if this scheme would be accept- able in New York. In fact, the meeting adjourned and the members of the Labour Cabinet hung around awaiting the reply from the American banks. When it came, this reply might be stated that credits possible only if the Cabinet took which would decisions approved by the Bank of England and the City of London. urged the MacDonald then Cabinet to agree to a 10 per cent cut in the dole, on the grounds that were economies being made all round and the unemployed could not be left in a 'privileged position'! The voting in the Cabinet was 12 votes nine in favour to of such a cut. Many of those who later denounced MacDonald with him. One in fact voted such was Herbert Morrison.

However, the minority-under direct pressure from the trade unions.-were bound to resign. MacDonald had already told the Bowden and budget ay February 12, 1972

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Top: Massive crowds choking Trafalgal of women, all trying for the same job.

King that if this happened the government could not continue.

A conference had already been arranged between MacDonald, Baldwin and Samuel. The King - George V — was extremely active in this affair, pressing upon MacDonald the need for him to remain Prime Minister in the interests of the British Empire. The Tories and Liberals pre- ferred a Labour government to carry out the necessary economies and regarded a National govern- ment, with MacDonald the as head, as the next best thing. This was also the line being pushed in 'The Times' by its politically- active editor, Geoffrey Dawson. At the final meeting of the Labour Cabinet, MacDonald told them that he was to lead a National government. Contrary to the myth that they then broke from him, he, in fact, made no offers to them. After dismissing the Cabinet he kept behind only those Ministers who had been agreed upon with the other party leaders.

These were Snowden, who con- tinued Chancellor of the as Exchequer, J. H. Thomas and Sankey (Morrison Lord was invited to join later but refused after some hesitation). junior At a meeting of ministers, MacDonald told them that he was not inviting them to him because did not want to prejudice their careers in the Labour Party. The real was that reason MacDonald and the leaders of the other parties were right- wingers and 'moderates' in the Labour Party in order to keep it safe for capitalism. It was to ensure that the necessary that Labour Party, even at stage, was guarded against the 'extremists' Immediately after the National government was formed (with 31 Tory ministers, 13 Liberals and nine National Labour), loans were • Trafalgar Square, London, on hunger strike negotiated in Paris and New York totalling £80m. On September 10, Snowden introduced his budget and cut the standard rate of unemploy- ment benefit for men from 17s a week to 15s 3d; for women from 15s to 13s 6d; and for adult dependents from 9s to 8s.

Neville Chamberlain recorded in his diary: "Truly the Conservative Party is a wonderful embodiment of good sense, patriotism and honesty.. • agreeing to allow the man who has all his life actively opposed them, now have the credit of carrying out their policy.' Thus the lack of socialist policies to deal with the crisis of capitalism compelled the Labour government to submit all along the line to the demands of international finance and to carry out Tory policies of mak- ing the working class pay for the crisis. That this could have been fought, even after the MacDonald betrayal, was made clear by the Invergordon Mutiny on Septem- ber 15, 1931. On that day, the crews of battleships in harbour at Invergordon • refused to sail until cuts in the pay of naval ratings had been revised. Sailing orders had to be can- celled and ships at sea recalled.

A tremor ran through the British Empire-even the glorious British Navy was in revolt! But there was no leadership.

Labour leadership The new though it heaped invective on MacDonald's head-had no real alternative policies. One of them, Lees-Smith, actually accused the National government of 'breaking the treaty between rich and poor'.

All of the ex-Ministers had acquiesced in MacDonald's over- tures for Tory support, all had agreed to economy measures which would hit the working class. Some had even voted for the full proposals-including the dole cut. 1.3151 or strike marches, Above: A long queue Their proposals for an emer- gency budget were practically indistinguishable from the one actually introduced by Snowden.

Under pressure from the unions they had been compelled to stop short of going all the way with MacDonald, but they were totally unable to appeal to the working class with a socialist policy for the overthrow of capitalism. The result was that when an election was held on October 27 these 'lefts' and 'moderates' had no programme on which to fight.

Snowden, in an election broad- cast, was able to expose mer- cilessly their own role in agreeing in the dole and to to cuts approaches being made to the Tories. Henderson and his col- leagues could only plead that their agreement had only been 'provisional' and not binding.

This lack of a socialist alter- a big swing native resulted in to the right in the election, which resulted in 556 seats for the National government (471 of them Tories, compared with 263 in the previous parliament). The official Labour Party got only 46 seats.

Significantly, the Labour Party lost seats in Labour strongholds such as Jarrow, St Helens and Whitechapel. They lost 17 out of 19 seats in County Durham.

The President of the Miners' Federation lost his seat in a mining constituency where he had a majority of 16,000.

of highest In the areas unemployment, workers voted against the Labour Party. This was the reward for political bankruptcy, the impotence of the fake left and the treachery of the trade union leaders.

For it was not the desertion of Ramsay MacDonald which led to the defeat of 193l. MacDonald could have been defeated. But the union leaders and the lefts confused and demoralized the working class.

in the Only five years before, magnificent General Strike, mil- lions of workers had fought the employers and the government only to be sold out by the union leaders who feared the strength of the working class and pre- ferred abject surrender. The leaders of union after union allowed their members to be sacked and victimized.

Employer after employer was enabled to establish an open shop, or—as in the case of the 'Manchester Guardian'— a com- pany union. The Tories were able to in- troduce the Trades Dispute Act which, among other things, made sympathy strikes illegal, laid pickets open to prosecution and made it an offence for any workers to refuse an offer of employment during an illegal strike. Following the betrayal of 1926, these trade union leaders full support to Ramsay gave MacDonald's policies when the minority Labour government was elected in 1929. This support meant that the union leaders prepared advance to leave the working- class leaderless when the crisis came. Like the Labour 'lefts', they put forward no programme of nationalization to deal with the power of the monopolies and the banks. Even after MacDonald's be- trayal, the TUC put forward a Joint Labour programme (the which Manifesto') called for taxation of fixed interest-bearing securities, suspension of the sink- ing fund, reduction of the burden of the war debt, and *a priority to mobilizing the foreign investments' country's The TUC sought a solution to the crisis within the framework of capitalist property relations.

leaders broke with MacDonald, although union their policies were not funda- mentally different from his. Their break with him was not a split, prepared and principled fought for on socialist policies.

In the absence of such a pre- pared, programmatic break with MacDonald the split was bound the right-wing's to come on terms in conditions which could only confuse the working class.

Even when MacDonald formed the National the government, TUC and the 'lefts' messed about and left the initiative with him.

He was not expelled from the Labour Party until over a month National government after the was formed. When I. H. Thomas wrote a Neville Chamberlain: "Truly the Conservative Party Is a wonder- ful embodiment of good sense, patriotism and honesty? message to railwaymen supporting the formation of the National government, the NUR leaders allowed this to be published in the 'Railway Review'. The great myth of Ramsay MacDonald's treachery being the only cause for the defeat of 1931 has been deliberately written into the history of the British working class in order to cover the Labour and trade union up the complicity of the rest leadership, and to enable their political heirs to stay at the head of the movement today.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

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

Until the Right-to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley 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- to this vital tributions discussion. Now we want at least another 100. 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.

GEOFFREY MALLIN

AUEW: member at Self-Change Gears, ; Coventry and member of local Labour Party. The Common Market is surely brain-child of capitalist the businessmen who, quick to see the decline of their system, seek to find alliances with their :coupterparts in Europe in order -to exploit the working class on a larger and, they hope, more profitable scale than ever before seen:.: The 69 Labour MPs should be expelled from the Labour Party.

The constituency Labour parties should have taken their represen- tatives to task and told them they would lose their nomina- tions. that the present gov- illegal is to first ernment admit that it is a government at all. This it most certainly is not.

It is more like a board of directors trying , to get dividends the social from services and housing. To overthrow it we have to educate the worker and tell him the indisputable truth. We have to show him the nature of the Tory. mouthpieces, the capitalist press, radio and television.

We have to show the worker he can overcome the Tory gov- ernment. Most of all we have to explain the difference between ourselves and what we see in Russia and China in language a worker can understand. The biggest fault that can be attached to the Labour and union party leaders is that they have failed to organize and lead.

They have not aroused a single member to do battle against capitalism. Fence-sitting cannot struggles, especially social win revolutions. The more workers are split, the easier it will be for big business to clean up in Europe.

With his organization split and without leadership the worker will be back to touching his fore- lock and earning vast fortunes for the capitalists. Super Tory- ism, fascism, call it what you will, would be not a danger but a reality. The government of a sup- posedly democratic haven, a free country, is at present doing nothing to right dreadful to a minority of its wrong population. How can a man be denied a basic right, to vote, to work and to live in peace in a democratic country? The Socialist Labour League is right in its assumption that the Tories are out to smash the The reason is working class. its organizations obvious, with free and with a leadership that leading towards socialism, is capitalism must fall. The Tories know this, when will the working class realise it?

revolutionary movement, whether it be new or in exist- ence, must be forthcoming. It go forward on socialist must with socialist policies true leaders. The working class must be educated to do this. The age-old trap of lack of communication must not fallen into, let the people know what's going on. Perhaps the Workers Press will be the vehicle for socialism, I hope so.

J. RAYNER

London West End branch of the

EEPTU.

I am in total agreement with the Draft Manifesto of the All Trades Unions Alliance annual confer- ence which was held last year.

I think that all the points raised were equally important.

The section on the call to expel the Labour traitors who voted 'The real measage to us all can be seen with the Tories on the Common Market is especially important because without these stooges in the Labour Party and the trade union leadership Tories wouldn't last one more day.

I also think that the working class must have the right to work and the right to strike, because without these rights they have nothing. The Right to Work cannot be maintained while the Tories • are in power. , relation to the right In to decent housing; with the Tories up council-house rents driving and giving a free license to Rachmanism, pretty the • soon working class will be living in mud huts. None of these basic rights can be maintained whilst the Tory government is in power. They must be made ta resign. It must be replaced by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. agree with turning the Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary • in the party immediate future.

PADDY MOLYNEUX

Shop Peptordeward at UGB Glass, Heath's decision to ignore the electorate over entry into the Common Market shows, without any shadow of doubt, his con- tempt for the opinions of the working class. This action, allied to the con- spiratorial efforts Ministers, aided and abetted by Labour renegades, has confronted British people with a terrifying dilemma. The government is, in its very essence, illegal. Their crimes are: inflicting the burden of Market entry on the people, a further escalation of unemployment, the anti-union law intolerable and rises in the cost of living.

What we are seeing is a con- n be seen in Ulster with 20,000 troops trying to Workers Prosa, Satu certed attack on our hard-won democratic rights. Are we going to sustain the illegal regime that's doing this? History has proved that the British people will not tolerate a dictator, as we saw in the case of Cromwell the so-called Lond Protector of England. To get rid of this repulsive dictatorship you need unity, you need unity of those in work and the unemployed, unity of the 7 or 8 million retired workers and the young electorate. manifesto, In his election Heath declared that he would effect the panacea of all our ills at a stroke. Maybe dictating the pace of the London Symphony Orchestra with the stroke of a baton is his idea of fulfilling this mandate.

But while he enjoys himself like this, the people are suffering a stroke because of his policies.

The real message to us all can be seen in Ulster with 20,000 British troops trying to suppress the workers there in order to prop up a , dictatorial regime which already has internment and concentration camps. If we continue to succumb to their propaganda this will be the Britain • too. Tronps pattern military police will be brought in against us--the result will be civil war. Can I sum up my feelings about the ATUA manifesto like this. It is imperative for the • workers of this nation to unite United the workers constitute a massive force. Capitalism is in its death- throes, and to survive we must socialist world create with socialist ideals. We must be anti-fascist, anti- Stalinist and anti-bourgeois. Let us dispense with the services of those trade union officials who grow fat on our dues and con- tinually betray us. trying to suppress the workers there in ordér t ross, Saturday Fobruary 12, 1872 PAGE 5 Democracy, as far as I'm com

M. D. ROWE

Old Trafford Common Market entry is viously a capitalist conspiracy against the workers of this country, and I think the majority of workers realize this. The question posed is how do we fight against entry when the traitors in the Labour Party are allowed to continue their evil practice of voting with the Tories, without interference from the Labour Party. This present Tory administra- tion, which only got in power with promises of pegged prices, is now, in the eyes of many workers - even those who foolishly fell for Heath's lies-an illegal government. I think it is the duty of every worker and trade unionist to fight tooth and nail to rid the country of Toryism for now and for ever. The people. who are holding the working class back from a head-on confrontation are un- doubtedly the traitors in the Labour Party. The only force which can get these people out and into tne Tory ranks where they belong it the rank and file in the Labour Party, who seem to me to le stifled by the Labour bureau.

cracy. I think all the trade unionists in this country who see it neces.

sary to bring down the Tory government, and replace it with a socialist administration, should push their unions and trades councils to adopt the Charter of Basic Rights, which calls for the right of every worker to a jab.

and the right to decent a standard of living for his family • in order to prop up a dictatorlal regimé'

AMULETO

Fred Matthews died for anybody. He was good- on nearted lau. was ocsl Thursday, February 3 under friend.' the wheels of a blackleg coal His killing has deeply moved ane aneere e miners. T maS lorry on the pavement out- resolve strengthened and their hardened their determination side Keadby power station fight Wedies day, 6 bo near Scunthorpe. end. On With his fellow-strikers from His Halive Hatfield Main he Dunscroft Stainthorpe Une He died figh ting for a fuing wat.

in a peaceful picket cemetary three miles away.

They Feld and every copiteld pit and the National Coal Yeoardent arallsl 1 0ly Tae coaue• ane ever Doara. the country. nelt cuent wred Matthews was years cortege stretched three-quarters old. All his working life WaS mile down Dunscroft's main Main colliery bohi he th Harepe. draped manesenden banner friend. sen Billy with its of Kier good 100gc Ullid well, aroe mscnbee ns vision w knew with W10 was our inspiration'. Mr Matthews at Keadby on the The Hatfield day oi his death. comery big drum muffled in black cloth, Fred Matthoms He said: 'Fred would do ow't At 74 Mrs che cold passionate hatred for and an unbreakable Their silent cortège Lilitie down mile main 45 years labour street. Top left: Mrs Ellen Matthews and lenn Matthews, one of Fred's organizer in the our brothers 'We're led the through the banner villare Past Real so wil staunch Labour where wall Wilson and 'Never Thorpe power station, closed by picketing. east says. The slow procession took more " V€ single man the hour to reach give him Actionsi Chapel where riec needed Marmiews was duner vere were strike no rousing speeches, either in the chapel or at the graveside.

bloody The huge crowd stood father silently outside solidarity moconiosis at the lungs were he dead picket and his famil deadly coal dust. merciful

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Matthews sister, Hey Elizabeth the watched the largest miner's she Was says. runeral anvone la coanelo remember. spoke colle enroy nis reurement more eloquently of words uncle nother Usworth pit died in sUll ago. vall has mother's LODe all the miners that are aloe co unere. 100 strike. I hope every miner fights scab une died tor. the last for the cau cause he Fred Matthews narro I'm solid them with his to stick out for what they want.

At 74 Mrs Matthews has He almost fell down the shaf assionate hatred for the Torie ecause the cage was not properly shut, nd as She eak been at to the Billy says injuries had healed After his he told would never active service was He movement a parish work underground again. as restarted and pithead Labour Party work as boilerman on £19 a week. 'He would had a £4 a mining family and have e've always stuck out in all the but he'd pension for pent dra in the first weeks instal- We've always ment when killed,' was want to see Heath brother Jimmy explained. what Wilson did Labour,' they're she a son who's

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and I would gladly ive him half my pension, if he out on this it, to stay The bloody price of coal is no Billy Matthews, another of Matthews the family. said the Fred's four brothers, sa reconnosis at the age of s3. Hus died tragedy had made more determined that the strike must destroyed by the be won. 'We know we're not getting would have had a more erciful death if it had been a what's right. This makes us more accident,' We really Mrs militant. believe that says we should be top paid amongst 83-year-old the Even industrial workers. Mrs though the job is mechanized to Chambers, recalls how extent, it is still a dirty, a large dust killed her husband, too.

dusty, dangerous and physically 'I watched him crawl to the arduous job. with the dust, it says. ate with the da time 'We know we're fighting the to most vicious Tory government of njoy his retirement because his this admintstered by century, ings were rotted away.' Heath and Carr who people like Fred himself was named after completely heartless. It are who killed was at would be far better for the pits Durham 63 to close altogether rather than us Another of. his go back for nothing' was killed All Mrs Matthews' Ten months before sons have ao° loren mo him down, worked in the pit. But they don't red Matthews narrowly all work Henry escaped there now. life in an Matthews left Hatfield Main two accident at and a half years ago and is now unemployed. He won't go back to mining: I left the industry because of he dust. I was 33 and workin n thick dust. I thought, withi another 20 years_I'd be a spent man like my father was before he died.' Henry is bitter that picketing should ever have been necessary strike. Other in this unions should have blacked the coal shipments, he says. "There shouldn't have had to be any picketing. A miner deserves every penny he gets.

These people who have the power to refuse the miners their money don't know one little bit about how the miners get their coal.

'The Tories couldn't be as big and boastful as they are if it weren't for the miners who supply their fuel! The whole village of Dunscroft was in mourning on Wednesday for Fred Matthews. Tom Mullany, the Hatfield NUM delegate, ex- plained why: "The miners live in closed com- munities. They have their own morality. The only one unfor givable thing is to break the solidarity of the miners in their work. That's why this killing has aroused everybody here.' Fred Matthews' 1,500 work- mates at Hatfield are bent on avenging his death. 'Our execu- tive must notice that we are adamant. Other trade union leaders should take note too,' warns Councillor Leonard Caven, Hatfield NUM president. If we fail this time; which we nust not, we will be betrayin‹ vhat Fred died for and we wil be letting down the whole trade union movement.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Februa Klaus Altmann, a naturalized Bolivian businessman said to have headed the Lyons Gestapo during the war, has been imprisoned in La Paz, Bolivia, apparently to protect him from being kidnapped by anti-Nazi groups. Altmann has powerful friends in the ultra-right-wing Bolivian dictatorship. interests are being looked after by Prudencio Cossio, a former Bolivian am- bassador to Peru who visited him at the weekend. In the past he has also been protected by the Us government, which appears to have employed despite his him after the war, Nazi record, and probably had a hand his escape to Latin America in 1951. He is now being held in a special prison block, officially for not paying a £1,700 debt to a state agency. The order for his issued by Morales arrest was Aguilar, the justice under-secre- tary, atter Altmann had arrived in Bolivia from Peru. The French government has filed extradition requests with the Peruvian and Bolivian govern- ments on the grounds that Alt- mann is really Klaus Barbie who twice condemned to death was in absentia after the war for his part in the torture and death oi hundreds of resistance ighters.

Altmann denies charge, the though he admits he was a mem- ber of the Waffen (armed) SS during the war. He has been hunted down by Miss Beate Klarsfeld, an official of the Inter- against Anti- national League Semitism, who is currently in Germany seeking more evidence Altmann's real to establish identity with the Peruvian authorities. Miss Klarsfeld's bulging dossier on Barbie leaves little room for well-heeled doubt that the Bolivian businessman is indeed the notorious 'butcher of Lyons'.

ay February 12, 1972 Years of good living have taken their toll of his profile, but his identity is clear when his present photograph is compared with the sole remaining picture of the SS Hauptsturmfuhrer who headed the Lyons Gestapo. Klaus Barbie was born on October 1593, in Bad Godesburg in the Rhineland. Iwenty-one years later he gradu- ated from secondary school Trier immediately volun- and teered to attend a Nazi work- camp where he was active in Youth organization. the Hitler He joined the black-shirted élite Nazi thugs of the SS and in 1935 drafted into the was Sichereitsdienst (SD), the Nazis' secret police. On May internal Day, 1937, he joined the Nazi party. Despite his relative youth, Barbie soon made his mark with his superiors in the SD heirarchy.

They noted efficiency and ruthlessness and it was not long before he was transferred from Trier to head the SD organiz- ation in Dortmund. There he stayed until Novem- ber 1942, when Hitler's forces occupied southern part of previously France administered on their behalf by the fascist government of Marshal Petain.

Barbie was sent to head Depart- ment IV of the Lyons Gestapo, responsible for hunting down Jews and resistance fighters.

He was in charge of the de- portations of Jews captured in the region around Lyons. His operatives sent the jews, men, women thed wite forced Dranard the death transports to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.

One damning piece of evidence against him is •departmental .!dated April memorandum 1944, reporting the arrest of 41 Jewish children from the town of Izieu. The children were sent to Drancy on April 7. He took part in many similar crimes. Barbie's Gestapo squad con- hrit Dining Hail In the barracks of the L tained of the most some notorious torturers in the whole of France. Thanks to their 'per- suasive' activities, several of the most prominent resistance leaders were captured and executed by the Nazis. Their tortures forced couriers to reveal the resistance whereabouts of Charles Delestraint, head of the entire French underground, who was captured in Paris in June 1943.

Later that month, Barbie per- * sonally arrested Jean Moulin, resistance chief for S France.

PRESIDENT Anwar Sadat's current round of talks with his Stalinist and Arab allies is the action of a desperate man. Less than 18 months after the death of Gamal Nasser, the right-wing Egyptian leader has end of his arrived at the credibility with the Arab masses.

His Moscow trip follows talks of with representatives the Sudanese Libyan and anti- communist dictatorships, both of which have encouraged Cairo's campaign of threats and bluster against Israel. When he leaves Moscow, Sadat is due to visit Yugoslavia for talks with President Tito.

The official reason for Sadat's trip is to seek new backing for war against Israel. He is sup- posed to be asking ; the Soviet Union for more arms to prepare for the battle which he claims is imminent. Since he took power on Nasser's death in September 1970, Sadat has fed the Egyptian workers and peasants on empty promises. In he return demanded colossal sacrifices under the slogan "There is no voice louder than the battle'.

Meanwhile, the ruling circles have embarked on an un- President Tito paralleled bonanza of corruption, haunting smuggled luxury goods in the face of the workers and peasants. Last year the successful saw strike of industrial workers at Elwan, who raised their basic rate by over 10 per cent. Other austensi of the 'Lelbstandarte', Hitler's SS, of which Al Moulin's sister, Laure, later des- sinister cribed the SS captain wielding a table-leg with which to beat his prisoners. Moulin was mercilessly tortured by SO Barbie's squads that he died while the Nazis were transport- ing him to Berlin for further questioning. was twice condemned Barbie to death in his absence by French military tribunals for these crimes, once in 1947 and again in 1954. Between 1947 and 1950 he at liberty in the American was workers are likely to follow suit, as Sadat is uncomfortably aware.

He says he will fix 'the zero hour? with the Soviet leaders. But neither they nor Sadat have the slightest intention of going to war as no one appreciates better than the Israelis them- selves. In fact, the Egyptian leader is far more concerned to win sup- port for repressing the opposition at home. His words war against Zionism has blown back in his face. Last week the Cairo students massed in the streets demanding action to drive the Israelis out of Egypt once and for all. The demonstration turned into a popular indictment of the Sadat regime. The students also attacked the Soviet Union for its policy of seeking a 'political settlement' in the Middle East. They said prepared to Kremlin was confront imperialism by sup- porting India against Pakistan.

But it was not prepared to do the same against Israel. They suggested that the USSR has reached a tacit understand- ing with the United States over a Middle East settlement — an reached understanding the Arabs expense. Since the 1967 war with Israel, Soviet aid been limited largely to defensive weapons.

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The students said the Soviet policy was merely to help the Arabs keep what they without recovering the territory lost during the war. This sus- deepened picion when the Kremlin refused associate to Sadat's calls for a Itself with military solution. The Americans are pushing for indirect talks between Esthe and Israel reopening Suez Canal. The Soviet Union has made no statement either way on the suggestion that such talks be held. Israel has accepted the proposal. Even in the heavily-purged Arab Socialist Union, which rules the one-party state, the students' demands found an echo. There f which Altmann was a member.

zone of Germay, where he was three times interviewed as a 'witness' by French war crimes commissioners. The American authorities, however, refused re- peated French requests for his extradition. only mean that the This can 'Butcher of Lyons' was on the US payroll after the war. Will the Bolivian dictatorship, estab- lished last year with CIA back-.

ing, continue protect the to Gestapo torturer now that he has at last been tracked to earth?

were muted expressions of sup- port for the 30 'ringleaders' of the Cairo demonstration who are due for trial soon. Sadat has tried to blame the demonstrations on the 20,000 Palestinians studying in Egypt.

This witch-hunt only serves to emphasize government's treachery. Egypt, together with the other Arab states, has dropped even the pretence of fighting the Pales- to restore tinians' homeland.

EXILES

Like their Syrian allies, the Egyptian • leaders stood idly by while King Hussein butchered Palestinian in the guerrillas Jordan. They closed down the Palestinian in radio stations Egypt and restricted the political of Palestinian exiles on rights Egyptian soil. His treacherous treatment of the Palestinians was paralleled by the attack on the left within the Nasserite movement. Former vice-President Aly Sabry and other. "left' Nasserites were demonstratively tried last year as Sadat tried to strengthen the grip of his right-wing regime.

In a further effort to strengthen his he entered position, a federation with fanatical the Islamic dictator Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and the right- Ba'athist Syrian govern- wing ment. Working closely with Gaddafi, he aided the bloody repression of the July coup in the Sudan.

This, he now says, led to some misunderstanding' with USSR. The Kremlin feared he was moving into the American orbit. But this was overcome when he made his last pilgrimage to Moscow in October last year.

Like Sadat, the Soviet Stalin- ists have no stomach for war against Israel. They peaceful want •co- imperialism in existence with the Middle East as elsewhere.

Whether or not they decide to grant Sadat's demands for the more arms, crisis-ridden Egyptian premier is assured of the Kremlin's backing against his own working class.

OVER THE last three months speed-up and disci- plinary action against Cher- rolet workers has been escalated at the General Motors plant at Lordstown, Ohio-the most modern and highly-automated car plant in the world. Since October, the manage- ment has been seeking to increase assembly-line speed of the the producing the Vega car and the Chevrolet trucks to 101 vehicles per hour. This compares with an average of 55 an hour at other General Motors plants. of workers Hundreds have been laid off and some job times reduced by as much as 25 per cent. The company has put over 900 on DLOs (disciplinary lay- men offs) in the last three months.

United Auto Workers The local 1112 has organized a strike ballot but, according 'Bulletin', union League, the leaders see this only as a means of exerting 'pressure' on the man- agement. Workers at Akron, the rubber capital of the world, are resisting a drive by the B. F. Goodrich out more to squeeze company profits by increasing productivity.

Goodrich is pressurizing Local 5 of the United Rubber Workers' Union to accept no fewer than 160 changes in work rules by threatening to leave Akron if their demands are refused.

Union leaders have opened the door to wage-slashing and de- terioration of conditions of work by entering negotiations with the firm and imposing a 'news black- out' on what is discussed.

Goodrich face the workers same fate as that imposed on the Dayton Frigidaire plant where the union leadership entered negoti- ations which led to a 25-cent-per- hour reduction in pay for rehired workers and wage-freeze throughout the plant. It is clear that the big corpor- ations, backed by the US govern- seeking to dictate ment, are wages and conditions under the threat of unemployment. In the US, as in Britain, the union leaders are determined not to fight back. The recent agreement by local national IUE leaders creases and to slash wages of new workers at the G. M. Frigi- daire appliance division at Dray- ton, is a big surrender to the bosses. It is worth noting, in view of all the screaming about unions breaking agreements, that these reductions in standards involved tearing up a three-year contract negotiated in 1970. The new agreement divides the into automotive plant appliance divisions. The appliance workers had to give up produc- tivity and cost-of-living wage increases for the whole of the contract and extend it. permitted men The union has who had been laid off to be re- hired at 25 cents-an-hour less than men who were not laid off thus setting worker against worker. The leaders' excuse is that if this were not accepted, the factory would move out and 5,000 jobs would be lost.

In Salinas, 'N' Pac the Pic company, claiming that union wages have made them bankrupt, are abandoning their strawberry fields. The farm workers at La Posada camp • are all organized in the United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee and live in caravans owned by Pic 'N' Pac.

The company has now sold. the caravans to a mobile homes company and served eviction notices on 131 families. The workers are now demand- Striking members of the UITICE, Pue union. Their placards read 'We are still s ing that the Office of Economic Opportunity supplies houses for their families until the hiring season for other growers starts in March. At Oakland a contract renewal strike at Coca Cola Bottling Com- pany is rapidly escalating into a major confrontation between the Food Employers' Council and thousands of food and beverage N workers represented by the Carolina Teamster Councils. The employers have obtained a court injunction limiting pickets and have used armed security guards police dogs in attempts and to provoke the strikers Managements are also attempt ing to replace union workers by hiring ghetto youth at $1.90 an hour with no union benefits.

The strike now involves 1,000 Teamsters who are considering shutting down beverage produc- tion in Sacramento, Stockton and Angeles because em- ployers are bringing scab bever- ages into the Bay Area under police escort. The Teamster bottlers are also fighting to bring their wages up to parity with the truck drivers, which means breaking Nixon's Pay Board guidelines. In Puerto Rico, the strike of telephone workers has entered its third week with no sign of a settlement. Nelson Rockefeller TICE, Puerto Rican Telephone workers e are still slaves' The workers started the strike on January 19 after they had been without a contract for six months and after more than 200 workers had been locked out. The union is also demanding a 30-per-cent wage increase.

More than 12 strikers have been arrested and last week the National Labour Relations Board declared the strike illegal and issued an injunction against it.

The president of the senate of Hernandez Colon, Puerto Rico, has proposed a law that would make it possible for the govern- ment to take possession of the telephone company. He has also called for the anti-strike law to be used to break the union.

embers Y Loast, week, 3,000 mémbers of Local of the Communications Workers of packed America Manhattan Centre making it clear that they would not retreat from the fight win their seven-month-old to strike. Governor Nelson Rockefeller has tried to force the telephone workers back to work through binding arbitration. Boos and yells greeted union leaders when they declared that negotiations can't yield a settlement, then we're in favour of binding arbitration'. So-called militant leader Ricky Carnivale has told CWA mem- bers not to bring out the tele- in support of phone operators the strike-although this had been done at one exchange-be- they were in a different cause union. Workora Prese, Saturday Fobruary 12, 1972 PAGE 8

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According to Profesor of are called by names which are Urology, P. Bland, SOlle not their own. pressurizing have been WIVeS Loud laughter on both sides their husbands into being of the House. (What's that? A sterilized as a punishment for million unemployed? Tut, tut.) misdemeanours. William Hamilton Mr Writing the 'Nursing If he (Labour| W it, l): gets Times, Professor Bland urges with want to be aWay surgeons lo look out tor the known as Lord Fife from now little man who is is led by his on' domineering wife like lamb The Speaker: 'If to the slaughter'. you are known as Lord Fife your

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constituency and put proper application to me, I will Angry about the 13 butchered consider it.' in Derry? Worried about Laughter. (What's that? 13 million unemployed? Con• gunned down in Derry? What cerned about miners' a shame.) strıke? Mr Eric Heffer (Labour Come, You're come nOw. Walton): It is snobbery call- things laking senousiy. ing people who had been ofli- You must learn torelax. cers "gallant gentlemen". They were no more gallant tnan pri- vates. I want to be referred to the gallant gentleman from Walton. (What's that? Are you still on about the the miners, un- employed and the Irish? Give it a rest.)

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It is every Young Tory's ambi- tion to get into the House of Commons. But it seems some of them can't wait. Col Peter Thorne, deputy Sergeant-at-Arms at the Com- mons, says the City of London Young Conservatives are try- ing to evade a ban on 'busi- Setwyn Lloyd ness' meetings in the Commons Like all those Jolly Chaps in by holding their annual general the House of Commons. They of 'an meting under the guise don't let little things get them address by our President'.

down. Col Thorne, in got tact, quite worked i" he Take the report of last Mon- about it. It day's discussion on titles. The cannot go on, spluttered. Speaker (Mr Selwyn Lloyd) "They must not try to cheat it announced that he had agreed cing is detei deceit. The whole out to a request fram Mr Antony improper. We Claud Frederick Lambton, reiyheresident orthe Cley of people being honest." Conservative member for Berwick-on-Tweed, that London Young Tories should be called Lord Lamb- Geoffrey Finsburg, MP for ton in the House of Commons.

Hampstead. He says he didn't Mr Charles Panell (Labour know it was to be an annual Leeds W): 'Are MPs meeting. expected thought was call him the Honourable, basically a talk! Noble Lord?' But the circulated agenda The Speaker: 'I simply have lists Mr Finsburg's as to decide whether preserve tenth item of 1l, coming out the riht of MPs to be called after the election of officers On the bal- as they wish to be. and the adoption of financial lot at the last election Lord Lan and other reports. Lambton described was So it looks as if the Young 'Lambton, Antony, com- City gentlemen have come un- monly called Lord Lambton.'

stuck. Labour laughter. (What's Never chaps. Next gerinel that? miner killed on time, tunelling the try into picket line?) cellar.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday Febru LAST WEEK South Shields liaison committee, made up of the trades council and the miners, voted for a one-day General Strike throughout the Tyne area in support of the miners' strike. Workers Press talked to two shop stewards in Newcastle about the implications of the strike for the working class as a whole and their views on the South Shields' call. LEONARD CHARLES is General and Municipal Workers' Union shop steward at Parsons heavy electrical engineering firm.

I am quite in agreement with the call for a General Strike.

The miners are fighting a battle • behalf of the whole trade on union movement. It is a trial Tory between the government and the working class. 'The government is trying to break the trade unions altogether.

They've gone out of their way to create unemployment and they beat the miners it will be a big step back for the working class. 'We must definitely demand a General Election at this time. We can't go on with this govern- ment and unless the workers it we have no future remove whatsoever. It is the most reactionary Tory government in my memory.

Ireland What going in is on shows they're not bothered about solving the problem. It's blood- shed all the way. Durham have 'Young men in been on the dole three or four years since they left school and have no prospects. There is no future on this basis. 'In many ways they are trying to take us back to the 1930s.

I had to travel to Surrey myself in 1934 to get work in those days. Now they're trying to bring back the dole camps of those days and I think it is very sinister. 'But I am very disappointed about the lack of support for the miners from the trade union leaders, including my own. If it comes to the push, I think there should be a General Strike in the miners and it support of should be official. 'At the moment the miners fighting their own battle. are There are great dangers in being left alone! They might come to they where they say a point on any longer,' said can't go Leonard. PHIL RAMSHAW is secretary of the powerful central New- castle branch of the EETU/PTU, 1,000 members in which has engineering and shipbuilding, contracting industries throughout the city. He talks to Workers a personal capacity. Press in It will be tragic for the work- ing class if the miners don't win.

There will be a drastic and serious effect and the question will be asked: Who's going to fight next? No compromise can come out of this strike-they either win or lose. "The call from South Shields for a one-day General Strike is a start, but it mustn't be allowed to fizzle out like the strikes against the Industrial Relations Bill. It will have to gather a national into momentum General Strike. leaders realize "The union what's at stake here but they're frightened to take a decision, reluctant to lose their positions.

There shouldn't be any need for all this and there picketing should be a directive from the union leaders to support the miners. 'Just as the Irish workers are having to fight and die for their freedom, so will we have to do the same. Londonderry must be a warning to all of us.

'Most workers never thought happen here. But it it could already has and workers must see that,' added Phil. rday February 12, 1972 Birmingham showed their strength and Shields' turn. MARINE LODGE chair- man John Holloway thinks the Tory govern- ment must be forced to resign. 'They're not fair. It's not just the miners. No one can have a decent standard of living, John told me at his home at Hill Top, Ebbw Vale. Marine is one of the most modern pits in S , Wales employ- ing only 560 men in 100 per cent mechanized workings. This year the pit was expected to make more than fim profit. Yet it was touch and go whether the men would allow NUM safety men and winders to continue. 'The men are as hard as nails', said John. "The Tories can take as tough a line as they like, but there'll be no coal industry.

want to sacrifice If they rather than give us a living wage that's up to them.' the Daily Commenting on Telegraph's' advice to the Tories to take a hard look at social strikers' security payments dependents, John said: 'The attitude with us now is that someone will have to feed They whatever they do. couldn't let us starve. It's get- ting harder and harder to get social security, but even if they stopped it they wouldn't break uS. 'Over the last 18 months the angth and solldarlty on Thuraday at the Saltl Welsh miner John Holloway te what he thinks about the articl government, written by Wheldal SLL member Brian Lavery in t Press. Tories have tried to drive every union into the ground, especially the Post Office workers. This is where Vic Feather and the other unions should act. Why let them pick us off one by one? 'Jack Jones of the T&GWU told his members not to drive miners' through to me, that's only half a thing.

'We'll accept financial support but it's not that we want, it's industrial backing. night 'We're out all day and picketing, but if Jones told his members to support us we wouldn't have to be. 'If we don't get the support of other unions, the Tories will drive us into the ground. But they'll lose the coal industry.

where you No matter even people not connected with "You deserve miners say: the increase". You've never heard that before. That's why I think the rank and file of the other unions would support us. 'There are 7,000 to 8,000 Con- servatives at Ebbw Vale, especi- ally the steelworks, but when they said "We should be out with you", they spoke as workmen, from mining stock.

'If we don't get support from the TUC and the union leaders in the next two weeks, we'll the rank and file, their heads to have to go over John agreed the Tories don't

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the Saltley coal depol. Now ll'a south oway tells reporter IAN YEATS he article 'Miners and the Tory Wheldale, Yorkshire, miner and ery in the January 24 Workers mind closing a few pits and add- ing to the unemployment figures.

"This is Tory policy. They've got to have unemployment. That's why the economy is so good and the reserves are so high.' What has incensed miners more than any thing else are the huge pay rises for royalty, the police, MPs and the executive • layers of the labour force such as this week's 14-per-cent award to top Post Office men. Said John: 'There's one law for the rich and another for the poor. The Tories are splitting the country. "The living" standards of ser- vicemen and the lower grades in the pits have actually gone down in the That's past few years. why the men are so bitter.

'We've had to toe the line too often. We'd get nothing out of the £2 we've ben offered. Our rents are going up by 50p in April to £5 and then there'il be tax and prices going up! John is a power loader and highly relatively paid. He explained why the face men back the lower-paid workers in the supply roads and on the surface.

'There's only one way for a that's power loader to go and downhill. After 50 you're fin- ished. Illness, accidents, old age speed of the new and the machines forces us out. A PL

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KINGSNORTH power station on the Kent coast has again become the focus of militant support for the miners. During the early stages of the men working on the picketing, the largest Kingsnorth site, power station in Britain, decided to back the miners and not let fuel be moved out of the yards.

They have also taken up regular collections to cover the pickets' expenses. On Thursday, an executive from one of the site contractors warned men about taking tea to the pickets at the gates.

He said that men taking refreshments to the miners would immediately. The be sacked 1,500 construction men responded by holding a stop- work meeting. They passed a resolution re- affirming support for the pickets.

Then they all marched to the gates — 1,500 of them — with a pot of tea and proceeded to give out cups to the miners. In an impromptu speech, one of the Kent miners thanked the Kingsnorth workers for their show of solidarity. drops from £30 or £32 to £18 or £19 over night. •'Our leaders must accept responsibility for the position we're in. They accepted any- thing from 7s 6d to 15s old money while car workers were getting fl 10s or f2 old money.

That's how we got behind.'

Commenting on Brian Lavery's article, John said: "We accepted nationalization in 1947 and we were given the impression by our leaders that if we put up with pit closures and allowed in new machinery our wages would up automatically, but they didn"t I believe workers in the mining industry are as much advanced as anyone else. I agree with what Brian Lavery says about workers' control. I feel that way too. 'A skilled man is equal to any other, man and we should all together in the pits as a work committee elected by the work people and another for the arca.

•People say the pits don't make money, but they made £35m last year. Labour slipped up. The old coal owners should have been paid off long ago. Instead a lot of them got very good jobs with the NCB.' John is a card-carrying Labour Party member. 'If a Labour government is returned, they'd have to have a bit more clear thinking than last time. It was Labour that started and the Tories pit closures accelerated the process. "The next Labour government should nationalize all the indus- tries they can. We should all be working together and our wages should be fair.'

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THE SITUATION in Ireland stood from the standpoint of of British capitalism, Gerry I League national secretary, tol London on Thursday. Gerry Healy addressed a packed meeting of more than 500 at Conway Hall. "Ireland,' he said, is the first casualty of the crisis in British capitalism.

The murder of 13 young Londonderry workers in on 'Bloody Sunday' and the grow- ing violence by the British army had to be seen in the context of the economic crisis developing in the world capitalist system.

'Capitalism is heading for the in its recession most serious entire history,' he added.

'Since the August 15 measures taken by Nixon, no solution has been found to the monetary chaos. The capitalist system disaster drifts from one to another. 'And Ireland must be seen as reflection of this worsening a crisis in capitalism.' He emphasized that the Irish and British working classes were both engaged in a common struggle--against the Tory gov- ernment. we are talking about 'When unity of the working class in struggle against the common enemy, we are not talking about some abstraction. 'By bringing the working class common struggle together in a Right-to-Work cam- like the paign, we are able to see that the Tory government is oppress- class in both ing the working Ulster and Britain. 'The miners can't win unless they deliver a blow to the Tory government; the ending of intern- ment and the withdrawal of British troops can't be achieved similar blow being without a dealt to the Tory government.

It is the Tory government which directs all these operations.

'When we planned the Right- to-Work march, we did it not as an English question. We're not in the protest business. 'This campaign is built on specific political objectives and to bring together the Irish and in a English working class common struggle' Gerry Healy said workers would have to direct their attention to the split in the Irish republican movement. The Officials 'in- were adequately, perhaps, but deter- minedly facing up to the political problems in Ireland. They were

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day Fobruary 12, 1972 Ireland could only be under- oint of the rapid deterioration Gerry Healy, Socialist Labour ary, told a public meeting in the first, for example, to call for demonstrations the response to the bloody murders in Londonderry'. He announced that la strong and powerful' contingent from Ulster would be on the marches to London. Sarah The other speaker London Hannigan, secretary Young Socialists, said: "The main enemy of both the English and Irish working class is the same. Surely there can be unless the no real advance situation is created to force this government to resign. 'The demand to force the Tory is more government to resign than a simple demand. It is the one political demand which opens the doon to the unity of the British and Irish working class.'

Chairman of the meeting, member the All Trades announced later that a collection of more than £60 had been made to support the Workers Press.

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UNION DROPS

FIGHT ON

RAIL JOBS

UNION LEADERS appear to to. have shelved any fight against rail-workshop re- dundancies at a meeting yesterday with representatives of the British Railways Board.

The board plans to destroy one out of every nine workshop jobs by 1975-1,900 of them by this summer. At yesterday's meeting, how- ever, union fire appears to have been directed only at the idea of redundancy. compulsory immediate action is to be taken against redundancy itself.

Sidney Weighell, deputy secre- tary of the National Union of Railwaymen, said after the meet- ing it would be 'sheer lunacy' if the board turned down his de- mands for voluntary redundancy pay-offs improved only, with and men paid while waiting for work. industrial- the board, For relations officer Robert Clemmett agreed to consider these de- mands without commitment.

But Clemmett made plain that British Rail intends to proceed its plans: the closure of with Barassie works in Ayrshire, with the loss of 480 jobs; 940 re- dundancies this year at Swindon, Wiltshire (with a further 360 by 1973); 560 at Ashford, Kent.

continue, The talks are to probably next week. The NUR executive had asked to be recalled to consider possi- ble action if no agreement was reached on its demands yester- day, but since Mr Weighell con- have not broken siders talks down this will not now be done until after next week's meeting.

• Both the NUR and the loco- nen's union are recommending acceptance of terms to end the S Region drivers' dispute which has cut commuter services to and from Waterloo station, it was announced yesterday afternoon. BRITAIN'S exports fell by £49m 1' in January to give a visible trade deficit of f2m against a €36m surplus in December. This is the first time there has been a deficit for over a year. The fall in exports reflects recession growing, world trade and lack of competitiveness.

Imports were also down, but by less than exports, suggesting that measures taken to 'reflate' the economy will speed up the appearance of regular trade deficits and a general balance of payments crisis. Miners from Coventry Willesden, Taylor's rigger, at power station, London. nearby Charrington's coal depot, where five miners were arrested two weeks ago, only coal for hospitals and pensioners was allowed out.

FROM IAN YEATS IN S WALES

about time we had a share

WELSH

miners it's yester- of them. day slammed the Tories 'If we weren't paying the coal- committee of inquiry into owners, we could have our rise We've paid them twice over. the five-week-old coal hand over fist for years.

It should all be blotted out. strike as a trick to get 'Gormley has caught the feel them back to work. ings of the men and we won't told Ezra. back under what he 'Gormley can go through the 'As far as the 60-day cooling motions at the inquiry but as off period goes, they can put us far as we are concerned we are in clink before we'll go back.

If bound all', Ogilvie they using soldiers, they not at start picket Len Roberts told me.

will have another Ireland here.

STEEL output figures for January "The is a of inquiry we are not interested. released yesterday show time and from the Unless they per-cent drop amount Goressy asked for, we'll be what produced in the same month of out 1971. for ever! said Len, on picket duty at the Taylor Woodrow Rhymney The British Steel Corporation attributes the fall to Common open-cast site. To on. 'It was damned tinued low level of home demand.

He added: Although the Tanuary figure of thing the good engineers We 429,900 tons a week is 12.2 per Birmingham. want out in cent up on last December, this is action from all the other unions because last was one support only not just moral year now. and the engineers have proved of falling demand and drastic be done if we stick production cuts. what can allowing for seasonal together. After all workers backed each factors the fall was more or less If steady until after the August 15 other, the government can spout the US till kingdom come, because it's dollar measures of Treasury, which greatly speeded the workers who rule this it up. country. We make the profits and Young Socialists Natlonal Right to Work Campaign

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