Workers Press no. 693

workers press 'This could be breakdown' as miners see Heath

DEADLOCK OVER

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESP

IN A dramatic move aft Department of Employm the National Union of M premier Edward Heath. As he left the Employ- the ment Department, gen- thei eral secretary Lawrence Daly said they were insisting on the extra fl for surfacemen and low- paid underground work- ers. Asked if this meant a breakdown, he said: "This could possibly be so. We will have to see what Mr. Brit Heath says.' They are the first group of workers ever to see Heath during a strike. The session Cabinet was in when they got their call.

Earlier the union men were encouraged in their push for more pay by a concession from the Coal Board of an extra week's holiday. The Board also granted adult rate at 18. These were both aspects of the original claim on which Wilberforce made no specific recommenda- tion. Besides the position of sur low-paid workers, many miners are also dissatisfied that Lord Wilberforce and his team have done little more than place them back where they were in the pay league table in the early rec 1960s. Department of Employ- end ment officials were last but night trying to save part in of the government's face ruk by warning of a public opinion backlash against fic

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love after over nearly 11 hou mployment last night, the en on of Mineworkers went to D oy- the miners if they pushed the en- their luck too far. At 10 a.m. yesterday sho NUM President Joe Gorm- ley and secretary Lawrence went with the TUC secre- Victor Feather to tary Carr's St James Square headquarters. Coal Board chairman Derek Ezra arrived there with Confederation of British Industry director- general W. O. Campbell Adamson. They were all given a copy of the inquiry report drawn up by Lord Wilber- force. recommends increases of £5 on the sur- face, £6 underground and £4.50 at the face in a 16- month deal backdated to November 1 last. But the report contains the clearest warning that the settlement will be paid for in miners' jobs next year. In the original claim, the miners demanded £8 for surface workers, £9 for underground men and £5 for those at the face. They also wanted better holidays and adult rates for 17,000 under 18 miners-on which the inquiry team makes no recommendation. The proposed deal would end on February 28, 1973, but the start of negotiations in November would not be ruled out. While there are no speci- fic productivity schemes,

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Il hours of talks at the the entire executive of the report says that the Coal Board and the union should start talks by the end of March on a new productivity scheme. Talks should be com- pleted by September. Wilberforce Lord and his team also issue a warn- ing that the future of jobs in the industry will depend on raising productivity. the throw They into government's court the re- sponsibility of finding the to for the money pay settlement. And they say that the extent to which added the will cost be reflected in price increases will depend on the rate at which productivity rises.

It is here that the threat of pit closures becomes specific. There is 'special no magic', the report says in the current output level of 130—140 million tons a year. 'Contraction, if it must would reflect come, closure of the least efficient collieries and greater con- centration on those operat- ing at a profit.' While immediate closures are unlikely because of the Coal Board's desire to re- build its stocks, these would certainly start again in earnest next year.

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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE MAYOR of Jarrow, Don Dixon, has given his full sup- port to the Glasgow-London Right-to-Work march which yesterday passed through his town, again hit by disastrous levels of unemployment. At a public meeting at the South Shields Town Hall, Mayor Dixon attacked the local Labour Party for attempting to sabotage the march. He apologised to the packed meeting that he had been un- able to arrange a reception for who are on the the marchers,

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partment of Employment for Downing St last night, Joe Gormley and Lawrence Daly. Daly said they sing for £6 and £7 for underground and surface "Apparently if it had been the Young Fascists movement or the Young Tories, I could have had a reception for them, but not the Young Socialists, complained Mayor Dixon. In 1936 it was the Jarrow jobs crusade which became the focus of world-wide publicity when unemployed men marched to parliament and Downing St. (See Stephen John's diary p.3.)

Today two more marches start from Liverpool and Swan- sea to converge on London on March 12 for the mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley. (See Liverpool and Swansea articles pp.2 & 3 and What wẹ think.)

Support continued to pour in for the campaign. Miss Devlin faces jail

INDEPENDENT

MP for Mid-Ulster Berna- dette Devlin was yester- day sentenced-for a timeto six second months' imprisonment. She appearing was Belfast along with 12 other civil rights mar- chers for taking part in illegal march an on Christmas Day 1971. All 13 have been released on £100 bail pending appeal. Miss Devlin was last in prison in 1970 for throwing stones at troops in Londonderry. In an unsworn state- ment, Miss Devlin said: I have been tried before heavily armed police and army — the forces of British imperi- alism.' She referred to 600 internees and political prisoners and said: I contend that the law in this state is itself illegal. Her actions had been legal and justified.

Three US jets shot down US SOURCES admitted yesterday that three supersonic jets had been lost in the raids over N Vietnam intended to destroy 103 mm field guns moving S. All six crewmen are listed as missing: The jets were hit by surface-to-air missiles. The US command claimed that seven field two surface-to-air guns, missile sites and five AA guns were damaged or destroyed. Details on pages 2 & 3

workers press

DEADLOCK OVER

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESP

IN A dramatic move aft Department of Employm the National Union of M premier Edward Heath. As he left the Employ- the ment Department, gen- thei eral secretary Lawrence Daly said they were insisting on the extra £1 for surfacemen and low- paid underground work- ers. Asked if this meant breakdown, he said: "This could possibly be so. Wel will have to see what Mr.

Heath says. They are the first group of workers ever to see Heath during a strike. The Cabinet was in session when they got their call.

Earlier the union men were encouraged in their push for more pay by a concession from the Coal Board of an extra week's holiday. The Board also granted adult rate at 18. These were both aspects of the original claim on which Wilberforce made yea no specific recommenda- tion. Besides the position of sur low-paid workers, many miners are also dissatisfied that Lord Wilberforce and his team have done little more than place them back where they were in the pay league table in the early 1960s. Department of Employ- end officials were ment last night trying to save part in 1 of the government's face by warning of a public opinion backlash against fic

PLAQUE COMMI

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19, 1972

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE

love after over nearly Il hours of talks at the mployment last night, the entire executive of on of Mineworkers went to Downing St to see the if they pushed miners the report says that the Coal Board and the their luck too far. UnIon At 10 yesterday should talks by start the NUM President Joe Gorm- end of March Lawrence ley and secretary productivity scheme.

TUC

went with the Talks should be com- Victor Feather pleted by September. Carr's St James Square Lord Wilberforce and headquarters. his team also Issuc a Warl- Coal Board chairman ing that the future of jobs Derek arrived there Ezra in the industry will depend with Confederation of productivity. British Industry director- They throw into the W. O. Campbell general sponsibility sounding the re- Adamson. sponsibility the They all given to the Rad they copy of the inquiry report say Wilber- drawn up by Lord that the which extent to He force. recommends the added cost will be increases of £5 on the sur- reflected in price increases underground and will depend on the rate at £4.50 at the face in a 16- which productivity rises. month deal backdated to It is here that the threat November 1 last. of pit closures becomes But the report contains specific. the clearest warning that There is 'special no the settlement will be paid the report says in magic, miners' the level for in jobs next f 130—140 million tons. yodi. In the original claim, the 'Contraction, if it must miners demanded £8 for come, would reflect the £9 surtace workers, for closure of the least efficient underground and £5 men collieries and greater con- for those at the face. They centration on those operat- wanted better holldavs at a profit. ing and adult rates for 17,000 While immediate closures -on which under 18 miners- are unlikely because of the the inquiry team makes no Coal Board's desire to re- recommendation. build its stocks, these The proposed deal would would certainly start again end on February 28, 1973, in earnest next year. but the start of negotiations

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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE MAYOR of Jarrow, Don Dixon, has given his full sup- the port to Glasgow-London Right-to-Work march which yesterday passed through his hit by disastrous town, again levels of unemployment. At a public meeting at the Shields Hall, South Town Mayor Dixon attacked the local Labour Party for attempting to sabotage the march. He apologised to the packed meeting that he had been able to for arrange a reception the who the marchers, are on day of their long

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partment of Employment for Downing St last night, • Joe Gormley and Lawrence Daly. Daly said they sing for {6 and £7 for underground and surface "Apparently if it had been the Young Fascists movement or the Young Tories, I could have had a reception for them, but not the Young Socialists, complained Mayor Dixon. In 1936 it was the Jarrow jobs crusade which became the focus of world-wide publicity when unemployed men marched to parliament and Downing St. (See Stephen John's diary p.3.)

Today two more marches start from Liverpool and Swan- sea to converge on London on March 12 for the mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, (Sea Liverpool and Swansea articles pp.z & 3 and What we think.)

Support continued to pour in for the campaign. Miss Devlin faces jail

INDEPENDENT

MP for Mid-Ulster Berna- dette Devlin was yester- day sentenced for a second timeto six months' imprisonment. She was appearing Belfast- along with 12 other civil rights mar- chers for taking part in illegal march on an Christmas Day 1971. All 13 have been released on £100 bail pending appeal. Miss Devlin last was in prison in 1970 for throwing stones at troops in Londonderry. In an unsworn state- ment, Miss Devlin said: have been tried before heavily armed police and army — the forces of British imperi- alism.' She referred to 600 internees and political prisoners and said: I contend that the law in this state is itself Illegal. Her actions had been legal and justified.

Three US jets shot down US SOURCES admitted that yesterday three supersonic jets had been lost in the raids over N intended Vietnam to destroy 103 mm field guns moving S. All six crewmen are listed as missing. The jets were hit by surface-to-air missiles. The us command. claimed that seven field two surface-to-air guns, missile sites and five AA guns were damaged or destroyed. Details on

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Februal

AROUND THE WORLD

IN AN attempt to counter gr regime, King Hassan II of Mo new constitution which is to b dum on March 1. Under the proposed constitu- tion, the King will retain power to appoint the government and to dismiss parliament. The King is making an attempt to broaden the basis was badly shaken the attempted military coup last July.

To this end, he has been having consultations with some opposi- tion leaders. University students have been EIGHT parties of the Popular Unity coalition which backs President Salvador Allende's government in Chile have sup- ported the call for a United Left Party to fight next year's elections. The plan is contained in the government's review record and proposals for the future which are contained in what is known as the 'Arrayan Document'. The 'unity' declaration comes after Allende's shift to the right with the broadening of his gov- ernment. It is strongly sup- ported by the Communist Party which describes it as the most important document after the government programme. It blames faulty government propa- not the failure to ho ganda and MARTIAL law in Pakistan will have to continue for some time, says the policy-making body of Bhutto's ruling Zufilqar Ali People's Party. This was announced after a meeting of the party's central February committee on Bhutto himself. chaired by Strong demands had been made in the press and by opposition parties that the state of martial A MINORITY Christian Demo- crat government has been formed in Italy under right-wing Giulio Andreotti as a stage in the pre- paration for a General Election.

The inability to form a new coalition majority government re- flects the growing tension in class relations resulting from the slump which grips the country's indus-..

try. It may mean the end of the parliamentary alliances between the Christian Democrats and the socialist parties which have been since the basis for government the formation of the Republic 26 years ago. If so, it will be a major turn- ing point in Italy's political his-

EMPHASIS ON STA

INCREASED emphasis on state farms in the Soviet Union re- the difficulties experienced flects in maintaining food supplies. The Federation is Russian to now have its own Ministry of State Farms. number of state farms The doubled during the 1960s and numbered 15,000 in 1970 against farms. State 33,600 collective hired workers farms employ while the collective farms are co- operative undertakings. Although the bureaucracy exercises control over the col- lective farms through the farm chairman, it has much tighter ay February 19, 1972 inter growing opposition to his I of Morocco has announced a 1 is to be submitted to referen- on strike throughout the country demanding educational reforms and the release of arrested stu- dents and professors. Referring to the strike the King said in broadcast: a 'Demonstrations do not frighten ready to discuss things, but never under coercion from wherever it may come.'

rouse the masses, for the recent by-election defeats. of agreement signed A letter by the Chilean government with US banks sets stiff conditions for re-financing the country's heavy foreign debts. Chile is to credits, at receive two $300m 6 and between 7 per cent interest, to enable payments on existing debts to be met.

The new credit continues the old policy of contracting new debts to pay off old ones and increases Chile's dependence on US finance. Allende's 'moderation' policy with world reflects his ties capitalism. Chile's European creditors have offered a stand-by credit instead of a re-funding of the debt, which the government hoped for. law should be ended. Minister of the Interior, Abdul Hafeez Pirrzada, said martial law should continue, in view of the continuing threat of aggression, the need for basic reforms and to deal with the aftermath of the war with India. ' Bhutto had previously promised to lift martial law and restore democracy before the end of the year. tory, opening a new period of stormy class struggles with the danger of a fascist revival.

Ochetto freed journalist

ITALIAN

Valerio Ochetto has been released by the Czech authorities and expelled country after being from the held in jail for a month. He said that international pressure led by his journalist colleagues in Italy had played a big part in his release documention mind Czech opposition to the been taken from him and not returned.

I STATE FARMS

control over the state farms. Many concessions have had to be made to the collective farm peas- antry in recent years to counter resentment which has never dis- appeared since the forced col- carried lectivization out by Stalin in the most brutal way in the 1930s. This year's grain harvest is likely to be seriously reduced as a result of frost damage which has affected about one third of the winter wheat crop. A short- fall in the 195 million tons an- ticipated harvest for 1972 could have a serious effect on the whole iter Soviet economy. JARROW MEN ON THE MARCH IN THE 1930s winteri THE MAYOR of Jarrow, shipwright Don Dixon, has pub- licly rebuked local Labour Party leaders who opposed the Right-to-Work march (see front page). Jarrow is syn- onimous with unemployment. In 1932, 80 per cent of its population was out of work. Today the NE again lives under the shadow of the dole.

How remote from this is the northern group of Labour MPs, which opposed the march? How aloof is the NE Labour Party agent, Mr Ron Evers, who denounced the march in the Thomson House press?

How detached is Sunderland's Labour MP, Gordon Bagier, who could go junketing in the colonel's Greece in 1969, but who declares in 1972 that he 'wants nothing to do with' the unemployed youth on the march?

And how concerned is the so-called 'Militant' attempt to deny the marchers accommodation and a meeting hall? (See p. 12. Two letters for information.)

All over the country support for the march is flooding in.

With the Tories just avoiding defeat on the Common Market, with the aggressive mood of the miners revealing the fighting spirit of the whole working class, a powerful campaign linking unemployment to these issues could undoubtedly bring down the government.

Workers know this. And they know that if this is not done, the 1930s will be back again. That is why Labour Party-and Communist Party-members throughout the length and breadth of Britain are ignoring the opposition - of their leaders and voting money and support for the marchers. As the marches head for London from Glasgow, Swan- sea and Liverpool, hundreds of Labour Party members will will provide food and accommodation, will join them, Thousands more will applaud crowd into their meetings.

as they march through the big cities.

And all the right wing and their 'Tame Tom' friends in 'Militant' group can do is whine the renegade 'Trotskyist' that the marches are organized by a 'proscribed organiza- tion'. So what? As Newcastle Trades Council secretary Gordon Steel travelling throughout the said: You and only you are country and campaigning. I back it and I am speaking as a member of the Labour Party?

GORDON STEEL AND DON DIXON ARE THE REAL

VOICE OF THE LABOUR PARTY, OF THE MILLIONS

OF WORKING CLASS MEN AND WOMEN WHO

BUILT THE PARTY AND VOTE FOR IT. THE LITTLE

MEN OF TRANSPORT HOUSE WHO PROSCRIBED

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE

WORKING CLASS.

SO WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW?

PROSCRIBE UNEMPLOYMENT?

FROM PHILIP WADE

IN LIVERPOOL

THE Young Socialists 21-day, 200 - mile Liverpool-London Right-to-Work march • gets underway today: with a big demonstration from the. Pier Head led by writers Jim Allen and Neville Smith. Merseyside trade unionists will join over 60 unemployed in a march to St youth George's Hall for a rally at › p.m. Speakers will be there from Fisher Bendix, Pilkington rank- and-file committee, the dockers, Ford's, the Right-to-Work Com- mittee and the Socialist. Labour League. (See details in page 3 advertisement.) Tory policies have hit Liver- pool hard as unemployment has risen 50 per cent in 12 months.

Only yesterday British Rail confirmed the closure of their Liverpool divisional office. Over 800 white-collar workers will lose their jobs. That is why every leading fac- tory in Merseyside has thrown behind the Youpg weight Socialist Right-to-Work march.

Tonight the marchers stay at the Liverpool Free School who have let their premises without charge. Tomorrow the march proper gets under way at 10 a.m. from First stop is Pier Head. Kirkby where the Labour Club has given its premises and is laying on a stew for the marchers.

Then it's on to St Helens, where the Pilkington rank-and- file and other trade banner unionists will greet the march.

The NUJ chapel at the St Helens Reporter' will: also hand taken in sup- over a collection port of the march. In the evening there will be a chance to see a performance of the play "The English Revolution'.

Produced by Corin Redgrave it had its successful premier in Car- lisle on February 13. A

NUMBER

of . actors, actresses and television per- sonalities have agreed to give financial and moral support.

They include Billie White- law, star of 'Gumshoe', Valerie Singleton of the BBC seriés •Blue Peter, Jane Asher, Kenneth Tynan, Miriam Brick- man, Simon Ward and Sian Phillips. Support is also com- ing from Clive Exton, the tele- vision playwright. The Association of Cinema- tograph and Television Tech- nicians (ACTT) freelance shop has supported the campaign and made a collection towards the march and towards the film of the Glasgow-London section being made by ACTT members. Two Trades Councils give cash The Lambeth Trades Council, which donated £5 early on in the campaign, has Right-to-Work now donated f50. • Hull Trades Council has de- cided to back the march and made a donation of f2. Trade unionists entering the fight include the Hull district committee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering , Workers.

Day 11—South Shields A STINGING rebuke to local Labour Party leaders who opposed the march was delivered here tonight by the Mayor of Jarrow, Don Dixon.

to a meeting of Speaking and marchers, trade unionists Labour Party members at South Shields Town Hall, Mr Dixon apologised for not laying on a when the campaign reception reached his town. He said this was because he been informed of the had not march by the Labour Party secretary. 'When • I investigated why this was so, I was told that it was because the march was run by a proscribed organization. 'Apparently if it had been the Young Fascists movement or the Young Tories, I could have had a reception for them. But being the Young Socialists this was the position' Mr Dixon, a shipwright for Swan Hunters the Tyne, on added that Labour Party the would' find it more profitable to examine its rules on bans and proscriptions rather than tamper with Clause 4 — the party rule that lays the basis for nationaliza- tion. Dixon's speech marks a big step forward for the campaign.

It shows that the battle for the Right-to-Work can win broad support within the Labour Party.

It is also more evidence of the increasing isolation of the right- wing in the party. Our Town Hall meeting was an example of this. With Carlisle, it was the best of the march so far.

unty goath st The stated clearly that could only be the basis of policy and won on that policy was the fight for the rights of the working class as embodied in the Charter of Basic Rights and the Draft Manifesto of the All Trades Unions Alliance. The stimulated argument people from all sections of the labour movement to come for- ward and discuss and even plan for the future with the marchers.

This is the aim of the march-a mass mobilization of the working class. Earlier we went to Jarrow which was a great moment for.

us all. We reached the town at 2 p.m. after a factory gate meet- ing at Reyrolles in Hebburn (the workers there have donated £100). Walking along the Tyne was a grim reminder of the days when four out of every five Jarrow people were on the streets without a job. Today the riverside looks derelict and the cranes along the waterfront idle and rusty. Palmer's The dock closed recently. This is ironical because it was the closure of the Palmer's shipyard that murdered the town in the early 1930s. But the response from the Jarrow people magnificent. was When he heard of the march, the mayor quickly laid on a tea . for us and all the trades people came forward and gave food.

We thank butcher in one particular. gave enough He and liver to give the sausages marchers a good breakfast the next day. A two-hour collection in the raised £20 and we town got another £10 from South Shields, plus a donation at our meeting.

South Shields Trades Council escorted us to thein town.

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THE MARCH LEAVES NEWCASTLE AND

FROM the Birmingham area widespread of comes news support for the Young Social- ists Right-to-Work campaign.

At the Lucas Shaftsmoor lane plant, the night shift AUEW shop stewards' com-.

mittee has voted to send a delegation to meet the marchers at the Birmingham boundary and to have a special banner made for the occasion.

The engineers' joint shop stewards' at Fort committee Dunlop in Birmingham have donated £8.50. The AUEW shop stewards' committee at Rover's, Tyseley,

FROM IAN YEATS IN SWANSEA

AS S WALES Young Socialists set out to march to London today from Swansea, the city faces its grimmest Jobs crisIs since the war. And Swansea Corporation's officer, Mr principal careers N. G. Proud, told Workers Press interview that un- in special skilled youth thrown on the dole today stood no chance of a job in the foreseeable future.

Nearly 6 per cent of the city's labour force, 4,342 people, are out of work this month with a further 1,200 redundancies fore cast by March 1. In the Swansea and Amman Valleys the figure is even higher at 7.3 per cent. Big sackings at BP's Baglan Bay site, from Gorseinon Press works and Swansea Vale works have forced the figures upwards dramatically. Now the works council at the nearby Margam Abbey steel complex at Port Talbot has

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Birmingham, plant have agreed to donate £5. The Transport and General Workers' Union. branch at Rubery Darlaston, Owen, Staffordshire, have donated £10. The T&GWU branch at Coventry Radiator have: donated f5, and the Walsall AUEW constructional section branch has collected £3. students' The union at Wolverhampton Polytechnic has voted to march and join a demonstration of welcome as the marchers pass through the town. warned that steel prospects could lead to stagnation at the works with severe consequences for towns within a 20-mile radius.

The plight of young people between 15 and 18 is extremely grave. Three per cent, or 303 of the city's youth, are on the dole living on £3.60 a week. Mr Proud said: 'Labouring jobs are ceasing to exist. A few years ago a boy could always get a job labouring in the fac- tories, on the railways on on building sites. 'There were quite a lot of pushing or carrying jobs. But automation has swept this sort of job away and for these boys the prospect is very grim. "The longer a boy is out of work, the less chance he's got. *Employers are suspicious • of someone who hasn't worked for six months or more because they think his attitude to work will have deteriorated.' Slump is being written in large Worker Glasgow Kilmarnock They have also voted the proceeds of two discotheques to the Right-to-Work cam- paign. Students at the London Film School are sending a five-man delegation to the mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, or March 12. • They have already collected £7.21 to help finance the un- employed marchers and hope to make it up to f25 by March I2. Wolverhampton Trades Council pledged support at its last meeting and made an initial donation of £10 to the campaign. letters across the face of Swan- sea and its catchment-areas with 'For Sale' signs, shuttered fac- tories and lengthening dole queues daily. Eighty per cent of Welsh business employs under 50 and those small firms which haven't shut down have led a ruthless rationalization which has extended throughout Welsh in- dustry, jacking up productivity and sacking mostly unskilled labour. Until recently new factories employed mainly women while more and more men lost their jobs. But Swansea unemployed youth are for the first time divided equally between the sexes. Support for today's Right-to- Work march has come from the Transport and General Workers' Union, National Union of Rail- waymen and Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers through- out the area. The 40 marchers will be the centre of a jobs rally in the city today before going on to Univer- sity College where they will stay the night ready for the first full day's march to Neath, on Sunday morning. 090, Saturday Fabruary 10, 1872 PAAR 3 S Shields

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL RIGHT-TO.

WORK CAMPAIGN

RALLIES

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THIS SATURDAY FEB 19

St Georges Hall opp. Lime St Stn Liverpool 3 p.m. Speakers: Gerry Caughey (Pilkington rank- and-file committee) Bill Measures (Pilkington rank- and-file committee) Larry Cavanagh (T&GWU dock steward) Bernard Bradley (Ford's con- venor) Jack Spriggs (Convenor Fisher Bendix) Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) Christine Smith (YS leader of Liverpool march)

•YMCA

SWANSEA 3 p.m. SLL, YS and trade union speakers Liverpool march arrives in St HELENS for a rally on

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20

Town Hail, 7 p.m. see our documentary play

'THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION'

Directed by Corin Redgrave Written by Tom Kempinski followed by a meeting Speakers: Gerry Caughey, Christine Smith and Gerry Healy, (National Sec- retary of the Socialist Labour League)

LONDON

YOUNG SOCIALISTS'

Right-to-Work Meetings Tuesday Fabruary 22, 8 p.m.

T&GWU Offices, 173, Clapham Road, SW9 Wednesday February 23, 8 p.m.

Woolwich Town Hall (public hall) Market St, SE 18 Thursday February 24, 8 p.m.

Ruskin House, Coombe Rid, S Croydon Thuraday February 24 8 p.m.

Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Rd, Luton.

PAGE 4 Workars Preas, Saturday Februar

BY BERNARD FRANKS

Employers who introduce measures which give workers no alternative but to take industrial action to defend rights and conditions, get powerful strike-breaking sup- port from the state. laid deen inhe Tory industrial Relations Act. Indirectly, through vindictive bias and discrimination against strikers social by the security system.

WEAKEN

The dispute may result entirely from deliberate provocation by to weaken work- the employer place organization and hold down pay, or to create opportunities sacking workers and closing down factories, but the social security officials are not con- this side of the cerned with situation. Their job is to penalize the worker and help break the strike. Workers involved in a trade from disqualified dispute are drawing unemployment benefit.

They are also disqualified from receiving supplementary benefit for their own requirements, but can claim for a wife, children and other dependants. The 1966 Social Security Act 'his requirements for says that, shall be disregarded that period for the purpose of benefit except so far as they include the require- ment to provide for any other person'. (Section 10.) A man on strike with a wife not working and three children aged 14, 11, four, paying rent of credited with £2.50 a week is the following, before deductions: For the husband nothing $4.60 For the wife (She is treated • dependant as a non-householder, in this case over 21.) £3 For child aged 14 £2.45 aged Il aged 4 £1.70 £2.50 Rent £14.25 Assistanee grant total Since new legislation in Novem- ber 1971, 'this benefit is cut by any amount over £l the striker receives from strike pay or tax refund. The new Tory Social Security Act states that this shall treated as income and taken into account as such: 'tax deducted emoluments' and 'any from his payment he receives or is entitled to obtain [whether from a trade union or any other source] by reason of being without employ- ment for any period • during stoppage of work due to a trade dispute at his place of employ- ment. Deductions from benefit for savings, wife's earnings, the family allowances, etc. are made in the same way as for the sick unemployed on supple- and mentary benefit as previously.

It, in the above example the' family had the following income —husband's strike pay f4 a week, family allowance £1.90 a week— then the resulting deductions from the supplementary benefit paid would be: For husband's strike pay ... £3 (The amount of strike pay or tax refund over f1.) £1.90 For family allowance Total deductions .. $4.90 In the above case the actual supplementary benefit payment to the family would be £9.35 (£14.25 Before the new minus £4.90). would have received law they £12.35. Family payments are made to the striker if he is the applicant, even though he himself is dis- qualified. Rent allowance is pay- y Fobruary 19, 1972 able, but in general a tough line is taken with workers involved in a dispute. Payments may be withheld or during the first few reduced weeks, on the basis that there should be enough money left from previous earnings. to cover this period—a ludicrous view, as in many cases the workers con- precisely cerned are on strike because wages do not provide enough, even to sustain a weekly budget, never mind saving.

MERITS

Workers on strike also have more difficulty than most in discovering what their rights are.

Official leaflets available are covering most reasons for claim- ing, but not for being involved a dispute. Un inquiry, one official explained: There is no kind of this special material published to explain what is due to strikers . . . every case is dealt with on its individual mplication! there is no general On the other hand, officialdom turns up all manner of regula- tions and conditions which bar from benefit. But the strikers 1966 Act does not entirely close the door to workers involved in dispute, though of a use un- defined terms like payment in of 'urgent requirement' case wider 'powers leaves of even discretion' for officials to make or withhold payment. Payments to strikers without dependants—by far the worst-off as they are totally without in- come-are technically available.

The Supplementary Benefits 'Although Handbook' states: person involved in a trade dis- pute is disqualified from receiving supplementary benefit to meet his requirements, the Com- own mission empowered under are the Act [Section 13 (1)] to pay benefit if it is urgently required.

In making such a payment the Commission are not bound by the normal rules of assessment any benefit that is paid is and limited to what is strictly neces- to meet urgent require- sary ments.' The secret document which controls the operation of the social security system—the 'A' Code-makes the same point as follows: 'Section 9 (3) [of the 1966 Social Security Act] disqualifies a striker for assistance to meet needs. But notwith- his own standing the disqualification, Section 11 (1) permits the Board to grant assistance in an urgent [which . is not recoverable] case •..ässistance must accordingly be granted if the need is urgent, but in the light of the disqualify- ing provision, it should be limited to the sum necessary to remove the urgent need. (Clause 4879.)

Rent payments are said to be available to a striker with no dependants only where, without them, the claimant would come under a notice to quit, or where a landlord or landlady would face 'distinct hardship to await payment of arrears until the applicant resumes work'. (Clause 4880 'A' Code.) The fact is that any single worker with no dependants who is on strike is immediately forced into straightened circumstances in which payment of a living allowance and rent is required from the first day. year's involved strike found themselves in outst this desperate situation and there is tremendous anger among the mining communities about single men scraping an existence during the strike. However, even where a • sum is paid to alleviate hardship, no permanent arrangement is made to cover the recurrence of the emergency. The 'A' Code states: 'Only a single immediate pay- ment should be issued on any.

application, the applicant being leit to make further representa- tion himself if he is again in need of assistance. Where no seems justified, the. payment applicant should be told orally.

he makes any complaint, giving right of appeal should

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It should be stressed here that additions are continually being made to the 'A' and 'AX' Codes by means of special 'circulars' containing new instructions. In this way operation of the pay- ment system and the means test can be tightened up drastically, without anyone outside the ser- vice knowing about it. Workers laid off as a result a dispute, but not directly of in it, can claim un- involved supplementary employment benefits for themselves and their families in the normal way.

However, the Act expects them that they are not to prove financing participating in, directly interested in the trade dispute and that they do not belong to the involved grade or class of workers in the company which is in dispute. According to the 'A' Code, officials do check on the proot given. Clause 4832 states: If there is a trade dispute, particulars of the classes of per- sons involved should be obtained from the local insurance office.

The information will be passed to the receptionist [at the Social Security office], who will be given instructions, if necessary, in re- gard to any classes persons in who are unemployed con- sequence of, but are not held to be involved in, the dispute.'

Under the new Act, workers who are unable to prove that they are not participating in the dispute that has caused them to be laid off, will now lose benefit when tax refund is paid, in the same way as the worker who is on strike. On November 3, 197., the new Tory strike-breaking Act came into force. Previously, a worker benefit wife and drawing for family had tax rebate and strike pay of up to £4.85 ignored when calculating benefit. This has been reduced to a maximum of fl.

According to a report in 'Financial Times' on October 26, 1971, had the provision been in force during the Ford strike early last year, the amount paid would have out at that time been-reduced by two-thirds.

Social Security officials check with the Income Tax people on tax refunds. Under the heading 'Interview', Clause 4858 of the 'A' 4 Code states: 'Particulars of the arrange- ments for repayment of income tax and the possibility of the participating in the employers arrangements should be obtained from the Inland Revenue Office, interviewing officer being the advised accordingly' The new Act is a blatant to win strikes attempt for employers by starving out women and children of strikers. The use made by the Tory government of the social security system to defeat workers must be fought by the unions, and full benefit paid to workers in dispute.

The fact that in most cases unofficial and strikes remain union leaders totally abdicate all responsibilities, precisely when their members are in the sharpest conflict with the employers and the state, shows the correctness of the All Trades Unions Alliance struggle for a totally new re- volutionary socialist leadership in the trade union movement, one with that is completely involved aspects of the defence of workers' rights and conditions. The remaining articles in this series will deal with pensioners rights.

REVOLUTIONARY

Young Socialists hold an anti-Tory rally in September 1964, during the period of their expulsion from the Labour party On November 6 last year a national conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance decided to adopt a draft manifesto. to transform 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 and Socialists 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- tributions to this vital 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 Dłaft Manifesto write to Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch.

RON PERCY

T&GWU shop steward, Export Packing Services, Banbury I see the economic crisis as the end of capitalism. point They have got to a where they can't go any further.

Capitalism sees the solution as having more people on the dole so that it can frighten those that are working. In the Common Market they will be able to get cheaper they the are same as capitalism solution to keep to combiné in one going, monopoly. The most important action is TUC behind the get the to miners, not just to get their money, but to force this govern- could resign, which ment to have been done in 1926. Up to the moment the TUC leaders have talked and done nothing. I think they will try to miners back through a get the mediator, whom the miners who will sell don't want and them down the river, as were miners' the postmen, previous strikes, the dockers, etc.

The mediator is supposedly neutral, but always on the govern- ment's side—Sir or Lord some- body. This situation calls for new leaders, because the TUC, as it is and always has been, is on the side of the system. I would see our recent success- full nine-day strike at EPS, for alteration of a bad agreement and for a wage increase to offset the rising cost of living, as a big a back- move in what used to be ward area. This was the fight for the right to a decent living wage. I saw our fight as part of the fight of the miners, who are leading the working class, and I wanted to see other factories on strike as well. shop Our factory joint stewards' committee and the union branch have supported the Right-to-Work march because it is the fight for the basic right.

The only way it can be defended goes back to what could have been done in 1926, the forcing out of the Tory government and the return of a Labour govern- ment pledged to legislate this Manifesto. But I think none of the present Labour MPs would carry through a socialist policy.

GEOFFREY HOWELL

Bullding worker, EPTU member, Oxford I was a delegate to the ATUA conference and I did vote for the Manifesto, because I have been forced either to try and ignore what's going on, or face up to it.

In 1964 capitalist press screamed that the 1970s would bring a four-day week, six-hour- day lots of leisure. problem would be what people would spend their money on.

It was brought to my notice in the 1964 General Election, by Young Socialists that nothing like that was going to happen, that automation under capitalism would mean speed-up, redundancies and poverty for the working class. They also warned me of the treachery of the Labour Party at that time and of the sell-out.

I didn't choose to believe them.

Wherever I went the 'News- letter' was there, in pubs and on the street. During the 1971 Ford strike again the Workers Press was in the lead of the struggle against the sell-out by Evans and the leadership. Young Socialists hold an a For the majority of workers there was now vacuum in leadership throughout the labour movement. The hostility towards the Common Market and this Heath government was and is class all a frustrated creating working round. The majority believe that this Tory government has to come down-the question is with what are we going to re- place it? Which brings us to the Manifesto which is of course as relevant today as in November.

It's the only Manifesto worth building on. I am prepared to give it to somebody to read; this, to me, is committing myself.

Tories have shown their teeth in Ulster. The difficulty for the working class is that, apart from us, nobody else is telling people that it will happen in this country tomorrow. I think that the working class is not going to captulate and go back to the 1930s at a time when the Tories are asking us to go back even further, to the con- ditions of Hong Kong and other colonial countries, in order for British big business to compete with world trade. The Right-to-Work march is a sound footing for the beginning of the revolutionary party. It comes at the time of the miners' struggle. This is a real struggle, in which the capitalist press is determined to divide the miners from the rest of the working class. But for instance workers at Morris's and at Ford's, and generally, think that the miners should earn twice as much as they are earning, regardless of the press. But the miners' leaders • and the TUC have accepted that this Tory government should continue hold an anti-Tory rally in September 1964, duri 10.00 Workars Prose Salu to stay in for its full term of office despite the damage it is doing. This situation shows the need for revolutionary leadership by the Right-to-Work posed march.

PETER DOD

Russlan Studies student, Portsmouth Polytechnic I agree wholeheartedly with the manifesto. It provides the only real basis for the struggle to mobilize the working class. The fight is not simply for the right to a decent standard of living, but to seize opportunity, the revolutionary which the crisis in the capitalist system offers, to destroy once and for all the Tory party and to set the working class firmly the road building a to on socialist Britain. I think it should be stressed the Tory bringing down that government and re-electing a Labour government Is only the first step (albeit a most vital step) towards socialism. achieved this initial Having goal the revolutionary party must not be allowed to relax. It must be prepared to continue the struggle with renewed strength that to ensure every one of the basic rights in the Charter is carried through. Nationalization under workers' control must be a success. We fight revolutionary must socialism throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The first thing is to increase the circulation of Workers Press and to fight to turn the miners' strike into a General Strike to defeat the Tories. I think section six of the Manifesto, about building a revolutionary party on the basis of Marxist theory through the Socialist Labour 1964, during the period of their expulsion from

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Reading Workers Press every day is vital but people should be prepared study also to Marxist theory in greater depth so as to enable the working Class to carry out its role in building socialism. The analysis of the Common Market issue is absolutely right.

A Socialist United States of Europe is the real answer. To this end there should be more contact between the activities of the Socialist Labour League and the Young Socialists and the other Trotskyist groups Europe. This would strengthen the individual groups and would international emphasize their character. As a student I should say that students as a whole must become more aware of the importance of the Draft Manifesto. The govern- ment is not only attacking the autonomy of students' unions but perhaps, more important, it is taking away their right to a once they've got job their degrees. Graduate unemployment is increasing in. every as other section of industry. And those who do get jobs have to sell themselves the capitalist machine and end up in, for example, jobs like advertising, devising ways of making people they buy worthless products don't need. For many, this is intolerable and working in •the Young Socialists to fight for socialism provides them with an opport- unity to use their specialized knowledge for something worth- while and vitally important.

Students • have a big role to play in selling Workers Press, organizing meetings and studying Marxist theory. ulsion from the Labour party

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REVOLUTION

OUR NEW DOCUMENTARY

Tom Kempinski's play "The English Revolution' had a tremendous reception from an audience of Right-to-Work marchers and local workers in Carlisle on Sunday, February 13. The production, which was directed by Corin Redgrave will be played in St Helens this weekend at the Town Hall on Sunday, February 20. All those taking part are professional actors who have given their time to present the play during the course of the three Right-to-Work marches.

The play traces the development of the English bourgeoisie in the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Richard II and the class confrontation between Charles I (representing the old feudal order) and Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army.

Scenes here show-Above: An arrogant Charles I defies his government.

Top right: His trial by an outraged Parliament. Far right: The tyrant is beheaded. Near right: Cromwell kneels at the head of a united army after ruthlessly dealing with - the leftist section of the army-the Levellers.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Februar

BY JOHN SPENCER

At least 100 Czech intellec- tuals, including relatives of frame-up 1952 Slansky the trial, are being held in prison the Czechoslovak authorities. It seems likely that the gay- ernment of Gustav Husak is planning to bring them to trial in an attempt to crush the per- sistent opposition to the Soviet invasion of August 1968. The Soviet Stalinists are them- selves carrying out vicious campaign against the opposition at home, many of whom opposed of Czechoslovakia the invasion and demonstrated publicly against it. They are believed to have put pressure on their Czechoslovak puppets to take similar action against the anti-Stalinists there.

The international character of this campaign is a clear indica- tion that the Czech events of 1968 were only the symptoms of i far deeper crisis which springs from the contradictions between the rule of the bureaucracy and the development of the working class. The more acute the economic crisis of the capitalist world, the struggles in sharper the class the West, the more unstable and crisis-ridden the bureaucrats become. workers. The Czech were solidly opposed to the 1968 invasion and despite thorough-going carried purge • by the CP leadership, through they have not changed their minds. and more, More both in the Soviet Czechoslovakia and the bureaucracy must Union, repression naked turn to to maintain its In Czecho- rule. slovakia the leadership enjoys no beyond narrow support corrupted bureau- stratum of crats. Its main strength is the backing it receives direct from Moscow. Having purged the centrist of the leaders Prague Spring, Alexander Dubcek, Smrkovsky, Kriegel and their co-thinkers, the bureaucrats, are now turning the full weight of the state against the young militants who were on the movement's left wing.

Rudolf Slansky, whose father was executed 20 years a20 head of the mythical 'anti-state centre, conspiratorial is on record as demanding the restora- tion of working-class democracy the formation of workers' and councils. With his friend Jan Sling, he organized a protest Dubcek and Smrkovsky demonstration against the trial of Peter Uhl last year. arrested last Others month include Karel Kosik, a communist since before the war, who was elected to the Party's central committee at the clan- Also hin 14th destine congress. trial is the editorial awaiting board of the journal 'Reporter' which was suppressed in 1969.

'Reporter' published a biography of Trotsky and articles by Isaac Deutscher. in bureaucracy lives The mortal fear of the truth about its history and the independent organization of workers. Above all it fears Trotskyism as the of scientific expression the against their bureau- workers cratic rulers. The fact that many of those arrested in the current purge are relatives of the Slansky trial ay February 19, 1972 Top: Russlan tanks søt allght In Pragu especially defendants is significant. Like the sons and daughters of Soviet communists the murdered by .Stalin, these youth bitter experi- have learnt through burning hatred of ence a bureaucracy and privilege. They will not be silenced by threats and purges, so the Kremlin has set out to put them behind bars, hoping in this way to exorcise the consequences of its past and present crimes. The general shape of the : frame-up being prepared against the opposition is already clear from the recent denunciations of journalist British Nicholas Bethell, broadcast over Slovak television. The broadcast accused him of working for the British Bethell has service. secret number of contacts with dissi- dents' and it is clear that the next step in the amalgam is to label them 'British spies' too.

The Prague leaders have invited delegates from the most influential W European Com- munist Parties--the French and the Italian-to see some of the 'evidence' allegedly linking the leaders of the Reform Movement to western intelligence services.

The French Stalinist represen- tative who visited Prague, veteran politburo member : In Prague, August 1968. Above: Husak and Roland Leroy, was reported to have been somewhat upset by the Husak government's hard line. If he was, he kept it to French himself, because Communist Party has not con- demned the arrests. The Italian CP has yet to send a delegate as requested, but their 'Rinascita' has attacked paper the arrests of 'those who we con- sider communists because of their long their training and experience militants' The Italian Stalinists are particularly upset because the Czech leaders seem. to be on the point of breaking their guarantee that there would be no show-trials.

The fact that a number of western Communist Parties have chosen, for their own opportunist occupation is a see one oppose the reasons, embarrassment to both the Czech and the Soviet Stalinists, and they are clearly applying pressure to bring their 'fraternal' parties into line. The Czech leadership's attitude - which undoubtedly mirrors that of the Kremlin-was frankly expressed at a secret session of Party's central committee the held on October 21, 1971.

Extracts from a report at this meeting giyen by Vasil Bilak, a member of both the presidium and the Party secretariat, have leak and Brezhner at Moscow alrport.

published in the French been newspaper 'Le Monde'. Bilak is a notorious creature of the Kremlin. He replaced Alexander Dubcek at the head of the Slovak CP when the latter became overall first secretary.

after the accused He was invasion of collaborating with the Russians and was replaced by Gustay Husak. When Dubcek from his Party was removed posts, Bilak was rehabilitated.

He was one of the leaders who organized the puppet 'congress' which reversed the Party's official stance on the Soviet invasion. He even claimed Soviet troops had •that entered Czechoslovakia response to a mythical "appeal' Czech militants. He from nothing more than a Czech mouthpiece for the Soviet Stalinist leaders. Bilak referred in his speech to the fact that the majority of Communist Parties have sup- ported the present policies of the Czech CP, adding, that 'our experience in the fight against opportunism has been of great assistance to them in the fight against opportunism in their own ranks'. But he added that certain CPs 'believed that they could not revise their incorrect stance on the Czechoslovak events of 1968 without endangering their their and weakening unity authority among the population'.

This is a frank statement of the reasons why some of the Stalinist parties — notably the Italian british, "Spanish and Australian CPs — opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia. They want to retain the last tatters of credibility in order the more completely to betray the working class at home. Bilak has a certain sympathy with their 'We must,' he says, 'be problems. patient until life itself with the •passage of time shows that right is on our side!' Bilak's of the assessment 'opposition' from the British and other Communist Parties is quite accurate. Though he speaks of 'differing opinions on a number of questions concerning the pro- gramme, strategy and tactics of international communist movement, he makes it clear that the Czech Stalinists still • the foreign Stalinists as regard "fraternal parties'. He knows that the British CP leaders and their other Stalinist counterparts are far too deeply implicated in the crimes of the past ever to campaign seriously against the crimes of the present.

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The US ruling class is taking steps to ensure the right to publish freely in newspapers and journals does not reach beyond the point where the government is, so to speak, stripped to its underwear and suffers from indecent exposures Six months ago Daniel Ells- began berg's Pentagon papers appearing in the press. They laid bare the long-term preparations by the American bourgeoisie for the Vietnam war and the lies the public had been told about episodes like Tonkin Gulf.

on a grand Ellsberg now jury indictment in Los Angeles, despite the New York Times's' right to publish being upheld by the supreme court. More recently another journ- alist, Jack Anderson, - syndicated meetings of the reports from national security council on the Indo-Pakistan war, Cambodia and Davld Ellsberg General Motors, the world's largest industrial concern, with a turnover higher than the gross national income of Holland, is facing a crisis point in its most automated factory in Ohio. Workers in the plant are fighting back against the fan- tastic speed of the line, the in the United States, fastest which is capable of producing 100 cars an hour. American has The press launched a. villification campaign against the carworkers, accusing them of sabotage and wilful The local damage. to cars. United Auto Workers' branch has threatened a strike in re- taliation. Millions of dollars have been invested in the plant by General Motors where a point the to lin: is virtually 100-per-cent automated. The assembly line is fitted out armed 26 bellows-like with • bend around robots that can corners and that makes some 520 welds in each car. The workers are the youngest of any GM plant, with an average age of 24 to 25. But now the plant, the only one in the US that subcompact turns Vegas, has the industry's worst labour problem, and so far it has cost GM about $40m in lost pro- duction. Cars regularly roll off the line scratched paint, dented bodies, shift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose • or missing bolts. In keys have broken some cases, themselves off right in the lock, apparently jamming it. Johnson, president at the time of the Ton other aspects of US foreign policy. Enough is enough. The right to publish fat, can go too especially when the government involved. And last week the is national security council moved "relevant' make to sure only information got into the hands of the public. Regulations pro- posed suggest that President Nixon may want to go as far as Official the British Secrets Act which would impose stiff crim- those who inal penalties • on receive classified information, as well as on those who disclose it. Unfortunately, however, the draft regulations, submitted last month to the Departments of State, Defence and Justice and the Atomic Energy Commission, also found their way into the hands of the 'Washington Post'.

Not a good start, then! Nevertheless, the committee, after one year's work, proposes to abolish special categories of Robot 'workers' on the assembly line at ( And last October an assembly- line control box shed caught fire, shut downi, causing the line to much the relief of the to workers. The plant's repair lot has room for 2,000 cars, but often becomes too crowded to accept more. When that happens the lines stop again and the workers are laid off without pay. GM's trouble began in mid- 1971, about a year after the was put into automated plant operation. When the bugs had been ironed out of the system and the assembly plant consoli- dated with an adjacent body the firm paid plant, off 800 •workers. Those still with jobs complained then about the speed-up, doing extra jobs and the killing pace. GM turned a deaf ear. The number of dam- of the Tonkin Gulf Incident.

highly-sensitive material and introduce a '30-year rule' , setting the time limit for declassifica- tion of all future secret docu- ments. Then the committee goes on' to suggest a neat way round that one as well. 'Classified infor- mation or material no longer needed in current working files' 'promptly . may be destroyed, transferred or retired' to reduce stockpiles of classified documents and cut the costs of handling them. The committee also lists several ways of tightening up security. One suggests a check is made each year to see that what they had at the beginning of the year corresponds to what they have at the end! Well, it is obvious the recent leaks have come from high-up • they include sources, some say the national council security itself. We may soon expect the Nixon administration to start arresting itself. - ly line at General Motors.

aged cars rose. Last month the local union in struck back which way made use of the bourgeoisie's to the own newspapers turn tables on GM. They leaked a story that the company was ship- ping defective Vegas to dealers, a charge vehemently de- nied by GM! Gary Bryner, presi- dent of UAW Local 1112, said: 'We warned them that we were going to get our story out if they wouldn't work with us.'

The Local has threatened take a strike vote unless fo firm concedes. What the union wants is a redefinition of the work riles : that will result in some rahiring and elimination of •extra chores, which workers say rush them as the cars move by at an average of one every 36 seconds. Workers Press, Saturday February 19, 1972 PAGE 9 There was not a little embar- Dodie Burton was getting rassment at the London married. At 23 she had made con- ference of the Liaison Com- 'good' She match. was for Defence the of millionaire Pasco mittee marrying Trade Unions last Saturday.

Watson. gave Dodie Frank Clark, of Pasco 'an convenor un- usual, if slightly Fine Tubes, where ostentatious, engineers have been on official strike for wedding present ('Daily Mail, 88 made sharp January 31, 1972). week bureaucratic attack on union A £10,000 pair of... wait leaders who have failed to for it... golden roller skates, support the strike. with a diamond fitted in each One particular target of his wheel. attack was the Sheffield dis- During the first week of the Amalgamated trict of the strike met miner a young Engineering Union of Work- from the Warwickshire coal- ers, which has a 100 per cent field who was due get membership at a firm called married that weekend. Osborne Steels. He told me that even if he had been able to take time off Osborne is the supplying from his picketing duties, which he high-quality steel wouldn't be able to afford Fine Tubes to con- to enables get married. It's a good thing with scab tinue operating she supports us all the way.

labour. was his comment. 'We've been ten times to plead with the stewards at this factory, but they still haven't stopped Clark These comments day a Workers stung Press seller met a character mittee member Eddie Keys to proclaiming an indignant denial. He blamed 'Solidarity with the Miners'.

the Transport Intrigued, our seller enquired Workers' Union for the con- tinued supplies of steel at Fine 'solidarity' he envisaged.

have done what Tubes. regarding our own we union,' he said. day so I about politics don't want to talk about them now... Anyway, I'm a mem- ber of the Communist Party! Joe Kenyon, of the secretary Unemployed Claimants' and Workers' has Union been from the De- granted £26.15 of Social Security The present Tory government's partment links with the racialist apart- for himself and his wife.

heid regime in •I can't Africa are understand why well known. Here's another said they're so nice to me', one. Kenyon in a statement to that of Tessel On the board fighting of forthright, iournal Securities sits Toby Jessel, the proletariat the 'News of Tory MP for Twickenham. In the World'. the financial year ending June 'When a man from the De- 30, 1971 Jessel Securities gave I partment came to see me, £2,145 to the Tory party.

clothes told him the was January 24, 'Finan- the not befitting a wearing were Times' cial reported: "Jessel union boss. Securities is slannina to He got f16. expand • in Africa by When called the visitor acquiring a 50-per-cent stake Toe told again, him, his wife in

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FROM IAN YEATS IN S WALES

THERE was mixed response from S Wales miners to yester- day's recommendations from the Wilberforce inquiry. Miners at the Merthyr Vale lodge-the lodge covering the scene of the Aberfan disaster of 1966—yesterday rejected out- right the Wilberforce offer and announced that from today they will be withdrawing all safety men from the pit. The men say they will continue No matter to organize pickets. what the NUM leadership says, they will continue to fight until the end of the strike. At their meeting yesterday the Merthyr lodge also voted to sup- port the Young Socialists Right- to-Work campaign and to send a speaker and a delegation when the march through comes Merthyr Tydfil and Aberfan.

Ogilvie lodge secretary Evan Jones said: I've got great doubts whether the day-wage men will accept, but as far as the men on the concerned it's very face are reasonable'. He added: I think the ten weeks' back pay to surface and underground workers is bait to get the men back to work, but I think both groups should get at least £7 each.' It is a question now of whether the Tories will sacrifice their 7 per cent pay norm to get the miners back to work. Said Mr Jones: 'I think they will have to.

Robert Carr said the government would pay whatever the Wilber- force inquiry recommended.'

Welsh NUM vice-president Emlyn Williams told me: 'We can make no public statement until after the national executive have considered the inquiry's findings. 'We cane out as a national union and we'll go back as a union. national Ifthey are against it, we will be 100 per cent behind them. If they are for it, we'll go back.' Blaenant lodge secretary Ben Davis yesterday described the new offer as 'totally unsatisfac- tory after the sacrifices miners have made'. He will re- commend that it be turned down.

Make the Tory government resign. Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- repeal all and laws ment against the unions. BARNSLEY: Sunday February , Dar- held? Phe Mine strik field. strike and the Tory government'. Speaker: A Yorkshire miner. DAGENHAM: Wednesday February 23, 8 p.m. Room I1, East Ham Town Hall. 'Labour must force a General Election:'

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Monday February 28, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. 'Labour must force a General Election.' W LONDON: Tuesday Febru- ary 2, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Whartedale Ra, off York Way, day February 19, 1972

BY PHILIP WADE

BERNARD DONAGHY, secr panel and Cronton lodge, sad tremendous victory. It has driv pay policy. 'But we're suspicious as always as to what might be attached to the deal. There.

are no ifs and buts — it's a defeat for the Tories. That's two votes of no confidence in 24 hours. "The Tories have been given clear orders to get out. But this is the first round. 'History shows us that the Tories buy people off and prepare for the next time. Now they'll try and pick on weaker sections like the railwaymen. We're pledged to give our full support their struggle against the to government? Malcolm Gregory, acting presi- dent of Bold colliery, com- mented: "The offer for under- ground men is reasonable. But for the surface men it is dis- gusting.. 'All they got was 62 per cent of their original claim. I don't know whether they'll accept it.

'Another objection is that the agreement is for 16 months. The cost of living will go up faster before that period is out. We should put in another claim in November. It's a pity the Tories are still in. I think the TUC should have called a national strike. But it's a victory in the sense that we the Tories' smashed wage "norm". • 'The NUR is next. We'll sup- port them every inch of the way.

The Tories still have to defeat the working class.' Bob Dickinson, surface worker at Bold, president of st Helens craftsmen's branch of the NUM, said: 'As far as I'm concerned it's a disgrace. The surface work- shifts and get noth- ers work all • extra for it. The offer still ing leaves them way behind. Surface men are angry. They do a neces- sary job and are still underpaid.'

nt Kings Cross. 'Crisis of capital- ism'. SW LONDON: Tuesday February 29, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Baths, Clapham Manor Manor St, SW4. 'Labour must force a General Election'. ACION: Wednesday March 1, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Labour must force a General Election'.

LUTON: Thursday March 2, 8 , Centre, Old p.m. Recreation Bedford Rd. 'Marxism and the trade unions'. SE LONDON: Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opp New Cross stn). "The General Strike'. N LONDON: Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Town Hall, Edmon- ton. 'Building the revolutionary party. Y, secretary of the St Helens miners' Ige, said: On the face of it, , it is a has driven a line right through Heath's

MALCOLM GREGORY, BOLD, LANCS, LODG

50-50 CHANCE-NE MEN

FIRST reaction from• NE miners think its 50-50. Wilberforce report was other to the But made it clear they we wary. Secretary of the Monkwear- pared to accept any Sunderland, Harry mouth pit, productivity. Tomlinson, said: John Hampson, I think this will be enough miner from Killoch, get the Durham miner back against the offer. to at work, but whether it will be 'This is not enough get all the time we have been ou to miners back will be another question. I he told me.

BY A KENT CORRESPONDENT

IN THE Welfare Club per check-up, he was finally sent to hospital at Aylesham, Kent a they diagnosed and group of miners had tumour on the prostate returned just from gland. Within few a the funeral of Tommy weeks he was a dead Tommy Borked $ 45 man.' worked all years at The of anger Snowdon pit. He didn't miners round the table drink or at the club about a smoke, and, hasn't situation that except for his last few improved since the days weeks, he was never of private ownership of yaway from the pit. the swelled in pits Frank McMahon, his Frank: 'In this village thére's told nephew me the story of the last months men condemned to go of his life: back work who to 'He aren't fit to go. In my was sent to Gravel Walk - that's opinion, men go to these Tribunals and what call the they're we National Insurance Office brainwashed that there's in Canterbury - where nothing wrong with he was examined by them. doctor and sent back to 'As they say, go into the pit for two weeks. and a mining village I was amazed when you've got a streetful of I heard he was going widows. Another older miner back to work. Anyway, after insisting on a pro- intervened to insist that

MINERS' STRIKE

DAY 41

BRITISH RAILWAY'S annual report — due out in spring — will show a deficit of about £20m for 1971. This compares with a f9.5m surplus in 1970.

is blamed The loss on the decline in freight traffic due to the poor state of the economy.

In addition the railways have been losing £2.5m week in a freight charges during the miners' cannot hope to get strike and all this back. The rail unions submitted 'substantial' claim at the turn of although will the year, no one say exactly how much this is.

The Board has sent the claim for 'reconsideration' back and this is what the unions are busy at right now. Last year the railwaymen were awarded a 94 per cent increase.

The government's norm this year, of course, is 7 per cent to 8 per cent. But clearly the railwaymen, also in a nationalized industry, will why they see no reason

CS, LODGE OFFICIAL

should settle for any less than the miners. Transport Minister John Pey- ton announced a £27m handout to the railways in December, but a wages victory would knock huge hole in this. British Rail- miners at the pit ways could finish 1972 with a ar they were not pre- deficit of £10m despite the cept any increase in government's cash injection.

an Ayrshire BR's chief, Richard Marsh, Killoch, was firmly former Minister of Transport in the Labour government, will enough for the be told by his Tory certainly e been out on strike', bosses to stand firm against the railway workers. there hadn't been 2 unless we get what we regular résident doctor asked for. What Gorm- for some 30 years. And ley said the other day this in a mining village is a lot of rubbish. of 7,000 people some We'd never settle for which is still covered £4 to £7. He's putting by only one doctor. words into Wilberforce's know from An ex-miner Jimmy mouth. Park, brother-in-law of demonstrations that Tommy added Briggs, miners from all over the some comments on the country are of the same mind, tremendous struggle the 'And just look NUM has had in Kent. at From Jimmy Duffy to Feather. Heath called on our present branch sec- him to come back from John and appealed retary McMahon, America we have had one hell to him and get . to try of a fight because the men back to work. we don't have one Labour He should have come MP in Kent. It's been back weeks ago to to the country to witho so hard that I would say Jimmy Duffy draw workers. 'Anyway he should then asked Frank have jumped in on the McMahon, who has postmen's cause a year been a face worker at And why did ago. Feather the pit for ten have be years, to about the present strike.

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THE WILBERFORCE

report on the miners' pay claim concludes that the government should pay up because of the special circumstances of their case. The report says: 'We think it an essential part of the present settlement that the miners' basic claim for a general and exceptional in- crease should be recognized.

We believe that in general by public this is accepted opinion and if it cannot be paid for out of the NCB's revenue account, in accord- ance with its statutory obliga- of tions, we think that the public, through the government, should accept the charge."

After examining the Wilber- force recommendations, officials at the Coal Board estimated that the new rates would add £113m to their wage bill from November last year to February 1973. The report says that since 1957 the miners had 'wholeheartedly co- operated in a continuing pro- gramme of streamlining coal production. They have seen their numbers working in pits reduced from over 700,000 to under 290,000 and the number of producing collieries fall from over 800 to under 300.' This rundown, brought about with the co-operation of the miners and of their union is without parallel in British industry in terms of the social and economic costs it has inevi- tably entailed for the mining community as a whole. During this period of concen- trating production on fewer col- production leries, methods became highly mechanized and the miners responded by learn- ing new skills and by co. operating with the NCB in the

JOBS STRIKE

BY TASS

WORKERS

A STRIKE of 102 technical and supervisory staff of the engineers' (TASS) is continuing at unions Fenner's, the Hull Engineering striking firm. The are men against 28 declared redundancies.

The men claim that redundan- cies are being used as a cover to victimize leading union mem- bers. Three: of the TASS com- mittee are included in the 28.

In addition, Fenner's man- agement refuse to recognize TASS as representing anything other than the draughtsmen.

This follows a further redun- dancy of a skilled painter who was reinstated only after a walk- out by Fenner's engineers.

The TASS strikers are now seeking to bring the engineers out in support.

LATE NEWS

NEWS DESK

01-720 2000

CIRCULATION

01-622 7029 Miners' leaders and Coal Board chiefs went to Downing St for a meeting with premier Heath as peace talks teetered on the edge of a breakdown. The miners' executive meeting at the DofE had been split 13- rejecting favour in of the Wilberforce recommendations and demanding the extra £1.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minis- ter called a Cabinet meeting to talks after the discuss the pay miners had earlier rejected the recommendations of the Wilber- force Inquiry into the dispute.

Employment Secretary Robert Carr left the miners and Coal representatives at the Board Department of the Employment to report to Heath. He arrived five minutes after the Cabinet had assembled.

day February 19, 1872 Surface Undorground Face 5.00 Original NUM Clalm £9.00 8.00 • 1.75 Oct 12 NCB offer 1.80 1.75 Dec 13 revised offer 2.00 1.90 1.90 £2 to be extended to 80,000 Jan 5 further other workers plus one week's extra revised offer hollday in two stages 3.00 3.50 2.75 over 18 mths with no backdating.

Feb 9 further offer after meeting with Carr Also offered minimum earnings level of £22. 6.00 7.00 £4-£5 Feb 10 NUM sald plus 1 week's extra hollday min. for negotiation was: 6.00 5.00 4.00 Wilbertorce offer over 16 months backdated to November 1, 1971 further concentration of produc- the industry machines tion faces where on situation could be used to the best ad- workers earned substantially less vantage. 1957 output per manshift average than those in manu- In cwt; by 1971 it had stood at 25 But after this analysis climbed to 44.2 increase cwt, an predicament, of 77.5 per cent. closed, Where pits have been closures now have further to travel work. Additionally, to 'Of course', the report large numbers of men have had be 'the coal industry cannot home, in some cases looked Specifi- at in isolation. more than once. we cannot shut our Yet the continued to co- cally, eyes men

NCB

the continuing danger of in- with the in its to operate flation which presents the most efforts to secure a viable future standards the industry in the face of serious threat to the for living including competition from of of everyone, increasing the miners. other fuels. the inquiry On wage earnings 'The

NCB

and the

NUM

concluded: should discussion commence [on before the end of 'From position in which productivity] March to agree a scheme by Sep- weekly earnings in coal avelage well above tember which would reilect in- mining had stood productivity' the creases in average earnings in Illanu- By JOHN SPENCER models of penalties. I want the engines,' he THREE production said. the Rolls-Royce RB211 engine Lockheed is under contract to their the across were on way begin delivering completed and Atlantic last night bound for airworthy TriStars to customers Lockheed Aviation's plant in April 15. by California. Palmdale, Getting the plane into service is just the start of the company's The 42,000-pound-thrust en- however. They must problems, TriStar gines will power the sell about 260 planes before the be delivered in Airbus due to 'breaks even'. project March Lockheed's first late to 104 firm orders Lockheed has customer, Eastern Air Lines.

and 50 options to buy. The last firm order was won in If all goes well, delivery will and November last vir- deadline set the use a be just within the tually all airlines with Rolls and Lockheed between of

TWA

and the exception contract when their was re- Braniff already signed either negotiated following Rolls' bank- are for the TriStar or for one of its ruptcy ten months ago. two competitors. The three have yet engines This makes Haughton's present to pass the stringent certification visit to London vital. He is deep though Lockheed chairman talks with Britain's two in sales tests. Daniel P. Haughton said in Lon-

BEA

and nationalized airlines, don yesterday he did not antici-

BOAC.

But so far the airlines pate any problems with certifica- seem in no hurry to make up tion. their minds. Lockheed's reduced the tests, Rolls If they fail price offer to sell six TriStars to ba liable to financial could BEA runs out at the end of this but, Haughton said he penalties, month, but the customers have did not think it would come to still not decided buy. to that. 'I don't want to collect any will face stiff price don't rise they buy soon: Lockheed the is applying to

WEATHER

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basic f15m tag for TriStar.

A fleet of cars Haughton also outlined costly two sides to Downing St. plansi for 'stretched' new Victor TUC general secretary version of the plane, with Feather and CBI chief Campbell range boosted from the present Adamson were also taken to No 3.200 nautical miles 4,000. „ to 1iWe are just going over to No The version (the Lock- new heed 1011-2) would cost an extra what events 10 to see there, said Feather. £50m to develop. It would turn transpiring TriStar from a trans-continental

NCB

chairman Derek Ezra into an inter-continental passen- said his team were leaving as ger aircraft, he said. the DofE: 'We must. settle this. The European and the airbus It That's all can say now. of which Douglas DC10, both could be a long night. are in competition with TriStar, Association's Political Press than have longer range that at this Correspondent says the present Lockheed production indication there is no model. stage whether Carr had anything defin- Financing the Mark 2 TriStar itive to communicate Lock- could pose a problem, too. is having whether the Cabinet heed has already worked its way the peace interim report on through more than $100m of the talks. $250m loan guaranteed by Con- gress last summer. The remaining money will not Post the Registered newspapeorkers be available to develop the Press, Office. Pubam TriStar without 'stretched' London. 186a specifie from the permission Plough Press 1. London. (TU), Printed bankers and the loan guarantee 1801 Clasham Street, board. DOLLAR prices on the world's exchange foreign markets remained at rock-bottom yes- terday under the impact of Treasury Secretary John Con- nally's tough refusal to con- sider restoring gold converti- bility. It reached a new low against the yen on the Tokyo exchange, despite central bank interven- to support the US cur- tion rency's parity. Japanese big business is wor- ried that Connally's speech could further American foreshadow demands for another up-valua- in an even were trading apa in an even trading posi- tion than it occupies at present.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce has said that the country's external reserves-held almost entirely in the form of inconvertible paper dollars-will soon rise to $20,000m from the current level of $16,000m.

This Japan's would mean reserves would be double those of the United States itself. The US would then certainly press for another yen revaluation. The Japanese Chamber of Comerce and Industry has set up committee a special ad hoc to look at ways of disposing of the vast pool of unwanted dollars.

Among the suggested uses for public works the money are investment and aid to under- developed countries. be tasi TWO SHOTS fired • over a group of workers led to 600-strong walk-out at Belfast's deep-sea dock on Tuesday.

And a paratrooper bragged the army was 'brave enough to do another 13'. Sixty dockers were going for their pay when they were told move in single file to past a ship berthed in Sinclair Wharf bringing more paratroopers into Ulster. As they moved forward in a group, two shots were fired over heads. 'You're a brave their fellow when you have a gun,' one docker told a trooper. 'Brave enough to do another 13; came the reply. picked up a spent • The men shell and passed it on to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union. A union delegate lodged a protest with the army.

It is reported that the troops involved were acting as security men on the wharf where other soldiers were arriving. Following a previous incident, the IT&GWU instructed dockers walk off ships when they to were being searched by troops on security work. МАЛИНІМШИ! •

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A LETTER FROM THE

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS

Dear Comrade Healy,

UNEMPLOYMENT MARCH

with We have noted some the Socialist Labour pleasure League's initiative in: organizing the unemployed march., We find in general agreement ourselves with the points in the programme and would be pleased to assist in ensuring the successiul out- come of the venture. We would propose as follows: 1) That we join the march, at convenient points, under dur own banners, 2) that we notify our branches to assist and on the route, accommodate the marchers (this may be particularly useful in towns that do not have SLL branches), 3) that we be allowed a speaker or speakers at the Wembley Rally, speaking of course within terms of reference of the march. We hope that your Committee agree to such a useful, and can possibly fruitful, joint activity of this sort. Yours fraternally, Jim Higgins, National Secretary

REPLY BY THE ŚLL

POLITICAL COMMITTEE

Mr Higgins, By what impudent authority do you invite the Socialist Labour League to engage with you in political fraud? You know as well as we do that the political differences between IS and the SLL are irreconcilable. The Right-to- Work marches have been organ- ized for the purpose of building the Young Socialists and the SLI as the centre of . the national campaign to make the Tory gov- ernment resign. In our opinion such a campaign is an integral of the fight against un- part employment. You disagree with building the SLL and the YS. This is your right. You have disagreed, so far, with the campaign to make the Tory government resign. This_ is also your right. But what is impermissible, utterly outrageous, your request to join our march under conditions which amount to nothing more than transforming a campaign based on Marxist principles into a middle-class protest stunt. You want to join it in the same muddle-headed revisionist way you jump around the British and Irish political scene.

Since the Tory governmen was elected you aave repeateals joined with • the British Com. munist Party in its various cam.

paigns. You have actively co operated and assisted the Stalinists each and every on occasion in slandering the SLI and the Workers Press. "We also have fully-documented cases ol your members actively opposing the Right-to-Work campaign a1 trade union branches and student meetings. We see no problem in dealing with this kind of opposition. In fact, your letter describes per- fectly the sort of Trojan Horse operation to which you are accustomed. ne United Front as A genuine conceived by Lenin and Trotsky is only possible between organ izations with & mass base Neither you nor we have as yel such a base. It would be tanta.

mount to fraud to use the prin.

ciple of the United Front as a cover for some shabby faction.

alism by either the SLL or IS.

G. Healy for the Political Committee of the Socialist Labour League