Workers Press no. 694

workers press Next in line rise

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the pay following set-

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tlement of the miners' claim are the railway They will meet mem- of the British Rail bers Thursday Board on

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"substantial" increase The involved

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wallna to he heard National Union Teachers. Officials from all these untons have indi- cated they do not in- tend to treat the miners settiement as *a special case. Wilberforce down that the lower

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paid werker entitled justice. to wage And both the railway and the teachers unions feel they are an and underpaid of SCCUUl

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With neminers ım of over per crcase these unions are adamant they will the Bo ack to ores even the trade union leaderships wanted to retreat, militancy in the rank and file is unlikely let them! Ed- erime Minister ward Heath is make a nation-wide television aopearance later this week to try resurrect some for *wages his DOLley ил0M 01 su8M u180r other unions that miners' settlement SaOulG ПОТ Decome precedent. Some hope. • ASLEF district coun- cil (London Transport) voted by nas

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votes to five to call for all General Strike of to force the

EREORS

ortes out The resolution notes only with the that Tories out of office will get wage workers

TUST

increases. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1972• No. 694 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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JULY 29, 1925-FEB 18, 1972

RIGHT-TO-WORN

'RED FRIDAY'

7775

YOUNG

MARTH

SETTLEMENT

SACIALISTS

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE 1972 MINERS' strike will go down in history as one of the most powerful demon- strations of working-class solidarity so far in Britain this century. But the harsh fact remains that it has settled nothing. The Tory delicately had to retreat. This was government engineered when Heath changed his policy of confrontation and no compromise and suddenly introduced the Wilber- force inquiry. But although Heath changed horses, the whip has never left his hand. The crucial moment of the strike came at 10.15 p.m. on Friday, February 18, when the NUM's five-man negotiating committee met Heath at Downing St. Joe Gormley, the miners' president, is reported to have described the meeting as follows: We pushed Mr Heath, we pushed him like hell, but he wouldn't budge. We were facing a united Cabinet decision.

) colap see manden Tory "Had the Cabills hance t hell's chance of getting the El a, then of the rejected, collapse been have government was inevitable. une government Could ПОТ escaped further concessions to the miners.

Heath would have reopened the Wilberforce and a decision to grant at least a portion of the fl difference was clearly inquiry on une cards. would have destroyed Such a situation Two more jobs marches under way completely the government's industrial relations it is diffi- see how could have

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saved because in ane covernment Was dealing with the reformist miners leaders Heath political whip hand. As far as the government was concerned,

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

the guest challen ted. power and authority This left the reform- was no WILl alternauve

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ship of the labour and trade union move ment, had to way because their whole on class colaboraton.

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Thepare Are in Ben de his aimin experience recounts conversa- from outset. 'Gentlemen, you fashioned in nave Triple Alliance of the unions represented beel bound to you, most powerful instrument. tell army is dis- at your mercy. are erected 0720L yelled uDOTL. Trouble has occurred already in a number We have just emerged from of camps. and the people eager tor great wou sacrifices, and we are the reward of inerr in no position to satisfy them.

In these circumstances if you carry out 1222 92 20 22112921S 021102122101 But if you defeat us, went on Lloyd Genes? The you wil be to deface George, its very sees will preciate a constitu government CountrY tional crisis of importance which is if a force the arises state stronger inan the state usell, inen it must be ready to take on the functions of the state, or withdraw and accept the authority of the state. Prime 'Gentlemen, asked the Minister Young Dom une Liverpool and swansea Right-to-Work marches organized by the Socialists got off quietly, 'have you considered, and if you enthusiastic starts at the weekend. Top: In Liverpool playwright/actor Neville Smith playwright JIm rave, from that moment Allen headed a march through the are 404 i city to g meeting and the first night on the road for the marchers.

Yester- said Robert Smillie we were day playwright Arnold Wesker led the Wales march out of Swansea with director Roy Battersby. beaten and knew we were. • For detalls of these marches and Stephen Johns we of the Glasgow-London march's 14th ary day on the Continued on page 2 . road, see.p. 12.

workers press Next in line for pay rise

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in the pay following set- tlement of the miners' claim are the railway will meet mem- the British Rail bers Thursday Board dress niel 'substantial' increase last June. made involved The

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the National Union Railwaymen, Asso- ciated Society oi Loco monve anancers Firemen Salaried Staffs' TIOn. The other union the 'government pay

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waiting heard National Union Teachers. Officials from all these unions have indi- cated they do tend to treat the miners' a special serenen as case. They Wilberforce down has the principle that the lower paid ager kust is entitled wage justice. And both the railway feel they are aggrieved and underpaid section of With the miners' in crease of over 21 per cent, these unions adamant they will not the Tories' go back to 1 Pend et nomi if even the union leaderships Laut retreat, the militancy in militancy the rank and file is unlikely let them! Minister ca- ward Heath is planning to make a nation-wide television apocarance later inis week to try to resurrect bility for his wages policy. Heath wants to warn other unions that the miners' settlement

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precedent. Some hope. • ASLEF district coun- cil (London Transport) six voted br five to call General Strike of force the The resolution notes that only with the Tories out of office will get just wage workers increases. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1972 • No. 694 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

JULY 29, 1925-FEB 18, 1972

RIGHT-TO-WORN

'RED FRIDAY'

MOUNT ARCH

SETTLEMENT

SOCIALISTS

S

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE 1972 MINERS strike will go down in history as one of the most powerful demon- strations of working-class solidarity so far in Britain this century. But the harsh fact remains that it has settled nothing. The Tory retreat. This was delicately government engineered when Heath changed his policy of confrontation and no compromise and suddenly introduced the Wilber- force inquiry. But although Heath changed horses, the whip has never left his hand. The crucial moment of the strike came at 10.15 p.m. on Friday, February 18. when the NUM's five-man negotiating committee met Heath at Downing St. Joe Gormley, the miners' president, is reported to have described the meeting as follows: We pushed Mr Heath, we pushed him like hell, but he wouldn't budge. We were facing a in the end reonzed there untea cabinet aecision. in biness hanna tom see or the Tory hell's of getting the £1 not rejected ra of the Had the been then collapse The have cover mert Was autost coveraneel escased Heath would have further concessions to the miners.

reopened the Wilberforce and a decision to grant at least a portion of the El difference was clearly inquiry Such would have destroyed a situation Two more jobs marches under way completely the government's Inoustrial relations it is diffi- could have how it GuIL

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WAS aver because dealing with the reformist Heath political whip leaders hand. A station of over meet and oncernety

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question power authority This left the being challenged. reform- was with endermo

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but to capitulate. Ine miners leaders were

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talking about wages when, in reality, it was was posed. political power that entire leader- GH like the nuese cemened.

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ship of the labour ana trade union move- meach erous gilosophy is baset on chase ment, had to way because their whole

LONDON:

The pere A in Be is book Pace experience he 1919. recounts conversa- tion with Robert Smillie. the miners leader: (He ILloyd George] was quite frank with from the said outset. 'Gentlemen, fashioned in the nave Triple Alliance of the unions Terresenced feel bound to tell you, most powerful instrument. you that in our opinion at your The army is dis- mercy. are connor Tented 200k. Ir cable a so hared as ady ined fromber have emerged from camps. for the people Tno revara or inerr sacrinces, ana we are in no position to satisfy them.

In these circumstances if you carry out sou will defeat your threat and strike, then us. But if you defeat us,' went.

on Lloyd Georges Thee see woe be do deface George, its very success will precipitate a constitu- tional importance crisis which is if a force in the arises stronger inan ine siate wisel, inen it musi be ready to take on the functions of the state, or withdraw and accept the authority of the state. Minister 'Gentlemen,' asked the Prime Both the Liverpool and Swansea Right-to-Work marches the Young organized Socialists got off quietly, 'have you considered, and if you enthusiastic starts at the weekend. Top: In Liverpool playwright/actor Neville Smith playwright Jim are you ready?' From that moment ave, Allen headed a march city through the as march out of and them to a reby.

on, said Robert Smille we were day S Wales march out of playwright Arnold Wesker led the Swansea director beaten and knew we were. we • For detalls of these marches and Stephen Johns Glasgow-London day on the Continued on page 2. з0с.р.. 12.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday February 21, 1972 Worthless guarantees Law-and- order Mujib

THE FRENCH

Communist Husak lies to French CP advance that the trials will be frame- Party claims to have received forthcoming

DESH

BANGLA

premier as wen. musical ac accalcu guarance ominously to Leroy slovak Stalinist leader Gustav as opponents remain in jail Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has had said contradictory Husak that there will be no with the defend social 'need to warned he will take action prefabricated return against what he called 'anti- trials'. this said, social elements threatening law so-called guarantee' ine authorities had recently opened was given to French delegate be 1963 a rests No and order in the country'.

Caesaron no me or tuals and opponents of the 1968 tion of an illegal conspiratorial nolana Leroy wien ne visited ally i Liais 101 The Bangla Desh news agency Prague network'. recently. tensors Warsaw BSS said came in the the warning will be scrupulously ad- Czechcslovakia. to the French CP'S The same kind of and network was of reports ot lootins the defendants WaKe political bureau, Leroy received Suits Ul 'uncovered in the Slansky triall rowdyism in Dacca and outlying the he reply when went on to tell Leroy: murdered the French Com- Al tne time, 20 years ago. asked about the 'The period of prefabricated and munist Party leaders together wave said the Sheikh The agency oppositionists frame-up trials definitely in S of last that are sed a the with all the other Stalinist par of had deputation Czechoslovakia: the his last have since been year aboured lies, supported Inis Irame-up. 'There high-sounding declaration transport are not and there will they plan to do the same this recasta him 'to voice their Bye ance Czechoslovakia. Susak behind the smokescreen okearantees 7 110L

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quite wortniess. being neia in Jall. intimidation against likely to trials or arrests for political acts regime is holding in its Husak hardly Tusak's worthless would deal with creants'. that he the situation with a firm hand.

REAGAN

The 'miscreants' are armed

CHILE'S RIGHT WING BLOCKS

be former Mukti ouths, said to They Bahin guerrillas. are

PRESSING

accused swaggering towns and villages demanding

'NATIONALIZATION

food hijack- free in restaurants, and calu

TO KEEP

from householders. Nationalists, Cyprus war

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dominate both houses of single Congress, the elec- Duy fight of words

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sycal s congres Allende's government cholovilalills of industrial out- Cent econ- the cullivallies. worsened It also declared void Tanues world Tain to row our TuTure attempts since last October 14 by the state weekend and its organs to acquire ordered fuel attales 11 - private Shares Allende has Allende's so- 25 per cena for kerosene DaCK dustry and the banks. called peaceful road to formation The said in Athens at the constitutional socialism deliquid Darly Is ine ory way cent amendment coali- opposition Saturday by Congress is tion parties in the Popu- Democrats to ensure that constitullull

NEW CONTRACT FOR

Window neur mare basoners betweer

NICOSIC

W COAST DOCKERS

with a rive women are also awaiting prison his statement ic the latest i view DOCKERS on the American W coast returned to work yester- day after the longest dock strike in US history. Under a new IF

PRESIDENT

Nixon looks contract confirmed by their union and the employers on Satur- bedroom out the window day, the dockers are to get a 26-per-cent pay rise and a guaran- auring nis stay In reking ne mas Ludl catch a glimpse of a board which Imposed or crimes other than teed annual wage and pensions benefits.

Indeed. proclaims 'Danger of a new world However, the contract's provi- War sull exists. ¡ne scooic ou al. handling and lasted 100 days must be prepared. But the condemned sions on container one before pre- colntries prisoners the main trend ir 80-day •are On i the sident Nixon invoked an the world today. period Will "HoW non-cock Coolins uncer other anti-imperial- deal with container cargoes pro- Taft-Hartley Act. Snese vided broke ist slogans- -in Chinese-are still they tonnage again on wealteil display in the Chinese capital the strike mernational Longonore and koka Negotiations 'All and Warehousenen s union. restarted. were re- countrie should unite and oppose the dockers will opened on January when the DeoDles have Administration aggression 8 by Us interference not the exclusive right to sought emer- bullying imperialism and nanale container jessallon July 1 strike began on dockers back to work. and social imperialism, runs one 1 he of them. repressive Turkish guerrillas shot in battle The Daily® People's has reported Nixon's remark that his broadcast the tape ana People's TURKISH : security forces have of the trip journey men ber WOUld Tor Liberation Army, who escaped peace and has given factual captured of members while of from military prison account his departure from urban guerrilla group in Istanbul month Washington This Tererence. after wounding four in a gun- reported shot dead aonther which appeared on Friday, was battle. clash. the first for almost six weeks.

'RED FRIDAY' SETTLEMENT IN MINERS' STRIKE

General Strike of 1926. Building a revolutionary leadership at the quine task. the other side time WAnTS Goal! syndicalist the of militancy. Guanuilalive about the train Marxists in struce power certainly much slower than deployea in 191› but the leaders in 1920 Unione of the trade unions, this is only one side danty: yet it day-to-day mindless tancy! Is lie Conscors sce oi INFLATION will quickly eat up the miners' unconscious revolutionary process.

taking ever closer to place under the most favourable tive conditions. such a scale huge remain was levels, thus demoralizing large sections of This is where the Right-to-Work marches coming as they at a crucial stage in the and rates will be raised by the struggle, play such an important role. DUl las l Relations cabinet will betore unrouenout The most Draft Manifesto and the Charter Allance ГОТ his will form the naustrial This with here the won tarouen revolunonarv bonuca them cat in hel's chance' The Red HAT IN HAND outside No. 10 after all Prime Minister Heath Friday is

NUM

political development of the Class government of Heath has With him those days. Baldwin had set it up to president Gormley. the himself unlon's secretary Lawrence Daly.

Big business circles in the United States at the end of World War II realized that the working class, after fight- ing and bleeding its way across Europe and the Far East fighting for 'democracy' and the better way of life etc., would demand something dif- ferent from the crumbs they had had before the war. declared A new war was against the dole queue and the slums. The GI Bill of Rights and • 'the public housing programme 'American Dream started. The were born anew. The was world trade boom and the Bretton Woods agreement seemed to give capitalism a new lease of life. All across the US slums were ripped down (not all of them, of course, but some) and the con- struction bosses laughed all the way to the bank. The laudable aims of the pub- lic housing programme were: overall living lo improve conditions by rebuilding and re- vitalizing blighted slum areas.

2. To expand housing units available at a low rental.

job and income 3. To expand opportunities and reduce welfare dependency. 4. ' To improve educational faci- lities and programmes. To combat disease and ill- health. 6. To reduce crime and de- linquency. 7. To enhance recreational and cultural opportunities. There were, of course, other motives as well. The rising level of discontent and militancy among the poor was a prime factor. To the American ruling class of the immediate post-war years, all problems were seen in terms of the dollar. Slums, unemploy- ment and poverty could be elimi- nated with the application of enough dollar bills. What are the results of this outlook? Today, with the intensifying trade war, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the perpetual crisis, Viet- nam, etc., the American dream has become the American night- mare. And this is what has happened to the public housing programme.

Take, for example, the Pruitt- Igoe scheme in St Louis, Mis- she mid h9st souri, was com 1950s. hailed as the Once public housing 57 acr all, there are gial blocks, with projecter of 12,000 people tion Today only 16 of 1 towers are occupied population is about 600 27 of th The reason that they are CoLy stan windowless and that desc project was completion as an oasis it decaying, dangerous some of the worst in A Pruitt-Igoe was doo fore it started. robb rape, vandalism soon became l sounded regularly half-abandoned upper. Burglars, dope pushers gangs roamed at will The tion, which vanenism nd this in turn forced amilies to leave Originally intended Negro families Pr white families in Igoe, t became project soon ghetto. 1966 survey reve 64.5 cent of the per Pruitt-Igoe did not col St Louls: The whole pr employed member, 67.2 per cent leted in were without male heads, 40 per than cent had incomes of less foremost and 72.5 per the $2,500 per year in cent of the 10,564 population • site. In were minors. t tower • popula- Thomas According to P. Executive Director of Costello, the St Louis housing authority: he giant 'Pruitt-Igoe reflects the economic and the and social problems of the black families. community as a whole-only e towers compounded.' are un- Unemployment results in i gaunt, poverty, degradation and family in a separation, which in turn results ibed on in juvenile delinquency, poor a desert education etc., which slums creates more unemployment. The cycle is nerica. a self-perpetuating cancer which ned be- capitalism cannot cure. Pruitt-Igoe is not an isolated ery and example. The pattern of unem- ife. Gun- ployment, poverty and segrega- in the tion is repeated throughout reaches. America. There is no cure with- nd street in capitalism. Mr Costello sees the problem evacua- as part of the inter-racial edu- increased cation problem. 'We need a vast struction re-education programme to help till more the understand races one another' he says. o house Meanwhile what is the St Louis housing authority litt and going to do about Pruitt-Igoe? he whole a black Mr Costello's reply, in all seriousness, is that they are con- led that sidering tearing the whole milies of development down and replacing tain any it with a 'garden-type village'!

bject soon became a black ghetto Workers Press, Mon British imperialism is making a comeback. Despite all evi- dence to the contrary, it does of key remain the centre world financial deals which are most profitable. It has possibly the fastest growing industry in the world-fraud.

The furnover of Fraud Com- pany Unlimited in Britain is now reaching almost £100m a year.

The City fraud squad apparently finding it difficult to keep up with the rapidly-develop- ing business. For every one the law catches up with, it is estimated that three probably go free. In many ways the City of London is tailor-made for these operators. The complexity of financial manipulations make it difficult to follow what the frauds are where the money and to actually is. Then there are the leave Companies Acts, which several loopholes for fast dealers be off. to make their cash and A few weeks ago two of the most ambitious fraudsters came to the end of the road-for the time being at least. Ellis Seillon and Elias Fahimian received their training in business deals in the Middle East. Moving to London, the two honest brokers then proceeded to con £13m out of British banks in just four years. On January 12 they were jailed for five and four years respectively. The first thing that strikes you is the leniency of the sentence.

With remission for good conduct, it shouldn't be too long before they're out again. And remember, the sums they were dealing with were five times greater than the Great Train robbers stole-and they got up to 30 years. In addition a mystery still sur- rounds close on £2m still un- accounted for. Perhaps it has been invested for the future?

A look round at some other Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- repeal all ment and laws against the unions! DAGENHAM: Wednesday February 23, 8 p.m. Room 11, East Ham Town Hall. 'Labour must force a General Election."

Monday

WILLESDEN:

February 28, 8 p.m. Trades - and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. 'Labour must force a General Election.' W LONDON: Tuesday Febru- ary 29, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Wharfedale Rd, off York Way, Kings Cross. "Crisis of capital- ism'. Press, Monday February 21, 1972 PAGE 3 famous cases which have come to light illustrate similar tendencies towards comparatively light sentencing. Friedrich • Grunwald received five years in 1960 for fraudulently misusing almost £3,500,000 belonging to the State Building Society, along with the State's managing director Herbert Murray. 42, Norman Mascall, now opened up a new game, 'Invest in a Pig'. . Thousands played with him and all lost their cash.

Described in court as a recklessly profligate incompetent and he was jailed in 1966 spender, for three years when his pig shown to have lost farms were close on flm. A former army private, Francis fined £5,000 in Craddock was 1964 for fraud. He made a come- back, but disappeared in 1966 according to Board of owing, Trade inspectors, around £3m.

In 1968 Emil Savundra was sentenced to eight years follow- ing the spectacular crash of the Fire, Auto, & Marine motor insurance group. Finally there Louis was Gordon, chairman of the former Mias Group, who was imprisoned for eight years in 1960 for con- spiracy • to cheat and defraud involving £465,000. Of course, the worst thing about these gentlemen, as far as the business community was concerned was the fact they actually got caught. For, ever so slightly beneath the surface respectability which covers the 'honest' men in the City of London lies a not too dissimilar process. It involves wheeling and deal- ing with or without money you might or might not actually own.

takes in It holding companies undervalued balance sheets.

and It is only when some of the characters involved decide to pursue the logic of the operations and make off with the loot that they call it fraud. SW LONDON: Tuesday February 29, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. 'Labour must force a General Election'. ACTON: Wednesday March 1, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Labour must force a General Election'.

LUTON: Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Rd. 'Marxism and the trade unions'. SE LONDON: Thursday March 2, 8 р.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.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday February

BY BERNARD FRANKS

Even if there were no un- employment and no Industrial Relations Act, the Tories' callous and contemptuous treatment of pensioners alone warrants immediate industrial action by the trade unions to bring down a particularly odious and savage govern- ment. In the same week that MPs paid themselves rises of 30 per cent to over 100 per cent and handed out Royalty increases of up to 150 per cent, pensioners' demands for emergency an Christmas payment were sum - marily dismissed. In rejecting the rise, Minister for Social Ser- vices Sir Keith Joseph said on November 30: 'This Christmas, despite the fact that prices are rising, pen- will still be marginally sioners able to buy more than evet be- fore-I am putting it soberly and modestly. Just three days later, propo- sals to give huge pay increases announced, in- to MPs were an extremely 'sober and cluding modest' Joseph from rise for £8,500 to a new £13,000 a year.

Evidence of the elderly having to choose whether to eat, or keep warm-being unable to afford both at the same time-falls. on deaf ears. So did warnings that inevitably die thousands would of cold and under nourishment this winter if pensions were not raised immediately. As far as employers and their Tory representatives are con- workers who are con- cerned, sidered to be past usefulness- past profit-making labour-are fit only for the scrap heap. A report on pensioners' in- comes by 'Age Concern' reveals that out of 8.73 million people over retirement age at the end of 1970 (approximately one in six of the population) there were 1,902,000 having to draw supple- mentary benefits. The report ex- plains that because housing, food, take up pro- light and heating portionally morę of a pensioner's income, it follows that the ex- tremely rapid increase in the cost of these necessities hits a pen- sioner harder than most people 'the pensioner's price index in- creases faster than the general price index' The standard flat-rate retire- ment pension for a man aged 65 and over and a woman of 60 and over is f6 per week, and for a wife £3.70, if based on her husband's insurance. A further 25p is paid at the age of 80 and over. Thousands of pensioners re- ceive amounts below these levels National In- because previous surance contributions paid by themselves—or by their hus- bands in the case of many wives and widows-have not been at the stipulated level. Figures for 1965, for example, show that 7 per cent of retired couples and 6 per cent of retired women were receiving pensions reduced in this way. man or a woman whose A weekly contributions, or credits, have averaged only 46-47 a year, instead of 50-52, will get £5.52 a week on retirenent instead of f6. A wife whose pension is based on her husband's insurance and his contributions which have averaged only 48-49 a year, will receive £3.57 on retirement in- stead of £3.70. A wife who depends on her husband's insurance does not get her pension until her husband gets his. This means that if they are both the same age, then at 60, the age when women nor- mally receive pension, she must y Fobruary 21, 1972 As far as employers are concerned, wi wait another five years until her husband gets his pension at 65.

On this basis, a woman older than her husband waits even longer. For example, a woman four years older than her hus- band will be 69 before she is first entitled to her pension.

1966 Social Under the Security Act a man aged 65 or single woman ar over, or a widow aged 60 or over (if not in full-time work), can have his or her income, including. Retire- or Widow's ment Pension, up to a guaranteed brought weekly level by means of a Sup- plementary Pension. cerned, workers who are past usetulness are o ; the For a married couple, husband must be 65 or over. The pensioner, like the unemployed worker, is subjected to a hard- fisted • means test before these payments are made. As previously stated, nearly 2 cilt of prop 5 million people roughly 30 per actually drawing retirement pen- sion, have to depend on supple- mentary benefits (42 per cent of the single women over 85 years of age). further 12 per cent- 870,000—are eligible to draw allowances but do not do so, either through not knowing oss are only fit for the scrap heap about them or feeling that there is a stigma attached to applying for them. In total, then, at least 42 per cent of pensioners are at, or below, subsistence level, even by official standards. The 'Age Con- cern' book estimates also that a further 30-40 per cent exist at slightly above supplementary benefits level. They are not, therefore, included in official figures for those drawing allow- ances, but are certainly living at the same depressed level. The guaranteed income levels for re- tirement pensioners are the same as those for the unemployed but with an extra 50p 'long term , addition'. The full Supplementary Pen- sion levels of guaranteed weekly income including the 50p long- term addition are:- Single householder (which includes any single person who is directly respon- £6.30 sible for rent) $9.95 Married couple Increase where claimant or wife is over 80... 25p The supplementary pension rate for someone living in some- one else's household is £5.10.

An additional allowance is also made to cover part of all of the rent. The above guaran teed levels are supposed to be what is left for living expenses after rent is paid. A fixed allow- ance of 65p is paid to non- householders on supplementary pension. For example a woman over 60, but under 80, is drawing f6 re- tirement pension. She has no other income. Out of this she may be She is therefore entitled to a regular supplementary pension of £1.80 to bring this sum up to the guaranteed • level of £6.30 after rent is paid. Her total pay- ment will be therefore: £6 retire- ment pension plus £1.80 supple- mentary pension = £7.80. A married couple receiving £9.70 a week retirement pension with no other income, may be paying £3.50 a week rent leaving £6.20 to live on. They are en- titled to have the rent fully paid and receive an additional 25p a week supplementary pension to make up their income to the guaranteed level of £9.95. So the income will be £9.70 retirement pension plus 25p supplementary pension plus £3.50 rent allow- ance; a total of £13.45. It is an indictment of the en- tire iniquitous pension system that the amounts are far less than the minimum subsistence level for incomes, set by the government in the supplementary benefits scales. The scale rate for a single householden is £6.30 plus rent and yet the basic pension is only The scale for a couple is £9.95 plus rent, but the basic pension for them is £9.70.

In other words, retirement pen- sions are deliberately fixed way below the poverty, line. The treatment of income from other benefits and of other earn- • and savings are ings, property the same for supplementary as allowances for the unemployed, with the following additions to that list: retirement pensions and widows' pensions are counted in full before supplementary pen- sion is added; part only of the children's allowance paid to widowed mothers is counted.

The amount of a war widow's pension up to £2 over the ordi- nary retirement pension is not counted. Only fl of other income, in- cluding charitable payments, occupational pensions, war de- pendants' pensions, and gifts from relatives or friends is not counted. To claim supplementary pen- sion get form SP 1 from your local post office, fill it in and send or take it to the local Social Security office (where the form is also available). The address is in the telephone directory and at free the post office where addressed envelopes that need no stamps are available. Alterna- tively you can fill in and send the form attached to Leaflet SL I which is given to all people coming up to retirement age.

For a married couple .the to claim and for husband has urgent financial help a pensioner should write, phone or go in person to the Social Security office. Supplementary Pension allow- ance is usually paid through a: book for orders which you can cash at the local post office. Most pensioners are able to have the combined amount-of retirement and supplementary pensions — paid on a single order book.

getting retirement Anyone pension and under the age of 70 (65 for a woman) is allowed to earn only £9.50 a week before retirement pension is reduced.

Over £9.50; 5p is deducted for every 10p earned up to £11.50.

For any amount earned over £11.50 an equivalent amount is deducted from pension. Tomorrow in the last of this series on workers' rights, BER- NARD FRANKS continues his examination of the pensioners' plight.

REVOLUTIONARY

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 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- 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 Draft Manifesto write to Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch.

F. GREEN

AUEW shop steward FIrth Brown, Sheffield Being one of the many who, at little faith this stage, has very (if any) in the present 'leadership' of the working class, one has to ask the inevitable question: what alternatives are there? The answer to this becomes apparent when one reads the Draft Manifesto of the Socialist Labour League, which is clearly blueprint for decisive and principled leadership and offers alternative to diluted an the Toryism masquerading as socialism. The first stage of the Manifesto is to destroy the myth that entering Europe will be the medicinal means to cure our economic ailments. 'Entering Europe' the as Tories and right-wing Labourites so fondly term it, is a lie in itself. The truth of the matter is, we are not entering Europe at all but only. a select portion of it—in which every member country has one thing in com- and mon, contempt hostility for working class and socialism. - And 69 pseudo-socialists linked hands with their stablemates across the House to join this "club' Jenkins should have been nominated 'Salesman of the Year'. Before the dust had started to settle, one heard the question raised to whether as the Labour Party could afford to lose such men as Jenkins. A more pertinent question would have been-can the party afford to keep him and his like, and main- credibility tain any with . the working class? The facade that the Tories and right-wing Labourites uphold -that everything will be rosy in )urh #5s1s t' German steelworkers In Hagen demonst this economic Garden of Eden begins to show very large cracks, irrespective of the huge amounts of public money which were spent to perpetuate this illusion.

Not so very long ago we saw this 'economic miracle' working when French workers in the car industry strike for went on more francs in their pay packet to keep pace with the cost living. Specially-trained riot squads were turned on them for exercising such democratic rights.

We have recently seen the appraisal of this Common Market 'Utopia' by German workers who came out on strike in the i for increases Baden- Württemberg engineering indus- try. The mind boggles when one sees the 'great strides' forward made in the Italian housing policy (especially in the South!)

where generations families of have grown up with the goats and chickens under one roof— they're fortunate to have one over their heads! There was great enthusiasm expressed by 200,000 hotel workers in Italy recently as they gaily sang the praises of the EEC whilst on strike for more pay, shorter hours and improved conditions. Jenkins and company were, of course, perfectly entitled to hold the view that going into the EEC everybody's was interest. What they were not entitled to do though, was defy the over- whelming vote at the party con- ference, the almost unanimous view of the TUC, the decision of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the National Executive Commit- tee of the Labour Party, and the people who put them where they are. That no decision on Europe would be taken without the people being consulted was only one . of the promises that the Tories sailed to power on.

But what about the promises that they didn't make? Such as destruction of the right to work, 1 million unemployed, dis- mantling the welfare state, i demonstrate against closures which will mea shackles for every trade unionist through one of the most vicious pieces of legislation ever directed against the working class, rob- bing working-class children of their milk and in the next instance subsidizing children who attend private schools! Honest government, the Tories pledged in one of their pre- election speeches. Honesty, or anything being beneficial to the workers from this quarter, would be as rare an events as Ian Paisley dropping in for tea at the Vatican. The Tories also said something about 'moulding one nation'. They set about this task by forging a wedge in the shape of the iniquitous Immigration Bill to drive into the working class to create more divisions.

I myself would not dispute the fact that any worker involved in struggle at this stage is involved in a class struggle. The miners' fight typifies this, as it is not a straight fight with the NCB, but with this Tory government.

It is a pity that Joe Gormley did not endeavour to secure the services of the negotiating body that put up such an effective case for the Queen's pay in- crease which was railroaded through parliament in one day.

She had just previously put the seal of approval on a document pertaining to an Act designed to send workers to jail for exer- cising democratic rights to achieve same thing - the increases in wages. I recall speaker from Coventry at the ATUA National Conference last year giving an account of his own experiences when children were waiting out- side factory gates asking workers coming off shift if they had any sandwiches left. This was during the 1930s, when as he said him- self, he was only able to take bread and lard for his own lunch.

It is these conditions that this Tory government is making an all-out effort to recreate.

Heath was pledged to reduce prices 'at • The only thing done a stroke'. away with 'at a stroke' were Workers Press, M !

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• Will mean redundancies for 4,500 men.

gains made by the working class which have been fought for during over a hundred years of bitter struggle. It is obvious that the Tories think that a million unemployed by itself is a very effective cudgel with which to beat the working class into submission. It also is obvious as that the working class is not prepared to take it lying : down as it did in the 1930s. The lads at UCS, Plessey's, Fisher-Bendix etc. prove this point. They seem equally deter- mined that the phrase 'the hungry 1970s' won't become part of the vocabulary as did the 1930s. While arguments nave cer- tainly been made as to the wisdom of work-ins, sit-ins etc., one must concede the fact that if solidarity, determination and will prevails, the Tory pay- master that sit in the board- room can be made to deviate from original plans. The situation at River. Don Works (BSC) is an illustration of this. The original plan was to down River run Don Works after hiving off important sec- tions Firth Brown's and to dumping 4,500 workers at the end of the dole queue. The figure has now been reduced to 405 redundancies over a period of two to three years. While this cannot be hailed as a complete victory of course, it certainly proves that concessions can be extracted if workers are prepared to enter into conflict and struggle. At this stage there are roughly 13,000 unemployed the Sheffield area. This city has been sent reeling with redundancies, lay offs and short-time working.

myself have jobs seem obliterated 'at a stroke' in my department as a result of a productivity "deal". The "deal' has culminated production reaching a further 50 per cent in some cases as a result of speed up. Workers are on short-time all over the firm and a list of. redundancies. has 8 Prosa, Monday Fobruary 21, 1972 PAQE 8 just been drawn up by manage ment relating to office workers at Firth Brown's. Meanwhile the oint shop Stewards' Committee has pledged support to the workers' struggle at River Don Works. certainly don't need it spelling out that the working class is locked in struggle which will come to an end only by the of this Tory govern- removal ment and its replacement by a government pledged to socialist policies - not one that panders to the middle and upper classes.

MRS McGUADE Chain Lane Estate Blackbrook St Helens I am the wife of a skilled man who has been out of work 12 months with no sign of any job anywhere. There is Carr and his training boards. I know many people on the dole here for years who have been trained and can't get a job. It's disgraceful the • the way people on the dole are just being written off by these Tory capitalists and Heath, Carr and Davies with all their flannel talk.

Who do they think they are kidding? But then again the public of this country can be kidded and Heath the biggest kidder of them all kidded them to vote for the Tories. I think it is disgraceful the scanion and jones are slinking and not calling their members out on a General Strike in sup- port of the unemployed, the miners, the cost of living and on behalf of the old age people. The Tory Government give can a million to the royal family when there are a million people exist- ing dole money and old on people trying to live. It is time we demanded actions from the TUC leaders or make them go and elect our own rank and file-leaders who will lead us against these Tory scabs and force a General Election.

I have recently come from a picketed coal depot and it is terrible the way the police are interfering with pickets letting scab lorries through. You don't see tackling these police and chasing thugs, rapists and other elements. You can never find them when you want them.

The best place for them is Belfast; they will get more trouble than they want there. This is a Tory conspiracy, like where Heath, Ulster, Widgery and Carrington are all pals. It is time we sorted this crowd out once and for all and shift these Tories out of it and elect a Labour Government. We have demonstrated, had marches, but the Tories are still in power and trying to put the boot in the working class. They are trying to starve the miners back to work. I only hope the miners refuse to go back for anything less than £9-a-week rise. Our whole future and our children's future depends on the miners. They are trying to do a 1926 on the miners again and I hope the workers of this country pre- vent this from happening. Their fight is our fight and we will tell Feather he either calls for a General Strike or gets to hell out of his office and let us elect a proper leader. A General Strike is the only way we'll get these Tories to go and it is the only hope that our husbands have of ever getting out of these long Tory dole queues.

would iike more people to go to these coal depots and just see the behaviour of police to the pickets in allowing scab lorries in and not believe Tory propa- granada on TV or in the papers.

Come and see for yourself. We should see that those scab firms never get any loads from any union depots in the future. ….Black them, for life.

PAGE 6 Workers Press Monday February 21, 1972 The odour of decay little ingenuity ever since in hangs over the Fifth French Repub- finding ways not to pay it.

affair one unsavoury in recent vers tint TaX systelt has become more efficient, espe- ailen lavolvlg ticians of the ruling parties cially in collecting tax from wage to light. and salary But many bir comes De Gaulle's find ways receivers been garnering in Income avoiding tax. the fruits of office for years. , the Now, passed by their lact, a law great discom government actual fiture, they being found alC • pay less tax. out. The is regime itself ' trom done exempting Capi- income dividends in mureaslukiy museredrer France talist governments in from Dailics and everywhere else are out to received as income by individuals favour their own class by pre : the grounds that the Lan seri hich system of exploita. area. This been daid bi the com. rany staun hay, eended sby natu- that Wiice 1 Cuburcs the ris are kept in ahdir hel cer k.

kept in their place. scandal breaks when Ine pol- ticians transfer public funds directly their into own wa Valery Giscard Finance Minister their friends use Docke or their positions for purposes of astand who now serves unc material adantage. call me ner acdvr cłara Delmas. The former is an Inde- politicians to CaDimIS Republican, the dreamy-eyed. to be incorruptible atte are a Gaullist The they Tonli ou regarded are not caught with onec presidency after their hands in the till, that is They are both wealthy iciles. all. It mem- important business Inen bers of the present French interests. 'Le Can- goyernment have wanted to get to get and have cut a Tarttener : between few corners. In so doing they have sandalized the 'honest who just stick to a law, which favours them, paid no tax who lack the a antte direct influence with the gov- It nas been 'Le sundested loar ernment. The answer is not, s 5y supplied with ‹anard ine none other than the rrench Communist Party Giscard saySare their incomes alid pab- make politicians Whon tas bens aren arant not, returns, but (unerr use these practices to dis- paper for making use of confiden- credit ovsten (idl inormalon oolaned the ta colace hasten its overthrow. The first response should be down went on with to of a letter whick the scoundrels Koyera or howed ament in its place! workers' govern. December, 1970, writing to ins pis dose to as non tas edre- tons on olviqenes urom a com sany called inlerecenicue The gentle art of tax evasion which he then held a block shares. It has aiso been revealed traditionally has been prac- that when Giscard tised by .the French bour- de tins was atomdo miniger. geoisie for a long time. They Delmas a favour by getting fiscal was avoided imposing an income itiooscu Ur tax on temselves until World for urouole lax Iduas sustan. War I and have exercised no tially reduced. The assumption is practice: Prime Minister is being cri made was to help the Clas ents. [ne o] ve mas has ony taken ae k the burden, thougt used of side about whole memn ber instructed shut tight. trepidatior issue of 'Le Giscard d'Estaing, in a TV view by four jurnalists m t.o.h• velu. Minister top (centre and above mentior hance onini Chaban-Delmas side accused 01 anotac herimi nar- that He attacked the Dublica documents _conidenda produced. ters which were It is apparently not unusual fo He admitted official claim but business when improvement had office by show the tax some inadert Unicica ent or fraudulent infringement his own une aw. A lax man nas recenti unes were not mad out reducing the lia been e saos, ihat Toune gange bilities return show, he said, ot nis cents share the money this lot of tax saved. It believed that som The Finance Minister de political figures hav secem ey dy may the system his services. ends there could be others up to the salllc nOL SuD CET IO La) Laws passed by the Gaullist government help the rich to pay less tax.

game rise lo highly regressive system which bractices for which the Minister is being criticized benefits the rich and has come heavy been the under attack after the oil That law that Chaban-Delmas revelation ade by the Gaullist regime had made use of it to avoid tax • the class which it repre- liability. the big capitalists. Chaban- Giscard d'Estaing's TV appear- has only taken advantage ance will do little to dispel the to reduce his tax odour of scandal which clings to he have the Minister and to the may Prime of influence on the Fifth whole of the regime Republic. ar he has kept very quiet the whole business, leav- A calculation in the French news magazine 'L'Express' in 1970 Finance Minister to do st talking. Other cabinet suggested that the amount of tax lost by evasion was as large as obviously been the entire educational budget or ted to keep their mouths enough to build over 3,100 miles Meanwhile they of motorway each year. • trepidation for the next of 'Le Canard Enchaine' Some of the evasion is small- time stuff by business and pro- d d'Estaing, in a TV inter- fessional men whose incomes are y four journalists made at less easily controllable than those n request, skilfully avoided of wage and salary earners, whose Prime Minister tax is deducted at source.

who has been When practised in a big way, it involves phoney and companies attacked the publication of transactions carried various on ential tax returns and let- the of Mafia-style with help hich were supposed to be gangsters and the complicity of that there politicians. faults in the French tax does not include the ex- It , but claimed that much emptions and rebates of the kind rement had been made. He received by Chaban-Delmas and i to show the iournalists Chirac, which are entirely legal.

vn tax figures as long as Until it is doubtful vere not made for propa- recently they would whether many people, even in he said, that he paid a France, knew what avoir fiscal , Since the tax scandals blew was. up it has become a dirty word.

Finance Minister defended which divid- It is best described as a tax credit to holders of shares who taxpayers are been taxed biect to tax and may even have already on The tax paid by the ise to rebates. This is a dividends. Monelour Valery Glacard d'Estaing, Finance Minister-does the fast talking.

company is set against the share- holders' other tax liabilities. So either his tax payments reduced The more shares you hold, the lighter the taxes payable on other sources of income. Delmas was able to take advant- age of this generosity to the rich, which the Gaullist regime enacted, to pay no tax in 1966- 1969. Without such substantial tax advantages the French bourgeoi- sie would hold an even larger proportion of its wealth than it does at present in gold, foreign bonds and foreign currency or bank deposits in defiance of all attempts at exchange control.

During money crises, the bour- geoisie panics and tries to get its wealth out of the country by happened any means, as 1968 and 1969. Patriotism draws a line at the personal wealth of the individual bourgeoisie.

Another way not to pay taxes.

Any Frenchman who does not like handing over money to the fisc can always avoid doing so by buying an ancient monument.

This is what Gaullist Minister for Relations with Parliament Jacques Chirac did. He bought a broken down chateau at a bar- gain price and spent three times that sum in turning it into a desirable country residence. Be- tween time, lo and behord, it had been scheduled as an ancient monument and his outlays were set against his tax liabilities, leaving him nothing to pay!

Workers Prose Monday February 21, 1872 PAGE 7 Prominent Gaullist deputy Rivez-Henry (right) Is awalting trial on fraud charges. nembership cards of the power ful Gaullist Service l'Actior Civique, a kind of private police auxiliary of the Gaullist move- several poperty scandals are ment. by noW under investigation Use of these cards gave Las- the French courts which in- corz access to influential people and ensured him of protection. politicians from the volve government parties. Eventually so many found their way into the Service They involve companies which d'Action Civique that Pomoidou have speculated in new blocks was obliged to a carry soap as offices of fats and with 1969 raised by selling stock to inves- dropped. But he kept his tri- by methods. high-oressure with the card Cross of colour The people running certain of Lorraine and his activities con- have also perpe- tinued to prosper. trated various kinds of fraud.

was not until some of his Gaullist deputy victims complained that Lascorz's Andre Rives-Henrys was man- men had beaten thém up. aging director of one company, obtained money from them DY Fonciere'. the 'Garantie He false pretences and subjected 1971 résigned in January. when them blackmail, that the to he got wind that judicial ( pro- police moved in on his sumptu- were going to be taken ceedings ous offices. against the firm for fraud.

slip But Lascorz managed to He still awaiting trial on is during the questioning, away fraud charges and for allowing although there were half a dozen his to be position as deputy police the premises. He in unlawfully used in the firm's pub- climoed into his luxumous Mer- licity. An intimate of top Gaul- cedes and turned could up list circles, he has Spain. he rranco known that if he told all, many have got there without the com- plicity ot some person or Der- authority has yet to sons in be explained. For a long time villas scat- tered around the Mediter- ranean port of Marseille have heroin been manufacturing for sale in France and for export to the United States.

Although a drug. trafficker IS occasionally picked is discovered, "the trade 'factory' to flourish, much to continues dismay of the American Federal drug squad. Various technical have been offered ties for the failure to stamp orit French authori- this lucrative business. The sus- picion that enjoys 1 callio Pompidou protection from inside the police and the administration. of his old friends will have cause story was given a bizarre The SO to regret it. He is now obviously twist when one day last Novem- are a dangerous man for the regime. ber, a French sceret service man, receives A former Gaullist deputy who Roger Delouette, went to pick up later Decamne unloaded at New 3oca car being attaché Pompidou when he to dock. He was promptly Prime Minister, was Gaulle's officials had Customs Chaban- rested. Andre Roulland, is implicated in discovered 96lbs of heoin on the the frauds committed by another from vehicle which had property company, the 'Patri- France. had moine Foncier'. Delouette claimed that he was 1966- While these companies were only under instructions acting of flourishing there plenty from his chief in Paris and that money flying around. Deputies or nothing for he knew about the helped politicians drugs.

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He worked give the business an aura Hostel the Service for Exterior Docu- respectability and they had used -Caunter- mentation and contacts in official circles which Espionage, a kind of French CIA, and How had value. recruited from dubious lullataly which, much the campaign funds of the sources, forms a law unto itself. Party benefited is not Gaullist The Attorney for New Jersey, known. Herbert Stern, Delouette's asked that to get At a local level there are close the

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boss in Gaullist Col Paul Fournier, should go between connections to in politicians and the underworld He stand trial. draws Malia. They are able to perform claimed that there was proof of of useful services for each other. his guilt. that the Strongarm men gangsters Another view iS and useful standbys in dealing heroin was a plant by rivals in are not the intelligence service to incrim- with militant workers.. plants bosses are able to prevent Fournier. Whatever inate So such reflects unionization may be, it hardly HeLICON The Simca plant is notorious credit the Fifth Republic. Minister of the Either use of hired men the to intimidate workers. the truth or dare not reveal it, bought a does know bar- light December with the own and last services operate times case of Charles Lascorz, unable to them. control into using the front of a. business- Little light has been thrown Be- and consutant hom on the affair since then the Conny ous rackets, including blackmail suspicion remains that highly- members of French Placed Lascorz and his associates were intelligence service have been were liabilities, able make the of drugs a lot with impunity because they hold to the United States.

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PART 2

BY JOHN SPENCER

The main target of Bilak's attack is the Rumanian Com- munist Party, accused of 'opposing national in- the terest of Rumania to the international obligations flow- ing from its membership in the socialist community. In August 1968, Rumania re- fused to send troops to take part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The Rumanian CP leaders have since published a collection of articles stating their opposition to the invasion. They have not of course taken stand against principled Stalinism. Their actions are dictated simply by the national interests the bureaucracy. But this has been enough to create considerable tension with- in the Warsaw alliance. Bilak comments: 'despite great efforts and great patience, we have not been able to find a language'. He also common makes clear why the Czech Stalinists are so concerned about the Rumanians' attitude. It is, he says, 'disturbing not only to-mem- bers of the party, but to citizens who cherish socialism, all Apparently the question of the Rumanian Party's opposition keeps being raised both inside the Party and at public meetings.

So acute is the crisis within the Stalinist bloc that the slightest independence, even on the part of orthodox Stalinists like the Rumanian leaders, be- comes intolerable to the Kremlin leaders. Bilak accuses the Rumanians of wanting proft unilaterally to from the economic arrangements between the E European states and of reneging on its Warsaw Treaty obligations. 'In the face of demands con- cerning the strengthening of ties between the socialist states and deepening of socialist integration.

the Rumanian leaders put the accent on the principles of non- interference and sovereignty con- ceived in a completely non-class spirit.' Any such idea is, of course, anathema Bilak and to Nicolae Causescu colleagues in the present Czech Sold CP leadership who have themselves body and soul to Moscow. Bilak notes that the have not revised Rumanians their opposition to the August 1968 invasion. Worse still, they had failed to allies before em- consult their barking on their rapprochement with China. Even the bourgeois press, Bilak says, described the of Rumanian party chief visit Nicolae Causescu to Peking as *a demonstration against

USSR

and against the entire Warsaw Pact'. The Czech leaders, for obvious these problems reasons, want kept strictly within the family.

Bilak told the central committee that the presidium had felt duty- bound to raise these questions with the central committee, but warned that the discussion must not go any further: y February 21, 1972 Top: Russian armoured vehicles in Pra 'It is inadmissible for us to speak publicly of these questions or for a polemic to take place in the press, on the television, or on the radio.' For this reason, he said the presidium of the central had criticized the committee Slovak youth newspaper 'Smena' publishing for articles two attacking the Rumanians—a clear case of excessive Stalinist zeal on the editors' part. The Husak regime may be having trouble with Rumania, but it can always turn for comfort to the Yugoslavs. Bilak referred approvingly in his speech to the improvement in relations with the Tito regime and hoped the improvement would continue.

It is worth noting that one of the main charges levelled against Rudolf Slansky and his fellow defendants at the Prague show- trial in 1952 was co-operation Tito. Slansky's enforced with confession at the trial contained admission the that his co- operation with Tito had 'served chiefly the interests of Anglo-US imperialists-in particular the US imperialists-because Tito clique was an agency mainly of the US imperialists. The alignment has changed over the past 20 years-but the fundamental character of Stalin- ism, whether in Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia has not. Tito now enjoys the most cordial relations with the political heirs of the les in Prague. Below: Tito who is carrying out men who slandered him in 1952.

He needs their backing against the Yugoslav workers. Tito is carrying out his own onslaught against the left. 'Borba' the Belgrade newspaper, reported last month that security forces had detained M. Nikolic and P. Imsirovic and charged them under article 118 of the penal code with •organizing against the people and the state' suprisingly, there is no Not concrete evidence to back up this accusation. The two accused are students at Belgrade University; a centre of left-wing opposition to the bureaucracy since 1968. At University meeting, recent a Pridicevic, Branco leading member of the Yugoslav League of Communists, defended the arrests. To 'explain' the attack on the left, Pridicevic made use of a well-worn Stalinist amalgam. The main he told danger, the students, came from the right.

Why then had action been aimed at the left? 'Because this left- wing extremism is often the best organized, the most aggressive, because it uses slogans which are often very similar to . Cz the official slogans and because the extreme gave the im- supported the pression that it application of the stricter decisions taken by the League of Communists' Hardly enough to justify out his arrests- Stalinist standards. So Pridicevic hastened

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ally by demanding AS IT Turned out. the implementation decisions, were actually helping the right! "With Its aaventurism and its irresponsible actions, left extremism has frequently opened the Luck lo bell of restorationist «hrerent tendencies.' sentiment MIs worthy of Betty Reid. as Pridicevic As lar concerned cerainy used the arrests of the two could not list their crimes, but he did know that the Student chaunion vited the Pabloite leader Ernest Mandel to lecture (quite legally) • Ihis apparentl university 'clan- exinente destine Trotskyist groups is turning against the left opposition 1uxUSidyld Husak Bilak the Turn opposition in Czechoslovakia. speech, Bilak adopted a some- what aluluat towards new-found comradest Belgrade. They didn't have the Czech Stalinists' iron grip on the country's political life.

nere are big problems, Yoline the Common its and is League Communists leading SocICly leaders of the league of Com.

munists do not have sufficient I the left, pictured with Italy's Saragat.

control over the press and the other means of communication.?

Bilak attributed this state oI affairs to the 'weakness' of the influence of the working class on Yugoslav political life. In fact, of course, the precise opposite is the case. Tito's enforced break with Moscow in 1949 strengthened the working class which acquired certain limited independence in relation to the bureaucracy. The conquests made in that period by the workers have not been eliminated, though, Bilak as notes, 'numerous efforts have been made to change this state of affairs'. Bilak goes on to offer some practical advice to Tito and the Yugoslav bureaucracy: "In our experience, we say frankly to the Yugoslav leaders that, in a sharp warnings and class struggle, appeals addressed to the enemies socialism are not enough. Irresponsibility and abandonment of the Marxist-Leninist position always cost dearly.' Tito is clearly taking notice of Bilak's advice. It can be summed up simply: The only way to push back the political revolution to return to the full paraphernalia of show trials and repression. In defence of their privileges.

the Stalinist bureaucracies Europe all come together against the independent organization of the working class.

Dear Editor, I am writing about your article 'Stalinist of Wednesday, crisis' February 2, in which you printed my husband's name without his or my knowledge, slandered his character and stated a series of untruths. neither 'Soviet ment are financing the cruise. It has been financed by the P&O shipping line. Second, the cruise is not to Spain, as you printed in large capitals. We would never have entered the competition had it been so. It is an Atlantic cruise in which the ship docks for four hours at the Canary Isles which in my atlas are situated off the coast of Africa not Spain and which have suffered the mis- fortune to be colonized by a fascist nation and whose people the Spanish undoubtedly hate government as much as we do.

How can you possibly call that 'holidaying in Spain'? If accord- ing to your dictum that no human contact should be made suffering with those under fascism, why do you live in and thereby the fascist support government of this country or do you deny that it is so?

Quite obviously you would not print this letter but I would ex- pect you to check the facts and print an apology to my husband and a retraction of your untrue statements. I accept that you will sink to depths, and use any dis- any tortions of the truth or outright lies to support your ridiculous theories but I will not accept you using my family for your political ends and to denigrate the Communist Party. If you do not print an apology or a true statement of the facts I will take legal action against you for slander. Mrs A. Savage Winsford Cheshire. Our article said in part Weekly' has 'Soviet just an- nounced the winner of first prize in its latest competition-and the prize is a holiday in fascist Spain.

The winner is Eric Savage of Winsford, Cheshire, a builder's labourer on the Bass Charrington site at Runcorn. He is a member of the Communist Party and an enthusiastic apologist for Stalin- ism. His was the 'first correct be picked out at to answer random' from thousands of entries to the contest. On February 26 he will be boarding the 'Alexander Pushkin' a Soviet luxury liner, for a 14- day cruise to Las Palmas, Tenerife, Casablanca and Gibral- tar. The Spanish trade unions have repeatedly appealed to workers and trade unionists in other countries not to lend sup- port to the Franco dictatorship by holidaying in Spain. Mrs Savage's letter amply con- said in firms what we our article 'Soviet cruise to fascist Spain'. She and her husband are the winners, as our article the Soviet holiday competition. The contest prize was promi- nently advertised on the front page of 'Soviet Weekly' as a 'free cruise to the Canaries'.

Whatever Mrs Savage's atlas may say, the Canary Islands are provinces of Spain. They form the provinces of Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The fact that they have been forcibly integrated into Franco's fascist state makes a holiday there doubly unprincipled.

She tries to represent our campaign against workers taking their holidays in Spain as a 'ridiculous theory'. She should know that the same 'ridiculous' notion is shared by Britain's biggest trade union, by the illegal and persecuted Spanish union organizations and (on paper, though not in practice) by the British Communist Party.

Franco The basic principle holidays in pressed Workers the resolution passed at 1 ference. It called on 'all other Lace from taking thereby Europe' The about length state nor abou tascist trip _Tre matter, establishing

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Reporting the T&G general secretarv lack said: who holidays alc ever even worse laws again Tourism in objects of the Spani Communist Jack Jones' statement Cantee cruise. discreet silence while Communist Stalinists shipped and aided Franco being financed by P8 Alexander a Soviet : principled objection Spain was ex- Transport and in members unionists desist Spain , nolidays in the fascist festers nothing stay in the nor about who pays TOr TOaT article). It basic principled : the T&GWU resolu- Party's quated etarv lack lones who their spend bolstering an al c laws against the trade ment than here. Spain is a major Spanish dictator- ports this principle o in order to violate it contest. but asc advertisement Tor engers on the same ne way, leaders of the maintained Polish coal Spain to break the Asturias. makes that trip P&o but che mention Pushkint) Soviet (the which

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actually We auc Spanish These from Spanish vacations The Savage's and thereby Yes, phatically a fascist state. say that the decisively employers, nave been rights taken Before Hitler in Germany Stalin's successive spread that there was tween unese This policy, Savage's in Germany. The ist the weet so del end lise Tor are obvious. duce a single wild 110) 'slander' and rrving the passengers ary Islands. convinced the that afford COl oT umar contaets underground should take their t revealing of all Mrs is her COnno eony live fascist this or he working defeated destroyed and all its away. came to power the German Com. astructions described Bonapartist LoveL aded by Bruning and read the fatal illusion no difference of capitalist echoed Mrs o over the victory of Nazism gers of such a defeat- in Britain al a dme class is en- life and death strugg! its basic rights against ssovernment's attacks age has failed to pro- piece evidence of against stating Workers Press, Monday February 21, 1972 PAGE • Recently a puzzled Miss L.T. of Torquay wrote to 'Your Helping Hand', through which Glancing through a recent 'Saturday Titbits' solves heart- edition 'Private Eye', breaking problems. correspondent found what Miss L.T. wanted to know appeared to be an advertise- what a 'courtesy title' was.

ment for 'Socialist Worker. The 'ST' cited as an example In the previous issue of 'Eye' our old friend Lord Balniel: "The there was a skit on 'One holder of a courtesy title Guardian', so our correspon- is Tory MP for Hertford, Lord dent thought at first that this Balniel. of the son Earl was of Rushton's another Crawford. The handsome flights into fantasy. Balniel is a descendant of But no, it was genuine. Charles II and Nell Gwyn.

Present burbled society, Balniel is Minister of State "is not only corrupt, the blurb, for Defence and in a Commons "Private Eye" as relentlessly debate on Bloody Sunday in proves, but unnecessary. Derry said: 'The kind of True Stories If they [the IRA] are the paper prints often allowed win this are war, (What a marvellous frightful.' simply shudder at what will be middle-class word—'frightful".)

the future for the people living in N Ireland.' 'Socialist Worker' says suggests that if 'Socialist 'will have Our reader Worker', can think of a better anyone nothing to do with com- courtesy title for Lord Balniel, reformism. It is promises it should be jotted on a post- revolutionary' card and sent to the noble The Young Tories must have Lord. been shaken off their polo Don't-repeat don't-send perches. it to us. But while we're on about compromises, what about other contributors to 'Eye'? Bernard Levin, for instance? Here's a case for Snifter of the One Yard. delegation at the United Nations enjoys huge popularity because it hands out the finest marijuana New in York. Couldn't possibly foreign chappies. freedom-fighter, That great Marius Goring, taking iS He apparently initiated stand. a High Court action against his union, Actors' Equity, to stop Tariq All alleged payment of donations Levin recently wrote about to the miners' strike fund.

Taria Ali and Teresa Hayter Goring made his name in of IMG (in the 'Observer' of "The such productions as •Wallowing January 30): in Hangman', "The Happy Hypo- their ignorance, they defile the crite, "The Witch of Edmon- sacred well of reason and pro- ton and "The White Guard'. throughout claim themselves, their turgid and mindless jabber, kin not to Socrates, but to the brutes. The press gave stout coverage to a fierce gun battle between And we have friends now British soldiers and the

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday Februa "The strength and pressure of the miners ‹o obtain a seven-hour day should be pressed forward with vigour?

Though the quote above sounds like a recent demand, it was in fact spoken by M. A. Machen at the late I the Barnsley Council of the National Union of Mine- workers (NUM) in December 1959-just 12 years ago! And Mr Machen went on: 'Now we have plenty of coal.

stacks of it, mountains of it, the day is economically seven-hour possible and absolutely neces- sary.'

INSULT

But it is obvious now - and, indeed, it was obvious then - government acting on that a behalf of the employing class had not stockpiled coal in order to case, but to prove the miners' use it as a weapon against them.

miners Now, 12 years later, are having to fight harder than ever before to improve wages conditions which are an and insult. What happened to the golden dream of nationalization which— along with hopes of a Labour seen by government - was generations of older miners as their only salvation? were not nation- The mines the interests of the alized in miners, but in the interests of capitalism. For ten years after day, coal was in great vesting demand, urgently needed. by big after to rebuild plant business the war. And they got their coal cheap.

Not even in the House of Commons could an answer be found to one simple question— much did private industry how pay for its coal from the nation- alized pits? But if capitalism did well, the miners did not. Those were the days when the seven hours were there for the taking, when wages could have been pushed up with ease, when could have won union workers' control of the pits.

What happened? The leader- ship of the National Union of Mineworkers-both Labour Party Communist Party - en- and couraged thé working of long hours, including the Saturday shift, and co-operated fully with the management in productivity drives. gains the miners did What through make made were struggle, never with the official backing of the NUM leadership.

disappeared Demands in 'negotiating months unofficial machinery'. Only actions won substantial benefits.

of (The Grimethorpe strike stopped 1947, for example, Yorkshire speed-up and the strike of 1955 won new fillers' over Yorkshire, price-lists all negotiated while the strike was still on.) Throughout this time the Com- munist Party-then in a powerful position with Arthur Horner as general secretary, Will Paynter in the leadership in Wales, the Moffats in Scotland, and big influence in the Midlands, Kent and Yorkshire-urged the miners to co-operate with and trust the Coal Board and the government.

Meanwhile, big business was after. Massive com- well looked pensation was paid out and the mining industry is still crippled • year by interest due every on the money borrowed to pay it.

And where did the money go?

It went to firms like Cory who received Brothers, nearly £16m in compensation for mines valued at £12.6m. This firm distributed fllm to shareholders and invested the lay February 21, 1972 rest in high-profit industries (in- cluding oil refining). Cory Bros was one of the biggest coal merchants in the country, making a profit on every ton of coal they handled.

And where did the deputy chairman of Cory Bros serve his country? Where else but on the National Coal Board! But rich pickings were to be had not only from interest pay- ments and coal distribution, but also from the extensive mechan- ' ization of the mines. One firm engaged in mining machinery was also linked with a pit. After nationalization the firm's manager of head remained as the colliery, and later became an NCB planning engineer. Another pit owner worked for the Coal Board for eight years after nationalization and then left to take up full-time work with a firm of mining consultants whose main job was making the Coal Board claims against (over subsidence, etc.).

MODERATIN

leadership's 'modera- Cheap coal for big business when it needed it, big money in compensation and interest pay- ments, good profits out of coal distribution and mechanization of the pits, plenty of jobs in the nationalized industry for the former owners. more than ever, the Today, nationalized mines are at the mercy of large-scale industry and big business. The largest single market for coal is the electricity generating stations, which in 1968 took 74.5 million tons. Nuclear-powered generating stations used the equivalent of 9 million tons of coal. While the Board is aiming for continuity of supply of coal from long-life and low-cost collieries, competition is growing from nuclear power. The second important market in is the coke ovens, which 1968 used 25 million tons of coal, for use in crude steel mainly production. The NCB is working closely with the British Steel Corpora-

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to be blends. Next Comes which 21.8 million there

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from tion. heating. 1968-1969

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tons from prants and of use and accounted LOldi in 1967-1968. Other •verseas. In mainly to stallulls. Associated dom) Ltd Tuture. talk of a without sense. The ex si private the new big businesses etc., security for the consider talk . neer economy in full. sary will Human beings away health But this miners fighting the capitalist class.

PASSCRI

uty lower cost coals duced into coking the domestic 1968 competi increased \ternative forms imption as gas work otalled 92 million of 4.4 million • trena to increase f gas from oil-base the from Sea natural cent 1968 1968-1969 kees Coa the tea s.+ millon tols European power also big deals with Portland Alcan (United King expected to lion tons in the near to rcumstance lational Fuel Poli policy n is complete no the ge monopolies t industry which per-profits. Without he oil monopolies whic are ver stations and th in steel and can be no the miners. the estricting oil, nuclear gas. Shese alternated manned these ver will be developec er duly on is matis. fully automatic will not thron risk like half-blind be done by alone the entire regures Ine unit orking class behind a

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revolutionary organization.

It was because this was missing miners were cheated that the after nationalization. For who now doubts that they were cheated? What has their reward been? Hard slogging for ten years the demand and then — when slackened—pit closures, sackings, uprooted homes, wages being progressively more and more depressed in relation to the rising cost of living; all accompanied by a persistent drive for more more efficiency, productivity, more discipline. Any resistance and the big of pit whip closures came cracking over the miners' heads —over 650 pits have been closed since nationalization. Miners will remember Wilson's flamboyant gesture in 1967 when he intervened to postpone the closure of four pits due to go then. of these were Every one closed the following year-so much for that bit of showman- ship. Meanwhile, every year the report shows how Coal Board the profits of the industry are syphoned off by big business.

Last year an operating profit of £33$m was cut down to £500,000 by interest payments. The year before an operating profit £28.6m was turned into a £8.9m loss because £37.5m went in interest. But the industry 'can't afford' a decent wage for the miners!

year productivity And each per man shift goes up by about 10 per cent and costs per ton go down.

DESIRABLE

The government clearly intends to close large numbers of pits after the strike. 'The Economist' (February that 5) estimates redundancies between 1973-1976 will run into tens of thousands • declares: 'Maybe this redun- and dancy is a desirable economic and social trend under a cruel disguise... more men should leave this unpleasant and un- economic job and the country should move over deliberately to available alternative fuels.'

Almost three years ago the

NOW

Welsh miners marching in Cardiff agalnst pit closures In 1965 Coal Board made clear that this in which it was the : direction to go. Its 1969 report wanted declared: 'As production is pro- gressively concentrated at col- where lieries and faces on mechanization the ensures highest output rates, a substan- tial part of the output will be at low cost.' In other words, closure for the least profitable and con- centration on a few highly profit- able ones where major long-wall mechanized faces can operate treble shifts. The Board could then boast 'Despite the heavy closure pro- gramme and the high rate in recent rundown manpower years, the Board have, by close co-operation with the unions in maintaining good industrial rela- tions, avoided major industrial disputes? In other words, the leadership of the National Union of Mine- continued its had workers policy of co-operating with the employers while their members go down the road. Could there be a more out- spoken condemnation of any trade union leadership? But this is not just a trade union leadership. The miners have always been political from the days of the first Labour MPs, and from the time when the support of the S Wales miners contributed in a major way to the formation of the British Communist Party.

The mining areas are tle most support of the solid in their Party in elections, Labour and the mining group of MPs is the largest single trade union sec- tion in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Throughout the years since nationalization, the leadership of the National Union of Mine- workers, nationally and locally, has been largely shared between right-wing Labour men and Com- munist Party members. In every strike struggle, the miners came up against this type of leader. (In other struggles, too, miners got to know the right wing. Glasshoughton miners lobbying over unemployment parliament were told by their MP that Labour pit closures were better than Tory pit closures, because they were planned!)

A 'GLOOMY and over- dence to back up this facile opti- mIsm. cast' immediate outlook On the at the last contrary, for British shipping is September last year count - forecast today by the more world shipping tonnage was laid up than at any time in the previous eight years and 298 ber of Shipping. ships were idle-making up over 2 million gross tons. In its annual report the Surplus Chamber quotes a shipowner in the bulk trades as saying: 'At shipbuilding present And over the last two years prices and on today's freight competition been sharpen- market, no ship can be profit- ing. On the Atlantic run, for able' example, there of a surplus container capacity over demand.

The report adds: 'And in the Ships are being built to carry liner with both capital 1,500 trades, Indeed, containers each. and operating costs rocketing, the trade hotted 18 war up but with revenue limping behind, months when the Atlantic ago the outlook is no better.?

Container of Line pulled out which In order to brighten this conferences were attempt- up dismal freight rates and picture, the report ing to regulate 'Shipping will not remain regulations on the Atlantic run.

tinues in its current trough indefinitely And, for time now, the building because world trade Japanese have been expanding? 500,000 tons. of up to • tankers is, however, There little evi- So British shipping is not

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It will progressively lose its into the entry protection against its main Common Market spells doom source of competitionthe

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for British horticulture.

itself- -and the end of the at transitional period there will be Union A National Farmers' nothing to take the place of the called statement yesterday on protection given up. the government to give compen- Transitional for arrangements sation to growers who have to horticulture so far negotiated do altogether, give up. production not satisfy essential holdings which amalga- or are ments, the statement says.

mated with rethees The and for dissent from This critical ( growers who retire. union market policy is doubly interest- British horticulture 'stands says ing because the

NFU

is a to be worse off' in the EEC.

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IN A TV interview last week, French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas made his first public comment on the con- last sparked off troversy November by the publication of his tax returns in a satirical journal. described his Commentators task as walking the tight-rope; only those already favourable to him considered that he had put up a convincing performance.

For, although he may not actually have infringed the tax law — excessively favourable to passed by the the • rich and Gaullist government - he had secured maximum exemptions.

He was also obliged to shed light on his personal fortune, accumulated over the last 15 years or so when he was also a prominent politician. He admit- ted that he owned a house in- herited a flat from his parents, in paris, another house in the Basque country and a flat in Bordeaux which he was paying for on a mortgage. Later, in an interview with a Bordeaux Chaban- newspaper, Delmas admitted that after the death of his first wife he had sold £60,000 worth of shares in a firm manufacturing high pre- cision instruments 'in order to cover large expenses'. It was presumably the tax exemption on these shares which enabled him to avoid paying income tax at all for the four previous years. See pp. 6 & 7 for details of French tax and drug scandals.

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of But at present Soviet industry supply 750 to 800 of can only the specialized types of agricul- skilled tural machinery out of the 1,200 harvesting required. Professor Vasiliev added that industry is only able a half to supply about of the port. required fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. the bureaucracy When the crops are harvested blurted agricultural was the food and light do not have sufficient a radio talk by Soviet in out industries Nikolai economist capacity to deal with them pro- There are also insufficient perly. means of transport and hard- surfaced roads for transporting industrial by ten the goods to the rural claimed talk areas and agricultural produce to the towns.

ALL THREE YS RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCHES NOW ON THE ROAD

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FROM PHILIP WADE

ON MERSEYSIDE

THE

LIVERPOOL - London Young Socialists' Right-to- Work march is under way. The unemployed youth joined trade 200-strong through demonstration the iWorkers ort salurday sh printe chee eee marchers shouted: the «enane

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throw the Tories out!' 'Righ-to-Work® Marching. the Com- Liverpool mittee banner were Davwmot Neville Siith and dowrer tarted docker turned Many changes —including Labour front-bench-to end unemployment says Wesker on YS march

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN S WALES

THE SWANSEA-London march began yesterday in dull but dry weather. Cheered on their way by a crowd of miners and oil refinery workers in Skewen, the 25-strong contingent set a brisk pace in the first leg to Neath. The march was led out of Swansea by playwright Arnold Wesker and film director Roy Battersby. "This is just the wing tip of a general protest movement with, want mysel Wesker told Workers Press.

'No doubt there are very this within sound i casulls the economie system tragedy of unemployment, which it to go on. is why we can't allow But a quick reading of the laces across Theabour ront bench shows that there are great many changes to be made ‹nere Loo. On Saturday the YS marched through Swansea city centre kick-off meeting the

YMCA.

Weekend shoppers blocked the pavements as the march went by Right-to-Work collection uns were practically filled Sixteen-year-old bricklayer Keith spaneor until recentiy unemployed five months, march watched the perchea on sk isaread safety rail with a group friends He said: That's right. Kick the Tories out. Ien weu nave sone jobs round here.' And pensioner Blodwyn

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01-622 7029 mery 21, 1872 actor, Peter Kerrigan. Vauxhall Ellesmere Port AUEW stewards brought their banner. Bootle College of Further Education also sent a delegation.

'The march will be taken into every nook and cranny of the working class in the most prac- tical way; Cliff Slaughter,

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Central Committee member, told a meeting afterwards. 'The leadership of the work- ing class will be put on the spot.

They will have to decide whether to support us or not.' He warned the audience that the Tories would plan a vicious YS march on march began yesterday in Cheered on their way by a il refinery workers in Skewen, it set a brisk pace in the first them all. If I had good legs I'd go and march with them. "The country's in a hell of a mess since Heath took over. All he thinks about is his yacht.'

meeting afterwards delegate from the 2,500-strong Milford Haven oil complex, Bevan Bretton, said a mass meet- ing had pledged backing for the raise a march and offered to collection which could total £50. He handed over cash and a cheque for £13. Roy Battersby, a member of the

ACTT

freelance branch which has supported the march, de told the meeting: 'The Tory government has made it clear over the last few months what it has in store for the working man-death, starva- tion and unemployment. 'That is what this march all about. The year 1972 will be the year in which the work- ing class fights back' A spokesman for a contingent Ireland said: I haven't from worked for 18 months and I'm youth Unemployed Swansea Paul Renna (19) said: "The miners have proved that fighting together can defeat the Tories and we're trying to rally support like this from the working class a whole to bring as down to Heath.'

WEATHER

IT WILL continue dull with occasional light rain or drizzle over the Midlands, E and central S England and E Wales with patches of hill fog. NE some England, E and N Scotland will be mostly cloudy with a few showers, especially near coasts.

and N Ireland, Scotland Wales and W England will be dry with a good deal of cloud, intervals but also some bright especially in the NW. It will be generally rather cold, but in the NW, temperatures will rise to near normal after overnight frost in some places. Outlook for Tuesday and Wed- nesday: Mainly dry and rather cold. 1862 Clapham W4 78. : (TU). 180b Clapham High Street,

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their counter-attack following of the defeat at the hands miners. 'Around the slogan of uniting the employed and unemployed in a fight to force the Tories to resign; the march will lay the basis for the building of a new leadership and prepare for the taking of power, he said.

From the Pilkington rank-and- file committee Gerry Caughey warned from experience of betrayal by trade union leaders.

I'm an expert at discovering the enemies within the labour • movement, the Judases. We Right-to-Work By Stephen Johns DAY 14—Peterlee APART FROM its political there is another feature aim, that is unique about our Right- to-Work march. That is the presence of girls. As far as I know, no women the hunger marches went on during the 1930s, but we have three unemployed girls young who have stuck with us from Glasgow. I took the opportunity this weekend in Jarrow and Sunder- land to talk to them and they teld me what made them make this long journey to London.

Two from Renton are notorious for its youth unemploy- ment and the other lives in one of Glasgow's housing big schemes--Maryhill. Jane Hamilton is nearly. 16. Like all the youth in Renton she came out of school to find that life meant the dole or vicious exploitation in the 'cheap labour' factories throughout the Vale of Leven. I've had one job. That was at Westclox. My sister got it for me, but the hours were terrible from 7 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. at night. I just felt terrible at the end of the day. Sometimes I went straight to sleep on the sofa and just wasted away my spare time.

'If I went out we just hung around the chip shop, but the police would come along and lift us if we were there after 10.30 that's what life is like in Renton.'

lane tried four times to get job, another without success. Eventually she left Westclox.

"The work was killing me. I got about £12 in the pocket watch department. This was the basic. If got over 400 you watches, it was your own money on bonus. But this target was so high that no-one ever got above girls from school, so the rates are bound to be low. It's going on all the time in the Vale. For a while they put me on the line.

That meant I had to do my own target of 408 pieces and supply- ing the other girls with parts when they called out. It was hopeless. I couldn't keep up, so I left? Jane was on the dole for five months, then she heard about the campaign. was surprised. I very imagined we would be sleeping outside under the hedges, but it's much more organized than that.

I was quite impressed by this and it changed by mind about what I thought of the march. 'The support we have got has been terrific. It showed me that if you got up and did something, there workers everywhere were who thought the same way. Some' workers would say to me: "I have got a job, but you don't to support you." 'Because of this, I think it's possible now to get the Tories isolated • Makes you feel less out. It What kind of society would Jane like to see? 'One where things were normal and you don't have to live like we do in Renton. One where you and bring up can get married kids and know when they leave school they will get a decent job know the Tories and their real intentions. But the real danger lies in the people to whom we look for leadership', he said.

Greetings to the also brought by Birkenhead dock steward Larry Cavanagh, who spoke of the struggle for work on the docks. The march proper began yes- terday when over 40 unemployed youth left the Pier Head for the 200-mile walk to London. They will be joined in the next week by others from St Helens, Bolton, Manchester and Wins- ford.

JANE HAMILTON

PAULINE HOBBS

VICKIE BRANNAN

with good money' Jane's friend Pauline Hobbs has had a succession of (18) jobs, each one worse than the last, until she has finally ended up on the dole. She started in Edinburgh sew- ing buttonholes for up to seven days a week with a basic rate of £7.50. Then she moved to Ren- and got a job in a local ton underwear factory-7 a.m. until five days a week for p.m., £5.70. Like Jane, she found the production targets too high.

Then she slipped down pound to work at a Dumbarton supermarket. She had other jobs, but the only one she liked was helping in an old folks' home in Glasgow. But eventually she had to leave because they wanted an older person. 'On the dole I got no money to myself. I gave my mother the lot and she gave me a bit back for sweets. We could go to the pictures, but there was only one cinema and the same film plays all week. So mostly we hung around the chip shop and the police kept lifting us. stop is Kirkby, Our first where we will be guests of the Labour Club. They are laying on a stew. Everyone was looking forward to St Helens last night. In August 1970, were 250 glassworkers sacked by Pilkington's for daring to strike. Today 70 of them are still on the dole and carrying on an unrelenting struggle for the right to work and strike.

Also in St Helens is the second performance of the play "The English Revolution', written by Tom Kempinski and directed by Corin Redgrave. inen I decided to come on the march. I knew it was politi- cal, but not really much about the politics, except it was against the Tories. I never really thought much about getting the Tories out. It was a bit beyond me. But in the areas where we have got support, it shows that this is possible. We didn't get much support in Carlisle because of the Labour Party and this shows them up.

But in other places I have been collecting there are a lot of people who agree with us-they want to get the Tories out too.

'When I go back I'migoing to talk to people about the Right" to-Work and getting the Tories out.' Vickie Brannan (16) has two 'O' levels. But qualifications don't count for much on the labour market. No Glasgow number of certificates can create jobs. I was always socialist minded I think, but I didn't really understand what the class struggle was until I tried to run a house on £3.60 a week.'—her contribution to what the family She has no father and lives on. her brother and mother are both unemployed. 'The experience of trying to manage brought me up against reality and then I realized some- thing had to be done about this situation. I always have a feeling of anger and contempt for the bosses and the aristocratic class.

But this is not enough really. If you want to get rid of them you have to organize. If the youth of today don't do something it will mean their kids will be con- demned to live the way we do or even worse. The march has given me a much broader outlook. At home I could only see it from my own point of view. I thought we should rise up and overthrow the government. But it was more or less an individual thing.

'Going through the towns and villages we can get an experience of the labour movement. And anyone can see that there is a big chance of building the to deal with the movement Tories. It's up to us young people to do that.' I must say that Pauline, Jane and Vickie are a credit to the movement. They have stuck this tough journey out with good • humour and are now getting he big poli- tical benefits. We set off from Sunderland to Peterlee in the opposite direc- tion from a Labour Party YS march. This was a national protest which mustered 350. With them walked Gordon Bagier the pro- Market Sunderland MP who has attacked our march. So we took the slogan 'Labour traitors up out, 'Bagier out'. Students from Sunderland Polytechnic walked with us and gave £10. At Peterlee we were met by the trades council who marched with us into town and gave us a meal. The trades coun- cil secretary Fred Hartley said: 'We have our political differ- ences, but thought it proper to make common cause with the YS fight to unemployment and indeed fight to force this govern- ment to resign.'