Workers Press no. 699

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TORIES PLAN

COUNTER-

DAILY O

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE TORY government's offen- sive against the working class and its trade unions will be stepped up immediately after the miners' return-to-work on Mon- day. Prime Minister Edward Heath will speak on nationwide radio and tele- vision on Sunday night in a State of the Nation broadcast. This major speech is aimed at serving a twofold purpose: • It will reassure the Tories' backers in big business that there won't be another cave-in as occurred with the miners.

• It will contain the sharpest possible warning to the working class that the government will not again tolerate sec- tions of workers confronting the govern- ment over pay. Next Monday, February 28, the Indus- trial Relations Act comes into force add- ing another weapon to the Tories' arsenal against the working class.

If confronted with further expressions of militancy in the unions, the Heath gov- ernment is in the mood to use this vicious anti-union Act. Yesterday the leadership of the Union of Post Office Workers gave a generous boost to the Tories' policy of wage-cutting by accepting pay rises averaging 7} per cent. The agreement gives postmen a new national maximum of £21.63 a week, telephonists £20.49 and higher grade post- men and sorters £24.45. Counter clerks move onto E1,48l a year. The settlement reached with the UPW nowhere near reaches the 15 per cent rise in the cost of living which has hit the country in the Only yesterday British Rail past year. announced fare charge increases of a staggering 26 per cent. (See p. 3.)

With the acceptance by the nurses of 7 per cent earlier this week, the govern- ment has now only to deal with railway workers and teachers. Within the Tory Party pressure is now mounting for even Draconian more to deal with working-class measures militancy. Home Secretary Reginald Maudling is reviewing the laws on picketing with a view to making it illegal for workers to defend their interests by boycotting fac- tories and other buildings. (Many of the being demanded by the new powers Tories are already embodied in Carr's Act.) (See Monday's Workers Press.)

The other major backbench pressure is on the social security system. Tory MPs want the government to end the policy whereby strikers are paid benefits to keep their wives and families.

• SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1972• No. 699 • 4p

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE advertisement in today's AN 'Tribune' and last Friday's 'Morn- ing Star' made reference to the Socialists Young Right-to-Work marches and the Upper Clyde Ship- Shop Stewards builders' Co- ordinating Committee. On page 12, we carry a statement on the adver- tisement by John Barrie, secretary of the W of Scotland Right-to-Work Committee. Fourth Right- to-Work march welcomed THE FOURTH Right-to-Work march-from Kent to London—starts today with a demonstration through the main streets of Deal.

Marchers will assemble near varine Sarace Deal Castle at 2 p.m. today and proceed to the St John Ambulance Hall, Mill Hill, for a rally local quarter. Ther Sunday morning on the walk to London. Yesterday cades or Kent-to- WOrk marches sent messages of congratu Kent con- lations to Lintent enristine of the Liverpool-London marchers, said: of the

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political situation that we youth The Tory never before. government can no longer impose its wages policy the working class back sit and won t 1930s, Une mIner have shown. Kent march enable to us widen our support leader of barrie. Scotland-London con- Ther tingent said: They bound to get a lot of support Kent coalfields We've found the miners particularly Un e Dollucal aemand. We all have one The maren. fore the Kent marchers you Wembley' Norris, Cive national of the Right-to. secretary Work campaign and leader the swansea-London march said: We those sure on BALLOT RESUS YESTER LAWRENCE DALY, JOE GORMLEY AND SID SCHOFIELD LOOK AT THE the fourth will march get the fron reS DOnSI Resounding 'YES' to pit pay rise Kent miners and other workers in the area as received thei nave Dromer valleys A TOTAL of 96} per cent of For Power group Against 3,916 *This further proof 2,453 miners gave a massive 'Yes' to working is that the class South Wales South Derbyshire 43,990 2,400 2,385 fighting the the 21 per cent pay deal aralls

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Keni attempts to divide which they forced out of the Nottinghamshire 26.724 712 Northumberland and rule through unemploy- Scotland 767 Mechanics 2,137 Tory government. ment, prepared Durham North Wales 2. 1.044 Dack Dullain: When announced 1,246 voting was omcmas and stal cumber and leadership fight this Midlands Power group 2 1,199 20 yesterday 210,039 miners cast in through Derbyshire Durham the settlement and Tavour OT Northumberland 1,054 71,581 against.

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Right-to-Work carmenen Yorkshire and Statement NOrT West The vote was 27 to one in Durham Mechanics 5,331 382 The Group 2 (Scotland) favour. voting was committee advertisement Totals 210,039 7,581 follows:. p. 12. cokemen 4.02

workers press

TORIES PLAN

COUNTER-

DAILY O

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

it to. THE TORY government's offen- sive against the working class and its trade unions will be stepped up immediately after the miners' return-to-work on Mon- day. Prime Minister Edward Heath will speak on nationwide radio and tele- vision on Sunday night in a State of the Nation broadcast. This major speech is aimed at serving a twofold purpose: • It will reassure the Tories' backers in be another big business that there won't cave-in as occurred with the miners.

• It will contain the sharpest possible warning to the working class that the government will not again tolerate sec- tions of workers confronting the govern- ment over pay. Next Monday, February 28, the Indus- trial Relations Act comes into force add- ing another weapon to the Tories' arsenal against the working class.

If confronted with further expressions of militancy in the unions, the Heath gov- ernment is in the mood to use this vicious anti-union Act. Yesterday the leadership of the Union of Post Office Workers gave a generous boost to the Tories' policy of wage-cutting by accepting pay rises averaging 7ł per cent. The agreement gives postmen a new national maximum of £21.63 week, a telephonists £20.49 and higher grade post- men and sorters £24.45. Counter clerks move onto £1,481 a year. The settlement reached with the UPW nowhere near reaches the 15 per cent rise in the cost of living which has hit the country in the past year. Only yesterday British Rail announced fare charge increases of a staggering 26 per cent. (See p. 3.)

With the acceptance by the nurses of 7 per cent earlier this week, the govern- ment has now only to deal with railway workers and teachers. Within the Tory Party pressure is now for mounting Draconian even more with working-class deal measures to militancy Secretary Reginald Maudling is reviewing the laws on picketing with a view to making it illegal for workers to defend their interests by boycotting fac- tories and other buildings. (Many of the being demanded by the new powers Tories are already embodied in Carr's Act.) (See Monday's Workers Press.)

The other major backbench pressure is the social security system. Tory MPs on want the government to end the policy whereby strikers are paid benefits to keep their wives and families.

• SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1972 • No. 699 • 4p

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE An" advertisement in today's 'Tribune' and last Friday's 'Morn ing Star' made reference to the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work marches and the Upper Clyde Ship builders Shop Stewards' ordinating Committee. On page 12, we carry a statement on the adver- tisement by John Barrie, secretar of the W of Scotland Right-to-Worl Committee. Fourth Right- to-Work march welcomed THE FOURTH Right-to-Work march-from Kent to London-starts today with a demonstration through the main streets of Deal Marchers will assemble on Parade near Deal Castle at 2 p.m. today and proceed to the St John Ambulance Hall, Mill Hill, for a rally After spending tonight ir the

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head. quarters set they on Sunday morning on th walk to London. esterda Kient-to- wor' marcher sent messages of congratu- Kent con- lations to Christine Heate the Liverpool-London marchers, said: of the polltical situation that we can youth as The before. Tory never covernmen can no loneer impose its wages policy because the working class back won't '1 930s, and accept have shown. Kent march enable to widen our support leader of Darie. the Scotland-London con- ingen said: The bound to get al c lot of

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Kent coalfields. we ve found the miners are particularly responsive the politica demands We all have one The marco the Kent "See marchers you wenty Norris, national Cave sécretary of the Right-to. Work leader campaign • and the Swansea-Londo march said 'We are those sure on

SID SCHOFIELD LOOK AT THE

the fourth will march get the fron Resounding 'YES' to pit pay rise Kent miners and other workers the area as we receiver their nave the valleys of Drouch A TOTAL of 967 per cent of For Against Power group 3,916 "This further proof Leicestershire 2,453 miners gave a massive 'Yes' to that working the class Souksh Wales 43,990 2,400 South Derbyshire 2,385 highting back the the 21 per cent pay deal South axalsi attempis to which they forced out of the Nottinghamshire 26.724 712 Northumberland and rule through unemploy Scotland 767 Mechanics 2,137 45 Tory government. and prepared ment, Durham North Wales 1,644 29 of Officials and staff back When announced 1,246 17 voting was umberand leadership fight this 210,039 miners cast Midlands 365 Power group 2 1,199 yesterday through. Derbyshire Durham favour the settlement and Northumberland 218 1,054 10

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71,581 against. Right-to-Work Yorkshire West 244 10 and Statement

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eUCS shop The vote 27 one in Durham Mechanics enginemen 382 23 Was • stewards favour. The was Group 2 (Scotland) voting committee advertisement Cokemen Totals 210,039 7,581 p. 12.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday February 26, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

RIGHT from the start the Parliamentary Labour Party has conspired with the Tories to ensure a safe passage for the Common Market legis-

BY JOHN SPENCER

which originally lation. Labour was votes gave Heath his majority approving entry into THE W German Bundesbank the market last October. Now the 'fight' over the stop the inflow of paper dolla The bank's discount rate was ‹ enabling legislation has been completely abandoned. The change is an attempt to take the pressure off the What has happened to Michael Foot's bold declarations which has been close mark, that the legislation would be fought line by line'? What to its parity ceiling under the about the capitalist press articles that the Tories faced December 18 currency agree- 'tough times' when Wilson appointed Foot, a so-called ment. 'left-winger', to be in charge of the anti-market fight?

recently 1 he been forced to buy dollars All that can be said is that the wily Wilson knows to prevent the mark going order his 'lefts. He gave the job to Foot because he was confi- over ILs barily Nixon's dent the 'fight' would be Following only token one. Foot may president August 15 , these dollars breath fire and brimstone and his backers on 'Tribune' converted into General Election on the callul can demand a issue, but when settle- ana are the chips are down, Foot buckles under. That is precisely ment of international debts. Germans who his role. 1969 revalued three times since 'The Guardian' reported yesterday that although Foot desperate to avoid a fourth are revaluation. have been fight had promised a relentless against the legislation raise its petitioning the 'he conceded that the party had to take account of the and Intercou lales existence of a substantial minority of pro-marketeers who return of the turopean dolla pool held sincere convictions.

been These requests have 'The Guardian' went on: 'Foot said that any attempt by Americar remused Treasury. Secretary LOn• damage nally said last that further reductions interest rates This is arrant rubbish. The Jenkinsites in the Labour were needed Another revaluation would collaborated the Tory ranks have consistently with German still more the Common Export for government the past year They have and industrial relations.

Market, on Ulster uerman goods are 30 per cent higher than they were in perpetuating this hated They assisted three ycals abu should be expelled from the continue to problem for the Anolner defy the wishes of the Labour Party and TUC conference bundesbank IS that te interes rate cut will tend to encourage decisions. domestic inflation making Jodhs cucastr

SOME OF THE ACCUSED IN THE MASS TRIAL OF LEFT-WINGERS

TURKISH police have minister Nihat Erim, been tortured the daily by secret The three regime's barbarous iails.

arrested young Presen chief staff, Tagmac, Two weeks the court, Tine women who ordered abolished 40 clauses Cabinet Council decreed the trial opened, police be put of the 1961 constitution the formation of special with truncheons WICaLIS lU had to the grave of Ulas Bar- dock COurtS

WILL

SCIL

25-year-old the against and freedoms. offences state Unle elected dees are leader of the left-wing who shouted slogans The government came selected against student movement Der regime March to power refused the Genc. last year after a military

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Ol ustIce charges conspiring ane colde Bardakci was killed in coum de is closelv against the state will be When asked their allied with the Greek gunbattle with police if the accused iccupations treated as colonels and the Shah of He week ago. them were caukul

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December •Marxist- even though the acts escalcu answered The government has from an have been Leninist revolutionary.

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military prison while on carried told judges undertaken a major out. against the trial charged On Mondav. the Istan- Turkish class. kidnap the working bul military court began

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accused the right-wing Israeli Consul-General. of 227 being tools of American

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of Der Genc, imperialism Turkesa workers members Captured in Ine same has been banned and its the battle was another stu- accused 1 WI years 4aug newspaper 'Aksam' daily Ziya overthrow the regime by Moscow Stalinists in the dent, closed down. The majority Turkish Workers Party badly wounded by arrested denounced Dev Genc Hundreds intel- the police bullets. or them a 'social fascist' organiz.

dictator: lectuals. nionients nave and

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headed" "have since been tortured prime allon. esbank has slashed its already low in er dollars which threatens to swamp te was cut on Wednesday from 4 to 3 In a bid to prevent this from happening, government has the set a lower ceiling on the amount joint-stock banks borrow can from the Bundesbank. The ceiling has been cut by 2,300m marks.

Unwanted dollars are causing for Japanese similar problems capitalism. On Wednesday, the Bank of Japan announced the re- imposition of exchange controls forbidding advance payments for exports. The yen is also near its parity ceiling with the dollar and rising every day. The central bank has had to buy sizeable amount' dollars to keep • the yen within the December 18 parity. US refusal to make the dollar convertible, combined with its insistence on maintaining low interest rates, is throwing the December 18 currency deal into crisis and driving foreign gov- ernments to increasingly desperate measures. THE danger of a drift to- wards fascism in Italy was stressed by Italy's new Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, when he presented his care- taker government to parlia- ment on Thursday. The new minority government has as its main task to prepare a General Election ahead of time. It is composed of the most elements in the conservative Christian Democratic Party. Andreotti hopes to draw middle- attracted to the class electors neo-fascist MSI (Italian Social Movement) back into the clerical fold. In his statement to parliament Andreotti emphasized Italy's fidelity to NATO as a guarantee of national security and a sign United of friendship to the States. But when a General in the 'Carabinieri' para-military was a right-wing coup in plotting June 1964, it was later revealed that he had the backing of NATO intelligence services. Today, then, there are as powerful elements in the state machine who would welcome a fascist regime and much of the legal structure has remained unchanged since the Mussolini era. The right-wing elements in the Christian Democratic Party, for which Andreotti speaks, fear the working class more •than they fear fascism. The danger of fascism has grown more real as a result of the Italian Communist Party's treacherous policy of com- promise, reformism and parlia- This mentary manoeuvre. confused the working class and prevented it from using its power against enormous the debilitated Italian ruling class.

MOSCOW

China of accuses militarism in an 'Red organ Star', timed for Nixon's Peking visit. It claims that one-third of the Chinese budget went to the armed forces and that the coun- try was being prepared for war and when Peking referred to the 'inevitability of war' , it meant war with the Soviet Union.

The paper also accused Peking of trading in strategic goods with the capitalist world, listing non- ferrous metals, instruments and materials necessary for producing nuclear weapons. y low interest rates to try and swamp the German economy.

m 4 to 3 per cent.. can NO FORCE could shake the Indo-Chinese people's deter- mination to fight against the United States, said the legend- ary General Vo Nguyen Giap in a Hanoi speech marking the Red Army's 54th anniversary.

Giap denounced the Nixon being 'very administration as obdurate, tricky and perfidious.

of peace, but in fact is talking continuing to intensify its aggres- and extend it to the sive war whole of Indo-China'. another speech The was indication that the N Vietnamese fear the Nixon visit to China will result in a deal enabling the US 4 . to dominate S Vietnam. The Hanoi paper 'Nhan Dan' warned Nixon yesterday that it was an illusion to believe that the United States could score a by intensified military victory bombing of the N. If the US has failed with more than half a million American troops and after nearly four years of frantic bombing and shelling', the paper continued, 'how can Nixon dream of victory now with barely 20d000 remaining US troops puppet army hardly larger than in the past?' Hanoi press is, however, care- ful not to make any criticism of the Chinese. Strike over THE STRIKE by 1,000 African workers at the Hippo - Valley citrus and sugar estates against the propõsed Anglo-Rhodesian settlement appears to have ended after three days when all but 200 reported for work yesterday.

Israelis attack Lebanon . air forces

ISRAELI

land. and struck at two areas in S Lebanon early yesterday morning in a retaliatory attack on Palestine guerrillas. The Lebanese military :com- mand claimed that it had inflicted heavy casualties.on the and seyefal attackers that armoured vehicles • Wete destroyed. Fatah, the guerrilla organization, also claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties on the Israelis for the loss of six men.

Israeli forces claimed to have blown guerrilla centre in the village of Ainata and to have captured large quantities of arms and equipment. The attack had been fore. shadowed in a statement the Elazar, day by David previous Israeli chief-of-stati, when he said at a press conference that Israel might have to "activate' the border with Lebanon. This fol- bazooka lowed a ambush by guerrillas in which Israeli an couple were killed. Cairo condemned the attack and accused the United States of encouraging it.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

RAIL FARES will increase by up to the British Railways Board announc will come into operation then in th in the rest of the country on April men press LEADERS of 100,000 ship- yard workers will press their claim for a £6 a week increase when they meet the Ship- builders' Repairers' and National Association next Thursday. The unions have so far turned offer of between fl down an and £1.50 on minimum rates from next July. • When the sides last met the unions asked for the £6 increase to be introduced for a three-year period. Next week the employers, rep- resenting 170 firms, are expected to comment on the long-term settlement. The British shipping industry is becoming increasingly shrill in its appeals for government aid.

Incoming president of the UK Chamber of Shipping John Mac- Conochie told his annual meeting: 'At today's markets it's hardly possible for a ship to earn its keep. 'We urge that must our domestic taxation should be so adjusted as to enable us to with compete on equal terms those who, for one reason or another, are not so constrained.'

warned of the MacConochie economic *inevitable conse- quences' if the situation did not improve. He forecast cutbacks in un- services and added: profitable 'Certainly, it is no idle threat, and I believe that further re- trenchment may well become inevitable.' He concluded his speech by saying that whatever the prob- of shipbuilding, it should lems remain in private hands. Leyland sells subsidiary BRITISH-LEYLAND is to hive- off its Warwickshire-based axle manufacturing company, Maudslay Motors, to the North American Rockwell Group for £4.5m. At its recent annual meet- ing the accounts company revealed that Leyland is still suffering from a severe cash flow problem. Department of Trade figures released yesterday show January car production 10 per cent lower than the same month last year.

Volkswagen prices are going up 3 per cent in the UK on March 1, putting the 1300 Beetle up to f926. ESCALATION of US protec- tionism will be a major threat to.. UK trade, the TÚC warns in its 1972 Economic Review.

Pressure on the dollar reflected in a record balance-of-payments deficit has spurred America to slash its overseas dollar com- mitments. The Review also says that " by mainly US-based exports multi-national firms from low- cost countries, where wages are low and conditions deplorable, has not only helped push up the US deficit, but is also hitting Europe. The TUC calls for the General Tariff and Trade Agieement on (GATT) negotiations to include new 'fair trade' rules for the by up to 26 per cent from March 26, I announced yesterday. Higher fares en in the London and SE area and on April 23. British Last fare increases on Rail came into operation on March 28 and April 25, 1971, and averaged about 18 per cent.

Some increases were as high as 25 or 33 per cent. This time season tickets for periods of over a month bought before the rises will 'reflect' the increased fare. The board says that in the past many people bought long- period season tickets at the old rates during the period between the increase announcement and operation, when it came into 'substantial' loss of causing a revenue. Biggest increases will be on journeys covering BR and London Transport lines. On the . Marylebone-Baker St to Aylesbury lines, for example, ordinary fares beyond Amersham go up by Ilp-a rise of 19 to 26 per cent. single Second-class fares on the inter-city lines will go up between 3 and 6 per cent and monthly season tickets will go up by up to 9 per cent. Sleeper berth fees will also increase by 5 per cent to £3.15 for first class and f2.10 for second class berths. The withdrawal of half-rate on the Under- season tickets ground for schoolchildren aged 14-17, which has already been announced, effective becomes from March 26. VERY LITTLE of these increases will be passed on to railway workers however. Talks on the railway workers' 'substantial' claim for pay increase-it is expected that the railway unions will favour 11 per cent-have now been postponed until March 7 and 8. At the end of last Thursday's talks, a call for strike action was executive of the made to Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF), but this at present has been withdrawn. Tories rush rent Bill has

THE TORY

government 'get-tough' arranged measures enabling the Commons Committee the vicious Housing examining Finance Bill. to sit ten times a week - thus rushing the Bill through committee stages.

The Bill contains the notorious 'fair rent' which proposals, could mean doubling of council and private rents. MACHINE setters at CAV, Acton, are refusing to operate the tele-control production monitoring system. The men are protesting at the loss of their 5p 'co-operation' bonus per hour during the two-day government lock-outs each week. international combines and agreement that the International Labour Organization (ILO) fair standards should be labour universally observed. They also call on the Tories to press the EEC countries to subsidize farm incomes to end the present system of artificially Inflated agricultural prices.

In another section, the Review warns that the Tories' fair rents scheme must mean higher rents with means-tested rebates for thousands of families. They say the government should drastically step up the level of house-building to keep pace with demand, particularly subsidized accommodation built by local authorities. THE LEADERSHIP of the British Communist Party is getting desperate Socialists, about the Young Right-to- Work marches. As support floods in from literally hundreds of workers' organizations — trade union bodies, stewards' committees, Labour Party branches and trades councils — the 'Morning town Star' has found it impossible to ignore the campaign any longer.

So, on February 23, it carried a snide comment headed '"Out- rageous" to support jobs march'.

This sought to imply that our rejection Socialists a the International attempt to impose themselves on our campaign and turn it into a middle-class protest stunt was a rejection of all sup- with whom from people port we have political differences.

How they wish that were true!

Because what worries the 'Morning Star' the exact opposite. As the campaign gathers momentum, more and more CP members are joining in. In Skelmersdale, the local CP banner was carried on the march and CP building workers wrote to the 'Morning Star' supporting the campaign. In the Leeds Trades Council, dominated for years by the right resolution wing and the CP, a of support was passed and • £12 donated. In the mines, prominent CP members-impressed both by our and by unemployment campaign during the the Workers Press strike-are joining the march.

PLANS to tighten the law on pic are under review by the Tory miners' strike, Home Secretary R in the Commons on Wednesday.

Asked by Monday Club mem- ber Patrick Wall, MP, about 'intimidation and even violence by pickets' during the strike, Maudling replied: "The vast mass.

of picketing was entirely lega there were examples people latching on and behaving about which people very badly, feel disquiet'. He said: I have been kept fully informed by Chief Officers of Police about incidents involv- ing picketing during the miners' strike. The police are responsible for carrying out the law and I think they did so well.' Labour MP and ex-lorry driver Leslie Huckfield, against a bar- rage of Tory shouts of 'No', , said that 'a great deal of intimidation was on the part of lorry drivers.

There were many examples of police inexperience in dealing with pickets' AT SCUNTHORPE coroner's on Thursday, the jury court returned a verdict of accidental death on Fred Matthews, the picket who was killed by a lorry outside Keadby power station on February 3. Workers Press, Satu In • S Wales, miners' lodge secretary Cliff True-a pro- minent Party member-joined a stage of the march and openly pledged his support. In Kent, one of the factors in the decision to launch a fourth march was the support gained from Kent miners, including CP members. In this situation, the Party itself unable to mount a campaign of anything like this magnitude resorts to distortion and selective quotation in mis- order to represent our position. The International Socialism group systematically opposed the Right-to-Work parti- • campaign, cularly in the universities. It deliberately called a function of its own in London on the same Empire date the Pool, as Wembley, rally in a conscious attempt to divert a few people.

Then, as the marches escalated, they attempted to jump on the bandwagon and divert the whole aim of the marchers. We printed their letter in full in the Workers Press of February 19 and replied in detail. We refused to turn our cam- paign into a joint campaign with the International Socialists, as we pointed out—and as the 'Morning Star' omitted to quote-because 'the political differences between the IS and the SLL are irrecon- cilable'. One ot these irreconcilable differences concerns the nature of the Soviet Union. The Inter- national Socialists are not 'Trot- skyists', ', as the 'Morning Star' describes them, but state capital- ists. They insist that the Soviet • on 'picketing and related matters' e Tory government following the retary Reginald Maudling revealed Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour • government pledged to restore full employ- repeal all ment and laws axainst the unions!

WILLESDEN:

Monday February 28, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. 'Labour must force a General Election' E LONDON: Tuesday February 29,8 p.m. Toynbee Hall, Com- mercial mania Dest and the fight for Aldgate East. socialism'. W LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Wharfedale Ra, off York Way, Kings Cross. 'Crisis of capi- talism'. ress, Saturday February 26, 1972 PAGE 3 Union is a new type of capitalist country and that in a war be- Soviet Union imperialism it would not matter who won. In' fact, the decisive break between capitalism Trotskyism in Britain , came in 1950, when their tendency re- fused to support China and N Korea and backed imperialist forces of the United Nations. Then, in 1968, state capitalists marched with white guard emigres and denounced the Soviet Union as fascist. Let us make it clear. We welcome Communist Party mem- bers and all trade unionists who wish to join with us in the spirit of the campaign. That is, to fight in the working class, for the right to work—a fight against the Tories, not a mere 'protest' movement. Political differences are no barrier to this. The CP can draw no comfort from that. Its attempts to keep its own members away from our campaign failing — as are are of the Labour Party those bureaucracy. And that is very significant today. As Trotsky pointed out: 'The orientation of the masses is determined first by the objec- tive conditions decaying capitalism, and second, by the treacherous politics of the old workers' organizations. Of these factors, the first is the decisive laws of history the one; are than the bureaucratic stronger apparatus.' UB Biscuit picket LOCKED-OUT engineers from a W London factory were yester- day joined on the picket line by workers from four other fac- tories. Delegates | from factories in the surrounding area joined the engineers from the Macfar- lane Lang biscuit factory who have been outside the gates for six weeks demanding more pay.

See p. 12 for fuller report.

SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clap- ham Manor St, SW4. 'Labour force a must General Elec- tion'. ACTON: Wednesday March I, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Labour must force a General Election'.

SE LONDON: Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opp New Cross stn). 'The General Strike'. N LONDON: Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Town Hall, Edmos ton. 'Building the revolutionary party.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday February 26, 1972

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

There are now well over one million people out of work in Britain, the highest joblessness for a quarter of a century.

These huge levels of unemployment are as a direct result of Tory policies. The Young Socialists' Right-to-Work cam- paign is a challenge to these policies and, therefore, the continued rule of this government.

MARCHERS

ARRIVE

SATURDAY MARCH 11

The marchers will arrive at the outskirts of London and will be greeted at: EAST INDIA HALL, East India Dock Road, E14. 7 pm Westcott Crescent,

HANWELL

COMMUNITY

CENTRE,

LIME GROVE BATHS, Shepherds Bush, W12. 7pm

RALLY

EMPIRE POOL WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12, 3 p.m. Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CLIVE NORRIS (National Secretary of Right-to- Work Campaign) JOHN BARRIE (YS leader of Glasgow march)

CHRISTINE SMITH (YS

leader of Liverpool march)

MIKE

BANDA (Socialist Labour League Central Committee The following in a personal capacity:

ALAN

THORNETT

(Deputy senior steward, Morris Motor) BRIAN LAVERY (National Union of Mineworkers, Wheldale colliery)

SIDNEY BIDWELL, MP

SLAUGHTER

(Socialist Labour League Chairman: CLIFF Central Committee) TOP LINE ENTERTAINMENT, 7.30 p.m.

SPIKE MILLIGAN. PAUL JONES. 'KOCK 'N ROLL

ALL

STARS'® RAM JOHN HOLDER. ANNIE ROSS. GEORGE

MELLY. LESLIE DUNCAN.

ROCK & ROLL ALLSTARS

Tickets: £l, unemployed 50p Apply to: Clive Norris, National Right-to-Work Campaign 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG Phone: 01-622 7029

MARCH

THROUGHOUT LONDON

MONDAY MARCH 13

Assemble: 10 am, Speaker's Corner, Marble Arch March: I1 am through West End to the Temple.

MASS LOBBY

OF PARLIAMENT

Lobby your Labour MP: 2 pm Meeting: 4.30 pm Central Hall, Westminster

GLASGOW

LIVERPOC

SWANSEA

MERTHYR

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

SUNDAY MARCH 12

EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY, RALLY 3 p.m.

TOP LINE ENTERTAINMENT, 7.30 p.m.

SPIKE MILLIGAN. PAUL JONES. 'ROCK

N ROLL ALL STARS'.

RAM JOHN

HOLDER. ANNIE ROSS. GEGRGE MELLY.

LESLIE DUNCAN.

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When the rector of Madrid University suspended 4,000 students in the Medical Faculty on January 13 as a retaliatory measure against their five-week-old strike, he began a movement against the Franco regime which soon involved over 150,000 students. By January 17 the three univer- sities in Madrid, the Centrai, the Autonomous and the Polytechnic, were on strike against the sus- pensions. Since then pitched battles of thousands of students fascist police have been with everyday occurrences on cam- puses. The Faculty of Medicine in Madrid has been at the centre of these battles. On one occasion masses of students blocked the road to the faculty with tree trunks and fought off the charges of mounted police with stones. then Thousands students demonstrated through the main streets turning over police cars.

As the police fired on them the shouted, ( "Death marchers The fascist police have been using weapons repressing students which go much beyond and horse their usual batons charges—water-cannon, armoured cars, sub-machine guns and heli- Their brutality reached copters. a peak in an attack on students and teachers in the School of Architecture. Students and teach- ers, including the Head of the School Don Victor D'Ors were and had severely beaten up to spend 'several days in hospital.

Students throughout Spain saw the medical students' struggle as spearhead of the struggle the against the new Law on Educa- tion which aims at big cut-backs in expenditure on education.

However, the students' heroic struggle is endangered by the Stalinist leadership which tries to limit the movement to a struggle for democracy and course forms wrapped up in apparently revolu- "Towards a tionary Slogans as General Strike!' The communiqué issued by Madrid representatives of students includes the follawing demands: 1. Against the law on education: (a) selection; (b) the secret planning study pro- grammes. N Against repression: (a) the presence of police in the uni- versity; (b) continuous arrests; (c) the rules of academic dis- cipline; (d) the Law of Public Order; (e) the dissolution of fascist groups and the poli- tical-social brigade. For democratic • freedoms: the right to organize, the right to free speech, the right to hold meetings; (b) freedom for those in jail. 4. For a democratic, popular university. - The Co-ordinating Committee of barcelona students published a series of similar demands and included: Now we must prevent the application of this law. At the same time we must demand the resignation of Villar Palasi, Minister of Education.' manifestos describe Both actions from a strike in a faculty strikes in all Spanish univer- to sities as 'General Strikes'.

No mention is made of the movement of the working class or professional people against Franco: the struggle is limited to a series of demands for university reform—as if these reforms could Top: Students being chased by police be achieved • under the Franco regime-in line with the Stalin- ist programme of a peaceful road to socialism in Spain. A recent issue of the Spanish Communist Party paper, "Mundo ', in attempting to answer Obrero', criticisms from the left, only reveals its bankruptcy. The lead article, headed 'Workers and Students United!' declares that the latest student struggles make debate over non- revolutionary' nature of profes- sional demands obsolete. What is most revolutionary is what brings masses of students into struggle for freedom; what unites them against the dictator- ship.' The article goes on to explain the present student struggles in the following terms: The basic cause consists in the fact that the student masses (future techni- cians, professional people etc., condemned to selling their lab- our power to the monopolies) is in the world today an objectively revolutionary force. The student by police in the Basque lown of Pamplona.

movement expresses the historic requirement of another education and another culture, which can cope with contemporary needs.'

The presence of students on picket lines becomes the unity of the middle class and working class, the living expression of the 'pact for freedom', for Stalinist a democratic alternative.

this idealization of However, the movement will not easily deceive Spanish students who are more and more questioning the history and political qualifications of the Spanish Communist Party.

During the present struggles a Polish delegation has been con- ducting negotiations with Franco's government in Madrid.

While students were being beaten was being up, a communiqué drawn up expressing mutual satisfaction at the talks. The Spanish CP, which has nomin- ally criticized the growth relations between the countries of E Europe and Franco, pub- lished n condemnation of these talks. Workers Press, Satur Above: Franco (loll) at the Investitu At the end of January thousands of people demonstrated on Santa Cruz de Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, against the increase in transport fares and the increase in the cost of living.

On January 22 the buses were boycotted. Their only passengers were two civil guards. Despite the continuous presence of Franco's police, two buses were burnt out completely.

Several arrests were made dur- ing. violent conflicts with the police. A petition with 10,000 signa- tures was presented to • the roas, Saturday Fobruary 26, 1972 PAGE 5 • Investiture of Juan Carlos (right) town council: 'We are surprised at the excessive increase of 42 per cent in bus fares. We con- sider that this increase, together with the constant increase in the cost of living, will be a great burden on the people of Tene- rife. Neither can we unden stand why these continuous increases have not led to better wages or working conditions for transport workers on Tenerife.

hope that winners of 'Soviet Weekly's' free holiday in the Canary Islands will send a special report to the 'Morning Star' the struggle against on Franco in the Canary Islands!

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday February 28, 1972 Philip Wade reports from the Right-to-Work march and the Young Socialists' cam- We were joined during the paign to defend the right to early part of the Liverpool- work by forcing the Tories to London march by one of the resign. banners in the proudest It was in St Helens that the entire labour and trade union Tories opened their offensive movement - that of the St aimed at destroying the right Helens Pilkington Rank-and- Two months to work. atter File committee. coming to power they backed the mass sackings of militants who had led the seven-week Pilkington strike in April and the link was made An so May of that year. between those 250 glass- workers sacked by Lord Pil- The Tories were ably 1970 for assisted by the leadership kington in August defending their rights both the TUC and General and basic union. Municipal Workers Both refused then and refuse now appeals to help reinstate the men. Nearly 70 are still without work in 1972. But the Pilkington rank and file took up the battle cry the length and throughout breadth of the trade union movement: 'Defend the right to work! Pilkington is only the beginning!' they rightly de- clared. Eighteen months later, the committee is throwing its full weight behind our march. They carried the campaign into the heart of the town's working class. The committee found a big response in St Helens where almost 3,000 workers are on the dole. For the. 2,310 men without jobs there are just 70 vacancies. In other words 30 men chase every job going.

I spoke to Jimmy Crosby, secretary of the Rank-and-File committee, about the march to London and the connection he thought it had with Pilkington struggle. "The Pilkington issue is more important than ever before.

What we saw in August 1970 was a test case for employers' brutality all over Britain and a springboard for Toryism as it really is, Jimmy told me.

'We're now in a straight-out fight the working between class and the ruling class. The Tories planned this before they came to office in June 1970. 'In that sense Pilkington's was a blueprint for mass un- employment and the destruc- ion of the right to work. Al the same time it exposed th weakness of the trade union 'These

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I anticipate another Labour Jimmy. This is where he saw the Right-to-Work marches play "Someone in St Helens asked me why I was campaigning for this march. I told him that we had to fight for the unity of unemployed employed and workers to bring down the Tory government and remove it for all time. 'The thing that has struck me is that the youth are not prepared to sit back-they want to get up and do some- thing about unemployment and the Tories. "The march is the only way young workers. forward Every worker with a son or must be school daughter at told there is absolutely no future for his children as things stand. In my opinion this march will go down in the annals of working-class history like Tolpuddle and Jarrow' While I was speaking to Jimmy and other committee members, the wide support for the campaign from the St The House of Pilkington Is the largest glass poly in the world. The company had a cash year of £117m and Its net profits were £17.5m the dynasty is Lord Harry Pilkington. He is a of the Bank of England, which makes him 1 nected with powerful Tory business circles.

St Helens, headquarters of the firm, is a con is virtually owned and dominated by the PIll The power of the combine, previously descr archal', was shown In 1970 when a strike of d broke out. During the weeks of resistance bi the company nakedly revealed that It intende Its almost feudal-like rule in the town.

But today, months after the strike, a small remain 'blacked' by the firm. Their numbers they represent the spirit of the unquenchabk Pllkington and all that his class stand for.

sides in a giant white mansion called Windl while the workers and the families, the men glass, llve in shockingly poor conditions (left It was the demand 'defend the right to v Pllkington men raised throughout the whol movement. Now men like Jimmy Crosby (ab of the Rank-and-File committee are joining Io-Work marches and carrying the Pilkingt London. The fight at St Helens was a significant starti milltancy which is now so dominant in the be the king of his cas Lord Pilkington may what about tomorrow? Helens' working class was vividly confirmed when two shop stewards from a building site inside Pilkington's Cowley Hill works walked into the office and handed over a site help the collection to marchers. At the same time, news ame through that Mr Geoffret Langton Pilkington, former chairman of the glass empire, who died in January left the sum of £820,684. The small exactly information wasn't greeted with acclamation.

Cliff Fyles was working at the Cowley Hill plant, where the August three-day strike began over the right to be represented by the union and workers' stewards of choice. He was sacked and re- mains so to this day. 'Although Pilkington was , it has unique at the outset, ceased to be like that because so many workers are being hit with the same hammer. Now we've all got to make a stand or fall together, Cliff who is the largest glass-making mono ompany had a cash turnover last profits were £17.5m. The head of / Pilkington. He is also a director which makes him very well con- company town. It ominated by the Pllkington family.

ne, previously described as patrt- O when a strike of deep bitterness eks of resistance by the workers, ealed that it intended to continue the strike, a small group of men are small but of the unquenchable fight against class stand for. Pilkington re- lansion called Windle Hall (right) e families, the men who make the poor conditions (lett). lend the right to work' that the hroughout the whole trade union • Jimmy Crosby (above) secretary nmittee are joining the YS Right- arrying the Pilkington banner to is a significant starting point in the so dominant In the working class.

the king of his castle today, but as a miner for 19 worked years before going to Pilking- ton told me. He explained why he thought the tide was turn- ing their way again. •Pilkington bought industrial peace, but it will come back at them again. The situation will come again when, so to speak, bullets those making the actually begin firing them.

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'Our aim is to make inroads into the rank and file of the trade union movement explain what's at stake. We have to do it this way because the union leaders have denied us the right to do it any other way. In the past a Labou overnment has nationalize all the non-profit making con- Workers Prose, Saturday F cerns like the mines and the they must railways. Now monopolies like nationalize Pilkington's where all the profits are made,' added Cliff.

Jim Boylan was just 31- years-old when he was sacked.

Today he is on the road to London with the Young Socialists helping to carry the banner of the Pilkington Rank- and-File committee. 'The working class are coming round to realizing it's a class war. They see the right to work as the most important carrying the Thington bater way. We'll march all the through the country with it, showing workers that we're still fighting to defend our rights, both against Pilking- ton's and the G&MWU leader- ship. 'Workers are on the move, but they want to see a leader- ship come forward. This march will show them that here's a party willing to have a go.

1a Press, Saturday Fabruary 28, 1972 PAGE 7 'At Pilkington I was never trade-union politically minded. But it seems when you go through such strikes and disputes you start learn- That's SO many workers all over are beginning to learn. 'But Wilson won't be able to carry on where he left off last time. The workers will have to make him pledge to carry out socialist policies. At the same time we'll have to union leadership the change to get anywhere. will go •Many workers went hrough we through. If the Tories get their they will the use Industrial Relations Act.

with the I'm marching Young Socialists because they only. organization the are which has kept us going. We well remember the £1,200 we eceived from the YS summe air last vear. The YS hav led the fight for the right to work, added Jim.

Top: 1933 Mosley with Mussolini In Rome. Above left: a British Unlon of Fascists' 'Mobile Defence Squad'. Above right: Mosley PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday Februar The last of a three-part series on 'Conditions in the 1930s'

BY BERNARD FRANKS

Throughout the worst of the depression years, workers unceasingly fought the en- croachment of the employers, but got little else but betrayal from their leaders. The TUC General Council, having called off the General Strike in 1926, were two years later entering into discussion with leading employers on the need to rationalize industry and collaborate in working methods which inevitably meant the elimination of more Jobs.

These 'Mond-Turner talks' were named after Sir Alfred Mond, the head of ICI, and Ben Turner, leader of the Textile They involved leading Union. trade unionists, including Ernest Bevin, head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, as well as magnates from the steel, textile, coal, food, oil, shipbuild- ing and motor industries.

Bevin enthusiastically backed the discussions and insisted to the TUC that rationalization of industry must be welcomed. This get together was only a few after months the worst anti- working-class legislation for years -the Trades Disputes Act-had gone into the statute book.

The real reasons for Mond's interest in the talks were re- vealed in 1928. During a visit to fascist Italy he was reported as admiring the system there and to have commented: 'Fascism is tending towards the realization of my political ideals, namely, to make all classes collaborate loyally? ('Daily Herald', May 12, 1928.) However, this did not even dissuade the TUC from its policy of enthusiastic support. The fight of the TUC leadership to uphold capitalism was formally recog- nized a few years later. Walter Citrine,

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secretary, and Arthur Pugh, both received knighthoods from the National government • in 1934 for services rendered. Citrine had been the secretary of the General Council during the General Strike and Arthur Pugh had been

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President. Both had been directly involved in the Mond-Turner talks. During the 1930s major action by busmen, spinners, engineers and dockers against the wage- cuts and speed-up was sold out by the union leaderships.

The betrayal by Ramsay MacDonald and the two pre- ceding years of Labour govern- when the basis for many ment, of the worst aspects of the 1930s prepared - unemployment were rose, wage-cutting was rife and no fight to repeal the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 was made meant disillusion with Labour.

(The 1927 Act was repealed in 1946) During the Labour Party period of office, hundreds of workers had been arrested under the terms of the 1927 Act and every wage-cut and speed-up required employers by the had been backed by the government. The of workers number suffering rose from 917,000 in wage-cuts 1929 to 3 million in 1931.

At the time of the betrayal, no special conference was called by the Labour Party to deal with MacDonald and his associates in the National government. They were not expelled from the Labour Party until September 28 -more than a month after the link with the Tories had been made. Thomas had resigned from the NUR on August 31. In the October 1931 General Election, the Labour Party stood against the National government of MacDonald, the Liberals and Tories, belated left on policies, which Philip Snowden, in a broadcast for the National government candidates, referred to as 'Bolshevism run mad'.

abstention by disillu- Mass sioned Labour voters contributed heavily to the huge defeat of Labour; the Conservatives get- ting 471 seats and the Labour Party only 46. Thirteen so-called National Labour candidates also were including MacDonald. elected, These ioined with the Tories and ay February 26, 1972 Top: 1933 Mosley with Mussolini In Rom Liberals in making the new National government! The voting was not quite so bad for Labour as ahe number of seats implied. The Conser- vatives got 11,926,537 votes and Labour 6,362,561. The poll was with 79 72 per cent compared per cent in 1929. In the Communist Party, the best-placed to make huge mem- bership gains and to provide an alternative working-class leader- ship, the Stalinists were now firmly entrenched. Lenin wrote in 1920 of how the revolutionary struggle England might in develop: It is possible that a parlia- crisis will cause the mentary ? will "break 'breach" the ice" Perhaps it will be a crisis caused by the hopelessly entangled and increasingly painful and acute colonial and imperialist contra- third dictions, perhaps some etc.' ('Left-Wing Com- cause, munism'.) In 1925, Leon Trotsky in his book 'Where is Britain Going?'

analysed the development British society and politics-in- cluding brilliant characterizations of MacDonald, Thomas, Snow- den, the Webbs and other Labour leaders — and pointed out the road the British Communist Party must follow to come to the party of the pro- power as İetarian dictatorship. But by 1931, communists maintaining the Bolshevik tradi- tion under the banner of Trot- skyism being ruthlessly were hounded and expelled. In 1926 the CP leadership, on the basis of the TUC's links with Soviet trade unions via the Anglo-Soviet Committee, had worked to keep the working class blindly sup- Ini in Rome. Above left: a British Unlon of Fas porting the TUC in the General Strike. The task of exposing the right-wing nature of the

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leaders, and the inevitability of their betrayal of the Strike, was suppressed • beneath the slogan 'All Power the General to Such a policy was a Council. sure prelude to defeat. Stalinists' "third In 1929 the period' designation of Labour trade unions Parties and "social-fascist' organizations effec- tively alienated Labour supporters who might otherwise have turned to the Communist Party for a lead. In his book 'Fascism and the Social Revolution', written in 1934, a leading Communist Party member, _R. Palme Dutt, refers to Oswald Mosley's leaving the Labour Party to set up a new organization which was to lead to the British Union of Fascists as 'the final evolution from the womb of social fascism to open fascism' In the 1930s, the main role of the British Stalinists was not defence of the working class and the overthrow of capitalism, but whitewashing of the murder of Bolsheviks in the Moscow Trials 'and concealment of the real nature of Stalinist betrayals in Germany, Spain and elsewhere.

In Britain, Mosley's fascists, the fear and in- building on stability of the lower middle class, and lack of a firm working- leadership, began class to in- membership. The their crease truncheons of the police were now turned against the demon- strating opponents of fascism as well as against strikers.

In the mid-1930s, lavishly sup- plied with cash by sections of lon of Fascists' 'Moblle Defence Squad'. Above r the ruling class, free publicity by his supporters in Fleet St, and backing of with the his band of Blackshirts, Mosley's aims for state bore all the a corporate implications of the ruthless and workers' brutal destruction of organizations which had already occurred in Italy and Germany.

National The government brought in new legislation, some against of it ostensibly fascists, but in reality directed against working-class organiza- The Incitement to Dis- tions. affection Act, 1934, virtually made the possession of revolu- tionary socialist material or anti- war literature an offence punish- years' able with up to two imprisonment. Under the Public Order Act of 1936 the police were allowed to ban any political procession London and recommend the local authorities to do the same else- where. The 1930s were a tragic proof of Trotsky's assertion that the historical crisis of mankind is reduced to the crisis of the revolutionary leadership. In every capitalist country workers showed strength, initiative and heroism in combating the capitalist class.

In Britain, even the worst years of unemployment and oppression saw industrial action-like that of the miners-being taken to defend rights and conditions.

But by their betrayal of Bol- shevism, of internationalism, of world revolution, Stalin and his henchmen, gave a new lease of life to a rotting and dying world capitalism; a chance to build again on the ruins bought by it the slaughter with fascism and and destruction of World War II.

Lenin wrote in 1920 that for d'. Above right: Mosley capitalism 'there are no absolutely hopeless situations', meaning that in its fundamental even most crisis it will find ways to drag working unless the class on forcibly and positively overthrows it. Today, all evidence shows that its temporary respite that the crisis is renewing in er even more intense and calamitous form. Now the Tories launch bitter political attacks on trade unions, strikes, working wages, con- ditions, jobs, pensions, welfare, housing and education to try and stave off the crisis and win back the gains made by wor- kers since World War II. But the situation of the work- ing class is vastly different from the 1930s. There has been no major defeat like the General Strike, no terrible preceding equivalent to the 1920s years when unemployment never fell below 1 million in any year from 1921 to 1929. But there can be no standing still. Favourable conditions must be either utilized or give way once more to repression and destruction. The lessons of the 1930s show that the primary need is to the alternative construct now socialist leadership, the revolu- the working tionary party of class. The Socialist Labour League, the All Trades Unions Alliance and the Young Socialists will combine to launch such a Party and call this year every on worker to join in this task.

TOMORROW. A new series by Jack Gale on How Hitler came to power.

Mitchell talks to Norma Alex , 'El Mundo' Valle, an editor on magazine. 'El Mundo', the influential Spanish language paper of Puerto Rico, has temporarily ceased production because of a bitter strike by the whole work force. The strike is the culmination of a whole series of incidents in which the owners have revealed themselves be among to reactionary most exploiters in the whole colony.

'El Mundo' has an intriguing history. It was started more than 50 years ago by two Spaniards.

More recently it turned into the hands of Angel Ramos, a former copy boy on the paper who became a millionaire.

Ramos enterprising was an and cavalier capitalist. While his fellow were lolling reporters around in the bars and the beaches, Ramos struck into the world of finance. Any proposition which showed the possibility of coining a few dollars, Ramos entered. At the end of his career Ramos owned the newspaper which once hired financial him, held important stakes in TV production com- in film panies, studios, film editing and dubbing subsidiaries.

In fact, he was into anything connected with communications in Puerto Rico. During his rise, meteoric Ramos acquired a beautiful Italian-born And when wife. Ramos died in 1966 she inherited his fortune. Ramos had promised to leave his newspaper in the hands of a co-operative made up of workers in the industry. The staff recall, however, that there was an urgent meeting of his lawyers and when the will was revealed the co-operative had become a foundation and Mrs Ramos was the chairman. Shortly after, Mrs Ramos married Mr Lee Hills, executive president of the powerful Knight in the group newspapers United States. The Knight marriage immedi- ately meant that 'El Mundo' became the tiny outpost of a huge newspaper chai of the new mana to bring in an Amer an American American as head of department then head department and Cuban ruleillal circuanon Every descends on a tour of inspection. . the middle of visit as marked l vorded request the Their deal quickly wanted brought into force But they had not, US talk. or truitiess El Mundo' voted to It was a tough make. In 1969 they had tactic defeated sed by strike-b Than occasion. used fleets of helico journalists lists from "scabs'. to fly copies thus avoiding the pic The management year to the on'v naa to detend their The right without first givin involved the case • The right to mak illegal. • The right to let of start join a unio The company negotiate separately work - journal news Dave houte they union, the one Granhic Lourdausts. Related Trades. This divisive rejected une were seeking a decei to were For instance. 'supervisors whose sole

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stories. interference is aimed firmly therefore behind the The union give remove their which had been so aper chain. The first new academent Was an American ACiTOr Annenea pro o or three montns, Ils, known among the Vampire Lady' • the plush offices for iddle of last year her strongly- by the staff for Wade negora wage and they new the management. last a to mesa aLer

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voted to strike a tough decision to only strike-breakers the of helic man to managemen fly from the nearby to work opters were also used of the paper, 1g the picket lines. the Cemandc the staff return strike to weapon thes their rights. demands included: staff suspend first giving it to make all strikes It to let any member on a von or noc also wanted to with groups iournalists. electri. all belong Union Granhic Artists and manoeuvre was who workers. various continually exerted er and its staff. there are the news roon select This editorial Is aimed at keeping behind the and seeking right been ss alterest riet stories Above: Norma Valle the authors subscribe wanted to tributing editors into are 'experts hese paper wh on to meas to write many cases simply government m Although political involved in the Was it was wages the the three previous reeme nrevious for the rise cost Rico. LuCILO of August measures weakened the disastrous COnsequen Puerto

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trades in dollars. Norma Valle magazine, last week that the o management the would have given he Hi case When this jected by the would have $3 or $4. 'And remember, "we were supposed tr for the

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rejected that offer The strike month and once Mundo' ШАНТА«РИРІ was backed beat truncheons. them several of hospital. There arrests and yedi nhe the tactic labour. But time the The telephone came out supported Inoustries organized a black-ou workers port tions of the capital At present, newspaper same ar same Union Rico. like alliance between stand together this weapon chance some it's hard to wise. our small newspaper the whole of US And believe me, we're fighting.' vanter to bring con into the union outside the paper who are called 'hacks' are rnment mouthpieces political interferen decision as wages which drove desperation. of the CAnd the Nich had consequences the which Puerto Rico. Press hat the offer made by minen her a ir eets cent 1c was compete v re. staff the offer, • given her she said, to accept this We three vents. at offer too.' began the •El began it allacement This time resulted many company has em- actic of introducing time the company- government— so work force to deal for examine workers on strike, they a large cross- other workers workers • black-out and trans- also brought sec- le cavital to a halt. leaders unions are hoping to working-class a10 here ic nor Puerto unofficial an the nons struggle. is used, we stand winning. Other be leve ThaT newspaper can defeat capitalism. that's how me. Workers Press, Satu

PAIRING

It's a normal practice in the House of Commons, if you've got some other pressing busi- ness, to miss out on important debates by arrangement an known as 'pairing'. You simply find some MP on the other side who also wants to miss a day or so and agree that you'll both be away together.

That way, the theory goes, the vote isn't affected. And, since relations between Tory and Labour MPs are usually quite friendly, the system works pretty well. Except for Michael Barnes, Labour MP for Brentford and Chiswick. He missed the Common Market vote-having a 'pair' arranged with Tory Hugh Frazer. Fair enough - except that Frazer's an anti - Common Market Tory! So Barnes—who also missed the unemployment debate and the debate on the introduction of emergency regulations dur- ing the coal strikes well and truly in it. President Nixon should never be more than an arm's length from a direct line to Washing- ton during his current visit to China. The China visit has created more than the usual number for of headaches the White House communications agency.

But after taking some of the precautions most elaborate ever made, Washington officials are now certain that radio and telephone contact between the White House and the President are as secure as if he were on excursion to a an afternoon Washington suburb. Whenever the President leaves the White House, two major teams go in advance- one to ensure his safety and the other to secure good com- munications. Wherever he goes in China, Nixon is accompanied by two anonymous-looking, but most important men—his doctor and an aide carrying the so-called black box of codes for setting in motion the American nuclear strike force. Normally the President only travels in his own plane. One or more of his sleek cars, equipped with radio-tele- phones, is flown on ahead.

Chinese aircraft The and cars are fitted with telephones, so the President only has to Workers Press, Saturday February 26, 1972 PAGE 9

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lift a receiver to reach Wash- ington. One other piece of business Nixon got done while he was His in Peking. aldes rushed him a copy of the Bil which permits enforced arbi case of long tration in the strikes. The Bill was specifi cally aimed at the long dock strike which ended last week. enu He signed it in his guest house in the People's Republic of China. That will cause some consternation on the docks in Melbourne, which Australia, are dominated by Maoists.

BREAD

£18 a week or less doesn't go far after stoppages - stamp, contributions. las, pension Take £3 or £4 rent out of it at the very least and comes down to £12 a week.

Where there's still to be worked an extra shift or double shitt might bump back up a bit. But at its most generous say f20 a week-hundreds thousands of workers are tak.

ing home only about £1,000 a year Owen Aisher is an employer He chairman of Marley. the building materials manu facturer while whole year,

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sections of the working class for were fighting bread and cheese wages, he was able to turn down £102,000—his share of a profit-related salary scheme -an himself with earnings of a mere £62,000 Even after the waiver Aisher's salary almost doubled 1971 according to report—so much for Heath's 7-per-cent pay norm for everyone.

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'PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday Febru WE HAD an escort of about 100 students from the univer- sity and the polytechnic into blacked-out Leeds on Thursday night and it was the students us and who fed arranged accommodation. And we spent the night in the which university's sport pavilion has showers and one of those baths that can sit a football team.

The polytechnic students raised £41 for the marchers, some of which went towards a meal at Mulligan's restaurant, Leeds. The proprietor, Mr Cohen, said he was a Workers Press reader.

John Stevenson, the external vice-president of the polytechnic students' union, marched with us from the outskirts of the city to Mulligan's. 'We decided to give full back- march, ing to this said, 'because as students we feel it is fight against the duty to policies of this government.'

Actor Tony Selby and actor- playwright Colin Welland also marched with us into the city centre. They had made a special journey from London to join the column 20 days out of Glasgow and they will be marching with us again when we are nearer London. I support this march basically my working-class because briginse os Tony Selby. said 'Especially at this time people who have moved up into the professions must come forward.

By joining this march I am show- physical support for ing my socialism.' Colin Welland, who made his name in the original 'Z-Car' series and has since written many TV plays, said he joined the march because 'the time has come to take a stand against the govern- ment. 'It's so easy for the comfort- able middle class to blather about socialism and do nothing. You have to come out on the streets campaign like and support a this. I want to join you later when you pass through some of the stockbroker land in the home counties.' Our meeting in Leeds Univer- sity raised a further £23. Excel- lent support also came from Leeds Trades Council who raised £30. Tomorrow (Friday) we move into the Yorkshire coal- fields-first stop Castleford.

MINERS had shown the strength of the working class. Now it was to 'go over time for the youth 'lead the fight to . for the top' and force the Tories out. 300 which An audience of came to greet the Right-to-Work march at Leeds University heard Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, issue this call on Thursday night.

warned that despite the miners' victory the Tory govern- ment was now preparing war on the working class. "The miners have won a battle, but the Tory government has not lost the war and the Tories are coming back for more' He said the Industrial Rela- tions Act would come into full effect on Monday and the drive to push • more workers on the dole would be intensified.

day February 26, 1972 -25 WE HAD a great Thursday night reception in Maerdy, known during the 1920s as 'little Moscow' because of its militant traditions. The miners' union lodge of this 6,000-strong Rhondda town laid on accommodation, a meal and much-needed showers for the Swansea-London marchers. Next week they will return to seven-week work after their battle against the government, but with unemployment in the valleys now running at over 11 they have their eyes per cent peeled for the next Tory move.

Treorchy boys Bryan Evans, Geoff Lloyd and John Williams, who have been out of work for • fight Tories But Ulster was a real witness to what the Tories had in store for the British working class.

Comrade Healy said it would be the youth who would spear- head the resistance against this coming offensive. "This is where the Right-to- Work marches come in. Many of the young people on this march are new to politics. But they are now engaged in the highest point of struggle-a campaign in the working class force this to government to resign. "This will bring enormous political results. As soon as the Empire Pool, Wembley, rally is over, we will launch a drive throughout the country to estab- lish the revolutionary party and build a mass Young Socialists' movemert.' ...

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five, seven and eight months re- spectively, have joined our ranks.

But as we paused for breath at Hill, the top of Tylerstown Maerdy miner's widow Doris Evans, her daughter Barbara and her late husband's close friend, Aneurin Williams, came to the rescue with cups of tea all round.

now 62, Mr Williams, since 1941 that he has known dust disease in both lungs and emphysema—an allied lung con- dition-yet doctor after doctor has refused to certify him. Dai Evans relied on oxygen in his living East Road, Tylerstown room for five years before he died of pneumoconiosis. An NUM official later told me thousands of miners were in a similar plight. the pit started at Life down 14 for Mr Williams. miner's let himself be 'The used for years. We should have what we've just won gone for many years ago. "Take my own case, now. My new rate will be £23. But after stoppages I'II still be taking home only £15.60-odd. 'It's worth £25 just to go underground every day never mind working down there as well. good this march. 'It's damn You're like the pickets who won the day for us in our strike.

"The backbone of the pickets the lower-paid workers. were The backbone of the fight to get the Tories out is the youth.'

John Podmore, vice-chairman of the Maerdy NUM lodge, filled us in on the history of the town. Joining us for the last stretch in the to our accommodation AS WE marched out of Lanca- shire and into Cheshire on Thursday we ran into a delib- erate attempt to sabotage the march by the Knutsford Labour Party right-wing who took it on their own back to cancel the accommodation booked for us. miners' club, he told us proudly that his pit was 'the most militant in the whole of S Wales' and had been 92 per cent for the strike.

'We tried to make our strike a wages issue, but when Heath against the made his speech miners in Liverpool, it became a political fight out in the open.

'He lost. And we can make lose again on unemploy- him ment.' Safety men had never been allowed in, not a single clerical tried to cross worker had the picket line and it had been Maerdy . the forefront miners in of the Welsh contingent at Salt- ley coke depot, Birmingham.

Maerdy Miners' Club secre- tary Alec Rigby, a Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union member at the colliery, tells me he never once crossed the picket line during the strike. Earlier, as the marchers pre- pared for a meeting with the I talked to youth of the town, Labour councillor Cullen Morris.

'Maerdy is solid Labour', he told me. 'But you can see the way the Tories are moving, even in local government. We've never 'had so much trouble as we are having now with administrators and so on — you'd think they were the elected representatives.

'This is the most densely popu- lated area in Wales, and already it's estimated that 11,000 people have to travel out of the valleys to work each day. 'We've got to get this govern- But I don't think ment out. people would accept a Labour the same terms government on as the last one.' .. .. 8* . The only Labour councillor in Knutsford, Bill Davies had fixed a local church hall after the Socialists made contact Young with him last week. But as we were about to leave the AUEW headquarters in Sal- ford we received telephone call from Councillor Davies, who told us that the Labour Party had been in touch with the regional office. They were told to have nothing to do with us as we were a proscribed organization as far as the Labour Party was con- cerned. The people in charge of the church hall were told the Young wouldn't be Socialists march coming through Knutsford after all. Attempts to arrange accom- the Tory modation through council offices came to no avail and we had to go to Northwich where a youth club offered to put us up. What a line-up! On the day it that announced that was 1,700,000 were on the dole we found the Labour Party hand-in- glove with the Tories. All the marchers dis- were gusted with this treatment.

'The attitude of the Labour Party here seems to be one of saying one thing one minute and another the next,' said Graham Williams from Winsford. 'Yet they're supposed to be for the working class. But this is showing them up for what they are. We really put them on the spot. 'I think they're frightened of us and the strength of the work- ing class. They want to protect their own interest and not show their rea! colours. 'One thing about this march.

All along the way we're finding out who our friends are and who our enemies are,' he added.

The contrast between the behaviour of the Labour Party right-wing in Knutsford and the reception we received in Salford is outstanding. Divisional of the organizer AUEW and Communist Party member, John Tocher made the marchers most welcome in the main hall of the union's brand new premises. A special word about the caretaker Ted Blythe. He went out of his way to help us, especially by keeping the hall nicely warm. He told me he understood our struggle from his In the spring own experiences. of 1969 he was laid off from the AEl factory after Arnold Wein- stock merged it with GEC.

I am a tool setter he told me, 'and yet I couldn't get a job decent anywhere.

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eventually got this one. All the labour exchange could offer me non-union were Ted's brother has been on the dole six months in Manchester after also being laid off by GEC- AEI. Since the firms merged the workforce has been cut from 22,000 to 4,000. Since June 1970 unemployment has gone up more than 100 per cent in the Manchester area. The unemployed number of totally has risen from 15,017 to 30,914.

Vacancies have fallen from 4,434 in February 1971 to 2,807. Now for the first time since the 1930s the rate is getting on for 5 per cent, well over the national average. And the sackings continue Avon Rubber Company are lay- ing off 445 next month and have sacked 70 already. In March the Groves and Whithalls brewery will close. ..the City was well placed to feel quickly the benefits of the expansion in the economy which the government was seek- ing to bring about.' Tory MP Anthony Grant told the Com- mons on Tuesday. All you can read into that smooth statement is that the Tories will undoubtedly step up unemployment in Manchester.

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The Young Socialists flatly rep slanderous imputation that cash : shop stewards for the Glas- to London Right-to- gow Work march was obtained under false pretences. The unmistakable suggestion is that the shop stewards had no their idea to what organization £100 donation was going. This is utterly untrue. The three-man delegation which saw Stewards' Co- Joint Shop the ordinating Committee on January 19 made it quite plain they were members of the Trotskyist Young Socialists. Delegation member John Simmance is known all over Britain as national secretary of the Young Socialists. All three delegation members were well known as sellers of the Workers Press outside Upper Clyde shipyard gates. No snap decision was reached by the UCS Shop Stewards' Co- ordinating Committee. It was only after two weeks during which the YS application approved heard and at Was meetings of stewards in all three shipyards that they received a letter offering them a €100 donation. The letter is repro- duced on this page. The purpose of the advert is clear. It rellects a manoeuvre by the Communist Party to put on its members in the pressure shipyards to stifle rank-and-file support for the marches against the Tory government. We welcome the backing of stewards, shipyard workers and CP members who have supported our Right-to-Work campaign.

But we unreservedly condemn this underhand tactic of the Communist Party with all its trumpetings about the sanctity of democracy to use and abuse in the Upper Clyde its position shipyards. John Barrie, Secretary, Scottish Right-to-Work Committee Right-to-Work Campaign

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01-622 7029 Paris, Friday, Reuter. — Some 80 militants armed with iron bars and truncheons invaded the car works state-owned Renault today and fought a pitched battle with security guards, leaving one 14 injured, and dead person eight seriously. Police said the dead man was car plant, attack the big which employs 40,000 workers.

day February 26, 1972 It has been brought to our attention that our name is being used as being supporters of the "Young Socialists" - that is, the organisation closely associated with the Socialist Labour League. Our position is perfectly clear. We do not support any organisation whose activities seem to us to disrupt the main body of the organised working class and Labour movement | in our country. We gave £100 not from our Fighting Fund but from our own pockets in response to an appeal from unemployed young workers in the West of Scotland who wanted to march to London to draw attention to their plight, peated an adver. If this well intentioned gesture is being used in England appeared on the to imply our support for any organisation such as the SLL lorning Star' on then our conclusion is quite clear — once bitten, twice say.

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workers joined the they would not support any took. None Macfarlane action we our Lang pickets out- members on strike have received side the W London biscuit money from the union. factory yesterday. a The the other employers, on The dispute involving er- hand, have prevented us from with began regular of trade sincels the practising principles They staged annual wage claim. unionism by locking us out."

work-to-rule when the com- The strike committee was this head of the United Biscuit pany, weekend making moves to combine, refused to meet around the negotiating table get revised claim. with the management. Instead the employers issued They will their an 'ultimatum' and finally refused posals to a mass meeting of the to allow the 125 engineers into engineers on Monday. works on January 17. the Since that date they have stood outside the gates, cam- support from paigning for union other workers who continued working. Said Tom Arnold, chairman of the shop stewards' strike

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'The ob- mittee: company has viously decided to starve us back THE LYNCH govern- Republic as : to work. They are using. fore- Among th ment has now aligned and supervisors to do the is Peter itself completely with are supposed be work we to an the Heath government doing inside. prison ship, in declaring open war 'They fear the strength of our All the on the IRA union organization which we undergoi built up from scratch over have Four leading members gation, but n So this time the last four years. has of the Official

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been they have decided have Cathal Goulding, they confrontation.' The Michael Kvan. Handker Paul Stevenson, an electricians' of the 'United Irishman', men from said union steward, the Heffernan, shon Tony joint step local leadership of his union had poses Lynch' of the Official secretary refused to back the engineers.

Sinn ment with Fein and Sean 'They've kicked us in the teeth.

Garland, appeared in a The arrest Right at the start of the dispute Dublin court yesterday we were told by our leaders that charged with belonging

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illegal organiz- to an relatives of 1 ation. DELEGATES representing Lon- *Bloody in They charged don busmen are meeting next Londonderry the Offences under Wednesday to consider London 30 told against the State Act. Transport's increase their 81.70 a esk-72 tribunal yest latest refusal In the past 48 hours they had see the Irish Special Branch per cent--pay offer. in the back has been involved in It understood that the A of Transport and General Workers' number Terence O'K throughout the republic. Union leadership will recommend had Up to 200 plainclothes that the delegates accept this shot offer. police have been in- been number of busmen's volved in the raids. Mrs branches. however, have already But Lynch's most (31), rejected the offer on the grounds dramatic move has been the dead, sai that it would leave them the arrest of ten young worse verandah, off than they Ulster were 12 months men from who soldiers have been the Saracen arm ago. using

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Outbreaks of rain likely are at times, and some of it could be rather heavy. It will be milder A MARVELLOUS effort. Another generally. £99 yesterday arrived leaving Outlook for Sunday and Monday: only £89.42 to for Feb- raise Cloudy with at times, ruary's Fund. We must make it rain W. Temper- particularly in the a record amount this month.

atures above normal. Right-to-Work As the fourth Deal and march leaves today joins the Swansea, Liverpool and Glasgow the contingents on road, unemployment continues to rise to a level-the highest for over 30 years. Trade unionists everywhere are realizing that the most urgent question now is defend our basic right to work. This is why behind support pouring these marchers. And this is also Why enormous support is coming in for our February Fund.

Keep up this magnificent fight.

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Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, Joint Shop Stewards Co-ordinatin Committee, Clydebank Division, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. Ath February, 1972. West of scotland Youth light to work Committee, 46 West Frinces Street,

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Dear Brothers, the Committee agrees in principle to support your March to London on the theme of the Right We have also agreed to subscribe to work. 2100.00 from Divisional Stewards' Funds to help defray the expense involved.

Best of luck to your venture.

Yours fraternally, C. O'Neill, Secretary. public as an asylum. way for a deal between In London yesterday Among those arrested Tories Dublin, it was revealed that the Rodgers (27), Stormont and West- Special Branch have from the been holding an Irish- escapee minster. 'Maidstone'. Next on the agenda man since Wednesday in All the detainees are will be all-party talks connection with the dergoing interro- which will be supported Aldershot bombing. ion, but no indication by the Labour Parties of The man who lives in all three parliaments. S London given when was taken will be Speaking charged. Dunleer into • custody and held at in Louth, County attack the the 'secretly' while inquiries on n from Ulster is the Irish deputy Prime continued. Minister, Erskine which clearly ex- Mr Under British law it es Lynch's new align- Childers, has attacked is illegal to hold a man nt with Westminster. the for more than 24 hours IRA's 'ghastly per- formance' at Aldershot. The arrests pave the without charging him.

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and at the Rossville Flats. saw a young boy shot in One went those killed down on his the back, troops fired at Sunday' knee and shot. Another her, bullets taking in ndonderry on January fired from the hip, piece out of the iron of the Widgery hitting. a boy in the her balconv. unal yesterday that back. Mr Raymond Rogan y had seen boys shot she looked said he Later was taking the back by troops. down and saw two wounded to man Father bodies-one her brother hospital when Royal priest. rence O'Keefe said he Hugh The Regiment sol- Gilmore. Anglian diers stopped him eight people other was Barnie Mc- None had Guiggen. Nearby dead. He protested that the was carrying firearms. third body, Paddy injured man needed Mary treatment, Bonner Doherty. but the 'None of the boys I sister of one of troops told him to shut dead, said from her saw shot had weapons,' up or be shot. she s a w she said. jump out of Mrs Isobel Duffy • The inquiry continues armoured cars on Mondav. claimed that after she Young Socialists National Right to Work Campaign from Glasgow to London arrives in

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Saturday February 26

COME TO OUR RALLY

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27

_ower Refector heffield University, 7.00 p.n followed by a meeting Admission 20p