Workers Press no. 701

workers press

YOUNG SOCIALISTS' RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCHES

STRENGTHEN THE

ANTI-TORY FIGHT

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL

CORRESPONDENT

LORD STOKES, chairman of British-Leyland, has told the strikers at his Bathgate fac- tory, Scotland, that he will close it down unless the seven-week strike ends 'by the end of the month'. When it was pointed out that today, February 29, was the last day of the month, Stokes replied that he appre- ciated this. • The 3,000 car workers will meet at 11 a.m. today to hear a recommendation by shop stewards to continue the strike.

LORD STOKES

They say the company's offer of wage increases is still not enough.

Stokes has warned: "There is a strong possibility it will close. It has been losing money for four years since we took it over from BMC. The factory is not in a good area anyway. Stokes' ruthless statement fol- lows closely on a warning from another of his chief executives, Michael Sheehan. Sheehan has just sent letters to the 18,000-strong work force at Leyland's plant at Longbridge 'warning in Birmingham that will mean more more strikes redundancies. The letter was sent to men's homes. Trade union officials say the document is aimed as much at wives as it is at the car workers.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TU

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CON

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

AS WE enter the fourth week of the Right-to-Work marchers on the road, the political lessons from their experiences are of great importance. No other event in recent years has evoked such widespread support from rank-and-file trade unionists and members of the labour movement.

Indeed, without this support it would have been impossible for the marchers to have maintained themselves for a single day. The vital necessities of food and shelter have been donated voluntarily by the local organizations of the trade unions, co-operative societies and the labour movement. The concern over Tory policy on unem- ployment is enormous. If the Labour leadership of Wilson really wanted to make the Tory government resign, they could do it on this issue alone. That is why the right-wing bureaucracy in some localities actively supported by isolated outposts of diehard Stalinists in the trade union movement have, whenever they could, pulled every dirty trick in the book to prevent the marchers from making an impact. But all they have done, however, is effectively to expose themselves.

That was clear from the magnificent packed meeting held in Sheffield on Sun- day night. Not only did the audience respond with a splendid collection which brought in £200, they warmly applauded the young marchers who stated their case for the Right to Work in terms of a struggle for socialist principles.

This is the strongest political aspect of the campaign. The marchers not are simply talking about the Right to Work out of context with the struggle to make the Tory government resign.

They stress that this right can only be achieved when this is done. All along the route they have distri- buted thousands of copies of the All Trades Unions Alliance's Draft Manifesto, containing the Charter of Basic Rights, which will form the basis of the trans- formation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the autumn of this year. They see the struggle for the Right to Work as part of a struggle to elect a Labour government pledged to implement policies contained in this the socialist Charter of Basic Rights. The marchers are therefore fighting to raise the political understanding of all those they come into contact with. This constitutes the highest point of approach political class consciousness.

It is here that we have the greatest gains of the march. The efforts which are now being made to ensure a mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12 are being inspired more and more by determination of the marchers to the continue their campaign for revolutionary principles and programme.

Workers Press unhesitatingly appeals to each of its readers to do everything in your power to make this rally the greatest possible success.

ER • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 29, 197

AL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

UNITE WITH THE

JOBS MARCHERS

FOR

THEIR RIGHT

YOUR RIGHT

To a job, to organize welfare, housing and all the gains made by the working class

READ THE CHARTER

Free from 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG

THE CHARTER

OF BASIC

RIGHTS

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Fight for the Charter of Hanie Righte!

BY 29, 1972 • No. 701 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Building workers on McAlpine's Brunswick Centre site in Bloomsbury, London, have forced a management backdown on a fl6 wage-cut. See p. 12.

WORKERS IN THE SITE CANTEEN AFTER HEARING

THE OUTCOME OF TALKS WIH MANAGEMENT

MR JOHN DAVIES, the naturally that the concerned firmly new company cannot Secretary for Trade and forecast a date of attainment Industry, announced yes- of full commercial viability, terday that the govern- I am relieved that it foresees moving into surplus after the ment was making avail- first three years. able £35m to launch The Tory plan, worked out Govan Shipbuilders on in close negotiation with Govan the upper Clyde. Shipbuilders the and unions, provides work for 4,300 men. Of this, €17m would be This means that at least 3.000 needed over the first three will lose their jobs. years to meet losses on the early order book of the new Although the full implica- other £18m cond be needed for invest- tions of the shock statement would by Davies are still to be ment in the yards and for studied, it seems clear that working capital. Clydebank yard has been He added: 'Although I am irrevocably axed.

workers press

YOUNG SOCIALISTS' RIGHI-TO-WORK MARCHES

STRENGTHEN THE

ANTI-TORY FIGHT

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL

CORRESPONDENT

LORD STOKES, chairman of British-Leyland, has told the strikers at his Bathgate fac- tory, Scotland, that he will close it down unless the seven-week strike ends 'by the end of the month'. When it was pointed out that today, February 29, was the last day of the month, Stokes replied that' he appre- ciated this. • The 3,000 car workers will meet at ll a.m. today to hear a recommendation by shop stewards to continue the strike.

LORD STOKES

They say the company's offer of wage increases is still not enough.

Stokes has warned: "There is. a strong possibility it will close. It has been losing money for four years since we took it over from BMC. The factory is not in a good area anyway.' Stokes' ruthless statement fol- lows closely on a warning from another of his chief executives, Michael Sheehan. Sheehan has just sent letters to the 18,000 strong work force at Leyland's plant Warring rider in Birmingham that more strikes will mean more redundancies. The letter was sent to men's homes. Trade union officials say the document is aimed as much at wives as it is at the car workers.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CON

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

AS WE enter the fourth week of the Right-to-Work marchers on the road, the political lessons from their experiences are of great importance. No other event in recent years has evoked such widespread support from rank-and-file trade unionists and members of the labour movement. Indeed, without this support it would have been impossible for the marchers to have maintained themselves for a single day. The vital necessities of food and shelter have been donated voluntarily by the local organizations of the trade unions, co-operative societies and the labour movement. The concern over Tory policy on unem- ployment is If the Labour enormous. leadership of Wilson really wanted to make the Tory government resign, they could do it on this issue alone. That is why the right-wing bureaucracy in some localities actively supported by isolated outposts of diehard Stalinists in the trade movement have, whenever they union could, pulled every dirty trick in the book to prevent the marchers from making an impact. But all they have done, however, is effectively to expose themselves.

That was clear from the magnificent packed meeting held in Sheffield on Sun- day night. Not only did the audience respond with a splendid collection which brought in £200, they warmly applauded the young marchers who stated their case for the Right to Work in terms of a struggle for socialist principles.

This is the strongest political aspect of the campaign. The marchers not are simply talking about the Right to Work out of context with the struggle to make the Tory government resign.

They stress that this right can only be achieved when this is done. All along the route they have distri- buted thousands of copies of the All Trades Unions Alliance's Draft Manifesto, containing the Charter of Basic Rights, which will form the basis of the trans- formation of the Socialist Labour League.

a revolutionary party in the autumn into of this year. They see the struggle for the Right to Work as part of a struggle to elect a Labour government pledged to implement the socialist policies contained in this Charter of Basic Rights. The marchers are therefore fighting to raise the political understanding of all those they come into contact with. This approach constitutes the highest point of political class consciousness.

It is here that we have the greatest gains of the march. The efforts which are now being made to ensure a mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12 are being inspired more and more by of the marchers the determination to continue their campaign for revolutionary principles and programme.

Workers Press unhesitatingly appeals to each of its readers to do everything in your power to make this rally the greatest possible success.

ER • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 29, 197

AL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

UNITE WITH THE

JOBS MARCHERS

FOR

THEIR RIGHT

YOUR RIGHT

To a job, to organize welfare, housing and all the gains made by the working class

READ THE CHARTER

Free from 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG

THE CHARTER

OF BASIC

RIGHTS

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Fight for the Charder of Humer Righen!

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SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Builders claim temporary victory Building workers on McAlpine's Brunswick Centre site in Bloomsbury, London, have forced a management backdown on a £l6 wage-cut. See p. 12.

WORKERS IN THE SITE CANTEEN AFTER HEARING

THE OUTCOME OF TALKS WIH MANAGEMENT

£35m for Govan yard: Clydebank axed? MR JOHN DAVIES, the naturally concerned that the company firmly new cannot Secretary for Trade and forecast a date of attainment Industry, announced yes- of full viability, commercial terday that the govern- 1 am relieved that it foresees moving into surplus after the ment was making avail- first three years.' £35m launch able to The Tory worked out Govan Shipbuilders on piali, in close negotiation with Govan the upper Clyde. Shipbuilders the unions. provides work for 4,300 men. Of this, f17m would be This means that at least 3,000 needed over first three ThA will lose their jobs. years to meet losses on the compander be book of the new Although the full implica- other £18m would be needed tions of the shock statement would for invest- by Davies still the yards and for in studied, it seems clear that working capital. Clydebank yard been He added: 'Although I am irrevocably axed.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday Februa

AROUND THE WORLD

By JOHN SPENCER FOREIGN ministers of the si dates for membership met in 1 their autumn summit meeting.

monetary integration, though next month. The Nixon measures of August 15 last year, remov- ing the dollar's convertibility with gold, have created an enormous problem for the Common Market. To arrive at monetary union, the various European curren- cies must be brought closely into line with one another, but the fluctuations of the money markets and the weakness of the dollar make this more and more difficult. Under the December 18 Washington agreement on cur- realignment, the parity rency which bands within different currencies can vary against one widened, increas- another were ing the disparity between them.

This has led to a split between the Germans and the French. Neither side wants to use their gold and foreign currency reserves to buy dollars on' the exchange markets in order to narrow the parity gap.

PAYMENT

An alternative proposal, for the Germans to loan their reserves to the weaker countries and enable them to buy surplus dollars, is unlikely to be agreed. the loans The Germans say must be repaid in gold or special drawing rights, while the French want to repay the loans in dol- lars. The Germans, who already pool have a vast surplus of unwanted dollars, refuse to accept this proposal. If some compromise between the two positions is arrived at..

say repayment in a mixture of dollars and gold -. the British government could be placed in a critical position on entry.

Entering the Common Market will take a heavy toll of British gold reserves and participation in the monetary union scheme could further deplete them. The British government is already faced with a $1.000m bill from the International Monetary Fund, which no longer dollars in settlement of accepts debts. The Fund is demanding pay- ment in gold and special drawing rights. THREE of Germany's biggest motor firms are actively involved• in : in merger talks, with the know- ledge and encouragement of the Bonn government, according to the influential business magazine 'Capital'. The projected merger involves Volkswagen, Daimler-Benz_ and Motoren Werke Bayerische (BMW) which between them control more than two-thirds of the country's motor industry.

All three firms have suffered a spectacular drop in profits over as a result of the the last year, mark . revaluations and the flag- ging home market. Another factor driving them together is the threat of com- petition, particularly from the motor industry, within British an enlarged Common Market.

The three firms are already closely intermeshed. Daimler- lay February 29, 1972 i the six Common Market countri net in Brussels yesterday to begin neeting. Their agenda included the hough this is not likely to be cor TRIAL of Angela Davis, the 28-year-old black communist accused of murder, conspiracy and kidnapping, began at San Jose, California, yesterday.

place in The trial takes • an atmosphere of witch-hunt and gua prejudice up by whipped state government of extreme right winger Ronald Reagan. The court was finally forced to bail release Angela Davis on only because the State Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional and illegal. But the Reagan administration is making plans to reverse this decision and railroad Angela Davis to the gas chamber just the same. security Unprecedented pre- cautions surround the San Jose courthouse, where alarm systems, television closed-circuit been in- metal detectors have stalled, 39 additional guards taken on and a chain-link fence erected around the court.

More than half a million dollars has been spent on security is alone the trial, which at expected to cost more than. $2m and last more than six months.

The State of California is trying to link Miss Davis with the 'Soledad Brothers' break-out gest Benz and Volkswagen co-operate ved• in Spain, Indonesia and S Africa ow- and are on "friendly terms' at the home. Daimler and BMW are linked zine by industrialist Herbert Quandt.

Together with Friedrich Flick and the Deutsche Bank, Quandt is a major shareholder in Daimler- Benz. He also has a controlling interest in BMW. Forty per cent of Volkswagen shares are in the hands of the national and state governments, which have a large say in the company's affairs. is The Brandt government known to favour the formation of large cartels, the classic answer of German industrialists to economic crisis. If the car merger goes ahead, the Deutsohe Auto Union cartel will be the third biggest motor enterprise in the world, behind Ford and General Motors. countries and the four candi- • begin formal preparations for ded the issue of economic and be considered in depth until

ANGELA DAVIS

at Marin County court in 1970.

In this attempt to free black political Jonathan prisoners, Jackson, brother of George Jack- son, was killed by police. George Jackson himself, a prisoner at nd aards and killed one year later.

one year later. Support for the defence of building up Angela Davis is among trade unionists in the United States, who correctly see the frame-up trial as an attack on the whole working class.

film snatched POLISH security services have confiscated a TV film made by three French reporters of an Inteeiew head Leopold Tepped former head Orchestra', in the Soviet espionage service Occupied Europe during World War II. Trepper, who has spent years in Stalin's has been victimized prisons and by the Polish government, has been seeking permission to join his son in Israel. Second Israeli attack on guerrillas ISRAELI planes flying over Lebanon are being engaged by guerrilla ground defences, the Palestinian resistance movement said yesterday. Commando ground forces were locked in battle with Israeli troop concentrations in Lebanon and fighting was still in progress yesterday morning. Israeli forces entered at least three villages in the Arqoub area on Sunday in a second wave of attacks against the commandos' last remaining border stronghold.

The United Nations security council has called on Israel to 'desist and refrain' from military action against the Lebanon and withdraw its troops. The attacks, which began five days ago, are aimed at wiping out Palestinian guerilla bases in the Lebanon; the only Arab country which now allows the Palestinian :fighters freedom. to act against the Israelis. PREMIER EDWARD HEATH's warning that the government would 'not tolerate anything which undermines our country and our way of life' must not be lightly dismissed.

Coupled with the open challenge to the engineering orkers by the engineering employers' chiel D. 'C. bamior id the action of ICI in substantially reducing its coi purchases, Heath's television speech last Sunday shows that the employers and their political representatives mean ICI's action—plus other likely reductions in coal orders from the Central Electricity Generating Board and the British Steel Corporation - confirm a confidential memorandum issued during the miners' strike by a senior official of British Railways. Industry, said this memoran- dum, would 'take its revenge' after the strike.

Meanwhile, the Tory government-with the exception of the miners' strike and sections of the car workers—is succeeding, in collaboration with the trade union leaders, in holding wages down while unemployment and the cost of living soar. If this is unchecked, it could seriously weaken the working class in the next 12 months.

Thanks to the ineffectiveness of the TUC's opposition, the Tories are now fully armed with the Industrial Rela- tions Act which, among other things, makes it illegal to take industrial action against a third party not involved in a dispute. This could, for example, outlaw much of: that was done during the miners' strike.

Ît is highly likely that in the event of a strike of a key section of workers-such as the engineers the Tories will seek to use this Act, which amounts to the organized legalization of scabbing.

Heath's references to the growth of violence' are designed to lay the basis for such action.

the middle class with the A campaign to frighten spectre of 'anarchist violence' has been intensified since last summer when two top London policemen, in a specially arranged interview with "The Times', called for harsher legal and penal institutions.

The interview was a calculated reply to Mr Robert Mark—now the Metropolitan Police Commissioner-who: stated that. violence was NOT on the increase.

Such a clash reveals a conflict within the ruling class measures. Heath's its agencies about warning now about 'violence' shows that the government is preparing for a direct, harsh confrontation working class and is rejecting the advice of those who wish.

to continue the long-established co-operation with the trade union leaders. In these circumstances it is dangerous nonsense to say—as the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' did yester- day—that Heath is 'blustering', that his 'tough talk iş a cover for weakness'. It cannot be said too often: -

THE TORIES ARE NOT BLUSTERING.

On the contrary, they have decided on a period of intensive preparation for a show-down with the working The climb-down over the miners' strike was a class. readjustment which was forced upon them. But it was not a final defeat and it has not changed their overall strategy.

It has alarmed them and made them more determined.

The Tories will not willingly give up power. They have every intention of using the Industrial Relations Act and, if necessary, even more repressive legislation in an class before going to the the working effort to break country. A defeated working class would ensure a Tory victory, as it did in the 1930s.

1972-1973 will be even more decisive for the British working class than 1925-1926.

THE French CGT The CP declined to take part trade union in any protest against the mur- federation dominated by the Communist Party, has refused to der. take part in protest actions the murder of a young against Maoist shot by security guards Portuguese outside the Renault car factory in Paris. The dead man, Pierre. Overney, was shot by Jean-Antoine Tram- a 25-year-old security guard

PORTUGUESE

A has onl court in demonstra- sentenced member of the the course ot a tion outside the works on Fri- Central Committee of the Com- Party 12 day night. munist years in prison and loss of civic rights for Overney's comrades 16 years. The sentence was passed Tuesday last night, and the Chris- last Antonio Joaquim Gervasio. Under tian-union federation

(CFDT)

held: a meeting of warkers.to emergency powers he can, in fact, be kept. in jail indefinitely.

discuss stuke action. i:

Industrial Rel The LEADING Stalinists in unity of action of the working force tions Act would be us Sheffield trade class to the the Tories to legalize scabbing a to resign union movement were and protect non-unionists. return govern- attacked on Sunday social- pleaged to "The night for employers organizing ist policies. the Tory state against the Glasgow- unemploy The march had been the use Lond.o-n : Right-to- vilified by the press. against the employed Work march. Some well taking Eke as papers, In criticism aimed the 'Sunday Express', advantage of the Indu directly Com- at the were urging the state to trial Relations Act. Tł munist. Party-dominated the break up the campaign. iS real

AUEW.

district com- affairs' Others, like the 'Sunday mittee, Socialist Labour a different Times', used He said that national League They technique. drew leaders who h union tary Gerry Healy told an upon every statement accepted the audience City the made by the youth to ment's pay 'norm' university: march and belittle the already made their pea It's hig hide its palitical aim. with these an high. and Comrade Healy feature of the corpora gentlemen: warned those trade state - - the direct If your is horses. did unionists who not control of wages. always for the march of support that He said the unity the why they were only weaken- was giving do you these press ing themselves. impression that after t marchers?' miners' .'Comrade Healy said The he strike, government, leaders that the aim of the said, was about would forward and march • was to establish launch a war against the working claims the most precious class un- the labour precedented in modern norm. ciple in today - the 'This is a lie. I movement times. FILM DIRECTOR Ken Hughes has announced his support for the Right-to-Work campaign. Mr Hughes directed the much- acclaimed film 'Cromwell', and starring Richard Harris meeting of

T&GWU

mass Sir Alec Guinness. members at Pressed Steel Fisher,

AUEW

Dis- Common Wolverhampton Lane, Birmingham, trict Committee has donated £25 voted with only one against to for the of a meal, plus the take collection and send cost delegation use of a hall for a meeting and to meet the marchers overnight accommodation. at Birmingham boundary. Goodyear shop stewards Tyres Engineers shop stewards have agreed to an initial donation Fort Dunlop have agreed to of €5. of further donation £25 plus Wolverhampton No. 1 AUEW delegation at to meet marchers donated £2. tae Birmingham boundary. Miners at Lea Hall colliery, The Guild Council at Birming- Staffordshire, have Cannock, ham University agreed to join a agreed to provide a midday meal at Cannock. demonstration welcome to Oldham anti- immigrant EXTREME right-wingers in Old- ham are planning to stage an anti- immigrant demonstration A TOP-LEVEL inquiry is being conducted at Scotland Yard after through the city on March 18.

newspaper reports that the head organized by the It is being of the Yard's Flying Squad, British Workers' Commander Kenneth Drury, went Committee Against Unemployment, which is on a holiday paid for by a Soho Tru-Aim, the associated with strip-club owner. against trade union organization A senior police officer has been immigration. appointed to investigate allegation, Yard spokesman tere said This engineering an announced yesterday. worker, said: is not but Commenting on a statement in communist, patriotic demonstration. It is for the who our British people support troops in Ulster, who are worried the and about decline in law order and who are worried about the increase in drugs and vice.

'We don't want to persecute but we want them to immigrants, go home to their own countries where they can do useful work!

number of immigrant and A youth have groups already an- their intention of nounced counter-march against staging racialism.

FLYING SQUAD'S DRURY

the News of the World' from strip-club owner Mr James Humphreys that the holiday trip docks return was part of a plan to track down the escaped train robber Ronald Biggs and that he had paid for LIVERPOOL dockers yesterday the trip, Drury said: If Mr Humphreys wants to voted to end their three-day say we went hunting for escaped strike over piece work earnings.

great train robber Ronald Biggs, that is up to him. The dispute began last Friday The whole matter is under over rates for handling a badly- investigation at the moment and stowed cargo of South American I have no qualms about the out- copper. come' Drury added that he could not The walked after men out formula for rejecting peace his comment on between on the holiday worked out shop going and was stewards and the Port of Liver- not prepared to say whether he pool Stevedoring Company..

went tor business or pleasure..: trade union leaders are uld be used peddling backwards fast. cabbing and In the next period to challenge the Tories would be to break the loyers and law embodied in the ate want to Industrial Relations Act.

unemployed lay down employed as challenge now. Is any- one in the TUC pre- i the Indus- pared to break this law as Act. This in defence of the basic 1 state of of the working class?' that those The meeting heard rs who had three speakers from the he govern- Right-to-Work 'norm' had Glasgow march and watched the their peace third performance of the important highly successful play le corporate "The English Revolu- direct state tion. he capitalist A collection of £150 giving the was made. It included a hat after the last-minute donation of union £30 from shop stewards come at ICI Huddersfield. d fight to above the

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marchers, plus the offer of accommodation. AUEW (foundry workers) at Aberdeen have given their sup- port and a fl donation. Fire Brigades Union members at the King St garage, Aberdeen, have given their support and have collected £1.30. Aberdeen General and Munici.

pal Workers' Union, No. 1, (Gas Board workers) have given their support and a donation of £10.

Building trades workers on the Ross Foods Site, Tullos, Aber- deen have collected f2. THE National Union of Public today launches Employees 'Action eight-page pamphlet which will be distri- buted among the 900,000 men and women employed by local councils as manual workers.

The document is notable for its failure to mention the Tory its Industrial government or Relations Act, which came into force yesterday. And not once does the docu- ment address itself to political questions. the other hand the On is filled with pamphlet huge promises for the membership. It.

wants: Pay increases to bring council workers in line with national average earnings and to reflect the social value of the work they do; A 35-hour working week; A minimum four week annual holiday, increasing with length of service, and three extra days in existing addition public holidays; Retirement at 60 with.

improved pensions; Average earnings during holidays and sickness; Legislation to set of health, minimum standards safety and welfare in the work Training facilities environment; to stand for election to their own authorities and employing the right of direct representation on local councils. Council workers will be particularly incensed by the programme's call for better wages. Only a couple of months NUPE's general secretary, ago i Alan Fisher, accepted a 7.4 to 7.8 per cent increase-within the Tory 'norm'. The settlement was tantamount to wage-cutting and marked an important victory for the Tory wage strategy. And how does Fisher prope:e •to get any of his latest demands met? Workers Press, Tues THE GOVERNMENT serio aspects in its handling of the n Jack, president of Glasgow C said yesterday. 'One has to express astonish- ment that industry and com- merce was faced almost instantaneously such with severe measures in the run- down of power. "We all can and must accept emergency situations, but it was difficult to conceive that in this day and people age many in this industry engaged in country found themselves faced at mid-morning Friday on February 12 with a requirement to sign there and then an under- taking which would have im- mediate effect, not to use any all for four electric power at days of the week.'

PREMIER HEATH

Mr Jack's statement points to dissatisfaction the among industrial hierachy at the Tory's inability to deal effectively with the working class. In his attempt to crush the miners, Heath had inevitably to alienate those very sections of industry upon which his totter- ing position depends. Judging by his ministerial broadcast on television on Sun- day night, and the yet more repressive measures it threatens for the working class, it is not a mistake he intends to repeat.

"To secure maximum public the support, union is sendin opies of its "Action Programme to members of parliament and local councillors. It is also using newspaper advertisements, leaflets and posters to develop organized of the pressure in programme.' . support it's another In other words, publicity stunt. Technical teachers THE ASSOCIATION of Teachers in Technical Institutions (ATTI), which organizes most of the 50,000 technical teachers, yester- day rejected a 7-per-cent offer. Fresh Burnham (Technical) Committee talks are to be held March 7. on Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ.

ment and repeal all laws arainst the unions! E LONDON: Tuesday February 29, 8 p.m. Toynbee Hall, Com- mercial Aldgate East. 'Bangla Desh and the fight for socialism'. W LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Wharfedale Rd, off York Way, ross, Tuesday February 29, 1972 PAGE 3 Г seriously misjudged many of the miners' dispute, William sgow Chamber of Commerce, prices up THE SOUTHERN Electricity Board yesterday announced a 5- per-cent price rise in charges.

The increase will apply to the first meter reading after March 31. The announcement blows yet another hole in the mythical Confederation of British Industry "prices pledge' announced late last year. On the basis of this "pledge', signed by 200 firms, the union

TUC

and other trade leaders gave an unwritten under- taking to hold down wages.

The electricity board's an- nouncement follows hard on the heels of British Rail's decision to increase fares by up to 26 per cent next month. union registers ONE of Britain's newest and smallest trade unions announced yesterday that it had registered under the Industrial Relations Act. The Association of Licensed Aircraft Engineers-membership 660 — was formed in January 1970. panies through the industrial relations court." Bulk of membership is drawn from supervisors and inspectors dissatisfied with their representa- tion by Clive Jenkins' Associa- tion of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, Baines. Servant's quarters OPPOSITION leader Harold Wilson may have finally solved planning difficulties at his £17,000 residence in Buckinghamshire.

Wilson's application to build a small residence for his house- keeper at his home — Grange Farm, Deep Mill Lane, near Great Missenden, originally failed because only agricultural build- ings can be erected in the Green Belt area. However, Amersham Rural Council's Buildings and Town Planning Committee is to recom- mend today that conditional permission is given for a single- storey extension to form the housekeeper's accommodation.

Kings Cross. 'Crisis of capi- talism'. SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- Clapham force a General Elec- must tion'. ACTON: Wednesday March 1, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Labour must force a General Election'.

N LONDON: Thursday March 4, 8 pall. Town Hall, Edmot ton. 'Building the revolutionary party.

PAGE 4, Workers Preas, Tuesday February 29, 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- is a challenge to these policies and, therefore, the paign 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

HANWELL COMMUNITY

CENTRE, Westcott Crescent, W7.7 pm LIME GROVE BATHS, Shepherds Bush, W12. 7pm

RALLY

EMPIRE POOL WEMBLEY

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Clifford Irving tried - and failed—in his attempt to hoax the world with a phoney of Howard autobiography Hughes, the recluse American millionaire. But he's not a whit put out, though the US and Swiss courts, Time-Life,

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lo namuon W10 original rights on his bought the Hughes book, are breathing down his neck. fe inn cente deai n't chica to olenl. uncado News' 'Daily columnist Mike Royko is to be believed. The of game Halle canitalism and it works like this.

First item boK or the edit balance is the the authentic storv of how he fabricated Hughes's autobio- graphy. This could sell for a cool $500,000 Then there are the film rights -for a story with more than its share of blondes, intrigue and international glamour. rususuno colrces estimate the rights will be worth Ilm another $150,000 to $200,000. hat's not the end of the stor!

over etmer. T Te bok ses 400,000 copies, Irving stands get 15 per of the sale price cent of every extra book-that Cole another $100,000 делегате $200,000 on the hard-cover sales alone.

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Then there paperback are the revenues which could easily net him severd nuDonee more greenbacks on top of the hard-cover profits. through that he's run he can cull reckon COn selnd serialization rights to magazines and Time-Life, the newspapers. olizilal

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VIcus. are he offering more rumoured for the hoax story than they did for the original book His should orevious

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benefit as the result publicity, and he'll be in the running. for the lecture and Dersoral a•vearance Cicil

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A French private bank which traces its origin back to the 17th century has been hard hit by a financial fraud con- nected with the property scandals revealed last summer.

The Neuflize, Schlumberger and Mallet bank suffered a loss of 25m francs. Over E2m of this was lost in a nancial transaction iwo wa a comdan S•ecia 71ne in the leasing of heavy contrac- ting which formed equipment part of the LiDsKy grouD. Lipsky, wanted for canee frauds connection with the company Patrimoine vpcaLy fled r'UCiCL• s ae i of September. end The bank employee responsible nd something like $1,000 a shot.

If Royko's figures are anything like correct, Irving stands to make far more out of the story of his fraud than he would have done if the Howard Hughes auto biography had been true. But won't he be tucked away in a prison cell, unable to enjoy all these potential riches?

ask the more naive and credulous observers. in actual fact, no. Well, A leading criminal lawyer is on record with the opinion that: 'On the basis of what I've read, I don't think they can get him or anything unless Howard Hughes is willing to come to court and testify. "And you know he's not going to do that. If Hughes won't appear in court on all those civil cases that are costing him tens of millions of dollars, why would he go to court on this? He has what he wants. The book is exposed as a fraud.' Hughes has not appeared in years, preferring to public for live secluded in a Las Vegas penthouse surrounded by tight- lipped Mormon servants and specially insulated from disease- bearing air and food. Currently, in any case, he's in Nicaragua, but no-one has seen him there either. As the lawyer said: 'You can't prosecute a case by having a guy testify over the telephone or send in a tape-recorded state- • Hughes in They'll need ment. court to make a real case, and they won't have him. You watch —Irving is going to walk out of this one free as can be.'

Which explains why Clifford Irving keeps smiling through his apparent tribulations. The only person who isn't smiling is his wife, Edith, who criminal faces charges Switzerland. She could land in jail whether Howard Hughes • appears to testify or not.

Top: Howard Hughes. Right: Clifford Irving who wrote the fabricated autoblography.

for the firm's account was him- self a close friend of Claude Lipsky and permitted his firm to run up a considerable overdraft for which there was no cover.

The bank issued a statement on February 13 that it would be able to meet the loss out of the current year's profits. There had previously been rumours that it would be forced to amalgamate with another banking group. Its directors have since said that negotiations had been going on before the fraud was discovered.

The bank has links with the earliest period of French capital- ism. The Mallet bank dates back to 1713, while Neuflize descends from a bank established in in 1667. Geneva These banks were set up by Protestants at a time when Canon Law made it difficult for good Catholics to The Protestant com- prised a kind of financial inter- national which, on the continent, had its headquarters in Switzer- land. Although the Huguenots had been driven. out of France, except for some isolated rem- nants in. the SW, t'- French heavily dependent crown was upon loans from the Protestant bankers such as Mallet. What is called la haute banque protestante' came into its own with the development of French capitalism in the 19th century. Many of the old private banks survived and prospered, despite the rise of new forms of finance-capital in the latter part of the century. When French capitalism began to expand after the Revolution of 1789, what was called 'la haute banque protestante' came into its Despite mergers and the own. growth of new forms of finance- capital of the old-estab- some lished private firms with. a 300- year existence continued as independents. Members of these banks were governors of the Bank of France and sat on the boards of other banks, railway companies and firms of all types. Not a few of the '200 families' said to domi- nate French business came from the ranks of the Protestant bankers. Workers Press, Tuesday February 29, 1972 PAGE 5 Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 624p

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday February 29, 1972 Part two of a series by PHILIP WADE examining the Industrial Relations Act which became law yesterday The National Industrial existed in Eng- courts which 13th In the century. Relations Court has lana in of those days, local lord the to make orders power the manor would gather a few restraining workers from of his cronies around him and deliver 'judgements' based on carrying 'unfair out their of the experience actions and can award prisoner and the area he came from. damages against the hundred and fifty Seven of any illegal leaders years later.. strike.

NIRC

Interlocked with the There is a limit of £100,000 Commission Indus- is the on fine on registered unions. For trial Relations, with former

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official Len Neal as unregistered organizations, its chairman. like shop stewards' commit- The CIR was a brainchild of tees or newspapers the fines the Labour government last are unlimited. following the recommenda- Failure could fines pay of tions the Donovan COm- lead to imprisonment for con- the mission on trade unions tempt of court. which the Labourites set up in Just in case an action seems 1965. the of likely to web escape The idea of the CIR, which there is the infamous the Act, once boasted former TUC chief Clause 97, described by Peter George Woodcock as chair- Catch 22 of Paterson the man and ex-Communist Party the Act. This clause has the member and miners' former effect of making it an unfair Will Paynter among its leader for take action anyone members, the oversee industrial action any kind trade union movement in support of any action which especially on the questions of constitutes indus- an disputes Proceedien and regis- trial practice. tration agreements reached The NIRC will work within between and unions manage- principles of the the guiding ment. down in Act laid section The Industrial Relations Finally, the will take court Act begins where Labour left account into when preparing off and goes great deal judgement the conduct of the further. parties in relation to the Code The NIRC can ask the CIR of Industrial Practice. to examine the possibilities of imposing procedure agree- ment in an industry which is considered have bad TO strike record. The motor car industry would be one instance where the Tories would like This document to- workers, the breaking du which impose procedure the of wards establishment labour code which will tightly would constitute 'unfair' regulate all the of an activities action. and especially trade unions An investigation would be shop stewards. Recommenda- made by the CIR and recom- tions are made in detail about mendations made to the NIRC.

procedures, management sys- If the court agrees it makes of wages payments, the compulsory an order for works' negotiating machinery, adoption of the agreement as planning and of laid down. power and so on. The court will also ask the The Code has been fully

CIR

advise the of on analysed in previous issues question of sole negotiating the Workers Press (July 27 rights and the so-called and 28, 1971). But the pro- 'agency' shops. The closed visions in relation to shop shop, as it is known, stewards are worth going over.

abolished by the Act and it is The management is given illegal to strike in pursuance of the right to be a party to the such a shop. In its place the choice of a shop steward. This Tories have put forward the would employers the give ideas of sole negotiating rights opportunity to Put the real and agency shops. place the real stooges Although agency shop agree- representatives of the workers.

ments appear in Part IT of the This of Code section the Act (sections I1 to 16) and would go a long way towards sole negotiating rights in Part allowing the employers to veto III (section 53) there steward they disapproved to any be no doubt these two of by refusing to sign a joint can credential. It would amount to spurious concepts will be inked together by the CIR in direct intervention by man- an effort to break shop-floor agement-into the affairs of the organization. shop stewards' committees.

In fact in Paterson's book Although the Code has no they are dealt with in the same legal standing on par with the chapter under •Collective Act, there can be little doubt Bargaining: Recognition and that the NIRC will consciously Representation'. apply the principles contained An agency shop is supposed in it, ensuring trade unionists to be the substitute for the are constrained and tied up on per cent shop, banned all sides. under the Act. The NIRC has been likened It enshrines the Tory principle of the right to the manorial system of not to belong to a union.

agency shop it is Under the a condition of employment for the workers covered by the agreement that they must: a) join the registered union con- cerned or b) not belong but pay the contributions or c not belong and pay the contribu- tions to charity. In other words, management hire people who don't can want to be in the union. The hard-won right of the trade union movement, the conces- sion wrung out of the ruling class, by which workers in most factories have to be in unions-becomes illegal. If the trade unions refuse to enter into such an agreement, the employers can apply to the NIRC who will pass it on to

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the CIR for deliberation. The CIR can conduct a ballot on the question. The situation is then frozen for two years, of whatever the result the ballot, and attempt by any unions to unfreeze it will con- stitute unfair yet another action. The aim of agency shops is simply to drive a line through trade union organization and solidarity on the shop floor, creating confusion and splits among the workers. No unregistered unions will be entitled to operate agency shop, leaving the field open for staff unions and management inspired other organizations. Linked with the question of who operates an agency shop, the CIR can also deal with so- called sole bargaining agents.

The CIR will be able to decide unions should have which recognition rights for which

LAWS

workplace. particular plant or The aim of this section of the Act is to take away the unqualified right of trade union to seek to represent its For example, it members. would have to be proved in law that the National Union of Railwaymen has the right to represent railway workers, other than those covered by footplatemen's the union, ASLEF, or the ticket men,

TESSA.

They override the right of the TUC General Council to sort out organizational dis- putes among affiliated unions and give it instead to the De- partment of Employment and the CIR. But, most seriously, the sec- tion opens the way for break- away unions and 'staff associa- tions' (i.e. management organi- zations) to be given sole negotiating rights where other unions have members.

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It is under this section of the Act that the breakaway Staff Telecommunications challenge Association is to the position of the UPW as the only union entitled to ne- gotiate on behalf of post office telephonists. They have started could go to the NIRC who can then make the reference to The UPW is not a registered union. As such it cannot ask for sole negotiating rights. It rill be up to the Departmen f Employment or the CIR t sponsor them.

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provisions for 'unfair actions'.

In fact, everywhere you look in the Act there are cases of 'unfair actions'. Other CIR functions are to supervise ballots following the implementation of the 60-day period in strikes cooling-off considered by the Tories to be 'national emergencies'. Finally, the government can refer any industrial relations question to the CIR including questions concerning a parti- cular industry or company.

The third main weapon in the armoury of the Tory government is, of course, the Registrar of Trade Unions.

This organization has the power to deregister or only organizations register those which it considers have 'suit- able' rules. Until such time as unions revise their rules in Tory accordance with the government's requirements sC

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they will not be regarded as unions. There will be no limits on the fines which can be imposed upon them for 'unfair' actions.

This is simply a blueprint for a corporate state, with the unions completely inte- grated into the capitalist state machinery. The registrar has started work, but with little success so far because the big unions have refused to register.

Unions who do register will find themselves under constant vigilance by the registrar who can initiate proceedings himself alleged against rule any breaches. The final two institutions are the Industrial Tribunals and the Industrial Arbitration Board. Workers Pri

FORD SHOP

The tribunals have up to now mainly been dealing with claims for compensation under the Redundancy Payments Act.

Now they will deal with issues under the Act mainly con- cerning individuals. They will complaint from include a non-unionist that he has been penalized or dismissed for exercising his right not to be in a union. The existing Industrial Court is to be renamed the Industrial Arbitration Board to the avoid confusion with NIRC. The board will retain the previous functions of the industrial court relating espe- cially to the part played in the machinery for determining wages and conditions of civil aviation and haulage in- dustries. Under the Act the board has been given two new functions.

The first relates to disclosure ers Presa, Tuaaday Fabruary 29, 1872 PAGE 1

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N One day strike agalnst the on December 8, 1970 of information by companies, the other responsibility it has an employer refuses is when to negotiate with a bargaining agent appointed by the NIRC.

The board might then make an award to be automatically in- corporated into employee's terms and conditions. The period now opening up, therefore, for the British trade union movement is one of unparalleled struggle to defend the hard-won rights to form trade unions and to use them to defend their members' interests. The unions will become in- corporated into the capitalist state unless a revolutionary leadership is constructed with- in the working class, a leader- ship which must pose the organize the question and taking of power.

COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Februar

PART 2

Lenin and the other leaders of the Communist Inter- national paid close and patient attention to the de- veloping communist move- ment in Germany which emerged after the betrayal of the Social Democrats in the World War and was promin- ent in the revolutionary battles of 1918 and 1919.

In October, 1919, Lenin wrote: 'At last Germany we see honest and sincere socialists who, despite all persecutions, despite the foul murder of their best leaders, have remained firm and unbending. At last we see in communist Germany workers who are waging a heroic struggle that really deserves to be called "revolutionary". 'The Scheidemanns and Kaut- skys, the Renners and Freidrich Adlers ... have in equal mea- proved to sure be petty- bourgeois. The followers of Scheidemann and Kautsky have shamelessly betrayed the prole- tariat in Germany and have sided counter-revolutionary with the bourgeoisie. 'Hence have differences we that are really irreconcilable.

'There can be no peace, no between the prole- joint work, revolutionaries and tarian the Philistines • . . in practice they are at best puppets in the hands of the bourgeoisie and, at worst, direct hirelings of the bour- geoisie." An early split among the German communists was on the of participation in question bourgeois parliaments and in trade unions dominated by reac- tonaries. (This was a theme to all the new Com- common munist Parties, and is dealt with in full by Lenin in 'Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Dis- order'.) Lenin's position that was refusal to participate in a bour- geois parliament, in a reactionary trade union and even in an 'ultra- reactionary workers' council dominated by the Scheidemanns' mistake. Such refusal was went alongside syndicalist atti- and-though wrongwas tudes understandable in a militant, inexperienced and rapidly grow- ing in the party, particularly light of the recent social-demo- cratic betrayals. To the Lenin win masses, insisted, it was necessary to fight the social traitors and against against reformism and opportun- ism in all spheres of struggle.

However, Lenin tought tor the unity of the German communists: 'The differences among the com- munists are differences between representatives of a mass move- ment that has grown with incredible rapidity,' he said. 'The communists have a single, granite-like foundation common, -recognition of the proletarian revolution and of the struggle against bourgeois democratic illusions and bourgeois demo- cratic parliamentarianism, and recognition of the dictatorship proletariat and of the Soviet power. On such a basis, differ- ences represent growing pains."

In this letter to Paul Levi, Clara Zetkin, Eberlein and other CC members of the Ger- man Party, Lenin obiected to the expulsion of the minority, even though they advocated boycott of parliament and were semi- syndicalists. They were young and inexperienced. Given agree- ment on the basic question of rule bourgeois soviet against parliamentarism, unity was pos- sible and necessary. The central question was the role of proletarian dictatorship: 'Proletarian dictatorship is the sole means of defending the working people the against capital, vio- oppression of the lence of the bourgeois military dictatorship and imperialist war.

Proletarian dictatorship is the sole step to equality and democ- in practice, not on paper гасу but in life, not in political phrase in economic mongering, but reality. 'Having failed to understand this, the Scheidemanns and the Kautskys proved to be contemp- tible traitors to socialism and defenders of the ideas of the bourgeoisie." It was, however, not a hostile letter. Lenin considered that the mistake could be rectified and he concluded with 'a hearty handshake and warm wishes for success in your difficult work'.)

At the same time, he wrote to which had been the group expelled and which had formed a separate party. ay February 29, 1972 • A five part series by JACK GALE Again, he repeated that the basic issue was the fight for the dictatorship of the proletariat and for soviet power. Commun- ists who were in agreement on that, and who were implacably hostile to the Scheidemann and Kautsky groups, Lenin declared, could and should work in unison.

Accordingly, he offered the services of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Inter- national in an effort to restore communist unity in Germany.

Contrast Lenin's patience and flexibility with the problems of the communists, with his implac- able rejection of an official pro- posal for negotiations from Independent Socialist Democratic Party of Germany (the Kautsky- ites). There was, he said, 'nothing of the dictatorship of the prole- tariat in the day-to-day agita- tion of the German Independ- ents'. This rejection is contained in the 'Draft (or Theses) of the RCP's Reply to the Letter of the Independent Social-Democratic of Germany. (March, Party 1920).4 In Part 5 of these theses Lenin writes: "The dictatorship of the pro- letariat means the overthrow of the bourgeoisie by a single class, the proletariat, and by its van- guard-at that, To demand that ‹ GALE on the rise of German fascism this vanguard should first ensure the support of the majority of the people through elections to bourgeois parliaments, by elec- tions held while wage slavery still exists, while the exploiters exist and exercise their oppres- sion and while the means of pro- duction are privately owned...

.. to demand this or to assume it is actually abandoning.

the standpoint of the cictatorship going of the proletariat and over to the standpoint of bour- geois democracy' And he concluded: 'In the opinion of the RCP there is no for such parties in the place i Communist International.'

But Lenin's efforts to bring about the unity of the German Communists were unsuccessful.

The 'left Communists'-the Com- munist Workers' Party of Ger- many (KAPD) - remained an anarcho-syndicalist tendency.

Beginning with a membership of several tens of thousands, the KAPD lost its best elements within two or three years and became transformed into a sect, hostile to the Communist Inter- national and to the Soviet Union.

The German Communists did make a gain, however, when the Kautskyite Independent Socialist Party split in 1920. Trotsky explained that this was due 1o work of the Communist the Party. The revolutionary masses, he said, were pulling along with them the best sections of the leadership. Because the German working class found itself without a revo- lutionary party at its head when the epoch of revolution began, it was forced to try to create one in the course of open struggle.

This, as Trotsky explained, led to a whole series of offensives followed by retreats, of uprisings followed by defeats, transitions from attack to defence, and throughout: critical self-analysis, re-evalua- But at its Third World Con- gress, held in June and July, 1921, the Communist Interna- tional had to evaluate a changed world situation. Throughout Europe, capitalism had survived the post-war revo- lution upsurge not through any strength of its own, but thanks to the treachery of the social democratic leaders. In his main report to the Con- The World Economic gress on Crisis and the New Tasks of the International, Trotsky declared: 'When in the initial postwar period we observed the unfold- revolutionary movement, it ing might have seemed to many of usand with ample historical justification-that this ever-grow- ing and ever-strengthening move- ment must terminate directly in the conquest of power by the working class. 'But now almost three years have already elapsed since the war. Throughout the world, with the single exception of Russia, power continues to remain in the hands of the bourgeoisie = • become bourgeoisie has the stronger and more stable as the feels that way% Or at all events class in power of capitalism had The crisis not, of course, been overcome. European capitalism was econo- mically weakened-particularly in relation to the United States. It was to lurch ahead-assisted by the treachery • of social democ- racy, and subsequently of Stal- ınısm — to tascism in Germany Italy and Spain, to the General Strike in England, the sit-down strikes the great depression of the and finally the catalyst of World War II. This was not an inevitable development. Nor did the space' breathing which had been granted to capitalism in 1921 make the task of the Com- munist International impossible.

remained one of profound depres 1921 the overall picture sion. But the relation between economics and revolution is dia- lectical, not automatic. Trotsky told the Third World Congress: 'On the basis of this economic depression the bour- geoisie will be compelled to exert stronger and stronger pressure upon the working class. "This is already to be seen in the cutting of wages which has started in the full-blooded capi- talist countries: in America and in England, and then throughout all of Europe. 'This leads to great struggle Our task is over wages. to extend these struggles, by basing ourselves on a clear understand- Left: Lenin on May Day 1919 addresses the workers of Mos- cow. Above : Clara Zetkin.

ing of the economic situation. This is quite obvious. It might asked whether the great be struggles over a classic wages, example of which is the miners' strike in England, will lead auto- matically to the world revolu- the struggle for the conquest of to the final civil war and political power. 'However, it is not Marxist to pose the question in such a way. We have no automatic guarantees of development. But when the crisis is replaced by a transitory favourable conjuncture, what will this signify for our development?

Many comrades say that if an improvement takes place in this epoch it would be fatal for our revolution. 'No, under no circumstances. In general, there is no automatic dependence of the proletarian revolutionary movement upon crisis. There is only a dialectical interaction. It is essential to understand this." 1. 'Greetings to Italian, French and German Communists' in 'Collected Works, Vol. 30, "Letter to the EC of the 2. German Party' in 'Collected Works', Vol. 30, pp.87-89. Also Letter to the expelled group', pp. 89-90. 'Collected Works', Vol. 30, Pn Collected Works', Vol.

4. 30, pp.337-344. 5. 'On the Policy of the KAPD' in 'The First Five Years of Communist Interna- tional', Volume 1, p.151.

6. 'First Five Years of the Communist International, Volume 1, p.176. 7. 'First Five Years of the Com- International, munist Vol. 1, p.209.

• TO. BE CONTINUED

US Attorney General, John Mitchell in t Recent years have seen, in the western capitalist world, the emergence of a vocabu- lary of disquiet and disinte- gration. Disintegration has its opposite in integration, but integration within this system is its own opposite in the conformity which a culture subordinated to commodity production and consumption imposes on the mass population. Thus phrases such as 'crisis of 'one-dimensional man', identity' 'the politics of experience', 'crisis communication' words and such as 'alienation', "liberation' on, dominate thought and so and action. confused, irrational and For liberal thinkers the struggle to be real only too often resolves itself into from escape an hippie's with the reality itself, 'freaking out' being quite closely linked in cause and effect with the 'freaking in' of the do-gooder activist or the Fabian. Both are ways of avoiding reality.

of coping with Another way disintegration the of human relations and the breakdown of communication the more subtle, yet equally misguided, subordination to apparent reality.

This method is the one most favoured by television and film and consists in 'factual makers reporting' 'un-intrusive wit- or nessing' of people and events.

We have in the last three weeks been able to see what such an approach can actually produce of clarification. in the way talented, sincere and well- team, consisting of intentioned producer Roger Graef, camera- man Charles Stewart and sound- man Mike McDuffie, have been probing the break-down of com- munications in the most vital spheres of human life. For the five-part documentary series, they chose to investigate the fields of industry, the family, school, politics, and-coming next week-diplomacy. Using the so- called cinema-verité technique, the idea was to immerse the camera into a situation of tension, unobtrusively, and to allow reality to take its course.

has been applauded The series for its truthful method, without having examined the anyone nature of the truth involved.

The tension which was ex- amined in the Plessey factory in the first episode, was one which over the possibility arose redundancies which might evolve from the visit of an Organization and Methods agency. Certainly we were shown the attitudes of both workers and management Ichell in tonight's 'Space Between Words' prog

BY ANNA TATE

and the conflict of their interests, but only to the limits to which consciousness their and the consciousness of the film-makers extended. The very approach and the programme title of a wrong one in relation to the field of industrial relations. Roger Graef set out to produce a picture of 'The Space Between Words', show how to two different Groupings have difficach communicating other, but the problem is not one which is based on words as such, but on the clash between two capitalist class, classes-—the whose agents are management, and the working class. It is not a question of finding the right verbal formula-the contact key, but of struggle. This is where the verité (truth) part of cinema-verité falls apart.

So does the assumed objectivity ot the producer. One has the distinct impression that Roger Graef would like to send management and workers off to an idyllic Esslin Institute so that they can sense and feel each other and live in love and understanding. In the way the film, same which dealt with the break- down in communication in a tamily, made compelling viewing, highlighting as it did the very real hostilities and antagonisms which exist within this society's ideal human unit-the family.

But again all the complex problems which arise within the family unit, the confrontation of neurosis with another, the one mythology of ideal, non-material- loving istic, relatedness, crises, are part of the totality of human existence in which one's whole way of life and one's being are determined by the economic, social and cultural forces at work in the system.

This also applies to Graef's ords' programme entitled 'Politics'.

programme on schools. The dis- integration of the relationship between teachers and pupils arises from the fact that neither those teaching nor those being taught are free. Learning has long been at the service of utility.

Joy in knowledge was lost when knowledge was subordinated to marketing. Human contact between teacher and pupil was lost when competition began to make hostile sceptical towards each other.

men In the field of politics Roger Graef has shown the same super- ficiality in approach. Nixon, Senate Committees, the Supreme Court and the Justice Department are perhaps suitably real-politic to fit with real- cinema, but a suspect 'neutrality' face of the phenomenon in the constitutes a real subordination to the pervading culture.

There are concepts of two Marx from which Graef would have benefited had he applied them to his programmes 'The Space Between Words', the first 'German comes from Ideology': 'It is not consciousness that de- termines life, but life that deter- consciousness', and the mines second from the 'Contribution to the Critique Political on Economy': It is not the con- sciousness of men which deter- mines their existence, but, on the social it is their contrary, existence that determines con- sciousness? Roger Graef in his undoubtedly sincere use of cinema-verité has limits of shown the the us method and the liberalism of the confined within the m a n perimeter of 'his own ideas.

Karl Marx Workers Press, Tuesday February 29, 1972, PAGE 9 And there, amid the piles of merchandise, stood leading Communist member of the Jakarta Radio chalked up a Party, Paul Laurent, serving 'historic' for achievement his time as a super salesman, Indonesia's right-wing dictator- all by with the arrangement ship last week. It was referring which big capitalist concern the that to announcement runs the store and fleeces the gangs in the country's capital workers who buy their goods had voluntarily disbanded in it. the instigation themselves at it was as mbolic bicasion, of the Greater Jakarta muni- marking the respectability cipal authorities. the programme and the Party The disbanding ceremony which has behind it, Party attended Gov. Ali was by passed definitively to the side Sadikin, who called on former of the bourgeois social order.

'visit youth gang members to centres built by the municipal The administration'. city is planning, according to Sadikin to build "mini The 'Lord' is vouth centres reputed at one in every ward of the capital to stage to have stated that if his youths and they accommodate followers were struck, supervise their activities.

should promptly offer 'the victory owed cheek' if the historic other to see little to Sadikin's persuasive aggressor wanted to have a go powers, however, and still less at that one too. Few churchmen in history to the prospective mint It is be have been willing to follow His centres. believed to subject - but not unconnected with an ulti- advice on this matum issued by the police on perhaps one notable exception orders from the local Security the veteran to this rule is liberal, and Order Restoration the Rev Paul Oestreicher of Blackheath, SE Command. Gen Widodo Budidarmo, London. the Greater Jakarta Police Last year the Rev was Chief, of gave unregistered involved in the case the Jakarta five Quaye family who have now gangs days in which to disband 'voluntarily'.

been acquitted on appeal and He said there would be no on whose case an inquiry is now being conducted into the compromise on the time-limit, after which stern legal steps conduct of the police. would be taken. the height of the con- At He was backed up by the troversy, members of the National Front, military the regional commander, extreme Maj-Gen Poniman. He told the nationalist right-wing organ- gang leaders their young mem- ization, demonstrated outside bers Oestreicher's were a threat to society retrenchers pare church- because could the Ascension, exploited for political purposes Blackheath. They quite un- justly accused him of being a become a tool or version. communist supporter. Head of the Quaye family, With this weight of brass Mr Quaye, is a Ghanaian, and ranged them, the against the Rev understands gangs had little option but to that it black disband with as much grace was his for support man that angered the Front.

could they muster. In as for Indonesia, this However, he is not one to passes a 'historic event'. hold up his enemies' mistakes unjustly. Tust listen this to from this month's extract edition of his parish news- letter: Shoppers at a Parisian super- 'We could have called the La Villette police when members of the market at were Front interrupted surer one after no a wak in surprised novel bargain our Parish Communion. They were so ago. breaking the law. loudspeakers I welcome one thing-that As blared they cared enough about some- one paperback thing to and demon- came over strate. For this, at any rate, 5.50 francs to reduced from 4.90—it was the programme of respect them, however mis- the French Communist Party, guided their I showed views. known as the little orange my respect, or at least I tried to.' book'.

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FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

IN YORKSHIRE

WE MET big Communist Party opposition in Sheffield at the weekend. The powerful shop stewards' quarterly of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers had backed the march by a big majority. But the AUEW district committee Stalinists, by a mix- of falsehood and bureau- ture cratic manoeuvre, managed to veto this support. At the first meeting the com- mittee the creature of the die- hard Stalinist George Caborn— amended the stewards' resolution (which had been seconded by a leading CP member) deleting all to the march and reference campaign. Two other resolutions of sup- port from AUEW branches were stainped upon by the committee.

has been to no The opposition The Stalinists avail, however. were rebuked by the Sheffield Labour group who welcomed the arranged for accom- march and in one of the city's modation colleges. engineers' Frank. Green, an Firth-Brown's, steward at marched with us into the city.

Stalinists: He condemned the 'I think this behaviour is dis- gusting and entirely lacking in principle. I had no hesitation to back these lads. The fight they are putting up for this right is tremendous. If I was unemployed

BY IAN YEATS

TIRED but in high spirits the march Kent Right-to-Work arrived in Ramsgate on Sunday night to a hot meal, a bed, a even late night tele- bath and vision provided by the Simon a converted Community at Abbey School. Behind them lay a dozen miles of fiercely Tory territory. But as and swung loudly the march defiantly down Ramsgate's silent High St, groups of youth roam- ing the slogan - 'Kick the Tories Out'. Earlier the Young Socialists brewed a camp fire lunch on the 20-strong factory edge of the estate outside Sandwich—a 5,000 population dormitory town for and their families businessmen working within a ten-mile radius.

form working The class islands in an ocean of olde- villas and luxury worlde limousines. In Deal, the Mill Hill miners' purposely estate was built a mile from the town so rich wouldn't have to be the irritated by the presence of workers. The southern coastal belt has tradition of industry. The no three pits around Deal are sealed off in communities of 'immigrant' sday February 29, 1972

PLAYWRIGHT DAVID MERCER J

EARLY MORNING DRIVE

I would be walking with them all the way? General Brian Flanagan, a and Municipal Workers' steward Firth-Brown's agreed with at Frank: I am flabbergasted by the com- mittee's action. It has been an the Communist eve-opener on Party for me.' Eariier there great was a reception in the half-way stop, Chapeltown. The local prize- silver band played us into town and excellent stew we ate an paid for by a f10 donation from the local bingo hall manager.

Our thanks also to the students of Sheffield Polytechnic. They have raised £80 and Totley Thornbridge training teacher college £35. The miners came to our sup- well. After six weeks of pert as strike the men of Orgreave col- liery dug into their pockets and raised £l2 for the marchers.

In fact our journey through the Yorkshire coalfield was a big political experience.

CHARLIE BRITTOI

TRADES COUNCII

workers from other coalfields all over Britain. Up to the war, industry didn't extend beyond mining. Anything else was comprised by the holi- resorts populated day trade of drop-out Londoners and with with farming. the post-war boom, During some of the captains of the new Britain were smart enough to see a pool of cheap labour on the S coast. and as small, light industry type firms moved in, often £5 a week wages were lower than in London. Slump has swept all these get- rich-quick companies out of the running. Unemployment in Deal

WE DEMAND

THE

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WORK

MERCER JOINED THE MARCH AFTER AN

IG DRIVE FROM LONDON TO BARNSLEY

Barnsley is possibly the centre of the most militant working- class area in Britain today. It compares to Ayrshire in Scot- land and the Rhondda in Wales.

The Labour majorities are truly here also the enormous, yet march has exposed once more the yawning rift between the Labour Party. bureaucracy and the working class. Barnsley Trades Council passed and a resolution of support established a six-man committee to make the unemployed youth really welcome when they passed through last Friday. But Barnsley is one of those towns where the Labour Party and the trades council meet as a joint body. So when the York- shire Labour Party HQ squealed about the YS being a proscribed erganization, the Trades and Labour Council withdrew its support. Jack Brown, the secretary of the trades council was among who opposed this low those manoeuvre. He spoke out in the Sheffield

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COUNCIL SECRETARY

is 7 per cent, in Ramsgate nearly 8 per cent and the Isle of on Thanet as a whole, it has climbed above 9 per cent. The prospects for young people are hopeless.

In Ramsgate money and sup- port for the young jobs marchers has come from AUEW members from the town's trades and council. As the march went into Rams- Trades Council secretary gate, Charlie Britton told me: 'The Young Socialists are doing a good job, but it's a pity there aren't more older people out to help them. I think the marches an effect on people, will have especially in the unions.

YOUNG SOCIALI

RIGNT TO

CHAPELTOWN SILVER I

'Morning Telegraph' condemning the policy switch. His right-wing Walter councillor counterpart, Sinfield made a revealing "no comment' to the press over the attempt to keep the march out of Barnsley. Thanks to the miners of the area we ended up with no less than two offers of accommoda- tion. Mr Brown secured one miners' hall for us and the miners of the Barrow pit-who have no connection with the YS —came forward and offered their homes. That's where the own girls on the march slept and everyone went with them for a cooked by the miners' meal wives. At Castleford the Labour town council officially backed the march and paid for excellent town's accommodation the finest school-Airdale High. The canteen staff were brought in to give the marchers dinner and a slap-up breakfast in the morning.

We had a full escort from the miners of Glasshoughton and Wheldale Glasshoughton's pits.

JOBS MARCHER LES PANKHURST :

OUT OF ARMY ONTO DOLE

'I can remember the Jarrow marches and I certainly don't want to see them back in this country. Labour Party is not "The doing its job in opposition to We've got to do the Tories. something about our own leader- ship, otherwise we'll just stag- nate.' Jobs marcher Les Pankhurst (23) knows better than anyone how grim the employment pros- pects are in the S. He spent three years in the army medical corps because he couldn't get a job. When he came out, it was back to the dole queues.

V SILVER PRIZE BAND GAVE A MUSICAL

ESCORT THROUGH THE TOWN

• huge union banner led us into town. Alderman Henry Goodall, chairman of the finance commit- tee, visited the school and told meeting: 'Anyone who is our fighting sincerely against this gov- ernment will • get our support. It is a scandal, in this so called that young people civilization, have to make this kind of protest because they want work. Please extend my best wishes for suc- cess to all the other marchers.'

Our thanks to playwright David Mercer, a long-time supporter of the Young Socialists. He drove through the early hours to join the march as it left Barnsley. He told me it was an issue of principle. 'As a writer and a socialist, I agree entirely with the aims of this march, the policy in • the Charter of Basic Rights and the Manifesto of the All Trades Unions Alliance. This I sincerely hope will only be a beginning of the struggle to get rid of this reactionary illegal, barbaric government and iotally I'm on the march because haven't got a job at the moment and I think something's got to done about way Tories are running the country,' said Len. I've been- out of work five months. I go down to the dole queue every week, but it doesn't matter when you go they tell you "Sorry, looking: without even nothing doing." I'm not going on the march to get work. I know the march alone can't do that. I'm going because I think we have to express the feeling that we're not going to be pushed aside.

It's not just the Tories we've got to get rid of, it's the Tories in the Labour Party as well. We want a government that's willing to care about the just demands of workers.' Throughout the first full day's march to Ramsgate, Tory hatred implacable. One driver was swerved to try to run the marchers down. Ramsgate their hostility In jcined with a near total back turning of the Labour Party behind bureaucracy unmoved their bans and proscriptions.

But Mr Tony Miles, one of the 22 full-time volunteer staff at the Simon Community, who spend their time caring for the home- less, told me: 'We helped the Young Social- ists because we know what being out of work means. Many of the homeless are without work. If I didn't have broken toes, I'd march with them.' Today the march goes on to Herne Bay the longest haul of the 100-mile march - passing through Edward Heath's birth- place, Broadstairs. There the young organist cycled around the country lanes during the time of the 1930s hunger marches:

FROM DAVID MAUDE

ABERFAN welcomed us in silence, but the faces of the small groups who gathered on street corners to watch us pass were eloquent with respect for the Right-to-Work march. The Swansea-London marchers passed through the town on their way from Merthyr Tydfil to Pon- typridd. There a promise of further powerful backing from the miners awaited us. But though brief, visit to Aberfan our touched the marchers even more deeply. re!. 116 On October 21, 1966, schoolchildren were killed when the slag-heap above massive Pantglas junior school collapsed.

Collins, John whose family was killed subsequently summed up the feelings of many workers all over the country about the the official tragedy. He told 'buried inquiry they had been by the National Coal alive Board'. marchers-now 27-strong The —chanted and sang their way into the town as they have done throughout S Wales over the last week, but as they passed the site of the school they dip- ped their banner, removed their nats ana remembered in silence those latest victims of capital- ism's unplanned drive for coal.

For Rees Davies, 21, of Swan- sea Young Socialists, the cere- mony was particularly poignant.

On Sunday he carried the Right- to-Work banner. In 1966 he was one of the hundreds who flocked to the mining in a des- town perate fight to save lives.

'The facts of the Aberfan dis- aster go back to 1927, when the instability of tips due to uncon- trolled water was discovered', he told me. 'It was pure murder by the Tory system. Those deaths need never have happened.' Our 18-mile trek from Merthyr started with a march round Gurnos estate, one of the big working-class housing estates to the N of the city, where families came to windows, doors and garden gates as we staged an impromptu open-air meeting.

By the time we reached Tre- harris, where we made a brief refreshment, the fine drizzle which had accompanied us through Aberfan had turned to driving rain. For two of our number, it was their first taste of march life.

Miners' son Peter Warrell is 17. He joined us in Merthyr after eight weeks without work; eight weeks during which he has been offered nothing by the Youth Employment Service apart from a miserly £3.60 a week For Peter, the initial experi- ence of life out of school has been bitterly disappointing.

AFTER seven days of marching, we have crossed into Stafford- shire and are well on our way the Midlands industrial But when we left Liverpool that Sunday, few anticipated the rich experiences we would make and the political developments that would take place on the march. Most marchers were new re- Young Socialists to the cruits and had had little contact with the working class in its organized form. But in these first seven days they have learnt in a most prac- the tical meaning. of way working-class unity in action against the Tories. On the very first day, miners from St Helens turned out with their lodge banner to escort us into town. Skelmersdale and Winsford Labour Parties sup- ported us 100 per cent. Labour clubs threw open their doors councils arranged and trades accommodation. In this situation of developing support, a leadership was fought for and eventually emerged from among the marchers. The struggle for it took place around the committee elected at the beginning of the march. The central question raised was the need to maintain a political discipline and certain standards . of work, : In essence. it 'was the struggle

DIPPED MAR

AS THEY PASS THE

Starting work in a bakery at £8 a week, he found that there was no trade union and that he was expected to work from 7.30 describes as far too fast, Pace i a.m. to 5.30 p.m. at a A second job in a hotel meant drop earnings to £7 for a very similar hours. At a he supermarket where spent 12 weeks, Peter was asked to lie to a government inspector about his age. Then he found the management sometimes expected him to work from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at a stretch with no extra pay. 'They took advantage of me', he told me shortly after we reached Pontyprida. Rose Print (16), is the second marcher to join us from Merthyr.

During her first day on road to London, she told me a very similar story to Peter's. Her one-and-only job — working for £7.97 a week pie a small at factory-ended after two months.

"you're was just told redundant", she said. 'Since then there's been nothing.' At Pontypridd, a town with a working population of some 15,000, greeted by we were • Jenkins, S Wales execu- Emlyn member of the National tive Union of Mineworkers. Secretary of the 800-strong Lady Windsor NUM lodge and a Communist Party member, Mr Jenkins told the marchers that what they were doing was 'admirable'. He said: 'My union will go along with you all the way in for revolutionary leadership as against the individualism of many of the youth who had spent months, even years on the dole, hanging around street corners. By the middle of the week a number of marchers came for- ward. They took real responsi- bility for distributing and selling the Workers Press 'Кеер Left'. And in a political way they took other comrades who up wanted to break the discipline of the march. "The building of a revolution- ary party won't be easy at all' said Kirkby marcher, 2i-year-old Tony Morris who has been out of work 14 months. 'At the moment we're only at a small stage. In some towns I felt the older workers may not have been brought round by the march. But most of the youth realized something had to be done. They are ready to do some- thing, especially as the Labour Party leaders want to sit back and reform things. 'The Tories are now prepar- ing their counter-attack after the miners' strike. I'm confident we can build a revolutionary party because one is needed, said Tony. Last night we stayed in Staf- ford in the North End com- munity centre. Students from Stafford Polytechnic came up and put on a film for us.

HATLESS AND WITH BANNER

PED MARCHERS PAY THEIR RESPECTS

PASS THE SITE OF PANTGLAS SCHOOL

the fight for the right to work.

• "Is it all worth it?" you must be sometimes asking on this march. Yes, it is. '1 can give you an assurance that S Wales miners will be out in force at your rally on March 12; every working man should be at that rally. 'On Tuesday I will be asking the area executive to support your cause.' Answèring questions from the critical tired, but nonetheless marchers, Mr Jenkins agreed that the Tories could have been com- pletely defeated had the miners stayed out on strike, but claimed that the support of other unions would have been lost. He was thanked warmly for his support by Right-to-Work campaign secretary Clive Norris and all the marchers: Besides Lady, Windsor, there are three pits left in the area around Pontypridd: Ty Mawr, Nantgarw and Lewis Merthyr, each employing about 450 men.

No one believes, however, that all their jobs are safe. 'Wè have to support you because some of us may be joining you before long', Elwyn Jenkins told me before addressing the marchers.

Jobs are also under threat at Pontypridd's Brown and Lennox chain works. Before leaving we thanked the district committee of the AUEW and district secretary Tom Evans for giving us well- appointed accommodation to sleep in and cooking facilities.

TONY MORRIS

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A PARATROOPER fired at on an ambulance girl and a wounded boy, Lord Chief Ju yesterday. Hugh Young, whose brother John died gunshot from wounds on January 30, told the 'Bloody Sunday' tribunal a bullet spurted the ground at his heels as he ran along with a IRA suspects released FOURTEEN of the 18 IRA sus- pects rounded up in the Republic bombing since Aldershot the have now been released, an Irish police spokesman said yesterday.

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the end of the matter sasher IrOM have meanta ids ot sik to ald proposed cut-b 15p an hour as a consequence of Although McAlpines have production during the gov- backed down for now, they lost bigger preparing ground for week TOr They labourers on the site. second aulempt to The management's decision levels on the site, one i proposin ate sacking te wage-cut plan followed of highest paid in London discussions on neednesday further drop the meeting labourers' A previous cut in bonus levels Fake CP campaign on Irag repression FOLLOWING the collapse of opposition to Numeiry's dictatorship in the another fraudulent embarked Sudan, the British Communist Party has campaign over anti-communist repression in the Middle East.

Yesterday's Morning Star' that: ention his jailed did not draft between the two govern- just endorsed a National Action charter and 'The Welsh me in extended not ly tee for Solidarity with by the ruling persecuted comrades. Intel sale It is obvious that the Tala- the Iraqi people so-called Welsh Com- central launched The operative

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Solidarity For document opposes une against the tortures, grapn reads. the document im- Will executions and repres- "The sides expressed perialism, calls for will remain a deceltu. sions in Iraq at satisfaction with the fraud while it does not liberation Hallullal of friendly links the Soviet public denounce meeling collaboration Cardiff yesterday.' between the Communist the peaceful Stalinists' an• cemo- cratic solution of the Speakers at the meet- Union and the Arab turers in Iraq. Kurdish question'. included Socialist Ba'ath Party, and expressed a mutual Nationalist desire to •eveo• bren The Howard Harry ano welsh further in the interests secretary Bert Pearce. "Morning The Star' Hughes at No 10 to inform Tals

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co-operation. • • readers that while Soviet socialists, All three communists leaders, Brezhnev; Kosy- and trade unionists ale THE COAL strike was unemployment leows by and Podgorny, gin in the torturea and maltreated levels visit Iraq to acclain in Iraqi jails, the Soviet the most expensive Stalin- Tine use existing and E European the near munre error of judgement ever measures. vitation of the Ba'athist the ISIs ale This indicates A factor in made by a government the pro closest doss ole wes wro import- longed dispute was 'the exceptional since the war', said the the Iraqi regime. Minister the himself days ago, PMme Only ance allacacu Dy Secretary ten Shadow for has Sover

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celeranon neaded Industry improving their ties with Trade and Saddam Husayn, business to keep out ol deputy the Iraq torturers. all these matters to the chairman of the Ba'athist Anthony Wedgwood point where he gives the command council, visited Soviet Stalinists' She Benn, in the Commons he enthusiasm for the that Immoression

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LalKS WILl yesterday. regards Ba'athist regime Incustrial rela- the Soviet leaders. tions and unemployment by The fulsome official shared une being well below his Moscow wing Opening a debate on or the communioue bosuck dildi Cops many of bose initiated unemployment lever. ... the visit stressed The There were loud Tory friendly and comradely •pos uon. Denn atmosphere of the Mos- imprisoned. also not *Howard tortured camer That nrotests Called murdered by the even the most optimis- Heath 'the CoW talks. Ba'athists. Hughes of No 10 Down- observer could see More important, Iraq CP has ing St. made clear that the ties any prospect of Origilg Right-to-Work Campaign

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