Workers Press no. 703

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COMBINE STEWARDS COUNTER STOKES' BATHGATE THREAT

LEYLAND FACES

TOTAL SHUTDOWN

UNITE WITH THE

JOBS MARCHERS

FOR

THEIR RIGHT

YOUR RIGHT

To a job, to organize wendre, Housine airc all une gains made by the working class

READ THE CHARTER

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

THE CHARTER

OF BASIC

RIGHTS

Make the Tors emerment rais Fight for thee harter of Bask Hight» CE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE C

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

IF LORD STOKES goes ahead with his threat to close the Bathgate factory, Scotland, he faces strike throughout the action £400m British-Leyland com- bine. The threat of a total shutdown of the Leyland group came from yester- day's meeting in Birming- ham of the 150-strong joint shop stewards' committee which represents 200,000 Leyland car workers. The decision was reached after union delegates from Bath- gate explained their wages fight and their seven-week strike for parity with their colleagues in England. The committee decided that if Stokes shut down Bathgate, an emergency meeting of combine stewards would be convened to discuss industrial action'.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MARCH 2, 1972• No. 703 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Rom Reston, secretary of Bath- gate's joint shop stewards' com- mittee, said afterwards: am more than satisfied with the sup- port we got here today. I still feel that the Bathgate plant won't be closed, but it it does to that, won't come we allow the closure to take place.

In the backs of our minds are the from Plessey, experiences Alexandria, and Fisher-Bendix. (Both the Plessey and Fisher- Bendix factories were involved in prolonged sit-in strikes which employers ended when the granted important concessions.)

"Bluffing' The of the Bathgate chairman Stan McKeown, committee. I'm perfectly think Stokes Workers Bathgate have their made minds to answer his threats.'

In a statement earlier this week Stokes threatened that ct the Bathgate 'at the down

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of month' if the strike con- anued. added: possibility it will close. 'St has trong There is losing money for four took from over The factory is not in a good area any- way.

WE DEMAND THE

RIGHT TO WORK

LIVERTON ZELANDOI

1972 No. 703 4p

OCIALIST LABOUR LEAG

LORD

STOKES

Leyland

BRITISH

stewards

LEYLAND

APPLAUSE

ALL THE

WAY FOR

RIGHT-TO-

WORK

MARCHERS

See p10 & 11

workers press

COMBINE STEWARDS COUNTER STOKES' BATHGATE THREAT

LEYLAND FACES

TOTAL SHUTDOWN

UNITE WITH THE

JOBS MARCHERS

FOR

THEIR RIGHT

YOUR RIGHT

To a job, to organize weltare. housina and alf ine gains made oy the working class

READ THE CHARTER

Free from Clapham High St, 86a London, SW4 7UG

THE CHARTER

OF BASIC

RIGHTS

Defeat the antiqnion lane Fight for Ihe Charter of Bange Kight»

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE C

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

IF LORD STOKES goes ahead with his threat to close the Bathgate factory, Scotland, he faces strike action throughout the £400m British-Leyland com- bine. The threat of a total shutdown of the Leyland group came from yester- day's meeting in Birming- ham of the 150-strong joint shop stewards' committee which represents 200,000 Leyland car workers. The decision was reached after union delegates from Bath- gate explained their wages fight and their seven-week strike for parity with their colleagues in England. The committee decided that if Stokes shut down Bathgate, an emergency meeting of combine stewards would be convened to discuss 'industrial action'.

E NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MARCH 2, 1972

No. 703

- THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAB

Rom Reston, secretary of Bath- gate's joint shop stewards' com- said afterwards: I am mittee, more than satisfied with the sup- port we got here today. I still feel that the Bathgate plant won't be closed, but if it that, does come to we won't allow the closure to take place.

'In the backs of our minds are the from Plessey, ( experiences Alexandria, and Fisher-Bendix. (Both the Plessey and Fisher- Bendix factories were involved in prolonged sit-in strikes waich ended when the employers granted important concessions.)

The chairman of the Bathgate committee, Stan McKeown, said: I'm perfectly happy. And I still think Stokes is bluffing. Workers Bathgate have mind teen made 4p made their In a statement earlier this week Stokes threatened that he would Bathgate close down 'at the end of the month' if the strike con- tinued. ( added: "There is strong money for four years since The we took it over from

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factory is not in a good area any- way.' 1972 • 4p

IST LABOUR LEAGUE

Leyland

BRITI

stewards

LEYLA

LORD

STOKES

APPLAUSE

ALL THE

WAY FOR

RIGHT-TO-

WORK

MARCHERS

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday March 2, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

of the Cairo ISRAELI planes and artillery struck at revision 1969 agreement which allows the guerrillas control of the area near the Palestine guerrilla bases in Syria yester- border with Israel. day morning in attacks that came hard The Lebanese army has now taken control of on the heels of a four-day operation the border areas and Saeb Salem is expected to announce shortly the terms on which the gueril- against similar encampments in the las can stay. Lebanon. The other Arab countries, all of which give verbal support to the Palestinian cause, have An Israeli military spokesman said air force remained absolutely passive of the which scatalols bombed Svria Dance Israeli attacks. attacks against the occupied Golan Heights had This includes close allies of the Soviet Union been launcnea. like Syria, Egypt and Iraq.

In the wake of the attack on the Lebanon, the Thev are prepared to abandon the Palestinians Beirut government is in the course of revising the to their fate rather than mobilize the Arab masses terms under which Palestinian forces are allowed against the israeli regime to operate from its territory.

The Soviet Stalinists claim that these countries A number of party leaders have demanded the are 'progressive in both home and foreign policy.

GREEK soldier Alexandros Panagoulis, sentenced death for trying to kill prime George Papadopou- minister his was beaten up by

TOS.

this month, guards

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

cartel his mother said in Athens on Tuesday. AT THE height of the Vietnam war, the US army Panagoulis (60) M Reuter spied on many prominent Americans, including three told she intended Democratic presidential contenders and a Supreme the International appeal to Cross in Geneva to save Court justice, Senate aides in Washington have from appalling conalliols revealed. detention military the capital. outside

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Mrs Panagoulis said that wnen he news will come as no she visited her surprise to members of anti- SOni he complained about the US treat- and the war Hovenien trade unions, who have long ment In front of several guards who been for Sur- prime StarteRs did not deny his veillance and in infiltration by told me that on February 17, for guards une venous secret devices of heat nima up In ine the course of the trial last In i few officers. she said. year of US air force captain Tom thick wire mesh in hrough a in London Culver for his part the door of his he showed Viet- against the his •emonsulalon tace. me ruiser nam war, secret agents produced the International Ked hundreds photographs and Geneva save him,' "planted' spies to from Crackle sentenced back up me prosecuuon son, her Was to death in November 1968 after Agents were specially flown in pleading guilty desertion and from Germany to Britain to take the Greek part in surveillance against the Cons billle premier. anti-war GIs. His death sentence was

TOT

of the US out following inter- carried The vast machine Last is directed at : any

TOM CULVER

CONVICTED

national

ON SPIES' EVIDENCE

the widow of

SIT

LaoV rielaing, possible opposition to une renta" Alem Gree enter being tried for gon's plans, no matter how from Greece after respectable' service from it may appear. Canne Senator Sam inan He revealed Panagoulis The latest evidence of secret from Carolina. revealed escape from the miitary prison the secret servine he kept inal watch many members Congress, Supreme Court and local justice state and Among them were presidential Edmund Muskie, of S Dakota and since it seized power in a military

INDUSTRY,

commerce and Eugene McCarthy of Minne.

coup last year. all public nearly transport sota. called by the was Senator Edward Kennedy Argentina were SLIIKe was million-strong Con- Genera also observation. paralysed for the second day unuel arilly federation of Labour (CT) and yesterday workers cancicates namer were received the backing of thousands running cluded in a computer print-out struck against the government's of hard-pressed small shopkeepers obtained from the by the army economic policies. and other middle-class people.

on sub-committee con- weilalt President Lanusse is out of the military The dictatorship of stitutiona diets. visiting Venezuela, but Another target was Thurgood Aleianero Lanusse raise• lie cost stand-in, force Marshall, black air com- the only. of living by 11.3 per cent last Ill Call" General Carlos Rey, alone, according to month mander Ilas oi une supreme court met police and military officers After the hearings the Defence official ngures. o-ordinate security during Department the worthless gave 48-hour strike This staggering rate of infla- the assurance that the surveillance The tion is likelv to be exceeded next was out in force at had now stopped and said it no month when the effects key points in the main cities and longer engaged in prac- ot the such 10-per-cent devaluation of the there of bomb tices. Since the surveillance, by its there felt. The gov- attacks, mostly against the state- nature, secret peso begin to be ernment has devalued four times way this can be checked. owned always

DAVIS JURORS

ALREADY

PREJUDICED

EIGHT jurors have now been selected for the trial of black communist Angela Davis, of accused murder and conspiracy in San California. zose. Each potential juror is being questioned unet views on prison Come son. recent campus

TOLS,

demonstrans and racialism. from the •ne response panel—who all reside in one of California's most right-wing -have already demon- regions- jury will be prejudiced before trial even begins. unle An of atmosphere witch- hunt hysteria being generated the prosecution by and the state government. When it is hnally selected, the jury screened off Will be from the body of the court so that its will not members be

SURPLUS OF COFFEE

IN COSTA RICA

OVER half a million hundred- weight or coneealmost a thira of Costa Rica's yearly crop- -are surplus requirements to result of the international sumo The weekly gloomy per 'Libertad' predicts for prospects nation's economy' in the ment or tae morato surels According to the National Coffee Office, of a total of out about 1,840,000 there

CWL.

WIll be a surplus of 406,000 cwt after home consumption and exports are deducted.

'PLOT' DIVERSION TO

STUDENTS' STRIKE

IN A BID to break the nation- wide strike of university and high-school called students yesterday by Spanish student leaders, the police are hinting darkly at a 'subversive plot'.

•On Tuesday they claimed to of have uncovered large caches propaganda

COURSE

three-day search of buildings on the Madrid university campus.

The university was scheduled yesterday. to reopen was closed allel between police and students six weeks ago. The students are demanding identified by spectators.

Outside the courthouse, 69 guards patrol with extra walkie-talkie radios throughout the day. A chain fence has been erected around the court and every person entering is body-searched by guards. has to Each person stand with feet apart, arms raised to before passing shoulder. level, through a sensitive metal de- tector. All the spectators are • also photographed for police files. Every gate in the fence is fitted with an alarm, designed to set off a siren and alert the security guards. It went off accidentally on Monday. Jury selection is expected to.

go on for six weeks before the trial proper begins. The only panel member black has already been provisionally selected to sit on the jury.

To this figure must be added •another 180,000 cwt warehoused since last year as a result of the closing of some traditional export markets. 'Libertad' says that if this cannot be exported, the coffee nation's economy will undergo collapse. During the depression of the 1930s, vast quantities of Costa Rican coffee were dumped into the ocean in order to keep up the price on the international market. n- academic reforms and defying the fascist regime. Among the materials seized in the three-day search, according to police, were copies of the communist publications 'Hora de Madrid' and 'Vanguardia', posters of Ho Chi Minh, Angela Davis and leaders communist 'The and entitled Battle of Youth' and 'Study of Female Sexuality'.

Also seized were thousands of mimeographed sheets containing 'communist and subversive propa- ganda', , the police added. They claimed the discoveries showed an organized plot to foment a constant climate of tension' at the university.

PRESIDENT of the Con- federation of British Industry Sir John Partridge has issued a crisis statement to big business urging a policy of holding down wage: settlements. In a special circular to em- ployers. Partridge says: I must emphasize again the need for all employers to secure pay settlements which are at least 12 months distant from the previous settlement and which maintain the downward trend of recent settlements towards a level very much below the inflated levels of 1970-1971. 'Moreover, you will not, 1 am sure, overlook that, apart from rates of pay, such nego- tiated factors as working hours and holidays are important elements in the total cost of labour and have a real effect on the level of inflation.'

GUNTER: RESIGNED WHIP

TWO LABOUR MPs who favour Britain's entry into the Common Market have announced that they do not intend standing at the next General Election. They are London MPs Austen Albu. (Edmonton) and Mrs Freda Corbet, (Peckham). In the crucial vote two weeks ago on the enabling legislation, Mrs Corbet abstained. It was the abstentions and the six Labour Liberals which gave Heath his narrow eight-yote majority.

If he had lost, Heath vowed he would resign along with his LAWYERS are fiercely criti- cized in a report published yesterday for failing to help their clients if they are con- victed. The survey reveals that lawyers frequently: • Don't tell clients whether / there are grounds for appeal.

• Fail to draft grounds, for appeal. • Don't see clients after con- viction. The report points out. that. tri lawyers are legally required to tio Like the recent statements Carr and Davies, by Heath, the CBI circular is aimed at excusing the miners' settlement (21 per cent plus) and calling for a new determination to cut wages. Partridge says: 'Despite the mining settlement, which must be regarded as an exceptional the trends in the pay case, situation are encouraging and it is more than ever important to maintain a firm approach in the negotiation of settlements.'

Partridge gives fullsome praise to the 'success' so far in cutting wages. He says that 'the general level of settlements in recent months has un- doubtedly been significantly lower than would have been the case 12 to 18 months ago.

'Our latest information shows that some companies of have recently succeeded in negotiating settlements in the region of 6 to 8 per cent and A CAMPAIGN is mounting in Southwark to get Ray Gunter to resign as MP for the S London.

constituency. The former Labour Minister in Wilson's cabinet announced two weeks ago he was resigning from the Labour Party. But he said he would remain in parlia- ment as an independent. He resigned the Labour whip on the eve of the Tories' legis- lation to get Britain into the Common Market. Cabinet, thus bringing about a General Election. . walked into Last year Albu the Tory lobbies with Heath and give parlia- Ministers his to mentary approval to Britain's application for membership.

the Tories, In voting with Albu was defying the over- whelming votes at the Brighton the Labour TUC decision and the majority of his own union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. Albu is an AUEW-sponsored MP, which means he gets a hand-out from the union. At the same time as these resignation advise whether any grounds for appeal exist and, if so, draft them. Prepared by Michael Zander, reader in law at the London School of Economics, the report says the exit of lawyers after conviction causes 'resentment'.

'One • moment the lawyer is apparently acting as a client's champion, the next he disappears even saying goodbye, without Zander says. His findings are based on inter- prisoners views with 134 who hat tried to appeal: and on / ques- tionnaires sent to their lawyers.

there have been several im- portant settlements at these lower levels in the public sector, Partridge said. Partridge still claims having 'a significant impact'.

Only two days ago the Agriculture Minister Mr James Prior revealed in parliament that prices rose last year by 13 per cent. This figure is misleading; as Workers Press has shown in other prices reports, the in- creases on essential commodi- and ties -. butter, bread vegetables-have been as high as 20 per cent. Partridge's letter to em- week after ployers comes a the fighting ing Employers' Federation. He warned the unions that his members were prepared for industrial action and would totally resist so-called inflation- ary wage demands. He flew to S Africa on the day. of the vote, thus giving Heath in his an extra vote narrow majority of eight.

Canon Harvey Hinds, Gunter's former Southwark, agent said he 'should have the courage to resign as MP. shocked and dis- was appointed by Mr Gunter's deci- sion. He could have done me the courtesy to send me a postcard at least letting me know of his decision.' deputy the announcements, leader of the Labour Party, Roy Jenkins, who is as pro-Market as Heath himself, has warned the tear itself apart party not. ta over the EEC. Mr George Thomson, a Labour Shadow Cabinist Minister, has also called for tolerance.

In a speech a couple of days ago Thomson said that the party 'ought firmly, and without falter- ing, to travel along the road to tolerance, aware that any attempt by the majority to impose its will over matters of fundamental conviction can only damage the party without defeating the government'. Thomson and Jenkins both voted with the Tories last October 28 to get Britain on the road to the Market. The EEC is also creating deep political ructions in the Tory ranks. Robin Turton, a Tory who is passionately against entry, has announced that he will resign his seat at Thirsk and Malton so that he can fight the ensuing by- election on the Common Market issue. Another Tory MP, Sir Derek Walker-Smith, has been criticized by his constituency party's executive council following his vote against the government two weeks ago. A council resolution expressed the hope that he would not the government again oppose during the passage of the Com- mon Market Bill or take any 'to' the " govérn- action leading ment's resignation or defeat.

THE JUNIOR Hospital Do launched a strong attack on te their final year's training.

A survey by the association shows that teaching hospitals rare "deficient" in providing proper training for doctors- to-be. It showed that 19 per cent of pre - registration house officers received no teaching at all from their consultants and a further 54 per cent re- ceived only 'a small amount.

Fifteen per cent of house officers do not have a consul- tant spending more than 14 hours a week in their hospi- tals and 40 per cent have the benefit of two or less rounds a week. The results of the survey were released at a press con- ference in London yesterday.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- ment and repeal all laws axainst the unions! N LONDON: Thursday March 2,8 p.m. Town Hall, Edman- ton. 'Building the revolutionary party. is Prose, Thereday March 2, 1972 PAGE 3

CBI PRESIDENT JOHN PARTRIDGE

ital Doctors' Association has ck on teaching standards during in one day in London •IN A spot-check conducted last October, 6,000 children were found to be missing from London secondary schools. Most of them were playing truant. A report before the Inner London Education Authority committee today shows that the worst time for truancy is in the afternoon. And the worst offenders are in the school-leaving classes.

The authority's education officer, Dr Eric Briault, says in the report that in general truancy problems are not as bad as they are some times made out to be.

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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 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

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

Chairman:

CLIFF

SLAUGHTER

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

SPIKE MILLIGAN. PAUL JONES. 'ROCK

'N ROLL ALL

RAM JOHN HOLDER. ANNIE ROSS.

STARS.

GEORGE

MELLY. LESLEY DUNCAN. VINEGAR JOE.

ROCK & ROLL ALLSTARS

Tickets: fl, 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: 11 am through West End to the Temple.

MASS LOBBY

OF PARLIAMENT

Lobby your Labour MP: 2 pm Meeting: 4.30 pm Central Hall, Westminster Commenced Feb 5

GLASGOW

Commenced

LIVERPOOL

LOUGHBOROUGH

27th day on the road

COVENTRY

13th day on the road Feb 19

SHANNA

SITTINGBOURNE

6th day LONDON on the roau Arrive March 11

DEAL

CHIPPENHAM

Commenced TSin. day on the road Feb 26

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

CAMPAIGN

SUNDAY MARCH 12

We are marching from EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY, RALLY 3 p.m.

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TOP LINE ENTERTAINMENT, 7.30 p.m.

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WANTED URGENTLY

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HOLDER. ANNIE ROSS: GEORGE MELLY.

Accommodation

LESLEY DUNCAN. VINEGAR JOE.

Cooking equipment Tickets: £1, unemployed 50p Tinned food I would like to come to the rally Finance

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Pool Please complete above form and post to: Complete form and send to: Clive Norris, National Secretary, Clive Norris, Right-to-Work Campaign, Right-to-Work Campaign 186a Clapham High St, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG London, SW4 7UG. Or phone 01-622 7029.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

President Velasco Ibarra, the 79-year-old dictator of Ecuador, his has fled country following a military coup. The new ruler is General Guillermo Rodri- guez Lara, who has aband- oned next June's elections.

Behind the military take- over is international in- trigue surrounding Ecua- dor's wealthy oll industry.

This two-part series by the Prensa Latina news service explains some of the back- ground to the Ecuadorian oil bonanza. The Ecuadorian petroleum 'festival', inter- l as some national circles call it, is not so much a festival as an orgy, in which the biggest oil com- panies of the capitalist world take part, as do many govern- ments, including those of the United States, Great Britain, Holland and Japan. In the midst of obscure machinations, different mechan- Ecuador's isms and pressures, oil orgy has been notable for the systematic violation of the country's laws and the ..con- stantly increasing squandering of underdeveloped country's this great oil resources. The international has press ventured the information • that soon Ecuador will be able to produce 5 million barrels per day, thus becoming the world's second biggest producer and its biggest exporter. No one has been able to confirm or deny this. 1,200 barrels a day from each well. However, we do know that in less than three years E Ecuador, which had never produced a single barrel of oil before, is now producing 60,000 barrels daily from 50 wells, an average of from 1,200 barrels each well, while in the US the • daily average is scarcely 14 barrels per well. Moreover, drilling has taken place in only twa of the 100 concessions the country, which the whole E cover and most of the Pacific area Wells have been • drilled coast. only in a small area, while the amount of land granted as con- cessions to the oil companies is equal to 90,000 square kilometres —a third of the whole country.

For 40 years the country has been accustomed to a routine which raised no suspicions-the coming and going of oil com- panies that obtained concessions, and later left, declaring they had not found oil either in the E or the coast, for the except on deposits on the Santa Elena Peninsula, which did not amount to very much according to the Anglo - Ecuadorian Oilfields Company, traditionally given the concession in this area. the Important chapters mysterious history of Ecuadorian oil include the E concession of 2.5 hectares in million given 1931 to the Leonard Exploration Company, and the concession of 10 million hectares given in 1937 to the Anglo Saxo. The Lenord Company was simply a subsidiary of Standard Oil, New Jersey, and the Anglo Saxo of the Royal Dutch Shell, the big Anglo-Dutch company.

The results of surveys done by Leonard Company over the a period of six years were never made known, and the Royal Dutch Shell, profiting from the economic hegemony and influence possessed in Ecuador then by British capital, took over from the Leonard in 1937. When the Leonard's contract was cancelled because it had not carried out the required agree- ments, the Anglo Saxo took over with all its equipment, and later transferred its concession to the Shell Company which, after 11 years' surveying (they had the only five right to explore for years), calmly declared it had no oil in the E. found Despite the fact that in 1948 it returned the 4 million hectares Shell obtained a it then held, new concession for the same of land, this time in amount association with Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which profited from the presence in the government of a man in whom it had great confidence: Galo Plaza Lasso.

The companies were given permission to survey for five years and to exploit any oil found for 40 years. But in 1950 they decided to leave the country, declaring once more that there was no oil in the E.

Defending the withdrawal of the American-English-Dutch com- Plaza Lasso declared at pany, time: "The E is a myth. It the has been clearly shown there is no oil there. It is not even good for agriculture. Ecuador must concentrate on the coastal lands.'

Despite these declarations by the companies and the govern- •ment, unemployed workers, technicians, Ecuadorian legisla- tors and journalists all insisted repeatedly that the company had found big reserves of oil, and been that about 100 wells had sealed for later use. International Intrigue surrounds the wei Top: President José Maria Velasco Ibarr coup. Below: members of the armed f Having discouraged the from becoming an oil country producer, and having discredited the East's agricultural possibili- ties, Plaza Lasso opted for the bananas, cultivation of much needed by the US fruit monopo- lies which had been ruined by the decline of banana growing central America because of hurri- canes and floods. Ecuador, 'making use of her coastal lands' in accordance with official plans and foreign needs, became the world's foremost banana producer and exporter.

This monoculture of one type of fruit later completely deformed the country's economy, and when American market shrank, massive unemployment and financial difficulties followed, with other tragic consequences for the economy. At the same time, from being an exporter of crude oil up to 1958, Ecuador became an oil im- porter, with serious results for exchange. its foreign True, through the years, the oil firms had been importing constantly increasing of by- amounts products, but the importation of crude oil began in 1958 and still goes on. Is there really no. oil? Of course there is; and not only in the E, the Santa but also in Elena Peninsula. What is happen- ing is that from the point of view of those who stand to profit from it, it is better for the oil companies to import crude oil and refine it in Ecuador, thus multiplying their profits.

Jacques Boulanger, a. French technician contracted by the government, explained this with reference to the year 1963, when he wrote in an official report published by the Planning Board: "There is evidence that the reason for the country's oil situa- tion is or the one hand the in- activity of many of the conces- sionaires, and on the other the Workors Press, 1 Is the wealthy oil industry of Ecuador and the asco Ibarra with Fidel Castro only weeks before • armed forces on guard duty at the Presidenti very limited activity of the pro- ducing firms, because for them it is more convenient and more in their interests to import oil at present prices, than to drill for it in Ecuador.' Boulanger spoke moderately when he unmasked the policies of the oil firms in Ecuador, but American Colonel Leonard Clark was very indiscreet when in 1947 he told the US press that there were oil reserves in Ecuador comparable with those in the Middle East. Clark certainly was not un- aware of his country's inter- national policy, as during World War II he was head of counter- intelligence behind the Chinese lines. The coincidence strange between the encouragement of banana cultivation and the dis- couragement of oil production at the end of the 1940s and early 1950s, was . connected with simi- lar calculations about profits en- visaged by • imperialist monopo lies. Up till then Ecuador had reserve country' appeared as a in the files of the big Inter- national Oil Cartel. Thus for years the Cartel's main worry was to keep control of the reserves by obtaining con- cessions, but their work never went beyond preliminary survey- ing. Forced by circumstances to hand over the concessions to other companies, they had to quit the stage and the new conces- sionaries became responsible for continuing was 'no oil in Ecuadopthat there the idea , especially not in the Amazon region.

After 1956 the world oil situa- tion changed considerably. That year Egypt closed the Suez Canal, which had been ideal for trans- re Prose, Thuraday March 2, 1872 PAGE 5 and the frequent changes of Its rulers.

eks before he was ousted by a military Presidential Palace. porting Arabian crude oil to Europe and the US. More alarm- ing was the fact that the closing accompanied of the Canal was by angry nationalist noises from the Arab and Persian Gulf nations. The oil moguls began to get worried and European and American industry became un- easy. Eventually • the nationalists were able to shipwreck (for a the fat, juicy, oil short time) concessions throughout the area.

Immediately the Cartel moved again airoship 1957, amer chairmanship Ponce Enriquez, the nebulous Leonard Exploration Company returned and received a conces- sion of 9 million hectares in the E, much more than it had ob- tained in 1931; and this, despite the fact that it had been thrown out of the country in 1937 for not having carried out the terms of its contract. Then the world situation became somewhat more stable.

There was no reason for alarm.

Ecuador's wells could continue closed for a time. The Leonard Company as was the custom, returned the area conceded.

In 1960 the oil empire was shaken by two big explosions: the Cuban government's nationa- lization of the refineries Texaco, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and Shell; and the founda- tion of OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The International Cartel could not play down the importance of the Cuban explosion. From the Sierra Maestra, the revolution threatened the whole American continent. Recuperation of inde- pendence and of natural wealth became the order of the day. There were •guerrillas in many places, risings in military Venezuela . . . The Cartel took anxious peep at its files an dealing with 'reserve the country.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday March 2, 1972 Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, Marshal of the Red Army, is now living in retirement. Owing his success- ful military career to Stalin's favour, Zhukov rose to be one of the most powerful men in the Soviet Union.

defence Leningrad and Organizer the Moscow, he subsequently led the Russian army into Berlin. After the war, he was the man who arrested Beria and saved Khrushchey from the Malenkov group. It was he who ordered the Russian tanks into wanted to invade Budapest in 1956 and he also Poland at the time of the Poznan riots that same 1957, he threatened Khrushchey year. In October with an army take-over. In O. P. Chaney's book 'Zhukov', just published (David & Charles: £4.50), the story of one of Stalin's chosen men is presented to Western readers for the first time.

Georgi Zhukov's first political 1950, the time of the outbreak of the Korean war, he was in February, experience to emerge from obscurity, began 1917, when his cavalry with the sult cane Khru- squadron joined the revolt arrest 1953. ot Beria By his own against the war. this move account, he was elected chair-

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who WaS 10201 man of the squadron's Soviet, marched into of The which in March declared for Committee of Central and Party Bolsheviks against the Communist the 912101 arrested beria at Provisional government. For this political service. fought under In 1918-1919 he full member Zhukov became Timoshenko and Budyenny Committtee White Armies and in against the and he was one of Khrushchev's 1919, he ioined the when Malenkov Match main Communist Party. the premier- was forced to resign He was selected as a potential 1955. ship in is time, Zhukov was one and received some By this time, commander after the of Rapart in 1922. training of the et Unioni and political leaders "termany Treaty he the Soviet accom- Soviet return to the On his panied Bulganin Union, he leading strengthen the 'hard-liners' after Decallic proponent of mechanization and the June, 1956, strikes in Poznan.

modernization of the Red Army, Zhukov Chaney claims that gained some also immediate military the during Tor perience Spain intervention in Warsaw and, Civil War. fact, that Polish halted In June, 1940, this son of miles promoted to the was barricade from with rank of General. of tanks across the road.

But his rapid rise to high rank Zhukov got his in Hun- cannot be explained in terms of Russian tanks into His meteoric abilities. gary orders deal to the Budapest when

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WOKe career owed a great. revolution broke out there Stalinist purges which decimated 1956 October, in. the years be- the Red toe World War' services, reward for these Zhukov - the the mast necorated Chaney recotos Collart. 'hero' in Soviet history-became five Marshals, three ware of four the only holder purged; of 15 Army commanders, Stars. WATe purced. Zhukov was to perform Com ivists, come puers i more service for Khrushchev.

He commanders he saved Khrushcher wher was 406 Brigade were purged and the Malenkov Commanders, 220 were purged.

threatened 1957 group in and played Zhukor survived necause driving out the leading part regarded him as safe. Stalin Malenkov Stalin. was mace Kaganovich, and Red suffered

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But „tha Army Shepilov: reverses in the grave WInnish this, he became member campaign of 1939 and was almost ror the attack Soviet the German wresicilm destroyed Union. But the hreat WAS near of June, Feeling himself safe now the the his chapter 'Before gone, Malenkov was relates in detail Storm', Chaney regard how Stalin refused requests from Zhukov as a potential danger. commanders at the front had always resented attack and actually Zhukov Dale the army. had shot communists who crossed control over Zhukov According thaney. from The Herman Tito that he would never of the imminence Cot invasion. the Party to gain again allow 'Barbarossa' re- chapter The control of the secret police.

unprepared counts how criminally Chaney also claims that Zhukov Stalin's Russia was. Most of the Army's communications was planning to Red riccredit KAri. the early shchev by es ot the Red Ad the out wete KnocKed Army- 1930s minutes of the had been undoubtedly dis- But Zhukov which Karushenev tinguished himself in the defence implicated. Leningrad. came o a head inside the 1957, clash October, and Moscow which Party. caused him was

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caused to lose After a week of intensive struggle Stalin began Khrushchev Zhukov was won. eyes and of the orders implementing overrule Zhukov's accused the the to all use this, though interesting.

cult nersonally this, t. The reel salue Red Army' and torna value the confidence placed known. justify picture this book him it one rally. He was removed from his post gives the conflicts within bureaucracy in the pose ber post-war of Dis party positen and stripped the bureaucracy Party positions. aro- Khrushchev tween the army Top: General of tl Stalin's death. was overthrown and after chief several years heard again. suffered began be Sokolovsky. Zhukov name his in command heado January He restored to position onlivinn when. Was 1941. Above : Soviet 1946, he came of the Union cerona only Stalin in nominations for member- he pilished his memoies. These Soviet. published his These 1910 Dint. wi ship of the Supreme the Mongolian months, less end however. with his departure than c1y Marshal Choybalsal Germany in 1946. Zhukov had been expelled from from the Supreme Soviet and relegated Perhaps, even for a Marshal, the better part of in the Odessa discretion is minor 100 Military District. I of the Army, Zhukov with chief of staff and Bulganin headquarters near Moscow, : Zhukov as a young non- d officer nt: With the commander of forces Khalkin.Coi balsan in 1939. minister Zhukov AbOve: as orderence programmes in 1956 Right …•ow

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Revolution was struck ov ine cecree reste hildare corne i its bourgeois magr I Trotsky- Revolution Berraved', hukov reads the citation before presentino the Order of Victory award, the highest Sovlet military dece ration, to General Eisenhower and Fleld Marshal Montgomery in Frankfurt. Germany. June 10. 194

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday March The defeat of the German revolution in autumn 1923, together with fascism's vic- tory in Italy the previous year, heralded a decade of defeat for the working class internationally. this was not in- However, evitable. Despite the debacle of 1923, the German Communist Party still polled over 3 million votes in the elections of Decem- ber that year. At that time the Nazi move- was mainly a S German ment party with little support outside Bavaria. When they put up as their presidential Ludendorff candidate in 1925, they received only 211,000 votes out of 27 million. the latter part of 1923 From until 1929 the German economy became more stable. This, how- was based entirely on ever, negotiated American loans through the Dawes Plan. The in- was conquered flationary crisIs with- by mid-1924, the French drew from the Ruhr and the German frontiers were guaran- teed by the Locarno Pact. With- drawal of allied troops from the Rhineland began and in Septem- ber, 1926, Germany was admitted the League of Nations by to unanimous vote. By summer 1928 unemployment was down to 650,000. In the Reichstag elections of that year the fascists polled 810,000 votes compared to 3,265,000 cast for the communists and over 9 mil- lion for the Social Democrats.

Yet within five years, the fascists were in power. How did this come about? The Wall Street crash had a devastating effect on the German economy, totally dependent as it Unem- the Americans. was on ployment rocketed upwards.

By September 1929 there were 1,320,000 out of work. By September 1930 there were 3 million. By September 1931 4,350,00C.

By September 1932 5,102,000.

And by 1933 the figure was over 6 million.' class, Not only the working but the middle class as well, was this desperate. But not was enough to produce an upsurge of fascism. For that, it was neces- sary for big business to come in wholeheartedly behind it.

By 1930 Hitler was speedily pseudo-anti- discarding his capitalism, which had appealed to some of the middle class. When one of his subordinates, Otto supported a strike in Strasser, Hitler immediately re- Saxony, pudiated him. In that year Hitler issued an edict that no member of his party would take part in a strike.

Hitler knew he had to get the backing of big business and he got it. The means by which the Nazi Party obtained its subsidies from partially capitalists were revealed by Walther Funk's evi- the Nuremberg trials dence at after World War II. Funk, who was later to become President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, had been editor of a leading financial newspaper in the 1920s. He became the full-time 'con- tact-man' between the Nazis and industrial and business interests: 'My industrial friends and I were convinced in those days that the NSDAP (Nazis) would come to power in the not too distant future and that this had to be, if Communism and civil war were to be avoided'? he told Nurem- berg judges. claim is Funk's substantiated by Fritz Thyssen in his auto- Hitler' biography Paid Thyssen, head of the United Steel Works. admits that he personally contributed 1 million marks to • the Nazi Party. Others behind Hitler included Emil Kirdorf, the biggest figure in the Ruhr coal industry, Albert Voeçler of United Steel Works, Friedrich Springorum and Tengelmann, Ernest Buskuhl and H. G. Knepper of the Gelsen- kirchen Mine Company. Among bankers and financiers were involved with Hitler who were Stein and Schroeder of the Stein bank in Cologne, E. G. von Strauss of the Deutsch Bank, Hilgard of the Allianz Insurance Corporation, and two more bankers, Otto Christian Fischer and F. Reinhart. The Nazis also received 1. Alan Bullock 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny'. p.136.

2. Bullock op. cit. p.155.

ay March 2, 1972 A five part series by JACK GALE finance from a powerful group of coal and steel producers in the Rhineland and Westphalia.

Other industries were repre- sented in the list of Hitler's backers. Diehn of the August Rosterg and August potash industry; Cuno of the Hamburg- line; Amerika shipping Otto Wolf and Robert Ley of the Central German coal industry; and Erich Lubbert of the trans- port industry. Gravert, manager of the employers' association in the Rhineland and Westphalia, placed considerable strike-breaking funds at Hitler's disposal.

The Nazi Party's press chief, Otto Dietrich wrote in memoirs: In the of summer 1931 Fuehrer suddenly our decided to concentrate systemati- cally on cultivating the influential economic magnates ... In the traversed following months he Germany from end to end, hold- ing private interviews with prominent personalities. Any rendezvous was chosen, either in Berlin or in the provinces, in the Hotel Kaiserhof or in some lonely forest glade. 'Privacy was absolutely im- perative, the press must have no chance of doing mischief. Success was the consequence."3 This campaign was accelerated in 1932. On January 27 that Hitler paid a year, visit to Dusseldorf, the capital of the German steel industry where he spoke lu the Industry Club at the Park Hotel. He stressed the threat of communism and undertook to capitalism against it: protect 'There is only one fundamental 3. Bullock op. cit. pp.155-158 K GALE on the rise of German fascism solution - the realization that no flourishing there be can life which has not economic before it and behind it a flourishing protection Powerful state as its The industrialists believed him and saw him as the man who interests would defend their communist threat against the and the unions. Large contribu- tions from heavy industry flowed into the Nazi treasury. But this does not account for Hitler's victory. The big capital- ists, though wealthy faced a strong and well-organized work- ing class. They stood in fear of this class, otherwise they would not have turned to l Hitler. Armed with the industrialists' money, the Nazi party was able to expand. From 60,000 members in 1928 it grew to 178,000 mem- bers by the end of 1929, 389,000 by early 1931 and 800,000 by the end of that year. But the Communist Party was a mass party too and the Social Democrats were even more combined The numerous. strength of the Communists and Social Democrats could easily outnumber the fascists. Although the fascist vote went up to nearly 64 million in 1930, the communist vote was over 42 million and the Social Democrats more powerful. were even In the key industrial areas, the communists retained mass sup- port. In the election of March, 1931 instance, the fascists gained 23 per cent of the votes in Berlin but the communists pulled in 28.7 per cent. 4. Bullock op. cit. pp.177-179.

Before he came to , power, Hitler never succeeded in win- ning more than 37 per cent of the votes in any free election— despite the intimidation used by Nazi thugs against supporters of his opponents. In fact in the the elections of November, 1932 - just two months before a coalition of the right parties agreed to accept Hitler as Chancellor--the Nazis lost 2 million votes. United action by the working class could have stopped Hitler.

As it was, the day after Hitler became Chancellor: In a con- Goebbels noted in his diary: ference with the leader we arrange measures for combating the Red terror.' On February 27, 1933, the Nazis set fire to the Reichstag in order to blame the communists.

Next day Hitler promulgated a decree suspending all guarantees of individual liberty that had existed under the Weimar consti- tution. The most powerful working class in the world had gone under without fight. The ily responsibility for this lies with Stalinism and its social fascism theory. It was during 1924 that the theory of socialism in one first put forward. country was This replaced the struggle for a trained, revolutionary leadership with deep roots in the masses, with collaboration labour with bureaucrats (as in Britain in 1926) or with bourgeois even nationalists (ås in China in 1927).

In the Soviet Union itself, Stalin had consistently opposed Trotsky's proposals for a planned industrialization programme and collectivization, relying instead on the rich peasants to whom he put forward the slogan 'get rich'.

By 1928 the peasantry's upper strata had become so wealthy and ambitious that they were social founda- threatening the tions won by the Russian Revolu- tion. of threats, This combination internal and external, caused a dramatic and sectarian swing to the 'left' by Stalin. In Rucsia, this means forced collectivization ('liquidate the kulaks as a class'), inefficient and rapid and industrialization. In external affairs it led to the so-called 'Third Period, in which social democrats were denounced as social fascists and declared to enemy than the be a worse fascists themselves. This criminal policy was taken as far as it could go. In 1931 Hitler organized a plebiscite in order to overthrow the social- democratic in government Prussia, the largest and most important state in Germany. The German Communist Party, under the direct instructions of Stalin and the Comintern, supported referendum, they this which 'Red Referendum' Fascists and Communists united called against the social democrats.

insisted that fascism Stalin was not a real danger, that it had reached its highest point and would rapidly disintegrate. It even served a useful purpose in dispelling illusions in bourgeois democracy! This lunatic policy was con- tinued even after Hitler came to power, embodied in the slogan: 'After turn'. Hitler, our Trotsky warned in 1931 what a Hitler Germany would mean: 'The coming to power of the "National Socialists" German would mean above all the exter- mination of the flower of the German proletariat, the disrup- tion of its organizations, the ex- tirpation of its belief in itself and in its future. 'Considering the far greater maturity and acuteness of the social contradictions in Germany, the hellish work of Italian fascism would probably appear as a pale and almost humane experi- comparison with the ment in work of the German National Socialists."* Trotsky also warned in 1931: 'A victory of fascism in Germany signify inevitable war would against the USSR."" Contrast this with the state- ments of the official Comintern and its leaders. A few months before Hitler seized power they declared: "The main blow must, in the present period of pre- paring for the revolution, directed against social fascism and the reformist trade union bureaucracy." Ten weeks before Hitler was appointed Chancellor: 'The decline of the Social Democratic Party in no way re- duces its role as the main social buttress of the bourgeoisie, but on the contrary, precisely because the Hitler party is at present losing followers from the ranks of the workers, instead of penetrating more deeply into the the importance of proletariat, the Social Democratic Party for the fascist policy of finance capital increases.' And after Hitler was in power: 'The establishment of an open fascist dictatorship, by destroying all the democratic illusions among the masses and: liberating them from the influence of social democracy accelerates the rate of Germany's development to- wards proletarian revolution."

In this way, the Stalinists led the ranks of the German com- munist Party, as well as the German Social Democracy and the unions, into the concentra- tion camps of Adolf Hitler.

5. Trotsky: 'Germany, the Key to the International Situa- tion' in 'Trotsky on Ger- 1931 / 1932 p.15. many (Available from New Park Publications). 6. 'Trotsky on Germany' op.

cit. p.16. Kuusinen •Prepare 7. 0.. for Power, p.141. Quoted in Robert Black's 'Stalinism in 8. International pondence (Official organ of the Comintern) November Black p.1100s Quoted in B.

Black's Britain.' p.98. 9. Resolution of the Presidi- um of the ECCI quoted in in 'Stalinism Black's Britain' op. cit. p.98.

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INTERNATIONAL

YOUTH NEWS

THE BRITISH army has just announced new record levels ' of recruitment for 1971.

This is scarcely surprising.

The Tories have used massive unemployment to launch an recruiting drive aggressive among youth who are unable to get work. With the and Promise of learning becoming •Pro- trades fessionals', some sections of demoralized youth are falling for the army's propaganda. a member An ex-soldier, now of the Young Soraliss, Press has written to the Workers describing one aspect of his training-torture. We cannot publish his name for obvious reasons; but we have no doubt •that his statement is completely true. He writes: •Having been in the army and done the training necessary for service, I am informing active you of the torture training which we were told would be useful in Ulster. We were taught this together with another platoon while at a battle camp. If any of the other platoon were caught university Thousands of graduates and school-leavers in the United States joined the jobs queue this month to find themselves largely un- wanted. Major industrial institu- tions, which have previously employed the country's intellectual talent find them- selves having to lay off people. Recruiting levels in industry generally are expected to fall by about 40 per cent, accord- ing to several surveys carried out by university authorities and other organizations. : At colleges the situation is even more grim; In most they were tortured in various ways: 1: Cigarette burns on the arms and feet; 2: Blindfolding and telling the prisoner that he would be thrown into a river when it is only a ditch two or three feet deep; 3: Making a prisoner do press- ups in the mud with a man stand- on his back. These are only three of the many forms of torture we were taught. The army call it all part of the toughening up course, but are using this so- the Tories called toughening up course to suppress the working-class popu- lation of Ulster. It should not be allowed to happen.' The brutality of the army is also revealed in this investigation of training methods used by just one regiment. 'We always shoot to kill. .. When it comes to shooting, cool headedness is vital'. These are the words of one of the com- manders of the First Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders now preparing for six months' 'peace- keeping' duties in N Ireland.

May they will leave their training camp at Fort George in the NE for service in Armagh.

Recently returned from Cyprus, the Gordons are now being pre- pared for service in Ireland by a rigorous training course designed to prepare them for all eventu- alities. it all the more To make realistic, their second in com- mand, Major Euan Gordon, has 'Operation

IABCA'.

devised (Apparently a joke, the initials 'It's All Been Changed mean Again'.) Flexibility, says the major, is the thingthe most important men have got to be able to react to any situation. Lesson one the training programme is how to use a riot shield. Akido lessons are also on the agenda-they learn four basic Japanese holds that will places only half the usual number of companies have asked for new recruits. Those leaving with little or no qualification face the worst crisis. This is because the un- employment rate amongst Vietnam war veterans-mostly unskilled in civilian trades— has shot up to 8.2 per cent.

At over 6.1 per cent, the un- employment rate for the overall work force is the highest in the capitalist world. Caught in the world-wide trade recession and the most serious dollar crisis at home, firms have had to cut back on production expenditure. This applies in particular to the engineering industry where recruitment is the lowest.

Many graduates, who would have normally found managerial posts in advanced technological establishments, are said to be staying on at colleges, Otbers are forced to. " no The suppression of the working- class population of Ulster enable them to subdue a rioter.

Then it's time target practice. And, as the man said, they shoot to kill riot-situations' course, form an important part of the training. With one group of the battalion playing "terrorists' the Gordons engage in a series of 'incidents' as might take such place in N Ireland. Here's one incident seen as through the eyes of the Gordons' commander. "The IRA funeral is over the mourners become a chanting mob and advance along the width of the road they have just walked. Suddenly the violence begins. Slates hurled. A car and stones branches are explodes in flames .. 'As bear down, the mob British riot troops calmly take up kneeling positions, shields ready. A stray cobblestone opens a gash above one soldier's eye ...

"The troops rush the rioters.

Ringleaders singled are out, grabbed and searched. One has a weapon and is driven off in a Land Rover for interrogation.

'Situation under control, the soldiers withdraw to report.'

Or this one: 'Someone rings up to say a Gordon has been tarred and feathered and wired to telegraph pole a mile away.

A Land armed sentries Rover, facing back and forward, speeds to the rescue? Or during the night a tip-off: "The army rely on them a lot' 'There are someone comments. four IRA gunmen holed up in a beside Cameron Barracks, shed Inverness. The army flush the terrorists successfully and take them back for questioning.'

One more piece of fiction. The Gordons say they are going in with an 'open mind, from the CO down'. give up hunting for careers to take jobs such as taxi drivers and bar-tenders. Apart from the university graduates, unemployment stands at a record 13 per cent amongst youth in general.

Almost 50 per cent of black Puerto Rican and other minority youth are unem- ployed. Young Socialists in USA plan to organize a mass demonstration of youth against unemployment on March 29.

They are demanding that the trade unions take action and organize the unemployed in a fight against the government.

A recent statement from the YS said: "The employers, with the help of the government, are forcing wage cuts and speed ups by threatening workers with layoffs. 'The very survival of the unions depends on whether or to. "not labour takes up this 'fight."."

Workers Press, "The Hampstead and Highgate Express' has just carried an amazing letter to the editor.

(Hasn't he got better things to read?) It was headed: 'Chance to debate Labour's priorities' and said: 'There has never been a time when it has been more important for those who believe in socialism [sic] to discuss informally, but in some depth, the policies and priorities which should be adopted by the next Labour government. •Pressure of party business makes it difficult to hold many such discussions at Labour Party meetings, and hence, to provide further opportunities for debate and research, we, the undersigned, feel that it would be valuable to form a Camden Fabian Society' The group hopes to 'channel some of the wealth of political expertise which exists Camden into appropriate task forces. Who are these Camden luminaries who are about to their 'in-depth' programme?

The signatories are such proletarian figures as: Lord Delacourt-Smith and Lady Delacourt-Smith, Lord Green- wood, Lady Serota, Ben Whitaker, Ingwald Kraft and Giles Radice (of the General Municipal Workers' and Union and parliamentary hopeful). The letter extols readers to write to the newly formed society c/o the newspaper, to join in this 'Great debate'.

can just You picture the immigrant and unemployed workers in Camden reaching for their pens to dash of a quick reply. The latest 'East-West Digest' an extremely reactionary anti- communist monthly, contains a witch-hunting job on Trot- skyism. The journal also carries an interesting back-page adver- tisement. It is for a book called 'Trousered Apes' which, according to the dustjacket, is 'a timely survey of inhumanity of modern litera- ture'. The author shows the literature 'is descending through self-indulgence to self- destruction' The whole advertisement is supérimposed by the caption r8 Press, Thursday March 2, 1972 PAGE 9 that the book is recommended by Ronald Butt as his 'book of the year. Butt is the political corres- pondent of the 'Sunday Times' and "The Times'. He used to work on the 'Financial Times' where he was known as a 'liberal'.

The citizens of Dundalk are angry about the way their border town in the Republic of Ireland has become known as El Paso. A lot of the toffs are com- plaining that their town is getting a bad name for the.

large number of IRA refugees from Ulster. But Councillor Seamus Mc- Guinness isn't offended at all.

He suggests that everyone takes advantage of the frontier town image which Dundalk now has. He wants townspeople dress up in wild west outfits and carry guns in holsters.

Actually, councillor, if you hadn't noticed, many of the locals have been doing pre- cisely that. Especially since internment.

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Debelius attempted to ex- plain but he was bundled away.

Just as he was being driven off to the torture chambers, an officer came on the scene. He looked at the 'evidence' his men had trusty uncovered. 'Idiots!' he roared. 'These pills are aspirin. And this book is by General Franco.'

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prosperous W Midlands Through a barrage to miners welcome PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday March 2, 1972 From our own reporters Right-to-Work Stephen Johns in Notts David Maude in the West

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lan Yeats in Kent Philip Wade in W Midlands THE BLACK country working class on. the and Enoch Powell had better watch Once out! That's the clear message the magnificent we got alter support we've received here so far. On Tuesdav AUEW shon stew- ards at Carrington's engineering plalverha mprla at Darlaston applauded the maren ino men laclorv canteen and served us with a three-course meal paid for out of their funds.

Leadin? servers was still generous support who Is also valil laluicy menDer or une vo vernamolo.

district committee of the union.

He told me how the post-war rapid end now nas o.ouv on une aole. a lale of 7 per cent where it used to be 1 per cent. at Carrington's, of the

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combine, have been on saort-ume oi lour cavs ana three nights for 14 months now.

serrt aiter Workhis short area is time. used to tnroucaoul britan lake area and now trom tols it's the other way round.

'That's a sign of the times, and of the Conservative government sald sam. culse. can destroy The ories io edern ere huna el o everywhere. good leadership lalkis moe urace union movemert.

'We hao une ODDOrUnIIV bring down the Tories in the last weeks, the strike, but the leaders anacis refused to act.' added Sam.

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President Arthur Tomkinson handed over a cheque for £25 Goodyear and Alf convenor Fishlock us the gave same amount from his factory. Several of the committee members spoke at a meeting we called. Arthur Tomkinson said he was rather sad to see twice within his lifetime marches against unemployment. 'But perhaps you're different from Jarrow. You don't have to beg in soup kitchens and ask for charity. Working-class organiz- forward to ations are coming assist you,' he said. Rubery Owen delegate to the district committee Ray Rollison told the marchers the working class would never get anywhere with its present leadership.

'They were frightened men in 1926 and I'm not so sure they're not the same now. But the work- ing class is more educated now and have shown recently that workers' control could work.

'I think the miners' strike would really have been worth it if they'd finished up with six miners on the NCB, he said.

When YS national secretary John Simmance replied for the stressed marchers, the questions of a new revolutionary leadership the trade union movement which had to pose working-class power, socialism.

When he finished, district com- mittee members rose to their feet and applauded him. The big danger in the Wolver- hampton area for the working of course, is Powellism. class, Growing unemployment, together with a big immigrant working class, are just the sort of con- ditions in which his policies can flourish. But as we saw in Wolverhamp- ton, Powell has one enormous barrier to surmount: the organ- ized working class. The powerful AUEW district committee will undoubtedly be in the forefront of the struggle against Toryism in all its forms in the coming days. On Tuesday night we were the guests of Bentley Labour Club, Walsall, and yesterday we moved Birmingham for to on evening. Canterbury-Whitstable employ- area and out of 34,000 ment insured workers about 1,500, or 4.7 per cent, are unemployed.

The local Labour Party, due for resuscitation after years in the political wilderness, turned its back on the marchers.

But party secretary and ex-CPer, Mr Eddie welcomed Price, marchers with an armful of food in a 'personal capacity'.

He told the marchers: 'I think this is marvellous, but it is pity the whole labour movement is not participating. I deprecate any section of the Labour Party which turns its back on the un- employed. After a night at a church hall complete with kitchen and games Young the Socialists room, marched on to Hersden. Local police ignored the march as it wound along the narrow twisting and highly dangerous road to the. mining village and for their own safety the Young Socialists were forced to direct traffic round the march themselves. When we arrived at Hersden after a barrage of Tory insults and a forest of faces twisted with hatred, 17-year-old marcher Tony Dawson told me: 'When we left Broadstairs we all felt right down, but after this welcome from the miners we're back up again. This has really %.raised my spirits. We are;ging."

all the way.

CHEPSTOW proved a pleasant for the Swansea- surprise London marchers, with the sympathetic response in and backing from the town local Labour Party. A hard, 16-mile march from Newport took us into the rolling patchwork of the Monmouthshire farmlands. For much of the way all we fields of sheep saw were neat and cows. And the prospect of a Tory hostile, small-town tion at the end of the line made some of the marchers apprehen- sive. But as we entered the centre of Chepstow-just few miles a from the Severn Bridge crossing into England-Labour councillor John Huntley was there to greet us. Although it has a working of 6,000, population only the Chepstow by no area is means from the problems isolated of which plague the unemployment Welsh valleys we have just left. The of joblessness • is rate 7.1 currently At the per same period last year it was

THE SWANSEA-LONDON MARCHERS

much-3.8 per halt as cent.

CHEPSTOW WELCOME

Just 21 unfilled vacancies have been notified at the local office of the Department of Employ- The contingent which came to 18 jobless ment and there shake marchers by the hand in- workers chasing each of them.

cluded Ted Green, independent Many forced to of the council; Lyn workers. are chairman travel in the search for work. In secretary of Chepstow Cooper, ( fact of the Labour Party Labour Party and engineers' most local leaders we met were union convenor at Llanwern; his the Steel ployed at British son, lan; and fellow steelworker Corporation plant at Llanwern, Ossie Evans. Newport. near Another member, boilermaker Bringing with them both moral councillor, Ted backing and prospective and a useful supply of Viney, me he thought the told food for our journey, delega- march was 'just what's needed in of and tion councillors party the present situation. Chepstow drill visited the men hall the council had secured us 'I only wish I could join you', for the night. he added. This not to say there isn't after a short introduc- a good deal of rampant Toryism Then, from John the marchers tory statement town-as the found on a sale of Workers Huntley, who is chairman of Chepstow Labour party, the party Press. The dally aper that ads the fight against the Torles. {20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues).

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men stayed for an hour-and-a- with half's informal discussion the whole march. Asking us as comrades to take Chepstow to Westminster the Labourites' message deploring the Tories' of unemploy- creation ment, Mr. Huntley wished us every success on our journey.

'You will come up against opposition in your struggle', he said. 'But that is no reason to be discouraged. 'We have recently been study- ing the idea of a Severnside development project, but my own feeling that this will very likely prove to be a myth.

'When it comes down to it, our struggle is yours as well.'

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miles • outside the city of Nottingham at the pit village of Gedling, the committee of the local miners' welfare kindly opened up its warm and modern hall to the march for Tuesday and Wednesday-which was our second day of rest since we left Glasgow: on February 5. Strike committee member Arthur Palmer explained why they made this gesture: 'I think the recent dispute had a decisive effect. Miners have experienced such tremend- ous solidarity from other wor- kers they are now prepared to help other groups in the fight against the Tories.' He told me that the Notts miners have shed their reputa- tation for docility during the recent strike. Mr Palmer, a local Labour councillor, told me he supported because he backed the march any campaign which aimed to force the Tories to resign. It is an indictment of this people with system that young obvious energy have to go to such lengths to secure a job.

Mr Palmer told me his wage after the was only settlement equal to his pay four years ago under the old piece-rate system.

'Personally I was against the settlement. It did not achieve what was originally intended, a far higher wage for the lower paid miners. I think we would have got the lot if the strike had We had an excellent three- course meal when arrived, we paid for by collections in Not- tingham. I mention in particular shop stewards at Raleigh's, stud- at the City Polytechnic ents and the Transport and General Workers' Union district com- mittee which gave £20. Workers Press, Thursday March 2, 1972 PAGE 11

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Ameriçans demand cash: jobs dubious PAGE 12 Workers Pross, Thursday March 2 'DON'T COME without the m one of the American firms repo the one left out of the Tory f chairman of the Marathon Man that all the problems of buildi except the vital one of cash fre Sir John Eden, Minister of Industry, got a slap in the face from Harbin when he sug- gested sending a team of offi- cials from the Department of Trade and Industry to Houston for further discussions. Harbin said there would be no need for such a visit if the British government was not pre- pared to give financial support to the £35m given comparable to Govan-Linthouse-Scotstoun.

So, the future of the 2,500 workers at Clydebank is still very much in the air. As, indeed, it is for the wor- kers on the lower Clyde. Mr A.

managing Ross Belch, director of the lower Clyde Scott Lithgow Group, has said that they, too, need comparable aid. 8,000 wor- kers are employed at the Scott yards and Lithgow engineering works. Shipbuilding in other parts of is also in of course, Britain, crisis. Cammell Laird's on Mer- seyside, is reported to be asking for over £5m and, according to a Newcastle Labour MP, Mr Bob Hunter on Tyne- Brown, Swan side is 'not without problems and difficulties. Confrontation Far from having resolved the shipbuilding crisis, the Tories are heading for a confrontation with the unions, particularly on Clydeside. Lord Strathalmond, chairman of the new Govan complex, has written to John Davies, Secretary for Trade and Industry, warning that the future there depends risks of strikes, on overcoming unmodern equipment and pro- duction methods, late deliveries, financial instability, high prices and poor service'. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Sir Donald Liddle, has said that the men and management on Clyde should get together to dispel the alarming image of the industry'. Sir Eric Yarrow, chair- And man of Yarrow's shipbuilders- which separated from UCS last year - said the future of the company was 'promising, if we steer: clear of industrial can strife'. Worst year All this against the economic background of the worst year British shipbuilding, with for warnings of worse to come.

In this situation, the £35m invested in Govan is enough to the three yards for a maintain short period only-until, possibly, a General Election is safely over.

Meanwhile, James Airlie, Stalin- of the UCS shop ist chairman stewards' committee, has declared that the management forecast of Govan be- before three years profitable is 'somewhat comes pessimistic'. According to Airlie, 'the workers will prove this'.

This is a clear indication that the union the Stalinists and leaders are prepared to offer full co-operation in the speed-up, 'no- strike' conditions demanded by the employers.

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y March 2, 1972 the money? That's the blunt message to the Tor ns reported to be interested in the Clydebank shi Tory f35m Clydeside 'settlement'. Mr Wayne on Manufacturing Company of Houston, Texas, I f building oil rigs at Clydebank could be res cash from the government.

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RALLIES.

SE LONDON

Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Havill St Hall, Havill St, SE5. Speakers: P. Molyneaux (T&GWU, in a O'Brien (Lambeth Trades Council) Malone (SE London YS S. Federation secretary)

WILLESDEN

Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High St, NW10 (nr Willesden bus garagé) Trades Council

WANDSWORTH

Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. St. Peter's Church Hall, backs the Beechcroft Rd, (nr Tooting Bec tube) Speakers: marchers R. (Secretary SW Hannigan London YS Federation) D. Phelps (convenor T&GWU CLYDEBANK Trades Council Triang Ltd) P. Teroka

AUEW

has passed a resolution giving (Mitcham support for the Right-to-Work branch) marches. And in another move

EXETER

in Scotland, the regional coun- Thursday March 2, 7.30 p.m.

cil of the National Union of 'Ship Inn' Students has also voted sup- Havitree port.

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Three members of the cast of Friday March 3, 8 p.m. TV series, "Callan', the are sup- Camden Studios, porting the Right - to - Work Camden St, NW1. marches. Paddington Speakers from They are Russell Hunter, who NUR branch; Young plays Lonely, Patrick Mower and Socialists and other trade unionists.

Clifford Rose. They have donated £10, £10 and £5 respectively to

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help finance the campaign.

Sunday March 5, 11 a.m. Other television personalities Small Hall, to give their support are Michael Barking Town Hall Gambon, star of "The Chal- lengers', Ashcroft, Chloe

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presenter on the 'Playschool' pro- Sunday March 5, 3 p.m. gramme, and BBC director Alan 'Windsor Castle' Clarke. Silvertown Way, George Innes, who played in Canning Town flm the highly-acclaimed 'Gum- shoe, has also offered support.

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Monday March 6, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Right to Work meeting High St March 5, at 7.30 p.m. Sunday Sponsored by West Brompton

AUEW

Hall, West Regent St,

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Chiswick No.

5 AUEW.

Glasgow

SOUTHALL

Speakers UCS and the trom Monday March 6, 8 p.m. National Union of Mineworkers.

Shackleton Hall, 1302L Shackleton Rd Speakers from committee; shop shop stewards'

AEC

commit- Paul Stevenson,

ETU

tee; steward Macfarlane Lang (in Mr personal capacity); Cuckoo Myers, secretary Tenants' Association, Estate Hanwell; Gary Gurmeet, Editor, 'Keep Left'.

GREETINGS TO THE

MARCHERS

Coventry Right-to-Work com- mittee will greet marchers on the Liverpool-London route on Thursday, March 2, 3.30 p.m.

Sportsman Arms, Allesley 5 Precinct, At p.m. the Coventry, an open-air meeting will be held. Socialist Labour League public meeting At 8 p.m. public meeting will be held at the White Lion.

Gosford Green. Speakers will include G Healy, SLL national

IT THEIR CAMPAIGN STILL LEAVES A

secretary. Young Socialists National Right-to-Work Campaign

NORTHAMPTON

Sunday March 5

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