Workers Press no. 708

workers press

LABOUR RETREAT

DELIGHTS TORIES

WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 1972 • No. 708 •

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

COMMON MARKET DEBATE

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

BY ALEX MITCHELL

WE DEMAND THE

THE CENSURE debate were reported in the capitalist Dress • DeIng cellented. One in the House of Com-

RIGHT TO WORK

said that William Whitelaw, the Leader of the House, was mons on Monday night is rubbing his hands with glee' if overwhelming proof,

SOUTHAMPTON TO

une maorry means T021 it considerable due of taur.

were needed, that any abstained although the Labour Party does Opposition whip's office

LONDON 1972

not want to get the pubaciy denying tnis. Tories out of office on the *The Times' political said yesterday: One or the cur. Common Market or any- the debat: thing else. before the division bells rans was Une absence or several Opposition Harold Labour and the leader front-henchers yawning emptiness of parts of the Wilson and the rest of his Opposition back benches. right-wing leadership tiptoes 'Government business managers from one day to the next noted with appear Opposition that desperately trying not to dis- anCe turb Heath's finely-balanced scemea to oe losing neart In as own vote of censure. majority. The This Clear

IMDCRTION

cowardly sendersolD Monday night's majority is that itself revealed in the Party's Common censure motion on the line' the Market ended European communities

BHIS

Commons late on Monday night.

fast running out of steam.

JOHN EDDIE, MAYOR OF BASINGSTOKE, ESCORTS THE

And because desultory ot the

MARCHERS TO THE ACCOMMODATION HE ARRANGED AT

Highest MPs

SHORT NOTICE

the Jenkinsites polling, dEC to press A quick call by majority opposition to the Bill be phased OUt. The bankruptcy of the Labour The Tories won bv 47 votes. opposition Ene bull Was Basingstoke's mayor the highest majority on the revealed on countless occasions during the market they have ceived debate. when 69 Labourites UO last October, When Peter Shore complained the about Dariamentary gives marchers a bed the Tories for British entry.

table, Mr Geoffrey Rippon, the able to use Tory negotiator, was More recently, however, Heath Market has had his majority slashed to argumentson

CHILL

once put forward by Harold

OTIV

CINE

hall. THE MOST difficult part of the Southampton-London Right- Wilson himself. and abstentons the Bill had to be 'Therefore to-Work march came to an encouraging end on Monday night Liberals which kept him in office.

framed in the light of these COn- when Labour mayor John Eddie welcomed us into Basingstoke After the 47 majority siderations, Rippon was able to to stay the night at premises arranged by him.

Monday night, Tory managers The walk to Basingstoke had and been wet exhausting stretch of 18 miles. As we entered tne town none of the marchers had any idea

YOU MUST BE THERE NEXT WEEKEND: BOOK NOW FOR

where they would spend the

EMPIRE POOL

But Mayor Eddie soon solved the problem. He invited us into his parlour' and a quick tele- phone call was enough to arrange a comfortable sleeping place.

WEMBLEY

He told the marchers he was with them all the He had way.

SUNDAY MARCH 12

sCCl worse Hem oymene scotland were ne comes from -in the 1930s. Referring to official Labour the Party hostility towards

FROM GLAS-

WHO HAVE MARCHED

AT 3 p.m. GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS Young Socialists' Right-to-Work

DEMANDING

THE

SOUTHAMPTON AND

LIVERPOOL,

SWANSEA,

campaign, he said: received

RIGHT TO WORK

not any nave Transport Instrucuons

RELAX AT THE STAR-STUDDED

House. But anyway I would not

GEORGE MELLY. SPIKE MIL

pay much attention to something that attacked your march

LIGAN. ANNIE ROSS. SLADE.

The Mavor then walked with

ALI. STARS

the marchers through the town

COMPERED BY JOE MELIA AND STUART HENRY

to sha marmon. Mike Charles: For full details and ticket application form, see p.4 This is verv encouraging.

sure there are many people to the Labour Party who want fight against unemployment are prepared to do something.'

Labour chairman 10 be expelled

COUNCILLOR

Philip Bond, chairman okeimersaare council, • Lancs, and leader of the Labour Group, is to be from the Labour Party. 'Morning Sine Star yesterday listed a number principled positions taken but failed Bond. to report that one of his most recent actions was welcoming the Liverpool-London Right-to- work mareners rom une town hall balcony and providing them with food and moral SUDDOrL For full story. See p. 12.

workers press

LABOUR RETREAT

DELIGHTS TORIES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 1972

• No. 708 • 4p ORGIN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY

COMMON MARKET DEBATE

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

BY ALEX MITCHELL

WE DEMAND THE

THE CENSURE debate were reported in the capitalist 'delighted'. in the House of Com-

RIGHT TO WORK

William Whitelaw

SATO

That the Leader of the House, mons on Monday night is 'rubbing his hands with glee. overwhelming if proof, I ne false maronly medas

SOUTHAMPTON TO

needed, that a considerable number of Labour- were any abstained although the Labour Party •does the whip's Opposition office

LONRON 1972

the publiciv denving this. not want to get Tories out of office on the "The Times' political editor said vesterdav: 'One of the sur.

Common Market or any. prit before the debate bells thing else. division the was Opposition leader Harold and Labour tront-benchers tne apposition bake a the Wilson and the rest of his Opposition benches. right-wing leadership tiptoes Government ousiness managers day to the from one next noted with interest every appear- Opposition that desperately trying not to dis- ance seemed to be losing heart in its turb Heath's finely-balanced own vote of censure.' majority. The clear This leadership cowardiv Monday night's majority is that openly revealed itself in the the Party's *line-by. densure motion on the Common line' examination the varket walca enaca Bill communes Commons late on Monday night.

fast running out of steam.

JOHN EDDIE,

MAYOR OF BASINGSTOKE, ESCORTS THE

And because desultory Highest

MARCHERS TO THE ACCOMMODATION HE ARRANGED AT

of Labour MPs and the turn-out

SHORT NOTICE

Jenkinsites polling, the

DOUL

al c LO. press success my A quick call by majority opposition to the Bill be phased out. The bankruptcy of the Labour The Tories by 47 votes, opposition won was Basingstoke's mayor the highest majority on the revealed he debate. countless occasions during the market they have received since when 69 Labourites last When Peter Shore complained the

TENKIES

vole will anot barnamentara Mr Geoffrey gives marchers a bed the Tories, for British entry. table, Rippon, the Tory able to use negotiator, was More recently, however, Heath Market has had his majority slashed 'on

LIC

CHLa once Wilson himself. forward by OnlY CaL. Was THE MOST difficult part of the Southampton-London Right- Labour abstentions and 'Therefore the Bill had to be to-Work march came to an encouraging end on Monday night Liberals which kept him in office.

framed in the light of these when Labour mayor John Eddie welcomed us into Basingstoke COn- siderations, Rippon After the 47 majority Wasnoe to to stay the night at premises arranged by him.

Monday night, Tory managers The walk to Basingstoke had been and exhausting stretch of 18 miles. As we entered tne town none.

of the marchers had any idea

YOU MUST BE THERE NEXT WEEKEND: BOOK NOW FOR

where they would the spend

EMPIRE POOL

1121l Eddie soon solved But Mavor the problem. He invited us into his parlour' and a quick tele- phone call was enough to arrange a comfortable sleeping place.

WEMBLEY

He told the marchers he was with them all the He had way.

SUNDAY MARCH 12

oCCa

WISC

where he comes from -in the 1930s. Referring official to Party hostility towards AT 3 p.m. GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS

FROM GLAS.

HAVE MARCHED

Young Socialists' Right-to-Work

DEMANDING

SOUTHAMPTON

LIVERPOOL.

SWANSEA.

campaign, he said:

RIGHT TO WORK

not received any nave • LIaISPOIL

LES.

AT 7.30 p. m.

RELAX AT THE STAR-STUDDED

House. But anyway I would not

GEORGE MELLY. SPIKE MIL

pay much attention to something : attacked your march.

THE

walked with the Mavor

ALI. STARS

ROCK N ROLL

the marchers through the town

COMPERED BY JOE MELIA AND STUART HENRY

to the accommodation. Said Mike Charles: marcher For full details and ticket application form. see p.4 "this is very there are many people in ' sure the Labour Party who want to fight against and are prepared to do something.'

COUNCILLOR Philip Bond, chairman of Skelmersdale council, Lancs, and leader of the Labour Group, is to be expelled from the Labour 'Morning Party. The Star' yesterday listed a number of principled positions taken by failed Councillor Bond, but to report that one of his most recent actions was welcoming the Liverpool-London Right-to- Work marchers from.the town hall balcony and providing them with food and moral support. For full story. See p. 12.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday Marc

AROUND THE WORLD

BARBIE: CIA PROTECTION?

Two-month strike ends TWO Soviet oppositionists have ended a two-month hunger strike in a Leningrad psychiatric prison on the understanding they will be given & thorough mental examina- tion, Moscow according to sources. The two men, Victor Fainberg and Vladimir Borisov, have been imprisoned in a KGB mental hos- pital because of their opposition to the invasion of Czechoslovakia and their defence of victims of Stalinism. Last year they held an 80-day demanding hunger strike improved conditions, consulta- the with and lions lawyers opportunity to take iheir cases to court. They declared the latest strike when these demands were not met. Victor Fainberg (41), was one who oppositionists of seven went to Red Square on August 25, 1968, with posters denounc- the Soviet occupation Czechoslovakia. Fainberg's teeth were knocked out by KGB men who attacked the demonstrators was arrested together and he Larrissa with Pavel Litvinov, Daniel and three other demon- strators. Vladimir Borisov a 24-year-old Leningrad electrician, is a mem- ber of the Action Group for the Defence of Civil Rights in the

USSR.

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THREE British engineering fir ment in New Delhi to shift the wholesale to India. They claim that manufacture in Britain is no longer econ- omic. The deal, approved by the Indian government, allows for the outright purchase of their plants by Indian enter- prises. The three firms are Ottermill St Switchgear, based at Otter!

Butler's, which Mary, Devon: makes machine-tools, and Viller's, which produces internal com- bustion engine components.

The move follows talks be- tween British businessmen and Indian officials last week on taking advantage of cheap Indian labour to undercut the rates paid in Britain. Ottermill Switchgear was the a bitterly-fought 18- scene of week strike nearly two years ago.

workers, members of the The municipal and elec- general and tricians' unions, were demanding 100-per-cent trade unionism and a 4s 4d across-the-board pay rise.

Management encouraged non- unionists to scab on the strike and the workers were eventually forced to return with neither of their main demands met. Twenty- eight strikers and 15 blacklegs were sacked at the end of the strike. ' The compahy, "part of 'the sday March 8, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

MRS BEATE KLARSFELD le Europe last night after admitti to hunt down the Nazi war Together with Mrs Ita Halaunbrenner, a victim of the Gestapo, she had chained herself to a bench in the La Paz city centre because Barbie is being sheltered by the right-wing Bolivian dictator- ship. who works Mrs Klarsfeld, for the International League against Anti-Semitism, has con- clusive proof that a Bolivian businessman called Klaus Alt- is really Barbic, who mann the Gestapo at Lyons headed during the last war. Barbie tortured to death Jean Moulin, a leader of the French has twice been resistance, and sentenced to death in absentia.

has The French government demanded his extradition from Bolivia. But the Nazi war criminal has powerful friends in high places.

After the war, in the American zone of Germany, he worked for service. American secret When the French applied for his for his extradition to stand trial the US authorities re- crimes. fused the request on the grounds that he was vital to US national security. Later they supplied him with Bolivian papers and arranged his He escape to Latin America. became a close associate of the corrupt president Barrientos, fix- his shady deals on in$ many behalf.

PONDENT

ering firms have reached agree.

shift their manufacturing plants Drake Electrical combine, is at of high the centre of an area unemployment. and persistent ts move to india will mean the sack for more than 300 emplovees.

This step is in line with Tory plans to enter the Common facilities for Market and gain freer movement of capital from Britain to other countries where wages are far lower. The Indian government is plan- other British ning to approach firms with similar offers for transfer of capital to India.

THERE IS growing impatience in Moscow and Warsaw with the W German parliament's delay in ratifying the treaties signed with Willy Brandt as part of his "Ostpolitik' of normalizing relations with E Europe. 'Pravda' carried an important attacking article at the weekend the Christian Democratic oppo- sition and saying that refusal to the Moscow-Bonn accept non- aggression treaty could do their country "irreplaceable damage'.

'ELD left La Paz, Bolivia, for admitting defeat in her efforts i war criminal Klaus Barbie.

When the President was ousted by 'General Juan Torres, the Bolivian government began • in- vestigations into Barbie's affairs.

The investigations were still when the Torres under way regime was toppled by the ultra- right-wing Colonel Hugo Banzer, backed by the CIA and the Brazilian government. One of Barbie's deals under Barrientos is said to have been an attempt to break the arms embargo imposed on Israel after the six-day war in 1967. Accórding to Teddy Cordova Claure, Torres' private secretary, Barbie arranged to buy arms for government the Bolivian Switzerland and divert them to Israel. Three. people who have since tried to investigate the deal were murdered early last year.

Barbie's ties with the present.

Bolivian regime could not be is joint owner of a closer he large Ranch with the wives of President Banzer and ex-President Alfredo Ovando. Like many of the other ex- in Latin America, Nazis now including the notorious Ausch- camp doctor witz concentration loser Mengele, Barbie enjoys top- level protection because of his ties with the Central Intelligence Agency. These connections apparently extend to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as well as Washington.

FRENCH

INFLATION

CONTINUES

DESPITE forecasts of a grow- ing trade surplus, France can expect 'only limited success' in the struggle against inflation, says an annual review of the economy published French today. Conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the review forecasts that the slow-down prices this vear 'is unlikely to be In 197l, prices in- substantial'. creased by 7 per cent. the last six warned that months of this year could see a spurt in prices unless production cost increases were fargety con- tained. 'Permanent and insidious' contributed to a high factors rate of inflation. This clearly implies an offen- sive at atime against wages French economic expan- when sion is expected to slip below 5 per cent this year, even assuming satisfactory development of her foreign trade position. 'Pravda' accuses Dr Barzel, the Democratic Christian Shadow Chancellor, of wishing to secure a revision of the frontiers on the present lines which the treaty recognizes. It makes clear that towards W Soviet goodwill main- Germany would not be tained unless the treaty is rati- fied. The same theme was promi- nent in speeches by Polish leaders member the government, accused the Christian Democrats According to a report in the 'Hull Daily Mail, Hull dockers may ignore a national strike call in order to press ahead with a scheme to launch their own port employers' company. The strikescall was made by the Nationa Shop.

Stewards' Liaison Committee, at a meeting attended by Hull stewards. It is to take effect if 53 men are sent back to the unattached register in London.

Mr Walter Cunningham, chairman of the Hull shop stewards' committee, is quoted by the 'Hull Daily Mail" as saying: 'We are more concerned with getting our own company off the ground, than we are with stop- pages.' The scheme is understood to involve 2,000 men agreeing to pay £2 a week each for 12 months.

The company would then be able to employ 100 men and make up the wages of others on the reserve pool.

This is just a diversionary reformist scheme which will do nothing to solve the problem of full employment and wages on the docks. The working class has a long history, which did not begin a few weeks ago in Hull. During this history the working class, in struggle against the employers, con- structed its own, class organizations - the trade unions, the Labour Party, and the shop stewards' movement. It established its rights through struggles like the dockers' tanner strike of 1888. These struggles could not be avoided, because working-class life under capitalism centres around a constant battle against the class which extracts surplus value from workers for profit. There is no future for workers in some sort of 'be your own capitalist' scheme. Workers Press knows the men on the Hull docks. They have a record of prin- cipled struggle second to none. In 1954, a strike in Hull began the movement to bring the National Amal- gamated Stevedores and Dockers Union (the 'Blue' union) to the northern ports.

It took the united force of the employers, the press, Labour Party the courts, the TUC, the T&GWU, the and the Communist Party to break the long recogni- tion strike of 1955. The Hull men were in the forefront of the struggle against the Devlin modernization scheme and the fight for decent piecework rates through a series of one- day stoppages in 1964. Hull dockers marched with the Young Socialists in the campaign for socialist policies and to make the 'left' MPs fight Wilson during the 1964-1970 Labour government. They supported the campaign against anti-union laws under both Labour and Tory govern- ments. In the coursé of these developments, prominent militants on the Hull docks reached an understanding well in advance of the reactionary role of Stalinism, of many other groups of workers. They also became familiar with the sinister activities of Moral-Re-Arma- ment, particularly when one of their leaders arranged a showing of an MRA film in the dockers' club.

Once, in 1966, the Hull dockers were outmanoeuvred into not joining their Merseyside brothers in a strike against anti-union laws. When the Liverpool dockers came to Hull to address them, many of the leading militants said that would never happen again.

Yet now, if the 'Hull Daily Mail' is to be believed, their leaders expect them to scab on a national strike against unemployment. We find it hard to believe that this will happen in Hull. It is time for these dockers to turn their backs on crack-brained schemes and stand where they belong-in the front rank of the fight to bring down the Tory government and return a Labour government to restore full employment.

Czech plastics

CONSIDERABLE

expansion Af the Czechoslovakian chemical of holding up the non-aggression and industry has taken plastics treaty with Poland and of wish- of oil pumped place as a result Cold War. ing to restore the through the Friendship pipeline Further delay, he said, would from the Soviet Union. historical The pipeline, which cuts rob the treaty of its significance. A party transport costs to about one-fifth secretary in charge of foreign affairs, Ryszyrd of what they would be by rail said the tanker, has enabled the produc- Frelak, opposition to would harm W Germany tion of petrol and diesel fuel to treaty paraffin and slow down a detente. be doubled and that of to be trebled. the treaties were Although This 17 18 year some to Brandt Willy negotiated by in 1970. they will become not through the pipeline, help- until ratified by the operative Czechoslovakia one ing to make Bonn parliament. of the world's leading producers of plastics.

WAYNE HARBIN, presider facturing, the Houston, Tex in taking over Clydebank, £12m from the Tory governn In a radio broadcast on the : talks with senior eve of Department of Trade and Industry officials and Mr Robert C. Smith, the UCs made it Harbin liquidator, clear that if the Tories were willing to pay £35m to Govan, Linthouse and Scotstoun; then he wanted a comparable pay- ment for Clydebank. warned Workers Press on Monday, before Harbin's broad- past: 'What is.. happening is that a pre-condition for saving any of the 2,500 Clydebank jobs is that Industrial Relations Act be figorously applied there: Now Harbin has spelled this but. In discussions with trade union leaders he has demanded a four-year no-strike, no go-slow during which agreement Speaking on the same radio Mr Danny programme, the boilermakers' McGarvey, leader, said he saw this as 'no obstacle' to Harbin's bid for the yard: The Department of Trade and has said it is 'exploring Industry in depth' Harbin's proposals.

officials : Today

DTI

seven begin talks with Harbin in Texas.

Harbin's blunt This follows warning last week that there was in such talks unless no point they brought the money. Included in the DTI team are THE SPECTRE of a Pilkington's hangs over Newcastle as employ- ers' representatives refuse their decision to budge from thermal insulation sack engineers now entering their 16th week on strike. As the Tory government pro- deeds to step up its attack on the trade union movement with the Act, this Industrial Relations disputę is developing into an important question of principle in the NE.: : On November 15, 1971, 300 engineers thermal insulation Municipal the General and Workers Union Newcastle No. 7 branch stopped work in support of a plus payment of 16tp on top of their basic rate. already This payment was being payed to Scottish laggers by firms in the same employers' group TIGA (Thermal Insula- Group Association). Ten tion weeks later they were joined by *300 laggers organized in the No.

2 branch GMWU West Hartle- pool. As their strike leaflet ex- the job of a lagger is plains, Ministry listed in of Health pamphlets as an occupation liable to contract the often killer in- dustrial complaints of pneumoco- niosis, silicosis and asbestosis.

For this they receive a base rate of 56fp an hour, but are not guaranteed the 16jp paid to their Scottish brothers. Despite the obvious justice of their claim, the strike has not been made official by the G&MWU, because, union officials president of Marathon Manu- n, Texas, company interested lebank, has again demanded government. the Local officials of two Employment Act Finance Advis- ory Committee. This body makes recommendations to the DTI for employment the financing of promotion products. Also in the team is a Customs The significance of this, Officer. is that Harbin wants to import his own company's components duty free for use on Clydeside.

other words, Harbin will In take on the Clyde on his own terms. Jobs would only be saved rigorous at the expense of a by backed what speed-up, to Industrial Relations amounts Act conditions. McGarvey, Reid And-what have discreetly and company 'overlooked' - since the com- ponents will be brought in from the US, then the jobs of workers employed by Clydebank's former : suppliers will disappear.

So much for the militant leadership of the 'left alliance' of Stalinists and trade union officials. So much, also for the revision- ists of the International Socialism who told us when the group occupation began that 'Militancy Win at UCS' Can and that of the Stalinists was criticism 'sectarian'. claim, the men refused to have a secret ballot vote. The men's reply has been that a ballot vote requires a two- thirds majority which is un- democratic. As a leading steward told Workers Press: It is matter of principle. Men should stand up and be counted. fact that we have The remained absolutely solid so far is proof enough of our resolve.'

The G&MWU's refusal to make the strike official led to a mass demonstration outside the union offices. Ald. Andrew Cunningham, the • regional secretary, who was con- fronted in his office by the strikers, said the union would do all in its power to help the men.

The strike, however, remains unofficial. A leading stewari told Workers Press: 'There is quiet revolution going on inside working the class. You can feel people getting really upset. Workers stop me in the street to show their solidarity with the strike. The solidarity and willingness to actively get in- volved with picketing which our members are showing every day is part of the general mood in working class against the the Tories. I feel that the Tories must be forced out of office.

'Unfortunately we have been overshadowed with a number of important disputes such as Fisher-Bendix and, of course, the miners. The lads here were 100 per cent behind the miners and thought their victory was great.

However, it did prevent us get- ting a lot of cash.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

CONSERVATIVE Central Offic redhanded helping to encourag breakaway unions. A letter written by Mr J.

McDonald Watson of the Tory Party's industrial department published. It has iustbeen shows McDonald Watson giving a Tory trade unionist advice on how to form a separate com- puter operators' union. .

was given about the Advice choice of a name for the union and the letter said it would be a very much better union for purposes if it were negotiating non-political and registered under the Industrial Relations Act.

also stated: "The It was creation of a new union is in reality a very simple process and it only requires that there should be a meeting of interested per- sons to pass a motion declaring that the new union should be established and thereafter pre- liminary steps should be taken to frame the rules and objects of the association together with the necessary financial support association would which such an clearly require? Mr Stan Orme, Labour MP for Salford, took the matter up with Employment Secretary Robert Carr, who said in reply that it is not Tory policy or the practice of Central Office to stimulate the formation of breakaway unions.

He was satisfied that the letter in concerned was no way a breach of this policy. It was written in response to a request for information and no initiative was taken in encourag- ing the formation of a breakaway union. The information given was factual, generally available to the public and the procedure was open to anyone in a free society.

Carr said that the letter was written after inquiries from a Conservative trade unionist had been referred to Central Office by Mr David Lane, Conservative MP for Cambridge. Mr Orme said he was entirely dissatisfied with Carr's reply.

I will seek to raise this matter through any parliamentary means open to me and press the Mini- ster for an outright condemna- tion of the destructive letter sent out by Mr J. McDonald Watson', he said. Mr Orme said he had sent a copy of Carr's letter to Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union general secre- tary who had already raised the matter with TUC generál secre- tary Victor Feather. Workers Press, Wednesday March 8, 1972 PAGE 3 No one would claim that Edward the friend of the Heath is working man. Yet he has just been to open an exhibition at the Working Men's College in N London. As he spoke of the work of Frederick Maurice, a pioneer of adult education, two men pro- the million tested about unem- ployed. When they asked other questions, they were seized by officials and thrown out. Thrown out, that is, from the Working Men's College.

Which the question- prompts who had more right to be there in the first place, Heath or the ce has been caught unemployed hecklers? The PM e the formation of is seen looking at a display which includes a picture of Marx.

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

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

Britain, These huge levels of unemployment are as a direct result of Tory policies. The Young Socialists' Right-to-Work cam- paign 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 greeted at: EAST INDIA HALL, East India Dock Road, E14. 7 pm

HANWELL COMMUNITY

CENTRE,

Westcott Crescent, N7. 7 pr IME GROVE BATHS, Shepherds Bush, W12. 7pm

MARCH

THROUGHOUT LONDON

MONDAY MARCH 13

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

MASS LOBBY

OF PARLIAMENT

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

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

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

Larry Adler. Lesley Duncan. McGuinness Flint. Ram John Holder. Paul Jones. Vinegar Joe. George Melly.

Spike Milligan. Annie Ross. 'Rock 'n Roll All Stars'.

Slade. Comperes Joe Melia and Stuart Henry Tickets: £1, unemployed 50p.

RALLY

NAME

ADDRESS

I would like .. tickets Amount enclosed £ Please send details of transport to the Empire Pool Complete form and send to: Clive Norris, Right-to-Work Campaign, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. Or phone 01-622 7029. locuinnoss Flint Commenced Feb 5

GLASGOW

Commenced Feb 19

LIVERPOOL

19th day Commenced on the road

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD

Feb 19

SWANSEA

19th day on the road Commenced March 4

SOUTHAMPTON

• Flint 33rd day on the road

WOOLWICH.

12th day on the rom

READING

5th day

DEAL

on the road Commenced Feb 26 Artres LONDON March 11 doo Molla

Workers Press has recently published details of an in- ternal document of the Spanish Ministry of Labour outlining procedure for re- pressing all opposition in the workers' movement to the Franco regime. Now, another internal document from the same ministry has come into our hands. It outlines the history of the outlawed Workers' Com- missions. The confidential memorandum is aimed at briefing the army, secret police and officials in the state-run unions in how to break up and intimidate these independent workers' organizations. What clearly. emerges from the document is the fascist regime's fear of Marxism and roots in the its growing Spanish working class. In tracing the history of the Workers' Commissions from the mid-1950s, the document says: "The pamphlets and propaganda of the commissions are full of those who Marxism because and distribute them are write Marxist and have a clear perspec- tive for leading the movement to the most advanced revolutionary goals.' Although often crude in its political analysis, the document does pinpoint some of the strong criticisms of the Spanish Com- dominates munist Party which the commissions. for instance, that It states, Trotskyists, Marxist-Leninists, anarchists all socialists and opposed the Stalinists' participa- tion in the 1971 elections. And there is also mention their CP's over- attacks the on bureaucratization' of the com- missions. A section of them devoted to Spanish émigré workers who are judged to be especially danger- ous since they can more easily 'subversive be influenced by groups' and enjoy the protection of 'the big trade unions in the West'. "The greatest danger lies in the training of activists abroad and their return to Spain', the author says. A province-by-province account of the organization of the com- missions reveals not so much a great knowledge of the organiza- tion as a deep fascist hatred of the working class and in par- ticular of the youth. the commissions in Andalucia, for example: 'The fact that after the War Pollce beating up a student. An attempt t of Liberation all the old workers' organizations—Communist, anar- chist or socialist-were destroyed and rubbed out completely has given the commissions in Anda- lucia characteristics which dis- tinguish them from those in other provinces - that is, they are entirely made up of young people they are and for that reason much more aggressive.' In a final summing up, the document examines the aspects that are in favour of the com- missions in their struggle against Franco: • A great power in mobilizing workers, especially in Madrid; national organization A which allows them to spread conflicts; • Their 'attractive demagogy' tor high wages, help to students, paid holidays, tree education.

Against this the regime has the following advantages: • The need for the leaders to openly, which they means act can be identified and imprisoned; • The need to act through mass meetings which can easily be broken up; • The different ideologies which create splits. Finally guidelines are given to those participating in 'state action against the commissions': the prevention of mass meetings; no one in an official position should accept talks with anyone other than the officers of the state- unions; all steps should be taken to raise the prestige of these officers, emphasizing their repre- sentative character and freedom to act; infiltrations, lies and the exploitation of failures to sow confusion among the different tendencies in the Commissions. * In general, therefore, the pious hope of the Spanish Ministry of Labour is to integrate the work- into the system ing class of state-unions. This document was circulated in the ministry and its various departments in November of last year when the Spanish employers were faced with a huge strike The militancy of these wave. strikes, particularly the Seat carworkers' strike, won consider- able concessions from the em- ployers. In response Franco's government is now engaged in a new campaign of repression, by organizing government depart- ments and recruiting special detachments of police to head off the movement of the work- ing class which is developing.

This militancy can be seen in the negotiation of new wage contracts at the beginning of the year, the growth of the student and Basque and movements, mounting opposition from pro- fessional people. Militants of the Communist Party and of all opposition organizations are in constant danger of arrest. In January Luis Lucio Lobato was sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment for being a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The tribunal of Public I attempt to head off the developing working-clas Order condemned ten members of the Communist Party to ten years' imprisonment each. Police say they have arrested over 500 students during the present student struggles. This report from the newspaper 'La Vanguardia' is typical of the articles which are now appearing regularly in the heavily-censored Spanish press. It describes the trial of a group of young workers who belonged to the Commissions of Young Workers. "The Supreme Court yesterday of considered the appeals Antonio Bagleito Gomez, Rafael Martin Cabera, Julio Linan Gonzalez Rivera and Martin Dominquez against sentences of the : Tribunal of Public Order which were based on the follow- ing evidence: In the middle of 1968 Manuel Solleiro joined the Young Workers' Commissions in Seville, a branch of the Communist Party. Manuel carried out many activities, mainly in the district of Triana. 'At the beginning of 1969, he contacted Bagleito Gomez, from the neighbouring town of San Juan _de Aznalfarache. Manuel got Gomez to join the Youth Commissions well his as as friends, Cabera and Dominguez.

"They used to meet regularly in the so-called Cultural Club in Aznalfarache. Finally, Rivera joined the organization in the summer of 1969. They used to in the club, read indoc- meet trinating newspapers which Manuel Gomez and gave to other youths from Remedios and Tomares and even some from Seville joined in the discussions.

•They also printed leaflets and with subversive slogans posters which they then gave out and stuck on walls in their respective towns. They also painted placards for the Workers' Commissions.

In the club were found copies of "Mundo Obrero" ('Workers World"), "Voz del Campo Andaluz" ("Voice of Andalucian Peasants") "Nuestra and Bandera" ("'Our Flag"), which are all communist publications.

The Public Order tribunal sentenced Manuel and Gomez for the crime of belonging to an illegal organization to one year's imprisonment each, Cabera to six months and. Dominguez and Rivera who are too young to be sent to prison, to three months' detention and 10,000 pesetas fine each.' Such is the brutal repression of the youth who are leading the fight against Franco. Yet E European Stalinists enjoy the friendliest of relationships with Spain and the Spanish CP looks forward to a 'peaceful evolution' to bourgeois democracy. rking-class and student movements.

Workers Press, We Some people will think that Jacques Duclos, now 75, has to wait a long time before getting his reward on learning that he received, as a birthday honour in Mos- cow, the highest civilian decoration of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.

To make an award in the name besmirch of Lenin _ is to the memory of a great revolutionary and to try to turn him into a 'harmless ikon'. And the crime is double when it is bestowed on such a grovelling servant of the bureaucracy as Jacques Duclos.

Through a long career, Duclos has been a faithful supporter of the Soviet bureaucracy in France, in particular for his noted polished parliamentary style and the quick repartee. His memoirs, which now run to three volumes, are a model of discretion which give nothing away about the inner workings of the Stalinist parties. Duclos has never explained his fervent admiration for Stalin and Blas Pinar, the extreme right- wing Falangist, has been stomping the country making virulent attacks on commun- ism and liberalism while organizing his own special police force. In a recent speech in Barce-.

lona, Pinar proposed 'liberating Barcelona again' with a purge against booksellers. He said there were publishers whose books were contrary to the aims of the Crusade- Franco's uprising against the republic. These publishers, he said, were inculcating the youth with Marxism. The Captain General of the armed Catalonia forces in ordered all the officers in the garrison of Barcelona to atténd Pinar's meeting, dressed in full uniform Warriors of Christ the King', the private police force of Pinar, have carried out a number of attacks on bookshops. One, in with Barcelona, display Picasso's drawings had books of its windows broken and books destroyed. in Valencia, Another was almost destroyed by a group of Warriors, apparently for having Press, Wednesday March 8, 1972 PAGE 5 which he the enthusiasm with supported the Moscow Trials in the 1930s and the purges in E Europe after the war. As befitted occasion, he "anti-Sovietism' the claimed that what he called was inseparable from anti-com- munism. He said that some people who claimed to be com- munists joined in these attacks.

Thus spoke an uneasy conscience. Duclos really was those principled attacking de- fenders of the gains of the October Revolution, the Trotsky- ists, who are at the same time relentless pursuers of the bureaucracy which has betrayed it. He tries to implicate them of anti-Sovietism anti-com- and munism. The bureaucracy rewards Duclos not for his revolutionary activities, but for his part in betraying the revolution in France-in 1936, in 1944-1947 and in 1968 and acting as its apologist through all its zig-zags.

fervent Stalinist, Duclos switched his support to Khrushchev and then to Brezhnev without a word of explanation. on display the following books: 'The Valencian Nation' by Tuan Fuster; "The Origin of Family' and •Private Property and the State', ', by F. Engels; 'Hopscotch' by Cortazar; 'Sexuality and Repression' by Castillo del Pino.

During the early part of the students' strike in Madrid, 50 of these special police demonstrated, protected by uniformed police, against the supposed intervention in the strike by left elements.

The Ministry of Labour and the security department have been carrying out a ruthless censorship of all parts of the communications industry which have been slightly critical of the regime. 'Madrid', the daily newspaper which gave daily strike reports, has closed down. There have been prosecutions of the editors of 'Cuadernos para el Dialogo', a Christian - Democrat - Commun- ist Party of the editor journal, of the Catholic daily, "YA' ara- of the editors of numerous gressive' clerical magazines. The director and of the an actor Teatro Lebrijano of Sevilla have each been fined 50,000 pesetas allegedly introducing (£300) for changes of 'a political nature' into the text of a play being per- formed by the company, although it had first been cleared by the censors. bulletin of Cinema, Television and Theatre workers notes in its January edition that the Ministry of Information and Tourism has banned the actress Maria Jose Goyanes from acting in national theatres and on Spanish television because she signed a collective letter to the ministry protesting against the escalation of repression and censorship.

PAGE 6 Workera Prose, Wednoaday March 8, 1872

BY IAN YEATS ON THE KENT RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCH

younger generation have a differ- I've time for thought it would be something to got Les Pankhurst (23) is a part- no anvonl who and of thos outlook most time singer and comedian.

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BY IAN YEATS

What has gone wrong Last May Bexleyheath b ex- in Pressed co aci miat returning Bexleyheath, Tory leader council right in Heath's Edward Heath's constitu- O ACraro. ency? Two years he In the past there ago years

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and antly petty-bourgeois population cut hack on their laciones ve was held by pundits to™ symbolize Vickers factory won work force. Tory Britain which would 12-month reprieve. a lcw be built on the basis of self-help Erith exchange, cunoyenı and thrift. controlling Thamesside jobs Stand on own two feet Woolwich and Greenwich, is and the millenium is at hand. Bexleyheath's jobs COlLTe was the crisp message unremit- opportunities. from Tory tingly pumped Manager Mr L M Smith tolc camnaign headauarters at Bexlev- me; SUL LICENL tactakıs y h teath's messianic doctrine that said something will turn up but everytime pick the phone Britain would be a land fit it's bad news.'. human habitation but for Lab- nendo ment is minnıng our's open-handed support for about 2.2 per cent-not high 'lame ducks' and 'layabouts', was a plausible enough theme to the of Bexley who saw around unrelieved pat- them an mp, it hits you very hardobs tern or economic gloom. Worry and anxiety haunts Cartwright, 38, prospec- John corner of pople's lives in every tive Labour candidate for Bexley- heath took up the KAY eTneЯТЯ same. theme Worry that tightrope invest- 'In 1970 there were 500 people will plunging fami- ments snap, out of work, • The it's 740 a with into limited rate of increase ITeC per cent rise. immediate ruin; worry" That Is very rapia ana Il s an unsettling business doesn't improve sales factor, it worries people.

and therefore living There's degree COnn SOS. white- standards, wı l wince collar unemo ovment canonl Worry that as fares out levers are finding things difficult treble travel- London double and ling may have to be abandoned.

that livin 950s But it was not only unemploy.

standards set ment that put a Labour council' may have booming Bexleyheath in power in Mr Cartwright: 'A lot

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working-clas Many families wich Arsenal or in heavy indus- will he hit hard hu the Torias jobs, including engineering try very high an. Bexiey renter are Thamesside. high Bexley. very Average In _the 1950s co-incident witl rents would differ hy as mich a the growth in office jobs white £3 between council housing and by low collar workers, attracted pri osly wnite aclar modatier.

London, house prices inso the ton. white-collar WOTKe C began to flock into, the fare rises mean y at sind Today you have a social situation some which directors coma n could consider have salesmén and engineers live side back there-and they don't want by side. that.? Social change was partly Anger about Heath's failure to flected in the voting MATTe™M concult on the Common Market with Edward Heath scraping wheeh of ination ase unem ploy- oppose home in 1950 with only 100 votes all time low low. tried Labou so good' era, Tory metomiy and Tory governments with the was up to 8,000 and Bexleyheath fickleness Solerossie. Both have failed and boomed 1966, with inflation cutting now many are looking for other into living standards, this highly- alternatives. changeable electorate began Mr Cartwright expressed it keep the to labour looking like this: The feeling is one of complete majority ynicism, of disenchantment with Their feeling is that democracv. Bexleyheath begun whatever che do the think volte- earnest. politicians will what they with

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the Prices have not been reduced 'at Said Mr have not', entr outet dod nares stroke' gesperaely afratd of a Labour desperately afraid where it is going. significantly unemploy- 'On the Tories record general election has could demand a doubled! con't the zannar Party has done nearly enough Left: Heath in Bexleyheath, his work which makes policy own constltuency, expounding sense to ordinary people. PeoD e the Selsdon package for the 1970 didn't diem in 1970, were working for section campaign

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Marc Who is General Chiang Kai-sh

BY JACK GALE

The admission of China to the United Nations and the - recent Nixon tour place a question mark over the future of Chiang Kai-shek's puppet regime in Taiwan (Formosa). Chiang Kai-shek was the who-after being made man an honorary president of the Communist International by Stalin-butchered the Chinese Communist Party in 1927. Only the vote of Trotsky was recorded against this honour- ing of Chiang. Subsequently, in 1945, Stalin declared Chiang to be the legitimate ruler of China, and preferable to the Chinese communists. China was one of the main sources of conflict between Stalin on the one hand, and Trotsky and the Left Opposi- tion on the other. Stalin merged Chinese Communist Party with the capitalist Kuomintang, forcing upon it the programme and organizational discipline of Chinese nationalism. This disarmed the Communist Party in the face of an inevitable right-wing turn once the feudal reaction had been defeated and a compromise secured with imperialism. Lenin, in his Theses on the National and Colonial Question (July, 1920), had dealt with relations between com- munist and bourgeois national- ist parties: "The Communist International should collabor- ate provisionally with the revolutionary movement of the colonies and backward countries, and even form an alliance with it, but it must not amalgamate with it: it must unconditionally maintain the independence of the prole- tarian movement, even if it is only in an embryonic stage?

Stalin, declared however, that Chiang Kai-shek's bour- Kuomintang, was tionary bloc of four classes'— the workers, capitalists, peas- ants and landlords. The leaders Kuomintang were happy to use the com- munists as a weapon against their rivals, the foreign capital- ists. In 1924 they adopted a policy of friendship with the Soviet Union, co-operation with the communists and mobilization of the masses— though even at that stage their wing right violently was opposed to this move. This danger was ignored by Stalin, even though there was early evidence of anti-com- munist moves in the Kuomin- tang. In May, 1924, the Whampoa military academy-which was to become Chiang's armed base-was established with.

Russian funds and with Russian advisers, and Chiang was installed as director.

But as the peasants began to challenge the landlords, a split developed among the Whampoa cadets. The sons of landlord families formed the right-wing Sun-Yat Sen society the and communist cadets formed the League of Military Youth. workers, too, tried to The break through the restriction placed on them by the com- me sday March 8, 1972 , Kai-shek? Part 1 munists, who were acting on he- the line from Moscow trans- mitted through the Communist International's chief adviser in China, Borodin. In 1925 the Canton-Hong- Kong strikes were held back by the Stalinists, who later claimed that the workers were 'not ready' to move on to revolution. Trotsky answered: 'Let us admit, that the Cantonese workers were still too weak to establish their own power. What, generally, is the weak of the masses? Their in- spot clination to follow the ex- ploiters. In this case the first duties of revolutionists is to help the workers liberate themselves from servile confi- dence. 'Nevertheless, the work done by the bureaucracy of the Comintern was diametrically opposed to this. It inculcated in the masses the notion of the necessity to submit to bourgeoisie and it declared that the enemies of the bourgeoisie were their ene- mies." This insistence that the workers and peasants should go no further than fighting the enemies of the Chinese bourgeoisie played right into the hands of Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang certainly needed the communists at this stage. The imperialists, realizing that their own direct oppression merely stirred up more revolutionary oppositioi, came to rely more and more the anti- on nationalist forces in China- as in the East River Wars of 1925, for example. Stalin: Ignored the dangers imperialists' direct The allies were the Chinese com- for pradores, the brokers foreign capital — a powerful the bourgeoisie section interests intertwined whose with those of the imperialists.

This section of the bourgeoisie clashed with the nationalist their rivals, aims of who dreamed of competing with, and eventually replacing, the imperialists in industry and ith trade. In the main, the old warlord caste, who were based also on the landlords in the country- side, were the instruments of behalf of the resistance on anti-nationalist bourgeoisie.

In order to use the strength of the Chinese masses against these forces, the nationalist bourgeoisie required a left face. At one time even the Canton Chamber of Commerce used to end its policy state- Long Live the World ments Sun Yat Sen (seated), the founder of In 1927 Chiang turned on the Communi Revolution'! But the nationalist bour- geoisie had more in common with the foreign capitalists than they had with their own workers. Everybody recog- nized this, except the Stalin- ists. For example, at the height of the Shanghai General Strike of 1925, the imperialist 'North China Daily News' addressed itself to the nationalist Shang- hai capitalists: 'We know by long years of friendly association with you, that you do not sympathize with the rioters and strikers."

This struck home because the striking workers, regret- tably, did not always make the desirable distinction between foreign and Chinese employers.

And the Chinese employers collaborated with the imperial- ists to break the strike.

Harold Isaacs also describes under of the natlonalist Kuomintang and Chian Communists. Above: The beheading of a Con a banquet in Shanghai in 1926 at which the spokesman for the foreign capitalists declared: 'Why not set up a different leadership from that to which they (the workers) have been accustomed? It needs men like some we have here tonight.'

And the spokesman for the Chinese employers replied: 'For our respective and common interests we must by all means worse conflagra- prevent a tion than that of last year."

Yet, in 1926, not only was Chiang Kai-shek elected Hon- orary President of the Com- munist International, but an extreme right-wing member of the Kuomintang - Hu Han Minh, a landlord who had been implicated in the murder of communists-was admitted to the sixth plenum of the Com- munist International and elec- ted to the committee of the Peasants' International as a and Chlang Kal-shek (centre) of a Communist prisoner In Shanghal representative of the Chinese peasants. (Contrast that with Lenin's of the Kautskyite rejection Independent Social Democratic of Germany, which Party applied for membership of the Communist International in 1920, and the expulsion of the Italian Socialist Party from the International, also in 1920.)

Yet that same year, Chiang Kai-shek disarmed the Hong Kong strike committee, placed all Soviet advisers under house arrest and jailed 50 leading communists in the military units. He still needed the com- munists — but on his own terms.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

1 Leon Trotsky: Problems of the Chinese Revolution', p. 254.

'Tragedy of the , p. 83. s Isaacs op. cit. p. 86.

BY TOM KEMP

A TRADE UNION STRATEGY IN

THE COMMON

MARKET.

The Programme of the Belgian Trade Unions. Edited by Ken • Coates. spokesman Books. £1.25. The title of this book is something of a misnomer. It does not contain a strategy for the trade unions in the Common Market, but pre- sents the Programme of Workers' Control adopted early in 1971 by the Belgian General Federation of Labour, which has close links with the Belgian Socialist Party.

The programme is very much in the reformist tradition of Social Democracy, European albeit of a more 'classic' type than that represented by the Labour Party in Britain. This much is admitted by Ken Coates in his introduction who says 'it remains a reform programme whilst continuing the spirit of contestation and struggle'.

What the programme puts for- is a of peaceful ward kind syndicalism in which, step by will takè workers step, over control of the economy. Coates observes: 'Of course, there is no authority will guarantee that a peaceful revolution to allow consolidate itself peacefully: but equally, there is not the slightest that the chance people will awaken in a violent revolution unless they are thwarted in the attempt to make a non-violent one.' The 'of course' is deliberate and shows that Coates has read much— some but not very history. Does he really suppose that big business is going to peacefully abdicate at all levels as the Programme assumes. Such

BY JACK GALE

'Race, Culture and Intelligence'.

and Editors: Ken Richardson David Spears. Associate Editor: Martin Richards. Penguin. 40p.

205 pages. The American psychologist Arthur Jensen and his sup- porter in this country, H. J.

Eysenck, claim that there are intelligence differences in between the races which can be traced to genetic superior- ity—for instance, of American whites over American blacks.

These statements are scientific- ally invalid. But that is not the point. The purpose behind them is not scientific but political.

Academics who now the (more accurately, 'pseudo-scientific') are therefore playing Eysenck's game.

The dispute is only meaningful if seen as a reflection of the class When Rose Luxemburg called meant by mass strike action not Utopian programme could only have a been drawn up by self-important bureaucrats • imbued thoroughly with reformist ideas. The Programme puts forward no more than a blueprint for a gradual transition to "socialism', which is the counterpart to the gradualism of parliamentary social-democracy. To evoke Rosa Luxemburg in this connection is an outrage.

She would have poured scorn on its compilers and on its English editor. When she called on workers before 1914 to 'learn to speak Belgian', she meant by mass strike action, not by sup- porting the Utopian schemes of trade union officials. Can Rosa Luxemburg, or any Marxist, be envisaged supporting the view of the Programme that 'It is a matter of taking an in- creasing number of problems out arbitrary control of management and submitting them to the control of workers in order progressively to acquire the which belong to the rights workers'. In short, the Programme can be dismissed as not only worth- but dangerous. It : gives less, the impression that by workers trade union action they can take over from management step by step, that they do not require a revolutionary party and that the class struggle can be con- fined to negotiation over baize- covered tables conflicts within capitalism. That is why a similar dispute raged during the years of crisis pre- ceding the victory of Hitler in Germany and why the 'theories' of genetic superiority have always flourished in S Africa, Rhodesia southern and the states America. Throughout its history, im- perialism has fostered and encouraged such ideas. The question is therefore not simply 'internal to academic life', as Liam Hudson claims in this book. It is, of course, useful to have a concentrated 'refutation of Jensenism', even if here and there the ideas of others are presented in new guise. But the question arises of whether there is any value in prolonging the Eysenck contro- versy in this form. It provides a field-day for more or less academics. But once garrulous you've established that IQ tests the ability • to do IQ measure tests and nothing else, that so- 'cross-cultural' called tests are useless, and that psychometrics (the 'science' of testing) produces the rationalization that failures ought to fail, there seems little point in re-establishing it over and over again. To overdo this is to lend credence to the claim that the stance adopted by Eysenck for political and social reasons is a scientific for serious matter discussion. was certainly done last This summer when at least one of these contributors-John Rex- appeared in a television 'scientific' workers to 'speak ot Utopian schemer least the At their that project of corporatist cancer further integration movement into union ist state. The Programme a series of gui down avoiding this WILd L doubtivi somenow from union methods. envisage the onto the workers ing to become maste own destinies The book makes no the Belgian 1960-1961 and the trench 1968. programme with "cear con cause it really more doing. are already Apart from forgotten or simply for an airing that they rea to show get rid of capita The and gives some idea in this supporters To model. volume is worthy of discussion with Eyser The significance theories is that they persuade oppressed their accept direct justify when they don't. Whether Eysenck doesn't this not this nrecent debate between the and 'progressive' academic worl the hide its ultimate pr From This worth nothing that a the contributors are refugees em placeable trom and vity of Marxism. Theories which can justity racialism, futed surels in ield. Nobody is goin vincer ov use arcane or the other Certainly been dissuaded from I superior pointed long hanging through practice. himself. It is in this educator must himsel ted'. (Marx: bach'.) Capitalism seeks 'education' torrent af talk fines of the school ro lecture hall. Revolutionaries out and change practice. vith Eysenck. oppressed peoples to matter never-ending reen the reactionar (liberal) emic world serves imate practical use. standpoint it is to iels and John Rex- placcable opponents which can be used to _cannot academic the he argument one way om hisactived Marx araments. that him, actice, man changes 'the isi selt beat educa- Feur- seeks to present schoal room and the people Workors Pross, W Mrs. Marcos, wife of the Philippines president, has just been visiting Britain. She is regarded as the power behind the throne in Manila.

But her stay here was hardly Philippines' President Marcos earth - shattering affairs of state. It was the education of exclusive children her very who are too exceptional to be educated in their own country.

Her daughters, Imee (16) and Irene (11) are studying at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus in Mayfiela Old Palace, nick- studying at Worth Abbey in Sussex. The authorities at the girls' that school had suggested to Oxford Imee should go while 'Bong Bong's' tutors had suggested that he pursue his studies in science in which he excels. Following this tiring mission paid for by the workers and peasants of the Philippines- Mrs Marcos will go to Spain (where else?) for a rest.

"This is the police', said a voice on the telephone to an agricultural co-operative asso- ciation in Mito, Japan. 'We are going to conduct a robbery drill at your office'. Two hours later a masked man carrying shotgun at the association's appeared office and helped himself to 410,000 yen (about £450). He tied up one official, then dis- appeared after giving office girls a receipt for the money.

Several hours later the truth finally dawned - the robbery had been a real hold- Police said the smooth- up. talking man apparently took advantage of security alerts set off by a series of recent rob- at farmers' organiza- beries in tions several parts of Japan. • Prose, Wadnesday March 8, 1972 PAGE 9 America, the Beautiful. The Fifth Federal Reserve Virginia, Bank in Richmond, decided to hold a conference on security. An argument broke out and one guard was killed and three others injured in a gunfight.

like Anyone to open an the Fifth with account Federal? An E German news report boasted the other day that the kidneys of an E Berliner killed in an accident were trans- planted to two Czechoslovaks.

'Zeitung' said: 'This is one of the first results of a new organization for co-operation kidney in transplantations inside socialist countries.'

A novel idea has been pro- posed in the Soviet Union to try and fill the huge stadiums and make them pay. A Soviet newspaper has proposed the creation of a new kind of 'sporting theatre'-a of grandiose combination sports tournament and variety show. idea in The appeared 'Sovietsky Sport'. Its author- a stage producer and a sport referee suggested the creation of a state sports review en- semble under the auspices of the Soviet State Sports Com- mittee. The ensemble could hire variety and circus artistes, engage poets, composers and dramatists to write words and music, and put on sporting show events, gymnastics and physical training displays, pre- senting the best-known Soviet sports veterans-all as part of the same show. The Soviet Union has more than 20 big sports palaces which were finding difficulty in paying their way because they were not used enough, the article said. It suggested that the sports ensemble could mount 250-275 performances a year, which would pull in an estimated 17 million spectators, or a 50,000 crowd each performance. Official culture is so dull is the sort of scheme the bureaucracy. If Solyhensy- tin was to be allowed to give a reading in any stadium, he would pack them in.

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Determined to march Varying reception from labour movement PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednesday March 8, 1972

BY OUR OWN REPORTERS

STEPHEN JOHNS, IAN YEATS,

DAVID MAUDE, PHILIP WADE

AND GARY GURMEET

ALMOST TWO weeks ago two Kirkby girls, Margaret and Ann Roan, returned home from the Liverpool- London march after Margaret was told she had fractured a bone in her foot.

To everyone's surprise they came to Northampton from Liverpool on Sunday to rejoin the march and brought their brother Harry.

The of how they story searched far and wide for the march, spending pounds in the process, is a real tribute to the spitit and determination em- bodied in the Right-to-Work campaign. upset when they I was very told me at Bolton hospital that I'd fractured a bone in my foot.

Liverpool the The day in ґ'a said broken toe doctor my and I had to rest it for ten days, Margaret told me. I told the doctor about want- ing to get back on the march. He was quite sympathetic, but when said I should go in the he I didn't like the idea. I wanted march. to 'Our mother was upset when four home after only we came days and she tried to help us in every way, added Ann. Then Margaret explained the fantastic lengths she and her before making sister went to contact with us again on Sunday.

'We tried everything to get I was determined to come back. back. Although I didn't know Young deal the great about Socialists, I knew the march was a fight against unemployment and the Tories. 'We phoned police stations all over to see if they knew where you were, but no one seemed tr have any information. 'We got our dole and went to Manchester because thought We you'd be there. But even Granada Television couldn't tell us any- thing, has said Margaret, who on the dole six months. been 'I was beginning to give up until of ever finding you hope Young Kirkby someone from Socialists came round to see us.

So Ann and I went collecting for the Right-to-Work campaign and giving leaflets out at the day the collieries. One we saw advert in Workers Press for the Sun- Northampton meeting. On day caught train from we St £2.60 Lime and it cost us each for the fare. And we had to change three times. the actors 'When in we saw the Guildhall, we knew we had made it. I'd never been so upset in all my life when I left you at said Margaret. Bolton,' Margaret, Ann and Harry Roan Newport marched with us to Pagnell in Buckinghamshire Monday. This little Tory town hasn't exactly taken us to their hearts.

The police almost went into state of panic when they heard

CAV ROCHESTER WORKERS

we were coming. troWle there goinceman be 'Was any asked one policeman assured him thered been there'd bother since no Liverpool would and one trouble him in Newport Pagnell.

GRAVESEND

Kent-to- gave London marchers a jobs noisy Nevertheless, everywhere we send off. Workers waved from went selling papers, there seemed windows, factory and office to be a policeman just round the and General Workers' Transport corner. stewards working Union shop for Foster Wheeler at Northfleet The dynamic life led by the well Does for most he rest citizens town's 5.000 was 400-word edi- almost illustrated by the torial in the local paper devoted time cars and lorries began to need for a toot their horns in support.

-wait for it—the to town band! for marchers The out set We have to thank the kind Swanscombe- —a small, poor town friends who provided a splendid on the road to Dartford, heavily hit by the big sackings in the well the hall as as presenting Thamesside paper mills—in heavy marchers with a crate of milk, rain after spending the night in cocoa and sugar. doubt the without place unexpected most sleeping of the march—a Sikh temple.

FOR GARY GURMEET'S

Although the resident

REPORT OF THE MARCHERS

two priests at the temple could speak

FROM

SOUTHAMPTON

TO no English, they offered through

LONDON SEE FRONT PAGE

up for interpreter to put us an a week if we wanted it. Ten per cent of Gravesend's population

ANN, HARRY AND MARGARET ROAT

/ORKERS TAKING A KEEN INTEREST IN THI

are immigrants although nearly all are unemployed. Party Swanscombe Labour promptly handed over the keys of their hall so the marchers could lunch and dry out. by GAT joint decision taken shop stewards'

SOGAT

committee at Sittingbourne after a Young Socialist delegation turned up in reply to an invita- tion to speak at the meeting was in the face for the slap marchers. The delegation were virtually the road flung out after on stewards told them they had been advised by the TUC 'not to have anything to do with the Socialist Labour League'. Asked by the delegation if they were prepared to see the unem- ployed starving in the road rather than help them the stewards replied 'yes'. Yet Gravesend and Dartford

RET ROAN: DETERMINATION PAID OFF

ST IN THE DEAL-LONDON MARCHERS

together have nearly 4 per cent unemployment and officials admit the chances of work are nil.

Both are commuter towns hit by the twin effects of doorstep sackings and redundancies London itself. There are about 1,700 out of work and only 200 vacancies. The marchers arrived in Dart- ford on Monday night and were convenor of welcomed by ETU Electricity Board's the London Meridian district, Dave Kennard.

Mr Kennard said: 'I think the Labour Party and trade union leaders who have not supported this march are despicable. I hope the marchers achieve their objec- tive of forcing this Tory govern- ment to resign.' Like the Medway, with 11,000 out of its 250,000 population unemployed, Dartford lives with one foot in the post-war boom and recession is still only a dark rumour.

WE DEMAND

THE

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TO

WORK

A DELEGATION of workers from the strike-bound British Aircraft Corporation plants in Lancashire • will come to London this Sun- day for the Right-to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley. Men at the BAC factories have been on strike for almost four weeks in support of wage claims. The shop stewards' committee has decided to send the delegation to London and to pay all their expenses. This fine gesture is being made the strikers' despite own: difficulties in raising support in the trade union move- ment for their strike. The decision to support the campaign followed a speech to the committee by a leading Liverpool trade unionist who is backing the Socialists' jobs Young marches. SWINDON Trades Council have gixen f45 to the Right-.

to-Work campaign; Joint Shop Stewards at Standard- Triumph Motors, Coventry, have donated £50; £5.16 has been collected in the Main- tenance Department of Omes and Faulkner at Colnbrook.

A further collection by ASTMS members at Queen Mary has raised College Southgate £5.21. New 94NE AUEW have donated £2 and Faversham NUPE £2.

ETU CONVENOR

DAVE KENNARD

UNEMPLOYMENT in the Oxford area stands at just over half the national average, but leaders of the organized labour movement laid on a wonderful reception on Mon- day for the Right-to-Work marchers from S Wales. Our reception was all the more impressive, because only 2.2 per cent of workers there are jobless. It was clearly our policies which counted above .

everything else. At Woodstock roundabout, two miles out, we were Joined by a 12-piece band made up of city's carworkers from the British-Leyland car plants.

With them were representatives of the Oxford Trades Council, the AUEW district committee, the massive T&GWU 5/55 and branches, the BMC 5/60 car Service joint shop stewards committee, the T&GWU 5/59 bus branch and the Export Packing Service shop stewards' committee at Banbury. All these sections-and most of the rest of the organized trade union movement in area—have backed the campaign.

Only the official Labour Party leaders and the local CP have fought viciously against it.

Two incidents during the 80- strong demonstration which led and around the marchers into the city were significant of the nature of the struggle. are you?' shouted one irate who saw only the front carworkers' march. 'f40 a week all of you and you still want more!' Gesturing towards the khaki- clad Swansea-London marchers, one worker from the PSF body plant retorted: "Yes, luv, that's us—but what about them?' The second incident occurred Morris passed the as we i Radiators plant where one of a group of workers waiting at the gate handed £2 to Oxford Young Socialists collecting for the cam- paign. Meanwhile, on the other side of the road, a young Officers Training Corps member was con- fronted by collectors at the gates of pukka King Edward School. 'Right to work,' he whined, 'Oh ;. I'll just have to yes, well, er • be going now. Tory Oxford maintains its bitter hostility to the marchers.

Written on the faces of some well-heeled shoppers as we marched through the city centre was something like dread. For others there were more clearly memories of the 1930s ... but a recognition that here was some- thing different. Bill Sallis, 23 years an inspector at Morris Motors, remembers the when Welsh days ore-war hunger marchers arrived in the town desperate for work, forced undercut the rates to try and paid to workers already holding jobs in the car factories.

something Your march is completely different,' he told me.

'And it is not a protest either, but a fight Les Davies, representing Oxford Trades Council, had greeted the marchers at Woodstock round- about with hopes for their WE'VE MOVED on the Glasgow- London march into the Home Counties through Buckingham- shire to Bedford, where we stayed on Monday night. This is solid Tory country marched through an and we amazed town centre. But for one man the campaign brought back memories. Pensioner James Walsh gave wave and a cheer. He us a remembers the time nearly 40 when the hunger years ago marches passed through.+.

last lap 'They were on their to London-tired and very weary and passing. through places like Bedford where no one wanted them.. They were like people

CARWORKERS JOIN THE SWANSEA-LO

success and warnings drawn from his experience of mass unemploy- ment in the NE. He told me: 'I had to jostle with hundreds for work up there in the 1930s. But those days we hadn't spirit to stand up and fight for our rights—the spirit we must encourage in the youth today.

If we don't stand up against unemployment, we'll be helping second class create to a society. Three-quarters of the living off population would be the other people's backs.'

Mr Davies added that the majority of workers in the area had been prepared to 'sink what- ever political differences they have with Young the may Socialists' and back the Right-to- Work campaign. But a notable exception had Party. the Communist been They've proved how serious they are about fighting unemployment by not being here today,' he said.

A staunch Labour Party mem- he congratulated the Young ber, Socialists Socialist and the Labour League for 'doing some- thing positive about unemploy-.

ment. On behalf of City of Oxford Motor Services busmen, T&GWU 5|59 branch secretary Pat Ward brought a donation of £20 to Woodstock roundabout. 'Busmen are fully in support of the Right-to-Work campaign, me. From British- he told Leyland's service division, where raised f45 a raffle has already for the campaign, senior T&GWU steward George Morrison hoped that the marches would be 'only the start of many such actions'.

Although joblessness is low in the Oxford area as a whole, it is in within high pockets Charlie Bond, senior T&GWU Packing steward Export at Services, Banbury, blames much of the 4.1 per cent figure in his leaders' the union area on productivity-dealing policies.

He explained why the T&GWU 5/104 branch there was supporting the Right-to-Work campaign. 'We have to mount a challenge to the government,' he said. 'But from another planet to the Tories round here,' ; he said. From the looks we got from the fur-coated ladies some of in who were shopping this is un- county town, the same doubtedly the case today.

The Northampton rally is still a major talking point and our os joined the latest two recruits it. Steve march because Miller (17), who's been out of work 18 months, told me: 'When I heard the cheering and singing and saw all the other marchers, I knew was a serious thing. They were deter- mined to fight for the right to work and it made me want to join them.'

ANSEA-LONDON MARCHERS AS THEY

PASS THROUGH OXFORD

the policies of the present union leadership are, in effect, increas- ing, unemployment. 'Recently the General and Municipal Workers' Union signed a productivity deal with Alcan, the longest established one of local plants, which put 900-odd workers on the dole. One of the other plants, AP, also had one.

'But we've begun the fight back. A strike at my factory smashed a particularly vicious deal. And we wish your campaign every success.' After a brief meeting held in driving hail in the city centre, the marchers to St went Catherine's College, where they handed £14.10 for the were campaign by Junior Common Room president Alan Roff. Tea, and comfortable facilities for a private meeting of the whole march, were provided by the students. Shop stewards from the T&GWU 5/60 car-body plant branch greeted the marchers during a slap-up meal they had laid on at a restaurant. Later in the evening, a town hall meeting drew a 100-strong audience to hear marchers David Fry, secretary of the Irish Young and Brian Williams Socialists, George and Morrison, _ Charlie

T&GWU

Boyd and Bob Fryer, senior steward at Morris Motors, Cowley. Brian Williams, a 20-year-old worker unemployed building from Swansea, received enthusi- astic applause for his outline of the march's progress and support in the working class. Insisted Bob Fryer: 'You can't fight unemployment without fighting capitalism. "The youth are showing us the way.' Our warmest thanks to all those union branches and individuals who helped in us Oxford: to Brian Davis, a worker from Pressed Steel Fisher, who with breakfast and helped us treatment for feet, and to the Oxford Co-operative Society, who gave us both accommodation for the night and food to keep us on the road. His friend John Frisby (18) said: "The march is obviously having a big effect everywhere - for example we are fighting against the Tories because of it. I think the movement will grow because in places like Leicester everyone is against the government now?

We have split from our Liverpool comrades once again because of the enormous prob- lems involved in catering for a joint march. But the two marches are making their parallel ways to London which is now within 50 miles. Last night we stayed at Stevenage New Town. Workers Press, Wednesday March 8, 1972 PAGE 11

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wedneaday i The five Right-to-Work marches from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Deal and Southampton converge on London for next Sunday's

GIANT RALLY

at the

EMPIRE POOL,

WEMBLEY,

At 3 p.m. the marchers will be welcomed at a meeting. At 7.30 p.m. there will be top- line entertainment Introduced by Joe Melia and Stuart Henry. Latest addition to the star-studded bill is the sizzling, stomping group at present nearing No. 1 in the Top Ten with 'Look Wot You Dun'

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edneaday March 8, 1972 Skelmersdale embarrasses Stalinists: A

DELIBERATE

piece of news suppression occurred in yesterday's 'Morning Star' when it reported that Cllr Philip Bond, chairman of Council, Skelmersdale and leader of the Labour Group, is to be expelled from the Labour Party. The Stalinists' paper correctly reports that Cllr Bond refused to sit at a banqueting table with of Kent in the Duchess protest at increased school meal charges.

It correctly reports that Cllr Bond assisted in the distribution of milk to schoolchildren against the Tory cut. It correctly reports that the local Labour management com- mittee has said 'Clir Bond's con- duct and the manner of his actions have been inconsistent with the requirements of mem- bership and office of the Labour Party. What 'Morning Star' the is that Cllr Bond's suppresses conflict the right wing with came to a head over the sup- he to the Young port gave Socialists' Right-to-Work march from Liverpool to London.

On Monday, February 21, ClIr Bond publicly greeted the marchers from the balcony of Skelmersdale town hall. The 'Morning Star' kept quiet about that too. but the Com- munist Party members in Skel- mersdale know it happened.

They joined the march with their branch banner and declared their intention to write to the 'Morning Star' supporting the march. These and other elements in the Skelmersdale labour and trade union movement must come to the defence of Cllr Bond, who now faces a vicious witch-hunting attack by the Labour Party right wing. Docks stop ABOUT 10,000 London dockers vesterday backed unofficial an one-day token strike in protest surplus dockers being against returned to the Dock Labour Board register. The stoppage coincided with al tribunal sitting at Tilbury to hear a docker's appeal against being returned to the register.

WHEN will Bert Ramelson, Communist Party industrial his mouth organizer, open about the behaviour of Mick McGahey, Stalinist President of the Scottish Area of the National Union of Mine- workers? Last week McGahey instructed miners who had refused to work alongside men who had been

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E AND S England will be cloudy with occasional rain.

In W Scotland, N Ireland and the Isle of Man it will be mainly dry with some sunny or clear spells. Wales and England will be mainly cloudy with scattered showers. It will be rather cold in E Scotland, and SE England. Else- where, temperatures will be near normal for early or a little below March. Thursday and Outlook for cloudy with Friday: Generally some showers, chiefly in the E and S and sunny intervals in the W. Rain in the SW on Friday.

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CARWORKERS ESCORTED

THE SWANSEA-LONDON MARCHERS AND LOCAL TRADE

UNIONISTS ON A MARCH INTO THE CITY

AN UNNAMED para- Rubber bullets building. The were fired the at youths. brought an object fr troop corporal yester- Then day he saw two behind his back and described to the smoking objects which the same time appea Widgery Tribunal how were thrown the to strike match or at he shot suspected building his wall with nail-bomber. He reported this brought his to He said took troops the platoon commander together. position up in and told to shoot assumed was derelict building nail bombers. lighting a any nail looking William St, Then, but the corporal I fired at him, a group of 'yobs' started testified, he corporal. saw a man 50 throwing bottles and His first metres away who shot mis. other objects at them. appeared from behind a he fired SO again

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Attorney-General, question to Labour MP for Islington SW, is Sir and is due Peter Rawlinson. to be answered next Monday.

calling for legal proceedings Ministers responsible for Cunningham has also tabled a against Commons motion calling on the authorizing what he calls the House to 'express its shame that 'criminal assaults' committed its own negligence in the control during interrogation of

IRA

of the executive resulted in the suspects. British military forces of use by The demand is made in d illegal methods of interrogation against prisoners on many occa- sions over the last decade'.

Toolroom out THE toolroom strike which has stopped production at Massev- Ferguson's tractor factory. Coventry, is to continue.

Eightr toolroom workers went on official strike last week after failing to agree over a new wage formula. expelled from the union to get They have voted to continue the back to work. and will meet again Now he has publicly rebuked next Monday. Polkemmet and Whitrigg

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men are meeting Amal- The branches for expelling the two Union of Engineering ramated men who worked during the Workers officials in Coventry recent coal strike. today, when 400 toolroom- right The branches had 'no rated workers, who came out to take action, according to in sympathy in unconstitu- McGahey. 'Neither Polkemmet tional stoppage, are also meeting nor Whitrigg were entitled to union officials. decisions. take action on their They should have reported the Brough vote matter to the executive.'

What happens if the branches report the the Scot- matter to THE seven-week strike of 1.800 tish executive now? Hawker Siddeley's engineers at 'The executive will not be con- factory at Brough, near Hull, is sidering the cases of Mr Robert- continue meeting macc Ferguson' Mr said son voted yesterday to stay out until McGahey in the very next breath.

£4-a- the management meet Then, incredibly, he announced week pay claim in full. without a blush: •We shall protect 100 per cent Yarrow idle trade unionism within the mining industry Industrial Relations Relations Act or no Industrial THE SHUTDOWN of Yarrow's Act!' the Clyde is Scotstoun yard Of course, if people do can to continue following the -including unani- exactly thev lice- as yesterday working during a strike mous decision by and steelworkers to reject a company then you've stay in the union. Next got 100 per cent trade unionism offer of £2. moves to end five-week will the strike start for what it's worth. 'So this week when Boiler- Ramelson-and later come on, makers' Society officials meet the Gollan. secretary lohn Clyde Shipbuilders' the National Association McGahev sits, on for informal talks Executive of vour party. Speak about an increased offer. up!

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BRITISH Rail.. pleaded its serious financial situation against the unions' claim for substantial wage rises at talks in London yesterday. They said they expected a £20m deficit for 1971. The talks, which continue today, cover the pay of nearly 300,000 railway workers, includ- ing staff, footplate and manual grades. Ray Buckton, general secretary of of the .. Associated Society Locomotive Engineers and Fire- men, was asked after the morning session if the management thought its financial statement would get the unions to lower their claim. He declared: 'If they think that, they are not going to be successful.' Management said the talks had got off to a useful start.

The unions have never spelled out what they mean by 'sub- stantial, but the union delegation to yesterday's talks made clear it was over 15 per cent. Southern Region drivers are threatening industrial action if there is no settlement by April 10. They may well be joined by other sections of railway workers if the talks break down. Unions and management cleared the way for yesterday's talks with an interim agreement redundancies. The manage- on ment agreed to a 30-day suspen- sion of redundancy notices issued to rail shopmen, locomen and signalmen. In the meantime there are to be further talks next week on a higher union for request redundancy pay, especially for Inne-service railwaymen.