Workers Press no. 712

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY MARCH 13, 1972 • No. 712 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

8,500 GREET RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCHERS

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RIGHTTO WORK

DEAL JOYONDON

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TORYISM

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS

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- NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK

M. GUINESS FUNT LARRY ADLER

ANNIE ROSS

VINEGAR JOE

ROCK ROL ALL SARS THE PAUL ONES BAND

CAMPAIGN SUNDAY MARCH 12 mi

SPEECH BY G. HEALY, NATIONAL SECRETARY OF THE

RAM JOHN HOLDER

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS GREAT rally serves notice on the Tory goyern- ment and all those right-wing Labour and trade union traitors who serve its purpose within the labour move- ment, that the working class is determined to put an end to capitalism as soon as it possibly can.

In greeting the Right-to-Work marchers, we greet the most decisive section of the vanguard of the working class. For their courageous and determined march to London has demonstrated the power of the working class in four basic experiences.

FIRST, the marchers could not have reached London without the wholehearted suDDort which thev received from the rank.

and-file members of the Labour Party and the trade unions.

SECONDLY,

the TUC, acting under pressure from the because Tory cabinet, banned the marches through the introduction of the "black banned the "Hunger circular' with which they the 1930s, Marches of practically the whole of the full-time officials of the trade union movement placed one obstacle after another in the way of the marchers.

anger of the rank and file against the Tory government swiftly swept the 'black circular' aside and gave all- out aid to the marchers.

THIRDLY,

the Labour Party rendering the most valuable sup- port to the marches. NEC proscribed the marches and of towns locked main lesson from all thes accommodation. that the British trom OUt as was more moan ouser oy tre WorkIng Class breakin! action acto defied the local Labour Parties decisively from the stranglehold and and proscription of bureaucracy is striving to express itself politically as a class came unstintingv to the aid of the marches. was the great political gain from the victorious miners'

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the Communist strike. the Tory proved that Party fully supported

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY MARCH 13, 1972 O No. 712 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

8,500 GREET RICHT-TO-WORK MARCHERS

TO WORK

YOUTH LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST

TORYISM

CONCERT 7.30-м

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

SPIKE MILLICAN -

SLADE

RALLY 3-+

A NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK

M GUNNESS FUNT LARRY ADLER

ANNIE ROSS

VINEGAR JOE

ROCK ROLL HE SARS THE PAUL ONES BAND

SPEECH BY G. HEALY, NATIONAL SECRETARY OF THE

MARCH I2 GE MELY

RAM JOHN HOLDER

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SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS GREAT rally serves notice on the Tory goyern- ment and all those right-wing Labour and trade union traitors who serve its purpose within the labour move.

ment, that the working class is determined to put an end to capitalism as soon as it possibly can.

In greeting the Right-to-Work marchers, we greet the most decisive section of the vanguard of the working class. For their courageous and determined march to London has demonstrated the power of the working class in four basic experiences.

FIRST,

the marchers could not have reached London without the rank- which they received from Loe wnolenearted support and-file members of the Labour Party and the trade unions.

SECONDLY,

TUC, acting under pressure from because the the Tory cabinet, banned the marches through the introduction of the 'Hunger 'black circular' with which they banned the sallic Marches' of the 1930s, practically the whole of the full-time offcials of the trade union movement placed one obstacle after another in the way of the marchers.

The mounting of the rank and file against the Tory "black circular' aside and gave all- government swiftly swept the out aid to the marchers.

THIRDLY,

the Labour Party rendering the most valuable sup- NEC proscribed the marches and port to the marches. locked The lesson from all these them from accommodation. British capercanes unle • Inis was more than onser ov the working class breaking local Labour Parties decisively from the stranglehold action who defied the and of bureaucracy and is striving proscription to aid of to me express inserr bonucaly as a cass the marches. This was the great political from the victorious miners'

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday March 13 WHILE Franco's police gun d coast, a delegation of Soviet offi orders for the Russian merchan The delegation comprises Koustov, head of the Soviet commercial offices in Paris, Morosov, chief engineer of Sudoimport of Moscow, to- gether with a Mr Valdivieso, _of Con- joint director strunaves, a Spanish concern.

At the weekend, workers in EI Ferrol buried one of two police strikers killed by fusillade outside the state-owned Bazan Naval yards. Thirty others were wounded. The whole town closed down mark of Saturday as a respect for the dead strikers, despite the presence of three flying battle destroyers flags anchored offshore. El Ferrol is the home town of dictator Francisco Franco, whose mounted dominates the Statue town's main square. Three thousand workers in the yards strike Bazan are on demanding higher wages and the right to choose their own union representatives. Under fascist labour law, the workers regimented into are state Sindicatos. and . genuine unions are rigorously outlawed.

The Soviet delegation's visit at a time of mounting class struggle shows where the Kremlin stands with the fascists against the working class.

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the working class as a whole.

As our marchers were setting out from Glasgow on February 5. the working class was already poised on the threshold of a new stage of political develop- ment. Those of us who followed the marchers day by day could see it reflected in the growing political maturity of the voung people themselves. By the time the marchers reached London on Friday even- youngest and ins. the most immature of the marchers were already veterans of the revolu- tionary struggle. It was not just Sll. and Workers Press the which had performed this trans- formation. It was the day-by-day with i working class contact which itself was and is visibly growing in political stature.

This new stage of mass poli- tical development is chiefly characterized I by an enormous polarization of class forces. The working class is thrusting for- ward its demands for improved wages and living standards. The is in a deep Tory government crisis, with the Labour and trade leaders engaging in secret union coalition arrangements with the Heath cabinet. This is especially the case over Ulster, prices and incomes, the Common Market and even the Industrial Relations Act.

Such a situation. while creating of great promise for conditions the revolutionary forces, will not The Tory government last. playing for time while preparing the counter-attack. There is no time to lose. The working class is making a great political leap and woe betide the revolutionary forces if they lag behind.

Never let us forget that the Tories are conscious that their class is in real danger. They are going to fight back like cornered rats. Those Labour and trade union leaders who help them by dis- the working arming class are nothing than the more MacDonaldites of the 1970s.

The Stalinist leadership of the Communist Party, which in its attack on the marchers aided • March 13, 1972 • gun down shipyard strikers at El viet officials is working its way rou nerchant fleet. The delegation began their col tour in Bilbao in the Astilleros Espanoles shipyards, recent scene of a bitter strike by 2,000 workers. Bilbao, along with the rest of an almost permanent state emergency as the fascist police to break up attempt organization of the Basque nationalists. A delegation from the Soviet airline, Aeroflot, and Hungarian delegations. and Rumanian attended a conference recently held in Madrid of international airlines to sort problems about the distribution of profits when two companies have flights on the same routes. Last December, the under- Secretary for Trade, Fernandez Cuesta, in a statement made in Bilbao, said that a trade agree- ment with the USSR was under discussion. 'We cannot ignore the size of the market nor the potential of the Soviet Union,' he said Stalinists' The Moscow en- thusiasm for more links with fascist Spain is clear from the fact that enterprise, the first ever 'mixed established another country by the USSR was 'Sovhispan' to aid the Soviet fleets in international fishing waters. The British Communist Party's 'Morning Star' is silent about this.

such traitors, demonstrates once again that Stalinism is the most counter - revolutionary force within the international working class in these vital days.

And that is what is so power- ful about the Trotskyist history Socialist Labour League of the : and the Young Socialists. We are the only movement that can throw open the pages of its his- lory to the tens of thousands, both voung and old, who want to 1o capitalism for end put in history Our is spotlessly ever. clean in its struggle to preserve traditions Bolshevism the alive throughout the long decades the victorious of defeat since Russian Revolution of 1917.

It is the leaders of our move- within the USSR who ment were murdered by Stalin in the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. the . YESTERDAY with the Right-1o- Work rally under way at Wem- bley, fresh donations and mess- ages of support were notified.

•Wishing you every success, in Right-to-Work campaign.' your said the shop stewards commit- Standard-Triumph (Liver- tee at pool) Limited. And they sent £20 on behalf of the whole factory.

AUEW Technical and The Supervisory Section) Bristol No.

€27.96 with the collection of 3 branch message: Our thanks to those marchers who are the fight leading against the crime of unemployment.' Electricians in Basildon have same Stalin who was in those days supported by the arch-Tory imperialist Winston Churchill.

. It is the leaders of our move- the • ment who have been expelled again and again by the Labour : right wing for fighting for Party socialist policies. The Young Socialists who organized these marches were expelled by Wilson in 1964: WE SAY today, loud and clear.

that the greatest gain which the is the working class: possesses struggle for Marxist principles personified by Leon Trotsky and the building of the International s at El Ferrol, on Spain's NW ay round the country placing eir • counter-revolutionary relation- ship, just as it kept sealed lips Stalinist Poland shipped when coal to break two key strikes in the Asturias coalfield.

-The Cemmunist Party's silence in the makes it an accomplice continuing betrayal of the Spanish working class by Stalinism. Yugoslav economy in danger DIFFICULTIES facing the Yugoslav economy have been highlighted in the latest report the economic situation on made by deputy premier Dr Sirotkovic. After a cursory reference to develop 'self- the need to management' and improve living standards, he went on to empha- 1972 would have to size that inflation, end high stabilize markets and solve what he called *the unfavourable economic position and the insolvency of the economy. All the contradictions of "socialism' in a small, backward making themselves country are regime's right- felt. The Tito ward course has led to concession after concession to the capitalist world while the economic crisis has grown worse. Committee of the Fourth Inter- national. Workers who want to fight the Tories need tools and those tools the vital principles of are Marxism. That is why we refuse to blunt these vital principles by engaging in middle-class protest stunts and fake 'unity" intrigues.

If we were to do this at such in the. i critical turning point struggle against the Tory govern- ment, then we too would be quilty of betraying the working class. Here is our authority for call- ing upon this great audience to make this Tory government re- sIgn. WE SAY lo those trade union members of the audience: the TUC has sold out to the Tory government. It has already be- made a donation of f10 and the Loughborough branch of the National Union of Vehicle Builders has send a collection totalling £12. The Labour Party Young So- cialist branch at Willesden E has passed a resolution expressing full support for the marches and the campaign 1o bring down the Tory government. •We would like to assist in any possible' the LPYS branch way said. Men at the Becton sewage site works, who have previously voted support for the campaign, have now given £15 towards the cam- paign fund. traved as it did in 1926: You Break the must act at once. unions from the capitalist state and the Tory government, clear the leaders who have be- out trayed. democratize the trade top to bottom from unions • electing new leaders who will be rank strctly controlled br the file, Only in this way can and the Industrial Relations Act be put an end to for ever. To accomplish this great task you must join the All Trades which works Unions Alliance. within the trade consistently towards achieving these unions goals.

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

WHOLESALE prices in the United States last month showed the, steepest monthly rise in a year, according to statistics released at the week- end by the Labour Department.

The February wholesale price index rose by 0.9 per cent on January's figure-equivalent to a yearly rise of nearly 11 percent.

This makes a mockery • of Nixon's much-vaunted Prices Board, which is supposed to keep price rises down to 5 per cent a year. In fact, the figures conceal an even sharner increase in the cost of living, because the rise in retail prices is invariably higher than the wholesale price rise.

Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's three-man council of economic advisers commented: It will be a matter of concern to us if we don't see a decline in inflation fairly soon? Nixon is pledged to cut the rate of inflation to between 2 and 3 per cent this vear in the run-up to November's presidential elec- tions. With his price policy in ruins, the president now has to face the prospect that the trade unions will smash his wage policy as well. The Wage Board currently considering the E IS and Gulf coast dockers' pay rise, which amounts to over 40 per cent spread over two years.

The Wage Board is supposed to keep wage rises down to 5.5 per cent a year. WE SAY to Labour Party mem- bers: You must engage immedi- ately in the fight against the right-wing leaders of your party.

Delay will breed disaster.

We will fight shoulder to shoulder with you to make the Tories resign and elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. These policies must include nationalization of all the basic industries without compensation and under workers' control. Only in this way will the Right-to- Work campaign be victorious.

A Labour government must end internment and withdraw all troops' from 1 Ulster as well as from everywhere else overseas.

It must repeal the anti-union laws and restore all basic rights of the health and social services to the working class. It must re- peal the Tory landlords' charter of the so-called Fair Rents Bill.

WE SAY to the Communist Party members. Your fight is even more fundamental. You must immedi- ately study the history of the international workers' movement and the powerful vindication of Trotskyism against Stalinism. We help stand ready and eager to you to accomplish this. For Trot- skyism today • is the only real voice of Bolshevism and com- munism.

WE SAY

• to the youth whose political shoulders have stout borne the brunt of the prepara- tory work for this great rally- and with them we include the students and young intellectuals -the old parties of Labour re- formism and Stalinism have be- trayed. Only the programme of Trotskyism, the building of parties organized volutionary within the International Commit- tee of the Fourth International can liberate yourselves and man- kind from the pauperization and bankruptcy of world capitalism and the enormous danger of the destruction of this planet in a thermo-nuclear third world war.

You must join us at once and help transform Socialist the Labour League into a revolution- You must join the ary party. Young Socialists and help trans- revolutionary it into a mass youth movement, the champions to Work, of the Right IN BRITAIN, average" personal spending on food rose by 214p- cent-a week in 1971, 10 per according to • Ministry of Agriculture survey released today.

Increased prices accounted for- most of the rise. Butter con- declined to 5 az per sumption person per week, while margarine purchases increased to 3.7 Oz.

Tehran executions ARMY firing squads in Tehran yesterday executed nine" left- wing opponents of the Shah of Iran, bringing the total executed this month to 19. production THE Common Market's largest August Thyssen- steel concern, Hutte, is to cut production fol- lowing a 71-per-cent slump in profits for the last financial year.

Managing director Dr Hans- Guenther Sohl has warned that the pressure of cost increases was still strong. Dividend was cut from 14 to 7 per cent and only kept at that level by dipping in- and extraordinary to reserves Teceipts. February's production was down 2.8 per cent on 1971. Stohl drew some consolation from a smalier fall than for the previous period and expressed the hope that a plateau would be reached.

He did not hold out any hope that earnings for the current year would improve. staunchest defenders of Old Age Pensioners, in a word, the van- guard the working class, staunchly defending and extend- ing its struggle to apply and learn from the great principles of Marxism. We throw open the doors of membership of the Socialist Labour League to all those who will unite with us in action to fight for these principles.

In return we make here and now this most solemn pledge.

To the young marchers we say.

You are our most treasured com- rades. By your march you have roused decisive sections of the werking class-to action. You have dealt a mighty blow to the bans and to the and • proscriptions Tory government. You will occupy a place of honour for all time in our great movement. We will leave no stone un- turned in preparing you for the all-important task of participat- ing and strengthening the leader- ship of the Socialist Labour League. . We call upon students and in- tellectuals in this audience to link arms in common struggle with our young marchers. Turn your backs on the corruption of capi- talism. We pledge ourselves to aid you in every way possible.

Finally, we pledge ourselves before our adult audience Labour Party and trade union members. The history of the British working class is a history of un- vanquished struggle against the capitalist and the Tory enemy. It is also the history of the most shameful betrayals by its leader- ship. The Socialist Labour League is the only authentic voice of revolutionary Marxism in Britain today. We will not betray. We march with you to final will victory. So don't delay—we need your support as much as you need the great traditions of Marxism which can only be attained through the construction of the revolutionary party. Join us at once and help to accomplish this great. historic task,

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Portugal has begun an inten- sive diplomatic campaign to gain • support for its vicious and cruel colonial wars in Africa. Marcello Prime Minister Caetano was recently host at the Azores talks between Presidents Nixon and Pompidou and Portu- Foreign Minister Dr Rui guese Patricio has just completed an official visit to Britain.

Whitehall Patricio In saw Prime Minister Edward Heath, Defence Secretary Lord Carring- ton, and the Foreign Secretary •Sir Alec Douglas Home. the first Patricio's visit was to Britain by Portuguese government official since 1960.

Portuguese The amount diplomatic activity is unusual.

Under the long reign of the dictator Salazar, Portugal refused world diplomacy. to engage Salazar never travelled outside the country and frowned on his Ministers spending time abroad.

But the increased guerrilla activity in Portugal's African Mozambique colonies — Angola, Guinea - has forced the Caetano regime to adopt 'an outward-looking' policy. Relations between Britain and Portugal have improved con- siderably since the advent of a Conservative government. particular, Portugal has received support-both moral and material -for her colonial wars. On January 9, the Portuguese 'Diario de Noticias' daily paper announced that one of the major topics to be discussed at the talks would be 'events London that will follow the agreement on the independence of Rhodesia'.

(The Pearce Commission had not even left London at that time.)

The same report also stated that Home had pledged Britain's support for Portugal's entry into the Common Market, despite the existing escudo zone free trade area comprising Portugal and the colonies. A further item was undoubt- edly the strengthening of the collaboration within the NATO alliance to help equip Portugal's 170,000 troops fighting the forces of African liberation in Mozam- Angola and Guinea— bique, FRELIMO, MPLA and PAIGC. Repression within Portugal and its African territories has usually been associated with Salazar; but in fact there has been no change Marcello under his successor, Caetano. The colonial wars are being intensified, with chemical warfare now used in Angola and about to be introduced in Guinea.

The army terror is backed by massive white settlement schemes.

General ( Kaulza de Arriaga, military commander in Mozam- and candidate for the bique Presidency of Portugal, has ex- plained the colonial policies as 'Firstly, growth of the white then secondly, the population, limitation of the black popu- lation. In Portugal itself, repression of all democratic activity con- tinues: the dismissal of the leaders of the metal workers' union, the imprisonment of the employees' leader, Daniel bank Cabrita, together with deprivation of Antonio dos Santos, the journalists' union leader.

The Foreign Minister iş not, however, the only Portuguese on an important diplomatic mission.

Recently Admiral Pereira Crespo, Minister for the Marine, headed a delegation to an international fishing conference in Russia. This move was reportedly welcomed by officials in Lisbon as an example of the 'open' attitude Portugal has to world affairs.

canvassing Not content with support from the Tories and the Stalinists, Portuguese diplomacy is casting an even wider net to the Washington State include Department. Agreement has been reached on the future use by of a vital the US Air Force on the military base at Lajes, of Terceira, island in the mid- Atlantic Azores archipelago.

this, the strength On Portugal has been promised loans totalling nearly $430m, which will undoubtedly find its way into colonies where the Portuguese it will be used in an attempt to smash the guerrilla movements.

Top: Prime Miniser of Portugal, Dr Marcello Caetano with Nixon (left) and Pompidou (right). Below: Minister for the Marine, Admiral P. Crespo. Workers Press, Workers at a . Lincolnshire freight firm are having their take-home pay slashed by a new management wages scheme. What's taking place at the firm in Grantham is particularly important because it represents a definite trend in wage relation- Britain slips further into recession, employers throughout the country will take similar measures to protect their profits.

Details of the wages scheme are revealed in a memorandum by Marshall's Limited, an express transport and haulage firm, to all staff. Marshall's hold the national contract for shirts. Ben Sherman Limited is the , parent company Trubenized Group of holding companies. Marshall's Freight bought by Sherman's December 1970 and almost at once, says one of the workers, winds of change started to blow through the company During drivers have been sacked and London depots of the firm closed Sackings included the Trans- port General Workers' Night Assemblies Bill is being arranged for March 24 in Trafalgar Square. The Bill, sponsored by Jerry Wiggins, Tory MP for Weston- super-Mare, is designed to pre- vent pop festivals being held. It seeks to prevent meetings out of doors of over 1,000 people for three hours after midnight.

But, once law, it could be used against any working-class demon- stration involving over 1,000 people at night. Bill enables local The authorities to control festivals, and ban them if they consider the site unsatisfactory, or if they think the festival does not reach proper health or fire standards. Organizers would also have to pay a deposit for clear- ing-up expenses. If a promoter's application to a council is rejected, he can appeal to a person nominated by the Minister of Environment.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday March 13, 1972 The five Right-to-Work marches organized by the Young Socialists have climaxed their fight against the Tory government by a massive rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Now a new stage of the fight opens up. All the determination and political consciousnéss raised during the nationwide marches is today turned towards making a huge success of the YS annual conference at Scarborough on April 8 and 9. Scar- borough becomes the next signpost on the march to build the revolutionary party in 1972.

In the coming weeks this page will be devoted to interviews with the young marchers.

Tory but they've been The plight of Liverpool-born ideas crystallized by the meetings we've Steve Dixon, 24, is clear had and by the sense of being in warning that however hard he one cause together. can escape tries no worker I've been very impressed wit capitalism's death agony.

he whole thing. There is a unity London Said. Steve: left a spirit that hasn't hap- a drive, university and I had high hopes pened for quite a long while in of getting a job but things have left movements. really changed in the last year associated with

RSSF

was or so. (Revolutionary •Nobody graduates at university wants arts Socialist Students' Federation) and if you don't want to go into but they hopelessly im- industry you've had it. know were practical and doing nothing at quite a lot of graduates who've had didn't all. take jobs they to really want. 'The YS marchers are going haven't had a proper job out and showing people that prepared left university, just since somebody is to act- makeshift things, and moved of the vague theorizing instead down to Kent in the hope of other left groups go in for, they the social getting something explain the situation in straight In work line but it's impossible terms and offer a programme.

"This opened march has 'It's about time somebody did my eyes to the wider problems in- something practical against this volved in unemployment. see goveinment which is taking away it's the deliberate policy all now of basic rights and after the Tories to cut back on jobs. the miners' strike the time we've It's made me want to go out and chosen couldn't be better.

do something instead of sitting 'It doesn't matter that there at home wallowing in self pity.

are only a few of us. People will 'Before I joined the march remember this march and that we're doing something concrete.'

Chatham I just had vague anti- As we walked through Wool- wich 17-year-old Tony Dawson, who owns nothing but what he stands up in and keeps him- self by running errands, tugged at my arm. 'Look at all those clothes', he astonishment said with at London's packed shop windows.

'They don't half dress well up • sel here don't they? It really annoys me though. There are all those clothes in there and I've got to walk along like this. was at school when these Tories were elected. I used to get milk until they took it away and then they put the price of John Quilty, 21, stresses that he was not picked up on route-he actually came out to the Kent march under his own steam after reading about it in the Workers Press. •It has • been the greatest political experience I ever had', he told me. 'I will definitely join the YS and try to turn it into the kind of mass movement it's got to be.' John is an electrician and he's on and off been unemployed since last June. 'I've got a sore throat from shouting and feet from sore walking but they are going to get better whereas the Tories will still be there. 'This march is absolutely necessary. It shows the Tories they've got opposition. It doesn't matter how many of us there are, so long as we're marching meals up and my dad couldn't afford it. 'I had to go up to a mate of his for a meal at lunchtime and it made me feel rotten. I never let people buy me food now-not without thinking about it a long time.' brought up in Tony was twilight world shuffling between up, separated parents. 'I was in rags at school, there were even patches on my trousers and they were always telling me new gear but my dad to get couldn't afford it. Now, when I see people who look a bit scruffy, I feel I should do something about it. I'll keep with the YS now. To hat for a principle dozens will have on the same impact as thousands.

'The effect we've had during the whole length of the march is incredible. We've pulled people who would be normally out sitting we've at home and created havoc in the Labour movement. 'Look at the number of people who disregarded their leaders in the CP, the Labour Party and the unions to come out and sup- And we're making port us. people in the street know more about what the YS is all about whạt this fight with the Tories is all about. 'The national press hasn't taken much notice of us because they're terrified of us but they'll have to say something about Wembley.

It's very important to show the Tories how we feel and the YS are the only people doing it."

walk off the march would be silly. It's letting the Tories do what they like and they're to blame for everything. 'If I can, I want to stay in the YS. Their campaign for work is right. I don't think I've got any chance of a job with the Tories in. If the YS are marching again I'll be all for it. 'If I do something I do it right through to the end.

'When we went to Northamp- ton it was great when they all cheered us on. I didn't think they would because the Kent march hadn't walked far. When we walked down the road every- for us. It was body shouted really great. 'I never realized there was such a division between the upper class and the working class march' until I went on this said miner and the Deal march committee member John Strand, 17. Since the miners' strike John admits he has made giant strides politically. 'Before Kent) I was agaiDit went to the (Snowdon, people striking but I went to a and found few meetings out what it was all about and I changed my mind. Before I was just in my own little world.

I've spoken to so many people that are as I used to be. But I think the marches are having a devastating affect. The average bloke is not bothered provided he's got a job but if you prove to him what's going to happen in the next few years and him roused you could get a fair old force together. 'I saw what they were trying to do to the miners and I was the pickets and on this out on march I've seen the Tories beat- ing the unemployed like a dog don't like. I worried about you the situation. I didn't want to just sit back like the Labour Party and the TUC and do nothing. I'm going to join the YS and see what I can do in Snowdon pit to help. When I go back I'm really going to plug it. 'When I first joined the march I thought it was a lark about but then I started getting serious. When we got to Wool- wich and we how the saw way I Labour council gave thought, they're really frightened.

we can do something, Broup but 'We're just a small

On September 3, 1945, Jap ceremony on board the Americ The subsequent Constitution in Americans declared that the rearm. But as JOHN SPEN militarism is surging back.

The spectre of Japanese mili- tarism is once again haunting Asia, 27 years after the defeat of the fascist regime.

Big business in Japan, greedy for lucrative war contracts and eager to back its overseas trad- ing policy with powerful armed giving the forces, is bent on spectre flesh ard blood. government of Eisaku The Sato has advanced plans for a massive military build-up over five years. the next So- called 'Fourth Defence Build-up programme' a 20-per- envisages increase cent give Japan armed forces far superior to any in Asia outside China.

The sudden turn of Japanese military capitalism towards expansion is of a consequence the developing world recession.

The devaluation of the dollar has hit particularly hard at Japan's main industries. These heavily-oriented are towards exports. The steel indus- 'economic of the try, core miracle' during the boom years, stopped has already new investment plans up to 1975.

industries — textiles, Other electronics, motors — are equally The hard-hit by the recession. United States is pressing Japan rearm and the big indus- to trialists are fully behind Sato's plans. Inside ruling Liberal- Democratic party there is fierce in-fighting for control of the lucrative military contracts asso- with the build-up of the armed forces. Japan is constitutionally for- bidden to rearm, but this has in no way inhibited the Sato gov- ernment. Military leaders are making open calls for Japanese troops to be sent abroad to like Taiwan and the places Philippines, ostensibly for 'train- ing'. What they would be train- is deliberately left ing for obscure. At home a deliberate campaign is being waged to obliterate the of war-time suffering memory and glorify the army. In recent weeks much of the campaign has centred round the person Shoichi Yokoi, the Imperial Army 28 who lived sergeant years in hiding on the Pacific island of Guam. Yokoi, who survived in the jungle diet, on a stone-age declared on his return that 'I had confidence in the emperor and I held out with the Japanese spirit. I feel ashamed that I failed to serve the emperor to the best of my abilities.'

This kind of militarists tamil. grist to the Minoru Genda. a far-right Liberal-Demo- MP declared: "Only with crat great moral support has Mr 45, Japan surrendered in a American battleship Missouri'.

ution imposed on Japan by the at the country should never SPENCER reports Japanese .

Yokoi been able to survive in his isolated jungle life. The sup- port came from the Emperor in the form of national policy.'

Another right winger, Shintaro Ishihara, contrasted Yokoi's atti- tude with 'the absence of mind common to our contemporary youth in fulfilling their mission and duties to the state' Big anxious to businessmen, reinforce the paternalist corpor- ate spirit in their workers were equally full of praise for Yokoi.

Junji Ito, president of Kanebo Ltd, declared that he would like to invite Yokoi to lecture to his employees. Yet among the mass of people, despite the efforts of the right-wing press, the incident has revived terrible memories of the and reinforced war years their determination to put paid to the militarists' plans.

A 20-year-old driver quoted in 'Asahi Shimbun' said the news was "terrible': of Yokoi's return |Sholchi Yokol In 1941 I didn't know the war, but the news left the horrors of war in my mind. Returning home after being. held prisoner, anyone would be punished in Japan. I hate the militarism that inspired the Japanese with such wrong ideas. Writer Shoji. Yuki warned people against the danger they would again be 'forced to make sacrifices in the name of the emperor' and a 55-year-old man from Yokohama was quoted as saying: 'Look at the 1972 budget and you can see people com- pelled to pay taxes only in order to furnish funds for the arms build-up.' Official circles have heaped big sums of money on the returned soldier. The Ministry of Health and Welfare presented him with 100,000 yen pocket-money and a collection among cabinet mini- raised additional sters an 1,240,000 yen. There are plans to legislate a special pension anything him amounting to Top: Emperor Hirohito. Bottom: Yokol ‹ between 5 million and 10 million yen. This is in sharp contrast with the treatment meted out 12 years ago to Yokoi's two • comrades Bunzo Minagawa and Tadashi Ito, both of whom dis- were covered hiding on Guam in 1960.

They received only a meagre 10,000 yen apiece in homecom- ing allowances. (There are about 1,000 yen to the pound sterling).

Ito alienated official 'sympathy' by his forthright denunciations of Japanese militarism. A month after his return, he said: 'One thing I thought about in the jungles was the question whether there is God. We were short of everything in Japan but we started the war with belief in God. 'Arother thing is that once enrolled in the army we can never get out of it. I was under orders and was forced to go into Workers Press, N n: Yokol after 28 years of hiding the jaws of death. Is this the right thing to do?-I was short of wisdom, knowledge and learn- 'At the end of the war Mr Tojo would be the first to be punished with death. I thought the emperor could have no reason to escape capital punish- ment. 'Many soldiers had been killed in the war. I thought, therefore, that the emperor and Mr Tojo punished with must have been death under Japanese penal code at a Japanese military tribunal. I had imagined that the never Americans would hold a court to probe into the war.' In fact, of course, Emperor Hirohito is still very much alive, as his recent visit to the United States and Europe proved.

It is not hard to see why the Japanese establishment gave such different to Yokoi treatment he when emerged from the jungles with his militaristic views intact 12 years after Ito.

8 Press, Monday March 13, 1972 PAGE 5 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has singled out in the the Party leadership town of Tiflis in Stalin's home state of Georgia for a lengthy and sharp criticism. Behind the screen of overall targets fulfilled, the local Party has been found guilty of a whole series of detailed failings. It occupies itself little with the organization and checking of the fulfilment of Party and govern- ment directives', runs a lengthy CC resolution published in 'Pravda' on March 6. The town's industry is falling behind in the fulfilment of pro- duction targets for goods such as footwear, knitted underwear and outer garments. 'In 1971 at enterprise fourth the every volume of marketed output de- creased and productivity of labour was lower in comparison with the preceding year.'

Capital construction plans systematically unfulfilled.

were Catering and other services were inadequate and working people are lodging complaints about the work of the medical establish- ments' Something is obviously rotten in the state of Georgia. Incompe- people hold responsible tant positions, the resolution com- plains, and measures are not being taken to raise the level of criticism and self-criticism on the part of Party members. No wonder that the local bureau- cracy prefers not to stir things up. The Central Committee does not venture to suggest why the have local bureaucracy should become so slothful-it simply wags a disapproving finger in a way which is intended to bring the equally lax and comfortably.

living apparatus men in other towns all over the Soviet Union into line. In Georgia the cult of the late- lamented Josef Stalin is very much alive and the stinging ad- monishment from the Moscow leaders is likely to cause as much resentment as improvement in Tiflis. No doubt 'the mis- appropriation of socialist property' and other discreditable practices to which the resolution calls attention are more than an old Georgian custom. They are endemic wherever the bureau- cracy rules. From the standpoint of the Kremlin, way in the blatant which the local bureaucrats, not satisfied with their normal per- quisites, neglect their duties and dip into the till, is very dangerous and has to be stopped. It threatens bring down to onto the heads of the rotten bureaucratic caste which rules Soviet Union the just vengeance of the working class.

Stalln: the cult continues

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BY JACK GALE

Workers Press has repeatedly made' the parallel between the settlement of this year's miners' strike and 'Red Friday of July 3i, 1925, which preceded the General Strike. We have pointed out that the Tories have decided to make a settlement now in order to buy time for a renewed onslaught agaınst the working class in the future. What exactly happened on Red Friday, 1925, and how did the Tories make use of it? 1925 coal-mining In was Britain's largest industry, with a force labour just over million. It was in a chaotic state, with 2.500 collieries operated by 1,400 different owners. Cheap Polish and German coal the market after 1923 flooded (partly as a result of the con- ditions imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty) and this forced world prices down.

April, 1925, Then in the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Winston Churchill. returned Britain to the gold standard. In effect, this was a revaluation of the pound and it forced British export prices. Coal. then relying heavily on the export priced out of the trade, was world market. The miners and their families were thrust into poverty.

As "They 1. M. Keynes declared: represented in the flesh the "fundamental adjustments" en- gineered by the Treasury and the Bank of England to satisfy the impatience of the City Fathers."

In June 1925, the coal-owners informed the Miners' Federation that the existing wage agree- would be terminated at ments midnight on July 31, 1925.

Simultaneously, they an- nounced new conditions of work which cut miners' wages by 10- 25 per cent, abolished national minimum wage and lengthened the working day. Men were not to be allowed into the pit to work under the old agreements. In reply, the TUC called strike and ordered a complete prohibition on the movement of coal from midnight on July 31, when the lock-out look effect.

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed a court of inquiry: Throughout June and July.

Baldwin sought to bring the coal-owners and the TUC to- J. M. Keynes y March 13, 1972 gether, always insisting, however, that the government would not give the coal industry any kind of subsidy. On July 29, the court of inquiry found in favour of the miners and this was immediately rejected by the owners. And still--as late as Thurs- day, July "30 Baldwin again emphasized that a subsidy was out of the question. That after- noon, the TUC issued the orders to stop all transport from mid- night, Friday. A stormy Cabinet meeting was held on Thursday evening and it finally decided to grant a sub- sidy of £23m, to maintain both wages and profits. This subsidy was to operate until May 1, 1926. while a Royal Commission investigated the coal industry. This Commission was headed by Sir Herbert Samuel, one-time Home Secretary and former Governor of Palestine. other members were Sir The William Beveridge, an economist, ex-civil servant and Director of the London School of Economics; General Sir Herbert Lawrence, a partner in the banking firm of Glyn. Mills: and Kenneth Lee, a Midland Bank director and chairman of Tootall, Ice, Broad- hurst, the cotton manufacturers.

There was not a single trade union representative the Commission. What the workers 'Red Friday' was a got on temporary subsidy and a com- mission consisting of an estab- politician, lishment a liberal economist, a financier and a banker-manufacturer. Even the Labour Party so. leader. Ramsay MacDonald. voiced the reaction of many of the less far-sighted supporters of capitalism when he declared: 'The government has simply handed over the appearance, at any rate, of victory to the very forces that sane, well considered.

thoroughly examined socialism feels probably to be its greatest enemy.' Others knew better. Winston Churchill declared in December.

'We decided to postpone 1925: the crisis in the hope of averting it or, if not of averting it.

of coping effectually with it when the time came.' his memoirs. Baldwin re- In cords. laconically, 'We were not ready.' Even some of the trade union leaders had a premonition of what was to come, but neverthe- less remained paralysed. Herbert Stanley Baldwin

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Despite these clear indications of what was to come, the TUC October did nothing. Between 1925 and the eve of the General TUC did not meet Strike the once to plan its strike strategy.

although Special Industrial its Committee was supposed to hold "a watching brief. It made no plans for feeding strikers and their families. pre- pared no system of communica- tions or transport, arranged no form of publicity for the strikers'

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22520. " To 223 York firom, Pricel tur ert Samuel. Right: The Samuel Commission; re case of any kind, let alone a newspaper. These are basic essentials for winning a prolonged strike, but the TUC clearly had no intention of winning a prolonged strike. It placed all its hopes in the Royal Commission. If that. did not deliver the goods, the TUC knew what it would don- capitulate. The Samuel Commission re- ported on July 10. rejected nationalization, It despite the glaring inefficiency of the coal-owners. It said the 'Red Friday' subsidy was "inde- fensible' and 'never be to repeated'. Most important of all, it recommended that the miners should take a cut in wages or work longer hours for the same pay. The miners' seven-hour day, bitterly fought for over many vears and supposedly guaranteed by parliament, was to go.

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Ission; rejected natlonalization One Cabinet Minister-Lord Birkenhead—-wrote: 'It would be possible to say without exaggera- tion, that the miners'. leaders stupidest men in the were England, if we had not had frequent occasion to meet the owners.' But this was a representative of the more timid Tory Party. Baldwin was cer- tainly prepared to give the owners their heads. The government was, in fact, pledged to carry out the recom- of the Samuel mendations Commission, but Baldwin wrig- gled cut of this by saying that they had to be accepted by both sides to this dispute. In doing so, he gave the 'go- ahead' the They to owners. were ready. So was the govern- The miners and their ment. 'allies' were not. 1 J. -M. Keynes 'The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill!

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BY TOM KEMP

Keenest supporters of Presi- dent Salvadore Allende's regime in Chile are the Com- munist Party Stalinists who pursuing a typically popular-frontist policy moderation and conciliation of the middle class. This policy, which invites the right-wing to move in for a kill with the backing of the Central Intelligence Agency, is fully backed by Sam Russell, 'Morn- foreign editor, in an Star'" ing article on February 28. He claims that the recent cabinet reshuffle and new moves by Allende represent the launch- ing of 'a major political offensive against those who seek to hold Chile back'. Matthews: 'Morning Star' editor The Allende regime certainly dangers faces the grave at present moment. Everything pos- sible is being done by the copper whose properties in companies, Chile have been nationalized, to mobilize international opposition urgently to the _regime which needs further outside financial assistance to prevent economic breakdown. Encouraged by electoral suc- cesses, the right-wing parties are their intensifying efforts mobilize the middle class and to scare off the more timid sup- of the Popular Unity porters government. Further nationaliza- tion measures have been blocked by the Congress, which has a majority hostile to Allende.

If Allende fails to overrule Congress, the government will have lost the power to carry through the measures necessary to implement the parliamentary road to socialism. Like his Chilean counterparts, Sam Russell underestimates the dangers facing the government and the power of those aligned against it. The real question, however, is the failure of Allende to inspire and mobilize the great of the people, including mass the poor peasants and urban sub- proletariat, and to prepare them for revolutionary struggle.

out that the Russell points Christian Democrat and nation- alist parties, supported by the neo-fascists, in are engaged a vigorous campaign against Allende's nationalization plans. He says: 'The battle is on and the coming months will be President Salvador Allende of Chile.

decisive That is true. But to hold out the hope to Chilean workers that they can defeat the reactionaries and their imperialist backers without a struggle is to leave them disarmed. Chilean negotiators seeking ways of obtaining credit to pay off existing foreign debts from European bankers are finding the going tough. A loan from the International Fund Monetary will only be granted under severe conditions which would restrict government economic policy.

Chile suffered under

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supervision in the years after 1955 when the Ibanez govern- ment allowed its policy to dictated by international capital in return for a miserable $50m loan. The Allende regime declares that it will not accept such terms, bankers foreign can demand that there should be no more nationalization. Thus, the Chilean ruling class and its international allies are closing in on the Allende regime, preparing for the kill. With the Communist Party as his most devout supporter, Allende is manoeuvring to strengthen and broaden the eight-party Popular Unity Front electoral which is essentially an coalition. Notwithstanding what Sam Russell says, this means a shift to the right and concessions to the patriotic capitalists.

In the face of the preparation and arming the reactionaries, Allende plods steadfastly along the parliamentary road to disaster, with the full support of the Stalinists. There is plenty of evidence, even in the Chilean Communist Party press, that the working class is prepared to fight. Only its mobilization on a policy of agrarian nationalization and revolution, striking a mortal blow at the ruling class, can save it from defeat. Workers Press, Monday March 13, 1972 PAGE 9 Anybody read the recruiting The great Spassky-Fischer blurbs lately? chess tournament will be Royal Navy: 'The world is staged in two months' time.

a great place, when you've got Everything possible is being the right mates.' done not to disturb the Royal Marines: 'Commandos masters' temperaments. train for the tough jobs.' In fact, one match is being Air Force: 'When you join played in Belgrade where the you join in.' temperature up, agrees with Fischer. ( Army: 'We'd like you The other is being to know what you're missing' played in Iceland which suits the particularly frigid play of But it seems that most young Spassky. men know what they're missing and want to go on missing it— with If million even unem- ployed. Further to our note about the Not that the bait isn't tempt- press outcry over the sentence ing. A recent advertisement in passed on Timothy Davey for 'Navy News' advertised pushing dope in Turkey (Wor- shoulder-length 'trend' wigs at ‹ers Press, March 3) here are £6.25. few freedom-loente sentences that the British papers weren't bothered about. The war Last October 18 against porn started young by Moral Re-Armament, Mary people were sentenced to death Whitehouse. Lord Longford for attempting force by to and Mickey Mouse goes on!

alter, or to modify or abolish, The latest in whole or in part, the con- recruit to the campaign is Ald Sir Ron Iron- stitution'. This is one of the Labour leader of the monger, Sheffield City Council. Sir Ron said he backed the Festival of Light because it attempted to bring back people to the principles that count'. Sir Ron did not say whether the one of principles that 15 years' jall for pubilshing Marx's 'Communist Manltesto'. 23 offences punishable by death Turkey-of which in 15 relate 'felonies against the state'.

to In December two others were sentenced to death on the same charge. At the same trial three girl Mary Whitehouse: of the one students got life imprisonment, starters of the war against porn.

another two got 15 years, and 'counted' was the use of Hells two others were jailed for ten Angels-complete with swas- years. tikas-as standover Towards the end of last year men at Festival of Light rallies.

publisher Suleyman Ege got 15 Other members of the newly- years for publishing Marx's and formed Engels' 'Communist Manifesto' in Sheffield group and Lenin's 'State and Revolu- the university vice-Chan- are tion'. cellor, Post Professor Hugh Robson, Abdullah Nefes got 74 years Office telephone for translating Mao Tse-tung's manager, Mr R. H. Thompson, two headmasters, Catholic and 'Selected Writings'. Baptist ministers, a city coun- Evidently considered more cillor and an estate agent.

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BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDEN

On March 2 'The Stage', a weekly newspaper covering events and non-events in the entertainment industry, announced in a front page article that the Council of Equity (the actors' union) was to meet within a fort- night to discuss 'the most dramatic dilemma to con. front the association since it was founded 42 years ago'.

The source of this informa- tion was clearly 8 Harley Street, union's headquarters, and the 'dilemma' which confronted the gentlemen headquarters at was how to defy the TUC, turn the other their backs on enter- tainment industry unions and overturn their own policy of "total opposition' to the Indus- trial Relations Act. A week later they had their dilemma. resolved By a small majority the Council voted go back on the register. to Within hours an application was lodged. The timing of this betrayal, in the immediate aftermath of the miners' strike, is highly signifi- cant. The miners' victory, bring- ing forward whole sections of the working class with a heightened determination and consciousness their . own strength, of also developments within accelerates the professions. In Equity, where 92 per cent are unemploved, more and more actors, singers and dancers are turning to political solutions to their problems. In so doing they are recognizing that the only way forward from the apparent hope- lessness of their situation is to ally themselves in struggle with the working class. And when the struggle inten- sifies — as now — their leaders, bureaucrats and privileged highly- paid whose performers position depends on keeping the right foot firmly planted camp, are driven to employers' any lengths to avoid it. They try to confuse the rank a façade of and file first with insecurities will prey upon their militancy, then anti-communist scares and slanders, and finally The executive of Equity on stage at the 1 y March 13, 1972

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use naked, unequivocal collabora- tion. This can be traced process most clearly in the conduct of the Equity leadership over Industrial Relations Act. Soon after the Bill was drafted, they published 'Our pamphlet Profession in Peril'. It offered no political analysis of the Bill whatever. On the con- trary it asserted that Equity's strength lay in the fact that as it could a non-political union its somehow opposition assert more effectively. In other words the leadership felt free to run to the along Department Employment and beg for a special dispensation. The pattern for retreat was thus from the start. By set narrowing their opposition to the single issue of the Bill's effects on Equity's closed-shop and cast- ing agreements* they ruled out any principled fight against the Tories and cleared the way for abandoning their opposition as as the government offered soon anything which could be made to look like a concession.

At the first Special General Meeting called by the Council, it was announced that no con- cession had been forthcoming. was therefore totally Equity opposed' to the Bill. following The month the Council, with assistance some from pro-Tory elements, ex- Stalinists and moral re-armers, defeated a members' resolution calling for Equity to support the one-day General Strike on Jan- uary 12, 1971. strike at this stage, it was A argued,. premature was would membership. divide the Instead members should sign the TUC petition and write to their MPs. But if these constitutional should prove ineffec- measures tive, Equity would then use every available including measure, strike action, against the Bill.

Over 2,000 members signed the petition. Six hundred marched on the

TUC

demonstration on February 21. Meanwhile negotia- tions with the DEP continued and produced the wholly spurious concessions. the approved closed shop'. In the editorial of the Equity letter's March edition a militant faint semblance was maintained. The opposition government's concession fails to meet our case. Unless, therefore, the government finds it possible that case by changes to meet in introduced while the Bill is the House of Lords. the Council and members of Equity will be "agonizing re- forced into an appraisal" of the means we must adopt for the protection of our ze at the 1971 June conference June 1971, the Equity AGM where acto fundamental right to defend both the livelihood and the standard of work of our profession.'

In the Annual Report, pub- these lished two months later, rhetorical threats are vague, is abandoned. The concession still said to be 'of little value' But some hope is to be found in the results of the petitioning and letter writing. 'The response to this was very great. One MP told the House of Commons that he had received 54 different letters from actors living in his constituency. In this way friendly interest in the prob- lems created for us by the Bill in MP's of all aroused was parties. The report omits to mention question that the MP in was Geoffrey Finsberg, Tory MP for what he Hampstead, and that actually claimed in the House of Commons was that actors in his constituency supported the Bill. At the Annual General Meet- ing following publication of this Council narrowly report the defeated a rank-and-file resolu- tion demanding that Equity call on the TUC to organize a General Strike. Once more, however, the membership re-affirmed union's policy of total opposition.

in Now the began retreat earnest. In the September Equity letter editorial, the question the Industrial Relations Act was dropped altogether. Instead the whole article was given over to reds-under-the-bed vicious a attack on 'an organized minority determined to every pro- use cedural device to ensure that its philosophy shall be particular advocated without regard to the here actors re-affirmed their total opposition to wishes of the majority. These rogues, not the organized group in Westminster determined to smash the working class and its unions, are the main danger Equity has to face, it appears.

Equity's To meet the danger, rules must be revised. Which means of course an end to open membership meetings with their danger that Council's attendant policies might be defeated by the file. And which also rank and means registration. In October the Council issued that in bulletin announcing a accordance with TUC instructions it had de-registered. It made it clear that this step was in no way related to a real fight against the Act, simply a matter of 'duty' to the TUC. 'Under the Act Equity can re-register on 24 hours' notice. The Council has made it clear to the TUC that its final decision about the future of our registra- tion has not yet been made. We have asked for an early meeting with the General Council of the TUC to discuss our particular that discussion After position. ... the Council will make the final decision in the light of the best interests of our membership.'

motivates this What clearly announcement is not the best interests of the membership, but the panic of the leadership. Two before, Nixon's August months 15 measures had spelled out the end of the inflationary boom, and that period with it the end of trade union leaders in which could function as mediators be- the capitalists and the tween to extract working out upsetting the applecart. Now, five months later, the Council of • has re-registered. Equity in 1929 was founded Equity the single popular platform on of trade union recognition. Left and right came together on the unprincipled agreement that trade unionism was simply an economic issue which could override and osition to the Industrial Relations Act shelve any political differences.

This alliance has been the basis on which the bureaucracy has rested ever since. In 1935 the right to a closed shop was established. But it was bought at the price of a no- strike clause written into standard theatre contract.

Today the bureaucracy, still defending that bargain as the of the stability of foundation relations in the theatre ever since (Annual Report 1971), seeks to buy the government's closed-shop agreement at the price of dissolving the union into a state-approved staff association, stripped of all independence, all strength for decent to fight wages, decent conditions and full employment. It would have no more func- than that of a friendly tion society. order to maintain their In defend them- position, and to selves against the rank and file, which is more and more lining working class in up with the struggle against the Tory govern- ment, the leaders are entering an agreement to police the into rank and file and tie the union firmly to the employer's interests.

The lessons are clear. Class- is over. A leader- collaboration ship that will not fight, that is prepared to surrender its mem- bers completely, must be thrown replaced by a out and new the rank and leadership from one which is prepared to file, •fight to the end against this and against this legislation government. * Equity uses casting agreements to restrict entry to the union.

MR GEORGE GUY,

London district secretary of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, is manager Mr Sydney Schreiber.

The strikers 20 were given to report to his executive minutes' notice to appear before the NIRC on Thursday, the first and the TUC on the use day of their strike. of the National Industrial One of the strikers was given Relations Court over a a lift to the law courts by the agent who served the subpoena strike involving his union on him. Mr Guy said his members were members. given no time to prepare a proper case and no chance of legal repre- The strike, by 150 men at 'The manner in which sentation. Kaymet metal goods factory in members were dealt with Peckham, S London, was called by the court is nothing short of off last Friday after talks be- disgraceful, he added. Guy and company tween Mr The sheet workers' UNDER THE guise of second- But. while inner city areas are contracting, the surplus SS sula. ary reorganization in Hackney, Essex. tion is spilling London, the Tories are making are made there to No resources vicious attacks on the educa- cater for the growing number of tion of working-class children.

pupils. The Hackney population is For Rayleigh Sweyne example, decreasing at the rate of 2 per school was built for 1,000 pupils This could be an cent per yeal. and now has 1,600. opportunity to reduce the size of classes by maintaining the exist- ing schools and employing the Stripped of cash same number of teachers. Instead, 18 secondary schools

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pupils. So class sizes will be kept petition for bankruptcy. be made large and teachers will redundant. The court action is being brought by a firm of London This is in an area where there solicitors over the alleged is for small classes grave need £1,500 bill. payment of a and advanced educational Building contractors Courtney methods. Building Company Ltd., of Lan- At the time these same Place, Strand, claim that caster closures are proposed, the ILEA the bill is outstanding for work has announced its intention of on Mr Humphreys carried out returning maladjusted children to Queen's Club, in Berwick Street, the secondary schools from their Soho. small care units. No provision whatever has been made to prepare for these children in the secondary schools, for that nor maller to prepare for the pupils who will remain in school when the leaving age is raised. extra burdens are In this way, THE 72-HOUR truce offer by loaded onto the teachers.

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Amount enclosed £ union is unregistered and is com- mitted to the TUC's policy of non-co-operation. The Kaymet workers will meet today to decide future action on the company's 7-per-cent offer.

It was this offer last Wednes- day which prompted the men to walk out. Mr Guy said: 'If the men re- ject the company's offer again, they will give one week's notice of termination of contract.

'As far as the industrial court is concerned, it does not concern us in the least. We are not a registered union.' Clyde talks in Texas A TEAM from the Department of Trade and Industry will re- turn to London today after hold- ing week-long talks with Texas corporations about taking over the bankrupt Clydebank yard at

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A statement said the Mara- thon Manufacturing Company Houston, which is interested in building oil rigs on Clydeside, will apply to the department on Wednesday for financial assis- tance. 'Both sides that our agreed visit here has been well worth- while,' commented James Darragh of the department's shipbuilding section. Pearce back LORD PEARCE said at Heath- row on his return from Rhodesia that his Commission's report to Sir Alec Douglas Home would be finished by the second half of April. Asked if his inquiry had received full co-operation from Ian Smith's regime, Pearce replied 'Yes'. statement of the conditions for a lasting settlement. These are: • The immediate withdrawal of British army forces from the N Ireland, streets of coupled with a statement of intent as to date of the actual evacuation HM Forces and an acknowledge- ment of the rights of the Irish people to determine their own future without interference from the British government. • The abolition of the Stormont parliament. • A total amnesty for all poli- tical prisoners in Ireland and England, both tried and untried, and for those on the wanted list. after playing into the Tories' hands by the policy of indiscriminate killings, the Pro- visionals don't ask for the immediate withdrawal of all British troops from N Ireland, but merely for their withdrawal from the streets! The move from pure terrorism to a plea for 'sincere negotia- tions' is politically consistent.

The Provisionals have always ignored the British working class and have made no call for the bringing down of the Heath government. As opposition to the Tory in this government mounts country, the Provisionals present negotiations with the political representatives of the ruling class as the way to peace in Ireland. They have learnt nothing from the last 300 years of Irish history.

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RALLY MARKS NEW Our one PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday THIS RALLY throws Clive Norris, national s working-class action to for those who will. An‹ same message to the Lal Clive, who led the from Swansea, march told the Empire Pool audience that they were there initially to defend the basic right of the working class- the right to work. Figures just released showed that nearly 40,000 people under 18 were out of work last autumn - a 75 per cent increase over the same period in 1970. 23,000 young people had been jobless for more than eight weeks. In some of the areas the march from Wales had passed through, there were 29 wholly- unemployed workers chasing each job.

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is moving to defend its basic rights and will not the poverty of accept 1930s, Christine the Smith, leader of the Liverpool-London march told the rally. While: the so-called leadership of the work- ing class refused to fight back against the Tories, thousands upon thousands of rank-and- file workers had sup- ported the Right-to- Work campaign. 'Their support showed us that the working class is looking for a new leadership in the fight against the Tories.

'WE'VE turned Kent upside down politically and now we are going back to build the YS into something that will Tories make the tremble,' Deal march Les Pankhurst, leader. 23, told the rally. "There has never been a march like this before in Kent and people were Tor still talking about it a week after we passed through,' he said. 'One of the things that struck the youth on the march was the way the Tories really hate the working class. *It was really brought of home to them when an old man stood on the s, Monday March 13, 1972 throws down the gauntlet tr tional secretary of the Right ction to force the Tory job-d vill. And tomorrow, when wi the Labour MPs? That was the figure in Tonypandy, where Churchill had sent the against the the troops miners. Today Chur- heirs were killing chill's 1,000 jobs a day. But the trade union were chatting leaders amicably with the Tory top brass, who were using the Industrial Re- lations Act to hold down wages and push up profits at the expense of jobs. 'What we have been doing over the last five campaigning weeks is throughout the country against the Tories and the Tory agents in the working-class move- , declared comrade ment' Norris. • And the need for that leadership is there.' said Christine. •Many trade unionists, Labour Party and Com- munist Party members who spoke on our plat- forms throughout the country have said they were proud to support the campaign, the Young Socialists and the Socialist Labour League. • 'These workers knew our march was not part of a protest march and were rallying that we the working class to . Rovern- force the Tory ment to resign. She bitterly attacked the TUC and Labour Party leadership for ent pavement waving his sam stick, a threw woman eggs, police and motor- tried to drive us ists off the road or people shouted "join the army" 'Despite the lack of a tradition of trade union- ism or class struggle in youth the Kent, once the hatred of the saw Tories they came for- Ker ward politically very quickly. When the Kent miners marched with us from Deal and promised to send a coach to this rally we really felt the strength the working class behind us. 'None of us are the intlet to the trade union le e Right-to-Work campaign. ' ry job-destroyers to resign, when we lobby parliament, In the Rhondda an old miner had told the marchers: You are like he i the pickets who won our strike and I wish you the same success.' All over the country the marches had estab- lished a direct political relationship with thous- ands of workers. Long, serious discus- sions on the policies of the marches had been held, particularly with Labour Party members who had expressed bit- ter hostility to the right- wing traitors, and the Communist Party leaders, who had tried obstruct the cam- paign. An important aspect trying. unsuccessfully, to sabotage the Right-to- Work campaign. •The economic crisis which drives the Tories to smash up the unions the Labour forces leaders to make up their minds as to whose side they are on. 'And that is why the Labour leaders attack us. We expose them for what they are. They know if the working class had a revolution- ary leadership it would demand these men either fight or get out,' she said. 'This march begins the building of this leadership based on same as we were when we set out and we are determined to go back and fight tooth and nail to build a YS in every the Kent town on if a coast-right in the heart of Toryism. 'Since the Tories came in we're lucky to see one job a week in the tor- Kent newspapers. I went for two jobs before I came on this march- one was as a barman at a place on Ramsgate seafront. Forty people answered the advertise- ment for it. 'There is no work in S Kent and at nearly 10 per cent unemployment Ulster the is almost at nion leaders', declared paign. 'Either mobilize resign, or make room ment, we will take the of the marches, Clive Norris stressed, was that the experiences en- countered, including the difficulties that had to be overcome, had laid the basis for a whole new layer of new work- ing-class leaders in each area. A devoted self-sacrific- ing fighting force had * from the emerged marches. Clive, who lost his job as a draughtsman at Vickers in Swindon on the day he finished his apprenticeship, told the mass audience that the Empire Pool rally was not the end but the be- ginning of a new stage in the fight for SO- pect cialism. Marxism. A movement that will understand the needs of the working class and the economic crisis that capitalism is now in. 'On this march we have had to learn from our experiences and become conscious of what we are doing. We shall go back and build YS in big • branches for the preparation launching of the revolu- tionary party that has the leadership the work- ing class needs to take it to victory over this rotten and corrupt capitalist system. That is what the right to work means,' she concluded. hen levels in Heath's own are backyard. 'I went into the army for three years because there was nothing to do. but when I came out in October. despite the fact that I had a know- ledge of nursing. I still couldn't get a job. 'When I went into the army there were a few unskilled press button jobs around, but now even they are gone. 'It is no good going home and forgetting about these marches. The Tories have got to be fought all the way and we must go back determined to build up the YS. THE RIGHT-TO-WORK ma 'imperishable' page of workin ing London and confounding This was the message yes- - ove terday from John Barrie, leader of the Glasgow march which reach the Empire Pool rally on schedule. He said formidable physical and political obstacles were against the march. The ranged TUC and the Labour Party bur- eaucracy organized with "desper- ate determination' to keep the youth off the road. 'I speak with joy when I say the hopes of our enemies were • • • every mile of confounded the way we have had one mighty ally, greater than all these hos- forces the working class of tile Britain, he said. said it was the John Barrie good trade unionist, the faithful and the working- Labour voter housewife and pensioner class who had come forward to give the march such selfless support.

And he paid particular tribute to the miners. 'These men, with little or no- thing in their pockets, dug deep and gave us what they could to keep us on the road. Indeed there occasions when, without were help the the of miners, the march would have been in serious difficulties.' This kind of support was the real voice of the working class.

Workers backed the march not just out of sympathy, but because the fight for the right to work by turning the Tories out office corresponded with their own desires. Comrade Barrie said that con- tained within the five weeks on the road were all the political developments that had occurred at national level. march in the They began the midst of the miners' offensive and saw the miners win their victory.

The ruling class had been shaken by this, yet determined to re- group for a new offensive.

It was with a sense of irony, but not surprise, that as we en- tered London we read of the great dialogue the TUC - so- called left and right-had opened the Tory government. with up. 'We in the Young Socialists opposed utterly this are to treacherous alliance ... for us there is no common interest be- tween those who produce value and those who live to exploit.'

He said while this dialogue went on the employers were pre- paring for class war. They would use the Industrial Relations Act, greater unemployment and pro- ductivity and the Common Mar- ket to 'enslave' the working class.

But the Labour Party had already passed great • up one chance to turn the Tories out

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Labour these same was traitors at a local level who or- ganized to keep us out of towns like Carlisle and areas like the North East,' he said. The Stalinist Communist Party leaders at the Upper Clyde Ship- builders had also launched slanderous campaign against the march, claiming they were not that their £100 donation aware would be used in a campaign Young organized by the cialists. 'This was despite the fact that the delegation to UCS explained carefully before the co-ordinating committee that the march was by the So- organized Young cialists who were a Trotskyist youth movement, and despite the fact that the members of the delegation were well known to at. UCS as sup- every Stalinist porters and sellers of the Workers • to Press outside the yards.'

said it was Comrade Barrie no- these same Stalinists who were jobs at Clydebank, now trading selling conditions at the other making yards and agreeable noises to the US tycoon Wayne Harbin who wanted to buy part of Clydebank and implement the Industrial Relations Act.

These were not the forces to fight the Tories' offensive, he said. forces are here in this "The great rally. They are there in the artists who performed their play to the marchers, and will give their services free tonight.

What other movement can mobilize such a galaxy of sup- port? If any can, I lay down this challenge-let them come for- ward and do it. There is more to revolutionary politics than exaggerated and deliberately in- accurate articles "The Guardian"? But above all, said Comrade Barrie, the new forces were on ony, the marches themselves.

•Here were youth, untested in politics, with only their hatred of the Tory regime, police oppres- sion, the continued poverty of the dole to build on. But they tought, and fought on, through all weathers and political opposi- tion, to reach their goal, the Empire Pool.' appealed to Comrade Barrie the audience to join the great task. that lay ahead—the immedi- ate construction of a revolution- ary party in Britain. If I can paraphrase that leader of the bourgeois revolution, Oliver Cromwell-We will build an army of workers, so inspired by the socialist future for all reat mankind, that it will never be defeated.'

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