Workers Press no. 716

workers press

DEFEND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

HANDS OFF I.S.

Building workers lobby pay talks ULSTER TODAY, Britai hours after Harold Wils tures to Heath on Ulster, ment gave the Labour bur of its much awaited polit an unprecedented raid c officers on 60 homes in provinces. - the These included homes of four leading International Socialism members. The removal of documents belonging to the IS is irrefutable evi- dence that the Tories are cynically using the Alder- shot bombing as a pre- text to intimidate and accumulate information on radical groups not even remotely connected with the IRA as a pre- paration for the imple- mentation of the In- dustrial Relations Act. It is a well-known fact that Scotland Yard re- copy of every ceives a revolutionary radical and published in journal Britain. It is also an open secret —revealed clearly during the Dutschke deportation -that the Special Branch taps the phones, and opens the mail of many left-wing organizations. This is apart from its more shady operations in penetrating left - wing organizations with its agents and provocateurs as it does on a large scale in Ireland particularly. It is equally well-known that the IS paper, "Social- publicly ist Worker'. , has dissociated itself from the Aldershot bombing and opposed the IRA, albeit from a reformist stand- point, on many issues. The IS group is not guilty of instigating or supporting the Aldershot bombing. The Tory cabinet knows this too, but it is not con- cerned about the truth. It is only concerned to create a state of patriotic hysteria stir up the middle and class into a frenzy against trade union militants as well as radical and revolu- tionary groups. In this way it hopes to push through its plans for open collaboration with the right-wing Labourites and the TUC leaders in enter- ing the Common Market and carrying out the terms of the Industrial Relations Act. The Tories think they can act with impunity, unprecedented even in the period before 1926, because they have got the Labour leaders - both right and left-crawling obsequiously and looking for a 'dialogue' with Heath. That is why they con- temptuously turned down Eric Heffer's plea for an emergency debate on the raids.

INCORPORATING THE I

DAILY ORGAN OF TH

, Britain tomorrow! Only d Wilson's sinister over- Ulster, the Tory govern- our bureaucrat a foretaste ed political initiatives by raid of Special Branch mes in London and the Why should the Tories worry about the Labour "lefts' craven antics when these unprincipled reform- ists are not prepared to call for the withdrawal of troops from Ireland or the expulsion of Jenkins from the Parliamentary Labour Party? This latest raid is a bare- faced assault on the basic democratic rights of the working class. Regardless of our serious theoretical differences with IS, and without abandoning them for one moment, we appeal to the entire trade union and labour movement to treat this anti-working-class action with the utmost seriousness and urgency. This is only the begin-

BUILDING

WORKERS

CHARTER

BY IAN YEATS

ABOUT 30

building workers from all over Britain lobbied pay talks at the Bedford Square headquarters of the National Federation of Building Trades Employ- ers yesterday. The men are demanding a reduction in hours from 40 to 35 and almost £1 an hour - near double the present rate-bringing the weekly wage up to £30.

NG THE NEWSLETTER •

FRIDAY MAR

N OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Statemen Commi ning of a process which, if unchallenged, would lead to the destruction of working-class organizations and the. creation of a ruthless police dictatorship.

unionist, Every trade every worker who values his basic democratic rights must unconditionally de- fend the IS and other victims of this Tory- inspired conspiracy. They must demand that their union leaders cease their "dialogue' with Heath immediately and that they defend, with all the re- sources of the unions, trade unionists and political groups against the persecu- tion of the capitalist state.

March 16, 1972

BUILDING

WORKERS

CHARTER

To date the employers have kept their offers strictly in line with the Tories' 7 per cent pay norm suggesting pay increments for craftsmen of £1.40 and for labourers £1.20 a week.

yesterday But they offered a guaranteed weekly minimum of £2 above the standard rate for craftsmen and £1.50 above the labourers' rate. In a 9.7 per cent pay deal they said that from •

IDAY MARCH 17, 1972

No. 716

AMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LA

ment by the Poli mmittee of the SI A LABOUR MP asked in the Commons yesterday for 'no one assurances that will be arrested and taken to N Ireland for intern- ment'. Atkinson, MP Norman for Tottenham, complained that one of his constitu- ents, Seamus O'Kane, had been arrested at his home in London on Wednesday. "The police insisted Mr O'Kane had been arrested under powers given to them by the Special Powers in N Ireland. The searches carried out by police in London on

BUILDING

WORKE

UILDING

CHARTE WORKERS

CHARTER

June the craft rate would be increased to £22 a week and the laboureres' rate to £18.60. The men claim building employers are using unem- ployment-now running at one in seven among con- struction workers-—to keep wages down and that they are encouraging the prac- tice of working on the lump (self-employed and without cards) to under- mine the trade unions. • 4p

LIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Political le SLL ssurances Wednesday in connection with the Aldershot ex- plosion were 'carried out in accordance with the law,* said Leader of the House William White- business law during questions in the Commons yesterday. Leader of the Opposition Harold Wilson, asked for a statement next week on the raid. Eric Heffer (Lab, Wal- ton) said there had been political implications in some of the raids and urged a statement by the Home Secretary. 300,000 men, or a third of the industry's workers, the lump now on are earning about £8 for a 10- hour day. Lobbyists said that trade union militants and com- munists were being forced out of the industry. If the pay talks fail, we understand that the Union of Constructional and Allied Trades Technicians may consider a call for industrial action. men

BY STEPHEN JOHNS.

ONE THOUSAND steel workers in the l Man- chester area took uni- lateral action over the engineers' pay claim when they began control- ling their Bredbury plant yesterday. The dispute began when a mass meeting of workers voted to take immediate action ahead of other workers in the S Man- chester area. They originally decided to work to rule and refuse overtime. This was two weeks be- fore other factories in the region began action for a big wage increase, better conditions and hours. There was then a shop- floor confrontation when men refused to handle documents, production stopped and workers were clocked-ofi. Workers' committees were set up and a 24-hour shift system introduced to guard the plant. Bernard Regan, district secretary of the Amalga- mated Union of Engineer- ing Workers, said: Nothing is being allowed in or out of the factory.

It is sealed up tight. Every- thing is being kept under the control of the shop stewards. Production is at a standstill. The action will have a powerful impact on engin- eering industry workers in the Manchester area. poised for They are battle over the claim and were originally discussing strike action. This was watered down by the local AUEW leader- ship, however to a ban on overtime and a work to rule. The Bredbury works-a rolling mill and part of the giant GKN engineering combine-is among the biggest plants in the S Manchester area. Militancy there has been increased over recent months. Two weeks ago preduc- tion workers staged a one - day spontaneous sympathy strike in support of white-collar workers. POLICE and armed forces in Ceylon have been put on the alert, according to reports from New Delhi. All leave for police and military personnel has been cancelled with immediate effect. New Delhi radio com- ments: Although no rea- son has been given for the action, it is believed that this has been | done as a precaution against any pos- sible recurrence of violence and left-wing insurrection which was faced by that country a year ago. It may • be recalled that the island is still under a of emergency, state clamped down in March last year when the first signs of insurgency became evident'

workers press

DEFEND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

HANDS OFF I.S.

Building workers lobby pay talks ULSTER TODAY, Britai hours after Harold Wils tures to Heath on Ulster, ment gave the Labour bur of its much awaited 'poli an unprecedented raid 60 homes in officers on provinces. These. included the homes of four leading International Socialism members. The removal of documents belonging to the IS is irrefutable evi- dence that the Tories are cynically using the Alder- shot bombing as a pre- text to intimidate and information accumulate on radical groups not even remotely connected with the IRA as a pre- parationt for the imple- mentation of the In- dustriat Relations Act.. It is a well-known fact that Scotland Yard re- ceives a copy of every radical and revolutionary in journal published Britain. It is also an open secret clearly during -revealed the Dutschke deportation -that the Special Branch taps the phones, and opens the mail of many left-wing organizations. This is apart from its more shady operations left - wing penetrating organizations with its and provocateurs agents as it does on a large scale in Ireland particularly. It is equally well-known that the IS paper, 'Social- publicly ist Worker', , has dissociated itselt from the and Aldershot bombing opposed the IRA, albeit stand- from a reformist point, on many issues. The IS group is not guilty of instigating or supporting the Aldershot bombing. The Tory cabinet knows this too, but it is not con- cerned about the truth. It is only concerned to create a state of patriotic hysteria stir up the middle and class into a frenzy against trade union militants as well as radical and revolu- tionary groups. In this way it hopes to push through its plans for open collaboration with the right-wing Labourites and the TUC leaders in enter- Market ing the Common and carrying out the terms of the Industrial Relations Act. The Tories think they can act with impunity, unprecedented even in the period before 1926, because they have got the Labour leaders - both right and left—crawling obsequiously and looking for a 'dialogue' with Heath. That is why they con- temptuously turned down Eric Heffer's plea for an emergency debate on the raids.

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF T'

Britain tomorrow! Only Id Wilson's sinister over- Ulster, the Tory govern- our bureaucrat a foretaste ed "political initiatives by raid of Special Branch mes in London and the Why should the Tories worry about the Labour 'lefts' craven antics when these unprincipled reform- ists are not prepared to call for the withdrawal of troops from Ireland or the expulsion of Jenkins from the Parliamentary Labour Party? This latest raid is a bare- faced assault on the basic democratic rights of the working class. Regardless of our serious theoretical with IS, and differences without abandoning them for one moment, we appeal to the entire trade union and labour movement to treat this anti-working-class action with the utmost seriousness and urgency. This is only the begin-

BUILDING

WORKERS

CHARTER

BY IAN YEATS

ABOUT 30

building workers from all over Britain lobbied pay talks at the Bedford Square of the headquarters National Federation of Building Trades Employ- ers yesterday. The men are demanding a reduction in hours from 40 to 35 and almost £1 an hour — near double the rate-bringing the present weekly wage up to £30.

ING THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY MAF

N OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

Statemen Commi ning of a process which, if unchallenged, would lead the of to destruction working-class organizations and the of creation a ruthless police dictatorship.

Every trade unionist, • worker who values ever his basic democratic rights must unconditionally de- iend the . Is and • other Tory- victims of this inspired conspiracy. They must demand that their union leaders cease their 'dialogue' with Heath immediately and that they defend, with all the re- of the unions, sources trade unionists and political groups against the persecu- tion of the capitalist state.

March 16, 1972

WORKERS

CHARTER

To date the employers have kept their offers strictly in line with the Tories' 7 per cent pay norm suggesting pay increments for craftsmen of £1.40 and for labourers £1.20 a week.

But yesterday they offered a guaranteed weekly minimum of £2 above the standard rate for craftsmen and £1.50 above the labourers' rate. In a 9.7 per cent pay deal they said that from. mi • No. 716

IDAY MARCH 17, 1972

MMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LA

ment by the Poli mmittee of the SI A LABOUR MP asked in the Commons yesterday for assurances that 'no one will be arrested and taken to N. Ireland for intern- ment. Norman Atkinson, MP for Tottenham, complained that one of his constitu- in London on Wednesday. 'The police insisted Mr O'Kane had been arrested under powers given to them by the Special Powers in N Ireland.' The searches carried out by police in London on

BUILDING

WORKE BUILDING

CHARTE WORKERS

CHARTER

June the craft rate would be increased to £22 a week and the laboureres' rate to £18.60. The men claim building employers are using unem- ployment-now running at one in seven among con- struction workers-to keep wages down and that they are encouraging the prac- tice of working on the lump (self-employed and without cards) to under- mine the trade unions. • 4p

LIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Political ne SLL ssurances Wednesday in connection with the Aldershot ex- plosion were 'carried out in accordance with the law,, said Leader of the House William White- during law business questions in the Commons yesterday. Leader of the Opposition Harold Wilson, asked for a statement next week on the raid. Eric Heffer (Lab, Wal- ton) said there had been political implications in some of the raids and urged a statement by the Home Secretary. 300,000 men, or a third of the industry's workers, on the lump earning about e8 for a mp.

hour day. Lobbyists said that trade union militants and com- munists were being forced out of the industry. If the pay talks fail, we understand that the Union Constructional and of Allied Trades Technicians may consider a call for industrial action. men

BY STEPHEN JOHNS.

ONE THOUSAND steel workers in the Man- chester area took uni- lateral action over the engineers' pay claim when they began control- ling their Bredbury plant yesterday. The dispute began when a mass meeting of workers voted to take immediate action ahead of workers in the S Man- chester area. They originally decided to work to rule and refuse overtime. This was two weeks be- fore other factories in the region began action for a big wage increase, better conditions and hours. There was then a shop- floor confrontation when men refused to handle production documents, stopped and workers were clocked-off. Workers' committees were set up and a 24-hour shift system introduced to guard the plant. Bernard Regan, district secretary of the Amalga- mated Union of Engineer- ing Workers, said: 'Nothing is being allowed in or out of the factory.

It is sealed up tight. Every- thing is being kept under the control of the shop stewards. Production is at a standstill.' The action will have powerful impact on engin- eering industry workers in the Manchester area. They are poised for battle over the claim and were originally discussing strike action. This was watered down by the local AUEW leader- ship, however to a ban on overtime and a work to rule. The Bredbury works-a rolling mill and part of the giant GKN engineering combine-is the among biggest plants in the S Manchester area. Militancy has there been increased over recent months. Two weeks ago produc- tion workers staged a spontaneous one - day sympathy strike in support of white-collar workers. POLICE and armed forces in Ceylon have been put on the alert, according to reports from New Delhi. All leave for police and military personnel has been cancelled with immediate effect. • New Delhi radio com- ments: Although no rea- son has been given for the action, it is believed that this has been done as a precaution against any pos- sible recurrence of violence and left-wing insurrection which was faced by that country a year ago. the island is stilled er t may be recalled that state of emergency, clamped down in March last year when the first signs of insurgency became evident!:

PAGE 2 Workers Prose, Friday March 17, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

BY A FUREIGN CORRESPONDENT

ISRAEL yesterday formally rejected a pro- posal by King Hussein of Jordan for a federation between the E and the W banks of the Jordan river under his throne.

In an address to the Knesset only hours after the publication of Hussein's plan, Israeli premier Golda Meir said: 'This is not a message of peace. There is no support in it for the principle of agreement and no readiness in it for negotiations.'

She said that Israel was ready to negotiate a peace with Jordan. despite the rejection of settlement Hussein's plan: 'There is only one way that could bring negotiations through courage and under- about peace standing of the realities. Any other way is bound to disappointment.' lead to The Jordan proposal is primarily an attempt to cut the from under the of the Palestinian liberation ground feet by staking claim in advance to the occupied movement territories in Palestine. Al Fatah, the Palestinian guerrilla organization denounced Zionist enemy' with the the plan 'conspiracy as statement issued Wednesday. on It said the Palestinian people determine alone had the right to 'away future from their any Royal Zionist Hashemite or influence'. Egypt has yet to comment on Cairo the proposal, thoush the 'AI Gomhouria' newspaper Dre- dicted that Egypt might break off diplomatic relations with Jordan in reaction to the Hussein plan. THE UNITED States is hold- Egyptian President Anwar ing talks with foreign govern- Sadat is currently in the Sudan decide a forum for ments. to for talks the Middle-East on discussion of new world with his ally President situation monetary system, according to Jafaar Numeiry. Treasury Con- Secretary John Iraq has denounced the plan nally. and refused to receive Hussein's •We have come to the end of of with an explanation the world, he told the envoy post-war the lordanian position. Council on Foreign Relations in Washington yesterday. 'We must be able contribute construc- effectively tively, and responsibly Link building of world to the a new in which money, trade and invest- instruments of ment GArVA gain and progress for all peoples.

The Ba'athist leaders in Iraq Paul said his assistant have proposed to link their up Volcker was making contact with Egypt, with Syria and country. discuss governments to athar of the i three partners in the two forum for monetary talks.

Re- existine Federation of Arab should broader The forum be publics. Ten top than the Group of cani- which negotiated talist countries This they said in move. . the currency realignment deal in would 'strengthen the statement Washington last December, Con- Arab position'. It aimed was nally said. proposals the against any The Americans want an East of Middle 'which smack enlarged meeting to avoid facing surrender'. bloc their solid main the made trading opponents across Iraq's communiqué no of federation with negotiating table. mention talks Volcker's talks about Libya, the present third partner with the various capitalist powers with Egypt and Syria in the aimed at staving off an are also Federation. and international monetary Iraq, Egypt and Syria partici- credit collapse, at least until after attempted pated in union in thens in the Us Presidential November elec- 1963, but it collapsed because of Such a collapse, giving rise to disagreements between Presi- Nasser and the Syrian and major commercial failures and a dent Iragi Ba'athists. huge leap in unemployment, expected to seek Zulfikar

PAKISTAN

President Bhutto is Bhutto arrived Moscow Soviet assistance in the repatria- Ali in tion of 94.000 Pakistani prisoners for talks with Krem- vesterday India following his first visit to of war held in lin leaders on which has recognised the December which war last country brought i Bangla Desh into exist- Bangla Desh. welcomed by premier He was ence. Alexei Kosvein. President Nikolae The Soviet leaders want closer Pakistan Podgorny is on holiday on the relations with to neutralize Chinese influence on Black Sea, according.. to the Indian sub-continent.

foreign diplomats.

GOLDA MEIR

could put paid to President Nixon's chances if it comes in the pre-election period. The December agreement on currency rates clearly cannot "The Times' for long. last reported on Wednesday that: 'According to European bank- ers, it is clear that the major multinational corporations are now holding far more of their foreign liquid assets cur- rencies and less in dollars.

"This, it is said, reflects con- tinued about the nervousness prospect of a possible return to a period of floating rates. It also marks a basic change practice by the multinationals, in In a despatch from • Frankfurt, the a leading quotes paper foreign exchange dealer who says his 'large American commercial cliental banks may ha ic bofore . clients ... fear the autumn and take drastic mea- which could lead to a sures major crisis. Connally's speech made it clear the US has no intention of action to stem the out- taking flow of dollars to Europe, how- ever. 'For our part,' he said, 'we want maximum freedom for inter- investment flows of national capital as well as goods.'

European hostility to American 'on the cheap' in investment Europe, using paper dollars to buy up factories and banks, has speeded up Sommon Market for monetary within and the formation union anti-dollar bloc. Connally • warned that the US was watching this development closely: 'We cannot escape a close interest in whether monetary union is a potentially liberalizing and stabilizing force in world financial affairs or will be con- verted into a vehicle for pro- moting an inward-looking, defen- sive bloc.' Clearly the December currency not lessened the deal has antagonism between Europe and America over the breakdown of the post-war monetary system.

A SCHOOLMASTER who br an uppercut was cleared by a l Crown Court yesterday. Eric Higgitt (38), head of the physical education depart- ment of the Blessed Humphrey Middlemore Roman Catholic School, was acquitted of using excessive force in restraining the boy breaking his jaw in two places. Speaking to the jury before their verdict, Mr Justice Ackner said these 'very strange were times' when a violent, abusive boy went unpunished and an efficient schoolmaster of exemp- lary character was brought to trial for raising a hand against him. But the judge went on: "The issue before you is not whether we suffer nowadays from an excess of sentimentality OI sloppy thinking with regard to the criminal responsibility of the young. It was whether the pro- secution proves that the master was guilty of assaulting the boy causing him actual bodily harm.'

In directing the jury the judge said that the boy had sworn at the master and hit him in the stomach. The master, apprehending the boy, raised a hand against him and hit him with one punch- a light-to-moderate blow, accord- ing to the prosecution, which unfortunately fractured his jaw.

No one suggested that was what he intended to do, he added. Earlier counsel for the deferice, Mr Brian Escott Cox, claimed the teacher would have been neglecting his duty if he had taken no action. wretched bad luck' It was that the blow broke the boy's jaw. He said a schoolmaster was entitled to hit a violent, struggl- ing schoolboy: One of the privileges and duties that a schoolmaster has is the main- of discipline tenance proper within the ordinary day-to-day running of the school.' BP profits down BRITISH Petroléum's last quarter declined sharply profits have preventing company from increasing its dividend to share- holders. According to preliminary results net income for the last quarter of 1971 declined from comparable figure of £31.9m in 1970 to £26.7m. The group said there had been 'increasingly disappointing' trend in profits in the third and fourth quarters and the outlook for 1972 was 'discouraging'. The announcement caused BP shares to dip on the Stock Exchange by 3kp. SOME HULL dockers may now work a seven-day week following a new agreement the Transport and between General Workers' Union and Hull Port Employers' Associa- tion. Following an agreement for £14.50 for a seven-hour Sunday shift from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., negotiations are now in progress for a voluntary Saturday after- noon shift from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

This means that the Hull port employers are now approaching a situation where they will have cover for the full 168 hours a week. The main purpose of the agree- ment, as far as the employers are concerned, is to give them cover for the North Sea Ferries working Sunday and to start who broke a pupil's jaw with d by a jury at the Birmingham THE FUTURE of the professions is seriously threatened by the Tory government's new Code of Industrial Relations Practice, says a leading lawyers' journal.

The code obliges a professional person to comply with it even though he may be acting con- trary to his professional code of conduct. The original draft of the code stated simply that a professional be called employee should not upon by his employer or trade union to take any action con- trary to his profession's code of conduct. That was reasonable and realistic says the 'Law Society's Gazette', in a leading article.

But the final version of the code is an about-face by. the government, the article goes on.

It limits the occasions on which a professional employee should not.be required to go against his professional code to those endangering the health, safety or well-being of individuals.

Ford to move toolroom FORD toolmakers from Dagen- ham are to hold a mass meeting next Monday to discuss a threat to 200 of their jobs. With recent changes in its model-planning policies, . the company has decided to transfer all tooling operations to W Ger- many. Previously they were split between the two countries. The Dagenham shop stewards say they will resist the new move.

Stewards are also suspicious of company promises to move the affected toolmakers to other parts of its square-mile complex in S Essex. The redundancy moves were Workers Press first revealed in 11 months ago. weekday shifts from the middle of April. The company is already in the of chartering another process ship to join the three already in their roll-on, roll-off, Hull- Rotterdam service. The new arrangements would give the company 18 sailings a week in each direction between the two ports. Commenting on the new agree- the port ment, treasurer stewards' committee and a mem- ber of the National Amalga- mated Stevedores and Dockers, Arthur Atkinson said: 'A lot of aren't happy about this at uS alliwe've been fighting for many years for a 40-hour week and reasonable shifts for all dockers, and now here we are giving the employers cover for virtually every hour of the week.'

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

MR JAMES MSPARRAN, _

on Bloody Sunday, told the T unjustified and much of it indis 'Whether it was brought about as a result of a deliber- ate policy decision of the army commanders in an attempt to reduce the possibility of further civil rights marches, or whether it resulted from a breakdown in discipline among the paratroopers because of their anxiety and determination to teach the people and the hooligans a lesson, is difficult to determine.' 'Our submission is that the whole arrest operation was, from its nature and the manner of its execution, designed and con- ceived to make it inevitable that death and serious injury to the civilian population would result.?

McSparran was making his closing address • to the tribunal which is now sitting at the Law Courts in the Strand, London.

Special security measures were in force at the court. Fress had been issued with special passes to get through the watch being kept at the court doors. Police stood guard in the judges corridor at the back of the court and no public were allowed into the hearing. Police with dogs patrolled the court- yard around the court. Police Officers on duty outside Lord Widgery's court examined all boxes and bags carried by clerks or barristers. Suitcases full of papers had to be emptied and examined and cardboard boxes full of legal reports and papers were untied and •emptied before they were allowed to be carried into court.

McSparran said 'It was a fair inference that the security forces deliberately sought a confront- ation on a scale justifying the use of force sufficient to deter further marches. 'The army commanders must have known that if violence was used in such a situation it would end in shooting and the risk of the loss of life. 'If the risk was evaluated and accepted then the responsibility for the deaths remained with the army. If it was not evaluated, it was an indication of the grossest negligence. "The second possibility is that there was a breakdown of disci- pline and that the paratroopers ran amok, said counsel. "There is some evidence of that and you will consider it. It is not part of my duty to throw mud! There was also the evidence of heard a para- witness who a trooper say: "That will teach

EX-YARD MAN HEA

RAN, QC, for the relatives of 12 of the 13 civilians killed d the Widgery Tribunal yesterday 'that the army firing was ¡ it indiscriminate. them to mess with the paras.' He submitted that a number of detailed and careful steps should have been taken by army com- manders before the arrest operation. Clear and explicit should instructions have been given to the troops about firing.

The should also have troops been given clear instructions and that many members of warnings public atten ree the were perfectly legal meeting Derry Corner and that care should be taken to avoid injur- ing any of those people. It is absolutely incredible that the officer who was in charge of 35 men armed with self-loading rifles did not even know when he went in that a meeting was being held,' said counsel. Many of the officers 'washed their hands of their responsi- bilities those men they had placed in this position. Counsel said that, in essence, Kennedy (thi MP Paddy the army's case was that either Stormont entry, or shortly afterwards, they were fired on, some of it from automatic weapons. 'Is there any independent evidence that any volume of fire was directed at the army in this period?' asked counsel. 'In my submission there is no independent that evidence to effect.' A LEADING member of the insurance Chamber of Shipping has expressed concern at con- tinued rocketing port costs.

Mr David Clarabut, chairman MP claims of the Chamber's coasting and short sea section, speaking at the section's annual meeting in Lon- said don, Naton. Wors MOTORISTS would have their affected by the government's insurance premiums 'doubled, deust stand on their own feetorts determination trebled and quadrupled' when we MP ioined the The Commons Labour While this philosophy had claimed in the early Clarabut much to commend yesterday. when its application led to said, Intervening in another MP's substantial and frequent speech on the committee stage creases in charges, then it must European of the Communities be accepted by commodity Bill, Arthur Lewis (Lab, West interests generally and the ulti- Ham claimed that the that this was mate consumers. Continent, the insurance premium burden that could be absorbed on the cheapest, smallest type of by shipowners. £100 a car year. But it inevitably be must He understood that agreement in higher passed down the line had been reached that, ten

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freight charges, he added.

Community, the countriec Clarabut speak harmonized remiums insurance would be went on to friction between ship- about 'When literally millions of and the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers motorists in this country know over they are going have their to agency charges. Shipowners, he said, could not doubled, insurance premiums trebled and quadrupled, there is accept the very big increases the Institute going to be one Hell of a scream.'

proposed.

HEADS GUN ASSOCIATION

SIR RANULPH BACON

Sir Ranulph's long asso- ciation with guns began in has just been appointed 1928 when he joined the president of the Gun Metropolitan Police. He served in the Provost Ser- Trade Association, a World War II, vice in body which looks after where he rose to Lt-Col. interests of the gun Then, in 1943, he was Colonial seconded the to manufacturing employers. Police Service where he became an Insp-General in As part of his new job Ceylon. he visited the recently After a long stint as Handsworth, Birmingham Chief Constable of Devon, rejoined factory he the Metro- of Webley and politan police and became Scott where he examined Commissioner Deputy at shotguns fitted with French New Scotland Yard He is now a director of walnut stocks. Securicor 'honour' an Employment Secretary Robert Carr shared before

SIR RANULPH

joining Heath's government

BACON

and of International

EXAMINES GUNS

Intelligence, USA. Workers Press Sieff leaves LORD SIEFF, joint architect of the Marks and Spencer empire with his late brother-in-law Lord Marks, •gross, left £164,808 £146,731 net (duty £81,366) in his will published yesterday. He died on February 14, aged 82.

Lord Sieff was former chairman and Joint managing director, and president of the company from 1967. He said in his will that he made no provision for charity as he had already given in his life- time and left his property to relatives. nedy (third from right) at Ennlakillen PADDY KENNEDY, the run- away Stormont MP, has been captured by the British army "during a raid in Beffast.

with He discovered was leading William McCrory, a member of the Provisional IRA, in the Belfast home of a Dublin journalist. A statement issued yesterday by the security forces said both men were being questioned by Special Branch. Kennedy, a Republican Labour MP who is sympathetic to the Provisionals, has been on the run since internment. He has become something of a Scarlet Pimpernel figure turning up inside Ulster at press con- ferences and demonstrations and then slipping back to the Republic. Although the army and police threw an iron ring around both Newry and Inniskillen for anti- internment rallies, Kennedy got 'inside and gave interviews to television and radio. Asked how he managed to evade capture, Kennedy grinned and said: 'I just walked in?

At the end of the march he waved to reporters and said: 'See you in Crumlin Road' (the Belfast jail). On Tuesday the army also arrested three other senior Pro- visionals - one of them a battalion commander. kers Press, Friday March 17, 1972 PAGE 3 HOUSING MINISTER Julian Amery has left the BBC poised on the brink of another row with the government, following Wednesday night's 'Man Alive' programme on the Housing Finance Bill. Referring to the programme and the Labour party political broadcast, Amery said the BBC had made television history by carrying two Labour Party broadcasts on housing on the same evening. Amery's onslaught follows a row between Environment secre- tary, Peter Walker and

BBC

chairman Lord Hill over claims of bias in the programme, sub- titled 'Up The Rents'. Walker was understood to have been refused a preview of thẻ The

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PAGE 4 Workers Press; Friday March 17, 1972 The five Right-to-Work marches organizea by the Young Socialists have climaxed their fight against the 'ory government by a massive rally at the Empire Pool. Wembley. Now a new stage of the fight opens up. All the determination and political consciousness 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.

convince the labour force there A year on the dole, lifelong that there is only one trade unionist Billy McGinnis way fight unemployment 'nothing from Liverpool thought the short of the struggle for Wembley Pool rally last Sun- socialism. day was 'really great'. Older workers there tend to The Communist Party, he feel that their traditional leaders thought, could have will do the job or that they can never organized anything like it.

always find other work, he says.

'But the younger with "Take docks', he said. men the families like myself are realizing, 'They've always mili- been very that there's nowhere Mick told Workers Press: This else to but this militancy's just not tant, used. is a great rally, and it's been a realized is that 'What's not campaign. great everything's political today-the If here is like me, everyone fight against redundancy will have had I'm it a especially. tremendous effect on them.

'These youngsters have blazed the trail. We must follow them.' miners' the With the strike, Right-to-Work will campaign A feeling of excitement was be. the turning-point for the Mick Herring's immediate socialist movement in S Wales.

200 to the sight of reaction So chair- Bevan, thinks im young Right-to-Work marchers the man of engineer's union trooping into the Empire Pool, branch at Margam steelworks, Wembley, March Sunday on Port Talbot, and its delegate to 12. Port Talbot Trades Council. the Talking It's the youth who are going against Rockin from the Rock to lead anything today', background he said Roll All-Stars which the just outside the after attending rally five-march, five- Empire Pool rally last Sunday, he climaxed the said the reception the marchers week anti-Tory campaign. Watney steward had received there was "just like shop Mann's brewery in the East End the one they've had throughout of London, Mick could face the country. The march through S Wales redundancy himself if his work- tremendous place closes down, as is would give impetus' to the building of the frequently threatened. socialist movement there, he said.

He is involved in a struggle to Peter Pejic has a sharp mes- sage to take back with him to Swansea after his 320-mile march across Britain with the Right-to-Work campaigners.

An unemployed fork-lift driver from the Mayhill district of his Peter wants to tell home city, both the jobless and those in work 'Get off your backsides and fight'. is 18 impatient. He and Impatient to get rid of the Tories, remove the scars impatient to of unemployment from the work- ing class and, now, impatient of anything he thinks gets in the way of those tasks. From someone who admits he 'never thought about politics be- on the march', he fore I came has changed in three short weeks potentially a very effective into working-class leader. What really started me think- ing was the terrific support we received from nearly all the the way; People we met along ordinary he says. 'When arrived at the Rolls-Royce fac- tory in Bristol to find 2,000 fight What into the put marchers from S Wales • was seeing the emergence of tre- mendous support for the Right • to - Work campaign among virtually all the ordin- ary, working-class people they met. This is the opinion of Noel Harris, a young unemployed worker from Londonderry who- signed off walking though he after the first week because of an old leg injury—played a lead- ing role in organizing the march.

As a member of its advance team he was invaluable in help- ing. keep the march on the road.

*When people come forward with backing just like that in the way they did, you need to know what to say to them. It's start thinking then you about what's happening to you, he says. I came along not knowing people waiting to cheer us on our way it was really fantastic.

'Older people's first impression of youth is of long hair, not really caring about anything and all the thing's we're accused of by the press. 'But we really cut through that.

We showed that we're willing to really fight for the right to work!

A big part in the impact the march made on many adult trade unionists was played by Peter's tireless stewarding. . Fowler, a 20- With Lawrence year-old former miner from Porth in the Rhondda, he was for much of the way ever active on the fringes of the double column keeping the lines, waving through or stopping traffic and making sure no paper-sellers or collectors were left behind. His first and last job since leaving school was with a soft- drinks company, where he started as a van-boy but was soon taking home £17 as the driver of a fork-lift truck. struck as the Then closure company centralized its opera- much about the Young Socialists and not expecting the Right-to- Work campaign to be very much.

'But as we went along the Welsh valleys I became more and more interested. 'With all the support people have given us, I'm convinced the government can be that forced to resign. Nearly everyone we met was behind us and if we can unite all these people we can force the Tories out.? All the marchers who set off from Swansea are now very different from the people who started out, Noel said. Even if they had not really wanted to know about political questions when they began, they soon started to realize the impli- cations of their actions.

had just Now 22, Noel has four jobs since he left school. He now finds it doubly difficult to find work because his left eye seriously damaged while was tions on just three bottling plants nationally and Peter was made redundant. Since early in November he has been offered only two open- by the Department of ings Employment. One was a out of boat-moulding job Swansea, which miles would have meant hours of ex- pensive travelling each day. The other was at a crisps factory, but was filled bv the time he arrived.

Passing into areas of far lower unemployment, he learnt the need 'it can't happen to fight the me' philosophy. 'If you'd ask me before I came on the march, I suppose I'd have said I wouldn't even vote "in a General Election. But now I know that no one's job is safe while the Tories are in. 'We've got to get them out, and the march has shown that thousands of people want to do it. 'What the youth want today is a big, effective movement to That's carry the job through. what we must build now? working on a building site.

First made redundant when the 2,000-strong BSR record-player factory shut down and 'wrecked occurred the damage when apprentice plasterer £2 3s Ild a week. In his home town he supported the aims of the IRA, but not the There's bombing of factories. enough unemployment already, he explains. •What I realize now is that to get the troops out we've got to get the Tory government out- and that means uniting Catholic and Protestant workers to fight politically. "The fight's not over with the end of the marches. In fact it's just beginning. I think all the Irish conting- ent on the marches are determ- ined to go back and fight to bring thousands of Irish youth into the movement.'

The already tatty facade of American 'democracy has been blown wide open by the revelation of a multi-million dollar deal between the White House élite and the Inter- national Telephone and Tele- graph Corporation. The corporation is one of the top 20 American firms, with a yearly turnover worth £1,600m.

The deal shows that like every- thing else in capitalist America, justice can be bought and sold by the big monopolists in col- lusion with their political repre- sentatives. The ITT deal came to light when President Nixon decided to reshuffle his inner cabinet, moving out Attorney - General John Mitchell to conduct his presidential election campaign.

One of Mitchell's chief claims fame to worid is his loud- mouthed wife Martha, a virulent anti-communist who is notorious for denouncing 'long-haired agi- tators'. Tipped to replace Mitchell as the top law officer was Richard G. Kleindienst, a top Republican functionary. Jack Anderson, a columnist for the 'New York Post' revealed Kleindienst's complicity in drop- ping an anti-trust suit against

ITT.

In return ITT paid $400,000 into Republican campaign funds.

The case concerned ITT's sub- sidiary Hartford Fire Insurance Corp. Under US laws against the formation of monopolies, ITT should have been forced to sell Hartford, but Kleindienst stepped in to save ITT. If ITT had lost the case and been forced to sell Hartford, its profits would have corporate dropped by up to 25 per cent and its shares would have fallen the stock exchange. Klein- on dienst acted as a go-between for ITT and the Nixon administra- tion. He arranged a meeting between Felix Rohatyn, an ITT director, and Richard W. McLaren, now a federal judge who was then the head of the Justice Department's anti-trust division. In turn Judge McLaren used White House money to hire a New York investment banker who prepared a report favouring ITT in the trust suit. McLaren has since told Senate investigating committee that if the government had won its case it could have led to the breakup of ITT and serious damage to both the company and the economy generally. A clear case of 'What's good for General Motors (or ITT) is good for the United States'. During the complicated wheel- . ing and dealing that preceded ITT's favourable out-of-court settlement. their lobbyist at Washington, a Mrs Dita D. Beard, penned a revealing letter.

Anderson reprinted the letter "New in the York World' to prove Kleindienst's unsuitability for the Attorney-General's post.

It reads as follows: thought you and I had agreed very thoroughly that under no circumstances would anyone in this office discuss with anyone our participation in the convention [i.e., ITT's donation to Republican funds] including me. 'Other than permitting John Mitchell, Ed Reinecke, Bob Haldeman and Nixon, besides Wilson, no one has known where that $400,000 has come from.

I am convinced that our noble commitment [sic!] has gone a longway towards our negotia- tions on the mergers eventually coming out as Hal wants them.

'Certainly the President has told Mitchell to see that things are worked out fairly. If it gets too much publicity you can believe our negotiations with Justice will wind up shot.

•Mitchell is definitely helping us, but cannot let it be known.

Please destroy this, huh?'

Reinecke is the Lieutenant Governor of California, Haldeman is aide who Nixon accused of Nixon's peace liberal critics of and plan being 'traitors' Wilson is the Republican Con- gressman from San Diego, California. The letter was written One June 25. month later on, July 31, the anti-trust case against ITT was settled out of court.

settlement After the Beard suddenly disappeared from Washington and Anderson

ITT

her as saying quoted told me to get out of town' ITT security officials entered her Washington office and destroyed several documents relating to the case. Kleindienst h originally Madenied all knowledge of the deal, but eventually admitted under Senate cross-examination that he had 'some role' the played in settlement. McLaren claims that Mitchell had nothing to do with Beard had hour- it, though an long conversation with him at a Kentucky cocktail party. of Reinecke's One aides has testified that the $400,000 dona- was discussed with Mitchell tion, last May. The Beard memo sufficient evidence on its own to damn Mitchell anyway. Beard finally traced by was FBI agents in a Denver hospital.

suddenly seems was stricken with a heart attack and her doctor has refused to allow the agents to serve a subpoena ordering her to testify before the Senate. There is more to the ITT affair than just another scandal. It is Nixon no secret that the Administration the represents interests of the big monopolies. What this case reveals is the total contempt on the part of both the administration and its big associates for any form business of legal or parliamentary pro- Top: Attorney General-designate cedure. Richard McLaren. I Right: John Mitchell. lie Government ministers wholesale They to parliament. are implicated in a massive plot the of the to subvert law. And this is considered of more or less normal state affairs. himself is in the Kleindienst forefront of Nixon's attack on working-class A former rights. staff, member of the of Barry Goldwater, the ultra-right-wing Arizona presidential contender, he personally directed the mass arrests of 13,000 anti-war demon- strators in Washington last May. One of his schemes was to a us naval vessel on the moor Potomac River and use it as a for demon- detention camp (Shades of the Belfast strators. prison as plindeton 'Maidstone'I) who stood It was Tustice the window of the at Department a big anti- during 1970 war march in with an American flag pinned to his shirt, shouting hysterically that the 'Russian Revolution' was its way. The "Baltimore Sun' has told Klein- how at cocktail party "joked' dienst about commission- ing a legal study on how to post- pone the 1970 congressional elec- tions. According the 'Sun's' Mitchell told reporter, abruptly talking and Klein. him to stop dienst quickly shut up. That The Los wasn't all. "Free Angeles Press' printed that vice-President Spiro story "joke' Agnew had the same in mind. Apparently he wrote confidential based memo Rand Corporation study on how the 1972 presidential to cancel election and suspend the Bill of Rights under the pretext of call- ing a 'national emergency'. The Kleindienst affair is cer- tainly illuminating some very un- savoury corners of the corridors of power in the centre of world imperialism.

BY JOHN SPENCER

Makarlos: the Turkish realme has stror Workers Press, Friday March 17, 1972 PAGE 5 Kleindlenst (loft) with Felte Rohatyn a director of ITT. Below left: R. While the Turkish masses live in and overcrowded poverty con- ditions, one-third of the annual goes to support an army budget 600,000 of of men as part Turkey's obligation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Key industries such as chemicals, petroleum, electronics and engineering are in the hands of US which take corporations $121m out of the country each year. Turkey plays a key role in the strategic plans of US imperialism which maintains huge bases and 40,000 in the country. men Erim's regime of and repression torture is backed by the US and its NATO allies because such an must be kept important country free from revolution. The Turkish regime resembles much of the colonels very that in Greece. It is difficult to know which is the most villainous or which perpetrates the most brutal tortures. In conflict between the the Greek and Archbishop junta Makarios of Cyprus, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Semih Akbil, has come out strongly in favour of the He colonels. demanded that the arms recently purchased by Greek Cypriots should be handed the United over to has strongly supported his rivals.

Nations forces on the island.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday March 17, 1972 Tales of Hoffman: Part 2. By Alex Mitchell of Who's Who. They congregated his Cornfeld and Bernard in the offshore havens—Liberia, money - making incredible and Panama, Bahamas machine, Investors Overseas Liechtenstein-to evade taxes and by the

(IOS),

the Services was regulations imnosed Tho crusty financial establishment se financial dominant pheno- These London menon of the 1960s. persona had only dramatis one When he his operation characteristic in common-it was began from a tiny flat in Paris in 1956, greed. confided in a college friend: he •If you want to money, make washing don't horse around with

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machines and encyclopaedias. Get -that's the move.' In into money- funds amassed 15allyear5100 milion. So it came to pass that Jerome Hoffman, casting around for new the time Hoffman stepped At personal to build his ways into the action-early 1969- the the offshore discovered fortune, big Cornfeld's IOS and boys, fund business which Cornfeld had Barrish's Keith Gramco, had developed so successfully.

the field pretty well carved up 'them. He The offshore world is an between was unper- sharp of the astonishing theatre of by the size turhedi business practitioners working and immediately set opposition impeccable ambassadors, side-by-side an with and royalty board of directors-a dispossessed •rere Cornfeld had politicians, scanning the quisite, as Rernie directors like shown, of self-respecting boards any exploring an international edition fund. of the US directors, Holmes Above left to right: Three BI Hot New York Board of Trade, Jerome D. sident of the Democratic Mayor of New York, Robert F.

Wagn three-times Guillermo Guitterez, who ran an Illegal sales team of a car for 'outstan recelves a gift American countries, Viscount Brentford, ex-Tor tributions' to the company. Left: Below: Brentford's son, lawyer Crispin Joynson-Hicks.

Todd ('Round these names in the ba The late Mike the World in 80 Days') was the went to Washington first film producer to exploit the were prepared to OV appearances'. "mortgage incident' if of 'guest concept When get a piece of the offsh asked fellow director a course Hot him how he was so successful in In due donnas of duced his prize persuading the prima ca

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one the hardest. But once you've got him, DENT. The statement •We are pleased to the rest fall over themselves to get into the act.' that the Right Maudling, Hoffman used the Mike Todd Reginald Chancellor of the Ex brilliantly: he also technique Great Britain and a l played one side of the Atlantic Her Majesty's Cabine off against the other to fill his Parliament of board room. a ni President of the Boar of the United King elected Preside been Real Estate Fund of A

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M the Real Estate Company of America. activities and dynamic the growl will assure struction of American This indeed is an milestone for our futu His initial move was to co-opt Crispin Joynson-Hicks (whom he wanted to share this you. P.S.: Wait until w the Bahamas during had met in Crispin's the Chairman of our the 1960s) and early too good to be true!' father, Viscount Brentford. With vn, pre- and an, • Right 7 Latli 0g con- ninister. Hoffman ere men ook his

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ey could e action. pro- lan in headed:

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A few weeks later, amid suit- vent on: able fanfare, Robert Wagner's nnounce nourable appointment chairman was announced. Hoffman then needed former operational base. He chose equer of mber of solid old England and an address which groaned with respectability Member and soundness: 'Kings House, St orme of Trad Buckingham Gate, James Court, London, SWi has em, He incorporated the group in of the ludicrous rica and Monrovia under the of Liberia and laws agement company lis daily established its banking and investing rsonality arrangements in taxation is as in con- Bermuda, where as the weather. •1 estate. mild Now that he had the gilt-edged 'umental Hoffman set about trappings, constructing a sales force-which is, of course, the life blood of nnounce The men he ard. It's the fund business. rare breed. collected were a had Almost they to a man previously worked for Cornfeld most had been or Gramco-and or another. fired for one reason character hired by A typical his executive vice- Hoffman was President, Martin Strauss, who public notice first to In came 1952 Louisville, Kentucky, in arrested for the when he was possession of narcotics. In the 1960s he ran a sordid trade in girls from Latin America to the United States. It was SVorkin.-U3.: Strauss ane de wad to take the cost of a return air fare from the girls and then give them a one-way ticket. In many cases the girls found themselves without work when they left arrived and were And at least one air- destitute. line—Peruvian Airline-were not paid in full for even the one-way tickets. In February 1967 the airline entered judgement against Strauss in the New York Supreme Court for $14,500. During his employment with

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Geneva Cornfeld's in Strauss was linked with the mysterious Shalom Fund, a com- which collected several pany salés thousand dollars from clients without before disappearing the money! trace-but with There something faintly was satirical about Strauss's article in Hoffman's house journal which 'Within this company. you said: heavily down find weighed no after Individual corporate structure. initiative is encouraged.'

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There were others; the admin istration manager, Reginald Has ward-May, was a. bankrupt dean of the compae didn der the names. his past criminal record which included theft and The most cavalier of Hoffman's representatives was un- doubtedly Senor Guillermo Guitterez, senior executive in Latin America. Operating from an office in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica, Hoffman's Guitterez planned sales drive on one small republic another. For zeal, Guitterez won the coveted title 'Latin American Spark Plug' and a company gift of a new car. 2% sales covered countries-but it was only legal to sell in two, Costa Rica and Panama. This meant that in the other 27 he ran his sales team illegally. One of his salesmen used to river paddle a canoe across a deep in the jungle with a suitcase to avoid the of US dollars Paraguayan customs officials.

To protect both customers and code salesmen had everyone Thus an entry in the names. might Costa Rica headquarters show that 'Castro' sold $10,000 worth of stock in Real Estate Fund of America to 'Pancho'.

The main purchasers of REFA stock in his sales area were US citizens employed by American More often than corporations. not, they are paid in US dollars.

Under local exchange controls it is either illegal or prohibitive dollars send these back to to America. But the illegal network by REFA gave them the set up opportunity of getting their of money out the unstable regimes and into Western banks.

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Workers Press, Friday March 17, 1972 PAGE 7 In an interview in London year ago with Granada's 'World in Action' programme, Guitterez said the other main device for shifting dollars into the com- pany's funds the black was market. By using the illegal cur- rency outlets, the salesmen were able to transfer their money from one republic to the next and eventually out of Costa Rica to the Bahamas where Hoffman originally maintained his bank- ing. In the interview Guitterez was asked: What arrangements do you make for your salesman with different passports. ): Thev have several' Guitterez: Yes Q: And in their passports, do they put their occupation as fund salesmen? Guitterez: Oh, never. Q: Never? Guitterez: Never. Because, you know, mutual fund salesmen, it's a very bad word in Latin America.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday March 17 Part 2 on the history of the Us Containerization - in the United States as in this coun try — requires uninterrupted production based on a discip- lined work force. The amount of capital invested in containerized equipment, in- cluding berths, cranes, container- moving vehicles and ships needs intense and efficient use of labour to maximize profits. Such expen- sive equipment cannot be left standing around idle. In 1968 International the Labour Organization reported that what was required on the docks was 'a small group of highly mobile men prepared to work shifts and keep the docks running 24 hours a day, prefer- ably to be on call during this time' There should be 'no obstacle to shifting men from hatch to hatch, from one ship to another, from ship to shore and from job to job'. Following the expulsion of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) from the American Federation of Labour (it was readmitted to the AFL- CIO in 1959) the employers began a drive to wipe out jobs by the elimination of 'restrictive practices', , the reduction of gang sizes and the attempt to intro- duce no-strike clauses. This did not prevent ILA President Thomas Gleason from being an ardent advocate of con- tainerization. In 1959, he told the ILA convention: 'The container will be forced through shipping lines on competition. I am convinced it has got to come. And when it does come...it is not too far- fetched to estimate that we stand to lose, in the full force of the container use, 8,000 to 9,000 jobs in the New York area alone, and proportional number in all a other ports. This amounts to 30 per cent of the membership.'

Another estimate, in the. 'US Chemical and Engineering News' said there would be 90-per-cent redundancy facing US dockers. was intro- Containerization experimentally in the US duced in 1955. Yet by last year the output with containerized cargo averaged 600 freight tons per week, compared with 25 man tons per man week under con- ventional handling. • March 17, 1972 the US dockers by Jack Gale.

The turn-round time of a con- tainer ship is only one-tenth that of a conventional vessel. And it was estimated last year that the shipping bosses would need only 25 modern container ships to the US-European carry entire general cargo trade. The union leaders, however, put up no resistance at all against containers until November 1958 and then only quibbled about the terms and conditions under which they would be used.

The ILA agreed to work con- tainers and the employers agreed to maintain gang-size at 20 men -though only two gangs worked container ships compared on with five to seven gangs on con- ventional ships. In 1962, the employers came back and demanded reductions in gang-size and a tying of any wage rise to increases in produc- tivity. The ILA ranks forced a strike.

injunction A Taft-Hartley was imposed, but the last offer of the New York Shipping Association was rejected and the strike resumed after the 80-day 'cooling-off' period. The ILA got a wage increase, but agreed that the next con- tract (due in 1964) would be based on the recommendations Presidential of Mediating Board headed by Senator Wayne Morse. The board's findings provided the basis for the April 1965 agreement which established a 1,600-hour yearly wage guaran- tee, but which cut the gang size from 20 to 17 and abolished certain protective practices. The ILA agreement was imposed on the membership only after Taft- Hartley had been used twice.

The 1968-1969 contract was, in many ways, a repeat of 1964- 1965, with the dockers winning some concessions after a 57-dav strike -- including a guaranteed 40-hour week. But the union leaders refused to fight for an all-coast contract. On the W coast. the so-called "progressive' Bridges, whose class-collaboration poli- Stalinist tics were discussed in yesterday's article. also made deals on con- tainerization. His ILWU accepted the 1960 mechanization and moderniza- agreement which, renewed tion in 1966, lasted until 1971. In Ahim Top left: Thomas Gleason president o National Strike. Bottom: new container exchange for giving up almost all rights for the younger workers, limited of older number a 'A' workers (the men) were guaranteed a 35-hour week and provisions for a pension fund payable at age 63 after 25 years' service. The 'B' men, without any vote in the union and no benefits, employed as supple- were a mentary workforce, together with casuals for extra-busy many periods. The W coast employers got even more concessions than their E coast brethren on reductions of gang size and flexibility of The employers, in labour. fact, made an estimated profit through mechanization of $200m between 1960 and 1968. By 1970 more than 60 per cent of all US shipping trade was in inter- This containers. an national trend. Between 1968 and esident of ILA. Top: Longshoremen picket at container ship. 1970, there has been a world- from wide 50 to 300 increase container ships. It is possible for five of these ships to handle the entire British-N America trade with only one terminal at each end. This the wholesale means elimination of jobs, not only of portworkers but of • and seamen shipbuilders shipbuilding and workers. It means the supply destruction of entire ports and destitution for entire cities.

Alongside this, the employers will attempt to maintain the rate of profit by an all-out war on wages and conditions. This is why it was so important for the employers and US govern- ment to separate the recent E and W coast dockers' struggles.

The ILA and ILWA bureaucra- cies have always played into the hands of the employers on this question, because a coast-to-coast picket at Newark docks on first day of would raise the issue of unity smashing the employers' attacks right now. In the US, as in Britain, the union leaders will collaborate to the last with the employers. Con- tainerization, of course, should be a blessing to the working class. It could mean shorter hours and lighter labour. Under capital- ism, however, it means the dole queue and poverty. As Marx long ago pointed out, capitalism has developed the means of production beyond the point in which they can be con- tained within the property relations of that system.

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Information for this article has been taken from 'Showdown on the Docks' by Dan Fried. Bulle- tin Labor Series No. dis- tributed by Labor Publications, New York.

Nurses at work in the Casualty ward of a

YOUTH NEWS

A 22-year-old staff nurse at a large London hospital was one of a group of youth who travelled to Northampton to greet the Right-to-Work marchers on their way to London. She gave first aid treatment to a number of youth who had colds or blistered feet.

In this article she tells a Workers Press youth cor- respondent about condi- tions in the nursing profes.

sion. On the coach back to London between choruses of the Right-to-Work song she told me of her initial training as a nurse. I never realized how grossly understaffed nursing was. After eight weeks' training we had to work on wards where we never had enough time to do a job properly. I only stuck with it because of the satisfaction I got from the job. The hours are rotten. As a nurse you don't get student weekends off. 'There is a tremendous drop- out rate in the first year. Seventy- five per cent leave in the first six months. They are disillu- sioned. They think they are going to serve mankind. Instead they have to clean the sluice, wash bedmats and patients-the odd dressing if you're lucky.'

She took an active part in the fight to get a wage increase under the Wilson government.

'We canvassed people's homes in the working-class areas around the hospital. There was terrific support. Everyone invited us in for cups of tea. Last night when sold Workers Press in the pubs for the first time everyone was im ward of a large London hoepital mediately interested when they found out I was a nurse-more than they would have been for someone else, I think. 'When you ride on buses in uniform, the conductors always refuse to take your fare.

'People have asked why we don't strike. The only way we could do it is by refusing to do book cases-those which aren't emergency cases-and just the basic work. We couldn't actually strike. We haven't even got a union. The only thing for qualified nurses is the Royal Of Nursing. And you College never hear from them. "The wage increase of 22 per cent that we got under the Labour government was cut a month later when board and lodging went up. Other unions must defend us, since we are quite helpless on our own. Nurses were grateful for that 22 per cent, but it is not enough to encourage people to come into It is a bad enough job, nursing. without having bad wages for it.

'There is hardly any difference between the wages of a trainee and a qualified nurse because you have to pay more for board. You are really better off as a student.

As a staff nurse you are responsi- ble for a whole ward.' Not only are the hospitals al- ready understaffed, but recently there was a time-and-motion study made on the domestics and other 'unskilled' staff. "They even watched them go to the toilet. After this they brought a new system of off-duty, in which cut staff down even further, to only one orderly in the morning per ward. She is since she has to really pushed, do all the work until 10.30 a.m.

'Of course the nurses end up helping her, so that it pushes up the amount of work done by all concerned qualified and nurses do unskilled jobs. They are also speeding up the ambu- lance men. Sixty crews are being laid off in London and they are already overworked. 'Doctors are also in demand.

Patients suffer because doctors can't get around to see the patients. So we have to do some of the doctors' work as well. "The large majority of nurses are anti-Tory. Since the National Health prescription and dental charges have been introduced people's health has deteriorated.

Old age pensioners can't afford the anti-biotic courses. They have to go through a means test first.

can't afford to go to a dentist myself, and I'm working.

Unemployed people's teeth will just fall out. 'When one old lady's rent went up, she couldn't move back home and the hospital had to find her somewhere else to live. 'The Common Market will mean that nurses won't be able to afford proper food; they will be sick and have to take days off work. 'My first wage packet in Sep- tember 1968 was £ll Ils 3d-a month's wages! You get drummed into you that there is nothing that you can do about it. To do something about it is unprofessional, un- unethical, thinkable! "The nurses were all for the miners' strike, even though many of them had to walk many flights instead of taking upstairs , the lift when they got home after a hard day's work. I agree with the principle of a General Strike. It would prove that they cannot crack the whip over the working class and that the days of push- ing more productivity are over.

I think the Right-to-Work campaign was really great. It was about time something like that done. I think the Young was Socialists definitely get a sympa- thetic ear from nurses. I'm coming to Scarborough for the Young Socialists conference.

And I want to see a revolutionary party formed in the autumn.'

Workers Press, Friday March 17, 1972 PAGE 9 A week after the miners' strike The American Dream . . con- ended Mr Hugh Delargy, Thur- tinued. rock MP, went to the Polish Item from the New York embassy to receive the Com- Times' three days ago: of the mander's Cross Order Police said man was of Polonia Restituta. knocked down while trying to cross a busy New York City Delargy has been an out- spoken critic of Tory policy in Tuesday-and 50 expressway autos ran over the lifeless form Ulster. While he sharing was before motorist stopped a vodka with the ambassador, one if he and went for police. wonder raised question of Polish coal slipping A spokesman for police said for that the man, into Ulster during the strike?

some un- known reason, walked onto the expressway during the evening rush hour and was knocked flying by a speeding car. The One of the most subtle, and driver sped on. expensively - produced propa- 'Witnesses then told ganda magazines in the world us about 50 more cars slammed has just begun publication.

across the limp form before Point' It's called "To the one man stopped and shielded and is designed very much like the body with his car beiore 'Time' magazine. notify us.' running to Described as a 'world news The police said the victim in depth', the magazine comes carried no papers and the body out fortnightly. could not possibly be identified S Africa, it Published in because of the pounding. an intriguing list of contains 'editors, correspondents and associates' Such names as Wall, Patrick right- extreme wing Tory MP and member of the Monday Club, and Birming- Have you been following the ham MP Mrs Jill Knight, who wailing and howling in the supported Yahya Khan the obituary columns of the capi- regime during the struggle to talist press about the death of liberate Bangla Desh. Lord Salisbury? No, I guess you haven't. Anyway they all flocked to Westminster Abbey the other day for a memorial service to 'this great man, this states- man'. What interested me was the representatives from the diplo- matic corps. They came from such freedom-loving countries as Africa, Portugal and Spain. Kenneth Kaunda: I'berals' darling Listen to him squeal. Gaston Deferre, ageing 'socialist' mayor In the February 26 edition Mrs Knight is given a full two of Marseilles, has declared that "case members of the French govern- explain her pages to against abortion'. ment or its parliamentary sup- These two Tories appear in porters are protecting drug- traffickers. the same breath as other cor- Defferre respondents like Professor also the wants death penalty re-introduced for Christian Barnard. Will he be writing on his plans for brain the smugglers. Pretty extreme and head transplants? stuff. With the number of deeply It follows revelations made at the end of last year by Mr associated reactionary people John Cusack, head of the US with this journal, it is interest- Narcotics discover this letter in Bureau in Europe. ing to Cusack said there were three the latest issue: 'Sir. I congratulate you of four 'big wheels' behind the on debut of drug trafficking in the Mar- the your magazine seilles area. which is so objective and in- In his latest interview Def- formative. President's press ferre says that it is interna- secretary, State House, Lusaka, tional crooks who are running Zambia. the drugs through his city and What will all the white liberals think of their not local people. Well, that's now darling Kenneth Kaunda? a very handy assurance.

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as shipyard men stay out PAGE 10 Workers Proza, Friday March 17

AROUND THE WORL

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THIRTEEN people, in. cluding suspected mem- bers of the outlawed Communist Party, are in prison in the NW Spanish port of El Ferrol.

They were arrested in a series of police raids after two strikers had been killed and 50 injured by police bullets outside the Bazan shipyard in the town. E. Ferrol, the birthplace of dictator General Franco, is a fascist shrine, officially described as El Ferrol del Caudillo (El Ferrol of the Leader). Its main square is dominated by an immense statue of Franco on horseback. The Bazan workers are still on strike despite an appeal from the S AFRICAN President James Fouche today begins a state visit to Malawi at the invitation of President Kamuzu Banda, the first official visit by the head of the apartheid regime to any independent black African state.

Banda paid a state visit to S Africa in August last year, when it was regarded as breach in the black African front against S Africa. With: Fouche on his week- long trip goes S African Foreign Hilgard Muller. Dip- Minister lomatic ties between the two states were raised to ambas- sadorial level last July.

Malawi diplomats have 'honor- ary white' status in the apartheid hierarchy. Banda himself worked as a young man in S Africa, and has personal experience of the oper- ation of its racialist laws. To add another twist to Banda's cynical betrayal, he has invited his S African guests to attend the celebrations on the 10th anniver- Malawi's independence sary of from Britain. Hunger strikers removed FOUR young Basques on hunger- strike in a Paris church against French police persecution of re- fugees from Spanish fascism have been moved to hospital.

According to their lawyer, the were forcibly removed four men by the police from the St Lam- bert church in the 15th arron- disement. The police claim that they consented to move after examination by an official doctor.

El Ferro

•MADRID

official fascist union organization They arrived just two days cost of living The average to return to work. before the strike broke in the Bazan worker between 12,000 and 14,000 they will not go back pesetas They say yalus. month (£72-t84), but must work Volu The shipyard manacement Accoraing to their calculations 28 months behind agrees to • meet their demands- the frigates are long overtime hours achieve to Originally slated this of six sacked mili- schedale. figure. 1973, some of the put in Tants. new work contact denvery nicH fitted out will not the right form their own ship be and many as su nours a week over independent union. launched until the end of 1975. of their basic 48-

TOD

are represented in hour Bazan ships week. Bazan omcials sav they cannot fuelled negotiate these issues as long as the navies of several foreign has been the continues The yard, countries, including Argentina, by the influx of well-paid foreign and which employs 5,500 workers, Cuba (another advisers. Uruguas five frigates for example Thompson of Los Angeles bullaing missile Lne colaboraulon the Spanish navy between Stalinism and Spanish a specialist in electronic weapons The fascism). systems, says earns about £20 strike, which began last his Thursday, the yard, has orders on the while comes

DOIN

also Nor- crisis for the state-controlled stocks from Spanish and Danca • counterDart firm. Its work wegian merchant fessional engineer, only programme lines, and calls one-fifth as behind schedule. British Line four much. well llas 85,000 efficiency experts have order. people are cruise vesses on rentos been brought into speed up the The Bazan workers are fighting almost totally dependent on the blanket imposed shipyards for contract contiall oficial union last other side ot the town i ne desisners. TO f trem V11 applying New York engineering and to trom azan Astano ship• naval january firm Gibbs and Cox, and yard, employing 11,000 men.

sent over Ferrol the company's other Earlier week, the this Astano excuuves Erlich and Howard Avery in an They demanding niener workers • stuck mn svumoatny wil effort to speed up production.

pay to compensate for the soar- the Bazan workers. Fascist admiral 'defends ADMIRAL Gino Birindelli, who has just resigned as NATO's Mediterranean naval commander to stand as a fascist candidate in claims he is defending the Italian elections, NATO, Europe and civilization.

civilization' •If Italy were to become neutral, would be

NATO,

damaged that civil- Europe and the world would ized told collapse,' he conference in

DISS

Rome on Wednesday. The admiral is to head of candi- the list Naples for the ones be Italian Social Move- growing the of Giuseppe Tascist orranization. defence anarchist Valpreda. Naples is te Treaty's head- all currently on 1512 quarters of the frame-up bombing Europe com- charges, were seized. United mand, headed by Admiral Dracio" One fugitive from the Rivero. GiuseoDe Scar- search. the MSI's caught near the other candidates is those border. chief lormel arrested is Michelangelo General staff, Giovanni Spada, leader of the de Lorenzo, used who Lotta Continua organ- Monarchist ization. member or the namdel of Deputies. The Mon- The police have merged with archists accused Leopoldo 43-year-old

MSI

lawyer, Leon, Une ycal. of organizing Saturday's demonstration. be. While the fascists tout longs to the Marxist- openly votes and

THE ANARCHIST VALPREDA :

Leninist Union and reveal the extent of their

DOCUMENTS SEIZED

Soccorso Rosso. support The STate apparatus, the police are He has stated in court Gruppi left- Communisti conducting organizations, huge that the demonstrators Rivoluzionari (Com- wing bookshop and the against were unarmed and

WIC OUT

left. Revolutionarv students denounced the chief were searched by police Groups); Soccorso the political M12n Following the demon- Rosso (Red Aid) and after the demonstration. police, Antonio Allegro, Milan last stration La Vecchia lalpa THen for provoking the battle.

Saturday, which They include (Old Mole) bookshop. two police attacked Lotta Con- JeTT. offices The powerful Italian meeters outside a raisis.

ound sol bombs, claim tinua Communist ther Minas "rermanent anarchists, Struggle); the offices of have 'found denounced the and Lotta Communista vio- demonstrators and made Student: 'plans' for street have been taken into lence and a list of other allist custody. Avanguardia Operaia organizations involved. police raids mass and Papers relating to the Six offices of lefi-wing.. (Workers' Vanguard);, arrests. A COMPLETE standstill is threatened in Colom- bia's primary, secondary .and technical state schools unless the government decides at the last minute to give in to teachers' pay demands: The national leadership of the Colombian Teachers' meeting in Federation is Bogota to discuss the present situation and the strike of 25,000 technical and second- ary school teachers who have been on strike since February 22. The teachers are demanding a government statute be passed guaranteeing their rights, an across-the-board 40 per cent increase, the end of union persecution, re-employment of all teachers who have been un- justly sacked and the immedi ate resumption of classes in all schools closed by the govern- ment because of the teachers' strike. Carlos Galan, the Minister of condemned the Education, teachers for being inspired by 'subversive and political motives' But because of the Federation's backing for the strikers, the government has nct been able to carry out its threat to sack all the striking teachers. • When the strike was declared state of martial illegal under the law, the teachers' leaders retorted that that did not worry them since the country had been under a state of siege since 1948.

The teachers have also rejected of mediation from the offers Archbishop Catholic Anibal Munoz Duque of Bogota and the former Foreign Minister Senator Julio Ayala. Everything points to a head- confrontation between long and Colombia's 70,000 teachers the government of President Pastrana. THOUSANDS of students in Monterrey, Mexico, took part in Wednesday's funeral of Natividad de Jesus Leal Garcia (17). He was killed last Saturday when a detachment of the right- the Falcons, wing shock group, broke into the union office of the railway union and attempted to dislodge workers and students meeting to discuss who were the workers' latest wage demands.

The railway workers have stated that the Falcons were sent to Monterrey from Mexico City by the pro-government leaders of their union who want to defeat their demand for a 25 per cent increase in pay.

Two railway workers were their union offices against Falcons. These workers belonged to the group led by Demetrio Vallejo, labour leader who the veteran has himself spent 11 years in jail for leading a nationwide railway strike. A local Monterrey newspaper has published a brief statement by the railway workers provin- cial leader, Pedro Osorno de Honer, who is in a delicate con- dition with three bullet wounds. He stated that he heard the order shouted to the attackers: 'Kill them all!

THE MINERS'

settle- wage ment will cost 50,000 jobs over Those the next three years. pits making the heaviest losses will be the ones to close, said former

NCB

chairman Lord Robens yesterday. He was speaking at press conference launch his new "Ten Year Stint',* book which will be published next Thursday.

Lord Robens attacked the

NUM

leadership present for changing the rules on the strike majority and 'putting in an absurd claim'.

PAST AND PRESENT NCB CHAIRME

"The union switched to policy of higher and wages But if Sydney but was for smaller industry. the coal industry's his Ford and Will Paynter had been rather prospects than com- would in the leadership there munist philosophy. He was com- have been no strike.' pletely incorruptible, temperate, Will Paynter wise and sensible. In fact Lord Robens fell over was one of the great men of this his backwards in praise for said Lord Robens who is century, former Communist Party member now a director of several firms.

Will Paynter who, as general After had parried he secretary of the NUM, presided if which asked he the question rundown - the thought he to was industry. Lord Robens launched socialism, a tirade on the 'affluent society'.

'Paynter had divided loyalties,

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE

TWELVE THOUSAND

talks. If a package of proposals for rail jobs hung in the achieving the cuts through volun accepted redundancy balance yesterday as rail tary were Rail, by British he said, the union leaders started a problem would getting not be l workers to leave the industry but two-day meeting with the persuading them to stay in it.

Railways Board British Faced with this kind of oppo- sition, the board is expected to at a London hotel. adamant that all 12,000 remain Redundancy - ulti- jobs must go. notices And all the indications are it rail mately threatening 5,500 will declare the unions' package shopmen and more than 6,000 of proposals far too expensive.

administrative staff-are sus- The package certainly was pended for the next four weeks that, since besides a pledge that while a settlement is reached.

there would be compulsory no redundancies the unions wanted: the unions have Golden handshakes of accepted there must be ·2,300, length The only issue in depending on redundancies. the talks is the terms. service. Typical of the unions' • Financial aid of up to £1,500 made last who are forced attitude is a remark to older men to Sid Weighell, of their home dis- week by assistant move out general secretary of the National tricts and find new jobs, new Union of Railwaymen who is houses. Retention of their present leading the side in the union The daily paper that leads the fight against the Torles. £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues), £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: 186a Clapham High St., Circulation Depf., Workers Press, London, SWA 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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'What I don't like about it is its permissiveness. You only have to look at the newspaper ad- verts for films to see what's wrong. 'If you want a decadent society go on doing things like giving the pill to young It's girls. nauseating.' *The book is published by Cassell and costs £3.55. metropolitan weighting allow- by white-collar workers ances who are forced to move out.of London by the board's cuts there.

The death the sentence on workshop and white-collar jobs was declared last September, to be carried out by 1976. Since nationalization in 1947, employment throughout the rail- ways has already been cut by close on 66 per cent. The num- ber of shopmen has been slashed from 126,000 to its present 50,000-level in the last ten years.

Of the workshop cuts, new 2,300 were to be made by mid- 1972. At talks wịth the board in October the unions were offered an alternative; either complete closure of the shops at Ashford in Kent and Barassie, Ayrshire, or reductions spread over all 14 centres. The unions, however, insisted at that stage that their. policy was complete opposition to all redundancies. after Transport In December, Minister John Peyton refused to meet the unions to discuss the cuts, the line apparently hard- ened. The NUR's Weighell found himself talking about 'some form of industrial action'. And in running- January repair workers started refusing to move wagons which British Rail insisted on farming out to .

private enterprise. Last month, however, the union working-party set up to thrash the issue out with the board suddenly dropped its oppo- sition to redundancy. The board was jubilant. All the union leaders wanted was a paper pledge of no compulsory redundancy, it appeared. Hence last week's package and the present pow-wow at Great Western Hotel in Padding- ton, London. Without militant action to for no save jobs, the demand redundancy compulsory clearly the shabbiest of covers.

Presumably the 400 men at Barassie—30 miles outside Glas- gow and with no prospect of a iob in the area—will all be asked to volunteer for redundancy before closure their to save unions the embarrassment of having them sacked. workshops climb- The great down must sharpen the struggle for an alternative, revolutionary leadership in the rail unions.

Workers Pross, Friday March 17, 1972 PAGE 11

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announced yesterday that Hebburn, ship-repair its which closed in yard on the has been see say 1970 september losses, Hunter group. THE National Graphical Association executive decided to embark on further industrial action in support but at the end of a of their claim, four and half hours meeting yes- terday would not reveal their tactics.

PORT employers yesterday stepped up get rid of thou- their campaign to dock jobs. Bigger golden sands of handshakes, to encourage 3,000 dock.

the leave the industry in ers to were announced by the National Association of Port the National Employers. who Maximum pay-outs for men voluntarily retire or leave the indus- try are to be increased by $500 to £2,330. PRESIDENT Georges Pompidou yes- terday announced that a referendum ay March 17, 1972 union motion calling for 'vigorous measures' by individual unions to step up recruitment of women.

Pointing out that equal pay for women had been TUC policy for 80 years, USDAW delegate Joyce Riddiough said: 'We want action now. 'Women who work need to rouse, themselves, and realize that the only way they can get want is by what they acting collectively.'

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Grim shipping future even at Govan HOPES that a revival that ob- This, he said, de- grew normay compeuuon are world shipbuilding cent year-plus vious.' pended enurely on tne the This situation on the negotiation between uncertainty over would guarantee and Govan man- world the newly- future for LULUre carrency values Hilalkcl

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cosure risking their money hopes attracting mass unemployment not vesterdav a SPOKCS drive normal down and orders the wages man at the Shipbuilding Jono-tenm contacts. Trade and the mone- conditions Information Office. commercia wav are ni. on the Clyde situation had com- Davies admitted this The Stalinist commenting tary cender. He Was told Mps that it he stil Monday ship, with its praise bined depress the on a warning oy policy, has Secretary market such extent that the nela nis ola positon MoW ovened Davies that Govan Was director saf estaide to this kind Sam dei Hill who make or break not a Gustined •TODOs - coc. Bank would he attack. on commercial the charterno uankel. basis, But despite all these that the had withdrawn com- but not aovise mavestors because risk their funds in manoeuvres the hard pletely rates «overnment intended Govan Shipbuilders. commercial evidence provide money in the were so low. He added that was that the world slump expectation that the 'The boom in oraers has also the "intention' jeopardiz. market would eventually two years ago Trade nOW the government inject ing the entire fabric of make t the issue révive. served but that cash, compromise Just situation These worse about everyone trigue on the Clyde. ships have been flooding has their own ideas on was mor ver democa the yards said the matter.

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spokesman. ship-owners British Tilae waer

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Wallace chairman and managing

STRIKE MOVE

companies, director of the said arranged with the now had the Conciliatior antel UlctI Ministry of Employment and Pro- and General

FOUR

COMPANIES,

who Transport ductivity, to attend a joint meet- were Union and the trade workers ShOD stewares the ot ccasca lo TeCOXILe factories, anies three in the yesterday granted union were union to aiscuss peace termis claimed be but they had act- National 'He has undertaken order by the an To try lo insnot mn unenr Olllcld cabalıl, Relations Court meeting either today Industrial arrange but as employees' representatives.

We will try before stopping three employees from or tomorrow. The was sought by Idea Monday to get a complete settle- calling a strike. and Casements (Reading) ment,' he said. Idea Case thelr suss oarer The strike had threatened to ments Ltd, Ideal Galvanizing Ltd, not employees in Read- IT tnis possible, we out 600 call and Ideal should achieve where stere wil position Monday. Ltd, all of Shepherds House Lane, tomorrow night order, Sir John the Makink London Road, Reading. peace to allow discussions tc Donaldson. the our coal nar After the hearing Mr James continue.' criticized the company for taking view over recogni- à "legalistic' tion of the union, bul sarusuc unlawfully men were acting calling a strike. We demand the right to work!

is effective court's order until Monday when the men will opportunity of putting have an Make the Tories resign! une Cusc It was made against Mr Z. H.

of Junction Road, Read- Shamsi Mr Bramble A bert and M Isaacs, Road. Reading, Reading. of Brunswick Street, The court was told that they

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