Workers Press no. 717

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SIT-IN ENGINEERS CHALLENGE PAY NORM

GKN STRIKE

MAY SPREAD

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE POSSIBILITY of a district- dispute wide threatened the Greater Manchester engineering industry yesterday as 1,000 steel workers continued their dramatic factory occupation. The James Mills steel factory, day as workers kept up their sit- in. Their action is a reply to a manage- who ment bid to lock out workers began a piece work ban and work to in support of the engineering rule industry pay claim; now being fought out at local level. Manchester Tocher, Greater John organizer for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, said yesterday that talks with the steel workers and manage- in the had produced no break ment situation. He said: It's a battle of attrition. We don't care how long it will take, but this will go on until they come to us and talk conditions and about hours. holidavs as well as wages.' He said at a meeting between union officials and management, the firm, part of and Nettleford (GKN) Guest. Keen the empire, had made it quite clear that any would exclude hours and negotiation holidays. The occupation may precipitate wide the kill the bid by the AUEW lead- district action on before it was planned by ership to localize the claim.

claim the unions. They were calling for Mr Tocher yesterday described and the work-to-rule overtime the steel workers' actions ban on March 27: as poetic justice'. The steel workers, however, We know that this firm has took unilateral action when they been urging the employers found that the firm was building fed- take to tough line. stocks in preparation for pration up This was clearly the action they big strike. followed in this dispute.

but we When they imposed the ban, see the men have answered them in kind. stewards insisted that the shop floor stop operating the recently imposed bonus pay and system Welcome revert to the original day rate wage. Management refused and men Many militants in the area who work-to-rule were began to welcome the Stockport initiative.

'of-the-clock! led This to put They expecting the mass occupation, which is were unpre- the meeting of shop stewards which cedented in the history of this took place last Monday to issue factory. Manchester notice strike area employers over the claim.

Backing But, on a union recommenda- was curtailed to the tion, this overtime ban. But other Stockport now The action could have enor- Mills stewards have backed the political implications. If mous workers. the dispute does spread, the A total of 120. representing all Heath still groggy covernment. the major plants in the area, have mauling after its by the miners, voted bring forward their will be faced with another bat- action by one week and the over- ill-fated tle royal over its pay and work-to-rule will time. ban norm. Monday. start from Alex Reese, factory convenor This. with the threatened said yesterday that there was no by engineering workers in action change in the situation. the Sheffield. mav mean that organized N will soon We are very well whole areas in the are prepared locked hattle with and to sit it be in out to the bitter end. engineering employers. This will INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 18, 1972 • No 717 • DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Anti-Internment League protes- tors outside the Home Office yes- terday.

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LABOUR LEAGUE

ENOCH POWELL, leader of the Tory right wing, yester- day attacked the government the dollar at for supporting a value 'considerably more' than its worth. unnecessary for the government futile He said • was and prevent employers to try and trade unions from adding to continued inflation while it buy dollars at the existing rate.

sterling of 'Huge amounts expended for have been no other purpose than to meet the irrational and, in the long term, unattainable object of the United that the dol- States to pretend worth considerably lar is more it really is,' he said in a than speech at Ipswich. of the It is in • the cause Stars and Stripes that Britain has been inundated with a flood of money, bringing in its train all consequences of domestic the 121 1 sustained inflation.' is Powell's speech an out- spoken declaration in favour of economic nationalism. It is in line with his reactionary "little England' line and his opposition to the Common Market. Special interview with

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SIT-IN ENGINEERS CHALLENGE PAY NORM

GKN STRIKE

MAY SPREAD

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE POSSIBILITY of a district- wide dispute threatened the Greater Manchester engineering industry yesterday as 1,000 steel workers continued their dramatic factory occupation. The James Mills steel tactory, Stockport, was idle for the second day as workers kept up their sit- in. Their action is a reply to a manage- lock who ment bid to out began a piece work ban and work to engineering support of the rule in claim, now being fought industry pay out at local level. Tocher, Greater Manchester John Union of organizer for the Amalgamated Engineering Workers, said yesterday that talks with the steel workers and manage- produced no break in the had ment situation. We He said: 'It's a battle of attrition.

but this don't care how long it will take, will go on until they come to us and talk conditions and holidays as about hours, well as wages.' He said at a meeting between union officials and management, the firm, part of and Nettleford (GKN) Guest, Keen the had made it quite clear that any empire, negotiation would exclude hours and holidays. The occupation may precipitate district wide the kill the bid by the AUEW lead- action on ership to localize the claim.

before it was planned by claim the unions. They were calling for Mr Tocher yesterday described the work-to-rule and overtime the steel workers' as ban on March 27: 'poetic justice'. The workers, however, steel 'We know that this firm has took unilateral action when they been the employers' fed- found that the firm was building urging eration to take tough line. stocks in preparation for a a up This was clearly the action they big strike. followed in this dispute, but we When they imposed ban, the see the men have answered them in kind.' stewards insisted that the shop floor operating the recently stop bonus system and imposed pay Welcome the original day rate revert to wage. Management refused and men Many militants in the

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Backing on a union recommenda- But, curtailed the tion, this was to overtime ban. Stockport other But now The action could have stewards have backed the Mills political If implications. mous workers. the the dispute does spread, A total of 120, representing all Heath still groggy government, the major plants in the area, have its by the miners, after mauling forward their voted to bring will be faced with another bat- action by one week and the over- tle royal over its ill-fated pay ban and work-to-rule will time start from Monday. Alex Reese, factory convenor threatened This, with the said yesterday that there was no action by engineering workers in change in the situation. Sheffield, that the may mean 'We are very well organized whole areas in the N will soon and prepared sit it be locked in battle with we to out to the bitter end.' This will engineering employers. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 18, 1972 • No 717 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE МАЗи Anti-Internment League protes- tors outside the Home Office yes- terday.

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LABOUR LEAGUE

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PAGE 2 Workers Presa, Saturday March 18, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE FOURTH wife of left-wing Italian publisher Giangi was found mutilated by a dynamite explosion near to a field outside Milan, has asked for an immediate post-morte he was murdered.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

PRESIDENT Pompidou's decision to call a referen- dum on the enlargement of the Common Market is proving an acute embarrassment to the Tory govern- ment. tried it once too often Gaulle, It is certain to be dis- 1968. after the May-June events, cussed today and on Sunday His referendum produced a huge at Chequers when the French 'No' and the General vote holds talks with President resigned. Tory premier Edward Heath.

It will have the support of the stand What incensing the French farmers who to is also subsidy Tories is that they had no notice huge British pay- gain takes Pompidou's referendum ments if the enlargement of decision. place. Though Pompidou has his own The Communist Party has said calling for demagogic reasons referendum, it will the oppose referendum, contrasts the but its opposition and is formal Tories' the determination with made no call for the party has to go into the market regardless the bringing down of the Gaullist of the hostility of the majority regime. Britain. of people in at the Chequers talks Present The applicant other taree Home this weekend will be Norway, Denmark countries Reginald Secretary Maudling, and Ireland-are all staging some Secretary Lord Carring- Defence referendum form of national Chancellor of the Exchequer ton, Pompidou's before entry. action Mar- Anthony Common that the serves to emphasize Rippon, ket negotiator support Tory plan has no Secretary for Trade and Industry group of mono- small beyond a John Environment Davies and polists and their political Minister Peter Walker. supporters. At a grand luncheon It will be the first time on sun- joined by day, the Tories will be Pompidou has used this classic Mr and Mrs Harold Wilson and Bonapartist device since he took the Liberal leader Jeremy office 1969. in General de Thorpe. His predecessor, table circumstances and usually

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have good relations with the local police he said. HEAD of the Jewish Docu- 'Men like Bormann do not mentation Centre in Vienna, jungle and need go into the wife. live with an Indian Dr Simon Wiesenthal, says he is very doubtful that Johann Ehrmann, arrested by Colom- bian police in a remote jungle Martin shack, is actually IN A major concession to the Bormann, Hitler's deputy.

United racialist right in the States, President Nixon has He said: Every time we have promised bar legislation to information that prominent ordering Nazi is living in a country with federal the courts and under bad of black white climate bussing and as in a jungle, conditions, such children achieve racial to I am very sceptical. balance in schools. His made in a tele- promise, 'In 25 years' my experience vised address to the nation on Nazis, I have found that tracing the Thursday night, follows of them choose countries most of victory Alabama governor Chile and like Paraguay, Argen- Florida George Wallace. in the similar tina with climates to Democratic election primary Europe. earlier this week. •Théy also live under comfor i. 1" Wällace based his tampargh on Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, who ar to an electricity pylon in a t-mortem to establish whether Together with Feltrinelli's other comrades, she strongly suspects that he was mur- dered by extreme right-wing fanatics who want to provide the government with an excuse to clamp down on the left in Italy. Political assassination along these lines is a speciality of the fascists, who have mounted a big campaign of violence and intimidation in the run-up to the May 7 General Election.

Fascist squads of the Ordine have the backing Nuovo group of sections of the Milan police.

They are suspected of having organized the series of bomb out- rages in Milan in 1969 for which the state is now trying to frame the anarchist Pietro Valpreda.

Feltrinelli himself was charged in 1969 with providing Valpreda with a false alibi.

FLED COUNTRY

With his friend Sibilla Melega he fled the country. He was later cleared of all charges.

Feltrinelli, who inherited £4m lumber fortune, was Italy's most prominent left-wing pub- lisher. His list included import- ant reprints of early Communist International' documents and works by Soviet oppositionists.

He was a prominent Commun- ist Party member in the years after the war, but gave up his membership after the suppression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956. year, despite In the following strong pressure from the Stalin- which won its author the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958. He visited Cuba several times and was on friendly terms with Fidel Castro. Feltrinelli's death under such suspicious circumstances recalls the murder of the Socialist Matteoti by Mussolini's deputy stormtroopers in 1922. It is sure sign of the mounting social crisis in Italy and the threat of fascism. opposition to bussing, which has euphemism become the latest for the campaign against black people's rights in the US.

Nixon denied that he or other of bussing opponents were .to kill racialists wanted or : in the schools. He integration. said he. was directing the Justice intervene in Départment to selected cases where bus move- ments ordered by lower courts had beyond the require- gone ments of the Supreme Court.

He said it was 'dangerous non- sense' to argue that opposition to moving children outside their KING HUSSEIN'S plan for a f to include part of Israeli-occupi the Palestine guerrilla movem The plan, approved by other Arab governments and said "to be backed. by the Soviet Union, seems unlikely target. ai the ground as it will require the co-operation of Israel. Premier Golda Meir has scornfully rejected it.

She said that the King's plan was proposed without a Israel anapeace agreement with was disposing of territory not under his jurisdiction. King Hussein is a bitter enemy of the struggle of the Palestinian guerrillas to regain their home- land and carried out a brutal repression against them last year and in 1970. However, those guerrilla lead- ers who lean on Egypt are unable to mount an effective challenge which is a to the new plan betrayal of their aims. The Palestine Liberation Organ- ization has not given its final verdict and it is probable that there are elements in the THE PAY RISE recently w United States W coast has be Nixon's Pay Board. The rise has been cut from Board 16 to 10 per cent, chairman George Boldt an- nounced yesterday. The Board, set up last year to höld down wages, split eight- five in favour of cutting the wage award. The five trade union leaders on the board voted in favour of the contract, but the five em- ployers' representatives and the supposed members who are to public interest represent the voted for the cut. Nixon is pledged • to hold wages down to a maximum rise of 5.5 per cent a year. The dockers' despite the increase, treachery of their leaders in accepting containerization and other speed-up plans, was the first major challenge to the Nixon policy. Nixon's efforts to hold down wages are meeting with great resistance from inside the trade unions. Prices continue to rise at far more than the 5 per cent set by the government norm Price Board. rose by 0.9 per cholesequipalees Last month, wholesale to an annual rise of some 1l The dockers, who cent. per struck for 134 days before finally agreeing their new contract at February, had the end of threatened to strike again if the Board did not approve their rise.

However, Nixon now has legis- own areas by bus was anti-black.

In fact, the schools the ghetto areas of the major US cities are so badly equipped and run-down that education. there is a tragic farce. Nixon admitted as much when he said: 'We all know that with- in the central cities of our nation there are schools so in- ferior that it is hypocrisy to suggest that the poor children who go there are getting a decent education, let alone an education comparable to that of children.

who to schools in the go suburbs.' " • for a federal Jordan kingdom -occupied Palestine has thrown movement into disarray. leadership which are prepared for a sammpromise with Hussein.

Whether or unot President Sadat of Egypt was a party to the plan, it has been vigorously denounced in the leading Cairo 'Al-Ahram'. newspaper, ri Mohammed Has- Its editor, sanein Heykal, claimed that the plan had been hatched by US universities at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency and was intended to isolate Egypt. Heykal said that acceptance of deprive the the plan would guerrillas of the right to speak for their people and establish a "Quisling regime' which would be a cover for the liquidation of the Palestinian cause. Despite the truth in this view, the guerrilla leaders, them- selves divided and impotent, are unable to face the consequences of Hussein's betrayal because are afraid of the forces they the Arab behind Revolution which they pretend to répresent.

ntly won by dockers on the has been slashed by President lation on the Statute Book em- powering him to order them back to work. Last year, the dockers back to work were forced off' period 80-day "cooling under the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act. Death sentences ratified THE TURKISH Senate yesterday ratified death sentences on three left-wing members of the People's Army, biberation arrested lust April after a gun battle with troops. They are Deniz Gezmis (24), Jusuf Aslan (25) and Huseyin Inan (22). Almost 1,800 Turkish intellectuals have petitioned the Turkish military regime for the abolition of the death penalty in political cases. Malawi welcome AFRICAN President James Fouche was greeted by the entire Malawi cabinet and a crowd of he arrived at 8,000 when Blantyre airport yesterday for his first state visit to an independent black African country. Hundreds of League of Malawi women in mauve costumes sang welcoming songs and the Malawi forces fired a 21-gun salute in honour of the white supremacist leader. He said bussing had created anger, fear and turmoil in local communities and brought agony to parents. Nixon also announced plans to spend $2,500m in the next year to improve the standards of ghetto schools. This • of course, is simply a cosmetic infusion which will change nothing of substance in the ghetto schools. • Nixon's move against bussing ren. is a blatant bid for white racialist support in the forth.

coming presidential elections.:

Articulate, energetic minority— Carrington Too silent a majority

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

LORD Carrington, the Defence Secretary, has urged the 'silent major- ity' not to become too silent. Speaking at the 336th Cutlers' Feast in Sheffield, Carrington said if the silent too silent, majority became too indifferent and too toler- ant of intolerance, 'we may find ourselves in consider- able trouble. 'We must not throw away or ignorance by indifference, or laziness the fabric of society which has made this country above all others He went on: "There seems to be growing up not just in this country but in the western world, a dissatisfaction among • a small backs post A CONSERVATIVE MP is back- ing post 'pirate' Richard King in his bid to keep operating his Post Haste Co-operative Service which faces possible prosecution by the Post Office. Peter Rost (C. Derbyshire SE) has tabled a question to Posts Minister Christopher Chataway for next Wednesday, asking him if he will allow King to continue his service, which has been pro- viding four-hour delivery in the London area since February 10.

Rost said yesterday that from evidence provided he believed the service was legal and did not infringe the Post Office Act.

He said it appeared to supply a service the Post Office was not able to provide and seemed no than illegal more messenger services provided by security firms.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

TYNESIDE trade unionists are to meet within the next few weeks to decide their strategy for fighting an attempt to break up a closed- shop using the agreement Industrial Relations Act.

The Newcastle firm of C. A.

Parsons Ltd cancelled the agree- ment-signed in May 1970 with draughtsmen's union, then the DATA-and referred the repre- • issue to the National sentation _Industrial Relations Court.

After a brief hearing, the court ordered an investigation by Industrial the Commission Relations. The union, which is now the technical and supervisory section Union of the Amalgamated Engin : ing Workers, is refusing to co-operate with the CIR in line with TUC policy. And the union's members are currently taking 'blacking' action —strictly illegal under the Act- against draughtsmen who have turned in their cards since Feb- ruary 28 when the main pro- and growing, articulate and energetic section of the com- munity, which does not find in our society the way of life which appeals to them. 'Some of them wish to over- throw the present institutions of the country by violence. 'The whole lesson of democratic government was that to govern in an orderly society meant accept- the minority of ance by the wishes of the majority. 'If the minority challenge law and order by pursuing their opinions in an unlawful way, the Textile pay A CLAIM is to be lodged for a pay rise for 35,000 £3-a-week textile-finishing workers. The claim will be put forward by the Dyers, National Union Bleachers and Textile Workers meeting with the British at a Employers' Association Textile on April 14. The union wants a rise of 125 per cent and 20 per cent respectively on men's and women's average earnings.

visions of the legislation came into force. issued by the A statement AUEW technicians' executive was a model says that what •agreement at Parsons has been thrown into chaos by the Act.

'Part of an area occupied by one union is being claimed by United Kingdom UKAPE [the Association of Professional En- gineers], an organization avowedly anti-militant, anti- and

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collaborationist pro-employer in its specially theory,' it says. The executive to goes on accuse the Association of Scien- tific, Technical and Managerial Staffs of being 'hesitant to accept the restrictions imposed by the TUC' and of 'straining to enter the new opening created by the legislation'. It 'expects the TUC to ensure that no union submits evidence to the Commission'. All four sections of the AUEW are committed to acting in defence of the agreement and fighting off encroachment how- ever sanctified by law'. system we have built up over the centuries cannot hope to survive.

"The forces of law and order . which we have in the shape of the police are not equipped to deal with mass disobedience or mass flouting of the law, said Lord Carrington. 'A society which has no disci- pline, no standards, no morals cannot be prosperous or useful or ultimately continue to exist, he warned. Before joining Heath's Cabinet, Carrington was a leading mer- chant banker and former British High Commissioner in Australia.

Workers leaving the Omes-Faulkner plar

BY IAN YEATS

SIXTY-SIX men made redun- dant at Omes-Faulkner's Colnbrook, Slough, factory by Amal- have been told Workers (AUEW) officials nothing can be done about it. Sacked AUEW convenor and secretary Frank Tomany branch (41) told me: "The AUEW Slough district committee and the shop stewards' committee at the fac- tory say the majority of the men whose jobs are safe will not risk them by fighting the manage- ment's decision.' At the end of February the 439 men on the shop floor were told 100 men were to be sacked because of a sharp fall in profits.

"They Said Mr Tomany: weren't making an absolute loss, but profits were slipping.

'In • 1971 the group -Pratt Engineering Corporation— grossed £500,000 pre-tax profits and paid out an 18-per-cent divi- dend to shareholders, compared with 9 per cent the year before.

I think they did it by making or 1,000 men redundant - 800 sacked from men were group's nine UK factories in 1971? Trouble flared at Colnbrook after the AUEW district com- mittee enforced the no overtime decision taken at the union's national conference. 'Within week they an- a nounced 66 redundancies from all parts of the factory,' said Mr Tomany. "They are due to take effect on March 24. "The idea of not working any overtime is to force employers to unemployed men, he take on added. Twice before Mr Tomany has stopped redundancies occurring by insisting on work-sharing and short-time working. He told me: I have tried to take the principled stand in this Sixth dextrose death ONE of two surviving the patients who had been given dextrose from a con- suspect taminated batch has died in Devonport hospital, it was dis- closed yesterday: Mr William Major, the Ply- Coroner, opened an mouth inquest on tne *›-ycaт-оra man Five other patients at the hos- died earlier after dextrose pital drip-feeding. Workers leaving the Omes-Faulkner plant at Colnbrook, Slough, in Buckinghamshire

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LONDON busmen's delegates yesterday accepted an 8 per cent • offer, giving increases of pay £1.85 to £2. They voted 61 to 7 in favour of which will a deal add about £2.5m to London Transport's annual wages bill. The rises of £1.85 for drivers and conductors, and £2 for one- man operators — 15p above the previously rejected offer - date from April 8, 12 months after the last settlement. The 23,000 busmen wanted a 15-per-cent rise. The increase will give drivers a new basic rate of £25.85, con- ductors £25, and one-man opera- tors £28. Buckinghamshire militancy and significantly under the redundancy plan it is to be dismantled. Last Tuesday the 62 men in shop staged a sit-down the strike, even though only 15 of their members had been axed. They subsequently struck outside until Thursday gates morning. •Said Mr Tomany: "Then I had to tell the lads it was either go back through the gates or face the sack' He said: "The shop stewards' committee which includes three Communist Party members initially backed strike, but the reversed their decision on the grounds that the men inside the factory were afraid management would close it altogether if the men put up a fight. 'Slough district committee of i about the AUEW, which has backed seven CP members, them.' Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 62}p

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PAGE 4 Workors Press, Saturday March 18, 1972 The five Right-to-Work marches organized by the Young Socialists have climaxed their fight against the Tory government by a massive rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Now a new stage of the fight opens up. All the determination and political 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.

John Simmance, now 23 and building was part of that crisis. We had stressed that the struggle national of the secretary for the right to work at UCS was Young Socialists, was made tied with the building up of redundant two years ago just new leadership and the bringing Tories. as he finished his apprentice- down of the The breakthrough came with ship at the AEI factory in the Right-to-Work campaign. Here Willesden, N London. UCS co-ordinating After the he talks to Workers Press had committee •agreed sup- I to the Right-to-Work about port us it went through all the marches, the massive Wemb- stewards' We shop ley Pool rally which formed held meetings outside the gates explaining the marches and many and the their climax pre- stewards spoke up for us at their paration of the 12th national meetings inside the yards.

Young of the The fact that the UCS Stalin- conference ists, under pressure from their Socialists at Scarborough on that they did leaders, said later April 8 and 9. the for realisa money was the YS Right-to-Work campaign WHEN we began the campaign Right-to-Work marches is rubbish. for the Our had been we did not prepare it as a pro- movement proved correct its fight for some reformist cam- on test, or perspective paign like the one organized by and principles. the and the the Claimants' Union and others.

During campaign The marches were aimed at the the marches most important lesson was the way a new youth organized working class. had leadership was trained in a The trade unions to ne against un- struggle against Stalinism, re- forced to organize formism and political backward- struggle to employment in a the Tory ness. We brought in a conscious- down govern- bring determined that ness that the working class have were ment; we basic rights and that would take place the whole the marches labour movement could be swung labour organized within the behind their defence. movement. and defeated the significant turn for We took on It Young right wing of the Labour Party the the leadership of There has never been a period Socialists. Right-to- in history like it since At first we set up we defeated the Wilson witch-hunt Work committees in all the areas 1964. The campaigns in lessons that and started local ot all struggle brought forward unemployed youth were aimed at negated in and bigger Britain. an over way. Here we initial campaign were with young During the we had to transform the Y$ To unemployed marchers and a daily the inarches paper and we absolutely smashed be able to launch with and the right wing. had grapple understand in a Marxist way the In this sense Carlisle was the together with of capitalism which was turning-point. crisis Tarrow. driving force behind the the I spent five days in Carlisle figures. unemployment massive looking for accommodation and We were expecting young people to march for five we must have tried over 50 halls.

up to Tories, weather The the right wing the toughest weeks in the of Labourites and the churches had conditions and in face hostility from the Tories and the collaborated to try and keep us out of the town. Labour Party right wing. we But we smashed the ban when had to rely on our perspectives Labour Party sympathetic mem- of the crisis to give us the con- bers arranged for fidence to launch and maintain somewhere us stay. and then we staged the campaign. of 200 of this rally and presented the The first confirmation of the 'The the right premiere play principled stand on English Revolution', Glasgow the work came in These experiences when taken Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. back the Glasgow-London work-in into We had classified the march enabled some real policy and politi-. reformist as a class-collaboration. cal development to be made.

The exercise in bitterness many marchers had where as it had been built up for Stalinists and reformists the right-wing came to by the head at Carlisle. a high-point of militancy in Three days later the Mayor of the working class. Tarrow, the historic centre of the the Week after week outside Hunger Marches, personally gates of the UCS yards we had nouliced the official Labour Party question: posed the central ban on the march. capitalism was in crisis and ship-

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Ided show Lande Top: the Wembley Pool rally. Above: Jol It was a real inspiration to the the right marchers that besides wing, which had dominated the Labour Party for so long, there was a whole section of the party prepared to fight. The lessons from the march were clear: the struggle for our Marxist perspective and for principles proved decisive not only in defeating the right wing the marchers but in training themselves as revolutionaries.

I think Empire Pool, Wembley, was the same. We again had to perspectives. The rely on our march was able to mobilize big sections of the working class in a matter of weeks. At the rally, for which 9,000 sold, tickets were we hundreds of delegates from fac- tories in completely new areas to our movement, where workers had only heard about the cam- paign a few days beforehand.

inspired the working It had class that youth were prepared revolutionary fight for to principles. Workers are being moved towards principled strug- gles. Every serious trade unionist willing to fight the Tories was inspired, despite the witch-hunt launched by the Communist Party and the Labour Party right wing. Workers were not interested in witch - hunts started by the The explanation bureaucracies.

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Above: John Simmance, National Secretary of t/ of principles by the Marxist movement concerned them more.

we have to From Wembley, prepare immediately for the 12th annual conference of the Young Socialists which will be held at Scarborough on April 8 and 9.

It will be much more of a turning point for our movement than any previous YS conference.

*At Scarborough, the discussion be centred around the will launching of the revolutionary party which will take place later this year. A central feature of this discussion will be plans for extension of the Right-to- the Work campaign. . youth marches The the on went forth and led the fight as revolutionaries. At Scarborough we plan to take it further and establish the entire struggle throughout the We have labour movement. to transform the YS movement with of the roots in every section working-class movement, in every passed and village town we through on the marches. Last year we discussed the revolutionary party and its impli- cations: already in 1972 we have a 12-page Workers Press and shortly a weekly 'Keep Left'.

The lessons learnt from the march will be taken back into the campaign for the annual conference. In the next few weeks, teams will be led by the marchers factory and fer every covering .., ... retary of the Young Soclalists housing estate that we can We are determined to reach. campaign for broaden our Scarborough. We will turn to the factories, to those apprentices and young workers who are driven forward by their struggles against the sweat-shops, against insecurity, the Industrial Relations Act and rising prices. •to organize the want thousands of school-leavers who will go on to the dole queues this summer and become the new unemployed. The policies discussed at Scar- borough will be one for mobiliz- ing large numbers of youth and workers all over Britain older which we can lay the around basis for a revolutionary party.

We found in the campaign for the Empire Pool rally that we youth mobilized workers and around the fight for leadership, a revolu- tionary leadership. This great combination-sup- port from the working class and the youth — will be the twin forces for the building of the revolutionary party. We want Scarborough to be the biggest YS conference we've ever held. To all those trade unionists, youth, apprentices, im- and students migrant workers who attended Wembley we make an appeal to come to our con- ference.

San Ysidro is the first town you enter when crossing the border from Tijuana, Mexico to California, in the USA.

thousand live Ten people there. The buildings are old and the streets are poorly maintained and always dusty except when it The Public Library rains. closed evenings and on weekends.

The only industry in town is the 'Farmers' Co-op', a tomato- packing plant. Three-quarters of the popula- tion of San Ysidro are Mexican- Americans, and 10 per cent are never able to find jobs. For those which who do have work, difficult to find because they speak only Spanish, the pay is too low to support their families.

About 95 cent of the per people in san Ysidro are on wel fare with no prospect for ever finding decent jobs. There are many young people here. Eighty per cent of the resi- dents are under 18 years of age.

They face a bleak future. The educational opportunities are Many youth do not minimal. finish school and have no job.

All they can do is 'hang around'.

As Manuel Munoz (18) stated: 'There is work in the fields if you can get hired, but it is only for spring and summer during harvest time. Outside of that, there is nothing. I can't find a regular job, and I don't have any money.' San Ysidro is not an isolated border town. It is part of the urban area that extends for 30 miles from San Diego through Tijuana in Baja California.

There is more than a physical and geographical link. There is in San Ysidro a social and economic connection between the crisis and decay of Mexican capitalism, and the degradation and exploita- tion of agricultural labourers in California. Felicitas Moraga has lived in San Ysidro for several years, in a continual battle with poverty. What is her life here? 'My hus- band is a very skilled cook, but because speak he does not English, nobody would give him a job. To feed our family, he was forced to accept very hard work in the fields. In the fields, he has no protec- tion, no guarantee from day to day. His pay is very low. When he was hurt in the operation of a tractor he had to spend some time in the hospital, the grower paid not one cent, and it was very hard on us! From all areas of Mexico, from the Gulf coast, from southern cities, from the interior, people travel to Tijuana in hope oi crossing the border into San Ysidro, and entering the United States. People are being driven off the land in Mexico. Or they try to escape the chronic and high un- ho employment in the cities. They to come to the United want States in search of jobs.

So they travel to Tijuana, and the population of that city is who swollen with those forced by economic crisis into a migration survival. They press against a barrier known as the 'international border'.

Getting through the state guards is difficult. There are only two ways. If you are fortunate enough to • obtain an immigration 'green visa, card', you can enter the US legally.The only alternative is to sneak across, and ' enter illegally. 'Wetback' is the derisive term that was applied to those who swam the Rio Grande river years ago to enter the US behind the backs of border patrols. Today, 'wetbacks' are forced to search for jobs with the threat of Immigration Authority deten- tion camps hovering over them.

It is estimated that 10 per cent of those who enter the US from Mexico do so illegally. The illegal aliens' serve as a source of cheap labour in San Diego and Los Angeles sweat- shops. They must accept any conditions of labour because the threat of deportation is a con- stant companion. Those who hold 'green cards' work is available, accept what and most of it is very seasonal, such as in the fish cannery. Most of the jobs for residents in San Ysidro are in the fields at harvest time. -. For the of vast majority Mexican nationals, to cross the border means to crowd into the limited housing of San Ysidro, where often three families share an absolute a single house with minimum of furnishings. And for most people, it means to stay there, and do field labour at a minimum wage, or to clean house and pick up trash for the rich residents of La Jolla or Coronado. These are the 'domestics'. almost no other For women work is available but sweeping the dust for rich Americans.

Angel Gutierrez attempted to such employment: answered a newspaper advertise- ment for domestic in La Jolla.

They wouldn't give me the job because I can speak a little English. They want to take advantage, and pay very low wages. They can be hard on you when you don't understand what is going on' down the border, hunts window illegal The government runs a кобыль Top: Inhuman conditions in cardboard middleman for the agriculture bosses. 'Human The Resources Board' gathers Development workers together for the labour contractors who take them to the fields in trucks or buses.

The United Farm Workers Organizing i Committee (UFWOC) came here last year to organize the fields in San Diego and They opened Imperial Counties. their headquarters in San Ysidro.

The struggle for unionization began with against strike a Egger-Ghio fields, and the union leadership promised to shut down all of agriculture and make this area 'the next Delano'. But that did not happen. UFWOC did not stop the harvest.

Now they are gone. The former.

UFWOC headquarters are up for rent. Today, anybody who wants to join the union has great diffi- culty getting work in the fields.

Many workers realize that a political fight must be waged.

Caught between the state power and the grip of the church, between those who aid capitalist exploitation of labour and those "burden is who ay that the light, many • see that the only way out is the end of capitalism.

Jose Frias said: 'Yes, workers Workers Press, Sa ardboard hovels. Bottom: Field labour at a mi must organize a political party.

union fight is not strong The enough. Cesar Chavez is not here any more. We must defend our- selves. I am for socialism. This system of capitalism weighs upon without very hard, and socialism we will be crushed beneath it. "It is not so much : that the situation is different in Mexico.

There is capitalism there too. is poor. The un- But Mexico employment is worse, and the conditions are bad, but it is the same thing here. We came here looking for work. One may cross still the border, but it is oppression' If you cannot cross the border, the road dead-ends in the slums of Tijuana. Hovels of cardboard scraps, inhuman con- and wood ditions and brutality arise out of the vice-like squeeze of inability to get work in the US, and 30 cent unemployment per Tijuana. It is in these slums, barely a quarter mile from the border, that the reality of capitalism is March 18, 1972 PAGE 5 stark and exposed: unemploy- ment is death. The slums are in the backyard of San Ysidro. They are the key The capitalist crisis poses only unemployment for the workers who live here. It is the vouth who are most directly hit by this crisis. Manuel (17) Alberto (16) came to San Ysidro Mexico two years ago. "There is some work part-time, good jobs, and good but no no Dav. m school. left

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to going to gel worse. be a change. Socialism is the only way out. We need a movement for socialism.'

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PAGE 6 Workors Press, Saturday March 18, 1972 alouette Asterzor Tales: of Hoffman: Part 3 By Alex Mitchell struction in the 50 states of the To launch his offshore fund, United States.' Real Estate Fund of America, that Impressive stuff. Except Jerome D. Hoffman began a after 18 months in business there massive public relations is no evidence that the company efiort. laid a single brick. From his headquarters wasn't But although Hoffman House, Buckingham Gate, Kings in the construction all, he Hoffman despatched thousands of continued to pour out misleading leaflets and expensively produced material. One large publicity brochures. photograph showed an apartment Investor, one of them under the brow of block situated read, 'American real estate carried the Brooklyn Bridge. probably the soundest investment •Constructed by the in America and the world.

Real Estate Fund Limited! In fact the building had been erected decades ago.

letter clients An 0 We create declared: true and

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through con- lasting The Time is Now to to There is time struction. lose! and participate in the soundest the investment word shopping American skyscrapers, "The theme in selling mutual office blocks etc. the Real Estate centres, fund shares success! Nothing 'Invest Fund of America is "Own a piece succeeds like success. of safety in America". But to own peddle this sales spiel, piece of America is not enough.

You must of Hoffman a sales academy began own a good of man under guidance Anarco. named Paul Pope. He schooled Hoffman suggested What the into

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salesmen that his clients get con- In techniques of approaching *The only way to own struction. potential clients and 'closing' the he of America, good piece sale advised, is through constructing The 'closes' are a special skill.

office buildings, your own the They salesman to apartment shopping centres, the manoeuvre the client into houses, industrial centics position of answering a series of "The Real Estate Fund of with the affirmative questions America is a company Top Left: Sales academy director, Paul Pope, Wagner of New York on flying visit to Gree executive Rogerson and Lawson. Below: Je Right: Hottman: I'm growing like : business. 'Yes'. The punchline is, of course, estate in the United States», Cai stake in 'Will you take pamphlet issued by the " A academy says: •When do you start closing? The minute you open The whole sales your mouth. process is nothing but one big close. One of the niftiest closes is as the lost ; sale close." known It goes like this: 'Use this on those prospects that you have lost after every- thing else has failed. You get to hesitate, turn the door, StOP "Pardon me, Mr around and say. help me for a momentyou would Prospect, I wonder if • "Before I go on, may I apolo- gize to you for being so inept a representative. You see, if I had been able to make you feel the way I feel about this programme you would have started it by now.

Your children would be planning attend the university. Your to be anticipating her wife would home. But these goals are new going to be a lot harder to now and I want you to know reach that it is all my fault and I am truly sorry. As you can see, have to make my living this way.

Just so I dont make the same mistake again, would you mind telling me what I did that was -hat" wrong?" "old This is except for the apology. If, how- there is a need for your ever, product and the prospect has the director, Paul Pope, with cine projector and recruits.

flying visit to Greece. Above: Fund president Jerome D. Hoffman and a weed'. and they purchasing capacity don't buy, it is your fault as the not the fault of the salesman, But, when the prospect. using apology, you must mean it. If you don't, and are at all "cute" about it, he will toss you out on your ear. If you are sincerely sorry, should be, and and you are the apology, this sincere with technique will get you sales.

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Another sales blurb for new recruits to the sales force said: 'There IS a pot of gold waiting for YOU at the end of the Real Estate Fund of sales America rainbow. Do YOU have what it takes for the chase? If you welcome to rainbow hunters, do, In June 1969 the first issue of Hoffman's REFA journal, 'Fund Forum', announced in a front page headline: Meet our presi- dent.' The article said: The Right Honourable Reginald Maudling is president of Real Estate Manage- of America Company ment Limited and a very active pres- dent who is daily involved with our affairs. 'He is an international figure of Robert * rector and Maudling share dinner needs inmidering minence that he hardi also containec profiles are her British director ner in tar Machin Ronnie Breat Wiliam M. Yaske " pundit. on financial s Maudling who chaired Wacht Hoes. • conference a 'Mr we have which nothe fond is hat we mige of ther cone incellor made brithmention of the of top invest- markable," he said, "that we are together combined the bringing investment and financial facilities of both sides of the Atlantic" "There followed question- a and-answer period during which Maudling Mr Hoffman and Mr questions from the dealt with said the audience. Mr Hoffman fund is now covered in about 55 "from Hong Kong to countries Panama to Kuwait". • "There is some of the world," •which maybe Mr Hoffman said, does not understand all there is to know about securities"?

to be There appeared also the REFA board of people on directors who didn't understand upon

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backgroundn offman eveale an offshore After the article appeared some ex-REFA executives there newspaper say from REFA. was a boardroom confrontation in which Maudling asked Hoffman, because of his unsavoury past, to When Hoffman refused resign. Maudling himself decided to leave. of telling been yours! Then,

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ling investment'. letter But his departure from the board did not mean a complete query above they severing of his links with the Mr Reginald He had received his company. director's fees in stock in the -and this he held on to company- this until at least August the follow- ing year. Asked by the press why he held Maudling said onto the shares, unease financier or he was 'waiting for the price to go up' so he could unload them.

Maudling also kept up his con- with the company in a 'The nections more direct way-as an official REFA is promoter. On September 26, 1969, he sent in a letter to Hofiman ('Dear Jerry') from his home in Chester Square, Belgravia. It said: 'You have shown me a copy of a leaflet in Spanish that is being circulated in Latin America which contains ides for people USA and eritain rouso wish company Workers Pres , Saturday March 18, 18 On December 19, 1969, he time for polit tions. my attended the company's first-and particularly conne in party policy" -Christmas 'Fund only party. Forum' was on hand to capture a "That "political w photograph of the deputy leader paid off in of june of the Tory Party, glass in hand, Great Britain's Conser talking Hoffman and other to swept back into pow executives. Reginald ex-chief The said: 'Mr Maud- caption standing next to ling took the floor and extended Minister Edward Hea the compliments of the season to 'As a result Mr M their wives and mem- managers, appointed Home Ser bers of the London staff.

deputy Prime Mini: general also attended made him the numb managers' and sales conference the in governmen was photographed shaking hands could have been m with various international répre- than his former sentatives of the company.

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Maudling's associati launching of the fun him. In a civil actio York Federal court M British the other Viscount Brentford a When the Tories were elected "Fund Forum' aits in a e om fraud Hicks, are named in June 1970, was ecstatic: In a full page article the ling's lawyers have co 'Congratu- headline declared: The article their client resig lations, ( Reggie!' as "Then after the company began: was the time for all good men to come to the aid can be no jurisdictio The lawyer has of the party. July 1969 and the Maudling's *It name was whi management from the action president of our brought on behalf o submitted his company resign- of aggrieved fund ho "As ation with this explanation: the election draws nearer, I am The judge has said more and a decision shortly. finding I need more

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday March 1 He stands for law and order The policeman on the beat He will make it safe to once again Walk safely in the street He'll uproot the seeds of treason He'll restore the courts of law So justice can prevail you stand up with Won't George Wallace! you stand up with Won't George Wallace! up with Won't you stand George Wallace! So all men can be free! (Wallace campaign song, 1968 presidential election). Governor George Wallace of Rednecks' Alabama, the favourite candidate, is on the warpath again. He attracted the most attention during the recent presidential primary in Florida, where he laid special stress on his opposi- tion to 'bussing. His hysterical attacks on this practice-which seeks to mix children from different areas to prevent the emer- gence of all-black or all-white schools—were aimed at show- ing his audience that the governor has lost Alabama none of his racialist opinions.

Wallace won over 40 per cent of the Democratic vote in Florida-an indication that his form of right-wing popu- y March 18, 1972 lism, combining racialist and anti-communist appeals with 'money attacks on the interests' and demagogic social welfare plans, may be winning increasing support.

He represents a tendency with a long history in the United States - the extreme right wing, fundamentalist and appealing to the 'small man'. In this series of articles JOHN SPENCER looks at the history of right-wing movements in America. The emergence of extreme right-wing movements in the United States goes back to the first stirrings of indus- trialization in the early years of the last century. with The French Revolution, its ideas of the Rights of Man, appeared to the established New England rulers and their clerical a threat to the apologists as existing order. They took up with enthusiasm he ideas of French counter- revolutionaries like Abbé the who saw Jacobinism Baruel, as a product of a world conspiracy master-minded by Jews Freemasons. The words of Jedediah Morse, a prominent Boston Congrega- tionalist minister who introduced this counter-revolutionary theory into the United States in 1798, are reminiscent of Senator Joseph McCarthy 150 years later: under • secret societies, the influence and direction of holding principles sub- France, versive of our religion and gov- ernment, exist somewhere in this country. ... I have now in my possession complete and indubi- table proof an official, authenticated list of the names, ages, places of nativity, profes- etc. of the officers and sions, members of a society of Illum- inati ... consisting of 100 mem- bers, Instituted in Virginia by the Grand Orient of France ..• (As we shall see, this con- spiracy theory, which also con- Nazi mythology in tributed to Europe, still has powertul adher- United States in the ents today.) Morse was not alone. His early version of the subversive con- spiracy theory played a big part in the agitation which led to the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts directed against both foreign and domestic supporters of the French Revolution.

These laws were first used not shadowy Illuminati, the against but against the very real Society of United Irishmen, established in the US in 1797. The Irish immigrants were looked down on by the New England bourgeois for their 'uncouth, uncleanly, ignorant, unskilled and frequently immoral ways'. They provided a ready target for the conservatives of the day who were able work up to popular prejudice against them.

Day, On Christmas 1806, for example, a bloody riot developed in New York between mobs of anti-Irish 'Fedéralists' and Irish immigrants. Many were hurt and a number of houses were looted.

The growing strength of the workers' movements in the 1830s of stimulated second wave right-wing agitation, extreme basing itself chiefly in the rural whose way of life was areas threatened by the development of industry. Mixed with agitation against immigrants and Masons was a Fundamentalist Protestantism violently hostile to which was the freethinking ideas of the working class and the liberal bourgeoisie. Based in New England, the movement appealed to the most sections of the farm- backward ing community, appealing to their city society, hostility • to their bigotry and their desire to preserve a vanishing way of life.

In 1829 the party's convention stated: "The country has generally looked upon the city as over- weening, arrogant and dictatorial'.

time the Anti-Masonic At this movement had over 100 news- papers, directed mainly at rural areas. The Anti-Masonic party found with the ground common National Republicans, represent- ing the wealthy Protestant city fathers of the E coast cities.

National Republicans The eventually absorbed the Anti- forging alliance Masons, an the backward between most sections of the rural population conservative and the most sections of the bourgeoisie which was to emerge again and again in American history. The successors of the Anti- Masons, the Know-Nothing and Native American movements, which the scene a came on generation later in the years before the Civil War, were able Immigrants arriving Top, In 1880s: -targets for right-wing agitation the kind of to use same to win propaganda over a section of labour aristocrats on anti-immigrant anti-Catholic an basis. One of their primary targets was Catholicism and their propaganda was aimed at inflam- established workers, 1ng particularly in the skilled trades, against immigrants. One of their newspapers, the Eagle and American 'Native Advocate' called continually for 'protection • to American labour, by protecting the American • labourer' They blamed immigrant workers for long hours and low and demanded the wages restriction of immigration. The movement was strong in Boston and other E coast towns in the years before the Civil War.

These movements were essentially backward-looking and reactionary because they were aimed at breaking up the develop- class-consciousness of ing the workers and diverting their dis- content behind their real class enemies. The victory of the N in the Civil War, opening up the whole country to capitalist development unprecedented Changed the face of the United States working class with the rise unions of powerful and the of major class development struggles. In this new situation, the old right-wing populist conceptions ran more and more into direct collision with the working class.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Juan Farinas with his wife, Helena and

US ROUND UP BY STEPHEN JOH

'It will be hard to. raise a Juan. But I family without know this won't be forever, and this is what I am fighting for. There has to be a change, and we are fighting for this change? This is Helen Farinas talking after the Supreme Court in the United States had refused to hear an appeal by her husband Juan Farinas, now serving a two-year exercising prison for sentence his right under the First Amend- ment of the US constitution.

The Farinas case has proved that under the present Nixon regime this document. so cher- by the American ruling ished worth the parch- class, is not ment paper it was written on.

Farinas, a supporter of the was convicted Workers League, in January, 1971 for violating Selective Services Act. His crime was to urge prospec- tive GIs at an army induction centre to campaign against the war in Vietnam once they joined the forces. His protest, which occurred in 1968, went beyond pacifist perspectives of the anti-war movement and there- fore drew the particular wrath of the US ruling class. The charges against Farinas were: refusal to cease and desist from speaking and leafleting, and interfering hindering with the Selective Service System, and refusal to report and submit for induction. The latter charge is entirely false. Farinas made it quite clear to the induction centre authori- ties that he was quite willing to join the forces. Indeed he had married his Helena several days before so she could receive ser- "vicemen's benefits. His defence on the first charge made under the First was Amendment of the American constitution which supposedly guarantees every man freedom of conscience and speech. On both counts the court led by Judge Pollack ignored the submission and the evidence. The prosecu- tion made no attempt to prove the charge that he refused in- duction. Government witnesses admitted that Farinas did not refuse in- duction, that the processing of inductees was not impeded and lena and daughter before h/s imprisonment last

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that there was no rule against I distributing leaflets. The 'impartial' judge clearly revealed his bias when he in- structed the jury (scrupulously cleansed of young workers and anti-war supporters) that all that that had to be proven was Farinas had not obeyed certain orders in the induction centre.

The government was thus re- lieved of the obligation of prov- ing disruption had taken place.

A more important battle was fought around the First Amend- ment. After an appeals hearing it was held that Selective Ser- vice Regulation gave the authori- ties the right to issue arbitrary orders and that these did not violate the victims right to free speech. As 'Bulletin', the weekly organ of the Workers League states: 'The Selective Service Regu- lations, under which Farinas was convicted, requires a prospective inductee to "obey the order of the representative of the armed forces while at the place where his induction will be accom- plished". No specific guidelines for this regulation have been established and, fact, the Farinas case is the first to be prosecuted under it. 'By refusing to hear the case, the Supreme Court has declared that the Bill of Rights be dis- carded in times of crisis. It is now that the "democratic" mask of capitalism is ripped away.'

N. Ireland readers who live under the Special Powers Act will, we are sure, appreciate this 'Bulletin'. point made in Judge Pollack dismissed the claim that Farinas was protected under the First Amendment with an argument similar to that used by Justice Argyle in the recent and notorious 'OZ' trial.

The essence of this reactionary that 'society' (the statement is ruling class) has the right to im- pose its own pattern of thought and action workers like on Farinas. He said: • his [Farinas'] behaviour in the instant offence, which is greatly enhanced by the times in which he conducted himself as he did and without the motiva- tion which he pursued, no matter how they are glossed over for the purposes of the sentence, in- dicates that he will only obey ament last week. those laws which he selectively announces agreement with.

'Since he has not indicated any desire or intention to abdi- cate his stand, a period of con- finement seems the only alter- native' The Supreme Court decision not to overrule this violation of the constitution marks an impor- tant step to the right by the US ruling class. The court in US history has always been a poli- tical battlefield since its rulings have key importance in the can fields of business, unions, and, of course, civil liberties.

the Nixon has • been packing court with men of dubious legal credentials but with own consistently reactionary views.

Farinas was the only person in US legal history to be convicted of four of the five crimes charged the Edward in indictment. Oppenheimer, lawyer for. the New York American Civil Liber- ties Union described the case as "singular'. And Stanford Katz, Farinas' defence counsel, made this com- ment: 'One can look for retrogression in the area of civil liberties and the area of criminal justice. They are chipping away—not chipping away - hacking away at the advances made during the Warren Court.' But the last word of Farinas.

He says the court decision con- stitutes a 'blatant attack by the Nixon government on the rights workers and youth in the of all United States. "They are seeking to impose the American working people on and youth the barbaric conditions they have imposed on workers and peasants of Vietnam during the last 25 years. They are seeking to bring the Atticas, Londonderrys and Batton Rouges down to every factory, town and neighbourhood in this country.'

But from his prison cell he issues this warning: "Today, from the very depths prison cells, from the of those Tombs in New York City, we hear the strong voice of youths Marxism, who are training in who are preparing to lead the workers and struggles of all youth.

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NOT BE SILENCED EITHER!'

....... Workers Press, Sal We all remember those pic- which appeared in the tures during the capitalist press workers' and the power miners' strikes. In 'normal' times everything was Al with the old folk the pictures suggested, but irres- ponsible strikes disrupted vital heat and cooking facilities and brought thousands of old folk to the very brink of death.

But hundreds die from the cold every year anyway, often unable to afford adequate heat The S African Defence Forces gets its armoured cars from France, its frigates from Portu- gal and its fighter planes from Italy. But when it comes to trendy outfits, British is best.

None other than Hardy Press, Saturday March 18, 1972 PAGE 9 and light. This, of course, is not mentioned. An interesting survey has been carried out in S Wales showing just what living on crumbs means for the old.

More than 50 per cent of the old people living in the valleys solid working-class suffer from malnutrition and one in three from scurvey, according to Dr Geoffrey Taylor, a consultant at Ystrad Mynach hospital. What is true of parts of S Wales is almost certainly true of areas in the rest of Britain.

Why doesn't the Tory press blow pictures of 'normal' star- deficiency vation and vitamin up on its front pages? Amies of Savile Row-the Queen's dressmaker-has de- signed the four-button military tunics, peaked caps and hip- length beltless zipper jackets which the defenders of free- dom in S Africa will wear.

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Lancaster campus strike against staff sackings PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday March Greek prisoners tortured

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torture against the colonel's regime will be made at the trial of 15 resist- ance fighters in Athens today.

Members of the Pan-Hellenic Liberation Movement, they are charged with conspiracy. The indictment accuses them of seeking to overthrow the regime by force and they face life imprisonment if found guilty.

It is alleged that they plotted near the US to set off bombs while it Sixth Fleet was anchored in Piraeus, the port of Athens. They are also held responsible for an explosion outside Prime Minister George Papadopoulos's visit by US office during a Secretary of Defence Melvin in 1970. A 55-year-old Laird lawyer, Ionnis Koroneos, was arrested on the spot and is one of the chief accused. All the accused claim to have been subjected to brutal torture by the security police. Andreas Frangia, a 53-year-old leader, wartime resistance partially paralysed and came entered a 30-day coma. Interro- gation continued when revived.

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opposition to the Chilean government of Salvador Allende reached a new Wednesday stage when members of the fascist Fatherland and Freedom' movement and the National Party demonstrated through Santiago. The right-wing forces clashed with the Popular Unity youth movement as they tried to reach the government headquarters. Armed with clubs; bicycle chains and other weapons, they also broke shop windows and attacked passers-by and journalists.

This was the climax of a week's onslaught on Allende. This on- slaught began with the public- ation of a document by SOFOFA, the Manufacturing Development Society, attacking Economics Minister Vuskovic's take-over of He the Cersita paint factory.

using claimed the factory was excessive amounts of edible oils as taw materials. He defended his take-over by claiming that measures businessmen were trying to step goods" up prices by removing distribution from normal channels. The SOFOFA document attacked him: 'Is Chile still a country in which the law reigns? Minister is either above or Vuskovic the constitution and the pa below law," it said. The campaign was pursued in the right-wing parties and their press. Leaders of the Christian Party and the Democratic National Party all declared that he was defying Congress and should be impeached. National Party chairman Sergio Jarpa, former member of the

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lec- Mrs Susan turers, McGuire and Dr Allan McLaurin, are at the centre of the present row at Lancaster university. Both have been told they will no longer be on the staff after next Septem- ber. Students overwhelmingly and voted for the strike boycott because they see the lecturers' removal as part of a sustained campaign. and Dr Both McGuire

IVIIS

McLaurin last year supported a call for outside inquiry into English depart ine ment. Dr David senior ecturer Craig, Communist Party mem- ber, demoted within had been 'too being the department for political' n his teaching Mrs McGuire and Dr McLaurin Right wing openly on sireets against

ALLENDE

Chiles Nail preye or bu his party's paper, be 'There may people killed and wounded, a wave of plunder and but they destruction. masters of chile: succeed becoming the The

CDP

weekly. 'Que pasa?' proclaimed: 'Institutional stability itser is toreatened the dictatorship of the many is tolerated.' Tuesday Last the educat Guardian' carried an article t with Charles F. Carter, vic caster University. Readers told: '1972 has started Chancellor thinks, or perhap are becoming less willing views. At lunchtime the ve meeting of students from th department voted to carry or lectures. In this article a W pondent examines the histo Lancaster cal say they were given to under- jobs would be stand their nto permanent. But they later saw their posi- tions advertised in 'The Times'.

Their case has been taken up by the white-collar tinconTech- the Association of Scientific, nical and Managerial Staffs.

the English First stirrings The 'Fatherland and Freedom' party issued a call to arms. It announced: 'From all corners there emerge volunteers willing to sacrifices.' It had make any always had faith that the armed forces 'will not allow the left to go beyond the constitution, con- cluding: "Togecher we will defeat the conspirators of international communism.' domestic difficulties These Allende are compounded Paris. Chile's creditors had pro- posed a stand-by credit arrange- ment which would open Allende's economic plans to IMF scrutiny.

Instead Allende. has granted facilities for Chile's creditors to obtain general information on Chile's trading position.

The right-wing press has made much of the difficulties; blaming the president's economic policy of hard currency' for the 'lack and 'lack of investments'.

As the right wing openly pre- pares for his overthrow, Allende and his government proceed as blindly as ever. Minister of the Interior Hernan del Canto has a suit against 'Tribuna' for filed 'seditious' reporting. The government is 'thinking' of replying officially Sergio to Jarpa's proclamations. SOFOFA will no doubt be delighted to hear that Vuskovic will reply to their statement.

After all, he is not such a bad fellow! On March 11 a visiting delegation from the Inter- American Defence: College had with Foreign • Minister talks Clodimiro Almeyda and Defence Minister José Tocha. The Defence College, founded in 1962 is a higher education political and institution for military studies. This delegation is visiting Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Chile 'to put the students in direct contact with the security economic and development plans of Latin problems and American countries'. delegation. comprising The staff and students of the college and US civil servants, is headed by US Rear Admiral Rene de la Roque. On March 11 this CIA caucus of young and old attended a lecture given by none other than Economics Minister Pedro !.. Vuşkovic!.. pages of The education article based on an interview ter, vice-Chancellor of Lan- Readers were reassuringly arted quietly... The vice- perhaps hopes, that students villing to listen to extreme the very same day, a mass rom the university's English carry on a strike and boycott cle a Workers Press corres- e history of the warfare on aster campus. department came last May when Dr Craig and fellow lecturer Dr Mike Egan were told by adminis- trative secretary Mrs McLintoch -since removed from her post- their names had been taken off for the the list of examiners finals in modern literature.

Other teaching staff voted against this at a departmental and the two lecturers meeting were fully restored. When they first heard about their removal, Craig and Egan to vice-Chancellor had appealed apparently without too Carter, much success. When Carter took his post, he widely regarded as was a "liberal'. But his advocacy of running universities on businesslike lines -expressed in several educa- tional journals—came to fruition during cleaners se university women for free trans- strike port last summer. He slapped an injunction on students occupying the adminis- in support of tration buildings

BISHOP COLIN WINTE

WHEN BISHOP

Colin Winter arrived in Capetown his expulsion after from Namibia (SW" Africa),' the British consulate there appeared indifferent to his plight. The bishop discovered British diplomats had circulated rumours that they were not taking much interest in the case because as the phrase that was used, he was bonkers. These facts were revealed in the House of Commons by Alex Lyon; Labour MP for York.

Referring to the rumours that bishop was 'bonkers', Lyon said: 'If that was ever said by British member of the any embassy, either in Pretoria or by he the consulate : in Capetown, ought to be ashamed of himself.'

arrived Bishop Winter London this week after, being..

alleged the He then women. 'certain members of staff' were behind the trouble. Rumours circulated that Dr Craig had been singled again , In fact, he had not sup- out. ported the stackens die tacters, backed the cleaners demands. When he returned from holi- day during the summer vacation, he was demoted from the modern literature course, of which he is teach Victorian convenor, to literature. He was accused of being 'too political' in his teaching.

There were even allegations of irregu- larities in the way examinations were being run. But the authori- ties made contradictory state- ments about this. demanded an The : students outside inquiry into the English departments. Their call was sup- ported ' by the Lancaster and Barrow Trades Councils. Both Susan McGuire and Allan McLaurin had been among those staff who favoured an inquiry.

On January 25 this year, their advertised in posts were the national press. After attending interviews on February 24, they heard on March I that their re- applications had been unsuccess- ful. Now the students are striking against their removal. partment have beethe department have been opener' for the lecturers involved and for others who support them.

Previous illusions in the 'special position' of academic institutions have taken hard knocks. They have found that univer- sity staff are not to be sheltered in this day and age from the sort of things that happen to workers.

N WINTER-EXPELLED BY VORSTER

deported by Vorster's apartheid regime. He is now in New York giving first-hand accounts of the shoot- ing and jailing of Africans to the United Nations. What is Lyons' plea to parlia- workers and ment for the peasants of Namibia? He urged the Tories to 'make a protest—or at least a word of some kind, or a suggestion to Mr Vorster, even if it is only through their am- bassador in this country, that this conduct is intolerable and ought to be reversed. 'It is not much to ask, but in the name of god it is about time something was done. Replying for the Foreign Office, Kershaw, junior Anthony a minister, said he had studied the judgement of the Supreme Court expelling Bishop Winter. In his nothing in opinion there was these proceedings which. could form the basis of a protest by ing.. the British: government.

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PAGE 12 Workera Press, Saturday March 18, 1972 Troops 'entitled to Kill in Derry'

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He said that soldiers, quire a man not to fire troops in against what he reason- possibly ably under a hail of missiles, thereby Ulster are 'entitled to believes and • LO life dangerous assault which had to decide in a split kill', Mr merely shoot may lead serious second whether some- because other people Brian Gibbens, QC for thing a lethal were about. death.' was the army Tribunal told the told half Widgery Referring to the evi- LOrG sue merely Widgery in counsel he would wel- brick. dence of a nina ber London yesterday. His life and the lives Gibbens said assistance Gibbens by said the of they were blinded of those with him hang Loe case une soratel said was who fired rounds balance, yellow Care. enotons i soldier's guide to the through aperture at counsel. 'I don't go. so far epithets like law, but he makes Rossville Flats use had rights agreed that and concede soldiers globens mistaKe Goes •П01 occause l well when as sis titree the soldier was not fre he may be Killea. li that their emotions may civil power as in N entitled to 'go on belch- makes mistake and have blinded them into will cestainly thes had. be believing that what land nres he

SHOLS

*r'He is entitled to fire soldier they the Tine Was

TOI

Say saw Was and it is no use pretend- shooting at a gunman. nate firing. truth,' he said. ing firing The shooting caused the "It is diffi- 'It is noteworthy that means any- tern tor who cult only four of unan Will gunman kees 11S Situation intent to kill, to protect head down nothing soldier himself and his The law did not re- back' males e se

PADDY KENNEDY GIVEN BAIL

PADDY KENNEDY, the Stor- forces raided a when security home in Belfast. mont MP, was released yes- Crown Solicitor Harry Hall, terday on £6,000 bail when he applying for a remand in custody, said that Kennedy had been liv appeared in a Belfast court outside the jurisdiction of charged with acting to pro- siderable time. mote the objects of the IRA.

Kennedy's solicitor, Patrick Kennedy, 29, Republican MP McGory, said Kennedy had for the Belfast Central division, defence and intended stay N Ireland to defend the charge.

was arrested on Wednesday night

O'KANE TAKEN

TO BELFAST

Ulster SEAMUS O'KANE, a London- returning to to face alle- derry schoolteacher, • was At O'Kane's lodgings in Hollo- escorted from London ... wee told waly he has been working. to Bel- being reporters: fast yesterday by members of taken the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

charge relating to sun à small He was arrested in a house in of a cheque that he Venetia Road, Holloway, on real object had taken over. The The three shop stewards pre- Wednesday night during police that he should be vented from calling s. strike interned. We know this.' rales ov nomes Mr Bramble England ( to r) Mr J. Isaacs and Mr H. Shamsi, Norman Atkinson, MP, said in their union representative that the police who Tight security barnament (2nd from left). arrested acting under the Special Powers at Aldershot Act. said the fact that Strike ban O'Kane had hot neen charted

TIGHT

thrown security was 24 hours suggested that within stewards talk Aldershot round claiming an were extra- the police court vestergav woere me woree..

ordinary rights of arrest the

STEWARDS

charged after last month's

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TrOn special powers not applicable in Casements the Parachute 600-strong Ideal Ltd bomb attack on England. strike officers' factory where Scotland Yard (Reading) Spokesmen for Dreades mess

WCIC

further remanded due UNTIl Stalet Ilas yesterday the search war- under Friday. Noel Thomas Jenkinson been banned the was issued under Tne Muswell Relations Act were locked (42), of St James Lane, trial Criminal Damage Act of 1971.

talks with the Hill, day-long O'Kane London, accused Atter his arrest murder Neston -one of the seven wro Gerard employers yesterday. taken to Aldershot, scene of last spokesman month's IRA bombing. Yet when At lines-umne left London yesterday, another silent for the stewards refused to elabo cler during his brief court appearance.

the negotiations held said was •OnCe stalchiell lalc Department under the auspices of of Employment concillators, Dul

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fight to make this Tory govern- T&GWU officials boycotted the Perhaps bese shower more patches night and morning, resign. Not a day goes by ment Court W industrial nelations fighting back without the lories line with TUC policy of non-co.

Ter. in every way. Use Workers Press operation with the Act. Sewell was hit therefore loseph *rederick March soon sentenced yesterday to raise with recommenda- prisonment a 'Booking' 30 not less than serve Post every donation imme- years atter ne was round gully walk-out Chier Suit herald Pichardie Supt Gerald Richardson Workers Press MEN in the transmission plant last August. Mare AnDearine. 186a Clapham High St, Three of the four other at rora s, Liverpool, waiked out London, SW4 7UG. men in the dock were cleared of yest day when it was learned *booking workers. I are ars thly secretly • The other defendant. supervisors toe murder. John Patrick BE can dies Street: London.

not guilty the company 6 Claphan Tua duced system whereby men's of manslaughter. Street, for put into a are car dealer, was louna not lanies printe Claphan swi 1 London: of attempting to murder Sgt lan The onences WOrK. Hampson. returned by afternoon. CARWORKERS at the Br plant at Cowley, Oxford, yes pany offer of pay rises amou over 21 months. The 2,500 workers involved —indirect dayworkers not on production lines — are to operate an overtime ban. • Last week, 6,000 production workers rejected similar pro- posals arising from the annual review of the Measured-Day operating Work arrangements Without union agreement in the plant. Besides pay, the more company was offering improved holiday, overtime and night-shift premiums. Shop stewards point out that if Leyland's new Marina car was

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Written by Tom Kempinski Directed by Corin Redgrave ADMISSION 25p (YS M the British-Leyland assembly ed now being built under the old piecework system, workers would be earning £50 to £60 a_ week instead of f42 under MDW.

WORKERS at British-Leyland's truck : diviston near Preston yesterday turned down part one of a two-part management deal which involves the introduction of Measured-Day Work. A mass meeting of 2,500 workers unanimously voted ask union officials to intervene over part one of the offer, which is in reply to a claim for a 15- per-cent cost-of-living rise.

Chairman of shop stewards, Len Brindle told the men from the group's Sperrier and Farring- ton plants that if they accepted one they would get f8 less part Midlands workers on simi- than lar jobs and their holiday pay would be £13 less than average pay. Mr Brindle also warned that by accepting part one they were paving the way for part two involved Measured-Day which Work. He said that there was more than pay involved in the battle.

The fight against management was also part of the campaign against the whole Engineers' Employers' Federation—-the 'most reactionary body in Britain'- Tory who were urging the government to smash the work- ing class and the unions.

Union officials are expected to negotiations by complete their Wednesday, but a strike at the Leyland complex which employs 6,000 Lancashire workers now seems likely.

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