Workers Press no. 719

workers press • TUESDAY MARCH 21. 1972 • No. 719 • 4p

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TRANSPORT HOUSE CLIQUE UNPREPARED FOR SNAP ELECTION

LABOUR'S ELECTION

POLICY CRISIS

THE LABOUR PARTY is ready for an immediate

BELFAST

General Election 'should the need arise', says Ron Hay- ward, the party's national agent. Millions of Labour sup-

PAPER BLAST

porters are grateful to Hayward for this reassurance. But it's not nearly enough. What the working class demands to

KILLS SIX

know is: Basic Rights within weeks on the Party of talks recent Labour and in trade the important task

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

If the Tories call a snap Tomorrow the party's National before us. election, what kind of poli- Executive Council

(NEC)

will Hayward's remarks mean special election SIX PEOPLE, two of them policemen, were killed Party elect will the Labour anything, cies they mean tnere Is Do which committee WIll De and 97 injured when a bomb exploded outside the put forward? time to lose

ROTARY

But there is no reference to The committee is Belfast News Letter' office in Donegal St yesterday.

chiefs yesterday LADOUr TarLY policies in Hayward's state- be by expected to chaired party met members of the TUC execu Wedgwood he rambles on tive pa Cos ese Fion to disets.

The bomb, which probably weighed about 100 lb, was ment. Instead, the dangers of small Benn, and will include about election S08d0H apparently hidden in a car which was parked opposite the party s ministers and 'cliques in local constituency One I em Wal stridently pro-Unionist newspaper.

repeal of the Industrial Relations parties. There were series of but sure yune most dangerous 'clique' in the Labour Party is at telephone calls NO anonymous House itself- where Transport up. to the blast: leading Havward himself resides 11.45 a.m: The Northern Agency characterized by This clique is Carpet Warehouse in Church St, the fact that the Parliamentary yds the bomb SCene the Party and party's received a telephone call saying LabouT

INDEPENDENCE

was bomb deputy leader, novels. Call completely ride roughshod over People premises. evacuated reached policy decisions into Donegal St and the call was reported to police. annua barry conterence tiny group DowerTu 11.52 a.m: The Irish News' news-

BEFORE

and make bureaucrats paper offices in Upper Donegal St election policy. Ilal they had received a police not a word but navware utters were Sinal reope about this manifesto-rigging.

evacuated-towards the bomb.

MAJORITY

MATORITY

member this inner-circle is silent in the party, Hayward because if there is the threat of ·32

RULE

General Election the last thing ne Real one seek wants is to

RULE

advice of the rank and file about

NOW

socialist policies. So he tilts criticism at the thus divert- 11.55 a.m: The 'Belfast Telegraph' consuluency parties. received a call saying ing attention from the real issue form For the next socians.

formulating socialist plat- been placed a car in Donegal St opposite the Belfast News Letter' offices. This The right-wing clique proved was the real one. Again warning itself absolutely bankrupt 1970 it allowed the June came for people to evacuate Tories to come back to power.

11.58 a.m: The massive bomb went off-as streets round pursues bank, uprough a last vard then, filled with nervous people leftward swing milling about confused by the which une electorate voted Labour Dact wardles ana wonders into power again, way to dustmen nearest the blast It would be just discredited as the Tory as "blown government in a matter of weeks.

were to pieces, an eye- The post-war inflationary boom said witness Most of those injured were hit has the power the symbol of stability for more that by flying glass. 25 been has terminated years. by the world economic crisis of

FISHER-

the capitalist system. A world recession is underway

BENDIX

ane as a consequence. unempioy- ment is rapidly increasing. Reflationary policies have

JOBS SAVED

new jobs not Useless m creal only in Britain but the United States itself. The right-wing Labour leaders occupied Fisher-Bendix factory deliberately the harsh Kirkby, at near Liverpool, Ine reality of this crisis and in doing reactions to the beginning year have been DEMONSTRATORS organized around the Rhodesia paring its report on Rhodesian are once again leading the SO New company formed expressed saved. Emergency Campaign Committee, which embraces Smith-Home Yesterday's class from

DOSIOTS

into a LIdy several anti-apartheid paraded outside the the feelings Tories groups, of many wites and Alricans TaKe Ovel manuraclurt the which Britain and Rhodesia towards the sell-out.

Standard radiators and night storage Standard Bank in Northumberland Avenue, London, beneficiaries. southern Africa. heaters. large interests in The campaign for the Charter yesterday. Inside, the Pearce Commission is pre- Dank ulds Waly

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• TUESDAY MARCH 21, 1972 • No. 719 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TRANSPORT HOUSE CLIQUE UNPREPARED FOR SNAP ELECTION

LABOUR'S ELECTION

POLICY CRISIS

THE LABOUR PARTY is ready for an immediate

BELFAST

General Election 'should the need arise', says Ron Hay- ward, the party's national agent. Millions of Labour sup-

PAPER BLAST

porters are grateful to Hayward for this reassurance. But it's not nearly enough. What the working class demands to

KILLS SIX

know is: This was the second round of Bas Carty Rights within recent weeks on the and of talks in La DOlT Laud unions the important task

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

If the Tories call a snap Tomorrow the party's Nationa before what kind of poli- Executive Council

NEC

election; remarks mean Hayward's special election SIX PEOPLE, two of them policemen, were killed Party elect will the Labour anything they mean tnere Is no which will be crate time to lose. and 97 injured when a bomb exploded outside the put forward? powered prepare But there is no reference to The manifesto. committee is Belfast News Letter' office in Donegal St yesterday.

no Labour Perty, obiefs resterday in Hayward's "state"" be chaired by party poncies met members of the ''IC execu expected id on Wedgwood tive pa Conse on to The bomb, ment. he rambles discuss Anthon which probably weighed about 100lb, was the dangers of small manifesto. and will include shadow about election apparently hidden in a car which was parked opposite the Dally s ministers and full-time constituency discussed the ciques in local stridently pro-Unionist newspaper.

repeal of the Industrial Relations There series of most dangerous were out sures mie 'clique' in the Labour Party is at telephone calls = NO anonymous House itself- where Transport leading up to the blast. Havward himself resides 11.45 a.m: The Northern Agency This clique is characterized by Carpet Warehouse in Church St, fact that the Parliamentary 50 yds the bomb the Party and party's received a telephone call saying LaDOLl

INDEPENDENCE

deputy there was bomb the Call on ride completely roughshod over People evacuated premises. were reached policy decisions into Donegal St and the cal was reported to police. powerful tiny group

BEFORE

11.52 a.m: The 'Irish News' news- and make bureaucrats Pall police the had more e election policy. Illal accols they police a word but daware utters were about this manifesto-rigging.

MAJORITI

evacuated-towards the bomb.

MATORITY

member of this inner-circle silent in the party. Hayward because if there is the threat of

RULE

General Ets to to last Real one advice of the rank and sle a the wants thing he

RULE

NO

NOW

social ste lities. So tilts criticism at the thus divert- 11.55 a.m: The 'Belfast Telegraph' constituency parties. received • a call saying ing attention from the rea issue Lewspape form for tate next elocions.

formulating socialist plat- been blaced a car in Donegal st opposite the Belfast 'News Letter' offices. • This proved The right-wing clique was the real Again one. warning itself absolutely bankrupt 1970 when it allowed the cane lor ocodic lo evaludle back to power. Tories 11.58 a.m: The massive bomb to come the clique streets HAlS pursues Sallic WeNT on-as bankrupt policies as it did then.

were filled with nervous people If, leftward swing, confused through a milling about by the which the electorate voted Labour back to escape the blast. into power again, way to go to escape the It would be discredited Tory Two dustmen nearest the blast 'blown were to pieces', an eye- The post-war infiationarv boom witness sala Most of those injured were hit symbol of stabilty for more than by flying glass. terminated been F veals. ny the wore econonic Css ol

FISHER-

the capitalist system. A world recession is underway

BENDIX

ane. as a consequerce uncubiuy- ment rapidly increasing: Reflationary policies have

JOBS SAVED

new jobs not creating only in Britain but the United States itself. THE JOBS of 750 workers who The right-wing. Labour leaders occupied Fisher-Bendix factory deliberately avoid the harsh the Nirkoy. Liverpool, reality of this crisis and in doing Rhodesian reactions to the beginning year have been DEMONSTRATORS organized around the Rhodesia paring its e port. Yesterday s so again leading the are once which embraces expressed saved. New company formed Emergency Campaign Committee, working into a trabe from 01 several anti-apartheid groups, paraded outside the the feelings or many wnites and Africans lakt 07cl the wil Walen and Britain and Rhodesia towards the sell-out.

Standard radiators night London, Stonee beneficiaries. Standard Bank in Northumberland Avenue, many large interests in southern Africa.

heaters. The campaign for the Charter yesterday. Inside, the Pearce Commission is pre Bank nas

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AROUND THE WORL

SOVIET

Leonid leader acknowledged the growing Common Market and denied i "lay a mine' under the EEC.

In a speech at a Moscow tr said: 'The Soviet Union is f existing situation in WEr existence of such an economic countries as the Common Mai He added: 'Our relations with the participants in this naturally will grouping depend on the extent lo which they, for their part, recognize the realities exist- ing in the socialist part or Europe, particularly the interests of Comecon mem- ber states.' Until now, the Soviet Union recognize has refused the existence of the EEC, dealing with its members only as individual states. Brezhnev's statement could herald a change in Soviet policy, involving recognition and even support for an enlarged Common Market. A top-level British delegation, including Lord Nelson, GEC chairman, Mal Thomas, managing A CRUCIAL test of W Ger- man Chancellor Willy Brandt's 'Ostpolitik' is the state elec- to be held in Baden- tion Württemberg next month. Unless Brandt's social-demo- cratic party wins the election, he will be unable to get Senate consent to ratify the controversial with the Soviet Union treaty signed in Moscow last vear.

The Treaty is the cornerstone of the diplomatic rapprochement between the USSR and W Ger- many, which is bitterly opposed by the : opposition Christian Democrats. The Christian Democrats con- trol 21 of the 41 Senate seats and could block the ratification if they can hold Baden-Württem- berg. Brandt would need an absolute majority in the lower house if the Senate votes against him. The extreme right-wing National Democratic Party has come to the aid of the CDU in Baden by withdrawing its can- didates from the ballot giving the Christian Democrats a clear run. This means that the neo- fascists of the NPD have thrown their weight solidly behind the against Christian Democrats Brandt. Baden is the only state where they are now represented.

Journalist freed AUSTRALIAN-BORN journalist Francis James is expected to be released from Peking in the next few days after spending two and a half years in jail. James, editor of the weekly "The church ne disappeared while Anglican'• between disappeared Canton and travelling Hong Kong in November 1969.

He had visited China earlier in travelled 1969 and then to Britain where he wrote an article 'Sunday Times' on his for the experiences. On his return to Peking he was arrested and accused of being a spy. ay March 21, 1872

NORLD

onid Brezhnev yesterday rowing importance of the denied it was Soviet policy to scow trade union meeting, he on is far from ignoring the including the W Europe, onomic grouping of capitalist ion Market' Roy director of Rank Xerox, Wright, deputy chairman of Rio Tinto and several bankers, includ- ing Barclays International chair- man Anthony Tuke, is currently in Moscow for trade talks.

three London In addition, banks, Morgan Grenfell, National Westminster and Moscow Narodny, have organized a $60m loan for the Comecon central bank. A similar loan has been raised by the same bank in Europe. Earlier this year, Poland a member, with the USSR, of the Comecon economic grouping began negotiating direct with the EEC commission in Brussels.

Such a turn would be in line with the Kremlin's campaign for al European Security Conference,

WILLY BRANDT

El Ferrol men return SOME 2,500 workers at the state-owned navy shipyards at El Ferrol, N Spain, returned to work yesterday under threat of martial law. The fascist government had taken powers to conscript them and force them back to work at gunpoint if their ten-day-old strike continued. outside Armed police were the yard gates yesterday at the place where two men were shot dead and 50 injured in a battle with police ten days ago.

The El Ferrol workers are demanding reinstatement of six union workers sacked for organizing, higher pay, and the.

right to elect their own union representatives. involving all European states.

• This is more and more becom- ing a question of reaching a counter-revolutionary deal with the Common Market which will completely dominate W Europe once Britain and the other appli- cants are admitted. The Kremlin's security pro- posals are directed against the working class throughout Europe.

Since the French General Strike with the of 1968, simultaneous of the anti-Stalinist movement Czech workers, the Moscow • has been seeking bureaucracy closer alliance with the European employers. The price for such a policy is tacit support for the Common monopolists' conspiracy Market against the working class.

POLES

voted election inan staged at the weekend as a vote of confidence in the regime of Gierek. He Edward took over power after the uprisings in the Baltic towns in December 1970.

Voters had a limited choice from hand-picked candidates Workers' chosen by the United or its allies (Communist) Party of the National Unity Front.

The new parliament, the 460- member Sejm, will have basically the same composition as the old, but will consist of deputies who support the Gierek leadership.

There has been little en- thusiasm for the election which has been brought forward a year in order to give Gierek's rule some semblance of popularity.

Gierek has promised to over- haul the economy and promote reforms which will raise living standards. He is still faced with a grow- ing opposition from the working class which took a violent form in 1956 and 1970. TOP POLISH army sportsmen have been convicted on smug- gling charges by a military court.

The highest sentence was handed out to Sgt Wlodzimierz Trams, a basketball star, who will have to serve five years for his part in smuggling about $25,000 out of Poland and illegally importing gold bars and jewellery between 1967 and 1971.

A Lt-Col. who was head of the basketball section, received 18 months, together with a stiff fine and demotion to major. The army's star goalkeeper received Another four sergeant years. and two civilians also were jailed.

WHAT WE THINK

A LEGAL MONSTER •

ON THE LOOSE

WHAT HAPPENED at the small Reading factory of Ideal Casements last week should leave the trade union movement shaking from head to foot. The decision of an employer to invoke the Industrial Relations Act steamrollered the TUC's claim that the law can be neutralized through non-co-operation.

The fact is that whether the TUC turns its back or not, the Act has teeth capable of tearing the unions to shreds. The question after Ideal Casements is, will the TUC carry on burying its head in the sand or stand up and fight? A vital point the TUC has chosen to ignore is that the Act does not exist just for them-it is also a sharp, purpose-built tool employers can and will unilater- ally use to shake their labour forces into submission.

James Wallace, managing director at Ideal Case- ments has been the first to try. Relations have been strained at the factory for years and they took a steep nose-dive when the 90 per cent immigrant work force set up a branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union and began pressing for better pay and conditions. On February 25 the T&GWU asked Wallace for a new agreement. But instead of negotiat- ing, the managing director held that the termination of their old agreement meant that the union did not exist in his factory and promptly referred the matter to 'the National Industrial Relations Court.

The 600 workers decided to strike and Wallace retaliated by obtaining from the Court restraining injunctions on three leading shop stewards under section 45 of the union Act which makes a strike an unfair industrial practice during a recognition dispute.

Had they led the strike, due to begin yesterday, the three stewards could have been the first men under the Act to be sent to prison.

What would Jack Jones have done then? What would the TUC's position have been? Unless they had opted to throw their weight into smashing the Act, it is clear the way would have been wide open for employers to take a scythe to the unions.

But what momentarily saved the stewards and the unions was not their determination to ignore or oppose the Act so much as the Tory government's tactical need to cool things down. NIRC President Sir John Donaldson castigated Wallace for his 'rigid' use of the Act and Department of Employment and Productivity conciliators moved heaven and earth in 11 gruelling hours of non-stop talks to get the two sides to agree and thereby head off a showdown.

Why should the Tories hobble the creature they have gone to so much trouble to unleash on the trade union movement? Could it be they dare not risk a pre- election backlash by allowing anyone to trigger its full powers? Events at Ideal Gasements have put the writing on the wall for the trade union leaders in letters of fire.

The Industrial Relations Act has been set up to destroy them and their organizations. Already its use hangs over the growing struggle of the engineers against the Engineering Employers' Federation and the government. .. The TUC and Labour Party leaders' refusal to force the Tories to resign has allowed the Act onto the statute books where its legal teeth are now poised ready to snap shut on the trade unions as the fighting organizations iof the working class.

The only way to defeat the Act is to defeat the government. Ideal Casements has stripped bare the TUC's policy of non-co-operation as a treacherous evasion of the central fight to force the Tories to resign.

POST OFFICE

UNIONS UNIONS'

NOT PRACTICAL

A MERGER

between the would of ace • Council the lake framework for two main Post Office unions Post Office Unions is not practical at the working party has according moment, to been set to study proposals Post for for the closer unity. spokesillan Tony Carter, secretary-general Office Engineering Union.

present colncu was throughout the private talks held He made the statement at the end of weekend talks with and participated in the the at Hove the Union of Post executive discussions. Oince Workers. Also discussed over the week- which represent The end was the Industrial Relations than S:3 300,000 implications for Post than workers, Act and its decided that closer co-operation Oice workers.

YARROW PAY

STRIKERS GO BACK

was a full Their increase includes 70 an work yesterday Yarrow's hour meet rise in the shipyard the Clyde, closed cost of living and 6p. hour on bonus for because for consolidation 101

SCVCI

with sarike Cos tod skuce uacconer. •I• lala workers. A management spokes- payments semi-skilled and said about 1,800 unskilled workers. man that The and management has also trades

WUIKCIS

1,000 steel workers had reported azeca lo duty fishing, for averaging CITions The trades about 2p an hour. have Workers' a management offer representatives meet accepted ot skilled the about today lu colli men, bringing their wages plete the agreement. about £35 for 40-hour week. Representatives of the steel thus workers, promised a similar type tradesmen The yarrow of the highest-paid of ofter. meet the manage. become some albu A scene from Sunday's production: Cromwell leads his cavalry shipyard workers in Britain.

ment today.

WASTE-DUMPERS

Socialist Labour

MIKE BANDA,

PROTECTED BY LAW

Central Committee mem. ber, man hat to xian to the Right-to- night day IF

ANYONE

thinks big For example, there is a five- marches completely WOrK year prison sentence for dumping the business will be put posed the Party like sodium spot by the deposit of Poison- the réformist union wing, leaders and the 'rag-bag' of revi.

cvanice seri DUl ous Waste Bill they are very throwing it in the nearest river sionist groupings. Speaking at the end of the The the company only risks a fine of The effect of this new piece of £200. legislation be formance he said the Tory Companies will only be English Revolution' knowledge who give three days' sune any treachery and bankruptcy 5: real dumps what where. district councils and •laid is than people nothing more all unese was

NOW

niver bare. the out- cover-up job following intend to deposit. Although the cry wnich greeted the Causcover But these powers do not omcial Labour yanide drums on the beache of and union leaders had trade impose measure of control. of England and elsewhere 'blacked' the marches, there was The Bill contains no powers for will a rural district refuse over sello? ever be consent for dumping after it has the rank-and-file trade unionists in a position to really find out who did the actual and Labour supporters. recerveo me noce dumping and also enables com- Nor can it take out an injunc- Corin Redgrave, who directed to get off with light ines to prevent something hazard- Danes tion the play, said today's ruling class if they are caught. ous from being tipped. All it can nad done everytning possible lo bury the revolutionary history of are use event. This will involve Clerks out its own origins. thousands of pounds for lawyers' But the bourgeoisie could not other fees trying to prove alle their at EE hide the violent nature own origins. Meltner could tney Bill also makes it clear hide spectre of today's although records must be

ABOUT 450

members revolutionaries, the working class.

on no account kept of dumping. erical Gary editor of keep Left, wheteed newly-electer can these be made public.

Just in case local official Socialists' newspaper, went on official strike over a £6- sala Tin en Right-to-Work marches had dumpers he'd better some of the demand ocean! pay that the shown youth in Britain 4(2) 287 of the Pub- The union rejected management are env to not. This imposes *They will higher offers oI t1.50 ployment, a threat of

TOR

said. such

TON.

inform don end the very system which per- firms petuates these things.' the Chairman meeting, yesterday involved in dumping expected would start to hit production of play oi enougn cyanide to kıll on most sale une switch and and a sirina or poet tion hellarouth gear Young March within sigh favours avoilalces theatre, Waterloo. hours. bestowed upon them by the Bill.

Detained Turk may sue against Miss Conroy in the GREEK-born Michael decides what to do appeal against with the sentence in far as it Sirros investigating -connection about aesortalion recommendation made 'Angry bomb- related to the legal whether take earlier in the year. ings had been dried. Divisional Cople in told sirros to action against a High the after the days

LWU

Court judge London Crown court in connection arrest ol tained him in Penton- Pauline he had Conroy JaST Nat- deportation recommcd- -ville prison. November, Sirros was Leay said he ation. Scotland on jurisdiction to hear arrested in Outside He the being advised appeal and the N such Sirros approached by chartes lossessills Kensington stolen prison officers and ariving doncer davising verenDouriooo law ser- These charges were sub- Sirros take legal told him st vice. sea December 13 he and advice. sequently ordered Last week Mr Jus- the On March detained. tice Ashworth granted matter came before the finer " tor overv. while Mier for Sirros application this cosallo. his allowed time in same judge again, with made Sirros Sirros on habeas

_CONDUS

arainsi was in sour stad eh of the Metropolitan Police A recommendation for appearing person Commissioner. fairs; So Tustice Ash- state his debon on arall. Turkey, In granting the order where was was submitted o worth commented last Ashworth but faces the Metropolitan Police Mr Justice brought up week. that said for Commissioner DILIOS i

JORY

OTISOL

jurisdic- 'There can be no was evac Court that this ized. The judge ordered was made but tion to hear the appeal,

CODI

Mall S Sirros free pending appeal. and the judge con- detention was wholly that remain deferred He dismissed unauthorized Office curred. Home unu lie Vicarwic all classes Workers Press, Tuaaday March 21, 1972 PAGE 3 Right-to-Work marches exposed Labour treachery

YOUNG SOCIALISTS'

NATIONAL RIGHT-TO-WORK CAMFAIGN

PRESENTS

The English Revolution' Written by Tom Kempinski Directed by Corin Redgrave

AT THE

YOUNG VIC

THEATRE

The Cut, off Waterloo Ro, London SW1 SUNDAY MARCH 26 7p.m. ADMISSION 25p (YS MEMBERS) & 50p Followed by a lecture: 'The English Revolution todaw' given by G. Healy, SIL national secretary

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday March 21, 1972

BUILDING

THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

Have you read the Draft Manifesto adopted by the All Trades Unions Alliance at the national conference at Birmingham last November? Have you expressed your views on the document in a letter to the Workers Press?

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and understood throughout the workers' movement: trade unionists, their families, students, ( the unemployed and people in the professions are invited to express their views on the Manifesto.

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion. SL 'The Right to Work marchers enter Wembley Pool.

PHIL WALKER

Warehouseman in a Debenhams department store, Southampton The Tory government, faced with a mounting national and interna- tional economic crisis, is going all out to destroy every right that the working class has. The Tories try to infer that social security, national health, pensions, etc., are 'presents' ruling from the class and not a right that has been in struggle by the won British working class. In the post-war boom period the working class was able to of living increase its standard through reformist trade the Labour bureaucracy, union and but since then the has system again gone into decline and the employers are unable to grant 'luxuries' to such the working class and look to the trade union and Labour leaders to hold back the working class. With Nixon's August 15 mea- sures it has seriously accelerated the capitalist crisis and makes it imperative for the British ruling to join forces with their class friends in European industry, to drive down wages, create unem- ployment and enlist 'the forces of law and order' on their side. The ruling class has declared war on the working class in order to save its own system, a system whose decaying corpse should be swept aside and thrown into the dust of history by the historic action of a united working class.

But whose leadership will be glve expression to the able to historical struggle of the work- against the capitalist ing class overlords? Recent events show quite clearly that it will not be men like the present trade union leaders who, apart from a few militant phrases to cover their actions, cling to the bosses' boots. Nor the Labour Party, noW firmly committed to defend the capitalist system. The role of leadership falls to party that is based on the working class, is able to under- stand and interpret the existing situations, and to draw the cor- rect conclusions and give practi- cal and theoretical leadership to the masses. Such a party is the SLL, YS and ATUA. The Draft Manifesto and Charter of Basic Rights are a historic call to action to the working class. The revolutionary party must forward, ruthlessly step now all revisionists and exposing reformists, intervening in every to forge struggle, working together a united working class the Tories, and to throw out capable of fulfilling its historical sweeping aside task and raising British imperialists the voice of revolution through- out the world.

SAM CAMERON

UPW Outdoor branch secretary, Dundee is the only Manifesto The correct analysis of what is required by the working class to take the power. exposes the The Manifesto perfidious roles of the right and leaders whose wing co- left the Tories require if operation they are to remain in office.

The Right-to-Work march is taking place in a situation where we have seen the desperate efforts of the Heath government to isolate the miners from the It rest of the working class. was precisely this situation which made it unmistakably clear that march for the support inseparable from the necessity to mount a campaign for a General to force the Tories to Strike resign. No one can now doubt that only under these conditions could the miners' claim have. been won in full. Discussion of the Manifesto the be divorced from cannot role of the Workers Press, which, of the daily exposure reformist and reactionary roles of Stalinism and social demo- cracy is of great importance in the struggle to force the Tories to resign. interviews with trade The union leaders vindicate the prin- cipled stand taken by the ATUA, YS, and SLL as represented in the Manifesto. These interviews, together with the paper's cover- age of unions' national confer- ences are of paramount import- ance to the working class in its principled pa struggle buikd to leaderships in the unions.

The tecent interview with Tom Jackson completely exposed the bankruptey of reformism.

union The present trade leadership along with UCS Stalinist James Reid have now found themselves trapped in the rising tide of militancy of the working class. They are being driven further and further to the right. These opportunists who think that their left speeches will change the course of this Tory government are, in fact, afraid to mobilize the support of the whole of the working class for a Strike the General force to resignation of this government to make way for a Labour govern- ment pledged to legislate the Charter of Basic Rights. They know that if the Tories removed they will be are replaced by leaders who will add de end ste basis rit his of and defend the basic rights the working class.

JOHN EMMETT

Amalgamated Union of Asphalt workers, asphalter, Southampton I support the Manifesto because it defends working-class rights.

Rights are not something that we have got to be thankful for, but rights. Now they are being taken away from us by this Tory gov- ernment. This government which got in with lies and is staying in with laws and lies, and Labour leaders who suck up to them.

Then there are the union around being leaders who run reasonable and having tea and a joke with men who stab their members in the back. There is no need to tell Workers Press readers about un- employment and the cost of living. They know, it is happen- ing to them. The Manifesto tells the work- ing class what has got to be done to get these gangsters out for good. Out with these men year who tell £20,000 a £13-a- week miners that they can't have any more because it would ruin the country. The country! Anyone would think we work for the New We don't, Forest. we work for fat Tories who tell people who 'Here is £6, run are too old: away and die.' The Workers Press is hated by the CP,, IS, and these other people it tells the because When I read the Star' it said things like 'Cut the Arms Bill by Half' (who did they want shot with the other half?).

is the 'Socialist Then there Worker' with its 'Just One March More' thing. They would have us marching round in ever- decreasing circles. If the working class don't get rid of this government and replace it with a government fighting for workers' rights, then the next lorry that runs over a picket will be an army lorry.

ALAN DEWSNAP

ASB Welder, Vosper Thorney- crofts, Southampton It is vital to the trade unions that the draft manifesto of the ATUA is read by the working class to help them understand and relate the Tory government's policy of suppression of the working class. The brutality of their law enforcement, resulting, in death in many cases as can be seen in Ireland, will become evident in the rest of Britain in the very near future. In fact since the start of the miners' strike open war has been declared on picket lines result- ing in the death of a miner, and don't forget, all he wanted was a living wage. know the working The Tories class are, and will continue to be, a threat to their society, and they will fight with all the brutality they can muster to keep their position as ruling class.

The rot has already begun to set in for world capitalism and President was accelerated by Nixon on August 15 when his dollar policy shook the world's capitalists into confusion.

This doesn't mean that we in the working class can relax in any way but keep on with our struggle against capitalism. The only way to defeat capitalism is to arm the working class with Marxist theory and to form a • party conscious of what to do and how to bring down the Tories.

Robbed of American back- ing the reactionary right- wing dictatorships of SE Asia are engaged in the twin battles of bluffing America into reversing her withdrawal and at the same time staving off popular unrest at home.

S Korea, Cambodia and Thai- a comfortable land have made living out of US aid since World War II and the mere sight of it dwindling has been sufficient to spur them to whip up a new red scare. All three countries have formally declared a state of emergency on the grounds that US support has been reduced growil d counterbalanced by a threat from China and her allies.

The by now familiar formula— completely ignored by the US, who, with Nixon just back from Peking knows different-was re- peated recently by S Korea.

President Chung Lee Park said that 'aggressive provocations' by N Korea meant that 'local ten- sion in the Korean peninsula is constantly building up'. There is nothing like a 'con- stant build-up' to secure a con- stant flow of aid only this time with world recession forcing a sharp change in America's foreign policy the bait is not working.

The only part of his speech with the ring of truth was the phrase: "Our security national have reached a matters momentous phase of reposturing.'

It has not yet dawned that America is in the process of sell- ing out her former allies in SE Asia in exchange for what has become a greater price far all her promise of China with peace (and a slashed payments deficit) and trade. Failure to understand this OI it lies want to understand to behind another remark of Park's joined the UN that 'China has and supported N Korean demands for the dissolution of the UN forces and (primarily US) agencies in Korea.' None of this could have been done without overt and tacit US support. Park's world is spinning. Not only is he losing America, but also Japan. He notes: Japan is opening contacts with China and N Korea! But what really worries him about America's volte face is not the threat from China-which has always been more than dubious- but the danger that without US support his right-wing dictator- from ship will be torn down within. Hence the renewed playing on the theme of a growing •com- munist menace both to silence critics at home and to lure back the US. Park denounces such 'popular 'the thaw' catchwords' and as 'detente', "self-styled intellectuals of "peace and free- giving cries dom', and 'dissension over such matters as the strengthening vital of the S Korean military forces and campus military training' Top priority will be given to security and the government will tolerate 'all elements of not social unrest'. The press must irresponsible de- refrain from bate', and 'every citizen must be ready for the restriction of his civil rights.' In January, 19 people were arrested simply for 'spread- ing rumours. In the general election of May 25, 1971, the governing Demo- cratic Republican • lost Party in its resulting nany seats, slimmest majority ever—113 seats to the against 89 seats as opposition New Democratic Party members plus two opposition party splinter group.

governing Previously the party had held two-thirds of the seats and able to change the was constitution at will. In April, many students rioted against the Park government on the anniversary of the toppling of Syngman Rhee by students in 1960. Throughout the year students have been protesting and rioting against large-scale compulsory military training for students while still at university. In late July, 100 of S Korea's 415 judges resigned in protest against and alleged pressure interference from government prosecutors. October, an opposition- In motion dismiss sponsored to Home Minister Oh-chi Sung- because of his responsibility for a labour riot and the Inass escape of soldiets from a military 38 dead- jail resulting in achieved a successful vote, thanks to the defection of 18 members of the government. Six members were dismissed from the party and four suspended, and a shake- up in the government followed.

Park's prestige and power were thus severely shaken. • Park reacted by invoking • crack down on student demon- 'decadent and such strators tendencies' as long hair, hippy clubs and costume, go-go while the main pornography, public grievance was corruption within the government itself.

In December, Park announced the 'state of national emergency' because of so-called foreign threats and has ever since been of the restricting the freedom press, the actions of opposition movements, and arresting diss1- dents on such charges as 'spread- ing rumours' Chung Lee Park's In short, measures were aimed not at defending his country against a foreign threat, but at protecting his regime from domestic threat. Nixon just back from his Peking visit (top) is ignoring S Korean President Park's (below) attempts to lure back US aid. Workers Press, Tu Direct action by a group of angry suburban Stockholm housewives has sparked a nationwide campaign against rising food prices in Sweden.

The action, which takes the form of a boycott of selected products at local food shops, is posing a threat to the also Swedish income government's equality programme designed to bring farm salaries in line with those of industrial workers.

At the moment, according to a National Agriculture Board estimate, the price of food in Sweden is the highest in the world after Iceland. One and a half pints of milk, for example, costs about 12p, 2.2 Ibs of beef is £2.40, 2.2 Ibs of pork is £1.60 and 2.2 Ibs of tomatoes is 80p.

When the housewives began their boycott in February, they said they had been forced into making a protest because their families had been forced into extremely basic diets and could no longer afford meat. Their boycott caught on and within two weeks thousands of housewives were marching in the streets, at least 120 action committees had been formed around the country, the retail food trade was severely shaken and a raging parliamentary de- bate was begun on the Social Democratic government's agri- cultural policy. Political commentators de- scribed the spread of grass-roots support for the action as an un- precedented sign that a real crisis existed for Swedish house- holders. The soaring food prices, which rose 17 per cent over 13 months, resulted from a general increase in the country's value added tax -now standing at 16 per cent— and a government decision a year ago to boost farmers' incomes.

The farmer average earns between 48p and 64p an hour compared with fl for industrial workers. The government says that to cut prices by 15 per cent-the minimum figure demanded by the housewives — would wreck the farmers' of income chances equality. Finance Minister Gunnar Prin * mantra Canont: most di India's economic growth is below the government target and its industrial output is relatively stagnant, according to an official survey for 1971-1972. The year had been one of the most difficult since independence because imposed by of strains the influx of 10 million refugees from Bangla Desh, the survey said. But the economy responded well to the challenge though certain n problems had emerged 3 Press, Tuesday March 21, 1972 PAGE 5 Straeng, defending the govern- position in parliament. ment indicated that one idea being considered was increases in child and family allowances and pen- sions. But the housewives say they will not accept this line.

'We've had enough of subsi- dies, one of them, Mrs Gull- Britt Unnermark, said. 'When you look at the enormous differ- between how much the ences farmers are being paid and how much the shops are charging in obvious some betweeners are making an unfair profit. 'People are back on wartime diets of cabbage soup, potatoes and gravy. The government has to do something.' The housewives who started the boycott in the Stockholm Skaerholmen chose suburb of two particularly sensitive areas as their first targets—milk and beef. Within ten days milk sales in Skaerholmen dropped. 35 per cent. They also dropped 6 per cent in the Stockholm area as a whole. Some shops in other parts the country dropped their prices. spokesman for the Meat A Marketers Association admitted that beef sales had dropped campaign Stockholm since was_launched, but declined to say by how much. The boycott was climaxed by mass demonstrations around the country, including one in front of parliament. Since then, the Minister of Agriculture, Ingemund Bengtsson; has ordered an investigation into the possibility of increasing state subsidies for farmers and drop- ping plans for a scheduled July 1 rise in milk prices. The Skaerholmen group, which has now set up a full-time co- ordination centre, has announced that the next national target will be pork. And it insists that it will con- tinue the boycotts until the necesary measures are taken.

Meanwhile, the price of food has become number the one domestic issue, with political parties, • newspapers and con- groups issuing numerous sumer and state- demands, proposals ments of condemnation. t most dillicuit yoor sinca Indepondenca.

which must be tackled quickly.

National income rose by less than 5 per cent in 1970-1971, compared with a target in the five-year plan of 5.5 per cent. For 1971-1972 indications were that the growth would be only about 4 per cent, the survey said.

Agricultural production was rising rapidly but industrial out put in the first eight months of 1971 increased by only 2 per cent.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday March 21, 197

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Every four years a small group of American politicians get out their cheque book, have lunches with bankers, businessmen and trade union bureaucrats and prepare their campaigns to buy the presi- dency of the country. The circus-which has begun once more - is called the primary elections. Voters may register with either or both of parties in the two capitalist the US and help 'select' the candidate to run for the White House. In fact what really happens is that politicians test out and exploit the frustration of the electorate under the eager gaze of wealthy backers. They will support the man most likely to win and expect the pay-off when he takes his in Washington seat inherits the enormous powers of patronage, appointment and policy that the office of Presi- dent carries with it. The abysmally low levei of 'debate' during these battles can be judged by one incident in the 1968 campaign that the election of ended with Richard Milhouse Nixon. One of the more "intellectual' can- didates, the late Robert Ken- speaking nedy, to an was Oregon crowd. To cheers he made this dramatic play for the farmers vote. 'We're helping the farmer. My family eats more tomatoes than any family I know, and my wife and children wear cotton clothes.' 1972 campaign, which The of New began in the state Hampshire earlier this month, has been no exception to this standard of cynicism. There, the Democratic front Edmund Senator runner 'Sixtus' Muskie failed to out- strip his democratic rivals by a sufficient majority and at last week's Florida primary he slumped disastrously to fourth in the field. Muskie's Predictably un- named 20 rich backers are pulling away from the cam- paign and the Senator from Maine seems doomed. The man who made by far the best showing at Florida- a southern state not particu- larly known for its racialism— was the right-wing extreme demagogue George Wallace, governor of Alabama. He pulled over 42 per cent of the vote on his racialist and 'anti-authority' ticket. Wallace stomps the Deep South with coterie of country and western singers and a veteran.

preacher ('We give Thee thanks O Lord for a man of courage like George Wallace). He exploits the frustration of the poor white working class, promises tax concessions to the middle class, agitates against the intellectuals who are keeping small man down. His campaign, he says, is for the working man and the businessman. The most significant feature of the Wallace campaign in Florida was the kind of big money support he attracted.

His backers were a group of powerful bankers. This is one the hirst signs that big business is starting to break from its more traditional alle- giance to the Republican Party aday March 21, 1972 and seek men who propose stronger measures to deal with the upsurge of militancy among working class which followed the Nixon pay freeze.

Last year he ran as a third party candidate and took 13 per cent of the national vote.

This time he seems set to do even better and there is the possibility that he will keep going as an official Demo- cratic candidate and demand his pound of flesh at the climacteric national Democratic convention in San Diego in July. The man he will approach in this horse-trading is almost be that certain to veteran centre-Democrat Hubert Humphrey — vice-President to President Johnson. Humphrey is certain to oblige his right- wing rival. There is probably desperate no more com- promiser on the American political than this scene battered political warrior.

Take 'policy'. present On Vietnam he is for an end to bombing —that is if Hanoi demilitarized to agrees zone. He is for withdrawal— but not unilateral withdrawal -from Vietnam. He's against unemployment (of course), wants an end to pollution, for law and he is, order in the cities-etc., etc.

Humphrey's programme is a of miasma vague promises that is designed to say some- thing to everyone, but in fact says nothing. He should find little difficulty in fitting in a few perks for Wallace from Alabama. Neither Humphrey nor the 'liberal' also rans (Lindsay, McGovern) seem likely to oust Nixon. But whatever the result of the presidential race, one thing is quite certain class, the American working black and white, will lose.

The two big parties are tied completely to big business, Democrats tradi- with the tionally attracting the allegiance of the politically- corrupt union bosses. Nixon or Humphrey will have to follow the dictates of the economic crisis and con- tinue the campaign against the US working class inaugurated by Nixon on August 15. This President was the day the formally acknowledged his bid to cure the recession by reflation had failed. The extra US cash pumped into the economy did not encourage but investment simply new sucked in imports and dealt a fatal blow to the dollar.

His first act was to freeze all wages and now, as part two of the campaign against labour, pay rises are restricted to 5.5 per cent. The measures have caused unprecedented turmoil in the unions and for the first time since the 1930s demands for a General Strike and a Labour Party have been heard within the American working class.

It is this perspective of a new Labour Party that remains the only way out for the US working class. The alternative Wallace is plain. Bankers back not out of love of 'the people', but because he can gather the recationary forces to deal with class and the working the unions in a far more vicious way than Nixon.

LEGIONAIRES OFAMERICAN FASCISM

Part s of a tive-part series by John Spencer on the rise of the right wing in America.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday March 21 Part s of a hive-part series by The Great Depression of the 1930s saw the rise of reaction throughout the world on the basis of Stalinist betrayal and the defeats of the working class. The United States, where un- from 3 employment per rose cent to 26 per cent between 1929 and 1933, was no exception.

The depression hit especially hard against the lower middle- class, the small farmers and tradi- businessmen who had tionally provided the social basis for right-wing movements in the past. one formerly prosperous In farming county in lowa, for example, a quarter of the mort- property was fore- gaged farm closed in 1931-1932. The banks and the big insur- ance companies moved in on the small farmers the over country-a process vividly re- John Steinbeck's corded in 'Grapes of Wrath'. There were thousands of un- employed graduates and jobless who formed a office workers recruiting ground for right-wing and fascists-style movements.

Many of these grew o!t of the same milieu which had earlier given rise to the Ku Klux Klan.

One of the most influential in the early 1930s was the Black strong in Indiana, Ohio Legion, and Michigan and formed by one- time Klansmen. The Legion drew on the ritual of the KKK and also imitated the European fascist parties. Its members took an oath to support 'God, the United States constitu- tion and the Black Legion in its holy war against Catholics, Jews, Communists, Negroes aliens'. Organized along military lines, with a strict hierarchy of mem- bership, the Legion trained its members to use guns and rifles.

It was quite specific in its com- y March 21, 1972 ries by John Spencer on the rise of mitment to the preservation of declaration of capitalism. Its principles stated: 'We believe in the creation of wealth through initiative, labour and industry, and wealth must be distributed people to the through wages. We believe every American businessman, if quali- fied, will make a success of his efforts. Wholesale and retail of necessities be prices must governed by supply and demand and not by government com- business combinations, missions, trusts and monopolies.' The explicit appeal to the "small man® middle-class caught between the working class and the big monopolies, is quite clear. On trade unions, the Legion took the same line as the National Association of Manu- facturers, which declared unions be 'un-American ...anti- to American' and enemies of 'the Anglo- freedom for which the Saxon has been fighting and struggling for centuries'.

The Legion's membership was mainly made up of small town migrants in the industrial cities.

many of them from the backward . of the S. Fear of states immigrants taking their jobs was a potent factor in recruitment to the Legion, which was responsible for a number of murders and kidnapping and flogging arson, of black and trade union mili- tants. Among its victims were two workers from the Hudson Motor Company accused by the Party membership. Communist Black Legion One verdict on the Black Legion is that of the Oakland Grand Jury which County decided that it could not convict the Legion as a fascist conspiracy since 'the men who are listed as officers of the Black Legion... are not possessed of even average intelligence... They are not even worthy followers' rise of the right wing in America.

The Legion went into decline after 1936, partly because, its criminal activities were exposed.

A more important reason, how- of ever, was the the success administration in Roosevelt stabilizing the dollar-its value was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934-and the resulting rise in the confidence and combativity of the working class, culminating in the great movement for the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions in 1936-1937. More openly fascist than the Legion Rev Gerald the was Winrod's Defenders of the Christian Faith. Winrod, a funda- mentalist pastor from the Kansas Bible belt, started a right-wing religious magazine in 1925 and became openly pro-Nazi after the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the beginning of the New Deal in 1933. His organization was virulently anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic anti-black. He attacked Roosevelt as an agent of the Jews, and praised Hitler for clamping down on vice in Germany. His newspaper resuscitated the idea current in the 1790s and the 1830s, that Bolshevism and the French and Russian Revolutions were pro- duced by secret plot of a Illuminati founded in the 18th century. He book, wrote a 'Adam Human Weishaupt, A Devil, in an attempt to prove this bizarre theory. A third movement similar to the Legion and the Defenders was the Silver Shirts, begun in 1933 by William Dudley Pelley, to which a large number of former KKK members belonged.

Pelley, the son of a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, dabbled in spiritualism during the 1920s before turning to fascism.

As leader of the Silver Shirts, he called for fascist dictatorship imposed by violent means, advocated the suppression of trade unions and called on industrialists to back his struggle power. Pelley's economic for programme amounted to a cor- porate state blueprint, in which the government would grade all would and citizens occupations be paid according to their con- National Cor- tribution to the poration. Blacks, Indians and aliens would be made wards of were improvident and shiftless.

because government Shirts, like the The Silver Defenders, had Legion and the short history. A Con- only Committee described gressional Pelley as 'a racketeer engaged in thousands of dollars mulcting annually from his fanatical and misled followers.' The most notorious pre-war American fascist movement was led by Father Charles Coughlin, 'radio priest. Coughlin, the whose religious programmes had a large audience, began speaking politics in 1930, denoun- about cing 'international bankers' and communism. To meet the econo- mic he that crisis, proposed forgo their capitalists should profits for a year and concentrate on putting the unemployed back to work. Backed by his Bishop, Michael Coughlin Gallagher of Detrol Union for founded the National Social Justice, to press for the issuing of government credits to The National unemployed. strikes as 'abso- Union opposed lutely unnecessary' and called for the replacement of capitalism and democracy system a new known as 'social justice'.

Communism was evil because it was atheistic and internation- who alist, declared Coughlin, denounced the League of Nations supported Mussolini's and invasion of Abyssynia. with other In 1936, together right-wing and populist organ- Union izations, the National threw its weight behind William Top: Father Charles Coughlin. Above: airman Lindbergh. Below: John L.

Lewis, union leader. Left: Theodore Roosevelt (right) in March 1933.

Lemke as candidate for president similar to on a programme Coughlin's. The radio priest pre- dicted a massive 9 million vote, but in the event Lemke scraped only 90,000. Coughlin went off the air for a short time to return openly fascist with pro- an gramme. Early in 1937 he attacked the Michigan" for not governor using state troopers to crush a strike at General Motors and hit union leader John L. out at Lewis and the Congress of Indus- their trial Organizations linkages with communism. In March 1938 he proposed an American in corporate state congressmen would be which elected by occupational groups farmers, capi- such as workers, talists and so on. Political parties, in this scheme, to be were abolished. Two months later his 'Social Justice' appointed paper Mussolini 'man week' of the anti-Semitic while Coughlin's oratory and articles became increasingly virulent. Coughlin's Christian Front, formed later the same year, was unashamedly fascist. It won backing from middle-class Catho- particular, and one period just before the war a survey of the New York police force revealed no less than 407 Fronters in the ranks of the men in blue. Coughlin also received backing from wealthy Catholics and right- wing businessmen, though this support was never large-scale.

One prominent Coughlin sup- porter was the airman Lindbergh.

Government pressure finally forced the Catholic hierarchy to order Coughlin off the air early America's in 1942, following entry into the war. He was for- bidden by his religious superiors to make further public any statements.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

TV REVIEWS

BY ANNA TATE

The last four weeks have seen the new phenomenon of open collaboration between the police and the British Broadcasting . Corporation. You could easily have missed it.... It happens for just a few minutes every Monday evening between 6 and 6.20 pm when clean-cut, knowledgeable warm, : PC Rumbelow appears, young uniform and all, as a

BBC

reporter for 'London This Week'.

One might well argue that in one 'Dixon way or another between of Dock Green', 'Softly, Softly' and various American programme themselves coppers do proud terms of television coverage. But this latest develop- ment is even more to be deplored.

After all, Dixon is a fictional character, a figment of someone's cosily-aberrated imagination. So is the iron-mouthed, soft-hearted Det Chief Supt Barlow. But PC Rumbelow is for real. He is an of the London acting member police force, who has somehow acquired a freelance job with the

BBC.

It seems the corporation are proud of their new recruit. So Scotland Yard. A public are relations coup. Rumbelow is the name and rum goings-on below the surface of pristine objectivity ta is the thing. Not that PC 268 is visibly propagandizing that you support your local copper, but the image presented on screen is that of the lovable bobby, well- versed in English history, eager to impart knowledge, not book- ing but bookish, not apprehend- ing but comprehending! (apart What one might ask from the distortion purveyed by this image of the police) is PC Rumbelow's position in relation to the television unions? With 70 per cent of the union member- ship out of work, is he in the ABS (Association of Broadcasting Staff) or the ACTT, and how does this tie in with the Police Federation? And is this a prece- dent which will set off a stampede from police headquarters to do the White City Television Centre beat? This is an age of specialists. Words ending in 'ist' and 'ology' dominate the vocabulary. The Social sciences are fast becoming the opiate of the middle class.

Any given social problem is fed intellectual through the machinery of sociology, psycho- logy, biology, physiology, anthro- pology, etc. 'Horizon' The programme decided to subject the problem of race to such a social scientific study. The resulting documentary, 'What is Race?' was seemingly fair and knocked a few chinks in armour-mythology of the the white man's inherent superiority.

But the programme's limit- ations merely reflected the grave limitations innate in the ideology and I methodology of the social sciences in a capitalist society.

As an American biologist stated in the film, people bring their own social and political ideas to vity racial, questions. also Iron-mouthed, soft-hearted Det Chief Supt Barlow: a figment of someone's cosily aberrated imag- ination. emphasized that one is a member of society first and a scientist second. 'Horizon' did not use this approach in the making of the film, it merely allowed him to say it. The same thing happened with anthropology. It was stated that anthropologists have very differ- ing opinions, but no examination followed of the basis of that science at all. It was surely vital to point out that anthropology was born out of the 19th century colonial expansion of the white "intimately and became races associated with the rise raciology'. (Marvin Harris-'The Rise of Anthropological Theory'.)

Nowadays, the of most obvious demonstration unfree nature of that social science is the reliance of the US govern- ment on anthropologists to supply it with usuable data. Thus we Meo tribe fighting have the against the Pathet Lao Liberation Front in Laos, largely due to the fact that anthropology paved the way for the easy propagandizing of the Meo people. same use was made of The psychology. Quite vast sums of government money were paid into the Psychology Department of in Michigan State University, order that the scientists there might study the psychology of the Vietnamese people as part of the so-called Vietnamization pro- gramme. Sociology is also another tool, dominated as it is by the fact that 'the ruling ideas in the world are the ide orize rulinempows.

What attempted to do was to 'free' race from the fetters of prejudice, by subjecting the problem to scientific inquiry.

The programme-makers seemed, however, to be blissfully unaware of the science fetters in which finds itself. It is a failing they the overwhelming share with majority of bourgeois scientists themselves. Workers Press, Tuesday March 21, 1972 PAGE 9 stage in schools in this coun- try where an insolent and bolshie pupil has to be treated It playboy Canadian seems with all the courtesies of visit- Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau ing royalty? has a double in the form and So far as the schoolmaster dashing Michael shape of is of concerned - man Manley, newly-elected premier character and an exemplary of lamaica. able, efficient and conscien- For the bachelor days of tious teacher - he has been this 47-year-old former Royal brought trial on two Canadian Air Force pilot are offences. likely to be over soon-for the "The issue is not whether we fourth time. suffer from nowadavs lucky girl this time? The of sentimentality or excess She's Beverley Anderson, local sloppy thinking with regard to television panellist and person- criminal responsibility of the. ality who is 20 years his junior.

the young. The teacher was found not guilty. Here's a lame duck that no- about 'Queen body's talking Elizabeth'. No, the ship, I mean. Not Herself. The Cunard Steam Ship Co and its subsidiary Cunard Line Ltd still owe the government over fllm of the £19.5m loan taken on for the construction of the liner, OE 2. £7.5m borrowed by Of the the Cunard Steam Ship Co, Trudeau: a double? under the 1968 Industrial Ex- Beverley has evidently pansion Act, some £5.75m has dedicated herself to the pub- already been repaid. Trade and lic and private side of Jamai- Under Secretary Mr Industry ca's dynamic new leader. Anthony Grant told MPs last She was battling cam- week. paigner on his behalf during But only £2.5m of the £12m the recent election, flying with subsidiary loaned to the him on many occasions across Cunard Line Ltd has so far the island. leaving a total of been repaid, Manley's first two of three £11.25m balance unpaid, he ended divorce. marriages added. His second wife, Thelma, once The £12m loan is being re- appeared locally in saucy paid at the rate of flm a year, stage comedy. She still lives in at 4.5 per cent. But next month Jamaica. the rate of interest on out.

standing payments will be renegotiated. When the need arises you can always be sure the beloved English judiciary will come with statements of If you want to know what's forward open reaction. really going on, you've just got Just listen to the murmur- to read the letters page of the of Mr Justice Acker in 'Daily Telegraph'. ings the Birming- in There was this historic entry summing up nam case of a teacher accusec in the letters page the other 15-year-old of assaulting a day: schoolboy and fracturing his 'Sir, Mr Mozy Cohen (March 11) was incorrect in jaw. stating 'Whatever may be the view that February 28, 1828, was a of some of our most advanced, Tuesday. By commencing with the Battle of Trafalgar on Mon- way-out theoreticians, the law does not require a teacher to day,. October 21, 1805, or with have the patience of a saint.

the Battle of Waterloo on Sun- 'You may think that a very day, June 18, 1815, it can be told the 28, good thing too,' he verified that February 'You may think a super- 1828, was a Friday? jury. tolerance abundance of fails keep you informed will to produce a proper degree of of further jousts in this corre- self-discipline in any pupil.

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WASHINGTON colum- nist Jack Anderson alleges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is spying on him and trying to discredit him. His house in Washington was under close watch by 'closely-shorn men in cars'- a familiar description of FBI agents. Anderson accused the White House of mounting the FBI operation. He is at the centre of a Senate probe into alleged handouts by the giant International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT)

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UNION LEADERS in the U against the Nixon Pay Board of every major American trac of war' in Washington tomor Called by George Meany, right-wing president of the AFL-CIO (US equivalent of the TUC), the. meeting will discuss action to back the dockers in a confrontation with the government. The Pay Board set up to administer phase two of the wage freeze policy imposed on August 15 last year, cut the dockers' rise by 30 per cent last wage week. The Board is supposed to keep wages down to a 5.5 per cent the dockers' rise - norm, but after a 134-day strike won amounted to over 20 per cent in the first year of their contract.

Pay Board sources claim they would have 'lost all credibility' if the rise had been allowed to &o ahead intact. Last week's Pay Board ruling affects W coast dockers organized in the International Longshore- men's and Warehousemen's Union.

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The AFL-CIO leaders, thor- oughly steeped in the politics of class compromise, will do every- thing in their power to avoid and betray this decisive struggle with Nixon. Meany, together with four other top union leaders, is still a member of the hated Pay Board, though he voted with the

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Anderson denounced Mrs 'probably Beard's testimony as the most bizarre, most blatant and most incredible of all the lies we have heard so far in this whole litany of lies'. Three weeks previously Mrs Beard had not denied the authenticity of the document. The hearings involve President Nixon's nominee for the post of Attorney-General, Richard G.

Kleindienst, who is accused by Anderson of lying about role in the ITT payoff. atening a national dock strike dockers' pay rise. Top officers alled to an emergency 'council union representatives other against the dock pay cut.

These leaders, tied to the Democratic Party of big business, are mortally afrald of the surge of workers' struggles against the government. A national dock strike, backed by could the other unions, smash their increasingly fragile coalition with the Democrats put the question of and genuine Labour Party firmly on the agenda. • Meany and his fellow bureau- crats want to avoid this revolu- tionary step at all costs.

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the lowest labour force parti- cipation ratios'. The MIT professors see the problem strictly within the frame- work of capitalist property re- lations and merely put forward the proposal for some kind of wealth tax to make possible of degree redistribution income. FRAUD on a large scale is alleged against the director of the Commercial In- vestment Bank in the Yugoslav town of Skopje. He and other officials pocketed large sums of money when bank premises were bought in Ljubljana Zagreb and which were never used. actually In addition, the bank director, Misko Bozinovski, obtained a loan of 240,000 dinars to build himself a luxury flat although he already had two others and a weekend house. Two of the bank's staff are now in prison and one is on Skopje was the run. recently the scene of another scandal when a number of officials were arraigned for trafficking in driv- ing licences. Soviet Siemens THE GERMAN electrical com- bine, Siemens, opened an office 15. Its in Moscow on March aim is to promote the dynamic development of technical and the economic contacts with Soviet Union. It is the first W German firm to establish an agency in the Soviet capital.

MINERS at Whitrigg colliery next Sunday what action to guson, a coal face worker wh time job during the miners' str A one-day strike was staged at Whitrigg after the re- sumption of work because Ferguson had been expelled from the NUM. The men declared that they would not work with a non-unionist.

However, coal board officials raised the question the Industrial Relations Act which workers the choice of gIves either belonging to a union or not. The miners only returned to work after Scottish leader._of the NUM, Mick McGahey, inter- vened. McGahey, an executive member of the Communist Party, in- sisted on the return to and upheld the view Ferguson's expulsion was 'un- constitutional. The Whitrigg men now appear to want to follow. the letter of the law to make Ferguson's expulsion absolute. At a meeting-on Sunday the question of his expulsion was deferred for a week. Joseph Graham, colliery dele- gate, said after the meeting he would not allow the case to brought up as he wanted to MeGAHEY: ORDERED

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make sure Ferguson had seven days' clear notice of the meeting so that he could state his case.

Graham said. the branch received an official notice from the NUM executive that Fer- appealed against had guson expulsion. At Sunday's meeting 'we will give a decision whether we will still press for his expulsion or him his cards back, give Graham added. A friend of Ferguson's, who also worked during the strike, was expelled by the union branch subsequently re-instated at but a full branch meeting. The fact that a non-unionist is allowed to work in the pits is a scandal and means that the • intro- Tories have successtully duced in principle a section of the Industrial Relations Act.

Co-op faces wages battle

THE

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move- ment throughout Britain faces a critical wages battle at the end of the month. In line with TUC policy the unions representing retail wor- kers are seeking £20 a week, which represents a 33t-per-cent increase. The £5 claim will be presented to the Co-ops by Alf Allen, general secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, the main negotiating union. The demand for a £20 mini- of f5 increase mum - an on present salaries - follows a de- cision by the annual conference of USDAW last year. In the amalg the lowest paids ers workers are retail trade, ..... colliery, Scotland, will decide ion to take against Alex Fer- ker who allegedly took a full- ners' strike. LEEDS Chamber of Com- merce is demanding a new national fuel policy which is not dependent on coal. This is now a familiar theme in Tory and business circles.

The Chamber's latest maga- zine says: 'Never again in this undue must there be country dependence on one form of fuel.

*An end must be made to the excessive dependence of the elec- tricity generating industry on coal. "This must, unfortunately, involve a further contraction of the coal industry which means, despite the immediate gains for miners, in the long a loss term. Equally, such a policy means a removal of the fuel cil duty, more serious concentration on the development of • nuclear power and more speedy develop- ment of the power resources under the North Sea. "The fact is that socially and industrially things will never be the same again. The interests of the nation have been challenged by a minority section and by the use of methods foreign to our forms of democracy. established Such activities must not be allowed to happen again, and proper steps must be taken to ensure this.' Leeds The language of the Chamber of Commerce is pre- cisely the language used by a large number of Tory back- bench MPs during the recent debate in alamath of the miners sti the strike. It clearly shows that the Tories may concede having lost a battle, but they are more deter- mined than ever to win the war.

Two Hawker Brough strikers

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at two more Hawker-Siddeley factories in stopped work yesterday sympathy with men striking pay claim at the over a Hawker-Siddeley factory at Brough, near Hull. A company spokesman said in London that about 2,000 hourly- paid floor workers : engaged on Tridents at Hatfield, Herts, had stopped work for a day, and at Hamble, Hants, 800 component workers also out for the were day. The Brough strike, by nearly 2,000 engineers, is now in its ninth week. The Brough men, members of the Amalgamated Union of En- gineering Workers, are demand- ing an overall f4-a-week rise, and have rejected graduated increases ranging from £2.50 to £4 a week for the lower paid.

Production at Brough has been stopped since the strike began, 3,000 although nearly administrative stafi are still working, more people may soon follow the 100 electricians who stood off because have been there is no work for them.

The Hawker-Siddeley spokes- man said work at the company's öther factories" was' normal.

THE ANTI-INTERNMENT League still plans Walker, was still to go ahead with its demonstration scheduled weekend, the AIL for March 26, even though it has been refused sion on an altern permission to use Trafalgar Square for a meet- where more than ing afterwards. from Trafalgar Squ 'Our attitude to AIL secretary John Gray said yesterday that get twice as many 'at the moment' Trafalgar Square was the only stration' He estim acceptable place for the rally.

people would be ti However, if the Environment Minister, Peter rally. STEELWORKERS in the W weekend that no decision had been taken on the future of the Midlands have started a plant. campaign to prevent the loss of BSC is building £400,000 rolling mill near Huddersfield and 1,750 jobs in the area. action committee members think Workers fear that the British that from Oldbury work and Steel Corporation is planning Wolverhampton will be moved major withdrawal from the region there. by its special steel and strip mills They claim that three private divisions. enterprise companies are Oldbury interested in buying as Altogether, four strip mills and because stands it is highly two special steels division plants the profitable, in may close. eVel They want a economic recession. At the Birchely Mill, Oldbury, pledge that if BSC has closure in plant—a special steel rolling mind, should offer Oldbury it mill--the 250 workers have set for sale now. because up an action committee they believe the plant will soon be phased out. Beecham's The committee is seeking assurance from BSC that the mill will be offered for sale to private enterprise instead of being closed.

Also the campaign supporting

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' interdator an- are Tory MP Mr John Stokes and nounced price increases and Labour MP Dr John Gilbert.

of wide range medicines Workers on the Birchely action taking from toiletries, effect convinced that spokesman committee are tomorrow. A said BSC is already on the point of increases would average 4.9 per withdrawing work, although thể for toiletries and 3.9 per

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Name Address was still refusing permission by the the AIL would have to make a deci- an alternative venue, he added. No- re than a quarter of a mile away algar Square would be acceptable.

titude to the ban,' Gray said, 'is to as many people out on the demon- He estimated that upwards of 20,000 uld be taking part in the march and

SCHOOL - CHILDREN

were yesterday advised to 'tune in' to the voice of the 'Commander-in- Chief'-God. A pamphlet published by members of Moral Re-arma- ment brought the reactionary the message — similar to 'Festival of Light'-into the schools. For, unlike the Little Red , the 'Black and School Book', White Book' is an exercise in the worst form of idealism. it i eagerly Revolution, pro- fesses, is only in the mind. To change the world, it says, you have to change human nature.

'We want to see a world where communist and non-communist nations face what they have done wrong and take on together the shaping of a new society.'

One authority which the book quotes on its philosophy is none the Stalinist leader other than Khrushchev. schools into baryegrounds, in People turn adds. 'But we have found that school can be a place where teachers and pupils learn together the art of changing human nature.'

The Black-and-White Book' will undoubtedly be treated with due contempt by youth who face reality every week when . their only assignment is the labour exchange. And they have found that human nature makes no differ- ence when it comes to the bread and butter issues of fighting for a living. EEC will hit Eire firms MANY Irish firms: will not sur- vive in the increasingly com- petitive world which would follow Ireland's membership of Common Market, Eire Minister for Industry and Com- merce Lalor has warned. He was speaking at an Offaly Fianna Fail meeting. Vicar leaves MONSIGNOR Morragh Bernard, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Westminster, has left £64,000 in his will published yesterday.

After bequests to friends and relatives, the residue is to be equally divided between Joseph's Hospice for the Dying, Hackney, the Crusade of Rescue and the Poor Sisters of Nazareth, Hammersmith. He was former assistant diocesan chamberlain to the Pope. Workers Prose, Tuesday March 21, 1972 PAGE 11 ВBC-1 9.38-12.30 Schools. 1.00 Rosla and after. 1.30 Andy Pandy. 1.45- 1.53 News and weather. 2.05 Television 2.25 Parsley. 2.30 club. lands. 2.55 Play school. 3.20' Crystal tipps. 2.35 People of many Budget special 1972. 5.50 News and weather.

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Engineers' crisis builds up PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday March: NEW YORK Trotskyist Juan Farinas was due yesterday to begin a two- year jail term imposed for alleged violations of the US Selective Service Act. An appeal for modification of his sentence is to be heard in the New York district court tomorrow. A 24-year-old Cuban-born worker and supporter of the Workers League, Juan Farinas has been imprisoned because he refused to 'cease and desist from speaking and leafleting, hindering and interfering with the Selective Service system and refusal to report and sub- mit for induction'.

JUAN FARINAS

fact, Farinas at no time In refused to be drafted into the armed forces. He simply insisted on his right to campaign against the Vietnam among War fellow recruits. Farinas, who stresses that he conscientious objector. is not a is demanding that his sentence be suspended so that he can be inducted into the army. But Judge Milton Pollack, the district judge in charge of the case. has stated Farinas cannot be parolled unless he expresses a desire for 'rehabilitation'.

In other words, he must stay in prison because he refuses to recant his political views.

Farinas' that in appeal states view of my willingness to comply with the order which led to count IV (refusal of induction) of the indictment, a sentence of two years imprisonment for the acts set forth in the other counts speaking leafleting and only be interpreted could as and excessive politically- motivated sentence'. The Juan Farinas Defence Committee is organizing to peti- tion the judge in support of the appeal and is collecting funds to provide for Farinas' wife and child.

LATE NEWS

ay March 21, 1972

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

throughout the Stockport area yesterday stopped piecework and began an overtime ban in support of the engineering wage claim. convenors of two The plants said they were pre- pared to follow the example of 1,000 Bredbury steel workers and stage a sit-in if management attempted to. suspend men for not working normally. At some other factories the postponed action has been after management offered negoti- ations on the claim, which is for a £4-a-week increase, a 35-hour week, longer holidays and equal pay for women. Regan, Stockport Bernard district secretary of the Amalg- Engineering Union amated Workers said yesterday that there were signs that the employers 'were cracking'. A settlement in three com- panies including one big firm in Employers' Engineering the reached. Federation, has been These provided for up to f4 a phased week increases, plus introduction of a 35-hour week.

biggest Stockport's But at engineering shop, Mirrlees, a part of the Hawker Siddeley group, workers banned piecework at 6 a.m. yesterday. John Mirrlees convenor, Dougherty, said that the move was in support of the claim and 'principled solidarity an act of with the Bredbury men. 'As yet we have had no retali- ation from management, but this could come on Wednesday when the paper work begins building up. 'We have passed a resolution that we are prepared to stating sit-in if they begin the suspen- sions. At Davis and Metcalf, Bred- of bury, there was i position stalemate. Workers there began a ban on piecework late week and last received a 48-hour notice of sus- pension on Saturday. 'If they carry out their threat, we are prepared to take action like the Bredbury men,' said Eric Wolridge AUEW convenor. •The employers have divided themselves into a group to fight this claim.' He said that the men were now waiting for manage- ment to come forward and begin talks. 'We have made it quite plain that if they do not talk along the lines of the full claim submitted on March | we are prepared to action l even if it means take sitting in.' At other Stockport factories management are playing for time and promising talks. Workers at Nettle Accessories have lifted the ban on piecework after a number of talks. A spokesman for the firm was reluctant to comment yesterday.

indicated that but he talks would not begin before the weekend. The move is therefore an obvious ploy avoid to any disruption before next Monday,

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the date when workers through- out greater Manchester will begin a work-to-rule and overtime ban in support of the claim. The Stockport action was begun a week earlier than planned when management at Bredbury steelworks-part of the GKN group attempted to sus-

MIRRLEES CONVENOR

JOHN DOUGHERTY :

'PRINCIPLED SOLIDARITY'

TOOLROOM workers at Ford plants in Essex have called for a stoppage on May 1 to protest • the, threat of redun- against dancies. This was decided yesterday at meeting of toolroom a mass workers from Ford plants at Dagenham, Basildon, Aveley and Thurrock. The motion for the stoppage was put by Fred Blake, chairman of the Joint United Action Cam- paign Movement for Job Security.

The motion also sought a further mass meeting on April 16 and a national meeting of Ford con- venors. The motion declared that Ford men would 'fight for work".

THE WIDGERY Tribunal into of Londonderry's the events 'Bloody Sunday' when 13 people died ended at the Law Courts in London yesterday after a 20- day hearing. the end of the Announcing hearing. Lord Widgery, the Lord Chief Justice of England, said: 'The real business now begins.'

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