Workers Press no. 721

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BUDGET WILL CREATE MORE UNEMPLOYMENT

TORY REFLATION

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE HUGE BUDGET handou of mass unemployment in Brit Common Market countries anc fact, eventually increase unem March jobless figures out today are almost certain to be over the million mark and nothing Tory Chancellor Barber has done will bring them down. Unemployment in Britain is part of the growth of recession throughout the capitalist world. It is the direct result of the international capitalist crisis and the breakdown of the post-war Bretton Woods monetary arrangements which tied the dollar to gold. The possibility of reflating the economy through fiscal and manipulations has monetary as a result of President ended Nixon's August 15 decision to selling gold for dollars at cease the rate of $35 an ounce.

The "stop-go' cycle of the could take 1950s and 1960s place because there was an expanding international market and the value of paper money was, in the last analysis, guaran- teed at the US Treasury. But the enormous export of dollars which fed the boom finally devoured the US gold stock and Nixon was forced to cease gold sales. In fact, it was Nixon's 1970 budget-a desperate attempt to inflate the US economy by running an unprecedented deficit —which finally brought the dollar down. There is no longer any cer- tainty in the value of paper money, with the result that profits are falling or non-existent and far from increasing their investment employers are cutting it back. Tuesday's Budget only makes it more certain that Britain sterling will face a severe crisis as the increased con- sumer-spending attracts more imports and the balance foreign payments and the currency reserves are pushed into deficit. This provides the Tories with an additional reason for con- templating an election in the next period. In order to win over of the middle class, sections Barber has adopted the tradi- tional Tory stand-by of tax cuts.

But big-business circles remain sceptical about the pros- pects of economic recovery — a scepticism which is clearly

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handouts to industry will make littl in Britain. By allowing the free e ries and other areas of cheap labou e unemployment considerably.

reflected in the columns of the capitalist press. "The Guardian's' Victor Keegan ... the last two wrote: similarly Budgets, which were welcomed by industry, have failed so far to bring about a significant increase in capital expenditure.' "With industry He adds: generally... still faced with sub- stantial surplus capacity, it is still an open question whether will find it in their companies shareholders interests to lay down more investment... The balance of payments out- look is deteriorating, the inter- national situation uncertain and the possibility of a stop period after the present go is still real.

Industry has never had a greater incentive to invest. It remains to be seen the extent to which it will be taken up:' Stock Exchange prices actually fell back when trading opened yesterday and there was no rush to buy shares. The international crisis is also behind the desperate urgency of Tory preparations to enter the Common Market and gang up with the monopolists France Germany and against the workers of Europe.

Barber said his Budget was aimed at encouraging British to be 'efficient and industry

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ake little impact on the growth free export of capital to the p labour, the Budget may, in forward-looking' in order to compete in the EEC. He laid heavy stress on the need to increase productivity to meet the Common Market. 'Our potential growth in pro- ductivity is greater than it was on any of those earlier occasions,' he said. Perhaps the most important the Barber package is part of the virtual abolition of controls over investment overseas. This will give British capitalists free access to the low-wage countries of the Mediterranean, the Com- mon Market, S Africa and other extremely lucrative capital.

outlets. British employers will now join the stampede to take advantage of cheap labour in these countries, using the threat of capital movement to intimidate the workers in Britain through the creation of more unemploy- ment. ENGINEERS at the Birmingham Battery factory have entered the second week of a strike in demand of the abandoned national claim. The 300 men walked out at lunch time last Wednesday when management failed to come up with an answer to their demands for a £6 a and week rise, a 35-hour week improved holiday and overtime payments.

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HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Trafalgar Square ban a trap

AIL

AlL organizer John Gray, press officer Eamonn McCann and Kate Hoey at yesterday's press con- ference.

ANTI-INTERNMENT

League organizer John Gray announced yesterday that the League has decided not to try to break the Tory government's ban on the use of Trafalgar Square next Sunday. Instead, he said, the upwards of 20,000-strong demonstration will march past the Square into the Strand to a meeting at the Temple. The reason for the decision not to become involved in a con- police is frontation with the because the AIL believes that the Ministry of Environment's ban raises much broader issues than just the Irish question.

The fact that the government had given only nine days' notice of the ban was a crude attempt to lure demonstrators into a trap, Gray said. Eamonn McCann, AIL press officer said: "This is part of the growing pattern of repression under the Tory government.

He added that he could see a situation in Britain in the future where Tory government just on Irish organizations, but on other anti-Tory organizations.

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WE STILL have not yet reached our half-way mark. We must not waste a moment in the struggle to raise our Appeal Fund this month. Let's take action Immedi- ately. One thing remains clear about Barber's budget. Nothing to assist the over a offered million unemployed. The Tory government continues to launch its attacks against the working class. Workers Press becomes more vital than ever in this fight. Help us therefore with a great effort to raise our March Fund. We know you have never let us down, so go all out today. Raise as much as you can. Rush all your donations to: Workers Press March Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St London, SW4 7UG.

ROBENS'

BOOK

ATTACKS

WILSON

Lord Robens, the former Labour minister who pre- sided over the whole- sale pit closures of the 1960s, attacks Harold Wilson and other leaders of the last Labour gov- ernment in his book out today on his ten years as NCB chairman. Robens, who has now moved in- to big business as director of a number of firms, says: 'When the knives are out in the labour movement they are used with some force and that is when you need friends to pro- tect your back from your supporters of yes- terday. A review of his book-'Ten Year Stint' -turn to the centre pages.

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workers press

BUDGET WILL CREATE MORE UNEMPLOYMENT

TORY REFLATION

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE HUGE BUDGET hando of mass unemployment in Brit Common Market countries and fact, eventually increase unem March jobless figures out almost certain to today are be over the million mark and nothing Tory Chancellor Barber has done will bring them down. Unemployment in Britain is part of the growth of recession throughout the capitalist world. It is the direct result of the international capitalist crisis and the breakdown of the post-war Bretton Woods monetary arrangements which tied the dollar to gold. The possibility of reflating the fiscal and economy through monetary manipulations has • ended as a result of President Nixon's August 15 decision to cease selling gold for dollars at the rate of $35 an ounce.

The 'stop-go' cycle of the could take 1950s and 1960s place because there was an expanding international market the value of paper money and was, in the last analysis, guaran- teed at the US Treasury. But the export of enormous which dollars fed the boom finally devoured the US gold stock and Nixon was forced to cease gold sales. In fact, it was Nixon's 1970 budget—a desperate attempt to inflate the US by economy running an unprecedented deficit i-which finally brought the dollar down. There is no longer any cer- tainty in the value of paper money, with that the result profits are falling or non-existent increasing and far from their investment employers are cutting it back. Tuesday's Budget only makes certain that Britain it more will face a severe sterling crisis as the increased con- sumer-spending attracts more imports and the balance payments and the foreign currency reserves are pushed into deficit. This provides the Tories with an additional reason for con- in the templating an election next period. In order to win over sections of the middle class, Barber has adopted the tradi- tional Tory stand-by of tax cuts.

circles But big-business remain sceptical about the pros- pects of economic recovery — a scepticism which is clearly

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'handouts to industry will make littl : in Britain. By allowing the free e tries and other areas of cheap labou e unemployment considerably.

reflected in the columns of the capitalist press. 'The Guardian's' Victor Keegan ..the last wrote: two which were similarly Budgets, have welcomed by industry, about a failed so far to bring increase in capital significant expenditure.' He adds: "With industry generally... still faced with sub- stantial surplus capacity, it open question still an whether companies will find it in their shareholders' interests to lay down more investment... 'The balance of payments out- look is deteriorating, the inter- situation uncertain and national the possibility of a stop period after the present go is still real.

Industry has never had a greater incentive to invest. It remains to be seen the extent to which it will be taken up.' Stock Exchange prices actually fell back when trading opened yesterday and there was no rush to buy shares. The international crisis is also behind the desperate urgency of Tory preparations to enter the Common Market and gang up with the monopolists W Germany and France of against the workers of Europe.

Barber said his Budget was aimed at encouraging British industry • to be 'efficient and

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ake little impact on the growth free export of capital to the p labour, the Budget may, in forward-looking' in order to compete in the EEC. He laid heavy stress on the need to increase productivity to meet the Common Market. 'Our potential growth in pro- ductivity is greater than it was on any of those earlier occasions, he said. the most important Perhaps part of the Barber package is the virtual abolition of controls over investment overseas. This will give British capitalists free access to the low-wage countries of the Mediterranean, the Com- mon Market, S Africa and other extremely lucrative capital. outlets. British employers will now join the stampede to take advantage of cheap labour in these countries, using the threat of capital movement to intimidate the workers in Britain through the creation of more unemploy- ment. ENGINEERS at the Birmingham Battery factory have entered the second week of a strike in demand of the abandoned national claim. The 300 men walked out at lunch time last Wednesday when management failed to come up with an answer to their demands for a £6 a week rise, a 35-hour week and improved holiday and overtime payments.

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All organizer John Gray, press officer Eamonn McCann and Kate Hoey at yesterday's press con- ference.

ANTI-INTERNMENT

League organizer John Gray announced yesterday. that the League decided not to try to break the Tory government's ban on the Trafalgar Square next of use Sunday. Instead, he said, the upwards of 20,000-strong demonstration will march past the Square into the Strand to a meeting at the Temple. The reason for the decision not to become involved in a con- police is frontation with the because the AIL believes that of Environment's the Ministry ban raises much broader issues than just the Irish question.

The fact that the government had given only nine days' notice of the ban was a crude attempt to lure demonstrators into a trap, Gray said. Eamonn McCann, AIL press officer said: "This is part of the growing pattern of repression under the Tory government.

He added that he could see a situation in Britain in the future where the Tory government would be initiating a ban not just on Irish organizations, but on other anti-Tory organizations.

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WE STILL have not yet reached our half-way mark. We must not waste a moment in the struggle to raise our Appeal Fund this month. Let's take actlon Immedi- ately. One thing remains clear about Barber's budget. Nothing to assist the over & ottered Tory million unemployed. The government continues to launch its attacks against the working class. Workers Press becomes more vital than ever in this fight. Help us therefore with a great effort Fund. We to raise our March have never let us know you down, 80 go all out today. Raise as much as you can. Rush all your donations to: Workers Press March Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St London, SW4 7UG.

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Lord Robens, the former Labour minister who pre- sided over the whole- sale pit closures of the 1960s, attacks Harold Wilson and other leaders of the last Labour gov- ernment in his book out today on his ten years as NCB chairman. Robens, who has now moved in- business to big as director of a number of firms, says: 'When the knives are out in the labour movement they are used with some force and that is when you need friends to pro- from tect your back your supporters of yes- terday.' A review of his book-'Ten Year Stint' -turn to the centre pages.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday March 2

AROUND THE WORLD

cars

CARS PRODUCED

abroad accounted for just under a quarter of all car sales in Britain in February-a record share of the home market.

Figures issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders today show a total number of new registrations for month of the 120,588, with 29,477 foreign cars amongst them. The largest single slice of this 24.44 per cent share was taken by the French state firm Renault. British-Leyland-t he only British-owned firm in the 'big four' home manufacturers— achieved a sales increase over last February, but its market share dropped back 5.24 per cent to 35.42 per cent. US COLUMNIST Jack Ander- son yesterday made public International Telephone and Telegraph corporation docu- ments, some stamped 'personal and confidential, to support his claim that the giant firm tried to stop President Salva- dor Allende coming to power.

Anderson in his widely circulated The syndicated newspaper column, has been denied by ITT is with- out foundation. The Chilean Embassy in Wash- ington said the charges were of such they seriousness were El Ferrol backlash WORKERS at the 5,500-man General Electric factory in Bilbao, Spain, yesterday went on strike to protest against the suspension of ten workmates. The ten received letters on Tuesday informing them that seven of them had been sus- pended for two months and three of them indefinitely for taking part in a one-day strike last week in protest against the killing of two workers in the NW port of El Ferrol three days previously.

The entire factory was at a standstill as a result of the one-..

day stoppage.

THE UNITED STATES

International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation has produced what it claims is new evidence to show that it made no political pay-off to the Nixon Administration.

A settlement granting ITT a favourable decision in an anti- merger case has been linked alleged pay-out of to an £150,000 to this year's Repub- Party convention in San lican Diego. Now a former secretary of ITT employee Mrs Rita Beard .. 1 y March 23, 1972

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

RIGHT-WING opposition has dent Salvador Allende to su houses of Congress until next 1 The order was delivered to Ministry under-secretary José who explained that Dr Allend secret conversations he is hav main opposition party, the Chr Chile's opposition parties- with a congressional majority - have consistently voted down legislation proposed by the President's Popular Unity coalition. Allende is also faced with a demand by the Chilean supreme court that his government take immediate action to end land by peasants in the seizures southern province of Nuble.

being given careful consideration by authorities. Anderson wrote that ITT- which he labelled as virtual corporate nation unto itself, with international vast holdings, access to US government officials and an intelligence apparatus of its own. had considered starting a military coup in Chile to Allende's take-over in block 1970. According to the documents released yesterday, J. D. Neal, of office, ITT's Washington wrote that he told an aide to Dr. Henry Kissinger, national security adviser to President Nixon, that hoped the White House

ITT

would remain neutral if there were any attempts to deter Allende's election victory.

The columnist asserted that the documents in his possession show that *the huge international conglomerate was trying to keep Marxist government under Allende from seizing its Chilean investments, which included 60 per cent of the Chilean telephone company. Anderson said: 'The company's effort, and its fervent hopes for a military coup, are spelled out in a remarkable set of secret documents from ITT's Washing- ton office. 'We got the papers despite the files, wholesale shredding of which the company has admitted took place in the Washington office February 24 in an attempt "embarrassing" docu- to keep ments out of our hands.' has denied that Mrs Beard memorandum pub- wrote a lished by columnist lack Anderson implicating ITT in a government pay-off. The purported Beard memo- randum, published three weeks Anderson, ago by dis- was Beard last owned by Mrs Friday as a hoax. Mrs Susan Lichtman, who was Mrs Beard's secretary at the time the memorandum was in her dated last June. said sworn statement she did type a memorandum for Mrs Beard containing portions of the one published by Anderson. But she said: that to the eard. best of her belief and • know- ion has forced Chilean Presi- • to suspend sittings of both il next Tuesday. ered to parliament by Justice ry José Antonio Viera-Gallo, Allende had acted to facilitate • is having with leaders of the the Christian Democrats. A supreme court statement said a state of anarchy prevailed in the where province, more than 50 occupations of farm- land and buildings have been reported in the past four days.

The takeovers appear to have left-winlanned by cadres of the which

MIR,

accuses Allende's government of dawdling in its efforts to transform Chile into a fully Socialist Republic.

The MIR claims that socialism will never be achieved by demo- advocates cratic means and armed struggle against the bour- geoisie. Women supporters of the right wing confirmed that they will march through hold a protest Santiago tomorrow.

ALLENDE

A similar march last December sparked violent clashes between and right-wing militants, left to martial law and leading emergency throughout of state Santiago province. The order suspending congress came only a few hours before the deadline for presentation of a presidential order vetoing constitutional amendment, passed by congress, which would stop nationalizing government industries and business without prior congressional approval.

Blocked at every turn by the bourgeoisie from implementing a in genuine socialist programme ballot-box Chile, the country's 'Marxist' President is now faced with the stark political fruits of his policy of 'peaceful road' in Chile. memorandum she ledge the typed. contained no connec- tion between the settlement of ITT anti-trust cases and the Republican Convention. The senate has delayed con- firmation of President Nixon's choice for Attorney-General, Richard Kleindienst, the former head of the justice investi- it department, while that ITT allegations gates bought off the administration.

He deputy Attorney- was General while the anti-merger case against ITT was pending.

But simultaneous with ITT's claim to have new evidence, 'Life' magazine has accused the Nixon Administration • of THE JAILING of 34-year-old Matthew Lygate, the former chairman of the Maoist organization in Scot- land, for bank robbery was a vicious act of class justice. The Socialist Labour League does not condone.

adventures such as bank robberies, because they tend to separate and isolate leadership from the mass of the working class and thus play into the hands of the class enemy. We couldn't care a moral hoot, however, if every bank in the country were robbed tomorrow, because the essence of all banking, like capitalism, is legal robbery. But such robbery wouldn't solve a single basic question so far as the struggle of the working class against capitalism is concerned. That requires the building of revolutionary leadership a integrated in, and enjoying the support of the work- ing class. There is absolutely no evidence that Matthew Lygate or his colleagues used a penny piece of the money for themselves. However mistaken, it was politically dedicated act, and that is the reason for this reactionary demonstration of capitalist justice.

The sum of £13,700, considered in the light of in- flation, is not a large sum. Much larger sums have been thieved with those responsible, when caught, receiving four or five years in jail.

We repeat, those Maoists so harshly sentenced, regardless of our political differences with them, are The labour movement should class-war prisoners. condemn the sentence and actively assist in the arrangement of appropriate appeals.

PRESIDENT Nixon has authorized the United States govern- ment to insure private American business investment in White House announced Yugoslavia and Rumania, the yesterday. capitalists investing in Yugoslav

OPIC.

the Overseas Private Corporation, Foreign Investment is for enterprises. employers hold share- the first time empowered to ex- can now majority E holdings in Yugoslay business and tend investment insurance to their profits are freely convertible European under this countries into the currency of their choice.

measure. Corporation offers Rumanian vice-president Manea The pro- Manescu is currently in Washing- tection to private investors against the risks of expropriation, ton for talks with Nixon on im- inconvertibility of local currency proved economic and trade holdings and war damages. relations between the two Nixon's he move must mean countries, has received that the Manescu heads a Rumanian Yugoslav and Rumanian Stalinists by delegation invited Herbert will Stein, chairman of the President's protect the interests of council of economic advisers. American investors and prevent them being damaged or expropri- They will be business- meeting New York, Chicago, ated. men in Minneapolis, San Francisco and government recently Tito's Los relaxed its restrictions on foreign Angeles.

URUGUAYAN

The prèsent labour workers' leaders unrest is organized a major show of force an. immediate consequence of a congressional decision earlier this attempt to nudge newly- in President Maria month of the installed Juan to repeal many authorizing a country's tough emergency laws, Bordaberry into massive all round pay increase.

which included a ban on politic- ally-motivated strikes. The National Workers' Con- But congress is currently con- federation (CNT) called a nine- sidering government proposals hour General Strike in support for of replacement package of a demand for a 40-per-cent security measures. rise. To government's back the The due cabinet is to meet case, Interior Minister Aleiandro today finalize details of an Rovira told congress that six which is unlikely to exceed subversive offer known of groups 20 per cent. which the Tupamaros the are Union made best known and by far the best leaders have it clear anything less than 40 organized—are active at present.

per The Tupamaros will unacceptable have so far cent be and killed at least 20 policemen, the indicate they are ready to step Minister said. militancy with sub- up their sequent and longer strikes if they Almost he spoke, a band as presumed to be Tupamaros-six consider it necessary. men and a girl-raided a bank in the capital and got away with cash totalling £42,300. Muskie having 'seriously tampered with bounces back justice' in San Diego. The claims steps magazine taken to protect highly- were

SENATOR

Edmund Muskie placed campaign distributors and friends of President Nixon bounced back into the forefront prosecutions of the Democratic presidential from criminal nomination race vesterdav. cap- over the last two years. turing 63 per cent of the vote in violation of the Practices the Illinois preferential primary.

Corrupt a Ant for It popularity contest contribute to was carnagaron without significance in of any candidate the the campaign federal office. tion of delegates at the demo- for Three cited by "Life' cratic nominating convention at cases Beach Tuly 10. but all involve alleged contribu- Miami on was essential for Muskie if he is of this the tions type contender magazine savs that administra- to remain a major following his shattering defeat tion officials acted each time to bu right. winger George or delay extreme kill, investigations Wallace in Florida last week.

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Engineers claim begins to boil

SPECIAL REPORT FROM STEPHEN JOH

THE NEXT big test of the pay policy will start in great day, when 1,000 employers battle with 200,000 worke industry. The issues involved are e can only win by driving a tan policy. With the demand fo claim for £4, plus special co is estimated at 20 to 25 per cent. Some employers are already circulating rumours about more redundancies and even closures. The talk is not all bluff. Some of the smaller engineering shops work very close to the margin of profita- bility and the whole area is working on short time because of the slump in orders. But this threatening atmos- phere (suitably darkened by the local Tory press) not has. dampened the spirit of the workers as the militant Stockport curtain-raiser the general to offensive has shown. The Stockport experience has been important. It has revealed a great deal about the employers, the workers who are fighting the battle and has tested the tactics of the by the unions-led Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. Trouble in Stockport began last Wednesday when workers at Bredbury steelworks — part of the Guest, Keen and Nettlefold (GKN) empire-occupied their plant after the management attempted to lock them out.

The 1,000 steelworkers had brought forward Monday's district-wide work-to-rule and overtime ban when management began moving stock in prepara- tion for the big dispute.

This rapid and militant action by the Bredbury men was backed stewards' at the AUEW shop quarterly the same night and all of Stockport was supposed to back the steel workers last Monday. As it was, only 5,000 out of 15,000 workers in the town stood by the original stewards' pledge to start their ban on piecework a week early. This is largely due to the way the local

AUBW

leadership handled the issue. Officials admit that the decision of the shop stewards' quarterly embarrassed them. They did not mind fac- tories taking early notice on an individual basis to back Bred- bury, but officials were not pre- pared to go out and organize it.

Hence, when Stockport shop stewards asked whether they to start the action on were March 20 or wait for greater Manchester on March 27, they got this kind of reply: 'Your firm has up until March 27 to come forward with a deal on all parts the claim-after that the work-to-rule must begin.'

The occupation-and the way it has been backed by workers in big plants like Mirrlees engineer- ing-has opened up a breach in the employers' front. Employers who can least afford a pro-

PHEN JOHNS

of the government's battered n greater Manchester on Mon- loyers will lock themselves in workers in the engineering 1 are enormous. The workers g a tank through the Tory pay and for a 35-hour week, the for women, ecia consideration longed dispute, like the Maccles- field-based Scrag& incurred the and Son, have settled and the employers' displeasure of federation. On the debit side are the fears at Bredbury that they will be isolated. Men are asking why district there was по strong move to get other plants to come out as promised. at the This question strikes heart of union tactics. The rot set in on the great engineering pay claim when it was abandoned at national level by the AUEW national committee on advice from the executive. This was AUEW Divisional Organizer, Man- chester, John Tocher: Critical ol national decision. backed by the national Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions who then passed on the fight to plant level.

The AUEW in the Manchester area, which is dominated by the critical Communist Party, was of this step.

AUEW

divisional organizer and leading CP member John Tocher put it this way: If there had been a develop- ment of struggle on a national basis, I think we would have made big inroads, especially with the situation current in the We were mines at that time. very critical at divisional com- mittee. I am not suggesting-like some are-that there has been a sell-out, but that men, like Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 62}р

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19° Men outside the Davis and Metcalf plant brothers Scanion, Bob Wright, Birch and others, have miscalcu- lated. It the economy had been booming it would have been a marvellous tactic, but as it is we should stand together.' The Manchester Con- area federation therefore stepped over the line and recommended what appears to be district-wide action. But how this is working out in practice we can see from the Stockport example. There is, in fact, a grave danger that the claim could further disintegrate. Some firms will settle, workers in others will accept less than the claim, others will face lock-outs and occupa- tions will occur. But Tocher defends the decision. For the strike to be official, he argues, a ballot of all members would have to have been held under AUEW rule 13.

The alternativean unofficial strike-might have got the unified support of all the members.

But then the rule book cannot prove a complete framework for the kind of fundamentally politi- struggle Manchester working class is now facing.

An important section of the employers preparing for are war. The firms with most money and profit to lose (GKN made a staggering £43m pre-tax profit in 1970 and £22m in the first half of last year) are urging their weaker brethren into the fight.

These employers are ready for with the unions. a show-down The words of GKN boss Sir Raymond Brookes (who gets £47,000 a year for his efforts) the mood captures of some boardrooms. In his annual re- port for 1970 he said of the GKN performance: 'All in all not bad, particularly when related to the back cloth of industrial irresponsibility and economic palsy against which management has had to perform.

'For the United Kingdom as a whole, it is prudent to assume modest industrial growth, con- tinuing diminishing inflation, in the short term a high level of international inspired industrial unrest. This kind of naked challenge cannot be met by creeping round procedure and hoping that the right wing in the unions do not act against you. Neither does class struggle conform to rule or the best-laid hase, demonstratedbury workess demonstrated. The most serious criticism of the local leadership so far is that it did not build on this intiative at the steel works and encourage fighting unity among workers in the engineering industry. Instead the occupation has been used primarily as a lever to get a concession out of other em- ployers. The Manchester Confederation has already come under attack from the extreme right in the unions at national level, but this is surely to be expected and must be faced with a counter chal- lenge-no better method of attack than to point to the fight- ing unity of workers under your charge. The alternative to an open fight could well be a series of unsatisfactory deals - and . in Dada e dull Ele

ICERS TO BALMAYS AND WOOSTEY

Melcalf plant in Stockport, which has already begun the work-to-rule.

some factories-no deal at all. This chaos would be to com- pound the national retreat level OCa. What dunda redundancies and closures. have been the first the claim move will then have been turned into its opposite.

Scragg's deal has created considerable particu- uphori larly in UEW offici the But

DEARS

one enelover Others with bigger reserves are determined nothing. to give The vile

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all. Tories will be lobbying among the Manchester boardrooms. They do not want another de- feat on pay. One small incident summed up the keen interest of government in the Manchester battle.

It occurred during my half hour interview with John Tocher at his Salford headquarters.

The phone rang. A brief con- versation. 'The conciliation officer from the Department of Employment.

They're fishing around you know, said Mr Tocher.

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BUILDING

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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.

REES DAVIES

it will. People will be suffering ment. They're taking away our A 21-year-old National Union of and there will be starvauon and

HOOTS

Keev men we stael across this ards of living up because their Rallwaymen member, swansea.

Culley of especially the profits They don't ot people, are alling heard their long vouth. have ther

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Care parents grandparents about the money coming in. and the old times and they are not the Common Market was they'd let It's the best Charter l've prepared to go back to them. for the working class, The the working class vote on it class. get seen. working w. centev There's no ifs and buts. tougher on the working class The Labour Party are ganging The Socialist Labour they allowed the class well League is are get away up working as the this with the Only Pally County especlairy nOW. as mme ones. LOOK nOW many ol that is giving the leadership.

It's dustrial Relations Act them • voted for the Common the only for the working chase force with all this Market look how and unem- and heartedly working class. ployment. have just sat back Labour MPs The taking away Tories get on with OnIV read are ana let The Workers Press to see that.

the rights the working class have their policies. There's way fought for, higher They Take no out except right to a the are through the building of The standard of living, have new miners. otherwise we'll end decent housing. ended the strike and defeated up in a war. People Rich the Tories, they wouldn't men exploiting worker. That's the mobilize the working class.

could never happen. say Il Rees Davles on the Young Socialist Right-to-Work march from Swansea This letter was written by a group of people who attended the Empire Pool, Wembley rally on March 12 after seeing the it in the 'Daily attacks on Express'. In a statement on their letter they say: 'We say that we are not so interested in seeing our letter printed in the "Express"-which we doubt very much - but in exposing before the whole work- ing class how the "free" press deals with a force of which it is mortally afraid. 'We take pride that the "Daily Express" has to stoop to lies to discredit this rally where over 8,500 people gathered in completely disciplined and well- organized manner preparing the ground to deal with all traitors in the labour movement and put paid to this Tory government for once and for all. 'We know that Workers Press - our paper — will publish this letter and show with what dis- gust we treat the Fleet St press.'

Dear Sir, As four of the 'Hard-up Young Socialists' you spoke of in the Right-to- your article on Work rally' at the Empire Pool, we felt duty-bound to answer your cleverly-written but poorly disguised attempt to discredit our rally. Apart from the fact that you felt it necessary to distort the numbers attending, you deliber- 23 77

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JIM BEVAN

A 28-year-oid AUEW member of British Steel Corporation's; Margam Abbey Works, Port Talbot. The building of the revolutionary party is essential for the work- ing class to go forward and main- tain and regain its basic rights which the Tories are taking away.

Unless we go forward on the basis of Marxist theory, society will go back into barbarism.

As the Draft Manifesto says, by : their very inactivity the leaders of the TUC and the Labour Party are traitors to their own class— to the people they are supposed to represent.

They should do the same thing as Ray Gunter and resign.

Then they should go over to the Tories. The Charter is all the basic rights of the working class. With- out them a worker can't live. It would mean destitution and starvation. If you take the right to a job Par ately refused to mention any of personalities from 'show business' who felt it necessary to take part in the tremendous con- cert and to make it a really fit- ting welcome to the 200 or so youth who marched 1,300 miles altogether to spread the cam- paign for the defence of our Right-to-Work throughout the length and breadth of Britain.

We fought to attend the rally not to hear sad speeches about unemployment, but to pre- pare the basis for destroying it.

We, like the vast majority of people throughout Britain today, realize that nothing can be gained from the arrogant and totally undemocratic Tory gov- ernment. The only way that even the most basic right of the working class-the Right to Work-can be won is by ornizing through- out the labour movement in Eng- land and Ireland to unite all workers in a life-or-death struggle force to the government to resign and to replace it with a Labour government pledged to socialism. The rally was organized as culmination of the five marches from all over England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. marches were virtually These blacked out by all the news- papers, apart from your usual snide attacks. The youth left, like we did, on this determined to carry campaign, the only alternative to 'Hungry the of return Thirties'. Print this if you dare. Yours sincerely, Anne McCluskey, Selina McAlamney, Jim Doherty, Gerry McLaughlin, Belfast.

nined to carry on this campalgn' away from a worker what's he got? He needs food, light and heat, but he's got no means of sustaining himself. • And if he hasn't got the basic right to withdraw his labour by striking-which is all workers have-then there's no way out at all of forcing concessions from the employers. Certainly the Tories are carry- ing out illegal policies. The only they got in was because reason of their pledge to cut unemploy- ment and drastically reduce prices at a stroke. But they've done none of this. They've put us on the dole, attacked welfare services and organiza- attacked trade union tions with a view to smashing them completely. The unions that go on the register will become part of the state, taking orders corporate from the bosses. miners' strike brought The out all the details of the Draft nd Manifesto, especially_ about the rotten leaders in the Labour ob Party and the trade unions.

The future of 100,000 inhabi- tants of the United States Pacific trust terrițory known as Micronesia may finally be settled in talks beginning on the tiny island of Koror next month. The territory's far-flung islands -the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas — have been admini- stered by the US Department of the Interior since 1947. They are one of only two of the Il trust territories created by the United Nations at that time which are still in trusteeship. US and Micronesia representa- tives down the will sit at negotiating table on April 2 to try and work out a settlement.

At the last round of talks on the territory's future status, held in Hawaii in October, the Ameri- that they cans made it clear wished to maintain control over the islands for long-term strategy reasons. They • need them for missile testing, for the construction of a new air force base and for mili- tary storage and training facili- ties. Representatives of the Maria- nas, speaking for 10 per cent the population, want the territory to become a bona fide US possession. But many of the islanders would prefer independ- ence to virtual annexation by the US. Foreign military presence has been a basic fact of life for the Micronesians since the mid- 1930s when the Japanese began to fortify their then Pacific League of Nations mandate in anticipation of war. Since World War II American military in- terests have been a dominant influence. The islands, with names like It is not only the US govern- ment that finances and trains puppet armies all over the world; American corporations also want to share in the action. A Miami-based company that is reported to have a link with Haiti's and interior defence is employing former minister, US marines to train the Haitian militia. In the last 18 months, under State licences granted by the Department's office of Munitions Control, Aerotrade has exported to Haiti about $200,000 worth of arms, including armoured person- nel carriers. All were said to have been from private US purchased dealers. The whole operation came to discreet inquiries light when were made. State Department officials, who had obviously known and indeed supported the scheme, had to let a few details out of the bag. Truk, Saipan and Kwajalein, made headlines bloody as a battleground from which the Americans dislodged the Japanese during the Pacific war. From another of the islands— Tinian in the Marianas — the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' took off to devastate Hiroshima in August 1945. It is on Tinian that the US now wishes to build a major new air force base. Nuclear tests on Bikini and Eniwetok kept the islands in the news periodically throughout the 1950s. The UN trusteeship agreement under which the territory is ad- ministered by the US promises to 'promote the development of the inhabitants ... toward self- government or independence'.

While acknowledging the islands' rights to self-determina- tion, however, the US established yeto powers over that right by having the area designated 'strategic trust'. Unlike the other ten UN trust territories, Micronesia was placed under the jurisdiction of the UN Security Council where the US has permanent veto power.

the During first generation under trusteeship few Micro- nesians questioned that US mili- tary interests were inconsistent with its trust obligation.

In 1967, however, two years after the creation of a territory- elected legislative body, the con- gress of Micronesia. The congress President, petitioned, then Lyndon Johnson . to appoint commission to the investigate islands' future political status.

The petition was not acted upon, so the congress appointed its own commission and drafted a demand for a unilaterally terminable political status in free association with the US. The US countered with a pro- They have asked the Bureau of Customs to look into the train- ing operations of Aerotrade. But the only quibble sems to be the fact that the firm failed to get a licence for its military training activities. And this may have prohibiting violated the law unauthorized technical military assistance to foreign govern- ments. according to the officials, is Haiti, an unscheduled airline, to the Haitian Minister of National Defence and Interior, Luckner Cambronne. He is widely considered to be Haiti's most powerful leader and key adviser to the new dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. Col Cambronne is the majority stockholder in Air Haiti, which Miami and Port- flies between the Haitian capital. au-Prince, The airline's station chief in Miami is said to be James o. who also happens to be Byers, Aerotrade's vice-president.

But perhaps the main reason posal that the islands enter into commonwealth agreement whereby the US would retain control over Micronesia's internal affairs, including land, law and future status. The representatives of the Mariana Islands accepted the proposal, but it was rejected by the majority of Micronesian rep- resentatives as a 'camouflaged offer of outright territorial status. Some Micronesian leaders were similarly suspicious of the motives behind a £118m grant in US funds designed to be spent over next five years in the trust territory. Early last year some of Micro- nesia's unity went up in smoke when the meeting chambers of the congress were burned to the ground by arsonists. At the same time, threats of secession from the territory by force of arms if necessary were made by the Marianas district legislature in protest against a territory-wide income tax and the rejection congress's of the American commonwealth offer.

In May last year, the Marianas delegation boycotted a special session of the congress at which a coalition favouring indepen- dence from the US, composed of one-third of the membership, was formed. Hawaii talks last October, the Americans dropped their demand for full internal control of land and laws.

On the agreement over future status, however, the US still in- sisted mutual termination on rights while the Micronesians demanded that the agreement be terminable by either party at any time. The key to settling the future status of the territory in the next round of talks appears to lie in this issue. 1 Old and new dictators: Papa Doc, and son Jean-Claude.

why the State Department moved against the company is that the US government itself is once more actively engaged in training and financing the Haitian dicta- torship. For the officials also revealed that President Nixon moved late in 1970, without announcement, to lift the ban imposed by the late President Kennedy in 1962 on the sale of arms and equip- ment to Haiti. Last month, six 65-foot patrol vessels, valued at $1.2m were sold to Haiti.

Workers Press, Th Senator Fulbright has succeeded in Committee that was to have decided The Munich-based propa- ganda stations Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty have now run out of money.

The staff of both say they were 'working for nothing', • are confident though they that the Nixon Administra- tion will eventually come through with some sort of pay settlement. Thé stations are funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency to 'the tune of f15m a year. Although the source of this money was publicly revealed in the Washington last year, Director of RFE, Ralph Walter, replies 'no comment' when asked about it. Then he adds: "The source, of no influence has our money all on our broadcasts.' 'station Like its sister Radio Liberty, RFE is in business to stir up counter-revolution in the E European countries. It broad- casts an average of 16 hours a Czechoslovakia, day to Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

Political commentaries About 30 per cent of its pro- are political grammes commen- taries, praising the capitalist way of life and pouring scorn on the parties in the leaders and the countries to which they broad- cast. The rest are pop music, cultural reviews, sport and news.

RFE's propaganda nowadays is used to be. more subtle than it In 1956 its Hungarian depart- ment broadcast details of how to make Molotov cocktails, and told the insurgents in Budapest to keep fighting to throw off shackles' communist because the US and its allies would intervene to help them.

But the W stayed on the side- lines, and RFE lost face badly.

Having learnt this lesson, the station's broadcasts don't make promises any more. But although propaganda continues, the E European countries don't bother these days trying to jam its short and medium wave trans- missions. Radio Liberty, a mile _away Munich's Isar River, across throws out a much harder line.

the Soviet It broadcasts to Union in 19 dialects, and is on 24 hours a day. No the air expense is spared. It has 17 shortwave transmitters in the W German Rhineland, the Spanish Costa Brava and on Taiwan. The Spanish transmitters are the most powerful in the world, mustering 2,000 kilowatts.

there's nothing And subtle about its broadcasts. A Radio 3 Pross, Thursday March 23, 1972 PAGE 5 eded in deadlocking the Congressional e decided the future of radlo statlons.

Liberty spokesman said last 'We week: broadcast a lot about the riots in December, 1970, in the Polish Baltic ports.

'We wanted to plant seeds in the minds of our listeners. If the Polish workers could rio soviet couldn't those in the Union. 'We all live in hope of revolu- tion here? Overthrown regimes The bulk of the 1,200 people employed by RFE and the 800 by Radio Liberty are mon- formerly archists, landlords, reactionary politicians and other remnants of regimes overthrown working in the the class, Soviet Union and E Eurdpe.

For the last 21 years they have thrived on inflated salaries and conditions provided by CIA budgets. All non-German staff (Ger- employed only mans are for routine administrative tasks) live rent-free in flats provided by the two stations. Some of these flats have three and four bedrooms and would be worth £30 and £40 a week on the open market in Munich. Additionally the staff are paid in US dollars. The dollars are exchanged for W German marks by

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and Radio Liberty cashiers at an artificial rate of tour. to one, compared to the market rate of 2.2 marks to one dollar. • With such a profitable rate of exchange on salaries that are high anyway (£3,000 to 25,000 a year,, plus tree flats and low tax (they don't have to pay W German social security, the Munich émigré can afford to live in high style. The two car parks beside the RFE building are full of Mer- cedes, Opels, BMWs and other expensive makes. Only the Ger- man staff drive Volkswagens.

Now the dream life is ending.

To stave off penury, Radio Lib-' erty has already sacked people, and its associated Insti- tute of Russian studies has had its contract with the station ter- minated. In Washington, Senator Wil- liam Fulbright has succeeded in a joint Congres- deadlocking sional Committee that was to have decided the financial future of both stations. RFE's budget is believed to have run out on March 11, and Radio Liberty's Executive Direc- ish tor, Walter K. Scott, expected 'financial embarrassment' atter March 15. The Munich servants of the CIA are finding that the spoons which fed them were not quite long enough.

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of £10,000 a year and finished absolute) living standards.

And Towards the end of his period 220,000 a year. of miners- woo were continual once raynter espoused would corporative warned greed more-or-iess open dest first indu trust ped the industry--slipped concept. Robens recalls a speech from made by Paynter at a Lancashire minace palse of re he gala defended can the course of this offensive 6d-a-week the 'socialist' Robens developed wage offer 'because the industry could not afford any runy neared corporale-slalt more philosopny best expressed in one ine reasons or unis coradora- and are early uncovered passage from his chapter on the even Robens exposes them: dialogue with the unions. He here are some ommunist. says: set are far-sighted enough and •..the really important thing that their rewards right. benefit only if the 1 10 have long believed ... that the them employs Arthur and prosperous. wage tor applications Will rayniel wert Management The unions

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exampies or lois. nev were Dou epi- should particular Lord trade unionists urst and com- sode in autobiography by munists second. Paynter remained Robens. Cassell, London. $3.55. nominal member of the Com Review by Stephen Johns. until retired Lord Alfred Robens, boss of years in the following vear. aelne wildi for mining industry level the production of Paynter, course munist no achieved decade, was never popular apply work-study and then could be raised exceotion allulls among miners. year's warehis who obtain eduels vould be i Miners saw Robens as a man rank in tne trade union move- Del ceil. method. ment. class lines and civilized who had crossed the sensiole Stalinist school of 'peaceful went into to une orner came ana wned ne nrovice boun sluts it with complete honesty.

announcer aw monas no was ioneer though the of He 200S That conditions. socialist, it was confirmation Board achieved many amollons what they had been saying for Of course the honeymoon did not achieve this one.

ine mines is wen ane muly over scheme later elabor- ycals. heard the rumblings even They watched him ascend the and Kobens admits discon- epd id for mace union ourcaullaly. swilli snarls of the blue-print to polties no men to zover- mob' as he prefers to LouIse, and Toe where trade union Corporatist call militants) _ ot the lose and ince penaence The upsurge of militancy. Board and pre- become a state cog in some vast which dates from the 1969 sur sids and ma eis nic cut-back in nation as plans facemen s nours strike. Is als- pits and miners hoW far the hinto thinnis n 1S JuSt The hallmark of his character missed ny the as lne Ping rich te al machinations militants, or the period Communist tarousnoul Was strive continually to exploit he gross Paynter, hauentiness of the never attempted to disguise.

went along with Robens. appy toiling miners Sample this throw yan Pass tribute Robens, in fact. Days interesting from his book tribute He Top: Parnter the ouna novens out now dlie!

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It was, the general on to say that strikes. break-up that I left and the was Paynter's position. when successful incipient sharp corporalsin con inued. Had lit the council workers that fire ex-Stalinist, who ett the Parlia stayed thouth it took them two years- union and the Communist Party Novels codilitias. there ittle Party Industrial Relations mentary the Wilson to loin Harold always argued from chance that were transtormed from the lal- commission, ever enders to the vanguard of the Would nave been industry. the sens standpoint of the Minister.' labo their And there, his Knew well llidi. Robens' bland comment is: 'It of class wouldy pothetical, He regards and his pre- George Punter but decessor. the they will struggle, remain Stalinist Arthur Horner, proved right i been This is Robens' fatal weakness.

outstanding figures an British industry since the war.

I had politics. party Despite his Dowel. had the support would nave tellect and experience. can- who pushed MPs, of the Paynter understand the most his erective stucs a risked "sensible centre" • as Rav Günter class. His cameos of pit life are mistake Minine abolished used and has ni chapter nemiaos execulive. and introduced Gaitskell's Hampstead called some niece rates day-wage border structure. ГОГ Hally Folk'). They occasionally at But Robens' personat thing the tace in meant on ine hypocritical mels wage-cut. Robens praises his ally the boor of great did you know, prone Lo luna for do not bolierry has gher disease. revered In nIs

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Nevertheless he got shere he importance to trade umonises 1s country development his union in the fact alone philosophy during his period of dication of the level of reformism But the NUM. did da its members particularly echelons 1960 steeped in Will Paynter, began Enis Labour Party His not to persuade some right-wing democracy. truth is that his awru. members give up close pits- premiership Jo• was oute silloit, boast about even that of thousands not entirely unfounded. Tarowing unoreds IllayUC unprofitable colleagues could have succeeded Gaitskell, ot miners out or use maustry increase. drive down Jenkins could succeed relative wage rates coatelos coulu lave all as Wilson. But this is what they did.

and increase productivity: what they really be ko trade bionist. very He was very successful. In the course did is miner. Will kappan first eight years number instrucure Lidue miner of even the most Learn 292 and appalling shrunk miners. puts abandonment recognize where social-democratic was labour InC union duties caused to meet it pan teal, And prepare basic trade the miners' meet it politically: rapid decline in man-sit most doubea. when it takes the reins of power.

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Final part of a five-part series by John Spencer on the rise of the right wing in America.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday March Final part of a five-part series George Wallace began his political career as a member of the Alabama assembly with a reputation as 'downright pink'. He owed it to his support for liberal economic and social wel- fare policies in this exceptional backward US state. He first ran governor in 1958, and for state by Ku Klux was roundly beaten Klan candidate John Patterson. Wallace did It was a lesson not forget. : They out-niggered me that time, but they'll never do it again, he told his closest supporters after the election was over. At the next election for 'I'm governor, he promised: going to make race the basis of politics in this state. I'm gonna make it, the basis of politics in this country! He won. At the inauguration "Segre- ceremony, he promised: gation today, segregation tomor- row, segregation for ever.' One of his first actions was to send industrial to state troopers Birmingham to put down civil Wallace (top) sent troops to put down civil rights marchers led Martin Luther King (above).

day March 23, 1972 t series by John Spencer on the rise rights marches led by Martin Luther King. He rocketed to international notoriety the next year, when he stood on the schoolhouse steps in Tuskegee to stop two black schoolchildren from entering. The schoolchildren went in any- way, because they had the back- ing of the US Supreme Court. But Wallace's gesture was calcu- lated to win him support among the white supremacists. To keep his rural supporters Wallace implemented happy. number of welfare programmes which sounded good, but which did little or nothing in practice to alleviate the chronic poverty of most of the Alabama popula- tion. Meanwhile, he was winning influential and sinister more backers. When he decided to stand for President in the 1968 election. he was to assemble at his first campaign meeting choice of extreme right- group ists. They included Ned Touch- stone, editor of the virulently anti-Semitic 'Coun- magazine cilor', • Judge John Rarick of Louisiana, another avowed anti- Semite, and Richard Cotton, a right-wing radio commentator and opponent of the 'Zionist- conspiracy. Jewish' Others who backed Wallace included 'Ace' Carter, a Mont- gomery racialist who had distri- buted copies of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', • Vance Beaudreau, an American Nazi activist who body- was once guard to Lincoln Rockwell the Nazi leader. These men were not a whit perturbed by the elements of Wallace's election programme, promising such radical measures as the improvement of Medicare: guarantees to protect trade union rights against government inter- ference: and improved pensions services. They recognized. these,, po the rise of the right wing in Americ promises for what they were, measures designed to trap back- ward workers into voting for Wallace's American Independ- Wallace frequently ence Party. attacked big business and the banks in his speeches. This was also aimed at attracting support from poor whites. Despite this populist 'icing', Independence the Party won wholehearted support from the John Birch Society, the KKK and virtually racialist other every organization in the US. He said of the Birchites: 'I am glad to have their support. I have no quarrel with the Birch Society.'

Indeed, the AIP chairman in Texas, Bard Logan, dismissed several of Wallace's campaign staft in the state when they pro- tested against the Birchites' in- volvement in the campaign.

of Wallace's One biggest national campaigning points is law and order. He believes in a police state directed against 'the earth' scum •of the and the 'trash' who demonstrate round the country. The police should be allowed to 'run the country for a vear or two and then there wouldn't be riots'. If a demonstrator should lie down in front of a Wallace motorcade, he said during the 1968 campaign, "That will be the last car he ever lies down in front of.' Students who sup- ported the Vietcong would be 'dragged in by their long hair, if he were President. As governor of Alabama, Wallace decreed that all car licence plates should carry the Birchite 'Support your Slogan local police'. His campaign meetings always concluded with a round of applause for the men in blue. Naturally, Wallace won over- whelming the support among Times' re- police. A 'New York 1968 wrote in that șe,, porter America. 'Reporters who have interviewed scores of policemen [at Wallace meetings] have failed so far to find one who was not a com- mitted Wallace supporter.'

Wallace also won considerable backing among right-wing trade union bureaucrats for his law- and-order policies. Albert E. Hutchinson of the International Union of Asbestos Workers openly endorsed his candidature, while a poll among delegates to conference of the Inter- national Machinists and Aero- space Workers, revealed 26 per cent favoured Wallace. The president of this associa- tion, P. L. _Siemiller, told the conference: 'Union members who have worked so hard to build this country are pretty sick of rioters, looters, peacenicks, beat- niks and all the rest of the nuts who are trying to destroy it.'

Wallace's ability to attract backward sections of workers relies heavily on the crisis of leadership the American 1n workers' movement. The trade leaders' union ties with the Democratic Party of big business betray the white workers into the hands of demagogues like Wallace. Some workers even saw in the American Independence Party the germs of a new Labour Party in the US, according to a report in the left-wing periodi- 'Guardian'. This dangerous cal development be directly can attributed to the bureaucracy's with criminal collaboration capitalism through the Demo- cratic Party. At the polls, Wallace won 13.5 per cent of the vote-almost 10 five million votes.. He carried - Alabama, Mississipi, states Georgia, Louisiana and Arkan- in the deep sas-all of them South. His vote undoubtedly re- flected the support of sections of workers, including trade unionists. Since 1968 Wallace has been busy preparing for his next shot at the presidency this year. organizations Among the new which have mushroomed under his banner is the National Youth Alliance, composed of young people from his 1968 campaign staff. This movement trains its members in the 'martial arts' and a typical sample of its propa- ganda reads: 'Now is the time for the Right Front terror to descend the wretched liberals. In on short the terror of the Left will be met by the greater terror of the Right . . . Soon the NYA will become a household word and the Left will be forced to cower in the sewers under- ground as they hear the march- ing steps of the NYA above them.' Wallace's appeal to racialism in the present election centres around the issue of 'bussing'- desegregation of schools by transporting children from one to another. Following Wal- area lace's vietory in the Florida primary, where he was nominated on the Democratic ticket, Presi- dent Nixon has issued an order stopping bussing pending an Act of Congress. This move is a major conces- sion to Wallace and can only strengthen his present campaign.

Clearly the threat which he poses to the working class cannot be fought by relying on either of the main bourgeois parties, or on the conservative and reac- tionary leaders who dominate the trade union movement. The cam- paign for a genuine Labour Party, based on revolutionary principles, in the United States, is the only way the rightist menace can be fought.

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Much of the information for this series of articles was taken from 'The Politics of Unreason' by S. M. Lipset and Earl Raab, published by Heinemann, $3.80.

Timothy Bottoms (left) and Jeff Bridg 'The Last Picture Show' (Curzon Cinema) has' been acclaimed in America as the best picture since 'Citizen Kane'. English critics have agreed that while it may not be quite as good as that, it's still pretty great. director, Peter Bogdano- Its wonder (he's vich, the new boy giving a lot of has been 31), interviews lately. When asked on TV by an unctuous interrogator: I believe you're one of the few American film critics to become a director?' he I'm the only one, replied firmly: Another interview, published in 'Time Out' (March 10, 1972) is explanation: prefaced by this 'Bogdanovich was one of the first auteur film critics in America, following the lead of Truffaut and Godard in France, in that he viewed film history in terms of personal expression by film direc- tors. He broke away from the prevailing sociological film critt- "content' cism- -concerned with and 'relevance to social issues'- of the study and in favour analysis of the careers of film directors as a meaningful and coherent whole, representing the expression of the director's vision through his visual style, attitudes, themes and preoccupations.'

"auteur of the theory, influence The in resulted some beautiful and unusual films being made over the past ten years or so, but it has also helped to bring the cinema to an artistic impasse. It's all very well to jettison content' and 'relevance to social issues'-but the inconvenient fact remains that a film has got to be about something. the auteurs made films So about films. The trend started in Godard's "Breathless' 1959 with and its nostalgic references to Humphrey Bogart. Since then it has spread outside France and the auteur movement itself to a point where it is almost impos- sible to understand a new movie without a thorough groundwork in cinema history. examples include Current 'Gumshoe' (Bogart again) and 'The Boy Friend' (Bushby Ber- keley) as well as 'The Last Pic- ture Show'. Self-consciousness, however brilliant, is fatal both to art and to entertainment. It inevitably Jeff Bridges In 'The Last Picture Show'. direc

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intellectual emptiness leads to and emotional superficiality-in a word, to sentimentality. The auteurs are revoltingly sentimen- tal about the magic of movies. Godard: 'I can despise John Wayne when he supports Barry Republican Goldwater the at Convention, but I love him when hs takes Natalie Wood in his arms at the end of "The Search- ers"! Bogdanovich (also on Wayne): 'I mean, if you don't know him and you read about his politics you get offended, but he's abso- lutely disarming as a person, he's a kid. And he really enjoys like making movies-you see him on the set and he twirls that gun— he's a great movie personality and there's very few of those.'

that Wayne's The truth romantic right-wing politics are inseparable from his performances in the Ford and Hawkes west- sentimentally cele- erns, which brate an authoritarian and mind- less brutality and give a spurious glamour to one of the bloodiest episodes in America's past.

Show' is 'The Last Picture sentimental too, full of deep but inarticulate male friendships. The setting is a dusty, windy, decay- ing town in Texas, and the time is 1951. The dominant mood is nostalgia-and it's forced to a pitch that excludes any other, so ow'. directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

that the total effect is one or insistent monotony. Bogdanovich has self-consci- in grainy shot the film ously black and white, to resemble an old movie that might be playing at the Anarene Royal-the crum- bling cinema which is presented as a metaphor for the town itself and shows a lot of auteur movies starring John Wayne. (The boy wonder may be too young to rémember that there was plenty of technicolor around in 1951.)

Nearly every scene is accom- panied by a hit of the tune period played over a radio. This is certainly evocative ('Whatever happened to Kay Starr?') but it is in evocative a void: what is being evoked? A exactly lament, it seems, for America's 'lost innocence': the film ends with the movie-house closing down and one of the characters leaving for the Korean War.

The soul of Anarene—of small- town America-has died, killed off by TV. After Korea (I think we are supposed to think) came Vietnam. All the sade, teenage sex-the nude bathing parties, the backseat petting, the frigid girls and frustrated boys-was doomed to make way for the the hippie, the Easy drop-out, Rider and the Midnight Cowboy.

But why be so gloomy about it?

cinema really more Was the innocent than TV? What was so hot about Ike? There's no humour in this film, and a and tearful emotion-but should the people in this film be shown nostalgic? After all, as already the action is supposed to take place 21 years ago, when Bog- danovich was ten and couldn't yet know how nostalgic we were going to feel about it all in 1972.

The trouble is that all this nostalgia and evocation and directed towards movies dance tunes instead of towards human experience. The film itself may well be, as claimed, a loving recreation of the styles of Bogdanovich's Pantheon direc- tors, John Ford and Howard Hawks, but the story and the characters belong to the eternal fantasy-world of soap opera.

Show' 'The Last Picture reminded me of other films, but not the ones intended: it's a return, slightly more sophisti- cated, to 'Return to Peyton . Place. Workers Press, T Mounting unemployment, poverty and deterioration in diets, is having a cruel effect on the young people in the Republic of Ireland. The Cork Council of Trade Unions has just learned that schoolboys are turning up for classes on Monday with hang- overs. The council was told that children of 14 were freely get- ting drink at local pubs. One member of the council, Mr D.

Nolan, said that when he com- plained about under-age drink- ing in a certain bar, he was told children were the best customers. John Stonehouse, MP, former Minister in the Wilson admin- istration, has joined a Lonrho executive in forming a. trade promotion company. The company, Global Imex, was launched at—where else?

— a dinner at the House of Commons last week. Full-time director of Imex is Andrew Scott, who has just resigned as managing director of Lonrho Exports, the interna- tional trade subsidiary of the troubled Lonrho group. Stonehouse is said to be able to bring certain expertise to the company, because of his close connections with Africa.

He was also Wilson's Minister of Posts and Minister of Avia- tion which gives him some knowledge of the technological industries. Apart from this, Stonehouse is already chairman of an out- fit called Export Promotion Consultancy and Services which he set up in 1970, imme- diately after Labour's defeat.

Stonehouse's agent for Global Imex in Lima, Peru, is Prince Emanuel Galitzine, a member the ex-Russian family which now wields considerable power in western diplomatic circles. Another area where Stone- house will be concentrating his company's attention will be Bangla Desh where he has been a frequent visitor over the past few months. Stonehouse is well remem- bered for his association with the London Co-operative 3 Press, Thursday March 23, 1972 PAGE 9 Society where he was presi- a faction calling itself the 1960 committee. The Mao-Nixon get-together proved too much for the American ambassador France, Arthur K. Watson, designated to handle diploma- tic contacts with the Chinese in Paris. The Washington columnist Jack Anderson, who special- izes in syndicating reports security government Watson 'got meetings, said gloriously drunk' on the plane taking him to Washington for Nixon a meeting with Nixon. 'A number of witnesses have told us the slim, grey-haired ambassador, normally the pic- ture of dignity, kept shouting for more scotch, grabbing the stewardesses and trying to stuff money down the front of their blouses,' wrote Anderson.

The ambassador, the former president of IBM; 'finally passed out, his arms and legs sprawled across the first-class lounge... • "They say he appeared to be foaming at the mouth from white tablets he had been chewing,' he wrote. tongue - in - cheek With Anderson warned that the ambassador's behaviour could jeopardize the Nixon-Mao detente. Chinese eyes, drunken behaviour is considered dis- graceful. The Chinese good liquor and even playing drinking games. But the man who gets drunk loses the game • and brings shame upon him- The State Department has since issued a declaration of confidence in Ambassador Watson.

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READING STANDARDS HAVE DROPPED SINCE 1964

PAGE 10 Workers Pross, Thuraday March 23, 1972 The miners proved they could take action and win We'll have to do the samerailwaymen

BY PHILIP WADE

RAILWAY

union executives yesterday formally rejected British Rail's latest 11-per-cent pay offer.

British Rail head of industrial relations Herbert Farrimond has been instructed to ask the board for more money. The government's wage 'norm' of 74 per cent has already been broken by the railwaymen. But the unions are demanding another £8.5m out of BR.

The determination to win the claim was clearly shown on Mon- mole day when 400 Nation- a Union of Railway- men members attend- ed special meeting called by the N Lon- don District Council discuss the situa- tioThey left the 24- man NUR executive in they

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Loal wanted the full claim be met, by strike action if necessary. Atter sheeni NUR Sid Weighell, assistant general sec- after ¡claly. socaker speaker got up and Inaue Loe Cenuas point: the fight is on, there can be no com- promise this time. 'There is a changing mood rallway- men. We took part in assisting the miners and they won. Now looking that we're (LO situation,' one told the BR and others, our claim is a said har wili amo stop; meeting at the NUR'S gap between Euston headquarters. the modest one and quite said Mr only

UNION

Was £8.5m. justifiable, said The to fight We've sold our jobs mood Cricklewood by the thousand and it 'It is the be- guard is also present outside gap Williams. was disgusting. Now Jerry London as was made tween peace ana war. we have to stand and There should be *The miners proved clear to me by Cliff fight.' need for industrial Moryarti, sectional council The because meeting went action we If need member from win. unanimously the matter can we'll have the S Wales. hope to do same and take on the "The from be sorted out intelli- point is this Dans the N London District gently. government neces- I've been 35 years on Council calling on the 'We will go flat out sary' the railways and now NEC to stand firm to the £30.8m Over 350,000 jobs grade on am rouse the for £20 offer high have been lost on the chargehand claim as as We minimum basic can,' he added. railways 1957 get is f2l a week. rate SunCe railway- use But some through produc- 'My branch mem- ana TO The Tul one industrial of later told Work- tivity deal after the power men bers have said the union to back the that it was another. executive must stick ers Press demand if no satisfac- the full claim that had 'Once I used to do by the full claim. If it tion gained in to be met and nothing a guard's duties and involves struggle was nothing else. Now I'm negotiations with the less Industrial against the Of course the latest around Relations Act-well, employers. runng all Earlier they had ofter should be relec- place doing has be over sonncone

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heard Weighell say the Compared things like shunting. first in that fight.' ted. to

BY AN EDUCATION

significant rise or fall since 1960- schools involved. 1961.

CORRESPONDENT

schools covered middle.

TUCOHOT.

After 1948 the reading stand- secondary modern, grammar ards of all children began to technical, comprehensive

READING

standards develop year by year. On avclasc alrecl cranl ]l-vear-olds in 1964 matched the further, detailed school children more among are standard of pupils aged 12 years of the findings analysis confirms five months in 1948. no better today than they and Tae evelle

OUT

some if But finds that le repo cases the falling off reading ot were a decade ago and, in the nole 1970 junior popu standards. one respect have declined tion had been tested tney would The 11-year-old who scored have performed better than juniors in 1964. halfway between the since 1964. the nigner and Serind his 1964 scores 1970 is six their reading

ASTOR

seniors. These are. the shock findings standards improved by nearly 20 months equiva- of a nationwide survey published The readin ise rend age between 11-vear. zent. ver the for E duca- conducted old is three months behind and vesle udy 1948 and 1961. has National Foundation the per ceased. tional Research in 1970 and 1971 three-and-a-half months behind.

The two silent reading com- the Department of Education tests used in 101 prehension The top 30 per cent of 15-year- ane scence both of the 'sen- olds were nearer the maximum o survey

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One test usea in ine survey tence completion' type. Each item 961 than they the test were shows that there is a high prob- consisted of sentence with 1971. middle of reading comprehen- The that une ability word and the missing, ability range has remained con- sion have Sta neares ¡unIOLS the puni was asked to bick stant, but the upper 30 per. cen Olit declined since 1964. CA nO DOU word out of a choice of five that the used show that the lower tests anla Colll made the sentence 'sensible'..

achievements in 1971 than average reading scores of juniors lower children 300 in 1961. Over 7,150 in and seniors nave mncercone 10 Top: Cricklewood guard Jerry Williams. Above: The vote for action. Below: S Wales rallman Cilff Moryarti. As the report aimed at record- ing trends it offers no solutions answers to the problem or declining reading standards.

But it does draw attention to emphasized those who the importance of primary, teachers who have training in the teach.

ing of reading. If one makes the not unrea- sonable assumption that a train- ing in the teaching of reading should be valuable in teaching to read, the figures children revealed in these reports are dis- turbing, particularly if, in the light of the findings of this sur- vey, the number of teachers with such a training has fallen in the last decade,' the report says.

The results obtained raise cer- tain questions, concludes the report. Has the amount of curri- given culum time to reading method changed? Has the of instruction changed? Has there been a change in what is under- by stood reading comprehen-

TALKS

have begun British Corporation Steel about a new wage and condi- tions agreement with 67,000 steel production workers."

A BSC spokesman said the details of the claim were not defined. preliminary simply covered the sort of agree- which the steelworkers ment want. Officials of the Iron and Steel Confederation Trades are wrangling with BSC over the length of the agreement. The last three-year deal signed in 1969, was shattered last year when the soaring cost of living forced BSC to 'top up' salaries by about 6 per cent. Tomorrow representatives of the 14,000 blastfurnacemen will make a claim for a "substantial' increase and on Friday leaders of the 10,000-strong craftsmen will present their demands.

Before the Wilberforce settle- ment, the craftsmen were seek- ing 12 per cent, but this is now expected to be raised. The claims with BSC pay represent the last major wages struggle in the nationalized in- dustries.

CONSTRUCTION

workers at Laing's Isle of Grain power sta- site voted overwhelmingly tion at a mass meeting yesterday to continue their two-week-old strike for 50p an hour fall-back ' bonus. This was in spite of an impas- sioned plea from Frank Byrnes, Transport and General Workers' Union• official that they return to work. Site convenor, jim Duffy, T&GWU member told Workers Press: 'We've been negotiating for 12 months and we've had negative The bonus replies all along. scheme offered is completely unsatisfactory? A further mass meeting will be held next Monday. PARLIAMENTARY debate on the Night Assemblies Bill was interrupted by angry scenes yes- terday. Mr James Wellbeloved, Labour MP for Erith and Cray- ford, said: It is beyond question backing that with government and full support this Bill is an outright attack upon pop festivals and young people' the Bill had 'restric- He said tive and repressive implications' Mr Graham Page, Minister of Local Government, interrupted: These are utterly ridiculous remarks which have been dragged in for the purpose of political agitation. You should not think that just because you have man- aged to acquire a few pubic hairs on your chin, you have a mono- poly to speak for young people.'

There were Labour shouts 'Obscene'. The committee adjourned. Seachers less well versed innie sion? Are infant teaching of reading than they were 15 years ago? And would such changes affect the reading scores of children? Having posed the questions, the report rushes to the defence of the changes that have taken place in schools over the decade.

In that sense it comes out strongly against the protagonists of a more disciplined educational grouped around authors of the so-called 'Black Papers'. 'The less formalized methods that have been introduced into school in the the last two decades would not necessarily mean that less time was devoted to reading.' it says (emphasis in original). 'Presumably, all methods might have lost a little their rigidity in the healthier class- room atmosphere that has be- become the notable development.'

AN ANTI-STRIKE- dis- putes procedure agreed between the Pilkington glass monopoly and lead- ers of the General and

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

Municipal Workers Union has been head- As with the disputes procedure lined as a major sur- G&MWU stewards and proper, officials are allowed at each stage render of management only to express dissatisfaction rights. with management decisions.

No real negotiation takes place.

Not surprisingly, the What happens if the union does truth is a little more com- not agree with the decision of the plex. works' manager, who appears to be the final judge and jury of any The company has granted a appeal, is not clear. agreeing that prior clause Shop stewards only are agreement union-management involved up to stage four of the must be reached before changes disputes procedure itself; from in pay or working practices then on, G&MWU rank-and-filers are implemented -the sought- are at the mercy of their full- after status quo principle.

and national time regional officers. But this is done in the context of the Industrial Relations. Act, The bureaucratic flavour of the and of a well suggested deal in which shop deal as a whole is stewards and union officials are by the wording of stage four: at all six stages simply appellants 'If the shop steward or branch decisions. against management secretary is not satisfied with the There is blanket clause answer given by the works' man- until opposing industrial action the works' will ager, manager And, the procedure is exhausted.

the matter, reter soon as although this could theoretically possible, to the divisional director happen within three weeks of an concerned. raised, issue being the final 'The branch will stage of arbitration secretary can be pro- refer the matter to the regional longed almost indefinitely.

officer. The the procedure gives divisional director will

G&MWU

full negotiating rights with the discuss the matter St Helens, Birkenhead, at 11S regional officer and will give his Pontypool, Doncaster, Queen- answer within three working days St Asaph and Glasgow borough, factories. of the matter being raised with him (i.e. within 12 working days Shop stewards, it 'shall. says, initialty, matter the being raised be sub- in trade union matters, the control of the union ject to The word negotiation does not and shall act in accordance with the until appear agreement the agreements between union and the company, so far as these affect the relations between the company and the workpeople'.

It is agreed that the number of the area they stewards and shall be of represent matter agreement between the company and the at each works- refused concession unions to recent procedure talks make in with British-Leyland. The procedure does contain a 'not legally-binding' clause, in line A SPOKESMAN for the Occupa- with

TUC

policy for circumvent- St Helens tion Committee ing the anti-union Act. at Plastics, Lancashire, said yester- sit-in strike However, 'the parties con- would day the con- cerned undertake to take all such 'until have firm tinue we reasonably practicable steps as work'. guarantee of the right to covered to prevent any. products The plastic i factory by it from acting in breach of was occupied on March 3 by 32 its provisions. Transport to the belonging men Workers' Union. disciplinary and General A and four-stage is receiving dismissals procedure is not sub- The occupation Merseyside wide support in the ject to any status quo provision.

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G&M's DAVID BASNETT a dispute much later, after be resolved which cannot between the G&MWU national officer concerned and Pilkington's director has been , personnel referred to arbitration. Arbitration is neither final nor binding, says the agreement, but both parties will use its findings as a basis for negotiation.

All stages up to arbitration are supposed to be completed within 17 working days, but thereafter no time limit is set. banning So the clause of could stoppages work apparently operate almost indefin- itely. For G&MWU national officer David Basnett-according to Fleet St, the architect of the agreement-its jewel is the status quo clause. Its setting, however, is singularly tarnished. and building sites in St Helens and Liverpool. The men have organized a 24- hour shift system so that the whole factory - shop floor and officeis occupied. A committee spokesman said the management had sent a letter to local T&GWU officials request- ing the evacuation of the build- ing. 'We won't leave until we have established the right to work for all of us in the factory, he added. THE 'DAILY MAIL' and its political correspondent Gordon Greig committed a contempt of the House of Commons by pub- lishing a story about the Queen's pay, the Commons committee of priviliges reported yesterday.

The story was about proceed- ings of the Commons select com- which was looking into mittee the Queen's pay. It contained figures said to be in many, but not all respects, identical with figures contained in the draft report subsequently published by a special parliament- ary committee. The 'Daily Mail' story, pub- lished last October 21, was en- titled 'The Million Pound Queen' and headed 'Mail Exclusive'.

The committee found that the principal offender-undetected because Mr Greig refused to name his source-was the person who provided the information on which the story was based and who 'committed a deliberate and. flagrant contempt of the House'. . Workers Press, Thursday March 23, 1972 PAGE 11 9.38-11.38 Schools. 12.55-1.25 Tresarn. 1.30 The Herbs. 1.45-1.53 News and weather. 2.05-2.25 Schools. 3.45 Conflict at work. 4.15 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Boss cat. 5.44 Crystal tipps. 5.50 News and weather.

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BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TUC LEADERS yesterday d National Union of Seamen fron came close to deferring this dis months. The recommendation to sus- pend the NUS-placed before the General Council by its Finance and General Purposes Committee—was carried with- out dissension. Earlier, however, an amend- defer implementation ment to until after the union's annual in May only conference was to 15. defeated by 20 votes Three votes the other way would have carried it. This would have left the sea- mens' leaders sitting in the TUC despite their action in applying the British with the employers, Shipping Federation, the to) Industrial hated National Relations Court for an approved closed shop. Another amendment to defer consideration of the

F&GPC

report until after the May con- ference--was defeated 28-4.

Yesterday's move leaves the NUS open to expulsion when it before the full TUC in comes September. Bill Hogarth

NUS

secretary 'disappointed' by the sus- was pension, but undeterred from the course he and his executive have chosen. He said: 'We were on our own in 1966 [the year of the seamen's strike]. If we are going to be kicked out of Congress we are alone again.' The seamen have the right of appeal in Septemher, when the can continue TUC conference the suspension, readmit the union or expel it. Mr Hogarth will remain on the General Council for the present, and attend its next meeting.

More rail talks union leaders yesterday

RAIL

called for new pay talks less than 24 hours after rejecting an im- move to ban overtime and A rest-day • working Sunday from was only defeated by the casting vote of the the Associated the executive Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. Locomen's leader Ray Buckton said meeting of after in executive that he had been touch with the British Railways Board asking it for an early date for talks. Commenting on the executive yote, he said: 'It just shows how impatient our people are becoming. • See p.10

LATE NEWS

Two Parachute Regiment soldiers stationed at Palace Barracks.

Holywood, Co. Down, went on with yesterday charged trial armed robbery. They are Privates Stephen .. Scr John Verbeeck and Peter Kirby, both 21. IN STOCKPORT talks between management and workers at Davis and Metcalf broke down and the yesterday men re- imposed their ban on piece work.

A spokesman for the workers said that the firm had indicated that a return to day rate would mean suspensions. 'We are working a four-day week already and we're expecting from management move a tomorrow night. But one thing is certain-if they try to lock us out, no one will be going home.'

• SEE pp. 3 and 12. lay March 23, 1972

PONDENT DAVID MAUDE

rday decided to suspend the len from membership, but then this disciplinary move for two

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

PROFESSOR Hugh Tinker, th will fight the decision through also stand out against the prop Their anger at both decisions is t of six members of the Institute's Monday's decision to sack the dire yesterday which he called to blo Tinker said: 'I'm as middle of the road as get -most of us are you could just liberal reformers. But we're to take what's been not going handed out,' he said. 'We tried to play ball with the Institute's council - maybe we shouldn't have but we're doing something about it now. me to quit "They have asked immediately because I made it I would not be the clear that of repression and instrument "Race Today"? extinguish The trouble appeared to come with the February to a head issue of 'Race Today'. Its front cover showed Lord Goodman who helped achieve the Smith- Home deal alongside a caption 'Five million Africans stating: say No? Several council members one was reported objected and said it cost his firm to have £20,000 in lost business.

The magazine's editor Alex- ander Kirby also revealed yester- day that he had withdrawn two articles in recent months at the council's request. Both criticized companies certain with which council members were connected.

The decision to sack Professor 'Race Today' Tinker and close will have to be ratified by an extraordinary general meeting of Institute members on April 18.

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ENGINEERS in Sheffield are threatening to take action against firms who will not negotiate on the for national pay claim. Employers have been cir- culated with a request to see Amalgamated Union of En- gineering Workers' district secretary, George Caborn, for talks on the Sheffield demand for a 'substantial' wage in- crease and extra holidays.

Already some employers have snubbed Caborn — a leading Communist Party member - by referring him to the local em- ployers' federation. Tuesday's At district next committee meeting joint action against these employers will be worked out. nker, the sacked director of the Inst hrough to the end. And with the sup he proposal to close the Institute's 1 sions is backed by a minority group stitute's council who voted against the director. At a press conference I 'to blow the lid off everything', February 1972 Twenty Pance this settlement is the best we were able to achieve... Right or wit ig, we should seize the opportunity." Hauge of lords Dayarr 07 Five million Africans say NO February's 'Race Today'

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CROYDON: Thursday March 23,8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road, E Croydon. Re- port back from Empire Pool, Wembley, rally. WILLESDEN: Monday March 27, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Rd., NWI. 'Right- to-Work Campaign and the fight to force the Tories out'.

W LONDON: Tuesday, March Albert. p.m. Prince Wharfedale York Road. off Way. Kings Cross. N.l. 'Report back from Wembley Pool. SOUTHALL: Wednesday, 29, 8 p.m. Southall March Community Centre, Bridge Road. 'Report back from Wembley Pool.

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•Report back from Wembley Pool. SHEFFIELD: Sunday, March 26, 7.30 p.m. YS premises, Portobello. near Jessop Hos- 'The engineers' pital. pay claim'.

SLL MEETING

LIVERPOOL: Thursday, March 23, 8 p.m. The Common Hall, Hackins Hey, off Dale Street.

'The Right-to-Work campaign —what next?' • situation The Sheffield how- 50-50 on the proposal, which ever represents a massive retreat would have united engineering sides from the claim. workers on both of the Pennines. This began when the demand for a 35-hour week was dropped The casting vote against came and figure the from Herbert Howarth, increase abandoned" any wage Stalinist Sheffield and the Committee National member. Since then the CP-dominated This is despite the fact that his district committee has backed fellow Party members in the down under from the pressure Manchester were organizing union's national leadership.

district-wide action. A call a proposal to mass These have led retreats to of shop meeting stewards inevitable results. Workers in the throughout the district was Sheffield factory of Mathias and abandoned because it broke the Sons have accepted a paltry £2 'plant-by-plant action only' increase with five days' instruction from the national holidays. committee. Next Tuesday Sheffield the Then, at a key district district committee will have an meeting on March 14, mittee lost opportunity to recover back proposal to the greater and join in action with Manchester ground work-to-rule which the Manchester engineers.

begins on Monday, was narrowly defeated. • For a report of the Manchester The Sheffield committee split situation, see p. 3. Dockers discuss redundancies DOCK stewards from London chiefs yesterday met union to discuss the threat of growing and in the industry redundancy their plans for fighting it.

At London's Royal of group will hear docks today, dockers stewards' their views the the Institute of Race Relations, encouller. the support of the staff he will Up to yesterday, the stewards stoppage planned Prom April 7 it this nappsto.

itute's magazine 'Race Today'.

Socialist Labour League

ULSTER AND BRITAIN

Defend Right of Assembly !

Against Internment! Withdraw British Troops! Force Tory Government to Resign!

SUNDAY MARCH 26

Assemble: 1 pm Clapham Common March with Young Socialists and Socialist Labour League contingent.

DEAL TO LONDON

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

WEDEMAND THE

RIGHT TO WORK

SWANSEA TO LONDON

1972

MOND THE

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

RIGHT TO WORK

GLASGOITO LONDO

772 YOUNG SOCIALISTS 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Saturday & Sunday April 8/9 Grand Hall, The Spa Dance to 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' Saturday night 8 pm also see a star-studded show Cost approximatoly £4.50. For tickote apply to John Simmanco, National Secretary, 186 a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 JUG Please send me details/tickets of the Scarborough Conference.

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